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Anna Benson is filing for divorce from pitcher Kris Benson, who apparently is not dealing well with the effect her antics are having on his career.
 Anna Benson wants a divorce from Baltimore Orioles pitcher Kris Benson, who still thinks the New York Mets traded him because of his impulsive wife. Anna Benson, an actress and model who has posed topless, filed for divorce in Atlanta on Thursday. The petition for divorce claims the marriage is “irretrievably broken.” The couple has been married for seven years. Anna and Kris Benson have yet to comment on the divorce petition.
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In 2005, his first full season with the Mets, Benson allowed three runs or fewer in 19 starts. He was 10-8 with a 4.31 ERA, but New York won 17 of the 28 games in which he pitched. Despite those numbers, the right-hander was traded to the Orioles in January for pitchers Jorge Julio and John Maine. There was speculation that the deal was perpetuated by the behavior of Anna, who has her own web site and publicly discussed intimate details of their sex life.
Mets general manager Omar Minaya contended that Anna Benson was not a factor in the trade. Kris Benson isn’t buying it. “New York is just a world of its own. I knew that coming in, but you learn that a little more when you get put in the spotlight like that in a negative and undeserving way,” Kris Benson said. “It was a little frustrating at the time because people kind of believe what they read. For her it’s been a little tough, because they kind of portray her in a negative light.”
Anna Benson wore a provocative dress at the team Christmas party, and there was talk that she was considering posing nude for Playboy. Kris Benson bristles at the memory. “We learned a lot from the whole situation. You look at some of the things that were said, some of the lies that were passed, who believes what, who your friends are, who your friends aren’t,” he said.
He said Anna never had a serious conversation with representatives from Playboy, and that her attire at the party was “not as revealing as people say it is. The only thing they fed off is when she kind of bent over and someone took a picture of it. It’s an exaggeration of the truth, and now the Mets are going to miss out on a quality starter and the Orioles are going to benefit.”
It is indeed a bizarre situation for a baseball team and, in more ways than one, a distraction. Anna Benson is a beautiful woman who attracts a lot of attention (as my referral logs occasionally remind me) but not all of it is good from the perspective of a professional organization.
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Helen Wagner has achieved an impressive milestone: Half a century playing the same television character.
 While actors young enough to be her grandchildren come and go on television, soap opera veteran Helen Wagner has earned a place in the Guinness World Records by playing one role for 50 years.
The 87-year-old actress says the secret to her longevity as matriarch Nancy Hughes on the CBS daytime drama “As the World Turns” is simple. “They kept offering me a contract, so I kept doing it. And they kept writing things for me, so I kept saying them,” Wagner recounted in a recent interview. “I didn’t think about leaving or not leaving.”
Years after James Arness of “Gunsmoke” and Kelsey Grammer of “Frasier” retired from their respective record-tying 20-year roles in prime time, Wagner still reigns supreme as the longest-running character on any TV show played by a single actor. She has portrayed the kindly but plain-spoken Nancy Hughes since “As the World Turns” debuted on April 2, 1956, and even uttered the show’s very first line of dialogue (spoken to her TV husband): “Good morning dear, what would you like for breakfast?”
As the sole original cast member on the series, Wagner and her alter ego have witnessed more than their share of tragedy and star-crossed romance, sibling rivalries, marital infidelity and treachery. Nancy has grieved the deaths of her beloved TV daughter and first husband, remarried and endured the gradual fading of her second spouse due to Alzheimer’s disease.
I’m not sure whether I’ve ever seen a single episode of “As the World Turns,” but this is noteworthy indeed.
Rachel Hunter is finally free of Rod Stewart, apparently answering his old question “Do you think I’m sexy?” in the negative.
SUPERMODEL Rachel Hunter is celebrating after learning she will be divorced from rocker Rod Stewart within days. The beauty has been in a legal battle with Rod for SEVEN YEARS. But last night the mum of two told pals: “I should be a free woman by the end of the week.”
Rachel, 36, who has been single since splitting from ice hockey player Sean Avery last year, also confided in friends: “My lawyers told me the divorce will be coming through finally this week so I can move on. It feels great to be a free woman at last.”
She was speaking as a new set of photos were released showing her looking as sensational as ever.
Rachel’s children, Renee, 13, and Liam, 11, are by superstar Rod, 61.
he couple married in 1990 after a three-month, whirlwind romance. They split nine years later. But Rachel had agreed not to take the singer to the cleaners by signing a prenuptial agreement. Lawyers have finally thrashed out a deal whereby Rod, who has a £100million fortune, provides maintenance for Liam and Renee.
And Rachel intends to pay her own way. She has said: “I have to work like everyone else. I have bills to pay.
Well, that’s a relief. It’s not clear what photos the Sun refers to, although it mentions later that she recently appeared in Sports Illustrated. The photo below accompanies the article, although it is dated 2003.
Hunter does indeed look nice along with the other supermodels on the cover of the 2006 SI swimsuit issue.
    
Maria Sharapova, Rebecca Romijn, and Carolyn Murphy are the most notable inside-the-covers models, though.
Unfortunately, however, Hunter is having difficulty finding a man.
Rocker Rod Stewart’s ex wife Rachel Hunter is reportedly so lonely that she is calling for any interested men to ask her out. The still very sexy Hunter, who has two children with the Stewart, says she can’t find a date and says all the handsome men she meets are taken.
The stunning looker is launching her own reality TV show ‘Style Me, With Rachel Hunter’ this month and says interested suitors should be gainfully employed, like children and be ready for a make-over. However, if you are a rock star, you need not apply - Hunter vowed last year never to date another musician again. She said: “It’s probably a good idea not to, if only to let the press interest die down. I haven’t meant to date rock stars … In Los Angeles I have plenty of friends working in the film and music industries, so it just ends up that way.”
One wonders what a supermodel considers “gainfully employed.” She probably means making money like a rock star. Yet, not actually being a rock star.
Still, one would think there are plenty of well-off men in their early 40s who would be happy to have Hunter and her kids. Apparently, though, incredibly hot Hollywood women of a certain age have trouble finding companionship, as Teri Hatcher voiced similar complaints a few months back. It’s truly sad.
Naomi Campbell has been arrested for allegedly assaulting one of her employees, reports TMZ.com.
NYPD sources tell TMZ that the model was arrested at her home and taken to the Midtown North Precinct — As of 12:20 PM EST, Thursday, Campbell was still there. We’re told the alleged assault occurred in the morning.
Update: 1:17PM ET — We’re told the incident occurred at 8:00 AM EST. The alleged victim, a 41-year-old woman, was struck in the head with an object, allegedly thrown by Campbell. The woman had a laceration on the back of her head. She went to Lenox Hill Hospital for stitches.
Reuters has a more detailed account.
Supermodel Naomi Campbell was arrested at her Park Avenue home on Thursday after getting into an argument with a woman, New York City police said. Charges were pending, a police spokeswoman said. Campbell, 35, was being fingerprinted and photographed at a police station and later would be taken to court for arraignment, the spokeswoman said, without giving further details.
Campbell’s agent, Amanda Silverman, said the arrest appeared to be related to the model firing her housekeeper. “We believe this is a case of retaliation, because Naomi had fired her housekeeper earlier this morning. We are confident the courts will see it the same way,” Silverman said in a statement.
It was not the first time the British-born Campbell has had troubles with the law — in February 2000 she pleaded guilty in a Canadian court to assaulting her former assistant, and was given an absolute discharge, meaning her record was cleared.
After that incident, in which she assaulted her assistant Georgina Galanis with a telephone, she blamed her fiery temper on lingering resentment towards her father for abandoning her as a child.
Campbell has also admitted to drug use in the past. In 2004 she won a British court battle with a tabloid newspaper that was found to have invaded her privacy by running a story saying, correctly, that she had visited Narcotics Anonymous.
Sure, she’s violent. But let’s remember the important thing: She’s good looking.
    
Click the thumbnails for larger photos. The fourth one is probably not safe for work, since she’s showing her ass. The first photo, which shows off her boobs, is fine because her nipples are covered.
US Weekly reports,
Teri Hatcher and American Idol host Ryan Seacrest engaged in an unholy union of lip-mashing on a Malibu beach on March 25, after a lunch of lobster and oysters at a nearby restaurant. Hatcher sported an American Idol baseball cap, which she turned around backwards for their face-sucking session. Who says romance is dead?
“The were immersed,” says an eyewitness, who noticed Hatcher massaging Seacrest’s neck. “Every now and then, they’d embrace.”
“Teri frequently laughed loudly at Ryan’s jokes,” says an onlooker. “They were very animated with each other.”
Wow! Laughing and kissing! When did US go junior high on us?
In addition to the shocking commentary, there are steamy hot photographs. Which are Completely Safe for Work (henceforth, CSFW).
 
Goodness, he’s almost touching her ass in that last photo!
Sadly, the commenters on the site think Hatcher is out of her league rather the reverse. Robin provides a typical response:
Yikes! I cannot understand the Teri Hatcher attraction. She looks old and is scarily thin. Ryan needs to be with someone younger and hotter. I don’t see it lasting.
No argument on the last part; it’s Hollywood after all. But Hatcher is still totally hot. And Seacrest is just some dweeb from “American Idol.”
 
And let’s not forget the FHM photo spread from just last year.
      
Apparently, diva Whitney Houston is on crack. And I thought it was just the people who bought her CDs!
But the National Enquirer–which is more believable than the New York Times–reports that,
 This shocking scene of sleazy mayhem is damning proof of Whitney Houston’s tragic addiction — to crack. The National Enquirer’s sensational exclusive photo (in this week’s issue) shows the superstar singer’s private bathroom after she has locked herself away for days on yet another self-destructive binge. Amid the trash, leftover food and empty beer cans are the tools of the hardcore drug fiend — pipes, rolling papers, spoons in which powdered cocaine is cooked into crack, lighters. The picture was taken by one of Whitney’s closest friends and relatives — Tina Brown, sister of her husband Bobby.
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She confesses: “I did crack with Whitney. The truth needs to come out. She won’t stay off the drugs. It’s every single day. It’s so ugly. Everyone is so scared she’s going to O.D.”
In the most explosive interview ever about Whitney, Tina tells how the 42-year-old singer spends days locked in her bedroom amid piles of garbage smoking crack, using sex toys to satisfy herself and ignoring personal hygiene.
NYDN West Coast bureau chief Michelle Caruso has seen an advance copy of the issue and reports, “Songbird Whitney Houston has become a half-toothless crack addict who hangs out in dangerous drug dens and sees ‘demons’ in fits of dope-induced paranoia.” Not surprising, given that, “Whitney smokes as much as an ‘eight-ball’ (1/8 of an ounce) of crack at a time, mixing it with marijuana encased in a cigar wrapper.”
Furthermore, she “spends her days locked in her bedroom amid piles of garbage, smoking crack, using sex toys to satisfy herself and ignoring personal hygiene.”
My favorite part of the story, though, has to be this: “Nancy Seltzer, a spokeswoman for Houston, said she has not seen the story and could not comment on it.” Huh?! Not having read the story, you are unsure whether your client is a strung out toothless, smelly crack whore?
Well, that sure looks like Whitney Houston’s bathroom. Or, at least a bathroom.
Nicollette Sheridan uses sex to get what she wants. And what she wants is not sex. (Which reminds me of the old joke: Why don’t men use sex to get what they want? Because what sex is what they want. But I digress.)
Nicollette Sheridan may be a sexual firecracker on “Desperate Housewives” but her ex is charging she’s a flameout in real life. “I guess she’s sexy on screen, but definitely not in a real-life relationship,” former fiancé Nicklas Soderblom told the London Mirror. “She uses her sexuality to get what she wants and as soon as the ring is on her finger, she stops wanting to have sex. She’s afraid of commitment.”
And — perhaps in a case of sour grapes — Soderblom has cautionary words for Sheridan’s new fiancé, singer Michael Bolton. “I feel sorry for Michael,” he said, “because I think he really loves her. But I know there’s no way in hell a relationship is going to work with Nicollette Sheridan.”
Of course, it’s possible Sheridan just didn’t want to have sex with Soderblom?
    
And, really, who ever heard of a woman using sex to get what she wants?
Related: Nicollette Sheridan Engaged to Michael Bolton
Lucy Liu’s got some ’splainin’ to do.
Lucy Liu was left red-faced when police were called to calm her down as she partied in Montreal. The sexy actress and ‘Lucky Number Slevin’ co-star Josh Hartnett were enjoying a rare night out while filming the hit movie when Liu jumped onto a table and started dancing. She was horrified when officers showed up and told her she was disturbing the peace.
The 37-year-old is quoted in Britain’s Daily Star newspaper as saying: “I never go out when I am working but they said, ‘Come on, just one time’. “We were dancing on the tables and the Montreal police came.”
Earlier this year, Liu revealed she had a crush on Hartnett while they were shooting the film. The beautiful actress admitted it was hard not to lust after the heartthrob actor, who spends a lot of the film naked except for a towel maintaining his modesty. She confessed: “Well, I mean it’s hard not to find Josh attractive - he’s an incredibly tall, big, strapping young man!”
She’s not too bad to look at, either.
    
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Sharon Stone wants teens to have more oral sex. She also apparently carries condoms around and dispenses sexual advice to random teenagers when their parents aren’t looking.
Actress SHARON STONE is adamant teenagers should be prepared to engage in oral sex, if it saves from them the dangers of unprotected penetrative sex. The BASIC INSTINCT spends much of her time away from Hollywood working as an activist raising AIDS awareness, and she always carries condoms with her to hand out in a bid to increase safe sex levels. She explains, “I was in the store the other day and I watched a young girl trying on clothes, showing her abdomen. “Her mother was trying to talk to her about not being inappropriately luring. I said, ‘Gee that would look much nicer with a camisole under.’ “Her mother walked away, and I said to the girl, ‘I’d like to give you a two-minute conversation about sex.’ “Young people talk to me about what to do if they’re being pressed for sex? I tell them (what I believe): oral sex is a hundred times safer than vaginal or anal sex. “If you’re in a situation where you cannot get out of sex, offer a blow job. I’m not embarrassed to tell them.”
Perhaps she should be? Stone is hot but, frankly, I wouldn’t want her following my teenage daughter (if I had one) around malls giving them advice on sex. Now, if I were a teenage boy. . .
  
. . . I would love her even more.
Sharon Stone and Madonna think Hillary is too sexy to win back the White House.
Actor Sharon Stone has warned Hillary Rodham Clinton to stay out of the 2008 US presidential race, saying the New York senator and former first lady is too sexy to win back the keys to the White House. Stone, 48, who appears naked in a soon-to-be-released sequel to the provocative 1992 sex thriller Basic Instinct, said Senator Clinton had an intimidating sexuality that would cost her votes. “I think Hillary Clinton is fantastic, but I think it is too soon for her to run (for president),” Stone said in the latest edition of Hollywood Life magazine. “A woman should be past her sexuality when she runs. Hillary still has sexual power and I don’t think people will accept that. It’s too threatening.”
But while Stone wants the 58-year-old Senator Clinton to wait until her sexuality subsides, singer Madonna is urging her to “go for it” in 2008, even though the timing might not be right for Americans to put their trust in a woman president. “I don’t think now is necessarily her time, or the Democrats’ time, but she should certainly go for it,” Madonna reportedly told Out magazine. “You’ve got to start somewhere in terms of a woman leading the US. In Europe and Asia and elsewhere, women have ruled over millions. It’s not an abstract concept. “But in America, men are still afraid. And I don’t think women are too comfortable with the idea of a female in charge.”
Somehow, of all the obstacles that confront Hillary Clinton in her bid to become president, I don’t think being too sexy is among them.
   
Mrs. Clinton looks pretty good for her age–much more so than as a college student–but she’s not exactly Scarlett Johansson.
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National Ledger’s Lynda Johnson reports that Nick Lachey, famous for somehow getting Jessica Simpson to marry (and presumably have sex with) him, is now dating a midget.
Nick Lachey has gotten in another dig at ex wife Jessica Simpson. He’s traded in Kristin Cavallari for a more mature, but just as beautiful Kristin Chenoweth. The pint sized hottie from the ‘West Wing’ and ‘Bewitched’ has reportedly captured Nick’s attention. The 1999 Tony Award winner and Nick are reportedly seeing each other reports the National Enquirer.
Fresh off her FHM photo spread the blonde star looks fabulous for 37 and is five years older than Nick, and 18 years older than Kristin Cavallari. But the 4′11″ babe always references her religious upbringing (even in FHM) so she’s basically Jessica at 37.
  
  
Chenoweth is hot, no doubt, but she’s no Jessica Simpson. Either way, though, Lachey is batting way out of his natural league.
Previously: Kristin Chenoweth FHM Photo Shoot
Variety reports that Ellen Barkin will play the female lead in “Ocean’s Thirteen,” scheduled to start shooting this summer.
Warner Bros. and producer Jerry Weintraub have set a July 21 start date for “Ocean’s Thirteen,” and Ellen Barkin is the pic’s new leading lady.
Filming will take place primarily on five soundstages on the WBthe WB lot in Burbank, where a fully operational casino will be built. The first “Ocean’s” film was shot at the Bellagio in Las Vegas, the sequel in Europe, but it became too arduous to shoot a movie around the gambling traffic in a real casino, producer Jerry Weintraub said. Director Steven Soderbergh and star George Clooney just used the WB soundstages to shoot “The Good German,” a European-set period drama.
Soderbergh has already committed to direct returning cast members George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Matt Damon, Andy Garcia, Don Cheadle, Bernie Mac, Casey Affleck, Scott Caan, Eddie Jemison, Shaobo Qin, Carl Reiner and Elliott Gould.
With Barkin in, that means previous first femmes Julia Roberts and Catherine Zeta-Jones are sitting this one out.
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Weintraub wouldn’t disclose plot details, other than that Barkin gets closely involved with Damon’s character. As for the absence of Roberts, who starred in both pictures, and “Ocean’s Twelve” addition Zeta-Jones, Weintraub said: “Their characters just weren’t part of the script this time.”
Ellen Barkin is still a nice looking woman but, sheesh, she’s fifty-friggin-two years old. She makes the 39-year-old Roberts and 37-year-old Zeta-Jones look like they belong on the WB by comparison.
Further, Damon is only 35, younger than all three. Barkin’s literally old enough to be his mom.
Yes, Barkin used to look like this:
But, now, she looks like this:
For that, they gave up this?
And this?
Not a good idea.
The Sun’s Daile Pepper reports that Pamela Anderson is looking for some sperm. Considering how much has been freely donated in her honor, that shouldn’t be dificult.
Pamela Anderson may turn to a sperm donor to have another baby. The former Baywatch star - who already has two sons with ex-lover Tommy Lee - says she might choose to have another child with an anonymous father.
When asked about having more children Pammy told Heat magazine: “I don’t know, maybe I have to find a good sperm donor. Sometimes I think I’d like to have another baby. “I really love children, and once you have two you might as well have ten. But if I do have more kids, it’ll have to be soon - before I’m 40.”
I didn’t even know there was a Heat magazine. Apparently, there are at least two. An Australian literary magazine and a UK-based gossip rag. Guess which one interviewed Pamela Anderson about sperm?
But I digress.
Mac Stansbury observes,
[I]t’s a sad day when your greatest accomplishment so far is starring in Baywatch. 10 years ago. Time is not kind to the fairer sex.
And that’s just it: Pamela Anderson has a career built on her sexuality, and she, like every other woman on the planet, can’t defy the effects of age on her psyche. It’s most prominent with her latest pair of store-boughts, them thing are huge. Dwindling popularity, and Jessica Alba and that ilk are just a part of the cruel joke God’s played on women.
True that. Then again, Anderson is a multi-gazillionaire because horny young men are willing to spend lots of money to see Pam Anderson’s naked, or even swimsuit clad, body. So, it’s a fair question as to which sex has it worse.
  
Mac is right, though, when he says, “Pamela Anderson was the sex-symbol of the 90s” (although I would have placed the emphasis on the rather than was). It occured to me recently, perhaps reflecting on her current show “Stacked,” that perhaps no other woman has ever been an active sex symbol as long as Anderson. Marilyn Monroe and Betty Page ares still lusted after decades later, but based on images from their prime. But who else has continued to be a top fantasy object based on current work as long as Anderson? Maybe Raquel Welch or Ann-Margret?
Certainly, she’s the queen of Playboy, having appeared on the covers of the October 1989, February 1991, July 1992, August 1993 (with Dan Aykroyd), November 1994, January 1996, September 1997, June 1998 (Babes of Baywatch), February 1999, July 2001, and May 2004 issues and as the Playmate of the Month/centerfold in February 1990. Oddly, though, she was never Playmate of the Year.
     
    
I would not be surprised to see Anderson on the cover of Playboy for her 50th birthday.
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