<![CDATA[Jezebel: Trainwrecks]]> http://cache.jezebel.com/assets/base/img/thumbs140x140/jezebel.com.png <![CDATA[Jezebel: Trainwrecks]]> http://jezebel.com/tag/trainwrecks http://jezebel.com/tag/trainwrecks <![CDATA[We're All Guilty Of Fueling The "Britney Economy"]]> It started with a song, "...Baby One More Time." In the last ten years, Britney Spears has gone from a shooting star to a fallen one. And while her rise to fame made the pop singer lots of money, the cash right now is in covering the fast-moving trainwreck-esque soap opera her personal life as become. The facts and figures in a detailed AP story by Jeremy Herron may not surprise you, but it's interesting to see them tallied: Britney is the number one celebrity in a multibillion dollar celebrity news industry. Her picture has been on 54 out of 103 covers of OK! magazine. The magazine, in fact, has a 10-person team in Los Angeles devoted to Spears coverage. "We're on constant Britney alert," editor Sarah Ivens says. In addition, according to a piece in the new issue of Blender, 15 photographers are on constant Britney stakeout. "Spears is the only celebrity in the world under photographers' 24-hour watch, a surveillance mode usually reserved for prisoners and suicides," writes Michael Joseph Gross. More »
]]> http://jezebel.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=350164&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Amy Winehouse Pisses Off Fans While On The Piss]]> Last night was the first night of Amy Winehouse's British tour, and well, yikes. It sounds like it was complete disaster. Amy stumbled into the venue in Birmingham half an hour late, slurred her words, sang off-key, walked into a guitar stand, and cried through much of the performance, apparently distraught by the fact that her husband Blake Fielder-Civil is in jail on remand, charged with perverting the course of justice and assault. She dedicated some songs to him, adding "Blakey" or "I love my Blakey" to them, and sang "Me and Mr. Jones" as "Me and Mr. Blakey." After singing "Back To Black," she slurred: "Nothing's going to bring my husband back." Every time she would bring him up, the crowd booed, to which she responded:
To them people booing, just wait till my husband gets out of incarceration. And I mean that.
Half-way through the show, many people walked out. More »
]]> http://jezebel.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=323075&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Real Age Vs. Body Age: Apparently, We Are All Britney Spears]]> The UK tabloid the Daily Mirror has a story up today about "real age" vs. "body age", by which they mean, how many years a person has added on (or taken off) because of his or her lifestyle choices. As examples, the Mirror uses big boozers like Amy Winehouse (real age, 23; body age, 31) and Britney Spears (real age, 25; body age, 30) as cautionary examples of how excess can age a person and celebs like Madonna (real age, 48; body age, 35) as examples of what good-living can do. The story also includes a helpful quiz so readers can figure out how soon to slash their wrists or not. After the jump, the Jezebels discover the awful truth about what smoking, boozing, sex-induced UTIs and sitting around on our asses blogging all day can do to our constitutions. More »
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