- Somehow Salma Hayek seems to have remained friends with her ex-fiance (and baby daddy) Francois-Henri Pinault. The two were at the Balenciaga fashion show today [Dlisted]
- Leonardo DiCaprio hates the paps [Lainey Gossip]
- Leo’s actually giving quite the contradictory statements lately. He told Parade that he wants marriage and babies, and told the AP that he’s “not ready to settle down yet.” [PopEater]
- Diddy and Jay-Z try to pull off thug poses at Robin Thicke’s album release party. Somehow knowing they have so much cash makes this seem a bit too put on anymore [Bossip]
- Is Britney Spears trying to buy back her sex tape from Adnan? [Fafarazzi]
- “Whatever Happened to Lisa Bonet?” Well they’re remaking “Angel Heart” if that tells you anything [Pajiba]
- Kim Kardashian and her ass were both cut from “Dancing with the Stars.” And they’re both absolutely distraught [I'm Not Obsessed]
- Vanessa Hudgens dresses like an even tackier Cruella DeVille at the Paris premiere of High School Musical 3 [Celebslam]
- Jennifer Aniston purchased TWO tanning beds - one as a backup - because her old one broke[Websters is my Bitch]
- John Mayer swears off the ladies. By acident [In Case You Didn’t Know]
- Nicole Richie is now a real grown up, with a drivers’ license and everything [Crazy Days and Nights]
- Justin Timberlake and Jessica Biel have been looking pretty cute and adorable in Rome this week [PopSugar]
- Lindsay and Samantha are still in Mexico, and dressing so we all know it [I Don’t Like You In That Way]
- Speaking of how cute they are, Justin Timberlake and Jessica Biel are bringing the piggy-back back [Socialite’s Life]
- Cute wedding pics of “7th Heaven” actress’ Beverley Mitchell [Just Jared]
- Everyone is talking about how Lindsay Lohan looks so much better in a bikini than Samantha Ronson. Um… you’ve seen what they normally look like, why is this a surprise? [Egotastic]
- Audrina Patridge shows off her obviously fake rack [The Superficial]

Heather Mills does a lot of tacky and self-centered things. In fact, most of the things she does fall under one (if not both) of these headings. Combined with her apparent belief that she is better than everyone, the woman is generally intolerable. So what does she do to improve her image now that she’s moved to America? Well she offers to strip off her clothing for Peta. Though presumably the leg stays.

SHE HAS spent years trying to shake off her smutty image, now former glamour girl Heather Mills could be set to return to stripping for the camera – only this time for charity. Sir Paul McCartney’s ex-wife… has expressed strong interest in fronting a campaign for animal rights activists Peta (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals).

A source close to the star said: “Heather prides herself in speaking up for those without a voice.

“She is a vociferous supporter of and has worked closely with countless animal charities including Peta and Viva! She is willing to do whatever it takes to get people to listen and stop abusing the rights of animals. She says she would love to pose for one of Peta’s campaigns.”

A spokesperson for the organisation said they had not yet been contacted by Mills and declined to comment on her suitability.

[From the Daily Express]

Heather, the last thing anyone wants to see is you naked. You are easily the least sexual woman in the world. I tried to think of other clichéd examples like Rosanne Arnold and Bea Arthur – and if I had to choose between the three of you, I would gladly make out with the other two first. Multiple times. If you do this, people are going to start eating more chicken to piss you off. In fact I have a vague idea what neighborhood you live in, and I think it’d be a really good idea for me to visit every single KFC within a one mile radius, just to be safe. I’ve been craving something that’s still attached to the bone *shudder*.

Seriously , Heather, I realize your heart is probably in the right place on this one, or at least a better place than normal. But you will save a lot more animals by keeping your clothes on.

Here’s Heather Mills serving up some vegan meat in the Hunts Point neighborhood in the Bron on September 20th. Photographer: Gary James. Images thanks to WENN.

- Bill Maher suggests Sherri Shepherd pack herself off to the insane asylum [Defamer]
- You know you’re in a real relationship when you’re dressing alike. Samantha and Lindsay both don bikinis [Dlisted]
- Jennifer Aniston is still rocking the bikinis in Mexico [Lainey Gossip]
- Britney Spears is still in Manhattan… and the paps are pretty worked up about it [Fafarazzi]
- Ciara pulls a Rihanna for her new video [Bossip]
- Does Baz Lurhmann’s “Australia” look good? PopEater doesn’t think so [PopEater]
- “Let’s Play a Game with Will Smith’s Brain” [Pajiba]
- Audrina Patridge was gifted a $22,000 diamond watch by Igal Haimov [I'm Not Obsessed]
- Patrick Dempsey even looks hot while grocery shopping [PopSugar]
- Emma Watson looks sort of stressed at the Christian Dior Spring show [Celebslam]
- People paid just $500,000 for Clay Aiken’s coming out announcement and baby pics [Websters is my Bitch]
- I can’t decide if Gemma Merna is a butterface or not [The Bastardly]
- More and more embarrassing photos are leaking out of Heather Locklear getting arrested [The Blemish]
- Photos of Jade Goody taking her sons to school. I know she has other issues going on, but I’m so distracted by her unfortunate lips that I find it hard to think about anything else [Celebrity Baby Scoop]
- Megan Fox is photographed in her bra promoting her new film. She should probably keep her shirt on, or at least wear a better bra [Drunken Stepfather] (site NSFW)
- Paris Hilton dresses up like Tinkerbell in the ads for her latest fragrance, Fairy Dust. It smells like STDs and desperation [Yeeeah!]
- Despite early rumors, Katie Holmes’ show is the highest-grossing play on Broadway right now [Evil Beet]
- Russell Crowe is starting to look exactly like Kirstie Alley. Or is it the other way around? [CityRag]
- More often than not, Ellen DeGeneres is against animal cruelty [Deceiver]
- Amy Winehouse is stumbling around, as per usual (site NSFW) [The Bild]

More bad news for financially strapped Ed McMahon: he’s being sued for non-payment of a debt by the company of his late friend, Merv Griffin. McMahon took out a $100k loan from Merv back in 2005, but so far he has never made a payment on it. Now that Griffin has passed away, it’s up to his company to collect the cash from McMahon- who is about to lose his home and is already being sued for $180,000 in credit card debt.

Court documents show a company founded by Merv Griffin is suing Ed McMahon for a $100,000 loan it claims has gone unpaid.

The Griffin Group Inc. claims it loaned the money to McMahon, Johnny Carson’s sidekick on the “Tonight” show, in 2005. The company filed the suit on Thursday and states that none of the loan has been repaid.

McMahon’s publicist didn’t directly address the lawsuit, instead asking, “Anybody wanna buy a nice house in The Summit?”

The quote is an allusion to McMahon’s hilltop home, which is facing foreclosure. The former pitchman also faces numerous other lawsuits filed on behalf of creditors.

Griffin, the longtime talk-show host who created “Jeopardy” and “Wheel of Fortune,” died in 2007.

[From Huffington Post]

This is evidence that Ed and his wife have been having financial problems for quite a while. But I think that if Merv Griffin were still alive, he wouldn’t be suing Ed McMahon over a hundred grand. Back in 1986, he sold his production company to Coca Cola for a cool $250 million, and while he never revealed what he was worth, it was estimated at the time of Merv’s death that he was a billionaire. So this lawsuit against a guy who is about to be put out of his house seems a little extreme. Way to kick a guy when he’s already down! What would Merv think?

Ed McMahon is shown at the Jerry Lewis MDA telethon on 8/31/08 and at the Entertainment Tonight Emmy party on 9/21/08. Credit: PRPhotos

Photo agencies WENN and Fame Pictures both have sections that feature interesting and odd photos from around the globe. Here’s a selection of some recent favorites.

NY-based photographer Meg Wachter pours food and drinks on willing subjects’ heads and then captures the moment. It’s a simple concept with fun results. You can see more of Meg’s work on her website.
WENN

Tiny Homes that range from just 65 to 774 square feet are offered from Tumbleweed Tiny House company. The homes are both ecologically and economically sound. Most of the homes shown here are 140 square feet or less and cost just $20,000. They include a workspace, kitchen, bedroom and a small bathroom with shower. Here’s a link to a youtube tour of a tiny home by Tumbleweed’s founder if you’re interested. They’re not for the claustrophobic.
BARM/Fame Pictures

Four rare veiled baby chameleons were born for the first time in captivity for the species in Sydney’s Taronga Zoo. The chameleons are found in the wild near Yemen. These chameleons were born in August and are about five centimeters long. They eat day old crickets.
WENN

Meat water is a real beverage that claims to offer a “meal in a bottle” for busy executives. They come in flavors that range from English Breakfast to Peking Duck to Fried Oysters. Cheeseburger is said to be the most popular. Their website claims the special ingredient is an organic protein that aids digestion and metabolism. Meat water is currently only available at special events.
WENN

Bear cub Lil Smokey was rescued from the California wildfires in July. He has been recuperating at the Lake Tahoe Wildlife Care center and just had his bandages removed. He will be released back into the wild soon.
BARM/Fame Pictures

Welsh soul singer Duffy isn’t sure she’s ready for stardom.  Stardom is ready for her, though.  Duffy, who was the musical guest on Saturday Night Live last week, was just nominated for three MTV Europe Music Awards, tying Coldplay for the most nominations. 

It’s happened pretty fast for the 24-year old, and she’s afraid the pressure will lead to a breakdown.

The Mercy star, who grew up in a tiny town in Wales, admits she finds it hard to be under constant media scrutiny, and didn’t expect having a successful career in the music industry would bring so many woes into her life - claiming she feels as if she has “sold her soul”.

She says, “As a girl I thought I was superhuman… but I’m borderline on a breakdown.

“The scary thing is that this feels like the beginning. It would be easy to become a recluse… I have sold my soul.”

And she admits the hardest part is dealing with flocks of fans in everyday situations.

She adds, “It can be scary when there are 15 lads on one side of a pub and a gang of girls on the other who all want a photo.

“I’m never calm anymore. There’s a lot to it I didn’t think of. It’s not the physical stuff - it’s mental.”

[From Yahoo! UK News]

Those are pretty scary thoughts from someone so obviously poised to be in the spotlight for a long time.  She’s got an amazing talent and deserves success, but sometimes, as Amy Winehouse has so sadly shown, sometimes success is more than even the most talented artist can handle.

Duffy’s album Rockferry debuted at #1 on the UK charts and #4 in the US and has spurred the hits “Mercy,” “Stepping Stone,” and “Warwick Avenue.”  Her MTV Europe Music Award nominations are for Best New Act, Best Album and Addictive Track for “Mercy.”

Her voice and sound have been compared to Dusty Springfield, and along with Adele and Gabriella Cilmi, she’s been called one of “The New Amys.”  The genre is the same, but they’re all very different, there’s no new Amy Winehouse, but Duffy, Adele and Gabriella are definitely worth a listen if you like Amy. 

Duffy is shown outside the Late Show on 9/4/08. Credit: RAM/Fame Pictures. She is also shown outside Fashion Rocks on 9/5/08. Credit: PNP/WENN

Sarcasm lovers all over the internet are flooded with excitement over rumors that Sarah Silverman and Jimmy Kimmel might be back together. The pair were spotted together in Los Angeles over the weekend – holding hands. They did their best to skitter away from the paparazzi, but everyone knows once you’re spotted by TMZ, you might as well just get married.

Sarah Silverman and Jimmy Kimmel were spotted hand-in-hand in a mad dash to evade paparazzi over the weekend in Los Angeles, which begs the question: are they back together?
The pair split up in July after a 5-year courtship, but were back in the news earlier this month when Silverman scored an Emmy for her fake confessional song “I’m F—–ng Matt Damon.” Is someone itching for more material?

[From PopEater]

TMZ has video of the pair together. It appears they’re outside of a restaurant when the paparazzi attacks. They try to get into the restaurant in different directions but for some reason keep turning around. Then they cross the street (all the while followed within inches by TMZ). At no point do they stop holding hands. From their body language, it seems pretty clear they’re back together. Both were reportedly incredibly distraught by their breakup. Now they have pretty huge grins on their faces.

Their reps deny that they’re back together and say they just remain good friends. I don’t know about anyone else, but I don’t walk around like that with my good friends.

There have been rumors floating around for a long time that Britney Spears made a sex tape with paparazzo ex-boyfriend Adnan Ghalib. Now Adnan’s confirmed to Heat magazine that the former couple did indeed make a tape, and he’s still got it in his possession. Oh, and he’s willing to sell it, but won’t talk about the price until he’s got a deal firmed up. Classy guy.

Talk about ex-ploitation. Britney Spears’ paparazzo ex-boyfriend has revealed he owns a sex tape starring himself and the former Mouseketeer – and he will sell it, if the price is right.

Adnan Ghalib, the shutterbug and former flame who infamously dated Brit during her breakdown, told Heat magazine, “There is such a tape, but I won’t discuss prices for hypothetical enquiries. Unless there is a locked-in deal, I will go no further.”

The alleged adult footage, which was filmed in Mexico, runs about two hours and features the singer wearing nothing but a pink wig, an unconfirmed source tells Britain’s The Sun newspaper.

“I am not interested in selling out any other details about Britney,” Adnan adds.

We’re sure she’s relieved.

[From the Daily News]

Ick. Not that it’s any sort of surprise, but Adnan Ghalib is pure scum. Even if he could somehow make the argument that he didn’t realize how messed up and crazy Britney was at the time, it’s obvious to even the most self-centered paparazzo in hindsight. He’s clearly not just trying to make some cash; he’s trying to bring Britney down now that she’s doing better and getting her act together. Adnan could have tried to sell the tape at any point during the last six months, but instead he pops up just when she’s pulling everything together. It’s really hard not to wish terrible, terrible things on a guy like this.

Here’s Britney at LAX on her way to New York yesterday. Images thanks to Fame.

Celebration of Babies to Benefit the March of Dimes. Alimi Ballard from Numb3rs and his baby in an Obama shirt. Cute! Jodie Sweetin and Zoie, five months, Melissa Joan Hart and Brayden, six months, Sean Patrick Thomas from Save The Last Dance and his wife, Aonika, with Lola Jolie, four months, Julie Bowen from Weeds with Oliver, almost one and a half, Kellie Martin, and Jennie Garth. 9/27/08
Tony Lowe / PR Photos

Isla Fischer and Olive, who turns one on 10/19, out at a birthday party in Brentwood, CA on 9/28/08
Fame Pictures

Paris Hilton and Benji Madden go out to the Abbey in West Hollywood. 9/26/08
GHOST/Fame Pictures

Gwen Stefani and her son Kingston, two, go out to a “San Gennaro” festival. Dad Gavin and one month old Zuma stayed home. 9/26/08.
Fame Pictures

Lindsay Lohan goes shoe shopping. 9/26/08
The Media Circuit/Fame Pictures; CAD/Fame Pictures

Jessica Alba and Cash Warren take Honor to visit friends. 9/27/08
RevolutionPics/Fame Pictures

The ‘Yes! on Prop 2 Campaign’ benefit to stop Animal Cruelty in Bel Air, California featuring Ellen DeGeneres and Portia DeRossi, Tobey Maguire, and Olivia Wilde. 9/28/08.
Credit : Nikki Nelson/ WENN

Britney Spears double fists Starbucks on 9/26/08 and deals with LAX airport on 9/28/08. She was headed to NY.
Fame Pictures

Helen Hunt eats an apple and reads a book at a spa in Palm Springs. 9/26/08
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Pregnant Naomi Watts goes to the drycleaner and stops by a fitness equipment store in LA. 9/26/08
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Vanessa Hudgens and Zac Efron promote High School Musical in Sweden on 9/28/08, sign autographs for fans at LAX on 9/26/08.
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In a delicious twist of irony, the daughter of the founder of one of Britain’s most notorious and outlawed pro-terrorist groups is a single mom who works as a topless dancer. Her dad is a militant Islamic leader who praised the 9/11 attacks, may have ties to the July, 2005 London bombings, and has called for a fatwa against Salman Rushdie. She’s just a single mom in London working as a pole dancer to make a living. Her dad thinks women should not go out without being fully covered in a burka and she often takes off her bra to earn a few pounds. Luckily her dad is in Lebanon and has been barred from returning to the UK.

THE daughter of hate cleric Omar Bakri Mohammed is a POLE DANCER, The Sun can reveal.

Busty Yasmin Fostok, 27, leads a secret life after rebelling against her fanatical Muslim dad — who rants against Western “depravity”.

She has performed in London pole dancing bars and gyrated half-naked in cages at club nights.

And she admitted: “I’m willing to go topless if the venue is right.”

Yasmin, a party-loving girl who quit the family home in North London four years ago, added: “I don’t get on with my dad.”

Bakri, 50 — in Lebanon after being kicked out of Britain — told The Sun: “I am deeply shocked.”

Bakri is a Muslim preacher of hate who wants all women to be covered from head to toe.

His daughter loves partying, happily poses for raunchy topless photos and is described by a lover as “very adventurous in bed”.

He hailed the 9/11 terrorists as the “Magnificent 19”.

[From The Sun via Huffington Post]

Several years ago I read a very amusing book called Them: Adventures with Extremists by Jon Ronson. Ronson befriended this same notorious terrorist leader, Omar Bakri Mohammed. He painted a picture of Mohammed as an unintentionally hilarious guy who needed a friend and used to bum rides off him. Despite his self-made image in the media, this Mohammed guy may not be the hardcore militant leader he portrays himself as. In fact he’s even said to be the one who paid for his daughter’s boob job:

HATE preacher Omar Bakri Mohammed paid for a boob job which launched his daughter’s pole dancing career, it was revealed last night.

He forked out £4,000 in CASH for 27-year-old Yasmin Fostock’s bust-boosting surgery — while living on BENEFITS in the UK.

The revelation will spark further public outrage against the fanatical Muslim cleric — now in Lebanon after being kicked out of Britain.

Bakri, 50, who rants about Western “depravity” and blasts women who flaunt their sexuality, secretly paid for Yasmin to increase her A cup size to a DD.

Sources close to the blonde beauty said the op set her on the path to the raunchy career which shamed her strict Muslim family.

Last night a pal of single mum Yasmin, of Catford, South East London — said: “Her dad’s ashamed of her behaviour but she’d have never have become a pole dancer if he hadn’t paid for her bigger boobs.

[From The Sun]

Maybe the guys who preach the hardest are the ones that know all about it from first hand experience.