Weekly Thanks

Many many thanks go out this week to everyone who sent me stories and tips. There were some great ones and I used a lot of them. I want to take a moment and thank the three sites which link to me the most and encourage you to visit their sites if you don’t already. Michael K over at Dlisted. Happy Birthday Michael. I hope you enjoy the photo of your boo. Celebitchy is great and Kate does a fantastic job there. And finally, Gawker who also links just about everyday. Thank You.

To all the readers who advertise on the site, I really appreciate it and I encourage all of you to check them out when you need something they are selling or doing or just to take a look. If you need summer concert tickets, don’t use any other reseller but Ticket Liquidators. I love them and they are not owned by some faceless monolithic corporation. The A to D list site is really adding names at a furious pace but the site only works with your help and support so make sure you check them out. Second City Style has a great site dedicated to fashion and shopping and has a magazine and a blog and links to all kinds of great products. If you are booking a trip and going to use an online site, go to travelatime first. Check out the price and if it is the same, then give them some of your business. Panic Away has one of the best banners and their product is just as good also. Finally, is Dragon Search Marketing and they can boost the visibility of your website or product and are the best at what they do.

For those of you who are Fathers or Mothers who are also fathers, I hope you have a great Father’s Day weekend. Don’t worry, you can always spill some ink or get some printer toner on that new tie your kid gets you. Be safe, and enjoy the quality time with your kids. I know my dad is looking forward to spending quality time with me. Actually he is looking forward to having our annual beer drinking contest and who can eat the food which has been burned the most because we were too drunk to notice. Good times.

Four For Friday

#1 & 2 – This B list television actress on a hit network drama has some siblings. One of the siblings is an actor himself. Way down the list. D or lower. He is also very young. As in young teenage young. It didn’t stop him at a recent event though from hitting on women who were over twice his age. It would have been hilarious except for the fact he really believed his own hype and that of his sister. Oh, and he has wandering hands. He was a piece of work.


#3 & 4 – There has been a great deal of speculation lately about this married couple. She is a singer and he is not. She is B+ list and he is not. She has been rumored to be the cause of the break up talk because of her indiscretions. However, it seems that he is the reason for the potential break up. Apparently he got romantically involved with another gentleman who acquired some incriminating pictures and videos about the life of our couple which were found in their house. He received a very healthy payout from the couple courtesy of the wife’s checkbook. She is very resentful towards her husband for letting the blackmailer into the home and that is why there could be a split.

Random Photos Part One - With Reader Photos

The Academy of Television Arts & Sciences last night had a tribute to television dads. How can you not put them on top?
For years there was no peep from Anna Chlumsky and now she is everywhere again.
The reason I don't post more photos of AnnaLynne McCord is simple. Her hair scares me. It always seems like it is way out of proportion to the rest of her. It must add an extra 4 inches to her height.
Bill Paxton and one of my favorite television moms, Marion Ross.
I believe that mom and son may have been doing some painting.
Candace Cameron Bure. She looks great.
When is the last time you saw a picture of Catherine Deneuve eating some ice cream and smoking a cigarette?
Chicago & Earth, Wind & Fire - New York (Later they were joined on stage by Styx, REO Speedwagon, Kool & The Gang. No, not really, but it is just a matter of time)
I just don't see the Suri resemblance in Chris Klein. I am officially eliminating him.
Christina Ricci proves that a belt can be a bra also.
Christian Slater needs a spark. I miss him being in the tabloids all the time. I think he should have a crazy weekend just for kicks.
One of my favorites. Diedrich Bader.
Randomness of the day. Joel Madden and Dr. Drew.
For the under 14 crowd is Demi Lovato and Selena Gomez.
It has been a long time since I saw Dermot Mulroney.
Femi Tabu - Santa Monica
The always lovely Iman.
Yes, yes, it's Johnny Depp time. But just one photo ok?
I will give you some Christian Bale though.
OK, since he is smiling, I will give you one more Johnny.
Jillian Michaels annoys me. Not her personally but whatever product she is selling that causes every page of the internet to pop-up with her image.
The funny thing is that this is Kendra's actual wedding dress. It comes from the Britney Spears Collection at Sears.
It has been a very long time since I have seen Mimi Kennedy on the red carpet.
The Malcolm In The Middle cast.
And Step By Step. Yeah, now I know you are singing New Kids songs.
Martin Short - Chicago
Pet Shop Boys - Manchester (which is not actually London, despite what Britney thinks)
Reader Photo #1
Reader Photo #2
Russell Crowe on the set of his new movie, or maybe just getting a head start on Halloween.
Robert Downey Jr. with his Iron Man look along with his wife Susan.
You have to give Sacha Baron Cohen credit for one thing. Every city he comes up with an entirely new look. Disturbing, but new.
It looks like maybe this was Travis Barker's week to break up with Shanna.
The ageless Tom Jones along side of Jon Bon Jovi.

PS 22 - Just Dance - Lady GaGa

If you haven't seen the 5th graders from PS22 in New York City perform their versions of top 40 hits you have been missing out. I have been meaning to post one of their videos for awhile, and now, for their end of the school year they did their version of Just Dance. It is definitely worth 3 minutes of your time.

Your Turn

Earlier this week I got this Your Turn suggestion from a reader named Susan, and then as luck would have it someone told me a great story about the very topic. What is the topic you say? Job interviews. In this economy there are lots of people out looking for work and I am sure have some great job interview stories. If you don't have one of those, then how about a great story about something that happened at work. Everyone has a work story.

NY Daily News Blind Item

Which music mogul looks at himself in the mirror every morning and recites an ode to his greatness?

Beyonce Sucks

I was going to try and think of some wonderfully witty headline, but I think in this case, short and succinct works best. Beyonce was supposed to perform at a club in New York tomorrow night. She was paid $200,000 for the appearance and even posted the event on her website. The owner of the club told The NY Post that on Wednesday Beyonce's people called and said they were going to have to cancel. They claimed they didn't have enough time because they are preparing for her tour. Instead, they did offer to come by the club for an hour and mingle with people.

The owner of this club spent $100K on everything that Beyonce demanded in her rider. He sold tables and tickets and was counting on this concert for the grand opening of the new club M2. How is that Beyonce is so busy preparing for her tour that she can't come sing for an hour or so on Saturday night but can find time to do a meet and greet on Sunday? I will tell you why, because she doesn't want to work on a Saturday night for what is probably not enough money to her. Instead she wants to show up on a Sunday night and sit in a roped off VIP area talking to her bodyguards and collecting $200K for doing absolutely nothing.

Does anyone really think that she would walk around the club for an entire hour and mix with people? Does anyone seriously believe that? Does she think we are stupid? The club owner is pissed and rightly so. He says he is going to sue her and he should. Plus, what is the deal in canceling 72 hours before the show? It isn't like she is sick or anything. Hasn't she already been performing this tour? I would think they are pretty much ready to go. I think the issue is that Beyonce limits herself to no more than one hour of activity each day and she probably had a spa appointment or something for Saturday and was going to be drained after that.

I hate Beyonce.

Ryan Reynolds Avenges Betty White On Fallon

Ryan Reynolds was on Jimmy Fallon last night and took the opportunity to avenge her recent loss in Beer Pong. This time though it wasn't beer pong. Nope. It was Beer Shuffleboard. Since shuffleboard is basically curling without the ice, and Ryan is Canadian, the result for Jimmy wasn't pretty. Also not pretty was the week old beer that Jimmy was forced to drink.

Susan Boyle Cancels A Few More Shows

After hearing about the fact that Susan Boyle needs more rest days after just performing for six minutes in the past four days, I really am starting to wonder if maybe she should just go on home to Edinburgh and call it a career. Oh, I think she can record some albums because they can do it on her time and work around her needs, but it's pretty obvious that this is someone who doesn't need to be performing full-time or even once a year.

The latest incident allegedly involved Susan standing on her balcony at a hotel and crying and screaming for her cat all night and how she needed her cat. The tour then promptly decided she should have the next few nights off. I think she should just call it off for good. I also start to wonder about reports that Simon Cowell is trying to set her up for a Las Vegas run of shows and whether he is really that greedy or if the reports are false. If she does a series of shows in Las Vegas, it will push her off the edge. She can't do them. There is absolutely no way. They would require at least 60 minutes of singing and probably closer to 90 and she would have to do it several times a week. It would be a disaster.

I know she has a record deal. Great. Go home and record some music once or twice a month and just keep releasing album after album. She would get to sing and I don't have to worry about her health everyday and what is going to happen to her.

Dina Lohan Is A Piece Of Work

To make this week complete I just need Michael Lohan to say something stupid and for Ali Lohan to get pregnant or arrested or something. In my Lohan Bingo game I don't have all the squares filled but it is getting close. Just because she can't shut up, Dina decided to give an interview to whomever would listen. Not too many it turns out, but she gives the best quotes money can buy.

Did you know that Lindsay's cell phone was hacked last month? Me either and I find it hard to believe because Lindsay tweets about pretty much damn near anything. I don't really care one way or the other. That isn't why I decided to write about Dina. Nope. That kind of quote can only get you so far in a post. It is this next quote that makes Dina a star.

"Lindsay is a 22-year-old girl who needs to live her life in peace. The tabloids need to leave her alone with all the lies and reporting with no proof."

Umm, if the tabloids left Lindsay alone she would hunt them down and find them. I think they would be perfectly happy to leave her alone. They don't really follow her outside Los Angeles anymore which is a damn shame because I have a feeling the real fun stuff happens overseas. I'm not sure what lies have been told by the tabloids but if they have then sue. Oh wait it has to damage her reputation too. That is going to be a tough one. Yeah. My bad. I forgot she doesn't really have much of one to destroy at this point.

Dina then throws out that Elle quote as a defense in support of Lindsay not stealing the jewels from the fashion shoot. She also says that any suggestion Lindsay is involved in the theft is defamatory, false, and unfair. I believe those might have been the same words she used when Lindsay was accused of stealing the fur. Oh, and wasn't there something else she was alleged to have stolen from some friends as well. Yes, in addition to what she stole from the Louis Vuitton shoot. The friends thing is different from the fur thing which is different from the Louis Vuitton thing which is different from the jewels thing.

To top the entire interview off, Dina gets screwed. No, not literally, but Kneepads ran the interview late yesterday afternoon and makes Dina look extremely stupid. Unintentionally I'm sure. "Lindsay has been home with me and her family for awhile now, celebrating her little brother [Cody's] confirmation and his 13th birthday."

Last I checked, Lindsay was in New York for like a day and has been out stalking Sam or hanging out with Seacrest or Brittny Gastineau at least the past two nights here in LA so, nice try Dina. Don't you just love how she throws in the church thing with Cody getting confirmed? Please. If Lindsay or Dina walked into a church there would be a fire like no other in history. I can't even picture them at a church service together. I'm surprised the Rapture didn't take place that day.

Katherine Heigl's Movie Career A Bust - Hello Grey's Anatomy

As you know by now I don't watch Grey's Anatomy. It isn't that I don't like much of the cast, because I do. For some reason I just never started and I hate coming into a show several seasons late. You just never get into that rhythm or fully involve yourself with the characters. Anyway, I don't need to know anything about the show to tell you they are getting screwed over by Katherine Heigl and don't really care.

Katherine Heigl bad mouthed everyone on that show just like she bad mouths everyone with whom she has ever worked. Katherine was ready and did throw Grey's under the bus until she realized that maybe her movie career wasn't going to be as good as she thought. That maybe getting kicked off a movie might be a sign of things to come and no paychecks to bring home.

So, instead of trying to talk her way out of the last year of her contract, now Katherine is all smiles and hugs and how she loves Grey's Anatomy and she never wanted to leave. She was just tired and cranky and hopes everyone will forgive her and please, keep paying her until she can make it big as a movie star and throw you all under the bus again.

I'm wondering also if she told TR Knight she was going to stay on the show. Maybe she thought, "hmmm, he can go and I can stay and be the biggest star on the show." More like the biggest diva, but whatever works. So, I guess she survives her tumor or cancer or whatever for now.

Jeremy Piven Lies And Kneepads Enables

It is bad enough that Kneeepads Magazine is the biggest kiss ass in the free world. OK, well they tie with Larry King, but Kneepads is still the biggest in print. Oh, wait. Larry King has a column doesn't he? Well, anyway you get the idea. What Kneepads doesn't usually do is lie. Until now. Maybe they would not call it a lie. Maybe they would use a different term. I will let you decide.

Jeremy Piven was interviewed last night and told Kneepads that he had not had any fish in ten months. This is of course because he is still dealing with the fallout of his "mercury poisoning" and has to pretend he hasn't had any fish at all because eating it would put him on his deathbed.

Kneepads of course printed everything Jeremy said. "I haven't had a piece of fish since the doctor told me to lower my blood mercury level. So, it's been almost 10 months now." Piven then went into a diatribe about how he really was close to death and how everyone should be concerned about him and that he blah, blah, blah, close to death, blah, blah, text me girls, blah, blah, blah.

If Kneepads would have bothered fact checking before kissing ass they would have seen that in March which was 3 months ago, and not 10, that Piven was spotted eating calamari (which is not technically fish) and also tuna tartare which last I checked is fish, and raw. Oh, and has the highest mercury count. (thanks to libby for checking the archives and not letting Piven or Kneepads get away with it)

Jennifer Love Hewitt Writing A Relationship Advice Book

When I first saw that Jennifer Love Hewitt was writing a relationship advice book I looked very closely that the article wasn't written by The Onion or that it wasn't some kind of April Fool's Day joke or something like that. Why would anyone pay her actual money to write a book about giving relationship advice to others? Someone thought she had good advice to share? Do they live in this world? Since when did Jennifer Love Hewitt become a relationship expert? Has there been any person with whom she has broke up that has said anything positive about her or their relationship with her? I don't remember seeing anything. Here is what Jennifer had to say about the book. "I thought it was time to share the real story of what I've learned navigating the dating waters."

What kind of advice is Jennifer likely to give? Well, I have a sneak preview of some of the chapter titles of her book.

Chapter 1 - Why I bring my mom on all my first dates.
Chapter 2 - Why I bring my mom on all my dates for the first month.
Chapter 3 - Dating someone while still involved in another relationship.
Chapter 4 - When moms collide - Why I broke up with Carson Daly
Chapter 5 - One condom or two - Dating rock stars
Chapter 6 - Two condoms or three - Dating John Mayer
Chapter 7 - Love rings by Love - Why Cartier should give me my own jewelry line.
Chapter 8 - My 32 favorite places in the world - Places I have been proposed to
Chapter 9 - Pretending you care
Chapter 10 - How to get him to call you fat so you can break up with him.
Chapter 11 - Mom's in the bedroom? Why I say yes!
Chapter 12 - Breaking up with your man while still keeping the engagement ring.
Chapter 13 - Getting your man to ride in the back seat like a little kid - Dating Jamie Kennedy
Chapter 14 - Mom's on honeymoons? Why I say yes!

Ted C Blind Item

Remember meeting Dommy-Do-Rightly a couple of weeks ago? The Hollywood wannabe princess who definitely thinks her sh-t don't stank?

Well, Dommy dearest just doesn't know how to keep her indiscretions all that quiet. Which, of course, we love.

The TV, and attempted big-screen, queen has been in one fairly high-profile relaysh and is definitely no stranger to the dating scene—despite her youngish age. Well, it turns out she's much more experienced than any of you would have guessed.

Think you know what we mean?

DDR is a freak in the sheets! Her lap-dancin', powder-inhalin' party ways were just the beginning, kids, 'cause we just got sex-smelly wind of a crazyass threesome DDR recently had overseas. After splitting with her boyfriend, Dommy got her skank on during one of her save-the-world efforts. And we're talking about a totally kinky ménage à trois!

One stud, one gal and Ms. Rightly doing the horizontal mambo all drunken night long! Oh love it, she's into girls, too—don't tell Carrie Prejean! (Anything that reeks of being gay sends that bitch over the edge, as you know.)

Seriously, looking at little miss blondie, you would never think she had it in her—we don't know whether to be impressed or disturbed. Most likely the latter, because despite D's efforts to the contrary, publicly, Ms. D.-R. just lacks total sex appeal in our very biased minds.

And It Ain't:

Anna Paquin, Lauren Conrad, AnnaLynne McCord

Today's Blind Items

What A list nationally syndicated radio host is getting dropped by her home station and the second biggest market in the country?

Random Photos Part One - With Reader Photos

I was so mesmerized by all the hats today that I wasn't paying attention to who should be on top. Not that there is anything wrong with Alexis Bledel being on top. That sounds kind of sexual. Wasn't really going for that though.
If Ali Larter sat and home and thought about it, she could not have blended into the backdrop any better than she does with that dress.
This was the picture I was going to put on top. Joan Collins at Ascot just holding court like she was still on Dynasty. The woman is 76 and is amazing looking.
It's kind of like a satellite/colander combo.




The hats just really pull these outfits together don't they?





Bradley Cooper is everywhere lately.
So, I thought I would include his ex Jennifer Esposito.
It's chef time. Bobby Flay.
Well Marc Summers isn't a chef but the man does host a show about snacks so, really, he is like a God.
My favorite Iron Chef.
And Padma Lakshmi is my favorite host of a cooking show not on Food Network.
Holly and Kendra get all the attention so here is some love for Bridget Marquardt who remains my favorite.
Alexa Ray Joel and the second ex of Billy Joel, Christie Brinkley who looks gorgeous.
Camilla Belle could use some food.
It's been a long time to have Chris Daughtry in the photos.
And the sad thing is, Courtney Love isn't even filming a movie here. I think she is trying to relive the glory days when she feuded with Madonna and people paid attention to her.
The soon to be Mrs. Danny Bonaduce. She is a firm believer in the saying that size doesn't matter.
Estella Warren still shows up to events sometimes. She does have three projects scheduled so maybe she is making a comeback.
The woman behind Heidi Klum seems ticked at the interruption to her lunch.
How much makeup is Johnny Rzeznik wearing?
This would have been a possible top photo, but I don't want to do any favors for KANYE WEST.
Reader Photo #1
And Reader Photo #2
"So, do you like the Everly Brothers? Before your time maybe? How about The Doobie Brothers? The Brothers Grimm?"
Maggie Grace will be returning to Lost next season.
And in the series finale, the entire cast of Lost will be rescued by Prince Harry and William.
Robert Redford trying to look hip and cool.
Ryan Reynolds looking like a deer in the headlights. Judging by the size of that wedding band, I would say Scarlett J wanted the world to not have any questions that Ryan is married.

Liv Tyler Would Hate Kate Gosselin

Yesterday in Santa Monica, Liv Tyler was on her way to lunch when she spotted the woman above yelling at a crying child in a stroller. Apparently Liv didn't take kindly to how the older woman was treating the child and went and had a few words with her. OK, so she had more than a few words. Liv also did some finger pointing and gesticulating. I think that is the first time I have ever used that word on the site. I'm pretty excited about it. If Aubrey O'Day reads it though she will probably think it is a new way for her to earn money.

Anyway, at one point Liv threatened to call the cops and I guess that made the woman calm down some. After Liv checked on the child, she went on her way and went to lunch but not without a few parting shouts from the older woman. I'm guessing Liv would not approve of the way Kate Gosselin parents.

Ben Widdicombe Blind Items

Which much-reviled fashion publicist with a European accent got into a heated argument with an NYPD lady officer outside Monday's CFDA awards? The crowd-control cop dared to tell the luxury brand rep that he couldn't cross the street where he wanted and the two traded f-bombs for a little while before he did what he was told. To those who hate him -- which is a lot of people -- it was very funny.

Belgian Porn Star Has The Most Popular Tour Bus

If you have been staying awake at night lately wondering what on earth ever happened to Miss Nude Belgium 2009, don't worry any longer. She has been found. Audrey, who doesn't want her last name used is a tour bus driver. It turns out she gave up her life of porn and nude beauty contests in order to provide a better life for her 3 and 4 year old kids.

How did she do that? She went to bus driver school. After a six week course though, her employer found out about her previous career and gave her a choice. Porn or bus driving. She chose bus driving. It turns out the company didn't really care that she was a porn actress. They cared whether she was going to be able to drive a bus during the day after working as an actress all night.

"We are solely interested in security for our drivers and customers. We don't wish to see a member of our staff finishing a show in the middle of the night and then picking up a bus at six in the morning."

That seems perfectly reasonable to me. Audrey prefers being a bus driver anyway. In fact, according to the company, Audrey "is one of the most popular drivers in the history of the company, and that her bus was almost always full." Hmmm. Must be because she never fails to signal when changing lanes.

Denise Richards Talks To Her Mom - Through A Psychic

Denise Richards talks to her mom. Yes, I know her mom died a couple of years ago, but Denise still talks to her a lot. Well, not actually Denise, but Denise's psychic. It seems that Denise has been getting messages from her mom through Denise's psychic Natalie. Denise didn't say how much she pays Natalie for each one of these messages but I'm guessing it is a lot more than $1.99 for the Psychic Hotline. In an interview with The NY Post, Denise was trying to explain why she agreed to star on a new television series with psychic John Edward called Cross Country.

"I wanted to believe Mom was still around. I wanted a reading. I wanted to believe in some form of reincarnation. I need to think in whatever way I can that my mother is still with us... I desperately have wanted a message from my mother, and I want to hold onto anything which will make that happen. I've told her to stay in contact with me even if she has to talk to me only through Natalie."

It seems to me that this kind of desperation is exactly why people will pay a great deal of money to be able to talk to someone who has died. I don't know if Natalie really has any powers. I don't even know who Natalie is. I will say this though. Even if Natalie is talking to Denise's mom, how often do you think mom is talking to Natalie? My guess is that Natalie talks to mom whenever Natalie needs some money and then passes on some message to Denise.

Jani Lane Arrested For DUI

I don't watch Celebrity Fit Club that often, but the season Jani Lane, the former lead singer of Warrant was on the show was one of the seasons I was hooked. I remember seeing the guy struggle so much with not only his weight, but his alcohol problem and was really pulling for the guy. Unlike Daniel Baldwin who came on the show and was a complete menace, I actually thought Jani was really trying to get better and to get his life back on track. I think at one point during the show he had a blackout and everyone thought he had killed himself.

Last night he was involved in a car accident and was arrested for suspicion of DUI. Hopefully this is just a slip. I'm not excusing the guy for drinking and driving because there is no excuse at all for that. I am hoping though that this was just a slip and that maybe getting arrested for DUI will bring into focus the fact he needs some help and that he needs to be a role model for his two daughters.

Ryan Reynolds Doesn't Want To Be A Sex Symobl

Dear Ryan,

I just wanted to say first off that despite myself not really liking you as a person very much, I can't help but laugh at most of your movies. I admit that I watch Van Wilder and Waiting much more than is probably healthy, and I think a great deal of that is because of you.

Now, that being said, I don't know how you can give interview after interview saying you don't want to be considered a sex symbol and then show up on four separate covers of Entertainment Weekly not wearing a shirt. Did not they have any? What was the purpose of posing like that if you don't want to be considered a sex symbol?

Was it because you are proud of your workout regimen and Men's Health didn't want you on the cover? Did the photographer not have shirts in your size? Whatever the reason it doesn't look very good when you have been quoted regarding your sex symbol status as "it's really embarrassing. I think I fear more than anything just sounding like a complete a-hole when I have to answer that question."

Ahh, I don't think you have to worry about sounding like a complete a-hole with just that question. I think pretty much everything you do makes you seem like an a-hole. It's nice that you think you sound like one sometimes though. That is the first step towards not being an a-hole.

Sincerely,

EL

P.S. Is it true that your wife has been cloned, and if so, where can we all buy one?

Fantasies & Delusions - Billy Joel And Katie Lee Joel Split

Lets see. Billy Joel is 60 and Katie Lee Joel is 27. They have been married for 5 years which means, carry the one, and yeah, he was 55 and she was barely out of her teens. Surprisingly enough, the couple is blaming the disintegration of their marriage on the age difference. Really? Shocking I know. Apparently it has nothing to do with the guy Katie has been alleged to have been sharing a bed or the fact that Billy is not probably the most fun guy all the time to hang around.

Don't ask me why she's movin' out. You may be right that sometimes a fantasy is not honesty and that she is a modern woman and not an uptown girl. The pressure got to be too much and Billy certainly wasn't an innocent man. He spent time in Leningrad which is shameless and Christmas in Fallujah which is really a no man's land and left him all shook up. When he got back from Fallujah, he said, hey girl, the night is still young and I'm willing to drive you to Allentown to make you feel my love. She said "I can't say goodbye to Hollywood for the longest time I have wanted to be an entertainer and this cooking show is going to be my big shot. If worse comes to worst I will go live on the house on 52nd street. You know, the glass house. " He said, well you better hurry. There is a storm front coming in and the bridge over the river of dreams leading to cold spring harbor might be washed out. I wil say a travelin prayer for you. Goodnight Saigon."

Jon & Kate Will Do Anything To Get You To Watch - Or It Could Be TLC

Everyone in the world it seems watched the season premiere of Jon & Kate. Since then, it has been just like the career of Lindsay Lohan. Straight down. Each week has seen the audience drop by about a million. Now, it is still TLC's biggest show by a lot, but I think they got excited at those huge numbers from the first week and want a repeat performance. How do you do that? Well last night they started running promos for Monday's episode which says, "Jon & Kate have an announcement." Kate then says, "Recently, we’ve made some life-changing decisions — decisions that will affect every member of our family, ones that we hope will bring each of us some peace.”

Now of course TLC wants you to think they are going to announce they are getting divorced or something like that. If you watch the promo you can see they want you to think that and to tune in on Monday. I think what they have probably decided is that Kate is going to get a new hairstyle. I mean that is life changing right? Maybe it is a new bed-time. The whole peace thing is the clue. I don't think it is a divorce announcement because don't you think it would have leaked by now? They don't pay the people that much at TLC. Someone would have said something to someone. This is just a big ploy to get people to watch. The problem with it is if TLC doesn't pay off big here no one will ever believe one of their promos again.

Excluding The Whole Buying Sex Thing Did Jeff Archuleta Do The Right Thing?

Apparently when you are in Salt Lake City news moves a little slower in the celebrity world. Not that a father of an American Idol runner-up is necessarily a celebrity except that he wants to be. Anyway, if Jeff Archuleta lived in LA I think his arrest for soliciting prostitution would have become known in less than the six months it took in this case.

Back in January, David Archuleta's dad was getting umm massaged when the police was raided. He was the only customer which must have sucked for him and he is probably still thinking he is cursed. I think it is because he was such an a-hole on Idol and deserved it. So, the cops raid the place and find Jeff without any clothes on, but NOT actually being serviced sexually. So, the cops ask him if he had been serviced sexually and he admitted he had. Now, excluding the fact that he is a general prick and he was getting serviced at a massage parlor, one part of me says that he didn't lie to the cops and just took his punishment. The other part of me wants to call him an idiot because they had no proof. It isn't like they were going to bring in a CSI team and black light the place or something. And you know the woman in question wasn't going to admit anything and so he would have got away with it. He wouldn't have been arrested and wouldn't have had gossip sites writing about it all day.

Jeff's lawyer was spinning all the way to the end here. Even after Archuleta pleaded no contest, Jeff's lawyer said it was just because Jeff didn't have time to waste with a trial and that Jeff was getting legitimate massage therapy for his back. Oh, and his front.

NY Daily News Blind Item

Which ditsy blond didn't seem to care when a crowd of ladies caught her sniffing Colombia's finest - right out in the open - in Atlantic City?

Today's Blind Items

This married A list female singer has a very funny way of working. For example, when she is scheduled to shoot a music video she shows up at one time of day and one time of day only. If the director schedules a 7am shoot, that is great, but our singer is not going to show up until 11. No, not 11am. That would only be four hours late. Nope, our singer only shoots videos at 11pm. No one knows if it is her playing diva or because she can't get going until that time of night. No one wants to work on her videos anymore unless they are paid the very top rate available plus overtime due to all the down time and waiting and waiting. Because of the diva attitude, her videos cost an extra $25,000-30,000 a day to shoot than they would if she showed on time.

Random Photos Part One - With Reader Photos

I think when you get a combination like Kid Rock, T-Pain and Sheryl Crow into a picture, it is certainly random enough to get the top spot.
It's hat time again and Prince Charles looks a little freaked out by at least one.
Or it could be the fact that his dad can't quite figure out how to make the door open.

I won't say anything bad about this hat because this is Emma Samms, and I love Emma Samms.



It kind of looks like the horse is going to run her down.
Chaz Bono makes his first public appearance since the sex change operation news became public.
7-11 needs to pay attention because this is about the 5th time I have seen Chris Pine with a 7-11 bag.
Def Leppard at the CMT's. Later they sang with Taylor Swift.
If Elle Macpherson stands up here or goes no hands, then I will be impressed.
No matter what though I am probably not going to be impressed with Heidi Fleiss.
Isla Fisher in London at the premiere of Bruno.
Our random NASCAR driver of the day is Jimmie Johnson and his wife Chandra.
I didn't even recognize Jessica Lange. This is her teaching a class on acting in Italy.
Jennifer Lopez and what she likes to call "acting." This is on the set of her new movie.
Julianne Moore working with Save The Children in Washington DC.
Does anyone not like Kathy Bates?
Kellie Pickler and Trace Adkins. I think Trace might want to just go up a size on those jeans if you know what I mean.
I didn't see Nicole Kidman in any of the pictures I saw. Granted, I didn't look too hard for her, but I think Keith Urban went solo last night.
Luke Wilson just looks uncomfortable.
It's been a very long time since I have seen Michelle Branch.
Matthew Fox in Madrid. It seems like someone from Lost goes to Madrid once a month to promote the show there. While there he didn't say anything about Dominic Monaghan showing up again next season. Of course he probably wouldn't know anyway.
How can you tell when Michelle Pfeiffer has done a movie? You don't hear a peep from her for a year and then boom, you can't read anything this week without seeing her or an interview with her. Here she is with Rupert Friend.
Apparently Pat Cash is not a fan of Natasha Bedingfield's music so she got even.
Pixie And Peaches Geldof. There were reports yesterday that Peaches was seen the other day leaving the Celebrity Scientology Center in LA with information books.
Reader Photo #1
And Reader Photo #2
In case you wanted to know what Reese Witherspoon looks like when she is running.
Sacha as Bruno.
Although she isn't smiling in this picture, from what I understand last night, Scarlett J was incredibly nice to everyone at this event. People were not even sure it was Scarlett because she was being so nice. When people are truly shocked that you are being nice and think you are an impostor, it might be time to try a new personality.
Sam Mendes and John Krasinski at the Edinburgh Film Festival.
Tori Spelling on vacation in Hawaii. There were other pictures I could have shown you, but I care about you. Big, zoomed in facing front pictures. I won't sleep well tonight.
Taylor Swift looks very nice. Of course really, anyone is going to look great after that picture of Tori.

David Carradine Killed By Two Transsexual Hookers

People just won't let this story rest and The Globe has decided to jump on the bandwagon. This week they interviewed a producer of three of David Carradine's films and a retired FBI agent and those two are convinced that David was drugged and murdered by two transsexual hookers who made the death look like a suicide.

David Winters produced three of David's movies and he is convinced that David met two of the hookers in the hotel bar and took them to his room. At that point they overpowered David and killed him. The producer wants to see the surveillance tapes of the night in question but has no doubts that if they turn up with nothing on them that they have been doctored by the police.

"I want to see those tapes. My suspicion is they've already been doctored." I love how he already has his excuse planned. Of course since we, the reader might not want to fully support the theory of a movie producer, The Globe went and got a retired FBI agent who says, "I believe he met two Lady Boys in the hotel bar... They are flirtatious, desperate for money and would have zeroed in on a celebrity like Carradine. One of the Lady Boys may have stepped behind him, looped a length of rope around Carradine's neck and strangled him."

Uh huh. Well, I'm glad to know that all of my federal tax dollars went to your illustrious career. Just let the man rest in peace. Please.

Rebecca Gayheart - Naked In A Bathtub And Smoking Crack

Have you seen The National Enquirer this week? Go get it and look at it and you can see what is alleged to be Rebecca Gayheart naked with another woman in a bathtub while appearing to also be smoking crack. It sure looks like a crack pipe and Rebecca is holding it along with a lighter. I guess she could have been holding it for her friend or just researching a role

The Enquirer says the pictures were taken back in 2003 about 18 months before she and Eric Dane got married. The pictures were taken for her then boyfriend who must have loved knowing he was dating someone who would take naked pictures of herself with a crack pipe which is probably why they broke up and she married Eric.

Of course now it is that same boyfriend who is the one who probably sold the pictures because he realizes he might not want a girlfriend who smokes crack and takes naked pictures of herself with other women, but if they become famous there sure is some money in it for them.

Bret Michaels Won't Sue But We Can Still Watch The Video

Apparently Bret Michaels has decided not to sue the producers of The Tony Awards. "There's no lawsuit. I was honored to be there." Well, I am sure they must be thrilled while the rest of the world will miss the chance to show the video below over and over and over again during the entire time the case would have been in trial. I think what happened is Bret realized what an ass he was being and his people were being and so decided to take the high road and focus his attention instead on seeing how many strippers he can have sex with this season on his show. I know I have kind of talked about this before, but you do realize it is a network that is paying a guy to have sex with women and that women are signing up for sex with a washed up rock star just so they can get on television for a few weeks. Well, at least we can watch the video that never gets old.

Sarah Jessica Parker Surrogate Has Home Invaded By Greedy Cops

This is a strange, strange story. It seems that two Ohio police chiefs are being investigated for breaking into the surrogate of Sarah Jessica Parker's baby. The reason? To dig up dirt for the tabloids and hoping to make a quick score. According to E!, a court prosecutor has been appointed to look into the charges.

Can you imagine two police chiefs doing this? This isn't just two guys off the street or two rookie cops. This was the chiefs of two separate Ohio towns. The television station WTRF says that the surrogate doesn't even live in the house anymore which was broken into. Allegedly. I can't believe someone put these two idiots in charge of the police in their respective cities. One of the cities is Martina Ferry which is where the surrogate lived. You would think the chief would have known she moved out already. Of course you would think a chief would also be moral enough to not break into a house to sell dirt to tabloids. I'm guessing neither of these guys are the smartest people in the world.

Ben Widdicombe Blind Items

Which legendary NYC designer, whose name is an international mega-brand, is more famous in the East Village for paying $100 a time to lick the armpits of gay bar go-go dancers?

People Magazine Is Pretty Damn Funny - Chace Crawford Is The Sexiest Bachelor

People named Chace Crawford their Sexiest Bachelor. Chace is a good looking guy. I will admit that, but I don't know very many people who would agree with Kneepads that he is the Sexiest Bachelor. Seriously? I will say that for once it wasn't People who was wearing the kneepads. In this case the big kneepad award winner is the publicist of Chace who deserves a big raise and has probably called in very favor for the next five years to make this happen. Having Chace land on the cover of People as the sexiest bachelor is like Lyle Lovett marrying Julia Roberts. It's unexpected.

Again, I am not saying Chace isn't a good looking guy, but can't you think of about 20 bachelors who are sexier? We could play the game all night long, but answer me this. How many of you think George Clooney is sexier than Chace Crawford? Last time I checked, Daniel Craig wasn't married which makes him a bachelor. Is Chace sexier than Daniel Craig? Nathan Fillion? Single.

All People did here is try and get someone under the age of 65 to actually buy their magazine. People under 65 read their magazine, but they don't actually buy it. This is their way of trying to stay relevant without seeming obvious about it which it would have been if they selected Robert Pattinson. Hell, I don't even think Chace is the sexiest guy on the show. I mean Ed Westwick is a big ass, but I bet most of you think he is sexier than Chace right?

Very interesting decision by People. Wrong, but interesting. I do love how they try and really narrow it on the cover as Summer's sexiest bachelor. Like this is going to be some kind of seasonal thing. After they get tired of saying Fall or Winter's sexiest bachelor they can further narrow it by holiday, or hair color or whatever they choose.

Sean Penn Is Taking A Break - Wants To Focus On Marriage And Family

I hate to give Sean Penn any benefit of the doubt so when he decided to pull out of two high profile projects to spend time with his family, I have serious doubts. He hasn't cared about his wife for years and years so why should he start now? He filmed movie after movie for years and never seemed to care what it was doing to his kids so why now? I will admit that pulling out of The Three Stooges is big. I still probably won't see it, but there was no way I was going to see it if he was in it. Anyway, I don't think this has anything to do directly with family. There are ways to work and still be with your family. He can have them with him the whole time, he can spend the night with his wife instead of Mel Gibson's Russian castoffs. Or is that the other way around? Yeah, I think Mel was probably taking from Sean and not the other way around.

What would everyone think of the idea that perhaps Sean needed some time to deal with other issues. Perhaps there is a little drinking or substance abuse problem? That could explain the lengthy absence. He knows he won't get better without a break from acting and so this would be a good time for that. And if he did have a problem and did get better than maybe the relationship with his wife and family would be better as a result. Therefore if you say you are pulling out of movies to focus on your family, it is true in a very round about intervention-esque kind of way.

Jennifer Love Hewitt Used The C Word

I bet when you read the headline you thought I meant that Jennifer Love Hewitt used the bad C word didn't you? Cholesterol. I know, I know. It's a ticking time bomb that kills millions. Oh, you thought I meant the C word as in the one that kind of looks like aunt but with a C. No, I wouldn't write a post about that. This was much worse. In an interview with Digital Spy she said, "I can't say that I'll want to be 60 and still acting. There's a lot that goes into it - the hair, the makeup, the people talking about you. It's my craft and I love doing it, but I don't know that I'm always gonna feel that way."

Did she just say it was her craft? Seriously? I must have missed the whole crafty part about doing a show with Jamie Kennedy and making 8 sequels to I Know What You Did Last Summer. Oh, and don't forget that musical version of A Christmas Carol. Oh, and that made for tv version of Audrey Hepburn's life.

I really can't believe she said craft. Unless you have won or been nominated for an Academy Award, I really don't think you are allowed to use the word craft in a sentence unless it is referring to craft service and your meals on set. Other than that, I don't want to hear about it. Throughout the interview she kept saying she wasn't sure how long she would be an actress. Please. She would die without all the attention. She will be doing it until the day she dies.

David Cross Explains Why Jim Belushi Is A Jackass

David Cross has a new book coming out in August, and in the book he finally explains why in the hell he hates Jim Belushi so much. If you have any respect or any part of you likes Jim Belushi, you won't after you read why David hates him so much.

It seems that back in 1995 David and Jim were filming the movie Destiny Turns On The Radio together in Vegas. So, being in Vegas, David decides he is going to hit the blackjack tables. While there he starts conversing with the dealer as will happen and she said that her 8 year old son was really sick and that her son would just die for Jim Belushi's autograph. Well, of course David agreed to get it for her. I mean he was going to be starring in a movie with Jim Belushi. How difficult could it be right?

Well, very difficult as it turns out. David goes up to Jim and explains the situation and how the kid is sick and could Jim take two seconds and sign an autograph. Instead of signing, Jim said, "Jesus, I thought you were gonna get me a blowjob."

Umm, no. An autograph for a sick 8 year old kid. A signature on a piece of paper. So, David asks him again and this time Jim said, "Jesus Christ, you're worse than my second wife!" He then turned and walked away and never signed the autograph.

Since that moment in time David Cross has never had Jim Belushi far from his mind which is why he always insults him in every performance and will seek any new way he can to make Belushi's life miserable.

NY Daily News Blind Item

Which married hot tamale of an actress has three boyfriends on the side? One is rich, one is pretty and one is a rough-and-tumble Oscar nominee.

Today's Blind Items - Kindness

This Academy Award nominated/winner A+ list actor doesn't get much publicity for all of the good he does, and so I thought I would share one of the things about him which he did for no reason other than being a great guy. While shooting a film our actor was introduced to a young girl. The girl had wanted to meet our actor for a very long time. Because she was dying of leukemia, her parents had asked Make-A-Wish to make it happen. For whatever reason they had not. Well, someone on the set heard about this little girl and asked our actor if it would be ok for her to meet him. He said sure, and the girl came. At the time she visited him she had a few weeks to live. When he asked about her medical treatment he was told there really wasn't any money. Our actor paid for all her medical bills and three years later she is still alive and still in touch with our actor.

Random Photos Part One - With Reader Photos

I love Robin Leach. I can't help it. He is just so damn over the top and he was the creator of Cribs. Oh, sure MTV will have you believe they came up with the concept, but Robin Leach with his show Lifestyles Of The Rich And Famous was the first. He is one of the first guys to make a lot of money off the gossip business and was on the original I'm A Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here, and is always classy. Top spot.
So, when you are on television like Ana Oritz is and some company comes up to you and says, "hey, how about we throw you a free baby shower," you might want to think about it.
Unless of course you want it at a mall with 100 other people who all look like they are being accosted by every infomercial on the market. Where is ShamWow and Snuggie?
It is that time of the year again. Crazy Hat Week, or as the British like to say, Ascot.
I actually really like it.
The Moulin Rouge called and they want their hat back.
Yeah, I know what you are saying, and swearing doesn't accomplish anything.
When hat mannequins melt.
Very popular at Xenu gift shops around the world.
It is like your own personal picnic basket. Complete with salad. I do like it though.
Look at the shoulder pads on this dress Ashley Olsen is wearing. Huge.
Bradley Cooper goes for week #3 at number one this week. Here he is with Italo Zucchelli.
Did I miss the whole lets put pockets on dresses memo? Why would you do that? It's a pretty color though on Blake Lively.
Bruce Willis and the new wife. I'm guessing this was her idea.
So, I'm guessing the last time we caught Christina Applegate smoking and she said it was a one time thing, she meant one time that day? Here she is on vacation on Capri and she is smoking that thing all the way down.
Cindy Crawford and the kids. Her daughter is going to look just like her.
Claire Danes was smiling in lots of other pictures, so don't think she has gone back to her non-smiling days.
Tobias
and his, ahem, friend. Amber Tamblyn looks amazing here. Best picture I have seen of her in months. - ECA
The Devito family.
Eva Mendes not looking like Eva Mendes at all. It looks like she is going to a funeral.
Ed Norton looking very nice.
Gerard Butler looking like, well a guy, who will sleep with anyone.
There is no way on this earth that Holly Madison knows any Iron Maiden songs.
Jack Black and as close he is likely to get to gold statues in the movie business.
Jack White, looking, umm, very Sweeney Todd-ish. He is with Anna Sui.
Xanadu is filming in the back Kirsten. Move along please.
You know that scene in PCU where Jeremy Piven tells Jon Favreau not be that guy who wears a t-shirt of the band you are going to see in concert? Well, when you are LeBron James, do you really need to wear a shirt praising yourself? I feel like you really don't want to be that guy.
Matt Damon has been working out.
At this kind of event, do we like pictures on dresses? I think Molly Sims looks nice.
Michelle Trachtenberg just looks mean. No other word to describe it.
A brand new look for Queen Latifah.
Reader Photo #1
Reader Photo #2
Robert Pattinson on the set of his new movie.
And we conclude the Twilight portion of our photos with Taylor Lautner.
I'm really kind of tired of Rihanna.
Bruno on the cover of GQ
Last night was the battle of the Willis daughters. This is Scout Willis.
And Tallulah Willis. Take your pick. You already know what Rumer looks like.
Usher is looking for any way he can to make money. He knows he might need it.

NY Post Blind Item

WHICH movie legend proclaims in her nightclub act, not once, but twice, "Although I love girls, I don't sleep with them" -- causing eyebrows in the room to hit the chandelier

Will & Jada Are Always Talking About Sex

Have you ever noticed that when either Will Smith or Jada Pinkett is interviewed for a magazine they invariably discuss their sex life? I don't think the reporters are bringing it up either. I think that for some reason Will and Jada want the world to think they are having sex 24 hours a day 7 days a week. If you go by what they say, it seems like the two would have time for nothing else but sex. They are always talking about spicing things up and keeping things fresh and blah, blah, blah. I think when two people talk about it as much as they talk about it, that chances are they are both sitting on opposite sides of the living room and watching television together until 10 and going to sleep.

Take for example Jada's latest interview with RedBook Magazine. Not normally a magazine that is known for provocative, sexy questions, but they have never had Jada Pinkett before and so she took matters into her own hands. She started talking about how she and Will keep things sexy.

"Be sneaky... your girlfriend's house at a party. The bathroom. A bedroom. Think of places outside that are comfortable to have sex. Anything like that can keep it going. Anything it takes to keep the flame alive."

They talk a lot about this flame. I think what they should be talking about is how many invitations they are going to get to people's homes now that their hosts know the chances of seeing Will and Jada getting jiggy with it in a closet during a baby shower are pretty high. I'm sorry, but I don't buy anything they say. They say it too much. Constantly we hear it drummed inside our heads until the first thing you think of after Will's ears is the fact that this is a couple that is always spicing things up. They want us to think that. They have worked at it for years to make us believe it and they just keep pounding it in. Got it. Move on to something else now please.

One Two Three - It's Pretty Simple

I don't care what country you are in or what language you speak, I think everyone knows that three fingers means the number 3. Kimberly Vlamnick is suing the tattoo artist who put 56 stars on her face when she says she only asked him for three. She says that because he is Romanian he didn't understand her. 'I think he didn’t understand what I wanted. He spoke only fractured English and French. 'But I explicitly said in my native tongue, French, and also in a little bit of English when he looked confused, that I wanted three little stars only near my left eye.'

She is now suing the tattoo artist. Umm. I don't care who you are, I think we can all pretty much agree that the guy figured out she wanted stars in whatever language they were using to communicate, and if she wasn't sure about whether he got the number right, all she needed to do was fingers, fingers, fingers. She claims she fell asleep during the procedure. Uh huh. How many of you are willing to bet that when you are getting a needle in your face for a few hours that you will probably stay awake until the procedure is finished. Also, to do three probably wouldn't have taken long enough for her to fall asleep anyway.

The tattoo artist says the girl was awake the entire time and often looked in the mirror to see how everything was proceeding. I think the shocking thing here is that she only paid about $80 for all of the stars. That seems like a pretty good deal to me. I think what happened is the girl was drunk and thought that 56 seemed like a great number of stars. She then sobered up the next morning and freaked the hell out that she looked like Mike Tyson and now is suing so she doesn't look like an idiot for asking for them in the first place. To remove them is going to cost about $15,000.

I Don't Think It Matters Hef

Hugh Hefner confessed to FOX News that he can't tell his twin girlfriends apart. "I have one little trick, one has a little mark," Hef said, motioning to his neck. "Other than that, I don’t know." I'm guessing that it really doesn't matter in the scheme of life and I am also pretty sure that as long as the checks he is writing don't bounce the two women probably don't care if he calls them Holly and Kendra or whatever else he wants.

Wow, is this what my day has come to? Writing about how an 83 year old man can't tell his twin 19 year old girlfriends apart? Does anyone think they actually do anything together? I guess writing about this is better than writing about how Chris Brown has that Rihanna look-a-like he is dating or screwing or just using to get attention so people will take his picture.

Anyway, back to Hef. At some point I think it would be ok for Hef to not have to worry about having three girlfriends and pretending to be something he isn't. There is nothing wrong with him just puttering around the house and not having to go out to clubs where he has to take a nap all day just so he can stay up at the club until 10pm. I am pretty sure that is why he has a curfew. It isn't that he is strict, I just think the guy can't stay up later than 9 or 10. I mean he is probably eating dinner at 4 in the afternoon or something.

I think the Holly, Kendra and Bridget thing should have been the end and everything from now on is just kind of embarrassing for everyone.

Alec Baldwin Says Suicide Was An Option After Angry Voicemail

In Playboy this month, Alec Baldwin gives an interview and says that he was suicidal after the tape of the voicemail he left his daughter Ireland last year was released. You know, I read the excerpts of the interview and I don't really think from reading it he was suicidal. He says, “[I was] very serious … I spoke to a lot of professionals, who helped me … If I committed suicide, they [Kim Basinger’s team] would have considered that a victory. Destroying me was their avowed goal.”

So, is he trying to say the only reason he didn't kill himself was because Kim Basinger would have won? Can you imagine in your head Alec Baldwin saying that last line? Destroying me was their avowed goal. Exactly what Jack from 30 Rock would say.

Alec goes on to talk about how he brought himself up from the depths of all of this by appearing on The View and focusing his show and on his book and anything else he could get away with plugging in a few short paragraphs. I love Alec Baldwin the actor, but am not a fan of Alec Baldwin the man. I don't understand the thinking of why he would want to kill himself. Because he was embarrassed? Because he treated his daughter like crap? I know he goes back and forth between New York and LA a lot, but making the flight doesn't make you a good father. It is your actions.

Anyway, you can read it, but I think it is just a line Playboy used to try and get more hits and readers. It worked huh? The link is to Playboy but is SFW.

James Packer Back To Scientology? - Best Friends With Tom And Katie Again?

I know last year around this time that it was announced or leaked or whatever term you want to use that James Packer, the Australian billionaire, who was the richest guy in Scientology had decided to leave Scientology. Now I am reading that when Katie and Tom and Suri go to Australia next month so Tom can monitor Katie while she is filming a role for her new movie that the family is going to be staying in one of James Packer's hotels.

Did someone get him back in Scientology? Did they give him complimentary e-meter readings for life? Did they have enough on him that even he was brought back into the fold?

Anyway, Katie is going to Australia to shoot the movie, Don't Be Afraid Of The Dark. I don't know what her fee for the movie is, but she is going to be in Australia for at least a month and maybe longer. The Cruise family is renting a suite which covers an entire floor of the hotel and rents for $27,500 a night. Lets say she stays a month. That is $825,000 for the month she is filming. I can't imagine that she is getting paid much more than that for her role after taxes and agents. Why would you do that? She is basically working for free? Is the family going to treat it as a vacation? Is that how she wanted to spend her paycheck? What is wrong with a Motel 6? Most importantly, did James Packer really rejoin Scientology?

I Hate This As Much As You Do

I know all of us would prefer to not talk about Lindsay Lohan, and so I don't. Yesterday was the first time in awhile and even then it felt dirty. But you know what? When she is facing prison or being questioned by the police it makes my day a little brighter to write about it. The only reason I brought her up again today was to give an update. Yesterday, Holy Moly reported there were about $50,000 in jewels missing. Well, it is now estimated the jewels are worth between 400K-500K. That would get Lindsay some jail time for sure if found guilty of course. At the very least it should get her banned from the UK which means she there would be one country in the world where we would be safe from Sam and Lindsay reports.

The other wonderful news is that Lindsay hasn't denied taking the jewels. If you had all these stories written about you yesterday and calling you a skank and meth freak. Oh wait, this is about the jewels. Oh, so if you had all these stories written about you yesterday accusing you of stealing the jewels don't you think you would say, "I didn't do it?" You are in the US and the police are in the UK. I know that I would say I didn't do it. Lindsay doesn't say that though. First of all she didn't say anything herself. Her rep said, "We inquired and everyone from the shoot is being questioned. Hair, make up, stylist ... even photographers. Lindsay hopes they find the jewels. She is happy to cooperate."

Where is the denial in all of that? This is a professional publicist people. She knows the rule to deny, deny, deny. Where is it? What they are doing is saying that it could be anyone and she hopes they find the jewels. Where does Lindsay say she didn't take them? Where does she say she is trying to remember where she left them?

This is the worst non-denial denial of all time, because there really isn't even a hint of denial. It reads more like a person pushing food around on their plate they don't like in hopes people will think they ate it.

Elle UK came out and stood up for Lindsay. Kind of. "I can confirm on behalf of Elle magazine, that items of jewelry went missing from an Elle photoshoot ... and the matter is now being investigated by the police. Elle has no reason to believe that Lindsay Lohan was in any way responsible and has no further comment to make."

Elle has no reason to believe that the makeup people were involved either. That is why they called the cops. If Elle knew who took them, then the police wouldn't have to interview Lindsay, now would they?

Linda Hogan Using Alimony For Drugs

I love the Hogan family. You really don't find this kind of inbreeding outside the Jerry Springer show. In the latest chapter of Daddy Wants To Screw His Daughter But Screws Her Lookalike Instead, everyone is in court. Well, not everyone. Just Hulk and Linda. It seems that Hulk is angry that he is paying Linda $40,000 a month for support when it could be spent on better things. Like higher quality stripper poles for his daughter and girlfriend, and new cars for his son. Instead, as court testimony indicated on Monday, it seems that Linda is spending a great deal of her support money on drugs. Her hairdresser testified that Linda would come in and cash checks so that way it looked like she was going to get her hair done and instead was getting drug money. Her favorite drugs? Marijuana with some roxycodone. I wonder how she got that prescription. Basically the whole day was just people getting up on the stand and saying what an awful person Linda Hogan is. I didn't really need people to get up on the stand to tell me that, but it was fun to read about what a horrible person she is. The worst thing I read though was the accusation that on the night Nick Hogan was released from prison she had a party for him.

There were allegations yesterday that she bought and served alcohol for all the minors at the party and that she allowed drug use at the party. This I want to remind everyone was a party for her son coming home from jail who was a minor and had been drinking and almost killed someone in an accident. What kind of mother does these things? Granted, I'm sure the Hulk could be trashed on the stand also, but yesterday it was Linda's turn.

Hulk's lawyer pretended that they were upset because Linda was spending money which should be saved to fight the suit brought by John Graziano. I don't even know why you are fighting it. Just pay the kid whatever he wants. That isn't what the fight is about in court though between Hulk and Linda. It is about the fact that she is spending all his money and f**king some 19 year old kid in Hulk's old bed. That is all it is. I hate them all and hope they spend every last penny they have on legal fees and then have to sell everything they own to pay John Graziano.

NY Daily News Blind Item

Which male music diva kicked a billionaire out of his house — just because he put his dirty feet on a pristine white couch?

Today's Blind Items

What teenage B list female singer who always seems so good is having an affair with her married almost 40 road manager?

Random Photos Part One - With Reader Photos

When you get Yoko and her Thomas The Tank Engine hat and Paul McCartney in the same picture you get the top spot. Simple as that. I think she might have her hand on his ass too, so that's a bonus.
Adam Levine posing with a fan. I would actually post more photos of him if he keeps doing nice things like this.
I'm guessing that somewhere in New York today someone is having a huge sale on slightly used, possibly damaged wedding gowns. Just saying.
Ben Harper - Bonnaroo
I really don't pay attention to Britney Spears pictures all that much but it always seems that when she is with her kids they are about to enter or are already in a toy store. Such is the case of this photo in London.
Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band - Bonnaroo
The very funny Craig Ferguson. If you have never seen his show, you need to.
Catherine Hardwicke is everywhere these days. I have never seen a director who shows up on so many red carpets.
Christopher Mintz-Plasse and Tila Tequila, who as usual is dressed to impress any future in-laws in attendance.
Dan Aykroyd signing bottles of his wine. Throw that wine in a five liter box and call it house red and I will buy some.
You just know that Drew tried to paint Justin's face also.
The one and only Dennis Hopper.
Laura San Giacomo and Holly Hunter doing some press.
Heather Locklear looks better than her picture from last week.
Jennifer Aniston looks very nice here and she was pretty funny this weekend talking about herself and the tabloids.
The family Caan.
It has been awhile since I have seen Jodie Foster on a red carpet.
Kate Bosworth does a green carpet set up in the middle of nowhere.
Think the cameras aren't intrusive for the kids?
I still can't get used to the white hair.
I don't even notice Megan Fox anymore, I just always notice that Marilyn tattoo on her arm. It drives me crazy.
Well, I guess we have finally answered the question of whether Marilyn Manson spits or swallows.
Moby also on the mysterious green carpet.
It's not the Disney parade, but then if Patrick Dempsey was at that his racing outfit would like out of place.
Reader Photo #1
And Reader Photo #2
It looks like maybe Gwyneth talked to the Princess about goop for the legs.
I have to get some of this cologne. Flame broiled goodness. Burger King should have hired me.
Shia learns the penguin dance.
Travis McCoy doing good work for HIV prevention in South Africa.
One of the best actors of all time. Willem Dafoe.

An Apology To Life & Style

Last week I kind of gave Life & Style a hard time because they were so generic in their reporting of Katie Holmes possibly dancing on the television show, "So You Think You Can Dance." They made it seem like they were not sure when or if it would happen. If it was this season or next. They didn't have one declarative sentence in the whole thing. But, you know what? They got it right. Almost immediately after I wrote that post, I got texts and e-mails from all sorts of people who said that a certain employee from the show has been running around town telling anyone who will listen that Katie is going to be on the show and that this employee has been saying it for months. So, to Life & Style I apologize, but don't you think next time you could at least stand behind what you are throwing out there and don't worry about covering yourself so much. Who is going to sue you for that or come back to you three months from now and say you were wrong? I don't think people pay that much attention to one or two paragraphs in the middle of a magazine. Even today when they did a follow-up they were still wishy-washy.

Daily Mirror Blind Item

Which naughty celeb was caught out in the VIP room following his partner into the toilets? Hmm, we wonder what they got up to...

Tallulah Belle Willis Is A Guest Of Harper's Bazaar

I will say this for Harper's Bazaar. They have a great legal team and some wonderful PR people. Last week the NY Post reported that Tallulah Belle Willis had been given an internship at Harper's. Well that got everyone all in a panic. Why? Well it turns out that Tallulah is only 15 and so it would have violated labor laws. It is one thing to do a favor for Bruce and Demi and Ashton and entirely another to hear the words labor violation.

So, over the course of the next few days, the company found a loophole. Think of it as a permanent take your daughter to work kind of loophole. It turns out that Tallulah isn't an intern. No. Tallulah is a guest of Harper's. "Tallulah is a guest of Harper’s Bazaar, shadowing our editors for a couple of weeks.”

For a few weeks? How are we defining a few? I love this new program. There won't be any more child labor violations anywhere in the world. You know those 12 year old kids making your clothes in some foreign country. It isn't child labor. No. They are guests of the company. They just happen to be guests 12 hours a day 6 days a week. And as guests, they want to contribute to their hosts and the best way for them to do that is by sewing clothes for people.

US Weekly Drops The Ball - Again

I'm picking on US Weekly, but only because they ran with this headline. "Madonna: I Am Ecstatic To Adopt Mercy James." All of the other tabloids were a little more subtle in their love of all things Madonna. Apparently her publicist Liz Rosenberg must scare them and they don't want to say even one thing negative about Madonna. In this article from US they report exactly what Liz told them to report and nothing else. No one bothered to even ask Madonna or Liz why if she is so ecstatic that she couldn't be bothered to pick up Mercy.

I know I discussed this in detail Friday but it continues to tick me off and then to have all the tabloids just take it for granted that this is the norm just further pushes me over the edge. I wasn't expecting Madonna or Liz to actually answer the question, but it would have been nice to know someone at least asked and there was no reply or a no comment or something to show they at least made the effort to pretend like they were journalists.

Is it so much to ask to not just regurgitate press releases of famous people, but to actually show that perhaps you do have a spine. Celebrities like publicity. I am sure that whatever ban you would get from a publicist would not be long lasting. I know they are loathe to report anything negative about a celebrity, but at some point don't you just get tired of being a sheep and doing what publicists tell you to do and say?

Lindsay Lohan The Thief Strikes Again?

Holy Moly is reporting that London police want to talk to Lindsay Lohan about $50,000 in missing jewels. Lindsay, who in the past has kept her thievery to furs and items from friends may have some knowledge about some jewels that turned up missing after a magazine shoot. According to sources, Lindsay loved the jewels and kept asking if she could have them. They of course told her she was completely nuts. Who is going to give her $50,000 worth of jewels? She would just sell them anyway.

The furor started when the jewellers asked the magazine where the jewels were and the magazine said they didn't know. Everyone then pointed the finger at Lindsay who refused to call them back or get in touch with them, so the magazine and the jewellers called the cops.

I'm sure Lindsay will say it was all a terrible misunderstanding and that when everyone said no, she thought they meant yes because it was the UK. You know driving on the left instead of the right and so she was confused. I would love for her to go to jail for this if she did it. I mean this is all alleged. Of course even if she did do it she won't go to jail. All of us would, but she always seems to get away with taking stuff. Apparently they are afraid of her monstrous career as an accomplished actress. In the article, Holy Moly refers to another shoot also in which Lindsay allegedly took a bunch of Louis Vuitton stuff and never returned calls and just kept it. Are there any bridges she can still safely walk across?

For A Second I Thought The Duggar's Were Having Another Kid

I read this headline in Kneepads and it stopped me cold. "Another Duggar Girl On The Way!" I thought to myself, oh please no. No more kids for these families on TLC. It turns out though it was just announcing the fact that the Duggar kid who got married found out on live television this morning the sex of the child he is having with his wife. Whew. I don't know why they had to do that on national television. Oh, wait a second. Yes, I do. I think the Duggar's might be feeling a little attention starved with all of the attention Jon and Kate are getting. I think that explains the reason why you had the married couple and his dad on television this morning plugging the heck out of their show.

Some very good news in all of this is that Joshua Duggar said that he and his wife will be happy with just two or three kids. I think she will even be more happy that she is not expected to try and have 18 kids. Of course unless they have like 10 or 11 they can probably kiss their television careers goodbye. Oh, wait someone who isn't going to have kids just to make money off them. That is a novel concept. To me as a television viewer I think I would be much more interested in a show about a day care center. That way those of you who want to watch 20 kids running around screaming can have that and the rest of us can watch as the cameras follow home some of the parents of the kids and the struggles they face everyday raising their one or two children on real paychecks and having to live a real life. Wait though. That is reality. We can't have reality on reality television. Reality is depressing. We would much rather watch some fairytale reality where two parents manage to raise 8 kids and yet have time to vacation all over the world live in a huge house and don't worry about anything except when they can get a spa appointment.

Sienna Miller Has Never Been On A Date

Sienna Miller is featured in Vogue this month and so I read the interview to see if I could find anything out about her. I will get to that in a minute, but did you know that Jude Law and Jonny Lee Miller are best friends? Since the age of 10. But, when I think about it I don't ever remember seeing any pictures of Jude and Jonny and Angelina together when Angelina and Jonny were married. I have seen plenty of pictures of Jude and Jonny after Jonny and Angelina got divorced, but never any during the marriage.

Anyway, back to Sienna. The interviewer who seemed to be madly in love with her asked her about her love life and she said she is single which if you read the next paragraph seems a lie, but whatever. Anyway she responded by saying, "I've actually never been taken on a date in my whole life. I have never had a one-night stand. I'm a real relationship person—contrary to public perception. I'm either in one or I'm not. I get kind of emotionally involved very quickly, and I'm not going to spend time with someone unless I love them. But it's not hard for me to fall in love."

You probably don't think I believe her, but I actually do to a point. I can't believe in high school she never went on a date, but since that point she has pretty much met guys on the sets of movies many of whom were married so I can see why it went straight from how are you to spending an hour in a trailer. When they emerged from the trailer they were a couple and so when they went out to dinner it really wasn't a date.

I can't believe she is only 27. It feels as if she should be much older. Anyway, if you have some time and want to read the interview it is interesting enough as far as celebrity interviews go.

Susan Boyle News

So, apparently when you live in the world of Susan Boyle, trying to perform on three consecutive nights is not going to happen. As a result fans in Manchester who wanted to see her perform didn't get the chance on the Britain's Got Talent Tour. Now, I totally understand needing a night off after you have performed for a few nights in a row and I know she is still recovering, but I also wonder about a couple of things. The first is that she is only singing two songs. She stands there and sings for six minutes. Is that really that impossible to do? Six minutes of standing there? OK, so you say she is under a great deal of pressure. Fine. But at the same time she can't perform for six minutes more than two nights in a row she has booked several shows where she is going to have to perform for 12 minutes and she is going to get paid almost $200,000 for those 12 minutes. That is $1M an hour which is about what Mariah Carey charges. Seriously.

Susan has talent, but she doesn't have Mariah talent. I find it stunning to believe that people are willing to pay her $1M an hour to perform. Well not for an hour because she can't go longer than 12 minutes. But still, at that rate anyway. I also feel sorry for people who buy tickets for this tour she is on, expecting her to be there, and then maybe she will be and maybe she won't. I want to feel sorry for her and everything she has been through and I want her to be healthy, and at the same time I can't believe people are willing to pay her that much money to show up and sing a couple of show tunes.

Heidi Montag Hates Al Roker - Ryan Seacrest Sucks

Heidi Montag and Spencer Pratt were on the Today Show this morning. Apparently the incident was so traumatic for Heidi that she cried for hours after the interview and complained to Ryan Seacrest that all women should be afraid to be near Al Roker. While at some point in his life, I am sure food feared to be around Al Roker, I am pretty confident that women can feel safe around the guy.

After reading what Heidi said, I had to watch the interview on Today because I guessed that Al must have slapped her or called her names or fondled her inappropriately. So, for all of you I watch an almost six minute clip of Speidi. Normally I would say that it is 6 minutes of my life I won't get back, but in this case, what I saw was Al doing the best he could to make sense of Speidi and trying his best to conduct a two minute interview. Although the entire clip is 6 minutes, the actual interview is closer to two or three and Heidi is spoken to by Al for about 45 seconds. I didn't see anything that would necessitate Heidi saying what she said about Al.

I saw a guy trying to do an interview with someone who was used to saying what she wanted to say and not someone who was accustomed to actually answering questions. Al didn't let her get away with it, but Ryan Seacrest did.

I am actually more pissed at Ryan Seacrest for allowing Heidi to get away with this quote.

"I really would advise women especially to be careful around him because I feel like he definitely came and attacked me and I did not appreciate that at all."

He didn't have her explain what she meant. Someone who just tunes into Ryan's show and hears that is going to think Al actually did attack her either verbally or physically or both and Ryan didn't even call her on it. Al Roker did nothing wrong. Nothing. Ryan Seacrest though was probably too busy looking in the mirror or fixing his hair or wishing he was sleeping with Spencer to actually say one damn word about it. You can't just let an accusation like that go unchecked. You have to ask why. He didn't because he sucks. Ryan Seacrest needs to personally apologize to Al Roker for not calling Heidi out on it and letting people who didn't watch the Today Show think that Al Roker actually did attack her when nothing could be further from truth. Be a man Ryan and apologize to Al. Have him on your show tomorrow and let him have his say.

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Which married Oscar winner wasn’t acting too kingly when he was caught groping a waitress at a N.Y.C. nightclub recently?