- Queen Latifah’s near nipple slip is not as interesting as her crazy platinum wig [Bossip]
- Do NOT, I repeat DO NOT see Captivity. I know they’re advertisers here and all, but the movie f&*#ing sucks [Pajiba]
- The Preston-Travoltas at “Hairspray” Premiere [Celebrity Baby Scoop]
- Nicole Richie’s trial has been delayed by a month. She’ll definitely be showing by then [DListed]
- Reese Witherspoon Shopping in Beverly Hills [Glitterati]
- Lily Allen lost weight [The Skinny Website]
- Beyonce Knowles Nipple Slip! [CityRag]
- More hot pictures of the Beckhams in W Magazine [PopSugar]
- Sophie Anderton is a Classy Lady [The Grumpiest]
- Hopefully the Last Eva Longoria Wedding Post [CelebWarship]
- Fox Announces their Fall Premiere dates [Seriously? OMG! WTF?]
- Brad & Angelina’s $220 Million Prenup! [popbytes]
- Random photos of the day [Crazy Days and Nights]
- Carmen Electra Washed Out at Hairspray [Hollywood Rag]
- Funny vibrator advertisements. At least that’s what I think they’re advertising [Agent Bedhead]
- Mandy Moore shopping in NY, and from the looks of her outfit she really could do with some hardcore shopping. [ICYDK]
- Hilary Duff Photoshoot From CosmoGIRL [Bastardly]
- Kate Beckinsale buying a copy of Life & Style [I'm Not Obsessed]
- Bai Ling’s Boob Slip (NSFW) [Drunken Stepfather]

Lohitney Paris Links: We’re going to try to go two weeks without a single story about these three. After that, we’ll talk about them occasionally.
- Paris Hilton wears a t-shirt with herself on it (check out the URL, that’s the real title of the story) [Celebslam]
- Is Britney Headed for Another Breakdown? [Gallery of the Absurd]
- Pink refuses to write a song for Britney Spears [Gabsmash]
- Britney is drinking, eating and shopping like mad. What else is new? [The Blemish]
- Lindsay Lohan thinks she’s so deep and shit because she’s reading a book about how to be a complete asshole and not feel guilty about it. [yeeeah]
- Lindsay Lohan’s Lesbian Love Letters from Rehab!! [Evil Beet]

Not totally surprisingly, Chantal Kreviazuk, who accused Avril Lavigne of ripping off songs and taking writing credit she didn’t deserve, has recanted. Everything little thing.

I would like to apologize for any misconceptions concerning Avril Lavigne, which may have resulted from statements I made in my interview with Performing Songwriter Magazine. It was not my intention to call Avril’s songwriting ability or ethics into question.

“My statements and any inference from my statements, which call into question Avril’s ethics or ability as a respected and acclaimed songwriter, should be disregarded and are retracted. Avril is an accomplished songwriter and it has been my privilege to work with her.”

[From Reuters]

Sounds like someone got served. Kreviazuk had attacked Lavigne’s songwriting and ethics in Performing Songwriter Magazine.

I mean, Avril, songwriter? Avril doesn’t really sit and write songs by herself or anything. Avril will also cross the ethical line, and no one says anything. That’s why I’ll never work with her again. I sent her a song two years ago called ‘Contagious,’ and I just saw the track listing to this album [the newly-released The Best Damn Thing] and there’s a song called ‘Contagious’ on it—and my name’s not on it. What do you do with that?”

[From Torontoist]

Lavigne responded on her website, saying, “Chantal’s comments are damaging to my reputation and a clear defamation of my character and I am considering taking legal action.” Sounds like she took it.

I feel really badly for Chantal Kreviazuk, whoever she is. I really doubt a person in her position (not well known but well respected within the music industry) would say something like that about a famous singer unless there was truth to it. It seems like most websites and people in the music industry consider Avril to be somewhat of a hack. The way Kreviazuk took back absolutely everything, it almost seems like she’s groveling. You’ll note that she never denies saying any of those things, or tries to blame the writer or say things were taken out of context, which is good. She’s of course responsible for her own words. I don’t see how she could say something so powerful and then take it back, without giving some sort of reason. I’m guessing the reason is someone else’s power, combined with fear.

Apparently basketball great Shaquile O’Neil wants to be a sheriff. Aren’t little boys supposed to have grown out of that phase by about 15 or so? Shaq’s 35, but whatever. Shaq’s talked for years about wanting to be a sheriff, but it appears he’s taking it a little more seriously these days.

“’I probably will run for sheriff in Orlando or Fort Lauderdale, Fla.,’ he said during an interview on the Live with Regis and Kelly national television chat show.”

[From the Sun Sentinel]

One would have to assume he actually meant Broward County, since Fort Lauderdale doesn’t have its own sheriff. How serious could he be if he doesn’t even know one of the jurisdictions he plans to run in doesn’t have a sheriff? Shaq, who plays for the Miami Heat, has been a reserve officer for the Miami Beach police and a few other areas. He claims to be a reserve detective. I have a degree in criminology, and I’m 99% certain there is no such thing. If you’re a reserve officer, you just do it here and there, like a substitute teacher but much less so. Becoming a detective takes years of work and dedication; it’s not something you could do on the side. But we’ll put that aside and humor Shaq a little, because it seems like other people are.

Fort Lauderdale Mayor Jim Naugle said the notion of a Sheriff Shaq shouldn’t be dismissed. As someone who’s admired by many people, Naugle said O’Neal might be successful at stemming youth crime.

I think he would be great,’ he said. ‘He’s demonstrated a real dedication. I don’t think it’s out of the question. … He always seems to have had a clean image, unlike some in sports.’”

Of course this isn’t the first time Shaq’s talked about his law enforcement dreams.

In 2002, he told the New Yorker that he wanted to be a police chief or sheriff in Louisiana or Orlando. He said he would run as an independent. In 2004, he discussed running for the Central Florida job with the Orlando Sentinel.

And early in 2006, he told ABC News that ‘when I am done playing, I will be a sheriff somewhere in some city in some county.’”

[From the Sun Sentinel]

Current Broward County Sheriff Ken Jenne, considered to be the most powerful man in the county, didn’t dismiss Shaq’s dreams either, though he seems to think he should be a little more realistic.

Shaq’s got three of the most important qualities needed to be sheriff: dedication, commitment and team building,’ he said. Jenne would prefer to have O’Neal sign up as a Broward Sheriff’s Office reserve deputy — with one catch.

‘He’d have to supply his own shoes. We don’t carry his size.’”

[From the Sun Sentinel]

I have to wonder how serious he is about all this… the sheriff is an elected office. Shaq’s not even registered to vote. Being a sheriff isn’t about running around shooting people. (Nor is being a police officer). It’s a desk job, and a political job. You have to be able to tightly control a large budget, and have the confidence of your officers… who generally don’t place a lot of faith in someone without years of law enforcement experience. However it seems like Shaq actually does have a chance, if he wants the job. Broward County Sheriff Ken Jenne is considered by many to be corrupt, and is currently under investigation by several agencies. Many citizens have voiced their support of Shaq, though it’s hard to say if that’s because they think he’s really do a good job, or bring star power to the office, or just that he’d be better than Ken Jenne. What do you all think, Shaq for sheriff?

Picture note by Celebitchy: Shaquille O’Neil is shown in the header image at the ESPY Awards yesterday with his wife Shaunie. Thanks to WENN for this picture. He is also seen in a promotional image for the 1996 film Kazaam.

Well it appears there was some truth to the rumor that Ivanka Trump would be asked to joint the view as a co-host. While talking with Ryan Seacrest, she responded “There’s zero chance I would do that.” When Seacrest pushed her, she did vaguely confirm that an offer of some sort had been extended. “I’ve gotten a lot of requests. Let’s just leave it at that.” Snippy much?

I had thought Ivanka was the classier of the Trumps, but it appears I’m wrong. She’s too busy being sexy and doing sexy sexy things to be on The View.

“I’m working on the sexiest projects around the world. So, to me, to be on a television show every single day at a designated period of time just wouldn’t work in terms of my schedule.”

[From E News]

I too am far too sexy to work for most major morning shows, so I understand how she feels. Wait, it’s that her projects are too sexy. Okay I too have a job so sexy that I wouldn’t be able to deal with Barbara Walters. It’s a gift, it’s a curse, what can I say? Could Ivanka possibly sound more like her father? Somehow I’d hoped she’d escaped the Trump Sexy Curse and would have some class, but that talking-yourself-up-all-the-time thing is just very tacky.

Kathy Griffin seems to be bandied about most for the gig. She recently said gave an interview where she mentioned that she thought it would be fun, but wasn’t sure it would work out.

“They (the producers of The View) are not throwing piles of money at me. They’re not begging. I love when you hear these actresses say, ‘The producer literally got on his knees and opened a briefcase full of money.’ With me, no. It’s like, ehhhh, they might, they might not, if they do they don’t want me to talk so much. Believe me, there are a lot of provisos… Honestly, I don’t think they’re going to come up with the Griffin dollars. But I’m happy to go and check it out and see what they want. I’ve done The View a bunch of times and it’s a very fun show to do.”

[From the Winnipeg Sun]

It sounds like the produces are pretty serious about not paying this person much. Rosie O’Donnell left because they wouldn’t pony up the cash, and it seems like it’s taking them forever to even come up with a name. They never replaced Star Jones. She left a bit before Rosie started, but she’d already been officially hired to replace Meredith Viera. This show has been in flux for the last few years – and maybe that’s a good thing. It had many stale years prior to that. Let’s hope they can find someone good, who can avoid fights with the Trumps… and avoid their sexiness, if at all possible.

Nicole Richie’s DUI trial has officially been postponed until August 16th so that her expert witness can testify. I was really hoping it would start today and someone would tell us if she’s pregnant. Or they’d use that as an excuse. I can’t stand not knowing! A quick rundown of Richie’s latest run-in, for which she will stand trial:

“On December 11, 2006, Richie was arrested by the California Highway Patrol after she failed a field sobriety test and was charged with driving under the influence on California State Route 134 in the Burbank/Glendale, California area. Several motorists had reported a black Mercedes-Benz G-Class entering the freeway on the exit ramp and traveling in the wrong direction. She admitted to using marijuana and Vicodin before the incident.”

[From Wikipedia]

She really could have caused a ton of damage and taken someone’s life by doing that. I don’t think these little socialite princesses even think of stuff like that. Most of them seem incapable of thinking 2 inches beyond their own faces. It seems that Nicole’s lawyer is going to argue that the results of her drug test are in some way invalid or inaccurate. She was given a less-accurate urinalysis test instead of a blood test. Richie’s expert witness, Dr. Terence McGee, will likely give evidence refuting the validity of her test.

As much as I’m not wild about Nicole getting an extension, I think it’s more than fair. Expert witnesses are in high demand, and the better they are, the more the demand. I’m sure it’s legitimate that her expert is scheduled until mid-August. Of course no matter what, Nicole’s lawyer will still have to talk his way out of her confession. That’s going to be hard to do, especially with her previous conviction for heroin possession.

Nicole skipped out of the country yesterday to visit her boyfriend/possible baby daddy, in Canada. A lot of people seemed to think she was skipping the country, but she was actually not required to be present at the hearing today. And as dumb as she seems to be, I don’t think Nicole is quite so ignorant as to think she could disappear. After all, what would happen to the Baby Bump Watch?

Picture note by Celebitchy: Header image is an old picture of Nicole Richie on 4/13/07 as there aren’t any recent pictures of her apart from the pillow-clutching ones.

Kellie Pickler canceled three concerts in a short span of time in June, and has since gotten American Idol and country fans alike in a bit of a tizzy. Kellie’s canceled shows, in Grand Junction, Colo., Greeley, Colo., and Albuquerque, N.M all happened on her current tour with country giant Brad Paisley. Supposedly Pickler isn’t eating enough, as many have noted that she’s lost at least 20 pounds since last year. According to the National Ledger, her rep, Wes Vause, “admits to Star that the singer is a ‘picky eater’ and canceled shows ‘because of low blood sugar.’ Vause tells Star that Kellie ‘had gone to Canada and didn’t eat enough, so she needed to get her strength back. She is well.’” Several sources on her tour say that Kellie has been under pressure to lose weight.

She’s under a great deal of pressure to be slender and slinky,’ an associate explains in the report from Star… ‘Kellie’s trying to lose weight, but that’s near impossible when she’s working 14 hours a day,’ the source adds. ‘Something has to give, and unfortunately it’s her health…She needs to eat and rest more,’ says the source. ‘There’s a real fear that she won’t hold up.’”

[Linked from the National Ledger]

I never thought Kellie needed to lose weight in the first place. She did appear to get a boob job a while ago that made her look top heavy. Dr. Anthony Youn, a Michigan-based Plastic Surgeon, noted on his website Celebrity Cosmetic Surgery that, “she does appear to have had a recent breast augmentation. When breast implants are too big they can make some women look heavy. This appears to be the case with her.” What in the world was wrong with how Kellie looked before? She was beautiful, with a healthy, perfect-looking figure.

One thing I’ll never understand, is why a girl who wants to be rail thin would have breast implants, as they do tend to make you look bigger on top. I understand wanting the curves, but then wouldn’t you want not to be rain thin in the first place? Sometimes desires, and body image issues, just don’t make sense. Kellie’s had a hard life, and has a good deal of talent. I just wish women didn’t feel like they all needed to fit into this teeny-tiny-big-boob ideal. Variety is the spice of life, after all.

Picture note by Celebitchy: Kellie Pickler is shown on 5/15/07 at the ACM Awards. Thanks to WENN for this picture.

Claire Danes will make her Broadway debut in George Bernard Shaw’s “Pygmalion” beginning September 21st. She will star as Eliza Doolittle, the character with the world’s most offensive accent. Danes is currently starring in the movie “Evening” which is getting lackluster reviews.

“Well-known as the inspiration for the Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe musical My Fair Lady, the Shaw drama based on the classical myth finds “Professor Henry Higgins [who] comes across a poor and uneducated Cockney girl named Eliza Doolittle… [and] makes a bet that he can take Eliza from the gutters of London and pass her off as a society lady, by simply teaching her the right dialect in which to speak,” as show notes explain.”

[From Playbill]

I can’t wait to hear her do that accent. It’s like nails on glass. If you remember, Claire Danes is the woman who broke up Billy Crudup and Mary-Louise Parker’s seven-year long relationship. Crudup left Parker, seven months pregnant at the time, for Danes. They spent a while denying they were together, but eventually it became obvious. Both parties were said to be pretty unapologetic about the whole thing.

It really is hard to wish someone well after hearing a story like that. Has Claire Danes really done anything of note since “My So Called Life?” She’s done some chic-flicks that were less than memorable, and has participated in a bit of theater. I think she’s still best known for that show, and for being an almost-homewrecker.

So Britney Spears ditched her cousin/personal assistant Alli and shacked up with her bodyguard. She is said to binge drinking, eating and shopping. She is also under investigation by California Child Protective services, and they cited her for not putting gates around her pool area. It still not that interesting to me, and I don’t give a crap about Britney. She does pull a lot of dumb stunts though, and it’s hard not to pay attention to her.

Paris was sort-of caught smoking herb this week, she went out wearing a t-shirt with a pop art portrait of herself on it.

Lohan is a bit more interesting as her lesbian affair with DJ Samantha Ronson was exposed through lovey MySpace messages. She also claimed rehab saved her life and bragged about how she’s reading Machiavelli’s The Prince, which surely helps her feel justified for treating people like crap and stealing from her friends.

So who should we cover, if any of them?

Heather Mills told Ryan Seacrest “’If I was a gold digger I would be a very wealthy woman now, and I’m not,’” on his radio show. That’s classic. Mills recently won her assault trial against British photographer Jay Kaycappa, who grabbed Mills and spun her around in order to get a better picture of her. Mills had been bicycling with a group of people to her seaside home. The paparazzi had been following them, and Mills got separated from her group in a pedestrian passageway that was underground. Photographers surrounded her on either side of the tunnel.

I felt concerned…because I had one there and one there and I felt like a trapped animal,” testified Mills, who was not in court Wednesday to hear the verdict.

“I felt him pull me round and then run back to get my picture. He yanked me round. I was facing the wall and he was pulling me round because I was not letting him take my picture. He then pulled me round and took my pictures.”

[From E News]

I’m no Heather Mills fan, but that is a completely jerky thing to do to someone. No matter what everyone deserves their personal space, and you don’t get to touch someone, let alone move them around as though they’re there only for your benefit. The photographer gave conflicting accounts to the police.

Prosecutors presented two conflicting statements given by Kaycappa to the police, one saying, “So I spun her around, I must have spun the bike around as well,” and the other saying, “I wish to clarify—what I actually said was, I would find it hard to spin her around when she was on the bike.”

Kaycappa, who denied the charges, was also convicted of assaulting Mills’ friend, Mark Payne, the following evening when he showed up to take more pictures of Mills.”

[From E News]

He sounds like a relentless jerk. As terrible and aggressive as the paparazzi can be here, I can’t believe the way they behave in England. As much as I’m not a fan of Heather Mills, I’m glad she pressed charges against the guy and that she won. No one deserves to be manhandled like that. My favorite part of the trial is when Mills said that they should just send a pack of journalists after Saddam Hussein, noting “They find everything.” It’s a funny point, made funnier still by the fact that they found and executed Saddam quite a long time ago. Clearly she’s had other things on her mind. Like not being a gold digger.

Apparently the BBC can be guilty of a little yellow journalism, according to an article by Reuters. On Thursday, the UK television giant apologized to Queen Elizabeth for the way they edited a trailer for their upcoming documentary “A year with the Queen.” The trailer shows a scene between famed photographer Annie Leibovitz and Queen Elizabeth for a Vanity Fair shoot. Annie Leibovitz says to the queen, “I think it will look better without the crown because the garter robe is so…” to which the queen responds, “Less dressy, what do you think this is?” Then appears to storm off. She is then shown walking through a hallway saying, “I’m not changing anything. I’ve had enough dressing like this thank you very much.”

In this trailer there is a sequence that implies that the Queen left a sitting prematurely. This was not the case and the actual sequence of events was misrepresented,” it said in a statement.

“The BBC would like to apologize to both the Queen and Annie Leibovitz for any upset this may have caused.”

[From the BBC]

Apparently Annie Leibovitz was about to say that the robe was so extraordinary – though how anyone knows what she was about to say I have no clue. The point being that it was not meant as an insult, or to make the queen look less formal. It was simply a suggestion that she take off the crown so the focus would be on the robe. While she did respond frostily, Queen Elizabeth did not storm out of the room as the footage suggests. The scene were she comments on refusing to change again took place before the shoot, while she was walking to meet Annie Leibovitz. She’d obviously just tried on several outfits. However it was cropped to make it appear that her comments came after the altercation. Either way, Leibovitz clearly won, as in the layout Queen Elizabeth appears both with and without her crown.

Either way it sounds like the queen was being uptight… it’s just the level of uptightness that we’re debating here. Not that she’s known for being a particularly relaxed sort. The story was erroneously reported all over the place on Tuesday and Wednesday, making the queen sound pretty high strung. The BBC issued its correction on Thursday.