A-Rod & Kate Hudson Swap Spit; Gwyneth & ScarJo "Catfight"
- Damn Yankee Alex Rodriguez — previously linked to Madonna — was seen MAKING OUT with Kate Hudson in Miami. Isn’t she into hairy hippies? [Page Six]
- Is there some kind of “catfight” happening on the set of Iron Man 2? This paper claims “the claws are out” and “sparks are flying” between Gwyneth Paltrow and Scarlett Johansson. A “source” says: “They come from different worlds and have completely different styles. Gwyneth has found Scarlett very demanding of the attention of the crew. It’s not a happy set.” Wimminz don’t know how to work together! [The Sun]
- As you may recall, Mariska Hargitay had a partially collapsed lung, and now she reveals why: “I’ve been doing my own stunts on the show for 10 years. I fell wrong, basically. I collapsed my lung doing a stunt.” She adds: “I’m back to my old self.” [People]
- Rihanna: Spotted in the VIP room of NYC strip club FlashDancers with six friends, “tipping the girls a lot” and kissing a guy she was with. A guy who was not Chris Brown. [Page Six]
- Cynthia Nixon is engaged to ladyfriend Christine Marinoni, but says: “There are really not any wedding plans other than to do everything we can … to see that same-sex marriage is passed in New York.” Word. She continues: “I’ve lived here all my life. … I want to get married in my home. I think it’s really time for New York to step up to the plate.” [USA Today]
- This film critic writes, “Jennifer Aniston is prime example of good actors making bad movie choices… Every time we see a new picture of her on the set of The Baster, we have to ask: Why does America’s most famously single woman continually put herself in awkward positions onscreen?” [NY Daily News]
- Simon Cowell and Kara DioGuardi: Not leaving American Idol. “Every year there are rumors right before the finale,” spills a source. “That’s all they are – rumors. It makes for good buzz.” [MSNBC]
- Lily Allen‘s band may have trashed a hotel room, but Lily was not part of it: “They did a pretty good job of one [hotel room] in Paris. TVs out of the window and everything, but I wasn’t there. I wasn’t involved. I was in a different hotel. It was a day off. When I have a day off and you’re in a European city the band tends to be a write off. I didn’t see them for that whole day, I didn’t want to. They sounded like they were in a state.” [Daily Mail]
- Here are pictures of Hayden Panettiere, 19, and her new man, Welsh TV personality Steve Jones, 32, sunbathing in the south of France. [Daily Mail]
- If you’re a Twihard, or just a regular person, you can see the New Moon poster in all its Photoshoppy glory at the link. [Perez]
- Your friend Kanye West pleaded not guilty to misdemeanor charges regarding that paparazzi scuffle at LAX last year. He’s got a hearing on July 15. [Yahoo News via AP]
- Chelsea Handler does not want Spencer Pratt and Heidi
MontagPratt on her show; they were pitched to her last week, and she says: “I told my talent booker to tell their publicists to fuck off.” [Perez Hilton] - Julianne Hough previously said she was leaving Dancing With The Stars next season; now she is saying she’ll work on her music for a while and return in 2010. [People]
- Mel Gibson‘s girlfriend: “Definitely” pregnant. Which means the National Enquirer was right. [MSNBC]
- Precious, the film based on the novel Push by Sapphire, received a standing ovation in Cannes. [Guardian]
- Katy Perry “kept everyone in business class awake with her rowdy partying” on a European flight over the weekend. A person who emerges from a giant banana does not arrive quietly. [Gatecrasher]
- Jermaine Dupri has a tattoo of Janet Jackson looking like the Virgin Mary. What have you done for her lately? [The Life Files]
- Farrah Fawcett‘s friend Alana Stewart says Fawcett has not been given a timetable regarding how much time she has left. “No one has said to her you have two months to live,” Stewart said Monday. “So I’m looking at that as a really good sign.” [CNN]
- Apparently Alana Stewart, who appears on camera throughout Farrah’s Story, got $200,000 after she threatened to cancel the project. [NY Post]
- Your TV is about to get more Sherri Shepherd: Lifetime has ordered 12 episodes of Sherri, the comedy in which she plays a a single mom, paralegal and actress. [Variety]
- Pedro Almodovar‘s Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown: coming to TV in the US! Plus: A Broadway musical! [Breitbart]
- Colin Firth and Kevin Spacey will star in flick based on a George Orwell book. Catalonia revolves around the real-life story of how Orwell and his wife Eileen traveled to Barcelona to fight Stalinism. Sexy? [Variety]
- “Rod Stewart‘s wife has spoken of her heartache at being unable to conceive a second child… Stewart, who has six other children from four previous relationships, is also said to be desperate for another baby.” [Daily Mail]
- Porn star Marilyn Chambers, who was found dead in her home at the age of 56 last month, died from complications of heart disease, according to the coroner’s report. [Reuters]
- Rapper Dolla, whose album was scheduled to drop via Jive Records this summer, was fatally shot in the head in the parking lot of the Beverly Center mall in L.A. yesterday. [UPI]
- Blind item! “Which SAG Award-winning actor has pals ship him marijuana in hollowed-out candles when he’s working out of town?” [Gatecrasher]
- “I said, ‘Mariah, do you fancy playing a Jewish social worker and tapping into your white side? You will have to commit to wearing dark circles under your eyes, a wig and the cheapest fabric on your body, and shedding all the layers.’ And, you know, it wasn’t that hard for her, because that is who she’s like when we’re alone. She’s part of a group of African-Americans that have been blessed to have been around the world and have a little money, but who are a generation away from, if not actually from, the ghetto. We feel like a little unit – Lenny Kravitz, Mariah Carey, me. We are outsiders in our own community, a little.” — Lee Daniels, director of Precious. [Guardian]
- “I didn’t want to release it for a long time, because it’s very personal. But I’ve grown so much in the past two years – I feel ready for people to see it now.”— Paris Hilton on her movie, Paris Not France. [Mirror]
- “How could anyone think I would pretend to split up from my wife to grab headlines? It’s just sick.” — Peter Andre, who is “crushed” that his marriage to Katie “Jordan” Price has disintegrated. [The Sun]
- “I saw a woman walking a big iguana and holding it up to have a pee.” — Ashley Jensen, aka Christina on Ugly Betty, on why L.A. freaks her out. [The Sun]
- “I think the handful of people who disagreed with this song really misunderstood what the record was about. What I’m talking about is getting money. I was really trying to point out that Arabs have one of the richest cultures in the world, not just from a monetary standpoint but also a spiritual standpoint. In the United States and North America, we’re not really identified with a particular faith. We don’t really have a culture that anyone can identify with because America is a mixture taken from everyone else’s [roots]. My thinking is that if we’re going to take from a culture, let’s take from a culture that has exemplified success for thousands of years.” — Busta Rhymes, on his controversial track, “Arab Money,” which uses verses from the Koran as well as statements about women and partying. [Time]
- “I think they were in a much more hopeful place when the last movie ended, and that’s really all I can tell you about where we will pick them up. I was given such great stuff to do in the last movie, but it was very emotional and almost tragic. I would really like to see Miranda back in her stride, with a spring in her step. To be Samantha, to be any of the women, marriage, it might be your destination or it might not. It doesn’t mean that you’re just sitting by the phone weeping. You might have a very full life that you’re enjoying.” — Cynthia Nixon, on the Sex And The City sequel. [USA Today]
- “Getting naked was very strange. It was the first time I’d been naked in the light, in front of a girl with no hiding place. I remember putting a pillow underneath her because I had seen that in a porn movie. It put her at a weird angle. I’m not extremely well-endowed and clearly this wasn’t the move.” — Shia LaBeouf, on losing his virginity. [Mirror]
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