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| February 9, 2007 |
| Justin Timberlake, Scarlett Johansson, Jessica Biel ‘Love Triangle’ |
In the mere few short weeks since Justin Timberlake’s two-year relationship with Cameron Diaz ended due to a reported fling with Scarlett Johansson, Timberlake has been spotted seesawing between spending Super Bowl weekend with Scarlett and snuggling up to Jessica Biel on the ski slopes, according to a Fox news report.
As reported by The Gossip Girls, Timberlake and Biel were caught cozying up last month during the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah, but this past weekend Jessica Biel was nowhere to be seen.
Instead, Timberlake and Johansson, who were both in Miami for the Super Bowl, got hot and heavy at the Mokai after-party, The New York Post and In Touch Weekly reported.
Johansson allegedly met Timberlake at the Hennessey Super Bowl afterparty at Mokai, where Monsters & Critics sources reported, “they were talking, dancing, holding hands all night - it was very cozy.”
“Then, as they left through the back, Justin was leaning against the wall and Scarlett came up, leaned into him and did a sexy, little dance, grinding into his body.”
Justin Timberlake’s publicist, Ken Sunshine, had no comment when asked about the love triangle. |
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| Penelope Cruz With Kylie Minogue’s Ex, Martinez |
After announcing their split, Kylie Minogue and Olivier Martinez have been getting on with their new separate lives. Martinez hasn’t wasted much time. Barely 12 hours after the breakup was announced, he was spotted with Hollywood actress Penelope Cruz.
The two were seen cozying up at West Hollywood’s Chateau Marmont hotel, which just so happens to be the place where he first met Kylie As reported just days ago by The Gossip Girls, Kylie and Olivier released a joint statement through their management saying the decision to separate was mutual and that the two would remain close friends.
Martinez had been linked to several other women, but the pair said in their statement that “false accusations of disloyalty” had saddened them both.Nearly 12 hours after the split announcement was made public, Martinez, 41, and Cruz, 32, were spotted kissing and hugging at West Hollywood’s Chateau Marmont hotel.
Although Kylie has been enjoying some male attention (one of her admirers is the British comedian David Walliams), the pictures published in The Daily Mirror of Cruz and Martinez hugging, would definitely hurt her. She is definitely not too happy about the way Martinez is handling the whole situation.
A close friend of Kylie’s revealed to Britain’s Daily Mirror newspaper: “Kylie is a very sensitive woman who loved him with all her heart, but he looks like he doesn’t have a care in the world.
“He clearly isn’t worried about her feelings. He approached Penelope seconds after she had sat down to have lunch with her friends.”
According to The Sunday Mirror, Martinez is the one who broke up with Kylie on the phone. Martinez wept to his parents, Rosemarie and Robert, in France after calling Minogue, who was in Mexico, to end their relationship on Friday morning.
“I still feel for her but I’m no longer in love with her,” the French actor reportedly told his parents.
“We have been having a lot of rows. We have outgrown each other,” he added.
Martinez’s mother was quoted by the newspaper as saying she and her husband were “devastated” because of the split.
“It is terrible and we hoped they had a future together,” she told the paper.
“Olivier was dreadfully upset.” |
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| Nicole Richie Tells Paris Hilton ‘She’s Afraid of Prison’ |
According to recent sightings and inside sources, Nicole Richie has reached out for support from Paris Hilton. The latest topic, she is terrified that she may be headed to the slammer for driving under the influence.
‘The Simple Life’ stars, who only recently made up from a highly publicized dispute that led to a year of the two not speaking to each other, met at Los Angeles’ Mr. Chow restaurant and Paris was seen comforting her clearly distraught gal pal.
A source told Life and Style Weekly magazine: “She was really freaking out. Paris kept telling Nicole not to worry, that everything was going to be fine.” For those not aware of the situation, Nicole, the adopted daughter of singer Lionel Richie was charged with DUI after police arrested her in the early hours of December 11, 2006, for driving the wrong way along a California freeway.
Nicole confessed to officers that she had taken the prescription painkiller Vicodin and had smoked marijuana.
The star, a former heroin addict, has a previous DUI charge from 2002 and California law states that a repeat offense carries the mandatory jail sentence of five days.
If convicted, Nicole would also have her driving privileges suspended for one year and be ordered to attend an alcohol education program for a year-and-a-half, even if the second conviction is not alcohol-related.
Paris was probably the easiest person for Nicole to go to for support, seeing that the hotel heiress recently negotiated a plea with prosecutors in her own DUI case.
As previously reported by The Gossip Girls, Paris was charged after she was found to be over the legal blood-alcohol level. Her excuse was that she had not eaten all day. Paris insisted she had drunk just one margarita cocktail.
The 25-year-old pleaded not guilty to DUI, instead pleading no contest to a lesser charge of reckless driving. Paris was placed on probation for 36 months and ordered to pay a $390 fine and attend an alcohol education program. |
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| Anna Nicole Smith Dies At Age 39 |
In a sadly unexpected news release from the ap, Anna Nicole Smith died Thursday February 8, after collapsing at a South Florida hotel, one of her lawyers said. The former Playboy playmate, whose bizarre life careened from marrying an octogenarian billionaire to the untimely death of her son was 39 years of age.
According the the press statement, Smith collapsed and was unresponsive while staying at the Seminole Hard Rock Cafe Hotel and Casino, said the attorney, Ron Rale. She was rushed to a hospital.
“She checked in Monday at 8 p.m. as a guest. She was due to check out tomorrow,” said Danielle Giordaano, a spokeswoman for the hotel Smith had been a tabloid staple even before she became Playboy’s playmate of the year in 1993. Readers were fascinated by her bombshell good looks, her marriage to an elderly billionaire and subsequent court fight over his estate, her weight fluctuations, and last year, the sudden death of her 20-year-old son, Daniel Smith.
A former topless dancer, she made her name squeezing into Guess jeans. She resembled the late actress Marilyn Monroe, a similarity played up in her Guess magazine ads, billboards and department store displays.
In 1994, she married 89-year-old oil tycoon J. Howard Marshall II, the head of oil-based Koch Industries, which is part of a family fortune worth at least $400 million.
He died in 1995, setting off a feud with her former stepson, E. Pierce Marshall, over whether she had a right to his estate. A federal court in California awarded Smith $474 million in a complicated legal twist that began after she declared bankruptcy. That was later overturned.
But in May, the U.S. Supreme Court revived her case, ruling that she deserved another day in court in her battle with her former stepson. The justices said only that federal courts in California could deal with her case despite a Texas state court ruling that Marshall was the sole heir to the estate.
Then, the stepson died June 20 at age 67. But the family said the court fight would continue. |
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| Britney Spears Irate Over Lesbian Allegations |
Britney Spears was left irate over allegations that she participated in wild same-sex orgies before splitting from husband Kevin Federline in November.
Gina Orr, spokesman for Britney’s record label Jive, has released a statement, saying: “It is not true.”
Britney believes the reports are part of a smear campaign by Kevin to aid his custody battle for sons, Sean Preston, 16 months, and Jayden James, four months.
A Bang Showbiz source said: “This is all part of a plan to smear Britney. They are close to agreeing a divorce settlement - so this is a warning shot if he doesn’t get what he wants.”
In the latest incident, rapper Omar ‘Iceman’ Sharif told In Touch weekly: “Britney was into threesomes and girls.”
“There was tons of porn in the house - but it was mostly Britney’s. There were friends of hers who she would invite to her house and they would drink and party. They had their hands all over each other,” he continued.
The Bang Showbiz source added: “Sometimes it was three girls, and sometimes there were more like six. I heard about her being with girls at least 20 times while they were married.”
There have been past rumors regarding the 25-year-old pop star’s sexual orientation. Nearly three years ago, porn star Jenna Jameson said that Britney propositioned her. A spokesman for Spears immediately responded to the claims, simply stating that the allegations are not true |
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| Jessica Alba Prepares For Blind Role In ‘The Eye’ |
Besides a little time spent over New Year’s in Miami with her boyfriend, actress Jessica Alba has been focused on rehearsing for her role as a blind violinist in her upcoming film “The Eye”.
She plays a blind woman, Allison, who receives an eye transplant that allows her to see into the supernatural world. The actress will be earning $4 million for playing the sightless violinist in this remake of the Hong Kong film “Jian Gui”.
Contactmusic.com quoted her as saying: “I’ve been training. I wear a sleep mask and carry a cane to get around with. I’ve also been practicing the violin - it’s hard! It took me three months to figure it out!”
It is nice to see that she is working so hard for her paycheck. Hopefully her learning of the violin and life as a blind person translate into a great performance for the actress. Meanwhile, filming of the movie is currently underway in Albuquerque, NM. |
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| Jessica Simpson, William Shatner DirecTV Ads Pulled |
The UPI has reported that a NY judge ordered DirecTV ads featuring Jessica Simpson and William Shatner to be pulled while Time Warner Cable`s false advertising lawsuit proceeds.
In the report, it is stated that Time Warner, the nation`s second-largest cable provider, sued DirecTV, saying among other things, DirecTV`s ads about its high definition programming being superior to cable programming were misleading.
DirecTV will still be allowed to use comparative advertising about overall picture quality compared to Time Warner Cable, the judge said.
Most have seen the notorious Jessica Simpson ad, in which she revisited her Daisy Duke character from ‘The Dukes of Hazzard’ movie. In the spot, she tells viewers, ‘You`re just not going to get the best picture out of some fancy big-screen TV without DirecTV. It`s broadcast in 1080i. I totally don`t know what that means, but I want it.’
In a less-aired spot, William Shatner reprised his ‘Star Trek’ role of Capt. James T. Kirk, saying, ‘With what Starfleet just ponied up for the big screen TV, settling for cable would be illogical.’
If DirecTV wins the case, the ads will most likely resume, especially due to the large amount of cash already paid to film the ads with these two high profile celebs. |
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| Natalie Portman May Direct/Star In Israeli Book Adaptation |
In a reuters news update, the always lovely Natalie Portman has expressed an interest in directing a film version of Israeli writer Amos Oz’s internationally acclaimed autobiography, a production spokesman said on February 8th.
Portman, 25, who is best known for her starring roles in the recent Star Wars trilogy, may also act in “A Tale of Love and Darkness” if it is brought to the big screen, Jerusalem Capital Studios spokesman Danny Levy told reuters.
“JCS has met with Portman to discuss the possibility of her participating in and directing a film version of the book,” he said.
"A Tale of Love and Darkness” describes Oz’s upbringing in Jerusalem amid the fighting during which the Jewish state was founded. Israeli media said Portman was interested in playing Oz’s mother, who committed suicide when the author was a youth.
Natalie is the front-runner for the role and a great choice. She was born in Jerusalem and speaks Hebrew. In 2005 she appeared in “Free Zone”, a road movie by Israeli director Amos Gitai that explored the tensions between Arabs and Jews in the Holy Land. With these ties and this background, it will surely be a tremendous movie if the deal goes through. |
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| Christina Aguilera Talks Naked With Ellen DeGeneres |
Christina Aguilera had an interesting interview that is set to air February 8th in the US on The Ellen DeGeneres Show. From an ap news release, it appears as if Christina has no problem showing skin.... especially on weekends with her music executive husband, Jordan Bratman.
“We claim ourselves to be the coziest couple ever. We have something called ‘naked Sundays’,” the 26-year-old pop star told Ellen.
“You have to keep marriage alive, spice it up,” the singer advised. The conversation with Ellen continued: “We do everything naked. We cook naked.”
“You cook naked?” asked DeGeneres.
“Yeah, we cook naked,” Aguilera casually replied.
“Nothing with grease - that could splatter,” DeGeneres was putting a mental image together.
“Well, unless you want the grease,” Aguilera laughed.
It will be interesting to see how long in life the couple keeps this tradition alive |
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| Lindsay Lohan Seen Partying at the Clubs After Rehab |
Hollywood starlet Lindsay Lohan took a break from rehab by leaving last week and spending the weekend hitting the Hollywood night scene.
The recently troubled actress, who checked herself into Los Angeles’ Wonderland Center on January 17 to be treated for alcoholism, left the clinic last week and hit the party circuit right away.
On Friday night, Lindsay was seen sharing some laughs with hotel heiress Paris Hilton as they left the Les Deux nightclub.
A Friday night out apparently was not enough, seeing that Lindsay then spent Saturday night partying with friends at trendy nightspot Teddy’s, before heading to Area nightclub.
Lindsay, who self-willingly admitted herself to rehab following an all-night drinking binge at the Golden Globes was not seen drinking over the weekend.
The 20-year-old actress, who was allowed out on day release during her rehabilitation program to film her latest movie ‘I Know Who Killed Me’ and go shopping, allegedly sent text messages to friends saying she was craving sex and burgers during her time in Wonderland.
As long as she is not craving alcohol and drugs....it’ll have to do. |
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| Beyonce Snaps Up Soul Train Nominations |
Beyonce Knowles has made her presence felt, leading the field of nominees announced on February 6th for the 21st annual Soul Train Music Awards. The awards pay respect to the year’s best of soul, R&B and hip-hop.
Two of Beyonce’s three nominations were for her hit single “Irreplaceable,” earning nods for best R&B/soul single and for best R&B/soul or rap music video. Along with these honors, her second solo album, “B’Day,” is up for best female R&B/soul album.
Beyonce, who burst on the recording scene as a member of the chart-topping R&B group Destiny’s Child, earned a Golden Globe nomination for her role as the Diana Ross-like character in “Dreamgirls,” a big-screen adaptation of the Broadway hit musical.
But she lost out to Meryl Streep for “The Devil Wears Prada” in the race for best actress in a musical or comedy, and failed to land an Oscar nomination for her “Dreamgirls” performance. Competing against Beyonce in the Soul Train R&B single and album categories is double nominee Mary J. Blige. Others receiving two nods each were Chris Brown, John Legend, Ne-Yo, Gnarls Barkley, Yung Joc and the Isley Brothers featuring Ronald Isley.
According to reuters, the awards, determined by a panel of radio programmers, artists and retailers, will be handed out March 10 in Pasadena, California, at a ceremony co-hosted by singers LeToya and Omarion.
The show will be televised the week of March 17-24. Recipients of this year’s special honors will be announced separately in the coming weeks. Those honors include the Quincy Jones Award for outstanding career achievements and the Sammy Davis Jr. Award for entertainer of the year |
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| Charlize Theron Sued By Watch Maker |
In an ap news release, Swiss watchmaker Raymond Weil has filed a breach of contract lawsuit against Oscar-winning actress Charlize Theron. In court papers filed in state Supreme Court on Monday, Weil said Theron signed an endorsement deal saying that from October 2005 through December 2006 she would only wear Weil’s high-end watches.
That deal allowed Weil to use Theron’s photographs in its advertisements in exchange for “substantial funds,” court papers said.
Meanwhile, Theron had an endorsement deal to promote a Dior perfume, Weil’s lawsuit said. The 31-year-old actress “was actually photographed wearing a watch from the Christian Dior line” at a March 14, 2006, news conference at a film festival in Austin, Texas, court papers said. A photo of her wearing the watch is included as an exhibit. "Although the agreement clearly prohibits (Theron) from appearing in any advertisement for any jewelry, even for charity, she appeared wearing a necklace in an advertisement benefiting an AIDS charity, violating the agreement, from February 2006 to December 2006,” the court papers said.
“Plaintiffs were led to believe and had a right to believe by their written agreement that (Theron) would not promote jewelry or watches.”
A spokeswoman for Theron didn’t immediately return a call Tuesday from The Associated Press.
The lawsuit doesn’t say how much Weil is seeking in damages, but the watchmaker’s lawyer, David Jaroslawicz, said his client had spent more than $20 million on the Theron advertising campaign. |
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| February 4, 2007 |
| Lauren Conrad Celebrates 21st Birthday In Style |
Lauren Conrad, who became a celebrity after appearing on MTV’s reality show Laguna Beach, celebrated her 21st birthday in style on February 1st.
The event, held in West Hollywood, was attended by friends, family and notables including Amanda Fields, Audrina Patridge, Heidi Montag, Kyle Davis, and Nadia Bjorlin.
In other news related to Ms. Conrad, she has just joined forces with Avon cosmetics. The reality TV star will appear in a combination of magazine and catalog ads, referred to as ‘megalog’ to promote Avon’s teen and young women brand, mark., which was launched in 2003 and has proven to be a success among the target group. The mark.
brand ads will also have an online presence according to PR newswire releases.
The 21-year old Conrad, popularly referred to as LC is now starring in another MTV hit reality show, The Hills, a spin off of Laguna Beach. |
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| Pick Justin's New Leading Lady |
Justin Timberlake may be "special friends" with Jessica Biel, but he still needs a duet partner for Grammy night – and you can help pick who she'll be.
It's all part of the My Grammy Moment competition, and until Saturday, you can watch auditions and vote here on which three of these five women (from left: Brenda Radney, Jessie James, Africa Miranda, Robyn Troup and Gillian Gaudious) get to move to the final round. The winner
- out of thousands of auditioners – will be announced live on Grammy night Feb. 11. We're having a tough time deciding who to throw our vote to – there's a lot of Mariah-esque octave-scaling going on
– but we're sure Timberlake will be pleased either way. "They all have great voices," he tells us, adding, "A couple of them are lookers too!" |
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| Predict-a-Gown: What Will Christina Wear? |
The biggest change in Grammy nominee Christina Aguilera's red carpet style? Clothing is no longer optional. Gone are the days of the Dirrrty trifecta – bra, panties and chaps – and in are old Hollywood-style gowns to match the retro sound of her CD, Back to Basics. So which siren style will she wear to the Grammys? Here are picks from PEOPLE's StyleWatch team:
• If she wants something glam – but still a bit racy – Aguilera could slip into this see-through crystal-encrusted sheath (right) from Roberto Cavalli, who designed her tour costumes.
•But if she wants to show less skin, she could try this shimmering black gown from Fendi.
•For a real switchup, she could go short. We think she'd look flapper-fabulous in this fringed Zac Posen or this glittering Behnaz Sarafpour. |
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| Tom & Katie Party in Miami |
Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes partied late into the night in Miami on Saturday.
The couple were among the star-studded crowd at the Ocean Drive magazine and MarketAmerica.com pre-Super Bowl party in South Beach, where Fergie and her Black Eyed Peas bandmate Will.i.Am kicked off the night's concert.
Cruise pal Marc Anthony headlined the event, crooning several of his hit songs – plus a cover of "Hotel California." Anthony was also joined onstage by his wife Jennifer Lopez, who sang with her hubby.
Cruise and Holmes – along with Cruise's sister and his son Connor – rocked out in their seats on the side of the stage as Anthony and Lopez performed.
"She's quite a dancer," one partygoer said of Holmes. "They were really into the music."
Other celebs at the concert included Scarlett Johansson, Matt Leinart, Tara Reid, Marlee Matlin, Leah Remini, Jeff Gordon, Joey Fatone and Stacy Keibler. When the show ended just after midnight, a huge fireworks display lit up the sky over the Atlantic Ocean.
Afterwards, the party shifted to South Beach's hip lounge Mokai for the private CAA sports party. Cruise and Holmes danced to a mix of rock and hip-hop, including songs like "Sweet Home Alabama" – behind a wall of security guards.
Still, partygoers snapped photos of the affectionate couple, who kissed and cuddled as they danced. The pair, along with Connor, stayed at the club until nearly 2:00 a.m |
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| Tori & Dean Celebrate at Their Baby Shower |
To celebrate the upcoming birth of their first child together, Tori Spelling and husband Dean McDermott welcomed around 50 guests to a coed baby shower on Saturday afternoon at Elixir Tonic & Tea in West Hollywood.
"We're so excited to share this special time with our friends," McDermott told PEOPLE. "We can't wait to meet the little man. We feel him kicking all the time and we're so eager to finally see him."
The couple revealed to PEOPLE in December that they are expecting a boy, whose middle will be Aaron after Spelling's father, legendary TV producer Aaron Spelling, who died last year. The baby is due in April.
Guests at the event included Spelling's Beverly Hills 90210 pal Jennie Garth and her So NotTORIous costar Loni Anderson. Spelling's mother Candy, with whom she's had a falling out, was not there.
Spelling, looking radiant in a blue mini-dress, happily let her friends rub her belly. "I've loved being pregnant, but I'm ready to give birth," she told PEOPLE with a laugh. "I can't wait to be a mom and hold this little baby in my arms."
The blue-themed party was sponsored by Tupperware and planned by Jo Gartin of Love Luck and Angels. "They wanted the party colors to mimic their baby's turquoise blue and chocolate brown nursery," said Gartin, who decorated the event with white amaryllis in turquoise vases, blue glass lanterns and hundreds of votive candles. |
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| Martin Scorsese Wins DGA Award; On Path To Oscar |
In a recent ap release, it was announced that Martin Scorsese won the top honor from the Directors Guild of America for his mob saga “The Departed,” helping to push his case to finally receive Hollywood’s biggest filmmaking prize at the Academy Awards.
After five prior nominations with no victories, Scorsese finally captured the award given by his peers. It is important to note that the guild winner usually goes on to win the best-director Oscar.
Scorsese said that he was pleased at the apparent success of the film, but that he only became convinced it was doing well when the studio called with box-office revenues from the first couple of weekends.
"If you look at the graph at the spikes at where the picture is doing really great figures, it’s like looking at a veritable map of the American underworld,” such as Boca Raton, Fla., Scorsese said. “Vegas, forget about it, it was amazing.”
“The Departed” is an adaptation of the Hong Kong crime thriller “Infernal Affairs”. The movie stars Leonardo DiCaprio as an undercover cop in a Boston crime outfit, Matt Damon as a mob mole who has infiltrated the police, and Jack Nicholson as the gang leader pulling everyone’s strings.
It has become Scorsese’s biggest commercial hit, and critics praised it as a welcome return to the vivid, bloody crime genre whose modern conventions the director helped pioneer in such films as “Taxi Driver” and “Goodfellas.”
“I started watching his work when I was 15 years old”, said DiCaprio, who has starred in Scorsese’s last three films and introduced the director to the guild audience earlier in the evening. “It was like entering a seamless cinematic reality.”
“The Departed” marked Scorsese’s sixth nomination for best director at the Academy Awards, an honor that also has eluded him. A sixth loss at the Oscars would put Scorsese in the record books as the filmmaker with the most nominations without winning. |
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