This week's Super Bowl is the tenth anniversary of the legendary "wardrobe malfunction" that exposed Janet Jackson's right nipple to the world. The story carries implications far beyond the Super Bowl. Janet Jackson's nipple—or, more broadly, the criminalization of female nudity (and our culture's animosity…
Beyoncé and Janet Jackson's creative paths might be more similar than you realize. In terms of a child star maturing and transforming from daddy's little pop princess to an iconic global superstar, there are parallels between 1993's Janet and 2013's Beyoncé albums.
News has emerged that Philip Seymour Hoffman just got out of detox last Friday after a 10-day stay to kick an addiction that started with prescription drugs and culminated in snorting heroin.
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As Janet Jackson herself predicted in 2001: Maybe we'll meet at a bar / He'll drive a funky car / Maybe he'll be a Qatari-born retail billionaire / And I'll convert to Islam. Sure enough, rumor has it that Jackson has retired from show business for good and adopted the religion of her husband Wissam al-Mana, who she…
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Kate Middleton is a fan of Keeping Up With The Kardshians now, because Kate Middleton is just like you, if you are an actual princess/duchess with the hair of a Disney princess who poops bars of L'Occitane soap fully wrapped in their artisinal paper.
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A few days ago, Kim Kardashian said that what she got most from her relationship with Kanye West was an appreciation of privacy. The new cover of French fashion mag L'Officiel Hommes features Kimye's idea of what "privacy" is, whose definition clearly got switched to "maybe fucking on a magazine cover" in the Oxford…
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While you were staggering home in a prosecco haze, celebrities were still out partying, and here's some post-Oscar nuggets for you to munch on. Okay, so yeah, Jennifer Lawrence fell down on her way to collect her Best Actress Oscar. We can perhaps attribute this to her previous confession that she was planning to get …
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OK! Magazine, which obviously rivals the Washington Post and the New Yorker in terms of quality, accuracy and general class JUST KIDDING it's basically toilet paper, reports that Brangelina are getting matching tattoos when they get married. However!
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Kate Winslet loves Ned Rocknroll, so put another dime in the jukebox, baby. Ugrghhhhh, that sucked, but all the good puns were taken! Mr. and Mrs. Winslet-Rocknroll—who have been engaged since the summer and already share a $3 million house in the English countryside—got married in at top-secret ceremony in New York,…
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This is probably, prrrrrobably not true, but feelings-haver Taylor Swift may have made an enemy of Camelot by attempting to collect Kennedy boys like Pokémon. Apparently Tay-Tay made out with Patrick Schwarzenegger at a family event she attended with her boyfriend Conor Kennedy, and the whole clan except Conor is aware…
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The tale of Johnny Lewis, the Sons of Anarchy actor who fell to his death in Los Feliz after murdering his elderly landlord, just keeps getting sadder and crazier. His father Michael was in one of the highest ranks of Scientology, and it's come out that the younger Lewis was trying to kick a serious drug addiction with …
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If we had a dime for every time someone said, "What the fuck?" in regards to any member of the Jackson family, we could probably afford to buy the Elephant Man's bones. But the family has always stuck together through the highs and lows, no matter how bizarre, over the past 40 years — from Janet's secret marriages to…
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Lo, and birds will fall dead from the sky, fish will float dead to the surface of the ocean and the email service on your smartphone will cease to work for approximately 10 minutes, for Kristen Stewart has allegedly cheated on Robert Pattinson with her Snow White and the Huntsman director Rupert Sanders. The…
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For days, a Facebook campaign has been asking Dark Knight Rises star Christian Bale to visit the Aurora shooting victims in the wake of last Friday's massacre ("I propose we should make enough noise asking Christian Bale to visit these kids in the hospital dressed in the real Batman outfit. They need to know Heroes can…
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While the Supreme Court didn't deliver their long-awaited ruling on the Affordable Care Act yet (those be-robed attention whores are probably waiting until Monday so that we all spend the next week talking about them. God. They're the worst), they did rule on an important case today — according to the Court, the…
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Even if there hadn't been talk of it in the past, the signs were all there — she's less irritating, more intelligent and choc full of self-deprecating humor — so it shouldn't come as a shock that Khloe Kardashian may not actually be one of the klan after all. Robert Kardashian's ex-wives Jan Ashley and Ellen Kardashian …
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Janet Jackson is the new spokesperson for NutriSystem. Yawn. But as was telling her story to Good Morning America, she divulged us with stories of her formative years — and the many insecurities that developed within them. Janet says her body issues stemmed from childhood, where her brother Michael would poke fun at…
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What do Madonna, Janet Jackson, Cher, Lady Gaga, Whitney Houston, Mariah Carey, Britney Spears, Christina Aguilera, Celine Dion, Mary J. Blige, and J. Lo have to say about each other? As evidenced by this supercut filled with choice quips from our favorite divas talking about other divas over the years — carefully…
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This week MTV celebrates its 30th anniversary, and over the course of three decades the network has done nothing short of redefining pop culture. And lucky for us, quite a few ladies helped push the network ahead along the way. Herewith, a celebration of the ladies of MTV.
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