Gwen Stefani was decked out as Cinderella for a party at Kate Hudson’s house over the weekend. She looks like a little girl playing dress up, complete with heavily applied blue eyeshadow, bright pink blush and pink lips. I have to give her credit for taking the look as far as she did, with stacks of necklaces, an updo with a tiara and a feather purse. She really went all out and she’s not hanging out of that outfit too much either. Bitch loves her makeup though, and she put it on with a trowel here.

Here’s Zooey Deschanel barely trying. At first I thought she was Duchess Kate in that outfit, but her hair is all teased out and she’s carrying that fake martini. Radar is claiming she’s “dressed as a woman from the 60s.” Hopefully she had someone specific in mind. This looks like one of those “group costumes” where everyone dresses up around some loosely formed theme and it’s hard to tell exactly who they’re supposed to be unless you see all of them together. They look like they’re having a bachelorette party. (Update: Thanks to those of you who pointed out that they’re supposed to be Valley of The Dolls characters!)

Nicky Hilton was little Red Riding Hood. That was boring when Kim Kardashian did it last year. This is how you do Red Riding Hood.

David Spade is… a cowboy who fell in some manure?

Casey Affleck was a hunter. At least he dressed up.

Topher Grace either didn’t bother or has a really weak ass costume.

Jessica Alba was a sexy witch. Such a mom costume. Throw on a hat and a wig. It looks like she has a veil with some spiders on it, and she probably tried harder than I’m giving her credit for.

Gwen Stefani owns them all and she knows it. I wonder who her friend is in the hair band costume.

Photo credit: Fame Pictures

The trailer for the Coen Brothers’ remake of True Grit has come out. The original True Grit won John Wayne his one and only Oscar, beating out Richard Burton in Anne of a Thousand Days. This remake stars Jeff Bridges, fresh from his Oscar win, in the John Wayne role, with Matt Damon as his side-burned and mustached sidekick. Now… don’t be alarmed, but when I first saw the trailer, I didn’t recognize Matt Damon, and I thought he was David Spade. For real.

Right? Josh Brolin looks deliciously dirty, of course. As for Bridges and Damon… well, okay. It’s interesting seeing Matt Damon do this kind of part, I guess. I always hoped that when Bridges and the Coen brothers reunited, they would do another oddball comedy, like The Big Lebowski. And Hailee Steinfeld is the girl/narrator. Is it just me, or is she totally miscast? Her voice has very modern inflections, like they dropped a mini-Ellen Page into a Western. I like Ellen Page, but she’s not the kind of actress who can do period convincingly, and neither is this little girl.

As for the plot – Gawker says it’s reminiscent of No Country for Old Men, but I’m getting an Unforgiven vibe. Remember that Clint Eastwood movie? Bridges is playing the Clint role and the little girl is playing the role of “the hookers.”

Okay. I’m done bitching.

Padma Lakshmi will stop at nothing to promote the new season of Top Chef. She will have some random Dell dude’s baby. She will fight publicly with the Dell dude over her baby’s custody. She will romance a 70-something billionaire. She will go on a date with David Spade. What…? David Spade? But he’s not inappropriately old, nor obscenely wealthy. What gives Padma? What happened to Teddy Forstmann (the 70 year old billionaire)? And does David Spade have a Magic Wang or what? How does he date such inappropriately hot women? Maybe he’s a good listener? That’s probably it.

David Spade may have done it again. The funnyman, who throughout his career has had as many (if not more) devastatingly gorgeous girlfriends as he has hit movies/shows, was photographed yesterday with none other than Padma Lakshmi. You know, the painfully sexy ‘Top Chef’ host and food writer? While a few photos together and a ride home certainly doesn’t mean the two are dating or even the slightest bit romantically involved, given Spade’s girlfriend catalog, crazier things could happen. Should they indeed be an item, though … Kudos, Mr. Spade. Kudos.

[From PopEater]

Here’s why I don’t think Padma and David are a couple: because he is not even close to her type. She generally goes for much older men, and they’re always very wealthy and/or important. While I’m sure David is a nice guy (scratch that, I have no idea), I suspect he and Padma are just friends, just like she’s “friends” with someone like Jeremy Piven. Maybe she just goes on “dates” with these dudes for publicity. Stranger things have happened.

Here’s a photo of Padma with Teddy Forstmann:

DirecTV has a series of commercials dating back to 2006 that include clips from films integrated with the actors shilling their satellite TV service. The commercials are said to “break the fourth wall” in that actors turn and speak directly to the viewer during a scene. (I’m not trying to be a smarty pants and found that term on Wikipedia’s entry for DirecTV.)

Here are videos of some of the ads:
Back To the Future featuring Christopher Lloyd
Aliens with Sigourney Weaver
Star Trek with William Shatner
Austin Powers with Mini-Me Verne Troyer
Shannon Elizabeth in American Pie
Pamela Anderson in Baywatch
Kathy Bates in Misery

The second most controversial DirecTV ad is probably a recent one in which David Spade reprises his role in the 1995 film Tommy Boy with the late Chris Farley. Spade sits on a couch in character and talks smack about Farley’s goofy character, saying he’d rather watch DirecTV.

Spade has responded to criticism that the ad is not appropriate and that he’s cashing in on the late Farley’s memory. He says it never occurred to him that the ad was disrespectful and that Farley would have loved it:

When he agreed to do a DirecTV commercial featuring a scene from Tommy Boy with the late Chris Farley, actor David Spade never dreamed anybody would be offended.

“Slight shock,” Spade told PEOPLE on Wednesday night of the fallout from the ad, which some commentators saw as tasteless. “These commercials are cool. They’re well done. They’re clever. And that they would include Tommy Boy in that company, I thought was very flattering.”

The 30-second spot, airing during the World Series, appears to have been taken directly from the 1995 movie, except that while Farley does his famous “Fat Boy in a Little Coat” routine, Spade, with technological wizardry, promotes DirecTV.

Spade says featuring Tommy Boy in a commercial series that also has scenes from Back to the Future and Aliens “is so cool” since “we made this thing and people still talk about it.”

“Oh, my God if [Farley] was here, I guarantee he’d be stoked that this little movie is included,” says Spade. (Farley died in 1997 of heart failure linked to an overdose.) “The movie is important to me, and I would hate to offend [anyone] because that’s one of my favorite things I’ve ever done. So I would apologize to someone who took it that way.”

Still, he says, if he had to do it over again, he probably wouldn’t have made the commercial. “I wouldn’t want anyone to get a whiff that I’m trying to get something off Chris,” he says.

[From People]

That’s fair enough, and maybe Spade assumed that it would help remind people what a comic genius Farley was. The video does seem a little disrespectful to me, especially since he’s making fun of Farley, but maybe it makes sense in context of the film. If anything blame should be placed on DirecTV’s ad producers, not Spade.

Dead celebrities have been popping up in ads lately, with Frank Sinatra dancing with a vacuum cleaner and Audrey Hepburn selling Gap. Sometimes advertisers have gone too far and sometimes they’re able to skirt a fine line and make it seem as if they’re paying tribute to a celebrity’s memory. In this case the result is debatable.

The thing is, DirecTV made a much more offensive video featuring a departed star. They did a version of Poltergeist featuring the late child actress Heather O’Rourke. They even make it look as if O’Rourke appears in the ad by including another actress who looks like her. This ad came out last year in October from what I can tell. You can see it below, and it’s all sorts of wrong. You think they would have learned not to touch that subject in future ads.

Charity and giving come in many shapes and sizes, especially during the holidays. Parents all over the world wrestle with the same conundrum Ralphie’s did in A Christmas Story over the coveted Red Rider BB Gun, but David Spade was happy to put fifty AR-15 rifles under the Phoenix Police Department’s Christmas tree.

Spade said he wanted to make the donation after seeing a TV news report about Phoenix officers having to buy their own rifles. Spade grew up in the Phoenix area and graduated from Arizona State University.

Phoenix Police Sgt. Alan Hill says the rifles will be given to patrol officers and that the agency was grateful for the gifts.

“These guys need to be able to do their jobs and I am just happy I could help,” Spade said in a statement released by his publicist

[From AP via Breitbart]

I live in the country, so my knowledge about how badly city cops need high powered rifles is limited to Law & Order. But if the guns are something they need in the line of duty, it’s more than a little disturbing that the officers were having to buy them themselves. While most people are thinking about blankets for the homeless, toys for tots, and other more “holiday” sounding charities, I guess the occasional multiple high powered weapons donation is important sometimes, too.

The great part about this, though, is that Spade hasn’t gone so Hollywood that he doesn’t know what’s going on in his hometown. It’s good to hear someone giving back, even if it isn’t warm and cuddly gifts. He obviously still pays attention to what’s going on “back home” and cares enough to do more than read about it.

It feels weird to feel this way about lethal weapons, but I do feel warm and fuzzy about this Christmas gift.

David Spade is shown at the premiere of Bedtime Stories on 12/18/08. Credit: PRPhotos

People have often marveled at dorky David Spade’s ability to land hot women. He’s been linked to Heather Locklear, Pamela Anderson, Carmen Electra, playmate Jillian Grace and most recently Desperate Housewives’ Nicolette Sheridan. Spade 44, was seen making out with Sheridan at her 45th birthday party at a Beverly Hills restaurant Friday night. The two didn’t arrive together and were seated at different tables at first. It’s likely Spade was invited to the party, though, as it wasn’t the first time they’ve been spotted together:

Even though Nicolette Sheridan and David Spade have yet to verbally confirm that they’re a couple, the pair let their body language do the talking on Friday night.

The Desperate Housewives star was celebrating her 45th birthday at new L.A. hot spot Luau in Beverly Hills — the same place they were spotted together a few weeks ago at the grand opening — and onlookers tell OK!, “Nicolette and David were full-on making out!”

The duo arrived separately and even started the dinner at separate booths but couldn’t resist each other for long! According to witnesses, Spade winked at Sheridan and stood at her side while she blew out the candles on her cake. After that, the two retreated to a booth where they cuddled and kissed.

[From OK! Magazine]

Other guests at Sheridan’s PDA-filled party included her coworkers Neal McDouough, Kyle MacLachlan, and Felicity Huffman. Sheridan is said to have sipped on lychee martinis and to have enjoyed a birthday cake inscribed “Happy Birthday Princessa.”

In related David Spade news, the National Enquirer reports this week that Spade has never met his two month old daughter with Playmate Jillian Grace. The 22 year-old single mother is raising the baby with her family’s help in Springfield, Missouri, where she lives in a two bedroom condo. Spade has promised to visit, but has not yet seen his newborn daughter. Spade’s publicist issued a statement when the baby was born that “David and Jillian have been in close contact throughout her pregnancy and he plans to go see the baby during his first break from shooting Rules of Engagement.” He must be busy filming because he hasn’t seen his daughter yet.

Photo credit: PRPhotos

David Spade, 44, has confirmed that he’s the father to a baby girl, born on August 26 to an ex girlfriend, Playboy Playmate Jillian Grace, 22. It seems it took so long to make the confirmation to the press because they were waiting for the DNA results to come back, at least that’s what I’m reading into it. E! Online titled their story “DNA IDs Daughter for David Spade,” although there’s nothing about a paternity test in the article itself:

It turns out that David Spade did, in fact, produce an heir.

A baby girl born last week to former Playboy Playmate Jillian Grace is the 45-year-old funnyman’s biological daughter, a rep for Spade has confirmed.

“David and Jillian have been in close contact throughout her pregnancy and he plans to go see the baby during his first break from shooting Rules of Engagement,” publicist Meredith O’Sullivan told People.

[From E! Online]

Spade reluctantly admitted the possibility that the baby was his in a statement released after the news broke of Jillian’s pregnancy. He seemed to suggest he only had a fling with her, saying, “I had a brief relationship with Jillian Grace. If it is true that I am the father of her child, then I will accept responsibility.”

Reports came out in the tabloids shortly afterwards that Spade led the young model on, telling her he did want a baby and flying her out to LA from Missouri several times. He supposedly consciously had unprotected sex with her. When she broke the news that she was pregnant, he turned cold and broke it off, according to reports. Grace stayed in Missouri, pregnant and brokenhearted.

Spade strikes me as one of those guys who is not into monogamy at all and isn’t about to let a baby get in his way. At least Grace will get some child support.

It’s possible Spade and Grace have some kind of friendly relationship, though. Spade was seen out with a woman identified as Grace on 7/8/08. Credit: Fame.

He’s built a career playing snotty little know-it-all guys. He dates Playboy bunnies. But actor David Spade also has a humanitarian side, which he recently showed with a $10,000 donation to an animal shelter located in his hometown of Lakeside, Arizona, where Spade’s mother still lives.

David Spade has donated $10,000 to save the Humane Society of the White Mountains in his mother’s town of Lakeside, Arizona, a source tells Usmagazine.com.

“The shelter was falling apart, and they were going to shut it down, so he stepped in,” says the source. “It was far and above what they needed and ever received.”

[From Us Weekly]

According to the shelter’s web site, the facility specializes in rescuing animals who have been abandoned in the surrounding mountains. The shelter neuters, immunizes and cares for more than 3,500 animals a year until they can be adopted. Usually, I think David Spade is a snarky little jerk, but he gets points from this animal lover. I especially like that he did it under the radar without issuing a press statement or inviting a bunch of photographers along. Yes, I’m looking at you, Paris.

Picture note by Celebitchy: David Spade is shown out at Koi on 7/29/08. Doesn’t he look like a cartoon character? Credit: WENN

When the news came out that former Playboy playmate Jillian Grace, 22, was pregnant and claimed that David Spade was the father, Spade, 43, issued a statement that made his relationship with Grace seem like a fling. He did handle it much better than a lot of other celebrities would have, and acknowledged that the baby could be his, saying “I had a brief relationship with Jillian Grace. If it is true that I am the father of her child, then I will accept responsibility.”

Star Magazine says that Spade and Grace’s relationship was much more than a fling and that the comedian led the young woman from a small town into believing that he was in it for keeps. He pursued her for quite some time and they were friends first. Spade even waited until Grace had broken up with her boyfriend to make a move. Once they hooked up Spade flew her out to LA several times:

“Jillian is from a small town near St. Louis, and she had moved out to LA after becoming a Playboy centerfold,” says the family friend. “She though David was cute and funny when she met him at the deli [in late 2005] but she was in a relationship at the time.”

David managed to get Jillian’s phone number from Playboy and began pursuing her, “but Jillian is a one-man woman,” says the friend. “They did become friends, and over the next year and a half, they would call and text each other frequently, and see each other at different celebrity events.”

By September, 2007, Jillian had broken up with her boyfriend and became disillusioned with Hollywood. “She was moving home to Missouri and called David to give him the news,” the friend tells Star. “David said to her, ‘So, you’re single now? Great! When can I see you?”

“They began a romantic relationship. They’d see each other whenever she returned to LA on Playboy business, and David even flew her out to LA a handful of times just so the two of them could be together – including one time in early December as a birthday gift…”

[From Star Magazine, print edition, January 28, 2008]

The source claims that they talked about having a baby together and made the conscious decision to have unprotected sex. When Grace told Spade that their efforts were fruitful and that she was knocked up, he turned cold and that’s when he ended the relationship.

It was during an early rendezvous, says the friend, that David and Jillian talked about having a child together. “It was a mutual discussion,” the friend tells Star. “He told her that as he was getting older, it was something he was thinking about. And Jillian replied. ‘Are you sure this is something you want? It could happen!’ They knowingly had unprotected sex that night…”

Jillian got her wish, says the friend, when she learned that she was pregnant by David and alerted him to the happy news just before Christmas. “She texted him the message, ‘Congratulations! You’re going to be a father. Merry Christmas!” says the friend. “David got back to her and said, ‘Are you sure? Are you OK?’ At first he seemed totally positive about the pregnancy. He told Jillian he would be supportive, that he’d be there for her.”

But the friend claims David’s attitude seemed to change almost immediately. “Soon he was telling Jillian that having the child could hurt his career, and that her own modeling career would be over,” the friend says. “He even asked Jillian if she was sure the baby was his – and if she was sure she wanted to have it.”

[From Star Magazine, print edition, January 28, 2008]

Maybe Spade said he wanted a child during some drunken pillow talk, and Grace took it to mean more than it did. It sounds like the news of the baby freaked him out enough to back out of the new relationship. At 22 Grace was probably too inexperience to realize that she shouldn’t have put so much faith in a relationship with a famous older man. She seems to have learned the hard way and will hopefully get enough support to raise the baby in a positive way. She’ll at least get some decent child support.

Comic and unlikely ladies’ man David Spade has been linked with Jenna Fischer and even Jennifer Aniston recently, and was in a relationship with Heather Locklear in 2006. Now there’s news that he may be responsible for knocking up a Playboy Playmate he dated. He says he’s no longer with Jillian Grace, but acknowledges dating her and says if the baby is his he’ll step up to the plate.

TMZ has learned that a 22-year-old Playboy Playmate is claiming that David Spade is the father of her unborn child. Holy Jamie Lynn!

Jillian Grace, Miss March 2005, is alleging that she had a relationship with the comedian, resulting in her becoming pregnant. Grace was discovered by Playboy after posing for test shots on the Howard Stern show.

Spade tells TMZ, “I had a brief relationship with Jillian Grace. If it is true that I am the father of her child, then I will accept responsibility.”

[From TMZ]

Grace is just 22, which seems quite young to be dating 43 year-old Spade. Maybe he realized this and that’s why it didn’t work out between the two. Good for Spade for immediately issuing a comment and admitting that he could be the father of the baby. Unlike DMX, he takes responsibility for his actions and seems like a stand up guy.

Jillian Grace was the Playmate of the month for March, 2005. Bits & Pieces blog notes that her turn-ons are “A guy who BBQs, someone who knows how to hit all the right spots, a sense of humor.” and that her ambitions are noted as “I plan to pursue modeling and acting. I would love to appear in a workout video.” Now that she’s getting more publicity for having David Spade’s baby she could use that fame to help launch a prenatal and post-baby workout franchise. If Carmen Electra can put out like 10 strip fitness videos then this chick has a chance too.

Thanks to Bits & Pieces blog for the header image of Grace. David Spade is shown on 11/9/07 at the Koi Las Vegas opening, thanks to PRPhotos.