A crazy guy in the crowd at a live appearance by Hilary Duff on Canadian music channel Much Music shouted a death threat at the teen pop star and was quickly taken down by police. From the pictures of the incident, he just looks like someone who is off his meds and/or homeless and may not have posed a real threat. You never know, though. Duff was stalked by a Russian guy who threatened to kill her at an event and seemed to have an actual plan, so it’s important that they take those things seriously.

Duff was being interviewed Tuesday by MuchMusic host Leah Miller on Live @ Much when a man in the crowd outside the studio started shouting at the 19-year-old star. According to an eyewitness, the unidentified man vowed to kill Duff, prompting several police officers to tackle him.

“The cops slammed his face into the pavement,” said photographer Todd Gillis, who witnessed the incident. “He was bleeding.”

The commotion happened just metres from an outdoor platform where Duff later stood to greet fans who surged forward for autographs and pictures.

Duff is promoting her new album “Dignity,” which was released in the US on April 3rd. Hilary said she wrote the lyrics to the dance-heavy CD while she was going through some personal problems, “I was having things with my family and was with someone and then not with someone so it is very personal. Well I wrote a song, it was one of the last songs I wrote for the record, it’s called ‘Where’s your dignity?’ Dignity is something you just don’t have. It’s something that you have to work on. I feel like I have it a little. The album is so personal. It feels like it just fits— it’s something that I’ve always hoped to have and strive to have.”

Some of the lyrics to the song “Dignity” include “You’d show up to the opening of an envelope,” and “It’s not news when you’ve got a new bag/It’s not news when you’re looking your best/Come on, give it a rest.”

It’s news when you get a death threat, though. It’s also news when you get a new boyfriend. Has anyone heard of Hilary Duff dating someone new recently? She broke up with Joel Madden back in November. Rumor had it that they were fighting over Hilary’s stalker, and that Joel didn’t take it as seriously as she did.

Here are pictures from Hilary Duff’s Much Music appearance along with the crazy guy who got arrested for threatening her. Thanks to Canada.com for these pictures.

This movie looks awesome. I own the first two Bourne movies on DVD and yes I’m a bit of a Damon fan but these movies are incredible.

The Bourne Ultimatum is out August 3rd. Thanks to Best Week Ever for the heads up.

Britney Spears is systematically cutting everyone from her past out of her life. She’s still blaming everyone for her own failings, and believes she no longer needs them in her life.

Why oh why won’t this woman listen to common sense? When will she realise that her parents were actually doing her a favor by sending her to rehab, instead of letting her run around like a nutcase all over town? Does she actually think they delighted in sending her off or something?

From US Weekly:

When Britney Spears’ father, Jamie, blasted her in an April 20 article in the New York Post, calling his daughter “out of control,” the results were disastrous.

The move pushed Spears (who was already angry about being forced into rehab in February) past the breaking point.

As a consequence, “she’s cut everyone out of her life,” a source tells Us. “She says she doesn’t want to see anyone from her past.”

Meanwhile, Spears’ relationship with her mother Lynne Spears - with whom she co-wrote two feel-good books, including 2000’s Heart to Heart - has been troubled since she began dating Kevin Federline in 2004.

But it further deteriorated when Federline, 29, was given custody of their kids while Spears, 25, was in rehab - a move Spears says was orchestrated by her mom.

“She feels her mother gave Larry Rudolph power: He handed her kids over to her ex,” explains the source.

Another insider says, “Britney loves her mom and they talk almost every day, but they aren’t the most cordial conversations.”

Apparently she’s now telling anyone that annoys her “I will pray for you”. Ooh, burn.

It annoys me that Britney keeps refusing to accept responsibility for things that she has done wrong in her personal life, but I also feel sorry for her. She must be very lonely right now and not know who to trust. She screwed up majorly in the last few years, and is under major pressure to make a comeback.

Britney needs to remember she has children to take care of, hair to grow back, a stylist to hire, etc. before she tries to win public sympathy and respect of her fans back. She needs to find some direction in her life, and leave the comeback on the backburner for the time being.

Picture note by celebitchy: Here are those Britney Spears nip slip pictures that you’re probably already seen:

- Roger Ebert is a rock star. The famed critic is battling complications from cancer on a salivary gland, cannot talk, and will still attend a film festival he founded [Evil Beet]
- Nicole Richie looks much better [DListed]
- DeNiro vs. David Bowie in the battle of the NY-based festivals [PopSugar]
- Today is National Malaria Awareness Day [Celebcause]
- Ding Dong the bitch is gone from “Dancing with the Stars” [Seriously? OMG! WTF?]
- Pictures of newborn Angel Murphy [Celebrity Baby Scoop]
- Celebrity Baby Pictures [CityRag]
- Heidi from The Hills shows off her plastic surgery [Best Week Ever]
- Ashlee Simpson is still talking about her new nose [CelebWarship]
- Fergie in a fugly dress [The Skinny Website]
- Jessica Alba and Cash Warren are still together [Celebrity Puke]
- The last thing Walt Disney wrote before he died was “Kurt Russell” [The Blemish]
- Sheryl Crow was just joking about only using one piece of TP to wipe your ass and using your sleeve to blow your nose in order to save the environment [ecorazzi]
- Mandy Moore walking through NY with a supportive device on her leg [ICYDK]
- A brief listing of asanine Rosie quotes [Celebritology]
- Ali Larter sticking out her tongue at the paparazzi (site NSFW) [Drunken Stepfather]
- What Jessica Biel was doing in that blue dress while out playing with her dog [yeeeah]
Year of the Dog is worth seeing [Pajiba]
Liv Tyler is a closet smoker [Haute Gossip]
- Kristin Cavallari picks her ass [Bastardly]
- People Magazines Most Beautiful People [I'm Not Obsessed]
- Who stole Dorothy’s Slippers? [Gawker]
- The popbytes guy is hot, but he thinks that Pete Doherty doll is real when I think it’s an April Fools joke [popbytes]
- Hugh Grant kicked a photographer and threw beans at him [CelebNewsWire]
- Kiki Can’t be bothered [Agent Bedhead]
- Justin Timberlake got wasted in Ireland before a performance but still put on a good show [Socialite's Life]
- Jessica Alba gets kissed by multiple people in her new Revlon commercial [Egotastic]

- Suri Cruise vs. Bilbo Baggins [Celebworm]
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When it rains, it pours for Joe Francis. He is being chaged with another crime for acting like a slimebag with a woman.

Karma is bitch, isn’t it?

From TMZ:

TMZ has learned that “Girls Gone Wild” mogul Joe Francis has just been charged with one count of misdemeanor sexual battery. The charge was filed by the L.A. City Attorney.

L.A. City Attorney spokesperson Frank Mateljan tells TMZ that Francis was at a birthday party in Los Angeles this past January when he allegedly touched an 18-year-old girl on the breast, buttocks and inner thigh. The woman allegedly repeatedly asked Francis to stop.

Francis will be arraigned May 22. If convicted, he faces a maximum six months in jail and a $2,000 fine.

Francis is currently being in charged for a number of offenses ranging from tax evasion to contempt of court charges. He was also stupid enough to be caught with drugs in his cell , and even dumber for trying to bribe a prison guard for water to drink with the drugs.

What a poor excuse for a man. Being a good girl, I usually do not laugh at other people’s misery, but I actually felt a bit smug when I read he cried in court the other day. What reason does this man have to cry over anything? He was probably crying because he was sick of being someone’s prison wench, not because he felt any remorse for the horrendous acts he has committed.

I’m glad he’s getting his comeuppance. At least now he’ll know what it’s like to be taken advantage of physically.

Rap star Eve was arrested on suspicion of DUI this morning after crashing her car into a divider on Hollywood Boulevard.

TMZ has just broken the story, so there’s not much info, but here’s a bit of the post:

TMZ has learned that rapperista-actress Eve was arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence after she crashed her gold Maserati on Hollywood Boulevard.

Eve (real name: Eve Jeffers) was driving in Hollywood around 2:45 am this morning when her car hit the center divider, totalling the front of the car. TMZ was on the scene, and observed that after cops arrived, they placed her in handcuffs, and she was “visibly upset” as they led her into a squad car. We’ve learned that there were two people in the car with Eve at the time.

Have I missed something or has this become the new celebrity badge of honor (along with going to rehab)? Loads of stars seem to be driving under the influence lately. Do they think just because they are famous that they could leave their brains at home and become exempt from practical driving laws?

You know what’s really sad — Eve probably won’t get anything but a slap on the wrist for this, just because she’s famous. Also, because she’ll probably just get off with community service or something, other celebrities won’t be deterred from driving after a few glasses of Bollinger because incidents like these are easily forgiven in Hollywood. Don’t get me wrong, I like Eve as an artist, but it would be good to get rid of this “one rule for us, another for them” mentality and see someone high up be made an example for doing something so dangerous.

First person who should be sent to jail for DUIs: Paris Hilton. C’mon, it’s not like anyone is actually going to miss her while she’s in jail, are they?

Hugh Grant has been arrested by UK police after a photographer accused him of attacking him with a tub of baked beans.

Grant is a rock star in my book now. It’s certainly different from Avril Lavigne spitting on the photographers, or Justin and Cam stealing paparazzi cameras, isn’t it?

From CNN:

LONDON, England (Reuters) — Hugh Grant has been arrested and questioned by police after a photographer accused the British actor of attacking him with a tub of baked beans.

Photographer Ian Whittaker told the Daily Star tabloid that he and Grant, 46, clashed near the home of the “Four Weddings and a Funeral” star.

Whittaker said Grant abused and kicked him on Tuesday before lobbing the beans. The paper printed photos of Grant with a plastic tub of food raised over his head.

Grant’s lawyers Schillings said an incident had taken place and was now under investigation.

I love that his lawyers have to say that the incident is “under investigation.” What is there to investigate? Grant threw the tub at the guy because he hates the paparazzi, and probably was annoyed with with the man for following him. The incident was then reported to police. End of story. What are they going to do, go all CSI on the beans or something?

I sincerely hope that he doesn’t get into too much trouble for this. I have loved Hugh Grant forever, ever since he was in Four Weddings and a Funeral. It is a fact that bad Hugh Grant movies influenced my life. I moved to England in hopes of marrying a Hugh Grant (actually, the Hugh Grant, but unfortunately England was bigger than I thought). If it wasn’t for Hugh Grant, I would still be one of those 75% of all Americans who don’t own a passport. He can’t be arrested for being grumpy and acting out something that should have happened on a bad sitcom, it would just be so wrong.

Anyway, I feel everyone is failing to see a very lucrative opportunity arising from this whole mess. Heinz Baked Beans should give Grant a contract to star in commercials for this incident!

Picture the scene: Hugh on top of the photographer, beating his head in with a can of Heinz Baked Beans. He turns, looks at the camera, gives the camera his suave smile, and says the following in his best Oxford educated accent:

“Heinz Baked Beans. It’s not just for dinner anymore.”

Then Hugh invites the photographer in and they have a baked potato with Heinz Baked Beans on it and share a cup of tea, giving warm and loving smiles to the camera until it fades out to the obligatory product shot.

Damn, I’m such a genius. I’m going to copyright that right now!

Header image from TMZ

Update by Celebitchy: Here’s the sequence of events, which I don’t think is cool as Hugh kind of lost it for me a while ago. Hugh Grant was out running when a photographer asked him to smile for a photograph. He got pissed off and kicked the guy and kneed him in the groin. The tub of baked beans was a “takeaway” container that was conveniently at hand, most likely just laying there discarded by someone. Hugh grabbed the beans and lobbed them at the hapless paparazzo. The guy protested that he had two kids, and charming hooker-loving Grant hissed “I hope they die of f***ing cancer.” Then the photographer went and filed a complaint of assault against him.

Update two by Celebitchy: Grant was arrested by Kensington, UK police and released on bail. He will return in May for a further investigation of the incident. People’s interview with the paparazzo makes it seem less complicated. Grant had just returned home in his car, he wasn’t out jogging, when the photographer asked for a picture. There were two photographers there are the time. Grant said no and started chasing one of the guys. Somehow he got the tub of beans, which “was like Tupperware” and lobbed it at him. There was no mention of Grant kneeing or punching the guy, but the report I read and mentioned earlier was an interview with the other photographer who was supposedly assaulted by Grant, while this was the other witness. It’s hard to tell exactly what happened, but beans and anger were involved.

Ah, and here’s The Daily Mail’s account, which confirms the kicking incident, makes Grant seem like even more of a dick, and includes more pictures:

Mr Whittaker said he had turned up to take pictures of the actor’s former girlfriend Liz Hurley, who lives in the same street. When Grant, 46, arrived in his car he asked him to smile as he took his picture.

The film star allegedly snapped, swearing at Mr Whittaker, 43, and reportedly kicking him three or four times. Then, as Grant entered his house, he allegedly turned and threw a plastic container of baked beans at him.

The actor, who split from his girlfriend Jemima Khan in February, allegedly then said: “Do you know who I am? I’m a millionaire,” and screamed “Leave me alone.”

Mr Whittaker told a tabloid newspaper: “I said ‘Give us a smile please’ and he looked really angry.

“I walked backwards and he walked after me. He was effing and blinding at me. He kicked me hard three or four times then kneed me in the groin.

The actor was arrested in LA after being caught with a prostitute
“He asked if I had a girlfriend or kids and I said I had two. He said ‘I hope they die of f**king cancer’. I’m determined to see this through to the end because of what he said.”

Police were called to the incident and last night Kensington detectives returned to the actor’s home to arrest him and take him for questioning.

Grant had his fingerprints taken and provided a DNA sample. His other arrest was in Los Angeles 1995, when Grant was fined £1,000 for the Divine Brown incident.

This was really incredible and they did a great job of making it look realistic. It’s a great song and the duet seemed seamless. It kind of freaked me out a little how real it looked. Elvis appeared as a hologram straight from 1968.

Alec Baldwin recorded an interview for women’s roundtable talkshow “The View” in which he is said to speak candidly about the tirade he left on his 12 year-old daughter’s voicemail when she didn’t pick up the phone for a scheduled call. The episode with air on Friday, and Alec was soft-spoken, contrite, and emotional about it according to TMZ, which also claims that the audience was responsive to him and applauded his candor.

Today’s NY Post reports that he was so torn up about the voicemail going public that he wanted out of his contract with NBC sitcom “30 Rock.” Baldwin makes $150,000 per episode, and he will not be leaving the show according to his representative. Baldwin asked producers if they could release him, and they said that they wanted him to stay:

ALEC Baldwin is so distraught over the custody battle with his ex-wife Kim Basinger and her alleged sabotaging of his relationship with their daughter, Ireland, he wants to quit “30 Rock,” the sitcom based on “Saturday Night Live” that was recently renewed. Baldwin, interviewed yesterday by Barbara Walters and Rosie O’Donnell for a segment to air tomorrow on “The View,” was described as “soft-spoken, apologetic and thoughtful” during the chat. “He said he asked to be released from his contract,” Baldwin’s spokesman, Matthew Hiltzik, told Page Six. “NBC is not releasing him, and he will fulfill his contract.” Baldwin said that when he left an angry voice mail for Ireland calling her “a rude, thoughtless little pig,” he was inappropriately directing feelings that should have been expressed to Kim.

Of course he says this is the first time this has ever happened. The Post mentions that he talked about the time he spent two weeks with his daughter, only to have her stop taking his calls once she returned to live with her mom.

There seems to be a lot of dysfunction in that family and of course Balwin should never have talked to his daughter like that. When questioned by Barbara Walters about whether the rant was meant for his ex-wife, he said “that goes without saying.” He did say in the voicemail that he didn’t care if Ireland was 12 or 11 or whatever. I wouldn’t forgive him that easily if it was my daughter or if he was talking to me that way, but it’s not for me to judge and a lot of people mentioned that we never should have heard that recording.

Kim Basinger has denied releasing the tape to the public.

Baldwin’s interview on “The View” airs on Friday.

A children’s anti-commercial advocacy group is protesting Shrek’s inclusion in a government anti-obesity ad by the US Department of Health and Human Services. And it’s not because Shrek and Fiona aren’t great examples of a healthy lifestyle. There are tons of product placement ads in the Shrek movies, they say, and kids’ junk food like McDonald’s Happy Meals, Kellogg’s Froot Loops, Keebler Double Stuffed cookies, Cheetos and Shrek-branded Peanut Butter M&M’s predominate.

Health and Human Services is using Shrek in Public Service Announcements to encourage children to lead a healthy lifestyle. But a review by CCFC found sixteen separate food promotions for upcoming movie Shrek the Third featuring more than seventy different products, including McDonald’s Happy Meals, Kellogg’s Marshmallow Froot Loops cereal; Keebler E.L. FudgeDouble Stuffed cookies, “ogre-sized” Peanut Butter M&M’s, Cheetos, and Kellogg’s Frosted S’Mores Pop Tarts.

Please tell Health and Human Services Secretary Mike Leavitt to stop partnering with the poster ogre for junk food marketing - and start getting serious about combating childhood obesity by advocating for policies that protect children from commercial exploitation.

Here’s the Shrek Ad:

They have a point in that the Shrek movies are filled with candy and junk food, and Shrek’s face is plastered on M&Ms. On the other hand, kids love Shrek and might be slightly encouraged to exercise on the day they see that ad if it ever airs outside the standard 3 to 4 a.m. time slot reserved for PSAs.

As Filmwad mentions, that children’s anti-commercial advocacy group, Commercial Free Childhood, goes overboard in that they want bus drivers to stop listening to the radio so kids aren’t exposed to ads on the way to school. They also want to ban Bratz dolls from school fairs, which seems reasonable.

It does really seem hypocritical of the US government to hire Shrek for an anti-obesity campaign when he’s also a spokesperson for various candies. The government is usually hypocritical, though, so there’s nothing new there.

Story background from Filmwad via Digg.