Rachel Bilson just made the cardinal mistake with the popular but questionable “helmet hair” style that is sweeping Hollywood and the female masses. She went for the full bang treatment while leaving her hair long and not taking enough volume out to make it sleek and straight. In my opinion this cut doesn’t work for thicker hair unless it’s thinned out to achieve a sleeker, smoother style like Katie Holmes or Christina Ricci.

We covered the helmet hair phenomenon in an earlier post, and Bilson looks like Elle Macpherson now. They’re both gorgeous women but the heavy bangs don’t suit their longer, thicker hair and just make them look like night creatures peering out from beneath a mass of fur. The hair takes over their face and becomes the look and the features are secondary.

Bilson looked so much prettier before she covered half her face with a continuous curtain of hair. Don’t fall prey to this latest hair trend! You can sweep the bangs to the side until they’re grown out, but there is a real risk of depression with a bad haircut. Just ask Javier Bardem.

Thanks to PRPhotos for these pictures from the Jumper Tokyo premiere on 2/26. Bilson is also shown on 11/14/07 at the Awake premiere for comparison. This haircut is recent as she was seen on TRL without bangs earlier in the month.

I really love laid-back, regular-folk type celebrities. The kind that go to the grocery store, take out their own garbage, and even move their own furniture. And while I hadn’t really thought about it, I’m pretty sure that I also love dump-truck owning, pig acquiring, farm-living celebrities too - which is a good thing, because Hayden Christensen is all of those things. Owning pigs isn’t that weird for a celebrity - George Clooney famously owned a potbelly pig, who was deeply mourned upon his death. Lots of celebs live on cute, trendy farms. But I’m pretty sure none of them own dump trucks that they use to move dirt around their property. And if they do, they must be hip enough to keep quiet about it. But Hayden Christensen is down to earth - literally.

Is it true that you own a farm?
I bought it for my family. It’s just north of Toronto, and I spend some time there.

Do you do any chores?
You can’t really classify it as a chore after you’re 16 years old.

But do you milk the cows?
I don’t have any cows to milk yet. Eventually. But I do a lot of the work myself.

How do you cut a hayfield?
There’s a tractor that does the cutting. I can’t actually take credit for the driving of the tractor, because at the time I didn’t know how to do it. I brought in a farmer who did. But I got myself a tractor now, so next year I’ll be all over it.

Do you need a tractor license?
Good question. Not as far as I know. But I could be wrong. I know you need a license to drive a dump truck.

How do you know that?
Because I have one and I don’t have a license. That was a slight oversight on my part.

Why do you have a dump truck?
Because I have a farm.

Do you go around collecting the neighbors’ trash?
I’m using it more for relocating dirt on my property.

[From Newsweek]

I’ve never lived on - or spent much time on - a farm, so I don’t know if a dump truck is something everyone must have. It’s funny that Hayden responds kind of like, “What an obvious answer.” I myself prefer cement trucks for my random automobile of choice, but whatever, I won’t judge. Hayden goes on to say that he has two pigs that live on the farm, named Buddy and Petunia. They’re “house pigs” as he calls them, and says that they will not be used for breakfast. In fact as a result of Buddy and Petunia, Hayden can no longer eat pork. Apparently he and the pigs hang out and watch “Iron Chef” together. It’s a funny thought, that someone famous who goes to big premieres also sits on the couch on their farm, watching TV with their pigs. Hayden’s girlfriend Rachel Bilson wasn’t mentioned in the interview - I can’t help but wonder how the ladies take to the house pigs. Christenson did note that, unlike George Clooney, he does not sleep with the pigs in his bed. That’s got to help the romance situation at least a little bit. Though it never seemed to slow George down any.

Hayden Christensen and the cast of “Jumper” at the Colosseum in Rome on February 6th. Images thanks to PR Photos.

Rachel Bilson has shattered the dreams of teenage boys the world over by declining to do nudity. Ever. She revealed this in a Playboy interview. I guess being in Playboy doesn’t mean what I thought it did. Now you can read it for the articles.

Rachel Bilson almost didn’t appear in The Last Kiss because she won’t do nudity, the actress reveals in Playboy.

“Movies can be sexy or sexual without showing things,” the former O.C. star, 26, said in the issue out Friday. “It’s almost a deal breaker. The movie was rated R, and they like to put in nudity wherever they can, but I’m pretty strong willed and believe it can be avoided.”

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I think this is very determined of her, although she complains that the roles she wants often go to Kirsten Dunst, Keira Knightley, Scarlett Johansson, Natalie Portman or Kate Bosworth. Probably because they do nudity! Actually, it’s great that Rachel keeps her clothes on, it proves that the roles she gets are because of her talent rather than her more obvious assets.

If she changes her mind though, she has a great excuse for baring all.

THE O.C. star Rachel Bilson has suffered partial amnesia since cheating death in a teenage car crash.

The actress was in a coma for two days following the smash, which left a friend paralysed - and she has struggled to recall events from her near and distant past since.

The 26-year-old says, “I was involved in a car accident when I was 14. I had a concussion and blacked out. I don’t have much of a memory now.”

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I wish I had an excuse for forgetting, uh, everything. I’d absolutely turn on the waterworks everytime I forgot a birthday and say “But don’t you know I was in a car accident?’

Rachel and her boyfriend Hayden Christensen are the spokespeople for a new campaign Teens For Jeans, where you donate your unwanted jeans to a homeless shelter and receive a 20% discount off your next pair. Aeropostale, the sponsor of the campaign, will also be donating 10,000 pairs of jeans. What good work!

Picture note by Celebitchy: Rachel Bilson is shown at the “Jumper” Trailer World Premiere Screening on 12/7/07 along with Hayden Christensen and Samuel L Jackson. Thanks to PRPhotos.

26 year-old Jessica Alba looks pregnant to me. I know I’m always calling celebrities pregnant, but in the last two cases, Nicole Richie and Cate Blanchett, I was right and well ahead of the tabloids. (Although I did call Nicole Kidman pregnant enough times for her to have had Irish twins by now.) At first I wrote this whole post making fun of Alba’s recent lack of style, but when I looked at the pictures closely I was struck by how much her lower stomach looks like it’s sticking out in this dress. It could just be the style of the dress, but I suspect she’s knocked up. Alba is currently reunited with her longterm boyfriend, Cash Warren, who was also at the premiere of Awake in NY last night.

Is Alba pregnant or did she fire her stylist? She was on TRL on Tuesday wearing a loose t-shirt and skirt outfit that Agent Bedhead said made her look “like the ditzy secretary who takes the ‘business-casual; notion way too literally.” Then last night she showed up at the premiere of her new film, Awake, wearing a black dress with scalloped lace detail and puffy cap sleeves. Her look is just perfect for that mid 80s prom she would have been crowned queen of if she was born 15 years earlier.

The dress even featured some odd gathered fabric tied around the stomach area that managed to make the super-thin Alba look pregnant, and she paired it with dark stockings! That dress makes it seem as if she’s got something to hide, like a bump or her natural beauty. When did Alba start dressing like a frump? Wasn’t she know for her excellent fashion on the red carpet? Alba is a b-movie actress who scored a gig presenting at the Oscars on looks and fashion. Take away the fashion and she starts to look plain.

Compare Alba to her co-star Hayden Christensen’s girlfriend, Rachel Bilson, who looks flawless apart from those huge double hoop earrings, which aren’t ridiculous so much as distracting. Her dress takes just enough risks to look daring without going over the top, and the bright diagonal swatches of color and slightly asymmetric bustline are striking. She matches a plain black belt with simple black heels and the result is gorgeous, like Jessica Alba used to look. Maybe Alba should call up Cate Blanchett and ask her how to maximize her style while trying to hide the growing evidence of a pregnancy. Just dressing uglier isn’t going to help, and it may lead to some false bump spottings, but we’ll have to wait and see.

Here are Jessica Alba, Hayden Christensen, and Rachel Bilson at the NY premiere of Awake. The film is a medical thriller about a man who wakes up during heart surgery but cannot move or speak. Here’s the trailer. Awake is out in the US on November 30th.

Thanks to PRPhotos and Splash News for these pictures.