When I first saw the thumbnails for this photo set I thought I was looking at a woman crammed into a too-tight dress. From far away, from the front, that’s what it looks like. It wasn’t until I saw the photos on Evil Beet that I realized I was looking at a pregnant Hilary Duff crammed into a too-tight lime green sequin dress. (There are more photos here) This is not a flattering look for her at all, and I think pregnancy passes should be reserved for shapeless shifts, but at least she’s trying to switch it up. I love this color too, but as an accent piece or a shirt that pops not as a whole dress! Still, she’s going for bold and she’s knocked up and loving it. Plus she looks cute and like she has a devoted husband in hockey player Mike Comrie. (Not so much here, but in the other photos.)
Hilary was attending the launch of The Beauty Book, which features photos of celebrities with proceeds to go to brain cancer research. So she’s doing a good thing here, even as a shiny bright green fashion miss.
From what I can find, Hilary is probably around six months along. She made the announcement in mid August and if she waited a traditional three months first she would be six months’ pregnant now. Hilary is only 24! I know a lot of people know her as the kid from Disney’s Lizzie McGuire, but I honestly thought she was at least 28 or so. Still, she seems grounded and like she’ll make a good mom. You know she’ll do a baby photo spread if one of the magazines will have her.
I should have known that Hilary Duff was pregnant. I’m ashamed to admit that my mind didn’t even go there when I noticed two things: one, her boobs were looking bigger in recent photos and two, she and husband Mike Comrie have been getting pap’d on a daily basis lately, for no apparent reason other than they’re probably calling the paparazzi themselves. So, Hilary is knocked up, and she announced it on her first wedding anniversary. Also, I found this shocking: Hilary is ONLY 23 years old. It feels like she should be about 35 years old by now, right?
Hilary Duff’s first wedding anniversary is extra sweet: she and Mike Comrie announced they are expecting a baby!
“This weekend, Mike and I are celebrating our one year anniversary! In memory of the special day, we decided to post some of our favorite pictures from our wedding!” she wrote on her official website Sunday.
“I can’t believe it has already been a year. Time really flies when you’re having fun! We also want to share the exciting news that baby makes three! We are extremely happy and ready to start this new chapter of our lives. Thanks to everyone for the continued love and support throughout the years!”
Duff, 23, wed pro hockey player Comrie, 30, on August 14, 2010 in an intimate sunset ceremony at a $29 million estate near the San Ysidro Ranch in Montecito, Calif.
“We both love kids and we’re really excited,” Duff told Us Weekly Wednesday at the Kendra Scott jewelry event in L.A., just days before sharing her pregnancy news with the world. “It was a big deal for us because we had a year to be married.”
I can’t hate on her! I’m happy for her, truly. I’m glad she got knocked up and I hope that her fast-track to the Hollywood Mother Mafia goes smoothly, and the initiation process isn’t too grueling (I think Jennifer Garner gets to shank newbies).
Here’s something more shocking than Hilary’s age: she’s got one movie about to come next year, and another one in pre-production! Wow. And here I was thinking that she had no career and having a baby was her cling to relevancy. Now I’m just being rude! Congrats Hilary and Mike!
I won’t buy a celebrity magazine for random wedding or baby pictures usually, but I love to look at my “friend’s” photos on Facebook. It’s not just wedding photos, I love baby pictures, showers, drunken college parties and vacation photos. I don’t know most of these people as I just have one Facebook account for Celebitchy. (Add me as a friend and I’ll check out yours. The other day I was checking out someone’s birthday vacation to Chicago, where she caught a Cubs game and took in the sights. I’m mentioning it to see if she reads this story.)
Anyway I knew when we saw just those blurry faraway photos of Hilary Duff’s wedding to hockey player Mike Comrie that she must have optioned the photos to a celebrity outlet. OK! Magazine has them, and Hilary looks really lovely on the cover. (If not a little ‘toxed and/or Photoshopped.) The cover promises to have “exclusive photos” and an interview with Hilary. I’ll buy the exclusive photos part, but I’m thinking the interview isn’t that extensive. Maybe I’m just so used to OK!’s bait and switch covers that I’m having trouble giving them props for an exclusive piece that they surely paid good money for. Here’s more, from E!, which has more of the story than OK! does on their site:
Hilary Duff’s big day began all wrong, but it certainly didn’t end that way.
“I started my day with a chipped tooth!” she reveals in the new issue of OK! “My wedding planner snuck me out to the dentist! Thank goodness it was fixed within the hour.”
Fortunately, everything else went smoothly for the 22-year-old bride as she tied the knot with Mike Comrie last weekend in Santa Barbara, Calif.
Walking down the aisle in front of about 100 guests, Duff wore a Vera Wang gown with an organza mermaid look that was adorned with giant blossoms while carrying a bouquet of blush dahlias.
“There are not even words to describe it,” says the starlet about her dress. “It’s exactly what I imagined, plus 10 times better.”
Duff says she also abided by the tradition of wearing something old, something new, something borrowed and something blue.
“I wore blue underwear and borrowed all of the jewelry [from Van Cleef & Arpels], and the something old was my great-grandmother’s cameo, which I wore on the inside of my dress. The dress itself was new.”
Upon exchanging vows, the newly married couple joined their loved ones under a muslin tent for the reception, which, according to Duff, featured truffled corn ravioli, pepper-crusted rib-eye steak and miso-glazed black cod, as well as a dessert station that included ice cream sandwiches with hot fudge dipping sauce.
That must have freaked Hilary out to no end to have chipped a tooth on her wedding day! Thank goodness she was able to get it fixed right away and I wonder if it was even noticeable. Also, I love food “stations” at weddings! I once went to a wedding with different chinese food stations ahead of, unbeknownst to me, the main meal. I walked around and filled up and then we sat down for a few courses.
There’s a little more gossip on Hilary. US Weekly reports that she had a prenup with her new husband, who is a multi-millionaire hockey player in his own right and comes from a wealthy family with a furniture empire. An insider says “It was a totally amicable agreement. They love each other very much and knew this was just a technicality.” That was smart, and good for them. People get married thinking it’s going to last forever, but the truth is that we all have about 50/50 odds – maybe a little better but it’s smart to be prepared.
Hilary Duff, 22, is sporting a huge rock from her hockey player beau, Mike Comrie, 29, of the Edmonton Oilers. The two got engaged over Valentine’s weekend while in vacation in Hawaii, with Hilary’s sister telling People that the proposal was a complete surprise. Outlets have different cost appraisals for the ring, with E! reporting that Comrie bought it in Vegas and that it cost a cool million and Hollywood Life quoting a jeweler that estimates that the 4.5 carat ring was around $300,000. Maybe Comrie should have had it appraised before he plopped down that kind of cash.
I checked Wikipedia to see what kind of contract Comrie has, and he’s been making upwards of $3 million a year since 2001 with an initial very high contract that he might not have lived up to. (Maybe a hockey fan can help shed some light onto this. He’s moved around a lot and apparently angered Edmonton, his first team, by grandstanding in a contract dispute.) It breaks down to $10 million for three years with the Edmonton Oilers from 2001-2004; some time with the Philadelphia Flyers and Phoenix Coyotes, including a one year contract for $3 million with the Coyotes in 2006, $3.375 million in 2007 with the New York Islanders, and then $4 million with the Islanders again in 2008. His latest contract is for $1.125 million for one year back with the Oilers. So his stock is falling a little, but he still dropped a million on a ring.
Duff and Comrie were spotted out to dinner at Katsuya in LA last night, with Hilary happily showing off their ring. OK! reports that the two are looking to purchase a mansion together in Beverly Hills, with a budget of around $10 million.
I don’t know, I just think that 22 is too young to get married. I waited until I was in my early 30s and I still didn’t know what I was getting into. It’s a good age for some people, though. If they’re both ready to start a family they’ll be able to raise kids when they’re young and that’s a definite advantage. Congratulations to Hilary and Mike!
In the “Leave My Classic Films Alone” department, some Hollywood slimeballs thought it would be a great idea to do a remake of the Faye Dunaway/Warren Beatty classic crime caper, “Bonnie and Clyde.” As if that isn’t bad enough news, they also thought that the role of Bonnie Parker, played so brilliantly by Faye Dunaway, should belong to former Disney star/pop singer Hilary Duff. It’s enough to make you choke on your popcorn, right? Well, Dunaway – always one to speak her mind – didn’t hold back her opinion on this project when asked about it, questioning the need for a remake – and the unfortunate casting choice.
Quick! Can you think of any remake of great film classic that has been better than the original?
No, I didn’t think so.
That’s also reportedly the reaction of both Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway upon hearing about a new ”Bonnie & Clyde” in the works.
Hollywood sources tell me the two Oscar winners both said, ”Why?” upon hearing the news little-known director Tonya S. Holly will direct ”The Story of Bonnie and Clyde,” based on her own screenplay. Holly says her project was inspired not by the 1967 film, but by news clippings of the famous Depression-era outlaws, found in an abandoned house on her family’s property.
Learning her role as Bonnie Parker would be portrayed by Hilary Duff, Dunaway supposedly zinged, ”Couldn’t they at least cast a real actress?” Wow. Meow.
Beatty’s Clyde Barrow role will be played by Kevin Zegers, whose credits include ”The Jane Austen Book Club” and ”Transamerica.”
The original ”Bonnie & Clyde” received 10 Oscar nominations, but won only two — Estelle Parsons for best supporting actress and for cinematography.
Now, I don’t have ESP or anything, but I’m not predicting 10 Oscar nominations for this remake, are you? And you just gotta love Faye’s reaction. Of course, in my head, she is still dressed like Joan Crawford and screaming this at the top of her lungs with a wire hanger in her hand. Yikes! But I couldn’t agree more. Aside from her “Lizzie McGuire Movie” that came out a million years ago, what’s Hilary Duff done to deserve this role?
Audience have typically rejected attempts to remake classic movies – recent remakes of “The Omen,” “Psycho” and “Amityville Horror” all got dismal reviews and nobody saw them. So, what gives? Why does anyone think this is a good idea? I’m sure there are plenty of struggling screenwriters out there with original ideas who are dying for a chance to get a movie made. Anything’s got to be better than Hilary Duff pretending to be a 1930s bank robber, right?
Faye Dunaway is shown looking fabulous at the Metropolitan Opera in NYC, Sept. 2008. No more wire hangers! Photo credit: WENN.
Hilary Duff, in her latest attempt to separate herself from her early Disney fame, will be starring in a movie about Bonnie and Clyde opposite Kevin Zegers. The article makes it very clear that this is not a remake of the 1967 film, but rather a new film with a new script.
Tonya S. Holly will direct the film from her own script, which is a new adaptation of the story of Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow rather than a remake of the 1967 classic film starring Faye Dunaway and Warren Beatty. Holly began working on the project after reading old newspaper articles about the gangster pair in an abandoned house on her family’s property.
Holly wrote, produced and directed the feature “When I Find the Ocean.”
“The Story of Bonnie and Clyde” is set to lense in Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama. Natalie Canerday and Rance Howard will also star.
I do have to say I’m glad that they’re not expecting Hilary Duff to fit into Faye Dunaway’s shoes, remake-style. It’s such a classic film, and Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway were brilliant together. It would be silly to think that they could ever recreate that kind of chemistry. However, with a new script and a younger cast, I can see how Hilary would view this as a good movie with which to launch a more serious film career. Hopefully it won’t turn into a ridiculous romp movie. Her last film, War, Inc., did not get good reviews and many people agreed that she tried a little to hard to break out of her good-girl Disney image. (For those of you who don’t remember, she did a scene in which she seductively fished a scorpion out of her pants.)
I’ve tried to take her more seriously recently, but somehow, she will never be anything but Lizzie McGuire to me.
Hilary Duff is shown outside the gym on 1/14/09 and visiting a recording studio on 1/6/09. Credit: Fame
Nothing makes me happier than celebs who are doing so well they’re able to jet off to the Bahamas at a moment’s notice. And by “happier” I mean “seethe with envy.” Seriously, it is in the low 20s in New York once you factor in the wind chill. Yesterday I actually thought it felt warm when it hit 27 degrees. I would give just about anything to lay on a warm beach. Even just a temperate beach. I would be amenable to anything above 48 degrees at this point. Oh, and it would help if I looked like Hilary Duff in a bikini.
Hilary and boyfriend Mike Comrie have been enjoying the Bahamas, which means she’s also partaking in the cherished celebrity tradition of frolicking about in her bikini.
Hilary Duff and her boyfriend, New York Islander Mike Comrie, enjoyed a getaway to the Bahamas this past weekend. Duff, 21, and Comrie, 28, who have been together since 2007, spent some time by the pool and laughed and canoodled their way around their island paradise.
Duff’s earned the right to taking it easy for now; she’s had a lot on her plate lately, with much more coming up. Hilary’s ready to return to TV, starting with a guest shot on CBS’ The Ghost Whisperer. EW reports that Duff will play a “mysterious young woman” who may be involved in a man’s death. The reason for the guest spot? Duff and Ghost Whisperer Jennifer Love Hewitt are best pals! Hopefully Hilary can console Jennifer during the grief from her broken engagement.
Never miss a chance to slam Jennifer Love Hewitt. How unnecessary was that? Tease as I might about the bikini, Hilary is definitely one of the more private celebs – she’s covered herself up quite a bit in many of the shots. Nonetheless, here’s Hilary and Mike enjoying the beach in the Bahamas. It sounds like she’ll have a busy schedule in the near future, so I suppose I can’t begrudge her a warm vacation.
Singer Hilary Duff, 21, was quoted by Elle in 2006 as claiming to be a virgin. This seemed to jibe with her wholesome image at the time and given the purity trend it’s not out of the norm for older teen stars to declare they’re virgins. The only thing is that it either wasn’t true or wasn’t information she wanted to reveal at the time. Duff said that isn’t anyone’s business and that she never even said that.
Hilary Duff says she never told Elle magazine in 2006 that she was still a virgin.
“You know what? I was quoted saying I was a virgin, but I absolutely did not say that,” she says in the January issue of Maxim. “That’s nobody’s business but my own. Somehow it turned into a bad thing!”
But Duff, 21, says that’s not the worst thing that’s been written about her.
“I’ve been accused by the press of giving lap dances at clubs,” she says. “I mean, little ol’ me? It’s shocking.
“People love to believe it —- it’s way more exciting to talk about than the truth! And they’re so descriptive about these lap dances,” she says. “I don’t even know how to do a lap dance!”
Duff says she isn’t afraid to show her sexual side occasionally.
Take her sexy new music video “Reach Me,” for instance.
“I was ready to do something different,” the singer says. “The intent was not to be overtly sexual; I’m not naked. I do have little shorts on in it — but I also wear a giant tutu. It’s good to show different sides of yourself.”
At first I wondered why Duff wouldn’t just deny that she said that at the time, but she probably realized that people would have interpreted as a denial that she was a virgin, and she may have felt that it was best to keep quiet about it. The Elle journalist that made that up should be ashamed. At least they didn’t fabricate an entire interview like Cosmopolitan’s UK version recently did with Scarlett Johansson.
Duff was rumored to be engaged to her longterm boyfriend, New York Islands hockey player Mike Comrie, but neither has confirmed the news and she no longer wears a ring on her left ring finger. She explained in Maxim, “The truth is, I just like to wear rings!”
I’m not a fan of her music by any means but she seems to have handled this maturely and to have realized that the best way to deal with the fake story was to wait and let it sit.
Hilary Duff is shown on 12/4/08 at the grand opening of the SLS hotel in Beverly Hills. Credit: WENN
Hilary Duff’s new video, featuring samples from “Personal Jesus”
The bastardization of all that’s sacred is complete. Hilary Duff’s latest single is a blatant rip-off of one Depeche Mode’s biggest songs, Personal Jesus, except she changes the loner-and-loser lyrics to bubble-gum sexual innuendo-lite and steals Britney Spears’ vocal machine.
For all you youngsters out there, Depeche Mode was the emo of the 80s. I’m obviously showing my age, but People are People instantly transports me back to junior high school dance parties.
Personal Jesus was released in 1989. It was actually inspired by Elvis Presley, according to band member Martin Gore.
It’s a song about being a Jesus for somebody else, someone to give you hope and care. It’s about how Elvis was her man and her mentor and how often that happens in love relationships; how everybody’s heart is like a god in some way, and that’s not a very balanced view of someone, is it?
It’s also about being alone and having someone just as lonely to comfort you in your solitude. When you’re 18 and about to move 1000 miles away for college where you have no friends, it’s bloody brilliant.
Here are some of the lyrics:
Your own Personal Jesus
Someone to hear your prayers
Someone who cares
Your own Personal Jesus
Someone to hear your prayers
Someone who’s there
Feeling unknown
And you’re all alone
Flesh and bone
By the telephone
Lift up the receiver
I’ll make you a believer
Take second best
Put me to the test
Things on your chest
You need to confess
I will deliver
You know I’m a forgiver
Reach out and touch faith
Here are the lyrics to the Hilary Duff version, called Reach Out:
Tunnel vision had him locked on in my sight
On a mission, for position by the end of the night
It’s like a prayer, playin’ games with the hunter
You better run boy, time to surrender
And all I need is to feel you
All I want is to feel you
Reach out and touch me
Before I go insane
Reach out and touch me
Boy don’t you make me wait
I’m a diamond and you’re so on the money
Reach out and touch me
And all I need is to feel you
Reach out and touch me
Like a prayer, your touch can take me there
Ain’t no mind, you and me in a secret affair
Oh boy you’re killing me and you don’t even know it
Try to hold back but I can’t control it
There’s even a rip-off of (or possibly an homage to) Madonna’s Like a Prayer.
This makes me sad in so many ways. I’m sure Depeche Mode will make a ton of money from it, but music today is so vapid that even Depeche Mode are only in it for the money. Hilary Duff has turned into a poor man’s Britney Spears clone. And I feel old ranting against kids these days and their music.
I think I’ll go put on The Smiths. That’s sure to cheer me up, at least until Miley Cyrus covers Girlfriend in a Coma.
For any of you whippersnappers who like the Hilary Duff song, her album Best of Hilary Duff will be released November 11.
Here’s the original version of Depeche Mode’s “Personal Jesus,” which is much much better.
Hilary Duff’s mom, Susan, took her former husband Bob Duff to court near Houston, Texas yesterday in an attempt to get him to plunk down an additional $25,000 in child support to pay for Hilary’s 21st birthday party. Bob pays $10,000 a month in child support for his daughters Hilary, 20, and Haylie, 23, despite the fact that both young women are successful and live in their own home in LA together. Their mother also lives in LA while he remains in Houston. Hilary is already a millionaire in her own right, with a net worth estimated at $25 million. Susan wanted another $25k for Hilary’s birthday, because that’s how much Haylie’s party cost and she thought that was perfectly reasonable. $10k a month only goes so far, and Susan says she is reduced to borrowing from her richer daughters to pay her bills.
The courtroom got pretty heated between the lawyers for both sides. It sounds like Bob got contempt of court for disobeying court orders, though, not for an outburst. He sold some of his stocks even though he’s not supposed to sell assets and was ordered to pay his earnings of $367,537 to the court and led out in handcuffs. Bob was sentenced to 10 days in jail, but can presumably meet bail and should be out soon. As if all those penalties and jail time weren’t enough, he’ll also have to pay $12,500 to his ex wife, half the cost of the planned birthday party for Hilary:
Stansbury eventually ordered Bob to pay $12,500 to Susan for Hilary’s birthday.
Bob took another hit when Stansbury ordered him to spend 10 days in jail for contempt of court. He is accused of violating an injunction against selling assets without court approval and must pay $367,537 he earned from selling stocks last month into a court repository.
Piro said his client plans to post bond as soon as possible and file an appeal.
At the end of the hearing, deputies fingerprinted Bob and led him away in handcuffs. When Susan saw the deputies click the cuffs on her husband, she gasped and put her hand over her mouth.
That sounds like a particularly harsh judge. Is it normal procedure to send someone to jail for selling stocks in violation of an injuction? You would think that making him fork over that insane amount of cash would be penalty enough.
There’s also the whole issue of the parents having to pay for Hilary’s birthday. She’s doing fine on her own and she’s been sporting what looks like an engagement ring from her boyfriend, hockey player Mike Comrie, who is also a multi-millionaire. He could easily pay for Hilary’s party if she doesn’t want to foot the bill. Instead, her mother insisted her dad pay for it and he got hauled off to jail during the court proceedings. Whatever party she does have will be marred by what happened to her dad.
Hilary Duff’s song Gypsy Woman, released Spring, 2007, is about her dad’s affair while he was still married to her mom. Hilary blamed the woman for breaking up her family in both the song and her statements about it.
Hilary and Haylie Duff are shown at the 1408 premiere on 6/13/07. Credit: Juan Rico/Fame Pictures
