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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.
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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."
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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.
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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.
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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.”
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KISS rocker Gene Simmons, who has reportedly bedded over 4,000 women, says he prefers sex over romance, and new wife Shannon Tweed concurs.
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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.
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ReelzChannel Celebrity Rundown
Drew Barrymore is engaged to art consultant Will Kopelman. It will be the third marriage for Barrymore, who was previously divorced from fellow actor Tom Green and L.A. restauranteur Jeremy Thomas. Barrymore was recently named Hollywood's most overpaid star by Forbes, earning just 40 cents for every dollar spent on her.
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Justin Bieber showed off a new, nearly life-sized Jesus tattoo on his left calf while on the beach in L.A. The Biebs was hanging out with his 37-year-old father Jeremy Bieber, who is clearly the inspiration for his son's sartorial style.
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Russell Brand has been uninvited from the People's Choice Awards just days after filing for divorce from Katy Perry, who is set to perform on the show. Meanwhile, PODS have shown up at the Perry and Brand's $6.5 million Hollywood Hills house but it's unclear who is moving out.
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Chaz Bono says he's ready to start dating again after splitting from fiancée Jennifer Elia in December, and claims he does not need to have the "bottom surgery" (where the penis is created) to be 100% male.
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One day after Casey Anthony surfaced in an extremely odd Facebook video, a friend close to the "Tot Mom" says she's secretly dating a new man, is frequently out in public, and has even been attending church.
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On New Year's Eve Bristol Palin posted on Facebook, "I cannot wait to see what God has in store for Tripp and me, and the rest of my family, in 2012! :)" God looks to be pacing himself as Palin has moved back to Wasilla, Alaska, is living in an apartment under mom Sarah's TV studio on the family property, and is working at the reception desk at a dermatologist's office in Anchorage.
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For those that aren't familiar with the hit Broadway musical, the trailer for the movie adaptation for Rock of Ages may not explain the musical's plot, but it does reveal the comedic — borderline ridiculous — tone of the ensemble movie. Set in 1980s Hollywood, the trailer reveals the movie's large ensemble, filled with rock 'n roll sensations (Tom Cruise), club owners (Alec Baldwin and Mary J. Blige), club managers (Russell Brand), rock 'n roll haters (Catherine Zeta-Jones) and rock 'n roll dreamers (Julianne Hough and Diego Boneta).
"This movie is just a giant party," director Adam Shankman (Hairspray) said to MTV about the trailer. "It's a bring-your-friends giant party." And, according to Shankman, no one had more fun at the party than Cruise.
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ReelzChannel Celebrity Rundown
Kim Kardashian is apparently shaken up by husband Kris Humphries' annulment filing but doesn't want a battle." She may get one anyhow as Humphries wants the couple's prenup tossed so he'll no longer be muzzled by the confidentiality clause prohibiting them from trashing each other.
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Barbara Walters was taken aback when The View audience booed her announcement of the Kardashian family as making the list of "Most Fascinating People of 2011."
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Us is dismissing a RadarOnline report that Demi Moore has quickly moved on from Ashton Kutcher and is dating skin care mogul Scott-Vincent Borba. They're just friends, according to the magazine.
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Russell Brand and Katy Perry are laughing off divorce rumors, with Perry tweeting, "First I'm pregnant & then I'm divorced. What am I All My Children?!," and Brand telling Ellen DeGeneres "I am really happily married," and that it's difficult to avoid Internet rumors about their relationship "because a lot of the nude women web sites I quite enjoy."
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Britney Spears turns 30 today, and as TMZ brilliantly notes "it seems like only yesterday that she was in the Mickey Mouse Club, recording smash hits, posing in a bra on Rolling Stone, dating Justin Timberlake, attempting to act in a movie, dancing with snakes, kissing Madonna, marrying for 55 hours, getting an annulment, remarrying, having kids, driving with her kids in her lap, divorcing, partying with Paris, flashing her Britney, dating the paparazzi, traipsing barefoot through Malibu gas stations, shaving her head, attacking paps with an umbrella, going to rehab, going to rehab, going to rehab, imploding at the VMAs, being hauled out on a gurney, wearing pink wigs, almost losing custody of her kids, being put under a conservatorship, gazing blankly into space, lip synching, arm dancing, falling for her agent and getting back on top."
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You know it's a slow celebrity news day when Taylor Swift's new bangs are making headlines.
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Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson is needs some big-time help for one of his next movies and that help is coming from... Susan Sarandon?
Currently shooting G.I. Joe 2: Retaliation, THR reports that one of Johnson's next projects is the action thriller Snitch, which sees the former wrestler-turned-action star play a suburban father who goes undercover to help capture a drug dealer when his teenage son is given a long prison sentence. Sarandon will play an ambitious U.S. attorney who thinks a drug bust will help her political ambitions.
Written and directed by Ric Roman Waugh (Felon), Snitch was originally written by Justin Haythe (Revolutionary Road), until Waugh became attached and rewrote the script, and is based on a Frontline documentary. No word on when Snitch will start shooting — oddly, no one is talking.
More casting news >> Posted 09.28.11 by Ryan -
Would you choose love or money? That's the question Arthur Bach must answer to hilarious effect in Arthur, the remake of the Dudley Moore classic that debuted in theaters in April.
Starring Russell Brand, Arthur came out in DVD last week and to promote the new release, Warner Bros. has put together a "For love or money" sweepstakes and dropped an exclusive clip in our laps. Check out the clip below and then be sure to enter for a chance to win an iPad.
Watch the exclusive clip and enter to win > >
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ReelzChannel Celebrity Rundown
Patty Baena may be the equivalent of Rachel Uchitel. Arnold Schwarzenegger biographer Ian Halperin claims he's interviewed no fewer than six other women who claim to have love children fathered by the Sperminator. Meanwhile, the increasingly likely Schwarzenegger-Maria Shriver divorce, prenup notwithstanding, could cost Arnold more than the $100M Tiger Woods' ex-wife Elin Nordegren received after their split last year.
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While he's certainly no Schwarzenegger, Mike "The Situation" Sorrentino has been spotted together with two different sets of women on two straight days while Jersey Shore shoots in Florence, Italy.
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Last night Justin Beiber won the "Fan Favorite" award at the Billboard Music Awards, just one day after announcing the launch of a new perfume, amusingly called "Someday." The Biebs told Women's Wear Daily, "Let's be real, the way a girl smells is very important to a guy."
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Ashton Kutcher may not be Charlie Sheen's Two and a Half Men replacement for long as the Wall Street Journal reports he's only signed a one-year deal. Kutcher will make $20M (around $750K/episode) for the season.
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Princess Beatrice's infamous Royal Wedding hat sold on eBay yesterday for $130K yesterday. The buyer has not yet been identified.
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Brad Pitt's movie Tree of Life, directed by the mercurial and unprolific Terrence Malick, took the top prize at the Cannes Film Festival.
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Russell Brand flew to Japan to see wife Katy Perry perform but was deported due to prior arrests there. While in detention Brand tweeted, "Planning escape from Japanese custody. It's bloody hard to dig a tunnel with a chopstick."
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ReelzChannel Celebrity Rundown
Charlie Sheen lost his battle to get full custody of his twin boys, meaning the arrangement worked out with ex-wife Brooke Mueller last month will stand. Surprisingly, judge Hank Goldberg ruled against Sheen's claim because of his substance abuse and that he bragged about it, not because he wanted to take 2-year-old Bob and Max on his "Violent Torpedo of Truth" tour.
Speaking of the tour, Sheen jetted to D.C. after his L.A. court appearance and bombed again, with the drunk crowd catcalling Charlie and filing out early, though one couple that stuck it out was White House party crashers Michaele and Tareq Salahi.
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A year after Spike Lee called Tyler Perry's Meet the Browns and House of Payne "coonery" and "buffoonery," Perry is still not over it, telling Box Office Magazine, "I'm so sick of hearing about damn Spike Lee. Spike can go straight to hell!" Perry's latest movie, Madea's Big Happy Family, opens on Friday.
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Fast Five, starring Vin Diesel and Dwayne Johnson, doesn't even open until Friday and Universal has already confirmed plans to make Fast Six.
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YouTube sensation Rebecca Black is under police protection after receiving death threats over her hit song "Friday," called "the worst song ever" by critics. Anaheim, California police spokesperson Rick Martinez says, "The threats were releated to getting the music off the Internet or they would kill her."
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Comedian/actor Russell Brand got cheeky at the Arthur red carpet premiere in London, grabbing a handful of wife Katy Perry's bum.
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Speculation that Prince William and Kate Middleton are heading somewhere hot for their honeymoon was fueled yesterday as Kate got into four surprisingly affordable floral and tropical print dresses.
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The cast of Happy Days is suing CBS for $10M for not paying them their fair share of home video releases and licensed merchandise. Not party to the suit are Richie Cunningham (Ron Howard) and The Fonz (Henry Winkler), who presumably have been paid in full.
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The 1981 comedy Arthur starred Dudley Moore in an iconic role as a charmingly drunken heir to a billion-dollar fortune as long as he marries the woman (Jill Eikenberry) his family has chosen for him. Unfortunately for his family's plans, Moore falls for a waitress (Liza Minnelli) instead.
The movie earned Moore an Oscar nomination and a Best Supporting Actor Oscar for John Gielgud, who played Moore's butler, and surrogate parent, Hobson. The upcoming Arthur remake has British comedian Russell Brand stepping in for Moore, Oscar-winner Helen Mirren replacing Gielgud, Jennifer Garner in place of Eikenberry, and Greta Gerwig replacing Minnelli.
While Brand has previously maintained that his Arthur will be distinct from the original, particularly for its more "sophisticated approach to the problems of alcoholism" and the fact that it will "look [at] what's [currently] happening economically."
That said, three recently released clips seem to be very much in the spirit of the original.
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The first trailer for the upcoming comedy Arthur debuted last month, and already there's a new trailer depicting British comedian Russell Brand as spoiled billionaire Arthur Bach, who is being forced to marry a woman he doesn't love (Jennifer Garner).
A remake of the 1981 classic starring Dudley Moore, the remake has Helen Mirren in the John Gielgud role of Arthur's caretaker, and Greta Gerwig (Greenberg) in the Liza Minnelli role of Arthur's love interest. Almost ignored in the previous trailer, Gerwig's character plays a more significant part in the latest trailer.
Watch the trailer >> Posted 03.03.11 by Ryan