During the opening pyrotechnics-infused number of Beyonce Knowles’s St. Louis concert on Sunday night, one of the fireworks fell into the first row of the audience, injuring two concertgoers. The victims were rushed to the hospital, and luckily their injuries were fairly minor, and they’re both expected to make a full recovery.

After the concert was over, Beyonce jetted to the ER at Barnes-Jewish Hospital to visit the injured. She spent about 45 minutes talking to the two people.

Soon after the concert, Knowles arrived at the hospital, said head nurse Darryl Williams. “She was just very concerned about the people injured in the audience,” Williams said. “It was unannounced and we kept it very low-key so that she could spend time with them.” Knowles, 25, met with the fans for about 45 minutes. “I just thought it was a great thing for someone of her stature to do,” Williams said.

[From USA Today]

I’m sure the visit was out of the goodness of her heart, and had nothing to do with avoiding negative publicity or a lawsuit or anything. It really did seem to turn the publicity around; all of the headlines are positive, like “Beyoncé visits two fans hurt by fireworks,” “Beyonce Visits Injured Fans In Hospital,” “Beyonce Treats Injured Fans to a Hospital Visit in St. Louis.” All make her sound so charitable for taking time out of her busy schedule. I’m sure it really was just to check on them. Somehow, considering a lot of the things written about Beyonce (ie Beyonce only looks out for Beyonce) I seriously doubt the visits were anything but a PR move.

Picture note by Celebitchy: Here is Beyonce at the release party for Kelly Rowland’s “Ms Kelly” Album. Proceeds from the event went to Lifebeat: The Music Industry Fights AIDS. Beyonce looks like a wax version of herself, but that’s nothing new. Thanks to SplashNews.

Even though Jennifer Aniston had supposedly broken up with model Paul Sculfor, sources are saying that the two are still together, and Jennifer is actually considering moving to England with him – to aid his homesickness.

The Friends star is claimed to be happy with a move across the Atlantic to aid her homesick boyfriend.

A source commented: “Jennifer loves the UK and London – especially now that, with her relationship with Paul, she has a reason to be there.

“Paul has been missing home and Jennifer is tired of Los Angeles so it seems only logical they give it a go.”

They added: “Paul has a place in the UK but they plan to look for something together in London soon.”

[From Digital Spy]

Somehow I don’t think Jennifer is stupid enough to do that just yet. She seems uber – if not over – bonded with best friend Courtney Cox, and apparently has a pretty tight circle of friends in Los Angeles. The article also claims that Aniston and Sculfor never broke up, and that Sculfor actually just went home to London for two weeks.

This woman has a history of picking men that don’t want to commit to her. She was engaged to Tate Donovan, married for five years, only to be left for Angelina Jolie (though of course Brad refutes that), then spent how many years clowning around with Vince Vaughn, who everyone knew she was too good for, and he still wouldn’t commit to her. Sometimes you just look at someone and can see they’re empty, and Paul Sculfor is one of those guys. Maybe it’s the vacant model stare, but there’s just a lack of substance there. I hope she finds someone decent who treats her well. Actually, I still hope she finds Ross, but I’m a loser that way.

Pregnant Charlotte Church, 21, has thrown her fiancé Gavin Henson out of their home after discovering that he’s been cheating on her. The classically trained singer and television host wasn’t going to stand for that kind of treatment. Henson, a rugby player, broke Charlotte’s heart by cheating on her with Tracy Donnelly, a shop assistant in Belfast. The two met at a nightclub called Thompson’s Garage after one of Henson’s matches.

Church obviously isn’t any condition to go drinking at clubs, but apparently that hasn’t held Henson back from making sure he still has a good time.

Tracy alleges Gavin invited her back to the La Mon Hotel and Country Club on the outskirts of Belfast where they exchanged kisses under a table in the banqueting suite.

‘It was a drunken snog, or two, or three,’ says Tracy. ‘Nothing for Charlotte to worry about. I mean, come on, who doesn’t get up to these cheeky little things?

‘When we left each other I didn’t take his number but he took mine. Needless to say I never heard from him again.’”

[From Now Magazine]

If my boyfriend drunkenly kissed a girl and then invited her back to a hotel, he’d be looking at the business end of a hissy fit. The People UK referred to Church as “Notoriously-jealous Charlotte.” Right, because only notoriously jealous people would have a problem with their boyfriends kissing other girls. How could someone who’s just a little bit famous, or even dating someone who’s just a little bit famous, think that they wouldn’t be caught? I mean this girl ran to the press about it right away… how could you expect anything less?

This Tracy Donnelly sure has a high opinion of herself, despite her behavior. Some of her best quotes from her interview:

“Every woman in the place was swarming around him but I stayed well clear. About midnight he came over and said ‘These girls are really annoying me. They just want to talk to me because I’m famous’”

“When we snogged it was exciting but I think he knew that he’d done something wrong. But it happened all the same again and again and again. There was never a question of sex, I don’t know if it crossed his mind or not, but I’m not that kinda girl.

“People may think that my speaking out will ruin Gavin and Charlotte’s relationship but I doubt it. It was a drunken snog or two. Who doesn’t do it? Although I guess he should be more careful.”

[From The People UK]

Well I guess she was wrong when she said that she doubts what she did will ruin Charlotte’s relationship. How could someone do that to another girl… let alone someone who is pregnant? That’s just so far beyond the line. According to Hollyscoop, Charlotte has now locked Gavin out of their home, refusing to listen to his apologies and excuses. Charlotte’s mother has been calling Henson and screaming at him. Good for her! Apparently the guy has a history of drunken flirting, which probably explains Charlotte’s “notorious jealousy,” with good reason. There’s no point in staying with someone that flirts and/or cheats every time they have a drink. She’s 21, which is not an incredibly mature age, but it’s not like she’s a desperate teenager either. She has the resources to take care of herself and her baby, and she should do just that – and forget about this loser.

Header image via Hollyscoop.

Note by Celebitchy: Both JayBird and Helen covered this story in their unique way. Here’s JayBird’s take, to be followed by Helen’s

James Blunt tells GQ that he once sold his sister on eBay. And not in that funny, joking way, he really did sell her. Apparently he’s not quite as big a jerk as this makes him sound.

“I was waiting for my first album to come out and ended up selling pretty much everything I owned on eBay. I had a mild addiction.

“Anyway, I came back to the flat where my sister was staying and she was crying because she couldn’t get to a funeral in Ireland.

“The planes were on strike, the ferry was out of season and there were no trains. I ended up whacking it on eBay, ‘Damsel in distress seeks knight in shining armour! Desperate to get to a funeral in Southern Ireland, please help!’”

[From London Net]

While this makes him sound a little off kilter (who in the world wants to go to a funeral with someone you’ve never met? That your brother found on eBay? And paid for you?) it’s sweet in a weird way. Turns out the guy who won James Blunt’s sister was wealthy enough not just to “buy” her, but also had his own helicopter that choppered them to the funeral. God I hope they didn’t land it next to the church or something. Anyway, it turns out that the pair fell in love, and they’re getting married this summer. So in a way, Blunt’s eBay addiction helped his sister find true love. Or buy true love. Whichever. Who says brothers don’t look out for you?

Helen’s take:

James Blunt may be the ultimate sensitive crooner – but doesn’t seem to quite make it to that level of sensitivity behind the music. He sold his sister to the highest bidder on eBay.

This is really hard to explain, so here’s what he had to say about it.

“The stupidest thing I’ve ever sold is my sister, on eBay.
“I was waiting for my first album to come out and ended up selling pretty much everything I owned on eBay. I had a mild addiction.
“Anyway, I came back to the flat where my sister was staying and she was crying because she couldn’t get to a funeral in Ireland. “The planes were on strike, the ferry was out of season and there were no trains. I ended up whacking it on eBay, ‘Damsel in distress seeks knight in shining armour! Desperate to get to a funeral in Southern Ireland, please help!’
“The bids flooded in and the guy who won had a helicopter. He flew her to the funeral.
“That was three years ago, this summer they’re getting married!”

[From NZ Herald]

This is probably a story I would have kept to myself. Probably for the same reason James kept it to himself until now – he knows it’s not really part of the sexy singer-songwriter mantle to sell your relatives, no matter how good the cause. I wonder what the final bid was? At least she liked the guy, how awkward would it be to be stuck with someone you couldn’t tolerate, in a helicopter, when he had paid for the privilege?

James Blunt’s music doesn’t appeal to me at all, but I’ve always kind of liked him after seeing this on Australian television a year ago.

ANDREW DENTON: That song you just sang, ‘Goodbye My Lover’ was, for you on the album, the most important song. That was the one about the girl who was the one. Have you sung her out of your system?

JAMES BLUNT: I’ve sung it a lot. No, it hasn’t got me the girl back, but I’m sure it will get me laid.

I wonder how many times it got him laid? No, no I don’t. Just keep on being miserable James, it seems to work for you.

Amy Polumbo, Miss New Jersey, was on the Today show on Monday in an attempt to continue to put pressure on whoever is blackmailing her. She revealed that the blackmailer(s) call themselves “The Committee to Save Miss America.” It sounds nicely patriotic too. Of course this “Committee” could be made up of just one crazy person alone in their basement.

Whoever these people are, they’ve already sent another batch of pictures to Miss New Jersey organizers. They claim to have 24 more sets ready to go, though it’s unclear if they mean sets of new pictures, or 24 more sets of the same pictures that they’ll distribute to new people. Apparently, it’s not the pictures themselves that are so terrible, it’s the captions the “Committee” has put on the photos. Sounds like the work of Perez Hilton to me. I tease, I tease. When asked to explain the photos, Miss New Jersey was a little vague.

“A 22-year-old senior at Wagner College in Staten Island, Polumbo says the photos were lifted from her private Facebook Web page – and are less revealing than the red bikini she wore in the Miss New Jersey competition. She said captions were added to make them seem lewd.

“I am not doing anything illegal” in the pictures, Polumbo said on the “Today” show. “They’re not bad. I’m a normal college girl.”

Polumbo said it never occurred to her that someone could try to use the images to derail her Miss America bid – and did not rule out the possibility another contestant was behind this.

“Whoever this is, I think they’re a very miserable person and I really feel bad for them,” she said.

Polumbo had difficulty explaining to NBC’s Matt Lauer how she could be blackmailed with photos that don’t show her drinking, taking drugs or showing skin.

“It’s still being investigated,” she said.

[From the Daily News]

The world has to wonder, how exactly can you be blackmailed by photographs that don’t contain nudity, drinking, or drugs? Even with inappropriate things added, won’t most people able to say, hey the pictures isn’t the problem, it’s these nutcases that are sending them out? Maybe I’m giving to much credit here. Miss New Jersey told Fox News’ Bill O’Reilly that prior to the blackmailing, her mother saw the pictures and “was mad at me for maybe 10 minutes. She said, maybe you might want to remove them because someone will look at them a different way.”

Is anyone else noticing some shades of “Miss Congeniality” here? I say get Sandra Bullock and a big poofy dress and it’ll all be okay. Well, if the movie had any truth to it. My best friend in second grade was Playboy’s Miss May last year. I’m sure I’ve got some photos of her somewhere that I can use for money. There’s the one with us holding the class hamster… the one with us reciting a poem in front of the class… ohh, the one with her holding her pet rabbit! Jackpot!

The custody battle has been settled, but apparently after the big things are sorted, come the smaller issues. Like pillows and pants.

Anne Heche is sharing a home with her ex-husband, Coley Laffoon. I can guess this is a temporary arrangement while she works in Vancouver, since divorced people don’t generally live in the same residence. Particularly when he calls her ‘crazy and delusional’.

The latest drama is that Heche has taken belongings from the house to her new home in Vancouver.

Lamps, furniture, yoga rugs — and even custody of a cat — are among the disputed items listed in court documents filed by Laffoon, who accuses Heche of taking things from the house while he was out of town.

Laffoon filed a declaration in L.A. Superior Court requesting that the court demand Heche to return the property to the house and restrain her from removing and/or damaging any more items.

Furthermore, he alleges that Heche “had gone into my closet and ripped the buttons off of 19 of my shirts and removed some of my pants.”

[From MSNBC]

Heche says she only took items she had before her marriage, and they are in her new home in Vancouver. Ripping the buttons off her husbands shirts isn’t discussed in the court documents, I think she probably did that as revenge. Or because she’s crazy and delusional. She did call her autobiography ‘Call Me Crazy’.

Little things like cutting off buttons are often part of a divorce. Traditionally you’re meant to sew sardines into the curtain lining in your home. They’ll stink and take ages to find, which is also good when you’re leaving an unfortunate sharehouse situation. Just a little tip from me to you.

The ‘Just Divorced’ sign is barely out of his car window, and Charlie Sheen is engaged to…er, some chick I’ve never heard of actually. Her name’s Brooke Mueller ands he’s a real estate investor. In New Zealand that’s code for unemployed but has a lot of cash, particularly when it’s someone else’s cash. Now she also has a $500,000 engagement ring.

Denise Richards has allegedly welcomed the idea, being nice to the future stepmother to her children.

I have my reservations about this marriage lasting. Here are ten reasons not to marry Charlie Sheen.

1. Shot his former girlfriend Kelly Preston. Sure, this was an accident and she only suffered minor injuries, but not unreasonably the relationship didn’t last very long after this.

2. His name is on Heidi Fleiss’ client list. Even if it was many years ago, antibiotics don’t cure everything!! He was with 27 of her girls, he admitted in court.

3. Marriage to Donna Peele only lasted a year, and this will be his third marriage coming.

4. Used to date adult film stars Heather Hunter and Ginger Lynn Allen. Admittedly not at the same time, but remember what I said about antibiotics? It applies to penicillin too.

5. In his last divorce Denise Richards stated that she feared for her safety, that Charlie was abusive, had a gambling addiction and visited prostitutes. He denies this, and is Denise Richards a reliable source of information?

6. He is Maxim’s no. 2 on their living legends of sex list. He has allegedly slept with 5,000 women, but came in second to an Italian hotel porter named Umberto Billo. The hotel porter had slept with 8,000 women, and was fired for being too tired to perform his hotel duties.

7. Charlie is a drug user and alcoholic, but clean and sober since 1998. Unless you believe Denise Richards, who claims that he’s addicted to prescription painkillers he bought on the internet. He did go to mega-trendy Promises rehab though.

9. You would need to watch Two And A Half Men during the marriage.

10. Daughter, Sam, was born during the production of Scary Movie 3. Since the movie’s initials are “SM,” he and wife Denise Richards wanted a name with those two letters in it. Strange?

Sources: Wikipedia, IMDB.

I’m sure you could find more dirt on poor Charlie, but I’m actually starting to feel a little sorry for him. In a stay-the-hell-away-from-my-daughter kind of way. Anyway, he’s getting married. Congratulations Charlie and Brooke.

Update by Celebitchy I was initially confused by this, because I thought this chick’s last name was Wolofsky. It turns out she goes by three names, Mueller, Wolofsky and Allen, at least according to iVillage’s Daily Blabber.

Picture of Charlie and Brooke is from June 3rd, thanks to SplashNews. Do you think she’s pregnant or just voluptuous?

Tori Spelling has become a minister. You can call her reverend.

I thought that this whole thing was just a stunt for her reality TV show, which it is, but you can actually become a minister online! I always thought this was a joke.

Anyway, Tori has already performed her fist gay union, at the Chateau La Rue. Here’s what she had to say about it on her blog.

So, very exciting weekend for this new mom. I am now officially ordained. Yep, thats right….Reverend Tori Spelling! I did it last week online and my official certificate is in the mail. I’m so proud. I can’t wait to hang it. And, this weekend Chateau La Rue had its very first wedding. I was so honored when the couple asked me to officiate. We did it on the front steps of the Chateau as 40 of their friends looked on seated in a lounge like atmosphere. It was so beautiful as I united Tony and Dex as life partners in love. They wrote their own beautiful vows and there was so much love surrounding them that there wasnt a dry eye in the driveway! I was beyond nervous though. I’ve done live theater and presented at The Emmys and this by far was my scariest moment simply because they had bestowed such an honor upon me and I didnt want to let them down. Afterwards, we threw the reception on our grounds where guests dined on tapas of hanger steak, sea bass, veggie lasagna, and tuna tartare. We had amazing Martini’s( thank you Krol Vodka) that we named after the couples favorite Broadway musicals. And, once again our friends at Wilson Creek Winery provided us with their special Almond Champagne. Its the best in the world! Our guests can’t get enough of it. We danced to 80′s,70′s,house, and got a show stopping performance of “Caberet” from one of our grooms. Dean and I took Liam out onto the dance floor and he had his first dance in our arms. The three of us swayed and smiled to Madonna. It was a magical evening of pure love. I will never forget that night and was so proud to witness first hand what I already knew… that Love is pure and true Love knows no gender.As I put Liam down to bed that evening I told him that he will one day find true love. A love that unites him as one with his soulmate. He will be raised knowing that true love is the ultimate and pure love know no age, gender, or race. I’ve found it, Tony and Dex have found it, and I wish love to all that seek it. Don’t ever let anyone tell you who to Love. Only our hearts can dictate that. Congrats again Tony and Dex…we wish you a lifetime of happiness. Love, T

I really like the message here that Tori is sending about raising her child to tolerate everyone’s choice of partner, same sex or not. Still, something weird about this marriage…Oh that’s right! getting married by a former actress from Beverly Hills 90210!

Picture note by Celebitchy: Here are pictures of Tori and Dean in the UK to promote their reality show on June 1, 2007. You may have already seen them, or you probably just don’t care.

Thanks to WENN for these photos.

Could there be another reason why Jessica Simpson has been hitting the personal training sessions with such gusto lately? Of course she looks great, not that she looked bad before, she just looked…gasp… normal! But the National Enquirer is suggesting that Jessica is really seeing John Mayer’s trainer Harley Pasternak in an attempt to win Mayer back.

“Jessica and John, who dated for 10 months before calling it quits in May, are both clients of hot Hollywood trainer Harley Pasternak. And Jess, 26, has been spilling her secrets about her love life to Harley in the hopes he passes the information on to John.

“It’s a strange tactic – but Jess hopes it will make John jealous and win him back,” said the insider. “She’s been filling their workouts with talks of her ‘busy love life,’ even going as far as showing Harley photos of guys she’s been dating.””

[Linked from the National Ledger]

These two are another example of a couple that just did not make sense. I’m not going to try and argue that John Mayer is the deepest singer out there, but he’s the bottom of the ocean compared to Jessica Simpson. I lost a lot of respect for him when he dated her. The whole on-again-off-again thing got really annoying. I never understood why she dated him in the first place, considering he publicly made fun of her for thinking they were going out when he was just fooling around with her.

Either way, hiring your ex-boyfriend’s trainer to gossip to him is just pathetic. And diabolically genius if it works. John’s response to Harley was that he broke up with Jessica due to her childish, immature behavior. It is pretty lame if she’s hoping to make John jealous by talking about her exciting dating life to her trainer. It’s kind of like playing the telephone game, for adults. But there’s nothing wrong with getting your life in order, as it appears Jessica has done, and if that happens to make John jealous, so be it. But she should be doing healthy things to feel better about herself. Right? Right. I think so. Relationship games are so confusing.

Header image is of Jessica on the 4th of July. Thanks to SplashNews.

The cover story in this week’s Enquirer is all about Julia Robert’s long-standing feud with her husband’s family. She is said to have forced them to go to therapy in order to work out what she perceives as their dysfunctional relationships. Her husband Danny Moder’s sister Jyl is an alcoholic and has often gotten into screaming matches with Julia.

Julia put her foot down and said that the whole Moder side of the family had to go to counseling or they wouldn’t get a chance to see their new grandson. She even wanted to go to therapy with them, but that idea was shot down. When she learned that they had discontinued their sessions, Julia freaked out, yelled “get out!” to her husband, and decided once and for all that they weren’t going to see her new baby.

“Julia has long felt that Danny’s family is dysfunctional – especially his sister Jyl, who has battled alcoholism for years now.

“Julia felt the counseling was necessary for the Moders so they could better fit in with HER new family and understand HER needs.”

She screamed :”Get out!” according to the insider, when Danny broke the news of the therapy lapse during a family vacation in Hawaii, just weeks before Julia gave birth to the couple’s third child, Henry Daniel, on June 18.

She’s so livid, says the source, the 39-year-old mom of three has now issued an ultimatum to the Moder family: Get back in counseling or you won’t see the new baby.

[From The National Enquirer print edition, July 16, 2007]

In January there was a story that Julia Roberts pissed off her in-laws by not telling them she was pregnant before she made an official announcement.

The Enquirer story says that some of Danny’s family blame Julia for their mother’s unexpected death from a heart attack. Julia famously snatched him away from his last wife and this was said to have upset his mother. Two years after Danny’s mother-in-law passed, Julia didn’t attend a memorial service for her due to tension with her sister-in-law, Jyl.

Family dynamics are always hard and you never know who did what, but it seems like Julia could at least let Danny’s family spend a few hours with little Henry.

Julia is shown in the header image out on 6/30 with baby Henry in a sling. He was born less than a month ago, on June 18th. Thanks to Splash News for this photo.