Jennifer Aniston has been filming an Elmore Leonard film adaptation for about a month. Word is that Jennifer demanded that the movie change locations from Detroit to Connecticut because she didn’t want to be in Detroit and because she wanted to stay close to Justin Theroux, who has been staying in New York City, I guess. I always find it hard to believe that Jennifer Aniston gets to dictate those kinds of terms – yes, she’s a self-styled “America’s Sweetheart” with a dozen interchangeable rom-coms under her belt, but this Elmore Leonard project is an ensemble film in which no actor could or should pull rank. I bring this up because Radar has a story about Jennifer pulling rank all over the place while on set. Hunh.

Jennifer Aniston is an A-list movie star and RadarOnline.com has exclusively learned that’s exactly what she acts like on set. While in Connecticut filming the Untitled Elmore Leonard Project with other famous faces like Isla Fisher, Tim Robbins and Will Forte, a source close to the set says the former Friends actress doesn’t socialize with any of the cast or crew and purposely keeps herself removed as much as possible.

“Every day at lunch the entire cast and crew head to a cafeteria facility where they all sit down and eat lunch together for well over an hour,” the insider exclusively told RadarOnline.com. “But the only person who doesn’t eat with everyone else is Jen. She quickly grabs a lunch to go and leaves.”

The source also claims Jen, 44, has fancier transportation than everyone else — as well as a trailer that is much farther away from the set than anybody else’s.

“All the actors ride in normal production vans when they head to lunch, but Jen has her own luxury SUV,” the source said. “And not only is Jen’s private trailer miles away from the set, but she heads all the way back there each day to eat her lunch away from everyone else.”

The source concluded by telling RadarOnline.com that Jen isn’t outwardly rude to anyone on set, but that she just acts like a diva and it’s off-putting to those around her.

“Her behavior is a clear indicator to everyone that she’s not approachable,” the source said. “And it’s just unnecessary. There’s no reason why she has to act any better than anyone else on that movie set.”

[From Radar]

Eh. I’m not sure if I believe all of this – Jennifer is tight with Isla Fisher, and I can’t see Jennifer acting like she was “above” hanging out with Isla. But maybe she just want people to know that she eats the same chicken salad for lunch every damn day. Also, I could see her with the fancy trailer and making sure that people know she’s THE STAR (of an ensemble). And in case you have your doubts about Jennifer’s diva antics – go back and watch that Aveeno commercial. She totally made Aveeno call her “the beautiful Jennifer Aniston”. That’s one of her favorite things in the world, to remind people that she’s “beautiful”. Her publicist drops that into millions of stories about Jennifer. Imagine that contract – “The company must refer to Beautiful Jennifer Aniston as ‘Beautiful’ at least twice.”

Photos courtesy of Fame/Flynet.

Celebuzz has posted a copy of Lady Gaga’s tour rider, and normally her diva requirements wouldn’t rate a mention. We just heard Gaga rant and rave, on the record, against her ex assistant, a woman named Jennifer O’Neill, who is suing Gaga for unpaid overtime. In a sworn deposition, Gaga called O’Neill a “f’ing hood rat,” complained that O’Neill wanted to sleep in a bed, and called herself “the queen of the universe.” Considered in that context, Gaga’s tour rider sounds more demanding than the usual rock star requirements, but I could be wrong. Maybe most of the big superstars are like that and we just hear murmurs of it instead of confirmation direct from their mouths.

Here’s a little about Gaga’s rider, with the documents available at the source:

During her arduous two and a half-year Monster Ball Tour, the “Bad Romance” diva requested that her dressing room be decorated in a “glam rock” fashion and furnished with white leather couches, fresh roses and black satin drapes, according to the superstar’s rider obtained exclusively by Celebuzz.

The document, which was revealed in court documents during a six-hour deposition Gaga gave in a lawsuit involving her former assistant Jennifer O’Neill – which Celebuz was first to reveal in Aug. 2012, also noted that a “manquin [sic] with puffy pink public [sic] hair” be present in her backstage suite.

“[With] silver statins [sic] draped over the walls,” the document noted of her dressing room, adding that “old rock posters from her favorite artists [like] David Bowie, Queen, Elton John and Billy [sic] Holiday,” and “fan art that was kept on the road” also be hung around the room.

Other dressing room accoutrements include all the luxuries of home, plus one that has relaxing properties for the on-the-go superstar: 2 large fluffy lavendar [sic] towels; 2 lavendar [sic] hand towels; 2 lavendar [sic] wash cloths, which must be available to the pop star “at all times”; lavendar [sic] handsoap, body wash; face soap; 2 new seafoam luffas; small candle in the bathroom, fresh yellow, lavendar [sic] or white roses; and a steamer.

All of these requests are only a small fraction of Gaga’s complex — and costly — tour.

[From Celebuzz]

I want to know how people go about outfitting these tour rooms. Like how would you troubleshoot the problem of finding “pink pubic hair” for a mannequin? If you had to do it at the last minute, would you just buy a pink wig, cut a tuft out and then hot glue it to the dummy’s mons? Would Gaga throw a fit if it wasn’t sufficiently curly? In that case you might have to get a merkin and then dye it pink. I guess you could get a pink one online. I’m just saying that a significant amount of pre-planning is required to make sure Gaga’s dumb whims are satisfied. Bitch could bring her own pink merkin.

Over the weekend there was a follow-up story to the big reveal that Gaga is a nasty piece of work, basically. The woman suing Gaga, Jennifer O’Neill, revealed in court documents that Gaga forced her to sleep in the same bed. Supposedly there wasn’t any kinky business going on, but this confirms an older blind item that many people assumed was about Gaga. Now all that business about O’Neill requesting her own bed on the plane makes a lot more sense doesn’t it?

In the court documents, O’Neill stated “I felt it was required [to stay in the same room and bed as Gaga],” and added “Unlike anybody else on that tour, I did not have my own hotel room. I was not asked if I wanted my own hotel room. I had no privacy, no chance to talk to any family, no chance to talk to any friends, no chance to have sex if I wanted to have sex. There was no chance to do anything.” Unless Gaga said it was ok. I’m not saying O’Neill deserves overtime pay if it wasn’t in her contract, or even if she was technically underpaid for the type of work she did. Maybe she wanted to get all this information out to the public as well. In Gaga’s mind, O’Neill was hanging out with creeper Terry Richardson and enjoying expensive perks, so she has nothing to complain about. Gaga probably thought it was a huge privilege for O’Neill to sleep in the same bed instead of the suffocating experience it must have been.

Gaga on 1-25-13:

Most from 12-26-11. Credit: FameFlynet. One photo above credit: WENN.com

The NY Post has a new cover story on Lady Gaga today, with actual unbelievable quotes from Lady Gaga, taken during a sworn deposition in a lawsuit filed against her by a former personal assistant. The assistant, Jennifer O’Neill, is suing Gaga for $393,000, plus damages, for what she claims is 7,168 hours unpaid overtime. O’Niell made a salary of $75,000 a year. This story reminds me of the recent NY Times expose on Lindsay Lohan in that it’s impossible to do it justice in some excerpts, you really have to read it in its entirety because it’s epic. The amount of self aggrandizement from Gaga is astonishing, she’s so ridiculous it sounds like a parody. This is a window onto a level of narcissism and entitlement that I wouldn’t believe was possible if it didn’t come from a reliable source. I mean you could tell me Gaga was a diva and I’d believe you, but I honestly wouldn’t imagine she was such an awful one. Here are some excerpts, and again I can’t begin to do it justice, even though a big chunk of the story is below. All of these quotes are directly from Lady Gaga, given in a sworn deposition:

She’s not the queen of the universe, I am
Lady Gaga unloaded on a former personal assistant who’s suing her for overtime pay — blasting the woman in a sworn deposition as a “f–king hood rat who is suing me for money that she didn’t earn.”

“She’s just — she thinks she’s just like the queen of the universe.”

“And, you know what, she didn’t want to be a slave to one, because in my work and what I do, I’m the queen of the universe every day..

“This whole case is bulls–t, and you know it,” she added.

But under questioning, she conceded her decision not to pay overtime wasn’t based on labor laws, but is “actually based on a bubbly, good heart.”

Why Gaga doesn’t pay overtime
“I’m quite wonderful to everybody that works for me, and I am completely aghast to what a disgusting human being that you have become to sue me like this,” she said.

“Because she slept in Egyptian cotton sheets every night, in five-star hotels, on private planes, eating caviar, partying with [photographer] Terry Richardson all night, wearing my clothes, asking YSL [Yves Saint Laurent] to send her free shoes without my permission, using my YSL discount without my permission…”

“I expect there to be a certain level of, like, you know, knowledge and academia about, like, your job,” she said.

Gaga — who now has two personal assistants — said a good assistant “is somebody that can anticipate what you need before you need it, so they buy it for you, or they — they set it up for you.”

But Gaga said O’Neill failed at even the most basic of tasks, noting that “one of the biggest problems I had with Jen is that I felt like she didn’t enough lay out all my stuff for me” while traveling, because “there is 20 bags and there is only one me, and I can’t sift through everything.

It was stressful to Gaga to have to unpack luggage
“She would only open a couple of bags, and it was very stressful for me because then again on my off days I couldn’t really have a day off because, you know, I weigh 115 pounds, and I was trying to move these huge, big luggages all by myself in the room, and I did it all the time — by the way, she was asleep until 12:00 most of the time, so I was very often waking up and moving my own luggage and doing s–t by myself, and it was — it was a problem that I had,” she said.

And while previous assistants “would like set up my room, and I would know where my clothes were, I would know where my toothbrush was, I would know where my soap and everything was,” Gaga said that when O’Neill “got lazy she didn’t always do those things for me.

“I can’t walk down the street and go buy myself toiletries, I have to call security, I’ve got to call Jen or now I got to call Wendi, I’ve got to get a whole bunch of people together to help me fix the problem, which wouldn’t happen if she was doing her job properly on regular days,” Gaga said.

Gaga also portrayed O’Neill as an ingrate who took for granted the parties, “five-star hotels” and other luxuries — including “caviar, champagne and yachts” — that she got to enjoy as part of Gaga’ s entourage.

“It is, like, such an amazing luxury that I get to travel the world and have planes, she doesn’t even see what a luxury it is, but she thinks it’s owed to her for no reason,” the singer said.

Gaga is so wonderful to her employees
At one point, Gaga bragged about how the night before, her employees enjoyed a “beautiful $3,000 meal that I paid for” at Spiaggia in Chicago, billed as the only four-star Italian eatery in the Windy City.

Gaga said she picked up the tab “just because,” noting, “They were on their day off, and they all just wanted to be with me.”

Again why she doesn’t have to pay overtime
She also insisted that all her employees work only an eight-hour day — while also noting, “This job is a 9-to-5 job that is spaced out throughout the day…”

Rather than paying off O’Neill, Gaga said, “I’m going to give all the money that she wants to my employees that work hard for me now that deserve it.

“I’m not going to give it to her so she can go to Intermix and buy herself a new tube top,” the snippy superstar groused.

While the court papers don’t detail the start of their relationship, Gaga said it ended when, during a flight to Paris, O’Neill slept in one of two beds on Gaga’s jet.

This assistant was greedy for wanting to sleep in a bed
“Most of my assistants in the past always offered it to my mother or my family,” the singer said. “Jennifer was the first person that never offered it to anybody and always took it for herself.”

Afterward, “we partied until 5 in the morning, we got s–t hammered, I was crawling on the streets in Paris, I was screaming.

“Jennifer was there. She hung out all night with me and Terry Richardson, and tons of socialites from Paris, and she had the time of her life,” Gaga said.

The next morning, Gaga said, she “barely could talk” but had to fly back to America that night — “I mean, what a rock-star moment, right?”

But on the flight back, Gaga said, O’Neill insisted on sleeping in the second bed and “completely, like, flipped out at me, beyond belief” when “I told her no.”

“This is really inappropriate in front of Terry Richardson”
“I said, ‘Jennifer, this is really inappropriate in front of Terry Richardson,’ and she was like, ‘Don’t I get some sort of seniority because I’ve been here longer and I’m your friend?’ ” Gaga said.

“And I remember those words as clear as day, because when your best friend looks you in the eye and says ‘Why can’t I have that seat on your private plane, I’m your friend,’ the first thing I thought was ‘You’re not my f–king friend.’ ”

“You are not my f–king friend.”

[From The NY Post]

“This is really inappropriate in front of Terry Richardson.” As if that guy is known for even a modicum of decorum.

The first couple of lines kind of sum the whole story up. Gaga is pissed because her assistant overstepped her bounds, because an employee thought she was Gaga’s equal and wanted to be treated the same and paid overtime. No one is Gaga’s equal, she’s “The Queen of The Universe,” which is exactly how she phrased it. Only Gaga’s fame is waning in comparison to how popular she once was. That’s got to make her even more angry, entitled and bitchy. I’m amazed. What’s that saying – you meet the same people on the way up as you do on the way down? I’m sure this isn’t the only person that Gaga has alienated. Don’t question the benevolent dictator or she’ll get very, very mad. How dare you want to sleep in a bed? Aren’t you grateful for the scraps she throws you from her banquets? This woman is from another planet entirely.

Update: A lot of you are noting that the assistant may be just as out of line for asking for overtime and expecting perks as part of her very well paid job. I don’t disagree, I just got so sidetracked by how ludicrous Gaga was.

Thanks to A for the tip!

Lady Gaga is shown out shopping on 1-21-13 (floral dress) and out in London on 10-8-12 (witchy). Credit: Fame Flynet

New images of Beyonce! One of the new images is from her Tumblr – I guess it’s a preview of her Super Bowl Halftime performance, in which she will surely go pantsless. The other new image is her new print ad for her fragrance Pulse NYC. The Photoshop is particularly heavy-handed and artless on that one.

Quick question: am I the only one who will be avoiding the Super Bowl like the plague? Like, I have no interest in the game, the commercials or the Halftime Show. I will cover it because it’s my job, but otherwise, I just don’t “get” why I should care. Is it because I’m a girl? Or is it because I don’t care about football/Beyonce/commercials? But yeah – I acknowledge that this is big business any way you look at it. It’s even big business for the gossip industry, because this week has included a slew of Beyonce-is-a-diva-themed tabloid stories. One tabloid – from the UK – claimed that Beyonce had demanded that Blue Ivy’s “cedar bed” be delivered to NOLA from NYC, and that she wanted the NFL to provide a nursery with rose-scented candles, kept at a constant temperature of 78 degrees Fahrenheit (which is really warm, right?). An unnamed source claimed that Beyonce is “by far one of the most difficult celebrities we’ve ever dealt with. The list is as long as my arm. She may be a superstar, but this day is about football not her.” Ouch. Thankfully, Beyonce has the NFL doing PR for her nowadays:

Beyonce Knowles is a frickin’ saint … and NOT the demanding, complaining Super Bowl Halftime diva that she’s been made out to be in recent reports … this according to the NFL.

Beyonce has been under fire after reports surfaced saying she’s been “difficult” towards the people putting together her Super Bowl Halftime performance … making ridiculous requests including a demand that Blue Ivy’s backstage nursery be kept at EXACTLY 26 degrees celsius.

But Brian McCarthy, the NFL’s Vice President of Communications, tells TMZ … the reports are “pure pulp fiction” … noting that Beyonce has been nothing short of a pleasure.

“Beyonce and her team have been great to work with throughout this process,” McCarthy says … adding, “We have enjoyed her creativity, vision and spirit in putting on a great show that is truly a Super Bowl performance.”

[From TMZ]

So, who do you believe? Random tabloid sources calling Beyonce a diva? Or named NFL sources saying that she’s a hard worker and not a diva at all? Well… I think Beyonce is a hard worker. I think she’s been busting her ass, and she will bust her ass something fierce during the halftime show. But I also think she’s a diva, but maybe not in the same way as, say, Mariah Carey. Bey’s diva ‘tude is mostly about her being the center of the attention, the greatest, the best, a demi-goddess roaming around on Earth to amuse the peasants. So I fully expect her to hijack the Halftime Show and debut her latest pillow or something. Something to get everyone talking about BEYONCE.

Photos courtesy of Beyonce’s Tumblr.

This is just a funny story, although there’s a decent possibility that it’s just another “J.Lo got a maid fired, only not so much” story. I do think that Jennifer Lopez and Casper Smart are leaving a lot of disgruntled and pissy former fans in their wake as Jennifer’s tour continues to roll through Europe and the Middle East. So, on that count, I kind of believe this story. Maybe I’m just preconditioned to believe “J.Lo Diva” stories. I’m sure it’s because of preconditioned sexism etc. But here’s further evidence:

While it won’t surprise most people to learn that Jennifer Lopez is a demanding diva, her latest mid-air antics will shock even the most loyal of followers!

Proving that the down-to-earth Jenny From The Block is ancient history, the singer reportedly pulled a hissy fit on board a United Airlines flight when a flight attendant innocently offered her a drink in first class, the new issue of Star magazine exclusively reveals.

“I just said, ‘What can I get you to drink?’ But Jennifer refused to even acknowledge me. She turned her head away and told her personal assistant, ‘Please tell him I’d like a Diet Coke and lime,’” the flight attendant told Star. “She wouldn’t even look at me. It was sad, she seems so sweet in her movies.”

As RadarOnline.com previously reported, earlier this month German newspaper Bild reported that the former American Idol judge had a hotel maid fired for daring to ask for an autograph – something that J.Lo denies – and another source who has worked with the 43-year-old star confirmed that Jen doesn’t lower herself to speak to the help.

“She doesn’t speak to salespeople, restaurant or hotel staff – or flight attendants,” the insider told Star. “She only talks through her assistants.”

[From Radar]

I think the real Diva Move would be to refer to the person as “It”. Like, “Tell It that I want a Diet Coke. Tell It that I want a blanket too.” Anyway, do you have any problems believing that Jennifer Lopez doesn’t want to talk to “the help”? Considering she’s dating “the help” I’m not sure if this is possible, but it’s J.Lo, so who knows.

I’ve been thinking about it for a while, and I think I’ve figured out the diva scale:

Highest Scale Diva: Mariah Carey. Obviously the top-most diva, the diva who can out-diva every other bitch out there. No one else exists in the vacuum of narcissism that is Mimi.

Medium-Range Diva: J.Lo – Somewhat of a diva, especially when it comes to making eye contact with “the help”. But I believe Jennifer is mostly professional, and she doesn’t have to make it all about “The J.Lo Show” at all times.

Lower-Grade, Insidious Diva: Gwyneth Paltrow – The Patronizing Diva. She will talk to the help and make eye contact with the help and she’s professional and all of that. But she will always let you know that you are beneath her, and that she’s only deigning to speak to you because she’s such a generous soul. She will also tell you to your face that you’re fat.

Photos courtesy of WENN.

Yesterday we learned all about Christina Aguilera and Adam Levine’s ongoing feud, which those of you who watch “The Voice” have known about for some time. The show had its finale on Tuesday night, and the drama between two of the judges has overshadowed most of the news about the winner. “The Voice” earns excellent ratings and is going to continue on for a third season, of course. This has at least one of the other two judges, Cee Lo Green, worried about how this is all going to play out when half the panel members can’t get along. I think he’s half-confirming that those stories we heard about shouting and name-calling backstage are true. Aguilera and Levine aren’t just yelling at each other when the cameras are rolling. Here’s more:

“It’s getting a little old and a little inconvenient for everyone,” Green, 37, told Us Weekly of the bitterness between Aguilera, 31, and Levine, 33, which came to a head on Monday’s show when Aguilera slammed Levine’s singer Tony Lucca over a “derogatory” cover of Jay-Z’s “99 Problems.”

Although Green tells Us he was only peripherally aware of the brouhaha that went on behind the scenes regarding Lucca’s song choice, the coach wants the negativity to end — and fast.

“Adam hasn’t come to me and spoken to me [about his issues] and neither has Christina. But whatever it is, I’m hoping that we can get over it,” Green admits. “It’s not something that we should carry over into season three. I want the integrity of the show intact.”

[From US Weekly]

Some of you floated the theory that this whole thing was staged for ratings, but I think that it’s genuine. Aguilera is a narcissistic diva who takes things personally because it’s all about her, and Levine is a jerk who enjoys pushing her buttons.

As for Aguilera’s issue with Levine’s contestant Tony Lucca, who was on The Mickey Mouse Club at the same time she was as a teen, one of their former co-stars told TMZ that XTina and the other young girls on the show were all “in love” with Tony, who was the “alpha male” on the show back then. So that might explain why she gave him such a hard time.

A source tells Hollywood Life that XTina is so difficult on the set, that the crew “hates her.” Hollywood Life has a ton of stories on this, including some exclusive quotes from Lucca that make it seem like he’s their insider source. The crew has supposedly worked out a whole system for dealing with XTina when she gets in a tizzy during rehearsals. This description cracked me the hell up.

“When things get heated — on and off set — the people in makeup have been told to go to Christina and work on her so she doesn’t start complaining or yelling. If she starts carrying on and making a scene [with the other coaches], the people in makeup act like a pit crew and rush to her to keep her quiet.”

This is just what we’ve been hearing from the tabloids, so I don’t doubt it. Their source also claims that they doubt XTina will be around next season. I’m not so sure that’s true, though, when her antics get so much attention. There are plenty more stories on Hollywood Life about XTina, and I won’t bother to recap them all. You can read them here. It’s all about how she’s a nasty piece of work on set. Lucca claims he won’t even get into the same elevator with her she’s so unbearable.

As you probably already know, Christina not only wore a dress on the finale of The Voice that was so precariously low cut it looked like her boobs were about to pop out, she also wore what amounted to studded granny panties. Here are some photos of that, thanks to Hollywood Life.

Some photos credit: NBC

Just to be upfront, I’d like to admit that I’ve never seen The Voice. Not even a few minutes of it. I actively avoid it when it’s on. So I have no idea if Christina Aguilera is a trainwreck on the show, or if she’s really sweet and cute, or whatever. I’m just basing my opinion of Christina on her more tabloid-y persona, the public appearances in full-blown drag queen makeup, sauced out of her mind, and her general state of disarray. There’s enough anecdotal (and ACTUAL) evidence to suggest that Christina has some serious boozing problems, and her last public appearance (not related to The Voice) was at Etta James’ funeral, where Christina hiked up her bolt-ons and peed on herself (we hope it was pee). So here’s another story about Christina being a mess – “sources” inside The Voice say Christina is costing the show tons of money because she’s so unprepared, she doesn’t take care of herself, and she acts like the biggest diva in the world:

They say it takes a village to raise a child. But that’s nothing, it seems, compared to the manpower required to get Christina Aguilera ready for a close-up on the set of The Voice!

Christina hasn’t eased up on the partying at all – and it’s made her a nightmare to work with, a Voice insider reveals.

“She’s even shown up on set looking bloated and hungover,” the insider complains, adding that instead of being apologetic, the diva-ish star expects wardrobe and makeup staffers to transform her into her old self.

“It takes a lot of work to get her camera-ready,” the insider sighs. Indeed, it’s gotten so bad that frustrated producers are considering giving Christina a curfew on the nights before tapings. And it’s not just her appearance that needs help. Christina occasionally seems distracted while filming, to the point where producers have to feed her lines.

“They want her to look credible,” the insider explains.

One might expect Christina to be thankful for the second shot at success she’s been afforded by The Voice, especially after her last album, Bionic, tanked. But she seems to believe the show is lucky to have her! Rather than follow a strict diet and exercise regimen, a source says Christina has forced producers to waste time and money devising schemes to make her look like less of a mess, says a source. And they may be losing patience with her.

“She’s a disaster,” the insider says. “They have to work hard to keep her on track.”

[From In Touch Weekly, print edition]

Here’s the thing – over the past few weeks, there have been several tabloid stories all in a similar vein – Christina is a mess, producers are pissed off, her costars Adam Levine and Cee Lo Green have had enough. There have been some denials, but I tend to think The Voice’s staffers are leaking like crazy. How long before we get grainy photos or some budget video of Christina having some kind of drunken hissy fit on set? I would pity The Voice’s producers, but they didn’t have to sign Christina for another year. They knew what they were getting.

Photos courtesy of WENN & Christina‘s Twitter feed.

Lea Michelle’s diva reputation comes back to haunt her at every opportunity; then again, she doesn’t do much to dissuade us from believing that she’s a raging bitch either. Not only does she behave badly in public, including the time that she threw multiple temper tantrums over dresses and refused to talk to reporters at the MET Gala, but she also behaves like a pill in the workplace by acting like she’s better than the rest of the “Glee” cast. She’s also apparently pissed off the show’s wardrobe and makeup departments, who have (presumably) retaliated by making her look like hell on the program.

This time around, Lea’s strict vegan ways were the alleged catalyst for yet another diva fit. Of course, Lea is so very proud of her thin vegan body that she considered posing for Playboy. Now, she’s refused to properly take part in a foodfight for a “Glee” scene because she didn’t want meatballs hitting her meat-hating self:

Lea Michele’s diva persona as Rachel Berry on “Glee” may be no act. Sources say the 25-year-old’s frequent hissy fits had cast members’ tempers flaring hotter than ever during recent filming of a food-fight scene.

“Everyone was supposed to throw spaghetti with meatballs, salad, and other assorted foods at each other,” an insider tells Star. “Lea pitched a fit, wanting no part of it.

She is a vegan and a strong believer in not eating any meat products. The thought of being hit by meatballs grossed her out, so she was adamant that absolutely none be thrown her way!”

Producers instructed the cast, crew and extras to throw only salad at “Princess Lea” and told them that if they disobeyed, “they would be kicked off set immediately,” says the source.

So her food-fight costars took full advantage of the vegetarian option. “everyone armed themselves with tons of salad to throw her way,” reveals the insider.

Glee staffers say Lea’s imperious manner is nothing new. “She doesn’t even like to look the other actors in the eye,” says the source. “She thinks she’s better than everyone else.”

[From Star, print edition, 10/31/2011]

In Lea’s defense, I’m a vegetarian, and I wouldn’t want to have meatballs thrown at me either. Since I don’t eat meat for health reasons and not as a result of any animal-rights activism, my rationale wouldn’t be because I think that meatballs are gross or anything like that. Instead, I’d be more worried about being tempted to catch them in my mouth. In fact, I crave meatballs with a serious vengeance. Maybe that’s what Lea’s secretly afraid of too? Nah … she’s just a bitch.

Photos courtesy of Fame

Here’s a story in the NY Post that sounds very likely to be true, given all we’ve heard from Christina Aguilera to date. Apparently Aguilera is behaving like a drunken diva on the set of The Voice, and is getting into bickering fights with Adam Levine on camera while refusing to talk to any of her fellow judges when the cameras aren’t on. What’s more is that she rolls with a huge entourage, gets paid about triple an episode more than the other judges, and is late constantly. Again, this is typical behavior from XTina the narcissist who is never personally responsible for anything she does, has an excuse for everything, and blames her every mistake on other people paying attention to her. She’s going to lift herself up from that background of domestic abuse she brings up in every single interview and the horrible nasty press that drags her down. We just need to let her be Christina and join all the other sycophants and enablers that surround her like an overpaid bubble of yes men. Why can’t we just understand that no one ever says “no” to her?

Tensions are bubbling backstage on NBC’s hit “The Voice” between Christina Aguilera and rival judge Maroon 5 frontman Adam Levine.

Sources tell Page Six fellow judges Levine and Blake Shelton have formed an alliance against Aguilera, whose much bigger paycheck, attention-stealing diva stunts and doting makeup team have rubbed the guys the wrong way.

Low-key Levine can’t grasp why Aguilera, who seems to get on a little better with Cee Lo Green, is being paid $225,000 per episode, in comparison to their $75,000 rate, and has a huge entourage, including two hair and makeup people, a producer and an assistant.

“They are all so annoyed by her,” a source told us. “Every time she walks away with her entourage, they talk about her behind her back. She holds people up and never apologizes.”

While Aguilera is the most vocal on the show, sources say she won’t speak to the other judges during commercial breaks.

“When the cameras are rolling, she literally won’t shut up,” an insider told us. “It is all about her.”

The production team is also playing into the rift — Aguilera’s supporters wear “Team Christina” T-shirts on the Studio City set.

Despite the differences, another source said the judges appeared to be getting along after the show Tuesday night at a bash thrown by Shelton and Miranda Lambert, at which Aguilera was still wearing her “Team Christina” shirt.

We hear that despite the disagreements, Aguilera and Levine are working together and recently recorded a track that will be released Tuesday.

[From The NY Post]

As many of you mentioned in our last story on XTina’s Voice gig, she’s revealing what a petty person she is with every episode basically. I’ve only seen a few episodes of The Voice, and she’s come across as superficial and self centered, and she often picks fights with Adam. She isn’t terrible, though, probably because no one is calling her on her sh*t. She’s thinks the star, but right now she’s just a (very talented) singer whose last CD tanked, whose tour got canceled, and who is hanging on to her new gig on a competition reality show by the skin of her teeth. Do you think she’s going to get hired for more jobs, or even hold on to this one, if that’s the way she treats her coworkers?

Christina is shown on 6/3/11. Credit: Fame and Pacific Coast News

There’s a big story on the front page of the Lifestyle section of USA Today Weekendall about how Jennifer Lopez is having a career resurgence now that she’s on Idol, has a top digital single somehow, and is endorsing Gillette and L’Oreal products. She has a new album coming out in April and she’s promoting that too. Whenever we hear from Lopez she seems to be working hard to shed those diva stories, and this profile is no different. Some choice quotes include:

“Her down-to-earth appeal [on Idol] has pretty well erased the spoiled diva image that had followed her for so many years. And that’s something no amount of money can buy,” – pop music critic George Varga…

“I was just saying last night to Marc, ‘I am so ready to just bite into some role so hard.’ And he said, ‘I know, I can feel your creative juice going crazy.’ ”

As with the public, Hollywood is seeing a different side of Lopez, too, [her manager] Benny Medina says. “There’s a quality of filmmakers and other creative people in the industry that are being drawn to work with her. One of the greatest byproducts of this particular time is this new introduction of Jennifer Lopez to a community that’s always known her but had misconceptions about her.”

[From USA Today]

Only how much has Lopez changed really? She may get visibly moved by contestants on Idol, and I’ve been watching a little this season and I’ll admit that she’s doing a great job at changing her image. Those diva stories just won’t die, though. The National Enquirer reports this week that she was so demanding while staying at the Mirage in Vegas during Idol auditions that “she was one of the most difficult celebrities the staff had ever encountered.”

“Within five minutes of her arrival, her assistant had demanded two cribs for her 3-year-old twins, Max and Emme. A runner from the show was quickly sent out to buy cribs and assemble them, and that was explained to Jennifer. But within minutes, she called down to reception wanting to know where they were,” said the insider.

In the next hour, the impatient 41 year-old singer called 20 times demanding the cribs.

“She was boiling with rage that they weren’t ready – but it was the responsibility of ‘Idol’ producers to provide her cribs, not the hotel. She was every bit the prima donna.”

After the cribs arrived, J.Lo turned her attention to her wardrobe.

“She ordered 12 racks for her wardrobe changes, 20 mirrors and a ton of spotlights for her makeup team,” said the insider.

“There were around 50 people in her villa dealing with her makeup, hair and wardrobe – but the funny part is, she wore only two outfits during the entire two days of filming!”

[From The National Enquirer, print edition, March 28, 2011]

If Lopez’s twins were getting tired and fussy and she can’t get them to go to sleep in a big bed, I guess I understand her freaking out about the cribs. It must be frustrating to have two cranky toddlers at once. The wardrobe stuff is out of hand, though. This could possibly all be Idol’s fault for not having all the equipment necessary to satisfy La Lopez. I get the feeling she decides on the spur of the moment what she wants though, and expects everyone else to jump.

Here’s a link to a new photo of Lopez with her twins on the set of Idol.

Jennifer Lopez is shown on 3/2/11 (White outfit, credit: Fame) and 3/3/11 (Ridiculous checkered outfit, Credit: WENN.com