It was almost a Spice Girls reunion for David Beckham’s 32nd birthday at London restaurant Cipriani last night. New moms Melanie B (Scary Spice) and Gerri Halliwell (Ginger Spice) were there along with a pregnant Emma Bunton (Baby Spice.) Melanie C (Sporty) was not at the party, but she attended an earlier reunion of sorts at the christening for Gerri’s daughter, Bluebell. There were four of the five Spice Girls present at the April event, with Scary not being able to attend due to the recent birth of her daughter.
Beckham enjoyed his special day with rampant consumerism. He bought a $9k suit and $30k watch during the day before stepping out with the Spice Girls. Victoria’s birthday last month was celebrated with similar excess. She spent over six figures shopping in Paris on a surprise trip to France for the day, arranged by David.
Mel B was said to be crying at the end of the night, and was comforted by David’s sister Joanne. She gave birth to a baby girl, Angel Iris Murphy Brown, at the beginning of April. She has always insisted her ex-boyfriend Eddie Murphy is the father, while Murphy denied paternity and dumped a then-pregnant Melanie by proxy. He said in an interview with Dutch television that they weren’t together and it was presumptuous to assume the baby was his. Melanie is taking Murphy to court to try to force him to take a DNA test.
Thanks to The Daily Mail for the birthday pictures and story. Beckham is also shown practicing with Real Madrid on his birthday earlier that day. [via]
British sources are quoting George Clooney as saying that Brad Pitt’s children are not welcome at his famous Italian bachelor mansion and that he gets nervous around kids:
The 45 year old has banned his buddy from bringing his and Angelina Jolie’s five kiddiewinks to his Italian villa this summer.
He told The Sun: “I’ve told him he can’t bring his children.
“I get nervous around kids.
“I’m not ready for that kind of life.”
[From Sky Showbiz]
Sky Showbiz had that questionable quote from Clooney and attributes it to The Sun, while The Mirror runs the same story and doesn’t source the quote.
In fact I couldn’t find this story in the online version of The Sun.
It turns out it’s a quote from an OK! interview and of course it’s been misconstrued, with the quotes taken out of order. When you read the full interview it sounds like Clooney is just joking around about Brad not bringing his kids. He also said that thing about not wanting a family and getting nervous around kids way before he talked about Brad not coming over. Those two quotes are not related at all.
Do you think you’ll ever have children?
I don’t know why everyone wants me to become a father – I’m so selfish and I get nervous around kids and I know I’m not ready for that kind of life. I’ve settled into a very comfortable lifestyle and I really don’t want to change things. I’ve learnt enough about myself to know that my work is the main thing which drives me and that a woman who comes into my life is going to have to deal with that which isn’t easy.
Would you not be happier with a woman at your side?
It’s not a question of happiness, it’s a matter of what you want most out of life and how you need to live to get where you want to go. I would love to be the kind of man who can pursue both, but I haven’t been able to do that in the past, which can be very painful for you and the woman in your life. I’ve found my life is a lot more satisfying and interesting if I’m free to pursue it exactly the way I want, which is to make movies, hang out with my friends and live very freely. I need that.
And you still have a reputation for partying…
I don’t live at full tilt the way I used to. You begin to hate waking up with the kind of hangover you get from going on huge benders with your buddies. Also, since my neck surgeries, I’ve been forced to take things easier and not beat up my body the way I used to. I’m more cautious.
Is your Italian villa still important to you?
Oh sure, I love it there! Except I’ve been talking about it so much that everyone knows where I live now. I have the feeling they’re handing out tourist maps in Italy about how to get to George Clooney’s house!
Are you treated any differently there?
The good thing is the local people treat me very well as one of their own. I can still go to most restaurants in the area, speak to the regulars and feel very much at home. No one cares about the film business there, it’s all about food, wine and women and the beauty of being there. It doesn’t get better than that!
Will you be taking your Ocean’s Thirteen cast to your villa again when you’re promoting the film?
Some will probably visit me later. I guess Brad will, but I’ve told him he can’t bring his 15 children with him!
Is it true when you shot Ocean’s Twelve, you, Brad Pitt and Matt Damon had so much fun that the film suffered?
We did do a lot of drinking and partying but that had nothing to do with how the film turned out. What hurt Ocean’s Twelve was that we had some problems with the script that never got solved and we just drank to make us forget that we probably didn’t have as good as movie on our hands as we hoped for. We all wanted another crack at it and we came up with a really good idea for Ocean’s Thirteen which is more about revenge. We thought this could be areally fun film to make and I’m confident we’ve got our mojo back on this one.
[From OK! Magazine UK print edition, May 8, 2007 via ClooneyStudio]
Maybe The Sun ran that earlier quote about Clooney saying Brad can’t bring his kids over, and then replaced it with the hangover story, which was more accurate.
These papers really need to quote their damn sources properly, because the news today is going to be that Clooney dissed Pitt’s family, and that’s not what he said at all.
I really liked how candid Clooney was about wanting to remain single and making his work his priority. He is a notorious playboy, but he makes it sound like a reasonable personal choice. (Of course we’ll be back to dissing him for it next week.)
Here are pics of George and Brad in Oceans 11 and Oceans 12 thanks to AllMoviePhoto. Oceans 13 is out on June 7th.
You’ve all seen those flower boob pics of Britney, which were supposedly taken at a friend’s house about a month ago. What a coincidence that they came out the day after her first lipsynched “comeback” concert, which lasted no more than 16 minutes.
This is the woman who staged four separate completely unsubtle crotch reveals back in the fall when she was hanging out with Paris Hilton. She used up that strategy quickly and seems to have moved on to releasing supposedly personal photos.
Britney’s second concert was even shorter than the first. Her show at the Anaheim House of Blues last night lasted all of 12 minutes. Fans had to wait up to two hours to get inside, and all cell phones were confiscated. She was said to have chewed gum throughout the show, completely ruining the illusion that she was singing.
It’s a good thing we have those flower boob pics to remind us how relevant she remains.
MSBNC has a good editorial about Britney’s comeback after a three year hiatus. They say it’s all about getting her back in the spotlight, and shows a complete lack of respect for her fans and for the music:
I don’t want to call anyone who spent that kind of money so that Britney could keep hundreds waiting for three hours and then play for about 15 minutes a complete simpleton. That would be unfair to complete simpletons.
It’s akin to going to a fine restaurant, having to wait two hours beyond your reservation time as others get seated before you, getting a table by the kitchen, having a waiter who ignores you and then screws up your order, having the bus boy spill somebody’s half-full Mojito in your lap, noticing that the valet parking attendant seems to have put an extra 100 miles on your odometer, then realizing the next day that somebody used your credit card to buy furniture — and then saying, “What a great place!”…
Britney’s show at the House of Blues in San Diego wasn’t a first step on her climb back to respectability in the ranks of pop stars. It was a sad and desperate ploy for attention. When a singer lip-syncs through 15 minutes of music after making her fans wait three hours, the message is, “I don’t give a damn about you or the music. This is about me. Worship me again.”
Even sadder, many nincompoops complied.
Here’s video of Britney giving a lap dance on the night of her first show in San Diego.
There was a story that Britney plucked her new boyfriend, Howie Day, out of the crowd for the lapdance, but it doesn’t really look like him to me.
Moss, who this week is celebrating the runaway success of her new Topshop range, had been dining with friends at China Tang restaurant in London’s Dorchester hotel.
But what she got up to in the two-and-a-half hours between leaving Park Lane and arriving at her north London home remains a mystery.
Wearing her trademark waistcoat and skinny black jeans, she climbed into the car looking calm and serious.
By the time she got out, without the waistcoat, she seemed a little the worse for wear.
After the scandal two years ago, when a photograph allegedly showed Moss snorting cocaine, you might think she would have been extra careful with the paparazzi about.
But she did not notice the powder on her jeans, which could be misconstrued.
OK, let’s try to give Kate the benefit of the doubt. The white powder could be laundry detergent. Or powdered sugar. Or Pete Doherty’s heroin. It doesn’t mean that Kate herself has falled off the wagon again…
Who am I kidding, this woman doesn’t give a rat’s ass anymore about her partying — all that happened last time when she got caught snorting up was increase her earning potential. Let’s just turn a blind eye to it again, because it’s not like anyone is going to do anything about it except give her another contract.
The latest celebrity busted for DUI is aptly named rapper Busta Rhymes. The guy was arrested for assaulting his chauffeur in February, so it’s clear why he doesn’t have a driver. Considering that he was pulled over in New York City, though, he could have hailed a cab:
According to the NYPD, the rapper, driving a 2006 GMC Yukon Denali, was pulled over on the far West side of Midtown Manhattan at 12:48 AM, because the car’s windows were too dark. When cops encountered Rhymes (real name: Trevor Smith), they noticed a “strong odor of alcohol” on his breath and issued a field sobriety test. He was then taken into custody on a charge of driving while impaired and booked at the Midtown North Police Precinct.
Busta is being tried next Tuesday on two assault charges. One incident involves an attack on a man who spit on his car at a music festival last August. He is also accused of beating the shit out of his ex driver in what was believed to have been a dispute over unpaid wages. Busta was first offered a plea deal for those two assault cases that would have had him spend six months in jail, but then the judge made it significantly more lenient with a second offer of three years probation, a week’s community service and anger management classes. Right before Busta was about to accept that second plea deal, he was arrested for driving with a suspended license. The judge withdrew her offer and prosecuters said the best they could do was give him a year in jail. Now he’s going to trial in hope of a better outcome.
It’s unclear if Busta’s license was still suspended during this latest DUI arrest, and there’s no mention of it in any of the reports I’ve read about it. If he blew a good plea deal and then ended up getting arrested for DUI while driving with a suspended license it’s not going to bode too well for him at trial.
I used to have a really strict English teacher in grammar school who I believe was educated in an English boarding school, and one of the rules in her class was that we weren’t allowed to chew gum because it would make us look like cow’s chewing cud.
*Sigh*, how I wish Britney Spears had that same teacher.
The Britney Spears Half Assed Comeback Tour rolled into Anaheim yesterday night, and it was pretty much the same show as what she did the night before in San Diego. Except this time, Britney didn’t even bother to lip sych — she was noticeably chewing gum for most of her re-hashed sets. She also made a joke about her drug taking. I doubt anyone was laughing with her at that point.
Security was tighter in Anaheim – it took the crowd nearly two hours to get through the metal detectors – with guards seizing cell phones in an apparent reaction to the flood of pictures and videos of the San Diego show on the Internet.
At 9:30 p.m., after the vast majority of the crowd had made it past security, the chants of “Britney! Britney!” started, with one girl exhorting the crowd with shouts of, “She’s got to feel the love!”
A few minutes later, the lights dimmed on the stage, empty save for a single white chair. The crowd exploded into screams and applause as the four backup dancers appeared, two on each side, snaking their way across the stage. As the first strains of “… Baby One More Time” became recognizable, Spears emerged in a brown wig, white go-go boots, a white mini-skirt and a sparkling pink bikini top.
Like the San Diego show, the set was a short medley of Spears’s hits, with “I’m a Slave 4 U” following “Hit Me” and the crowd showering the pop star with shouts of approval each time she wiggled her hips. (Notably, she was also able to chew gum while performing.)
The lights dimmed after the second song, going a soft red, with the back-up dancers exiting the stage and leaving Britney alone to strut slowly to the lone chair as “Breathe On Me” started. The crowd roared as she seductively gyrated on the chair before her dancers returned and pulled a male fan from the audience to be serenaded by Spears.
A brief interlude allowed Spears to change into a tiny denim skirt, a plain pink bra and a short, white fur coat. Her “Do Something” routine included some air guitar, a lot of the hands-on-hips hip thrusts and a brief homage to the running man dance move.
Spears dropped her fur coat to the floor for the final song, “Toxic,” and smiled as she mouthed the words. The crowd once again roared its approval when she and her dancers dropped to all fours and crawled in formation down the stage. Spears then popped up to her knees and posed with her dancers around her as the song and the lights came to a simultaneous and abrupt end.
As the lights came back up and the crowd showered her with adoration, she blew kisses with both hands and said, “Thank you so much. These are my dancers,” before skipping offstage, leaving her four backups to soak up the applause.
According to The Daily Mail, a marshmallow sized object was hurled at Britney while she was onstage (oh, to shake the hand of the person who did that). Her bodyguard got pissed and whisked her off straight after that. Before that happened, she also made a drug gesture while singing Toxic. The paper’s source said: “There is a line ‘I need a hit, baby give me it’ and Britney put her finger to her nose pretending she was doing a line of coke. Then she gave a cheeky smile.”
I wasn’t there, but it performance just sounds plain wrong. The running man?! I haven’t done the running man since Kid ‘n Play were cool, circa 1992.
It’s ridiculous that people couldn’t bring cameras and paid $300 for Britney to do ancient dance moves and yet again be delusional about her drug taking. Is she taking lessons from the Barbra Streisand School of Concert Ticket Extortion?
Note by Celebitchy: I know we covered this already, but Jessie and I wrote our articles about it at the same time and she has a different take on it as well as details I missed.
Michael Douglas and Catherine Zeta-Jones went to a fundraiser for Petra Nemcova’s tsunami relief foundation, the Happy Hearts Fund. They showed up, posed for photos, and then left without donating anything. When Douglas’ rep was asked why he didn’t pony up, he gave the weak excuse that he had no idea it was a charity event:
“I’m such a sucker for her accent” said one partygoer as he dropped several $20 bills into a large vase that was already teeming with cash at Gramercy Park Hotel, where Nemcova and her perfect 10 friends celebrated the charity in proper fete form.
If only certain A-listers were feeling so generous. Michael Douglas and Catherine Zeta-Jones literally did one lap around the rooftop and posed for a quick a photo-op with Nemcova before leaving less than five minutes after arriving. Radar later asked Nemcova how much Douglas and Jones donated to her charity: “Oh, their presence here is enough of a donation,” said the tactful beauty. So does that mean they didn’t pony up any cash? “No, they didn’t make an actual donation,” Nemcova confirmed. Guess those five precious minutes are worth their weight in Happy Hearts.
Despite a prominently displayed pile of cash, video screens advertising the charity, and an impassioned plea made by Nemcova herself (which the couple missed), Douglas (via his rep) tells Radar that he and his wife were not aware that the gathering was a fundraiser.
Maybe they had somewhere else to go. They did host a celebrity golf tournament this weekend that served the dual purpose of showing everyone their marriage was fine. They have been plagued by rumors that they’re on the rocks but everthing seemed fine on the golf course. They even gave a bunch of bland statements about how great their relationship is and how they share a love of golf.
In related news, OK! has won a court case against Hello! Magazine involving the rights to photos from the Zeta-Jones Douglas wedding back in 2000. OK! paid for exclusive rights to the pictures and Hello! tried to go around that by sneaking in a guest with a camera and publishing those pics. OK! will receive about $2 million in damages, which is just about what they paid Zeta-Jones for the pictures.
Here are Michael Douglas and Catherine Zeta-Jones at the 9th Annual Michael Douglas & Friends Celebrity Golf Tournament on 4/29.
- Smile Wonky! You’re Going to the Clink! [DListed]
- Shirtless Ryan Gosling [PopSugar]
- Lindsay Lohan partying at some event in her bra. Not those pics, these are new. (site NSFW) [Drunken Stepfather]
- Lindsay Lohan is not as stupid as you would think [Evil Beet]
- There supposedly some scandalous video of Lindsay Lohan, but we don’t know what it entails yet [Mollygood]
- Drunk Bill Murray almost fights a guy [The Blemish]
- Waitress is a touching movie that’s worth seeing [Pajiba]
- Picture of Andy Dick snorting coke in a club [Celebslam]
- Tyra Banks on the cover of Shape Magazine [I’m Not Obsessed]
- Marc Anthony says he picks out all of J.Lo’s clothes. So that explains it [Seriously? OMG! WTF?]
- Kristen Dunst in a dress that’s really ugly, even for her [yeeeah]
- Mischa Barton in a weird shirt that looks like it’s wet [Bastardly]
- Celebrities that resemble dogs [CityRag]
- Justin Timberlake wants to write country music [ICYDK]
- Kate Bosworth nipple slip [Egotastic]
- Want to shit out shapes? [The Grumpiest]
- Former “Melrose Place” co-stars Heather Locklear and Jack Wagner are dating [Socialite’s Life]
- Brangelina Loved-Up In Prague [CelebWarship]
- Jay Leno confused Paul Rodriguez with George Lopez. [Best Week Ever]
The LA City Attorney has heard my plea, and is thinking about sending Paris Hilton to jail for 45 days for flagrantly violating her probation by driving on a suspended license.
Please, dear Lord, if you let Paris Hilton go to the slammer for 45 days, I’ll be ever so good. I won’t say a bad thing about Angelina or pay attention to Britney ever again, I swear it…
Paris must appear tomorrow on a probation violation, for allegedly driving on a suspended license. Hilton was already on probation after pleading no contest last January to alcohol-related reckless driving. The DMV had suspended Hilton’s license as a result of her DUI bust.
While her license was suspended, Hilton was stopped by the CHP last January 15, and again by the L.A. County Sheriffs on February 27.
The City Attorney will argue that Hilton certainly knew after she was stopped in January that she wasn’t allowed to drive, so the second stop was a flagrant violation of law.
According to the papers, Hilton also failed to enroll in an alcohol education program within 21 days of the order directing her to do so.
The legal papers ask that “Hilton be ordered to serve 45 days in County Jail.” Prosecutors also want her to be ordered “not to consume any alcohol for a continuous period of 90 days.” During that 90-day period, prosecutors want her “to be monitored for alcohol consumption … by use of a Secure Continuous Remote Alcohol Monitoring (SCRAM) device at her expense.”
The City Attorney wants more. Because of her “flagrant” driving violations, they want her license suspended for an additional four months — and they want her car impounded for 30 days.
I doubt they will make her serve the full 45 days, she’s loaded and a celebrity (of sorts), but the fact that they have finally noticed how Paris thinks she’s invincible and want to make an example of her puts a spring to my step. What would be even cooler is if she had to room in jail with Joe Francis. They could do each other’s hair and get into all kind of jailhouse mischief that would hopefully make them stay in prison longer.
The picture is from Popsugar, and it’s of Paris attending the launch of UK pharmacy Boots in America (thank Jeebus, they are so much better than Walgreens). No doubt she went there to see if she can score pharmaceutical freebies.
David Hasselhoff’s life just became a lot more complicated. According to MSNBC, his wife claims that the marriage break-up should be blamed on Hasselhoff being an alcoholic, and on him being abusive after he has had a bit of drink.
These allegations, combined with the video clip that came out yesterday on The Insider, are going to make a divorce battle hard going for the Hoff.
LOS ANGELES - An already ugly Hollywood split has officially gone nuclear as Pamela Bach, David Hasselhoff’s ex-wife reveals explosive new allegations about her former husband.
And as “Access Hollywood’s” Shaun Robinson found out when she sat down with Pamela, it all boils down to two things — claims of abuse and alcohol.
“The disease of alcoholism that David is… it’s a disease that you can put a halt to I believe,” Pamela told Shaun.
“You’re saying he’s an alcoholic?” Shaun asked.
“Oh, I know it. Yes,” Pamela revealed. “And I thought if he just wouldn’t drink everything is going to be okay. Life is good. We’ve got two beautiful girls. You know, amazing. If you just put down the drink everyday, everything will be okay.”
“When David was drinking, did he ever physically abuse you?” Shaun asked Pamela.
“Yes, that’s not something I really wanted out,” she said with deep breath as she began to cry. “It’s embarrassing and you think what did you do but you come to the point you didn’t do anything. You don’t deserve it.”
“What did he do?” Shaun followed up. “Did he hit you?”
“It just… they become so different,” an emotional Pamela explained. “It’s like a Jekyll and Hyde.”
“Were there ever any bruises? Broken bones? Anything that you covered up?” Shaun asked.
“That’s what I did,” she revealed.
“You covered it up,” Shaun noted.
Ever since their divorce became final last August, David and Pamela have been locked in a dispute over spousal support and custody of their two daughters, Hayley and Taylor Ann.
In a statement to Access Hollywood, David said “I have the respect of my children and my fans, but most importantly I have self respect. I will continue to keep my personal life private for the sake of moving on and living a happy life with my daughters.”
Bach has hired Debra Opri (Larry Birkhead’s ex-lawyer) to represent her in divorce proceedings. In the Access Hollywood interview, Debra Opri chimed in to say that Hasselhoff’s allegations of Bach’s cocaine abuse during their marriage were completely false, and that she belives the Hoff is capable of abusing his girls while intoxicated. (Am I the only one who doesn’t get a good vibe from Opri?)
It is very sad that Hoff’s divorce proceedings have taken such an ugly turn. Why does Bach feel the need to make such details public? It didn’t help Heather Mills gain any public sympathy when she told of her alleged abuse at the hands of Paul McCartney, and it didn’t help Kim Basinger when Baldwingate was leaked a couple of weeks ago. If these women have grievances with their husbands, they shouldn’t take it to the media. It hurts the children involved and just makes them seem vindictive for having to air such dirty laundry in the public domain.
Here’s the clip that was aired on The Insider last night.
According to a source, Hasselhoff’s daughter filmed this clip with his permission so “that if he ever fell off the wagon, they should tape him so that he’ll know what kind of condition he’s in and learn something from it.”
Hasselhoff himself has released the following statement regarding the clip:
“I am a recovering alcoholic. Despite that, I have been going through a painful divorce and I have recently been separated from my children due to my work. I have been successfully dealing with my issue. Unfortunately, I did have a brief relapse, but part of recovery is relapse. Because of my honest and positive relationship with my children, who were concerned for my well-being, there was a tape made when I had a relapse to show me what I was like. I have seen the tape. I have learned from it, and I am back on my game. I thank God for the love and concern from my children.”
It’s just sad all around in my view, really. I love the cheesy Hoff and was the only girl I knew who owned a KITT car off his show, Knight Rider. I hope his family get through this ugly episode soon.
