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ReelzChannel Celebrity Rundown
Whitney Houston's body has arrived at the Whigham Funeral Home in Newark, NJ, after being flown from LA on Tyler Perry's private jet. RadarOnline reports that management at the Beverly Hilton asked the LA County Coroner to delay removing her body until after Clive Davis' annual pre-Grammy party, because it would've been "insensitive for the van to be driven out with her body as limos were pulling away with the A-list guests."
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In the wake of Houston's death, concern for her 18-year-old daughter Bobbi Kristina was so high — it was reported on Monday that she was suicidal — that even President Obama was praying for her, as White House Press Secretary Jay Carney said yesterday, "I know that his thoughts and prayers are with her family, especially her daughter." Father Bobby Brown told People that she is recovering with his family, including her siblings.
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Kate Upton's Sports Illustrated swimsuit cover leaked on Monday, and the New York Times examines Upton's unorthodox path to supermodel stardom, which all started with this YouTube video of her doing the "Dougie" at a Los Angeles Clippers game.
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Hugh Hefner says he's very disappointed that his son Marston Hefner allegedly beat up his Playmate girlfriend Claire Sinclair, which prompted her to get a 3-day restraining order against him.
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TMZ reports Lindsay Lohan has not paid her 2010 tax bill of $140,203, a year after being late paying Uncle Sam $93,701 for 2009.
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Talk show host Glenn Beck finally started a cause we can all get behind, ranting against George Lucas and saying he should be "tried for movie crimes" for what he's done to the Star Wars franchise and for producing Red Tails.
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Who are the hottest, most-sought-after singles in Hollywood? Who's new to that list because of a recent breakup? We answer those questions and more in our upcoming Hollywood's Most Eligible. The special's hosted by former-playmate Holly Madison at one of the most romantic restaurants in Southern California, Il Cielo in Beverly Hills.
Madison launched to fame on the hit reality show The Girls Next Door, where cameras followed the live-in girlfriends of Playboy mogul Hugh Hefner. Since then she has made several TV and movie appearances, including Curb Your Enthusiasm, Entourage, The Apprentice, and Scary Movie 4. Madison currently headlines Peepshow at the Planet Hollywood Resort & Casino in Las Vegas and is shooting a reality series about her experience.
Hollywood's Most Eligible premieres on Friday, February 10, at 11AM ET / 8AM PT. ReelzChannel is on DirecTV channel 238, Dish Network channel 299, and available on your cable or satellite system.
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Last week, Demi Moore had to drop out of the upcoming Lovelace, just three weeks after being cast as feminist author Gloria Steinem in the biopic, which follows the life and career of the late 1970's porn star Linda Lovelace. While Moore had yet to shoot any scenes for the movie, her sudden hospitalization was a surprise for the production, which has been shooting since the end of December.
Directors Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman (Howl) were sent scrambling for a replacement for Moore, and EW reports, have settled on Sarah Jessica Parker (Sex and the City) to play the role instead. Parker will start shooting this week.
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ReelzChannel Celebrity Rundown
Sinead O'Connor has one-upped Kim Kardashian by ending her marriage to Barry Herridge after just 18 days. In a rambling message on her web site, O'Connor says, among other things, "I'm sorry I'm not a more regular woman."
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On Monday Taylor Lautner was the victim of an amateur Photoshopper, as a fake People magazine cover with the title "Out & Proud" hit the web, with Lautner saying he's tired of the rumors and the decision to come out has left him feeling "more liberated, and happier than I've ever been."
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Arnold Schwarzenegger and Maria Shriver spent Christmas Eve together, as it's rumored Shriver is having second thoughts about divorcing the Terminator because her religious beliefs don't include divorce, and because he so desperately wants her back that he's been "extremely sweet" to Shriver and has bought her gifts in an effort to remain married.
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Hugh Hefner and Crystal Harris are in a custody battle over a Cavalier King Charles spaniel puppy they purchased before their marriage was called off earlier this year. Hef told Harris she could keep the engagement ring and the Bentley "then maybe I can keep the puppy. I [hope] we will work it out."
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Hefner is a fan of Lindsay Lohan's Playboy pictorial, claiming it set sales records, and now LiLo dad Michael Lohan is also on board, telling Dr. Drew on The Lifechangers that "It's a move in a direction where she’s working…so as far as I'm concerned it's a good move."
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This picture of Katy Perry vacationing in Hawaii is all over the web this morning, with the conclusion being she's showing off her curvaceous bikini body.
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ReelzChannel Celebrity Rundown
Hugh Hefner says he had "mixed emotions" about hiring Lindsay Lohan for his Playboy pictorial, but one thing Hef absolutely insisted on is that LiLo be absolutely naked. Hefner says that during negotiations, "Some of the people around her said, 'No, no, no, I don't want her nude.' And I said, 'No, this is how it's going to be. This is how it is.' "
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Transgender Dancing with the Stars contestant Chaz Bono is back on the market after his seven-month engagement to fiancée Jennifer Elia has ended. It's on good terms apparently as Bono tweeted "Thanks for your concern about our separation. I'm doing fine, and we remain on good terms with nothing but respect and affection 4 eachother (sic)"
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Rooney Mara had her nipple, nose, and brow pierced to play badass Lisbeth Salander in the American remake of The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, but it was the look of her shaved eyebrows that freaked her out the most.
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Gilberto Sanchez, the guy who uploaded an unfinished copy of X-Men Origins: Wolverine to the internet in 2009, has been sentenced to one year in federal prison. Earlier, Foxnews.com entertainment reporter Roger Friedman was fired for reviewing the pirated version of the pic.
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Fandango has released the results of a poll for the Worst Christmas Movie, and 1964's Santa Claus Conquers the Martians is the runaway winner with votes from 23% of the respondents. The other nine xmas pics that are Ho Ho Horrible:
2. Silent Night, Deadly Night 16%
3. Jingle All the Way 10%
4. Jack Frost 9%
5. Santa with Muscles 5%
6. Ernest Saves Christmas 5%
7. Home Alone 3 4%
8. Deck the Halls 4%
9. Surviving Christmas 3%
10. Christmas With the Kranks 3%
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ReelzChannel Celebrity Rundown
Cinema lost one of its biggest fans with the death of Kim Jong-Il over the weekend. The North Korean dictator, ruthlessly parodied in 2004's Team America: World Police, owned 20,000 movies and claimed to have seen every Oscar Best Picture winner. His favorite actress was Elizabeth Taylor, his favorite actor was Sean Connery, and his two favorite movies were Friday the 13th and Rambo.
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Speaking of Elizabeth Taylor, her jewelry auction had $116 million in sales, with Taylor admirer Kim Kardashian scooping up three Lorraine Schwartz bangles, paying $64,900 for the jade bracelets. In other, creepier auction news, Liz BFF Michael Jackson's belongings continue to be sold, with the rug that was under the bed he died in going for $15,360, far exceeding the $400-$600 estimate.
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Hugh Hefner tweeted that the Lindsay Lohan issue of Playboy is breaking sales records, although CNN called a dozen newsstands in Los Angeles, Chicago, New York, and Atlanta Sunday and found just one that is sold out of the issue.
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Kobe Bryant's wife filed for divorce on Friday, apparently finally pushed over the edge by his repeated infidelity. It's rumored Bryant is linked to Kim Kardashian best friend Carla DiBello.
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Ellen DeGeneres has purchased Brad Pitt's 4,000-square-foot Malibu home for $12 million. She and wife Portia de Rossi are downsizing, having put their 15,000-square-foot manse on the market last month for $49 million.
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ReelzChannel Celebrity Rundown
Lindsay Lohan's Playboy cover has leaked weeks before its official newsstand release, and it features LiLo straddling a bunny logo chair with the rabbit ears covering her cleavage. Hugh Hefner did say the shoot would be tasteful and "very classy."
In other Lohan news, Star is reporting the discovery of Lindsay's diary, in which she called Heath Ledger "the love of my life" the day he died from a drug overdose in 2008.
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Alec Baldwin issued an apology to his fellow passengers after getting kicked off a plane on Tuesday, but then took aim at American Airlines, comparing the experience to riding a Greyhound bus. Both companies responded with AA calling Baldwin "extremely rude" and Greyhound saying, "I don’t know why he’s mentioning Greyhound, but we take pride in our safe and enjoyable service."
Before Baldwin deleted his Twitter account, he got in his parting shot, tweeting that American Airlines is "where Catholic-school gym teachers from the 1950s find jobs as flight attendants."
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Justin Bieber and Selena Gomez took their PDA show to Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, where the Biebs took pics of Gomez in a tiny turquoise bikini. Gomez was also snapped wearing a diamond ring, which led to speculation Bieber had popped the question, but a rep for Gomez said flatly, "She is not engaged."
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Newly single Kris Humphries is building a man cave in his Minnesota home with the help of DIY Network's Jason Cameron and former NFL player and current FOX announcer Tony Siragusa. Cameron concocted a "chill lounge" concept that has two bars, liquor dispensers, and a wall that transforms into a 120-inch projection screen.
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Scout Willis, the 20-year-old daughter of Bruce Willis and Demi Moore, got extremely cheeky in a photo shoot for personal style site StyleLikeU, riding a motorcycle in a pair of buttless chaps.
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Michael Jackson fans danced to "Beat It" and "I Want You Back" after Dr. Conrad Murray was convicted of involuntary manslaughter in the singer's death 2-1/2 years ago. Murray was successfully painted by the prosecution as a reckless, money-hungry doctor more interested in shooting videos of a drugged-out King of Pop on his iPhone than providing care. He's now on suicide watch at the Los Angeles County jail, even though he will probably only serve one year of a likely 4-year sentence due to California's chronic prison overcrowding.
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Hugh Hefner insisted on re-shooting a naked Lindsay Lohan because the first shots for her January Playboy pictorial "looked too much like a Kate Moss-inspired fashion story" and instead wanted "a more classic Hollywood Marilyn Monroe feel." Hef has also confirmed that LiLo posed fully nude, but says the shoot is "classy," while a rep for Lohan says the spread is "absolutely fantastic and very tasteful."
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Arkansas couple Jim Bob & Michelle Duggar are expecting their 20th child in April and the biggest complication — besides the fact that Michelle is now 45 years old — is that they may have run out of names that start with the letter J after having Joshua, 23; twins Jana and John-David, 21; Jill, 20; Jessa, 19; Jinger, 17; Joseph, 16; Josiah, 15; Joy-Anna, 14; twins Jedidiah and Jeremiah, 12; Jason, 11; James, 10; Justin, 8; Jackson, 7; Johanna, 6; Jennifer, 4; and Jordyn, 3.
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Kim Kardashian and Kris Humphries' prenup included a clause prohibiting them from saying anything negative about one another, but it's predicted there is a deadline on the media blackout as KK's mom Kris Jenner said her daughter would open up about the divorce after "the dust settles," and it's estimated her tabloid payday could reach $300,000 to tell her story.
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A woman claims to have a "full frontal" picture of NFL quarterback Michael Vick and is shopping it around to various media outlets. Yesterday Vick rep Rick French dismissed the story and said, "The only thing Mike has on his mind is his date with the Chicago Bears this evening." Vick's Eagles lost to the Bears as he had 0 touchdowns, a pick, and a 60.5 QB rating.
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ReelzChannel Celebrity Rundown
It's now rumored Ashton Kutcher hooked up with not one but two women in the hot tub of his suite at the San Diego Hard Rock Cafe, while Star has pictures of Kutcher and mistress Sara Leal taken in the $2500/night penthouse.
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"Kristin Cavallari Heads for the Hills" is the popular headline on the web this morning as she and dancer Mark Ballas were the surprise elimination last night on Dancing with the Stars. Chaz Bono was the surprise survivor, perhaps helped by mom Cher who said she would be in the studio audience next week if her son made it through to the fourth round.
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The Playboy Club is the first casualty of the fall TV season — cancelled after just three episodes on NBC — but not before LeAnn Rimes' husband (Eddie Cibrian) suffered an on-set injury to his Achilles that required stitches. On the subject of the cancellation, Playboy mogul Hugh Hefner later tweeted the obvious: "It should have been on cable, aimed at a more adult audience."
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Casey Anthony's first probation report has been released and she claims no job, no use of illegal drugs, and no mental health or therapy programs since her release, the latter in direct contradiction to statements released by her attorney Jose Baez who has said she was undergoing therapy and counseling.
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Tiger Woods' mistress Rachel Uchitel was secretly wed over the weekend to former Penn State football player Matt Hahn.
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Finally, this weekend Tareq Salahi is selling off his wedding ring, some artwork, and 50 bathrobes his "groupie slut" wife stole from hotels around the world. Last month Michaele Salahi left Tareq for Journey guitarist Neal Schon.
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ReelzChannel Celebrity Rundown
Ashton Kutcher may no longer be following wife Demi Moore on Twitter, but he addressed rumors of marriage trouble on Thursday by tweeting "When you ASSUME to know that which you know nothing of, you make an ASS out of U and ME." (We can only ASSUME this is his response to Moore's earlier tweet quoting Epictetus, "When we are offended at any man's fault, turn to yourself & study your own failings. Then you will forget your anger.")
As for alleged Kutcher mistress Sara Leal, she's desperately trying to cash in on her 15 minutes of fame, working with a club promoter to tell her story, and a paparazzo who plans to sell staged "street" pictures of the 23-year-old blonde.
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Casey Anthony is "doing well" one week after her psychological treatment began, according to a source close to her who adds, "She hopes she will someday redeem herself and live a productive life." Meanwhile, Orlando TV station WKMG is moving to unseal a jailhouse video of Casey that shows her reaction immediately after watching TV news reports saying police found remains that later turned out to be those of her missing daughter, Caylee.
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Hugh Hefner's runaway bride Crystal Harris is putting her 3.39 carat diamond engagement ring up for auction at Christie's, and it's estimated to fetch between $20,000 and $30,000.
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While David Arquette is now "in the friend zone" with wife Courteney Cox, he's dating Entertainment Tonight reporter Christina McLarty, who was previously married to Girls Gone Wild creator Joe Francis for two months.
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Except for that whole First Lady thing, Michelle Obama is really just like every other 40-something mom, watching The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills and shopping at a Target in Alexandria, Virginia.
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Finally, Nicole "Snooki" Polizzi has lost 17 pounds and is giving all the credit to diet drug Zantrex-3 Fat Burner, a company that's paying her as a spokesperson.
Posted 09.30.11 by reelz