I find the idea of Shannon Doherty utterly terrifying. I mean just looking at her face makes me feel a little ill. Considerably more so when she smiles. The woman was never much of a looker, and being a legendary bitch didn’t exactly help her cause much. Doherty was fired from the first version of 90210 after her diva behavior became intolerable – she was consistently late to work, hung over, etc. Basically she was the Lindsay Lohan of her day.

She and Jennie Garth supposedly butted heads more than any other cast mates, which once resulted in a fistfight. So the idea of the two pairing up again had Garth understandably nervous. And while she didn’t exactly sing Shannon’s praises, she did say that it wasn’t as terrible as it could have been. It wasn’t as bad as war, death, or terminal illness. So when compared to those things, it was alright.

Jennie Garth admits she was initially uneasy about working with Shannen Doherty again… But when she reunited with Doherty to shoot CW’s 90210 spin-off, she tells TV Guide, “It wasn’t as bad as I thought it would be.

“I’m not much of a small talker, and I don’t think she is either. I was a little nervous because I hadn’t seen or talked to her in 14 years,” she goes on. “Everyone was making it out to be such a big deal that I think we both fell prey to having that affect us.” With their squabbles behind them, Garth says, “I think it will be OK. We’re both grown women, both professionals. Once we were working, it felt like a good fit.”

Co-star Ryan Eggold, who plays Kelly’s new beau on the series, admits “everybody was on pins and needles and sort of waiting to see how they’d react. They started off kind of tentative, but by the time we were five takes in, they were giggling and seemed to be reconnecting,” he says.

Garth says she wishes she could reconnect with Tori Spelling, who recently quit the show over salary disputes. Fighting back tears, Garth tells TV Guide, “I know Shannen probably doesn’t share the feelings that I have for Tori, but I love Tori like my sister.” She says she is encouraging fans to launch a “Bring Back Donna Martin” campaign.

[From Us Weekly]

Tears? Really? Okay to be fair it’s not all that cheesy – I often find myself tearing up at the mention of Tori Spelling. Although that’s mostly because I’ve seen some recent pictures of Tori over-sharing her boobs and I have nightmares about what years of silicone implants combined with pregnancy can do to an otherwise lovely body part.

In other 90210 news, rumors are that the new show sucks. This is based wholly on the news that the CW network won’t be sending out any screeners of the show, thus leading everyone to believe it must be because it absolutely blows. Though there’s an equal likelihood it’s just because they don’t want the show all over the internet before it even airs. Because it’ll probably suck.

Here’s Jennie Garth at the 2008 CW Network Upfronts on May 13th. Images thanks to PR Photos.

Bill Murray really has guts. While a lot of celebrities will do some crazy things for attention, Murray isn’t generally one of them. Rarely do you see him falling out of Bungalow 8 with his panties around his ankles. Instead Murray goes for the more planned kind of attention – though albeit a bit more dangerous. He jumped out of an airplane at 13,500 feet this weekend for the Chicago Air and Water Show.

Bill Murray landed in Chicago on Friday like he never had before — by jumping from an airplane 13,500 feet up. The 57-year-old actor took several deep breaths before stepping out the open doors of a C-31 Fokker and dropping at about 120 mph to the city’s lakefront with members of the Army Golden Knights Parachute Team.

An exuberant Murray, whose jump kicked off the 50th Chicago Air and Water Show, landed safely on a beach. The actor pretended for a moment to stagger as if dizzy, then smiled broadly, waved to the crowd and shook hands with some of the Golden Knights. Friends asked Murray to participate in the show, which features demonstrations and performances in the air and on Lake Michigan, to support the Illinois United Service Organizations… “It seemed like a good idea at a time,” Murray said. “I’ve had second thoughts, believe me. I’ve been really nervous. All the jokes (from friends) involve death.”

At more than 2 miles above Chicago, the air temperature in the unpressurized plane dropped to 30 degrees. The roar of the plane’s engines and winds coming through the open doors was deafening. Up in the plane, Murray, a native of Wilmette, Ill., looked out the window and took short calming breaths from a yellow oxygen tank. A buzzer went off in the plane around 3 p.m. It was Murray’s time to jump. He and Jones, connected by ropes and harnesses, ambled down the aisle. After a countdown they stepped off, instantly disappearing into the skies below.

Once he landed, Murray said a Golden Knight jumper had tried to ease his nerves by telling him he would want to repeat the jump. “But right now,” Murray said, “I really feel like having a drink.”

[From the Daily News]

Here are photos of Bill’s awesome jump this weekend. Thanks to to PR Photos.

Say what you want about Suri’s mom and dad, Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes. They definitely court the press and try to present this united front that highlights how normal they are as a multi-millionaire couple and the most famous spokespeople for a dangerous cult. Their little daughter is just two and a half, (there’s speculation that she’s older than they claim but it would only be by a few months) and just a vulnerable toddler trying to make sense of the world.

Suri is hiding from photographers recently, looks scared
I’ve started to be concerned for Suri because she seems to be cowering in most of the photos I’ve seen of her with her parents out in New York. At first I thought she was sleeping because she had her head on Katie’s shoulder, but see’s done that on other occasions and it’s clear that she’s scared and hiding. In some of the photos she’s playing or looking around, but she looks wary and uncomfortable - probably because there are people crouched nearby taking tons of photos of her.

Paparazzi made Suri cry
There’s a video on TMZ of Tom, Katie and Suri in NY outside of Nobu restaurant over the weekend. There’s a hoard of people flashing cameras and screaming “Suri! Tom! Katie!” Little Suri hides again and she starts crying right before she gets in the limo. She’s intimidated and scared and probably doesn’t understand why people are harassing her family and shouting their names. Tom and Katie should have left Suri home with a sitter, but it still isn’t right that she should be subjected to that.

Katie has to be in NY to rehearse for her upcoming Broadway debut in All My Sons. She could stay outside the city in Long Island, Connecticut or Westchester, but then she’s looking at an hour to a two hour commute each way depending on how early she leaves and if she beats the rush hour. It’s not like she could stay in Greenwich or Stamford and take the train in.

Katie, Tom, and their daughter are in NY by necessity for work. Their little daughter looks like she’s damn near traumatized by all the people who surround her whenever she goes outside. This has got to be incredibly confusing and stressful for her. Having one or two people take her picture occasionally is different than being surrounded and yelled at.

Children should be protected from “pack mentality” of the paparazzi
As a mom, it tugs at my heartstrings to see Suri cower and cry in response to the paparazzi. I think there should be laws in the US that children are off limits to photographers. I love seeing celebrity children and babies, but it should not be at the expense of their well being and safety - no matter how open their parents are to getting their photos taken. Paparazzi have relatively few restrictions in the US and they’re generally allowed to take photos whenever someone is in public. There are new proposed laws in LA that would create a personal “safety zone” of several feet around celebrities, but not much has come of that and police say they’re unsure how they’ll enforce it if it becomes law.

LA city counsel member Dennis Zine described the paparazzi situation in his city as “a mob mentality. It’s like a pack of wolves, a swarm of bees going after their prey.” He added to BBC News that they need some way to deal with it, and “That’s the issue that we really need to contend with and we need to come up with a solution.”

French paparazzi laws are the toughest in the world and children are generally considered off limits. People can sue for photographs taken when they have a reasonable expectation of privacy, even in public, and children’s faces are often blurred in celebrity magazines. Maybe celebrities can lobby together to bring about some kind of similar federal limitations on the paparazzi to help protect their children.

How will this affect Suri in the long run?
Suri is famous, but she’s just a little kid. She shouldn’t be scared out of her wits whenever she leaves the house so that we can see her pictures. Britney’s very public decline was arguably exacerbated by the photographers following and shouting at her every day. They would trail her on aimless drives, trips to the drug store, and ultimately to the hospital. Britney is a grown woman with other issues, but think of how that level of surveillance can affect a small child.

All that said, Katie took Suri to Central Park to play yesterday. Kids need to play outside, and there probably weren’t a lot of other places to go. It looks like a staged photo op to me, but did they have any other options other than staying inside or driving an hour away, just to get followed anyway? Is her mom supposed to give up her career to protect her child? I don’t like the way Katie and Tom seem to be smiling and acting like it’s ok that their child is upset, but what are they supposed to do, freak out at the photographers and upset her more?

Here are some photos of the family out in NY recently. Suri does not look happy even at the park.

Suri at Central Park with her mom on 8/17/08. Does she look carefree at all?
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With her dad Tom on 8/16/08
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Out to dinner with mom and dad at Nobu 8/15/08. This is when she was crying
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Hanging her head out with mom and dad on 8/15/08
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Arriving with her mom at her hotel on 8/14/08
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You’d think of all the serious issues plaguing Olive Garden – long waits, the batteries in the pagers dying out, running out of bread sticks, etc – the last thing they’d have time to worry about is their wholesome family image being tarnished. But that’s exactly what’s stressing out the Garden’s bigwigs – though they’re doing everything they can to be gracious about it.

Playboy Playmate, Hugh Hefner’s girlfriend, and Girls Next Door star Kendra Wilkinson is a big fan of the OG. Which is what the cool people call it. So much so that she’s actually said Olive Garden is better than any restaurant in Italy. She’s constantly eating their food and blabbing about on in the show. But lest you think it’s some clever product placement, let us be clear that Olive Garden has nothing to do with it – and has been made mighty uncomfortable by the Playmate’s pasta fetish.

To the consternation of Olive Garden’s marketers, who have spent millions crafting the franchise’s family-friendly image, the 23-year-old adult-entertainment star and aspiring real-estate mogul repeatedly uses her spotlight to rave about its midprice eateries. Wilkinson hoists Olive Garden doggie bags in the air and extols its chicken parmigiana. She once scandalized European diners by declaring the Olive Garden preferable to any restaurants in Italy.

Wilkinson, whose tan skin and blonde-white hair project classic California, isn’t on the payroll. She is a rogue brand ambassador: a celebrity who is genuinely, publicly devoted to a product or service, even if he or she doesn’t quite embody the values that the brand’s managers may be trying to convey.

Executives at Olive Garden declined to discuss the uninvited spokesmodel. One official said the company has tried to walk a fine line with its response, maintaining the chain’s wholesome image without alienating potential customers. “I don’t feel comfortable talking about this . . . because it is a complicated issue for the brand,” said Michele Kay, executive vice president of WPP Group’s Grey advertising firm, which handles the Olive Garden account.

Wilkinson said that when she started praising the restaurant on television and on her very popular MySpace page, it never crossed her mind what the folks at Olive Garden might think. “I don’t speak about it to get paid for it,” she said. “I speak about it because I love it. I understand they’re a family restaurant, but I think it can’t hurt them to have a little spice.”

[From Rocky Mountain News]

Apparently Olive Garden doesn’t want to offend Kendra or any of her (presumably) millions of fans, nor do they want images of frolicking bunnies associated with their brand. As long as Kendra’s not walking into her local restaurant wearing the bunny costume it seems like everything should be fine. If not I’m sure TGI Friday’s would love to have Kendra promote their Jack Daniel’s Chicken & Shrimp or something.

Here’s Kendra talking about how much she loves Olive Garden. Header image of Kendra at the ESPYs on July 17th. Images thanks to PR Photos.

Say whatever you want about Tom Cruise. Say whatever about Katie Holmes. But there is no denying that Suri Cruise is pretty much the cutest celebrity kid ever. At least according to me. The family was out and about in Manhattan today after Tom picked Katie up from rehearsals for her upcoming play, All My Sons. Suri looked adorable with her blue eyes and bright red dress.

Suri is definitely the boss in the family, at least according to E! If what they say is true, she’s going to be an absolute torment in a few years.

Tommy and Suri’s mommy both, “often defer to what Suri wants and chooses,” the Awful Truth has exclusively learned.

“If Suri doesn’t like Katie’s shoes, she’ll take them off,” blabbed a babe who hangs right alongside the Beverly Hills brood belonging to Tom and wife-unit, Katie Holmes. “Tom, too. He does whatever Suri wants. He defers to her on everything.”

[From E!]

Some of these pictures have people swearing up and down that Katie really is pregnant again. Her fashion sense has definitely been unusual lately. Could that be a sign of pregnancy? Morning sickness, feeling emotional, and the need to wear your husband’s clothing bunched up in funny ways?

Here are Tom, Katie, and Suri today in New York City. Photographer: Anthony Dixon. Images thanks to WENN.

Michelle Williams’ best friend, actress Busy Phillipps, 29, picked a name for her newborn that joins Audio Science, Peanut Kai, and Heavenly Hiraani Tiger Lily among the list of questionable celebrity baby names. Busy named her baby Birdie.

Actress Busy Philipps and her screenwriter-husband Marc Silverstein are the latest celebs to choose a bizarre name for their baby.

On Thursday, they announced they will call their newborn daughter “Birdie.” (Birdie Leigh Silverstein was born Wednesday, weighing in at 9 lbs., 7 oz., according to E! News. Philipps is godmother to Michelle Williams’ two-year-old daughter, Matilda.)

Lately, celeb parents can’t stop giving their kids unusual monikers.

General Hospital star Ingo Rademacher named his newborn son “Peanut.”

Nicole Kidman and Keith Urban settled on “Sunday.”

Jessica Alba went with “Honor” for her little girl.

Chris Martin — dad to “Apple” and “Moses” with wife Gwyneth Paltrow — defended odd baby names.

“There’s nothing weird about calling your baby Chewbacca if that’s what you want to call your baby,” he said. “It’s no stranger than Sarah. A name is just a noise, and if you like it, then f–k what everyone else says.”

[From US Weekly]

Busy’s real name is Elizabeth Jean Phillips and “Busy” is just a nickname she got saddled with as an active toddler. You would think that a grown woman who went through life being called “Busy” would take compassion on her child and give her a name that’s more common, or at least doesn’t sound goofy. Maybe she figured she’d give her daughter a nickname and not wait for her to get assigned one based on her temperament or personality traits. “Birdie” is definitely a name you earn that should be used sparingly by great uncles and best friends. There should be some embarrassing childhood incident associated with a name like that.

It’s not something you want to hear called out when you’re waiting in those hard plastic seats at the DMV. People would stare at you and some would make tweeting sounds under their breath. In this case the poor girl will probably opt for a nickname that sounds more like a proper name, like “Bea.”

Busy Philipps is shown at the Made of Honor premiere on 4/28/08. Credit: Anthony G. Moore / PR Photos

You really can’t teach an old dog new tricks. Or in this case, Brooke Hogan. Which looks like an old dog. Last month Brooke very stupidly said that she didn’t think women should be president because we deal with PMS and all sorts of emotions. So basically her thought was, “I’m dumb and I’m a woman, therefore all women must be dumb.” Due to the aforementioned stupidity, it never occurred to Brooke that her idiocy – while not unique to her – is not representative f the entire female gender.

Now Brooke’s decided it’s a good idea to open her obscenely wide mouth again and yap about her deep political thoughts. Quick summary: the aforementioned “I’m dumb and I’m ____, so all people who are ____ must also be dumb” formula still applies.

We’re starting to think that perhaps Brooke Hogan should steer clear of expressing her political opinions. The 20-year-old recently caused a media stir when she wrote on her MySpace blog that she thought it was “crazy” for Hillary Clinton to run for president as women “deal a lot with emotions and menopause and PMS.” In a posting this week, Brooke wrote that most people only vote because “it’s cool” and (like herself) have no real idea what’s going on in and around the White House.

“Only 54 percent of eligible american voters cast their ballots!!!!!! Half of them are only voting cause its ‘cool’ to vote for so and so…they aren’t even up to date on information,” Brooke wrote. “I’M personally not up to date on the facts, so I don’t wanna make a stupid choice for our country. I WANT to vote but only when I know exactly whats going on. More ppl should think like that. Paris Hilton said ‘yaaaay go vote cause its cool and hott!!!!’ …SHE WASN’T EVEN REGISTERED.”

[From Fox News’ Pop Tarts]

Anytime you make Paris Hilton look intelligent by comparison, it’s time to consider having your mouth stapled shut. And I offer my stapling services to you Brooke Hogan, free of charge. Just you, me, and my grandpa’s old rusty Swingline he’s had since before the war.

How about encouraging people to get up to date on the facts? I don’t know one single person who votes because it’s “cool.” She makes it sound like peer pressure to smoke pot. “Everyone’s voting for Obama.. if you were cool like us, you’d do it too.” What the hell? Brooke Hogan is so mind-numbingly stupid that I honestly don’t even know where to begin to attack here statement. So I’ll leave it at this.

Brooke Hogan, you are stupid. You at least seem to know this. But sadly you are too stupid to understand that your level of stupidity is not normal. You are uniquely stupid. This is the only unique thing about you. Just because you are too dumb to do something and instead decide to abstain from it does not mean that is good advice for most other people. They are able to learn. Even pretty stupid people are able to learn more than you. You should focus on more important things. Things the rest of us do automatically. Breathing in and out. I don’t believe you’re smart enough to be able to do this automatic function on your own. Don’t try to multitask. Just focus on mastering the most basic tasks in life, and try to find some happiness in those little accomplishments.

Here’s Brooke on her way into the CW11 studios in New York on July 11th. Isn’t she just the spitting image of her father in drag? Images thanks to Bauer Griffin.

Bridget Moynahan and her baby, John Edward Thomas Moynahan, leave Goldie Hawn’s house in Brentwood. Little John Edward turns one next week. 8/13/08.
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Renee Zellweger takes photos of a sleeping lighting technician on the set of her film “Chilled in Miami” in Marina Del Rey, CA. It also stars Nathan Fillion. 8/13/08
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Christina Ricci hangs out in Hollywood with her family. 8/13/08
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Katie Holmes arrives for rehearsals in NY today wearing a blue shirt and black leggings. 8/14/08. She is also shown the day before in her now-trademark loose rolled up jeans. 8/13/08
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Nicole Richie brings a cup of coffee with her to driving school in Van Nuys, CA. 8/13/08
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Selma Blair and Molly Shannon on the set of their remake of the popular Australian show “Kath and Kim.” Blair plays a girl who’s supposed to be little chubby and who dresses like a tart. 8/13/08
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Winona Ryder on the set of “Stay Cool” in Granada Hills, CA. 8/12/08
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Matthew McConaughey goes out to eat alone at Nobu in Malibu. 8/12/08
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Nicole Kidman on the set of Australia in Sydney. 8/13/08
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Jennifer Garner takes Violet to “Giggles and Hugs” restaurant in Brentwood. 8/12/08
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Mr. T poses with fans at LAX. 8/13/08
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U.K. glamour model Jordan, a.k.a. Katie Price, emerged from her latest round of cosmetic surgery almost unrecognizable. The busty mother of three has had yet another breast reduction- this time making her almost completely flat chested. I’d estimate that she’s gone from a C-cup to an A-cup this time. Her last boob job was also a reduction- at the time, she said that she was getting them lifted to look like “a fake American-style boob job.” Hey, to each his own. She is also the latest victim of a scary celeb trend known as the “trout pout” - her lips are plumped to the verge of looking cartoonish.

Jordan has ventured out in LA for the first time since her boob reduction op last week. The glamour girl wore a baggy top to disguise the work she’s undergone, but failed to hide her noticeably fatter lips. Still, she evidently wasn’t feeling too much discomfort from the surgical procedure as she wandered around carrying countless bags of purchases from Fred Segal.

Though her top gave little away, Jordan’s bust seems to be a far smaller version of its former over-inflated self.

[From The Sun]

I am really starting to think that Jordan has a case of that body dysmorphic disorder. It’s defined as a condition “in which the affected person is excessively concerned about and preoccupied by an imagined or minor defect in his or her physical features.” In this case, her chest. I’ve lost count of how many surgeries this girl has had by now. I imagine that without clothes, her entire bosom is starting to resemble a grilled cheese sandwich. Hopefully this is her last one- but I guess as long as she’s able to find a surgeon willing to take her money, this could go on until all that’s left are two sad, deformed little nipples.

Price is shown out at Kitson in LA on 8/13/08. Credit: WENN

Model and Celebrity Circus contestant Rachel Hunter, 38, has just gotten engaged. The ex-Mrs. Rod Stewart was proposed to by her boyfriend of two years, hockey player Jarret Stoll, 26. The pair have been together for two years.

Score one for the cougars. Nine years after her split from Rod Stewart—though just two years after the duo formally divorced—Rachel Hunter is ready to walk down the aisle once more, confirming her engagement to Canadian ice-hockey player Jarret Stoll.

Though no date has yet been set for the planned vow swap, the nuptial news was confirmed when the 38-year-old model and 26-year-old athlete toook their first joint trip to Hunter’s native New Zealand this week.

“We are all delighted for her,” Hunter’s longtime manager, fellow Kiwi Andy Hayden, told local station 3 News. While the couple opted not to share any details of the proposal, Stoll did say that the question-popping was “a romantic one.”

The duo was accompanied on the trip by one of Hunter’s children with Stewart, 14-year-old son Liam. Hunter, Stoll, Liam and 16-year-old daughter Renée, her other child by Stewart, all live together in Los Angeles. Hunter and Stoll have been together for roughly two years.

[From E! News]

Aww. I did some internet sleuthing, but couldn’t find out any details on the proposal. Nothing will ever top Seal’s proposal to Heidi Klum. Rarely does a man outfit a custom igloo with a bed and rose petals. The best you can ask for is maybe a decent fire and a door that somehow closes. But if Stoll’s proposal was even half that romantic it was probably pretty good. Congrats to them both.

Here’s Rachel and Jarret in Redondo Beach on July 9th. Images thanks to Fame.