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This female star has been spiraling out of control over the past several weeks and has been the subject of numerous internet gossip sites. She is currently being persuaded by those close to her to enter rehab within the next week. There is even a chance it could be this weekend. Her friends and family are extremely concerned that if something is not done now it may be too late. Going into rehab now would allow for a fresh start for the new year and to get her life back on track.

Four For Friday

This is a blind item none of you will be able to guess, but I just thought it was really interesting and so lets just say it is a bonus.

What dentist in Hollywood is becoming known as the celebrity meth dentist because a majority of his business now comes from Hollywood’s elite who have abused meth and now are losing their teeth? This dentist’s practice has exploded over the last year because of his ability to help Hollywood meth abusers keep their original teeth in many of his cases.

This teen drama actor/ heartthrob from a new network is learning the hard way that a woman scorned is dangerous. He used his celebrity to have his way with a young woman who was a huge fan. Now he is literally running for his life because he broke all the promises he made to her when he was taking her virginity. Her four older brothers are not happy.

If you are a landlord you definitely do not want to see this 1980's A list TV actor come calling. Our mystery actor rents luxury apartments in LA without any money down by advising the management that he is (a) changing accountants and so cannot access his funds or (b) has some royalty/residual checks coming at the beginning of the month. Because he is who he was, they usually let him move in. Of course there is no money and actor is evicted. (Three times in the last year alone)

This is NOT a repeat - Now there are reports that another cable reality star has become an escort as a way to earn extra money. She is not currently working with the cable reality star mentioned here before, but it seems like it would be a best-seller if they decided to work together.

This morning will be some LINKS and then of course this afternoon the Four For Friday Blind Items with a bonus so there will really be Five.






I really read this one wrong. I did not think Wesley Snipes was going to come back to the US to be arrested. From this point forward I am going to stick up for him. I am not sure how many of us would leave a country where we were safe from arrest and come back to the US knowing we could be facing some serious jail time. Free Wesley!!



Is Rosie O'Donnell already leaving The View? The buildup to her being on is shorter than the time actually on the show. I do not actually watch the show, but from what I understand, if she left, then the remaining group would sit around and make everyone yawn.



Not everyone can afford an attorney when they get divorced. California is one of the better states for doing it yourself. However, if you have the funds, and are trying to get about $200M USD don't you think an attorney would be a good idea? Not if you are Heather Mills and know you are better than everyone else.

A wedding between a one hit wonder and a model is sure to last. Right? What, you don't think a guy who was allegedly cheating on a supermodel will have any problems being married to said supermodel for the rest of their life? Ok, well maybe you are right. Naaaah. They will never even make it to the altar. But I am sure it is a pretty ring.

Now, as I promised to Mel. Here is the link to Wolfmother which was nominated for a Grammy yesterday. This is an Australian group that will cause LA to be swarming with chants of Oi, Oi, and Aussie, Aussie, Aussie throughout the month of February. Actually it should be fun and they are really, really good.

I am not sure how many of you read all the comments, especially from the older posts so I am printing this for all to see. It is an incredible piece of research and done by someone I would love have working for me. The only problem is that I stated that 2000 was a fudge because it would be too easy to find the singer. I stand by the fact that it would be explosive if it ever came out, and there is only one person who can come forward to reveal all and it is not going to be me.

With all the websites that have linked to the story all with their own comments sections, of course people have guessed it, but I am not going to say. With all of that, I wanted to post this and say this is truly incredible.

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my friend did some sleuthing and concluded that this may be a hoax. His response is below: This smells like a hoax to me but I don't like mysteries so I went ahead and tried to solve this one: The album in question was prolly released in 2001. I guessed that year because the story says that the singer was approached in "late 2000" and heard herself on the radio "several months later". There were 373 albums released in 2001 in America. For the moment, let's only consider albums released by a female solo artist. Believe it or not, that cuts the list down to 29 with a list of women that includes Alicia Keys (sorry, Cat), Madonna, Jessica Simpson, Pink, Mariah, Missy, Bjork, and three Spice Girls. Now if we limit the list again to women whose FIRST solo album came out that year, we are left with 5. (By the way, Jessica Simpson's first CD came out in 1999, with the hits "I wanna love you forever" and "I think I'm in Love with you" being two of the singles. I know some of you thought it was her.) So who's on that list? Album Artist Release Date A Girl Like Me Emma Bunton 16-Apr Songs in A Minor Alicia Keys 5-Jun The Spirit Room Michelle Branch 14-Aug Victoria Beckham Victoria Beckham 1-Oct Laundry Service Shakira 13-Nov The story went on to say that the artist in question was "taking off" and "had several Top 40 songs and CD's." Also, the "star" was "everywhere..on television, radio, awards, shows, commercials..EVERYWHERE.". Well, the Spice Girls are out since Emma only sold 125,000 of her first CD. And while Victoria did slightly better, Wikipedia has this to say : "Despite being one of the most famous celebrities in Britain, and having all her music reach the UK top ten (the only solo Spice to do so), Victoria Beckham's career as a solo artist is largely considered to have been a commercial failure." Also, it seems that Posh shelves more music than she releases and has not been all that prolific in the past 5 years. This leaves our curious threesome of Shakira, Michelle Branch, and Alicia Keys. Michelle Branch - Apparently, this girl has been rocking out since she was 8 years old and, technically, her first album was released in 2000. It was a self release CD called Broken Bracelet. Also, she toured with Hanson in December of 2000 when Madonna noticed her and signed her up to Maverick records (What the hell was Madonna doing at a Hanson concert?!!?). She went on to win Grammies and have 3 top 40 singles of that first Maverick-backed CD. In 2002, she did that Carlos Santana song "A Game of Love" which earned her another Grammy. Her second album went platinum but only spawned one top forty single. Alicia Keys - Allmusic.com reports that "Around the time that Songs in A Minor was released, Keys was popping up everywhere, including an Associated Press story. Where had she been before then?" Good question. Ms. Alicia Augello-Cook has has been playing the piano since age 7, wrote her first song at age 14, and graduated from the "Fame" high school at age 16. Her first commercial offering sold 235,000 the first week and sold more than ten million worldwide. This was followed by several Top 40 hits and five Grammies. Her next CD, released 2003 sold 618,000 copies the first week and has, to date, sold over 7 million units worldwide as well as earned her four more Grammies. However, Alicia's first recordings were in 1997 when she had a song on the Men In Black soundtrack. In addition, she was featured on the soundtracks of both Shaft (2000) and Dr. Doolittle 2 (2001). Shakira - Possibly the most famous of these three, Shakira steamrolled us all in 2001 with "Whenever, Wherever", all hips and moaning. Her CD, Laundry Service, sold more than 13 million copies and spawned several top 40 hits. She has performed at numerous award shows (including singing "Dude looks like a lady" at MTV Icon in 2002. A curious choice, isn't it. Maybe she's trying to tell us something...) and has herself snagged a carload of awards both her and overseas. She is the highest selling Columbian artist of all time (unless cocaine export is considered an art) and is quite possibly one of the most influential Latin American artists ever. Of course, what hasn't been mentioned is that Shakira was already a smashing success before she reached our shores, releasing her first (failed) CD in 1991 followed by 3 more, the last which made her a household name in Latin America and Spain. The Verdict: All three of these women have been in commercials and award shows and have been well covered by the media (Michelle Branch, prolly less so). But none of them really fit the description of the story. I mean, all these women have recordings that pre-date 2001. Finding differences in the vocals between now and then would be so easy a New York Post reporter could uncover it. What's more, all these women make a habit of performing live and while this can be faked, I would be SHOCKED to find it had been. So, in conclusion, I have no idea. Problems: if this happened in another country, the UK for example, this is all for naught since they have different release schedules and stars altogether. Also, wherever the email came from other details might have been changed such as the year that this happened which would throw everything off. Again, I think it's a hoax. Bib: Allmusic.com, Wikipedia.org, Amazon.com

Sorry about not having photos but it is tough when there are not really specific themes or people.


JACKASS v KINDNESS

For those of you who did not read the first of these, it basically is something where I tell you about a jackass thing a celebrity did and then an act of kindness a celebrity did.

So I called my friend because I knew he had the phone number I needed and we started talking about what is going to be the kindness part of the post. We then got into a big discussion about sports which led somehow to publicists and bad behavior by celebrities and then he reminded me of something that had happened on his show which I had forgotten about.

For the most part, television actors are much less divaesque and are much more down to earth than an actor who only does films. This is caused by a number of factors such as the life of a television show which may be brief to the fact that television actors are paid much less than their film counterparts, to the fact that they work generally half the year with the same group of actors and crew and often commute to and from work just like any other person. What is odd about this, is that television actors are generally much more known by the general public than film stars. If a movie grosses $100M and the average ticket costs $8.00, then approximately 12 million tickets were sold. Contrast that with say Grey’s Anatomy which last week had 24 million viewers and does every week and you can see how television actors are generally more recognized and well known. What makes film stars more divaesque is the fact they are paid an incredible sum of money and that studios may have $100M invested in that star’s ability to bring in an audience to recoup their money. Because there are few stars that are capable of doing that, their demands become greater and also more outrageous and they become divas.

That is the background -

JACKASS -

In this show there was an actor who was about fourth billed at most, but had a very big head about his role on the show and how he thought viewers were tuning into the show to see him and that he was the star. If he felt he was not getting enough lines in a particular episode, he would act is if everything was fine and then right before taping would "lose his voice" or have some other ailment which would cause producers, writers and the director to scramble around and try and save the show. Other times he would improvise new lines as the taping was going on and refuse to do the lines that were written because he felt he was a better writer than the show’s writers and knew what the audience wanted. If the writers just had him being in one scene with no dialogue which happens sometimes, he would just not show up for the taping. He trashed his dressing room more than once because he was not satisfied with its appearance. He would park sideways in the lot taking up three spaces, and even tried the "you cannot talk to him directly thing."

Now you have to remember this guy is way down the list of people on the show. His other problem was his agent who did not really have many clients and so was devoting a great deal of time to this particular client and making the head even more swollen. The agent did not want to lose this money ticket and so kept telling our misguided actor how wonderful he was and how he would get his own show soon, and movies, etc..This actor just did not realize that nature of his appeal which was limited and his acting skills which were even more limited. He really had no range except in his mind. He just could not get over himself and when his contract was running out, he thought he was going to get a big raise, and instead he got written out of the last ten or so episodes of the year and his contract was not renewed. Thought he was bigger than the show. The reality is in television, you are rarely bigger than the show.

KINDNESS -

Why is it that it is the women who are always the subject of the kindness part? A list model/actress more model than actress has been in and out of the office lately because she is coming out with a new product and there are some details to be worked out. Because she has been in so frequently, she learned that one of the people in the office had both of her parents die in a car accident during the summer and had really been devastated by this. She had been in the car with her parents and did not even get a scratch and so was feeling really guilty and really depressed.

Our model overheard the secretary discussing Dancing With The Stars and how it was the one bright spot of the week for her where she really just could let her troubles go. Without letting anyone know, model arranged for Secretary to attend the final episode of the season and to go backstage and meet the finalists. She also arranged for a makeover and new clothes and a limo to the show. There were no cameras there to record this and no publicity. This was just one person who overheard someone who was in pain and used their celebrity for good with nothing in return. Model called in a bunch of favors just because she is that kind of person. No one asked her to do it, and no one knew she was doing it until she sprung the surprise. You should have seen the look on Secretary’s face when Model told her what she had done and the excitement the day after the final show when Secretary could not stop talking and sharing and you could see the sparkle back in her eyes. It has been a few weeks now, and she is just 1,000% percent better from what she was and you can see she is starting to live again.

Burt Reynolds --Full Frontal

Jude Law Nude--Full Frontal

This morning will be the usual with some links and commentary although there is really not much out there to look at. The afternoon post will be another Jackass v Kindness post because it has been awhile since I did one of those.



Last night I called a really good friend of mine to get a phone number to thank someone which relates to the kindness portion of the afternoon post. It was just going to be a one minute call and it turned into an hour. This friend is on a tv show and has been for some time and he does movies also. I have asked him before if he considers himself A list and his answer is usually something sarcastic or self-deprecating. See, he is A list and all of you would know his name, but he would not be the first person you would think of when A list is mentioned. Unless someone is constantly self-promoting then you just hear about the star when they want you to hear from them.



For example, this friend of mine does not have a publicist. He just relies on the network's publicist or the production company of the show and when he does a movie, follows the same type of formula. He also gave me the jackass story for this afternoon and it is pretty entertaining so be nice in the comments section because he will be reading them.



I know I have been talking about publicists frequently and so you probably want me to shut up about it, but think about Gwyneth Paltrow. Is her publicist good? Absolutely. Is there anything the publicist could do to fix the mess Gwyneth got into when speaking about America? They tried, and got a response in the press two days running, and made up a really bad explanation which is