When Anne Hathaway’s Nips of Doom stepped onto the Oscar red carpet, everyone was shocked to see that she was wearing a pale pink Prada (with sketchy darting). Annie was supposed to be wearing Valentino. Everybody said she would be wearing Valentino. Valentino’s people had already sent out the press releases. So a million fashion conspiracies were born! Did Anne and Valentino have a falling out? Did the original dress rip? Did Anne just want the night to be about her Nips of Doom? Well, the answer has come – E! News says that Anne decided at the last minute to change out of the Valentino because she was worried Amanda Seyfried’s McQueen gown was too similar!

When it comes to selecting the Oscar gown, it’s no surprise that quite a bit of careful analysis goes into the strategic style selection. After all, an Oscar dress on a nominee, let alone a winner, will forever be remembered in history.

So upon seeing Anne Hathaway in a blush-pink Prada design on last night’s red carpet, we couldn’t help but wonder what happened to her trademark Valentino couture loyalty. After all, the star has consistently worn the designer on countless red carpets, and even had Mr. Valentino design her wedding dress months ago.

More peculiarly, Valentino even sent out a confirmation press release earlier in the afternoon declaring that the Les Misérables actress would be donning a design from the house, and shortly thereafter Fashion Police’s George Kotsiopoulos predicted on-air during the E! Oscars preshow that she’d wear an ivory embellished gown with a high neckline by the designer.

So what happened?

A source close to the actress confirms to E! News that shortly before Hathaway stepped out on the red carpet she learned that Amanda Seyfried’s Alexander McQueen Oscar gown was strikingly similar to her selected Valentino design, and opted for the Prada dress last minute.

A quick side-by-side comparison shows that both pale gowns were embellished with beautiful delicate floral embroidery—perhaps a little too close for comfort, in the opinion of the Oscar winner.

Hathaway explained to E!’s Ryan Seacrest on the red carpet that she “didn’t know what I was wearing until about three hours ago,” and said her work schedule was to blame. “This is the one that spoke to me in the end.”

[From E! News]

You can see the Valentino design at E! News – the look was strikingly similar to Amanda’s McQueen. The biggest different was basically that Seyfried’s dress had that little “cleavage window” and the Valentino didn’t. As I think I said yesterday – this speaks more to how Sarah Burton is really screwing up the Alexander McQueen label. I seriously doubt that the late Alexander McQueen would have put a lacy, Valentino-looking gown out there… much less on Amanda Seyfried. Here’s Seyfried’s again:

After the Prada disaster, Anne changed into the grey-blue Saint Laurent gown for the parties. She looked way more comfortable and much less cloying. Speaking of “cloying,” when Anne spoke to reporters after the Oscars, she answered questions about the backlash against her “cloying” Oscar campaign:

Anne Hathaway is a world-famous movie star — and now an Oscar-winning actress — but that doesn’t mean she’s immune to insecurity. In fact, she may be more vulnerable than anyone. Though the 30-year-old star has been praised in recent months for her spectacular performance in the epic movie musical Les Miserables, she has also been criticized for what some believe is a false, cloying sense of earnestness in her awards show appearances.

Addressing the jokes about her emotional acceptance speeches after winning the Best Supporting Actress Academy Award on Feb. 24, Hathaway admitted to feeling hurt by the backlash. “It does get to me,” she confessed. “But you have to remember in life that there’s a positive to every negative and a negative to every positive. The miracle of the universe is that, as far as they know, there’s 51 percent matter versus 49 percent anti-matter — things tip in the scale of the positive,” she continued. “So that is what I focus on.”

The star — who beat out fellow nominees Sally Field, Jacki Weaver, Helen Hunt, and Amy Adams — then went on to say that she tries not to let other people’s criticism change the way she approaches her own relationships. “I live my life with love,” she explained. “I live my life with compassion. I live my life hoping the best for absolutely everyone, no matter how they feel about me. And when you live that way, it’s amazing how beautiful every day can be.”

[From Us Weekly]

For the love of God, Anne. “The miracle of the universe is that, as far as they know, there’s 51 percent matter versus 49 percent anti-matter — things tip in the scale of the positive.” STFU!!! I love her and everything, but don’t you want to see her tip her head back and yell, “Haters gonna hate, suck on my Oscar, bitches”? I don’t know why she thinks that we’ll only accept this cloying, too-sweet version – show some spunk, show some chutzpah. And for the love of God, stop talking in that gaspy little-girl voice.

Photos courtesy of WENN.

These are some photos of Miley Cyrus and Liam Hemsworth earlier this week. Note that Miley is braless, I guess. She and Liam were grocery shopping in LA – I mean, why not do that braless? I don’t even know. I don’t have Miley-sized boobs, so I have no frame of reference. I simply cannot go out in public without a bra on – it would be ridiculous and obscene.

Speaking of ridiculous, I haven’t had the chance to chime in on Miley’s new haircut. Like CB and Bedhead, I think it’s pretty awful. So awful, in fact, I kind of wonder if Miley isn’t deeply regretting the haircut now that she’s a few weeks away from the drastic change. It’s like a slow-burning monstrosity, isn’t it? Haven’t you ever had a haircut like that? You talk it up, like, “Oh, I feel so free! Best cut ever!” And then a week later you look in the mirror and you’re like, “OMG, I HATE MYSELF.” I think that’s what’s happening to Miley, if I’m judging her Twitter correctly:

[Via Miley’s Twitter]

Of course, it would be easy to just assume that this is all about Liam and possibly about how Liam loathes the haircut too. Liam could be like, “Babe, your hair. I’m calling off the wedding.” Or it could be that Miley is just 19 years old and super-dramatic and everything is always SO EPIC and Jesus, aren’t all 19 year olds like that? The difference is that not every 19-year-old shaves half their head and throws a “pity party” (Us Week’s term) on Twitter. I do hope Miley eases up on the teenage dramz soon. It’s getting exhausting.

Photos courtesy of Fame/Flynet.

When I come into work first thing in the morning (“come in to work” = stumble to the computer while I’m still half-asleep), I spend the first 20 minutes of my workday checking all of the main celebrity news sites. So I saw this People Mag story first thing – “Lindsay Lohan Has a Mellow Night Out with Pals”. The basic gist was that Lindsay had been out Tuesday night at Bootsy Bellows with a “select group of friends” (like she’s SO selective), and an “onlooker” claimed, “Lindsay seemed really mellow and like she just wanted to chill out.” The whole thing reads like a press release for Cracked-Out Sobriety, and of course I didn’t believe it, but I didn’t see anything else around, so I just ignored it. But now Us Weekly has a completely different summary of what went down at Bootsy Bellows –and it’s not pretty.

Lindsay Lohan isn’t okay with sharing the spotlight at her favorite Hollywood night club.

A source tells Us Weekly that the Liz & Dick actress, 25, appeared to be back to her old, headline-making antics at Bootsy Bellows on Tuesday night — and put a wrench in E! reality star Francesca Eastwood’s birthday bash.

“Francesca was celebrating her birthday with around a dozen friends in a private area when Lindsay came over and started screaming that Francesca should leave,” the source says. “She was yelling ‘I’m a star, she’s a nobody, get her out of here!’”

The source continues, “One poor guy came over and tried to calm [Lindsay] down and she acted aggressively. At that point the security told her to leave and it was totally embarrassing. She is acting like some bad ’80s film star, and it is hard to watch because she needs help.”

But before Lohan embarked on her journey home, she and her party made one more cringe-worthy snafu.

“Lindsay’s friend was driving and they sped out and almost hit one of the valet guys,” a witness tells Us.

[From Us Weekly]

Does anyone have a problem believing any of this? This is, after all, the girl who crack-screamed, “MOVE THAT CONE, I’M LINDSAY LOHAN.” Why wouldn’t she also crack-scream, “I’M A STAR, SHE’S A NOBODY, GET HER OUT OF HERE”? To Clint Eastwood’s daughter. Because that always goes over so well. By the way, I have no real idea who Francesca Eastwood is beyond the daughter of Clint and Frances Fisher. Apparently, she just turned 19 years old. Happy birthday, Francesca. I’m sorry you had to deal with a crack monster on your birthday.

Real question: why do clubs still allow Lindsay inside? I realize she has the cracked-out instincts of a cat burglar, so no bouncer is going to be able to stop her, but still – once she’s inside, all you have to do is grab on to her busted weave and toss her out.

My favorite photos of Lindsay in 2009, courtesy of WENN.

Violence is never the answer. I do not promote violence (or I really, really try not to). But is it okay to laugh a little bit when some dumb punk-ass gets a well-deserved beatdown from a Canadian? You know you’ve pissed off a lot of people when it’s a Canadian who gives you a whoopin’. (Note to Canadians: I’m just saying that you guys have an international reputation for being nice and non-aggressive.) Anyway, so it is with Chris Brown… I was actually thinking about writing something about the reports that Chris and Rihanna seem to be circling each other yet again. But this story is so much more interesting. Apparently, Chris and Canadian rapper Drake were in the same NYC nightclub last night. Chris sent some champagne to Drake, and Drake sent it back to Chris with a note about Rihanna. Rihanna and Drake have long been circling each other too – many hoped that Ri and Drake would end up together at some point. Anyway, once Drake sent the champers back, chaos ensued. And Chris got beat up by a Canadian:

MediaTakeOut.com just learned that rapper Drake and his entourage got into a FIGHT… with CHRIS BROWN at the popular AFTER HOURS NYC nightclub WIP.

According to MULTIPLE MediaTakeOut.com snitches inside, Chris and Drake have had a DIFFICULT relationship since three years ago – when Rihanna CHEATED on Chris, with Drake. Chris has HELD A GRUDGE against Drake for years.

Well last night at WIP, we’re told that Chris reportedly sent over a bottle of champagne to Drake’s table, as a sort of peace offering. We’re not sure WHAT happened next, but we’re hearing UNCONFIRMED REPORTS that Drake sent the bottle back to Chris with a message to the effect of – “I’m f*ckng the love of your life [Rihanna], deal with it.”

Whatever message Drake sent back caused Chris to immediately fly into a rage – and he CONFRONTED Drake and his entourage – which included ANOTHER Chris Brown rival, rapper Meek Mill. Meek Mill also had a relationship with Rihanna.

Well according to our snitch, Drake PUNCHED Chris in the face and before Chris could retaliate, someone (#teamnosnitch#) popped Chris in the mouth with a BOTTLE, multiple times. And as a result, Chris was LEAKING LIKE A FAUCET!!!

Security immediately swooped in and broke up the fight. Drake and ‘em immediately LEFT the club, before POLICE arrived. Chris, we’re told left under his own power – and later went to the HOSPITAL, to get his face sewn shut.

[Via Media TakeOut]

You know what this reminds me of? I used to work for a man who did domestic violence counseling, and he told me that most of the time, the men who beat women will go out of their way to avoid confronting other men. Chris Brown is all “tough” when it comes to beating the crap out of his girlfriend (or a window), but when it comes to confronting another man, Chris gets his ass handed to him. True, it sounds like Drake was the aggressor and the instigator, and that makes me think less of him. It also sounds like Chris was ganged-up on by some dudes who were just waiting for any reason to kick his ass. Which I can’t cosign, but I can chuckle.

TMZ reports that the fight definitely took place, and that both Drake and Chris’s entourages were involved. The NYPD arrived after the fight, but both Drake and Chris had left the club and no arrests were made. A few hours later, Chris tweeted “How u party wit rich n**** that hate? Lol… Throwing bottles like girls? #shameonya!.” And he tweeted a photo of his face (which had a piece missing) – but he deleted the tweets later.

Photos courtesy of WENN, Chris‘s Twitter.

The tabloids are still trying to make this Sandra Bullock-Scarlett Johansson-Ryan Reynolds thing into some huge scandal. I’m not buying it… but some of you must be, or else these stories wouldn’t keep happening. Here’s how I think the whole thing went down. Scarlett was the one to “dump” Ryan, because she was so young, and suddenly it hit her that she could be sleeping with many more dudes who weren’t so friggin’ gerbil-faced, etc. Maybe she was even cheating on Ryan, I don’t know. So Scarlett dumps Ryan and Ryan throws a little fit in the press, having his people whine about how immature Scarlett is, etc. Then he took his whiny baby act to Sandra Bullock, and she was like “Eh, why not? A rebound fling might be fun.” Meanwhile, Scarlett is on some alcohol-soaked orgy involving Justin Timberlake, Kevin Connolly and God knows who else. Scar is all “Ryan who now?” But whatever, that’s just my take. The Enquirer’s source feels differently. They’re trying to play it like Scar is going to bitch-fight with Sandra, because Saint Bullock is such a hussy.

“You’re a man-hungry tramp!” SCARLETT JOHANSSON exploded in rage when her pal SANDRA BULLOCK betrayed her by cozying up to estranged hubby RYAN REYNOLDS — before the ink on their divorce papers was even dry.

The blonde beauty, 26, wanted her bitter words to get back to Sandra “because she still has intense feelings for Ryan and feels Sandra isn’t respecting that at all,” revealed a friend.

Scarlett is having second thoughts about her recent split and has been holding out hope of reconciliation – -but now Sandy has captured Ryan’s attention and has even gone out on the town with him.

“Sandra may be known as ‘America’s Sweetheart,’ but she’s NO sweetheart to Scarlett,” declared the friend. “She feels Sandra is torpedoing any chances at a possible reconciliation – by jumping right in with him! It hurts her terribly that while she’s wrestling with these huge issues about ending her marriage, Sandra doesn’t appear to have any regard for her. She thought they were friends and that Sandra would keep a respectful distance, particularly after what she went through in her own messy breakup with Jesse James.”

“Scarlett is hearing how much Ryan loves helping Sandra with her adopted baby Louis. Now she feels there’s little chance to win him back.”

[From The National Enquirer, print and online edition]

Yeah, I just don’t think Scarlett cares. Does she seem like she cares? Nope. Maybe she’ll play around with this image a little bit for some sympathy, but I don’t really see any public pity parties in her future. It’s just not her style.

Here are a couple of Scarlett’s new ads for Moet. Does this look like a girl who is trying to slam Sandra Bullock as a tramp? Not so much.

Photos courtesy of Fame.

While our collective Christmases weren’t as Hermes-filled as Beyonce’s, all of us were doing better than Charlie Sheen. Yes, having avoided prison and any consequence for his coke-and-rage-filled actions, Charlie Sheen spent the holidays in the warm embrace of network love, too much money, paid companionship and blow. Somebody had a snowy Christmas! Ugh. According to Radar’s sources, Charlie blew (operative word) off all of his family obligations to spend the holidays in a never-ending “party” of hookers and cocaine. That’s our Charlie?

Charlie Sheen is partying hard once again and missed THREE family Christmas events as he lived the high life, RadarOnline.com has learned exclusively.

One year after being arrested on domestic violence charges in Aspen, Colorado, the Two and a Half Men star was nowhere to be found at family events where he was expected.

“He skipped going to his brother Emilio’s, didn’t show up at Denise Richards’ house and also skipped seeing his daughter Cassandra,” a source close to the family told RadarOnline.com.

So where has Charlie been?

“He’s back partying again,” a source told us. “Although it’s tough to say he’s back partying because he never really quit!”

Sheen had a disastrous night partying with porn star Capri Anderson in New York, but that hasn’t slowed him. Anderson filed a criminal complaint claiming Sheen held her against her will and Sheen filed a lawsuit against her for extortion.

“He did a lot of cocaine that night,” a source close to that situation told RadarOnline.com, and Sheen hasn’t stopped.

“He likes hookers and he likes coke and he’s got enough money for both,” the source said.

While the star blew off the family events for Christmas he wasn’t suffering from holiday depression. “He’s been having a great time partying like crazy for the past several weeks,” the source said.

[From Radar]

I believe this. I don’t think Charlie “learned” any lesson from his experiences over the past year. It was just over a year ago that he beat the hell out of his wife and threatened her with a knife when they were blitzed out of their skulls, and Charlie skated. Then he locks a hooker in a hotel closet, trashes a hotel room and all the cops want from him is an autograph. When is Martin Sheen going to stage another intervention? Or has Martin thrown up his hands at Charlie at this point? Could be. If somebody doesn’t step up, Charlie’s downward spiral is just going to continue on throughout the year. Hookers and blow for everybody!

Photos courtesy of WENN.

Yesterday, my favorite Daily Mail columnist Katie Nicholl reported a relatively innocuous little gossip item. According to her sources, Lily Allen was planning a wedding to her boyfriend Sam Cooper, following their tragic miscarriage just one month ago. You can read the piece here – there are no nasty quotes, nothing that I would find particularly offensive. If it was true, I would think Lily’s friends are gossips who love her. If it was false, I would think that Nicholl just got a bad tip. What I would not think, however, is that Nicholl was a C-U-Next-Tuesday. But that was Lily Allen’s reaction on Twitter:

[From Lily Allen’s Twitter]

Too harsh? Or should Lily be off-limits for a time because of her personal tragedy? Or should professional gossips just pack it in completely because no one should ever speculate, EVER? Here’s Gossip Cop’s take on the situation:

Lily Allen is blasting a gossip columnist who claims Allen and Sam Cooper are planning to marry in the aftermath of her recent miscarriage.

The Daily Mail’s Katie Nicholl quotes a so-called “friend” of the couple as saying, “They realised through their grief that they absolutely adore one another and cannot live without each other.” Nicholl goes on to speculate about the location of the ceremony and reception.

Allen, who’s also recovering from blood poisoning, took to Twitter to say exactly what she thought of Nicholl.

Allen writes, “Katie Nicholl I THINK you’re a c**t, leave me out of your sh**ty column, you know nothing about the intimate details of my life.”

“Theres (sic) a time and a place for your musings where i’m concerned, and it’s not now,” adds the singer.

Gossip Cop has busted Nicholl’s “musings” before, including her wrong assertions about Sienna Miller and Charlize Theron following Kabbalah, as well as her baseless claim that Uma Thurman planned to marry at Kensington Palace.

As of now, the Allen article is still posted to the Daily Mail’s website, and Nicholl has not responded.

[From Gossip Cop]

Well, Lily seems to be claiming that Nicholl did get in touch with her, so I wouldn’t say there has been NO response. Quite honestly, I have mixed feelings about this. I think it’s in poor taste to report random marriage gossip about someone who has just gone through an unspeakable tragedy. On the other hand, despite Lily’s personal grief, I think she’s overreacting and still quite hungry for the limelight – this report would have been completely ignored if Lily hadn’t made such a big deal about it. She’s been in the fame business long enough to know that – so I have no idea what she’s trying to achieve.

Photos courtesy of WENN.

The more we hear about Demi Lovato’s “breakdown” the more it seems like Demi was in much bigger trouble than her parents and handlers realized. Even now, the “official” story of Demi’s “treatment” is PR-friendly, and her handlers are trying to make it sound like the girl just has some emotional problems and she needs some sleep. Followers of blind items and fans of the nastier gossip have felt pretty strongly that Demi was into some really hardcore sh-t – cocaine, binge drinking, sex with Wilmer Valderrama, and probably much more. Life & Style has a new story in this week’s issue about Demi’s cocaine abuse (back when she was 17 years old), and they’ve gotten “eyewitness” testimony:

The intense pressure on Demi Lovato reached a breaking point when reps for the young star announced she “left her tour to seek medical treatment for emotional and physical issues she has dealt with for some time,” issues such as cutting and eating disorders.

Now, new eyewitnesses confirm to Life & Style those problems are only exacerbated by the teenager’s heavy drinking and partying. Texas college student Brian Payne clearly remembers the night he spent hanging with Demi in North Richland Hills, Texas, where he saw her firsthand doing cocaine at a mutual friend’s house party on Dec. 28 last year.

“She was doing line after line like a pro — and she was 17 at the time,” he tells Life & Style, recalling the wild party they attended after a concert by the band Neon Indian at the Granada Theater in Dallas. “I just remember her doing it as if she had been doing it for a long time. It didn’t seem like something new to her.”

Insiders say the pain of her breakup with Joe Jonas — and the fact that they’re on the Camp Rock 2 tour together — further fueled her downward spiral. “Demi’s been on a tear lately,” says an insider. “She’ll chug booze straight from the bottle.”

Luckily for Demi, her mother and stepfather were quick to take action after they heard that she had punched a tour backup dancer in the face.

“They overheard one of the dancers talking about it and freaked out,” says the insider. “They heard Demi was drinking, but the news that her partying was getting out of control shocked them — and they confronted her immediately.”

“This is a young girl who got caught up in the fame and fortune of Hollywood and couldn’t see straight anymore,” says another insider. “She had eating issues and emotional issues, and everything else got hitched along with that.”

[From Life & Style]

I believe it, all of it. Except one part – I think her parents have known for a long time that Demi has had serious issues, and they only stepped in to do something when her alcohol and drug abuse became so bad it threatened their paychecks. I think Demi has had emotional, drug and alcohol problems for years, and the “airport meltdown” incident was only her latest cry for help. Sad.

On Tuesday night, Audrina Patridge was (SPOILER) kicked off Dancing With the Stars. Within minutes, it seems, Audrina was offered another television deal, so everything works out. After the DWTS elimination, it seems like Audrina and her mom Lynn went out to dinner, and Lynn decided to forgo the steak and baked potato for a dinner of vodka martinis, with a stoop cigarette chaser. Hollywood TV caught up with Lynn as she “performed” a hilarious drunken rant for the camera:

This video has f bombs and is NSFW

I’ll just do my general thoughts:

Oooh…Lynn has SO much more personality than Audrina. Maybe it has something to do with Audrina’s “Polish Catholic f-ckin’ full-on Italian” upbringing? Yes, Lynn, Audrina “was raised right.”

Lynn is right, Audrina winning DWTS is NOT “God’s will.” Because God doesn’t give a crap about dancing competitions, seriously.

Oohh…Lauren Conrad and her “pissy ass little fashion sh-t… bitch wants to bring it on, let‘s GO!”

Lynn: “I might be drink, but you know what? I’m not mad.” LMAO.

Lynn: “I don’t give a sh-t, I ain’t scared of paparazzis.”

Lynn: “I’ve been a celebrity mom through eight years of this Hills bullsh-t, Audrina is going to the next level.”

Lynn: “F-cking Hills tramps… Audrina is the only one with class and I don’t give a F-CK about it.”

Lynn: “I don’t care if I’m a ass! I’m going to be on TV!”

Okay, I’ll stop. I mean, it must suck for Audrina that her mom clearly has a drinking problem, but it also must suck for Audrina that her mom has WAY more personality than her.

The note on these fabulous photos reads: “Sienna Miller and Jude Law leave C London restaurant in Mayfair and are greeted by a large group of photographs. Jude and Sienna had trouble finding their cab and supposedly got into the wrong car. They went back into the restaurant while Jude rang the cabdriver to find out where he was.” Excellent. Jude and Sienna are back in business! Let’s go out to eat, get drunk, get into the wrong car, and get photographed the whole time. What else is there to do? Work? Bah! Ooh… Sienna is actually working! Whoops. She’s got a film in production right now. Hm… I thought that you couldn’t pay people to hire Sienna these days, but it looks like I’m wrong. I apologize, Sienna.

But I have to say, Sienna looks more wasted than Jude. She’s been photographed looking drunk as hell a lot lately. She loves her wine. I think Jude looks okay, though – the scruff is meh, but I like the jaunty hat. The Sun is bitching him out for looking like he “raided Dr. Watson’s closet.” Harsh.

But here’s a question – who gets this sh-tfaced on a Monday night? When you have to go to work the next day? Goodness.