Sorry guys, international bollywood superstar Aishwarya Rai is officially off the market. In a spectacular wedding ceremony dubbed as the “wedding of the century”, Aishwarya Rai finally tied the knot with her on-screen (and off-screen) love, Abhishek Bachchan in Mumbai, India.
The traditional festivities had kicked off on Friday with a private marriage ceremony at the Bachan family home, where hundreds of well-wishers cheered the 31-year-old groom as he emerged astride a white stallion, his face covered by a veil of white flowers.
This was followed the next day by the bidai, a ceremony in which the bride bids farewell to her parental home. With all the excitement of their big day over, the newlyweds have apparently jetted off to Venice for a month-long honeymoon.
The wedding was guarded more closely than the Hurley-Nayar wedding. No photographers, nor anyone from the media, were allowed to go inside the Bachchan family’s private bungalow, where the actual wedding reception took place. However, thanks to media savvy wedding guests, someone who actually attended the wedding took some photos and sent them to Rediff.com, where they are posted for all to see. Aishwarya and Abhishek look rather tense in those photos, but I guess I would be too if I had thousands of people staring at me.
The first four photos below are from Hello Magazine, and show Aishwarya and Abhishek in a slightly more pleasant mood. The rest are from Rediff.com.
Tobey Maguire skipped the after party for the premiere of Spiderman 3 in London so that he could take out his fiance to dinner on her 30th birthday. Kirsten Dunst went to the premiere party, tied one on, and then went out with her gangly boyfriend to a pub, stumbling home at 4:00 a.m. visibly wasted and needing assistance.
“Kirsten’s lovely and a great girl. Things are going really well.
“I don’t think there’s any rules behind it. If you fall you fall. In life that’s what you do.
“You follow the things that you can’t resist and you go where you go. That’s falling in love.” Sure sounds like it mate!
Johnny, 26, added: “I’m not hiding anything.”
Kirsten Dunst is heading the way of holier-than-thou Gwyneth Paltrow, who seems to think her adopted nation is better than the states. She said earlier that US-based bands are “crap.” When questioned about whether she would move to England, though, Dunst squawked “absolutely not”.
Dunst was going on about the art classes she was auditing in earlier interviews, but she seemed to have abandoned those in favor of jetting off to London for an earlier visit with Borrell. In the latest issue of Jane Magazine, she says art people are snobby and that her dream is to open a cafe:
ON THINGS SHE WANTS TO DO NOW THAT SHE’S TAKING A BREAK FROM ACTING
“… I want to intern! That’s the stuff I missed out on. I also want to have a café that I could close off after hours for my friends. We would play board games and have a lovely chef and serve wine.”
ON WANTING TO BE A PROFESSIONAL ARTIST… “Well, I could be an artist. I am one. I paint at home. I want to be someone who puts together the biennial exhibit at the Whitney museum. That would be an incredible job. But then, art-world people are a little snobby. That’s in every business, I guess.”
It doesn’t sound like Kirsten is sure what she wants to do, but the acting thing sure is working out for her if she could only focus on that. In an earlier interview she admitted that she enjoys smoking pot and said she “drinks moderately”
Jenny McCarthy has this new age-type website called IndigoMoms.com. She’s jumping on the “Indigo Child” bandwagon which is this kind of implausible esoteric concept that there are old-soul special children born after 1980 to help guide our planet to a higher level of consiousness or something. It all sounds like hoo-ha to me. These children are supposedly extra sensitive while having super abilities. Although I think my kid is special it doesn’t mean I’m about to attribute supernatural qualities to him the next time he freaks out when his matchbox cars aren’t lined up right.
McCarthy’s four year-old son, along with his mom believing he’s an “Crystal Child,” (which is like an Indigo child but psychic), has also sadly been diagnosed with autism. McCarthy is going to write a book about her experience with her son’s illness. While her first three books, “Belly Laughs,” “Baby Laughs,” and “Life Laughs” focused on the humor surrounding the pregnancy, birth and infant stage, this one sounds a lot more serious to go along with the subject:
In Touch can exclusively reveal that the comic has written a memoir about her quest to help her 4-year-old son, Evan, called Louder than Words: A Mother’s Journey In Healing Autism.
“It’s a heartbreaking story about a serious health issue,” Jenny tells In Touch. It’s quite serious, profound and beautiful. I’m hoping this book will shift the world. It’s an Oprah book, for sure…” Jenny, 34, believes that Evan (whose father is her ex-husband John Asher) is a “crystal child” with angelic abilities that make him vulnerable and powerful. “Evan is hypersensitive to air and water,” Jenny reveals. She’s now made it her life’s mission to change the education system to make it better for kids like Evan. “I want our children to start each day in silent meditation,” she writes. “I want organic cafeterias, outdoor class sessions, getting rid of rote memorization. I want it all.”
It sounds like McCarthy thinks her new age approach is the solution for everything. I guess you can’t blame her for wanting to believe in something when she’s dealing with such a difficult illness with her child. That’s an incredibly hard thing to go through and my heart goes out to her and other parents with autistic children.
A recent study by the Center for Disease Control and Prevention found that about one in 150 children develops autism or a related disorder like Asperger’s syndrome by age 8.
McCarthy’s new book is listed on Amazon with a publication date of September 6, 2007.
Word is that Jessica Simpson’s controlling father and manager, Joe, wants to help out troubled Britney Spears in her time of need. While Jessica’s singing career is on the wane, she’s doing fine with dumb blonde movie roles and appearance fees. Sister Ashlee fared well on the charts with two number one hits.
The NY Daily News says they have a source that says Joe tried to set up a meeting with Spears, and that his daughter Jessica is ok with it:
According to an inside source, Joe Simpson is considering managing Spears’ career, or what’s left of it, just as he has done for Jessica and her sister, Ashlee.
The former Baptist minister even tried to set up a meeting over the weekend with Spears, our source attests - though Jessica’s rep Cindi Berger denies it.
While some might fear a diva-like rivalry between the two singers, our source says Jessica would be okay with the arrangement and even offered to put out a call to Britney, as the two are no longer competitors.
Spears has made more than $100 million from records and endorsements, while sales of Simpson’s five albums were lukewarm. But Joe Simpson adeptly steered his daughter into movies and lucrative appearances, like next week’s performance with the Pussycat Dolls at Pure in Las Vegas. And Ashlee had two No. 1 singles on the Billboard charts.
Maybe Britney would be open to having Joe as a manager since she seems to think she didn’t need rehab and it was her old manager’s fault for putting her there.
Britney is fighting with her dad after he publically defended her fired manager, Larry Rudolph. She said she was praying for him and that “it’s sad” that all the men that have been in her life “do not know how to accept a real woman’s love.” Joe sure knows how to accept his daughters’ love. Maybe he would be a great choice as both a father figure and manager for Britney. Anything would be better than the mess she’s got going on now, although you know that Joe is not going to do anything about her terrible fashion sense, given how fugly Jessica dresses on a regular basis.
Star Magazine reports that Justin Timberlake and Jessica Biel are heating it up despite their brief break while Justin hooked up with Scarlett Johansson - and Jessica had a fling with Ryan Reynolds. Now Scarlett and Ryan are said to be a new couple with Justin and Jessica are back together.
Justin even took care of a pit bull puppy for Jessica while she was out of town. The article claims that Justin wanted Jessica all along, but that it took her a while to “warm up to him.”
Jessica is even wearing Justin Timberlake’s brand of William Rast jeans, and she has “sexyback” as the ringtone on her phone:
Justin Timberlake and Jessica Biel are definitely a hot couple - so hot that she’s wearing his personal brand of designer jeans, they’ve been spotted kissing and canoodling all over, and he’s even tended to one of her beloved pet pit bulls! “It’s a puppy she adopted from a shelter,” says a source. “Justin looked after it for a few days when she had to go out of town. The gesture really pleased Jessica!”
It seems that Justin, 26, who’s also been linked to sexy Scarlet Johansson in recent months, has been working overtime to convince Jessica that he’s after more than just a fling. “Justin was crazy for her from the start, but it took Jessica a while to warm up to him,” says the source. “He kept calling, and she finally realized, ‘Wow, he must really like me!’ Now, she lights up whenever his name is mentioned.”
[From Star Magazine print edition, April 30, 2007]
The article goes on to say that they have been “quietly dating” since Prince’s Golden Globes after party on January 15th, and that lately they’ve been seen kissing in public.
Justin is going on a two month tour starting this month, though, and while Jessica will visit him she won’t be joining him the entire time. She does have “sexyback” as the ringtone on her phone according to witnesses, so it sounds like she wants to be reminded of Justin as much as possible.
The National Enquirer reports that Scarlett Johansson’s fling with Ryan Reynolds is just a ploy to try and make Justin jealous. They say she never got over him and that Scarlett and Justin still text message and talk on the phone constantly:
Do not be fooled by Scarlett Johansson’s current cuddles with hunky Ryan Reynolds - because the Sexiest Girl Alive’s still heart-locked to Justin Timberlake, say pals! Scarlett’s dalliance with Alanis Morissette ex Ryan is a plot in her secret plan to keep Mr. SexyBack wild with jealousy (and distracted from hotties liek Jessica Biel) while he’s off on tour! Scarlett and JT still sexy-talk constantly via phone and text-messaging - and Reynolds is just a ruse. “Scarlett’s absolutely nutes about Justin,” reveals one insider. “She’s just turning the tables on him. She doesn’t want the boy taking her for granted.”
[From The National Enquirer print edition, Mike Walker's column, April 30, 2007]
So which is it? Is Timberlake with Biel or Johansson? I vote for Biel, and say that The Enquirer has old or inaccurate information. You never know with these young hotties, though, Timberlake could be playing both of them.
In the latest issue of UK’s Heat Magazine, Victoria Beckhams’s weight and her eating habits are scrutinized to find out how she maintains her skeletal figure. You may think that getting such an emaciated looking physique would be easy enough to accomplish by not eating, but according to Victoria it takes a lot of hard work to maintain her waist the size of a seven year old child.
“I became obsessed with what I looked like”, she reveals. “I would look in the mirror and check the size of my bottom, see if my double chin was getting smaller. I began living on vegetables and nothing else, but it never occured to me I had an eating disorder, because I was the same size I had always been. I thought I was just getting into shape.”
“I do control my eating, Victoria admits. “But I think there is a big difference between someone having an eating disorder and someone who is controlled about what they eat.”
From Heat Magazine, Issue 421, Week of 28-April - 4 May 2007
Shortly after that she started her diet regime she discovered that she had polycystic ovaries, but by then “the damage was done”, as all she eats now are vegetables, chicken, fruit and fish widely. Heat has a look through items you would find in Victoria’s fridge, and it includes foods such as the Diet Coke, spinach, sushi, fruits, sparkling water, and red wine.
I don’t want to judge Victoria — a lot of women in the public eye feel the need to be a certain weight, but I do think her overdiscipline when it comes to food could become borderline anorexic if not kept in check. There is nothing wrong with being health conscious, but it doesn’t seem Posh is being so controlled with her food for health reasons — it’s more out of vanity in order not to be perceived as fat.
I think everyone has body image issues , but micro-managing what you eat just in order to fit into the cute Dior dress doesn’t sound like very much fun. I eat healthy and organic, but I’m not adverse to the odd Pepperoni Passion Pizza every once in a blue moon, and it hasn’t made me balloon to the size of a blimp. It’s good for people to indulge in a little of what they fancy.
Someone should tell Posh to eat a Big Mac, maybe that would pick her mood up and get that pout of her face. I know I get in a foul mood when I’m hungry. Also, she needs to get her boobs downsized. You can’t be as thin as a matchstick and then try to pass off those grapefruit breasts as the work of a good bra, women just don’t fill out that way naturally.
TMZ has officially confirmed that Rosie O’Donnell is leaving The View, and will make the announcement on today’s show. The shows producers are apparently looking for her replacement as my excited little fingers type this.
Ding dong, the witch is gone! When she leaves the show, can The View’s producers let confetti fall out of the ceiling to celebrate, like the time she did when Britney announced she eas splitting from K-Fed?
I really hope they get a decent replacement for The View – someone who could hold her own in a discussion but doesn’t overpower the show like Rosie did. There was always some verbal diarrhoea coming out of that woman’s mouth. Racist comments about Chinese people? Check. Insults to B-list celebrities whom she has personal vendettas with? Check. Stupid comments about American Idol being weightist and racist, even though Ruben Studdard won AI’s Season 2 and he isn’t by any means skinny or Caucasian? Check. It was like her mouth ran away with her and her brain was playing catch up all the time.
I wonder what the show will do now without Rosie. As annoying as she is, she brought in the controversy, which brought in the ratings. A lot of people are not big fans of watching middle aged women bitch about things for an hour, but at least the whole “what will Rosie say next” factor made people tune in.
Oh well! At least I don’t have to be afraid of a day when she comes to the show and does her arguing in haiku form, just like the horrible way she does it on her website. I pray that someone really does not allow this woman to have her own talk show again. She used to go on about Tom Cruise all the time and have showtunes blaring out at every opportunity. If someone allows that, my already frazzled little mind will just pack up and leave Chez Jessie — it would go on strike after watching obnoxious shit like that all the time.
Update by Celebitchy: Rosie has announced in a statement that she is leaving the show in June, saying “My needs for the future just didn’t dovetail with what ABC was able to offer me.”
And here’s the video of Rosie announcing that she’s leaving. How classy she is:
An attractive 20-year old guy from Massachusetts named Ryan Fitzgerland posted his phone number in a video message on YouTube last Friday, saying that he just wanted to talk to people, wasn’t judgmental, and was open to meeting with people. He stayed up for 36 hours answering over 5,000 calls over the weekend while he had free minutes on his cell. In a CNN interview available online (follow link from article) he comes across as completely earnest about it and really wanting to listen to people and help them out.
The biggest reason I did it, was… for the people that are at their house, 4 in the morning, any time of day, that just need someone to talk to.. You want to tell me your life story, I’ve had people do that.. I’ve gotten calls from all over the world, Cyprus, Mexico, Tokyo, I’ve taken calls from everybody.
I try to pick up every call I can. I do check the voicemail, and I do return calls…
[Transcribed from CNN video]
He said his minutes on his cell phone had run out at that point, and that his dad, who he lives with, wasn’t really supportive and didn’t understand why he was doing it.
Here’s CNN’s article about it:
Ryan Fitzgerald is unemployed, lives with his father and has a little bit of time on his hands.
So, he decided to offer his ear, to anyone who wants to call. After posting a video with his cell phone number on YouTube on Friday, the 20-year-old told The Boston Globe he has received more than 5,000 calls and text messages.
Fitzgerald said he wanted to “be there,” for anyone who needed to talk. “I never met you, but I do care,” a spiky-haired Fitzgerald said into the camera on his YouTube posting. (Watch what happened to Fitzgerald after he posted his cell phone number on YouTube Video)
He planned to take and return as many calls he could, but on Monday at 5 a.m., his T-Mobile cell phone payment will begin charging him for his generosity when he is no longer eligible for free weekend minutes.
“I haven’t quite figured out what I’m going to do about it,” he said. “Come Monday, no way I’m going to just hang up on people and say, ‘I don’t have the minutes.”‘
Fitzgerald, who said people consider him “easy to talk to,” was inspired by Juan Mann. YouTube video clips of Mann offering “Free Hugs” to strangers became wildly popular on the user-controlled Internet site.
“Some people’s own mothers won’t take the time to sit down and talk with them and have a conversation,” Fitzgerald said. “But some stranger on YouTube will. After six seconds, you’re not a stranger anymore, you’re a new kid I just met.”
There are now quite a few copycat videos on YouTube, with other brave souls offering their phone numbers to the wild. I tried to reach the guy who calls himself the “real Ryan Fitzgerald” and said he was surprised to see a person with the same name offering up his phone number. His video tells people to give him a call and that he can beat Ryan’s record of 5,000 calls and do impressions. He doesn’t sound like he really wants to listen to people though. That number led to a voicemail mailbox.
I called another guy, Sean, from the Sean Trammell show on YouTube and just got his voicemail too.
When I tried to call the famous Ryan at 774-253-1962 I got his voicemail and a message that his mailbox was full and to call him back. Hopefully he’ll find a way to pay for all those overage charges.
This kind of reminds me of those e-mail chain letters asking people to help out an elementary school class that wants to see how many responses they’ll get. It always ends up to be something they wish they never started in the first place.
Jennifer Aniston has kind of accidentally admitted to UK’s Heat Magazine that Courteney Cox and David Arquette are having marital difficulties.
I don’t know about Courteney, but if my best friend went to a magazine and confirmed that I was breaking up with my man before checking it with me first, I would kick her butt. She probably let this news slip because Courteney talked to Brad at the Golden Globes.
Jennifer Aniston has admitted that her best pal Courtney Cox and husband David Arquette are going through a rough patch.
“Speaking to Heat’s reporter two weeks ago, Jen revealed the couple are having “marital problems”, but added, “Whatever happens, I will be there to support my friend.”
From Heat Magazine, Issue 421, Week of 28-April - 4 May 2007
Speculation has been rife that there has been problems brewing with the couple for months, and according to sources they have hardly spent any time together this year as they are both busy on respective projects. Courteney in the past has admitted that they have had marital trouble and sought counselling. A visit to the shrink may be in order again, as Heat reports that for the premier of the movie The Tripper (in which David appears in), Courteney showed up late and left early, with David going back home alone to their Malibu home and Courtney going to stay at their Beverly Hills one.
I will be sad if this couple break up, mostly because of the fact that they don’t seem to be your typical Hollywood couple that get together, pretend everything is fine for the cameras, then spectacularly split up after a year of marriage for cheating on each other with some trashy star/starlet. David and Courteney actually admit their marriage has flaws, and have been honest about wanting to work on it for the sake of staying together. It would be a shame to see all that hard work go to waste.
Note by Celebitchy: I’m not sure if this is a real quote as the source is a British magazine that doesn’t seem likely to have an exclusive like this. Here are pictures of Courteney, Jennifer and David at the premiere of The Tripper on 4/11. [via]
Katie Holmes is a masochist. That is the only reason I can think of for marrying an egotistical, short cult spokesperson who steals his wife’s high heels in his spare time.
Tom has now asked Katie to take “Mommy Lessons” at the Scientology center. Well, someone has to teach Katie how to work Suri’s brainwashing — I mean auditing — machine when daddy is away.
Katie Holmes has hardly left Tom Cruise’s side since they began dating in April 2005.
However, that support has caused her grief. According to one Hollywood insider, the actress, who gave birth to daughter Suri last year, has been told by her husband to attend “mommy classes” taught by Scientologists.
(”There are parenting classes,” a Scientology source confirms.)
“Katie was quite offended by that,” the source tells Us. “Can you imagine when you’re 28 and have your first child to be told you need to go to this church to become a better mom?”
If my man told me to take a mothering class run by a so called “religion” that originated from a science fiction writer trying to win a bar bet, I would boot him out with such force that my shoe print would still be imprinted on his ass days later. How dare Tom tell Katie –over a year after their daughter is born– that she needs to take a mothering class? She’s not Britney, dropping her kids on their heads, going all schizo and flashing her bits all over town. You actually see Katie hanging out and taking care of her daughter, and by all photographic evidence she looks fine (although you never know– she’s the offspring of Xenu man, she may have antenne we don’t know about). The woman never goes anywhere without Tom or a permission slip signed by Scientology HQ, what bad things does he think will happen to Suri at Barney’s whilst in Katie’s care?
I have never heard anything so ridiculous since the day I heard someone call Paris Hilton a singer. You know what — Tom Cruise needs to take some husband classes. The dumb ass needs to learn some tact and how to buy his woman a decent present.
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In Touch can exclusively reveal that the comic has written a memoir about her quest to help her 4-year-old son, Evan, called Louder than Words: A Mother’s Journey In Healing Autism.
