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Tuesday, September 22, 2009

David Hasselhoff hospitalized again with Ear infection, not alcohol





David Hasselhoff was rushed to the hospital Sunday afternoon with alcohol poisoning, renewing his family’s and his fans’ fears that his drinking problem is out of control. The former “Baywatch” star’s daughter Hayley called 911 to his Encino home after he went on a bender for more than a day, Radar Online reported. The 17-year-old was said to be crying heavily as she accompanied him to the medical facility.

Paramedics were called to Hasselhoff's home on Sunday after his daughter, Hayley, 17, grew worried about his latest alcohol binge, TMZ reported. A Los Angeles City Fire Department spokesman confirmed the call to Hasselhoff's home.

Reps speaking for Hasselhoff Monday told TMZ that the former "Baywatch" star agreed to go to the hospital when the ambulance arrived, not because he was inebriated, but to help with an "equilibrium problem" caused by a mixture of medications.

They said Hasselhoff was taking a drug called Antivert, for his ear problem, and also Antabuse, which deters alcoholics from drinking.

"David's fine and he's on his way to jury duty today," his lawyer, Melvin Goldman, told People magazine.

Hasselhoff is a recovering alcoholic who was briefly hospitalized four months ago after a relapse.

RadarOnline.com says "the Hoff" has been hospitalized with alcohol poisoning "more than five times in the past few years."

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Khloe Kardashian gotng to Wed Her Lakers Boyfriend Lamar Odom This Sunday


The reality star Khloe Kardashian plans to wed beau Lamar Odom, a forward on the Los Angeles Lakers, this Sunday, Usmagazine.com has confirmed.Khloe Kardashian is not wasting time on wedding planning!
Khloe Kardashian isn't one to let a little thing like only dating for a month get in the way of getting hitched!



"Khloe and Lamar want to get married before Lamar has to go away for training, and the [basketball] season starts up [this fall]," a source tells Us of the couple. (The Lakers are set to play their first preseason game on Oct. 7.)

The wedding will take place at the L.A.-area home of music manager Irving Azoff, multiple sources confirm to Us. Azoff, a family friend of the Kardashians, hosted a wedding on almost the same September weekend a year ago for his daughter, Allison, which Kardashian attended. (She even blogged about the ceremony, saying that "this wedding really made me want to get married.")

Kardashian, 25, and Odom, 29 -- who met at a party in L.A. -- will be tying the knot after only about a month of dating.In fact, it's going to be this Sunday!

Click here to see pics of Khloe and her sisters in Miami

It's at a private residence in LA and the wedding planner, photographer, groomsmen and bridesmaids have all been chosen.

It's been a whirlwind of a romance, the two met on August 27th at the Ron Artest party at Halo in Hollywood and instantly hit it off, Khloe's sister Kim has gushed about how happy they are together.

"The whole family is excited about the wedding," a source close to Khloe tells RadarOnline.com. "They can't wait to welcome Odom into the family."



Sunday, September 20, 2009

Jennifer's Body': hot, but a little flabby


In the view of Diablo Cody Jennifer's Body is not as hot as you hope it would be.His words states —its particularly teenspeak — was a revelation in Juno, Jennifer's Body tries hard to be cool, gross and nasty but feels forced and misses the mark.


Some of the pieces in this horror/comedy hybrid are marginally inspired: such as an alt-indie band (fronted by Adam Brody) who turn to ritualistic murders since the field is so tough to make a name in and the hapless efforts of such school officials as Mr. Wroblewski (J.K. Simmons) to cope with a grisly killing spree that is decimating the student body.

But, much of the humor and the scares fall short. Jennifer's Body generally follows the conventions of a teen horror tale, interspersed with some lackluster, wannabe edgy humor.

It aspires to be sexy, by casting Megan Fox as Jennifer, a flesh-eating femme fatale. When her best friend, a slightly geeky girl named Needy (Amanda Seyfried) tells her sweetly earnest boyfriend (Johnny Simmons) that Jennifer is evil, he registers no surprise. She goes on to explain that she's not "high school evil" — conceited, manipulative and haughty — but "evil evil."

Friday, September 18, 2009

Aniston Curprised by cancer news of Pal's


JENNIFER ANISTON had to be surprised emough on the red carpet of her latest premiere on Tuesday night (15Sep09) - when JENNIFER ANISTON received a special message from the sick girl she helped fight cancer.
JENNIFER ANISTON appeared in 2008 TV ads for St. Jude's Children's Hospital in Los Angeles alongside little Ellie, a patient who was receiving treatment there for a tumour on her brain.
The pair clicked instantly and became pals on the set - and TV news show Access Hollywood delivered a very special video message to the former Friends star at the Love Happens premiere.
Ellie, seven, said, "I wanted to say hi and I just wanted to let you know I'm cancer free."
Jenifer Aniston gasped and then turned to presenter Billy Bush and said, "You just want to get me all choked up before I go in. That's a beautiful thing."

Wednesday, September 16, 2009

Whitney Houston leave Bobby Brown following her daughter's advice


The singer Whitney Houston leave her husband singer Bobby Brown, by the decision of their own daughter.


Whitney Houston told "The Oprah Winfrey Show" their daughter, Bobbi Kristina, confronted her after Brown spit on Whitney Houston and told her that wasn't right.
Whitney Houston left Brown in 2006 and moved with their daughter to Los Angeles, thinking she and Brown would get back together. Whitney Houston says Bobbi Kristina told her Brown never followed through on his promises to her and neither she nor Houston deserved that. She told Houston to leave him.

Whitney Houston also says she's drug-free but it's a daily struggle. Her drug of choice was marijuana laced with rock cocaine. She admits she sometimes has a drink and people should not worry if they see her in a bar, because alcohol was not her issue.

Megan Fox hated by the Transformers Crew


The hot news today is Big dramz have gone down in Transformers Town with started as a bit of he-said she-said, back and forth with the media between Megan Fox and director Michael Bay.Read the whole story.....


Megan Fox not only implied that Bay was a massive creep when he made her dance underneath a waterfall, getting soaking wet in Bad Boys II at the tender age of 15. She also criticised Bay's films for not offering many "acting opportunities", that he opts to blow a bunch of stuff up special effects style instead. Can you believe it!

Meanwhile, on Bay's side of the fence he 100% disagrees with her, "Megan Fox says some very ridiculous things because she’s 23 years old and Megan Fox still has a lot of growing to do". Ouch!Most recently, Megan Fox likened Bay's on-set persona to that of Napoleon and Hitler and described him as a tyrant with no social skills at all. Oh, it's on now.

Let me now introduce you all to the Transformers Crew, the all seeing, all hearing men and women on the inside, who have decided to step in and tell us what's what.Having worked on Transformers I & II with Bay this is the letter they have sent in response to Megan Fox's most recent comments:

This is an open letter to all Michael Bay fans. We are three crew members that have worked with Michael for the past ten years. Last week we read the terrible article with inflammatory, truly trashing quotes by the Megan Fox about Michael Bay. This letter is to set a few things straight.

Yes, Megan Fox has great eyes, a tight stomach we spray with glycerin, and an awful silly Marilyn Monroe tattoo plastered on her arm that we cover up to keep the moms happy.

Michael Bay found this shy, inexperienced girl, plucked her out of total obscurity thus giving her the biggest shot of any young actresses' life. Michael Bay told everyone around to just trust him on his choice. Michael Bay granted her the starring role in Transformers, a franchise that forever changed her life; Megan Fox became one of the most googled and oogled women on earth. Megan Fox was famous! Megan Fox was the next Angelina Jolie, hooray! Wait a minute, two of us worked with Angelina – second thought – she’s no Angelina. You see, Angelia is a professional.

We know this quite intimately because we’ve had the tedious experience of working with the dumb-as-a-rock Megan Fox on both Transformers movies. We've spent a total of 12 months on set making these two movies.

We are in different departments; we can’t give our names because sadly doing so in Hollywood could lead to being banished from future Paramount work. One of us touches Megan’s panties, the other has the often shitty job of pulling Ms. Sour pants out of her trailer, while another is near the Panaflex camera that helps to memorialize the valley girl on film.

Megan Fox has the press fooled. When we read those magazines we wish we worked with that woman. Megan knows how to work her smile for the press. Those writers should try being on set for two movies, sadly she never smiles. The cast, crew and director make Transformers a really fun and energetic set. We’ve traveled around the world together, so we have never understood why Megan was always such – the grump of the set?

When facing the press, Megan Fox is the queen of talking trailer trash and posing like a porn star. And yes we’ve had the unbearable time of watching her try to act on set, and yes, it's very cringe-able. So maybe, being a porn star in the future might be a good career option. But make-up beware, she has a paragraph tattooed to her backside (probably due her rotten childhood) easily another 45 minutes in the chair!

So when the three of us caught wind of Ms Fox, pontificating yet again in some publication (like she actually has something interesting to say) blabbing her trash mouth about a director whom we three have grown to really like. She compared working with Michael Bay, to “working with Hitler”. We actually don’t think she knows who Hitler is by the way. But we wondered how she doesn’t realize what a disgusting, fully uneducated comment this was? Well, here let’s get some facts straight.

Say what you want about Michael Bay– yes at times he can be hard, but he's also fun, and he challenges everyone for a reason – he simply wants people to bring their ‘A’ game. He comes very prepared, knows exactly what he wants, involves the crew and expects everyone to follow through with his or her best, and that includes the actors. He’s one of the hardest working directors out there.

He gets the best from his crews, many of whom have worked with him for 15 years. And yes, he’s loyal, one of the few directors we’ve encountered who lowered his fee by millions to keep Transformers in the United States and California, so he could work with his own crew.

Megan Fox says that Transformers was an unsafe set? Come on Megan Fox, we know it is a bit more strenuous then the playground at the trailer park, but you don’t insult one of the very best stunt and physical effects teams in the business! Not one person got hurt!

And who is the real Megan Fox? She is very different than the academy nominee and winning actors we’ve all worked around. She’s as about ungracious a person as you can ever fathom. Megan Foxshows little interest in the crew members around her. We work to make her look good in every way, but she's absolutely never appreciative of anyone’s hard work. Never a thank you. All the crewmembers have stopped saying hi to Ms. Princess because she never says hello back. It gets tiring. Many think she just really hates the process of being an actress.

Megan Fox has been late to the sets many times. She goes through the motions that make her exude this sense of misery. We’ve heard the A.D’s piped over the radio that Megan won’t walk from her trailer until John Turturro walks first! John’s done seventy-five movies and she’s made two!

Never expect Megan Fox to attend any of the 15 or so crew parties like all the other actors have. And then there's the classless night she blew off The Royal Prince of Jordan who made a special dinner for all the actors. She doesn’t know that one of the grips daughters wanted to visit their daddy’s work to meet Megan Fox, but he wouldn’t let them come because he told them “she is not nice."

The press certainly doesn’t know her most famous line. On our first day in Egypt, the Egyptian government wouldn’t let us shoot because of a permit problem as the actors got ready in make up at the Four Seasons Hotel. Michael tried to make the best of it; he wanted to take the cast and crew on a private tour of the famous Giza pyramids. God hold us witness, Megan Fox said, "I can’t believe Michael Bay is fucking forcing us to go to the fucking pyramids!" I guess this is the “Hitler guy” she is referring to.

So this is the Megan Fox you don’t get to see. Maybe she will learn, but we figure if she can sling insults, then she can take them too. Megan really is a thankless, classless, graceless, and shall we say unfriendly bitch. It's sad how fame can twist people, and even sadder that young girls look up to her. If only they knew who they're really looking up to.

But ‘Fame’ is fleeting. We, being behind the scenes, seen em’ come and go. Hopefully Michael will have Megatron squish her character in the first ten minutes of Transformers 3. We can tell you that will make the crew happy!

Prince Harry turns 25 - eligible to get $17m

Prince Harry, third in line to the British throne, turns 25, and inherits the financial legacy left to him by his late mother, Princess Diana.



Prince Harry, third in line to the British throne, had a low-key 25th birthday on Tuesday, when Prince Harry became eligible for some of the $17 million inheritance left by his mother, Princess Diana.Prince Harry and his older brother, Prince William, received an equal share worth $17 million of Princess Diana's estate following her death in a car crash in Paris in 1997.It is understood Harry will not touch the money for now - it has been invested, although it is not known how it has been affected by the economic downturn.


Birthday boy ... Prince Harry, pictured with his mother, Princess Diana, in August 1995. Photo: AP

Changes agreed to the will after Princess Diana's death meant that, upon reaching 25, William and Prince Harry would be entitled to the whole of the income from their share.

The trustees of the will can pay over capital at any time, but when the princes turn 30, they can ask for their share of the capital in full.

Harry spent his birthday flying helicopters as part of his training to become an Army Air Corps pilot at a Royal Air Force base in Shropshire, central England, where William is also training to be a helicopter pilot.



Keanu Reeves considers Patrick Swayze a beautiful person’

‘He just wanted to experience life,’ Reeves says of ‘Point Break’ co-star

According to view of Keanu Reeves,Patrick Swayze was great person in nature.When Patrick Swayze was given a task, not only did he deliver to the fullest but he had a blast in the process, recalls onetime co-star Keanu Reeves about Patrick Swayze, who succumbed to cancer on Monday.Patrick Swayze died Monday evening, surrounded by family at his Los Angeles ranch, after a 20-month fight with pancreatic cancer. He was 57.

Keanu Reeves says of Patrick Swayze, "I can say what I know that he lived life to the fullest."

"This was a well-fought battle. Patrick Swayze fought like the dickens to survive it, or to get through it. He never thought of himself as someone who was dying," Goldberg said Tuesday on the ABC morning talk show. "He said, `You know, we're all dying.' And so his attitude was, `Until it kills me, I'm going to keep doing what I'm doing. ...

“There was some sky diving sequences in this film we did together and as filming was going on it came to be that Patrick was jumping out of airplanes all the time,” Reeves recalled of their 1991 movie “Point Break.” “I think he had over 30 jumps during the course of filming and so the production served him with a cease and desist which he listened to until they got to Hawaii.”

In it, Patrick Swayze played a bank-robbing surfer named Bodhi, who forms a bond with the undercover FBI agent (Reeves) assigned to catch him. In the course of the story, “he jumps out of planes and did the flips and falling to the ground and he did it with an open heart,” remembers Reeves.

“He was a beautiful person, an artist,” he adds. “Patrick Swayze, he just wanted to experience life and for his work he wanted to take the opportunity of the film and it gave him that sense.”

And he’ll always remember his buddy for lighting up a room with his presence. “I can say what I know that he lived life to the fullest,” says Reeves, 45. “My sympathies and condolences go out to his friends and family.”

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Sunday, September 13, 2009

Gisele Bundchen Is Pregnant :Tom Brady


The latest new is that Tom Brady has finally confirmed that his wife, Gisele Bündchen, is pregnant.

After much speculation, the New England Patriots quarterback confirmed that Tom Brady and Gisele Bündchen are expecting a child together in December during an interview with ESPN's Chris Berman.

Tom Brady"I told her ... no Sundays," Tom Brady joked during the interview, which will air Sunday on SportsCenter and Monday Night Countdown.

The 32-year-old football star also said Tom Brady will take part in Lamaze classes with his wife, who he married earlier this year. "It couldn't be harder than training camp, so I'll be prepared."

This will be the first child for Bündchen, and the second for Brady, who has a son, John Edward Thomas, 2, with ex-girlfriend Bridget Moynahan.Gisele Bündchen is very happy for that....

Friday, September 11, 2009

The latest photo exibition of Barack and Michelle Obama: It must be love and summer style

The latest photos of Barack and Michelle Obama in the summer style and loving style...Don't miss it...enjoy it...
Michelle Obama has been spicing up First Lady fashion all summer with bold colors and chic patterns. Check out the roundup of her smashing summer looks...

Michelle certainly travels in style. The First Lady looks sleek and glamorous in a navy blue dress with yellow and blue satin bands when she lands in Boston, Mass. to attend the late Senator Kennedy's Aug. 29 funeral.

OK, so when was the last time you had a date start with a ride on Air Force One? That's how the most recent Date Night started for President Barack Obama and Michelle Obama, as the President fulfilled a promise to take the First Lady to a Broadway show.

OK, so when was the last time you had a date start with a ride on Air Force One? That's how the most recent Date Night started for President Barack Obama and Michelle Obama, as the President fulfilled a promise to take the First Lady to a Broadway show.


A Secret Service Agent watches over people as they try and get a glimpse of the president and First Lady as the dined at Citronelle.















Top shortest celebrity skirts


Its amazing to say that the celebrities skirt is highly appreciated to describe.Please see some of them...and enjoy...


Is Sharon Stone aging backwards? The fit and fabulous over 40 actress was all legs when she wore a thigh-skimming black Balmain mini-dress to the "Inglourious Basterds" premiere in Cannes, France.



The pressure was on for Sienna Miller to impress Vogue editrix Anna Wintour at the New York screening of "The September Issue," and the British beauty did just that when she put her lean legs on display in a strapless Taksoon mini-dress.


While Miley Cyrus' performance at the 2009 Teen Choice Awards was jaw-dropping, the same goes for her thigh-grazing Haute Hippie sequin mini she wore on the red carpet.



Britney Spears is back and better than ever! The sexy pop star accepted the ultimate award at the Teen Choice Awards in a bedazzled Roberto Caballi black mini that shows off her toned and tanned leg



New York City goes mad for hot celebrities of Anna Wintour at Fashion's Night Out



It is the latest hot news that For her Fashion's Night Out extravaganza of Anna Wintour ,New York stores were jammed Thursday for Fashion's Night Out, where shoppers rubbed elbows with celebrities — sometimes quite literally.


Actress Charlize Theron makes an appearance at Dior to celebrate fashion night out and sign autographs of her Vogue issue, in New York, on Thursday, Sept. 10, 2009. (AP Photo/Peter Kramer)




Actress Debra Messing poses for pictures as part a special event called "Fashion's Night Out" during Fashion Week in New York, Thursday, Sept. 10, 2009. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

Actress Charlize Theron makes an appearance at Dior to celebrate fashion night out and sign autographs of her Vogue issue, in New York, on Thursday, Sept. 10, 2009.





Designer Michael Kors and actress Debra Messing walk the red carpet as part a special event called "Fashion's Night Out" during Fashion Week in New York, Thursday, Sept. 10, 2009. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)



Cindy Crawford poses for a picture as part of a special event called "Fashion's Night Out" during Fashion Week in New York, Thursday, Sept. 10, 2009. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)


Amateur photographers jockeyed with paparazzi to get pictures of Victoria Beckham and stood on banquettes to get a glimpse of "Top Chef" host Padma Lakshmi. The hope was that the event, a brainchild of Vogue Editor Anna Wintour, would help at the cash register during New York Fashion Week, which opened Thursday.

Poor Oscar de la Renta was reduced to performing a song and dance in his own store — accompanied by Bette Midler, Sarah Jessica Parker and Barbara Walters — to appease the queen.

And he wasn't the only one. Vogue's European editor at large Hamish Bowles belted out Noel Coward tunes at Juicy Couture. Alexa Joel sang the blues at Elie Tahari, too.

Bergdorf Goodman hosted a designer cookoff between Lela Rose, Peter Som and Cynthia Rowley (who made Jell-o shots much to the crowd's delight) while on another floor, Robert Verdi beat Donna Karan at a fashion trivia contest led by Vogue's Andre Leon Talley.

Is there anything the woman can't get her minions to do?

Nope. In Queens, where Anna appeared with Diane von Furstenberg, Kate Hudson and the mayor himself, Bloomberg recounted trying to turn her down when she first came up with the idea — but “lost totally.”

And if Anna had her way, he'd lose at something else, too. Waiting for Bloomie to arrive in a private room she fumed, “If he doesn't show, Diane and I will run for mayor on a joint ticket and take over the city.”

She could, too, from the looks of the adoring crowd who gathered at the Queens Center Mall's Macy's, where Anna hung out for two and a half hours before heading to Ralph Lauren's bash. “She knows that she has to restore her image,” said Julio Thillet, 34, from the Bronx, on why the Vogue editrix hauled out to the boro. “This is her reaching out to the bottom level, to the masses, like kissing babies.”

Diane Cusimano-Thenkin, a florist from Glendale, came with an offering at Anna's altar: a bunch of purple orchids. “I've been thinking about this bouquet for days,” she gushed.

But no one was more moved than Shailee Shah, 16, a high school student from Queens, who received the Vogue equivalent of sainthood. “Anna told me that she really liked my dress,” she said.

Thursday, September 10, 2009

Hot or Not Celebrity of the Day: Today is Tyra Banks



Welcome to the HOT or NOT Celebrity of the Day poll. This is a place to find out which celebrities are hot and who's really not. Today's HOT or NOT Celebrity of the Day is Tyra Banks.


The Verdict? HOT!

Some of you may think that Tyra is loud and obnoxious. Now step back and ask yourself, Why are you so threatened by a confident woman who speaks her mind? Tyra Banks has done it all - modeling, acting, talk show host, god mother, and singer. (Maybe the last one isn't the best to showcase, but she's still workin it.)



Today on the season 5 premiere of the Tyra Banks Show - now the Tyra Show - the former supermodel will reveal her real hair. This is just another reason Tyra Banks is hot! Ladies, leave the lace front wigs and extensions at home today. You look good no matter what. We can all thank the Tyra Banks for giving everyone that extra boost of confidence to go natural.

Very sexy 3 hype-worthy fitness trends that keep Hollywood girls very hot


Celebrities everywhere are very busy with their workouts to keep their bodies hot through the winter.


Jessica Biel uses a slideboard at the advice of her trainer Valerie Waters



The top fitness trends for winter 2009 are celeb-proof and completely hype-worthy.

1. Slideboards. What's flat fun and slippery all over? A slideboard, of course! Celeb trainer to the stars, Valerie Waters is famous for her results - Also known as the butts of clients Jennifer Garner and Jessica Biel. Her famous workout weapon is The ValSlide - The Valerie Waters version of a slideboard.
"My clients don't want big quads, so I don't do a lot of heavy weights of leg presses," Waters said. That's where a slideboard comes in. Ranging anywhere from 6-8 feet, the boards are made of a slippery material with two bumper-stops on each end. Get the workout by sliding into a reverse lunge,, sliding back and forth and enjoy the resuls - Keeping the glutes continually tense creates a better "butt" shape and faster than traditional methods. Need to get the board? You can build one for less than $50 or buy one for a couple hundred.

2. Body weight circuit training. The next time you check yourself out in the mirror, realize you have all your answers. This new fitness trend for 2009 is taking itself indoors for the winter months, but the last thing your body will be doing is hibernating. Fitness trainer to stars like Julia Roberts and Drew Barrymore, Kathy Kaehler is an advocate of circuit training. Kaehler uses a series of exercises and movements to target various body parts. Circuits move the exercises one after the other and utilizes body weight as the only form of resistance. Stability balls or mats may also be used.
"These moves will burn fat and show off the lean muscle you've developed," says Kaehler. For an example of one of her circuit workouts, click here.

3. High-intensity Interval Training (H.I.I.T). To keep up with the pressure of being famous and being watched at all times, celebs are set to tune into High-Intensity Interval Training for winter workouts. To be utilized indoors, H.I.I.T workouts can be done on any piece of cardio equipment, on an indoor track or incorporated into an already-performed weight or body-weight circuit. Why H.I.I.T? Better results in less time. H.I.I.T training has been proven to increase fat and weight loss while also increasing aerobic capacity better than traditional methods.
High School Musical star Monique Coleman (show above left) trained for the Nautica Malibu Triathlon utilizing strength and endurance training along with H.I.I.T training to prepare her for a tri-sport race.

Another star famous for her H.I.I.T workouts is television beauty Giuilana Rancic, host of celebrity gossip on E! News. Checking Giuliana's tweets, the celeb host reports H.I.I.T as her own way to look great on-screen. What are some of Giuliana's favorite circuits? According to Twitter...
“Good morning! Just did 35 minutes of cardio. Alternate 2 minutes fast walk, 2 minutes run and weights. In morning meeting. Have a great day!”
“Just walked/sprinted 55 minutes. 5.3 miles. Feeling good before a super busy day. Xo.” For more information on H.I.I.T workouts, http://www.criticalbench.com/high-intensity-interval-training.htm

Wednesday, September 9, 2009

Maks and Karina's broken engagement today?



Dancers Karina Smirnoff, left, and Maksim Chmerkovskiy have split according to a rep for Smirnoff.



The Stars‘ Maksim Chmerkovskiy and Karina Smirnoff have called off their engagement with dancing. It was Breaking News to People.com, and newsworthy enough for an Update by E! Online’s Marc Malkin, who reports that the duo will fulfill their obligation and dance together at this month’s Emmys (but have now requested separate dressing rooms). With EW’s Dancing With the Stars expert Annie Barrett out of the office, I thought I’d be able to get through the day without having an actual conversation about the break up. Jessica Shaw and I, however, just had an impromptu meeting in the ladies’ room about it (her initial response: “Duh”).

"I can confirm that this is true," the rep says. No reason was given and the rep says no further statement would be issued. Chmerkovskiy's rep didn't immediately comment.
Smirnoff, 31, and Chmerkovskiy, 28, who became engaged in December, had planned on getting married in June 2010, but prolonged their engagement in July because of their busy Broadway schedules.

"We're not rushing," Smirnoff said at the time. "As long as we're together, tying the knot is a plus, it's something extra."

Kate Gosselin offered $400K for posing nude for Playboy





Kate Gosselin is willing to go bikini bare to pose nude but won't go all the way for Hugh Hefner.

The octomom is said to have received a $400,000 offer from Hef to take it all off for Playboy, but Kate Gosselin doesn't plan to reveal her lady bits in the nudie mag.

"Hugh sent her a letter, but Kate Gosselin was totally mortified and threw it away!" a source told Star Magazine. "Kate Gosselin didn't think it was appropriate because of the children."

Despite being "proud of the way she looks," Kate Gosselin was baffled by the offer.

However, more embarrassment has come her way as her estranged hubby Jon kicked off his two-part interview with Chris Cuomo on ABC's "Good Morning America" today.

"I took a lot of abuse from her. I was put down," Jon, 32, said. The Ed Hardy-clad dad also defended his loose living by pointing the finger at Kate.

"Kate Gosselin will call me like, almost like a lame fish," he claimed. "Like I wasn't going anywhere. "Well, excuse me, I'm taking care of the kids. She's on book tours, she's doing all these things. You know, she's gone a week. You know, comes back. Packs up and leaves again. I'm standing there like, 'Oh, OK. Your Mom's gone again.'"

Star also reports that Kate Gosselin, 34, is busy getting revenge on Jon by draining him financially in the divorce.

"Kate Gosselin is so upset and disgusted over Jon's cavalier 'single guy' behavior - and the money he has been wasting to fund it - that she'd leave him without a penny, barefoot and homeless on the street if she could," said a snitch. "She's prepared to do all she can to insure she gets most, if not all, of the millions that are at stake.

Sunday, September 6, 2009

Dolly Parton as smokies to celebrate 75th Anniversary Rededication Event


FILE - In this Feb. 19, 1977 file photo, Les Paul, right, and Chet Atkins, left, are presented Grammies by Dolly Parton and Freddie Fender, second from right, at 19th annual Grammy Awards in Los Angeles. Paul, 94, the guitarist and inventor who changed the course of music with the electric guitar and multitrack recording and had a string of hits, died, Thursday, Aug. 13, 2009 in White Plains, N.Y., according to Gibson Guitar.








Country music entertainer Dolly Parton performed during the 75th Anniversary Rededication Event at the Rockefeller Memorial at Newfound Gap in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park Wednesday, Sept. 2, 2009 at the Tennessee-North Carolina border.

Homegrown superstar Dolly Parton sang "My Mountain, My Home" as leaders rededicated the Great Smoky Mountains National Park on its 75th anniversary in a ceremony Wednesday.

Dolly Parton said "These are my mountains, my valleys. These are my rivers flowing like a song," sang Parton, her voice rising with emotion amid the surrounding forest as some 2,000 people gathered at America's most-visited park.

Park supporters, lawmakers and others applauded Parton atop Newfound Gap on the Tennessee-North Carolina line as guests, including elderly former residents, recalled fond memories and great pride about the park's 1934 founding.

Dolly Parton said "I have always been an ambassador for the Smoky Mountains because I tell everybody how beautiful these mountains are," Parton said. "And no matter where I go, if you say something about the Smoky Mountains, even if the people have not been here, they just smile."

Wednesday marked the anniversary of then-president Franklin D. Roosevelt's speech in 1940 from the same stone stage as he lauded the park's creation. Roosevelt's chair was placed empty on the stage built by Civilian Conservation Corps volunteers.

"I remember seeing the president. I was only 5 years old, but I remember everybody was having a good time," said Eva Ogle Webb, 74, whose family lived on land that became part of the park at its 1934 formation.

Roosevelt remains the only sitting president to ever come to the 520,000-acre Smokies, the most-visited national park with more than 9 million visitors annually. President George W. Bush got as far as Knoxville's airport a few years ago, but a storm blocked his planned trip into the park.

U.S. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar called for continuing investment and commitment to such parks, calling them "treasured landscapes for future generations."

"I am here today on behalf of President Barack Obama to celebrate Great Smoky Mountains National Park, to honor our ancestors who left us this treasure, and to rededicate an American icon for a new century," Salazar said.

Every member of the Tennessee and North Carolina congressional delegation who represents the Smokies attended the ceremony along with Tennessee Gov. Phil Bredesen and North Carolina Gov. Bev Perdue.

"My left foot is in North Carolina, my right foot is in Tennessee," Perdue exclaimed. "And the beauty of this place is that when you are here there is no North Carolina or no Tennessee. There is only one gift from God."

Bredesen noted the Smokies' formation is unique in the park system. The land was purchased with private donations, state funding and even pennies collected from children across the country.

The Smokies "is a gift of the people to the government, not a gift of the government to people," Bredesen said. "We are the beneficiaries of that forethought."

Annie Leibovitz sued by an Italian photographer





An Italian photographer is going to sue against Celebrity photographer Annie Leibovitz who says she used his pictures without permission.Annie Leibovitz is also being sued for $24m by an art financing company
Paolo Pizzetti claims Ms Leibovitz used photos he took in Venice and Rome, and passed them off as her own in a 2009 calendar for a coffee company.
He is seeking a court order to stop the images from being used and $300,000 (£183,000) for copyright infringement.
A spokesperson for Ms Leibovitz declined to comment.
According to legal papers filed at a New York federal court, Mr Pizzetti said Ms Leibovitz, 59, hired him to scout locations in Italy for an advertising campaign for LavAzza coffee in April 2008.
He said he photographed the Trevi Fountain in Rome and Plaza San Marco in Venice as well as other images which he sent to her digitally, but was later informed Ms Leibovitz would not be travelling to Italy for the photo shoot.

Friday, September 4, 2009

Michael Jackson mourned among great celebrities





The pop star Michael Jackson was mourned by his family and celebrities including Elizabeth Taylor, Barry Bonds and Macaulay Culkin on Thursday night outside the elaborate mausoleum where the King of Pop will be no more.

The funeral began about an hour and a half late because of the tardy arrival of his parents, Joe and Katherine, and other family members. They included the singer's three children, Prince Michael, 12, Paris Michael, 10, and Prince Michael II, 7, known as Blanket.
The invitation notice indicated the service would begin promptly at 7 p.m.; it began closer to 8:30.

A large, blimp-like inflated light, the type used in film and television production, and a boom camera hovered over the seating area placed in front of the elaborate marble mausoleum. The equipment raised the possibility that the footage would be used for the Jackson concert documentary "This Is It."
About 250 seats were arranged for mourners over artificial turf laid roadside at the mausoleum. Nearly double the number of media credentials, 435, were issued to reporters and film crews who remained at a distance from the service and behind barricades.
Maria Martinez, 25, a fan from Riverside, Calif., who was joined by a dozen other Micheal Jackson admirers at a gas station near the security perimeter, gave a handful of pink flowers to a man with an invitation driving into the funeral.
"Can you please put these flowers on his grave?" she told him. Martinez said she picked them from a nearby park. "They were small and ugly, but I did that with my heart. I'm not going to be able to get close, so this is as close as I could get to him."
The man consented, adding, "God bless."
Glendale police said all was going smoothly early in the evening and there were no arrests.

By late afternoon Thursday, media tents had cropped up all along the boulevard across from the wrought-iron gates that serve as the main entrance to Forest Lawn. That vantage point offered no view of any mausoleum — just a fountain and a building containing the gift shop.
The Jackson family had booked an Italian restaurant in Pasadena for a gathering Thursday night, said Alex Carr, assistant operations manager at Villa Sorriso, in the city's Old Town district. She wouldn't specify the menu or number of people, but said the entire restaurant, which can accommodate 200 guests, had been reserved for the event and that security would be present.
The ceremony ends months of speculation that the singer's body would be buried at Neverland Ranch, in part to make the property a Graceland-style attraction. An amended copy of Jackson's death certificate was filed Thursday in Los Angeles County to reflect Forest Lawn as his final resting place.
In court on Wednesday, it was disclosed that 12 burial spaces were being purchased by Jackson's estate at Forest Lawn Glendale, about eight miles north of downtown Los Angeles, but no details were offered on how they would be used.

Bathing Beauty of Lindsay Lohan




While sunning at the Sunset Marquis Hotel pool on Monday Lindsay Lohan gave her best old Hollywood glam impression in a white bikini and bright red lipstick . Lindsay Lohan channel a glam bathing beauty

Lindsay Lohan, 23, looked like she was enjoying some R&R as she swam in the pool and soaked up the sun on a comfy chaise near the cabanas.

The actress Lindsay Lohan has made the hotel her new home after moving out of the one she was renting in the Hollywood Hills following a second break-in.

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