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David Letterman became everyone's cranky grandfather when he berated Justin Bieber for getting another tattoo and mispronouncing the Sistine Chapel on last night's Late Show. He also proved he's got quite a grip, causing the Biebs to wince in pain. While Letterman was quick to ask "Canadian high school?", [shameless plug from the Canuck on our staff] the U.N. Education index ranks Canada's educational system #6 while the US comes in at #20.
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Meanwhile on The Tonight Show, Matthew McConaughey talked to Jay Leno about getting manscaped to play a male stripper in the upcoming Magic Mike. McConaughey described getting waxed by a polite Russian woman. "She's pouring this glue and stuff all over you, and you're sitting there and you're giggling, and all the sudden she lays something on you . . .and it hurts! It does hurt!…" We're sure the pain will be worth it once Magic Mike opens.
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A very noticeably pregnant Snooki took a scary tumble this week. The paparazzi captured the expectant mom falling down while filming the sixth season of Jersey Shore in Seaside.The likely cause of the fall? Snooki's six-inch platform sandals. At least she's true to her word. Back in March, Snooki promised "to wear heels through [the pregnancy]. I'm 24, not 50." Until she delivers, perhaps she should stick to that motorized scooter. Oh, and photogs: If you see a pregnant woman fall, put down the camera and help her!
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And because it wouldn't be celebrity news without mentioning the Kardashian clan, Khloe Kardashian responded to Kris Humphries' allegation that mom Kris Jenner masterminded Kim's sex tape. "That is just disgusting and disturbing, and probably his fantasy!" Kris also alleges that Kris made Kim re-shoot the sex tape because the first take wasn't good enough.
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Miley Cyrus gave the paparazzi an eyeful when she bent over wearing a pair of incredibly short shorts while shopping. After noticing the reveal, she tied a shirt around her waist. Next time Miley, just (ahem) turn the other cheek.
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Pop star Rihanna is obviously doing her best to keep cool this summer. Her newest strategy involves running around New York City in a see-through, sparkly bra top and a gauzy skirt. While the outfit was reasonable enough when worn with an oversize sweater, she apparently didn't keep the sweater on for long. Why suffer layers of clothing when you can streamline to underwear?
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There could be yet another Kardashian on the way. According to TMZ, Khloe Kardashian has just started fertility treatments. She and husband Lamar Odom have reportedly been trying to start a family for awhile.
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No Doubt has released the title of its upcoming album on the band's website. Push and Shove, set to release on September 25th, will be first new album from the band since 2001's Rock Steady. No Doubt will film the video for the first single, "Settle Down," later this week.
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Alyson Hannigan revealed yesterday that the baby she had back on May 23rd is a girl named Keeva Jane. The How I Met Your Mother star also tweeted a picture of the new baby's tiny little hand. This is the second child for Hannigan and husband Alexis Denisof, who have a three-year-old daughter named Satyana Marie.
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After a nearly two-year separation, Courteney Cox and David Arquette are calling it quits. Arquette filed divorce papers on June 8th and cited irreconcilable differences. The couple, who starred together in the Scream franchise, married in 1999 and announced their separation in October of 2010.
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Apparently, it's not just the Cox-Arquettes who can't work things out. In Austria, a pair of giant tortoises, who are both over 100 years old, have decided they can't be together anymore. The couple, Bibi and Poldi, lived together for 36 years at Happ's Reptilienzoo and recently seem to have decided they can't stand one another. The two were separated by zookeepers after the female, Bibi, attacked Poldi and took a piece of his shell.
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Former mobster Henry Hill died on Tuesday in an L.A. hospital at the age of 69. The movie Goodfellas was based on Hill's life story. Though he was a mobster legend, he prided himself on reforming later in life and spent his last few years mending broken relationships with his family.
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In his first interview since the death of Whitney Houston, Bobby Brown denies he was the one who got the pop singer hooked on drugs. Brown talked to Today's Matt Lauer about the last time he saw Whitney, at a dinner with their daughter Bobbi just weeks before her death. "She had this, this glow about her that was just, you know, incredible," Brown said. "You know, and I'm— I'm saying to myself, you know, 'She must be — she must be doing really well,' because she looked really well." Regarding the drugs, Brown said he didn't introduce drugs to Whitney. "No, that's not true. I didn't get high before I met Whitney," He said. "No, I— I— I smoked weed, I drank the beer, but no, I wasn't the one that got Whitney on drugs at all." Brown said Whitney was taking drugs "way, way, before" the two got together.
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For a moment it looked like there was going to be one less Kardashian show on the air after Khloe Kardashian and Lamar Odom announced they were pulling the plug on Khloe and Lamar so Lamar could focus on basketball. But just like her husband focusing on his career, Khloe is going to focus on hers. TMZ reports Khloe is in talks with E! to do her own spinoff show sans Lamar. The network is reportedly desperate to stay in business with her. The show will be similar to other Kardashian spinoffs like Kourtney and Khloe Take Miami. E! sources say Khloe is a "huge draw," and as one source put it, "We're definitely in the Khloe Kardashian business." Great, it seems the Kardashian business is also recession proof.
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Hope you didn't have a big breakfast because this next story might make you sick. "Octomom" Nadya Suleman is getting into the porn business. On the news that she's $1M in debt, Suleman is doing the one thing she said she would never do — porn. But she argues what she has signed on to do is isn't actual porn. Suleman said she's doing a "self pleasure" video, which will be shot over the summer and released shortly after. No word on how much she's making from the video. Earlier this year she posed semi-nude for a UK publication for $10,000.
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It's a girl for Maggie Gyllenhaal and Peter Sarsgaard The couple, who already have a five-year-old daughter, Ramona, welcomed Gloria Ray on April 19. It was announced in November that the two were expecting. Gyllenhaal said it was hard to attend premiere events and walk the red carpet while pregnant. "I'm throwing up in the bathroom and having to keep pretzels in my purse, and having to fit into dresses," she said. The two have been married since 2009.
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And in breaking-pregnant news — Jessica Simpson finally finally gave birth. Simpson gave birth to a baby girl, named Maxwell Drew Johnson, weighing in at 9 pounds, 13 ounces.
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At this weekend's White House Correspondents' Dinner President Barack Obama asked the question we've all been asking ourselves: "What is [Kim Kardashian] famous for, anyway?" Kardashian and Lindsay Lohan, both who were in attendance, were the butt of many of Obama's and host Jimmy Kimmel's jokes at the Washington, D.C. event. Here are some of our favorite jokes.
"Seriously, guys, what am I doing here?" Obama said. "I'm the President of the United States, and I'm opening for Jimmy Kimmel? Why am I telling knock-knock jokes to Kim Kardashian?"
"When you took office, the Kardashians had one reality show," Kimmel said to the President. "Now they have four. This is not a good trend."
Where is Sully Sullenberger? I met him outside," said Kimmel. "Sully, would you do us a favor? Would you mind driving Lindsay Lohan home? And make sure you don't run into a goose, especially a Grey Goose."
"If you are looking for the biggest threat to America right now, she is right there," said Kimmel. "Her name is Kim Kardashian. She was captured by Greta van Susteren and brought right to your doorstep."
"There are a lot of very big celebrities here with us tonight," Kimmel told the crowd. "Uggie is here. Uggie is the dog from the movie The Artist. Uggie is amazing. He can roll over on command. He's a Democrat."
"I guess Governor Romney is feeling pretty good about things because he took a few hours off the other day to see The Hunger Games," said Obama. "It's a movie about people who court wealthy sponsors and then brutally savage each other until only one contestant is left standing. I'm sure this was a really great change of pace for him."
Kardashian and her mother Kris Jenner reportedly laughed off the jokes. Kardashian said her favorite part of the night was meeting Martha Stewart "It's always a fun night," she said.
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Speaking of the Kardashians... While the family recently signed a $40M contract to keep their reality show on the air for at least three more years, Khloe Kardashian and husband Lamar Odom are pulling the plug on their spinoff show, Khloe & Lamar. TMZ reports Lamar wants to focus on his fizzling NBA career rather than the reality show. Odom, who was traded from the L.A. Lakers to the Dallas Mavericks, was recently put on the inactive list after a lackluster season. Determined to make a comeback, Lamar is said to be moving back to L.A. but focusing full time on basketball, hiring trainers to help him get his game back. Now, if we could only figure out how to get Kim to cancel her show. Too bad she didn't stay together with her basketball player husband.
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Kate Middleton and Prince William celebrated their one-year anniversary at a low-key party with close friends on Saturday. The day before the couple attended the wedding of Middleton's college friend Hannah Gillingham. One year into their marriage, the press is now on royal baby bump watch, with everyone speculating when the couple will have their first child and heir to the throne.
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Boy band of the moment, The Wanted is not a fan of Christina Aguilera. During a radio interview the group trash talked the singer, calling her a bitch. "She's a total bitch," said member Tom Parker. "She might not be a bitch in real life, but to us, she was a total bitch. She just sat there and didn't speak to us. Wouldn't even look at us." The spat got started when Aguilera reportedly ignored the group during a recent appearance on The Voice. The band, however, seems to be a fan of American Idol judge Jennifer Lopez. Several members tweeted their admiration for Lopez. Jay McGuiness tweeted: "Jennifer Lopez it [sic] beautiful inside and out, everyone of us in love. Sexy, classy, funny, kind. Her new tune is a killer."
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And in gender equality news, Joe Manganiello said the hardest part about playing a male stripper in this summer's Magic Mike was wearing a thong. "We all had to suffer a bit for our craft."
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It has long been suspected, but People magazine has finally made it official: Beyoncé Knowles is the Most Beautiful Woman of 2012. The full list of 100 beauties will be available when the magazine hits newsstands on Friday, but so far People has revealed that the list will include Christina Hendricks, Madeline Stowe, Miranda Lambert, Kate Middleton, and Charlize Theron.
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Yesterday, the Kardashians signed a $40M deal with E! to extend their reality shows another three years. That deal only applies to existing shows; if new shows are created for the family, Kim, Khloe, Kourtney, Kris, Bruce, Kendall, Kylie, and/or Rob could be looking at even more money. In other news, mass layoffs affected over 100,000 Americans last month.***
Last night, President Barack Obama took on some new duties. The President appeared on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon to slow jam the news, discuss Secret Service "knuckleheads," and be declared the "POTUS with the most-est." Election season can be pretty fun sometimes.
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Supermodel and reality show host Heidi Klum went nude for a new Astor cosmetics ad. The beauty donned only head-to-toe body paint that took 12 hours to complete. That's longer than the time allotted to complete a whole outfit for most Project Runway challenges.
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Last weekend, Alfonso Ribeiro led a 'Carlton Dance' flash mob in LA. According to the Fresh Prince of Bel-Air actor's Twitter page, it was the world's largest simultaneous flash mob, with the same moves being performed by participants in over 300 countries.
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And last, in we'd-rather-not-have-to-report-this news, Chris Brown has become an amateur pit bull breeder. What's next, a duet with Michael Vick?
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Simpsons creator Matt Groening has ended a 22-year-old mystery — and running joke. It has long been a unknown which state the Simpson's Springfield resided in, but Tuesday Groening revealed that the hometown of Hans Moleman, Ralph Wiggum, and, of course, Bart Simspon has finally been revealed as Springfield, Oregon. Sorry, Ohio.
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Madonna has broken a new record, but she's probably not pleased about it. The singer's newest album, "MDNA", was number one on the Billboard charts last week, but this week it has the biggest sales drop in chart history. According to Forbes, the 88% drop in sales is due to the fact that the album's first week sales were inflated because copies of the CD were included in the sale of concert tickets for Madge's upcoming tour.
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A larger-than-life bronze statue of country music legend Willie Nelson will be erected in Austin, Texas later this month. The eight-foot-tall likeness of Nelson, donated by Capital Area Statues, Inc., was sculpted by Clete Shields. The statue will be unveiled April 20th at 4:20 in the afternoon, a time and date that probably wasn't chosen at random.
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It's a boy for Tony Romo and wife Candice Crawford. Hawkins Crawford Romo was born on Monday afternoon, and he has already been welcomed to the Dallas Cowboys family.
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Khloe Kardashian Odom is giving her blessing to Kim and Kanye. In a recent interview on Ellen, Khloe said that her sister Kim Kardashian and Kanye West are "cute together" and that "they're compatible." She was unwilling to state that the two were actually together, but she did give her sister a public "I told you so" for warning her that her marriage to Kris Humphries was not a good idea.
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If Lindsay Lohan stays out of trouble for the next 48 hours, she's home free... almost. The troubled starlet is scheduled to have her final court appointment for her probation this Thursday. TMZ reports the L.A. County District Attorney is satisfied that LiLo completed the terms of her probation (she's been on probation for four years, stemming from a DUI arrest). The D.A. said it will not object to the judge terminating Lohan's probation case. But Lohan isn't completely off the hook. Because her of jewelry incident last year (LiLo was accused of stealing a $2,500 necklace), she'll have to remain on informal probation, meaning she'll no longer have to regularly report to a probation officer or judge. If she keeps her nose clean for the next two-and-a-half years, the misdemeanor theft charge will be dismissed. Something tells us this is going to be the longest 48 hours ever.
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The legal troubles for Bobby Brown are just beginning, however. Brown was arrested for DUI on Monday. Brown, the troubled ex-husband of Whitney Houston, was initially pulled over in Reseda, CA, for talking on a cell phone while driving. The officer on scene reportedly then noticed that Brown seemed impaired. Brown failed a field sobriety test, was booked on DUI, and released Monday afternoon. Brown was previously convicted of DUI back in 1996 in Georgia. In that case, he pled guilty and served 8 days in jail.
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Will the real Will Smith please tweet? Spike Lee and Rosie O'Donnell were among the celebrities who retweeted a quote from Smith's Twitter account connecting the death of Trayvon Martin to the flour bombing of Kim Kardashian. The only problem? Smith isn't on Twitter. The account, @ReaIWiIISmith, turned out not to be real. The imposter tweeted: "WE live in America where a girl that threw flour on Kim Kardashian was arrested on site But the man who KILLED Trayvon Martin is still free."
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Speaking of the infamous flour bomb incident... There will be one less nude celebrity now that Khloe Kardashian, who posed semi-nude for PETA's anti-fur campaign, said she's pulling her support from the group after it announced it would pay for the legal fees for the woman who flour bombed her sister, Kim. On her website, Khloe writes, "[PETA has] proved that they support this kind of behavior. I've been a vocal supporter of PETA for a long time but I have also been very vocal about anti-bullying, so this was a huge disappointment for me. As you all know, I don't condone violence and bullying and what happened last Thursday was just that. I am absolutely disgusted by their behavior." Khloe went on to say, "I personally don't wear fur but that doesn't mean I am going to force my views on anyone else, ESPECIALLY by violating them." Kim was wearing a black leather outfit when she was flour bombed.
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And in talk-about-awkward news, there's this uncomfortable photo of Peter Facinelli and Jennie Garth, who recently announced they were divorcing, out shopping with their kids.
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While Beyoncé and Jay-Z are excited about the arrival of their baby girl, Blue Ivy, a North Carolina prankster is obviously less enthusiastic about the new born. At the Beulah Hill Baptist Church in West End, NC, a vandal rearranged letters on a sign to read "Beyonce had her baby. Satan is on Earth." After it was discovered, the church's pastor removed the message immediately .
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Halle Berry is reportedly engaged. The Oscar-winning actress received a diamond-and-emerald engagement ring from her boyfriend of little over a year, French actor Olivier Martinez. The couple hasn't come forward about the engagement; this story comes from a rep for Gurhan, the jeweler that designed the ring. After all, why wait for free advertising?
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There is some bad (yet unsurprising) news for Lindsay Lohan. The IRS is claiming the actress did not pay income tax in 2009, and now the agency is looking to collect $93,000. Just when things were starting to look up...
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What is a LiLo news item if there's not a Kardashian tidbit for the day as well? Two of Robert Kardashian's ex-wives are claiming that he admitted to them that Khloe was not his biological child, and Khloe Kardardashian has something to say about those allegations. The reality star took to Twitter, posting: this one is really low… YOU ARE DISGUSTING! (yes you know who YOU are).
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Two months ago, the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department re-opened the investigation into the 1981 death of Natalie Wood, but nothing new has been found. Detectives have reviewed the case and have done numerous interviews, but nothing has emerged to dispute the death was an accidental drowning.
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All the rooftop partying has taken a toll. Lindsay Lohan failed her court-ordered alcohol test last week and is headed back to court for a probation violation hearing this morning. Ironically, Lohan's "Alcohol is not in my house, so it's just not a part of my life" interview with Life & Style Magazine was given 5 days after she failed the June 13 test.
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Jealous of that impressive ring on Kim Kardashian's finger? Turns out it's cheap costume jewelry, according to her sisters, Khloe and Kourtney. In a backstage interview at the TODAY show, Kloe said "Oh, it's fake. You can suck on it, like a lollipop. Kim's ring is from Nordstrom's. $7.99."
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Buju Banton, whose Before the Dawn won best reggae album at this year's Grammy Awards, has been sentenced to 10 years in jail for helping to set up a cocaine deal in 2009. The case against him in Tampa federal court included a video of Banton tasting cocaine in a Florida warehouse.
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George Clooney (or Elisabetta Canalis, depending on your preference) is back on the market. After two years, the couple called it quits, announcing their breakup to Us Weekly.
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As Roger Ebert suspected, Ryan Dunn was indeed drunk on the night of his crash. According to the official report, Dunn had a blood alcohol content 2-1/2 times the legal limit in Pennsylvania. No charges will be filed against the West Chester bar where Dunn had been drinking; after reviewing surveillance video, the police determined that Dunn did not appear intoxicated.
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In what is sure to set off a fresh wave of death threats against her, Selena Gomez got all huggy with seemingly indifferent beau Justin Bieber at last night's Game 4 of the NBA Finals in Dallas.
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Dancing With the Stars finalists Kirstie Alley and Maksim Chmerkovskiy neither confirm nor deny rumors that they're dating, but Maks gave a strong hint at a dancing exhibition on Sunday night saying, "Once in a while someone comes along in your life who changes how you see it. And for me, that's Kirstie Alley."
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After leaving the CBS Evening News in shambles, there's speculation Katie Couric's move to a daytime slot on ABC might take down General Hospital.
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It's reported 5-year-old Suri Cruise has an Imelda Marcos-like shoe collection with a retail value of $150K, and that as she gets older she insists on heels. Bunions by age 10?
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Fellas, Snooki is back on the market. Nicole "Snooki" Polizzi and beau Jionni LaValle have split after an 8-month relationship.
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Tiger Woods won't play in the U.S. Open later this month at Congressional due to lingering knee and Achillies injuries. It will be the first major he's missed since 1995.
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A much fuller-figured Christina Aguilera looks to have had a Jessica Simpson moment in high-waisted hot pants while performing on The Voice.
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Khloe Kardashian let a nipple slip on Fox and Friends and, learning of it on Twitter, tweeted, "Ha! Is it weird that I love it?! Who knew nipples were so special?"
Posted 06.08.11 by reelz