Remember that song Truly, Madly Deeply that was all over the radio for freakin’ months? Well, the guy who sang it (in a really high voice) is in trouble for racial slurs at a Thai restaurant.

Hayes fronted police in London last Friday night, where he was arrested for racially abusing a member of staff at Busaba Eathai in Wardour Street on July 22. The attack did not involve physical violence, but is believed to have been directed at a male member of staff.

Hayes was released on bail.

A Scotland Yard spokesman said: “We can confirm that a 35-year-old man was arrested by Westminster police on suspicion of racially abusing a member of staff.

“He was arrested after voluntarily attending a Central London police station by appointment. He has been released on bail pending further enquiries, until the 21st of September.”

Sydney Morning Herald

I guess he was really offensive, or violent, or something, because you can’t just arrest someone for their attitude, can you? Maybe Hayes was just trying to boost his flagging career by doing what all the cool kids are doing – getting arrested. But Dazza, you know its got to be for drink driving, racism is never going to be cool. Ever.

Hayes had this to say (through a solicitor) on his website:

“Darren is unable to comment to any extent as the incident is presently under investigation by the police, with whom he has cooperated fully,” the statement said.

“However, he is deeply upset at the allegation, which he strenuously denies, and anyone who knows Darren will recognise that the particular nature of the allegation is totally abhorrent to him and contrary to everything for which he has stood.”

Well, the cool celebrities are admitting what they did, and comitting to a better future helping people, or something, so Darren is either confused about what’s cool, or really didn’t do it.

Picture note by Celebitchy: Darren Hayes is shown on 6/25/07 at The Trevor Project’s Summer 2007 Gala, thanks to PRPhotos.

Rod Stewart’s doofus son Sean Stewart, 26, is being sued by a guy he beat up outside of the club LAX last year. Stewart stars on the A&E reality show “Sons of Hollywood.” Daniel Refoua is accusing Stewart of a whole string of crimes against him: assault, battery, false imprisonment, negligence and intentional infliction of emotional distress.

“Refoua’s lawyer, Sean Bral, said his client was beaten up Jan. 5, 2006, by a group including Stewart after accidentally bumping into the singer’s son at Hollywood’s LAX nightclub.

“The melee followed an argument between Refoua and Stewart, who had a bodyguard with him, Bral said.

“’The next thing you know, he gets punched in the face and he’s getting punched by Stewart and his bodyguard and whoever it was who was with him,’ he said.

“Refoua, who is in his 20s, suffered a fractured nose and other injuries, Bral said. The lawsuit seeks unspecified general, special and punitive damages.

“’We invite him to come forward if they want a resolution in this, to sit down early to talk as opposed to later,” Bral said.’”

[From the Washington Post]

Stewart’s lawyer countered by saying what actually went down was “much different” from what the lawsuit states. He accuses Refoua of just going after Stewart for money. I could see that happening, as the guy has cash and is a pretty easy target. Except that, unfortunately for Sean, he has a history of beating people up, and has pending criminal charges against him in a separate case. In April he and some of his friends confronted a couple, Tobalus and Ericka Stein, in their truck and then started punching the pair while throwing bricks at them and their car. According to legal documents, “Stewart and friends began ‘swinging their arms at, punching, throwing bricks and other items’ at them and striking the bodies of plaintiffs as well as striking the [truck].’” Stewart was charged “June 11 with two felony counts of assault with a deadly weapon (the brick) and one count each of throwing substances at a vehicle and vandalism with damage in excess of $400. He was arrested one day later on a felony warrant and released on bail.” He is due back in court on that case this Monday. The Steins have also filed a lawsuit against Stewart.

From these two separate incidents, it sounds like Sean Stewart and his friends are just a pack of roving angry guys roaming L.A. waiting to beat up on unsuspecting bystanders. The guys sound like they’re jerks, but neither of these stories mentions if the victims did anything to provoke them. I’m not saying the victims could have possibly deserved to be beaten up, I’m just saying it’s weird. Either way, from now on I’m carrying a brick on me whenever I’m in Los Angeles, just in case I run into any of the Stewart family. That Kimberly could really use someone knocking her off her pedestal anyway.

“NYPD Blue” actor Esai Morales’ ex-girlfriend is accusing the actor of intentionally giving her herpes. Elizabeth Mazzocchi filed a lawsuit on Thursday accusing Morales of “’intentional and negligent transmission of a sexually transmitted disease, assault, battery and breach of oral contract.’” In the suit, Mazzocchi claims that Morales knew that he had herpes, but chose not to tell her. This resulted in “’an incurable disease that will have associated medical expenses, pain and discomfort for the rest of her life.’”

According to the lawsuit Morales moved into Mazzocchi’s L.A. home in March 2006. Mazzocchi began acting as his manager around that time as well, forfeiting other career opportunities for herself. She also claims that Morales began abusing her shortly thereafter, and raped her in their home on May 19th, 2006. She also claims that he continually kicked and punched her throughout the course of their time together. Under the Health and Safety code, Morales has a legal obligation to inform any potential partners that he has an STD.

The suit doesn’t say how much Mazzocchi hopes to be awarded; only that it is in excess of the jurisdictions of the court. She’s retained Gloria Allred as her attorney, which means she must be fighting mad and trying her case in the press. Allred is a celebrity lawyer, and is on TV more than George Bush. Or close to it. It’ll be interesting to see how this all plays out, and how much money Mazzocchi is awarded, if she wins. Though in all likelihood, Morales will probably settle, to avoid so much bad publicity. I know in some jurisdictions knowingly exposing someone to an STD is a criminal matter, though I’m not sure that’s the case in L.A. I wonder if that factored into her decision to handle this in civil court?

Pete Doherty and his friends posted a video on YouTube of them egging a photographer through a fence near Pete’s new apartment. You only see Kate Moss’ ex at the end of the video smiling maniacally as he’s behind the camera most of the time.

It seems like they sent one of their friends out to talk to the photographer and the guy is shown grabbing him through the fence and hitting him with an egg.

At least junkie Pete isn’t living in a trailer park any more, but you can see the sad state of his life if he gets such a kick out of egging paparazzi that he posts a dumb edited clip of it on YouTube. It’s probably Pete or one of his friends’ accounts as the user posted the earlier videos of Pete and Kate singing and lounging around.

The description of the video says “papple Nazis: pre-teens being killed in he area of late and these leeches from the pond of celebrity culture are creeping around after junkie characatures- fuck off”

Here’s the video:

Thanks to The Mirror for the link to the video.

Cops are looking for a guy tossed by rapper Akon into the crowd at a Fishkill, NY concert over the weekend. In a widely circulated clip, of which there are at least two different versions recorded by people at the show, shown below, Akon asks for an audience member, presumably a guy who threw something at him, to be brought up on stage with him. Akon then takes off his wife beater and jewelry as if he’s gearing up for a fight while the crow cheers. People put the kid up on the stage as Akon asked, and he chucks him unexpectedly back into the crowd on the other side.

Akon is heard yelling something about how nobody shuts him down, and says “Now, getting back to what I was saying.” He tries to assure the shocked crowd with “he’s all right.”

Without getting a statement from the victim, cops can’t press charges against Akon. They say they are looking for him so that they figure out if Akon’s toss was a crime.

Detective Lt. John Berlingieri of the Fishkill Police said officers were looking for the young man at the Sunday concert who was plucked from the audience by a security guard, directed to the sage, then thrown back to the crowd, the Poughkeepsie Journal reports.

“We’re trying to identify that kid, just to find out whether or not we have any kind of criminal offense,” Berlingieri told the paper. “We are looking to speak to him. No victim. No crime.”

[From People.com]

This is not the first time Akon was busted behaving badly while in concert. He was videotaped dry humping a 14 year-old preacher’s daughter at an April concert in Trinidad. He lured several women on stage with him with the false promise of winning a trip to Africa and then assaulted the teen. Akon later apologized for the incident after sponsor Verizon pulled out of his tour with Gwen Stefani.

Here are the two clips of Akon’s tossing incident:

Akon completely lost his rag in a concert he gave in Trinidad last Thursday night. He dry humped a fourteen year old girl on stage like a rabbit on crack, as well as conned ladies into dancing like video ho’s onstage for a pretend trip to Africa.

Coming from the man who sings Smack That, I am not surprised:

From the Trinidad Express:

International superstar Akon lived up to his name as he conned seven ladies into dancing onstage during his performance on Thursday night at the Zen nightclub in Port of Spain.

The star from Senegal managed to convince the ladies, who made their way onstage, that they were taking part in a global contest and that they could earn a fabulous grand prize trip to Africa if they won.

The competition was then filmed by Akon’s crew and later revealed to be a mere sham for the entertainment of the audience present, and an even greater potential global audience, as he promised to upload the footage onto the popular Internet video website www.youtube.com.

Later on, Akon would have his way with the petite young lady (who won the contest): turning, twisting and even flipping her body, while mimicking sexual positions and acts all over the stage for three consecutive rounds.

His DJ, Virgin Islands native Benny D, even joined in during the second round and together they sandwiched the young lady on the floor of the stage. In the end, Akon declared himself the winner, even though the crowd adjudged that his female volunteer had won the contest.

This clip is completely messed up– I can’t think of any other words that come to mind. And what’s the poor girl to do–there isn’t any penetration so it isn’t exactly sex, but aren’t there any laws out there against dry humping a minor in a bad rapper threesome or anything?

It is absolutely shocking that a teenager can go out dressed like a five dollar hooker, be let in a club (where they probably served alcohol) and star in an amateur porno for Akon’s amusement and publicity purposes. That shit wasn’t sexy or right–it was completely degrading.

Akon is allowed to sing whatever crap songs he wants and teenagers are still going to buy it, unfortunately. There are a lot of impressionable girls out there who aspire to writhe next to Akon in his videos, instead of getting a proper job where you don’t have to wear clear heels to feel your best. It’s sad–I know teenagers nowadays learn about sex quite early on, but they don’t need any further encouragement from idiots like these.

Picture Note by Celebitchy: Header image is from Vibe.com, where Akon says his comment about having multiple wives like his dad back in Senegal was blown out of proportion.

The Mills McCartney divorce is set to jack up the nasty and add a little crazy — and this split already has porno snaps, wine glass assaults, hooker allegations and butt-kickings aplenty. So when they decide to kick the nasty up a notch — they oughtta just call it Miss Jackson and flash its aged bood. The whole sordid episode does have a sort of aged boob feel to it … or is that just Paul?

Richard Johnson at the NY Post reports

PAUL McCartney’s divorce from Heather Mills McCartney is getting so nasty, she’s now threatening to make unsubstantiated claims that McCartney’s poor parenting in the past led two of his children to contemplate suicide.

“Paul is asking for full custody of their child, Beatrice,” a friend of Mills told us. “Heather is furious. There is no way she would ever, ever agree to that.”

Strangely enough only two of the aged boob’s children contemplated suicide despite having to grow up on vegetarian sausage and listening to Wings while being mercilessly bullied by Stella.

Which two moody little bastards … it’s like a blind item so sightless no one cares.

and … Yes, Heather Mills still has friends … they talk to The Post about her custody negotiations, but then again beggars can’t be choosers.

Meanwhile, the financial settlement is still far from being completed.

“Paul gave Heather a gorgeous London home, but now she wants a home in L.A., too,” Mills’ pal said. The friend added, “At first, she told Paul she would walk away for just $100 million - which is very cheap. He is worth billions. But now that [the divorce] has gotten so nasty, she wants more.”

Beggars was perhaps more of a metaphor for her inner spiritual poverty - given that her low ball figure is 100 million. But as long as she hangs onto that baby, and Stella doesn’t take out that contract on her with the ninja branch of PETA, she should be golden …

In her desperation, Mills is asking for full custody of 3-year-old Beatrice. She is also acting as her own lawyer - having fired her divorce attorneys because “she felt she could do a better job herself,” her friend said.

I love that friend.

They say that a one-legged hooker who represents herself has a fool for a client. Actually they don’t say that … but I bet they will now.

The more I hear in this Anna Nicole story, the more realize she really wasn’t someone I could have much sympathy for, or even give a shit about. She was so delusional that, according to her former nanny, she ordered that her baby be underfed so that the infant would be “sexy.”

Her former nanny gave a sworn statement before Anna died, saying she was concerned for the baby’s welfare in so unstable a home and with an absent, erratic mother.

Anna insisted Dannielynn be fed only 2.5 ounces of formula every three hours instead of the standard 3 ounces because she was obsessed with her tiny daughter being “sexy.” She didn’t seem concerned for any other aspect of Dannielynn’s health or well being, though, and apart from strictly monitoring her food intake she wasn’t around much.

The nanny said that Anna spent barely any time with her daughter, preferring instead to be locked up for hours in her bedroom with the Bahamian immigration minister, or sleeping off her drug-induced haze and waking up in a foul mood.

Other caregivers included the friend and mother of Anna’s special favor’s lover, the bahamian immigration minister. Anna couldn’t be bothered to be around Dannielynn much, but she did tell the nanny that she would shoot her if she heard her daughter call her “mummy.”

Anna was also seen downing an entire bottle of sleeping medication, after which she laid in a coma for 48 hours and was surprised to wake up, telling the nanny she meant to kill herself. She also tried to drown herself in the pool, and once she was rescued by Howard he told her that he would get arrested if she died.

The nanny was ultimately fired after less than three months when Anna, in a drugged fit, accused her of losing the user’s manual to a new washing machine.

Other salacious details in the Anna Nicole Smith case include the fact that she had a doctor friend prescribe her methadone and demerol under a false name right before she gave birth to tragic Dannielynn. She had the drugs delivered to her in the Bahamas. She was friends with the prescribing doctor and was seen riding a convertible with him in a gay pride parade in 2005.

Our friends at Gabsmash point out that methadone is a liquid and that no pills were found in Anna’s stomach. Toxicology reports are pending, and it’s probable that she died of a methadone overdose.

The National Enquirer reports on Anna’s last drug-filled days, saying she was spiraling out of control after the death of her son Daniel. She smoked crack (they say cocaine, but I’m assuming it’s crack if she smoked it, my drug knowledge is limited), accused Howard of trying to kill her, never ate and was basically a mess:

An insider even claims they heard her outrageously yell at Howard: ‘I don’t want to see you again - you’re trying to kill me!’

“Howard never used drugs but Anna smoked cocaine every single day.

“She’d smoke the cocaine and 10 or 15 minutes later she would be a changed person, very animated and talking loudly.

“Sometimes she would smoke too much - and took pills to bring her down.”

The insider added, “Many times she was so drugged that she fell, often hurting herself. She frequently vomited on the floor and soiled her bed. She hardly ate, just smoked cocaine and drank fruit juice.”

This woman seems to have wanted to die. In fact, The Bastardly reports that Anna told FHM in a 2004 interview that she was involved in so many projects that “I’m probably gonna die at 37 like Marilyn.”

Anna Nicole Smith was an addict and a negligent mother. The people surrounding her, with the exception of the help, enabled her drug use. That seems to have been at Anna’s insistence, though. She may have been out of it but she didn’t hesitate to dump Larry Birkhead when he told her not to do drugs while she was pregnant with what he assumed was his baby.

Anna’s body is now in legal limbo. It has been released from Larry Birkhead’s court ruling that it be held until February 20 pending ruling on his paternity case, but now both Anna’s mother and Howard K Stern, the executor of her estate, are fighting over burial rights.

Little Dannielynn is still under Howard K Stern and his mother and sister’s care in that squatter estate in the Bahamas. She’s the real tragedy in the case.

Star cover from popbytes.

Heather Mills went apeshit in London yesterday and decided enough was enough. She took out her video camera, pressed ‘RECORD’, and yelled and screamed at a photographer snapping her picture.

Then she kicked him in the ass.

I can just see the commercial now……..

Camcorder: $600
Sneakers to rip a photog a new one: $75
Implicating yourself in court with a video of your own making: Priceless.

Pictures from Splash News Online.

In related news Oxygen No Longer Free … Bush wins Nobel Peace Prize … Paris Hilton births new Jesus … Up officially moved to Down.

But seriously folks … in some truly hilarious although theologically and historically ignorant reporting the folks over at handbag write:

Naomi Campbell has dismissed rumours that she is planning to join a Brazilian religious group with links to witchcraft

The supermodel was linked to the Candomble faith, which was traditionally practised by African slaves in Brazil.

As if Naomi Campbell would need a religious justification for her blatantly evident witch-ness — Religions usually require faith … Campbell’s witch status is largely in the realm of scientific proof … like gravity … which she also uses for her own evil purposes when chucking bejeweled cell phone missiles at her cowering minions.

However, she has now said that just because she knows people who are involved with Candomble, that doesn’t make her a follower.

Demonstrably true as she also know several people who don’t beat their employees bloody and has shown no signs of following their example.

She told the New York Daily News: ‘I’m Church of England, Protestant. I was christened that.”

As if the Church of England didn’t have enough problems … what with Charles and Camilla and the questionable parentage of the less important ginger Prince …

Naomi, 36, did admit she uses prayer to try and calm her famous fiery temper.
She said: “I work on myself daily. I work on my programme of meditation and prayer and try to stick to it. It’s important to me.

(via Female First)

That’s pretty much the nail in the coffin on discussions about the efficacy of prayer … good we finally got that one settled.