Angelina Jolie is said to have upset Brad’s sister in law, Julie, by sending her kids a violent video game. She gave the game Ghost Squad to Brad’s sister Julie’s kids for Christmas, prompting Julie to send it back with a note saying “We don’t promote violence in our home.”

[Brad’s sister] Julie was shocked when Angie sent her children the commando-style video game Ghost Squad. According to a family insider, Julie and her husband Rob sent it back with a note that read, “We don’t promote violence in our home.”

Julie and Rob “shun these kinds of violent games for kids,” says the insider. So when they got the present, it was just too much. It went right back in the box.”

Angelina was not pleased. “She was really angry,” the insider reveals. “She thinks it’s normal and part of being a kid. She even bought Maddox a knife-throwing set and is encouraging him to learn to throw knives!”

[From Star Magazine, print edition, January 21, 2007]

The article goes on about Angelina’s “dark side.” She lets Maddox play with toy guns like a lot of other children, and she even had a military-themed party for Maddox’s sixth birthday last August. Maddox was seen out wearing a little gun necklace recently, which generated some negative buzz for the goodwill ambassador for the UN High Commissioner for Refugees. Although Angelina often speaks out on behalf of refugees and talks about the atrocities of war, she also takes violent movie roles and isn’t adverse to letting her kids play with guns.

As a mother of a toddler who is extremely interested in cars and robots I can say it’s very hard to guide what they want to play with and thankfully my son isn’t that into guns. He also hasn’t been exposed to them much, so that’s probably part of it. He’s pointed his fingers at us and made the shooting noise though, and he does have one of those guns that shoot foam darts and he loves to play with that. To me it’s something kids are interested in and will grow out of.

You have a say in it of course, but if you don’t let them play with something or make a big deal out of it it’s going to make it all the more appealing to them. Before I had a child I had a different opinion about it, and I don’t agree with the knife-throwing thing, but it might not be a real knife set and could be a dart type game geared at kids.

Maybe Angelina heard from Brad’s nephews and/or nieces that they wanted the Ghost Squad game or maybe she just looked it up and saw that it was popular with their age group. We don’t know how old their kids are and it’s possible they’re in their mid to late teens and that a game like that wouldn’t be totally inappropriate. Either way, if this story is true she should have asked their mother first if it would be an acceptable game for their household.

Angelina and Brad are shown at the Critic’s Choice Awards on 1/7/08, thanks to PRPhotos.

Nothing says romantic getaway quite like hearing your dad snoring in the next bedroom. Or worse, worrying about your parents hearing you while you’re going at it with your boyfriend. Gross, just gross. But apparently that’s how Jessica Simpson likes it. Or – more likely – how Joe Simpson likes it. Creepy-as-hell Papa Joe and his wife Tina joined Jessica and her boyfriend, Dallas Cowboys quarterback Tony Romo, on vacation in Los Cabos, Mexico last week. No that’s not creepy or weird, because Joe and Tina did the same thing when Jessica was married to Nick Lachey. Who could predict that their marriage wouldn’t work out?

Looks like Tony Romo already has an in with Jessica Simpson’s notoriously finicky father, Joe. They all went on vacation together! Simpson and Romo, who have been dating since November, arrived in Mexico via private jet with about seven friends at 9:30 p.m. January 3. After landing at the Cabo San Lucas Mexico airport, Simpson and Romo were spotted, “rubbing each others butts and laughing on the tarmac,” an eyewitness tells Usmagazine.com.

Later, the group — which included a few of Romo’s teammates and families, as well as Simpson’s parents, Joe and Tina — checked into a rented home nearby. “Tony couldn’t stop touching Jessica,” an eyewitness tells Us.

The next day, everyone enjoyed a lunch whipped up by their personal chef on the deck of their home. “They were having a great time, with Jess’ parents laughing and joking with Jess and Tony,” the onlooker added. “Tony was affectionate to Jess and everyone seemed very relaxed.”

[From Us Weekly]

How cute. And creepy. What do you want to bet Papa Joe tutored Tony Romo on the best moves to use on his daughter? He probably encouraged all that butt grabbing. No way does anyone in that family do anything without Papa Joe’s approval. Nick Lachey had to submit a written intercourse request with Joe at least two weeks prior to any sexual encounter. It had to include a detailed plan of action and required script approval from Joe. Jokes aside, after this family vacation, what do you want to bet Tony dumps Jessica within the next two weeks?

While most celebrities claim to hate gossip and say they never visit celebrity websites or read anything in the papers, a few will admit to what we suspect a lot of them suffer from: a gossip addiction, just like the rest of us. Last fall Kanye West said he was a big fan of our friends Bossip, and then started his own blog a few days later. Now even ice queen Gwyneth Paltrow has admitted she follows the tabloids and is just as addicted as the rest of us.

“There’s obviously an appetite for gossip,” she told Britain’s Daily Mail Weekend Magazine. “It’s very addictive to see what people are doing and wearing and saying – and who is breaking up.”

The actress went on to describe the outrage of an unnamed friend who had been dating another celebrity and read an inaccurate item about the romance in a New York tabloid.

“Then he turned the page of the same newspaper and said, ‘My God, have you seen who’s together?’” she told the magazine. “So we’re all at it, aren’t we?”

[From People]

Gwyneth has been the subject of a good deal of gossip over the years, and not just for her ice queeny nature. She’s not often photographed with her husband, Coldplay singer Chris Martin, leading many to speculate that their marriage is in trouble. But Gwyneth reassures us all is okay – it’s just that she doesn’t like to be seen with her husband in public. I don’t know about you, but I wouldn’t consider that a sign of the most healthy relationship. Paltrow also says she wants to have two more children in rapid succession a few years down the line.

But Paltrow, 35, is quick to quash rumors of any trouble in her marriage to Coldplay’s Chris Martin. Although they are rarely photographed out and about, she explained, “We’re not into doing stuff in public together.”

Away from the cameras though, she insisted, it’s a different story.

“I love the house,” Paltrow said of the North London home the couple bought from fellow actress Kate Winslet and her husband, director Sam Mendes. Paltrow – mother to daughter Apple, 3, and son Moses, 1 – also admitted she’s thinking of expanding her family. In four years, she dreams of having “two-in-a-row, really quick again,” while Martin would like to adopt.

So which will it be? The actress, who recently finished filming The Good Night with her brother Jake, told the Mail, “I’m open to anything.”

[From People]

What a free-flowing, easy spirit you are Gwyneth Paltrow. You never change, just like your hair. Gwyneth claims her marriage is in good working order, and it very well may be. People have been speculating for years that there’s trouble, and yet the two have remained together. For some odd reason, it may very well be that she doesn’t like to be seen in public with Martin much. Maybe she thinks it keeps photographers away? I’d speculate that it makes them follower her more, and makes gossips speculate negatively about her. Maybe she should lighten up, if for no other reason than to show her kids that daddy’s not a pariah.

Picture note by Jaybird: Okay even I have to admit that these photos are way too adorable. Here’s Gwyneth playing with Moses in Barcelona on October 24th. Images thanks to PR Photos.

We reported yesterday that Britney Spears is said to have told her pregnant 16-year-old sister, Jamie Lynn, not to marry her baby’s daddy and end up like her. That story was first covered by The Enquirer, and now they have a follow up that states that Britney also recommended that Jamie Lynn get an abortion. She wasn’t aware of how far along her sister was at that point, though, and is said to regret giving her that advice. Jamie Lynn’s mother Lynne is also said to have told her daughter not to carry the baby to term.

When Britney learned Jamie Lynn’s baby news, she called and had a showdown with her sister, telling her “not to ruin her life by going through with the pregnancy,” said a source.

“Britney told Jamie Lynn it was best for her to get an abortion and move on with her life and career and not to look back.”

But Jamie Lynn, who is due March 7, told Britney she is going to keep the baby and that she is making her “own decision and not letting anyone tell her to get rid of the baby.”

Britney began crying, could barely speak and quickly hung up the phone, says the source.

[From The National Enquirer, print edition, January 14, 2008]

It sounds to me like The Enquirer knew that Britney told Jamie Lynn not to get married or have the baby and that they broke the story up into two parts for maximum impact.

It’s entirely plausible that Britney said this. The baby gift basket Britney bought her sister is rumored to be a peace offering after she felt guilty for recommending an abortion.

Jamie Lynn is said to be due on March 7 and to be expecting a baby girl. That would make her seven months’ pregnant, as commentors pointed out, not six as we incorrectly reported before. It sounds as if Jamie Lynne may have deliberately kept the news from her mother until it was too late for her to safely have an abortion. Obviously she decided to keep the baby against the advice of her family. Given the quotes from Jamie Lynn, it sounds like this baby wasn’t entirely an accident. She may have deliberately “forgotten” to take precautions, and indeed she is quoted as saying “Whatever happens, happens” when asked in an interview about her future plans, including children.

There is speculation that the father of Jamie Lynn’s baby is an older producer on her now probably-canceled tween show Zoey 101. The unknown adult would surely face statutory rape charges if he did father her baby.

This whole story is just sad, especially considering Britney’s very public meltdown early this morning. When you think about it, though, she had a lot of motivation to act like such a twat. Her sister is all over the papers and she’s not getting much press for her average wacky antics. Getting the focus back on Britney required a whole new level of crazy, and she brought it.

Header image is an older one of Britney during her first pregnancy and Jamie Lynn, thanks to Splash News.

Lindsay Lohan’s mom Dina, who once was rumored to have received manual stimulation under the table at a restaurant, who lied about her nonexistent past as a Rockette, and who also owed up to telling George Clooney she was Lindsay’s assistant instead of admitting to be her mom, sure takes the high road when it comes to her daughter. She is said to have called up the mother of Lindsay’s ex boyfriend, snowboarder Riley Giles, and to have chewed her out in response to a tell-all interview Riley gave British paper News of The World after Lindsay unceremoniously dumped him upon returning to LA from rehab in Utah. How did Dina insult Riley’s mom? She called her a bad mom. I wonder if it was all filmed for her reality show in which she’s shown exploiting her other two children.

Lindsay’s recent ex, Riley Giles, sold the story of their relationship to Britain’s News of the World on Dec. 23 for a rumored $120,000. That so steamed Dina that she got on the phone to his mom, reports Us Weekly.

“Dina insulted her parenting,” says a source.

Ouch!

[From NY Daily News]

And the Daily News has more evidence today that little Lindsay is scrapping for cash. They say she is predictably getting paid around $50k for toting around the tobacco cessation product Arriva, although both Lindsay and the company deny that any money has changed hands. She’s also supposedly begging her friends for money again. Along with being seen looking cuddly with three different men in Italy in a 24 hour period, she was also observed toting a Prada shopping bag. I wonder where all her money is going? Maybe a reality show is next on her agenda, too. It’s slightly less demeaning than whoring yourself out for money, although that seems to be easier for Lindsay than doing any real work as an “actress.”

Along with being honored for her “contribution to film,” at the film festival or “a way to bring tourism to our small town” in Capri, Italy, she was also named the worst actress of the year in a poll by AOL Moviefone for her performance in I Know Who Killed Me, and her other film this year, Georgia Rule was runner-up for waste of money for a movie ticket. The Razzie nominations haven’t even been announced yet this year. Keep begging Lindsay, and maybe you better hold on to those purses a little longer before you buy new ones.

Lohan is shown in the header in an image taken in mid December. Dina Lohan is shown on 10/9/06. Who looks better, mother or daughter?

Britney Spears has given her 16 year-old knocked up sister some seemingly good advice. She told her not to marry her baby’s father and end up like her.

Britney’s mom is said to have made sure that she didn’t hear about Jamie Lynn’s pregnancy before the press did because Britney has a big mouth and she was worried that the news would get out. That sounds like a legitimate concern considering that she’s dating a paparazzo:

“Whatever you do, do not get married! You are too young and you will ruin your life! Do not make a mistake and end up like me!”

That’s the shocking advice Britney Spears has given her little sister Jamie Lynn, who’s 16 and pregnant, the Enquirer has learned exclusively.

Now a single mom with two young boys, Britney is desperately worried about her sister’s future - and livid with her mother for keeping Jamie Lynn’s pregnancy a secret from her, sources say…

“Her mom Lynne didn’t tell [Britney] Jamie Lynn was expecting because she was afraid Britney would leak the news - or that she’d tell one of her friends who’d let the story get out.”

Frantic, Britney tracked Jamie Lynn down at Lynne’s home in Kentwood, LA - and the two sisters broke down in tears.

“When she got Jamie Lynn on the phone, Britney started to cry, and so did Jamie Lynn,” said the source.

“Britney told her ‘Do not marry Casey. Look at the position I’m in.’

“She told Jamie Lynn that she’ll always be there for her - and when she’s ‘had it’ with Lynne, Jamie Lynn can come live with her.”

[From The National Enquirer, print edition, January 7, 2008]

That’s ripe coming from Britney. It’s as if she blames Kevin for the fact that she can’t be bothered to spend time with her sons and/or hire a qualified nanny. She would be a lousy mom even if she was still married and at least the divorce helped Kevin step up to the plate, joint in hand or not.

Kevin is said to have also offered his support to Jamie Lynn. OK! Magazine reports that he thinks of her as a little sister and that “he just wants to be part of the support system.” He’s sure getting a lot of good press for a failed wannabe rapper that recently slept with Paris Hilton.

It seems like Jamie Lynn is going to have a troubled life whether she choses to get married or not. If she doesn’t want to end up like Britney she’s better off not talking to her much.

Header image is of Britney and Jamie Lynn together in October when a woman was harassing them. Thanks to WENN. Amazingly, there are no new photos of Britney today, but it’s still early. Give it a couple of hours.

It’s the holiday season, still, and as much as I love to spend time with my family I am looking forward to some quiet time. Next year I’m planning on following Angelina Jolie’s lead - just make a phone call, don’t visit.

A source tells the National Enquirer that Jolie called her father (Jon Voight) while spending Christmas in New Orleans with partner Brad Pitt and their four children. The friend reveals, “It was a short call, but it meant the world to both of them. It was something for them to build on, and Jon couldn’t say enough good things about the way his daughter is conducting her life.”

San Francisco Chronicle

There’s another story that says Angelina wrote her father a letter rather than rang. We don’t really know the extent of the split - Does he get an annual Christmas card with a picture of the family? Does he get an annual phone call with a quick update before she shoves a kid that can’t talk onto the phone?

Angelina and father Jon Voight haven’t been close since he gave a June 2002 interview discussing her ’serious mental problems’, but this last November he praised her in interviews, saying he is always thinking of “Brad and the kids. I’m sending my love that way.”

Angelina perhaps plans to adopt another child in 2008, having got over her fear of motherhood.

‘They put him in my arms and I stared at him and I started crying and he smiled,’ she tells Hollywood TV.

‘I hadn’t held children before in my life. I was always considered so dark and I thought maybe I shouldn’t be someone’s mom because I’m not so sure about myself.’

Now Magazine

I think every mother fears that she won’t be a good mother. While Angelina seems to come under a lot of criticism for her parenting, I don’t think she has any huge flaws in her parenting style. The worst criticism you could aim at her is that she moves them around a lot. Of course, when they turn into hormonal teenagers and start researching their mother’s past, she’s going to have a hard time explaining that kiss with her brother, having sex with knives, and riding a motorcycle without a helmet.

Picture note by Celebitchy: Images are obviously old ones of Angelina and Jon Voight together.

The National Enquirer reported this week before the news broke that Jamie Lynn was pregnant that Britney wanted her mother Lynn to get custody of her two boys in a bid to keep K-Fed from maintaining primary custody. I bet this news is no longer true now that Britney had to learn from the press like everyone else that her little sister was pregnant. It says a lot about how desperate she is to take the boys from K-Fed, since she’s had a rocky relationship with her mom. Britney’s said to be upset that K-Fed is supposedly smoking pot around them, and she was set to ask to have her boys tested for drugs, but it’s probably more about her hurt feelings at losing to her ex rather than a true concern for their welfare:

Now that she’s lose custody of her children, Britney’s strategy is to persuade the courts to give custody of Sean Preston, 2, and Jayden James, 1, to her mom Lynne, sources tell The Enquirer exclusively.

In addition to charging K-Fed uses drugs [pot], Britney, 26, plans to give the judge in her case a list of other reasons why Kevin shouldn’t be raising the children, say sources.

She says he’s playing the role of the “good dad” only to keep the money rolling in, claims he hosts wild parties and has numerous women staying overnight.

[From The National Enquirer, print edition, December 31, 2007]

While Britney can make all those accusations against Kevin, it sounds like we have little more than her word and some rumors to go on. In Britney’s case there’s plenty of documentation that she’s sleeping around, partying, and wandering aimlessly through life.

The thing is, Britney doesn’t have much if any pull with the court after failing to show up for multiple depositions, including two court ordered depositions. So this is all probably some half-baked scheme she cooked up in order to stick it to K-Fed, but it’s not like she’s going to go through with it. OK! Magazine reports that Britney faces jail time if she fails to show up for another deposition, for which she could be charged with contempt of court.

The entertainment lawyer at Crazy Days and Nights has revealed that many of K-Fed’s court hearings are frivolous, and that since Britney is paying for his lawyer he’s doing as much as possible to drag her through the mud and make the custody issues very trying for her. She does a good enough job on her own making her life difficult by failing to meet even basic requirements, but you could see how she would rather her mother get her children than her hated ex husband. All that changed when Lynne failed to tell Britney that little Jamie Lynn was pregnant, though, and now Britney is left with just three days a week with her boys and a court appointed monitor, and no backup plan. At least they’ll have a new cousin to play with soon.

Britney is shown out before her date with the paparazzo on 12/23/07, thanks to WENN, and outside a Thai restuarant on 12/27/07, thanks to Splash News.

Eminem’s mother has written a book about the rapper, and in it she claims he is a manic depressive and his trailer park past is a sham. Debbie Nelson says she has written the book, titled My Son Marshall, My Son Eminem, to tell her side of the story, after years of abuse from Eminem’s fans.

In the introduction she writes, “After his first album, Infinite, flopped, he reinvented himself as white trailer trash with a crazy welfare mom. I was shocked when I first heard the lyrics, but he constantly reassured me it was all a big joke. I went along with it for Marshall’s sake.”

NDTV

She also says her son is manic depressive, and his condition was aggravated by the birth of his daughter and his divorce. She is hoping the publication of the book will help him.

A source said: “(Debbie) just hopes he’ll read (the book) and realise how loved he is. She fears she’ll end up burying him unless he gets help…We all see him teetering on the edge of self-destruction.”

Eminem and Nelson have been involved in a feud for years. Nelson hit her son with a £3.5 ($7) million lawsuit in 2002, claiming defamation.

However, the rapper reportedly agreed to foot the medical bill of £100,000 ($200,000) when his mother was diagnosed with breast cancer.

NME

Somehow, I just don’t think writing a book calling your son a liar and a fraud, suggesting to his daughter Hailie (who is 11-years-old and able to read) that she was a catalyst for her father’s mental issues, and adding that he was too drunk or drugged to remember marrying his ex-wife Kim, is going to be helpful to him.

Deborah Nelson says she wrote the book (or had it ghostwritten by Annette Witheridge) to set the story straight, and that her son “never intended me to become an object of hatred.”

Given Eminem’s habit of writing hate-fueled lyrics about his mother, I’m guessing that the book and the revelations contained within will give him plenty of material for his next album, which he is currently working on.

The book is currently on sale in the UK, and will be available in the US next year.

Note by Celebitchy: According to Crazy Days and Nights and the November 18 edition of Life and Style, Eminem is dating a new woman named Marni Bright. She is a music studio manager and used to be a hairdresser and left her boyfriend of four years to be with him. She better be perfect or he’ll vilify her in his music.

Eminem is shown on BET on 106 and Park on 12/4/06, thanks to WENN.

Angelina Jolie supposedly said that Shiloh is sort-of an outcast in her family because she has blond hair and blue eyes. She’s quoted as saying “She looks like Brad. It’s funny because she’s almost going to be the outcast in the family because she’s blonde and blue-eyed.”

I didn’t cover this story when I heard about it yesterday because I thought there was no way it could be a new quote. It was reported in The Daily Mail and sourced to Look Magazine. The Daily Mail and Sun also included some old statements from Angelina that she gave during her somewhat controversial Reader’s Digest interview back in May and didn’t source them to the original interview, so I thought it was all just a reprint.

The issue of Look Magazine with the Angelina interview is partially available online. The table of contents are there and some of the articles, but the specific interview is reserved for people who buy the magazine. The thing is, it doesn’t say anywhere in the table of contents or the cover that the Angelina interview is an exclusive interview or that it’s new. It just says that it’s an “A-list interview special (emphasis added) including exclusive chats with Drew Barrymore, the Beckhams, Nicole Richie, Kylie Minogue and the Desperate Housewives ladies.” If it was an exclusive interview with Angelina, they would probably include that specifically on the cover or description. The cover reads “Most Honest A-List Interviews Ever,” suggesting it’s a reprint of old interviews. It’s very common for these celebrity magazines to reprint segments from old interviews so they can run a particular celebrity on the cover to sell copies.

I listened to an audio edit of unpublished quotes from Angelina’s original interview with Reader’s Digest from this May, and read the entire interview nline, and she doesn’t give that quote about Shiloh being an outcast, so it’s possible that Look Magazine somehow has a new interview with this quote, but I doubt it.

Here’s what she said to Reader’s Digest about wanting to adopt Pax so that Maddox had someone he had a connection to:

RD: Is it true that you adopted Pax so Maddox would have a brother who looked like him?
Jolie: Something changed for me with Shiloh. We had Mad and Z, and neither looked like Mommy or Daddy. Then suddenly somebody in the house looked like Mommy and Daddy. It became clear to us that it might be important to have somebody around who is similar to the other children so they have a connection. Mad’s been very excited that his brother is from Asia.

[From Reader’s Digest]

So, it does sounds like Angelina may have been repeating this concept differently in a new interview, and inadvertently dissing poor Shiloh, who In Touch points out this week has been MIA since October. She has foot in mouth disease, and it’s entirely possible that she would have said this. I thought Angelina would have learned her lesson about not being open and chatty with the media.

If Look did have an original interview, they don’t clearly promote it as new, and The Daily Mail and Sundid them a disservice by also including old quotes from her and making them seem new. Either way, the way these quotes were sourced is highly suspect. Have any of you read this article and does it specifically say it’s a new exclusive interview with Look?

One thing Angelina did say in the Reader’s Digest interview is that if there’s something printed about her and Brad, if it’s not in “The New York Times… do we really need to worry?” It seems she would have to worry if people are making up quotes from her, which isn’t out of the question. If she said it just like this though, did she mean that Shiloh is an outcast or that she somehow doesn’t fit in with the family? It’s not that explosive a statement, but it is somewhat worrying that a mother would be focusing on the differences in her children’s eye or hair color instead of on their unique personalities.

I made that header image back in August and didn’t intentionally put Zahara on one side and Shiloh on the other to compare them. Here are pictures that we’ve already published of Brad, Angelina, and the kids outside of The Field Museum in Chicago in mid August, 2007.