Portia de Rossi covers the upcoming issue of OUT magazine, and she looks alien-like. That’s on the weird lighting, coloring, styling and Photoshopping of the photo, although Portia does look a bit Botoxy and pulled in real life too. (Just not this bad.) It looks like they stretched her lips out and gave her fake cheekbones and she’s about to suck out your soul. Those eyes! There are more photos from that shoot on Out Magazine’s website, and the effect is the same.

In her interview, Portia talks about the Arrested Development reboot, which will air on Netflix streaming May 26. I know a lot of fans are thrilled to hear that. She also discusses her career and if she plans to have a child with her longterm partner, Ellen DeGeneres. Her answer was kind of refreshing to me. I respect it when celebrities say that they’re childless by choice and don’t blow smoke when that’s not something they want.

On her career and women in television
“I’ve been very specific with my career,” she says. “I really love acting, but it’s important to me to be part of really interesting projects. Whatever I respond to, I really throw myself at. I like working with really smart people, and I like being on shows that are either challenging or say something about the culture that we all should be talking about or thinking about.”

She has also plunged into producing, including a pilot she and DeGeneres worked on together about rival sisters. “I hadn’t been on the ground floor of a project and put it together,” she says. “I definitely am going to be developing more shows — not only for myself — in the future. I really liked being a part of the creative process from the beginning instead of just stepping into a role at the very end.”

Perhaps because she’s now had a taste of what more daring TV development can looklike with Netflix, de Rossi is particularly blunt about the much-heralded arrival (again) of funny women in TV. “Sometimes female voices are a little louder and sometimes they’re not,” she says. “But I think the general trend of network television is just money and how to make money. Until things actually change, the conversation sounds the same.”

On her idea for a show about actors bearding for each other
And her experience trying to produce gay stories for TV mirrors that gap between a powerful fantasy and the sometimes more uncomfortable reality. “I had a project that I was shopping around for TV called Butch and Fay, about two gay people, very famous actors who marry each other for the sake of their career,” she says. “That happened a lot in the past and probably still exists today. Every single person that I brought it to was kind of titillated by the idea but ultimately shut it down, saying that being gay in the industry just wasn’t an issue anymore. I know it’s not very popular to bring this issue up, but it’s still very difficult for actors to get certain types of roles. We need to hear it some more until things change.”

The other half of the message that needs to be heard, she says, is pretty straightforward: “I really, honestly think that anybody who is openly gay and visible is powerful. It doesn’t matter what you do, you are impacting people.”

On Ellen
De Rossi’s smart, articulate self-awareness took center stage during her graceful coming out in 2005 and her 2008 splashy-yet-intimate wedding to DeGeneres, which included a marriage equality media tour featuring the cover of People and a full-hour fete on the comfy perch of Oprah’s couch. “We’ve settled into happily married life,” de Rossi says. “We really support each other in whatever we’re doing and we’re incredibly happy, which is why you don’t see us in the press so much. There’s no drama to report.”

On if she and Ellen want kids
But don’t expect them to follow a more modern famous-family script. “There comes some pressure in your mid-30s, and you think, Am I going to have kids so I don’t miss out on something that other people really seem to love? Or is it that I really genuinely want to do this with my whole heart? I didn’t feel that my response was ‘yes’ to the latter. You have to really want to have kids, and neither of us did. So it’s just going to be me and Ellen and no babies — but we’re the best of friends and married life is blissful, it really is. I’ve never been happier than I am right now.”

[From Out]

Ooh I like that idea for a show on actors bearding for each other. I bet she has some real dirt on Hollywood couples who are doing this, and you know I’d love to hear it.

Recently Portia and Ellen showed off their 26 acre ranch estate, to Elle Decor. They’ve been trying to sell it, which is probably why they’re letting it be featured in a magazine. Elle has a slideshow and the design is rustic and homey with some contemporary touches. The property has eight “cabins” which are outfitted beautifully and look very relaxing. These two love their life together and they realize that they don’t want to add children to the mix. Children are not for everyone and they do change everything.

Portia and Ellen are shown in February and in September of last year. Credit: WENN.com

John Mayer will appear on today’s episode of “The Ellen DeGeneres Show” to promote his upcoming album, Born and Raised, and … poor Ellen. I know she puts on a bright and shiny face for all of her guests (and there will be dancing), but you know even Ellen must have deduced the douche at some point when it comes to John. Anyway, John will perform on the show, which will mark his first television gig in three years since he began to suffer from a throat granuloma. John’s kind of switching his story in this interview though, which confuses me because now he’s saying that half of his problem was actually acid reflex from drinking too much alcohol. Who knows. I just always find it strange that singers will drink and smoke into oblivion when those are two of the worst things they can do to prematurely ruin their voices and livelihoods.

Fortunately, Ellen also put John on the hot seat a little bit by asking him about his breakup with Katy Perry. As Ellen mentions, she and Katy are friends, so she wasn’t going to let him get away without at least discussing the issue a little bit. Also, what else does John really have to talk about in his life? One of the theories for their breakup was that John was only using Katy to keep his name in the press, and it’s still working. Here are some excerpts and a clip of John’s chat with Ellen:

On his breakup with Katy Perry: “Listen, it was a very private relationship going in. It was a private relationship during and it’s a private relationship, still. I can understand asking the question based on some previous answers I have given but I have finally learned how to put the wall between one thing and the other. I’ve been much happier since then. I’m on the same journey as everyone else. Coupling is a tricky thing.”

On recovering from his acid reflux (?): “Yeah, that’s half of it. Half of it is over use and singing and singing and singing. The other stuff is you know, what you put into your body. And, I’m getting to that age now your body doesn’t just shake everything off and it didn’t help that I really loved, love, loved scotch. It’s just like applying poison to your body. It’s like applying a shellac of poison. It’s just delicious, wonderful poison. That makes you not care how late you’re out till or where you’re going but I had to really say I like signing and writing more than I like delicious scotch so I had to really dial it down. And, I’m a little more boring now.”

[From The Ellen DeGeneres Show]

Of course John is calling this a “private relationship” now even though he didn’t mind bragging about it in Rolling Stone a few months ago. This is the same guy who felt the need to tell the paps that he was the one who dumped Jennifer Aniston, so his “privacy” excuse just doesn’t wash. Katy should be glad to be rid of John’s douche stench, but sadly, I’m pretty sure that she’d take him back if he came running. What’s the attraction though? I’ll never understand it.

Photos courtesy of Michael Rozman/Warner Bros and WENN

I wonder if Jessica Simpson is capable of giving an interview without oversharing. She’ll tell you basically everything, including her bodily processes, and it seems like more of a compulsion than a shtick, like she has no filter. In her latest interview, with Ellen, she wasn’t bad for her, but she still talked about puking during her pregnancy and not using protection this second time she got pregnant, just a few months after having her first. She basically covered the same ground, and the same topics, that she did on The Tonight Show a couple of months ago. (Back then she explained that her second pregnancy was the result of a one night stand – with her husband fiance.) Jessica is promoting “Fashion Star,” the second season of which premieres on Friday.

Ellen: What’s happening?
Jessica: I don’t know, apparently protection was just thrown out the window.

Ellen: Congratulations.
Jessica: We were definitely extremely shocked.

Ellen: How are you feeling compared to the first pregnancy?
Jessica: This pregnancy is the complete opposite. Like with Maxwell, I felt amazing. Like I could do everything, eat everything. Do whatever I wanted. I had a lot of energy. This time around…I’m like exhausted. Eating Tums. That’s my snack of choice.

Ellen: Because you usually like a little bit of a break. You’ve got hands full probably with Maxwell.
Jessica: Absolutely. Maxwell was our focus and then I was puking and lying on the couch.

Ellen: Have you learned anything with the first pregnancy? Are you doing things differently now?

Jessica: Yeah, the first pregnancy I like let loose and I kind of ate everything that I wanted to eat and I just really enjoyed it. This time around I think because I was doing Weight Watchers and I felt super healthy. I’m not really craving as much and I know how hard it is to get off so I’m trying to make healthier, wiser decisions.

But apparently Eric still wanted me so…

Ellen: That’s nice, that’s always nice to know…. Apparently he did.
Jessica: So I can gain as much weight and I will have a husband to be that loves me.

[From Ellen]

That’s nice that she feels like her husband fiance isn’t bothered by her pregnancy weight gain and she’s not stressing over that. I gained a lot too and my husband didn’t really seem to care, but I still did the diet thing afterwards – for me.

I included that kind of full transcript from the Ellen show because I wanted to show that Ellen wasn’t asking Jessica direct questions. Ellen was just giving very neutral responses and Jessica was launching into her spiel without much prompting. So maybe the whole graphic description overshare is Jessica’s thing and she’s not going to switch it up at this point. It’s probably pretty genuine, for her, and what else is she going to talk about? She has her show and her many fashion lines, but being ditzy and somewhat gross is how she got famous. It’s her bread and butter. She’s even getting a sitcom based on her life, it’s true, and it will probably get worse once that finally happens. It’s all fart jokes from here on out.

Update: I changed references from Jessica’s “husband” to her “fiance”. I keep thinking they’re already married!

Here’s video of Jessica’s appearance on Ellen:

Header photo credit: Michael Rozman/Warner Bros. Jessica is shown below out on 2-21. I like her pregnancy style here. Credit: FameFlynet

Pregnant Kristen Bell was on The Ellen Degeneres show today, and the Ellen people sent us some clips. Bell, 32, is pregnant with her first child, with fiance Dax Shephard. I love those two as a couple and hope for the best for them and their baby.

Kristen revealed to Ellen that they knows the sex of the baby but are choosing to keep it a secret. She said she’s due sometime in late Spring, which I would guess to be around May. Ellen wouldn’t take no for an answer on the baby’s sex and she seemed to get some clues from Kristen suggesting that it’s a boy. My favorite part of the interview is when Ellen asked Kristen if she’s considering a natural birth and she’s all “hell no.” This was really funny:

On if she’s going to have a natural childbirth
I’ve got nothing to prove. I feel like when I arrive at the hospital. I want a glass of whiskey, I want the epidural in my back. And, I want to get hit in the face with a baseball bat and wake me up when it’s over because I’ve seen the videos and it looks terrifying.

On how she has dopamine-induced high self esteem
I look in the mirror and I think it’s the reverse body dysmorphia because I can understand what my shape is but I see Brooke Shields. And, it doesn’t make a lick of sense but it’s something that the baby’s giving me hormonally makes me feel really giggly and happy.

On if Dax Shepard is excited
He is, yeah. In different ways then I am. He’s just thinking about all the off-roading he’ll have in this tiny partner.

Ellen says “So, it’s a boy?”
Maybe? Do you have to be a boy off road? Absolutely not.

[From The Ellen show, received via email.]

Kristen also shared this adorable picture of Dax practicing for their baby by putting one of their dogs in the Baby Bjorn. She claims the dog got in there willingly.

And she also dressed her dogs up for Halloween like Downton Abbey staffmembers Mrs. O’Brien and Thomas Barrow. I sh*t you not.

Do you remember the last time that Kristen Bell was on Ellen and she started crying when Ellen told her there was a sloth backstage? (Video is here.) That was just a year ago, and Ellen was punking Kristen, there was no sloth, and kind of exploiting her strange obsession with sloths. Last year Kristen told Ellen how Dax hired a sloth to come to her 31st birthday party. She was so freaked out about it, even recounting the story, and explained that she’s one of those people who cries easily.

Anyway Ellen brought a real sloth on stage with Kristen this time! The sloth’s name was Lola, and Kristen said that she’d actually heard that there was a sloth named Lola in LA. She has all the LA sloths’ names memorized apparently. Kristen really kept it together this time, I was surprised. I cry easily too although I can hold it in if I focus. I could see Kristen struggling not to cry. (My kid has a school project to do on Helen Keller and those YouTube newsreel videos really do me in.) Kristen was working hard to seem calm about the sloth but she was probably dying inside.

Here’s the video of Kristen seeing the sloth. She’s also gifted a baby sloth outfit from Ellen and she loves it. This girl is such a trip.

And here’s the rest of Kristen’s interview:

Header photo credit: FameFlynet

The new season of American Idol premieres tonight. I’m reminded by the huge ads on People’s website. As part of the lead-up, we’ve heard several interviews with Mariah Carey, who has of course been asked repeatedly about her caught-on-tape feud with co-judge Nicki Minaj. Mariah has responded to those questions just as we’ve come to expect from her: she’s said things like “It’s a distraction from the show,” she claimed that it was “one-sided” and explained her coping method: “In that moment I don’t hear you; I don’t see you; you don’t exist to me at this moment — that’s what it is.” So it’s nice to hear Nicki, who seems to have instigated the argument, admit that she’s a diva and that she butted heads with Mariah. In an interview on Ellen yesterday, Nicki explained that her feelings were hurt by some rumors that Mariah didn’t like her, so she “overcompensated by being crazy.”

On why she bitched out Mariah
If you know someone maybe doesn’t like you. It’s kind of like, now you’re gonna like really go in and show hey, because it’s like a defense mechanism. You know what I mean? It’s really that. You’re feelings are hurt and you can’t believe it so you kind of just compensate with being crazy.

On if she’s still mad at Mariah
We’re fine. I cannot hold a grudge against Mariah Carey. What people don’t understand is that I’ve looked up to her for so many years. Since she came out, “Vision of Love” all that. Me and my Mother would sing her songs like all day and all night. So I don’t know if she’s gotten over it but I have. I mean, I’m over there cracking up laughing, having fun and if she’s still holding a grudge. I don’t know. Like I don’t care.

On if she’s looking forward to live shows
I’m not looking forward to live shows. I cannot trust myself. ust like if there’s a slick comment being made… I just want it to go well. It’s about the contestants. We have a lot of great talent and I don’t want anyone on the panel to say something to crazy because then I don’t want to look like a crazy psycho again. I am not really a crazy psycho you guys, Seriously, please, no. I swear…No, I am serious. I am really not…

[From The Ellen show received via email]

This interview reminded me that Ellen was a judge on American Idol for a season! I almost forgot all about that. It’s not like Ellen was talking about it in the clip I saw, but she does have an insider’s perspective on Idol.

As for Nicki and Mariah, it seemed clear Nicki’s comments that things are still very strained with Mariah. They’ve reached a tentative truce, but there’s the potential for some arguments and their beef does seem genuine. It’s not a put on for ratings. (Which the show needs relative to its prior success.) Still, Fox is surely counting on people tuning in to see Mariah and Nicki give each other the evil eye and bitch each other out. This makes me wonder how they’re going to hype the argument when it comes time to air. I’ll DVR this show and fast forward through the boring parts. Chances are low I’ll keep up with it all season though since it’s very hard for me to make more than a one-hour a week commitment to a show. (Why do they drag it out to two hours twice a week? It feels interminable at times.)

Here’s a clip of Nicki on Ellen:

Nicki Minaj is shown at the American Idol season premiere on 1-12-13 and on New Year’s Eve. (curly wig) Mariah Carey is shown on 1-4-13 credit: WENN.com.

Courteney Cox appeared in an interview to air on the Ellen Degeneres show today. (Video is here.) A lot of outlets are focusing on how Courtney called her ex, David Arquette, her “best friend in the world” and said that she appreciates him “now more than I ever did.” It was a nice reminder that not all Hollywood divorces are acrimonious. I just found myself sad for Courteney and David that they weren’t able to make it work.

The thing that struck me about the interview was how plastic Courteney looked. It’s true, there’s no way to skate around it. I don’t watch “Cougar Town” and I haven’t seen Courteney in motion in some time. On Ellen only Courteney’s lower lip moved, I swear. She also revealed that she recently had laser treatment on her hands to make them look younger. They were peeling from the treatment I guess and she was self conscious about it. She said the result should be worth it.

Courtney: “It’s called a dual fraxel. I always think my hands look old anyway. Now they literally look like a 95 year-old…. [afterwards] you look like a 21 year-old.”

Ellen: “Your hands and your elbows age faster than any part of your body. I don’t know why. But elbows and hands are horrible, aren’t they?”

Courtney: “Yeah, it’s a giveaway. Elbows, hands and necks… Those little fingerless gloves, I’m going to wear them in the summer.”

This just makes me wonder what she’s done to her face. Will it settle for her, or will she have to keep getting maintenance work? It sounds like she’s doing whatever it takes to look “younger,” but she’s just getting that homogeneous look that makes her real age impossible to tell. I want to have a little something done, I’ll admit it, but I’m so scared I’ll end up looking like a real housewife.

Courteney also said that she has a new condo closer to David’s house in order to co-parent with him. She has two dogs, a 9 and 10 year-old named Hopper and Harley who are both Cavalier King Charles Spaniels. She told a weird story about how she had to buy a square of doggy grass to put on the balcony of her new place, and how she had to personally pee on it in order to get the dogs to go there. Ellen schooled Courteney that when the new doggy grass comes she can just pee in a jar inside and pour it on. The things people do for their pets.

Courteney is shown on 10-27 at a Playstation Event and on 12-21 filming scenes for Cougar Town. Credit: WENN.com and Gaz Shirley, PacificCoastNews.com

You know what I kind of love? I love that the tabloid/celebrity/media culture has quickly accepted that gay couples are exactly the same as straight couples as far as potential for drama/controversy/scandal etc. I kind of like that Ellen DeGeneres and Portia de Rossi aren’t “above” getting some juicy breakup rumors, and that they’re not put on some pedestal as “the lesbians who are perfect because they have to be because they are the representation of all gay couples who want to get married.” Because real life is complicated, and gay married couples have drama in their marriages too, and why not talk about it? The Enquirer says Ellen and Portia are having problems. Sure. I’ll believe that:

Ellen DeGeneres is now TV’s highest-rated and most beloved talk-show host – but her incredible success is destroying her marriage to Portia de Rossi! Insiders say Ellen and Portia are being driven further and further apart as Ellen’s career continues to soar to new heights.

“Sadly, Ellen and Portia’s relationship is quickly becoming just another typical Hollywood cliché,” a source close to the couple told The ENQUIRER. “The more success and wealth they accumulate, the deeper the wedge between them.”

As The ENQUIRER REPORTED in June, Ellen, 54, who rakes in a reported $45 million a year, has become obsessed with purchas­ing real estate as a way to fill the void in her relationship with Portia, 39. A year ago, she shelled out $12 million for Brad Pitt’s former Malibu home – then sold it in August for $13 million. She also dropped another $18 million for an 8,500-square-foot mansion in Beverly Hills after selling her massive estate, also in Beverly Hills, to Ryan Seacrest.

“Ellen is grasping at straws in her desperate attempt to keep Portia happy by amassing all of that wealth, but it’s becoming blatantly obvious that it’s forcing them further apart,” said the source.

“At this point, the only thing that’s going to save Ellen and Portia’s relationship is to find a way to make Ellen’s success secondary to what really matters – their love for each other.”

[From The Enquirer]

Gossip Cop has a competing “source” who claims that Ellen and Portia are “completely happy” and the Enquirer is made of lies. I’m prepared to accept something in between, but maybe that’s just coming from a place of me always liking Ellen more than Portia. Though I will always have a soft spot for Portia because of Arrested Development, she’s become something resembling a lesbian trophy wife. She looks ‘Toxed and blitzed most of the time, and she bugs. Maybe she’s super-supportive of Ellen and maybe they’re totally making it work, but I would guess that they have problems. Just like everybody else.

Photos courtesy of WENN.

I’ve never even considered this before, but apparently there were some rumors about this a few years ago. Around 2010, a few sites claimed that Ellen DeGeneres had gotten some subtle tweaking here and there – reducing the bags under her eyes, a small eye lift maybe, but nothing like a full-on facelift. This was around the time when she signed on to American Idol, I guess. You can see some before-and-after shots here and here. Anyway, The Enquirer is polishing up this old chestnut and claiming that Ellen has had a LOT of work done and she continues to get a lot of stuff done, and that she’s secretly very, very vain, and that she spends hours in the makeup chair trying to hide her plastic surgery scars.

TV chatty ELLEN DEGENERES prides herself on her fresh-faced, girl-next-door looks – but sources say she’s one of TV’s vainest stars!

“She spends hours in front of the mirror hiding her secret cosmetic surgery,” an insider on her syndicated talk show told The ENQUIRER.

“Publicly, Ellen is all about achieving a minimal makeup look but the reality is that she’s spent major bucks for a nat­ural-looking face-lift and other cosmetic procedures. The big challenge for her makeup and hair team is to conceal scarring due to the work that she’s had done. It usually takes them at least two and a half hours to give Ellen the peaches-and-cream glow that her fans love.”

Doctors have speculated that the 54-year-old face of Cover Girl cosmetics and former “American Idol” judge has undergone face-, eye-, neck- and brow-lifts. Ellen, who wed actress Portia de Rossi in 2008, is also rumored to have had laser peels to smooth out her complexion as well as frequent Botox injec­tions to eliminate crow’s feet and freshen up her look.

“But Ellen has made a name for herself as the queen of anti-glamour and has never admitted to having any procedures,” said the source. “She hates to portray the image of actually caring about her appearance.”

Still, she needs help to look her best with her crazy schedule, working constantly and keeping long hours.

“The cosmetic procedures she’s had, paired with highly specialized makeup techniques, make Ellen look awake and alert even when she’s completely exhausted,” noted the source. “The bottom line is that even if you are as down to earth as Ellen, in Hollywood your face is your fortune.”

[From National Enquirer]

Looking through the photos… I am willing to believe that Ellen has had some work done. But much like Susan Sarandon’s or even Sharon Stone’s work, it’s subtle and realistic. This is not a 54 year old woman trying to look 29 years old. And yes, she IS 54 years old. I know! She could easily pass for late 30s, early 40s… in some light. That’s how good the work is, I guess. So, do I believe that Ellen is incredibly vain and obsessed with her looks? Not any more or less than the average celebrity woman, you know? And as I’m looking through these photos… I kind of think Ellen needs a better night cream.

Now, Portia looks tweaked and ‘Toxed to high heaven. Jeez.

This is a photo from 2011 – Ellen’s definitely had her neck done since then.

Her neck in 2012:

Photos courtesy of WENN.

Ellen DeGeneres has just released the promos (promotional commercials) for the new season of her talk show. Can you believe Ellen is going into her 10th year as a talk show host? It’s kind of crazy and wonderful to think of what twists and turns her career has taken, and how she’s currently one of the most popular and beloved figures on television. Anyway, Ellen got a special guest star for her promos – her friend Jennifer Aniston! Aniston appears in two new TV spots for Ellen’s show, and both are rather cute. In the first one, Jennifer says that “Coming on Ellen’s show is different than doing any other show… because Ellen takes care of you from the moment you get here.” Then you see Ellen “taking care” of Jennifer by vacuuming her armpits and messing up her hair and such. Then you see DeGeneres brushing Aniston’s famous head of hair, doing her makeup and then vacuuming her armpit and backside. The second video is where Ellen tries to “Beyonce” Jennifer by giving her a wind machine during the promo. The third video is kind of mean/funny – Ellen tells Jennifer to cover up “her bad side” during the promo.

They’re cute, right? I mean, it’s nothing groundbreaking or anything, it’s just a cute way for Ellen to promote her show with one of her friends. I’ve actually kind of wondering about Ellen and Jennifer over the past year – even though Jennifer (and Justin Theroux) appeared on Ellen’s show to promote Wanderlust, Ellen also spent time helping Brad Pitt promote Moneyball (or Tree of Life, I forget) last year, and then Ellen hosted Brad’s Make It Right NOLA fundraiser several months ago too. Ellen is definitely trying to stay friendly with both Brad and Jennifer. Which is fine! She doesn’t have to take sides. I was just surprised that Ellen hadn’t chosen sides already.

Screencaps of the commercials.

Last week, Russell Brand appeared on the “The Ellen DeGeneres Show” and skillfully fielded questions about his estranged wife, Katy Perry, whom he claims to only have love and positivity for. Of course, Russell is at least partially full of crap because no one resorts to divorce when only positive feelings are attached to the marriage, but whatever. Now Katy is appearing on Today’s episode of “Ellen” to promote her upcoming horror flick 3-D concert movie, Katy Perry: Part Of Me, and she claims that she’ll be revealing “all sides of her life” with the movie. Should Russell be afraid?

Katy Perry on her film Part of Me

Ellen: Like you said, you shot the good, the bad. Who knows what’s going to happen in your life when you start shooting things? You got married during that time.

Katy: I did.

Ellen: And then that didn’t turn out to last and that part of it is still in there?

Katy: I thought it was important for me..First of all, I thought it was important to show everything in between. I think sometimes people think that we’re perfect and we know we’re not perfect, at all. I think it’s important start breaking down the idea that to achieve your dream you always have to be perfect or flawless or live in some kind of fantasy world. So that’s why I decided to put everything into the film. In the most tasteful way. But mostly it’s about how I go there and the ride along the way which can be bumpy but mostly it was extremely fun…

[From "The Ellen DeGeneres Show"]

Eh. I suspect that this movie is strictly (at least from the looks of the trailer) sugar-coated for Katy’s tweenaged fanbase, so Russell probably won’t be dragged through the mud except to say that Katy is “sad” about her failed marriage. In other words, there will be no talk of wheelchair pr0n in this concert movie.

Meanwhile, Katy’s first real post-marriage “fling” has ended. Even though she called him her “boyfriend,” she and Robert Ackroyd (guitarist of Florence + the Machine) have ended their Coachella-based romance. So says E! Online:

This fling has flung.

Katy Perry is once again single and ready to mingle after E! News confirms that Russell Brand’s estranged wife called it quits with her rebound rocker beau, Florence + the Machine guitarist Robert Ackroyd.

The pair weren’t together long, only going public with their coupling at last month’s Coachella Music Festival, but over the weekend, Katy was already on the arm of a “smokin’” hot other…

But not like that!

The newly single “Part of Me” singer turned up at the Billboard Music Awards last night—where she debuted her new song, “Wide Awake,” ostensibly about her ex-husband—with no less a red carpet companion than her own grandma, Ann Hudson.

“My date to tonight’s Billboard Music Awards is hotter than the las vegas weather,” the 27-year-old tweeted before the ceremony. “SMOKIN’!”

So cute!

As for her new unattached status, don’t expect Perry to be pining away.

“It wasn’t serious,” a source told E! News. “She likes him a lot, but it was just a distraction. It was very short-lived, she’s still dealing with getting over her marriage and it’s going to take her a while to truly be able to trust anyone again.”

In other words, he’s not exactly the one who got away.

“Whe is remaining friends with Rob, but they were never serious to begin with, and she had doubts about it from the start. There are no hard feelings, they are both just very busy and had no expectations. Rob is a good guy, but she just wants to focus on her work.”

[From E! Online]

So I guess this is maybe why Katy took her grandma as her official date to the Billboard Music Awards on Sunday evening? I’d like to think she took grandma along for the ride as a sweet gesture and not because she “needed” a red-carpet companion. Hopefully, that’s the case.

Photos courtesy of Fame/Flynet and “Ellen”