On Sunday’s episode of “American” Idol, Jim Carrey’s 24 year-old daughter, Jane, was shown auditioning and being advanced to Hollywood week. Jane seemed genuine about pursuing a singing career on her own merits, but the show definitely played up the fact that she had a famous father. They showed photos of Jane with her dad and she shared what it was like growing up with him. She had a decent singing voice, but it’s doubtful that she would have been promoted to the second round just based on her talent alone. Well a new report on Radar online suggests that not only was Jane (perhaps unfairly) advanced, she wasn’t treated the same as all the other hopefuls either. She did have to camp out and wait in line at all and just made an appointment to sing and showed up.

Unlike the rest of the contestants who camp out for days in the hope of trying to convince the judges that they have what it takes, Jane got special treatment.

“She didn’t have to sleep outside and wait for hours hoping to audition like everyone else,” a source exclusively told RadarOnline.com. “She basically had an appointment and showed up!”

The source said they doubted if the judges knew about the special treatment Jane was given, but the show gave her the VIP service.

“Her audition was pre-arranged with the producers. She did not wait and line up for hours or days outside – she had a time, she showed up and went in,” the source said…

According to the source, the last name clearly helped this time: “American Idol always says they don’t give everyone favors, but this time they did for Jane.”

[From Radar Online]

I don’t really have an investment in this story, it just seems typical to me that Idol would do this for a celebrity’s daughter. If I had ever waited in line to be on that show, or if I had a good friend who had waited days for a chance to appear, I would be supremely pissed off. So many contestants are coming from extremely rough conditions and have to go through hardships and lose wages at hourly jobs just to get to Idol. The story this year of the girl who lived in a tent particularly touched me. Here we have a millionaire celebrity’s daughter who claims that she’s waitressed, but who, let’s face it, has probably never had to worry about money in her life. She gets whisked right in and moved on while so many other contestants don’t get that chance. As genuine and down to earth as Jane came across, she’s probably used to that type of treatment and doesn’t see anything wrong with it.

Here’s Jane’s audition if you missed it the first time:

Jim Carrey’s 24 year-old daughter, Jane, was shown auditioning for American Idol in San Diego, the episode for which aired last night. Jane explained in a taped video segment that she is “a mom first, a waitress on and off and a musician.” She said that she’s “been singing for as long as I can remember” and that she’s a big ham. Well it seems to run in her family. As for how it was growing up with Jim Carrey as her father she said he’s “definitely not the most extravagant celebrity so it’s been fairly normal.” Jim was married to Jane’s mom, his first wife Melissa Womer, from 1987 to 1995. Jim and Melissa divorced when Jane was eight. (Then Jim married Lauren Holly for a hot minute in 1996.) Jane explained that she came on Idol to “make my place in the world” and that she doesn’t want people to think her success comes from her famous dad.

Jane sang a brief segment of “Something to Talk About” and she was competent and showed potential but she wasn’t amazing. I don’t think she would have gotten through to the next round if it wasn’t for her famous dad. Here’s more and there’s a video below.

Jim Carrey’s daughter Jane Carrey was among the hopefuls at the San Diego round of American Idol auditions.

Jane, 24, told viewers that she had been singing for as long as she could remember and that her famous father knew that she planned to audition for the Fox singing competition.

“It was definitely fun growing up with him as a father,” she said. “He’s definitely not the most extravagant celebrity so it’s been fairly normal. Fairly!”

Jane added: “The last name definitely helps and hurts. I feel like there is this pressure to maybe be better. If I make it somewhere it runs the risk of people saying, ‘You’re only here because of this’.”

Judge Jennifer Lopez immediately remembered Jane from when she had worked with Jim Carrey several years ago, saying that Jane had only been a baby at the time and jokingly lamenting where the years had gone.

Jane chose to perform ‘Something To Talk About’ as her audition song, earning three yeses from Lopez, Steven Tyler and Randy Jackson.

Randy liked her voice and potential, while Jennifer thought she needed to think more about her ‘performance’ because keeping her eyes shut might be good for the feeling but didn’t help with audience connection.

Steven liked Jane’s melody but told her to work on the volume.

After receiving her ticket to Hollywood, Jane phoned her famous dad who said: “She’s so wonderful and amazing to me, I can’t wait for the world to see… This is going to be an exciting year.”

[From Digital Spy]

Jane is a talented singer and she seemed sweet and like she was genuine about succeeding on her own merits. I don’t see her going too far on Idol, but we’ll see.

My favorite part of this video is where Jennifer Lopez says she met Jane when Jane was two and just a baby on the set of “In Living Color,” where Jim Carrey got his start and J.Lo was a backup dancer/”Fly Girl.” Lopez’s boyfriend Casper Smart is the same age as Jane, 24. I’m sure that didn’t occur to J.Lo when she told that story.

Jane is shown in 2010 and 2008. Credit: WENN.com

Over the holidays, Jim Carrey was photographed with his new “mystery girlfriend” at a Guns ‘n’ Roses concert. As details have filtered in about this young woman, revealed by Page Six to be a Russian socialite named Anastasia Vitkina, her age has remained nebulous. She’s currently a design student in New York and the ex of one of Jim’s friends, David Schoonmaker. By unverified accounts, Anastasia might be as young as twenty-three years, but according to The Enquirer, she’s at least two decades younger than Jim, who has reportedly been quite happy to act as a “Sugar Daddy” to his new girlfriend:

Jim Carrey has landed a new role — as a Sugar Daddy!

The 49-year-old star is getting “hot and heavy” with socialite Anastasia Vitkina — a Russian beauty 20 years his junior.

The comedian, who hasn’t had a steady relationship since his five-year romance with Jenny McCarthy ended in April 2010, regularly flies Anastasia from her home in New York, where she studied at Parsons School for Design, to see him in Los Angeles.

[A] founder of [a] dating website… which finds college-age girlfriends for wealthy men, believes Jim is exhibiting all the signs of a bona fide sugar daddy.

“He is extremely wealthy and, like many successful men, he has too little time to travel to see Anastasia,” Wade said. “So he pays for her to fly to wherever he is. She seems a very stylish young woman.

“Jim had been in a long, steady relationship and now he is enjoying life to the fullest with a much younger woman. As long as he pampers her, it will have a happy ending. Some people say that the relationship is doomed to fail, but I like to believe that with a little effor by Jim, it could last for a very long time. Everyone knows he is a funny guy. My advice to him is to keep her smiling.”

But Wade added that buying a ring would be a BIG mistake at this point. “The main reason sugar daddy relationships fail is that the man wants to get married, far too soon,” Wade explained.

Jim — who has a 23-year-old daughter and toddler grandson — doesn’t seem to mind the age difference when it comes to Anastasia.

“His friends are all worried he is looking for women that are way too young for him,” said a source. “Being a sugar daddy can be very tough. Anastasia seems to be a wonderful girl, and Jim is very happy with her. But what he wants in the future and what she wants may be two different things. Jim wants to get married again and start a family. Hopefully Anastasia feels the same way.”

[From Enquirer, print edition, January 16, 2012]

Well, I don’t really know what to think about this relationship. Jim’s seemed really off kilter ever since he and Jenny McCarthy broke up, which may or may not have been because he went off his meds. Then he dated some random 24-year-old model and professed his love for Emma Stone in that creepy video. But hey, if he’s happy with this new young lady, I guess that’s fine too. It must be really weird for his daughter to watch him date someone her age, but I’m afraid that’s all too commonplace these days.

Maybe Jim’s really found lasting love this time. Or at least some good sex. After all, he hasn’t boing-tweeted since late November. And the internet has rejoiced.

Photos courtesy of Pacific Coast News and Fame

Several days ago, Jim Carrey brought his “new girlfriend” out to a Guns N Roses concert in LA. These are photos of Jim and the chica leaving the concert. No media outlet – that I’ve seen – has this lady’s name. As far as I know, this is only his second girlfriend (that we know of) since he and Jenny McCarthy called it quits, right? Hmm… he went on a few dates with someone else for a hot minute – Anchal Joseph, who was a contestant on America’s Next Top Model. I remember that Jenny McCarthy moved on very quickly to some bodybuilder dumbass, but Jim’s post-split activities are largely blank to me.

Jim Carrey took his new mystery girlfriend to the Guns N’ Roses reunion concert in Los Angeles. The pair embraced the rock spirit with a co-ordinated look – he wore a leather jacket while she opted for skin-tight trousers in the same material.

The Ace Ventura star, 49,who also declared his love for the music genre on his T-shirt, kept a tight grip on the curly-haired blonde, who strutted by his side in Christian Louboutin heels.

The pair were first spotted together left in New York City last month, but her identity remains a mystery. Carrey has been largely single since splitting from long-term love, model and TV presenter Jenny McCarthy in April 2010.

In January, he was spotted on a date with America’s Next Top Model contestant Anchal Joseph, 24, but the pair weren’t seen together again.

Prior to meeting McCarthy, Carrey was once engaged to Renee Zellweger and has been divorced twice.

He has a 23-year-old daughter Jane from his first marriage to Melissa Womer and was wed to his Dumb And Dumber co-star Lauren Holly for a year.

[From The Mail]

What’s the theory on this girl? When I originally wrote about this coupling yesterday, I suggested that the lady looked “kind of rough” – which… granted, MAY have been harsh. It was just my knee-jerk reaction, though. She looks kind of like a washed-up groupie to me, but I’ll give Jim some credit: at least he’s not dating some young 22-year-old model-type. This is a lady with years and experiences under her belt. And it must be something serious if Jim is already going public with her at a Guns N Roses concert, right?

Photos courtesy of Pacific Coast News.

I saw this video (^above^) last night, and it really creeped me out. At first, I only read the transcript, and I thought, “Oh, that’s not so bad. Jim Carrey is just declaring his love for a young actress, it’s kind of sweet. Everyone loves Emma Stone and her vagina dust ruffles.” But then I saw the video, and… NO, it’s just creepy. Jim Carrey put the camera right up to his face, the way you would if you were making a hostage plea or a suicidal rant. Plus, I have discomfort because I worry about Jim’s mental health, and this kind of thing piques my concern-troll. Here’s the transcript:

I just wanted to let you know that I think you’re all the way beautiful. Not just pretty, but, you know, smart and kindhearted. And if I were a lot younger, I would marry you, and we would have chubby little freckled faced kids. We’d laugh all day long and go camping and play Yahtzee and tell ghost stories by the fire. And the sex?

Everyday for the rest of your life, you would thank God that I was the appropriate age for you. But I’m not. I’m 49. I have lines on my face, sometimes a little grey in my beard, and it takes me a little longer to pee than it used to. Those are the only discernable signs of aging that I can find so far. Anyway, I just wanted to let you know how I felt. You’re pretty special, and I wish you continued success and artistic fulfillment, but most of all, I wish you love and contentment. That’s all.

[Via HuffPo]

He’s 49, she’s 22. What would you do if some dude 27 years older than you made a vlog about how he wanted to get you pregnant? Would you alert the authorities? Or would you just laugh it off as harmless? I do think it’s harmless, by the way. Like, Emma’s not in any danger, and Jim’s interest in her, while creepy, is inoffensive. I don’t know… I would probably take it as a compliment and just move on. Which is what Emma will probably do, I guess.

Photos courtesy of WENN.

Over the weekend, Green Lantern officially grabbed the top box-office prize with an estimated $52.7 million, which is slightly amazing considering that the trailer looked like an enormous mountain of shiny green crap. Despite this supposed coup, however, $52.7 million certainly doesn’t make a dent in the film’s $200 million production budget (with at least another $100 million blown on publicity on top of that). Of course, all of the fanboys flocked to see the movie on opening weekend, so I seriously doubt that the movie will have “legs” in the coming weeks. Certainly, there will be no substabtial measure of positive word-of-mouth in manner of X-Men: First Class (including but not limited to Kaiser’s official take) to keep the money rolling in for the weeks to come. Interestingly enough, many prominent critics have chosen to pepper their Green Lantern reviews with some choice words on Blake Lively’s (for lack of a better word) performance:

“[Carol] is played by Blake Lively, and some in the audience might be heard to observe, ‘What is she, like, 15?’ And frankly she is also not too terribly convincing these days playing anything other than somebody who doesn’t know how to frame a cellphone picture. What. Ever. As I think they said on that TV show she used to be on.”

[From MSN]

“Blake Lively wins this year’s Kristin Stewart Award for Indistinct Diction”

[From Wall Street Journal]

“…Carol Ferris, who would be an amazing character as depicted by Blake Lively if only she weren’t allowed to speak. Ever.“

[From Pajiba]

“As appealing as Blake Lively might be in the right role, she’s miscast here and it shows in her wooden, unconvincing delivery. A life-size Barbie Doll would emote better.”

[From James Berardinelli]

“Blake Lively is decorative — no more”

[From Rolling Stone]

Ouch. Not that those meanies will affect Lively’s own plan for A-list stardom, for she’s still got Leo, right? Meanwhile, the J.J. Abrams’-produced Super 8 held on to second place by adding another $21.3 million for a two-week total of $72.8 million. If nothing else, this will give a substantial boost to Elle Fanning’s future marketability.

In third place, the debuting Mr. Popper’s Penguins landed with a decent but not stellar $18.2 million, which is about what analysts expected from this Jim Carrey-starring kiddie flick. In my review, I stated that this was a much better than expected movie, but (admittedly) that bar was set pretty low in the beginning.

In its third weekend, X-Men: First Class nabbed another $11.5 million for a domestic total of $119.9 million (and $282 million worldwide), which easily takes care of the pic’s $150 million budget and virtually guarantees that we’ll probably get another installment of Fassbender/McAvoy deliciousness.

And somehow, The Hangover Part II added another $9.6 million for an astonishing four-week domestic total of $232.7 million (and $488.7 million worldwide). Exactly how did this happen?

Movie stills courtesy of AllMoviePhoto

Jim Carrey has a new girlfriend! And she’s young. Very young for a 49-year-old man. Apparently, his new girlfriend is a 24-year-old model named Anchal Joseph. Fans of America’s Next Top Model may remember her from the seventh season (I don’t watch, so I have no idea who she is). The idea of Jim Carrey with some young model screams “rebound” to me, especially considering he seemed to be having a difficult time after he and Jenny McCarthy split last April. Jenny has already moved on, and I think she’s already on her second “serious” boyfriend. You can see the photos of Jim and Anchal here, at Dlisted.

Jim Carrey has a long history of dating beautiful women, and his new girlfriend, Anchal Joseph, is no exception.

Joseph, a model and former ‘America’s Next Top Model’ contestant, held hands with Carrey, 49, while exiting Broadway’s Cort Theater, where they caught the play ‘Time Stands Still,’ starring Christina Ricci and Laura Linney.

At age 24, Joseph is just one year older than Carrey’s daughter, Jane, who gave birth to son Jackson last year.

Carrey, who split from Jenny McCarthy last year after nearly five years together, is currently filming ‘Mr. Popper’s Penguins,’ based on Richard and Florence Atwater’s book of the same title.

[From PopEater]

I’m a little surprised not by her youth, but with her looks. I didn’t think Jim would go for a darker woman… she’s Indian! If Jim wanted to lavish money on an Indian girl, why not me? Oh, right. Because I’m not a 24 year old model. But seriously, most men have a type, but I guess Jim isn’t one of them. He can move with ease from brunettes, redheads, blondes and Asians. Equal opportunity boner.

Here are some photos of Anchal:

Photos courtesy of WENN.

This time last year, Jim Carrey’s 22 year old daughter Jane was having a shotgun wedding. Jane married Alex Santana, and instead of throwing a fit or something, Jim was surprisingly supportive of his daughter’s decisions, totally and completely. Jane gave birth to Jim’s first (and as yet, only) grandchild, a little boy named Jackson Riley Santana, in early Spring 2010. In Touch Weekly reports that Jane and Alex have split up… making it a very short marriage:

Just a year after their wedding, Jane Carrey and her husband, Blood Money singer Alex Santana, are calling it quits, a spokesperson for her comedian father, Jim, exclusively confirms to In Touch.

“The couple will remain friends, as well as devoted parents to their 9-month-old son, Jackson Riley,” Marleah Leslie says.

According to a family friend, the 23-year-old Jane Carrey Band front woman and her baby are visiting funnyman Jim in New York, where he is currently filming Mr. Popper’s Penguins.

Jane’s breakup trails her dad’s shocking split from longtime love Jenny McCarthy last spring.

[From In Touch Weekly]

This is the first time I’ve ever really paid attention to photos of Jane – she’s very, very pretty. She’s Jim’s daughter from his first marriage – and they are reportedly very close, and Jim relishes his role as a young grandfather. It’s sad to see a young couple with a baby split up, but… they were really young. People grow up, they grow apart, it happens. Let’s hope Jim continues to support his daughter, because she‘s probably going to need to lean on someone.

Photos courtesy of WENN.

Back in 2008, Jim Carrey and Ewan McGregor made a film called I Love You Phillip Morris, all about two men who fall in love in prison. It’s supposed to be a comedy-drama, and it never sounded like the some kind of super-Oscar bait, nor like a crowd-pleasing mindless popcorn film. But it’s didn’t really sound bad, either. So it’s slightly surprising to me that it’s taken until now to get a release date – it was in distribution purgatory after concerns were raised over the raunchiness of some of the (gay) sex scenes between Ewan and Jim. Also surprising – Jim and Ewan are both standing by this project, and they both really seem to like each other. Strange bedfellows…

Anyway, the film comes out this Friday, in limited release. Jim Carrey sat down with Parade Magazine to promote the release, at long last- although it sounds a lot like past interviews. Jim has said the line about kissing Ewan before:

Jim Carrey takes it to the limit and beyond in the very R-rated I Love You Phillip Morris, loosely based on the life of convicted Texas con man and four-time prison escapee Steven Russell. He ends up having a mad affair behind bars with another prisoner played by Ewan McGregor.

Carrey tells Parade’s Jeanne Wolf what attracted him to the most off-beat role of his career and his long-term goal of helping to make the world a better place.

It’s all about love.
“There are very few scripts that I would come across that I would pay to do and this was one of them. I didn’t mind taking a big salary cut. I’m here to do extreme and interesting things. I liked the guy I played and I hated him. But the one thing that always stayed with me was the idea that he was relentless about love, and all of us understand that. I’m a desperate man myself.”

As for locking lips with Ewan McGregor, who plays his lover.
“A dream come true. I mean, look at the guy. I have to say, he is a great kisser. As Ewan said, ‘When you’re kissing another guy it can get a little prickly.’ Actually, you had to put out of your mind your own sexual preference and just try to understand that you were loving another person who just happens to be a guy. It wasn’t about male or female, love is love.”

What he had in common with his character.
“He had blind faith in himself. I have that. I have that belief that I can do probably more than I’m qualified to do. The guy I play definitely has no limits. The things he was able to finagle his way into are just shocking and amazing. You can’t help admire that quality in people. That’s why we love con artist movies.”

What’s driving him?
“There’s always some sort of deep undercurrent running under things for me. I’ve had peaks of kind of enlightenment where I felt like, ‘Oh, wow. I’ve got to figure it out. This is it. OK. I have peace. I have bliss.’ And, then, boom, off the wave into the surf, and you’re struggling again. I definitely have those scared to death moments, but they’re what make you interesting.”,

And who needs an agent when you have the man upstairs.
“What’s important to me is the long haul. It’s a strange thing, but sometimes I think that God is somehow fashioning my life so that I do stay interested and stay hungry.”

[From Parade]

Beyond the stuff about the film, how does Jim sound to you? I still worry about him. I worry that he’s not taking his meds, and that his “peaks of enlightenment” are some kind of manic-depressive high. That being said, Jim sounds like he’s in a pretty good place right now, so God bless. I hope someone goes to see this film. Apparently, Ewan goes down on Jim on camera.

Here’s an interesting photo of Jim, Ewan and… Ewan’s date for this particular night, Melanie Laurent, his alleged mistress. Interesting.

Photos courtesy of Fame.

I’m not a big fan of Jenny McCarthy, but I don’t have a rabid dislike for the woman. I know a lot of people feel strongly about her autism activism, but I’ve always kind of seen that as just Jenny being a mother and trying to be a strong, effective advocate for her kid, and the results are both good and bad. Anyway, Jenny is getting her on show on Oprah’s network, and Oprah interviewed Jenny for a show that will air tomorrow. If this is a preview of coming attractions, I want nothing to do with this junk – I really, really, really hate the way Jenny is coming across in this interview. Oprah asks Jenny about her split with Jim Carrey, and Jenny’s reaction is so… ugh. Here are the quotes:

They were all but inseparable starting in early 2007, but by this past April came the news that Jenny McCarthy and Jim Carrey were going their separate ways.

While others – including Hugh Hefner, a fan of the former couple – speculated on what went wrong, Oprah Winfrey is getting right to the heart of the matter by asking McCarthy herself, “Tell me, when did you know it was over? ”

In her response that airs on Tuesday’s The Oprah Winfrey Show, McCarthy, 37, says, “You know, the simple word I can give – and there’s a few, so let me say a few. The first thing is, when it’s not fun anymore, you need to start investigating and do an inquiry into the relationship.”

The actress and former Playboy model, who on the program also discusses her new book, Love, Lust and Faking It, also address her image while she was dating funnyman Carrey.

“I’ve learned that,” McCarthy says, “and this is why my identification wasn’t caught up [in] being a celebrity’s … girlfriend.”

“It wasn’t?” asks Winfrey.

“It wasn’t at all,” insists McCarthy, as Winfrey presses her further by asking, “You are sure?”

“Absolutely,” answers McCarthy. “I did check on that, by the way. I checked into myself. How does my ego feel? … My ego’s fine. I’m a warrior mom [to son Evan, 8]. I always got back on my feet, and I know especially this year who I am.”

Once Winfrey accepts McCarthy’s response, the host goes on to say to her guest, “Okay, I’m gonna ask this … Just because I have to … Any chance you’ll get back together, do you think?”

“God, another good question,” replies McCarthy.

“That’s sort of a simple one,” says Winfrey, to which McCarthy says back, “I know. I didn’t even think about that one, though.”

[From People]

“The first thing is, when it’s not fun anymore, you need to start investigating and do an inquiry into the relationship.” Oh, f-ck you. First of all, a relationship isn’t going to be fun all the time – some days are going to be bad, some days are going to take work. I cannot even express my disgust for a grown, 40-something woman, a mother who allowed and promoted her boyfriend’s relationship with her child, to sit there and whine about how she got out because it wasn’t “fun.” Grow up. And what’s worse is that I actually believed that Jenny had split from Jim for a really good reason – that he had stopped taking his medication, and she couldn’t be a mother to her son and be her boyfriend’s mental health caretaker. There is the possibility that Jenny’s “fun” complaint is a cover for the real reason – but it just feels like she’s really stupid and immature and she’s couldn’t handle the situation when Jim needed her in a way that wasn’t “fun.” Oh, but I guess Jenny got what she wanted in the end – Jim handed over $25 million in a trust for her and for her son, and now Jenny gets to have “fun” with young famewhores with weird stomachs.