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Oct 3
'07
Brad Pitt on why he turned his back on religion

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Brad Pitt, who was raised as a Southern Baptist, has a pretty interesting interview in the upcoming issue of “Parade” magazine. He says that as he entered college, he began to doubt religion, and that doubt stays with him today. He says he believes in his family and the goodness of people, and that’s where he puts his faith. In a way, it helped him discover himself by really thinking about things. I know a lot of our commenters have said they don’t think Brad is very smart, and while I wouldn’t accuse him of secretly attending Mensa meetings, I think he’s got a lot more going on in his brain than most celebrities.

Now the head of Hollywood’s most famous family finds comfort in his partner Angelina Jolie and their four children, Maddox, 6, Pax, 3, Zahara, 2, and one-year-old Shiloh. “I still have faith in that,” he says. In the new issue of “Parade” magazine, Pitt discusses his evolution from college journalism student to actor to philanthropist. Is a run for office in his future? See interview excerpts below to find out…

On inequality:
“Whoever said all men are born equal never left his own backyard. I see people everywhere without opportunity. I want to help level the playing field.”

On whether his charity work is the result of his relationship with Jolie:
“That’s idiotic! I do it because I’m a member of the human race. In Africa you see people on the street dying from AIDS, children left without parents. We’re all cells of one body, with the same emotions and desires for our families–for a little dignity and a chance for a better life. Let’s focus on that! I believe in the founding principles of America. I want to fight for that. I know most Americans feel the same way.”

On whether he’ll ever run for office:
“Oh, my God! I never thought about it. I have no desire at this point. Maybe I serve better by not going through that door. George [Clooney] should do it! He’d be quite good. I think Ben Affleck should run.”

On being famous:
“When fame really hit me was when Legends of the Fall was released three years later. You get no warning about what celebrity is or how to deal with it. It’s sort of multitiered. The initial stage is feeling discombobulated and not up to the task. I didn’t understand the incessant attention when I went outside, the way people completely focused on me. It made me very uncomfortable.

On the paparazzi:
“I mean, yesterday Angie was taking Maddie off to school. There were 30 paparazzi outside. One guy sticks a video camera in Mad’s face, yelling, ‘Maddox! Maddox!’ He doesn’t get a response. He doesn’t know my boy. Mad is already savvy to this, unfortunately. But my 2-year-old dreads being anyplace there are cameras. It scares her. They’re all in her face. My kids are faced with this every day! It’s disgusting. So we’ve been run out of L.A., all the major cities. We just can’t live there. You don’t understand–this is the hunt, the hunt, the hunt! I thought it might be over a year ago. It’s gotten worse.”

On turning away from religion:

“I didn’t understand this idea of a God who says, ‘You have to acknowledge me. You have to say that I’m the best, and then I’ll give you eternal happiness. If you won’t, then you don’t get it!’ It seemed to be about ego. I can’t see God operating from ego, so it made no sense to me.

On the ways of the world:
“We’re basically all the same. There is so much focus on our differences. Again, this thing of ego—my high school is better than your high school! We forget that we all have the same feelings on any side of the world. Why can’t we find common ground instead of this obsession with our hatreds?”

[From Us Weekly]

While I may not agree with Brad on everything, it’s hard to deny that it sounds like he’s actually thought a lot of things through that many people never bother to wrestle with. I think Angelina has been a good influence on him in terms of charity, but he was a bit of a do-gooder before he met her, just a less public one. I think Brad’s still smarter and more caring than 9 out of 10 celebrities out there, and I hope he keeps up the good work.

Picture Note by Jaybird: Here’s Brangelina at the Assassination of Jesse James premiere on September 18th. Header image of Brad at the Clayton’ New York City Premiere on September 24th. Images thanks to PR Photos.

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Posted in Angelina Jolie, Ben Affleck, Brad Pitt, Brangelina, Family, George Clooney, Kids, Politics, Relatioships, Religion

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Oct 3
'07
Brad Pitt and George Clooney make housevisit to depressed widow

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Brad Pitt and George Clooney were supposedly both in NY filming Burn After Reading when they heard a production assistant talking about her depressed granny, whose refused to leave the house after the recent death of husband. George and Brad convinced the woman to take them to her granny thinking they could cheer her up. The rest sounds like a scene from a movie:

The next day, the girl knocked on Granny’s door - and the woman nearly fainted when she opened up and saw not one, but two Hollywood leading men grinning like idiots. George and Brad sat down for a quick cup of tea, then told her to go get herself dolled up - and walked her to hte hairdressers, where they spent half an hour gossiping with her pals and a gaggle of ga-ga gals, generously dispensing autographs, hugs and kisses.

[From the National Enquirer, print edition, Mike Walker’s column, October 8, 2007]

There’s no way this story is true, because if it was it would have been picked up by several news outlets and not just the National Enquirer. Pitt and Clooney supposedly went to a hair salon and schmoozed with the ladies for a half an hour! Someone would have blabbed and taken cell phone pics.

Plus that guy Mike Walker’s column in the Enquirer has a questionable hero story about a celebrity just about every week, many of which go unverified. I want to believe, though, because this story is just too good to pass up. The only thing it’s missing is a medical rescue in which Clooney and Pitt swoop in just in time to call paramedics as the old lady is having a stroke, saving her life with their excellent timing and dashing good looks.

Clooney did tell his girlfriend not to move after their motorcycle accident. That’s heroic enough for me.

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Posted in Brad Pitt, Fake News, George Clooney, Heroes

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Oct 3
'07
Howard K Stern sues the pants off of gravel-voiced Rita Cosby

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I’m no giant Larry Birkhead fan, nor am I at all a Howard K Stern fan, but I gotta say that sometimes there are really justified lawsuits, and this sure sounds like one. Rita Cosby - the former MSNBC anchorwoman with a voice that reminds you of running across playground gravel – wrote a book titled “Blonde Ambition: The Untold Story Behind Anna Nicole Smith’s Death” in which she accused Howard K Stern and Larry Birkhead of being gay lovers. Now I can’t deny that Birkhead has a bit of a case of “gay face” as Perez Hilton calls it – but her accusations seem like complete horseshit. From pretty much every opinion we’ve ever head, Stern was freakishly obsessed with Anna Nicole, and desperately in love with her. I know we could make a lot of arguments, but sometimes, you can just tell something is pure bullshit, and Cosby is one of them. I’m probably tainted by the fact that I have an intense loathing for the woman – has anyone ever suggested she try clearing her throat? It could do wonders for the voice. There’s just something about her that always struck me as hackish and desperate, and she never seemed like a real reporter. She was all over the Anna Nicole mess – and I know we’re not ones to criticize, but hey, we don’t work for MSNBC either.

So Howard Stern has sued Cosby for libel – and though I don’t like him, I hope he takes every sent that crazy woman has.

“Usmagazine.com confirms that former Anna Nicole Smith lawyer Howard K. Stern has sued journalist Rita Cosby for libel. Stern’s lawyer Lin Wood tells Us, ‘The libel lawsuit was filed this afternoon in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York against Rita Cosby and her publisher, Hachette Book Group USA.’

“The lawsuit, which was first reported by CelebTV.com, asks for $60 million dollars in compensatory and punitive damages.

“Former MSNBC anchor Cosby is the author of Blonde Ambition: The Untold Story Behind Anna Nicole Smith’s Death. In the book, she writes that Stern, 38, and Larry Birkhead, Smith’s former lover and the father of her daughter, Dannielynn, engaged in homosexual acts, which were caught on tape. Further, the book alleges that Stern and Birkhead struck a deal — Birkhead would get custody of Dannielynn in exchange for Stern being named executor of Smith’s estate.

“Before the book’s release, Birkhead, 34, told Us of Cosby’s claims, ‘If this book is not sitting next to Harry Potter on the fiction shelf, then Rita Cosby is going to be wrapped in one of the most expensive lawsuits ever.’”

[From Us Magazine]

Considering all of the gay love accusations in Cosby’s book were based on this supposed tape of Stern and Birkhead going at it, that woman better be able to produce a tape. On the other hand, I really don’t believe a tape exists – as a lawyer, I doubt Stern would risk a lawsuit that would likely force such a tape to be played. Would he really expose himself to that? Probably not. Like I said, I think Rita Cosby’s a hack and full of shit. She got canned by MSNBC and went out drinking and partying and dancing on bars all over Manhattan afterwards. I’m a total current events junkie, and can tell you everything you never needed to know about almost every cable journalist out there. And Rita Cosby couldn’t cut it, so she wrote some crap-ass book to try to get herself a little publicity. Congratulations Rita. Now you’ll lose every penny of that $48,000 MSNBC probably paid you.

Picture Note by Jaybird: Here’s Rita Cosby and her “the frog in my throat ate some gravel” voice. Just listen for 30 seconds to get the point, but no longer - I don’t want any of you to suffer hearing loss… or nightmares. Images thanks to PR Photos.

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Posted in Books, Howard K. Stern, Larry Birkhead, Lawsuits, Rita Cosby

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Oct 3
'07
Alyssa Milano says she’s the girl guys never got over

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I really wish Celebitchy were like Myspace, and we could have annoying music blare out at you when you opened an article. Since we don’t work that way, if you all could start humming the first few chirpy bars of the “Who’s the Boss?” theme song right now, that’d be great. Just hum until Tony drives his van up to Angela’s house and hugs her. [“There’s a time for love and a time for living. You take a chance and face the wind…”] Alright, we’re there. Did that bring you back? Good, because Alyssa Milano says all you men have been stuck there for the last twenty years or so. Well probably not stuck on Tony and Angela, though I don’t know how your preferences go, so I won’t judge. Man I can never get that damn song out of my head. [”There were times when I lost a dream or two. Found the trail, and at the end was you…”] No, according to Alyssa Milano, you’re all stuck on her. Well, according to Alyssa’s friend, but Alyssa felt the need to share it with “Us Weekly,” which means she must think it’s true.

Alyssa has declared to “Us Weekly” that she will no longer be dating athletes. She’s had a baseball obsession for years (ahem, wasn’t Tony Danza a former baseball player on “Who’s the Boss?” Creeeeeeepy!) and has dated them almost exclusively. She even has a line of baseball-themed clothes. I actually kind of like that, because when every other useless starlet is putting out ridiculous designer crap with their name on it, Alyssa Milano is putting out athletic clothes. So points for being different and doing your own thing. [“There’s a path you take and a path untaken - The choice is up to you my friend…”] But apparently she’s decided she’s taken the baseball love a bit too far, and is done dating men that tote around bats.

“Alyssa Milano is single, and says she’s done living out the fantasy of being a baseball player’s girlfriend. ‘I’d love to just find a good plumber or doctor,’ the 34-year-old actress tells Details in its November issue. ‘I’ve gotten such s— about my dating choices,’ she says. (Her last three boyfriends – Carl Pavano, Barry Zito, and Brad Penny – have all been Major League pitchers.) ‘Like, every single article … is about how I’m ‘the chick that dates athletes,’ and there’s an insane double standard going on.’

“Milano, a lifelong Dodgers fan who recently scored a post-season reporting gig, laments the fact that New York Yankees star Derek Jeter gets away with dating starlet after starlet on her blog on MLB.com. But given a recent conversation she had, it shouldn’t be too hard for her to score the man – baseball player or not – of her dreams: ‘My friend tells me, “Every time I mention you in front of guys, they all go nuts.” So he asked one of them, “What is it about her? Can you define it?” And the guy said, “She’s the girl we never got over.’”

[From Us Weekly]

Man I wish I had unchecked self-esteem like that. Yes I realize Alyssa wasn’t actually saying it about herself, but to pass it on is still pretty ballsy. So to speak. I just made a sports pun! I didn’t know I could do that. I think that means I’m an athlete now. Anyway, it’s probably a good idea for Alyssa to open up her mind a little. I used to have a rule that I was only attracted to brunettes – I have no idea why – and I probably missed out on some pretty great guys because of that. Now imagine if you whittled down your options to one small subset of men that played a certain sport for a living? That’s got to hurt. I mean it must help that she’s famous and beautiful, but you could still be missing out on the best guy in the world [“Nights are long but you’re on your way - to a brand new life around the bend!”]

Note by Celebitchy: Alyssa Milano is shown at the San Sebastian International Film Festival on 9/24/07. Thanks to PRPhotos.

And here’s the Who’s the Boss intro that JayBird wants to get stuck in our heads.

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Posted in Alyssa Milano, Men, Relatioships

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Oct 3
'07
Fox Reality Channel Really Awards 2007

Ahh, Fox. Always so classy. It’s pretty funny that the owners of “Fox News” are the same guys that give you “Cops” and “When Bears Attack” and now “Fox Reality Channel Really Awards 2007.” Oh greatest prestige of prestiges. I don’t know why anyone would show up for this. It’s like an awards show to crown the most pathetic loser. I mean there’s desperate, and there’s shooting yourself in the foot.

I’d like to point out a few of the classiest outfits – namely Leilene Ondrade’s. I have this gorgeous spider web outside my window, and I’m pretty sure that very spider designed Ondrade’s outfit. If you look close enough, you can see some leaves and a dead bumble bee stuck in there.

So what’s the point of the “Really Awards?” Couldn’t really tell you. Let’s see if this guy can.

“The Fox Reality Channel seems to create its own reality, one in which it gets to have its own awards show. It’s called the ‘Really Awards,’ and it happened last night, but won’t air until the 13th. Not that it matters to gossipists and TV celebrity followers, because the pictures and news from the show have already leaked out.

“’The biggest news is that Danny Bonaduce and Jonny Fairplay got into a huge fight for not much reason at all. Fairplay is tiny and has no sense of caution, and Bonaduce is a bodybuilder with an anger problem, so you can guess the outcome: missing teeth and an ambulance ride for Fairplay. It’s possible we’ll see charges filed.

“Other notes: Brooke Hogan was there and looked horrible. Sanjaya showed up for some reason. And of course Elvira was there to promote her new show, ‘The Search For The Next Elvira,’ airing this Halloween.”

[From TV with MeeVee]

Not to be more of a snot than I already am, but do we really need a next Elvira? Isn’t one enough? I wasn’t under the impression that it was something like Santa Claus or the President of the United States, where you always needed a current one. I’ve never head someone ask “Which Elvira are you voting for in the next election?” Maybe I’m not as topical as I thought. I have to tell you, this show sounds super professional and well produced. Are you wondering about the Danny Bonaduce fight? Well probably not, but I thought I’d tell you all about it, because rage-a-holics are funny when they’re onstage.

“Sources reveal that Danny lost his cool when Johnny was on stage attempting to read the teleprompter. The audience was booing Johnny since he couldn’t read his lines and Danny decided to break Johnny’s mouth ‘Bonaduce’ style. He obviously forgot that he was at an award show and not in the boxing ring.

“‘Danny ran upstage and told Johnny that everyone is booing him because he sucks. Johnny attacked Danny out of anger and began to hump him. Danny threw Johnny over his shoulder and broke his tooth. Blood was all over the stage and Johnny ran off and began to cry. Hollywood’s infamous trannie Alexis Arquette took initiative to walk on stage and finish the set.’”

[From Hollyscoop]

Anytime Alexis Arquette has to take the initiative to clean up your mistakes, you’ve got some serious problems. I never really think of her as the “go-to-girl,” and maybe she just wanted some attention, but if nothing else, it shows some level of professionalism that she did something. Though I’d be more inclined to sit there and just enjoy the drama. It’s like the “Jerry Springer Show,” awards-style. Here are some pictures from the general fugishness of the night.

Pictured in order are Sanjaya Malakar and his sister, Brooke Hogan, Janice Dickinson, Chyna Doll, Ron Jeremy, Danny Bonaduce, Elvira, Warren G, Shane Sparks, Ant, Makala Gordon, Brandon Rodgers, Hugh Hefner with Holly Madison, Bridget Marquardt and Kendra Wilkinson, and Leilene Ondrade. Thanks to PRPhotos for these pics.

Posted in Hugh Heffner, Reality Shows, Sanjaya Malakar, Television

Written by JayBird         See post for comments
Oct 3
'07
“Jude Law is not balding gracefully” Links

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- Jude Law should just shave his head and get it over with. He should grow a goatee too. I love that look. [DListed]
- Tyra Banks is not engaged [Bossip]
- Britney Spears got her drivers license, then drove around aimlessly like she did before she got her drivers license. [Celebslam]
- Britney is Confident She’ll Get the Kids Back [yeeeah]
- Britney’s Aunt fears for her life. [ICYDK]
- Star thinks Britney hit rock bottom. They haven’t seen anything yet [popbytes]
- Angelina Jolie To Produce Doctors Without Borders Show [I’m Not Obsessed]
- Kid Rock says Pamela Anderson Lied About Miscarriage [CelebWarship]
- Zac Efron Can Pump Gas By Himself! [Bastardly]
- Jessica Simpson’s Crazy Cleavage [Drunken Stepfather]
- Even Models Use Public Bathrooms [Hollywood Rag]
- Important stuff stolen from the Indiana Jones production [Seriously? OMG! WTF?]
- Gratuitous Insincere Tom Cruise Photo Of The Day [Agent Bedhead]
- Nicole Kidman Is A Diva Who Doesn’t Get Her Way [Crazy Days and Nights]
- John Mayer and his new girlfriend, Minka Kell, are matchy matchy [PopSugar]
- Danielle Lloyd Parties with her Orange Friends [The Grumpiest]
- Denise Richards Is a Sad, Jobless Pig [CelebNewsWire]
- Andrew Firestone: Engaged Again! [Evil Beet]
- Courtney Love is pissed at Dave Grohl again [Gabsmash]
- Brooke Hogan is a Handsome Man [IDLYITW]
- Amy Winehouse Drinks Something Worse Than Booze [Glitterati]
- Nicole Richie Smiles For The Camera [Celebrity Baby Scoop]
- Nic Cage’s Burglar Gets Nabbed [Socialite’s Life]
- Gwyneth Paltrow hasn’t been seen with her husband in ages. When do you think we’ll hear that they broke up? [Just Jared]
- Is Kristen Kreuk Breaking Up at the Airport? [Egotastic]
- The Eva Longoria parody sex tape was shot two months ago [Lifeline Live]
- Flash back: Geri Halliwell nude (NSFW) [Celebworm]
- New Dove Viral Video Teaches Girls Everything About What’s Really Important In Life [Best Week Ever]
- Anucha Browne Sanders was awarded 11.6 million dollars in her sexual harrasment suit against Isiah Thomas and the NY Knicks [Rhymes with Snitch]

Posted in Links

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Oct 4
'07
Jennifer Aniston Top-Selling Magazine Face


Everyone knows that cover art is very important to the marketing of anything with a cover. Books, CDs, magazines….so if you’re thinking about putting out a new magazine, who should you feature on the cover? Sure, a technology magazine might feature someone like Bill Gates, but a celebrity weekly magazine will shift more copies if Jennifer Aniston’s face is on the cover:

Top-Selling Celebrity Faces
1. Jennifer Aniston
2. Brad Pitt
3. Scarlett Johansson
4. Angelina Jolie
5. Reese Witherspoon
6. Katie Holmes
7. Carrie Underwood
8. Jennifer Hudson
9. Valerie Bertinelli
10. Kelly Ripa

Forbes

Oh, how I love a top ten list! But how were the leaders decided? Forbes took the sales of the six leading celebrity weeklies - People, Star, US Weekly, In Touch Weekly, Life & Style and OK! - and monitored their sales over six months.

We (Forbes) eliminated all non-celebrity and collage covers as well as special issues with exceptionally large rate bases. Then we counted how many more–or less–issues the celebrity’s cover sold, as compared with the magazine’s average newsstand sales. Next, we factored in the number of full covers a celebrity graced. Finally, we ranked his or her consumer appeal using data from Encino, Calif.-based polling firm E-Poll Market Research to rule out flukes.

Forbes

Interestingly, Jennifer Aniston only featured on 6 covers during the six month period. Britney Spears was on eighteen covers, but failed to make the top ten list.

Personally, I’m hoping to get on the research team that studies what shirtless man sells the most magazines. Am I qualified? Probably not, although I’m influenced by a nice set of abs as much as the next person.

Picture note by Celebitchy: Jennifer Aniston is shown on the set of He’s Just Not That Into You on 9/25. She was playing a bridesmaid. Thanks to Splash News for these pics.

Posted in Jennifer Aniston, Magazines

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Oct 4
'07
Pete Doherty Engaged To Another Model - How Does He Do It?


Pete Doherty must be quite a catch, it’s just I don’t see it. Perhaps it’s his ingenuity, making his cat its own little crack pipe? Perhaps it’s his bedroom abilities? I don’t think it’s his musical talent, since as far as I can tell he doesn’t spend a whole lot of time making any. Still, he must have something going for him, with his rumoured engagement to model Irina Lazareanu.

“I very recently got engaged,” the Romania-born, Canada-reared Lazareanu, 25, is quoted by the fashion-industry trade paper as saying at Tuesday’s fashion shows in Paris. No wedding date has been set, the paper adds.

Lazareanu and Doherty have reportedly known each other for 10 years and have long been linked through his band – she was a backup singer – as well as with fellow musician (and friend) Sean Lennon.

A rep for Lazareanu’s agency would not confirm or deny the engagement. But a friend who was with her backstage Tuesday told PEOPLE, “She had a huge rock on her finger and when I asked her about it, she said she was engaged.”

People

Irina is friends with Kate Moss, she was featured when Kate guest-edited Vogue, and was the face of her Top Shop collection.

Pete was given a chance to kick his drug habit before his next court hearing by judge Davinder Lachhar. This is a result of his negative drug test results over the last six weeks. Pete is appearing in court charged with – what else? – drug and motoring offences.


Kate Moss might be feeling like it just isn’t her week – her ex-fiance is now marrying her friend and she’s in trouble for wearing false eyelashes. While most of us think that a well placed false eyelash is the ultimate in flirt power, it seems wearing them in a mascara advertisement gets you in trouble with British television watchdogs.

Rimmel’s “Magnif’eyes mascara” adverts broke the rules by using images which may have exaggerated the product’s benefits, it added. And the television advert’s claim that the mascara gave “70 per cent more lash lift” could have misled viewers because it referred to a change in appearance, not actual lash length.

J Walter Thompson, the advertising agency behind Rimmel’s campaign, told the authority that Moss’s eyelashes were “cleaned up and enhanced” in post-production but did not explain the extent to which their appearance had been changed.

It insisted that Moss did not wear false lashes at the shoot but supplied no evidence to support its denial.

Independent

I thought everyone knew that false eyelashes were used in make up advertisements, particularly the recently panned Penelope Cruz ad where her lashes look like a couple of spiders are dancing on her eyelids. Truth in advertising, what next?

Note by Celebitchy: Kate Moss has been blabbing to friends that she’s engaged to her new boyfriend, musician Jamie Hince of The Hills, so it’s possible that Pete and Irina’s engagement was prompted by that news.

Posted in Engagements, Irina Lazareanu, Kate Moss, Makeup, Penelope Cruz, Pete Doherty

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Oct 4
'07
Isaac Hanson Hospitalised

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Were you one of the many who couldn’t stop MmmBopping back in 1997? Or were you one of the many who couldn’t wait for the pop music summer to end, particularly if you shared a house with Hanson fans. A girlfriend of mine had a Hanson obsessed sister, who had her room broken into and her Hanson CD’s stolen. The police’s response – “We’re looking for criminals with bad taste in music.”

I had (still have) at least one Hanson CD, my guilty pleasure that might still gets a spin or two, and I am devastated to hear that eldest brother is in hospital.

Isaac Hanson, 26, was taken to Baylor University Medical Center in Dallas on Tuesday night after a show at the House of Blues. A nursing supervisor said Hanson was in stable condition Wednesday night.

Dallas-Fort Worth television station KDFW reported he was diagnosed with a pulmonary embolism, which occurs when a blood clot in the extremities breaks away and travels to the lungs.

Hanson’s brother, Taylor, told the television station that his brother was doing well.

“We appreciate thoughts and prayers that have been out there for him,” he said by phone from Tulsa, Okla., the band’s hometown. “We want the tour to go on, so you know we are working steadfastly to see how long he’s going to need to rest.”

Houston Chronicle

Isaac and wife Nicole welcomed their first child Clarke into the world in April. Our thoughts go out to his family, friends and fans.

The band’s Tulsa concert, which is also their hometown, has been canceled.

Update by Celebitchy: Isaac Hanson is said to be in stable condition as of last night.

Isaac Hanson is shown on 8/13/07 at the Superbad premiere. Thanks to PRPhotos.

Posted in Hospitalizations, Isaac Hanson, Music

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Oct 4
'07
Britney gets monitored visitation, more attention for behaving like a child


You’ve undoubtedly heard by now that Britney Spears officially lost custody of her boys to Kevin Federline. Yesterday afternoon the judge upheld an earlier ruling that K-Fed will have full custody, with visitation rights for Britney. She must be accompanied by a social worker whenever she is in the presence of her children, and she is allowed to see them about every other day.

While K-Fed showed up at court for the judge’s ruling wearing a suit (and an eyepatch for some unknown reason), Britney could not be bothered to turn up and just sent her lawyer. She was not required to attend, but it sent a final message to the judge that she really couldn’t give a shit if she received custody or not. She didn’t take a required drug test or produce a valid driver’s license at the judge’s request, and those two factors are said to have lost her custody, along with all the other ways she defied court orders.

There was an article in the National Enquirer this week that Britney even walked out right in the middle of a custody hearing on September 17 when things weren’t going well for her. She stormed out without permission, and K-Fed was able to tell the judge after she left that he was “worried about her, and that’s why he had to fight for the kids.”

People are speculating that she’ll go back to rehab, and there’s even talk that she’ll return to the tough as nails facility in the Caribbean, Crossroads, where she left after a day in February, promptly returning to California to shave her head. I really doubt that’s true, given how she professed that she was forced into the much more luxurious Promises rehab by her manager and family, and said afterwards that she never needed treatment.

There was a story that her assistant, Alli, quit yesterday, but they were seen out together last night so that seems to be false.

Last night Britney checked into the Beverly Wilshire Hotel wearing a rumpled silky flower-print tank and shorts combo with white peep-toe pumps and carrying a fuschia purse. She looked fug and oblivious as usual, courting attention at any cost.

It’s unknown what Britney will do next, but she’ll surely try to top herself in one way or another as she continues to spiral out of control.

There is news of a sex tape taken without her knowledge, and while I doubt that story I can’t help but think she wouldn’t mind if something like that got out. She’s getting plenty of attention now, but it never seems to be quite enough for her.

Thanks to WENN for these pictures of Britney yesterday.

Posted in Britney Spears, Divorces, Kevin Federline, Kids

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