The older pictures of Vanessa Minnillo in sexy poses with knife-wielding Lindsay Lohan could hurt Minnillo’s shaky career, the NY Post speculates. Given the way that sexy myspace style photos usually propel women to stardom, I’m doubting these pictures will do much damage.

Minnillo hasn’t had much luck finding a new steady hosting gig since she left her post on MTV’s Total Request Live. She was also a correspondent for Entertainment Tonight, but she was said to be high maintenance and supposedly made a bad impression when she covered the Grammys in LA. She wouldn’t do interviews after the show and insisted on having her hair and makeup people and personal assistant flown out with her to LA.

Entertainment Tonight did not renew her contract in April. Vanessa did host the Miss Universe pageant at the end of May in Mexico with Mario Lopez.

She’ll bounce back from these pictures and go on to host something or model for some clothing line. These pictures are a bit questionable, but they’re not that damning considering all the deliberate nip and vag flashes we’re used to seeing.

I didn’t even recognize Minnillo at first as face is turned in the pictures. Commentor Jackie pointed it out to me.

On a recently flight from LA to Clay Aiken’s hometown of Raleigh, North Carolina, the American Idol runner up didn’t get drunk and rowdy, but he did act weird and smelly.

Aiken was said to have taken off his socks and shoes and to have put them on his assistant’s lap. His feet stunk up the whole first class cabin.

Clay, who was accompanied by a terrified-looking female assistant, draped his feet over her lap and removed his shoes and socks - allowing a foul smell to invade the small cabin! Even stranger, after fidgeting through most of the flight, he ended up sitting on the floor in front of his expensive seat! Exclaimed one passenger, “He’s an odd one!”

[From Star Magazine, print edition, June 11, 2007]

That’s kind of rank. I can understand taking off your shoes on a long flight to get comfortable, but your socks too?

Don’t ask me, though, I hate to fly. It’s one of the most unpleasant things to do, in my opinion. I’d rather drive twice as long than fly, but I’m cramped back in coach with the normal people.

Images are of Clay on 11/21/06 at the American Music Awards.

As Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie jet around the world with their four children, they have made time for Pitt’s family. Brad Pitt’s mom, dad, brother and sister were seen in Prague for Shiloh’s first birthday, and his parents are frequent visitors at their home in New Orleans, with Brad’s mom often babysitting.

Angelina Jolie’s estranged father, Jon Voight, has not met any of his grandchildren, and is reaching out to Pitt’s family to help him. Voight had a public falling out with Angelina five years ago when he called her mentally unstable on Access Hollywood. Angelina has not spoken to him since. Angelina’s brother, James Haven, has been outspoken about their troubled relationship with their father, who left their now-deceased mother, Marcheline Bertrand, when they were little.

Everyone was wondering if Angelina’s mother’s death would help her reconcile with her father. That didn’t happen, and now Voight is said to be in contact with Brad’s parents in a desperate attempt to see his grandchildren:

Angelina Jolie’s estranged dad Jon Voight is so desperate to reconcile with his daughter and see his grandchildren for the first time that he’s been reaching out to Brad Pitt’s parents behind her back for help.

“They’ve been communicating,” says a family friend. “Brad’s parents [Bill and Jane Pitt] see it as a ‘Christian to Christian’ approach. They are regular churchgoers, and Jon’s a big religious follower and considers himself a true Christian.” And the insider says Brad, who likes Jon, would be pleased if Angie… and her dad healed their strained relationship.

[From Star Magazine, print edition, June 11, 2007]

That’s kind of sad that Voight hasn’t seen his grandchildren yet. He comes off as kind of a doofus when talking about his grandchildren, although he seems sincere about it. He called Zahara “Shakira” in a interview that aired last August when he also wished happy fifth birthday to Maddox.

You have to feel sorry for the guy, but you don’t know what went on in their family or what Angelina’s reasons are for cutting him off.

The other day my husband told me about an embroidered saying that used to hang in his now-deceased grandmother’s kitchen. It had a phrase in German that roughly translates to “Don’t go away angry from your elders’ hearth, because they will go away someday too.” It sounded more touching when he explained it, but it means that we’ll all be dead someday so we may as well make peace when we’re still able to.

Britney Spears was said to have thrown a knife at a stage manager’s head at the House of Blues. The jean skirt and fur shrug-wearing lipsynch queen was outraged that the guy didn’t get the lights she ordered for her show - so she chucked a knife at his face (it was a butter knife, but still)

The bizarre blowup occurred when a stage manager went to Britney’s dressing room before showtime to tell her that special lights she’d ordered weren’t available. “What? You didn’t get the lights I wanted?” shrieked Britney. Stunned by her fury, the guy stammered that the house lighting looked fantastic but…. SHRIEEEEK!…Britney screamed, snatched a butter knife off a buffet table - and flung it at his head! The guy ducked and the knife slammed harmlessly into the wall.

[From the National Enquirer, Mike Walker’s column, print edition, June 11, 2007]

A House of Blues executive is said to have walked in right afterwards and yelled at Britney, saying “You’re not a big enough star that I can’t cancel you right now!… You apologize immediately or I’ll make sure you never appear at any House of Blues again… or anywhere Else!”

Britney is said to have gotten teary-eyed and to have apologized to the poor man she could have blinded.

That’s Britney’s job to sing to people and deal with small setbacks like that. She appeared on stage for no more than 15 minutes at a pop, basically gyrating and mouthing songs to earn her money. How professional of her to throw shit when she doesn’t get her way.

Pictures [via]

Page Six reported today that designer Marc Jacobs was back with his hooker boyfriend, Jason Preston, who famously got a large tattoo of Jacobs’ logo across his right forearm.

Jacobs got a tattoo for Preston too. The Post says he got the initials JP above his belly button.

Meanwhile The NY Daily news hints that Jacobs’ stint in rehab was just a cover. In a pretty obvious blind item, they say that his rehab stint may have been a cover for plastic surgery. Since he has quite obviously lost weight and changed his entire look, that’s possible:

Which designer is the subject of rumors within his own company that his latest stint in rehab was just a cover while he healed from cosmetic surgery?

And this isn’t just a story about how these two are back together. Jacobs’ maybe on-again boyfriend was photographed in quite racy photographs getting raunchy with a gay porn star at an event. They could have just been joking around, but the pictures are too explicit to look like anything but cheating to me.

When questioned about his relationship with Jacobs, Preston said that he and Jacobs aren’t speaking. Guess those dual tattoos are just painful reminders of fleeting love, and Page Six is out of date.

Here’s one pic of Preston making out with another guy. The rest are not for the homophobic or people offended by sexually explicit drunken poses, and are available at GaySocialites.com.

Oprah Winfrey’s 74 year-old dad, Vernon Winfrey, was said to be writing a tell-all book about the annoying bilionaire talk show hostess, but he quickly changed his tune once Oprah’s lawyers got to him. Oprah was shocked to hear that her dad was planning a book about her, and told several news outlets when they contacted her about it that there was no book in the works. Oprah later said she was upset to hear about the book from the press, stating “I would have preferred to have known my father was working on this. It would have been a nice gesture, a courtesy.”

When asked about the book and if Oprah got him to stop working on it after the news got out, Vernon said “No. It’s just on hold, ok?”

Among the news that Oprah doesn’t want brought back up in the public sphere is the fact that she was raped by a cousin at age 9 and that an uncle also molested her. As a result she became promiscuous and got pregnant as a young teen. She had a baby boy at the age of 14 that was sadly born premature and lived only days.

She has discussed her painful past, but she surely doesn’t want these stories brought back up again and that’s thought to be reason why her father has said the book is on hold.

The Enquirer is reporting that in Vernon’s planned tell-all, he was set to say that his daughter should have been beaten more. Not that he should have tried to prevent her abuse or understand her better (although he could have said that, I’m just reporting on what was covered) but that some harsh physical punishment would have set her straight:

In the book, Vernon claims his daughter was an “out of hand, unruly child” who should have been physically punished more harshly.

“I don’t mean time in, time out,” he writes… “I mean the rod of correction, swung hard and often… children need roots and limits and discipline.”

Of Orpah’s troubled childhood, he writes: “It was worse than I realized. She had dark secrets. Some I didn’t discover till she was a grown woman, till it was too late.”

One such secret was a teenage pregnancy when Oprah was 14 that resulted in the birth of a premature baby boy who lived only days.

[From The National Enquirer print edition, June 11, 2007]

Although Oprah’s premature baby boy was news to me, I did read about it in a related story about Vernon’s book in the NY Daily News a couple of weeks ago. It seems like the news has been out for a while.

Oprah’s dad sounds like a mean old codger if he saying that kicking her ass would have solved all the very real problems she suffered after being abused. Oprah’s not my favorite person, in fact I think she’s full of shit, but no wonder she didn’t want her dad publishing a book about her. She’s moved on from all the terrible things that happened to her as a child and no wonder she doesn’t want that brought up again.

Vernon said in an earlier interview with the Enquirer that Oprah and her longterm boyfriend, Stedman Graham, would never get married because “Stedman doesn’t really bring anything to the table that Oprah needs.”

Oprah is said to be talking to her dad again after being blindsided by the news of his upcoming book.

Here’s Oprah leaving her NY hotel barefoot in her Ralph Lauren gown before attending the CFDA fashion awards.

Thanks to WENN for this photo.

- Brad Pitt, Matt Damon and George Clooney get immortalized in cement at Grauman’s Chinese Theater [popbytes]
- Brad Pitt gave Angelina Jolie a locket with a sweet love note inside. [PopSugar]
- Staph infections are rampant at the jail where Paris is staying [DListed]
- Paris Hilton’s aunt, her mom Kathy’s half-sister, has been in the slammer plenty of times and says it’s in their family’s blood [WWTDD]
- If Andy Warhol had painted Linds, Brit, and Paris [Gallery of the Absurd]
- Brooke Hogan performing in terrible assless jeans (site NSFW) [Drunken Stepfather]
- GILF Paul Newman donates $10 million to his alma mater, Kenyon College in Ohio [Celebcause]
- Courteney Cox says she doesn’t want to talk about Jennifer Aniston, but she’s doing great and all [ICYDK]
- Ellen Pompeo in an ugly dress [Bastardly]
- Katherine Heigl without makeup [yeeeah]
- Did you know that Justin Chambers, Dr. Alan Karev from “Grey’s Anatomy,” has five kids? It’s true! [Celebrity Baby Scoop]
- Brooke Burke in a bikini. Didn’t she just have a baby? [The Blemish]
- Angelina Jolie says she talks a lot to brad while they’re taking a bath. Or she’s taking a bath and he’s nearby. Either way she’s naked [Hollywood Rag]
- French Elle names their 15 sexiest men [Crazy Days and Nights]
- Rapper The Game got pissed that he was losing a neighborhood basketball game or someone talked smack about him or something and he pulled a gun out of his SUV. [Bossip]
- Katharine McPhee to make her film debut [I’m Not Obsessed]
- Amy Winehouse and her husband were fighting outside of her hotel, with Amy yelling “don’t f’ing touch me!” Yeah, that’s going to last [Gabsmash]
- Video of comedian doing every popular dance move - well [Seriously? OMG! WTF?]
- Olsen twins manage to pull off non-hobo look [CelebWarship]
- That engagement I never paid attention to between The Hills’ Heidi Montag and Spencer Pratt - it’s fake [Evil Beet]

While Paris was praised yesterday for her compliance and quiet stoicism on her first day in prison, the news on her second day is not as good for the pampered socialite. She’s been crying and is said to be freezing cold in her cell in the special protected area of the Century Regional Detention Facility.

The body fat-challenged heiress has only three small blankets, no pillow and a very hard bed with a thin mattress. She’s been using one of the blankets as a pillow. The cell is always brightly lit and it’s difficult to sleep.

And while I assumed that Paris’ area of the prison was sufficiently isolated from the rest of the prison population, that’s not true at all because it’s really loud in there from the noise of the jail.

It sounds like people are trying to be nice to Paris, though. All the inmates were shouting her name when she was led to her cell on Tuesday, and people are coming up to her door and trying to talk to her.

TMZ reports that inmates have been giving her little gifts like an origami butterfly and a drawing book. Another told her “you don’t deserve to be here.”

I wonder how Paris will change in the three more weeks she has to endure that place. She’s said to not be eating much and it sounds like it’s very difficult to her.

She’ll probably smile and say “oh, it was tough” in her bland sweet way when she’s interviewed by the countless media outlets that will hound her when she gets out. Maybe something profound will happen for Paris though, and she just might learn humility in jail. She’ll at least known what extreme discomfort is like for once in her life.

Victoria Beckham won awards for Entrepreneur of the Year and Woman of the Year at the Glamour Awards in London last night. She srutted in wearing super tight sequined short shorts, and a black corset topped with a white bolero jacket. Her outfit was accented by fingerless workout gloves, pantyhose with a back seam, and super-high high heels.

Victoria was seen getting getting help from an assistant, who pulled down her short shorts outside her car before the event.

Maybe she was trying out an outfit for the Spice Girls reunion tour, because she confirmed to Britain’s Mirror that she wants it to happen.

Post said “We’ll see what turns out, but between you and me, I’m really hopeful that it [Spice Girls’ reunion] definitely will happen,”

It’s been rumored that a tour is in the works for Christmastime to coincide with a release of the Spice Girls greatest hits album.

Melanie C, Sporty Spice, has been thought to be the single holdout on a planned tour, but The Mirror quotes an insider as saying “But with £5m on the table, and her solo career hardly setting the charts alight, even she’s come round.”

We’ll have to see if it happens, but it’s looking more likely. They’re even said to be working on new songs to add to their greatest hits release. Geri Haliwell and Emma Bunton were at a Brighton recording studio last month, and Victoria Beckham and Melanie C were said to have recorded separately last week. Melanie B is scheduled to hit recording studio soon.

Emma Bunton, Baby Spice, is due to have her own baby this Summer, her first with boyfriend Jade Jones. All of the other Spice Girls except Melanie C are moms.

Photos from The Daily Mail.

The Oceans 13 Premiere was held in LA last night at Grauman’s Chinese Theatre. Brad, Angelina, Matt, George and company walked the red carpet and took time to interact with the hoards of cheering fans.

The premiere followed a ceremony earlier in the day with Matt Damon, George Clooney and Brad Pitt getting immortalized in cement in front of the famous landmark. Clooney quipped “If I had to be on my hands and knees with three other guys, I can’t think of three better guys to do it with, and I mean that in the best possible way.”

Matt Damon’s wife, Luciana Barroso, had a slight nip slip in her strapless red gown at the premiere. You could see her left nipple in one of the pictures, and Damon seems to have seen it too, as he’s shown looking down her dress and smiling at one point.

Brad and Angelina look quite relaxed and happy on the red carpet, which is a contrast to their somewhat strained look at the Cannes Premiere. They seem to be laughing and joking around.

Also shown are Casey Affleck and George Clooney. Thanks to WENN for these photos.