- Mariah Carey has pulled out of a Tyler Perry film.
She was supposed to appear in the adaptation of Ntozake Shange’s 1975 play For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is Enuf. Now that she’s ditched the flick, naturally, the rumor is that she’s pregnant. [People]
- Sarah Jessica Parker is heading off on a week-long world tour to promote Sex And The City 2: Electric Boogaloo. She plans to Skype with her family while she’s away spreading the gospel of booze, shoes and sisterhood to foreign countries. [USA Today]
- At the link, Chris Noth, aka Mr. Big, says of Sex And The City 2: Rise Of The Manolos: “The girls are at their best.” [Telegraph]
- WTF Headline Of The Day: ” Sex and the City 2: Can 40-Plus Dress Fabulous?” [AP]
- “Brad and Angie, please! Please adopt a child from Haiti!” — Wyclef Jean. [Perez]
- So Alexis Houston, who was accused of having an affair with Matt Lauer, announced last week that she never had sex with Matt Lauer. And today, we find out that Alexis Houston used to be a man named Wellington Houston. [Page Six]
- BREAKING: WILLIE NELSON HAS CUT HIS HAIR. REPEAT: WILLIE NELSON NO LONGER HAS PIGTAILS. CHAOS IN THE STREETS! [AP]
- Radar has proof that Lindsay Lohan really did have a ticket to return to LA from France before her passport was stolen. [Radar Online]
- People who vacation in Seaside Heights, New Jersey, are “infuriated” by the hubub that the Jersey Shore cast and crew are causing in their town. An insider says: “Last summer, no one even knew who these kids were, so it was way easier to film. This time, it sounds like fans will be coming to New Jersey just to follow the cast. It’s going to be absolute mayhem if the network doesn’t provide security.” [Gatecrasher]
- The latest Megan Fox rumor is that she showed up for Transformers 3 as a size 0, and Michael Bay wanted her to be a size 2 or 4. Bay thought she looked pale, underweight and unhealthy; she decided she’d “had enough.” Writer Jeff Sneider claims: “To be fair, Bay is known for having impossibly high standards of beauty for his leading ladies, which may be why he is close to replacing Fox with a supermodel who has never acted before.” The lady in question is Rosie Huntington-Whitely. [The Wrap]
- More pictures of Rosie Huntington-Whitely here. [The Sun]
- Miley Cyrus is “rebelling”; she recently spent $3,000 on lingerie. [CelebSlam via National Enquirer]
- In an interview you can watch in a video at the link, Kristen Stewart says: “I’ve never really gone out with someone who I’ve found attractive… initially.” So… She didn’t find Robert SparkleVamp Pattinson hot? Also, it’s kind of awesome when she says, “What the fuck is inner beauty?” [LA Times via Flaunt Magazine]
- Justin Bieber to an Australian TV show floor manager: “Don’t ever fucking touch me again.” [News.com.au]
- Justin Bieber‘s hair: Ubiquitous. [NY Post]
- Oprah Winfrey‘s charity, the Angel Network, is shutting down as her talk show ends. [Mirror]
- Kendra says the sex tape release “broke my heart because how can [someone] do that when I have a baby?” And: “That was me, but that’s not me now.” And: “It’s going to be really hard. It’s going to probably be the hardest time of our lives.” [People]
- The dude in Kendra‘s sex tape says she is lying about hoping people don’t watch her sex tape, since she’s making a fortune off of it. [Radar Online]
- Uma Thurman and Arki Busson: Getting back together. [Page Six]
- FYI: Meg Ryan and Tim Robbins are just friends. [Page Six]
- Ryan O’Neal is dating Cheryl Tiegs??? [Page Six]
- The new issue of Star reports that John Travolta and Kelly Preston are having twins; Travolta’s rep tells Us: “They are not having twins.” [Us Magazine]
- Jesse James‘ sister says that Jesse’s claims that his had physically abused him as a child are “completely true.” “I saw it,” she says. “I lived there with my dad, and he was very aggressive with Jesse and I. He did abuse Jesse.” [E!]
- Tiger Woods‘s wife Elin Nordegren is going on an extended trip to China. She hasn’t decided if she will take the kids yet. [Radar Online]
- Heather Locklear will not face criminal charges. She was accused of knocking over a No Parking sign and leaving the scene; the DA’s office says there’s insufficient evidence. [ET]
- Liza Minnelli was beyond awesome on Joy Behar‘s HLN show — video at the link! Liza says that when her marriage to David Guest didn’t work out, she asked Michael Jackson, “Why did you let me marry this idiot?” Michael said: “I thought you liked him! You looked so happy.” Liza adds: “I said, ‘Michael, how could you?’ and he said, ‘It’s over, relax,’ and then we looked at each other and we started to laugh.” [ET]
- Rob Lowe has a beard now, making him Pitt-esque, or as this column calls it, “Brad to the bone.” [NY Post]
- The folks behind Celebrity Rehab are trying to get Jason Wahler on the show. [TMZ]
- “A secret email sent from ex-Survivor producer Bruce Beresford-Redman to his wife before she was murdered tells a tale of a dysfunctional family where lies and fear were commonplace.” [Radar Online]
- The John Waters interview at the link is highly recommended and totally worth your while. Known for his trashy aesthetic, the director is asked if he is still interested in bad taste, now that it’s become so prevalent. He says no: “Because today it’s reality television and gross-out, big-budget Hollywood comedies. Everything we export — it’s all about bad taste, so it’s not new anymore. You have to know the rules to break them with happiness, and thank God my mother taught me proper table manners.” He also says: “Any kind of criminal tendencies I might have acted out I instead was able to put in my movies. If I had committed all the crimes that appear in my films and books, I would have gotten the death penalty 20,000 times.” [NY Times]
- You will soon be able to audition for American Idol on MySpace. [The Wrap]
- Sarah Ferguson was supposed to be on the BBC show Strictly Come Dancing before her scandal was made public — but she turned down an offer. [The Sun]
- Hey, did you know that Sarah Ferguson is broke? [NY Post]
- But wait! Sarah Ferguson is getting tons of job offers in NYC. [CBS News]
- Start your engines: Jack Nicholson will wave the green flag at the start of this year’s Indianapolis 500. [AP]
- Set your DVRs: A special called Team Coco presents Conan‘s Writers Live is coming to TBS. [AP]
- Mindy McCready‘s mom says “there’s absolutely no doubt” that Mindy overdosed on pills in a suicide attempt, and also says: “Why did Mindy allegedly attempt to take her own life? I can’t tell you Mindy’s heart, and her intent obviously, only Mindy knows that. But I can tell you I think she is addicted to media attention… whenever things like this happen, Mindy does not take responsibility for it.” [Us Magazine]
- “The chalet doors and windows are wide open. Deck chairs are set up on the patio and the garden is strewn with daffodils and wild flowers. Roman Polanski appears to be leading a charmed existence under house arrest in the luxury resort of Gstaad, as he awaits word from Swiss authorities on whether he’ll be extradited to the United States for raping a 13-year-old girl in 1977.” [AP]
- Q: You knew Lady Gaga long before she asked you to open for her on the Monster Ball tour. She even made a cameo in the video for your song “Magnetic Baby.” What was she like back then? Justin Tranter of Semi Precious Weapons: “Exactly the same, except brunette. We were throwing these huge parties in New York that were attended by 500 to 800 people, and we were looking for people to open for us. Our mutual friend Lady Stardust told us about Gaga, so we checked out her MySpace page and there was a video of her in her panties lighting hairspray on fire. We thought: This is the girl. The first time she opened for us, she got so drunk that she left her keyboard stand, her disco ball, and one Lucite stripper pump behind, so we took them to our loft. She and her mom came to retrieve them, and we’ve been partying together ever since.” [New York Mag]
- “I get several mean text messages everyday from her. The messages are from the person who I thought was my best friend and turned out to be the worst of all.” — Real Housewife Danielle Staub, who seems to be talking about fellow castmember Jacqueline Laurita. [Radar Online]
- “There are little things that get on my nerves, like people who have reading material in their powder room. When you go in someone’s house, and next to the toilet they have a huge basket of magazines, I find that repellent. I recommend against straining while reading.” — John Waters. [New York Times]
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