- Demi Moore says she used to have “an extreme obsession” with her body. “I made it a measure of my own value.” Furthermore, she explains:
“I tried to dominate it, which I did, and I changed it multiple times over. But it never lasted and ultimately it didn’t bring me anything but temporary happiness. Does being thin resolve anything? No. The irony is that when I abandoned that desire to dominate my body, it actually became the body that I’d always wanted. But it only happened when I stopped trying to control it. At the end of the day, this kind of obsession is pointless and meaningless.” Demi tells Elle magazine that the plastic surgery rumors are sort of true: “I have had something done but it’s not on my face.” But! She doesn’t like the constant speculation about cosmetic alterations: “It feels like schoolyard name-calling a lot of the time. It hurts. You know what? Maybe one day I’ll go under the knife. It just irritates me that people are constantly saying how much I’ve spent on plastic surgery.” [News.com.au]
- Alicia Keys is delaying her duet with Beyoncé so that she can release her track with Drake first? Boo. We want to see the video with Alicia and B partying in Rio! [Gatecrasher]
- Tiger Woods‘ new Nike ad involves Tiger staring at the camera as his late father’s voice asks in a voice-over, “Did you learn anything?” [NYDN]
- ABC has a “secret weapon” In the Nicollette Sheridan lawsuit: An eyewitness saw the altercation between Nicollette and Desperate Housewives creator Marc Cherry and claims that Marc did not hit her. [Radar Online]
- This paper wants us to feel bad for poor David Beckham! Not only is he recovering from a jacked-up Achilles tendon, but Victoria Beckham is leaving him “exhausted” by “demanding” sex five times a day. See, Posh is “desperate to get pregnant” and has a “timetable for sex.” Come on! He can’t play soccer right now, he’s got to work up a sweat somehow. Why not boot-knocking? Why do they paint her as a tyrant? Anyway, a source adds: “He’s not complaining.” [The Sun]
- Lindsay Lohan ran into Samantha Ronson and Paris Hilton while partying Tuesday night. LL was the last to go home — calling it quits at 6 a.m. “with a bodyguard in tow and a cigarette in hand.” [E!]
- Whitney Houston claims that allergies put her in the hospital. Hmm. “I’m feeling great,” she says. Apparently she finds the reports that she was sick because she does drugs “ridiculous” and explains: “At this point, I just don’t respond. I don’t even read it.” [ET, People, Radar, Reuters]
- Justin Bieber knows his ABSOLUTELY TERRIFYING People magazine cover is freaky; he Tweeted: “Dear @peoplemag covershoot, Next time I laugh real crazy warn me u r still taking pics…still appreciate u but let’s get on the same page. I look crazy as heck on the cover but if u can’t laugh at yourself u ain’t havin fun.” See the horror at the link. [E!]
- Jesse James, like Sandra Bullock, is denying that video of him fornicating exists: “The claims of sex tapes are untrue and completely fabricated,” says his rep. [People]
- Jesse James allegedly spent “several hundred thousand dollars” on various mistresses. [Radar]
- A UPS guy threw a package — which he claims was from someone named James — over the fence at Sandra Bullock‘s house. Hopefully there was nothing fragile inside. [Radar]
- A 15-year-old was sent home from school for wearing a shirt which read “I ♥ Lady Gay Gay.” Lady Gaga has Tweeted her support: “Thank u for wearing your tee-shirt proud at school, you make me so proud, at the monsterball, you are an inspiration to us all. I love you.” [Perez]
- Sad face: Ed Westwick and Jessica Szohr have broken up amid rumors she flirted with one of his friends. Happy face: Ed Westwick is single! Maybe. A rep says: The story has no merit.” [Page Six]
- Sarah Jessica Parker‘s reality show, Work Of Art: The Next Great Artist, starts June 9. It’s like Project Runway, but with artists, and the winner gets a solo show at the Brooklyn Museum and $100,000 cash. Production company Magical Elves — who used to do ProjRun — are involved, so it could be really fun to watch. [WSJ]
- Glee‘s Lea Michele “is not as squeaky clean as her character Rachel” because she has nine tattoos. [The Sun]
- Clive Owen has penned a heart-breaking and powerful essay on Rwanda. “It’s very hard for an individual to take on the concept of a million people dying in 100 days,” he writes. “But as soon as you listen to one person’s story you start to relate on a human level, and you begin to realise just how devastating it was.” It will just take a moment or two, but the piece is worth your while; he details one woman’s story: “Pregnant during the genocide, Winifred gave birth after being raped, beaten and left for dead. She was unable to protect her newborn baby, and the child was dragged away and eaten by dogs. Today she has Aids from the rape, and is unable to support herself without charity, because of the loss of breadwinners in her family during the genocide.” [Times Of London]
- Shocker: The ladies of Jersey Shore are causing “mayhem in Miami.” Snooki and J-Woww are “mobbed” by fans and paparazzi wherever they go. [Radar]
- Are you the next Snooki? Unleash yourself on MTV! [NY Post]
- Susan Sarandon and her ping pong business partner: On. [Page Six]
- “Jude Law has settled a breach of privacy action with Hello! magazine, with the magazine agreeing to pay £9,500 in damages and undertaking not to publish any pictures of the Alfie star with his children until they are 18.” [Guardian]
- We have something in common with Hugh Hefner! He doesn’t want to see Kate Gosselin get naked for Playboy. He adds: “I don’t think she’s a celebrity.” [E!]
- Hugh Hefner‘s birthday is on Friday; he’ll turn 84 years old. He says. I’m simply excited because I’m here to celebrate another one.” His girlfriend got him an iPad. She is also his “ghost Twitterer.” [Radar]
- Bruce Springsteen had a boozy lunch in Palm Beach with his wife, Patti Scialfa, and then went shopping at a boutique where he “patiently waited” while she tried on “funky outfits” and “vintage jewelry.” A witness says: “They’re the cutest couple ever. Doesn’t matter what the papers say. He adores her. They’re always together.” [Palm Beach Posts’ Page 2 Live]
- Gossip Girl star Kelly Rutherford has reached a divorce settlement with her estranged husband and dropped her restraining order against him. [Radar Online]
- Holly Madison is Team Benji. Not the dog. [People]
- Nip/Tuck star Julian McMahon‘s mother died last Friday, after being diagnosed with cancer in 2009. Julian was in the same hospital with her when she died; he opted to get a “much-needed” back operation there and mother and son spent the last week of her life under the same roof. [News.com.au]
- Hailey Glassman on Jon Gosselin: “Jon needs to stop playing the victim! I mean, he’s on the Titanic! Instead of trying to get a lifeboat and put a life vest on he insists on going down with the ship… he refuses to get off the Titanic.” [Radar]
- Shania Twain has a new TV show called Why Not? With Shania Twain. It will air on OWN: The Oprah Winfrey Network and will follow the singer “as she begins her climb back to the top, a personal journey filled with risk, revelations and unexpected adventures.” [People]
- Nicolas Cage‘s foreclosed-upon Bel Air mansion is up for auction, but it’s a tough sell: One real estate agent calls it “fascinating and bizarre”; describing the design scheme as “frat house bordello.” Comic book covers and model train sets! [LA Times]
- Aziz Ansari could be the next comedy action hero! [Reuters]
- Mel Gibson is amicably dissolving his marriage to wife Robyn without getting a judge involved — everything is being hashed out by lawyers, accountants and business managers. [TMZ]
- “Roman Polanski‘s lawyers have filed a last legal volley in a California appeals court, saying that the 33-year-old sex case and its lengthy delays have been an assault on the state’s judicial system.” [AP]
- Grey’s Anatomy actress Jessica Capshaw is expecting her second child. [People]
- “Chubby” Lin Yu Chun is the Susan Boyle of Taiwan. [NY Post]
- “I can’t be photographed with a vibrator.” — Kelly Bensimon, when handed a cylindrical device that is actually used to fight acne and zap pimples. [Page Six]
- “The wedding will be at Oheka Castle on Long Island. I hope that Lindsay and the rest of my kids will be there if Dina doesn’t thwart it like she did my dads funeral. Some things in life are sacred, yet some know what that word means. Such as family.” — Michael Lohan, on marrying former Star magazine writer Kate Major. He also says: “I want an entirely new life and beginning with someone I can love and trust without any doubt in my mind or heart.” He does know that she interviewed Jon Gosselin and ended up dating him and then wrote about it for Star, right? [Access Hollywood]
- “I tell her that I love her, and I will make her breakfast at times or at least coffee… For me the best date night is when we stay in, order a pizza and watch guilty pleasure shows. I followed my wife into these reality shows and cooking shows. It’s fun.” — Steve Carell on keeping the romance alive with his wife. [People]
- “I like to think about myself as the last girl on Earth because sometimes people make decisions based on the outlook of others and, you know, to me, my life is my life. It’s my world, and I’m going to live it the way I want to. That’s how I think about everything, that way I’m focused on me, and my work. It’s a really narrow space, a focus.” — Rihanna. [ET]
- “When I read that particular script, and no disrespect to the guys who wrote it, but it kind of read like CSI: Sherwood Forest. And I just wasn’t into doing that. It wasn’t interesting to me in that incarnation.” — Russell Crowe, on the first draft of the Robin Hood script, which portrayed the character as a villain. [Daily Express]
- “My spine and the back of my hips got bruised on the first day. I had to lie back down on the bruises. Finally, the doctor came and he said, ‘All I can do is give you painkillers.’ The crew tried to warm the table for me. Someone brought in an electric blanket… But it was November and we were in a poorly insulated warehouse in New York City. I got sick.” — Christina Ricci, on playing a dead person — and spending most of the movie on a cold porcelain mortician’s table — in the “creepy thriller” After.Life. [LA Times]
- “He just got it, he is an icon, he understands Jim.” — The Doors drummer John Densmore on Johnny Depp, who narrates When You’re Strange, a film about The Doors. Depp also reads poetry written by the late singer Jim Morrison in the documentary. [Mirror]
- “It’s lies. All lies.” — Chris Meloni, on the report that he intends to leave Law & Order SVU. [Us Magazine]
- “It has hurt me in the past when people say things like how ‘fugly’ I am or how horrible I look. I’ve had to learn not to give it such a high priority in life… Look, when you’re trying to juggle all of this in your life, sometimes you’re not going to look perfect. I don’t have time to get a facial every couple of days.” — Fergie, who looks sexy (and sinister!) on the new cover of Elle, which you can see at the link. [Elle via JustJared]
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