Page Six has reported that Foxy Brown has been missing for over a week – since Friday, June 29th. Not just missing from paparazzi and the press, but missing from friends, family, and lawyers. Foxy Brown should never be far from her lawyers. She was last seen on a flight from Kennedy Airport to London, where she prevented the flight from leaving for over an hour. Members of her crew were late, and Brown employed several tactics to stall the plane.

“’She was trying to hold up the show because some of her entourage was late,’ said one passenger. ‘She got off the plane, then on, then off again. We’re sitting there for an hour and then the pilot comes on and said we’d be waiting a little longer for some people. Then another hour went by and they had to refuel.

‘The flight attendants said it was some of the most atrocious behavior they ever saw.’

Brown, who was ‘spilling out of’ a short green dress, ‘finally got on with her group and traded her first-class seat for a business-class seat so she could sit next to one of her people. It was an overbooked flight, so 400 people have to be inconvenienced? Some of them missed their connecting flights,’ our witness claimed.”

[From Page Six]

Jack Sampson, Foxy’s lawyer, seemed worried, but tried to downplay it when he talked to Page Six by noting that she could be working on her album. “We’re all trying to find Foxy…she’s probably getting some much needed rest. She’s been given authorization to travel and she could be working on her album. She is trying to get her album done. Depending on whom she’s working with, she could be anywhere.” But wouldn’t other people know about that? You’d expect that someone in her family or her famed entourage would be kept in the know.

A celebrity missing for a bit wouldn’t really be cause for worry in and of itself. However Brown’s criminal record (both as perpetrator and victim) makes it a bit more worrisome when she just disappears. Two weeks ago she was attacked by a group of women who beat her up, stealing her hearing aid and money from her purse. Fox had just dumped her boyfriend, a pimp, who then called on his “ladies” (is that the proper term? Forgive me, I’m not up on my pimp verbiage) to beat her up. Fox herself is known for having quite a temper, having hurled various items at not one but two manicurists over the past two years. Until that incident with the pimp, I would have said we probably don’t have to worry about Foxy Brown. Seemed like she could take care of herself. So let’s assume for the time being that unless the ratio is higher than 1 Foxy Brown to 3 Pimp’s Ladies, she’s probably fine.

Update by Celebitchy: Rhymes with Snitch points out that Foxy Brown was performing in Manhattan this weekend, so if she was missing that’s no longer true.

Something only slightly more important than the million or so weddings that took place this past Saturday, 7/7/07 were the Live Earth concerts. Held around the world over 24 hours, the concert were intended to focus attention on climate change (you know, the slightly more neutral term for global warming).

The BBC did an interesting story on Madonna, one of Live Earth’s featured performers. She sang her new song “Hey You,” written for Live Earth as a call to action for the rest of us to rescue the environment. The song’s video shows cars being filled with gas, airplanes taking off, and polar bears alongside melting ice-caps. But Madonna herself?

“The lion’s share of the performer’s carbon output was generated during the Confessions Tour, one of the biggest pop tours ever staged.

Madonna clocked up 56 concerts across the world. At least 100 people, including crew, dancers and support staff, traveled with her.

Based on these calculations it’s estimated that the tour generated over 651 tons of carbon.

‘Madonna produces the same amount of carbon as 102 average Britons,’ said Mr. Buckley [from the company Carbon Footprint]. “Even though she runs a global business she’s also set herself up as some sort of ambassador for the environment.

‘Therefore she needs to be seen to be walking the walk as well as singing the song.’”

[From the BBC]

I think it’s a fantastic idea to do something that gets people to pay attention to climate change. However it’s difficult to see how lots of rock concerts helped to do that. It’s hard to find out what happened to the proceeds. I assume they went to environmental charities, but if they did, that certainly wasn’t a focus of the promoters. I wanted to be Pro Live Earth. If nothing else, I appreciate someone trying to do a good thing. But at some point I had to agree with what everyone else was saying: this was just ridiculous. I can’t think of how massive concerts could possibly be green.

“Organizers say the concerts will be as green as possible, with a tally of energy use being kept. Proceeds from ticket sales will go toward distributing power-efficient light bulbs and other measures that will offset the shows’ greenhouse gas emissions, they say.

“’This is going to be the greenest event of its kind, ever,” Gore told The Associated Press recently.”The carbon offsets and the innovative practices that are being used to make this a green event, I think, will set the standard for years to come.’”

[From the New York Post]

This seems like it was a big waste of time. The press hardly covered the event. Are we really to believe that most of the concertgoers went to support the environment? Anyone who really cared about climate change that much would have stayed home and watched it on television. That would have left a much smaller carbon footprint. Instead it seems like it was just a bunch of musicians trying to assuage their environmental guilt. I truly don’t want to sound like I’m so down on this – I do appreciate the thought and the effort. But I think we need to find smarter ways to get the information across. It sends quite a mixed message to put on a concert and tell people not to do what you’re doing.

Note by Celebitchy: I’m with Jay in that I’m not sure if a series of concerts was the best way to get the message out, but I know that my husband and I watched a lot of the Live Earth coverage this weekend and we talked about conservation more than we normally do. We already do things like bring our own bags to the store and recycle. We have one car and my husband often bikes to work. After watching Live Earth we were talking about ways we can conserve at home. My husband mentioned that we might switch to bar soap instead of shower gel. I know this sounds minor, but there is a lot of plastic around shower gel, and by using bar soap instead we might make a difference. Little things like this do make a difference and I think if everyone can start to make even minor changes it will help. Just because the celebrities are big ass hypocrites doesn’t mean we can’t do our part.

Thanks to WENN for these pictures of Madonna at Live Earth. I deliberately picked photos of Madonna that were unflattering, but it’s not like I had to look hard.

We’re not done yet, just doing the links now.

- Woman brags about having sex with Pete Doherty and breaking up his relationship with Kate Moss [DListed]
- Ben, Jen and Violet Make a Stop for Starbucks [PopSugar]
- Foxy Brown is no longer missing. Too bad. [Rhymes with Snitch]
- Kooky Hollywood Moms: Lynne Spears [Gallery of the Absurd]
- Jennifer Lopez on fashion and style [CityRag]
- Blind item: which house-hold name star lost her virginity at 17 to another house-hold name star when he was dating someone else? [CelebSlam]
- Toni Collette is pregnant [Glitterati]
- Fernanda Mello in Her Bikini [The Grumpiest]
- The Beckhams at the Grand Prix [The Grumpiest]
- Jack Nicholson chowing down on a boat surrounded by a bunch of bikini-clad women [Seriously? OMG! WTF?]
- Rescue Dawn with super hottie Christian Bale is worth seeing [Pajiba]
- Katie Couric smacked one of her editors on the arm repeatedly for trying to get her to say “sputum” on the air [Gabsmash]
- Fellow gossip blogger breaks his new iPhone in less than 2 hours [Derek Hail]
- Mary J. Blige and her family [Bossip]
- Madonna’s Live Earth performances [popbytes]
- Photos from Live Earth performances around the globe [Crazy Days and Nights]
- Nicole Richie kicked out of hotel [I'm Not Obsessed]
- Pussycat Dolls conserve clothing at Live Earth [Hollywood Rag]
- Jessica “Don’t Call Me Sexy” Alba in GQ Magazine [Agent Bedhead]
- Pam Anderson Parties in a Hooters Uniform (site NSFW) [Drunken Stepfather]
- How to hack a coke machine for change, although I doubt this works. Let me know if you try it. [Lynn and Alex]
- Alessandra Ambrosio making out with some guy against a car [The Blemish]
- Lisa Rinna Has a Lot of Extra Skin [yeeeah]
- Mandy Moore in a bikini in Mexico [ICYDK]
- Guess The Celebrity Calves! [Bastardly]

LohitneyParis links:
Thanks for all of your feedback on the LohitneyParis ban. I think it will be lifted gradually, to result in dramatically decreased news about these do-nothings, with a cap on 5 stories per week. It will depend on if something momentous, or mildly important, happens in their lives, with the links excluded. Does that sound ok?

- UCLA Student Gets Paris Hilton’s Old Phone Number [Evil Beet]
- Britney and her boys with her new bodyguard manny/hired friend now that Alli is sick of her [CelebrityBabyScoop]
- Paris Hilton easing back into party life [Socialite's Life]

Brandon Walsh and his oddly angular wife have become parents for the first time. God I hope their kid looks like him; if it looks anything like this picture of his wife, the baby’s going to be all corners and right angles.

US Weekly has reported that Jason Priestley’s wife Naomi gave birth to a baby girl on July 6th. I probably shouldn’t make fun of her, supposedly she’s a pretty good wife.

“Priestley, 37, met his makeup artist wife in London in 2001, about a year before the avid racecar fan was nearly killed after smashing head-on into a wall at 180 miles per hour during a practice session at Kentucky Speedway. Naomi Priestley, née Lowde, was by the actor’s side throughout his lengthy recovery from a fractured spine and other injuries.”

[From E Online]

Their daughter’s name has not been released. This is the first child for the Priestleys.

I’m really not cool with this. I mean I’m happy for them and everything, but I had really specific plans to marry Jason Priestley when I was in fourth grade. Then divorce him and marry Luke Perry, all while living in Beverly Hills. So it’s kind of messed up my plans, but whatever. Priestley just wrapped the movie Termination Point with Lou Diamond Phillips. He stars as a scientist who has been working for the government on secret time travel experiements, but disappears with the technology. So it’s one of those movies based on a true story I guess. Aside from this stellar film, I think Priestley’s most famous recent appearance was cheering from the sidelines for Ian Ziering on “Dancing with the Stars.” That kind of makes the pain go away.

Picture Note by Celebitchy: Thanks to PRPhotos for these pictures of Priestley and his wife at the Hugo Boss fashion show on 3/15/05. From the look of a recent picture of these two on US Weekly, she’s had some unnecessary work done since.

The Details people e-mailed me some quotes from an upcoming interview with Christopher Walken. The 64 year-old actor admitted that he can’t use a computer and doesn’t want to learn how. He’s such a technophobe that he doesn’t even have a cell phone. He also said that he regularly pulls on his hair at the roots in order to stave off male pattern baldness.

Christopher Walken opens up to Details:
On his career: “I’ve made – I think about a hundred movies. And there’s a good number of them that I’ve never seen. Never.”
On his distinctive style of speech: “Occasionally somebody will say, ‘Could you read that line another way?’ And I just tell ‘em, ‘I’m sorry. I have no idea how to do that.’ And the interesting thing is that the other actors, when that happens to me, they all gang up: ‘What? Leave him alone!’”
On his daily habit of yanking his hair: “Apparently, if you keep your scalp skin loose, you’re more apt to keep your hair. So I just grab it with both hands and yank on it while I’m watching the news.”
On his notorious “More Cowbell” routine from Saturday Night Live: “I was eating at a restaurant in Singapore, and an Asian couple was at the next table, and the guy turned to me and he said, ‘Chris, you know what this salad needs?’ I said, ‘What?’ He said, ‘More cowbell.’”
On not owning a computer: “And I certainly wouldn’t know how to work one. I don’t have a cell phone, either.”
On alien abductions: “I think it’d be a gas if aliens came and said hi. Wouldn’t that be great?”

[Thanks to Details.com]

He’s been in a lot of crappy movies so it’s to be expected that he hasn’t seen many of them.

This man is so eccentric that I’m surprised he’s not into technology. I guess it’s my own personal bias since I’m connected constantly, but I find it really surprising that he doesn’t know how to use a computer and chooses not to have a cell phone. I know an 80-something lady that uses e-mail and the Internet and it’s not like you’re ever too old to learn. It just seems like he’s missing out on an awful lot. Like celebrity blogs full of insightful comments about how he should learn to use a computer.

Here’s Christopher Walken in the FatboySlim “Weapon of Choice” video:

More Cowbell T-shirt from BustedTees. (And they didn’t sponsor that plug, it was just the first one I found.)

So the astronaut thing didn’t work out so well for him, but that doesn’t hold Lance Bass back from his dreams! According to Broadway World the spiky-haired-one will be starring in Broadway’s “Hairspray” as Corny Collins, played by James Marsden in the upcoming movie. The former boy-bander will join the show beginning August 14th. Bass will be the second former Nsyncer to work on Broadway. Former “Dancing with the Stars” contestant Joey Fatone stared in “Little Shop of Horrors” and “Rent.”

This isn’t Bass’s first creative endeavor apart from Nsync.

“Bass, who is currently at work on his memoir Out of Sync, about his time with the boy band, has appeared on screen and on TV in such projects as ‘Lovewrecked,’ ‘Seek and Hide,’ ‘On the Line,’ ‘7th Heaven,’ ‘Touched by an Angel,’ and ‘Longshot.’

[From Broadway World]

Things seem to really be shaping up well for him. Several sources are reporting that he’s officially dating model Pedro Andrade. The two were seen together in the Hamptons over the Fourth of July.

“According to a source, the couple was very ‘happy’ together and the ‘hot’, ’spunky’ Brazilian model made a perfect match with Bass.

‘You could tell they’re very happy with each other,’ a source says of Bass and Andrade, US Weekly quoted the source, as saying.

‘Pedro is beyond good-looking … so hot. Pedro is spunky, full of life. They’re a perfect match,’ the source added.”

[From Washington DC News]

This brings me to ask… does anyone really buy him in this role? There’s something about him that bugs me. I think it’s the hair. How long do you think it takes him to get it like that? It’s that piece-y look that was so popular about 3 years ago. You’ve gotta worry about the guy he’s dating. I’ve never heard of Pedro Andrade and couldn’t find much out about him besides the basic “Brazilian model” line. But Bass’s last boyfriend, Reichen Lehmkuhl, was generally thought to be using Bass to further his own celebrity. Let’s hope Lance has learned a lesson about relationships… and not trying to be an astronaut. Two important things we should all keep in mind.

Here’s a hot picture of Bass’ new man, thanks to The Big Bad Blog

Despite being seen canoodling with each other as recently as July 1st, Sienna Miller says she and P Diddy are not an item.
Zee News reports Miller saying, “’I am in love with someone but not Puff Daddy. He`s just a good friend. Anyway he has a beautiful girlfriend,’”

I call BS on that. Diddy’s “beautiful girlfriend” Kim Porter moved out of their home last Thursday, as reported here on Celebitchy. This article came out today, so there are already some untruths coming out of Sienna Miller’s mouth. And I call BS on the “beautiful” part of that comment too, but that’s another story.

Miller claims that she’s in love with someone, but it isn’t Diddy, and she isn’t saying who it is. I didn’t give much credence to this rumor when it first surfaced a few months ago. I can’t put my finger on it, but somehow they just don’t make sense together. However this is pretty clear to me:

“Diddy was seen flirting with the ‘Factory Girl’ star in a cozy corner of the Central London club at a post-Concert For Diana party on July 1. The two surrounded themselves with bouncers for privacy and cuddled up in the corner, too immersed in each other to notice anything else going on around them.

But when they noticed fellow clubbers staring at them, the pair moved to a more secluded section of the club. However Diddy has insisted that his warm chat with Miller at the party following his Wembley performance was above suspicion. “Yeah, we all hang out together but there`s no more to it than that,” Diddy said.”

[From Zee News]

I always cuddle in the corner with good friends, all the while making bouncers surround me so no one can see what we’re up to. And it pisses me off when my significant other considers that evidence of cheating. It really is presumptuous. So within four days of this post-concert cuddling, Diddy’s girlfriend moved out. Coincidence, no? Not that I could live with that ego, so I could understand either way. Porter and Diddy have been on and off for 10 years. They have three children together, separated by a few Diddy had at random intervals in between. So while it was a long-term relationship, it doesn’t sound like it was rock solid. If Sienna Miller can break you up, you probably shouldn’t be in the relationship anyway.

This has got to be my favorite story of the week. I know the week’s only started, but I don’t think many things could beat this story, at least in terms of obviously fake planted crap. Supposedly, Ivanka Trump is being considered to replace Rosie O’Donnell on “The View.” Wouldn’t that just make Donald as happy as a little peach pie? The National Enquirer reports that Barbara Walters is seriously considering giving Ivanka the gig. Of course they also referred to her as a “hottie with brains,” so we’ll see how much truth is behind this. Of course if Barbara did give her the spot, it would certainly make for some interesting dynamics on the show. Would Donald still go on tirades? Would he go on Larry King and talk about how Ivanka is a “Big fat pig” or whatever else he called Rosie O’Donnell? Supposedly, this all comes back to Paris Hilton (who’s name we shall not mention of course).

“The National Enquirer reports that Barbara Walters wants to hire the “hottie with brains” to stick it to Paris Hilton and her parents for their shabby treatment of her when they were trying to sell the Paris post-prison interview.”

[From the New York Post]

What in the world do Paris Hilton and her family have to do with hiring Ivanka Trump? Do the Trumps and the Hiltons have some Capulet v. Montague/East Coast v. West Coast feud going on that I don’t know about? I feel like something was missing here.

I was wondering what would even qualify Ivanka to be on the show, but she’s actually more accomplished that I thought. According to Wikipedia, she is the vice president of Real Estate Development and Acquisitions at the Trump Organization. Okay we can chalk that up to nepotism. However she was accepted to Georgetown and transferred to the University of Pennsylvania and graduated magna cum laude from their prestigious Wharton School of Business. Ivanka also replaced Carolyn Kepcher as a primary boardroom judge starting in the sixth season “The Apprentice.” Whether due to nepotism or not, she has good credentials. It’ll be interesting to see if she ultimately becomes a candidate for the position.

Update by Celebitchy: This originated in Mike Walker’s column in The National Enquirer. Last week he printed an item that Paris Hilton was being considered for the open spot on The View! I thought it was such crap that I didn’t bother to print it. So when Jay wonders what Paris has to do with it, that’s the story. I doubt either one of those stories is true.

Well the drama that is Clay Aiken’s foot appears to have wound down a little bit. Clay addressed what actually happened on Entertainment Tonight.

“While sleeping on a plane over the weekend, my foot evidently found a home on the arm rest of the passenger seated directly in front of me. I didn’t realize I was causing the woman any distress until she woke me up with a quick hit to the chest.

“Unfortunately, being that this happened on a plane, the FBI was called in to investigate and eventually we were all sent on our way. I’d like to thank everyone for their concern; I am fine and have taken steps to prevent any foot wandering in the future.”

[From Entertainment Tonight]

I’m not really Clay Aiken’s biggest fan – there have been so many reports about his rude behavior, and his tendency to lecture people. He (or his publicist) put a neutral spin on this, but unfortunately this isn’t Clay’s first foot-on-a-plane incident. On June 5th, Celebitchy reported that Aiken took of his shoes and socks on a plane, then put his bare, incredibly smelly, feet up on his assistant’s lap. The stench overpowered the whole cabin.

I think Clay has some serious foot issues. In a July 2003 Rolling Stone cover article on him, Aiken admitted that he is “scared of water, detests house cats, vastly prefers instant grits to real and bites his toenails.” I think this is a case of three strikes you’re out. Two feet on a plane plus one toenail biter equals a guy with foot issues. As Anderson Cooper wrote a short time later in an article for Details, “If the image of young Clay in a red leather jacket salivating on his big toe doesn’t make you ill, I have nothing left to say to you.” So I’ll just leave it there.

During his interview with Entertainment Tonight, Clay randomly ends by asking people to donate to UNICEF. Though it’s kind of unusual given the point of the interview, I’m going to include the quote and a link, since it’s an amazing thing to do.

“Now that I have your attention,” he continues, “if you’d like to learn more about how you can help the world’s children, please visit www.unicefusa.org.”

[From Entertainment Tonight]

What in the world allows a man to live such a crazy, delusional existence? While hunting for a new home in Maryland this past weekend, Michael Jackson harassed staffers at the Inn at Perry Cabin. Just one of his demands? Chicken fingers at 4 in the morning. Because who doesn’t have those ready and available? Jackson also called and blessed the hotel’s manager, according to the New York Post.

Jackson was in the area looking for a new summer home. Is he really in a position to do that?

“And it remains unclear whether Jackson could actually afford a new home: In recent years, prosecutors and former financial advisers have alleged in court that the star is teetering on bankruptcy, a charge his lawyers denied; just a year ago, Jackson agreed to settle some of his mounting debts by selling half of his valuable music publishing catalogue, which includes the rights to the Beatles’ songs.”

[From the Washington Post]

How in the world does this man continue to exist? He supposedly has a ridiculous amount of debt, the kind that would keep a rational person from piling their ten person entourage onto their private plane and heading across the country to scope out some new luxury real estate. So what are Michael Jackson’s main reasons for moving?

“Jackson came east with his children about 10 days ago for meetings because ‘the majority of his advisers and attorneys are on the East Coast,’ Bain said. Meanwhile, Bain told us, ‘He’s always admired the properties on the East Coast because they have a lot of land. Neverland has 3,000 acres — he likes privacy. You can’t find as many properties like that on the West Coast.’”

[From the Washington Post]

I’m sure the East Coast has some gorgeous old beach estates… but now? I thought I’d heard all these rumors that he was evicted from the place he was staying in Las Vegas? Yeah I know he said he just chose not to exercise his option to buy at the end of his lease, but that’s what I’d say if I were kicked out. And why was he renting if he can afford to buy? I would, however, love to see the Gloved One in one of those stuffy, upper crust old money type beach towns. What goes better with fresh lobster than one of his surgical masks?