Charlize Theron is the picture of perfection on the red carpet, but according to Star, she is a slob at home, and it drives boyfriend Stuart Townsend crazy. To keep the house clean, he’s had to resort to assigning her chores.

“He was frustrated that the house always looks like a tornado hit it whenever he’s been away, so he created a chore list, and posts it on the refrigerator every day,” says an insider.

[From Star, print edition, August 11, 2008]

She even gets rewards for cleaning. If she makes the bed and cleans up after herself, she gets a day off, and Stuart will make her favorite breakfast of corned beef hash, roasted potatoes and bacon.

“They butt heads sometimes, especially over keeping the house tidy,” says the source, “but Charlize appreciates that Stu is so solution-oriented.”

[From Star, print edition, August 11, 2008]

Somehow I doubt she “appreciates” his solution-orientation while he’s nagging her to do dishes or pick up her dirty clothes, but the two of them must be doing something right — they’ve been together seven years.

Judging by Charlize’s svelte figure, she doesn’t get her favorite breakfast too often, unless she’s working off all those calories with lots of assigned chores.

Charlize Theron and Stuart Townsend are shown at the LA Premiere of Hancock on 6/30/08. Credit: Juan Rico/Fame Pictures

Charlize Theron bores the shit out of me. I know she’s gorgeous and scandal-free except for her childhood in South Africa, but she just seems like an uninteresting person. I watched her entire David Letterman interview from last night hoping there would be some tidbit that I could report on, because it’s all Elliot Spitzer today, but no, she just droned on in a flat voice about how she worked hard to earn her US Citizenship and how she got wasted with the Hasty Pudding guys dressed in drag. She managed to make even that incident sound completely matter of fact. Maybe she’s depressed or just having an off day, but the title for her latest movie, Sleepwalking, sounds like it describes her to a T.

OK! Magazine has some quotes Charlize gave while doing the press for her film. She talks about people who lose weight and gain it back because they still have underlying issues they haven’t addressed or whatever, but it doesn’t come off as a nice statement the way I’m reading it. They say she’s making a parallel between her character wanting a boyfriend to make her whole and heavy people thinking their life will be complete once they lose weight.

But while her ups and downs have been purely career-driven, the Oscar winner, 32, empathizes with friends whose battles have been more personal. “I’ve been fascinated by people who lose a lot of weight,” she told OK! at a junket promoting her movie, drawing a link between her character’s belief that having a boyfriend will remove her woes and long-term dieters’ similar expectations about their bodies.

“There’s this excitement and joy when they have gastric bypass surgery, and they actually truly believe that once they lose the weight all their problems will be solved,” said the actress. She continued, “That’s just not how life works. Once they lose the weight, they realize that, and that’s why they go and gain the weight back.”

[From OK! Magazine]

I don’t understand why she would even bring that up. Why not talk about women who are told by society that they’re sad sacks unless they have a man? It just sounds kind of catty and judgmental to me, but maybe I’m in a bad mood and Charlize Theron is easy to target, since she’s so bland and perfect and all. Maybe she’s saying that no one’s life is perfect, including hers, and that somehow she can relate to those gastric surgery people from up on her high horse looking down.

It strikes me that the reason Theron is such a good actress is because she’s a blank slate. She doesn’t have a lot of her own personality to get in the way of whatever character she needs to be, and can just sort of absorb any role like a sponge.

Here’s Theron’s David Letterman interview. It’s only worth watching to look at her. She’s shown at the premiere of Sleepwalking on 3/6/08, thanks to PRPhotos.

Charlize Theron on Letterman part 1

Charlize Theron on Letterman part 2

A new book has been released in South Africa with details of the night Charlize Theron’s father died, including the then 15-year-old Charlize’s police statement. Author Chris Karsten has released a book titled Deadly Women: When Passion Turns To Blood and got his hands on police records that were apparently lost shortly after Charlize won her Oscar for Monster.

The statement by Charlize reads:

“I, Miss Charlize Theron, a 15-year-old white female of Plot 56, Third Avenue, Cloverdene, (of) Die Kruin High School, Johannesburg, Standard 8, hereby declare the following:

“My mother went to ask my father for the key. I could hear that he was aggressive towards her.

“I then heard my father’s brother, Danie Theron, ask him: ‘Why do you take shit from her?’

“Then someone banged on the kitchen door. I told my mom that it was my dad, and that I was afraid of him.”

Charlize then sketches the events immediately before the shooting.

Her mother opened the door to her father and they quarrelled about the security gate being locked.

Her statement reads: “My father said he would kill us with his shotgun. My mom said she was afraid that he really would kill us.

“The next moment I heard a number of shots being fired. I don’t know how many, and then I heard my mom screaming? hysterically.

“When I went into the passage, I saw my father’s brother, Danie Theron, standing in the passage.

“My mom was sitting in a corner of the bedroom. I ran to her and asked: ‘What happened?’

“My mother was crying and she said: ‘Charlize, I’ve shot them. I’ve shot them.’

“I can only state that my mother had not had any alcohol at any stage. She was sober.”

News24 - the excerpt from the book and Karsten’s interview are here.

Karsten says he obtained this statement through the police, and using the Access To Information Act. He is a journalist, this is his third book.

The book isn’t yet released internationally, and while Charlize and her mother Gerda have made no comment on the book, her father’s side of the family wanted the whole story told. They say that Charlize and Gerda had threatened to take the family to court if they spoke about it. This is probably part of the reason that Charlize told reporters about her mother killing her father herself, rather then leave it to be discovered. Karsten says he included the story because it was well-known, but he felt the whole story hadn’t been told.

The aim of the book is to encouage women in abusive relationships to leave before it ‘turns to blood’, and while Charlize’s story might have been included to lift sales, I think if the book does raise awareness of domestic violence it would be a good thing. Also, it is interesting that a police file that contains no great revelations has been hidden for so long. Is it because of Charlize’s celebrity, or the fact the judge never passed a definitive verdict on the case?

Note by Celebitchy: According to reports Charlize’s dad fired the shotgun first and her mom shot him in self-defense. He was said to have been a verbally abusive parent and an alcoholic, but Charlize said he was “a verbal abuser,” not a physical abuser. [Details from In Touch Magazine, print edition, December 10, 2007]

Charlize and her mother Gerda are shown at the Covenant House California Dove Awards on 5/7/04, thanks to PRPhotos.

Stuart Townsend, Charlize Theron’s longtime boyfriend, is publicly calling her his wife, and the two both have rings on their left ring fingers. Townsend tells People that the two are married, even though they haven’t gone through a religious or civil service.

“‘I’m married,’ Townsend told People this week. ‘I didn’t do a church wedding or anything, but we’re married. We’re husband and wife. We love each other and we want to spend our lives together,’ the 34-year-old actor said about his nearly seven-year relationship with Theron, 32, who he calls ‘the greatest woman I’ve ever met.’

“‘We didn’t have a ceremony,’ he added. ‘I don’t need a certificate or the state or the church to say otherwise. So no there’s no big official story on a wedding, but we are married. … I consider her my wife and she considers me her husband.’

[From People]

So I guess all those breakup rumors were crap. If it’s true, that’s great, though without confirmation of some sort from Charlize, there’s the possibility that Townsend is delusional. It’s sorta weird that he said “I’m married” instead of “We’re married” but whatever. The two have been working on Townsend’s film “Battle in Seattle” about the World Trade Organization riots in Seattle in 1999. Townsend wrote and directed the film, and Theron has a starring role.

“During a dinner party at The Supper Club, the couple even showed off their rings – Theron fidgeted with hers as she shared a story about it and then grabbed Townsend’s hand to display a silver cross-shaped band on his ring finger.

“‘It was really amazing tonight to premiere the film with her,’ Townsend said. ‘She’s proud and she was crying, so it’s as important to her as it’s important to me. We’re a team and we’re in this together. That’s what you do. You look out for each other.’”

[From People]

It sounds legitimately true. Charlize doesn’t seem like someone who just randomly wears rings on her left ring finger to get gossip buzzing (ahem, Britney Spears). They’ve been dating long enough that one could assume they’ve made some kind of commitment to one another. There’s a lot of famous couples that have made life-long commitments to each other without formalizing the agreement. Susan Sarandon and Tim Robbins come to mind, though I don’t believe they refer to each other as husband and wife. There’s certainly countless non-celebrities that do it. I guess Stuart Townsend is saying he and Charlize are married in their hearts, so congratulations. I’d send you something, but I’m guessing you didn’t formalize things by registering, either.

Picture note by JayBird: Here’s Charlize and Stuart (with a ring visible, if you squint hard enough) at the “In the Valley of Elah” premiere on September 13th. Images thanks to PR Photos.

Swiss watch maker Raymond Weil paid Charlize Theron a whopping $20 million to represent their exclusive diamond-studded watches worth $7k and up. Charlize’s three year contract as the face of Dior J’Adore perfume is said to be worth less than a third of that at a speculated $6 million. (Although one report has it at just $3 to $5 million.) Weil is suing Theron for breach of contract after she was seen wearing a Dior watch in a perfume ad, at the SXSW film festival last spring, and in an ad for an AIDS charity. The Dior watch she wore also had diamonds on it, and Weil’s attorney says she’s making them look like dupes in the industry:

The suit by Raymond Weil accuses the Oscar-winning star of “Monster” of two-timing the company by wearing a Christian Dior watch in public - a strict no-no in her $20 million deal.

“If you’re the model for Ralph Lauren, you can’t show up wearing Gucci at the Academy Awards,” said David Jaroslawicz, an attorney for the watchmaker. “She undercut our entire ad campaign.”

The South African stunner signed on as the face of a multimillion-dollar ad campaign in October 2005, allegedly agreeing to wear only Raymond Weil watches in public.

As an “international ambassador” for the company, Theron touted the limited edition line of diamond-covered Shine watches, which sell for $7,000 and have straps made of gold or alligator skin.

But Theron ticked off her sponsors when she turned up in a Tourneau catalogue wearing a diamond-encrusted watch over the words, “Charlize Theron wears Dior.” She also had been photographed at a Texas film festival last March allegedly wearing a Dior watch.

“We spent a fortune on an ad campaign centered around her,” Jaroslawicz said. “Then she goes off and makes us look silly in the industry by wearing Dior.”

If someone gave me a watch worth a few thousand dollars I would forsake it for all others, even if I didn’t like the style. Theron got a deal that paid 3-4 times the amount she was getting paid to rep Dior, so you think she could remember to put on the right watch when she appears in public. She hasn’t been in many blockbusers, so this is where her bread and gilded butter come from and it’s gotta hurt to be hit a lawsuit by her biggest sponsor.

Theron is not even supposed to wear jewelry that isn’t Weil approved. It does look like she was moderately careful about it, though, as I searched for those ads for Dior where she’s wearing a watch and couldn’t find them. She usually didn’t have any jewelry on in the Dior ads apart from holding up the perfume bottle like an earring. She was seen wearing jewelry which she discards like so much garbage in the commercial, though, which is below.

Theron is probably more friendly and in touch with the Dior people, which may explain the watch oversight. She went with Dior designer John Galliano to the Costume Institute Gala last spring, and he is responsible for her poofy monstrosity of an Oscar dress.

Jessica Simpson also forgot her duties as a brand representative for jeans, and is being sued for a whopping $100 million by Tarrant Apparrel for not wearing the jeans named after her and plugging the brand “True Religion” when asked in an interview what her favorite jeans were.

Note: I will be on vacation Thursday and Friday and have prepared some articles ahead of time. UrbanDK will be in charge and will cover current news stories. I apologize if I haven’t been “on” as much as usual these past couple of days, I’m working hard to get ready for the trip and keep the gossip flowing.

Oscar winner Charlize Theron and her boyfriend of five years, Irish actor Stuart Townsend, are said to have had a spat while out a Hollywood restaurant last week. The Mirror reports that Charlize showed up 45 minutes late for dinner and that Stuart lectured her for it in front of their embarassed friends:

This might have happened, but The Mirror lost all credibility for me when they claimed Nicole Kidman was out at a party when she was really outside the Creative Artists offices.

I wouldn’t be surprised if they only information they had is that Charlize was late to dinner while her boyfriend and their friends waited.

What I want to know is when are these two getting married? They had some trouble back in March, with reports that they had broken up, but now that they’re back together and supposedly doing fine it’s about time Townsend popped the question. Charlize has been wearing what looks like an engagement ring on her left ring finger, so these two may be engaged already.

Charlize Theron was given the “Spirit of Independence” award at the LA film festival yesterday. Theron says that it’s a misconception that you’re typecast once you do indie films and can’t make the transition to blockbuster movies. That’s probably true if you’re a statuesque blonde with great talent, but not if you’re a short fat character actor:

With an academy award and a new serious role in the works, Theron doesn’t have to worry much about her career.

The Spirit of Independence Awards were presented by Virginia Madsen and Jimmy Smits and also honored directors Steve Collins and Amy Berg.

Here is Charlize at the Spirit of Independence awards with the Target dog, and her boyfriend, actor Stuart Townsend. Her left hand is not visible in these pictures, so we can’t see if she’s wearing that wedding ring again.

Charlize Theron wore what looked like an engagement and a wedding ring on her left hand to the grand opening of club Social Hollywood last night, June 27. She was accompanied by her boyfriend, Irish actor Stuart Townsend. We spotted an engagement ring on Theron’s left hand in late April when she was photographed attending a basketball game with Townsend. There was a rumor shortly afterward that they were planning a secret wedding in Savannah, GA, but nothing seems to have come of that.

There’s no ring on Townsend’s left hand, but this still looks suspicious. Whatever the story, Theron is trying to tell us something. Celebrities don’t just wear rings on their left ring finger to openings without having an ulterior motive.

This is kind of an exclusive, because as far as we know we’re the first blog to cry wolf about Theron’s rings.

Pictures [via]

About two weeks ago we mentioned that Charlize Theron was wearing an engagement ring while at a Lakers game with her boyfriend, Stuart Townsend. As far as we know, no one else really noticed and it didn’t get any press.

Now A Socialite’s Life has a rumor that Theron and Townsend are getting married this weekend in Savannah, GA:

If this is true, congratulations to Theron and Townsend! They’ve had a rough go of it, but Charlize played coy and landed her man.

The Costume Institute Gala at the Metropolitan Museum of Art held a ball last night to celebrate the opening of an exhibit on British design. Sienna Miller, wearing an awful gold sequined minidress and black tights, served as co-chair for the event.

The guy dressed like a cabaret pirate posing with Charlize Theron is Dior designer John Galiano. He’s responsible for her monstrosity of an Oscar gown with the giant shoulder bow. Sienna Miller is shown with Christopher Bailey, Burberry’s creative director.

We have over 100 pictures from the event. Stars and designers attending include Alexander McQueen, Sarah Jessica Parker, Jennifer Lopez, Marc Anthony, John Galliano, Charlize Theron, Lindsay Lohan, Victoria Beckham, Emmy Rossum, Eva Mendes, Gisele Bundchen, Gretchen Mol, Jessica Alba, Josh Hartnett, Lenny Kravitz, Donatella Versace, Rupert Everett, Linda Evangelista and Amber Valetta, Jessica Alba, Marcia Gay Harden, Mary-Kate Olsen, Ashley Olsen, Melania Trump, Donald Trump, Molly Sims, Rosario Dawson, Scarlett Johansson, Stella McCartney, Amanda Peet, Andre Leon Talley, Naomi Campbell, Angela Lindvall, Angie Harmon, Billie Joe Armstrong of Green Day, Bridget Moynahan, Tom Brady, Chloe Sevigny, Ciara, Dita Von Teese and Marliyn Manson, Drew Barrymore, Elizabeth Hurley, Erin O’Connor, Matthew Williamson, Eve, Gina Gershon, Ginnifer Goodwin, Ivana Trump, Jacquetta Wheeler, Jason Lewis, Jessica Stam, John Legend, Johnny Rotten, Josh Lucas, Joy Bryant, Julia Stegner, Iselin Steiro, Karolina Kurkova, Lily Cole, Lauren Bush, Lily Donaldson, Gemma Ward, Liv Tyler, Francisco Costa, Lydia Hearst, Mandy Moore, Minnie Driver, Nick Cannon, Petra Nemcova, Rachel Roy, Damon Dash, Ralph Fiennes, Richard Gere, Cary Lowell, Thandie Newton, Selma Blair, Shalom Harlow, Sienna Miller, Christopher Bailey, designer for Burberry, Zooey Deschanel, Sophie Dahl, Ivanka Trump, Mark Ruffalo, Taye Diggs, Idima Menzel, and Sarah Wynter.