Eminem’s double ex-wife, Kim Mathers, said his performance of a song wishing her dead, in which he choked a blow up doll on stage meant to be her, drove her to attempt suicide by slitting her wrists. She said he had promised not to include that song in his gig in their hometown of Detroi that night, and it just drove her to harm herself afterwards:

The rapper, real name Marshall Mathers, wrote the violent and graphic song Kim about the couple’s turbulent relationship.

Kim was shocked when the song became public saying, “I was embarrassed. I was humiliated. I cried. He’s supposed to be the man that loves me and protects me and here he is completely and totally disrespecting me in the worst way possible in front of millions of people. And in front of our kids, my family, my friends.”

Soon after the song’s release in 2000, Eminem promised Kim he wouldn’t perform it at a hometown concert in Detroit, Michigan.

She adds, “Sure enough he decided to do that song and not only perform the song, but use a blow up doll to re-enact me being choked. I couldn’t take it.”

Kim felt betrayed by the performance and says it pushed her over the edge adding, “I made it home (after the concert) and I went upstairs in my bathroom and I slit my wrists and ended up in the hospital.”

In that song Kim, Eminem details how he chokes her to death while their infant daughter is sleeping after he catches her with another man.

If that woman had an sense she would have left him for good at that point and packed up her stuff. From my cursory examination of the dates, it looks like she stuck around for some more heartache for a few months because they didn’t officially split until 2001. Then she went back to him for another round of marriage in early 2006, which ended in divorce three months later. Mathers has said that Eminem didn’t talk to her the last six weeks of those three months and that he is addicted to painkillers that were prescribed for back back.

Mathers and Eminem have a daughter, Hallie, who is 11. They didn’t do her any favors by trying to make their incredibly dysfunctional public relationship work. Eminem sang about Hailie’s reaction to her mother’s suicide in the song “When I’m Gone,” in which his daughter follows him to a concert in Sweden and says “Daddy it’s me, help Mommy, her wrists are bleeding.”

Eminem and Kim’s second divorce was finalized in December of last year. The details were not made public, and Kim is said to be going to college now to study design.

Justin Timberlake isn’t content to just romance one high-profile starlet and move on quickly to another - he seems to be keeping two on the line. Word is he shared a high-priced rental condo and some fireside snuggling with bootlicious Jessica Biel at Sundance, and now he’s back to bumping Scarlett Johansson - sort of. There was a rumor that Scarlett had rebuffed Timberlake and broken his heart after he hired her to appear in his video in an attempt to get close to the sexy actress. Scarlett is said to be a free spirit and only wanted a fling without ties.

Scarlett is either taking her chances or just toying with Timberlake, as she’s said to have hung out with him all night and to have done a little sexy dance in front of him at a Super Bowl after party:

Johansson met Timberlake at the Hennessey Super Bowl afterparty at Mokai, where, spies say, “they were talking, dancing, holding hands all night - it was very cozy.

“Then, as they left through the back, Justin was leaning against the wall and Scarlett came up, leaned into him and did a sexy, little dance, grinding into his body.”

Timberlake’s spokesman, Ken Sunshine, had no comment, and Johansson’s flack didn’t get back to us.

I bet Johansson is messing with Timberlake and I’d like to see him get his heart stomped on, as cruel as that sounds. He dissed Cameron publically, so I kind of figure he deserves it even thought I still think Cameron is a snot bag. (Why do I care what happens to these people?)

No matter what happens in Timberlake’s life, he seems to have help to get through the days. He recently admitted to being stoned off his ass during the Punk’d episode where he was tricked into thinking IRA agents had seized all his worldly possessions.

Scarlett recently won a free year at a South Beach condo, valued at around $50k. Her spokesperson said she will donate it to a nearby children’s hospital, so that the parents of sick kids will have a nice place to stay. The NY Daily News points out that Jessica Simpson won a car in a similar celebrity swag giveaway last year and that she kept it.

Here are pictures of Scarlett winning that condo. I realize that Justin Timberlake does not appear in these pictures, so please do not point that out in the comments. [via Superior Pics]

And now for a bulletin from the world of high culture … in an era when the high is interested in getting as way down as it can. The National Portrait Gallery in London is no exception: here trouncing over the old high/low divide with that easiest and most often of cheap curator stunts - the Fashion Photography Show … and with the extra cojones of announcing this moldy old museum move as new and cutting edge. If it was a knife it couldnt get through soup. And we quote:

Face of Fashion focuses on the portraits of five outstanding fashion photographers from Europe and America: Mert Alas & Marcus Piggott, Corinne Day, Steven Klein, Paolo Roversi and Mario Sorrenti. It is the first exhibition of its kind, celebrating the innovation and diversity of current fashion portraiture.

Cheap curatorial maneuvering to imply. “Don’t worry folks … its just like a Vanity Fair meets People spread with pricier admission … nothing to be bored by here … you can stroll around then go for drinks.”

The National Gallery is adding to the extra thrilling kick of guarunteed non-boring art with a healthy helping of popular wish fulfilment. Photographer Steven Klein kicks in a picture of Kevin Federline (K-Fed, Fedex, K. Fiddy, Kuff Faddy, etc. etc. etc.) with his throat slit. The NPG continues in heinous prose:

In the contemporary fashion world, models, actors, musicians and designers frequently swap places. The exhibition highlights the relationship between fashion and celebrity and illustrates the extraordinary intimacy that often develops between photographer and subject.

K. Fiddy is none of those but here’s betting the free PR from the photo more than makes up for breaking the paper thin logic of this paper thin concept of a show. And its gotta give Britney a bright moment in an otherwise so far bleak 2007.

Maddox Jolie-Pitt is said to love “uncle” George Clooney’s impression of restaurant owner Mr. Krabs from Spongebob Squarepants so much that he asked Angelina over and over to call the Oceans 13 set so he could hear him do it:

Maddox pestered Mom endlessly to phone the “Oceans 13″ set during filming - just so he could he “Uncle George” Clooney render his side-splitting impression of Maddox’s favorite TV star.. SpongeBob Squarepants! [Note by Celebitchy: author means Mr. Krabs, see below] The bit gives Maddox the giggles - and he always begs Uncle George for his impressive imitation of Mr. Krabs, owner of the Krusty Krab restaurant where SpongeBob works.

[From The National Enquirer print edition, Mike Walker’s column, January 12, 2007]

I didn’t know Maddox had bonded with Clooney like that. Maybe Clooney will school an adolescent Maddox in the fine art of pranking one’s castmembers and avoiding longterm relationships by sleeping with whomever’s closest at hand every six to eight weeks.

I just used this article as an excuse to make a cute composite image of Clooney, Maddox and Mr. Krabs.

Here’s a Krusty Krab training video. Mr Krabs comes in at about 2:15, and he does sound kind of like Clooney:

The Nickelodeon people also e-mailed me with this weird press release saying that kids can vote for the president of Bikini Bottom or something, which is basically a promo for three new episodes. The website is not up yet, though. Marketing people are always promoting stuff before it’s ready.

Ryan Phillippe was caught out on a date with O.C. guest star Nikki Reed, who played Ryan’s girlfriend on the show last season. She’s only 18, and turns 19 in mid May of this year. (Thanks to ashaali on JJB for the ID.)

According to X17, the paparazzi agency who has pictures of the two, with Philippe looking buzzed and Reed covering her face, say his friends kind-of confirmed that she’s his new girlfriend, and got all upset at the photographers for some reason. Phillippe seemed to be ok with the fact that pictures were being taken:

We caught Ryan Phillippe last night at Winston’s with a new woman! And while Ryan looked pretty pleased with himself and was very cordial with our photogs, Ryan’s friends were not so nice. Channing Tatum went postal, threatening our snappers, upset that they had taken pix of Ryan with his new girl (in other words, upset that the spotlight was on Ryan, not him).
Channing and a pal were arguing and threatening our photographers and then chased them in the car, driving really dangerously, according to our snappers. Our guys were worried, they decided to stop at the Santa Monica Police Department to clear things up and well, we caught that on video so stay tuned!

We published faraway pictures of Ryan out with an attractive brunette who sort-of looks like Reed, but I don’t think it’s her.

Ryan is playing the sad sap card, and told Extra that his divorce with Reese Witherspoon has been difficult and that he hates when paparazzi follow him everywhere, especially to his kid’s school.

He said “I have not found balance in my life yet” and “This is the most difficult time in my life.” It looks like he’s making the best of it, anyway.

Picture from The Bastardly. Current pictures of Philippe out with Reed are on X17.

- Eminem and Kim are engaged again? I just reported that she said he drove her suicide! [Agent Bedhead]
- James Woods got back with that young harpy who was looking at pictures of herself at his brother’s funeral [Janet Charlton]
- The tearjerkiest moments of the last 20 years [Pajiba]
- Stacey Keibler in a fug dress [Bastardly]
- There’s no golden shower in Kim Kardashian’s sex tape [I’m Not Obsessed]
- Charles Barkley lost $2.5 million gambling in one night [Rhymes with Snitch]
- Will and Jada Smith, Leonardo DiCaprio, and Penelope Cruz at an Oscar luncheon [PopSugar]
- LeeLee Sobieski’s boob popped out of her dress while she was presenting an award. It wasn’t real, anyway [CelebNewsWire]
- Orlando Bloom is so bad ass he had to be reminded multiple times to turn off his cell phone on a plane [Derek Hail]
- Nicole Kidman with her trainer [ICYDK]
- Avril Lavigne’s music is getting crappier [Hollywood Tuna]
- Steve O peed all over the bar at a South Beach club [CelebSlam]
- Why couldn’t Anne Hathaway admit she was anorexic and depressed when she didn’t have a movie to promote? [Egotastic]
- Mike Tyson is being super nice in rehab, and everyone says that they wish Lindsay was more like him [Mollygood]
- Heather Graham didn’t mind kissing Bridget Moynahan for her new movie [yeeeah]
- Michelle Rodriguez isn’t getting enough publicity, so she wore a fake ankle tracking bracelet with a gauzy white dress. At least she was more creative than just showing her goods [CelebWarship]
- Jessica Simpson said the movie The Notebook inspired her to leave Nick. I thought it was a rainbow she saw during that one day in Africa she did photo ops for Operation Smile. [WWTDD]
- Scarlet Johansson also hooked up with Matt Leinart this weekend, so I guess Justin’s heart will get broken after all. [Socialite’s Life]
- Celeb’s reveal the song they lost their virginity to [Pop on the Pop]
- Gay leaders say Paris should apologize, have coffee with Isaiah Washington [The Blemish]
- Spend your work time doing something useful: join a celebrity fantasy league [Fafarazzi]
- Kate Bosworth visits a club [Gabsmash]
- Pregnant Sara Gilbert [Celebrity Puke]
- Janice Dickinson advocates anorexia [Evil Beet]
- Inside P.Diddy’s twins’ nursery [Celebrity Baby Blog]
- Turner Broadcasting is going to pay Boston $2 million for that lightbrite stunt [Seriously? OMG! WTF?]
- Nicky Hilton might lose that hotel in Miami she pitched on posterboard due to the Paris Exposed scandal [IDLYITW]
- Sienna Miller hooked up with that guy Jamie Burke, better known for sleeping with Kate Moss and Lindsay Lohan [DListed]
- Sienna’s high fashion homeless look [Just Jared]
- Brazilian Beauty Gianne Albertoni [The Grumpiest]
- Jessica Simpson in Elle [popbytes]

Tomorrow, Christina Aguilera is set to give an interview on The Ellen DeGeneres Show. Wow, I can’t wait! Hold up, yeah I can… I have no tv.

Anyway, the topic of her marriage to Bratman comes up and she talks about how Sunday is considered their *special day*.

“You have to keep marriage alive, spice it up,” says Aguilera, who married Bratman in November 2005. So the couple stays in on Sundays, she says. “We do everything naked. We cook naked.”

Did anyone else have the dry heaves?

So I guess if anyone bothers visiting the Aguileras on a Sunday and they lean forever on the doorbell, they can safely assume Christina and Fugly Hubby Bratman are there– forget about Sunday Mass, it’s quiche florentine time!

I’m going to go drink now and erase this from my mind.

Oh yeah, it’s also Ellen’s 600th Show so why the hell are they using Christina Aguilera instead of someone good?

Picture note by Celebitchy: Aguilera and her husband are shown out at a restaurant on 1/31. Pictures from Gossip Rocks.

If I was Richard Lugner, I’d totally retract my invitation to Paris Hilton for company at the Vienna Opera Ball.

Quick Synopsis: The Vienna Opera Ball “is an annual Austrian society event which takes place in the building of the Vienna State Opera on the Thursday preceding Ash Wednesday.” Richard Lugner is some rich guy that invites famous hoes beautiful women as guests. This year, he chose Paris Hilton. He’s married by the way; fourth time’s the charm!

What a great choice, Paris Hilton. Almost as great as the time you asked Carmen Electra to the Vienna Ball. You just keep picking winners, Richard.

Look, there are probably three or four nude photos of me, too, stashed away somewhere.

Your feeble attempt to dismiss Paris’ stupi-nudity and justify your invitation, well, let’s just say, that if someone did find those pictures of you, they probably burned them and buried the ashes under a volcano and then committed suicide… just speculatin’.

Please, Richard, reconsider! The Austrian people will be so peeved. They’ll pass you on the street and go, “There’s the guy that brought clap and hep to Austria.”

Hilton has told the Austria Press Agency she just wants to enjoy the magic of the ball. That, and dance.

“I learned the waltz when I was young,” she said. “All I really have to do now is practice my steps.”

Okay, whatever, Paris. Go get your debutante on.

Picture note by Celebitchy: Paris is shown on the set of The Hottie and the Nottie shivering and eating cereal. Ever since I paid $40 to rifle through her things I find myself oddly fascinated with her. I wonder if people on the set are sneering at her for using the F and N words in that video. Note that her chair isn’t even personalized, it just has the name of the movie with “The Hottie” stuck on it in pink electrical tape. Pictures from Gossip Rocks.

Daniel Baldwin is the latest celebrity with a warrant out for his arrest. The story goes something like this:

Last November 2006, Daniel decided to steal a friend’s GMC Yukon and drive it to a Santa Monica motel. The goal was to get as fucked up as possible on drugs. To infinity and beyond. The party didn’t last long though, because Daniel’s friend reported his truck stolen, and the cops tracked it down at the motel, along with our boy Daniel. Daniel was found surrounded by incriminating narcotics and other drug paraphenalia. He was charged with possesion of illegal drugs and grand theft auto on the spot, and bail was set for $20,000. However, the cops later let Daniel go on his own recognizance because, according to them, “his high profile makes him less of a flight risk.”

Boy, were they wrong. Daniel failed to show up at court yesterday to face felony charges, and now a warrant has been issued for his arrest! Look out L.A., Daniel Baldwin is a fugitive!

photo via AlaskaReport.com

In truly frightening news Tom Cruise and Ben Stiller are in talks to star in a Hardy Boys all grown up comedy Hardy Men. It all started when

Tom Cruise met with Ben Stiller about possibly starring Ben’s newest project Tropic Thunder, a film that mocks the Mission Impossible trilogy, but that Cruise won’t be involved with that project. The site also reports that Cruise sees the Stiller comedy as a way to remold his image after a string of bad publicity surrounding his odd behavior including jumping on couches and calling Matt Lauer glib.

Having recently finished impregnating (?) and re-sculpting Katie Holmes both outside and inside, nasally and spiritually, Cruise is busting a Betsy Ross on the tatters of his reputation.

The theory being that a comedy will make him both likable again and somehow imply that he’s in on the joke – rather than the personally trained butt of it.

When looking for a comedy project - clearly the Ben Stiller train is leaving every five minutes. Stiller’s manic over-production seems to turn major motion picture production into a weekly Sketch Comedy show. Something will be rolling out with a catch phrase and a basic parody concept no matter what day of the week it is. Mission Impossible parody not a good fit … no worries … he has baker’s dozen of half-conceived projects already in pre-production. This boy needs a lot of love from a lot of people all the time.

Lucky for Ben The Wayan Brother keep churning out their product — insuring the Hollywood bottom feeders rung is always occupied … sometimes your competition is the only thing that keeps you from coming in last.

Stills via Tenth Planet.net