Although it seems hard to believe, there are still new angles filtering out of the Miley Cyrus-Liam Hemsworth breakup that has probably happened even though neither party has officially confirmed the split more than three weeks after he allegedly made out with January Jones. The last we heard, Miley wanted to get back with Liam and would do whatever it takes to make it happen even though his team put out the story that her partying was the real problem in the relationship.

We do know for sure that Liam travelled to Australia by himself and supposedly to have a break from Miley, and now Hollywood Life claims to have an exclusive that the trip was originally planned as a romantic getaway for the two of them, and then Miley “bailed” on the trip either because she was (justifiably) angry or wanted to work on her new record. Us Weekly has a new story that the past few months have seen Miley and Liam go through “the worst fights of their relationship” but that they “are talking” while he’s out of the country. Miley has also made the time to get a new tattoo as revealed by Kat Von D. on Twitter. It’s a miniature replication of a Da Vinci heart drawing:

Read into the “heart” tattoo what you will. Next up? Miley made some sh-t up about why she stopped wearing her engagement ring. In response to a tweet from pop singer Lindsey J. Lee about her agony (LOL) at having to send her own ring for repairs, Miley tweeted back, “ugh that’s the worst! I just had a similar situation except when it happens to me then everyone says my wedding is off.” Hmm. Our assumptions had absolutely nothing to do with Liam getting in a car with January or Miley being passive aggressive by not wearing the ring on purpose, right? The tweet has now been deleted because Miley must have suddently remember that she’s all about the music now.

Meanwhile, People has acknowledged that Liam and Miley have indeed “split for now,” but Miley “hopes they’ll get back together.” On Liam’s side of things, he cancelled an appearance in Tampa (last Tuesday) where he was scheduled to appear at the Gasparilla film festival for the Empire State premiere. He did, however, show up in Manila, Phillipines for some sort of mall appearance at a Bench store, but he has no return date to the States as of yet.

Photos courtesy of Fame/Flynet, Pacific Coast News, and Instagram

Is it time for me to admit that I think Harry Styles is super-cute? He IS. It’s gotten to the point where I get sort of inappropriately swoony about him. It’s not full-on Twihard, but writing about Harry really takes me back to when I was a tween. If I was 11 years old right now, I would be ALL ABOUT Harry Styles. His hair! His cute face! His accent! And his tattoos, which signal to young girls that he’s a bad-boy, but he’s also a sensitive artist-type. Harry has about a million tattoos – a ship, some Hebrew, a birdcage, tragedy and comedy masks, and on and on. Well, Harry just got a new tattoo on his chest/stomach area. And it’s a doozy:

Yes, Harry Styles, 19 years old, just got a massive butterfly tattooed on his abdomen. I have no words. While I like butterflies (sue me, I’m human!), butterfly tattoos are so overdone. By women. And while I think it’s cute that a young man was willing to get a butterfly tattoo (it’s adorable), I think he’ll definitely regret getting such a massive butterfly on his chest area. I mean, is that what little 18-year-old fan-girls want to see when they’re “blessing the mic”? They want to look at a giant butterfly? Also, the UK papers are trying to make this into a “Harry is one with the LGBT community” because butterflies “are a trademark of the transgender community, representing transformation.” Or maybe Harry just thinks butterflies are super-cute.

Photos courtesy of Harry’s Instagram, WENN, Fame/Flynet.

If your man asked you to do something incredibly painful for him, would you do it? Would it depend on how pressing an issue it was? I have a couple of tattoos I’m not that fond of, and my husband doesn’t particularly like them. There’s no way I’d get them lasered off for him though, as I’ve heard that’s even more painful, and takes longer, than getting the tattoos themselves – and that hurt like a bitch, let me tell you.

Drew Barrymore does not have this same attitude when it comes to getting her skin burned off to appease her man. Her new husband, Will Kopelmann, is Jewish, and Drew is converting for him. She’s also having her tattoos lasered off, because there’s a rule that you can’t be buried in a Jewish ceremony if you have tattoos. (More on that in a moment.)

Drew Barrymore is deciding to ditch her varied and plentiful body ink because of her husband’s religion, Star magazine is exclusively reporting.

The 38-year-old Charlie’s Angels star is converting to her other half, Will Kopelman’s Jewish faith, but in order for her to be buried in a traditional Jewish cemetery she has to be tattoo-free.

According to Star, Drew recently started undergoing painful laser surgery to erase the six tattoos she got during her wild child years.

They include a bouquet of flowers on her hip, a butterfly on her stomach, a crescent moon on her toe, a cross on her leg and two angels on her lower back.

“Drew also wants to be a Santa Barbara mom, and tattoos clash with that wardrobe,” her pal tells Star.

“She’s growing up and turning conservative.”

[From Radar]

Is this part of the “infinite percent” thing that Drew was going on about in Bazaar this month? She’ll convert to Judiasm, endure infinite pain to make her body a clean slate, take care of the baby on her own, develop a wine brand and mix up her own organic blush in the kitchen sink.

Many years ago I dated a heavily tattooed guy who was raised Jewish. The guy would take out his (visible) piercings and wear long sleeve t-shirts when he saw his dad, because his dad would have freaked out over his son’s body modification due to Jewish laws against tattoos. That’s my only experience with this issue, and I always assumed that it was true that you can’t be buried in a Jewish ceremony if you have tattoos. According to Chabad.org, it’s not universally forbidden for people with tattoos to be buried in Jewish cemeteries, it just depends on the cemetery and how strict they are about it. The Torah forbids tattooing, though, so it sounds like it’s really frowned upon in Judaism.

Getting back to the original question: would you get your tattoos lasered off for your beloved? I’m leaning toward “no,” probably because I’ve never really taken religion seriously. (Former Catholic here. I doubt I would convert for anyone either.)

These photos of Drew in the black and white dress are from Fashion Week last week in NY. Credit: Enrique RC, PacificCoastNews.com. She’s also shown with Will on 1-20-13 in NY. Credit: JD/FameFlynet

Jenny McCarthy has a new late night talk show coming out on VH1, and she’s busting her Botox face to promote it. She’s posing in a bath tub “naked”, she’s “confessing” about keeping spare batteries on hand for her vibrator, and she’s doing the talk show circuit. In a recent interview on Today, Jenny revealed a giant tattoo of a rose that she got on her ankle during the Superbowl blackout.

She explained it like a spur of the moment decision, saying “I basically, during the blackout, at the Superbowl, decided to do something besides gorge pizza and I went next door and got a new tattoo. I was literally like ‘what do I do with myself?’ It’s a permanent tattoo. I always wanted one… I didn’t feel like having a symbol since I don’t, like, have a guy I want to tattoo his name on me, so I got a little decor. It could be my midlife crisis.”

Jenny said that her new talkshow is going to be a party atmosphere, like “Hugh Hefner after dark. Playboy TV… a party on TV [with] celebrities and real conversations.” Jenny said that pre-interview preparation can “draw the life out of an interview” and that she wants to avoid that and go for spontaneity.

Then she brought it home. “if I’m getting a tattoo when I’m bored, you can just imagine what I’m asking [my guests].” Oh there you go, so she got this tattoo on a whim and it just happens to play directly into her “I’m such a free-wheeling party girl” promotion for her show. Uh-huh.

Jenny also said she’s doing a segment for her show called “ground-breaking interviews” where she lies on the floor with a celebrity and the camera man hangs over them, while they’re sucking on lollipops and chatting. She explained that the interviews are “Tsometimes shocking, but a lot of times they give ground breaking answers.” Facepalm.

Here’s her tattoo. It looks lame to me, but I guess there are worse tattoos. Something nice: it’s not ugly.

Here’s a promo for Jenny’s show. Note the boob flash.

And here’s her Today interview:

Photos are from 2-4-13 credit: Enrique RC, PacificCoastNews.com. Jenny is also shown Friday, 2-1-13, at the Belvedere Vodka-hosted Leather & Laces party in New Orleans. Credit: Belvedere Vodka

I don’t have any strong opinions about tattoos in general. Sometimes a tattoo looks really cool or pretty to me, sometimes I think they look kind of lame. It depends on the person, it depends on the ink, it depends on the placement and it depends on the attitude of the person trying to pull it off. Like, Megan Fox’s tattoos are pretty lame and poorly done, which is why she’s getting some of them lasered off. But I really like David Beckham’s “sleeves” – I think he actually spent time and money to get quality ink, and it looks good and it’s a part of him now. As for ScarJo… well, I think the weird little tattoo that she got on her left forearm is really budget-looking, and I don’t get what the “message” was supposed to be. And now she’s added a new tatt, which you can see in these photos from the Paris tattoo artist.

She’s already amassed a fairly extensive collection of body art. And Scarlett Johansson has now added to her selection of inkings with a brand new horseshoe tattoo on her ribcage.

Inscribed with the phrase Lucky You, the etching features an outline of the traditional symbol of good luck surrounded by a series of stars. Holding up up her grey T-shirt, the 27-year-old actress showed off her brand new accessory, which she opted for while in Paris, France, last week.

The Hitchcock actress commissioned French tattoist and graffiti artist Fuzi Uvtpk to create the inking for her after recently attending an exhibition of his work at Le Salon.

Scarlett’s latest foray into the world of body art adds to her existing collection of etchings, which adorn various parts of her body. Earlier this year, the star unveiled a tattoo tribute to New York City on her wrist. Although at a first glance the piece looks like a bracelet, the words I Heart NY can clearly be seen inscribed onto the rosary bead charm.

Scarlett also has a sun rising over the sea design on her left forearm, while on her ankle she has two circles interlinked with the letter A. The blonde beauty has previously said her tattoos make her ‘happy’ but she prefers that the meanings behind them ‘remain private.’

[From The Mail]

So, the guy who designed her horseshoe tattoo is some kind of famous graffiti artist? And that was the best he could come up, a Tiffany’s pendant-necklace horseshoe? I just don’t get why that’s important enough to tattoo on your body – it’s not like it’s really a work of art…? Maybe to her it is. I kind of think ScarJo is just a woman who wants to be inked up, and she thinks of herself as that kind of hardcore, tattooed badass chick, but she can only think of really lame tattoos to get.

Tattoo photos courtesy of Fuzi Uvtpk/The Mail. Additional photo by Fame/Flynet.

Ooooh, I just went through the looking glass of Justin Bieber’s Instagram page. I don’t think I realized how many photos he posts on a regular basis. It’s kind of cool, actually. He doesn’t just post photos of himself making duckfaces (although there are a few…). He posts photos of his animals and his tattoos a lot too. This is his latest tattoo – an OWL!

I hate to admit it, but that’s kind of cute owl. And it’s a well-done tattoo too, in my opinion. The tattoo is apparently on his left forearm… which would be sexy/interesting on someone like Michael Fassbender (sigh), but on Justin, with his delicate wrists and pale, hairless, un-buff skin… it’s not all that. Would Fassy ever get an owl tattoo? No. Probably not. I wonder if owls are Bieber’s spirit animals. Doubtful. He seems more like a meerkat-spirit animal person.

Did you know Justin has a ton of tatts these days? Just this year, he’s gotten a “Believe” tattoo, a crown (on his shoulder blade), a bird (on his hip), a portrait of Jesus (on his leg?), praying hands (on his leg), Hebrew writing and a Japanese symbol meaning ‘music.’

Also – Hollywood Life claims that Bieber is Instagram’ing cryptic messages about being single these days. He posted a moody black and white pic with the message “Lingse”. Which is an anagram for “single”!?!?!?!?!?!!? OMG.

Photos courtesy of Bieber’s Instagram.

Here are some new photos of Liam Hemsworth getting cuffed on the set of Paranoia, which has been filming since mid July, so hopefully it’s getting close to wrap time. Miley wants her man back, Hollywood! Seriously though, this movie might be pretty good when all is said and done because it also stars Harrison Ford and Gary Oldman, who generally add to any motion picture regardless of the quality. Hopefully, Liam will prove his acting mettle and show himself to be more than a cheesy romantic love interest (The Last Song) or a guy that makes sad faces while watching his lady love kiss another dude on television (Hunger Games).

Other than his job, Liam’s been up to some other interesting stuff too. Here is a photo of his new tattoo, which has been posted on Instagram next to a comparison shot of Miley’s Teddy Roosevelt tattoo. Liam selected “if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly” for his tattoo, which leads into the portion of the quote in Miley’s tattoo. I guess those rumors about Liam not liking Miley’s body art were wrong, right? Here’s the full Roosevelt (made during his 1910 speech in Paris) quote again:

“It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood . . . who, at the best, knows . . . the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat.”

[From Roosevelt Almanac]

As Kaiser pointed out when Miley got her tattoo, this is a slightly odd selection for overpaid young celebrities to have emblazoned upon their skin because they haven’t really experienced much adversity in their lifetimes. However, I think it’s kind of sweet that Liam got a companion tattoo with Miley. Hopefully, he won’t have to change it to “Wino Forever” someday.

More photos from the set. Run Liam, run!

Photos courtesy of Instagram and WENN

E! Online got an interview with the tattoo artist who created the new “face” tattoo on Chris Brown’s neck – the one that looks suspiciously like the sad photo of Rihanna post-beating that we saw on TMZ over three years ago. Chris has claimed that the photo is not of Rihanna despite the obvious comparisons. His people told Gossip Cop that “It is a ‘Sugar Skull,’ which is associated with the Mexican celebration of the ‘Day of the Dead,’ combined with a MAC cosmetics design that Brown had seen.” Mmmhmm. I googled “Sugar Skull,” and the designs look like skulls with embellishments on them. They’re not half faces, and they look cartoonish not like hot women. He could be telling the truth about the Mac Ad. I found these photos that look just the design on his neck, and they also look a lot like Rihanna’s chiseled face. I’m sure that’s a total coincidence.

Anyway Chris’ tattoo artist was articulate and also very clear spoken in his statement to E! – he said that he refuses to do tattoos that are racist, that are gang-related, or that glorify domestic violence. He really sounds steadfast in his insistence that the tattoo is NOT of Rihanna and that if he had any suspicion that it was he wouldn’t have done it. Here’s more:

Chris Brown’s not the only one who was stung by accusations that he had tattooed a battered-looking Rihanna on his neck.

“I hate when people misinterpret what I do,” veteran tattoo artist Peter Koskela, the man behind Brown’s latest piece of body art, exclusively tells E! News. “It was really a blow to me to think that people would think so little of a person that I would actually put a picture of a beaten woman on his neck. That was crazy to me, that he would come to me and say, ‘Hey, I want Rihanna’s face on me.’”

Well, it sounds especially absurd when he puts it that way.

What did Chris Brown have to say for himself?

“I would never promote any kind of domestic violence like that,” Koskela continued. “Even if he asked me to do it, I would have bounced right there. I don’t do racist tattoos, I don’t do gang-related tattoos and I don’t do anything hurtful. That is just the motto I live by. The other tattoo artists might, but I just don’t.”
As soon as the eyebrows started arching in response to Brown’s new tat, the R&B star—who shared a friendly smooch with Rihanna in the middle of the MTV Video Music Awards just last week—immediately quashed the speculation that the meme-inspiring face on his neck was an image of his ex-girlfriend.

“The dude is serious about his art,” Koskela, who drew the face Aug. 30, says of his repeat client. “When something inspires him, he wants it somewhere on his body, but he never said why he wanted to get that particular piece.”

“When I did see the picture [of Brown in Vegas] and his head was cocked to the side, it did look like it was rough around the edges,” the artist admitted, referring to the image that got tongues wagging. “People thought it was a beat-up face, but it takes two weeks to heal because the neck is constantly moving.”

Koskela, who says he has also tattooed the other side of Brown’s neck in addition to a snake on his right shoulder blade and the bandit under his left arm, tells us that he has only seen the F.A.M.E. artist with his current girlfriend, Karrueche Tran.

Rihanna “never comes up at all,” he says.

[From E! Online]

When I got my two tattoos back in the day, I deliberately chose designs that could be interpreted two different ways. I have a tattoo of the two faces/vase illusion (I was very young, and now I think it’s lame) and a piece of a Miro painting that looks like an eye or a fish. What I’m saying is that Chris probably got this complicated design so that it would look like Rihanna, but also so he had a backstory for it and could claim it was something other than an artistic version of Rihanna’s photo after he beat her.

I’ve studied the photo of Rihanna that TMZ circulated – I HATE looking at it again, honestly, and compared it to the tattoo on Chris’ neck. There are similarities, especially in the face shape, the full lips, and injuries/half “skull” part of the tattoo. I don’t think Chris innocently got that tattoo because he liked the design.

In related news about Chris, he hosted a back to school event for the Jenesse Center, which is a domestic violence center and intervention program that Halle Berry also supports.

Also, I’ve been looking through this tattoo artist’s tumblr and I love this Nemo tattoo! That is all.

Update: Thanks to LittleFatMe for the info on the design this is supposedly based on, below:

Photo credit: WENN, MAC and Instagram

First of all, Mother of GOD does Miley Cyrus have a great body or what? Look at that tiny waist! And she still has hips too. She’s exceptionally well-proportioned, and she’s been working so, so hard on her figure and THIS is the payout. Bless her. Of course, if I had nothing else to do but go to Pilates classes and have sex with Liam Hemsworth, my body would look a lot better too. Anyway, the real story is that Miley got a new tattoo. It’s not the typical 19-year-old starlet tattoo, either. Miley’s is presidential!

Butterfly? Nah. Rose? Definitely not. When it came time to pick her new tattoo, Miley Cyrus settled on something surprisingly profound.

On her way out of a Pilates class in West Hollywood Tuesday, Cyrus, 19, showed off a brand new tattoo — a snippet of a 1910 speech President Theodore Roosevelt made at the Sorbonne in Paris, France.

The text, tattooed on her left forearm, reads, “So that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat.”

In his famous early 20th century speech, Roosevelt urged listeners to live life to the fullest. “It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better,” he said. “The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood . . . who, at the best, knows . . . the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat.”

The words aren’t The Last Song star’s first foray into permanent body art; Cyrus (who is currently engaged to Liam Hemsworth) has numerous other tattoos, including a dream-catcher on her ribcage, and an equals symbol on her ring finger to demonstrate her support for marriage equality.

[From Us Weekly]

Is it just me or is this a random quote for a 19-year-old woman? For a 19-year-old woman… whose never been in a war, or done battle or faced any obstacle harder than “My daddy is trash-talking me in GQ”? I’m not saying that Miley hasn’t been through some stuff in her 19 years, or that she wasn’t busting through many child labor laws several years ago. But it still feels like this is an odd quote… for HER. Maybe she got the tattoo thinking about her Pilates classes?

Photos courtesy of WENN.