Archive for August, 2009
Nicole Kidman to hit the ‘Runway’
Fashionista and actress Nicole Kidman is set to leave Nashville temporarily for an appearance on “Project Runway: All Star Challenge,”
The actress will make a guest appearance on a “design special” episode of the Lifetime reality show.
Kidman will join host Heidi Klum, judges Michael Kors and Nina Garcia and the show’s style guru Tim Gunn for the two-hour long special episode, set to air Thursday.
The episode will feature eight stars from previous seasons returning to their sewing machines for a one-off show immediately before the return of the highly-anticipated sixth series.
Season two contestants Daniel Vosovic and Santino Rice, season three’s Uli Herzner, Jeffrey Sebelia and Mychael Knight and series four favorites Chris March and Sweet P will return to the TV screen alongside Korto Momolu, who was a contestant on the last season.
Previous guests include former Spice Girl-turned-style icon Victoria Beckham and singer-and-actress Jennifer Lopez.
‘New Moon’ clips go Team Jacob
Let’s get the day going with a “New Moon” clip. It’s very Team Jacob, but there is some tasty Edward-Bella kissing action and all sorts of yummy bits:
Lady Gaga to go modest in Israel
Even Lady Gaga has to dial it back in the holy land.
The provocative singer has vowed to be respectful while she is in Israel and can’t wait to see “sacred and holy” Jerusalem.
She added her visit to the holy city will be “an emotional and spiritual experience” and plans to swim in the Dead Sea.
She doesn’t plan to be completely chaste, however, and a drunken day in Jerusalem is a possibility.
Lady Gaga will perform the last show of her “Fame Ball” tour in Tel Aviv Wednesday before heading to Israel. She’s not the first star ordered to tone down their image during a visit to a religious country.
In October 2007, Beyonce Knowles canceled her concert in Malaysia after she was told to follow the Muslim country’s strict dress code.
Madonna was warned about her raunchy stage show for her concert in Russia’s St. Petersburg earlier this month.
Madonna proclaims her love for Jesus
Madonna has called Jesus Luz “the love of her life”.
At her 51st birthday party in Portofino, Italy Sunday, the singer praised the 22-year-old Brazilian model before running across the room to passionately kiss him.
As friends looked on, Madonna gushed: “He’s the love of my life. He has been so strong around me. I can’t thank him enough.”
On Monday, the couple looked blissfully happy as they boarded a luxury yacht with Madonna’s children, Lourdes, 12, Rocco, eight, Mercy, four, and David, three.
As the children played on the deck, Madonna and Jesus, with their built in couple name, frolicked in the ocean.
“She and Jesus looked madly in love and it was great to see her looking so happy. They just looked like any normal family enjoying a holiday together,” a source said.
Designer duo Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana organized her Italian birthday bash.
But the pair were reportedly so “terrified” she wouldn’t be happy with it they had to take herbal relaxation treatments to calm their nerves.
“The designers pulled out all the stops for Madonna. This was just one of three celebrations and Domenico and Stefano had laid on a feast,” said a source.
“The trio have been friends for years, but even they were terrified before the event. Stefano even took a homeopathic remedy to relax. But he needn’t have worried, the whole thing was a roaring success.”
John Cleese’s pricey divorce
John Cleese is having one expensive breakup. The Monty Pyton star has been ordered by a California court to pay about $20 million to his third wife, Alyce Faye Eichelberger. The ruling leaves her richer than him.
Cleese, 69, has been forced into agreeing to a settlement worth $13 million in cash and assets, as well as $1 million annually for the next seven years.
It is estimated he will be left with a fortune of around $17 million.
“I got off lightly. Think what I’d have had to pay if she’d contributed anything!” kidded the star.
Director and Cleese’s friend Michael Winner said, “The result is extraordinary. Alyce lived in a council flat when they met.
“As he put it, ‘What I find so unfair is that if we both died today, her children would get much more than mine.’
“There are no dependant children. If ever there was a case for prenuptial agreements, this is it.”
Cleese has two adult children, Cynthia and Camilla, from his marriages to actresses Connie Booth and Barbara Trentham respectively, while Eichelberger has two sons from her previous marriage.
The couple, who married in 1992, have been battling it out for more than a year and a half.
Originally Eichelberger had been claiming $1.4 million-a-year maintenance, two houses and half of all earnings Cleese had amassed during their marriage.
Cleese split from his previous wives amicably and without the need for lawyers.
He previously said of his divorce from Eichelberger: “It’s going to be very, very expensive, but it will be worth every penny.”
FACT OF THE DAY
[B]All about bears:[/B]
Polar bears have been known to swim more than 60 miles without resting.
Koalas look like they could belong to the bear family and are often called bears, but they are, in fact, marsupials.
Grizzly bears are powerful, top-of-the-food-chain predators, yet much of their diet consists of nuts, berries, fruit, leaves, and roots.
The Panda was not officially considered a bear until 1995.
Bears eat a lot of food to get ready for winter. We would have to eat 50 hamburgers and 12 large orders of fries for many days to get as big as these bears.
The sun bear is a small animal that lives in the tropical rainforests of Southeast Asia
If you spray an antiseptic spray on a polar bear, its fur will turn purple.
Black bears can run up to thirty-five miles per hour.
The grizzly bear is the largest land carnivore in the world.
Kelsey Grammer’s wake up call
Kelsey Grammer says his heart attack made him realize how precious his family is.
The former actor suffered the potentially fatal myocardial infarction last year and calls it a wake-up call to figure out what’s really important in life and not let work get in the way.
“Honestly, I’ve never felt better. I’m always concerned about going to work now because I’ve established such a connection with my family that’s different than it used to be when I was on ‘Frasier,’” he said.
“I started the family then and in the last five years I’ve spent a lot of time with them. So I find that more precious than I did before?it’s very important that the work not really intrude on that. So it’s a weird balancing act again.”
His eldest daughter Spencer, 25, has an acting career of her own and is now starring in TV show “Greek,” which his made Grammer even more proud.
“I always knew she’d do well. I want people to follow their own dreams and figure out their own lives. If she’d had been an astronaut I would’ve been happy,” said Grammer.
Celine Dion knocked up?
Celine Dion is pregnant with her second child, according to reports.
The 41-year-old singer and her elderly husband Rene Angelil, 67, conceived the baby with the help of a team of fertility specialists in New York. The couple has been married since 1994 and conceived a son, Rene-Charles, 8, using a similar process.
The Canadian paper, Journal de Montreal, broke the news and Dion hasn’t officially confirmed it yet.
Dion said she planned to try for another children when her “Taking Chances” world tour ended earlier this year.
“We are going to give it a try after my tour. Hopefully we can get pregnant again,” she told Oprah Winfrey. “I have a small window of hope. But we have been so blessed already. We tried six years for Rene-Charles. We have our miracle baby.”
Angelil has three other children from two previous marriages.
Ashlee Simpson’s drunken fight
Nothing like a drunken fight to prove you’re really married. Ashlee Simpson-Wentz called her husband “horrible” during a drunken public argument.
Wentz was DJing at the first anniversary of his Chicago bar Angels and Kings Saturday when his wife took aim, before insisting he take her home early.
A source told Perez Hilton: “Pete was in the DJ booth when Ashlee came up completely wasted and yelled at him to leave. They fought, she told him he was horrible in front of a whole group of people and made him leave his own party early. So they make a scene and leave the bar.”
Sources say Simpson-Wentz was “beyond drunk” and the pair were still arguing as they left.
When someone tried to take a photo of the couple, Simpson-Wentz “chased the guy down the street and made him erase the pictures”.
The couple were then ushered into a car by their security team and taken home.
She denied the fight via Twitter.
She tweeted to Perez: “Your story is WAY off. my husband is an amazing dj and was dedicating songs to me. We were just havin fun. Our love is amazing. (sic)”
Perez insisted the story was accurate, posting on his own micro blog: “I don’t want to name names and get people fired but several of the people I spoke with work at Angels and Kings. I’m not wrong.”
Miley Cyrus and Justin Gaston going at it
Miley Cyrus isn’t having quite the civil break up with Justin Gaston she’d planned. The actress and singer is having a war of words via Twitter with the underwear model from whom she split in June after around a year of dating.
Gaston started the argument by writing on his page: “People mistake stupidity for bravery way too easily.”
Cyrus, 16, quickly replied: “Yeah. I love when people mistake bravery with writing a few stupid tweets trying to make it seem like they don’t care. You’re afraid to love.”
Going by past tweets, Cyrus appears to still have feelings for her ex.
Last week she wrote: “I am in between happy and sad today. I’m happy because I love you. I’m sad because I can’t get enough of you.”
Since the break-up, both have been constantly posting their feelings about one another and the split on Twitter.
Gaston wrote: “Just recorded a demo. Now I’m sitting on the couch wondering why we as humans try to pretend everything’s OK when it isn’t. Just be real.”
Cyrusreplied: “Everything IS ok. Honestly. I can’t change you’re mind and your heart no longer belongs to me. Maybe YOU’RE the one pretending you’re fine (sic).”
Vid: ‘Do You Want to Date My Avatar?’
Felicia Day is the new geek girl du jour thanks to “Dr. Horrible’s Sing Along Blog” and has more geek goodness in her new “Do You Want to Date My Avatar?” video from The Guild. Check it out:
Brad Pitt gives up the ganja
Brad Pitt stomped out his pot smoking once he became a father because he wanted to be able to take care of his kids.
He took over the father job for Angelina Jolie’s adopted son Maddox, 7, after they started dating, and the couple adopted two more and have three biological kids of their own.
Pitt admits he used to enjoy smoking marijuana when he was younger, but is less a pothead and more a parent.
“I’m a dad now. You want to be alert and my eyes used to glaze over when I did that,” he told Bill Maher.
Pitt recently told Parade magazine the drug turned him into a “doughnut”.
Me, I just like to eat doughnuts. And brownies. And Taco Bell. Mmmm….
Tom Cavanagh a dad again
Actor Tom Cavanagh has become a dad for the third time.
He and wife Maureen Grise welcomed their second son, James Joseph Cavanagh, on Aug. 5.
James joins older sister Alice Ann, 3, and Thomas Patrick, 2.
Cavanagh and Grise, a photo editor at Sports Illustrated magazine, married in 2004.
Amy Winehouse wants Blake back?
With her divorce not quite yet final, singer Amy Winehouse has reportedly begged her estranged husband to take her back.
According to a friend of the couple, Winehouse told Blake Fielder-Civil she wants to call off their divorce and give their marriage another go during an emotional phone call.
“Blake was absolutely stunned when Amy called. He couldn’t believe it. It has been such a long time and so much has happened,” said the source.
“She told him she still loved him and missed him and wanted him back. She said to him, ‘Come home to me. Be with me.’ Amy asked him, ‘Do you love me?’ Blake told her, ‘I love you. You know I do’.
“Blake told her that if she can stay clear of the drugs there is a chance for them.”
The couple married in 2007 and were recently granted a decree nisi, preliminary to a final divorce. Fielder-Civil recently got out of jail and both have been trying to get themselves clean of drugs.
Her maybe-ex-husband is still in rehab while Winehouse recently returned to London from an eight-month stay in St. Lucia.
Fielder-Civil seems to think they can be in each other’s lives if they’re clean and sober.
He told Britain’s News of the World newspaper: “We’ve been talking for the first time in months.
“I love her as much as ever. I know she still loves me, even though we’re getting divorced. Maybe this time we can do everything properly and not mess it up.
“She is looking beautiful and healthy now and it reminds me of the old Amy. She has been wearing my engagement ring and it meant an awful lot.
“I did something wrong and went to prison. I got clean. Amy flew off somewhere hot, got clean. It was meant to be that way.
“We were pushing things to the extreme with our drug-taking and it could never have carried on that way. I want to take her out for dinner and propose again. I hope that within five minutes we’ll be planning where we’re next going to get married.”
Michael Jackson to be buried on his birthday
Michael Jackson will be buried on what would have been his 51st birthday, his dad Joe Jackson told the AFP today.
Jackson’s birthday burial will take place at L.A.’s Forest Lawn Cemetary on August 29
Joe, 80, told the AFP that the burial would be a private event, although he could not say which family members would be present.
Jackson died June 25 of an apparent cardiac arrest, but the official cause of death will not be revealed until the final autopsy report is released by the Los Angeles County coroner’s office and the manslaughter investigation is complete, an official said last week.
Pattinson and Stewart get close at concert
They should have saved this shot for closer to the “New Moon” premiere. Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart were spotted nuzzling while out with the cast and crew of “Eclipse” at a Miku, a sushi restaurant in Vancouver.
The two were very close during dinner, taking smoke breaks together and even leaving together.
On Saturday, they also snuggled at a Kings of Leon concert, when they weren’t laughing and smoking cigarettes.
“They’ve decided to be more public about going out now,” an insider told Us Weekly. “They’re not boyfriend and girlfriend, but they’ve definitely hooked up.”
Their Twilight costars are supportive.
“If they want to date each other, fine!” said Billy Burke, who plays Stewart’s dad. “Look, when you’re that age, you’re going to make mistakes. You’re going to date people you probably shouldn’t date. It’s all part of the growing process.”
Victoria Beckham to take over Abdul’s seat?
If Paula Abdul thought “American Idol” would cry over her for long, she was wrong. Victoria Beckham is set to take over Abdul’s position on a permanent basis for a reported $5.5 million.
The former Spice Girl has filled in for two guest appearances and producers are impressed enough to offer her the fourth seat.
But producers want to make sure the British star connects with the U.S. public. They’re worried that her accent and alien-esque skinny frame will keep middle America from connecting with her.
“‘American Idol’ is the highest rated show and they don’t want to pick a judge viewers don’t take to. Focus groups are going to be set up to judge Victoria’s performance,” said a source.
“There’s some concern about whether viewers will think she’s too skinny. They’re also worried about her accent. She’s started to talk in a very posh voice and some people might struggle with that.”
There are a few folks in the running if she can’t eat a few sandwiches. Mary J. Blige and Katy Perry are also being considered.
It was recently claimed Victoria had “facial expression” lessons before making her debut on “American Idol.”
A source said: “Victoria knows she has a very thick British accent and is sometimes misunderstood in America. She wanted to come across the best she could on ‘American Idol’, so she took some private lessons on how to properly pronounce words and how to make appropriate facial expressions.”
Joss Whedon says Angel could take Cullen
Apparently everyone thinks they could take Edward Cullen. First “True Blood” star Stephen Moyer calls the sparkly vamp a pussy and now “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” and “Angel” creator Joss Whedon has proclaimed his vamps better as well.
In a vamp-to-vamp contest, Whedon, a self-proclaimed Twilight fan, says Angel would kick Twi-vamp’s ass.
“I think Robert Pattinson’s really cool, [but] Angel would kick the shit out of him. … (David) Boreanaz would have him down in a heartbeat. No offense, ’cause he’s hot.”
Vid: Little kid parallel parking
This kid parallel parks better than most adults (and is about as proud as I am when I do it):
Sandra Bullock likes it simple
I suppose if you’re a famous actress, extravagant gifts don’t make quite the splash. Sandra Bullock claims she’d rather get something heartfelt like a handwritten letter rather than expensive presents.
“I am lucky in that I don’t expect much and I am always so pleased by just the smallest gesture. I am a notes and letters gal. I would much rather have someone write me something than buy something for me. I like the intentions rather than the gifts, so if someone writes me something or does something like that then I am very overwhelmed by that romance,” said Bullock, who is married to TV host Jesse James.
Bullock also revealed she is trying to be less structured in her life and become more spontaneous.
“I’m the queen of planning and scheduling and I’m trying very hard to stop it. I just want to finish what I’m doing and go home. I want to have a weekend. I want to have breakfast, a stack of pancakes. I don’t want to not enjoy where I am at this very moment.”
