Beyonce’s father will no longer manage her career
Beyonce Knowles' father, Mathew Knowles will no longer be her manager.
By MESFIN FEKADU, The Associated Press
NEW YORK — Beyonce will no longer be managed by her father, Mathew Knowles, her publicist said Monday.
The Grammy-winning singer and her father have parted ways “on a business level,” the publicist, Yvette Noel-Schure, told The Associated Press in a statement. She didn’t say what led to the split.
“I am grateful for everything he has taught me,” Beyonce said in the statement. “I grew up watching both he and my mother manage and own their own businesses. They were hardworking entrepreneurs, and I will continue to follow in their footsteps.”
Knowles has managed his daughter since she debuted as a teen in the multiplatinum-selling group Destiny’s Child in the late 1990s and throughout her superstar career as a solo artist.
Knowles oversaw all aspects of his daughter’s career, from music to movies to fashion and more. Her career includes 16 Grammy awards, top-grossing movies “Dreamgirls” and “Obsessed,” fashion ventures and lucrative endorsements.
The 29-year-old has released three multiplatinum albums — “Dangerously in Love,” “B’Day” and “I Am … Sasha Fierce” — and has 12 Top 10 hits on Billboard’s Hot 100 chart, including five No. 1′s. Destiny’s Child had 11 Top 10 hits on the Hot 100 chart and six No. 1′s.
During Beyonce’s teen years in Houston, Knowles prepped her, her friend Kelly Rowland and two others for a rising career as an R&B girl group, and Destiny’s Child released its self-titled debut in 1998. Their sophomore album, “The Writing’s on the Wall,” came a year later and garnered multiple hits and two Grammys, but the success also shook up the band, and Destiny’s Child became a trio with Beyonce, Rowland and Michelle Williams.
The three also released solo albums, all managed by Mathew Knowles. He launched his own label, World Music Entertainment, via Columbia Records, a division of Sony Music.
Rowland parted with Knowles as her manager in 2009, and Williams followed a year later.
In the statement, Beyonce stressed her devotion to her father on a personal level.
“He is my father for life, and I love my dad dearly. I am grateful for everything he has taught me,” Beyonce said.
Knowles and Beyonce’s mother, Tina, divorced in 2009 after 29 years of marriage. Tina Knowles worked as a stylist for Destiny’s Child and continues to style her daughter. Together they launched a clothing line, House of Dereon.
Noel-Schure didn’t comment on who Beyonce’s new manager would be.
K-Fed expecting baby No. 5
Kevin Federline is hanging another branch on his family tree.
Britney Spears’ ex-hubby is expecting his first child with girlfriend Victoria Prince, a source close to the couple confirmed exclusively to E! News on Monday. Prince is about five months along, and the couple are “totally happy.”
A rep for K-Fed had no comment on the pending stork delivery.
The child will be Federline’s fifth. He has two kids with Shar Jackson and two sons, Sean and Jaden, with Spears.
He and Prince have been seeing each other since late 2008.
Say what you will about Spears’ former “Chaotic” co-star: The guy has pulled plenty of Mr. Mom duty over the years, including when his pop-star ex was going through tough emotional times.
Although they haven’t been mister and missus for nearly four years, how does Spears feel about her ex-husband starting a family with another woman?
“She’s focused on her work right now,” a Spears source says. Incidentally, she’s also been dating her manager, Jason Trawick, for the past year.
Federline’s representative and attorney have not yet responded to requests for comment.
Source: www.eonline.com
That’s Professor Franco to you
James Franco will teach a third-year graduate class at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts.
Toting a seriously large cell phone, James Franco, 32, was all smiles while he hit the streets of New York City on March 28.
The “Your Highness” hottie looked ready for anything in his black sunglasses, black dress shirt, gray tie and gray suit as he visited the Ed Sullivan Theatre to tape an appearance on the “Late Show With David Letterman.”
It was just announced that this year’s Academy Awards co-host will teach a third-year graduate class at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts.
Franco, who is expecting his own master’s degree in film production from the school this May, will offer his knowledge on adapting poetry into short films to 12 lucky and eager students.
Source: www.gossipcenter.com
Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton on 60 Minutes in 1970
CBS is sharing a classic interview from its archives in light of the death of Elizabeth Taylor of congestive heart failure. Forty-one years ago tomorrow (March 24), Elizabeth Taylor and husband Richard Burton appeared on 60 MINUTES in a playful and pointed interview about their Hollywood marriage.
“Fighting is one of the greatest exercises in marital togetherness,” Taylor said during the interview.
Gallery of Elizabeth Taylor memories and moments
Elizabeth Taylor dies of congestive heart failure
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Elizabeth Taylor, the violet-eyed film goddess whose sultry screen persona, stormy personal life and enduring fame and glamour made her one of the last of the old-fashioned movie stars and a template for the modern celebrity, died Wednesday at age 79.
She was surrounded by her four children when she died of congestive heart failure at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, where she had been hospitalized for about six weeks, said publicist Sally Morrison.
“My Mother was an extraordinary woman who lived life to the fullest, with great passion, humor, and love,“ her son, Michael Wilding, said in a statement.
”We know, quite simply, that the world is a better place for Mom having lived in it. Her legacy will never fade, her spirit will always be with us, and her love will live forever in our hearts.”
Taylor was the most blessed and cursed of actresses, the toughest and the most vulnerable. She had extraordinary grace, wealth and voluptuous beauty, and won three Academy Awards, including a special one for her humanitarian work. She was the most loyal of friends and a defender of gays in Hollywood when AIDS was still a stigma in the industry and beyond. But she was afflicted by ill health, failed romances (eight marriages, seven husbands) and personal tragedy.
“I think I’m becoming fatalistic,” she said in 1989. “Too much has happened in my life for me not to be fatalistic.”
Her more than 50 movies included unforgettable portraits of innocence and of decadence, from the children’s classic “National Velvet” and the sentimental family comedy “Father of the Bride” to Oscar-winning transgressions in “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” and “Butterfield 8.” The historical epic “Cleopatra” is among Hollywood’s greatest on-screen fiascos and a landmark of off-screen monkey business, the meeting ground of Taylor and Richard Burton, the “Brangelina” of their day.
She played enough bawdy women on film for critic Pauline Kael to deem her “Chaucerian Beverly Hills.”
But her defining role, one that lasted long past her moviemaking days, was “Elizabeth Taylor,” ever marrying and divorcing, in and out of hospitals, gaining and losing weight, standing by Michael Jackson, Rock Hudson and other troubled friends, acquiring a jewelry collection that seemed to rival Tiffany’s.
She was a child star who grew up and aged before an adoring, appalled and fascinated public. She arrived in Hollywood when the studio system tightly controlled an actor’s life and image, had more marriages than any publicist could explain away and lasted long enough to no longer require explanation. She was the industry’s great survivor, and among the first to reach that special category of celebrity — famous for being famous, for whom her work was inseparable from the gossip around it.
The London-born actress was a star at age 12, a bride and a divorcee at 18, a superstar at 19 and a widow at 26. She was a screen sweetheart and martyr later reviled for stealing Eddie Fisher from Debbie Reynolds, then for dumping Fisher to bed Burton, a relationship of epic passion and turbulence, lasting through two marriages and countless attempted reconciliations.
She was also forgiven. Reynolds would acknowledge voting for Taylor when she was nominated for “Butterfield 8” and decades later co-starred with her old rival in “These Old Broads,” co-written by Carrie Fisher, the daughter of Reynolds and Eddie Fisher.
Taylor’s ailments wore down the grudges. She underwent at least 20 major operations and she nearly died from a bout with pneumonia in 1990. In 1994 and 1995, she had both hip joints replaced, and in February 1997, she underwent surgery to remove a benign brain tumor. In 1983, she acknowledged a 35-year addiction to sleeping pills and pain killers. Taylor was treated for alcohol and drug abuse problems at the Betty Ford Clinic in Rancho Mirage, Calif.
Her troubles bonded her to her peers and the public, and deepened her compassion. Her advocacy for AIDS research and for other causes earned her a special Oscar, the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award, in 1993.
As she accepted it, to a long ovation, she declared, “I call upon you to draw from the depths of your being — to prove that we are a human race, to prove that our love outweighs our need to hate, that our compassion is more compelling than our need to blame.”
The dark-haired Taylor made an unforgettable impression in Hollywood with “National Velvet,” the 1945 film in which the 12-year-old belle rode a steeplechase horse to victory in the Grand National.
Critic James Agee wrote of her: “Ever since I first saw the child … I have been choked with the peculiar sort of adoration I might have felt if we were in the same grade of primary school.”
“National Velvet,” her fifth film, also marked the beginning of Taylor’s long string of health issues. During production, she fell off a horse. The resulting back injury continued to haunt her.
Taylor matured into a ravishing beauty in “Father of the Bride,” in 1950, and into a respected performer and femme fatale the following year in “A Place in the Sun,” based on the Theodore Dreiser novel “An American Tragedy.” The movie co-starred her close friend Montgomery Clift as the ambitious young man who drowns his working-class girlfriend to be with the socialite Taylor. In real life, too, men all but committed murder in pursuit of her.
Through the rest of the 1950s and into the 1960s, she and Marilyn Monroe were Hollywood’s great sex symbols, both striving for appreciation beyond their physical beauty, both caught up in personal dramas filmmakers could only wish they had imagined. That Taylor lasted, and Monroe died young, was a matter of luck and strength; Taylor lived as she pleased and allowed no one to define her but herself.
“I don’t entirely approve of some of the things I have done, or am, or have been. But I’m me. God knows, I’m me,” Taylor said around the time she turned 50.
She had a remarkable and exhausting personal and professional life. Her marriage to Michael Todd ended tragically when the producer died in a plane crash in 1958. She took up with Fisher, married him, then left him for Burton. Meanwhile, she received several Academy Award nominations and two Oscars.
She was a box-office star cast in numerous “prestige” films, from “Raintree County” with Clift to “Giant,” an epic co-starring her friends Hudson and James Dean. Nominations came from a pair of movies adapted from work by Tennessee Williams: “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof” and “Suddenly, Last Summer.” In “Butterfield 8,” released in 1960, she starred with Fisher as a doomed girl-about-town. Taylor never cared much for the film, but her performance at the Oscars wowed the world.
Sympathy for Taylor’s widowhood had turned to scorn when she took up with Fisher, who had supposedly been consoling her over the death of Todd. But before the 1961 ceremony, she was hospitalized from a nearly fatal bout with pneumonia and Taylor underwent a tracheotomy. The scar was bandaged when she appeared at the Oscars to accept her best actress trophy for “Butterfield 8.”
To a standing ovation, she hobbled to the stage. “I don’t really know how to express my great gratitude,” she said in an emotional speech. “I guess I will just have to thank you with all my heart.” It was one of the most dramatic moments in Academy Awards history.
“Hell, I even voted for her,” Reynolds later said.
Greater drama awaited: “Cleopatra.” Taylor met Burton while playing the title role in the 1963 epic, in which the brooding, womanizing Welsh actor co-starred as Mark Antony. Their chemistry was not immediate. Taylor found him boorish; Burton mocked her physique. But the love scenes on film continued away from the set and a scandal for the ages was born. Headlines shouted and screamed. Paparazzi snapped and swooned. Their romance created such a sensation that the Vatican denounced the happenings as the “caprices of adult children.”
The film so exceeded its budget that the producers lost money even though “Cleopatra” was a box-office hit and won four Academy awards. (With its $44 million budget adjusted for inflation, “Cleopatra” remains the most expensive movie ever made.) Taylor’s salary per film topped $1 million. “Liz and Dick” became a couple on a first name basis with millions who had never met them.
They were a prolific acting team, even if most of the movies aged no better than their relationship: “The VIPs” (1963), “The Sandpiper” (1965), “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” (1966), “The Taming of the Shrew” (1967), “The Comedians” (1967), “Dr. Faustus” (1967), “Boom!” (1968), “Under Milk Wood” (1971) and “Hammersmith Is Out” (1972).
Art most effectively imitated life in the adaptation of Edward Albee’s “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” — in which Taylor and Burton played mates who fought viciously and drank heavily. She took the best actress Oscar for her performance as the venomous Martha in “Virginia Woolf” and again stole the awards show, this time by not showing up at the ceremony. She refused to thank the academy upon learning of her victory and chastised voters for not honoring Burton.
Taylor and Burton divorced in 1974, married again in 1975 and divorced again in 1976.
“We fight a great deal,” Burton once said, “and we watch the people around us who don’t quite know how to behave during these storms. We don’t fight when we are alone.”
In 1982, Taylor and Burton appeared in a touring production of the Noel Coward play “Private Lives,” in which they starred as a divorced couple who meet on their respective honeymoons. They remained close at the time of Burton’s death, in 1984.
Elizabeth Rosemond Taylor was born in London on Feb. 27, 1932, the daughter of Francis Taylor, an art dealer, and the former Sara Sothern, an American stage actress. At age 3, with extensive ballet training already behind her, Taylor danced for British princesses Elizabeth (the future queen) and Margaret Rose at London’s Hippodrome. At age 4, she was given a wild field horse that she learned to ride expertly.
At the onset of World War II, the Taylors came to the United States. Francis Taylor opened a gallery in Beverly Hills and, in 1942, his daughter made her screen debut with a bit part in the comedy “There’s One Born Every Minute.”
Her big break came soon thereafter. While serving as an air-raid warden with MGM producer Sam Marx, Taylor’s father learned that the studio was struggling to find an English girl to play opposite Roddy McDowall in “Lassie Come Home.” Taylor’s screen test for the film won her both the part and a long-term contract. She grew up quickly after that.
Still in school at 16, she would dash from the classroom to the movie set where she played passionate love scenes with Robert Taylor in “Conspirator.”
“I have the emotions of a child in the body of a woman,” she once said. “I was rushed into womanhood for the movies. It caused me long moments of unhappiness and doubt.”
Soon after her screen presence was established, she began a series of very public romances. Early loves included socialite Bill Pawley, home run slugger Ralph Kiner and football star Glenn Davis.
Then, a roll call of husbands:
— She married Conrad Hilton Jr., son of the hotel magnate, in May 1950 at age 18. The marriage ended in divorce that December.
— When she married British actor Michael Wilding in February 1952, he was 39 to her 19. They had two sons, Michael Jr. and Christopher Edward. That marriage lasted 4 years.
— She married cigar-chomping movie producer Michael Todd, also 20 years her senior, in 1957. They had a daughter, Elizabeth Francis. Todd was killed in a plane crash in 1958.
— The best man at the Taylor-Todd wedding was Fisher. He left his wife Debbie Reynolds to marry Taylor in 1959. She converted to Judaism before the wedding.
— Taylor and Fisher moved to London, where she was making “Cleopatra.” She met Burton, who also was married. That union produced her fourth child, Maria.
— After her second marriage to Burton ended, she married John Warner, a former secretary of the Navy, in December 1976. Warner was elected a U.S. senator from Virginia in 1978. They divorced in 1982.
— In October 1991, she married Larry Fortensky, a truck driver and construction worker she met while both were undergoing treatment at the Betty Ford Center in 1988. He was 20 years her junior. The wedding, held at the ranch of Michael Jackson, was a media circus that included the din of helicopter blades, a journalist who parachuted to a spot near the couple and a gossip columnist as official scribe.
But in August 1995, she and Fortensky announced a trial separation; she filed for divorce six months later and the split became final in 1997.
“I was taught by my parents that if you fall in love, if you want to have a love affair, you get married,” she once remarked. “I guess I’m very old-fashioned.”
Her philanthropic interests included assistance for the Israeli War Victims Fund, the Variety Clubs International and the American Foundation for AIDS Research.
She received the Legion of Honor, France’s most prestigious award, in 1987, for her efforts to support AIDS research. In May 2000, Queen Elizabeth II made Taylor a dame — the female equivalent of a knight — for her services to the entertainment industry and to charity.
In 1993, she won a lifetime achievement award from the American Film Institute; in 1999, an institute survey of screen legends ranked her No. 7 among actresses.
During much of her later career, Taylor’s waistline, various diets, diet books and tangled romances were the butt of jokes by Joan Rivers and others. John Belushi mocked her on “Saturday Night Live,” dressing up in drag and choking on a piece of chicken.
“It’s a wonder I didn’t explode,” Taylor wrote of her 60-pound weight gain — and successful loss — in the 1988 book “Elizabeth Takes Off on Self-Esteem and Self-Image.”
She was an iconic star, but her screen roles became increasingly rare in the 1980s and beyond. She appeared in several television movies, including “Poker Alice” and “Sweet Bird of Youth,” and entered the Stone Age as Pearl Slaghoople in the movie version of “The Flintstones.” She had a brief role on the popular soap opera “General Hospital.”
Taylor was the subject of numerous unauthorized biographies and herself worked on a handful of books, including “Elizabeth Taylor: An Informal Memoir” and “Elizabeth Taylor: My Love Affair With Jewelry.” In tune with the media to the end, she kept in touch through her Twitter account.
“I like the connection with fans and people who have been supportive of me,” Taylor told Kim Kardashian in a 2011 interview for Harper’s Bazaar. “And I love the idea of real feedback and a two-way street, which is very, very modern. But sometimes I think we know too much about our idols and that spoils the dream.”
Survivors include her daughters Maria Burton-Carson and Liza Todd-Tivey, sons Christopher and Michael Wilding, 10 grandchildren and four great-grandchildren.
A private family funeral is planned later this week.
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Associated Press Writer Bob Thomas contributed to this report.
Jersey Shore’s Snooki to wrestle at WrestleMania
The WWE (World Wrestling Entertainment) reports that Jersey Shore’s Nicole “Snooki” Polizzi will wrestle at WrestleMania XXVII.
Snooki will wrestle live on pay-per-view at WrestleMania XXVII, Sunday, April 3rd at the Georgia Dome in Atlanta.
“I’ll be snooking for some action at WrestleMania,” said “Snooki” in the news release.
“Snooki” will team up with WWE’s master of GTL John Morrison and WWE Diva Trish Stratus versus WWE Superstar Dolph Ziggler and LayCool (WWE Divas Michelle McCool and Layla) with Vickie Guerrero at ringside.
Scream 4′s Neve Campbell loves ‘cool’ Courteney Cox
Neve Campbell (AP)
Health magazine interviewed Neve Campbell for the upcoming April issue, and shared the following excerpts:
The eco-conscious Toronto native vents to Health about the pressures of looking slim and beautiful in Hollywood, what she finds inspiring, and her starring role in Scream 4, in the April 2011 issue, hitting newsstands March 18.
On Scream 4 costar Courteney Cox:
Courteney Cox (AP)
“We fell in love with each other…She’s one of the coolest women I’ve ever met.”
On Party of Five costar Jennifer Love Hewitt:
“She is a stunning, beautiful, voluptuous, confident, talented young woman.”
On diets she has tried and regretted:
“I did the Atkins thing about seven years ago, and it didn’t make me feel good at all. And if you look at it, that much fat and meat is just wrong.”
On feeling the pressure to get thin for a role:
“There’s definitely a standard that is expected…I watched too many of my dancer friends throwing up. They’d end up really sick, or in the hospital, or not being able to have children. And I won’t do that to myself. Maybe I’m not a stick, but I’m really healthy and happy, and I think I look good.”
On the obsession with celebrities’ weights:
“Women put the pressure on ourselves. Let’s look toward the environment and charity, [and] have less of a focus on our appearance…It’s ridiculous. I remember watching CNN once, and on the bottom ticker it said something like, ‘Beyoncé no longer wants to be called Bootylicious.’”
Charlie Sheen (TeamSheen) seeks intern with “tiger blood”
You could become Charlie's personal intern! What an amazing opportunity to work with a genius of Sheen's caliber. (sarcasm BTW)
Apparently Sheen tweeted about this so it must be true, right? Click here for the source of this.
Do you have #TigerBlood? Are you all about #Winning? Can you #PlanBetter than anyone else? If so, we want you on #TeamSheen as our social media #TigerBloodIntern!
This unique internship opportunity will allow a hard-working, self-motivated, creative, resourceful and social media savvy individual to work closely with Charlie Sheen in leveraging his social network. The internship will focus on executing a social media strategy that will build on the success Charlie Sheen has attained in setting the Guinness World Record for the fastest time to reach one million followers on Twitter. The #TigerBloodIntern is expected to be proactive, monitor the day-to-day activities on the major social media platforms, prepare for exciting online projects and increase Charlie’s base of followers.
You will learn how to promote and develop the social media network of Hollywood’s most trending celebrity.
Without ‘Men,’ is Charlie Sheen winning or losing?
A banner for the hit sitcom "Two and a Half Men" is seen at the Warner Bros. studios in Burbank, Calif. Monday, March 7, 2011. Warner Bros. television said it has fired actor Charlie Sheen from the hit sitcom. The studio that produces the CBS series said the decision was made after "careful consideration." (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)
By LYNN ELBER, AP Television Writer
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Consider two parallel universes: Charlie Sheen is destined to hit rock bottom after being fired from the best job he’ll ever have; Charlie Sheen has been freed to blaze a new path to dazzling fame and riches.
Speculation about the dueling scenarios swelled after Warner Bros. Television said Monday that Sheen’s services on “Two and a Half Men” had been terminated, effective immediately, following “careful consideration.”
The studio said it’s yet to decide the fate of TV’s top-rated comedy which, under protest from Sheen, halted production for the season to allow the hard-partying actor to seek treatment for admitted drug use.
During his bitter tug-of-war with the studio, attention focused on whether he was on the verge of killing his career. Imperiling a hit show and a job that paid a reported $1.8 million an episode — or earning him north of $43 million a year — must be Sheen’s undoing, observers said.
Not so fast, say others.
“At this point, all bets are off regarding where his career goes from here,” said Paul Levinson, a Fordham University media professor. “Although nothing is certain where fame and celerity are concerned, Sheen’s ubiquity in the past few weeks suggest that he could indeed go on to become a bigger superstar than (the sitcom) could ever had made him.”
Opportunity already may have come knocking.
Sheen, 45, met with executives at Live Nation Entertainment on Monday and is considering a series of stage shows, celebrity website RadarOnline said. Calls and e-mails to the concert promotion company weren’t returned Monday. (more…)
‘American Idol’ throws curveball to final 12
I think the "American Idol" judges bent the rules to give Naima another chance. She deserves a break.
The Hollywood stage became a little less crowded Thursday as “American Idol” cut its contestant pool from 24 to a lucky 13 finalists.
Four of the final contestants are from California, two are from New York and two are from Nashville, Tenn.
Ten of the finalists made it to the next round of the Fox reality show through online and phone votes from viewers. In a new twist, judges Randy Jackson, Jennifer Lopez and Steven Tyler picked six of those left out for a wild-card competition, choosing three of them to go forward after they auditioned with a song.
The three to benefit from the judges’ extra chance were Ashthon Jones, 24, of Nashville; Naima Adedapo, 26, of Milwaukee; and Stefano Langone, 21, of Kent, Wash.
“This is the toughest night ever,” Jackson said.
Five men and five women were chosen by the viewers. They are Casey Abrams, 20, of Idyllwild, Calif.; James Durbin, 22, of Santa Cruz, Calif.; Jacob Lusk, 23, of Compton, Calif.; Scotty McCreery, 17, of Garner, N.C.; Paul McDonald, 26, of Nashville; Thia Megia, 16, of Mountain House, Calif.; Haley Reinhart, 20, of Wheeling, Ill.; Karen Rodriguez, 21, of New York; Pia Toscano, 22, of Howard Beach, N.Y.; and Lauren Alaina, 16, of Rossville, Ga.
Jones, given her second chance, stalked the stage and confidently sang “I’m Not Goin’.” She was right.
The three judges had some suspiciously convenient indecision following the wild-card competition. Coming out of a commercial break, Lopez said they needed a few more minutes to decide — just enough time for Fox to air the world premiere of Lopez’s new music video as the six competitors waited nervously onstage.
Source: The Associated Press
My picks for ‘American Idol’s’ top 12
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- Paul McDonald
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- Kendra Chantelle
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- Haley Reinhart
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- Casey Abrams
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- Lauren Alaina
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- Jacob Lusk (my choice for winner!_
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- Pia Toscano
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- James Durbin
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- Thia Megia
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- Clint Jun Gamboa
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- Lauren Turner
- Paul McDonald
Christina Aguilera arrested on suspected drunkenness
WEST HOLLYWOOD, Calif. (AP) — Singer Christina Aguilera and her boyfriend have been arrested on suspicion of being drunk in a car that was stopped on a West Hollywood street.
Sheriff’s Deputy Bill McSweeney says Aguilera was a passenger in the car that was stopped at about 2:45 a.m. Tuesday.
Her boyfriend, 25-year-old Matthew Rutler, was booked on suspicion of driving under the influence. His bail was set at $30,000.
McSweeney says Aguilera appeared to be extremely intoxicated and unable to look after her own welfare.
A sheriff’s website says she was booked on suspicion of a misdemeanor but McSweeney says she’s essentially being held at the West Hollywood sheriff’s station for her own protection and is expected to be released without facing criminal charges.
Calls to her agent and publicist weren’t returned early Tuesday.
`Chilli’ ponders fertile question in season finale
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Chilli explores fertile territory on the finale of her reality show, “What Chilli Wants,” deciding whether to freeze her eggs for the chance at future motherhood.
“What Chilli Wants,” which wraps its second season on VH1, followed the Grammy-winning TLC singer’s effort to find Mr. Right. But if she doesn’t find him right now, she may in the future, leading her to ponder preserving the option of a child as she turns 40.
Her birthday is Sunday, the night the finale airs. Chilli, who has one son, said she’s glad to have the chance to “educate women on their options when it comes to having children.”
The prospective romances in Chilli’s life this season included boxer Floyd Mayweather, race car driver Raphael Matos and model Lasse Larson.
Source: The Associated Press
Charlie Sheen on his very young live-in ‘goddesses’
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Charlie Sheen was back on Today this morning, having invited NBC News’ Jeff Rossen to return to his home, the “Sober Valley Lodge,” Monday afternoon to tape another sit-down, as well as a kitchen chat with the two women Sheen refers to as “the goddesses.” Asked what the goddesses have that his ex-wives didn’t, Sheen said, “These women don’t judge me… They don’t lead with opinion. They don’t lead with their own needs all the time. They’re honest enough to tell me, ‘Hey look, park your nonsense. You got to help me solve this, and we solve it.’ What I tell them is don’t live in the middle. Get away from your emotions, get away from your ego, and therein lies the solution.” Sheen said all three of their opinions carry the same weight in his mansion, where the goddesses now live and help parent his twin boys, until they’re approaching crisis mode — then his age and wisdom win out. If they follow his plan then, Sheen said, “Everybody will win, and everybody’s needs will be taken care of.”
Sheen addressed Warner Bros.’ decision to pay the Two and a Half Men crew for four of the remaining eight episodes they were supposed to film this season. He said it was a start, but that he wouldn’t sleep until the studio ponied up for the full order. Though the studio denied the pressure Sheen’s placed on it had anything to do with the compensation, Sheen took credit for it. “Who else is applying pressure? Jon Cryer? Angus [T. Jones]? Anybody? Nobody’s applying pressure. No one’s doing anything.” Sheen could only offer guesses at why his longtime publicist Stan Rosenfield severed ties with him yesterday. (Either he felt like he wasn’t being respected or he felt the situation had gotten “too gnarly,” Sheen theorized.)
The highlight of the interview was Today‘s distorted-frame flashback montage to its Monday interview with Sheen. Rossen asked Sheen what he thinks when he watches himself talk about warlocks and having tiger’s blood. “I’m entertained as hell,” Sheen said. “I’m not saying that it’s not true. But I’m laughing. And I’m laughing with the goddesses, I’m laughing with my friends. And everybody’s like, ‘Well, did they expect it to be like a normal interview? Did they expect it to be just conventional and boring and whatever else?’ No man, we’re shakin’ the tree. we’re shakin’ all the trees.”
How would Sheen describe himself today? “I am grandiose because I live a grandiose life, and I’m tired of being ‘Aw, shucks. No, that’s not me.’ Yes, that is me. Thank you for recognizing it and I support it. What’s wrong with that?” He said he used to see actors that appeared arrogant and full of themselves, and now, he realized they were just “uberconfident” and “projecting an image that they believe to be true.”
To his credit, Rossen read tweets to Sheen that expressed how some fans perceive him now: one called Sheen manic and said he or she felt bad for his kids, one said he or she would want to pop Sheen’s ego if sitting beside him, and one asked what Sheen smelled like because he looked disheveled and as though he smokes a carton a day. Sheen said it’s sad that those people have the time to tweet about him (“Get a job, anyone?”) and that he doesn’t come from a place of ego. When Rossen told him one woman did say she agreed with him, Sheen said, “Well, she’s awake. The others [pretended to snore].”
Told some fans are genuinely concerned for him, Sheen spoke directly into the camera to them: “Don’t be worried. Celebrate this movement,” he said. “And I love and I’m so grateful that you have supported me and the show for so long. I will not let you down. Trust me.”
source: www.insidetv.ew.com
New ‘Dancing With the Stars’ cast announced
If you were watching “The Bachelor” Brad having an extremely awkward date with Ashley Monday night, you no doubt also saw the big announcement of the new cast of “Dancing With the Stars.”
Here’s a recap courtesy of www.tvsquad.com.
The ‘Dancing With the Stars’ 2011 spring cast, announced Monday night during ‘The Bachelor,’ includes a talk show host, model, football star, ’80s acting faves and Disney Channel starlet. So, all in all, it was a typical line-up for the popular ABC reality show.
The rumors we reported earlier came true: ‘Cheers’ star Kirstie Alley and former Hugh Hefner girlfriend Kendra Wilkinson were both on the official roster. And while Tea Party candidate Christine O’Donnell didn’t end up joining ‘DWTS’ (and neither did Joy Behar, despite our wish list), pro wrestler Chris Jericho and talk show host Wendy Williams will be among the celebrities shaking their hips.
Two of the bigger names on the cast are actors who broke out in the ’80s — Kirstie Alley and Ralph Macchio. Can the ‘Cheers’ star and the ‘Karate Kid’ have a shot at following in the foosteps of Jennifer Grey, who starred in the classic ‘Dirty Dancing’?
So why did Alley decide to go ‘Dancing’? “Hmm, why?” Alley mused. “I don’t know, pass that to someone else!”
When ‘DWTS’ alum and ‘Good Morning America’ correspondent Cameron Mathison asked her how she’d make herself more likable, Alley responded, “I think we’re just here trying not to fall on our butts the first week!”
Macchio told co-host Brooke Burke he hoped his ‘Karate Kid’ skills would come in handy in learning choreograph. “I guess I just have to point my toes this time,” he laughed.
Season 12 also features rapper Romeo, who was slated to dance in season 2. But he was injured in a basketball game and his father, Master P, stepped in to compete.
Meet the rest of the new ‘Dancing With the Stars’ cast …
Kirstie Alley
Profession: Actress
You Might Know Her From: ‘Cheers’
Age: 60
“Psycho” Mike Catherwood
Profession: Radio DJ
You Might Know Him From: L.A.’s KROQ and as the co-host of ‘Loveline’
Age: About 31
Chris Jericho
AKA: Christopher Keith Irvine (birth name)
Profession: Former pro wrestler
You Might Know Him From: Winning nearly 30 championships in the WWE, WWF and other wrestling federations
Age: 40
Sugar Ray Leonard
Profession: Former boxer
You Might Know Him From: Winning world titles in five weight divisions
Age: 54
Ralph Macchio
Profession: Actor
You Might Know Him From: ‘Karate Kid’
Age: 49
Romeo Miller
Profession: Rapper/actor/basketball player
You Might Know Him From: His dad, ‘DWTS’ alum Master P; his albums; playing for the University of Southern California; or his acting gigs (‘Honey,’ Nickelodeon’s ‘Romeo!’)
Age: 21
Petra Nemcova
Profession: Model
You Might Know Her From: The cover of 2004′s Sports Illustrated Swimsuit issue; being a victim of the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake, which killed her fiance
Age: 31
Chelsea Kane
Profession: Actress
You Might Know Her From: The Disney Channel’s ‘Jonas L.A.’ and voicework on ‘Fish Hooks’.
Age: 22
Hines Ward
Profession: Pittsburgh Steelers wide receiver
You Might Know Him From: Being named MVP of Super Bowl XL in 2006
Age: 34
Kendra Wilkinson
Profession: Model and TV personality
You Might Know Her From: As one of Hugh Hefner’s three girlfriends in ‘Girls Next Door’; as the star of her own reality show, ‘Kendra’; as the wife of football player Hank Baskett
Age: 25
Wendy Williams
Profession: Talk show host, self-proclaimed “queen of all media”
You Might Know Her From: ‘The Wendy Williams Show’
Age: 46
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Christian Dior fires designer John Galliano for “I love Hitler” remark
PARIS — French fashion house Christian Dior says it is firing famed designer John Galliano after an online video showed him praising Adolf Hitler.
Christian Dior said Tuesday Galliano has been immediately laid off, just days after he was suspended as its creative director pending an investigation into an alleged anti-Semitic incident in a Paris cafe last week.
A video posted online Monday showed Galliano, in a different incident, drunkenly telling a cafe patron “I love Hitler.”
The house said in a statement: “Today, because of the particularly odious nature of the behavior and words of John Galliano in a video made public this Monday, the Christian Dior house has decided to lay him off immediately and has begun firing procedures against him.”
Dior had came under pressure after Oscar-winning actress Natalie Portman, one of the company’s spokesmodels, said in a statement she “will not be associated with Mr. Galliano in any way.”
Christian Dior on Friday suspended Galliano pending an investigation. The house is scheduled to present its fall-winter 2011-2012 ready-to-wear show on Friday as part of Paris fashion week.
Source: The Associated Press
Christian Bale crashes Dicky Eklund’s website during Oscars
Christian Bale single-handedly crashed Dicky Eklund’s website Sunday night during the Oscars — after the “Fighter” star gave the famous boxing trainer a shoutout during the awards ceremony.
Dicky’s daughter and publicist Carrie Eklund tells TMZ, Bale’s promo during his acceptance speech for “Best Supporting Actor” drove a ridiculous amount of traffic to Dicky’s website … and the servers just couldn’t handle the load.
Sources on the technical side tell us, the site experienced nearly 20 times its normal daily traffic — jumping from around 500 hits to nearly 10,000.
The site is up and running again — and Carrie tells us, Dicky’s ready to kick his training schedule into high gear.
Source: TMZ
