Bonus royals news: Prince Harry and Prince William faced off in a polo match on Saturday. William’s team won. This is the part in the fairy tale when the new Duchess turns on Harry, shouting, “Off with his head.” Also: Will Pippa date a loser? [People]
Oh. An aside: Kate Middleton, Duchess Of Cambridge has been “recycling” her favorite clothing. As in, she sported the same dress twice. Something we mere mortals call “wearing what’s your closet.” [Today Show]
Sadness: Famed E Street Band saxophone player Clarence Clemons has suffered a stroke. [Rolling Stone, Radar Online]
Lady Gaga just finished the Monster Ball tour — which grossed over $250 million (to become the highest-grossing tour by a debut headlining act and one of the biggest grossing tours of all time) — and is now planning a Born This Way Tour. She says: “If you’re running a marathon, and you’re about to cross the finish line, you don’t stop and say, ‘Oh, once I cross it, it’s over.’ You run as fast as you can to get there as quickly as you can. So I guess, for me, it’s about how many marathons can I run? How many dreams can I make true? Now, not for me, but for my fans.” She plans to start rehearsals by the end of the year and begin the tour in 2012. [ONTD via MTV UK]
Also, Gaga writes songs in a dream state: “I just have to [write songs]. Sometimes in the middle of night when I’m falling asleep I have a lot of ideas, then wake up and record them into my phone and send it to my producers and then I fall asleep.” [Contact Music]
Kim Kardashian‘s lawyers are drafting a defamation lawsuit against Bret Lockett, who claims he and KK had a sexting relationship. Lockett said that he’d hooked up with Kim, but now he admits that he’s never met her. Although that doesn’t men there was no sexting! [TMZ]
Speaking of Kim Kardashian, it says here that her proposal was “caught on camera.” Can you imagine that? There just happened to be cameras! What luck! [Daily Mail]
- Look, it’s not like just because you’re rich and famous you don’t have any problems. But if you are rich, famous, happily married, with a superstar husband and superstar kids, why do you need $10,000 worth of healing crystals? Just curious, Jada Pinkett Smith. [Radar Online]
- Jennifer Hudson came in seventh on American Idol, won an Academy Award, a Golden Globe and a Grammy, but she’s being paid $1 million for her “weight-loss memoir.” [Page Six]
- Rihanna and Drake went to dinner together in Montreal. [Just Jared]
- Katie Holmes will play a teacher on Glee because Ryan Murphy hates us. [Showbiz Spy]
- Demi Lovato is having a rough year. She may have left rehab, but her mom, a former Dallas Cowboys cheerleader, just entered a treatment center. In addition, Demi has broken up with Wilmer Valderrama. Actually that might be a good thing. [Page Six]
- Another Disney Darling down: Selena Gomez was rushed to the hospital last week. Rumor has it she is pregnant with Bieber spawn, but that’s not true: She has blood pressure issues. [TMZ, DListed]
- Selena Gomez is out of the hospital, BTW. [Us Magazine]
- Snooki stumbled out of a bar in Italy and skinned her knee. [Radar Online]
- Lily Allen‘s wedding dress was pretty. [People]
- Denise Richards has written a memoir. Of course Charlie Sheen is in it. Denise proves she is a master wordsmith when she eloquently says: “People have only gotten the rotten stuff so, you know, there was a beautiful love story between he and I and I know that it went the way it went, but I talk more about how I felt during that time because I feel like a lot of women can relate to that, going through a divorce and custody and being a single parent and trying to work and all of that stuff.” [Showbiz Spy]
- Adele is supposedly going to take singing lessons? [Digital Spy]
- The Game got tattooed while playing video games. [TMZ]
- The Book Of Mormon won a whole mess of Tony Awards. [People]
- Blind item! “Which hot young actor has a collection of naked photos in his iPhone that he accepts from adoring fans? What the ladies don’t know is that he sends a roster of the hottest shots to all of his pals every week.” [Page Six]
- “The devastating repercussions of hate-filled language manifest in very real ways for today’s LGBTQ youth. I’ve known Tracy for two years, spent many long hours with him on set, and I want to believe that this behavior is not at the core of who he is. I’m incredibly disappointed by his actions, and hope that his apology is sincere.” — Cheyenne Jackson on Tracy Morgan. [Out]
- “The costumes are very elaborate, so different and shocking. There are a lot of surprises in this show. It’s probably one of the most exciting shows I’ve ever done.” — For some reason, we’re not buying that Britney Spears is super enthused about her new tour. [The Sun]