During part two of the Real Housewives of Beverly Hills reunion, the show’s latest villain, Kim Richards, kept insisting their were “private things” of a family matter that led up to the fight in the limo on the show’s last episode that “made me snap.” Kyle of course went after Kim physically as if she was going to hit her, called her an alcoholic, and told her that she and her husband were done supporting her.

This week’s OK Magazine has a cover story featuring the sisters, which contains quotes from “a source close to Kyle” (read: Kyle) about what those “private things” might be. It’s all about money, and while there may be more backstory there I’ll repeat what I’ve said all along: nothing excuses the way that Kyle treats her sister. To the few people telling me I don’t understand because I don’t have a sister who is an addict, that could be true. I have a brother, not a sister, and our relationship is one of mutual support. Plenty of women with sisters have commented that Kyle’s bullying of Kim is inexcusable, and that there seems to be an aggressor victim dynamic between them, particularly in the way that Kim defends Kyle while Kyle blames Kim and makes excuses. (Thanks to Jayna for this link to analysis on Realitytea, which included that insight.)

Here’s the relevant part of OK’s story:

“There is so much more to it than that,” Kyle later blogged. “I didn’t want to come out and say what it was that was really bothering me because this is a private family matter.”

A source confirms, “Kyle was referring to what she believes are Kim’s problems with alcohol.” In fact, footage has since been released of Kim slurring her words and popping pills at an airport in July.

The pal says that Kim’s family has tried to help. “The word is they staged many interventions. But Kim won’t even admit she has a problem…”

How the rivalry began
“There’s deep-rooted jealousy between the sisters,” a source says. “As kids, Kim was the more successful sister. Her acting career was bigger, and Kyle’s always been resentful of that.”

The competitiveness, says a source, continued as the women grew up – who would get married first, who would have the richer husband, who was considered the best looking.

Yet a source close to Kyle says it’s Kim who is now jealous. “She thinks Kyle has a perfect family, kids, life – everything is ‘perfect.’”

Another divide concerns the family home, which Kim accused Kyle of stealing during the show’s finale. After the sisters’ parents died, Kim was due to inherit their L.A. home, says the insider – but Kyle got it: “Kim has never forgiven Kyle for that.” But a source close to Kyle says in reality, Kyle bought her sister’s share of the house – then even let Kim buy it back at a lower price. “Kyle didn’t even cash Kim’s check, because she knew she couldn’t really afford it,” the source tells OK!

In addition, Kyle and her husband, luxury realtor Mauricio Umansky, give Kim money, “a kind of allowance,” says the insider. “They worry about her and don’t want her to feel she’s alone.”

[From OK! Magazine, print edition, February 14, 2011]

Let’s assume for the sake of argument that this version is correct, and that Kyle is upset at Kim because: 1. Kim has a long history of alcoholism and 2. Kyle has been supporting Kim financially. How are those “private things” when Kyle hurled both issues at Kim in the limo? To be fair, Kyle was responding to Kim’s claim that “you stole my house,” but it seems to me like she has no qualms about bringing up her sister’s alcoholism and that she asked her buddies Taylor and Lisa to make a point of it at the reunion. Kyle is using the “private things” argument to deflect blame and suggest that there is much more to the story that would explain her abhorrent behavior toward her sister. We saw Kim this season and while she clearly enjoys to drink it was Kyle and her fish-lipped friend who went after Kim. Kim didn’t say or do anything to Kyle that would explain the way she went after her.

Here’s Kyle in Aspen in late December with Faye Resnick. She loves getting papped. Credit: Fame Pictures

The Huffington Post points us to these recent tweets by former porn queen Jenna Jameson in which she calls out Chelsea Handler for making fun of people’s kids and refers to her as a “dried up old whore.” Many will point out that it takes one to know one. Next Jameson will be claiming that Chelsea is over-Botoxed.

“Chelsea handler makes fun of peoples kids… Probably because she’s a dried up old whore

“Just cuz I say it like it is…… Don’t hate…… She talks massive shit.. Ok, whatever….”

As Huffpo mentions, Jameson may be referring to a Glamour interview from December in which Handler called Jameson “raunchy” and later claimed she didn’t make fun of kid’s looks. The article billed it as Chelsea saying she didn’t make fun of kids, period, but she never said that exactly. Kaiser already covered this interview, specifically the parts where Handler defends her rants against Angelina Jolie, but there’s plenty more there that reveals this woman’s hypocrisy. I also want to include this segment where Chelsea claims she doesn’t drink that much and goes on to say that women shouldn’t be putting each other down.

KATIE COURIC: Do you ever have second thoughts about being raunchy?

CHELSEA HANDLER: I don’t like the word raunchy. I’m irreverent and I say things that a lot of people wouldn’t say, and some of it probably isn’t in the best taste. But when I hear the word raunchy, to me that describes Jenna Jameson. Look, I’m never going to please everybody. So I just have to be true to myself and think, OK, this is something I’d say in my living room, so it’s OK to say on the show. Because I want my audience to truly know who I am.

KATIE COURIC: Cioccoloco1 wants to know, “Is there any topic that makes you uncomfortable? Are there any subjects that are over the line for you? Do you even have a line?”

CHELSEA HANDLER: I think talking about children and their looks is not nice. Like, unattractive children. I don’t do that. And I don’t talk about people who are dying. I think that’s inappropriate.

KATIE COURIC: In your comedy you talk a lot about promiscuity and drinking. Do you worry about the message you’re sending to young women?

CHELSEA HANDLER: I drink responsibly. I drink two or three times a week, and I never drink and drive. People confuse the fact that I discuss drinking openly with the idea that I’m a heavy drinker. I don’t want girls at my show wasted, screaming and yelling out and vomiting.

KATIE COURIC: That would start to smell very unpleasant.

CHELSEA HANDLER: Believe me, it’s happened. In regard to promiscuity, in my book I actually have sex with a total of eight guys in the entire thing. But the fact that I discussed it at all led people to believe that I was some big trollop. I think it’s OK—that’s what your twenties are for. Now that I’m in my thirties, that’s over. If there’s a message that I can’t say loud enough, it’s that it’s OK to be who you are. I don’t want to be one of those girls who is like, “Oh, I didn’t do that. I’m not like that.” Because those girls make girls like me feel bad about ourselves. And we should be bringing each other up, not putting each other down.

[From Glamour]

As for the “not making fun of kids’ looks” thing, maybe she thinks that she’s not crossing a line by mocking Angelina’s kids but not calling them “ugly” specifically.

I found this older clip, I think it’s from 2007, where Chelsea talks about Zahara and Maddox Jolie-Pitt. (That’s at 1:55 in the linked video) She never used Zahara’s name, but said that Angelina Jolie and Brad “Schmitt” adopted a girl from Namibia (which is incorrect, she was adopted from Ethiopia) which she made a point of mispronouncing. She then said:

“So technically that baby’s African American everybody… Do you think she’ll talk loud in movie theaters? I hope she doesn’t ‘axe’ her parents too many questions.

“Do you ever wonder why that little Eskimo Maddox never smiles? Doesn’t he look pissed off all the time?… He’s pissed off, because he probably thought he was scoring the biggest deal of his lifetime to get rescued from his third world Cambodia, only to find out she’s going to take him to every other f*cking third world country in the world.”

Her jokes are racist and cringe-inducing and she does make fun of kids. In Chelsea’s mind she’s not making fun of kid’s “looks” so it’s ok to mock their nationality and race. She also thinks she’s not a drunk or a wh*re for being drunk and sleeping around, but she calls out Jenna Jameson. Team Jenna, but just this once.

Photo credit: WENN.com

Piers Morgan has a new show on CNN in which he’s taking over for finally retired Larry King. The show premieres on January 17th. Morgan told ET’s Billy Bush that Madonna is banned from appearing on his show and that she’d have to kiss his ass to ever come on. He was initially vague when Bush asked him what Madonna had done to offend him, simply saying “she knows what she’s done,” but then elaborated to include an itemized list of the long history of wrongs Madonna has committed against him, the worst of which was lying about her pregnancy when he was the editor of the Daily Mirror and offering his competitor the exclusive story.

The way she could come back is to literally get on bended knee… somewhere like Times Square on national television and beg me for forgiveness.

There was a breadroll throwing incident in the mid 90s. There was an incident at a hotel in the South of France at the Cannes film festival involving a photographer and a bodyguard. An incident involving a pub owned by her recently departed husband Guy Ritchie where my brother was the manager. You know the worse thing Madonna did to me? Madonna’s publicist once said to me ‘Listen to me, Madonna is not pregnant’ when I was running a newspaper. I said ‘are you sure?…’

Next day, they announced it on the rival newspaper’s website.

[From video on Access Hollywood]

I don’t know much about Morgan but the interview really endeared me to him. The guy is awesome and I love that he holds grudges and will tell you about them! He also calls Madonna “boring and annoying” according to Bush.

Morgan’s first guest will be the allmighty Oprah. He doesn’t need Madonna or anyone else who pissed him off, and I would suspect that there are quite a few other people.

I guess this is Piers Morgan’s wife, Celia. Damn!

This story comes from The National Enquirer, and I have very mixed feelings about it. On one hand, I hate to think of my two favorite Mad Men girls fighting, and I think it’s terribly un-feminist to think that two women can’t work together without it being boiled down to “they must hate each other and they’re probably both bitches.” On the other hand, there are a few things that I’m finding totally possible/conceivable about this story of bitchiness and sniping between Elisabeth Moss (Peggy) and Christina Hendricks (Joan/Red). Here’s the story:

Elisabeth Moss – who plays copywriter Peggy Olsen – and curvy redhead Christina Hendricks (Joan Harris) are feuding over screen time and top billing on the AMC show, sources say.

Moss was hired as the female lead, but after four seasons, Christina has emerged as the sexy break-out star and Elisabeth is none too pleased about losing top billing.

“Ever since Mad Men took off, there’s never been any love lost between Elisabeth and Christina,” an insider told the Enquirer. “Now, four years into the run, they absolutely hate each other. Elisabeth never lets Christina forget that she was cast as the show’s original female lead, and she was the one nominated for an Emmy for lead actress.”

But this past year, both women were nominated in the Supporting Actress Emmy category, and they both lost. Now they compete for better story lines, and Elisabeth lords it over Christina that she has more screen time with Jon Hamm.

Despite that, Christina is the one who has captured the public’s imagination, even being declared The Best Looking Woman In America by Esquire. She’s become a paparazzi favorite, and she’s happily married to Geoffrey Arend. Meanwhile, Elisabeth just filed for divorce from Fred Armisen.

“Christina has made it known that she considers herself the lead actress on the show now,” said the source. “She told a friend, It’s Jon and me that people are talking about, not Elisabeth.”

But Elisabeth is fighting back.

“To compete with Christina, Elisabeth is demanding that her character become sexier and more stylish… now Matthew Weiner has his work cut out for him. He has to keep both women happy, and prevent the catfight from wrecking the Mad Men set next season.”

[From The National Enquirer, print edition]

Reasons why I don’t believe this story: Christina really and truly does not seem like a bitch. She doesn’t seem cruel or mean or entitled or anything. She just seems like a pleasant person who is happy for the work and the attention. Also, Elisabeth seems nice too, but there’s a question mark there. She might not be as she seems – for one thing, there is the problem of her Scientology. But all in all, she seems humble and nice too.

Reasons why it could be true: because Moss is the lead, and yet Christina has gotten so much attention, and it would be normal to be slightly jealous, I think. Also, Christina’s storylines got better this past season – as did Elisabeth’s. They could potentially be in competition for screen time in the next season. We’ll see.

Photos courtesy of WENN.

Ever since Us Weekly’s re-reporting of Star Magazine’s initial accusation – that Tish Finley-Cyrus had an affair with Bret Michaels – I’ve been wondering if we’d ever hear Billy Ray Cyrus’s side of what went down. I was imagining something Lohan-esque (dysfunctional, rage-filled), but I didn’t think the story would end up sounding… straight out of the Lohan play-book. According to the Enquirer, when Billy Ray discovered Tish’s infidelity, it was quite the aggressive shouting match. I guess I should give The Mullet some credit though – it looks like it was just shouting. If Tish really was f-cking Bret Michaels (which Bret denied), then what did Tish think was going to happen? Oh, but guess what the real ugliness was about, though? Money. And Miley. And which one of them got access to Money/Miley.

Out of his mind with rage, BILLY RAY CYRUS furiously tried to kick down the door of his estranged wife TISH’s bedroom as she sobbed uncontrollably and one of their children cowered, terrified, nearby.

That was the explosive scene during a brutal fight at the couple’s Los Angeles home that led to the Cyrus’ ugly $100 million divorce battle, The ENQUIRER has learned exclusively.

“Billy screamed terrible things at Tish,” divulged an insider. “he accused her of having affairs, including one with Bret Michaels. He screamed that she was a bad parent. Then he started kicking in the door.”

The confrontation erupted after Billy Ray tried to ground his superstar daughter MiILEY for talking back to him, and Tish intervened, the insider continued. After learning that Tish had undermined him and given Miley permission to go out, Billy Ray went berserk with anger.

“Tish locked herself in her bedroom to escape Billy Ray’s wrath. And he pounded on the door screaming: ‘Come out here and talk to me, b****! You let everyone run wild when I’m not here! It’s going to STOP!’”

The insider said Tish sobbed hysterically and shot back: “You’re making me (bleeping) crazy, Billy Ray. Go back to Tennessee, all you ever do is make everybody miserable!”

Miley and her brother Braison, 16, were not home during the terrifying battle. But the couple’s daughter Noah was, and she was ushered out of the home by a housekeeper during the melee. The violent fight happened this summer, say sources, and it was the last straw for Billy Ray, who afterward left the family’s LA home for the Cyrus Ranch in Tennessee.

Billy Ray’s publicist denies the brawl took place, but sources say that the incident drove a wedge between Bill and Miley. Tish is now managing Miley’s career, and the two women are very close.

“Miley loves her dad and wants peace in the family. She wants everybody together for her birthday – but she’s done with him being a part of her life full-time,” the insider added.

In addition to initiating divorce proceedings, Billy Ray also received a temporary restraining order, which prevents both he and Tish from depleting their considerable assets.

Meanwhile, Billy has his sights set on a musical comeback. “He resents that Miley’s turned on him after everything he’s done for her career… he’s also jealous of being eclipsed by her success.”

[From The National Enquirer, print & online edition]

Just. Like. The Lohans. Except Dina wasn’t f-cking her way through a hair band (that we know of). I buy this story because even though Miley publicly stated that she “wasn’t taking sides” in her parents’ divorce, she stepped out for a few photo ops with Tish, and you can just tell she’s closer to her mom (momager, ugh). I also think it’s true because the mullet has made it’s triumphant return at the CMAs – I do think Billy Ray is trying to get himself a comeback. And he just seems like a bitter man.

Surprisingly, Lady Gaga’s romantic life doesn’t get a lot of coverage. I’m struggling to understand why, because she’s already had quite a bit of boy drama already. First it was because she allegedly homewrecked her way into a relationship with a business partner, who was living with a girlfriend and their child. And currently Gaga is in a relationship with Luc Carl, a dude she already dated and broke up with years ago, before she was famous. Luc allegedly had a girlfriend when he and Gaga hooked up for the second time – and there were even some reports that Luc was seeing both women concurrently. Now the other girl has given an interview about Luc and Gaga, and the dramz is heavy:

It was no match. Smoking-hot actress Alex Stebbins knew she didn’t stand a chance when her boyfriend dumped her to go back to his former love — Lady Gaga.

“I wasn’t going to go toe to toe with Lady Gaga, because that’s like fighting Jesus,” Stebbins told The Post yesterday. “She’s the most powerful woman in the world, and there’s no winning.”

Stebbins, 21, and Luc Carl, a 29-year-old bartender and drummer, had been together for a year, she said, when Gaga reentered his life.

“She can literally have anything she wants, and I had the one thing she couldn’t have, and that made her want it more.”

Stebbins — who played a bondage pinup girl in an episode of “Law & Order: SVU” — met Carl in August 2009.

“The first thing he told me was that he had a very famous ex-girlfriend. I didn’t care,” she said.

The two began dating. But trouble started once Gaga heard Carl was dating a new woman. About three months into their relationship, Stebbins said, the 24-year-old pop superstar started calling and texting Carl.

“Luc ignored her. He said he was done with her. All they did was fight,” Stebbins said.
“She’d pick at him for anything, and he couldn’t take it. He said she was a very jealous person.”

Stebbins said Gaga was the only problem in their otherwise “perfect relationship.”

“It was really hard to be with someone who has a really famous ex-girlfriend who would stop at nothing to get him back,” she griped.

Last June, Carl took Stebbins to Las Vegas for her birthday. When they returned, she found she had run out of Luc. Carl confessed that the day before heading west, Gaga had showed up at their apartment in Brooklyn’s Carroll Gardens. She stayed for half an hour, begged for him to come back, and he agreed. Later, when Gaga made a spectacle of herself at Citi Field — stripping to her underwear and flipping the bird during a Met game — Carl was with her, according to Stebbins.

“It was so in my face,” she said. “It felt like I got punched in the gut.”

Reps for Gaga and Carl declined comment.

[From The New York Post]

If this story is true, then it was a bitch move by Gaga. Although I think some exceptions are made (sometimes) when it’s an ex-boyfriend, and you had the guy first. Still, it does sound like Gaga was still really hung up on Luc (Does his dick taste like Snickers? I don’t get it.) and she decided to pursue him aggressively. HOWEVER – I think Luc wanted to be with Gaga. He wouldn’t have gone with her if he didn’t want to, and this whole “Gaga is so powerful, she could have any man” thing is just silly. This Alex girl doesn’t seem very bright.

Photos courtesy of WENN.

Last Friday, I covered Jessica Alba’s Elle Magazine December cover and interview excerpts. The excerpts were especially notable, because Alba is such a f-cking idiot. Hand to God, she said this to Elle Magazine: “Good actors, never use the script unless it’s amazing writing. All the good actors I’ve worked with, they all say whatever they want to say.” I took Alba to task, as did many, many others. As I said at the time, Alba’s comment was a huge diss to screenwriters – Alba is basically saying that all “good” actors are so brilliant that they can ALWAYS come up with better lines than screenwriters. Anyway, as commenter Gloaming just pointed out, now screenwriters are reacting to Dame Alba’s comments. Their response? A united “Bitch, please.” Well… at this point it’s just screenwriter John August, a reoccurring collaborator with Tim Burton – they worked together on Big Fish, Corpse Bride, and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. This is what August had to say on his blog:

Oh, Jessica

I have to believe she was misquoted, or excerpted in some unflattering way, because Jessica Alba couldn’t have actually said this: “Good actors, never use the script unless it’s amazing writing. All the good actors I’ve worked with, they all say whatever they want to say.”

Oh, Jessica. Where to start?

Scripts aren’t just the dialogue. Screenplays reflect the entire movie in written form, including those moments when you don’t speak. Do you know the real reason we hold table readings in pre-production? So the actors will read the entire script at least once.

Following your logic, you’ve never been in a movie with both good actors and amazing writing. That may be true, but it might hurt the feelings of David Wain, Robert Rodriguez and Frank Miller.

You’re saying your co-stars who delivered their lines as written are not “good actors.” Awkward. You’re setting dangerous expectations. So if an aspiring actor wishes to be “good,” she should say whatever she wants to say? That’s pretty terrible advice. Screenwriters can be your best friends. We are pushovers for attractive people who pay attention to us. I wrote that bathtub scene in Big Fish because Jessica Lange made brief eye contact with me. So if you’re not getting great writing — and honestly, you’re not — ask to have lunch with the screenwriter. I’ve seen you on interviews. You’re charming. That charm could work wonders.

Again: I know that quotes often come out in ways we never intended. It’s lacking context — though the photos are lovely. (Hi, Carter Smith!) I’m calling this out just so we can all hopefully learn something.

[From Deadline]

That’s cute. He didn’t get all pissy and mean, it’s like he’s chiding a very small, very dumb child. Which Alba kind of is.

Photos courtesy of WENN.

I am a fan of Hugh Grant. To be more specific, I am a fan of Hugh Grant’s work with Richard Curtis, and in About A Boy, and on the Bridget Jones movies, where I think Hugh is probably playing a version of himself. I think Hugh should just stick to those kinds of well-written romantic comedies, just because he’s very good when something is well-written and funny. He’s not very good when the writing is bad, or when it’s not a comedy. But, within narrow parameters, Hugh is pretty awesome. I own many of those DVDs, and I’ve listened to the commentaries on a few of them. Love, Actually is a favorite DVD commentary, just because it’s as funny as the movie. Hugh is sitting around with Richard Curtis and a few of the other cast members, and whenever Colin Firth comes on-screen, Hugh trash-talks him.

So I had always thought the Firth-Grant “feud” was just something silly and fun, a way to promote the Bridget Jones movies. But it might be real! Oh, happy day. The Telegraph reports that Hugh was offered the role of King George VI in the soon-to-be released film, The King’s Speech. When Hugh passed, they went to Colin Firth, and it now looks like Colin will be in strong contention for the Best Actor Oscar for his portrait of the stuttering, decent, humble king who led his nation during World War II. And Hugh is pissed!

Hugh Grant is believed to have turned down the role in The King’s Speech that may win an Oscar for his rival actor Colin Firth.

Colin Firth’s role in The King’s Speech may win him an Oscar, but it is unlikely to improve his antagonistic relationship with Hugh Grant.

Grant, 50, who played the rival of Firth, also 50, in the Bridget Jones films, is understood to have turned down the role of George VI, but now bitterly regrets his decision.

“Hugh is kicking himself,” claims an associate. “He realises that the king’s struggle to overcome his speech impediment would have been a wonderful part, particularly as viewers would have recalled Hugh’s stuttering in Four Weddings and a Funeral.”

The actor’s last film was the romantic “comedy” Did You Hear About the Morgans?

“Watching his performance, you realise that Grant has already given up on acting,” one critic remarked.

[From The Telegraph]

Is this interesting gossip? It is, it really is. But I don’t think it’s true. I just can’t see how Hugh would have been anyone’s first choice to play King George – he’s not that strong a dramatic actor, and beyond that, Colin Firth looks more like King George, and Colin’s career is in a much better place right now. I think this may be crap, but it’s still fun. Plus, from what I’ve read about Hugh, he turns down almost everything because he hates working so much. So it’s possible he got the script at some point and passed on it without realizing that he wasn’t really the first choice, maybe?

Here’s the trailer for The King’s Speech:

Photos courtesy of Bauer-Griffin.

Dannii Minogue, Kylie’s little sister and sort-of a star in her own right, (I haven’t heard much about her but I guess she’s bigger in the UK and her native Australian) has a new biography out, uncreatively titled My Story. At 38 she’s been married and divorced and had her first baby, a little boy, this summer. Minogue worked as a judge on British TV competition show The X Factor from 2007-2009 when she took time off for her pregnancy. She worked alongside Sharon Osbourne her first year, and in her new book she tells stories about how Sharon bullied and cursed her out regularly, which is not surprising given all the other people Sharon has been in feuds with, many of whom have not personally provoked her at all. News of The World has excerpts from Kylie’s book and I’ll just include a segment here where Minogue explains how Sharon laid into her just 20 minutes before she was due to go on for the first time. You can read more at the source.

It was Dannii’s 36th birthday and she was running late for her first live X Factor show due to an impromptu celebration thrown by her friends and crew.

Rumours had been rife in the press that the two women on the judging panel didn’t get on, and Sharon sent an assistant to Dannii’s room saying she wanted to see her. But the Aussie singer didn’t have time before the show.

Then, just as Dannii was having her make-up finished, Sharon burst in, wearing just a dressing gown. Dannii recalls: “Sharon snapped, ‘All this b****cks in the press is ruining my life. You could be telling them I’m a nice person but instead you’re adding fuel to the fire by saying nothing.’

“I told her: ‘Sharon, I’ve never said anything bad about you, and I wouldn’t say anything bad about you.’

“But she didn’t seem interested. ‘I don’t need this!’ she squeaked. ‘I’m a mother, for f***’s sake, do you think I need all this s*** in my life?’

“I tried reasoning with her. ‘Sharon, they are just stupid press stories about a non-existent feud. All I’ve ever done is tell people how much I admire you but they don’t want to print it.’

“‘Oh, don’t play the innocent,’ Sharon spat. ‘Cos if you wanna play games, Missy, I’ll play… don’t you worry, I’ll play!’

I froze in my chair as furious Sharon came towards me

“I turned to look at my friends Terry and Mark, whose mouths had fallen open in horror. Then I caught a glimpse of my make-up girl Karen, who was frozen, holding a mascara wand in mid-air.

“By now Sharon – the 2006 Celebrity Mother of the Year – was screaming at me, furiously.

“My palms were clammy and my chest was tight. I noticed Terry had disappeared, then seconds later he reappeared with two producers, Claire Horton and Mark Sidaway. ‘This is not the time or place for this – 20 minutes before we go on air, Sharon,’ Claire said firmly. ‘Let’s talk about this later, shall we?’ But Sharon wouldn’t leave, and finally, with about 10 minutes to go before the broadcast, the producers had to remove her from my dressing room, ranting as she went.

“The minute she left, I burst into tears. Someone I admired greatly had relentlessly bawled in my face for 20 minutes and ruined not only what should have been one of the best nights of my life but my birthday as well.

“It was now five minutes before I was due to go on live television in front of 12 million people, and I had make-up streaming down my face.

“‘What the f*** am I supposed to have done?’ I said. ‘It’s not you, Babe,’ Terry said. ‘I think she knew exactly what she wanted to do, which was screw with your head five minutes before your first show.’

“My fabulous make-up girl Karen took charge and cleared the room. Then she sat me back in the chair and turned me around to face her. ‘Right, Dannii,’ she said. ‘You’ve got to go on in five minutes. Whatever happened just then was bulls***, so you’re not going to let someone who isn’t making any sense ruin your big night, right?’

“She literally threw some more make-up on my face, fixed my hair and ushered me to the door.

“When we reached the backstage area, I joined Simon Cowell, Louis and Sharon, ready for our first grand entrance.

“The sliding screen opened and I put my hand out to Sharon, and she took it. I wanted to show her we could be friends.

“As we moved down towards the front of the stage, Sharon lifted up our joined hands in front of the cheering crowd, and I felt relieved. Maybe that’s the end of it, I thought.”

But later that night, when two of Sharon’s acts got the least votes, she stormed off the show, swearing.

Dannii said: “I had a feeling then that it was just the beginning.”

That series proved to be a “rollercoaster of great highs and rotten lows” for Dannii.

[From News of The World]

Sharon is a nasty piece of work and she’ll pick fights with people and bully them. We don’t need Dannii Minogue to tell us that. Apparently her daughter Kelly blames Dannii for lying or somehow setting her mom off, though. She fired off a bunch of tweets personally attacking Dannii, which is typical of the Osbournes. Here’s what she wrote [via Radar]

Kelly is no stranger to feuds herself and once slapped a reporter for writing negative stories about her then-boyfriend. I guess we know where she learned her conflict resolution skills.

Dannii is shown on 2/22/10. Sharon is shown on 9/11/10. Kelly is shown on 9/14/10. Credit: WENN.com

I was kind of ignoring Lady Gaga for a long time. She seemed predictable to me in her outlandish antics. Her music is ok for that type of pop genre, and I’ve enjoyed it occasionally when it comes on the radio. I’m not a fan and before last weekend I hadn’t even watched any of her videos all the way through. I kept meaning to do it, but never bothered. Then she wore that outlandish meat dress to the VMAs. After she pulled that stunt, I looked up her videos (they were just as out there as I expected) and started questioning her sanity along with the lengths she’ll go for fame. She seems like she will stop at nothing.

All the pressure to be “on” all the time seems to be getting to Gaga. We’ve heard that she’s been hospitalized multiple times in the past year due to the stress from touring and crash dieting, and it’s affecting her performances. Vogue editor Anna Wintour, herself no stranger to diva behavior, is said to have found Anna unprofessional and diva-like in her performance this spring at the annual Costume Institute Gala. We heard stories about Gaga refusing to play that night and needing to be coaxed out by Oprah, and now there’s news that Anna hates her for it!

According to Maureen Callahan, author of the much-anticipated biography Poker Face: The Rise and Rise of Lady Gaga, the eight-time VMA winner performed in May at Wintour’s Metropolitan Museum Costume Institute Gala, and the two did not get along.

“She [Gaga] sort of had a meltdown before she went on and as it was described to me, Anna was really none too pleased with her,” Callahan told RadarOnline.com in an exclusive interview.

“Anna wasn’t impressed. She thought that she was just sort of behaving like a childish diva and not the professional who was about to perform for her peers; these incredibly famous designers and celebrities,” Callahan continued.

“She sequestered herself in the back room for a good hour. She was an hour late to perform and I also heard that she had been demanding things. She went to Anna at the last minute and was saying, ‘I’d like it to be this way.’

“And Anna just said no. I don’t think she’s used to hearing that very often. When you’re dealing with two egos like that, it gets interesting.”

Wintour made an appearance on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon in September and addressed the incident saying, “We had Lady Gaga this year.

“She was communing with God and she was praying in the back, waiting for God to tell her it was alright to go actually onstage.”

The Gaga biography hits bookstores Tuesday, September 14, and Callahan promises to give readers a sense of who the pop star icon is as a fully flushed out human being.

“Lady Gaga is everything she claims to be but also is nothing she claims to be. She is the biggest contradiction ever. She is the incredibly ballsy and bad ass girl who’s also so lonely and hungry for affection that she’ll employ someone to take naps with her and go to the tanning booth with her,” Callahan said.

[From Radar]

We’ve already heard some details from this upcoming biography, and I think that even if there are potentially embarrassing stories in there, Gaga won’t mind. She wore raw meat for God’s sake, she wants people to talk about her at any cost.

Last week, there was a disturbing story from a mother of a young singer and former Lady Gaga collaborator named Lina Morgana who died of an apparent suicide at the age of 19. I’m not going to recount all the details (which you can read here), but the gist is that Morgana’s mom is accusing Gaga of copying her late daughter’s persona and performance style. Morgana and Gaga were both mentored by the same producer, Rob Fusari, and recorded over a dozen songs together. Morgana’s mom claims that her daughter’s dark personality and flamboyant style were uniquely hers and were nothing like Gaga’s, then Stefani Germanotta, at the time. The article claims that a mere month after Morgana’s suicide in October, 2008 “Germanotta became Lady Gaga [and] took the music industry by storm.”

Gaga is definitely an opportunist and I could see her appropriating this late singer’s style. Initially I thought it may have had more to do with their mutual manager’s plan to spawn an eccentric star than any nefarious plot on Gaga’s part. Fusari sued Gaga for $30 million, claiming that he created her entire image and name and that she cut him off right before she hit it big. According to the lawsuit, Gaga stopped answering Fusari’s calls in May, 2007, well before this other woman died, however. It may just be a sad coincidence that the poor girl died and the timeline might not be as damning as the article makes it out to be. Gaga has since settled that lawsuit with Fusari for an undisclosed sum.

Over the weekend, Gaga successfully passed through airport security clad in underwear, a bra, a gold lame open jacket, and a giant metal belt with handcuffs hanging off it. It all seemed so lame and try-hard, as do most of her moves lately.

In case you think Gaga might go away now that she’s maybe reached the tipping point by draping herself in steak, she’s set to cash in with a perfume, put out by Coty. What will it smell like – rotten meat, burnt out sparklers and wig glue?

Lady Gaga is shown on 9/12/10 and 7/2/10. Anna Wintour is shown on 2/16/10. Credit: Fame Pictures