I can’t help but feel some degree of empathy for Demi Lovato. Of course, she’s been the subject of recent blind items concerning an alleged repeat visit to rehab, but I agree with CB’s perspective of not putting too much faith into blind items. The gist of the latest round of rumors was that Demi’s recent spa trip (during which she missed the Grammys) was actually a cover for some hardcore inpatient therapy, but MTV spoke with Demi’s team, who asserts the following: (1) She wasn’t even scheduled to appear at the Grammys; (2) She was merely taking advantage of a prescheduled week off from work; and (3) She definitely wasn’t back in rehab.

In an ongoing struggle, Demi continues her progress after a 2010 rehab visit for for emotional issues and an eating disorder, and she has readily admitted that she’ll fight those urges for the rest of her life. In the meantime, she hasn’t been afraid to speak out against critics who say that she’s been gaining weight. Demi also took on the Disney Channel over an insensitive eating disorder joke that appeared on “Shake It Up.” Now Demi’s starring in her own MTV special to spread her message to young girls:

Her past troubles and stint in rehab have been well documented but looking at Demi Lovato today she appears happy and healthy with her career back on track. [T]he 19-year-old singer has revealed she is still facing a daily battle with her demons opening up in her revealing documentary “Stay Strong” – which aired on MTV tonight.

During the one-hour special Demi admitted: “I cannot tell you that I haven’t thrown up since treatment – I cannot tell you that I have not cut myself since treatment. This has been a daily battle. When I was four years old and I remember looking in the mirror and thinking I was fat I was constantly feeling guilty about my weight. I was overeating to compensate for not feeling worthy enough and then not knowing what to do. Even when I did lose 20lbs when I turned 12 because I stopped eating, it’s never enough. It was an obsession of the mind.”

Demi, who says she was able to hide her problems well, threw herself into her work with a tour followed by an album followed by a TV show – she never took a break. Speaking of her schedule she said: “I loved it but it was kinda when I got a little crazy and maybe, possibly, out of control. It literally ended up driving me insane. ‘I was not eating and purging and self-harming.”

It was at this point during a tour in 2010 that her parents stepped in and sat her down telling her they had a plane waiting for her to take her to treatment. Her reaction was one that many in her position would take she explained: “I was so mad at my parents I was like ‘I hate you guys.’”

Despite her reluctance, Demi checked in to Timberline Knolls centre in Illinois in October 2010 where she spent the next months working on herself – missing Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year’s Eve in the process.

While she missed family and friends and this point the documentary captured an insight of her ongoing battle – when she visited Texas for Thanksgiving. The copious amounts of food was clearly overwhelming for the young starlet but she tackled the day with confidence – and the help of her sponsor who was on the phone throughout the day.

Demi was seen eating the holiday food sharing the day with her close family and friends she explained: “Last year I didn’t get to spend Thanksgiving with my family. This year I am not taking any holiday for granted.”

But while the holiday itself was successful – she revealed she had kept all her food down – the consequences of consuming such a large amount of food for her brought several days of anxiety.

Demi spoke at her anxieties about putting on weight and said: “Last night was pretty bad, right before I went on stage I was crying in my dressing room. I know it’s silly to the average person. It really messed with my head.”

While the young star was open about her problems and her issues she displayed a strong sense of self – a confidence that she was working hard to keep on track and she wasn’t going to let up on her determination.

She told the group: “It’s not an easy road — it gets easier. I wasn’t given this voice just to sing I think it was given to me for a bigger purpose. Recovery doesn’t have a day off … I don’t think there is a finish line I just think you keep going.’

[From Daily Mail]

Yes, it sounds like Demi has been beating the same drum for quite some time to promote her latest album, Skyscraper. However, I honestly have faith in this girl and hope that I don’t have to eat my words by saying that she’s one of the good ones. Early on, Demi realized that she had a problem, and she didn’t go into denial and/or let it fester in manner of a Lohan. Demi has a lot of issues — including abandonment, eating disorders, and self-harm — but she’s on track, realizes that she’s a role model for young girls, and would do anything to inspire them not to fall into the same traps as her own. Naturally I’m feeling a little bit of fatique from witnessing Demi discussing the same topics, but she has a valid point, and her heart is in the right place. If she can save just a few girls with tales of her experiences, then it’ll all be worth it in the end.

Photos courtesy of WENN

Like Madonna, Britney Spears must not watch the news on television or go on the Internet, although it Britney’s case it’s probably not deliberate. She’s never home and spending a few moments paying attention to the news might cut into her busy shopping and driving schedule. Britney hadn’t heard yet that she was among the top five unsexiest women in Maxim’s latest misogynistic poll. She decided to head to a Maxim-sponsored party at the last minute, but when someone in her camp broke the news to her that she scored high on their unsexiest list she got all weepy and just resumed her random drive:

As Britney Spears drove aimlessly around the streets of Los Angeles Tuesday night following her shopping spree to find the perfect crystal chandelier, sources tell OK! that the thought occurred to her to make a surprise appearance at one of the evening’s big-ticket A-list events: The Maxim magazine-hosted launch party for the new Ubisoft video game Assassin’s Creed at Opera nightclub.

But the pop star never made the star-filled party, which included Heroes star Kristen Bell and The Hills’ Lauren Conrad and Audrina Patridge. So what kept her from going in?

According to a pal of the pop star, despite the fact that she wasn’t on the invite list, “Brit started saying that Maxim had always been so good to her in the past and she didn’t want to miss anything fun.” Well, that’s when she was informed that not only had she not made the cut of the magazine’s most recent “Hot 100″ list, the new issue of Maxim actually labeled, along with Madonna, Amy Winehouse, Sandra Oh and Sarah Jessica Parker, one the five most “unsexy” women on the planet.

As one can imagine, Brit didn’t take this news well. “She started to pout and her eyes were filling up with tears. She had no idea there was such a thing as an Unsexy list and it came as a pretty big shock.”

[From OK! Magazine]

We deliberately ignore Britney here usually, partly for your sanity and partly for ours. It’s just too much work to cover Britney, because I have this OCD need to cover all the current stories that are out on a celebrity and that’s maddeningly difficult with the weave-wearing wonder. This one was just too good to pass up, though. Widdle Britney had her feelings hurt, aww.

Meanwhile Britney has been hauled into court for missing 8 out of 14 scheduled drugs tests. Her lawyer offered the ridiculous explanation that she sleeps late because she’s a “pop star” (who doesn’t promote her album or tour) and elicited laughs in the court room when she told the judge “You are not a pop star with a number one album, so you don’t know.”

Part of the problem was that Britney changes her cell phone number all the time, so the judge said that she must provide a working number for the drug testing facility to contact her. She has never failed a drug test. The visitation arrangement with her two boys will remain the same.

While we were ignoring Britney she also left her children in the care of her court-appointed monitor while she went chandelier shopping, bought a $200k Mercedes, and ran over a second person’s foot with her car – the old one. Maybe she’s ditching it because it had too many bad memories for her, and too many dents from her various moving violations.

Here’s Britney buying that car on 11/7. She purchased a new 2008 Mercedes SL65 worth 200k. I would talk about her see-through shirt, but it’s Britney and she’s wearing a bra and the shirt almost covers her stomach so you have to give her credit.

She is also shown hiding her lips with her cellphone while out driving with her two boys. It looks like Jayden is sleeping as his head is slumped over. My son does that too, but we usually put a Bucky head pillow on him so it’s more comfortable when he’s sleeping. (Little old ladies would always scold me when he was sleeping in his stroller slumped over. Sometimes the stroller doesn’t go back and there’s nothing you can do.) The court appointed monitor is there too, but she’s trying to hide by ducking down.

Thanks to Splash News for these pictures.

TMZ has the video of Paris Hilton in a skeleton costume at that adult video store in Toronto telling befuddled management that she wants the posters advertising her “One Night in Paris” sex tape removed. JayBird reported on this on Monday, and store owners said at the time they were working out deals to sell the footage.

Initial reports just said that Paris demanded that the posters be removed, but TMZ hyped it when they released this clip, saying “Paris goes postal.” It’s more like “Paris gets mildly pissed,” because her flat affect barely registers the ripples from her supposed anger at seeing her face in a porn store. Toward the end of the clip you can hear her yelling “I want it now” from off camera but if you pay attention to how she sounds rather than what she’s saying it’s more like she’s annoyed because someone put turkey on her salad when she asked for chicken.

Here’s what Paris says in the tape below. There are two guys working behind the counter, and while you can hear Paris clearly it’s hard to tell what they’re saying. One of them seems like he’s calling their boss and saying “Paris Hilton, yes that was…”

Paris says clearly and firmly, but without her voice breaking or getting too loud:

You can’t use my image in a porn store
Want me to call my lawyer and sue the shit out of this place if you don’t take them down?

I really want them down, because they’re mean and this is not right. I’m really furious. This is disgusting. And I want the other one, now, or I’m calling the f’ing cops.

[Transcribed from the video available at TMZ]

I kind of admire a girl who can get so angry she rips stuff off the wall without really screaming or breaking a sweat. It seems like not being able to express extreme emotion should be a disadvantage for someone who aspires to some sort of B-movie career, but Paris makes it work. She flits all over the place, showing up at events and openings several times a week, always looking calm and composed. It’s only when she’s really upset that her milktoast voice betrays her. She has to resort to breaking stuff to get her point across, because when Paris said “I’m hurt bad,” it’s hard to tell if she broke a nail or a toe.

Thanks to TMZ for this video of the incident. Paris just kind of wanders around, rooting through her purse and trying to muster up courage until about one minute in.

Header image is thanks to PR Photos.

J-Lo’s ongoing quest for cinematic success and praise has hit a serious bump. A public viewing of her latest film. The kind of bump that really can’t be avoided. Even the socks and sandals crew isnt sold on her latest offering:

Jennifer Lopez’s new movie was booed at the 57th Annual Berlin Film Festival at the weekend.
‘Bordertown’ premiered at the event but the reception it received was less than favourable.
According to reports, most of the audience voiced their disappointment by booing and jeering

via Female First

Jennifer hasn’t had overwhelming success of late in her movies and hasn’t really had good critical response since Out of Sight. The early promise of her movie career was so massively derailed by the infotainment industry that turned her life into the show and her major attraction. The launch of the celebrity name merger really dates from Bennifer: the primordial soup from which all other two headed monsters emerged. Maybe the movie she should have gone for was Bennifer Versus Brangelina: the two could stomp over downtown Tokyo.

A source claims J.Lo fled the cinema in tears after hearing the cacophony of boos and is now said to be worried the movie will be panned by critics.
In ‘Bordertown’, the 37-year-old actress plays an American journalist investigating a series of murders near American-owned factories in Juarez and El Paso, in Mexico.
J.Lo, known for her roles in romantic comedies, has starred in several box office flops, including ‘Gigli’ and ‘Jersey Girl’.
She was hoping her performance in ‘Bordertown’ would prove her worth as a serious actress.

Collapsing the private and the professional seems to have backfired in the longterm, but ironically the general buzz seems to indicate that while Bordertown may tank … her smaller more personal, straight from her personal life, co-starring her latest husband flick – El Cantate- may be the film that gets her all that love and success she so sorely lacks.

pics via stuff.co.nz

There are two stories today that suggest that Britney is hemorrhaging money as well as public goodwill with her latest antics. She’s selling the mansion in Beverly Hills she bought just two months ago, with the excuse that her son is more at home in her Malibu estate. She only lived there for a month before she left. While it’s possible she can’t afford it, I would bet she just wasn’t comfortable with the neighborhood:

Looks like Britney Spears is shedding more than her hair.

The newly bald “Toxic” singer is looking to sell the Beverly Hills house that she bought only two months ago, according to OK! magazine.

Spears bought the six-bedroom, six-and-a-half bathroom 7,553 square-foot Tuscan villa on Dec. 11 for $7.2 million, moved in a month later, moved out on January 25, and now is looking to sell it for $7.5 million, reports the mag.
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The quick sell is prompting some to question whether the singer needs to reel in her free-spending ways, but according to OK!, it was her sixteen-month-old son’s preference to stay put at Spears’ Malibu house.

“Britney says that Preston preferred living at the Malibu property,” a “source close to Britney” told OK! “It has more land and huge garden — it’s a better environment for Britney to raise the boys.”

Well no wonder Britney’s all f’ed up – she hates her new house!

There’s also a story that Britney tried to book a hotel room but was denied because she had only part of her credit card number written down on a piece of paper and no cash or other cards. She was in standard form and drank heavily, shaved her legs by the pool while wearing cowbooy boots, and tried to switch bikinis with another woman. When she was told she couldn’t stay there without a proper credit card she cried and said “Nobody wants me anymore.” Bald Britney was seen in two different cheap wigs, one blonde and one bright blue.

It’s possible that someone confiscated Britney’s wallet in an attempt to save her from herself, or that she just lost it in a drunken bought of forgetfulness. I doubt that her credit has been cut off. The girl has an AmEx black card with no limit.

Britney later hit bars on Sunset Strip while wearing the Halloween-quality wig and was said to have stormed out of the The Roxy when someone played her old song “Hit Me Baby One More Time.” Another report had people singing Karaoke to it, and not recognizing Britney or realizing she was actually there.

With a bald head, no career in sight and only occasional visits to the studio, how long is it going to be before Spears goes the way of MC Hammer? Britney also recently blew off several recording sessions with Pharrell. Then again, she doesn’t really have expensive taste otherwise and with K-Fed cut loose she’ll be spending less overall. Still, she could get creamed in the divorce settlement, and that seems more likely every day she leaves the house.

What do you guys think: is Britney broke or soon to be?

Melissa Etheridge’s wife, Tammy Lynn Michaels, got annoyed at people commenting on TMZ about her family. She blogged about how she was followed by paparazzi on a day out to the twins’ pediatrician and how it wasn’t fair that people were judging her based on pictures taken against her will.

At first I thought she was pissed that people were criticizing her choice of a stroller for her four and a half month-old twins, a boy and girl. One commentor on TMZ wondered why she didn’t get a Bugaboo (which I find ridiculous because I would never pay that much for a baby stroller, but I’m not rich) but the main criticism was that she was using a stroller that didn’t provide the neck support the baby needed, and indeed you can see the infant slumped down in the umbrella stroller.

The main thing that must have bothered her though were all the homophobic ignorant comments. As a blogger I’ve learned that there are racists, trolls, and pre-teens that are going to flame and talk smack, so I honestly thought at first that she was upset at the stroller comments, because why would that other shit bother her? She’s majorly upset about something though, and it’s probably that.

She blogged that she can’t stand the paparazzi, that people must hate themselves if they criticize her, and that she would create a magazine all about the paparazzi and “turn the tables.” K-Fed said this same shit a few months before his marriage flamed out:

so you take your kid out for their 4 month check up (with two moms that have barely recovered from the flu), and then you realize… you’ve been stalked by a photographer the entire time.

so montana is out. no more shopping on montana. heads up: montana is being staked out like robertson and rodeo and beverly hills. buh-bye montana stores.

all we wanted was some pizza to take home. so while we waited, we grabbed our brand new cheapie stroller out of the back, cuz quite frankly…. the babies are big, and Miller is so heavy that we can’t hold him long without our arms falling off. so as we waited, we stuck him in a stroller where he promptly fell asleep. and the photographer grabbed some of those shots… and now suddenly what was just a marital discussion (“Should we put them in it? It’s too big, but it’s just for a second while our sick and recovering butts wait for food… Okay, maybe, what do you think? Hmmm….” you know- those marital discussions…..). it turns into a snapped image with no explanation; and then the strangers who have time to look online at others’ lives… they leave comments…. or, rather, insults, crowing with smug self-satisfaction and ignorance. their fantasies have quickly grown into facts in their own minds.

and now, across this wwweb, are smeared photos of my angels, complete with judgemental, shitty comments from complete strangers who can be so miserable with themselves, that they push their self-hatred on others.

i’m never going out with my children again without keeping one eye open for the razzi dementors who suck your soul with their photos.

one day… someone is going to start a tabloid about the razzi. and then we’ll turn the tables: we’ll report what razzi is cheating with whom… we’ll stalk them, scare them, chase them…. and one day… somehow… this grossly inappropriate way of life (like orwells’ 1984, but we are doing it to ourselves) will fade. and people will stop thinking that just cuz we are famous, we have answers. the only answers “we” have that “others” don’t is “how do you get famous?” knowing that answer doesn’t make me a better person.

So she’s pissed that people are talking about her and that the photographers are “stalking” her children. This doesn’t seem to happen to her much, and she does have two twin babies with a famous partner that people want to see.

Perez read the same post on Oh No They Didn’t where I found the news, and said that she should “move back to Kansas” or whatever.

It seems like the real issue is that she’s pissed that people are judging her and talking smack about her use of a sperm donor to have children with a female partner. Doesn’t she realize there are people with this opinion who are going to inevitably make dumb comments? She’s in a relationship with a more famous woman, hasn’t she learned to ignore those comments by now?

She also seems to have made a bad choice for a stroller instead of getting one with the neck support her babies need. I know I got a stroller for my son like that as a gift when he was born and the instructions said not to use it until he was a year old, so I waited. He probably wasn’t a full year old before we used it, but he could hold himself up better than her baby.

Pictures thanks to FlynetOnline.

Britney Spears checked into rehab on the Caribbean island of Antigua, but she couldn’t hack it and got the hell out less than 24 hours later.

Then she flew back, coach, from Miami to her home in LA. She then went out to a hair salon where she demanded that a hairdresser shave her head. When he refused to do the deed, Britney snatched the clippers and did it herself. (x17 has the pictures of Britney shaving her head, and I’ve e-mailed them about purchasing the rights to publish them here. Everyone else is putting up the watermarked versions, but they are quite particular about it and say it’s illegal.)

Bald Britney then went from the hair salon to a Sherman Oaks tattoo parlor, where she paid $80 for a new tattoo of a cross on her hip and some lips on her wrist. She freaked out at the pain though, and was said to be moving around a lot in the chair while she was getting inked. There was a huge crowd outside the tattoo parlor with paparazzi and people vying for a glimpse of the newly-shorn Britney. LAPD had to do crowd control outside as people watched Britney getting tattooed.

When asked why she shaved her head, Britney said “I don’t want anyone touching me. I’m tired of everybody touching me.”

Employees at the tattoo parlor said it was clear she was “totally freaking out” and that she was “on the verge of a nervous breakdown.”

What I want to know is, if she was having trouble and didn’t want to go to rehab, couldn’t she have stayed in Antigua at a nice resort there?

Is she on some heavy drugs that are making her freak out and act all paranoid and self-destructive? Does she have a new nanny yet, and where’s her mother?

Thanks to The Blemish for finding this video:

Here are screenshots from the video:

Heather Mills went apeshit in London yesterday and decided enough was enough. She took out her video camera, pressed ‘RECORD’, and yelled and screamed at a photographer snapping her picture.

Then she kicked him in the ass.

I can just see the commercial now……..

Camcorder: $600
Sneakers to rip a photog a new one: $75
Implicating yourself in court with a video of your own making: Priceless.

Pictures from Splash News Online.

Eminem’s double ex-wife, Kim Mathers, said his performance of a song wishing her dead, in which he choked a blow up doll on stage meant to be her, drove her to attempt suicide by slitting her wrists. She said he had promised not to include that song in his gig in their hometown of Detroi that night, and it just drove her to harm herself afterwards:

The rapper, real name Marshall Mathers, wrote the violent and graphic song Kim about the couple’s turbulent relationship.

Kim was shocked when the song became public saying, “I was embarrassed. I was humiliated. I cried. He’s supposed to be the man that loves me and protects me and here he is completely and totally disrespecting me in the worst way possible in front of millions of people. And in front of our kids, my family, my friends.”

Soon after the song’s release in 2000, Eminem promised Kim he wouldn’t perform it at a hometown concert in Detroit, Michigan.

She adds, “Sure enough he decided to do that song and not only perform the song, but use a blow up doll to re-enact me being choked. I couldn’t take it.”

Kim felt betrayed by the performance and says it pushed her over the edge adding, “I made it home (after the concert) and I went upstairs in my bathroom and I slit my wrists and ended up in the hospital.”

In that song Kim, Eminem details how he chokes her to death while their infant daughter is sleeping after he catches her with another man.

If that woman had an sense she would have left him for good at that point and packed up her stuff. From my cursory examination of the dates, it looks like she stuck around for some more heartache for a few months because they didn’t officially split until 2001. Then she went back to him for another round of marriage in early 2006, which ended in divorce three months later. Mathers has said that Eminem didn’t talk to her the last six weeks of those three months and that he is addicted to painkillers that were prescribed for back back.

Mathers and Eminem have a daughter, Hallie, who is 11. They didn’t do her any favors by trying to make their incredibly dysfunctional public relationship work. Eminem sang about Hailie’s reaction to her mother’s suicide in the song “When I’m Gone,” in which his daughter follows him to a concert in Sweden and says “Daddy it’s me, help Mommy, her wrists are bleeding.”

Eminem and Kim’s second divorce was finalized in December of last year. The details were not made public, and Kim is said to be going to college now to study design.

The endless dithery charm of Hugh Grant came to an abrupt undithery end yesterday morning. He is doing the early rounds promoting his new RomCom flick with Drew Barrymore Music and Lyrics. The Sun reports:

The star was on the BBC1’s breakfast show when presenter Kate Silverton asked him whether he would be getting hitched to wealthy girlfriend Jemima Khan, 33.
But the Four Weddings And A Funeral hunk, 46, angrily replied: “I can’t believe you asked me that. This is supposed to be a classy show, surely? I’m ashamed of you.”
When the interview ended he walked off the set muttering.

Lets admit – before we go any further — that walking off muttering is a complete and exhaustive description of every screen performance Hugh Grant has ever given .

Now let’s examine the reasons for the loss of temper. Could it be:

a) That his new girlfriend, Jemima Khan, the worlds best known Muslim divorcee, looks very like an unsuccessful Babs Streisand imitator who’s slapped on too much makeup … even for the dim lighting at her weekly Sunday gig hosting Gay Bingo in Brixton .

b) His far more presentable ex-girlfriend Liz Hurley is inches away from tidying up her post-Hugh life by marrying a far wealthier new glamorously Indo-German boyfriend. Insult to Injury – the Hugh replacement does not too bad a job at Grantesque 1980s floppy hair … a fast disappearing skill since Flock of Seagulls disbanded.

c) His Drew Barrymore co-starrer sounds like a total re-tread of his character in About a Boy. The story of the son of a washed-up song writer who can’t do much else. As if the pitch was “Its like Hugh Grant’s last decent movie –excepot he’s his own dad … with Drew Barrymore thrown in to make him seem less old. – We’ll keep the floppy hair though – same reason.”