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That's a heck of a handshake you got there, Ed.
You'll never guess who almost played the title role >> Posted 12.07.12 by Chris -
Holy dough! The top 10 earned a combined half-billion dollars last year!
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Posted 10.26.12 by BrentJS -
ReelzChannel Celebrity Rundown
In her big interview with Oprah, Kim Kardashian defended her relationship with rapper Kanye West, saying the courtship is no publicity stunt. "It's your heart you're playing with," Kim said. "I couldn't sacrifice my heart for a publicity stunt." The two have known each other for years and Kim said she doesn't know why it took so long for them to get together. I think we've always had an attraction to each other, but we've always been in other relationships or it wasn't the right timing." Kim must be referring to her 72-day marriage to Kris Humphries as one of those "other relationships." Speaking of marriage, Kim said she has no imminent wedding plans with Kanye . . . at least not for this season of Keeping with the Kardashians.
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In concerns over DNA theft, Madonna reportedly has a team of DNA exterminators tasked with sterilizing her dressing room and entire backstage area after every show to thwart any would-be "genetic thieves." A concert promoter told the Winnipeg Free Press that everything is wiped down so as to not even leave a single strand of Madonna's hair. What is Madge so worried about? Someone swiping her DNA and creating a Jurassic Park-like Madonna sanctuary? A herd of Madonnas? We'd pay to see that.
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Most women celebrate their 40th birthday with dinner at Olive Garden or a girl's night out but Jenny McCarthy is celebrating turning 40 with a new Playboy pictorial. People posted a preview of the magazine cover featuring a very exposed McCarthy, who turns 40 in a few months. "I'm really proud of it," McCarthy said of her new Playboy cover, calling the pictures "gorgeous" and "classy." This is McCarthy's seventh nude pictorial for the men's magazine. She was Playmate of the Year in 1994.
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To honor the third anniversary of the death of her father, Michael Jackson, Paris Jackson posted a photo of him kissing wife Debbie Rowe, who bore two children for Jackson, Paris and Michael Joseph Jackson, 15. Paris also tweeted a message to her father: "RIP Michael Jackson .. Dad you will forever be in my heart <3 i love you"
More celebrity rundown >> Posted 06.25.12 by Chris -
ReelzChannel Celebrity Rundown
Items from the King of Pop's costume collection are going to be available to the buying public later this year. Several iconic Michael Jackson clothing items, like a crystal encrusted glove, gravity boots, and a red jacket, are going to be sold at Julien's Auctions in Beverly Hills on Dec 2. For the 99% of fans who won't be able to purchase anything at the auction, the items will start on a world tour starting this Friday in Santiago, Chile.
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Months after her death, Whitney Houston remains in the headlines. Ex-husband Bobby Brown premiered a strikingly self-centered tribute song to Houston on Wednesday's The Tonight Show with Jay Leno. The song is entitled "Don't Let Me Die," and will be included on Brown's new album, which drops next month.
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Whitney Houston is getting a tribute as well as the Billboard Millennium Award at Sunday's Billboard Music Awards. The tribute will be performed by Jordin Sparks and John Legend.
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Raffles Van Exel, a close friend of the late Ms. Houston, is bringing legal action against media outlets that reported he was Houston's cocaine supplier. Van Exel describes himself as a "private consultant to the stars," but it is unknown what sort of consultation he provides.
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Rev. Marvin Winans, the pastor who gave the eulogy at Whitney Houston's funeral, was carjacked in Detroit on Wednesday afternoon. He was attacked at a gas station where a group of young men took his wallet, his watch, and his SUV. Luckily, the pastor suffered only some scrapes and bumps during the attack.
Posted 05.17.12 by Mandy -
ReelzChannel Celebrity Rundown
When a woman gets divorced, it's common practice for her to go back to her maiden name. When you're Demi Moore, there are handles to consider. Moore, whose marriage to Ashton Kutcher ended last year, has finally gotten around to changing her Twitter name. Moore tweeted to her nearly 5M followers, "So for now it will be @justdemi It could grow on me!" Moore got some flack for keeping her old Twitter handle, @MrsKutcher, for months after she separated from Kutcher. At the time Moore said changing her Twitter handle just wasn't "a top priority." She was probably busy with rehab.
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The King of Pop will soon be on your pop can. Silhouettes of Michael Jackson will appear on Pepsi cans as part of a new global marketing campaign. Jackson was once the drink company's biggest spokesman, when it signed the singer to a then-record $5M sponsorship contract in 1984. According to The Wall Street Journal, the new campaign is part of PepsiCo's efforts to revamp the Pepsi brand, which has been losing ground behind archrival Coca-Cola Co. The campaign will coincide with the 25th anniversary of Jackson's "Bad" album. The special-edition cans will hit the shelves in China this weekend and be in stateside stores later this month.
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She's back to clubbing. She's back to being late to work. And now Lindsay Lohan is reportedly back with her old girlfriend, Samantha Ronson. They were spotted together at a New York nightclub earlier this week. The two began their two-year-relationship in 2007. "Lindsay and Sam were whispering and laughing and they left the club holding hands," a source told X17Online. "They didn't care who saw them, and they definitely seem to be back on. It was just like the old days — they couldn't get enough of each other!" We can't say we support Lohan falling back into old habits.
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Just in case you thought Bieber fever was going away... Justin Bieber released the video for his new song, "Boyfriend," which shows the mature, grown-up side of the Biebs. Yes ladies, he's 18 now. Feel free to drool.
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And in isn't-it-ironic news, Bachelor host Chris Harrison is now a bachelor himself, after announcing he's divorcing his wife of 19 years.
Posted 05.04.12 by Chris -
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.
Posted 12.19.11 by reelz -
ReelzChannel Celebrity Rundown
Justin Bieber's alleged baby mama Mariah Yeater has dropped her paternity lawsuit against the pop star and has been dumped by her attorneys. In far more shocking news, the Biebs was photographed giving a pair of birds to the paparazzi outside a London restaurant on Tuesday night.
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Mike "The Situation" Sorrentino is suing Abercrombie & Fitch for $4 million, claiming the clothing company sold T-shirts that said, "GTL, what else?" and "The Fitchuation," violating the trademark The Sitch has on those two terms. The $4 mil will come in handy for Sorrentino as Snooki claims he's already broke.
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Now that the Occupy Wall Street protesters have been evicted from Zuccotti Park in NYC, perhaps they can now turn their attention to the movement to remove the Kardashians from TV. Petition organizer Cyndy Snyder says these shows are "mostly staged and place an emphasis on vanity, greed, promiscuity, vulgarity and over-the-top conspicuous consumption."
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Speaking of Kim Kardashian, she's apparently laying low until a New Year's Eve bash at Tao in Vegas while Kris Humphries says he will sign the divorce papers after all. Humphries emerged yesterday in NYC "on business" and was heckled while he dined at Serafina on East 61st Street with someone yelling, "Where's Kim?"
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Michelle "Bombshell" McGee, the woman who broke up the marriage between Jesse James and Sandra Bullock, says she's not surprised James cheated on Kat Von D with 19 other women. In an interview with TMZ McGee ripped Von D saying, "She got my sloppy seconds and her show got canceled... rough year, Kat Von Dude!"
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Those wanting to spend between $3,000 - $5,000 for Michael Jackson's death bed are disappointed this morning as Julien's Auctions has pulled the item from the auction, which begins December 17.
Posted 11.16.11 by reelz -
ReelzChannel Celebrity Rundown
Brett Ratner says he stepped down as producer of the 2012 Academy Awards, but was actually fired for saying "rehearsal is for fags" at a Tower Heist premiere last Friday. The Hollywood Reporter has collected nine other crude Brett Ratner quotes, most having to do with his "banging" of Olivia Munn.
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A juror in the trial of Jacko doc Conrad Murray said the decision to find him guilty of manslaughter was easy and that all jurors were in agreement early in the deliberation process. Meanwhile, earlier reports that Murray was on a suicide watch are false, which didn't really add up since Murray will likely only serve just a single year of a likely 4-year sentence.
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Nancy Grace finally exited Dancing with the Stars last night and joked that it was "a huge miscarriage of justice."
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Back from a quick trip to Kris Humphries' home state of Minnesota, Kim Kardashian is now jetting to Atlanta to play a role in Tyler Perry's highly ironically titled The Marriage Counselor, set for a 2012 release.
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First lingerie, then a Bentley, now White House party crasher and "groupie slut" Michaele Salahi is flashing a new $15,000 diamond ring courtesy of Journey guitarist Neal Schon.
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Oprah Winfrey's ample bosoms nearly flopped out of her low-cut dress as she posed next to Uma Thurman at a Versace for H&M party in NYC last night.
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84-year-old Penn State football coach Joe Paterno may have coached his last game as The New York Times reports the university's Board of Trustees is planning "JoePa's" exit in the wake of a sex scandal involving his former defensive coordinator Jerry Sandusky.
Posted 11.09.11 by reelz -
ReelzChannel Celebrity Rundown
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.
Posted 11.08.11 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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Steven Tyler purposely revealed his bruised, cut, and toothless head on the Today show after falling in a shower in Paraguay.
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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.
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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 10.28.11 by reelz