In past interviews, Cameron Diaz has always sounded so Zen about aging. Especially after her father died several years ago, Cameron always sounded content with her life, comfortable in her own skin, the perpetual sun-kissed, easy-going California Girl. And then Alex Rodriguez happened. And everything went to sh-t. Camy bulked up like a ‘roid monster, she started acting like A-Rod was the best thing that ever happened to her, and her face… well, her face has never been the same. Sometimes she looks almost normal, but most of the time she looks jacked, waxy, Botoxy, and full of fillers. Oh, and post-A-Rod, she also got herself a set of bolt-ons, just like A-Rod always wanted. The whole Camy situation is a hot mess.

I bring this up because this little In Touch story made me sad. I’m sad because I believe it. I’m sad because this is Hollywood – even Cameron Diaz, once the highest-paid woman in the industry, is being told (in so many words) that she’s too old to play “The Girl”. The problem is that Camy still thinks she’s up for all of The Girl parts.

Cameron Diaz doesn’t want to act to her age: although the actress is turning the big 4-0 in August, she wants to remain in her dirty 30s on-screen.

“She won’t read scripts if the character is 40,” an insider tells In Touch. “Her team asks that the age be changed in the script for Cameron to read for the part.”

[From In Touch Weekly, print edition]

I mentioned in another post that I recently saw Bad Teacher – I actually liked it. I liked her in that role of a 30-something, drunk, pothead teacher who is terrible at her job. Camy is a gifted comedienne, an underrated actress and for the past decade, she’s gotten the first look at some of the best scripts. To give Cameron some credit – some of her career choices indicate that she is interested in branching out beyond comedies, beyond playing “The Girl”. But given her relatively new “makeover” and what it says about her (insecure?), it feels like Camy is in for a rough couple of years as she makes the transition from lead actress to character actress.

Speaking of, have you seen the trailers for What To Expect When You’re Expecting? I’m embarrassed for everyone involved.

Photos courtesy of WENN.

This has an F bomb toward the end, but you have to listen to it!

Back in 2005 when Paris Hilton was getting sued for defamation for leaking a false story about a woman attacking her at a club, she said, in a sworn deposition that “whatever I write in email, it doesn’t mean anything. It is just words I write.” Well now Paris is relaunching her music career with a song and video based on the same premise called “Drunk Text.” The video for the song, a pedestrian effort in which Paris baby talks over a club beat, has been leaked online. Her people tried to pull all the copies from YouTube, but it’s all over the place and even E! Online is running it.

I watched the video expecting it to be just dumb or mildly interesting, and it wasn’t – it was absolutely hysterical. It’s like the best Funny or Die parody you’ve ever seen. I was laughing uncontrollably the entire time. I’ve watched it three or four times now.

I can’t capture how awesomely funny this video is, so if you can please watch some of it (above), it’s so worth the giggles. Here’s a description from E! Online, and I’m grateful to them for decoding some of the things Paris mumbles. The lyrics really add to the hilarity of this ridiculously funny video.

Hmm…it’s almost as though someone doesn’t want the world to see it? Luckily, even if you missed it the first two times, photographic evidence lives on, and nestled among the lyrics were such hear-’em-to-believe-’em bon mots like, “If you take the word ‘sex’ and mix it with ‘texting,’ it’s called ‘sexting’/When you add drunk sexting, the words just don’t make sense.”

Having completed the bizarre mathematical portion of the song, she set her sights on grammar.

“It’s a hot mess of misspelled obscentities, body parts and run-on questions/I’m not sure what he means to ask.

“Behind my eyes, I was begging for things my lips would never ask/And my mouth kept pouring desperate clauses of random intent.” OK, then.

“No one is safe from the Twittersphere anymore.” Certainly not Paris, and not after this.

“It’s just another moment, one stupid reply can lead to the walk of shame,” she intones. “And I’ll be damned if I end up in some lame diner after this/last night’s lingerie in my purse/it was just a drunk text…this is the last time I’ll ever drink and text.”

[From E! Online]

“No one is safe in the Twittersphere anymore” LMAO!

Damn this made my morning. I’ll tell you, I didn’t hate “Stars Are Blind” and I actually found it tolerable and somewhat catchy. This song is enjoyable for a completely different reason.

Paris’ latest reality show may have been a flop, but she can still make money being herself. She just needs to realize that she can be the Charo of our generation, except with a limp noodle body, dead eyes and a flat affect. Once she embraces that and starts making fun of herself, she can cash in a little more. Barring that, she can stick to making cheap shoes, purses and hair extensions.

Video via Idolator. Story and screenshots via E! Online.

Another day, another story about Chris Brown doing his best to piss all over the inexplicable second, maybe third chance his industry is giving him to make millions of dollars singing and dancing despite the fact that he’s a well-documented abusive douche. Only now Rihanna may be willingly going down with him, perhaps literally if we read too much into the lyrics of this new song they jointly released.

For several days I’ve been hearing rumors that Rihanna and Chris brown were doing a song together called “Birthday Cake,” to coincide with Rihanna’s birthday. I thought that they might be working on something in the studio, but that there was no chance in hell that industry execs would taint Rihanna by letting any of their work together get out. Sadly I was wrong. They put out “Birthday Cake” together in which they sing about eating cake as a stupid sex metaphor, and Rihanna also sang vocals for a remix of Chris’ “Turn Up The Music.” Here’s more on that “Birthday Cake” song. This is from MTV’s blog:

It was only a matter of time. For the past few weeks the world has been at a stand still with rumors swirling of one time lovebirds Rihanna and Chris Brown working with each other again. Just in time for her 24th birthday C Breezy and Rihanna made their reunion official releasing the remix to Ri’s “Birthday Cake” track.

On the Internz/The-Dream produced record, Breezy adds his melodies to the song crooning about his fantasies to blow the candles out on Rihannas cake.

“Girl I wanna f–k you right now. Been a long time I been missing your body” Brown sings on the remix. “Lemme, lemme turn the lights down. When I, when I go down it’s a private party.”

During the 2012 Grammy Awards weekend word began to spread that Rihanna and Brown were spotted at the same event with some reports suggesting the two were seen holding hands. A day later “Cake” producers Da Internz hinted Rihanna was getting ready to release a “big” remix with a special guest that would “shock the world.”

“We got the Rihanna ‘Birthday Cake’ coming out in a week,” a bespectacled Kosine told MTV News on the red carpet of the Pepsi-sponsored ASCAP Rhythm and Soul Brunch, held over the Grammy weekend.

“It’s gonna be crazy,” his production partner, Tuo, said shaking his head.

“And the feature on there is gonna shock the world,” Kosine chimed.

[From MTV]

This really turns my stomach. Maybe it’s the link between cake and sex and imagining Chris Brown’s scary O face. D-Listed explains the disgust better than I can. These two are “professionally” collaborating and they’re also tweeting to each other. Chris sent Rihanna a happy birthday message yesterday and she tweeted back “thanks.”

Meanwhile Chris is still writing asinine sh*t on Twitter and then deleting it. WWE wrestler CMPunk Tweeted that he wanted to “curb stomp” Brown, and then Brown tweeted back that the guy must be impotent. “@CMpunk needs more followers. He’s such a leader! Not to mention the roids hes on has made it utterly impossible for him pleasure a women.” Chris later deleted that and just replaced it with a snotty message about how he would have his assistant send the guy an autographed photo.

Is Rihanna going to see fallout from this? People are saying that she looks like she’s having issues, and she does look burnt out lately. I hope she’s ok and that she can walk away from this. It looks like she’s getting played by her abuser again, and it’s sad.

Rihanna is shown out in London yesterday for her birthday on 2-21-12. She’s also shown out the day before. She’s wearing the same shorts and garters combo that we saw Miley Cyrus sporting recently except Rihanna tucked her long flannel shirt into her shorts and it’s hanging out the bottom. Chris is shown at the beach on 2-17-12. Credit: FameFlynet and WENN

On Friday, Chris Brown’s people staged these beach photos with his live-in girlfriend, Karrueche Tran, and some friends. (Karrueche is the one with the bleached hair.) His publicist was no doubt trying to underscore this planted story about how he can’t possibly be sleeping with Rihanna again since Karrueche has stayed with him for a few months and is buying his bullsh*t in exchange for a taste of the good life. Well Chris managed to screw up even this simple beach photo op by putting on his crazy face to scare away some seagulls. I’m sure small children in the area were frightened. This only serves to remind us of the reason so many people are against this abusive douche’s comeback.

One of Chris’ most vocal critics in the industry, country singer Miranda Lambert, continues to speak out against him. We’ve already heard that she tweeted after his Grammy win that she didn’t “get it. He beat on a girl.” After that Chris went crazy, as we’ve come to expect from him, and tweeted, in part “HATE ALL U WANT BECUZ I GOT A GRAMMY Now! That’s the ultimate F**K OFF!” He later deleted most of his Twitter feed and went silent for a short while, but he couldn’t keep it in for long. First off here’s the story about how Miranda held up a sign at a concert on Thursday that Chris Brown should take notes. This was right before she sang about a woman plotting to kill her abuser.

The music world’s most random feud rages on — with Miranda Lambert stepping up her game by blasting Chris Brown in concert!

The battle began earlier this week, after Miranda Lambert wondered on Twitter why the convicted felon was featured on not one but two performances during the Grammy Awards.

“Chris Brown twice? I don’t get it. He beat on a girl,” she tweeted, before adding “Not cool that we act like that didn’t happen. He needs to listen to Gunpowder and lead and be put back in his place. Not at the Grammys.”

“Gunpowder and Lead” is Miranda’s single about a woman preparing to kill her abusive husband — and as she got ready to sing the song last night at a UMass concert, she couldn’t help but slam Brown again.

Before singing, Lambert pulled a poster out of the audience reading “Take Notes Chris Brown.”

“Get a good picture now, put it on Twitter,” she said, while holding the poster up. “I’ve been in a world of hurt with Chris Brown fans lately … but see, I just have to speak my mind because where I come from beating up on a woman is never okay.”

As she launched into the song, Lambert added “So that’s why my daddy taught me early on in life how to use a shotgun.” The crowd went wild.

[From Too Fab]

In response to this, because you know that Chris can’t hold his itchy fingers back from responding, he tweeted “Using my name to get publicity? I love it! Perform your heart out! Go buy @miranda_lambert album! So motivational and “PERFECT”!”

Yeah, it’s all about publicity for Miranda. She couldn’t possibly have a very valid point. I’ll just end with my favorite tweet response to Brown’s stupid comeback. “Yep, thank God you punched a woman around so she could use you for publicity, cuz, ya know, Miranda Lambert needs it and all…”

Look at how much bling he’s wearing to the beach.

Photo credit: MiamiPIXX/BRJ/FameFlynet Pictures

Troubled singer Sinead O’Connor was on the Graham Norton show on Friday. (Video above) It was the first interview I’ve seen with her since she got married, announced her marriage was over a month later, got back with her husband, and asked for help via Twitter after a suicide attempt. Sinead, 45, has been struggling with bipolar disorder and admitted a few months ago, prior to getting married after knowing the guy for a few weeks, that she’d gone off her meds. In her brief appearance on Graham Norton, Sinead seemed in good spirits and came across well, although she rambled a little and you could tell she was nervous. She had a few things to say about the way the press treats people with mental illness. She admitted that the people at her record company don’t want her to talk about it though, and I think she tried to temper her words.

Sinead has a new CD coming out, How About I Be Me (And You Be You)? and she still has the same amazing pipes she had in the 90s. She performed her new song, “The Wolf Is Getting Married,” and she really killed it. Here’s some of what she said on Graham Norton:

Sinead to Daniel Radcliffe: One of my children had many imaginary baths with you… I didn’t recognize you with your clothes on.

To Graham Norton: That’s not the cover of my record, where’d you buy that? [Takes the cover off] There isn’t even one [CD] in it!

Graham to Sinead: How are you? Are you alright? People worry about you, we’ve read all these things about you.

Sinead: I don’t know how I’m supposed to answer those questions. In one way I want to talk about music. In another way the only thing that does bother me about all of this stuff is that I’ve kind of dealt with 25 years of this, everybody treating me like a crazy person and it’s a great source of amusement and entertainment. We live in a world where crazy is a term of abuse, which I frankly think should be outlawed… I know you don’t mean anything… I adore you. You’re lovely, it’s a weird question.

I’m a bit of a nervous wreck about interviews to be honest. On one hand I’ve got the record company quite rightly going ‘Don’t say anything.’ On the other hand I’m like… That’s why I sing. When I sing, I make sense.

Well she made a good point about how people are finding amusement in her issues, but I think that more people just worry about her because we admire her talent and want her to do well. Her 1987 album, The Lion and The Cobra, was one of the first albums I owned (and it was a record back then, although I was on the very tail end of vinyl). When I was 17 I saw her perform, and I still remember how she bitched at the people in the front rows for smoking and potentially bothering her voice. I love her music and I want this CD to do well for her.

Listen to this song, “The Wolf is Getting Married,” it’s absolutely beautiful.

Here’s a much older single, from the 1993 film In The Name of The Father. It’s “You Made Me The Thief Of Your Heart.”

And here’s a link to her performing a song from the 90s that she’s featured in that I love. It’s a remix of “I am Stretched on Your Grave.” I remember this from college.

Sinead is shown on 12-18-11. Look at those nails! Credit: WENN.com. Graham Norton videos via ONTD.

This headline kind of speaks for itself, and it’s in US Weekly so it sounds like more than just a rumor. First we’ll recap yesterday’s story, in which Chris Brown lashed out, via Twitter, at people who dared question his Grammy win and performances in light of his domestic violence conviction. He wrote, in part, “HATE ALL U WANT BECUZ I GOT A GRAMMY Now! That’s the ultimate F**K OFF!” Chris deleted those tweets but the damage was already done. Radar online had a follow-up story that claimed Chris’ mom put him on blast for being such a petty whiny bitch, as usual. They quoted an insider who had this to say about his mom’s response:

“Joyce is absolutely livid that those vile words and rants were posted on Chris’ Twitter page. She isn’t buying his excuse that he didn’t post it and she has told him that it is his Twitter page, and only he should be posting to it, period,” a source close to the situation tells RadarOnline.com.

“She feels like people were just waiting for a negative reaction to what others were saying about him. She had begged Chris to just ignore it and she is just beside herself that after such successful performances at the Grammys and winning the award, people are now talking about this Twitter controversy.”

[From Radar]

I’m sure his management team was worried too. Last month, Chris’ manager, Tina Brown, told the press that her client would not be doing any interviews for 2012, probably because they knew they couldn’t avoid angry outbursts like the window-smashing incident at GMA.

Chris deleted his entire Twitter feed apart from 11 tweets, but the damage was already done. While some fools were tweeting yesterday that they would let him beat them, the twitter topic “RIP Chris Brown” was trending after his outburst.

Getting back to the headline story, here’s US’ report on the obnoxious pickup line Chris regularly uses. This is yet another example of how he has no understanding of the gravity of what he did to Rihanna. He doesn’t care, and he’ll joke about it:

Chris Brown… confidently approached an attractive brunette February 10 at [a] Grammy gift lounge and asked her, “Can I get your number? I promise I won’t beat you!” the woman tells Hot Stuff. [US Weekly].

“He and his friends laughed, then one yelled, ‘That’s his new line!’ Ugh! I wanted to throw up!” (Says Brown’s rep, “I’d be surprised if Chris said something that stupid.”)

[From US Weekly, print edition, February 27, 2012]

Isn’t his rep’s response priceless? It’s like “he could have said something that stupid, but we’ve been coaching him on it forever.”

Meanwhile Rihanna celebrated her 24th birthday on Monday night with a party in Beverly Hills. Reports claimed that Chris was there, which makes it sound as if they’re at least friendly. We’ve heard rumors for some time that they’ve been hooking up, but that Rihanna’s people have urged her to stay away from her abuser.

Chris is shown performing in October (credit: WENN) and out in December (credit: Fame). He’s also shown yesterday. (credit: Fame/Flynet)

It was three years ago that Chris Brown severely beat his then girlfriend, Rihanna, before a Grammy party. According to the police report, Chris hit Rihanna repeatedly across the face and body, threatened to kill her and bit her on the ear and hand. We saw the photos of her face afterwards and it was frightening and sad. Rihanna told police that it was not the first time that Chris had beaten her. Chris did pay some minor consequences after pleading guilty to assault and was put on five years probation. From all accounts he has performed his community service well and on time, and has been praised by the judge presiding over his case. He’s also completed court-ordered domestic violence and anger management courses.

In interviews, Chris has been less than willing to take responsibility for his actions or to even talk about that night. He busted up a dressing room at Good Morning America last year after Robin Roberts asked him a question about the incident. Plus, he just comes across as a total a**hole. I know the kid is young at 22, but he’s behaved like a whiny bitch for years. He’s tweeted homophobic slurs on several occasions, once to a molestation victim. He regularly parks in handicapped parking spaces despite warnings, and he seems entirely unaware of how lucky he is to even be able to get paid to sing and perform. He complains constantly when anyone dares question him.

Chris has had a career comeback lately that has raised a lot of eyebrows. Many people were disgusted to see him both perform at the Grammys and win a Grammy for Best R&B Album, and Chris has a message to all of them: in your face, basically. The title of this story doesn’t capture how pissy he was about it, since he used all caps and added an expletive for effect:

Chris Brown is known for his violent temper, but on Tuesday, according to his Twitter account, his anger was aimed at his followers on the social networking site, rather than his ex-girlfriend.

The R&B singer’s official Twitter feed lashed out at critics who had slammed the Grammys for honoring him during Sunday’s awards show, and had bitter words for those bashing him.

“HATE ALL U WANT BECUZ I GOT A GRAMMY Now! That’s the ultimate F**K OFF!” The tweets from Brown’s account said at the height of the rampage.

Earlier in the rant came: “Strange how we pick and choose who to hate! Let me ask u this. Our society is full of rappers (which I listen to) who have sold drugs (poisoning).

“But yet we glorify them and imitate everything they do. Then right before the worlds eyes a man shows how he can make a Big mistake and learn from it, but still has to deal with day to day hatred! You guys love to hate!!! But guess what???”

The tweets from Brown’s account were responding to a number of prior tweets from celebrities who didn’t believe he deserved to not only win a Grammy for F.A.M.E., but also to perform twice during the show.

[Radar Online]

So selling drugs in the past is equivalent to beating on women in Chris’ world. At least he deleted it, but he surely had some prompting. This is but a small sample of the kind of behavior that should have sunk this kid’s career years ago. He makes a lot of money for a lot of people so they’re going to continue to let it slide. Not everyone in the industry is a team Breezy apologetic, though. Miranda Lambert tweeted that she didn’t “get it. He beat on a girl.” Other celebrities, like Sherri Shepherd, Jack Osbourne and Wil Wheaton had similar sentiments. There were also some very good editorials about this, particularly Sasha Pasulka’s (formerly of Evil Beet) at Hello Giggles and Marlow Stern’s at The Daily Beast. These editorials and tweets were made before Chris tried to call his Grammy “the ultimate F*** off” to anyone that dared question his career.

Meanwhile people are showing Chris love on Twitter and basically writing that they’d take a beating for him anytime. Kaiser pointed me to analysis of this disturbing trend by Slate and Jezebel. I just don’t get it at all. How could anyone even joke about that?

Here’s Chris outside a recording studio on 2-10-12 and out shopping on 12-4-11. Credit: FameFlynet

Tell us something we don’t know with that title, right? Well the best part of this story is the source, who goes on the record with In Touch to totally trash his old lover Kris Jenner. Remember how Kris bragged in her memoir about cheating on her first husband, attorney Robert Kardashian, during the day with some young thing when she wasn’t off spending her husband’s money? The guy she was cheating with, who was originally assumed to be Khloe’s biological dad (but there are plenty of other candidates given what a skank Kris is), told In Touch that when he wasn’t boning Kris he was watching her be a terrible mother. What’s more is that Kris paid for this guy’s apartment and gave him money (her husband’s money) to live on, just like a dude with a mistress on the side!

Also, it gets better. It’s hard to tell, but it sounds like Kris and this guy stopped seeing each other around the time she got divorced. The exact timeline is vague, but he makes it sound like the divorce kind of split them up because she was looking for another man with money. In the 1991 divorce papers, Robert Kardashian describes Kris cheating on him with another guy, whom he names as her eventual second husband Bruce Jenner. So it sounds to me, based on these details, that Kris was cheating on her husband with both this young guy she was paying for AND with Bruce Jenner. Genius! Of course she married the one with money even though he liked to wear her clothes. It was a small price to pay for maintaining the cushy lifestyle she knew she was entitled to. Here’s more:

In an exclusive interview with In Touch, Kris’ former lover, soccer-player turned animator Todd Waterman, 46, reveals that he spent lots of time around Kris and Robert’s three girls, Kourtney, Kim and Khloe. And while Kim “didn’t seem to mind” that he was so close to her mom, Todd saw first-hand how deeply affected she was by her mother’s questionable values – which went way beyond their illicit romance, as he recalls.

How Kris influenced her daughters
“It was a steady, superficial diet of what to wear, who your friends are, where to be seen and what car to drive,” explains Todd, whose affair with Kris went on for many months, continuing even after Robert caught them in the act. “Early on, it was made clear to me that Kris desired a celebrity lifestyle.”

From the start, Todd says, Kris clearly prized fame, money and sex above all else. And, unlike her sisters, Kim never once questioned her mother, who Todd remembers “had great expectations,” even back then, of molding the pretty little girl into her own image…

On how Kris made him a kept man
“I didn’t have the money for the lifestyle Kris was leading, so she paid for a lot – or it was Robert who was paying, I guess,” admits Todd, who, for a time, lived in an apartment Kris paid for with Robert’s money. And after Robert finally divorced Kris, she and Todd made no effort to stay together. “There was no way I could help maintain what she was accustomed to financially,” he explains….

“Kim is Kris 30 years ago,” the friend observes. “That’s not going to change.”

[From In Touch, print edition, February 6, 2012]

I guess we know where Kim got it from, only she’s made her own money and she’s not going to bother staying married if she has the slightest issue with a partner. As for the subtitle on the cover “pushed to have sex at 14,” that’s not what the article claims. They just write that “Kris gave Kim the green light to have sex in her teens.”

The article goes on to say that Kendall and Kylie Jenner, 16 and 14, are “Kris’ next project.” We just heard from Bruce that those two probably aren’t going to college. They can make money slapping their name on clothing lines and showing up at events, why would they bother getting an education? Kris is the ultimate stage mom and she probably had kids just for this purpose. I feel for the youngest ones. The oldest ones are too messed up and they’re responsible enough to make fun of. We don’t all have to be carbon copies of our parents.

Kim is shown on 1-23-12. She’s also shown with her mom on 12-31-12. credit: WENN.com

This is a minor story compared to so many other things going on today but I personally find it very interesting and wanted to cover it. We all know how ridiculous it looked when butter and sugar pusher Paula Deen, 65, made the dual announcement that she had diabetes and was a new spokesperson for a diabetes drug. Paula’s longterm nemesis Anthony Bourdain may have summed it up best when he tweeted that he was “thinking of getting into the leg-breaking business, so I can profitably sell crutches later.”

In her ensuing PR blitz, Paula barely acknowledged that her consumption of high fat calorific food, which she promotes on TV and through her magazine, contributed to her metabolic condition. Paula also barely acknowledged that the best treatment for diabetes is a healthy diet, not some pill, although she’s also launching a new show (tada!) in which she finally tries to cook healthy versions of her favorite food. Paula’s contract with drug giant Nova Nordisk is thought to be in the millions. Her long term publicist thought that was a very bad idea given Paula’s previous image as a down-home promoter of food that’s bad for us. Paula’s publicist quit and made that statement that she “could not agree with the new business strategy going forward.” That’s a very nice way of saying that Paula very transparently cashed in on her diabetes.

Paula Deen’s longtime powerhouse publicist, Nancy Assuncao, has quit after six years over the butter-loving chef’s plan to plug a diabetes drug.

Assuncao faithfully stuck with Deen through years of hearty drama, including her battle with rival chef Anthony Bourdain, who called her “the most dangerous woman in America.” But she quit as Deen’s spokeswoman and chief marketer last month as Deen negotiated her deal to hawk the drug Victoza.

Deen, now under siege by diabetics, nutritionists and fellow chefs for keeping her own Type 2 diabetes secret for three years, even as she pushed recipes full of sugar and fat, probably could use Assuncao’s help now. Deen only revealed her diagnosis last week.

A source said Assuncao “strongly disagreed with Deen’s dramatic turnabout, after years of promoting fatty foods, to announcing she has a deal with a diabetes drug company [Novo Nordisk] and will be promoting lighter food and ‘diabetes in a new light.’

“While Paula did tell some people at her live appearances about her diabetes, she certainly didn’t talk about it on her show. Nancy disagreed with Paula’s plan to be a drug-company spokesman and challenged her decision. But this wasn’t a battle Nancy felt she was going to win. She couldn’t be part of it.”

Assuncao, whose past clients have included Ian Schrager, told us last night, “I’m very grateful for the six years that I worked with Paula in helping her build the Deen brand.

“Although we had a great deal of fun along the way, I could not agree with the new business strategy going forward. Nonetheless, I wish them continued success.”

Deen’s new rep could not be reached last night, with a staffer at her office telling us, “She is on the Paula Deen cruise.” The chef’s Web site said Celebrity Cruises’ Eclipse would be a “tasty journey” in the Caribbean with a group buffet dinner, a cooking demo and a personal photo with Deen (one per family).

[From The NY Post]

At least people see this woman for what she is now. As I’ve mentioned I’ve barely thought of Paula Deen up until this point, but it’s incredibly obvious that she’ll stop at nothing to make a buck. How can you manage the image of a woman who is so money grubbing that she’ll continue to promote unhealthy food for years until she has a drug endorsement deal lined up? You don’t, you step down and say “screw it, the money’s not worth it.” Unless you’re Paula Deen, then it’s all about the money.

Update: After I wrote this, I saw this story on Entertainment Tonight (about 3/4 into the full episode available on their website) about the controversy over overweight celebrity chefs who cook unhealthy food. They said “Paula’s shocking announcement… may change attitudes says ‘The Doctor’s’ Travis Stork.

Dr. Stork said that “I would like to think that this is a wake up call. I don’t think chefs realize their influence on America. I think they realize now that their actions can influence America by giving alternatives and healthy recipes.”

They mention that Mario Batali has lost 35 pounds (I hope he didn’t go on Goopy’s expensive pill diet) and that Oprah’s personal chef Art Smith has lost 120 pounds. Smith mentioned that he had a show in the works, and that he lost it “because they didn’t like me ‘skinny chef.’ Lose the fat, lose the funny.” Smith is cooking more healthy now and is opening a new restaurant, JoAnne, in New York, along with Lady Gaga’s parents. That’s an odd pairing.

It’s nice to hear about a different celebrity chef getting healthy the right way, and it’s also reassuring to know that people in Paula Deen’s inner circle are calling her on her complete and utter bullsh*t.

Also, I need to use these photos of Paula Deen vs. the Fairy from Shrek again. (I put them together, and credit to Bodhi for coming up with it!)

Header image is from 12-15-11, credit: PacificCoastNews.com

I’m just posting these so I can make fun of Kate Gosselin’s ridiculous outfit. It’s like she thinks we’re all magpies and she can distract us from her face by wearing that shiny short dress. You know she thinks she looks hot in that number with her boltons standing at attention and her fake hair blown out. At least she didn’t pair it with lucite stripper heels. She probably considers this look sexy but demure. Extra! hasn’t posted their fascinating Kate Gosselin interview yet so we don’t know what she was promoting, but she does have a job as a coupon website spokesperson and we just heard that she’s hosting a cruise. It’s a really bad time for that. The spokesperson for Royal Caribbean claims that the tickets for the one week western Caribbean Cruise, which takes place in August, have been selling well and they’ve been “getting a lot of enquiries about singles” hoping to attend. That sounds like hype from Kate’s camp. Tickets sell for $1,900 to $5,500 a person, which seems steep for that type of cruise. If you take that exact same cruise without the Kate Gosselin option it’s hundreds cheaper of course.

Along those same lines is this new story from the Enquirer claiming that Kate is hoping to find a “sugar daddy” on that cruise. She probably wants to find someone who will put up with her whom she doesn’t have to pay:

While she desparately needs the paycheck, sources say her true motive for taking the job is to meet a man, preferably one with money.

“Kate’s plan is to hook up with as many halfway decent men as she can sink her claws into during the seven-day voyage,” revealed a source.

And according to another insider, she’s keeping her options open.

“Kate’s being open-minded about who she may meet. But she’d love to find some deep-pocketed sugar daddy types – even an old geezer – because they can hire nannies to keep up with her brood!”

[From The National Enquirer, print edition, January 30, 2012]

Good luck with that. Obviously the bodyguard she’s sleeping with is still around so her money must not have dried up yet. I guess we’ll know if she’s serious about landing a new man if she shows up to the cruise without him. Also whatever she did to her face seems to have settled enough for her bitchface to come out again, not that it ever really went away.