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ReelzChannel Celebrity Rundown
According to Forbes, Sofia Vergara is the best paid actress on television. She doesn't top the list just with her Modern Family paychecks, however. The actress made an estimated $19 million in the past year from income from acting, endorsements, and a production company she founded sixteen years ago. Kim Kardashian was second on the list with $18 million, though one does wonder if she belongs on any "actress" list. Eva Longoria was a surprise at third place, coming in with $15 million.
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Artist Danny Evans has a rather unique celeb photo gallery on his Planet Hiltron Facebook page. The gallery features photos of celebrities given a thorough Photoshop makeunder. The altered photos show what celebrities like Johnny Depp, Jennifer Aniston, and the Kardashian family would look like with a 40 pound weight gain, a $10 haircut, and a Walmart wardrobe. It's a little like seeing the beautiful Cameron Diaz turned into a frizzy-haired frump in Being John Malkovich.
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Fred Willard was arrested for lewd conduct on Wednesday evening, says TMZ. The 78-year-old actor was in an adult movie theater at the time, which should be enough information for readers to go ahead and figure out the details for themselves.
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The British royal family has been out and about with the upcoming London Olympics. The Duchess of Cambridge attended a gallery opening that featured photographic portraits of Olympic athletes, while her father-in-law, Prince Charles, tried out the climbing wall at a secondary school.
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ReelzChannel Celebrity Rundown
Legendary actor Peter O'Toole announced yesterday that he is retiring. The actor released a statement declaring that "it is time for me to chuck in the sponge. The heart for it has gone out of me: it won’t come back." The eight-time Best Actor nominee was probably best known for his roles in Lawrence of Arabia, The Lion in Winter and Goodbye, Mr. Chips.
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Rumors are swirling around Sofia Vergara and a new ring she's been wearing on her left hand. The actress has been celebrating her 40th birthday at a resort in Mexico accompanied by her on-and-off-again boyfriend Nick Loeb. A picture was posted on Twitter of the Modern Family star sporting a big diamond ring on her left hand, and that got the engagement speculations started. A rep for the actress told Peopleenespanol.com that she is not currently engaged and that the ring was just a loaner from a jeweler.
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Another recent celeb rumor was shot down this week. Seth Meyers was said to be the frontrunner to co-host Live! with Kelly starting this fall, but he denied the reports. He didn't beat around the bush when he talked the Orlando Sun-Sentinel saying "No, no, no, no, no." Meyers said he is excited to be at Saturday Night Live for an election year season and has no intention of leaving right now.
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Rainn Wilson announced earlier this week that he is launching a new YouTube Channel, SoulPancake, and he promised that if they reached 5,000 subscribers he would post a video of himself meditating in a Speedo. Right now, the channel has already exceeded its goal by about 600 subscribers and the promised video was posted. A word of warning: once the image of Rainn Wilson in a Speedo has been seen, it cannot be unseen. Now Wilson has upped the ante and has declared that if the channel reaches 10k he will give a random senior citizen a piggy-back ride across the street.
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Thankfully, filmmaker Robert Rodriguez seems pretty unconcerned about photos and videos being taken on the set of his latest Troublemaker Studios production, Machete Kills. His seemingly lax set policy has afforded us the opportunity to to see candid photos of Jessica Alba and title star Danny Trejo goofing around with guns and Rodriguez getting a birthday serenade from an all-female mariachi band.
Rodriguez even allowed Manolo Gonzalez to capture behind-the-scenes footage of the shoot in progress for his video blog My Vida con Toty, which has afforded us a sneak peek at his smoking hot mother, actress Sofia Vergara, as Madame Desdemona, aka "La Come-Hombres" ("Maneater"). You have to suffer through Gonzalez's goofy, fanboy commentary, but the footage of Vergara is well worth it (plus, you can always mute the video).
watch the set video >> Posted 07.08.12 by BrentJS -
ReelzChannel Celebrity Rundown
Seems Ryan Gosling can't go anywhere without causing a commotion. Earlier this week Gosling and Eva Mendes attended Gosling's mother's college graduation ceremony. The couple tried to stay under the radar, sitting near the back of the auditorium, but their cover was blown when people starting tweeting that the couple was in attendance and starting snapping photos of the two and posting them online. When Gosling's mom's name was called, the actor stood up and cheered. By the time Gosling and Mendes went to leave the ceremony, fans had formed a line outside. When approached by a reporter, Gosling declined the interview, saying, "This is my mom's day." Is it us or is this guy too perfect?
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Apparently, babies are out. After paying $850,000 for exclusive photos of Jessica Simpson's baby, Maxwell Drew, People actually saw sales drop. The issue sold just 950,000 copies, less than the magazine's average of 1.3M copies. $850,000 is a lot of money for a few photographs but it's nothing compared to the coin that Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie got for shots of their babies. The couple made upwards of $11M for photos of their children (which they reportedly turned around and gave to charity).
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In an effort to get the youth vote, President Obama had breakfast with 25 of the biggest names in young Hollywood. Obama dined with the likes of Jessica Alba, Jared Leto, Zach Braff, Zachary Quinto, and Jeremy Renner. Immediately after the breakfast, the stars went to Twitter and Facebook to post their photos with the leader of the free world.
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Former Fleetwood Mac member Bob Welch was found dead Thursday of an apparent suicide at his Nashville home.
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Singer Pink is recovering from surgery after having her gallbladder removed, forcing her to cancel a performance at an upcoming fundraiser for Obama.
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Sofia Vergara is reportedly back together with ex Nick Loeb.
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ReelzChannel Celebrity Rundown
Happy Wednesday, fellas! Have we got some good news for you. Modern Family star Sofia Vergara is rumored to be single again. She had been dating environmental businessman Nick Loeb since 2010, but she showed up to Monday's Met Gala solo and told other attendees that she and Loeb had split.
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In much ickier news, John Tavolta's sexual assault and harassment scandal is staying alive, despite his lawyer stating that the claims are "absurd and fictional." So far, two anonymous male masseurs have filed sexual assault claims against the actor, and their lawyer, Okorie Okorocha, has said that others have come forward with similar claims.
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The Duchess of Cambridge has proved that she can go from hiking in jeans and boots to attending a black-tie affair with no problems at all. Kate Middleton rocked an elegant cream-colored gown paired with sparkly stilettos at a private dinner in London hosted by the Thirty Club on Tuesday night. Several days earlier, the Duchess and her puppy Lupo volunteered with the Scouts Association at an outing exploring some woods in Scotland. She looked perfectly suited to the outdoor event wearing jeans, boots, and a vest. What can't she do?
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In other royals news, the Queen of Soul will be getting a big honor soon. Aretha Franklin will be inducted into the Gospel Music Hall of Fame in a ceremony this August. Franklin's 1972 album, Amazing Grace, is one of the best selling gospel records of all time and has sold over 2 million copies.
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In an interview on Ellen, Johnny Depp revealed how he developed some of his most memorable characters. Apparently his version of Willy Wonka was inspired by what he imagined George (we're assuming he meant W.) Bush would be like "incredibly stoned." Edward Scissorhands, meanwhile, was inspired by Depp's puppy.
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Ben Affleck is becoming as comfortable behind the camera as he is in front of it. Having decided only to direct 2007's Gone Baby Gone, Affleck signed himself up for acting duties as well on last year's highly lauded, and commercially successful The Town.
With the political thriller Argo, it seemed like Affleck was just in director mode again, first casting Alan Arkin and, later, John Goodman. Now Variety reports Affleck has cast himself in the lead role of CIA exfiltration expert Tony Mendez, the man behind the plan to pose as a fake Hollywood movie in order to rescue six American hostages trapped in the Canadian embassy in Iran. As they say in Hollywood, it's all about who you know.
Chris Terrio (Heights) wrote the screenplay, based on the 2007 Wired article "How the CIA Used a Fake Sci-Fi Flick to Rescue Americans from Tehran". Arkin plays a Hollywood producer named Lester Siegel, while Goodman plays makeup artist John Chambers, who won an Academy Award for his work on the Planet of the Apes series.
Kidman romances The Paperboy, Strathairn has Lincoln's back >> Posted 06.28.11 by Ryan