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Jun 26
'06
Anne Hathaway was sexually harassed by Stanley Tucci


A lot of the crap that happens on movie sets would be a fireable, sueable offense in any office anywhere. Celebrities tell stories about their co-stars messing around and sexually harassing them during filming, and although they try to play it off, they’re saying these things because they want people to know what they went through.

Case in point: Anne Hathaway. She was totally harassed by Stanley Tucci on the set of “The Devil Wears Prada.” She says Tucci elbowed her in the chest repeatedly and she had to tell him to stop. The asshole didn’t just do it once, he did it again and again and it was painful and probably embarassing to her:

Actress Anne Hathaway says her co-star Stanley Tucci is obsessed with her breasts.

The ‘Devil Wears Prada’ actress revealed her cheeky colleague would repeatedly elbow her in the chest to demonstrate his fondness of her assets.

She said: “He would just smack me in my boob and elbow me.

“It really hurt, so, after about the fourth time, I finally said, ‘Stanley, can you please stay away from my t**s?’”

However, the curvaceous brunette insists Tucci wasn’t deterred by her request.

She added: “He got really flustered and said, ‘What do you expect? You’re flinging those melons around like its harvest season’.”

What an asshole! I would kill the guy - after I sued him for sexual harassment. I’m serious, there’s no way I would tolerate being treated like that by a coworker.

There shouldn’t be different rules for performers and office workers - when you’re on the job, you’re not supposed to grab people. Tucci should know better.

Sure some of the sexual harassment guidelines are a bit strict, and some people like to talk smack, but sexual jokes and comments - if they’re not directed at someone or threatening - are much different than elbowing someone in the chest and telling them they’re “flinging their melons” around.

Stanley Tucci does not have a fabulous career, and he does not deserve one if this is how he treats women.

Another actor who probably deserves his career slump is Ben Affleck. Director Kevin Smith said Affleck engaged in the bizarre practice of sneaking up behind him while he was sitting and putting his balls on Smith’s bare neck while they were working. Christina Applegate also said that Ben put his “junk” on a suitcase during filming for “Surviving Christmas.” Maybe now that he’s a father he’ll keep his “junk” in his pants where it belongs.

Here is Hathaway outside Nobu restaurant on 6/12 with her boyfriend, real estate developer Raffaello Follieri. She is also seen in InStyle Magazine, and in one candid at “The Devil Wears Prada” after party on 6/19.

Posted in Abusive, Anne Hathaway, Arrogant, Photos, Stanley Tucci

Written by Celebitchy         2 Comments »
Jun 12
'06
Ailing Marc Anthony strikes out at photographers


Marc Anthony may or may not be ill. When we say he’s ailing, we’re referring to an earlier story where we speculated based on scant evidence that the Latin crooner is dying. He may not be verifiably ill, but he sure acts grumpy enough to at least be suffering from an intestinal disorder.

Anthony got in a fight with photographersat the Women in Film awards on Tuesday. When a photographer pushed him back while trying to get a picture of J.Lo he went off on the guy:

“One photographer shoved Marc as he was trying to break through the crowd to get the photo,” says a witness at the Women in Film Awards in Century City, Calif.

Anthony exploded, “‘Don’t ever push me again, and step back! Step back away from them,’” according to the source. “He physically shoved one guy back.”

The snapper “briskly pushed away Marc’s hand off his shoulder,” but also apologized, says the witness.

Honoree Lopez had paused for a photo op with co-host Nicola Maramotti, wife of MaxMara owner Ignazio Maramotti. But Anthony had his enormous bodyguard plant himself in front of the offending photographer’s shot.

Marc has a too-short fuse and is quick to declare his love for his diva wife. Somethings wrong with him!

Meanwhile J.Lo has publically denied that she’s pregnant. People are insisting she is, though, because In Touch says she supposedly bought a diaper bag and told Leah Remini that her boobs are going to get bigger while they were out shopping for clothing. TMZ was there too, and said it’s not true since sales staff swore that Lopez had a flat stomach.

Here is Marc doing his national duty as grand poobah of the Puerto Rican Day parade with J.Lo in tow on Saturday in NY City. [via]

Posted in Abusive, Jennifer Lopez, Marc Anthony, Photos

Written by Celebitchy         1 Comment »
Jun 8
'06
Russell Crowe is a needy manipulator


An article in the Sydney Morning Herald discusses how Russell Crowe tried to manipulate a journalist into writing positive stories about him, with the promise of becoming his publicist. Crowe had the guy and his wife over to his house several times, initially asking him to promote his sophmoric album to his friends in the press corps. He offered to pay him for his services, but the writer, who has a family and could have used the money, refused for moral reasons.

The journalist, Jack Marx, soon discovered how Crowe gets lauded in the press - he pulls this same buddy scam with tons of journalists, and even phones people personally to discuss negative articles about him.

Crowe befriended Marx and groomed him to write an article about him while he was promoting “Cinderella Man.” Marx initially refused, saying he was too close to Crowe to be objective. Crowe insisted though, and Marx went through with it. When the article came out and it was cautiously positive and believable instead of kissing Crowe’s ass - Crowe turned on him and dumped him as a friend.

And it was during these times that I saw evidence of something that made me wince - Crowe’s bizarre propensity for nickel-and-dime media manipulation. It seemed Russell was running his own parallel, one-man PR fix-it campaign. It was much the same as my own, but he was pitching himself to journalists while I was handling his CD. He’d go through the daily papers and call journalists in person, chastising them for perceived inexactitudes. There was nothing morally corrupt about this, but I found it a silly pastime for a man of his stature. Sometimes it did him no service at all.

He once bragged to me about how he had called a prominent Sydney gossip columnist who had been dumping on him, promising her that should she publish a positive word or two, he would grant her an exclusive interview. Like magic, a nice mention appeared in her column the following week, and the exclusive interview followed. It was doubtful, I thought, this transaction hadn’t been noted by the columnist’s peers, who’d consider her weak and Russell quite the meddler. If he needed an answer for why so many journalists disliked him, I thought, he need look no further.

That I was part of this nonsense was not lost on me, and at times it troubled me beyond mere embarrassment. One evening, I discussed with Russell a particular journalist who seemed to dislike him, and I suggested some approaches that might be useful in changing the journalist’s mind. With a schoolboy laugh, Russell shook his head and declared that if it were too much trouble, he’d just have the bastard killed. He was joking, of course, and we both laughed a lot. But it got me to thinking: I wondered if this had ever happened in the annals of Hollywood’s history with the press. Syndicates have killed for less, and we are talking about multi-million dollar estates…

What’s more, I began to doubt whether my friendship with Russell Crowe was altogether exclusive. There were sightings of Russell taking long strolls with rival journalists. There was talk of him writing a book with another. On the grapevine, I heard of another Cinderella Man article in the works, the local journalist disclosing her friendship with Russell and telling of their late night chatter at the film star’s north coast farm. I had been stroking my own ego with such industry it hadn’t occurred to me that there may be other ponies on the same carousal.

Marx’s article on Crowe came out, and was praised by other writers for presenting the bombastic actor as a decent guy with regular human failings. Crowe was mighty pissed at Marx for not making him seem better than God, and blew him off with a one-line e-mail: “Yeah, yeah, whatever.”

Crowe later wrote him a longer message, completely dismissing him.

Crowe is a total asshole, and the next time you see a positive story about him in the press, realize that he most likely called the journalist or had her over for dinner. That seems to be his pasttime when he’s not abusing hotel staff, trying to pass himself off as a humble singer, or getting paid millions to act in films.

The Sydney Morning Herald e-mailed me this story, and it was quite a useful tip. E-mail tips to info at celebitchy.com.

Posted in Abusive, Arrogant, Russell Crowe

Written by Celebitchy         4 Comments »
Jun 8
'06
Is the Glam Network a big scam?

picture of Glam.com website with the caption - is this a big scam or just deceptive business practices?
Top gossip and fashion blogs are members of the “Glam Network,” a celebrity and fashion site that partners with blogs with the promise of advertising revenue from ad placement. The Glam Network is scamming fashion and gossip bloggers into giving them massive free advertising in exchange for a small link on the Glam website and the promise of ad revenue which never materializes.

The Glam Network lures bloggers with exclusivity and .50 cents a click. After applying to join, your blog might get approved about a month later and you’re sent a lengthy contract that states that Glam will pay you .50 cents a click for third party ads, which they can swap out with ads for Glam.com at their discretion. This sounds like a decent deal and it seems better than the payout for AdSense or CrispAds.

Glam never explains the contract in simple terms, and there are no Terms of Service or FAQs for Glam Network bloggers on their website.

In order to finalize your membership you’re required to place one Glam ad, either 160×600, 300×250, or 728×90 on your site, along with a small Glam membership logo and a 160×200 Glam “Module” which features content from Glam. Most sites choose the large 728×90 vertical banner, assuming they’re getting .50 cents a click.

Here’s the relevant part of the contract:

Glam will pay the Blog $.50 for every click through that is generated from the Blog site to the third-party advertisers site from the ad placed on the Bloggers site. When no Banners from third-party advertisers are placed in the Advertising on the Blog, Glam shall at its option, place Glam.com Banners in the Advertising unit at no cost to Glam.

The thing is - Glam doesn’t give any payout for its own ads, and third party ads are rarely, if ever, seen. It also doesn’t offer any real time statistics or network blog control panel. Get this - you have to e-mail them to request statistics and then take their word on it.

It is incredibly rare to see a third party ad on a Glam Network blog, and the Standard Blog Contract states that Glam can swap out the ads with free Glam ads at their discretion.

Celebitchy was approved for the Glam Network and we signed the contract this week. We got suspicious after we realized that we wouldn’t receive any paying ads for a while, and that there were no statistics available.

Our contact at Glam e-mailed us:

Yes it is 50 cents per click for non -Glam ads. We do offer a small amount [of ad revenue] for the non-Glam ads to blogs that have very high traffic. If you would like we can revisit in a couple of months and if your traffic has increased we have no problem revising the contract. I hope this answers your questions.

I answered:

How do I get non-glam ads?

We take care of that for you. We rotate the ads and alternate between 3rd party and Glam ads…The higher the traffic and the better ctr rate of your blog the more 3rd party ads you get.

When we checked, only one Glam network blog had an ad that wasn’t for Glam.com. We e-mailed with a top gossip blog that gets a huge amount of traffic and they said that they’ve had Glam ads up since April and only saw a third party ad appear occasionally at the beginning of this month, June

No one has ever been paid by Glam that we could verify. That same top gossip site told us that they’ve never seen a dime from Glam despite having their ads up since April.

Two other gossip bloggers told us they assumed they would be receiving .50/click for the huge ads on their site from Glam, and did not realize that there was no payout for Glam.com ads.

Glam is a much worse deal than CrispAds or AdSense because you don’t get paid for every click - you get paid when Glam decides to throw you a bone, but they haven’t paid anyone yet!

Glam might continue to get away with this because bloggers are afraid of being sued. The contract that we signed states that we have to give Glam 90 days notice before removing their ads.

We suggest that everyone who thought they would be receiving .50 a click for Glam ads remove them immediately.

To be fair, they did withdraw our contract without penalty when we requested it a day after signing up.

Once Glam tries to sue us for reporting this, we’ll let you know. We’re not going to take this down if they threaten us.

Update: One blogger claims to have been paid “not much” in March, but another e-mailed us to ask if we’d been paid, and said “Have you gotten paid yet? Not just told how much you’re getting paid, but have you actually gotten paid? I haven’t and it’s been over a month.” We only had Glam ads up for a day, so they’re never going to pay us.

Posted in Abusive, Arrogant, Site Announcements

Written by Celebitchy         13 Comments »
Jun 2
'06
Easy nickname for Shiloh Pitt: Pile ‘O Shit


Thanks to the PopBitch e-mail newsletter for pointing this out. An easy nickname for Shiloh Pitt is Pile ‘O Shit!

The poor girl is named after the place she was conceived and has a name that’s not only weird, but quite easily mocked.

Brad and Angelina may not have anticipated the hysterical Spoonerism of their baby’s name, but they did prepare for her blogging future. They’re not taking any chances and had their lawyers snatch up most variations of the Shiloh Pitt domain name on Saturday when the baby was born.

PopBitch also states that Angelina and Brad’s thugs are so unrelentless that they followed a journalist home and totally harrassed her. They also say that a female journalist got the scoop on Angelina’s birth by sleeping with one of the male doctors at Swakopmund Cottage Hospital:

Journalists in Namibia covering the birth of the new messiah, Shiloh Jolie-Pitt, are being subjected to harrassment, intimidation and threats. One journalist who was suspected of leaking the scoop that Angelina had given birth has been followed by a local heavy for days. She noticed a man hanging around her
house, following her everywhere, so she went to the police. On her return to her house the
man knocked on her door, introducing himself with the chilling phrase, “I am not a psychopath or a killer, but…”, before telling the stringer that he’d been hired to scare her: give her “a taste of her own medicine”. What’s even more galling is that the journalist was entirely innocent of being the leak. That award goes to an
enterprising American female reporter who managed to check into the Cottage Medi- Clinic in Swakopmund, and shagged one of the doctors in order to get the scoop.

I do like Angelina and Brad, and I think they meant well by holing up in Namibia, but their staff is out of control and it makes them look like clueless squatters. It’s also a sad commentary on the state of the gossip media when a “journalist” trades sex for a story. (If you send stories I’ll give you a shout out at least. Just send me tips at info@celebitchy dot com.)

Posted in Abusive, Angelina Jolie, Babies, Brad Pitt, Brangelina

Written by Celebitchy         7 Comments »
May 31
'06
Exes Johnny Depp and Kate Moss to star on screen together


Johnny Depp and Kate Moss, who split up in 1997 after dating on and off for three years, may play ill-fated lovers Michael Hutchence and Paula Yates in a film about the INXS frontman’s life.

Depp, who will play the late INXS frontman, split up with the supermodel in 1997 after a stormy three-year romance.

But he is happy for Moss to get close again, and play Hutchence’s girlfriend Paula Yates in the rock movie.

An insider said: “Johnny was asked if it would be a deal breaker for him if Kate was cast.”

“He said ‘Not as far as I’m concerned.’ He figures there’s been enough water under that bridge.

“Obviously director Nick Egan hoping there’s still enough chemistry between them that will translate to the screen.

“It has been claimed she never got over him and in the film they’ll have to appear deeply in love.”

Both Yates and Hutchence are now dead. Hutchence was found dead in November, 1997, in a hotel room in Sydney. He was naked and died of self-suffucation from a leather belt. Yates insisted that Hutchence’s death was an accident, and that he was practicing dangerous auto-erotic asphyxiation, or trying to increase sexual pleasure through lack of oxygen. Yates died in 2000 from a heroin overdose. She was said to be distraught over losing custody of her three ridiculously-named daughters to her ex husband, Bob Geldolf. Yates and Hutchence are survived by a ten year-old daughter, Heavenly Hiraani Tiger Lily. (Yes, that is her name.)

While Moss has her share of drug abuse and tragedy, which may help her relate to her character, it is unclear whether she can act. She has only bit parts to her credit. If she can act it will be an impressive role to add to her resume.

With Johnny Depp in the lead, people are sure to be interested in the film, and it could be an incredible story of the late Hutchence.

Inset picture [via]

Here is Kate Moss leaving her home on 5/25. [via]. Her left cheek looks swollen and there was a report that Pete Doherty hit her, but her publicist insists it’s just a badly angled photograph.

Posted in Abusive, Johnny Depp, Kate Moss, Movies, Pete Doherty

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May 23
'06
Longer Video of Lindsay Lohan fan striking back at Brandon Davis


A longer video of a Lindsay Lohan fan confronting Brandon Davis for his “firecrotch” rant has been posted on YouTube. You can even see the woman’s face. She first yells at Brandon when he enters the club, and again confronts him when he comes out to smoke a cigarette. The video makes it seem as if she annoys Davis so much that he’s forced to leave in a waiting limousine, but maybe it’s just edited together to look that way.

The woman makes a good point when she tells Davis that Lohan earned her money while he got his from daddy. According to people dishing about the demise of Davis’ relationship with Mischa Barton last spring, he had to ask his family for money constantly, which may explain his vile for “self-made” teen star Lohan.

Thanks to PhoenixComplex on the JJB board for posting the link to this video.

Posted in Abusive, Brandon Davis, Lindsay Lohan, Video

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May 23
'06
Katie Holmes’ brain isn’t washed enough to marry Tom Cruise


Star Magazine says that Tom Cruise has postponed his nuptuals to Katie Holmes, pending her complete submission to the cult of Scientology:

The story details that the problems go all the way back to Cruise ex Nicole Kidman who never really had the whole Scientology faith thing going and now Tom doesn’t want that to happen again.

And he’s willing to delay any nuptials to make certain - the report claims.

“There will be no (Nicole Kidman like) wiggle room,” a source named Skip Press reveals to the weekly. “In the coming months, Press says, “Katie will undergo intensive training on how to spot and avoid anyone critical of Scientology.”

“At the same time - the former Scientologist claims - “Her exposure to the outside world will be censored while she’s flooded with Scientology doctrine.

Cruise’s rep denies the story.

This seems like speculation from a former Scientologist based on his experiences with the cult. If he still has ties to the community and people are blabbing about Cruise’s plans for Katie, it could be true.

It could be bad news for the doe-eyed actress and new mother, whose identity has already been completely changed during her relationship with the crazy half pint. On the other hand, if Katie is being forced to submit to more Scientology bullshit that means she’s resisting somewhat. If she doesn’t buy into the cult wholeheartedly Tom isn’t going to marry her. If the cult keeps pushing her she may get fed up enough to leave. According to her prenup she’ll get a sweet deal even without marrying him and she may get her life back in the process.

Posted in Abusive, Cults, Katie Holmes, Tom Cruise, TomKat, Weddings

Written by Celebitchy         3 Comments »
May 22
'06
Kate Moss kicks Pete Doherty’s ass!


Kate Moss was so pissed off about Pete Doherty’s blood squirting stunt that she asked him to come over to her place. When he arrived she promptly kicked his ass!

KATE MOSS beat up on-off boyfriend PETE DOHERTY in a mad frenzy after reading how he sprayed his blood at two MTV cameramen. The supermodel summoned the BABYSHAMBLES frontman to her north London home and set on him after reading about his antics after a gig in Berlin, Germany last week (ends12MAY06). After arriving at her St John’s Wood pad at 5 am Moss began kicking and punching him in the street. Doherty says, “She was angry about the blood spraying thing. She beat the crap out of me. She layed into me punching and kicking. “I’m alright, but she hurt my finger. I couldn’t do anything back, because she’s a girl.”

At least Doherty didn’t fight back, but we doubt the junkie would have had the strength even if he wanted to. Moss shouldn’t have even bothered with Doherty, though. Why doesn’t she just ignore him? She’s supposed to be dating comic Russell Brand now anyway.

Meanwhile Doherty’s antics have lead his record label, Rough Trade, to drop his group Babyshambles. An source is quoted as saying: “Rough Trade were in the process of renegotiating a deal, but the talks broke down because it just proved to be so difficult to deal with Pete and the people he surrounds himself with.”

Maybe losing his record label will help Pete follow-through on kicking heroin as he’s been planning. It won’t be easy, but he needs it desperately.

Here’s Kate in a Primal Scream video:

Posted in Abusive, Addictions, Drugs, Kate Moss, Music, Pete Doherty, Video, Weak

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May 18
'06
Video of Pete Doherty squirting blood on MTV camera

The video of Pete Doherty squirting a blood-filled syringe has come out. You can view it below with a watermark on the screen:

Or go to an article about the incident on MTV and launch the video from the bottom right. It’s now available to viewers outside the UK. There’s a commercial before it, though.

Somehow we were expecting it to be more dramatic.

Posted in Abusive, Addictions, Drugs, Pete Doherty, Video

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