Jamie Foxx and Jennifer Garner were on popular German talkshow “Wetten Das?” or “Wanna Bet?,” which broadcast from Basel, Switzerland on Saturday. The show features average people performing silly stunts, with guests betting on whether they’ll be able to successfully complete the bet in the time allotted. They were on to promote The Kingdom. Garner said they had just been in Berlin but had some time to check out Basel that day.

The interview wasn’t that revealing and they just promoted the film, with Garner giving a very diplomatic response about the film being balanced in its portrayal of American politics. Host Thomas Gottschalk praised The Kingdom and said given the subject matter he was quite surprised how good it was. The best part of the show was when Foxx lost the challenge they were betting on and had to yodel for the crowd.

The bet was if a little girl could identify five of over 50 hard puppets by feeling them with her nose within a certain time period. It was weird, but most of the bets on that show are strange. The other three challenges of the night involved a farmer sinking balls into a basketball hoop using the upwards exhaust air from a tractor, a guy holding 10 bricks against a wall for 20 seconds using just his thumb, and a man throwing plungers on his friends’ naked backs.

The 12 year-old girl successfully identified the puppets and Garner won the bet, since she bet that the girl would be able to complete the task, saying she thought that girls should stick together. Foxx bet against the girl and since he lost he had to yodel. After Melissa Etheridge performed the host asked her if she would play the guitar to accompany Foxx’s yodeling. A yodeling clip was played for Foxx to emulate, and he danced along to it and was able to mimic it well. Foxx is an accomplished singer and he was a good sport. This cracked me up:

Jamie Foxx remained on the show until nearly the end, and joked with super hot boxing twins Wladimir and Vitali Klitschko, posing with them at one point. Garner left shortly after the yodeling, saying she had to get back to the states to film a movie with Kevin Kline. Along with Melissa Etheridge, musical guests included Avril Lavigne and Sunrise Avenue.

“Wetten Das?” is the most popular show in Europe and has been on the air since 1981.

Photos are screenshots available from the full length video on the ZDF website. The clip here is an excerpt from a longer video accessible from their site. Foxx is still rocking those clip-on earrings.

Melissa Etheridge’s wife, Tammy Lynn Michaels, got annoyed at people commenting on TMZ about her family. She blogged about how she was followed by paparazzi on a day out to the twins’ pediatrician and how it wasn’t fair that people were judging her based on pictures taken against her will.

At first I thought she was pissed that people were criticizing her choice of a stroller for her four and a half month-old twins, a boy and girl. One commentor on TMZ wondered why she didn’t get a Bugaboo (which I find ridiculous because I would never pay that much for a baby stroller, but I’m not rich) but the main criticism was that she was using a stroller that didn’t provide the neck support the baby needed, and indeed you can see the infant slumped down in the umbrella stroller.

The main thing that must have bothered her though were all the homophobic ignorant comments. As a blogger I’ve learned that there are racists, trolls, and pre-teens that are going to flame and talk smack, so I honestly thought at first that she was upset at the stroller comments, because why would that other shit bother her? She’s majorly upset about something though, and it’s probably that.

She blogged that she can’t stand the paparazzi, that people must hate themselves if they criticize her, and that she would create a magazine all about the paparazzi and “turn the tables.” K-Fed said this same shit a few months before his marriage flamed out:

so you take your kid out for their 4 month check up (with two moms that have barely recovered from the flu), and then you realize… you’ve been stalked by a photographer the entire time.

so montana is out. no more shopping on montana. heads up: montana is being staked out like robertson and rodeo and beverly hills. buh-bye montana stores.

all we wanted was some pizza to take home. so while we waited, we grabbed our brand new cheapie stroller out of the back, cuz quite frankly…. the babies are big, and Miller is so heavy that we can’t hold him long without our arms falling off. so as we waited, we stuck him in a stroller where he promptly fell asleep. and the photographer grabbed some of those shots… and now suddenly what was just a marital discussion (”Should we put them in it? It’s too big, but it’s just for a second while our sick and recovering butts wait for food… Okay, maybe, what do you think? Hmmm….” you know- those marital discussions…..). it turns into a snapped image with no explanation; and then the strangers who have time to look online at others’ lives… they leave comments…. or, rather, insults, crowing with smug self-satisfaction and ignorance. their fantasies have quickly grown into facts in their own minds.

and now, across this wwweb, are smeared photos of my angels, complete with judgemental, shitty comments from complete strangers who can be so miserable with themselves, that they push their self-hatred on others.

i’m never going out with my children again without keeping one eye open for the razzi dementors who suck your soul with their photos.

one day… someone is going to start a tabloid about the razzi. and then we’ll turn the tables: we’ll report what razzi is cheating with whom… we’ll stalk them, scare them, chase them…. and one day… somehow… this grossly inappropriate way of life (like orwells’ 1984, but we are doing it to ourselves) will fade. and people will stop thinking that just cuz we are famous, we have answers. the only answers “we” have that “others” don’t is “how do you get famous?” knowing that answer doesn’t make me a better person.

So she’s pissed that people are talking about her and that the photographers are “stalking” her children. This doesn’t seem to happen to her much, and she does have two twin babies with a famous partner that people want to see.

Perez read the same post on Oh No They Didn’t where I found the news, and said that she should “move back to Kansas” or whatever.

It seems like the real issue is that she’s pissed that people are judging her and talking smack about her use of a sperm donor to have children with a female partner. Doesn’t she realize there are people with this opinion who are going to inevitably make dumb comments? She’s in a relationship with a more famous woman, hasn’t she learned to ignore those comments by now?

She also seems to have made a bad choice for a stroller instead of getting one with the neck support her babies need. I know I got a stroller for my son like that as a gift when he was born and the instructions said not to use it until he was a year old, so I waited. He probably wasn’t a full year old before we used it, but he could hold himself up better than her baby.

Pictures thanks to FlynetOnline.