Britney Spears appears in a new interview and photoshoot in “Q” Magazine, which will feature 20 covers with different celebrities and accompanying stories as part of their 20th anniversary issue.

Contrary to current reports, Britney has not dropped her long-term publicist, hard-working Leslie Sloane Zelnick. Zelnick, who keeps busy explaining Lindsay Lohan’s antics, denied that Britney gave her the boot - I think. BreatheHeavy has this story with the source listed as EOnline, but I could not find the original article. It seems typical of a fake story to have a denial that’s really hard to dig up:

Britney’s heavily airbrushed Q spread and interview are accessible from the thumbnails below. She comes off as pretty dumb in the first part of the phone interview, using incorrect grammar and rambling. She said that “Nothing Compares 2U” is one of her favorite songs, and was genuinely suprised when told that it was originally recorded by Prince. As a pop star, she should know that.

I half felt sorry for her in the last part of the interview when she discussed her problems with the media. She said that she learned from her mistakes and wouldn’t do anything differently, but when asked about her “biggest mistake” was, she claimed it was “listening to other people!”

Now that makes sense if Britney was being led around against her will when her career was hot, but it sounds quite arrogant coming from her now. She smacked gum loudly on The Teen Choice Awards, her Nightline Interview, and while announcing her pregnancy on David Letterman. Her fashion and parenting choices have left much to be desired. Let’s not even get into her choice of husband.

A handler could have told her “Britney, spit out your gum before going on national television,” but she decided to listen to her inner child and keep chewing. Her bodyguard could have said, “I think you should put the baby in his childseat before driving in LA,” but she reverted back to her lost childhood riding on her daddy’s lap on a deserted country road and let nostalgia make the decision. She wants to learn by trial and repeated error.

Something obviously turned Britney off from accepting advice, and she’s gone way too far in the other direction. With two babies to care for, let’s hope she’s not as stubborn about accepting parenting advice as she is about her career.

I realize that overpriced black nail polish is all the rage now, but Halloween is still a month away, and the corpse makeup is doing nothing for Jessica Simpson’s image. Do you guys like this look? I’m thinking it would be pretty if it wasn’t so overdone - like not so much eyeshadow rimming the eyes and bleeding into the corner, use a darker lip color and don’t extend the lipliner beyond the natural line.

This is the second time Jessica has been out with such spooky makeup. She was seen at her sister Ashlee’s “Chicago” opening looking positively ghostly. In that case, though, she had a bizarre orange shade on ther eyes and cheeks that looked even worse than this.

I caught some probably-deserved heat for criticizing Simpson’s look when she donned big ‘ol boots paired with jeans, a huge matching purse and white polo shirt, so I’m leaving this one up to you guys.

Jessica was seen at her hairdresser Ken Pave’s salon opening in Beverly Hills on 9/29. [via] Eva Longoria and Carmen Electra were also there, and as Mollygood points out, all three of them were involved in high-profile breakups lately. Guess a girl can always turn to her opportunistic hairdresser for a little pampering and a pick-me-up. He makes you feel better even if he doesn’t do you any beauty favors. Jessica’s hair usually looks good, (that orange ‘do being the exception) even if her makeup is a bit off, and it’s not fair to blame Paves for her poor eyeshadow choices.

Ken Pave’s new line of hair extensions are being offered on the Home Shopping Network [via] For about $90, you can get a mountain of fake hair that might look good in a photoshoot, but is sure to be as obvious as the Tony Pony in person.

Eva Longoria’s rep released a statement on Friday stating that Eva and Tony are going through a difficult time. People magazine cites a source that says that they broke up, but are trying to work on their relationship. A friend of Tony’s is denying that they’re broken up, though. The two are in different places right now, with Eva filming “Desperate Housewives” in LA and Tony at a basketball training camp in France, so it may be a while if they ever do get back together:

Rumor has it that Tony was making out with one of his ex girlfriends at a party. Eva can be all over Jamie Foxx at the Golden Globes, but once her man starts messing around she’s not having it:

It might not be Tony’s fault he ended up with that blonde. He was denied access to the club’s VIP room, probably because Eva wasn’t with him. He had to hook up with someone else if he wanted access to anything that night.

Here’s Eva with bad hair and makeup at Ken Pave’s salon opening in Beverly Hills. (I like her dress though.) Ken is 0 for 2 with Jessica showing up in corpse makeup and now Eva looking like a warped “I Dream of Jeanie” with those super-long eyelashes, dark penciled eyebrows and half-done hair. (The crown sweep-up is usually a last-ditch effort on an exceptionally bad hair day.) He must have been too busy with his opening to assist these helpless celebrities.

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A devastating epidemic is sweeping the nation. Its victims walk among us. You may even be one of them. In fact, if you’re a woman who colors and/or heat-styles her hair, you probably are one of them.

It’s an epidemic of fried, frazzled, overprocessed, overtreated hair.

All over the country, women are bleaching, highlighting, blow-drying, chemically straightening, and flat-ironing their hair until it’s as dull and brittle as straw and breaks off in clumps that end up clogging millions of bathtub drains from New York to San Diego. So. Not. Pretty. Or sexy. Who wants to run his fingers through a head of straw?

Bleaching your hair damages it. The darker your natural hair color and the lighter your desired results, the more damage you inflict every time you color.

Highlighting your hair damages it.

Blow-drying your hair damages it.

Chemically straightening your hair damages it.

Flat-ironing your hair really, really, really damages it. Most of the worst-damaged hair I’ve seen has been the result of excessive flat-ironing. Even if you use a fancy-schmancy ceramic straightener. Believe me, if your hair comes in contact with anything that’s more than 400º Fahrenheit, it will get damaged, whether the heated surface is metal, ceramic, or freakin’ humanely mined magical crystals from the land of Faerie. Hot=bad. Sorry.

But what can you do? You want the hair you want, you’ll do whatever you can to get it, and I’m definitely not one to tell you to go natural. I’d be a hypocrite, with my saline boobs and $50-a-tube lip-inflating glosses. But I work with hair, and I know a thing or two about protecting your hair’s softness and shine from your daily styling routine. So here goes.

Step 1: Basic Nourishment
Chemically processing and heat-styling your hair dries it out, so your hair needs a lot more nourishment than most regular shampoos and conditioners provide. Be sure your daily routine is appropriate for the damage you’re preparing your hair to endure.

After a lot of trial and error (mostly error: Clairol Herbal Essences is justifiably popular for those luscious fragrances, but even the moisturizing formulas left my hair parched, and don’t even get me started on their new Dangerously Straight and Hello Hydration lines–clever marketing, clever packaging, horrid results), I’ve decided that Pantene and Nexxus give the most softness and shine.

If you can afford the price, Nexxus Therappe shampoo and Nexxus Emergencée conditioner work wonders. If not, go with Pantene. Their new Pro-V Restoratives collections are amazing. For hair that’s only moderately damaged, try the Pantene Pro-V Restoratives Breakage Defense Collection to repair damage and prevent future breakage. If your hair’s already severely damaged and in need of emergency help, go for the Pantene Pro-V Restoratives Time Renewal Collection, particularly the Replenishing Mask.

For extremely damaged hair, go the extra mile and buy a big bottle of vitamin E gel capsules. (They have to be gel. You’ll understand why in a second.) Before you shampoo, break open a few of the capsules, squeeze out the gel, and massage it into your ends, the delicate hairs right around your face, and any other fried areas. The gel will feel sticky and smell weird. Ignore that. You’re just going to shampoo it out anyway. The vitamin E gel will help to seal breaking hair closed and infuse it with extra moisture and protection against whatever torture you’re going to inflict on it after your shower. Shampoo and condition as usual.

Step 2: The Right Hairstyling Tools
I’m not going to dwell for too long on what tools to use. Again, no matter how fancy your blow dryer or straightening iron is, you’re going to damage your hair. I will say, however, that it’s true that ceramic straightening irons damage your hair less than other kinds, so keep that in mind if you’re considering investing in one. Just make sure it’s 100% ceramic or solid ceramic.

Dry your hair with a microfiber hair towel, not a regular towel. Microfiber absorbs water with much less rubbing and much more effectively, requiring less blow-drying afterwards. I have an Aquis microfiber hair towel, and I always use it. Also, never brush your hair when it’s wet, unless you want to end up with extra breakage and hairballs in your brush. Hair is very delicate when wet. It stretches and breaks easily. Finger-comb it, or use a wide-toothed comb if you must.

Step 3: Styling Protection
You can further reduce styling damage to your hair by protecting it with specially designed products before you style it. I like to use Nexxus Heat Protexx heat protection styling spray or Corioliss Heat Protection spray before blow-drying or flat-ironing and, for very damaged hair, a tiny bit of Pantene Ultimate Finish Perfecting Créme afterwards.

Step 4: Grow Healthier Hair
The best way to prevent dry, brittle, frizzy, dull, easily damaged hair is to grow healthier hair to begin with. Plenty of products exist to deal with the hair you’ve already got, but as far as I know, no topical product exists to improve the quality of newly grown hair. Only your diet can improve your hair from within. Make sure to eat lots of protein for stronger, healthier hair and nails, keep yourself well hydrated, and take a fish oil supplement (look for formulas with Omega-3 fatty acids) with every meal. If you eat healthy, you’ll look better, and that extends to your hair, too.

Also, give your hair a rest every once in a while, and happy styling!

Header image from NickyCita. Inset images from DieAna, eyeofsamara, and Circleview. All images are from PhotoCase.
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This post brought to you by Jude. Jude works with hair for a living. Damaged hair makes Jude sad. Jude doesn’t like being sad.

Disclosure: I don’t work for, and am not in any way affiliated with, Pantene or Nexxus. I do sell Corioliss products, but the only factor my job played in recommending a Corioliss product was in exposing me to it in the first place.

Avril Lavigne was videotaped and photographed spitting at paparrazi while leaving club Hyde last Wednesday after celebrating her birthday with her husband and some friends. That was the second night in a row she spit on photographers outside of Hyde. On Thursday the Lavigne-Whibley family celebrated their third night of paparrazi spitting with Deryck contributing some saliva of his own.

TMZ has the shaky videos. On Avril birthday she’s seen leaving the club, signing autographs and saying “fuck you” several times to the photographers wishing her happy birthday. She spits when her car is about to pull away, and sticks her foot out of the window. It’s hard to tell what’s going on, and the pictures tell a better story.

The previous night, TMZ reports that Avril called the photographer over by saying “hey fuckhead,” before she spit right in his lens.

Maybe Avril’s apology would seem sincere if it happened once, but two nights in a row followed by her husband spitting too? As she mentions, she’s apologizing for the fans:

She’s outside a nightclub that stars frequent, what does she expect? I used to have a better opinion of Avril, and if she had only done it once on her birthday I might not have cared, but three spits and you’re trash.

Pictures from Alavigne.com.br

Cele|bitchy moved to a dedicated server this weekend, which means it should be up most of the time and load relatively quickly. However, we’ve been hosting our photos remotely on Photobucket, which is incredibly slow today for some reason. (It figures.) I’ve moved most of the recent photos to our own server, so the images on the posts for today and yesterday should appear fine. The images on the older posts may load slower or not at all. Please bear with us, and the issue should be resolved soon.

We have a new blogger, Jude, who will be focusing on beauty and fashion. A lot of gossip rags have beauty and fashion advice, so I figure we can branch out a little. Her new post on how to repair damaged hair, Fried Hair 911, includes lots of great advice on protecting your hair and restoring it to glossy health.

Thanks for helping make the site grow so quickly. If you visit the advertisers it does help us out.

Header image taken by Leonard at Photocase.

The Pussycat dolls just performed on Germany’s “Wetten Das” this weekend wearing much more clothing than usual, so I don’t know how true this is, but rumor has it that the slutty all-girl group is on the verge of breaking up:

I’m not sure I really care one way or another. Their many vag and nipple slips usually don’t usually warrant a post on the blog as they’re a dime a dozen. If this is true it means that C-listers like Denise Richards will have to come up with other excuses to tramp it up and strut around on stage. Other stars who have performed with the Pussycat Dolls include Christina Aguilera, Charlize Theron, Gwen Stefani, Dita Von Teese, Brittany Murphy and Christina Applegate.

This morning I read the news that George Michael was found slumped over in his car with drugs, and figured that it was mistakenly re-published from the old story back in Februrary, since it was under very similar circumstances. I was wrong:

Back in February, Michael was arrested passed out in his car and was charged with possession of “class c” drugs. It turns out he only had pot and poppers and got off with just a police caution.

In April Michael hit three parked cars in what he called a “tricky hill maneuver,” and drove off without notifying the drivers. Many people assumed the incident was drug-related.

In mid-May, British tabloid News of the World busted George asleep at a traffic light while listening to an iPod. The photos from the incident reveal that he was really fucked up.

Then in late July News of the World caught Michael wanking off a pot-bellied 58 year-old guy in a park. They interviewed the unemployed guy Michael hooked up with, and he said that he had some big sexual “secret” that Michael was open to. shudder.

George Michael is in the midst of a comeback concert tour, and word is that he still can perform. Many people were offended by a giant blow-up George Bush he trotted out on stage that opened up to reveal an English bulldog giving it a blowjob, but many other people just thought it was an asanine stunt.

Michael’s hot partner, Kenny Goss, has stuck with him through all of his scandals. Kenny and Michael were set to tie the knot in an extravagent Elton-John style gay wedding at their tenth anniversary this summer. Rumor had it that Kenny called off the wedding after Michael got caught with that nasty old dude in the park, but Michael said he bought Kenny a nearly $2 million anniversary gift to make up, and that the wedding was still on. While Kenny may be sticking by his man, he sure isn’t marrying him. They were supposed to have a ceremony before Michael’s tour, and we haven’t heard anything about it.

George Michael will get off easily again for this latest offense. If he only had pot he probably won’t even do community service. If I learned anything from paying attention to the Pete Doherty debacle it’s that the British legal system isn’t too hard on drug offenders.

I don’t believe this is true for one minute, but there’s a rumor that Matthew Perry and Jennifer Aniston are now an item, and that Aniston recently broke up with Vaughn when he didn’t want to talk about where their relationship was going. Maybe Aniston and Perry hung out together once, but it sounds like Life and Style is making up quotes from a “friend”:

If Matthew Perry and Jennifer Aniston were seen walking on the beach with their arms around each other where are the pictures? Usually these quotes are made up based on pictures and whatever the writer of the article wants to believe about a celebrity relationship. It doesn’t seem true to me at all, but it would be really juicy and surprising news. It seems like Matthew Perry has more sense than to get involved with Aniston, though. (Go ahead and bash, Team Aniston, I enjoy the debate.)

Here are some pictures of Vince Vaughn at London’s Heathrow airport. [via] He’s such a catch, some other woman will be lucky to have him.

So there were all sorts of problems with the move for the site today, and I don’t want to get into it, but was a rough day. The site is now back on its original server, and will be moved to a different host within a week or so. I am doing my best to keep the site up as much as possible and online.

Thanks for bearing with me as usual. The site is growing a lot and there are some issues.

What happened today in gossip?

- Kevin Federline went to Vegas when he should have been helping his wife with their newborn and one year-old, but whatever. [Mollygood]
- Lance Armstrong hooked up with uber-young plastic surgery hottie Ivanka Trump. Isn’t she a little young for him? [Haute Gossip]
- Kevin Costner’s wife is still willing to be seen out with him [ICYDK]
- Stinky Sienna Miller went shopping [Drunken Stepfather]
- Shaky video of Gwyneth Paltrow wailing at the Jay-Z Albert Hall concert. [Derek Hail]
- Cameron Diaz flashes her boobs [Socialite’s Life]
- Online gambling is now banned in the US! [Tech Dirt]
- Tom Cruise told Katie Holmes to stay pale [I’m Not Obsessed]
- Brad Pitt in Babel pictures [Just Jared]
- Lindsay Lohan may have hooked up with Keanu Reeves [Faded Youth]
- Kenny Chesney is obsessed with laundry [Celeb News Wire]
- Ashton Kutcher rules the box office [PopSugar]
- Sharon Stone talked a bunch of shit as usual [The Superficial]
- Jesus Camp is a disturbing look at an evangelical Christian brainwashing camp for kids [Pajiba]
- Jessica Simpson’s assistant thinks she’s too smart to work for her [Socialite’s Life]
- Did you know Quentin Tarantino was in “Top Gun?” [Agent Bedhead]
- Kate Winslet hurt her ass while having sex on a sink [yeeeah]
- Nick Carter lost his virginity to a pedophile [Wampoon]
- Nick Carter cheated on Paris Hilton with Ashlee Simpson [Us Weekly]
- Amanda Peet and one of those Hanson guys got married. Not to each other. [CelebSlap]
- Mischa Barton has sex injuries [The Bastardly]
- Is Robin Williams drinking again? [DListed]
- The guys on Grey’s Anatomy are hot and half-naked [CityRag]
- Gavin Rossdale carried little Kingston in a sling. aww [Celebrity Baby Scoop]
- Lost is about to begin. [Celebritology]