-
Posted 05.03.12 by Mandy ReelzChannel Celebrity Rundown
Recently, former Miss America winner Vanessa Williams told Anderson Cooper in an interview that "When the child is screaming and saying, 'I don't want to do this. I don't feel like doing it.' When they are using special juice to get them hyped... that's not my world and I would never have my kids do that." According to TMZ, one Toddlers and Tiaras mom, Wendy Dickey, responded by taking shots at Williams: "Posing nude and having an abortion is 'not my world' and I would never have my kids do that... so easy on the judging Vanessa!" Dickey was referring to revelations that the actress and singer made in her new book. Of course, one big difference between the two situations is that posing nude is a choice Williams made for herself, as opposed to a choice she made for her child.
***
Charlie Sheen is in the middle of a disagreement with a strip club, but not for the reasons one might expect. Cheetah Gentlemen's Club in NYC has a VIP room named for everyone's favorite warlock assassin that is also decorated with photos of the actor, and Sheen's lawyers sent a cease-and-desist letter to the club, telling owners to dismantle the room. At first it seemed that the owner, Sam Zhekra, would comply with the request, but now he is refusing to back down. In fact, he plans on throwing a naked party in the Charlie Sheen Room tomorrow.
***
Ashton Kutcher, Sheen's replacement on Two and a Half Men has created his own media storm. Not surprisingly, we must say, the Popchips ad in which he plays a brownfaced Bollywood producer has been yanked following public uproar over its alleged racist tones.
***
J.R. Martinez took home a mirror ball trophy on DWTS last fall, and now he's taking home a brand new baby girl. Martinez and girlfriend Diana Gonzalez-Jones welcomed their daughter Lauryn Annabelle Martinez into the world on Wednesday evening.
***
Finally, it's a big news day in the world of female pop stars. First, Adele's sophomore album, 21, has just passed Michael Jackson's Thriller to become the best selling album of all time in the UK.
***
Next, Lady Gaga is a single lady once again. The singer split with boyfriend and Vampire Diaries star Taylor Kinney.
***
Meanwhile, Miley Cyrus has a new love in her life. The pop star and actress adopted a new puppy on Tuesday that had been found left in a box outside a Walmart. Cyrus has named the pup Happy.
***
Alanis Morisette is releasing a studio album in August, her first in four years. It will be titled Havoc and Bright Lights and the first single will be available May 15.
-
Posted 03.23.12 by Chris ReelzChannel Celebrity Rundown
The L.A. County Coroner's office ruled Whitney Houston's official cause of death was accidental drowning but also reported heart disease and cocaine use were contributing factors to her death. It's possible Houston had a heart attack, possibly triggered by hardening of the arteries as a result of cocaine use, while in the hotel bath and drowned as a result. Toxicology tests revealed cocaine and metabolites were identified and were contributory to the death." According to the coroner, "marijuana, alprazolam (Xanax), cyclobenzaprine (Flexeril) and diphenhydramine (Benadryl) were identified but did not contribute to the death." The coroner's report also noted that Houston likely used cocaine "immediately prior to her collapse," but investigators found no traces of cocaine in her Beverly Hilton hotel room. TMZ reports sources saying that the person who supplied Houston with the cocaine removed the drug from the hotel room before paramedics arrived. Police did not comment on whether or not they were looking into evidence tampering.***
There are few things that don't look good on Kim Kardashian and flour is one of them. Kim K. was coated with it at the launch event for her new fragrance True Reflection. According to witnesses, a woman rushed onto the red carpet at the event and "flour bombed" the perfumer reality star. After getting doused, Kim returned 15 minutes later and tried to laugh off the event. "[Kim] said she wanted more makeup powder and she got it! Haha," tweeted one reporter who witnesses the flouring.
***
Hilary Duff aka Lizzie McGuire is now a mom. The actress gave birth to a Luca Cruz Comrie earlier this week. "Tuesday evening, we became proud parents of a healthy 7 pound 6 ounce beautiful boy," Duff wrote on her website. "We are overjoyed and feel like the luckiest parents in the world. He is surrounded by so much love!! Mom and baby are both doing extremely well." This is the first child for Duff, 24, and husband Mike Comrie, 31, a former NHL player.
***
What does Charlie Sheen think of Oscar-winning actress Kathy Bates playing his character's ghost on Two and a Half Men? He's honored, according to sources. Sheen called Bates "an incredibly funny, talented actress." The show's executive producer Chuck Lorre is said to have cast Bates as a dig to his former arch nemesis but guess the joke is on him. Bates will play Charlie Harper's ghost in an upcoming episode when Jon Cryer's character has a minor heart attack and is hospitalized.
***
And in we-can't-wait-for-Mad Men news, before he was Don Draper, Jon Hamm worked in porn. OK, not on camera but as a porn set dresser.
-
Posted 01.09.12 by reelz ReelzChannel Celebrity Rundown
Beyonce and Jay-Z welcomed baby girl Blue Ivy into the world over the weekend, and it wreaked havoc with a Boston-area event planning company that shares the newborn's name and is was the first Google result for "Blue Ivy."
While we await the first official birth photo, enjoy this "leaked" one from Funny Celebrity Photos.
***
Those PODS that showed up at Katy Perry and Russell Brand's house on Friday belong to Brand as he's the one moving out. Meanwhile, Perry tweeted that all the support from her fans has "made my heart happy again."
***
Chaz Bono has had a change of heart on the importance of a penis. Last week the transgender son of Cher said he didn't need "bottom surgery" to be 100% male, but is now saving up for a penis that can run between $25,000 and $45,000.
***
Five months after getting a Billy Joel lyric tattooed on her ribcage, Lindsay Lohan is continuing to try to convince herself by getting "live without regrets" inked on her hand.
***
Speaking of tattoos, Justin Bieber has been asked about the large Jesus Christ tattoo on his calf and Biebs tells V magazine he's not super-religious. “A lot of people who are religious, I think they get lost. They go to church just to go to church. I’m not trying to disrespect them . . . but for me, I focus more on praying and talking to Him. I don’t have to go to church.”
***
KISS rocker Gene Simmons, who has reportedly bedded over 4,000 women, says he prefers sex over romance, and new wife Shannon Tweed concurs.
***
And last, but not least, expect a quiet year from Charlie Sheen, who last night told reporters "I'm not crazy any more. That was an episode." He was attending a Fox Network Television Critics Association party.
-
Posted 12.14.11 by reelz ReelzChannel Celebrity Rundown
Lindsay Lohan blew off an appearance on Ellen DeGeneres' show to promote her Playboy pictorial, but found time to attend a Jay Z concert with sis Ali at Staples Center Tuesday night.
***
It's reported Marc Anthony is "going nuts" over ex Jennifer Lopez's relationship with 24-year-old boy-toy Casper Smart. Is it because Smart is now driving the former couple's pimped out Bentley?
***
Donald Trump is pulling out of moderating the Republican presidential debate because he's not happy with the GOP field and wants to leave the door open for a run. It's either that, or the fact that Mitt Romney, Rick Perry, and Michele Bachmann said they would not participate.
***
Chuck Lorre has broken his silence over the Charlie Sheen situation earlier this year, saying he nearly quit the show telling CBS "I can't work with a guy who has decided that he hates my guts."
***
In NFL news, Olympic gold medal skier Lindsay Vonn denies rumors she's dating Denver Broncos QB Tim Tebow, while out-of-work wide receiver Terrell Owens is being labeled a "dead-beat dad" by three women who have simultaneously filed court papers for unpaid child support totaling $35,000.
***
Richard Dean Anderson, better known as the guy who played MacGyver, looks completely befuddled after his car broke down in Malibu on Tuesday.
-
Posted 12.12.11 by reelz ReelzChannel Celebrity Rundown
Lindsay Lohan had her $5K Chanel purse stolen while on vacation in Hawaii, along with $10,000 in cash inside. Later, the purse — along with her passport and court docs permitting travel — was recovered but not the loot, and she's terrified the episode might send her back to jail.
Meanwhile, an un-Photoshopped pic of LiLo at her Playboy shoot has emerged. Lohan says that "sex and sexuality are part of nature" and that posing nude gives her confidence, and that women need confidence.
***
Jennifer Aniston has been named "The Hottest Woman of All Time" by Men's Health magazine. When asked by the men's monthly what her least sexy character she's ever played was, without hesitation she answered Jeannie Bueller on the TV version of Ferris Bueller's Day Off.
***
Katy Perry and Alec Baldwin propelled Saturday Night Live to its highest ratings in five weeks, and also delivered the funny with Baldwin playing American Airlines captain Steve Rogers, who apologized for removing him from the plane and saying, "Alec Baldwin is an American treasure."
***
Charlie Sheen's ex, Brooke Mueller, is admitting she has a substance abuse problem and will go to rehab, but apparently at some point later as she was photographed falling outside a Beverly Hills nightclub on Saturday night.
-
Posted 12.06.11 by reelz ReelzChannel Celebrity Rundown
Johnny Depp is in some trouble, first getting blasted as blasphemous by Christian groups for contributing vocals to the song "Jesus Stag Night Club" that portrays Jesus as a car-stealing booze-hound, and second, getting questioned by the LAPD after his bodyguards allegedly beat up a disabled woman last week.
***
Friends and family looking to buy Ryan Reynolds a Christmas present should consider a variety of high-quality pillows as Blake Lively has to bring her own to sleepovers at his Boston apartment. Meanwhile, in spite of splitting from Reynolds earlier this year, Scarlett Johansson says marrying him was the best thing she ever did.
***
Charlie Sheen will not pursue custody of his 2-year-old twins from Brooke Mueller, but the kids but will stay with the Masheen along with Mueller's parents, who wanted her to stay in jail after her drug arrest over the weekend.
***
Larry King told a table of celebrities at a CNN special that he wants to be frozen after death "on the hope that they'll find whatever I died of and bring me back."
***
While Bradley Cooper says he's eager to start shooting Hangover III, he told Graham Norton that he thinks Ryan Gosling is the "Sexiest Man Alive" despite earning the title two weeks ago.
***
Coupon Queen Kate Gosselin finished the Las Vegas marathon in 4 hours, 59 minutes, and 21 seconds, which is about six minutes faster than the average time for women of 5 hours, 6 minutes, 8 seconds.
***
Remember all the hubub Monday about Robert Pattinson leaving an LA restaurant with Sarah Roemer and throwing his relationship with Kristen Stewart in doubt? False alarm, apparently, as the two were out with a group of people, not on a one-on-one outing.
-
Posted 12.05.11 by reelz ReelzChannel Celebrity Rundown
Charlie Sheen reportedly put up the $11,000 to bail out ex-wife Brooke Mueller after she was arrested in Aspen, CO, for possession of cocaine with intent to distribute and assault. TMZ has the security cam video of Mueller busting a move on the dance floor at Belly Up Aspen before the cops took her away.
***
Are Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart in the twilight of their relationship? RPattz was photographed leaving a bar in Los Feliz over the weekend with Disturbia actress Sarah Roemer. In unrelated Twilight news, the Epilepsy Foundation has warned that Breaking Dawn's intense birth scene, which involves a strobe effect with flashes of red, white, and black light, may induce seizures.
***
Lindsay Lohan, who's stayed out of the news for far too long, is reportedly in talks to join the UK show Celebrity Big Brother. The really big snag? Per the terms of her probation she's not allowed to leave the country.
***
Madonna has finally been officially confirmed to be the halftime entertainment during Super Bowl XLVI on February 5 alongside Cirque du Soleil.
***
X-Factor judges Paula Abdul and Nicole Scherzinger have received death threats on Twitter after 14-year-old contestant Drew Ryniewicz was eliminated from the show.
***
Just days after Taylor Swift surprised fans with the introduction of bangs, fellow singer Katy Perry has upped the hairstyle-change ante with a pink-highlighted bob.
***
Add Demi Lovato to the list of nip slip victims as she had a wardrobe malfunction on stage late last month in Dallas.
-
Posted 10.28.11 by reelz ReelzChannel Celebrity Rundown
Charlie Sheen's comeback is nearly complete as his sitcom Anger Management — loosely based on the 2003 Jack Nicholson–Adam Sandler movie — will air on FX starting next summer. It will be be paired with Two and a Half Men reruns, which the network recently acquired, and if the first 10 episodes are a success, another 90 will be ordered.
***
It was believed Michael Lohan was in jail again yesterday after making harassing calls to ex-girlfriend Kate Major, but it turns out he was in the hospital under police supervision, being treated for falling 34 feet from a balcony onto a set of wooden high chairs (he was reportedly trying to escape from officers), which injured his foot and cut his mouth.
Meanwhile, Major has been served an eviction notice from her luxury Tampa condo because of all the negative publicity the complex is getting, plus the swarms of photographers.
***
Samuel L. Jackson is the highest grossing actor of all time and has been at the top of the list in the Guinness Book of World Records since 2007. As of 2010, his filmography has collectively brought in more than $7.57 billion at the box office.
***
Kate Middleton unwittingly revealed a 3-inch scar on the side of her head at a charity dinner on Wednesday, which the Duchess's office explained was the result of a childhood operation, but did not say exactly what for.
***
Steven Tyler purposely revealed his bruised, cut, and toothless head on the Today show after falling in a shower in Paraguay.
***
At the Michael Jackson trial yesterday dermatologist Arnold Klein told the jury that he injected Botox into Jackson's armpits and groin to reduce excessive sweating.
***
In unrelated news, Justin Bieber's new Christmas album Under the Mistletoe is more "seductive" than previous recordings because "vocally, his balls have dropped" according to his manager Scooter Braun.
-
Posted 10.24.11 by reelz ReelzChannel Celebrity Rundown
Lindsay Lohan's cupcake and burger bribe was turned down by bosses at the LA county morgue, but LiLo was let in and washed soiled linens, cleaned toilets, and scrubbed floors in her effort to avoid jail.
***
Justin Bieber followed up his private September Staples Center screening of Titanic with a private Canadian screening of Real Steel for GF Selena Gomez, then the couple again went overboard with the PDA at a Winnipeg Jets game on Saturday night.
***
The Village Voice reports that South Park creators Matt Stone and Trey Parker were targeted for investigation by the Church of Scientology after a 2005 episode "Trapped in the Closet" ridiculed the religion. Church operatives allegedly dug through the two's trash looking for phone and bank records, prescriptions, and the kind of alcohol they drink and how much.
***
Ryan Reynolds is clearly OK with Leonardo DiCaprio's seconds as Blake Lively spent her third straight weekend in Boston with the actor where he's shooting the action pic R.I.P.D.
***
Last week Journey guitarist Neal Schon spent $10K on lingerie for "groupie slut" Michaele Salahi, but that was nothing compared to the $350,000 he dropped on a Bentley convertible for her.
***
Last month Charlie Sheen reached a multi-million dollar out-of-court settlement with Warner Brothers that included an agreement that Sheen not disparage former boss Chuck Lorre in the media, but the deal apparently did not cover Sheen disparaging Two and a Half Men as the actor said, "I’m extremely disappointed with how they’re handling what I left behind."
***
George Clooney's latest gal pal Stacy Keibler is cashing in on her romance with the A-list actor, raising her price of personal appearances at events and parties from $10,000 to $25,000.
-
Posted 09.27.11 by reelz ReelzChannel Celebrity Rundown
Well, Nancy Grace certainly knows how to bring the, ahem, "big finish" to her dance moves. On last night's Dancing with the Stars, the news commentator suffered a "nip slip" during the final moments of her dance. While nowhere near Janet Jackson's wardrobe malfunction, the clip is making its way around the web this morning.
***
The shoot for Rihanna's "We Found Love" music video had to be moved after the Irish farmer who'd given her permission to use his grain field objected to the singer's "handkerchief bikini" on Monday, driving his tractor over to halt filming. He's quoted as saying later, "I wish no ill will against Rihanna and her friends. Perhaps they could acquaint themselves with a greater God."
***
As word comes of the settlement in Charlie Sheen's $100 million lawsuit with the Two and a Half Men studio, Chuck Lorre's vanity card at the end of last night's episode hints at a tell-all book.***
The Beastie Boys, Joan Jett and the Blackhearts, the Red Hot Chili Peppers, The Cure, and Guns N' Roses are included in Rock and Roll Hall of Fame nominees for 2012. Voters determine who will be inducted on April 14.
***
On the red carpet for the Lifetime ensemble project Five, Jennifer Aniston cut short talk of ex-husband Brad Pitt's comments about her and their marriage in his recent Parade interview: "Oh, lord, it’s not even worth discussing on a night like this."