The company that brought us the Carmen Electra home pole dancing kit is seeking a partner to help launch a pole dancing version of Nintendo’s Wii.

“According to the report, Peekaboo Pole Dancing, the company behind the Carmen Electra home pole dancing kit, is looking to bring the new exercise to the makers of the game. The report speculates, “Pole dancing would certainly be an interesting fit for the Nintendo Wii, and it would be something to see how big of a pole they would actually ship with a game.”

[National Ledger]

It sounds like a total fabrication and the dream of 15 year old boys everywhere, but it could be a possibility. Carmen has several pole dancing, lap dancing and stripping instructional videos aimed at providing a work out and adding sexy skills for the bedroom. The possible stripper game will be rated and aimed for an adult audience that caters to both men and women.

Currently Peekaboo Pole Dancing is shopping for a partner to make the dream a reality. The company needs help to license the concept. While Peekaboo denied Electra’s involvement, it has not been completely ruled out. They sent out an email announcing the idea and mentioned a few of celebrities who own their portable poles to encourage hype. Kylie Minogue, the Pussycat Dolls and the Spice Girls were all mentioned.

I get the general idea. However I foresee a couple of problems. One - Wii games are aimed at all ages. I understand that adults can play, but the idea of seeing my dad swing around a pole in pasties on family game night is not appealing. Second a slew of lawsuits will begin as some knob uses the pole in a manner other than what it was intended for.

Note by Celebitchy: The Wii Fit comes out on May 21 and is priced at $89.99. You can anticipate a pole dancing Wii option being wildly popular, but it doesn’t seem like something the Nintendo people would want to put out considering the adult subject matter. If it does come out I know my husband and countless other husbands and boyfriends will be ordering one hoping to get the benefits, so maybe Nintendo will accept the controversy in exchange for the cash.

Here’s a video demonstrating the Peekaboo Pole Dancing Kit:

And here’s Carmen Electra doing a lap dance:

Carmen Electra is shown at Planet Hollywood on 4/26/08, thanks to PRPhotos.

The National Enquirer has details of the diet and fitness regime Britney’s on in an effort to lose 20 pounds and kick start her comeback, and I hope they have some of the details wrong it because it sounds grueling. Supposedly Britney’s newly re-hired manager, Larry Rudolph, put her on the program, and this would make sense because he is also the person who is said to be brokering the deal to have her represent Bally Total Fitness.

Here are the details:

• “Six small meals a day of specially prepared organic food - chicken, salads, vegetables and other low-fat fare.”
• Pampering treatments for encouragement and appearance such as facials, hair and skin care treatments
• Working out “with a trainer, three times a day, five days a week.”
• “She’s been ordered to do a staggering thousand stomach crunches a day on her own.”

[Details and quoted text from The National Enquirer, print edition, May 5, 2008]

A thousand stomach crunches and working out three times a day? That sounds excessive, and like something that could backfire because it’s too difficult. If you have attainable goals and a realistic schedule it’s easier to stick with. I hope they got it wrong and she works out three to five times a week or something. You can work out nearly every day, but you should alternate cardio with strength training to give your muscles a chance to recover. Three times a day sounds like it would really wear your body down.

The Enquirer quotes a source as saying “Larry doesn’t want her to be a joke when he restarts her career - and he wants her to look sexier than ever.” Maybe they should work her at an easier pace. It’s only been a a few months since she had that whole breakdown and she has a tendency to rebel when people force her to do things. Still, you wish her well and all. It’s just doesn’t seem like trying for a singing career again at this point would be the best move for her. It’s not like she knows how to do much else though.

Britney is shown leaving Bally Total Fitness on 4/23/08. She looks really happy and you can see that she’s lost weight.

In her quest to get her life back – or at least her dad’s quest – Britney Spears is getting both her mental and physical health in shape. Britney’s got her old manager Larry Rudolph back on her team, and with the help of her dad/conservator Jaime Spears, she seems to really be getting her act together. Brit’s lost a good deal of weight and is looking much healthier – you hardly ever see her with Cheetos or a Frappuccino in hand anymore. TMZ is reporting that Britney is in negotiations to be the frontwoman for Ballys Fitness.

Sources tell TMZ Britney Spears is in negotiation with Bally Total Fitness to be a frontwoman for the company — and backwoman, too! Here’s what we know. Brit’s parents have both been talking to Bally about making a deal. Daddy Jamie has the power as co-conservator to make it happen. It all happened because Larry Rudolph, who is coming back to manage the Britster, has a close friendship with John Wildman, the Chief Marketing Officer of Bally.

During the negotiations, Brit has been going to the club at least once a day and up to as many as three times a day. She’s training with two of the company’s top personal trainers — we’re guessing one for the front and one for the back. She’s also working with the company’s nutritionist, who has put Britney on five to six quality meals a day. No Taco Bell, no Fanta … life can really suck.

[From TMZ]

TMZ is quick to point out there there’s no deal yet; both sides are still negotiating. Brit does get to work out for free – so that saves her about $20 right there. TMZ says a “company insider said, “We’re more interested in Britney Spears’ health than her $19.” I’m not quite so sure it’s her health they’re worried about – I think it’s more her ass. I’m kidding, but obviously they’re interested in her health for the sake of their company. Anything that gets Britney up, out, and moving has got to be a good thing. And if she has to leave the chalupas alone, so be it.

Here’s Britney leaving Bally Total Fitness after a private training session in Los Angeles yesterday. Images thanks to WENN.

Update by Celebitchy: Bally Total Fitness is well known for scamming and pressuring people into signing multi-year contracts that can’t be canceled. A friend of mine had his credit ruined when he tried to get out of a long contract there. I was once put in a room with a salesperson there and pressured into signing a contract after a friend of mine brought me for a workout. They’ve been sued many times for this tactic. The company went bankrupt in August of last year, and was bought out by a hedge fund.

Maybe if they would have set rates for specific packages and would publish their membership fees they wouldn’t need to try and use Britney to lure in more people to scam. You should be able to know what the rates are for a club ahead of time and not be pressured to sign a contract right away.

Personal trainer to the stars Rob Parr has a new book coming out called “Star Quality: The Red Carpet Workout for the Celebrity Body of Your Dreams” The way Parr describes some of his celebrity clients when he first started working with them is not flattering at all. Perhaps he’s trying to explain that you too can have a celebrity body, or maybe trainers regularly talk like that, but the way he disses the “before” bodies of some celebrities is just plain mean:

Demi Moore needed some major work to turn herself from a fat-kneed, thunder-thighed girl into a ravishing knockout, according to Robb Parr, her former personal trainer. In his upcoming exercise book, “Star Quality,” Parr writes: “[Demi] lacked a defined waist, carried too much meat on her thighs, and was, by movie-star standards, thick overall. To taper her waist, we decided to accentuate her shoulders, creating a V-shape. We trimmed her thighs, shaving off some of the excess fat from above her knees, and accentuated her butt, further emphasizing her waist.” As for Madonna, whom Parr also whipped into shape, “When [she] and I started working together, she was very soft . . .” As for Aussie cutie Naomi Watts, she came to Parr “fleshy, and we needed to trim and tighten so that she would fit the mold of a bikini-clad babe.”

[From The NY Post]

This guy’s book could also be called “You’ll never fight flab in this town again,” because he’s not going to win any business in the future by being so rude about his clients. Some programs work better than others, but Parr is fooling himself if he thinks that his routine is so unique and worthwhile that stars are going to keep seeing him after he talked smack about his clients. Celebrities expect some kind of discretion and privacy in the professionals they work with. Maybe they gave him permission to mention them in his book, but it’s doubtful.

According to Amazon, Parr’s book classifies the female stars into different body types to help you achieve their slender and defined physiques:

Success is in the stars with this proven celebrity-based program that offers lasting transformation in 90 days. Instead of the standard apple, pear, or celery stick body shapes, Rob Parr presents body types based on some of his most famous celebrity clients, so that readers can identify with, aspire to, and work toward a body shape like Madonna’s (athletic), Demi Moore’s (hourglass), or Naomi Watts’s (long and slender). The plan is easy to follow and has a lot of variety to keep routines from getting dull, plus celeb secrets, motivational tips, and Hollywood stories to keep things fun and interactive.

[From Amazon.com via Huffington Post]

One of the best and easiest diet and exercise programs to follow is the now-classic “Body for Life: 12 Weeks to Mental and Physical Strength.” (It’s easy to follow, but the work is hard although definitely doable.) Another one I recommend is Don Lemmon’s Know How - The Truth About Exercise and Nutrition which is also very effective but not as easy to learn. Overall it’s all about getting your butt in the gym and lifting weights and eating less. For me I need a formula to follow and don’t like to count calories or weigh food.

There are plenty of excellent programs for losing weight and firming up and it’s all about picking one and getting motivated to follow it most of the time. I don’t want some arrogant trainer telling me that Madonna and Naomi Watts used to be fat at some very brief point in their lives, though. That really isn’t going to make me want to buy his book.

80s fantasy chick and Weird Science babe Kelly LeBrock, now 47, lost 31 pounds on VH1’s Celebrity Fit Club back in 2005, but has since gained it back and says that the way she lost the weight wasn’t healthy. She told OK! Magazine that she’s “never going to diet again” and that she will “never eat lettuce again.”

Now I understand never dieting if it’s something that means starving for you, as long as you’re not talking about taking it to the extreme and eating huge portions of bad food, which would be someone’s prerogative I guess, but never eating lettuce? Maybe she just means that crappy iceberg lettuce that has no nutritional value, because there are a lot of different kinds of lettuce that make a nice salad and I can’t see swearing them all off.

OK! caught up with Kelly at the Oscar party Night of 100 Stars, where she was fighting mad — because, she said, a nasty magazine recently implied she was fat.

“I’m not fat!” Kelly declared. “I don’t look like a 400-pound heifer! I’m going to keep eating. I eat normally. And I’ve had three kids.”

She added that actresses like herself, “have to be role models for all these young girls” so they don’t become scary skinny.

Two years ago, Kelly, now 47, lost a total of 31 pounds on the VH-1 reality show Celebrity Fit Club, but the Weird Science star found dieting just wasn’t right for her. “I didn’t eat for three months,” she explains. “It was dangerous. It was a really bad way to lose weight. I will never eat lettuce again!”

[From OK! Magazine]

LeBrock said that she doesn’t weigh herself and that “If I can fit into a ten/twelve, I’m happy.”

If she’s happy and comfortable with herself, and from the looks of that plunging neckline on her dress she is, that’s all that matters. She looks fine apart from those chemically enhanced lips and not everyone has to be a stick. We do need more normal-sized actresses as role models, but it’s not like she gets much exposure.

There are health issues associated with being moderately overweight, and a lot of the articles I consulted about this stated that “studies show that by losing as little as 10 to 20 pounds you can dramatically improve your overall health status.”

So maybe she thinks dieting means starving yourself and eating only iceberg lettuce, but it also means getting more vegetables and maybe cutting some of those empty carbs in favor of more nutritional food.

Jennifer Love Hewitt recently said that she’s not going to exercise just to look good, and that she’ll do it for her health and so that she can live a long and happy life. That sounds like a more sensible approach to all this body criticism instead of just saying “f’ck it”

Jennifer Love Hewitt is shown at “The Envelope Please” 7th Annual Oscar Viewing Party and Kelly LeBrock is shown at Night of 100 Stars Gala Viewing Party both on 2/24/08, thanks to PRPhtoos.

Renee Zellweger says that eating anything you want, and getting paid millions for it, isn’t fun. I think she’s just ruined a fantasy for more than one of us.

Renee gained 20 pounds for her role in Bridget Jones’s Diary and again for it’s sequel, and lost the weight quickly afterwards both times. She says she was panicked at the warnings she received about how dangerous it is to yo-yo diet, and the freedom to eat as she pleased wasn’t as much fun as she thought.

“It sounds like heaven,” she said. “For two days it’s bliss and then you’re full, OK? And you can then indulge all your fantasies about over-eating.

“Fantasies about non-stop chocolate consumption or your fantasies about ordering the pizza and the spaghetti and the garlic bread.

“Then after a week your glucose levels are going crazy. You’re up and down and all over the place. It doesn’t feel good, and no one wants to hear that, but it’s the truth.”

Daily Mail

Not only does Renee think that eating delicious junk food isn’t fun, she really, really likes to exercise. Is she being paid to say this by some kind of fitness equipment store? Because no one actually likes the treadmill, do they?

“I have a lifestyle,” she told reporters Thursday night. “It involves keeping my sanity by going to the gym.”

Zellweger, 38, cut a slim figure on the red carpet, but said she doesn’t miss her Bridget Jones look. “I don’t think my curves are absent,” she said with a laugh. “I think I’m doing alright, thank you very much.”

People

I know what Renee is saying about exercise making you feel good, when I get off my butt and exercise with some regularity I really feel like I have a lot more energy. Of course, if there is a choice between exercising and doing anything else, exercise will always be the loser.

Renee was discussing her weight gain in relation to a possible third installment of Bridget Jones’s Diary. Author Helen Feilding is reportedly working on a third novel, detailing Bridget’s move to Los Angeles and having children. I hope that this is true, I love those books.

Picture note by Celebitchy: Renee Zellweger is shown at the London premiere of Bee Movie on 12/6/07, thanks to PR Photos.

All that hard living has taken a toll on Lindsay’s looks. Maybe it’s the bad makeup, but she looks worn out and aged to me. Lindsay needs a detox and some down time to regain her youthful beauty.

Lohan was photographed outside a Golden Globes “suite,” which probably means swag party, yesterday. There are also pictures out now of Lohan running with a cigarette in her hand. While her face is looking riough her body doesn’t seem to be suffering. Everyone is asking where’s the appendectomy scar, but I found a bulletin board with these photos that credits them as being taken on 12/30, before her quickie operation. That makes sense because The Mirror recently ran a story saying Lindsay was seen running with a cigarette in hand in Miami.

Pictures from WWTDD and Britney.cl.

I was watching the Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson, (not that I recommend it as I find him kind of hoaky) and LL Cool J was on. He has a new workout book called “LL Cool J’s Platinum Workout” that he says is about being the best that you can be. People assume there’s some trick to getting buff or that celebrities are fit because they have so many advantages, but LL said that it just takes work. I was impressed with how genuinely enthused he is about fitness, and all of the positive things he said. He said working out helps you think better, makes you feel more confident, and helps you do better at any job. It gives you energy that you can tap into to achive your goals in life.

LL is really ripped, and he doesn’t take steriods and that’s what his book is about. In another interview that I found online, LL says the book is not about quick fixes, and tries to help people make lifestyle changes that last:

It’s about correct form. It’s about meal plans as opposed to diets. It’s a lifestyle book. I think that’s what separates it from all these quick fixes. You have all of these books that promise great abs in 30 seconds, that promise that you’ll be in shape in three easy weeks. You see the results when you see me. I’m a walking billboard and a living witness to the fact that everything in this book is real; it’s really been done.

It’s aimed at people who want to be in shape or people who want to change their lives. There is no age, there is no demographic for fitness — fitness is for everyone…

Once you have a roaring flame, it doesn’t take as many logs to keep it going. At this point, I’ll sit down and eat ice cream and have some apple pie. But I’m also working out all week, and I’m in shape and still burning fat. It’s a little different from someone who maybe feels like they are 15 or 30 pounds overweight. They can’t cheat yet. Once you get to a certain point, you can kind of live a little bit, and that’s a good thing. My focus is on getting this book out there and benefiting as many people as I can with it. I’m so excited about my book that I wake up in the middle of the night and can’t think of anything else.

LL has one more album coming out with Def Jam, and was the first artist signed to the label when Russell Simmons started it. He has the last album under his current contract due in April of this year.

Although he didn’t talk about it on the show, he recently gave a generous gift of custom made cribs to P. Diddy’s twins. Diddy had the $2,250 cribs on his baby registry.

There are tons of Lindsay Lohan bikini pictures from last summer, but she’s in the water in these latest candids in a poll in Miami and doesn’t seem too eager to get out and show off her body. Lohan is just a little heavier than usual, and although she still looks great she’s not as fit as she once was and can’t pull off wearing a shirt as a belted dress. (Although no one could pull off that look, so that’s not a fair assessment.)

England’s Mirror claims that Lohan was spotted down in Miami going for a jog with a cigarette in hand. At least she’s doing something healthy instead of just shopping and going out to clubs, even if she’s sabotaging her health at the same time.

HATS off to Lindsay Lohan whose New Year resolution is to take more exercise - though obviously not to quit smoking!

The actress was snapped in revealing sportswear, fag in paw, on a jog in Miami. Last year the wildchild actress was anything but healthy so it’s nice to see her back on track.

A pal said: “Lindsay is getting into shape after complaining that she’s been looking bloated after the festive season.” Not too bloated from here.

Yeah, all they did was see some pictures and make up that quote.

Lohan was spotted chatting with her ex, cad Wilmer Valderrama, on New Year’s Day, fueling speculation that they might get back together. Rumor has it that Wilmer is back with cutie Mandy Moore, though, and chances are he was just being friendly with Lindsay.

Pictures from Splash News

Update high res pictures replaced with watermarked versions from the photo agency.

Penelope Cruz looks effortlessly gorgeous leaving a dance studio in Hollywood last Friday. She was recently nominated for a best actress Golden Globe for her role in Almodovar’s Volver, for which she donned a prosthetic derriere. Advance buzz is that she’s going to be nominated for an Oscar too. One person rooting for her is her super-fit ex, hottie Matthew McConaughey. He said, “[Penelope’s] going to get an Oscar nomination - or she should. She’s incredibly excited about that film.”

Pictures via SuperiorPics.