Britney Spears has shown the world how gullible she is by giving her husband an American Express Black card, also known as the Centurion. An invitation-only card with a hefty $2,500 annual fee, the Centurion gives holders automatic first class flight upgrades on all airlines and offers access to airport clubs and personal shoppers at luxury stores. It features a personal concierge and travel agent. If you can think it up, you can probably get it with an AmEx black card.

In the 1980s tales of the “Black” no-limit American Express card were just urban legends, but Amex responded to the black card lore and decided to offer it to high rollers. Now rappers name-drop it in songs, and uber-rich people have the opportunity to go deeper in debt than they ever dreamed possible.

By giving K-Fed access to her Amex Centurion, Britney is essentially letting him empty any bank account he wishes. He has the opportunity to spend lots of money in a very short time with a single phone call. Here’s what people have done with the Centurion card:

Hey maybe AmEx can help K-Fed with his rapping career! He should call them up now that the black card is in his posession. They seem capable of hooking people up with just about anything.

Seriously, though, Britney is trusting her fortune to a guy who has a custom Ferrari worth more than a quarter of a million dollars, and a Maserati worth at least six figures. He also reportedly bought a $30,000 watch without asking Britney. Now is that the kind of person you would trust with your money?

Here’s Britney dropping off a mini Escalade at her recording studios for Sean Preston to play with while she’s there, and Kevin getting a haircut and pumping gas. Sean Preston, 11 months, took his first steps in Las Vegas last week. So now he must be old enough to drive a car, right?

I’m sorry for two Lindsay Lohan stories today, but I just couldn’t resist this latest news. Page Six is reporting that Lindsay Lohan is just about to get kicked out of her digs at the Chateau Marmont hotel. Hotel staff are annoyed at her comings and goings at all hours of the night:

Lindsay shocked her accountants by running up a $1,000,000 bill at the Chateau Marmount last year. Why doesn’t she just buy a house? There was another story that Lindsay spent another million on clothing alone when she easily could have been comped many of the luxury brands she wears.

There’s also a report from a “Herbie: Fully Loaded” crew member that claims that Lindsay was as much of a lazy brat on that set as she’s been publically chastized for on her latest film.

The way Lindsay is going she’s going to spend all her cash on purses and hotel rooms and will have such a bad reputation in the industry that she won’t be able to get another job. Maybe she gets her drugs for free though.

Here’s Lindsay having a little upskirt accident and shopping. [via] and [via]

Diddy seems to think that he owns the common adjective “sexy” and that he alone holds the rights. He said he is the true “King of Sexy” and that he let Justin Timberlake “borrow” the term for his latest CD:

Victoria’s Secret must have called up Diddy before the launch of their Very Sexy bras to make sure he approved of their use of the word. Or maybe they’re paying him royalties.

Oh wait - I dated a patent attorney a while ago, and I think the way it works is that you only have rights to a trademark within a certain industry. In that case Diddy is the sole “sexy” singer and Timberlake indeed needs to bow to him in order to call himself sexy. All other professions and industries can be sexy without Diddy’s approval.

Timberlake album cover found at Cake and Ice Cream. Diddy pictures from yeeeah. The last few photos of Justin Timberlake are high resolution from an Observer photo shoot found at TimberlakeNow.net.

I’m not saying that Lance Armstrong and Matthew McConaughey are anything more than hot, sweaty friends who like to do sports together and hang out shirtless on beaches in Miami. Let’s just imagine that these two are actually lovers and make the bold move to come out, though. It would be difficult for them to admit, but they would be applauded for it, and “straight” men everywhere might see that it’s not so bad to switch to the other side. Hell if top actors and athletes can do it, it must not be that taboo. At first it would be a big scandal, but then everyone would say how brave they are to admit it.

This will never happen because it would jeopardize McConaughey’s career playing the hot sporty guy in every crappy romantic comedy. He’s even signed on to do a new one with Kate Hudson. They’re going to play a divorced couple looking for treasure in “Fool’s Gold.” Sounds fabulous:

In related news, Jake Gyllenhaal has been confirmed to play the role of Lance Armstrong in an upcoming biopic about the seven-time Tour de France winner’s life. Matt Damon was originally slated for the role:

I wonder how Gyllenhaal landed that role.

Here are Lance and Matt on the beach. Thanks to DListed for these pictures.

First people said they saw her, and now there are supposed photographs that will be published in Vanity Fair this Fall. Come on, why the delay?

You know they say that the photographs were taken by Annie Liebovitz to add a smidgeon of legitimacy to the claims that Suri’s been photographed. Why would they take pictures now ahead of time and then release them in the Fall? They have to know that the pictures will get out and no amount of legal threats will keep them off the blogs like little Shiloh’s online debut. Unless there really are no fucking pictures at all and they’re just trying to buy time until they can come up with a baby.

By saying the pictures were taken now in April they also get the added advantage of masking the baby’s age. Babies age a lot in a few months. If they claim the pictures were taken now in April they have a few months to procure a newborn baby and get pictures taken just in time for publication.

This baby has never been photographed even far away and there’s a huge bounty on its head. No baby accessories, strollers, or carseats have ever been seen near its parents or their vehicles. There are very peculair circumstances surrounding its birth, with a questionable birth certificate. Only a few “eyewitnesses” have come forth - with strange statements that sound coerced.

Yesterday Tom’s rep said that pictures would be released “soon.” All of sudden they’re claiming that Annie Liebovitz has already photographed the baby. This is bullshit.

Update: Thanks to Angelika for pointing out that the baby was said to be photographed back in April, not now. That makes it even more suspect because they have until the Fall to get pictures of a newborn.

No wonder Angelina’s in a tizzy, Brad Pitt is back to work and looks to have recovered more than just his masculinity. He’s cool again!

Jessica Simpson gushed about Brad in her Ok! interview, saying his body in “Fight Club” is “the best male body” and that she still dreams about him.

Brad is shown in Vegas on the Oceans 13 set and at the Bellagio playing cards. Unlike Daniel Craig, he knows how to play poker. Pictures from SimplyBrad.com via JJB.

Update There’s a story that Angelina Jolie is asking people to spy on Brad for her while he’s away filming, and that she’s needy and insecure and is calling him up to ten times a day. The source is some British magazine I’ve barely heard of, so I really doubt it’s true.

Star Magazine reports this week that Matthew McConaughy called Jennifer Aniston in a not-so-subtle attempt to get her to go out with him.

Jennifer’s rep denied that she received a call from McConaughy, but it could be true. If it really happened, it doesn’t mean McConaughy was serious about it. He may have just wanted the publicity so that he can stem some of the rumors that he’s enjoying Lance and Jake’s company in every way possible. It was a pretty slick move on his part, considering he picked an actress who’s technically unavailable, but hasn’t gone public with her relationship.

Aniston seems to be having a hard time in her relationship with bloated paramour Vince Vaughn. While it was rumored last week that they broke up, that doesn’t seem true since Vince was spotted out with Aniston and was seen leaving her house. Poor Aniston has bought a new dog to keep her company while she waits for a commitment from Vince that will never come. Maybe she should have gone out with McConaughy. At least it would have made Vince jealous.

Here is Aniston with her her new puppy [via] and Matthew McConaughey biking. [via]

Angelina supposedly got fed up with Brad’s demands that she stay at home and take care of their kids and left their Malibu estate in a huff to stay at a hotel with the kids for a few days. Star Magazine is set to report that she checked into the Hotel Bel Air in Beverly Hills on July 29:

Here are the websites for the Hotel Bel Air and the Hotel Roosevelt so you can see where the famous hotties stayed. I only have one kid, not three, but I’d use any excuse to get away to a spa resort for a few days if I could. Who can blame Angelina?

She must be stressed out being a new mom and I bet she won’t be adopting right away as she seemed to imply in recent interviews.

I was a bit curious about the timeline in this report because didn’t she just step out with Brad and Maddox for lunch? It turns out that was on July 25th, making this timeline possible. Considering the demand for photos of the Jolie-Pitts, it’s surprising that no one has any pictures of her stay at the resort, but that’s probably why she picked the place - and part of the reason why she needed to get away.

There does seem to be a power struggle in Brad and Angelina’s relationship. With Angelina having the upper hand for so long, she must be annoyed that Brad is working and striking out on his own. She’s probably just overwhelmed with motherhood, though. People think this won’t last, but I bet they’ll weather more than a few storms together.

Here are some of the latest St. John ads featuring Angelina. [via]
Star Magazine cover from PopBytes.

Kate Moss and Pete Doherty are back together, at least for now. I haven’t kept up with troubled Pete like I should, but he had a chemical implant put in his stomach to help him kick heroin and was said to have tried to go to rehab again for like the tenth time.

Whatever he’s done, it worked well enough to help him get back together with the love of his life, waif supermodel Kate:

Kate has plenty of substance abuse problems on her own. While she may have kicked the hard stuff, she still knows how to drink like a fish. She royally pissed off her friend, Jade Jagger, by getting wasted and running up a nearly $10,000 hotel bill in Amsterdam. She stuck her surprised hosts, The Rolilng Stones, with the tab. She offered to pay after leaving the country, but the damage was already done.

[Thanks to Random Human for the tip]

Guess Kate and Pete kind of deserve each other.

Kate wasn’t with Pete in these pictures taken at the wedding of Primal Scream star Bobbie Gillespie on 7/29. She seems to have brought a long-haired bearded guy as her date, or that might just be someone she’s hanging out with at the party.

Update I just have to mention that this is the fourth time I’ve been able to use that “reunited” header picture! lol

Pictures [via]

Christina Aguilera told USA Weekend magazine that she suffered from her father’s abuse while her family was stationed on a military base. She says that domestic abuse is common on military bases in her experience. Starpulse runs the quote from the article with commentary that she’s “attacking” military bases, but she seems to be speaking about her childhood and doesn’t overgeneralize:

That’s too bad that Christina had to go through that as a child and it’s good that she found a decent man like Jordan and didn’t pick another creep like her dad. It’s hard to take her seriously as a person, though, when it’s rumored that she doesn’t even look interviewers in the eye. Still, she should be commended for talking about her difficult childhood.

Here is Christina in a Robert Sebree Photoshoot (via Gossipin) and in Seventeen Magazine (from Hollywood’s Best)