People Magazine has more insider dirt from Shaina Twain’s divorce after 14 years. I’ve said for a while that it seems like Shania is leaking the story to People herself, because they have too many insider details and she’s a woman who was wronged and isn’t about to let her husband and his mistress get away with it. Now People has a denial from the other woman. Shania’s husband “Mutt” Lange denied the affair in an earlier statement, saying that he and Shania grew apart. It sounds they pressed the alleged mistress for an answer though, because her first statement was evasive. Plus People claims to have “several sources close to the situation” who vouch for the fact that Shania’s husband cheated with this woman, who was one of Shania’s close friends in Switzerland along with managing their estate and serving as -ahem- secretary to her husband:

Speaking publicly for the first time since the news of the alleged affair became public, Marie-Anne Thiébaud, 37, told PEOPLE, “You cannot believe everything you read in the press.” When asked directly if she had an affair with Twain’s husband, music producer Robert “Mutt” Lange, she replied, “No.”

That contradicts several sources close to the situation, who say Thiébaud and Lange left their spouses for each other and continue to maintain a romantic relationship. Twain, 42, and Lange, 59, who have a 6-year-old son, Eja, announced their separation May 15. Since then, the “You’re Still the One” singer – “devastated” by the revelations, according to sources – has sought refuge with family in her native Canada.

Thiébaud began working for the ultra-private couple after they moved to Switzerland in 2000, acting as their personal assistant, secretary and manager of their vast château. By all accounts, she became one of Twain’s closest confidants. The two attended the 2006 Swiss Red Cross Ball together (PEOPLE’s exclusive first photos of Thiébaud showed the pair at the event, posing together and smiling).

[From People.com]

Maybe the mistress, who was also married when she began the alleged affair with Shania’s husband, doesn’t think it’s cheating if they were each having problems with their other relationships. Or maybe the woman has no qualms about lying to the press. Why would Shania smear this person and her husband if they weren’t cheating? I believe her, but it’s also between her and her husband and we have no way of verifying the story. They have a six year-old son together though and he’s bound to read all about this when he’s of age. Still, I would probably do the same thing if I was in Shania’s position. (As much as I like to think I would take the high road.)

Picture note: The photo that’s on the front page of the site and leads into this story is of Shania at the “Walk The Line” premiere in 2005.

On the rare occasions that I’ve pondered Bill Murray’s private life, I’ve assumed that he’s the type of guy who gets drunk and tries to drive to 711 in a golf cart. He seems like a goofy fun-loving guy, and maybe someone who would cheat on his wife, but not someone with an abusive temper or a mean streak. His second wife of over ten years claims otherwise and has filed for divorce along with a restraining order against Murray, 57.

Jennifer Butler Murray filed for divorce in Charleston counrty, South Carolina on May 12. Her reasons include adultery, drug addiction, alcoholism, and abuse. She details an incident in which he hit her in the face and said she was “lucky he didn’t kill her.” Under the provisions of their prenuptial agreement, Jennifer would get $7 million with no alimony or child support:

Jennifer Butler Murray cites the allegations as grounds for divorce, according to the complaint filed May 12 in family court. Records in the case were sealed Friday by a court order…

Jennifer Murray also seeks a restraining order barring Bill Murray from her Sullivan’s Island home and asks the court to determine if the couple’s premarital agreement is valid and enforceable…

According to the complaint, Jennifer Murray moved into a Sullivan’s Island home in 2006 with the couple’s four children due to her husband’s “adultery, addiction to marijuana and alcohol, abusive behavior, physical abuse, sexual addictions and frequent abandonment.”

Jennifer Murray purchased the Sullivan’s Island beach house in 2006 for $3.65 million, according to county property records.

It was at the Sullivan’s Island home, according to the complaint, that Murray allegedly abused his wife in November 2007. The six-page court filing says Murray “hit his wife in the face and then told her she was ‘lucky he didn’t kill her.’ ”

The complaint alleges that Murray physically abused his wife on more than one occasion during the marriage.

[From Charleston.net via TMZ]

The couple have four sons together, Caleb, 15, Jackson, 13, Cooper, 12, and Lincoln, 7. Murray also has two sons with his first wife, Margaret Kelly: Homer, 26, and Luke, 23.

Maybe Murray’s wife is emphasizing certain aspects of her husband’s character to try and get out of her prenuptial agreement, but if those claims are true that’s awful and she deserves a hefty settlement along with substantial child support. Bill Murray has three movies coming out this year: Get Smart, City of Ember, and The Fantastic Mr. Fox. He is also a co-owner of minor league baseball team The Charleston Riverdogs.

Bill Murray and Jennifer Murray are shown at the 2004 Vanity Fair Oscar Party, thanks to PRPhotos.

I hope you all are sitting down, because I have some shocking news. Newlywed Ashlee Simpson is pregnant! I know- I had no idea, either! Simpson and her new husband Pete Wentz confirmed what everyone else already knew: Ashlee has just completed her first trimester of pregnancy. So now the question is: did Ashlee wait to confirm her condition because she wanted to do the customary “wait until the third month” thing, or did she want to wait until she and Pete were married? Wait. That’s not the question. The question is, “Who gives a crap?”

Ashlee Simpson and Pete Wentz have confirmed they are expecting their first child.

They announced the news — which Usmagazine.com first broke in April — on his Web site, friendsorenemies.com, on Wednesday.

“While many have speculated about this, we wanted to wait until after the first trimester to officially confirm that we are expecting our first child,” they wrote. “This is truly the most joyous time in our lives and we are excited to share the happy news and start our family.”

The couple wed in Los Angeles on May 17. They just returned from their honeymoon to the Caribbean.

[From Us Weekly]

So, it really was a shotgun wedding after all. How quaint! I don’t know if the pregnancy and the baby are going to help their image or Ashlee’s album sales, but congrats- I guess. I’m sure we will get a comment from Papa Joe any day now, and he will be selling off photos of Ashlee’s growing baby bump to the highest bidder. One thing’s for sure - this kid will have horrible taste in music, and will probably emerge from the womb with eyeliner, fringe bangs and its own reality show.

Ashlee Simpson and Pete Wentz are shown on 5/23/08 out in NY, thanks to WENN.

Naomi Campbell should be locked up in a rubber room until further notice- either that, or sent into the mountains of Afghanistan to scare terrorists. The irrelevant British model was arrested in April at Heathrow airport after she threw a fit when her bags wound up lost. She got physical with a security officer and was taken into custody. No word on whether her cell phone was confiscated as a weapon of mass destruction. She was officially charged this morning with assaulting two police officers for that incident and must report to court on June 20 to face charges.

Naomi Campbell has been charged with assaulting a police officer at London’s Heathrow Airport, her lawyer told BBC News Thursday.

She has also been charged with one count of disorderly conduct and one count of using threatening, abusive words or behavior towards cabin crew.

The model, 38, was arrested in April aboard a British Airways flight when she threw a fit after her carry-on bags came up missing.

“Miss Campbell is bitterly disappointed that the prosecutors have advised her she is to be prosecuted for various offences,” her lawyer said in a statement after she answered bail at a London police station Thursday.

“She respects that decision and she hopes this matter is dealt with expeditiously,” he said.

She is due in court June 20.

Last year, Campbell was ordered to spend a week mopping floors at a NYC warehouse for assaulting her maid with a cell phone.

[From Us Weekly]

What is this bitch’s problem? Look, we all know how much flying sucks. There’s the nightmare that is airport security, the endless flight delays, and the knowledge that your luggage is probably headed to Fiji while you are in Cleveland. But that doesn’t justify acting like a stark-raving lunatic and putting your hands on a cop! What’s so special about her that she gets to act like this? I’m glad she got charged - but I’d like to see her get in a lot more trouble this time. Someone needs to commit this hag before she really hurts someone. Just tell her that the padded room is a trendy new nightclub and the straightjacket is from the new Calvin Klein summer collection. Then throw away the key.

Note by Celebitchy: Naomi’s assault charges carries “a maximum sentence of six months in prison and/or a fine of up to $10,000,” according to the Associated Press. Hopefully the judge will take her prior record into consideration and throw the book at her - hard.

Naomi Campbell is shown at Cannes on 5/21/08, thanks to WENN.

Jack Black, 38, and his wife Tanya Hayden, 37, welcomed their second child into the world last Friday, reports the National Enquirer. The newborn weighed 6 pounds at birth and has yet to have an official name. He will join the couple’s other son, two year old Samuel.

When Jack confirmed his wife’s pregnancy at the premiere of Be Kind, Rewind in early January, he quipped “I’ve been told that two children is three times as hard as one,” and said that his parenting style is “day-by-day.”

My husband keeps telling me that two kids are easier than one, but he’s trying to convince me and I doubt he truly believes it.

Congratulations to Jack and Tanya and best wishes to their family. It seems like very good timing for them, because Black had just wrapped up promotion for Kung Fu Panda at Cannes the week before. The animated film premieres in the US on June 6.

Jack Black and his wife Tanya Hayden are shown on 4/30/08 at the Iron Man premiere, thanks to WENN.

The people at WENN put together a before and after comparison of Clooney’s teeth, and it looks like he got a full set of veneers. They’re kind of fake-looking to me, but it’s a bit better than his look before. I wonder if his now ex girlfriend, Sarah Larson, convinced him to get dental work. She seems like the type who would think big fake teeth are attractive.

Clooney is shown on 5/6/08 signing autographs after his birthday party at Bungalow 8. He looks like he got the work sometime last month, because photos in April have him with his “before” teeth. I looked through a lot of red carpet photos and he seems to have been self conscious of his teeth because he usually poses with his mouth closed. He is also shown on the Italian talk show ‘Che tempo che fa’ on 4/10/08.

(Someone on Oh No They Didn’t noticed George Clooney’s new teeth last week, but I didn’t get to this story and may as well cover it now.)

Canadian singer and Lilith Fair founder Sarah McLachlan is 40 and has two children, India Ann Sushil Sood, 6, and Taja Summer Sood, 11 months. McLachlan has been married to the drummer in her band, Ashwin Sood, for 10 years. She was photographed looking super fit in a bikini in Hawaii yesterday. The woman has no stomach, her arms are tight, and she looks awesome.

But consider what TMZ had to say yesterday about how she looked in her black bikini. This was titled: “Sarah McLachlan: Lilith Not-So Fair”

Nineties singer Sarah McLachlan got jiggly wit it on the beach in Hawaii.
The super talented 40-year-old mother of two showed off her sexy, pudgy thighs — and flat tummy — on Monday.

[From TMZ]

Do you think the writers for The Daily Mail are doing remote work for TMZ or does the misogynist meme just infect a lot of the people who gossip online? We’re guilty of it too - I feel bad for calling celebrities pregnant when they’re not, particularly skinny Kate Hudson. I don’t see anything pudgy or particularly giggly about McLachlan though and she should be proud of her body. I wish I looked like that! McLachlan reminds me that I need to hit the damn gym.

Thanks to Splash News for these photos.

I think singer/songwriter Ne-Yo has been drinking antifreeze instead of letting it leak out of the bottom of his car. Because that’s the only possible – rational – explanation I can come up with for why in the world he would say that Lindsay Lohan’s upcoming album sounds like anything other than shit. Well antifreeze ingestion or financial gain. Ne-Yo, who has written hit songs for Usher, Chris Brown, Whitney Houston, and Britney Spears (and about two dozen more successful pop singers) somehow got talked into writing a few tunes for Lindsay Lohan. And apparently the hit maker thinks it came out well.

Ne-Yo admits he had his doubts about Lindsay Lohan’s vocal talents when he was asked to write a song for her upcoming third album, due later this year. “I gotta admit, we were like … ‘Lindsay Lohan?’” Ne-Yo tells Billboard magazine. “I mean, I’ve written for Beyonce Knowles, Mary J. Blige, Rihanna, Celine Dion and … Lindsay Lohan?”

But after hearing her sing on the track, called “Bossy,” Ne-Yo says he and producer Stargate were so impressed that he called Lohan to say how sorry he was for not believing in her. “She did a ridiculously fabulous job,” Ne-Yo tells the magazine. “I was so shocked I had to call her and apologize for what I was thinking because she did so good. I think the world is gonna be surprised.”

Earlier this month Ne-Yo told PEOPLE that he and Stargate approached the Lohan project “as a challenge. ‘Can we make a song for Lindsay Lohan that people were gonna take seriously?’ I think we did it,” he said.

[From People]

Mark it down: Today Ne-Yo’s credibility (and career) just jumped the shark. LiLo’s first album actually wasn’t the worst thing ever. It was semi-decent pop, if you’re into that kind of music. It wasn’t some Paris Hilton/Nicole Richie crap where it was cringe-worthy awful. But from the leaked version of Lindsay’s upcoming single “Bossy,” there’s nothing “ridiculously fabulous” about it. If I were a well-respected songwriter, I wouldn’t want my name attached to anything having to do with Lindsay Lohan, unless it’s the phrase “totally shot her down.”

I once read that most famous people – be they Hollywood celebrities, politicians, or other well-known public figures – become famous because they have a combination of drive and some type of delusional personality disorder (there’s a couple to chose from). Put those two things together and you have the winning recipe for a lifetime of fame and money.

A perfect example is Tyra Banks. Tyra seems to suffer from some form of severe narcissism combined with delusions of Oprah. She’s on the cover of the upcoming issue of the New York Times Magazine, and gives a great quote that perfectly illustrates just how highly she thinks of herself.

Talk about a major coup for Tyra!

Not only is this cover stunning, it officially puts Tyra in another league.

According to the New York Times, the article “goes inside the world of Tyra Banks - ex-cover girl, ex-Victoria’s Secret model and the reigning star of two popular TV shows, ‘America’s Next Top Model’ and ‘The Tyra Banks Show’ - learn how the 34-year old entrepreneur turned herself into a brand.”

“I think I was put on this earth to instill self-esteem in young girls,” says Tyra.

[From Cover Awards via Gossip Rocks]

That’s a pretty interesting thing to say, considering Celebitchy wrote a story about how horribly Tyra treated an 11-year-old girl who was a guest on her show. Tyra embarrassed Linda and her mother Claudia on national television, refused to meet with them before or after the show, and wouldn’t pose for a picture or sign an autograph. Tyra makes a good deal of money from every show she hosts, and is profiting from humiliating this poor little girl. Linda has to go to school and likely be teased by classmates due to the experience. Tyra just gets to take a pile of cash home in exchange for exploiting Linda’s embarrassment.

What a fabulous way to instill self-esteem in young girls. Tyra no one can stand you – your abrasive personality is cringe-worthy. But there’s a fine line between your own high self-esteem and blatant narcissism, and you crossed it a long time ago. Don’t act like you’re doing anything good for anyone but yourself – let alone young girls.

I have a theory that if Ashlee Simpson can do it, anyone can. If Ashlee can scale a mountain, anyone can. If she can marry Pete Wentz, anyone can. Mind you, that doesn’t mean anyone should. And if Ashlee can take on Broadway, anyone can. And with that in mind, Britney Spears is reportedly being considered for the role of Sandy in the West End’s production of Grease.

Britney Spears has been tipped for a role on Broadway - playing Sandy in the stage version of Grease.
The singer proved her acting credentials with a highly successful stint in U.S. sitcom How I Met Your Mother and was recently linked with a move to the London stage.
Spears was reportedly in talks to star in a West End production of Tennessee Williams’ play A Streetcar Named Desire - playing the lead role of Blanche DuBois.
And now the Toxic hitmaker is once again rumoured to be considering a turn on stage - this time in hit musical Grease.
A source tells British newspaper Metro, “The producers were bouncing around the idea of casting Britney in the role of Sandy.
“They’re recasting the roles in July and they thought that Britney looked like a Sandy. She would be terrific.”

[From PR-Inside]

Britney might actually do better on the stage than she did on the small screen. I thought her acting was pretty uncomfortable and her delivery pretty stilted when she guest starred on How I Met Your Mother. But Britney is used to performing live on stage, and with some strong coaching she might be a pretty good fit for Grease.

This isn’t the first time Brit’s been rumored to be considering the stage. Last week she had dinner with George Maloof, Jr. the owner of the Palms hotel and casino in Las Vegas. The National Enquirer thinks she’s planning on making her comeback with a Vegas stage show.

Apparently Brit’s not sold yet - the couple good reviews she got for How I Met Your Mother have led her to consider her own television show. PLEASE DON’T DO IT!!

Coming this fall … Britney Spears, the sitcom?

The troubled pop star is reportedly interested in capitalizing on her “How I Met Your Mother” guest-starring success with a TV show of her own.

Spears had a meeting Wednesday with a big time producer about possible TV projects, TMZ.com reports. Brit would star in and possibly produce a show.

Sources told the site that the singer and her posse had a “serious” meeting with Roy Bank, President of Merv Griffin Entertainment, to discuss a move to the small screen. Among other ideas, the concept of a music show was thrown around.

[From the New York Daily News]

I think of the two options, the stage would be a much better fit for Britney. She’ll get to do the same performance over and over again, which seems to be a good idea for her. Practice makes perfect and all that. And if she doesn’t get it quite right every now and then, the entire country isn’t watching her, and it probably won’t end up on YouTube.

I’m still rather shocked that she got decent reviews for her television acting. I assumed people were just trying to encourage her to keep moving forward and such. Apparently it opened some doors for her. Which is great. But I still think a return to live performing would be her best bet.

Here’s Britney after shopping at Lisa Kline boutique in Los Angeles on May 21st. Images thanks to WENN.