- Matthew McConaughey gets wasted for his 37th birthday [WWTDD]
- Borat is so funny you’ll be crying laughing [Pajiba]
- Britney Spears’ new album to come out mid 2007? [The Bosh]
- Borat reminds you to vote tomorrow in the US [ecorazzi]
- 5 Brain Food tips for baby boomers [Celeb-Diet]
- The Hamster Dance, whored-out Bollywood style [Chic Mommy]
- Pete Doherty modeling his new line of T-Shirts [Agent Bedhead]
- Kristie Alley is going to be in a bikini on Oprah today [Glitterati]
- Did the MTV Europe Movie Awards suck or what? [IDLYITW]
- Lance Armstrong says the NY Marathon was a bitch [ICYDK]
- The cast of 90210 reunited - almost [Socialite’s Life]
- Eminem claims to have slept with Britney Spears, Mariah Carey and Tara Reid - back before she got skank [Hollywood Rag]
- Bright colored satin is in [CelebGuru]
- Anna Nicole thinks Daniel is lonely in Heaven [Junkiness]
- Foxy Brown’s luck is about to get even worse [Rhymes with Snitch]
- Cameron Diaz is going to get her nose done - because it was broken and all [Hollywood Tuna]
- Eva Longoria is the most overrated celeb [The Blemish]
- K-Fed gets mocked to his face, has no clue [CityRag]
- Scarlet Johansson gives aural pleasure [Celeb News Wire]
- Cuba Gooding is a pimp [Crunk and Disorderly]
- Lohan gets a job playing herself. (Not playing with herself - perv) [Gabsmash]

Britney Spears did a one minute bit on David Letterman last night to show off her new size six figure, and it looks like she’s making a comeback. She has so far either stayed away or remained inconspicuous at her husband’s piss-poor “gigs,” probably at his insistence, so going on television was her chance to let everyone know that she’s ready to reclaim her career. I have to say she looks great, and more importantly - she wasn’t chewing gum!

p.s. Her hair also looks a lot better now that she’s blonde again and has removed the extensions.

Madonna looks composed as she tries to make her way through JFK airport with David Banda , 13-months on Saturday. They are returning home to London after a week in New York promoting her new concert special. Madonna is furious at the media for making her impending adoption of the boy “hell.”

“It was one f–ing thing after the next, everywhere we went. So the idea that people think I got a shortcut or an easy ride is absolutely ludicrous. I have never worked so hard for anything in my life, and I’ve never been given such a hard time. And my celebrity has worked against me in every way.”
“There’s a lot of Brits – reporters on the street – who’ve said, ‘Why don’t you adopt a kid from Britain?’ Or, ‘Why did you adopt a black child?’ So a lot of people’s hangups and ‘isms’ are sort of mixed into this, too. It’s just kind of a cocktail for disaster in terms of media perception.”
If you’re a famous person who’s trying to make a difference in the world, she adds, “you’d better be prepared to find yourself in the headquarters of hell.”

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Brad Pitt held a press conference yesterday for proposition 87, a California bill that would tax oil companies. Fellow stars that have lent their support to the bill include Julia Roberts, Leonardo DiCaprio, Ben Affleck, Jennifer Garner, and Alyssa Milano.

I love the astonished look on the face of the woman spotting Pitt enter the room.

Pitt didn’t campaign for the Democratic challenger to governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, who is expected to retain his position.

Democrats brought in a megastar to stump for them ahead of Tuesday’s election - but Brad Pitt didn’t appear for the candidate at the top of the ticket, gubernatorial challenger Phil Angelides.

Instead, Pitt held a press conference Monday in support of Proposition 87, a ballot initiative that would tax oil production to raise $4 billion for loans, grants and subsidies to promote alternative fuels and more energy-efficient vehicles.

Noting that oil companies have pumped millions into a campaign against the tax, Pitt said voters need to know the measure would also help ease California’s dependence on foreign oil and not hurt working families as opponents claim.

“I wouldn’t be here if I didn’t believe it,” Pitt said.

Proposition 87 has become the party’s biggest draw for political luminaries this campaign season, with everyone from actress Julia Roberts to former President Bill Clinton backing it. Angelides supports it; Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger opposes it. The most recent poll showed the measure trailing by a few points, but with a large number of voters still undecided.

Angelides, meanwhile, has failed to attract the same kind of attention in his bid for governor.

I’m a big Democrat and was campaigning for my local Congressional candidate four years ago at this time. I hope the Dems can take over at least one of the Houses of Congress again, but whatever your position you should make your voice heard and get out to vote today.

Pictures from Just Jared.

Despite his frequent talkshow, music television, and wrestling match appearances, and despite the fact that he’s the husband of one of the most popular pop stars of all time, no one is attending K-Fed’s concerts or buying his new CD. You would think that being on Total Request Live, Ellen, and Much Music would help an artist sell tickets, but when advance buzz is overwhelmingly negative and the person is generally considered an untalented douchebag, no one shows up to see him rap. K-Fed shows that it does take skill and a that a decent personality wouldn’t hurt if you want to make it in show business.

One report claims that less than 250 people attended K-Fed’s show at Webster Hall in NY on Saturday, while another says that around 100 people showed. Regardless even the higher number represents less than a sixth of the club’s capacity. K-Fed was over three hours late onstage, and rapped for about 30 minutes. By the end of his brief set, only 1/3 of the audience remained.

An informal survey of the crowd yielded a foursome who confessed that they were friends of K-Fed’s manager and had gotten free tickets; two judgment-reserving girls who also had free tickets, which they’d won from TRL; a priceless foreign couple who admitted they’d first heard of Kevin Federline “this day”; and one couple with mixed intentions. (She: “I’m not a fan, just really into the tabloids!” He, glumly: “My girlfriend made me come.”) And though the venue may have been sorely undersold — estimates put the sparse crowd around 250, a sixth of the Webster Hall’s capacity — the impenetrable bunch of hopped-up fans pressed against the stage were an undeniably ecstatic bunch packed five rows deep.

A posse of enthusiastic NYU types, including a pair of Roxy boys with matching bandanas tied around their necks, raised a ruckus on a too small riser at the left of the stage, nubile girls clad in their best strip-mall formalwear gyrated in front of appreciative dates, and more than one pair of drunken-secretary types careened wildly toward the stage upon entering mid-set. Their energy was palpable and — we hate to say — surprisingly infectious. Judging by the screams incited every time K-Fed did, well, just about anything, we’d say it was one of the more hyperactive, scrappy little crowds in recent Webster Hall history, ironic or no. Most remarkably, no one in attendance seemed to mind that the show clocked in at around a half hour — just under a dollar per minute, in ticket-price terms.

[via ONTD]

K-Fed is said to have “begged” organizers not to cancel that Webster Hall gig, and it doesn’t seem like making the show go on at all costs was the right decision. Two of his other shows, in Cleveland and Atlantic City, have been cancelled due to poor ticket sales.

K-Fed most likely told his wife not to steal his thunder at his recent concerts, and that has undoubtedly hurt him. What he sorely lacks in talent and common sense he could have salvaged with some well orchestrated duets with Britney. She was dumb enough to marry him and bear two of his children, she would have gladly come on stage at his gigs. Instead, he shot himself in the foot by making sure she isn’t even seen at his shows. Britney wore a pink wig at his Halloween concert and was not seen at the Saturday night show.

Pop star Shakira and Pink Floyd’s Roger Waters have formed a join business venture and bought a 700 acre island in the Bahamas called “Bonds Cay.” It reportedly cost $16 million. Shakira and Waters plan to build a luxury resort as well as sell prime seaside property on their new island. Spanish singers Alejandro Sanz and Miguel Bose are said to be building mansions there next year.

Colombian born singer, Shakira, apparently already has a paradise of her own, after buying her own island in the Bahamas. In order to do this, she has formed an association with Roger Waters of Pink Floyd, as well as noting the interest of Spanish singers, Alejandro Sanz and Miguel Bose.

The two stars have created ‘Bonds Cay’, an island of 700 acres situated north of the Bahamas and 125 miles from Florida. The island, that has five beaches and three bays as well as numerous waterfalls and rocky areas, was acquired by the association for $16 million.

Both Shakira and Waters have stated that they are intent on building a luxury hotel on the island, as well as a number of other residences with private beaches. Both Spanish singers have acquired land on the new island, and are expected to build mansions there next year.

Shakira is doing well professionally. She took home four awards at the Latin Grammys last week, including album of the year, best song, and best record. She will begin shooting a movie with Rodrigo Santoro from “Lost” next year in Romania, called “Dare to Love me.”

Shakira is also no slouch in the charity department, and has been a UNICEF goodwill ambassador since 2003. Here she is speaking at a UNICEF event in San Salvador on Sunday. [via]

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- Carrie Underwood wins best female artist at the Country Music Awards, and Faith Hill yells “What?!” all pissed off-like at the camera, even though she’s perfectly aware her reaction is being broadcast live. [popbytes]
- Carrie Underwood foxes up the CMA Awards [yeeeah]
- 2006 CMA arrivals [Faded Youth]
- Britney Spears is living at the Four Seasons after a big blowout with K-Fed. They must have a great gym there. [Glitterati]
- Nicky Hilton didn’t pay or promote the services of the interior designer she hired to do her Nicky O. hotels. She collaborated with him by telling him to “make it look like Paris’ house” and by giving him clippings from magazines. [Mollygood]
- Maybe appearing on a bikini on Oprah was not such a good decision for Kirstie Alley. [Agent Bedhead]
- Rihanna is spreading her legs so much on stage that she’s tearing holes in the crotches of her too-short outfits [Bastardly]
- The Anna Nicole Smith chronicles are beyond outrageous at this point [Celebritology]
- Holy shit Anna Nicole even sold her birth video! [Spank Cheeks]
- Heath Ledger and Michelle Williams take their daughter for a walk, manage not to spit on or flip off the paparrazi [Celebrity Baby Scoop]
- Hot guy Cristiano Ronaldo [I’m Not Obsessed]
- Ashley Olsen is now a brunette. Or is that Mary-Kate? Which is the one that scowls? [Celebrific]
- Rachel Ray tries to steal Barry Manilow from Martha Stewart [Chic Mommy]
- Gael Garcia Bernal can choke my chicken any day. [Suicide Girls]
- Wentwood Miller was busted Googling himself at Kinkos! [Superficial Girls]
- If the Democrats win, brown people will kidnap all the white women [Metadish]
- A woman in Florida duct taped her kids together while she went to work [Shallow and Tacky]
- Alanis Morrisette has horse teeth [Celebrity Puke]
- The Biggest Loser’s Suzy Preston and Matt Hoover are expecting [Us Weekly]
- Mario Lopez to play in Dirty Dancing 2 [ICYDK]
- Victoria Beckham’s new handbags [Just Jared]
- NY Policeman claims to have failed his drug test because his wife slipped pot in his meatballs [QuizLaw]
- Rachel Weisz’s weight loss secret is breastfeeding and Pilates [Celeb-Diet]
- Don’t forget to vote today [cityrag]
- Does Nicole Richie look better? Her hair does at least. [Gabsmash]

It’s hard to say whether it’s Nicole’s mysterious “team of doctors” or her new hair color and more covered-up fall style that’s doing it, but she’s looking good!

Her darker hair hue has transformed her complexion from a sometimes-sallow olive to warm and tanned, while her billowy top fills her out a little bit. I’m a big fan of the boots, too - practical but chic, and a pleasant departure from those flat Roman-style sandals she was so attached to during the summer months.

Maybe Nicole decided a makeover was in order as she makes her triumphant return to the L.A. club circuit alongside Paris?

Rosario Dawson’s mini bangs must have been fugly enough to scare away “Sex and the City” hottie Jason Lewis, who has been her boyfriend for over two years. The two seemed inseparable and weren’t shy about the PDA while making appearances at events together. Now rumor has it that this sweeter than Skittles couple has broken up. This somehow depresses me more than Reese and Ryan, because I was really looking forward to their pretty kids:

One of Hollywood’s most beautiful couples, Rosario Dawson and Jason Lewis, have reportedly split. The actress was overheard telling a friend about the break-up in a New York restaurant over the weekend, explaining she was having to fly to Los Angeles to clear her belongings from the Hollywood home she shares with the actor.

Dawson and Lewis started dating in 2004 and moved in together exactly a year ago. The actress has often cooed about her man, a former model, in interviews. In one recent article, she gushed, “He’s just a wonderful human being. He’s generous and loving and intelligent and warm and funny.”

A publicist who represents both Lewis and Dawson had not responded to calls.

Please let them get back together - or let Lewis hook up on the rebound with the newly slender Britney. I would like to cover that story.

Remember when Lindsay Lohan text messaged with that guy named Jason Lewis who convinced her he was the actor? Those were good times. She’d surely take up with him, but I have a feeling that is even less likely than the Britney scenario.

Tori Spelling revealed that she is finally starting to adjust to being pregnant, 5 months into it. She talks to “Extra” on the set of Smallville in Vancouver, Canada about finding out the baby’s sex.

“I’m a little tired, but feeling good. The first three months I had every textbook symptom, but now I’m starting to adjust,” she said.

Spelling and her husband Dean McDermott also do not yet know if they are having a boy or girl.

“We do want to know, as soon as I get back from (Vancouver, British Columbia) we have our ultrasound,” Spelling revealed.

“If it’s a boy, we’re making his middle name Aaron. If it’s a girl her middle name will be my husband’s mother, who passed away,” she added.

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