The Australian pop princess Kylie Minogue (just Kylie to us Aussies) is set to guest star in the Doctor Who Christmas Special.

“It is an incredible thrill to be joining David and the entire Dr Who production for this year’s Christmas special,” said Minogue.

“Dr Who enjoys a unique history and it is going to be very exciting to be a part of that.”

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While I am not a huge fan of Doctor Who, I can tell you that the Christmas special, titled ‘Voyage of the Damned’, will follow on from he season three finale, where the bow of the RMS Titanic crashed into the Doctor’s time travelling Tardis.

Filming will take place Cardiff in July. I hope the summer filming means she’ll be wearing those fabulous gold hotpants. They should have a show of their own, titled something like “How to get an ass like Kylie’s while sitting on yours”.

Picture note by Celebitchy: Kylie Minogue is shown in the header image at amfAR’s Cinema Against AIDS on 5/23. She does have an other-worldly look about her.

Isaiah Washington seems to be doing a bad job of taking his exit from Grey’s Anatomy gracefully. During his Larry King Live interview he blamed Patrick Dempsey’s lateness on his temper tantrum. He says the second time Dempsey was late to the set he decided to confront him. CBS has a report on the interview:

Washington, who was accused of referring to actor T.R. Knight using an anti-gay slur during the heated argument with Dempsey, said that in reality he was referring to himself.

The argument, which he said stemmed from his frustration with Dempsey being late to the set, heated up to the point where it almost got physical.

“(Dempsey) became unhinged, face to face, spittle in my face. I’m asking him ‘why are you sceaming at me?’ He became irate. By that time I pushed him out of my face and I began to say ‘there’s no way you’re going treat me like a ‘b word,’ a ‘p word,’ or a ‘f word’ in front of this crew.”

Asked by King to explain what three words he meant, Washington said “a four-legged dog” (most likely he meant to say “female” dog); a “punk”; and the anti-gay slur beginning with “f” which he said he used to mean “someone who is being weak, someone who is not treated with respect” rather than a homosexual.

Washington thinks the situation would have been different if he had used the “n-word” instead.

“I wish I had said ‘You’re not going to treat me like an ‘n-word’ because that’s how I felt,” he said.

Washington has now given half a dozen interviews since the incident, and he’s blamed Patrick Dempsey’s tardiness, the producers of Grey’s for being racist, and outright denied he ever called anyone a ‘faggot’.

I am rapidly running out of patience with this man. Doesn’t he now that after using the F-word twice, you should just shut the F-up, do the public service announcement, and stop blaming everyone else? Seriously.

Cameron Diaz is denying her involvement with married man Criss Angel. I really like this statement, it makes it so clear she was barely involved, and also makes it seem like he was already undergoing divorce proceedings, and she was aware of them.

“When Cameron met Criss Angel in May of this year, he had been separated from his wife for over a year and she had already filed a petition to divorce him in 2006,” Diaz’s rep, Brad Cafarelli, tells PEOPLE in a statement. “Cameron and Criss went on only four dates over a month ago and have no current relationship,” he said.

I guess this means she’s not on holiday with him right now, as x17 photographers are suggesting. I hope she’s not on holiday with him, he seems freaky, and like a publicity scamming low life. Why else would he be seen with Paris Hilton and Minnie Driver while still being married to his wife? And why didn’t his wife say anything earlier? I smell a rat, and it’s not Cam. The worst thing she ever did was put semen in her hair, and even then it was fake and in a movie.

ER star John Stamos appeared on Australian television in June, most notably on the show Mornings with Kerri-Anne. He appeared to be incoherent, read from the teleprompter and made lewd gestures towards the host. Later he blamed the incident on sleeping pills.

“By the time I got to Australia my body was so out of whack,” says Stamos, who has told TV Guide his travel plans had included stops in New York, New Orleans, Greece, Japan and Cairo before landing Down Under on June 21.

A couple of days later, when Stamos was scheduled to promote ER, he says he was still feeling jet-lagged so “I took a sleeping pill at 5 in the morning, Ambien.” He says he made a mistake.

“Now I know that Ambien is an eight-hour sleeping pill so if you take it, you better get 8 hours sleep,” he says. “Do not take it at 5 in the morning.”

[Daily Telegraph]

Now, I understand that he is a man and doesn’t need as much grooming as we ladies do, but who takes a sleeping pill at 5am when you are going to appear on a television show that airs at 9am? Wouldn’t you need to be at the studio early for hair and make up?

Stamos also says he would still like to retire in Australia. Perhaps because of the drinking culture and late night bar opening hours? It’s perfectly acceptable to be drunk in Australia at 9am if you’re watching the cricket.

Stamos denies he has a drinking problem though, saying “I was not drinking. I did not drink either morning. I do not have an alcohol problem. I am not David Hasselhoff. This is not a pattern.”

Here’s the video:

John Stamos Drunk Down Under – Watch more Funny Videos

The star of 70s television series “Welcome Back Kotter” (which I remember vaguely from my childhood although I was a bit young to watch with interest), Gabe Kaplan, has a new book out called “Kotter’s Back: E-mails from a faded celebrity to a bewildered world.”

The book involves a series of extensive e-mail pranks Kaplan played on people, including the producers of “Celebrity Boxing” when they were trying to get him to participate. He also had a four year correspondence with the city manager of in Sioux City, Iowa, at one point trying to convince him to hold a parade for his 60th birthday.

A bizarre e-mail correspondence between City Manager Paul Eckert and comedian Gabe Kaplan, has resulted in the release of a new book and the star of “Welcome Back Kotter” making an appearance in the 2007 Big Parade in Sioux City on June 29.

Kaplan’s book, “Kotter’s Back: Emails From a Faded Celebrity to a Bewildered World,” features excerpts from correspondence that lasted more than four years with Eckert. The book includes Kaplan’s attempt to talk Eckert into hosting a parade in his honor to celebrate his 60th birthday. Kaplan’s reasoning for the request centers around the idea that Sioux City, out of all cities in the United States, gave the show “Welcome Back Kotter” its highest rating during the four years the program was televised. Kaplan’s participation in the Big Parade will tie together his request for a parade.

Eckert received his first e-mail from Kaplan in Novemeber 2002. He said he thought it was someone impersonating Kaplan. Eckert didn’t know at the time that Kaplan was sending e-mails to officials all over the country and planned to use the responses in a book.

“I was suspicious and intrigued,” Eckert said Thursday at the Convention Center. “I was never certain I was dealing with the right guy. Every time we tried to corral him, he’d slip away.”

[From The Sioux City Journal]

The book is said to be “irreverent,” “ridiculously comical,” and “surreal” according to the publisher. There are no reviews that I could find.

Kaplan’s IMDB biography shows that he hasn’t done much acting apart from a handful of television guest appearances in the 1980s, but according to Wikipedia he has been keeping busy. He’s an accomplished poker player, with total earnings of over a million USD. He is also a stand up comedian and serves as commentator for poker events.

Director Woody Allen, 71, and his wife, Soon Yi Previn, 36, were in Barcelona yesterday promoting his new film. (The photo agency didn’t list the film’s name, but I believe it’s Cassandra’s Dream as it’s included in IMDB with an October 26 release date in Spain.)

I’m kind of surprised that Previn is 36 as I assumed she was younger. Previn’s affair with then 57 year-old Allen was brought to light in 1992 when Allen’s longterm partner, Mia Farrow, found nude pictures of her adopted daughter Previn, who was 22 at the time, at Allen’s apartment. Farrow adopted Previn when she was 8 along with her husband at the time, Andre Previn. Allen wasn’t her official stepfather as far as I can tell, but that doesn’t make his betrayal any less shocking or creepy.

Woody Allen and Soon-Yi Previn were married in 1997 and have led a relatively low-profile lifestyle. They have two adopted daughters, Bechet Allen and Manzie Tio Allen. [Information from Wikipedia]

It’s doubtful that Soon Yi is pregnant and she’s probably just wearing one of those maternity-style dresses that are unfortunately in style. I just wanted to spice up the story as we’re always calling the celebrities pregnant when they wear loose dresses, so why not pick on someone else for once?

Thanks to SplashNews for these pics.

Update: The movie is called Barcelona, and it starts shooting on July 9th and will star Scarlett Johansson, Peneope Cruz, Patricia Clarkson, Kevin Dunn and Chris Messina.

I know I always get flack for these Angelina Jolie posts that contain pure bullshit from the National Enquirer or Star. You have to give me some credit for admitting they’re fabricated, even if I still print them.

Mike Walker’s column in this week’s Enquirer has a quote from “one of Angelina Jolie’s oldest friends” who says that the super-thin actress and mother of four thinks she’s not going to live long and is trying to make her mark on the world while she can:

In a shocking insight, one of Angelina’s Jolie’s oldest friends reveals that the passionate star charges full-tilt through a whirlwind life as a mother, actress and goodwill ambassador because she’s had premonitions of an early death – and they’re even stronger since mom Marcheline Bertrand died in January. “Angelina has told me she doesn’t feel destined to live a long life on earth, and she’s trying to accomplish all that she can,” said the friend. Knowing that the ovarian cancer which claimed her mother’s life is often hereditary has made Jolie even more conscious of her own mortality. “I don’t think she fears death as much as she simply wants to work hard and leave as big a footprint on the earth as she can,” said the friend – who adds that the star’s reluctance to marry Brad Pitt stems from one core belief… nothing is forever!

[From The National Enquirer, Mike Walker's column, print edition, July 9, 2007]

I think someone read the interview with Anne Curry where Angelina said that her obituary would be positive, and came to the conclusion that she thinks she’s going to die young. It just sounded to me like she was dealing with her mom’s death and that it’s something anyone who had recently lost a parent would be thinking about.

I think Angelina might live to be a lot older than The National Enquirer speculates she thinks. One of the only measures that has been clinically shown to extend the lives of mammals is calorie restriction, and it’s pretty clear Angelina engages in that practice. Of course she could stand to gain some weight and it’s not healthy to be so low in body fat, but if she can get her weight up a little and continue to stay on a low-calorie diet she could live as long as George Burns and Bob Hope.

ER cutie Shane West has been the subject of gay rumors since he arrived at a party in March with actor Ashton Holmes. Anonymous tips to Queerty had him making out at two different parties with a guy that fit Holmes’ description. (I’m not attempting to out the guy and I personally don’t believe that anyone should do that intentionally as that’s someone’s personal business and can affect an actor’s career. There’s a difference between reporting on a story and maliciously going after someone. I know to me it doesn’t matter, and I always thought people may as well come out. Crazy Days and Nights has a good post about how it can ruin an actor/actresses chance to play straight characters, which made me reconsider.)

Anyway there’s a questionable article in the National Enquirer this week about Shane West’s supposed 11 year affair with a porn star, who says she broke it off with him when he wanted threesomes with other women. If that doesn’t say he’s a red-blooded straight guy, what does?

Of course it’s filled with enthusiastic quotes from the buxom brunette about how into sex he is. The tone of the article is so over the top that it sounds comical:

ER star Shane West has had a secret 11-year-affair with a porn star, The Enquirer has learned exclusively.

“Shane loves sex, maybe too much!” says 31-year-old Dorian Grant.

The two broke up earlier this year because, Dorian says, Shane wanted her to bring other women into the bedroom.

“Our relationship ended because he couldn’t get his way and have a threesome,” says Dorian, who has starred in such movies as “Jiggly Queens 2,” “Busty Blondes in Heat 6″ and “Beautiful Bosom’s Bound…”

“We began seeing each other, but I quickly realized he was only interested in using my ‘talents’ and didn’t want to take me out on regular dates,” said Dorian. “Shane treated me like a porn star all of the time, and that made me angry.”

Shane would visit her at her home strictly for sex, she says, and she finally became fed up with being his booty call.

“Most of the time he couldn’t even wait to get to the bedroom,” she said “Shane wanted to do it everywhere – on the floor, the couch of a table – it didn’t matter to him. At first I thought he was just turned on by me or really liked me, but the moment he was finished he was out the door.”

[From The National Enquirer, print edition, July 9, 2007]

Isn’t that a great stage name, Dorian Grant? The fact that it’s a reference to an Oscar Wilde novel about debauchery makes the whole story seem that much more credible.

Grant is a real porn star (link is to IMDB and is safe for work) who has gone by that name for some time, but whether this story is true or not is up to question, and she probably could use the publicity. Maybe that’s just how porn stars talk. Shane’s publicist says he’s never had a relationship with Grant, but she supposedly passed a lie detector test, according to The Enquirer.

According to Wikipedia, West has been linked with Rachael Leigh Cook, Monica Keena, Marla Sokoloff, Dina Meyer, Jenna Dewan, and singer CC Sheffield.

Pictures from NBC.com and SearchExtreme.com (NSFW)

Articles in this week’s Star Magazine and the National Enquirer say a new book about JFK’s children, American Legacy: The Story of John & Caroline Kennedy by C. David Heymann claims that JFK Jr. was taking narcotics for an ankle injury, and that those drugs coupled with the fact that he was drinking on the night he crashed his plane would have impaired his ability to fly.

It also contains the bombshell that Kennedy flew into the path of an American Airlines flight before his plane crashed:

The book – which relies on eyewitness accounts and never-before released government documents – reveals that Kennedy strayed into the flight path of American Airlines Flight 1484, carrying 128 passengers and six crew members, shortly before his fatal crash.

Control tower personnel could not contact Kennedy by radio, because he was not responding. At the last minute, the American flight swerved to avert a mid-air collision.

Heymann writes that Kennedy was taking Vicodin, a narcotic he had been prescribed for pain from surgery on an ankle he broke while para-gliding on June 1, a month and a half before his fatal accident.

At a service station near the airport before his flight, Kennedy was spotted by executive and pilot Roy Stoppard who noticed Kennedy was carrying an opened bottle of white wine.

[From The National Enquirer print edition, July 9th, 2007]

The NTSB report concluded that Kennedy’s crash was the result of pilot error. Kennedy was said to have misjudged the altitude as there were hazy conditions with no visual reference, overcorrected and sent his high-performance plane into a spin which probably knocked him unconscious.

Back when JFK Jr. crashed his plane I was dating a guy who was taking private pilot lessons at Caldwell airport in NJ where JFK Jr., his wife Caroline Bessette, and her sister Lauren set off on that fateful night.

Anyway I e-mailed him for his take on this story, as I know he followed it closely at the time and since he’s a pilot he has more insight into it than I do.

Here’s how he explains the NTSB report:

When you fly in blackout conditions (dark night, no moon, fog), you have absolutely no reference to the horizon except for your HSI (horizontal situation indicator). Your inner ear measures acceleration, so if you, say, turn around to talk to your sister-in-law and then turn back front, you could feel like the plane has changed attitude even when it hasn’t.

Something like that probably happened with JFK. He felt the plane was in an ascending turn or flying level when really he had put it into a descending turn. At some point he saw the HSI and altimeter and, not realizing his descending turn had already gotten the plane close to its never-exceed speed (VNE), he overcorrected and “hammerheaded,” which probably knocked him unconscious. At this point the plane stalled, rolled on its back, and headed straight into the Atlantic.

[E-mailed from my friend DB]

In the Star Magazine article about the upcoming book, it is said that author Heymann claims that he had a secret autopsy performed on Kennedy’s remains and that they showed he had three times the legal limit of booze in his system. “His tissue and lungs had a very high level of alcohol. I sent the report to toxicologists, who say he had three times the legal limit in his system!”

My friend DB points out that more experienced pilots than JFK Jr. decided not to fly that night due to low visibility. He may have been drunk, but there are many other factors that could explain his tragic plane crash.

Vanessa Minnillo and Nick Lachey don’t want the glossies to publish those supposed pictures of them having sex in a hot tub in Mexico, but they’re willing to talk about them. Just to, you know, set the record straight.

They’re going to talk to OK! Magazine in an exclusive interview about the photos, where they’ll also dish on Nick’s ex, Jessica Simpson, and those stupid sexy knife pics of Vanessa with Lindsay Lohan that were taken pre-Nick.

Nick & Vanessa are “ready to set the record straight on everything,” says the OK! rep. “In OK!’s pages, they’ll discuss the recent nude photos, Nick’s past and current relationship with Jessica and even the (knives) photos of Vanessa and Lindsay Lohan (knives).”

[From The National Ledger]

The Daily News has a quote from Lachey in the upcoming OK! article in which he pretty cleverly blows off the whole thing, saying “Where’s the scandal? I was in Mexico with my girlfriend of a year, celebrating our anniversary on a private vacation. It’s not like I was caught with a Mexican hooker. We’ve all gone out and had a few too many and done something stupid. We’ve all made mistakes.”

Is it just me, or does this whole thing sound like a publicity stunt? Rather clear close-up pictures came out of them making out, and getting naked, but the uncensored versions mysteriously never made it online, even though that always happens with juicy naked pictures from the photo agencies. Then their lawyers send a message to all the tabloids warning them not to publish the supposed sex pictures that they’ve never seen. Now they have a big scandal they can use to “set the record straight” about those knife pics.

How much are they getting paid for this interview? This could be a legitimate problem for Lachey and Minnillo, but it increasingly seems like most of these candids are staged, especially when they get this kind of publicity.

Here are the pics from Life & Style via Hollyscoop and The Blemish.