Apparently Matt Damon was scheduled to appear on Jimmy Kimmel Live several times, but kept getting put off due to time constraints. He finally got a chance to come on, and Kimmel launched into this long annoying introduction, practically describing his entire career. Then Matt sat down and Kimmel told him there wasn’t enough time to do an interview.

Matt told him to fuck off good-naturedly, but when the band was playing and the credits were rolling he really got pissed, his face got red, and he told him to fuck off repeatedly and stormed off stage. If he was left waiting to be interviewed for several nights and finally got told there was no time, you can’t blame him. That was a pretty cheap stunt for Kimmel to pull.

Update: This is probably a joke as commentors have mentioned, but the verdict is still out. Damon covinced me, but the way it was set up with clips of Damon not getting on the show makes it seem like it was staged. Before putting me down for defending Damon, commentor Gman said that Damon cancelled on Kimmel several times and that’s why he was snubbed on the show. Yes, I do have a pup-tent for Damon. And, yes, I can be pretty gullible, which is why I have a penchant for gossip. It looks real to me, but it could be a joke.

Please discuss the merits of the setup vs. real argument without attacking people for having a different opinion on it. That’s called an ad hominem attack and it’s pretty weak.

Thanks to Fark for linking this.

Another Update: This is a much-contested topic. You can vote on whether you think Damon is acting or not in the poll below.

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Jay Kay, the bendy lead singer of Jamiroquai, put the smack down on a bunch of photographers waiting outside a London club. In a a drunken stupor he thought they were there for him, but it turns out they were waiting for Lindsay Lohan, oops!

Kay was arrested and let off with a warning. Details of the one-sided fight were released by the paparrazi, who can call themselves victims for once:

TMZ has a video of the incident, but I could not get it to play.

Jamiroquai is due to put out their first release since the highly danceable “A Funk Odyssey” came out four years ago. “Dynamite,” perhaps a reference to Jay Kay’s explosive personality, (that sucked, I know) is due for release on September 20th.

50 Cent had a hard day on Friday. In the morning he was arrested in NY City for driving an unregistered, uninsured Lamborghini with an expired license. It takes like half a day to get all that shit done at the DMV. You have to wait in one line to figure out what forms to fill out and then go to separate lines to take care of all those issues. In half a day 50 Cent probably makes what most people make in a year, so he figures that paying a fine and getting someone else to take care of it when it becomes absolutely necessary is probably the best strategy. The cops took him in because he was attracting a crowd of onlookers in the time it took to fill out all those tickets.

By the time night rolled around and 50 had to make an appearance at the Baby Phat fashion show, not a guy’s favorite place to be, he got a bit testy a punched a guy out for not giving up his seat to one of his friends. Who can blame him?

Poor 50 can’t explain his rage and has to resort to talking about his looks to make himself feel better. He sounds like such a girl.

Thanks to Crunk and Disorderly for the header picture of 50 looking guilty at the Baby Phat show. Thanks to Fark for linking this story.

Elevator music performer Yanni, master of the pan flute, has a huge collection of sex toys which he delights in organizing by size, color, and penetration level. His ex-girlfriend says he cleans his vibrators, dildos, and butt plugs excessively. She also claims he takes a lot of Viagra and is a sex addict:

This same woman claimed Yanni hit her in March of this year, while he said he just grabbed her arm. Yanni spent a day in jail after the incident but all charges against him were dropped. Maybe he was just pissed off because she didn’t bring him back enough sex toys for his collection. His music is so boring, he’s got to spice up his life somehow.

Christina Aguilera told USA Weekend magazine that she suffered from her father’s abuse while her family was stationed on a military base. She says that domestic abuse is common on military bases in her experience. Starpulse runs the quote from the article with commentary that she’s “attacking” military bases, but she seems to be speaking about her childhood and doesn’t overgeneralize:

That’s too bad that Christina had to go through that as a child and it’s good that she found a decent man like Jordan and didn’t pick another creep like her dad. It’s hard to take her seriously as a person, though, when it’s rumored that she doesn’t even look interviewers in the eye. Still, she should be commended for talking about her difficult childhood.

Here is Christina in a Robert Sebree Photoshoot (via Gossipin) and in Seventeen Magazine (from Hollywood’s Best)

Gallery of the Absurd has this fabulous new Mel Gibson bumper sticker. If they would create actual bumper stickers like this, they would sell out.

The pictures of Mel partying it up before refusing a ride home, getting arrested and going apeshit have come out. He looks every bit the aged, washed up bigot.

Mel also said back in the day that he hates gay people, and that he’s such an asshole because he’s a closet case:

He really must hate himself most of all for ruining his posh lifestyle making obscure vanity films.

People are pointing out that if Roman Polanski violated a 13 year-old girl and got his career back after fleeing the country, Mel can too. It took Polanski over twenty years. In Mel’s case, he can probably put his extreme bigotry behind him in about ten.

Maybe he should just invest his money or go into real estate development.

Everyone was saying that Mel Gibson’s career was over after he was caught defaming Jewish people during a DUI arrest. It was assumed that he would go on some sort of unspoken industry black list.

It’s gone beyond passive-agressive whispers and shunning. People are so pissed that they’re calling for an all-out boycott of Mel:

The arresting officer, a Jewish guy with 17 years on the force, is contrite about the whole episode, and insists that he doesn’t want to ruin Mel’s career. Mel did that all on his own.

Meanwhile those stupid women on “The View” are trying to remain relevant by saying that they don’t want to see any more Mel Gibson movies. Countless people undoubtedly agree with them.

The U.S. Jewish Anti-Defamation League has said his colleagues should “condemn him and distance themselves from him.”

And it gets even better - it’s come out that several people offered Gibson a ride home that night and he refused.

Gibson has checked himself into rehab in an effort to do damage control, but the damage is extensive and it’s already done. He’s richer than sin, and unless Opus Dei has taken all his cash he should sit back and enjoy his millions while waiting for this to pass. Maybe he should get some sensitivity training, too.

Now that the news is out that Mel is a royal jerk, the LA County Sheriff’s department figured they may as well release his mug shot. The long beard is gone and he doesn’t look half bad for a drunken bigot.

I wouldn’t mind having a $1,000 purse or some frivolous jeans, but I usually don’t envy the very rich or famous - except when it comes to travelling. They don’t have to go through the incredible bullshit that the rest of us endure just to get from point A to B.

After flying from NY to London with a three hour delay, then waiting 45 minutes in line to get my flight changed since I missed my connection, then flying another two hours and being made to wait standing outside a locked baggage claim office for ten minutes while the receptionists looked at me without a nod of acknowledgment, I almost started freaking out. Did I mention that I was alone with a two year-old toddler and had been travelling for 13 hours? I understood air rage at that moment.

When my husband told me that Naomi Campbell trashed her lover’s yacht, I thought “Well maybe she had a hard day.” Her days never approach the level of difficulty an average person faces, and she was on a chi-chi yacht with space and air, not some cramped commercial airline with overperfumed stewardesses.

While the rest of us get pissy and bitchy, Naomi Campbell takes dramatic, violent action.

Bitch caused $55,000 worth of damage after she got in a tiff with the chef over the plain mozarella and dried ham appetizer that he served. It seems she doesn’t understand simple Italian fare, and she coped by busting up the place:

She needs to get medicated and go into therapy. I think she also should get dropped from all her current ad campaigns, because she’s not going to change unless it hits her where it hurts. Hopefully one of the libel suits against her will also stick - hard.

Here she is looking like the victim for once. (Why do magazines do this to women? I usually don’t complain about objectification, but this is ridiculous. It’s Naomi, though, so that’s ok.) These are from Style magazine and are low resolution.

Having failed to convert Britney Spears to Kabbalah, Madonna is trying to bring Lindsay Lohan into the fold. Lohan is in need of some spiritual guidance in between all of her exhausting bed hopping, and
admitted to being interested in the cult back in March:

Now that Lohan has stuck her little toe into the expensive Kabbalah tap water, Madonna has renamed her in an attempt to prime her for full-on indoctrination:

(From In Touch print edition, July 10, 2006.)

People who stay in cults are so gullible. (There’s no shame in getting caught up in a cult or being born into one. Staying active in one for years by your own will and trying to convert other people is another thing.) Madonna may think she’s the queen of pop music, but she’s giving all her cash to some shysters in exchange for their bubble-gum insight and a sense of superiority. It may feed her smug attitude, but maybe she’ll realize at some point what’s going on and feel like the fool she is.

If you don’t think Kabbalah is a cult, read cult expert Rick Ross’ articles on it. Kabbalah and its founder, Philip Berg, have ruined lives and ripped off thousands of people. Lohan is about to be next. She loves spending money, and she’s about to get a chance to throw some down the dark hole of manufactured spiritual enlightenment.

Here’s a link to a good overview of the characteristics and techniques of cults. It’s not just about losing money. A lot of families, friends, and personal identities get washed out too.

Here is Madonna with her daughter, Lourdes, in NY on 6/27, [via] and Lindsay Lohan at the opening of club Social Hollywood also on 6/27. [via]

Madonna is wearing blue slippers in these pics, and she’s not wearing her wedding ring.

Predictably enough, Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt’s legal team have sent out notices to several blogs to pull the baby shower pictures that capture their clients in private moments. The digital card with the photos was stolen, they say. They never sent notice to us, but TMZ is a higher-profile site and was threatened with a lawsuit:

We’ll take ‘em down shortly, but as much as people like Angelina and Brad - they’re too heavy handed with legal and security tactics. This is the cost of fame. If you don’t like it, then don’t try to fight it with all your might and just stop making movies. You could be gracious about it and play it up for what it’s worth, but no, you have to fight every picture tooth and nail.

I understand not wanting someone to publish all 450 pictures, but making a huge fuss and threatening bloggers for publishing three of the pictures is ridiculous.

It’s like the music industry acting all indignant that people are copying digital music. It’s the nature of the medium, and that’s how these things work. Digital files spread - get over it, and use it to your advantage.

Angelina decided to close down an entire country to give birth. What gives her that right? Namibia’s National Society for Human Rights claims that Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt are acting like “Colonial Overlords” and that they have no right to use an entire government to shield themselves from the paparrazi. The NSHR said “To shut down a national border so she can give birth in peace is a massive abuse of power.”

To shut down a bunch of websites so people can’t see your cute baby shower pictures is also a massive abuse of power. It’s not on the same scale, but they’re abusive. Fans made them popular and fans pay for their luxurious lifestyle. Just because they do some charity work doesn’t mean that they don’t have to play the game.