Is it just me or do Kanye and his delusions of grandeur seem to cross previously unknown levels of pathetic? After disappointing fans and leaving them waiting 2 hours to see him prance around stage he wasn’t feeling the love from the crowd. Concert goers threw bottles of water and glow sticks at him on stage which resulted in breaking a giant television screen. The audience also chanted “Kanye sucks” over and over. After hearing about the backlash, West has let his fingers do the talking via his blog.

“I am sick of negative people who just sit around trying 2 plot my downfall… Why???? I understand if people don’t like me because I like me or if people think tight clothes look gay or people say I run my mouth to much, But this Bonnaroo thing is the worst insult I’ve ever had in my life. This is the most offended I’ve ever been… this is the maddest I ever will be. I’m typing so fucking hard I might break my fucking Mac book Air!!!!!!!! Call me any name you want…. arrogant, conceited, narcissistic, racist, metro, fag whatever you can think of…. BUT NEVER SAY I DIDN’T GIVE MY ALL! NEVER SAY I DIDN’T GIVE MY ALL! THIS SHOWS NO MATTER HOW HARD YOU TRY TO BE GOOD AT SOMETHING THERE WILL BE PEOPLE THERE TO LIE ABOUT YOU AND BRING YOU DOWN! LIKE WAYNE SAYS PLEASE DON’T SHOOT ME DOWN CAUSE I’M FLYING! I’M FUCKING HURT BY THIS ONE. ALL I CARE ABOUT ARE THE FANS. JUST SAY THIS OUT LOUD IN A ROOM FULL OF PEOPLE, “KANYE DOESN’T CARE ABOUT GIVING A GOOD PERFORMANCE.” CAN ANYONE HONESTLY SAY THAT ????????? HAS ANYONE EVEN TAKEN THE TIME TO AT LEAST DO THE MATH??? BONNAROO SHOULD HAVE RELEASED A STATEMENT IN MY DEFENSE BUT SINCE THEY HAVEN’T LET’S BREAK DOWN THE WALLS ON THIS TRUMAN SHOW AND LET YOU KNOW WHAT REALLY OCCURRED!!! FOR OVER A MONTH WE WENT BACK AND FORTH ON WETHER OR NOT WE COULD EVEN FIT MY STAGE AT THE FESTIVAL. ONE DAY THEY WOULD SAY YES… WE’D SEND THEM OUR SPECS THEN THEY THEY’D SAY OK… THEN THEY WOULD SEND SPECS BACK THAT DIDN’T FIT THE STAGE. WE WERE OBVIOUSLY DEALING WITH FUCKING IDIOTS WHO DIDN’T REALLY HAVE THE CAPACITY TO REALLY PUT ON THIS SHOW PROPERLY. THEY TRIED 2 GIVE ME A TIME SLOT WERE IT WAS STILL LIGHT OUTSIDE … I HAVE A FUCKING LIGHT SHOW DUMB ASS, IT’S NOT CALLED GLOW IN THE DARK FOR NO REASON SQUID BRAINS! MY PEOPLE WORKED OUT A COMPROMISED STAGE PLOT AND A 3AM TIME SLOT AND I AGREED. FAST FOWARD TO THE DAY OF THE SHOW. MY PRODUCTION MANAGER TRIED TO LOAD IN FOR 24 HOURS BEFORE I WENT ON STAGE BUT THE FESTIVAL WOULDN’T ALLOW US TO DO ANYTHING UNTILL PEARL JAM LEFT THE STAGE. PEARL JAM ENDED ONE HOUR
LATE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! AT THAT POINT WE’RE RACING AGAINST THE SUN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! AT 4:20AM DON COMES BACK 2 THE BUS AND TELLS ME, ” IT WOULD TAKE 45 MORE MINUTES TO PUT ALL YOUR PYRO IN!” I SAY I HAVE TO GET OUT THERE AS SOON AS POSSIBLE . I HIT THE STAGE AND PEOPLE HAD BEEN THROWING SHIT ON THE STAGE AND HAD ACTUALLY HIT THE JANE SCREEN WITH, I GUESS BOTTLES OR SOMETHING AND HAD BROKEN MY FUCKING SCREEN. REMEMBER WHEN YOU WERE A SHORTY AND WATER WOULD HIT THE TV?????? WHEN I GOT 2 “THROUGH THE WIRE” I STEPPED ON THE FRONT PART OF MY STAGE AND THERE WAS SO MUCH LIQUID ON THE STAGE I COULDN’T MOVE WITHOUT SLIPPING. I HAD TO ADJUST MY WHOLE PERFORMANCE STYLE BECAUSE OF IT. A FEW MORE SONGS IN AND THE SONG WAS ON IT’S WAY UP.. I CUT A FEW SONGS FROM THE SET BECAUSE I WANTED PEOPLE 2 EXPERIENCE STRONGER WHILE THERE WAS STILL SOME DARKNESS TO PERFORM IT IN. I’VE STRUGGLED WITH STRONGER FROM IT’S CONCEPTION. REMEMBER LAST SUMMER WHEN I CANCELED SOME TV APPEARANCES. IT WAS BECAUSE I DIDN’T WANT TO PERFORM STRONGER IN THE DAYTIME. ANYONE WHO CAME TO THE GLOW TOUR CAN UNDERSTAND WHY I WANTED PEOPLE TO SEE IT PROPERLY. IT BROKE MY HEART THAT I COULDN’T GIVE THESE FANS STRONGER IN IT’S GREATEST FORM… BY THE TIME I GOT TO STRONGER IT WAS DAYTIME AND IT BROKE MY HEART. I’M SORRY TO EVERYONE THAT I DIDN’T HAVE THE ABILITY 2 GIVE THE PERFORMANCE I WANTED TO. I’M SORRY… SOMETIMES I GO 2, 3 DAYS W/O SLEEP WORKING ON MY PERFORMANCE… I HAVE TO ICE MY KNEES AFTER EVERY SHOW AND THEY HURT WHEN I WALK THROUGH THE AIRPORT… HAVING AN EXPENSIVE STAGE CUTS MY PAYDAY IN HALF… CALL ME WHAT YOU WANT BUT NEVER SAY I DIDN’T GIVE MY ALL!!!”

[Kanye Universecity Blog]

I too stopped reading about three sentences in. But being that I had to force myself to read it eventually, here is the basic outline of his rant. He thinks people are sitting around plotting his downfall, just because he has more costumes than Liza Minnelli and Cher put together…it doesn’t make him “gay,” the concert organizers have “squid brains” and he only performs “Stronger” in the dark because the pretty lights are the only thing that makes it worth sitting through.

His painfully long tirade of ranting was basically an apologyfor not giving fans the entire fancy light show and not for making them stand around for hours with other irate fans.

His level of douche-baggery never ceases to amaze me.

Picture Note by JayBird: Here’s Kanye performing at the annual ‘HOT 97 Summer Jam’ concert at Giants Stadium on June 1st. Images thanks to WENN.

Kate Beckinsale has never been one to hold back from giving us too much information. Remember when she called her vagina the ‘Pharaoh’s Tomb’ and told us it was her best asset? Now she’s about to start embarrassing her daughter too.

She said: “I am dreading the day Lily brings home a boy.

“But she and the Beckham boys get on really well. So if she did have to have a boyfriend, then I suppose Brooklyn would get my seal of approval!”

Mirror

Kate and her family are friends with the Beckhams, so now Lily is going to have to put up with teasing from the boys. I suspect that if Brooklyn grows up to look like his dad, in the future Lily might want to date him.

Kate also told reporters this interesting tidbit about her home life.

She told Glamour magazine: “I’m the worst wife in the cooking department. I always thought you can’t be good at food and sex, but you can always order the food in.

“I’d rather he didn’t order in the sex.”

The Sun

I’m pretty sure my husband would be pretty happy if I gave up cooking for sex. The kids might not like it though.

Kate won Actress of the Year at the Glamour Awards party, where she looked fabulous as usual, although who noticed anyone next to Lily Allen? While Kate is a pretty good actress, I’m a little surprised that she won. She only had two films out in the last twelve months and neither of them were Oscar or box office material. Wouldn’t anyone else show up?

Kate Beckinsale is shown out shopping with her husband, Len Wiseman, on 6/4/08 in London. She is also shown at the Glamour Women of The Year awards on 6/3/08. Thanks to WENN.

Gwen Stefani, Gavin Rossdale, and Kate Beckinsale were spotted on the beach in Malibu for Memorial Day yesterday. They played on the sand with their children and looked like they were enjoying the day. On the East Coast Tim Robbins played hockey in Greenwich Village, NY. He is likely out with one or both of his sons with longterm partner Susan Sarandon, Jack, 19, and Miles, 16.

Pregnant Gwen Stefani, 38, her husband of six years Gavin Rossdale 40, and son Kingston, who turned two yesterday are shown below on the beach in Malibu. Just Jared reports that Kingston had a cowboy-themed birthday party on Sunday that included ponies and celebrity guests like Victoria Beckham and her son Cruz, and Joel Madden and his daughter Harlow.

Kate Beckinsale, 34, and daughter Lily, 8 play on the beach in Malibu. Beckinsale manages to run on the sand in big wedge heels.

Tim Robbins, 49, plays hockey in NY.

British actress Kate Beckinsale has declared that she won’t go nude in any of her film roles. A lot of people are going to hate me for saying this, but I really appreciate it when actresses say they won’t do nude scenes. I’m no prude, for me it’s more a matter of equality. The ratio of naked women to naked men onscreen must be 25 to 1 or something. Let’s at least have a little parity here. Frankly if I were a man I’d feel a little insulted: the MPAA seems to find your equipment a lot more offensive to the senses than a woman’s comparable parts. Just a hint of the manly goods sends movie ratings sky high. And I don’t mean “ratings” in the sense of reviews. Kate Beckinsale’s reasons for keeping her panties on are a lot more logical than my equality-based nonsense: she was traumatized as a young girl when her actress mother went nude and kids taunted her. So she’s promised she won’t do the same to her nine-year-old daughter.

Kate Beckinsale has vowed never to appear naked in a movie, after she was bullied at school when her actress mum stripped on TV. The episode traumatised Beckinsale - whose mother is veteran British TV star Judy Loe - and she is determined not to subject her nine-year-old daughter Lily to the same humiliation. She tells AOL Movies, “My mum was an actress, and she did a nude scene on television when I was about 9 or 10, and the crisis I had when everyone came to school the next day and told me they’d seen my mother naked just makes me kind of, you know … I’m not in a big rush to do that to my child. “She’s embarrassed enough that I’m an actress at all, without me being naked as well.”

[From Contact Music]

Looking out for the mental health/social well-being of your child is a pretty good reason to keep your clothes on. Men just don’t seem to face anywhere near the same amount of pressure. I love the excuse that sometimes a role just calls for nudity, and it has to be done. Alright then, but why is it always calling just for naked women? Hmm, something to ponder of dinner tonight. Reese Witherspoon recently made the same comments as Kate, and has pledge that she’ll keep her clothes on. I totally support this move. Of course if at any point the gentlemen would like to contribute to some equality, I’ll support that too.

Here’s Kate Beckinsale at the Los Angeles Premiere of “Snow Angels” on February 28th, 2008. Images thanks to PR Photos.

Whenever Kate Beckinsale goes on The Tonight Show, Leno asks her if she has her driver’s license yet. The 34 year-old British actress told Leno in June, 2006 that she was intimidated driving in Los Angeles and that she was worried that if she took lessons that the instructor wouldn’t be able to help her by stopping the car. She said “I don’t know how it works here. In England they’ve got that system where the other people (instructor) have got a pedal so they can stop you, which they don’t have here.”

Beckinsale was on The Tonight Show again on Monday night and she told Jay that she didn’t pass even the written test to get her permit. It sounds like she went in there without studying and expected the test to be easy.

Kate said that she’s waiting until her 9 year daughter is old enough to drive her around and that after that she’ll get a motorized scooter like the old people use in the commercials, because they look so happy driving them around.

Here’s the clip:

You can’t blame her for not wanting to learn how to drive in LA. It must be scary for someone used to the cars on the other side of the street and people driving courteously. I remember when I was in England I was amazed at how long someone would sit and wait for another car to pass on a small road. In Berlin people drive about as aggressively as they do in America and I’m still kind of freaked out by the different traffic rules here. It’s always more convenient to drive but I still worry that I’m going to get in an accident.

I watched Beckinsale on Letterman and on The Late Late Show, where she joked with Craig Ferguson that she was going commando, but she was wearing pants so there wasn’t the possibility of an upskirt. She told Letterman a story about being scared by a possum in her garden and said that the Eliot Spitzer scandal wouldn’t have been a big deal in England unless there was a diaper involved. She’s witty and good-natured with a dry sense of humor and seems like the type of person who would be a great party host.

Beckinsale was promoting her film Snow Angels, which is an independent movie out in limited release about loss and love in a small town in Pennsylvania.

Here she is outside The Late Show. Those guys gawking at her are the best.

It took me a couple readings to understand this story, so I will explain it. Kate Beckinsale was in Memphis, Tennessee shooting a movie when her assistant sprained her ankle. Beckinsale took her assistant to the ER to have her ankle checked and while she was there Kate asked a doctor about the one-sided numbness she was feeling in her left arm and leg. A doctor told her it was “exhaustion,” which could be true, but it’s likely they only did basic bloodwork, didn’t consider spinal compression or another cause, and it’s one of those dismissive diagnoses that is common in the ER.

British movie star Kate Beckinsale was hospitalized in Memphis, Tennessee over the weekend after complaining of numbness in her left arm and leg.

The actress was shooting the drama ‘Nothing But The Truth’ with Matt Dillon and David Schwimmer when she took her assistant to the hospital after she sprained her ankle.

While there, Beckinsale sought her own check-up and was told she was suffering from exhaustion.

[From Newswatch50 via GossipRocks]

It’s not true that “Beckinsale was hospitalized for exhaustion,” as is being reported by other news outlets. She has one-sided numbness, was taking her assistant to get her ankle checked, and asked about her own condition and was dismissed by the doctor. She may have stayed overnight, but it’s not really clear from this story if she did.

Commentor Rosamund on Gossip Rocks, where we found this story, notes that Beckinsale is 34 and that her father, Richard Beckinsale, died of a heart attack at 31. It’s possible her numbness is stress or exhaustion-related, but it sounds worrying that it’s just on one side like that. It could be a serious condition or something as simple as a pinched nerve. Hopefully Kate is ok and that everything will be fine with her health. Either way, to call one-sided numbness “exhaustion” seems irresponsible. If doctors don’t know what something is immediately they should say so and avoid jumping to dismissive diagnoses in the ER. It may not have happened that way because this story is very short on detail, but it sure sounds like it to me. Where is House when you need him?

Beckinsale will not appear in the third Underworld film. The first two films were directed by her husband Len Wiseman, but he will only serve as producer, not director, for the third. The third film is a prequel and doesn’t seem like it will include Beckinsale’s character. Unfortunately the script has already been written and won’t be shelved by the writers’ strike.

Beckinsale was filming “Nothing But the Truth” in Nashville, TN when she visited the ER with her assistant. It also stars Matt Dillon and David Schwimmer. She has two other films in the can that will also come out next year.

Here is Beckinsale out with her family getting a manicure and pedicure on 10/22/07, thanks to Splash News and at the Die Hard 4 premiere on 6/22/07, thanks to PRPhotos. I included a larger version of her husband, Len Wiseman, from the one photo as he’s just so cute.

Page Six is reporting that Kate Bosworth and Orlando Bloom’s people were in constant contact during Fashion Week to ensure that they didn’t run into each other by accident. Bloom and Bosworth broke up after a prolonged on-again off-again relationship that seems to be over for good. Only time will tell with these two, though:

That’s too bad, as it would have been fun to see some awkward pictures of those two. Instead we’ll have to settle for an awkward picture of Bosworth holding a beer.

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Kate Beckinsale has reportedly moved out of the home she shares with her husband of almost two years, director Len Wiseman:

The Sun is a terrible source, and they run fake news all the time, but if this is true it must mean they’re having trouble at least. We’ll just have to wait and see.

One of the commentors, Agent Orange, on the board where we found the news notes that Wiseman made Kate a star and that this could be the end of her career:

Kate is rather popular and we doubt this will mean that she no longer gets roles.

Here are Kate and Len out in Santa Monica in March and April

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We know it’s hard to believe that Kate Beckinsale is not in talks to play Wonder Woman since you read about it everywhere.

As we reported yesterday and are repeating so that we have an excuse to post these pictures of Beckinsale working out, the stories were based on an April Fool’s blog post that got picked up by IMDB news. Here’s what we wrote:

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Kate Beckinsale was the first celebrity Punk’d on this season’s premiere of the MTV prank show on Monday. She was out to dinner with her ex, British actor Michael Sheen, when a fat guy hit on her while he was away from the table. When Sheen returned, he lashed out at another man, believing he was the one who was bothering Beckinsale. It sounds like a typical episode:

That story about Kate Beckinsale being in talks to play Wonder Woman was a mistaken report based on an April Fool’s blog post. Site JoBlo.com ran a parody article stating that Beckinsale had been cast in the role and attributed obviously fabricated quotes to the director, like “I couldn’t tell you how many actresses…I’m talking married women here, promised to blow me left, right and center if I gave them the part.”

IMDB picked up the story and sourced JoBlo, changing the details so that Beckinsale was in talks for the role, but had not yet been cast. Then we all repeated it, believing it to be true. It made sense, considering that everyone speculated before the news came out that she was the best actress for the part.

Here is Beckinsale out in Santa Monica with her husband, director Len Wiseman.

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