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- Victoria Beckham’s Comme des Garçons caped trench: absolutely fabulous?
- LeAnn Rimes tweets “old app” photo: funny or genuinely frightening?
- Willow Smith, 11, got her tongue pierced: no biggie or grounded for life? (update)
- Duchess Kate is now a “lesser royal” than Princesses Beatrice & Eugenie
- Bullied bus monitor Karen Klein on the apologies: “they can do better”
- Is Robert Pattinson’s career in danger after a couple of box-office “flops”?
- Hot Guy ‘Magic Mike’ premiere: who would you rather?
- Madonna has a “DNA sterilization team” cleaning up after her on tour. Seriously.
- LeAnn Rimes says her step-sons “always want me to sing for their class”
- Beyonce & Kim Kardashian don’t hate each other after all, shock
| Victoria Beckham’s Comme des Garçons caped trench: absolutely fabulous? Posted: 25 Jun 2012 08:24 AM PDT CB and I were checking out Victoria Beckham’s oddly magnificent caped trench earlier today, and CB asked, “Burberry?” That was my assumption too – either Burberry or Victoria Beckham-copying-Burberry. But it’s neither – the trench is from Japanese label Comme des Garçons, by designer Junya Watanabe. Isn’t the trench rather magical and awesome? I like that the “cape” effect is removable too – check out the shoulder buttons. You can totally take that off, and what would you have then? A weirdly sleeveless trench dress? Which is kind of cool. Victoria was photographed at LAX, heading to London. She was tweeting about her trip too, asking her Twitter followers what the weather was like in London, and what she should wear for the trip. I should follow Posh on Twitter – she’s a devout tweeter, and she puts up interesting photos and stuff. Posh is in London for the launch of the Spice Girls musical, Viva Forever, in London’s West End. Posh will allegedly be joining all of the Spice Girls – Geri Halliwell, Mel B, Emma Bunton and Mel C, and according to sources, there were some fears that Posh wouldn’t show: “There’s been rumours knocking about that Victoria wasn’t going to show – but she always made it a priority. She was never going to miss the launch and is looking forward to seeing the rest of the girls. The musical is a proud moment for them all. It will be emotional.” Guess who wrote the musical? Absolutely Fabulous’s creator and star Jennifer Saunders. Which… I mean, I would totally want to see that. SWEETIE DARLING LET ME IN SWEETIE DARLING LET ME IN. Photos courtesy of Fame/Flynet.      |
| LeAnn Rimes tweets “old app” photo: funny or genuinely frightening? Posted: 25 Jun 2012 07:52 AM PDT MOTHER OF GOD. LeAnn Rimes tweeted the header photo yesterday with the message, “My new look…..gotta love the old app!!!!!” So… there’s an app that turns people into duck-faced brunette psychos? Because she’s channeling Stephen King’s Carrie in this photo. Like, she totally has dirty pillows. Her dirty pillows are wonky and lop-sided, and they’re bolted-on to her bony chestplate. But still, dirty pillows. What’s with the lips? I don’t even know. I will say this… I don’t think the lips are the product of an “app”. I think she got lip injections. LeAnn was tweeting photos all of last night, and this is the one that makes me think she got some recent lip work done: See? Between the wonky dirty pillows and the lip injections, LeAnn is really hellbent on making herself over into the rather typical-looking Hollywood blonde. It’s kind of sad. Anyway, as I mentioned in the other LeAnn post, LeAnn was out last night to sing with the Gay Men’s Chorus of Los Angeles. She brought Eddie along because, per her Tweet, “My baby is off of wrk today and gets to see the show w/ the @GMCLA I’m sure all these boys are happy he’s here too HA”. Oh, Eddie was “off work”? WTF? Whatever, LeAnn. Photos courtesy of Fame/Flynet, LeAnn’s Twitter.    |
| Willow Smith, 11, got her tongue pierced: no biggie or grounded for life? (update) Posted: 25 Jun 2012 07:43 AM PDT
So I have some sympathy for mothers of daughters, since I know I was a pain in the ass and I have no idea what that was like to deal with. For instance, I pierced my own nose when I was 18. My parents just kind of shrugged and figured I was old enough. What would I do if my 11 year old pierced her nose, her bellybutton or her tongue, like Willow Smith appears to have done? As a mom, I get the same urge to take this out of that girl’s mouth and tell she’s grounded if she even thinks about wearing metal in her mouth that isn’t from the orthodontist. Maybe I’m wrong. Maybe kids need to do dumb stuff like this in order to learn. Maybe you need to pick your battles with kids. To me, this seems like one worth fighting. My questions are: Did Willow really pierce her tongue or is she just clutching a necklace in her mouth or something? And, do her parents know about it and did they approve it before she did it? Willow dresses creatively, and we know she has the ok from her parents for that. We also know they regularly treat her like an adult. The Smiths claim they’re not Scientologists, but they sure act like they are. (And Scientologists believe kids are just little grown ups and should make their own decisions.) So do they think it’s fine that Willow pierced her tongue? If she really did this, she would presumably have to get their permission since she’s under 18. She’s a little pop star, I guess she gets free reign to do what she wants. She seems to want more of a childhood though, judging by some of the things she said lately about fame. I can see letting your kid shave their hair or dye it a bright color, but a piercing goes too far for me. Update: as many of you have pointed out, there are fake magnetic tongue rings available. Hopefully this is what Willow is wearing and this isn’t permanent. This image seems to have originated on this tumblr account. I can’t figure out any other source for it. It’s being run by Media Take Out and we first saw it on Evil Beet. Other photos are credit: WENN.com Photo credit: WENN.com    |
| Duchess Kate is now a “lesser royal” than Princesses Beatrice & Eugenie Posted: 25 Jun 2012 06:10 AM PDT This is something I’ve been wondering about for a while, and I’m glad there’s a story about it and details about the Queen approving of new “royal protocols”. Many of us have wondered: who does Duchess Kate really “outrank” in the royal family? It’s generally thought that “blood princesses” (born into the family, born with a royal title) are superior to those princesses/duchesses who simply marry into the family. Like, obviously, Princess Anne (The Princess Royal) far outranks Duchess Kate. But how about Princesses Beatrice and Eugenie? Are they equal to Kate? Are they lesser? Although Kate wasn’t “born” with a royal title, she will be Queen one day – does that affect the situation? Well, The Mail has all of the answers. And it’s not what I was expecting:
So, basically, the Queen let it be known that Kate and Camilla should always courtesy to the blood princesses, but in reality, it probably won’t happen because William wants to make sure that his cousins respect Kate’s position. ??? I guess. Basically, the rule should be “Everyone needs to courtesy to Princess Anne, and beyond that you’re all on your own.” Photos courtesy of WENN.    |
| Bullied bus monitor Karen Klein on the apologies: “they can do better” Posted: 25 Jun 2012 04:27 AM PDT
I’m sure you’ve seen the video by now of bus monitor Karen Klein being relentlessly bullied and taunted as she tried to do her job. I’ll be honest, it was so mean I couldn’t watch all of it. The kids said some awful, horrible things to this poor lady, including telling her that her kids should commit suicide, as she sat there crying. She didn’t get mad, she didn’t yell at the brats, and she just took it. Part of the reason that this video resonated with so many people was because Klein’s son did commit suicide ten years ago, which made it even harder to watch with that background information. It was just staggering to listen to these kids say such terrible things. People have taken up a collection for Karen, started by a Canadian guy who was touched by her story. It’s currently at $644,669, well exceeding the $5,000 goal to send Karen on a nice vacation. Radar has an interview with Karen’s daughter about what she intends to do with the money. To me, this interview reveals what a hard life Klein has had. One of her grandchildren has autism and she has another grandchild with Downs syndrome. She has a lot of bills to catch up on and this money will go a long way toward helping her retire. Karen says she’s not sure if she’s going to retire or not, but in an interview on CNN she sounded like she was considering it. Here’s more:
[From Radar] Karen told Matt Lauer on the Today Show that the bullying “Made me feel terrible, but I will get over it. I’ve gotten over everything else.” In a local interview, she said that she feels sorry for the boys, who are seventh graders, and revealed that she’s not going to press criminal charges against them. Some of her tormentors have received death threats. A few of the boys have since written to apologize to Karen, and she did receive a personal apology and a hug from one of their fathers. She told TMZ that she didn’t really accept the apologies, and that “they can do better than they did.” As for how she thinks the kids should be punished, she now has some definite ideas. She thinks they should be banned from riding the bus, and that they should not be allowed to participate in sports. You know what I’m wondering, who leaked that video*? That person is an unsung hero in this story. I’m picturing a quiet student who knew that it wouldn’t have made a difference to speak out at the time, and realized it would have made him or her a target. This story has really put a focus on how scary and mean bullying can be, and how it affects so many people. It’s hard to see kids acting like this and to consider that this type of behavior really goes on in schools. *Update: thanks to those of you who pointed out that the video was posted on Facebook by one of the kids who bullied Klein. Unbelievable.    |
| Is Robert Pattinson’s career in danger after a couple of box-office “flops”? Posted: 25 Jun 2012 04:26 AM PDT Over the weekend, Cosmopolis opened in six foreign markets (which, to be entirely fair, are not huge movie markets) to $2.8 million in box-office receipts, and certain publications are claiming that this “flop” is all due to leading actor Robert Pattinson. Never mind that director David Cronenberg, despite all of his talent, is much more of a filmmaker with a cult following than one who can necessarily demand a large, commercial audience for his movies. Last year’s A Dangerous Method finally eeked out $27.4 million after 23 weeks of being open in 30+ markets, and many of his films have made very little (such as $2 million for Crash) and certainly much less than Cosmopolis will eventually pull in. So it’s kind of unfair to pick on Sparkles for this one movie that hasn’t even fully been released as of yet. Unfortunately, that’s exactly what’s happening, and it’s sure to kill Sparkles, who just can’t stop reading his own press. I hope he’s not going to read this article from The Mail, which gleefully dances on the (alleged) grave of Sparkles’ career after this weekend, and they’re comparing his movies to that of Kristen Stewart. It’s a pretty ugly stance to take, but The Mail does that sometimes:
[From Daily Mail] Okay, so they sort of have a point about Bel Ami, which was pretty awful movie and should have never been made in the first place — with or without Sparkles. Still, he (or his agent) should have known better than to sign onto that mess in the first place, but The Mail is really needlessly bashing Sparkles when, in reality, he’s been making very small-budget movies in an effort to prove his credibility as an actor beyond blockbuster movies. In a way, he’s been successful thus far — both Water for Elephants and Remember Me turned a profit, and Cosmopolis could very well recoup its budget as well. Also, pitting Sparkles against his girlfriend’s successes is rather unfair. Until the very recent blockbuster success of Snow White and the Huntsman, Kristen’s non-Twilight fare has pretty much been a commercial disaster. In just the past few years, Welcome to the Rileys, The Runaways, and The Yellow Handkerchief all lost money in theaters. Sure, the takeoff of SWATH makes her look very good to producers, but most of the people who watched that movie went to see Charlize Theron, Chris Hemsworth, and some cool-looking special effects, right? Let’s not take one lucky movie on K-Stew’s behalf and say it makes Sparkles look bad in comparison. Photos courtesy of Fame/Flynet        |
| Hot Guy ‘Magic Mike’ premiere: who would you rather? Posted: 25 Jun 2012 04:25 AM PDT I already covered some of the photos from last night’s Magic Mike premiere at the Los Angeles Film Festival – Joe Manganiello wore a tight, shiny grey suit, in case you missed it. Well, considering today is kind of dead already (ugh, Mondays), let’s talk about some of the other photos from the premiere. Surprisingly, all of the hot dudes in the film came out for this premiere. I’m including photos of Channing Tatum (with wife Jenna Dewan), Matthew McConaughey, Adam Rodriguez, Matt Bomer and Alex Pettyfer. This is a question I haven’t asked yet, surprisingly enough – which one of these dudes is your favorite? Like, if all of them wanted to buy you a drink and take you home, who would you go with? You can add Joe Manganiello into the mix if you want, although… I mean, he’s man-candy. I get that. He’s big and dumb and he’s got an excellent body, and sometimes that’s all a lady wants and needs. But in an ideal world, if you had your pick? My pick… uhhhhh… probably Channing. I like Channing. I think he’s funny and he seems sweet and cool and like he’d be a fun guy to hang out with. I love Southern boys, though – they’re a weakness of mine. Matt Bomer is a Southern boy too. And he’s impossibly beautiful (and gay). Even if Bomer was straight, his beauty would probably make me too nervous to hit it. So… my #2 choice is Alex Pettyfer – a smug d-bag who is awfully pretty too. I wouldn’t even bother with McConaughey, and I don’t really know anything about Rodriguez. Photos courtesy of WENN.    |
| Madonna has a “DNA sterilization team” cleaning up after her on tour. Seriously. Posted: 25 Jun 2012 04:20 AM PDT These are some newish photos of Madonna in Florence, Italy last week, where she was filming a new music video or commercial or something. Yes, I’m including a photo of her leather-clad grundle. You’re welcome. Anyway, Madge is still on her Magical MDNA tour, and she’s still making outlandish, crazy demands. Sure, she’s Madonna – insane riders come with the package. She makes a crazy amount of money and she IS crazy. Of course she’s going to have fresh flowers and 20 international phone lines. But did you know that she’s also got a team of cleaners to come in after her so that her DNA can be completely scrubbed from every surface? Um.
I don’t understand the paranoia about this if you’re A) a woman or B) Not wanted for any crimes in which comparative DNA evidence can be used in a court of law. The woman thing – like, if it was a dude who was paranoid about paternity tests or DNA evidence being used to frame him of assault or something, maybe I could understand. MAYBE. But it’s Madonna. Do people really care if you touched the same Kleenex that Madonna touched? Eh. Photos courtesy of WENN.    |
| LeAnn Rimes says her step-sons “always want me to sing for their class” Posted: 25 Jun 2012 04:16 AM PDT This ^^ is a photo LeAnn Rimes tweeted with the message, “Getting ready for the @GMCLA boys”. I had to look it up – GMCLA stands for Gay Men’s Chorus of Los Angeles. I guess she was invited to the awards show or something. And since most of the photo agencies were ignoring the event, LeAnn decided to tweet a photo for us. Because she’s the gift the keeps on giving. Incidentally, I glanced through LeAnn’s Twitter feed, and she’s still bitching about bullying. Yesterday she tweeted, “I love all my fans and friends dearly and it hurts to see any bullying or negativity going on amongst you guys. I’m saddened. All I will say”. So… she’s not playing the victim right now? She says that there’s bullying amongst her fans – fan-on-fan bullying? What does that look like? LeAnn also has a new interview with a radio station (via Taste of Country). She talked a lot about her music, and how her next album is her last with Curb Records – there’s a lot of subtext in here, I think, especially since her music career is in the toilet right now. But of course, LeAnn pivots to her role as mother. Step-mother. Mother.
The boys ask her to come and sing to their class? The boys come on tour with her? I won’t get into it. I just provide the quotes. I guess it’s nice that Mason and Jake Cibrian are growing up in a household where their stepmother would do anything for them. Anything involving a bikini and a spotlight. Incidentally, I received a tip about Eddie Cibrian’s latest acting gig. Did you know he’s still “acting”? He is! He had a guest spot on Rizzoli & Isles, and apparently the fans of the show weren’t into it at all. He played a veteran with PTSD, and he had a thing for Isles. He wants to “sculpt” her. Or something. I didn’t watch it (I hate that show and how the policework and forensics are represented), but you can read a funny summary here. I’m including some rare photos of Eddie solo from Friday. LeAnn let him off the leash for the day! Happy birthday, Eddie. Photos courtesy of Fame/Flynet and LeAnn’s Twitter.    |
| Beyonce & Kim Kardashian don’t hate each other after all, shock Posted: 25 Jun 2012 04:14 AM PDT There were rumors going around that Kim Kardashian and Beyonce didn’t get along at all. In Touch Weekly claimed that Kim was being “abandoned” by her celebrity friends, and that Gwyneth Paltrow and Beyonce were Mean-Girling Kim because they thought Kim was super-cheesy and budget. But… when Beyonce did her Memorial Weekend concerts, Kim went to one of them and sources claimed Kim was really trying to be tight with Bey, because Bey’s husband and Kim’s boyfriend are so close. Well… it’s happening. Bey and Kim went to a Watch the Throne concert over the weekend, and they looked friendly and tight.
So… Beyonce has given Kim the side-eye of approval. And Jay-Z seems fine with Kim too – Kim, Jay and Kanye hung out together about a month ago too. So… no drama? Well, we’ll see what Gwyneth has to say about this mess. Gwyneth thinks she’s down with Jay-Z and Kanye, but Goop also thinks she’s Beyonce’s big sister. Will Goop lay down the “No Kardashians” Law? I’m also including a photo of Beyonce from her Tumblr. I don’t even know. Photos courtesy of Twitter (via Us Weekly) and Beyonce’s Tumblr.    |
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