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….and now keeps his “Love Life” private. Good for him, it’s about time!
Nick Lachey, 32, who exposed details of his and ex-wife Jessica Simpson‘s married life on reality TV, began dating Vanessa Minnillo earlier this year. The relationship, however, has not been under the spotlight of entertainment news shows Entertainment Tonight and Access Hollywood. Minnillo, 25, is a correspondent for Entertainment Tonight, making coverage tricky for both shows.
ET executive producer Linda Bell Blue says her show has made only one reference to Lachey and Minnillo dating: in its coverage of an Aug. 30 MTV Video Music Awards party. “Who Vanessa sees in her private life is her personal business,” says Bell Blue.
“E! took advantage of that in a smart way,” says Jordan, noting that Asner got access that E! perhaps wouldn’t have received otherwise. Bell Blue is banking that her respect for Minnillo’s privacy now might pay off later: “I would think if there was news to break, Vanessa would break it with Entertainment Tonight.”
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Elizabeth Taylor, the wheelchair-bound star donned a mask and snorkel, and plunged feet first into the Pacific Ocean for a shark-viewing excursion. Damn, if you can’t admire her for that! I’m beginning to think that this woman will live forever!
Married eight times, undoubtedly Elizabeth Taylor has tangled with a few predators in her time. So perhaps it should come as no surprise to see the 74-year-old actress looking comfortable in a shark cage.
Seemingly oblivious to her ever-deteriorating health, the wheelchair-bound star donned a mask and snorkel, and plunged feet first into the Pacific Ocean for a shark-viewing excursion.
Later describing the experience as the “most exciting thing” she has ever done, Miss Taylor allowed herself to be barricaded into a 10ft by 6ft Plexiglas cage which was lowered below surface level.
Wearing a baggy white t-shirt over an all-in-one swimming costume, she maintained a modicum of glamour with perfectly manicured red nails and several sparkly bangles.
After spitting into her mask – to prevent the plastic eye area from misting up – she enthusiastically clambered into the cage, albeit with the help of two aides.
From here the double Oscar winner tried the snorkel on for size before tentatively dipping her head into the water and looking for her first shark.
Having paddled around for thirty minutes, a clearly exhausted – but happy – Miss Taylor came up for fresh air. In a departure from her usual lady-like elegance, she emerged dripping wet, with her dark hair slicked down in a rather unflattering side parting.
After being helped back on board the Kainani boat, she towelled herself down and slipped on a kaftan-style nightdress over navy blue slipper socks.
It is not known whether Miss Taylor actually went nose to nose with any Sandbar sharks or Galapagos during the two-hour, £52 fish trip.
However, the adventure signifies a remarkable return to health for the actress. For the past few years she has remained a reclusive figure, largely holed up in her Hollywood mansion.
As well as incurable congestive heart failure, near-fatal viral pneumonia and osteoporosis, she has had three hip replacements and a life-saving operation in 1997 to remove a benign brain tumour.
Earlier this year her bloated, below-par appearance prompted speculation that was suffering with Alzheimer’s disease and on death’s door.
But three months ago, she went on an American chat show to dispel the rumours. And she recently wrote to US gossip columnist Liz Smith, claiming: “For someone who has been in bed with a bad back, I have done all the things I’ve dreamed of. I did get into that shark cage. It was the most exciting thing I’ve done in my life.” source
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Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt have created a new charitable foundation to aid humanitarian causes across the globe.
The newly formed Jolie/Pitt Foundation is giving away $ 2 million – $1 to the Global Action for Children and $1 million to Doctors Without Borders, to help families affected by HIV/AIDS and extreme poverty.
“Angelina and Brad are committed to using their resources to help the world’s most vulnerable people,” their spokesman, Trevor Neilson, stated. “These two organizations are focusing on crises that receive far too little attention and Angelina and Brad are happy to do their part to help.”
Jolie and Pitt are no strangers to global activism, and they have traveled together to Pakistan, among other countries, as part of Jolie’s work as a goodwill ambassador for the U.N. High Commission for Refugees.
Jennifer Delaney, the U.S. director for Global Action for Children, expressed gratitude for the donation, and told the Associated Press: “Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt not only care, but more important, are taking concrete action to address the fact that there will be 20 million children orphaned by AIDS by 2010, and millions more orphaned by tuberculosis, malaria and conflict or whose parents are sick and dying.” source
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Saturday night live will begin next season minus several regulars.
After nearly a month of speculation that the fates of several Saturday Night Live cast members were up in the air comes confirmation from NBC that regulars Chris Parnell, Horatio Sanz and Finesse Mitchell will not be returning to the late night staple. The non-announcement was made by simply omitting the players’ names from a press release touting the start of the show’s 32nd season, though a rep for the network denied there was any bad blood between the MIA cast and svengali producer Lorne Michaels or that their departure was the result of a firing.
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Parnell, Sanz and Mitchell, who have been part of the show for eight years, eight years and three years, respectively, have yet to comment on their non-return, though if past remarks are any indication, the decision to part hardly seems mutual.
“I haven’t been approached with anything that’s led me to believe I won’t be back,” Sanz told the Chicago Sun-Times less than a month ago. “I definitely enjoy the job and would like to stick with it.”
As for Mitchell, his alleged axing is the most surprising, as speculation up until now has pegged fellow cast member Kenan Thompson, who will return this fall, as the third man out. Darrell Hammond, whose 11 seasons on the show mark a series best, is also in the clear, returning to the show despite murmurs that he, too, may have performed his last impression.
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The triple departure adds to something of a mass exodus from the show of long time cast, though the others, at least from the outside, appear to be slightly more voluntary. Over the summer, Tina Fey and
Rachel Dratch confirmed that they were leaving the show to star in the NBC comedy 30 Rock, set behind the scenes at a SNL-like variety show produced by Michaels and costarring fellow alum
Tracy Morgan.
Of course, some of the departees are bouncing back quicker than others. According to NBC’s Website, Parnell, whose “Lazy Sunday” rap with Andy Samberg was one of last season’s highlights, is currently shooting the sitcom Thick & Thin for the Peacock net. As for Mitchell and Sanz, no new projects appear to be in the works.
The cast was bloated with so many members that it was hard to keep them straight. The show works better with a smaller ensemble.
There were seven full-fledged cast members that constituted the Not Ready for Prime Time Players: Dan Aykroyd, John Belushi, Chevy Chase, Jane Curtin, Garrett Morris, Laraine Newman, and Gilda Radner. The show frequently deteriorated into gigantic repetory casts with no identity and then settles down into a more managable pattern.
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Clay Aiken is no longer the charmingly awkward, self-confessed “dork” who came in second on 2003′s second season of American Idol. He has a new look, a new album – A Thousand Different Ways, which hit stores Tuesday – and some new, hard-won wisdom.
On whether he’s gay: “What do you say (to that question)? … It’s like when I was 8. I remember something would get broken in the house, and Mom and Dad would call me in and say, ‘Did you do this?’ Well, it didn’t matter what I said. The only thing they would believe was yes. … People are going to believe what they want.”
On the panic attacks he suffered after Idol: “I’d walk into a room and say to myself, ‘I am not going to have a problem when these people stare at me.’ … But then (in) that situation, my heart would start pumping, and I’d start sweating and looking around nervously and shaking. I felt like I was going to have a heart attack.”
On taking the anti-anxiety drug Paxil: “I said (to my doctor), ‘Listen, I don’t want to go to a therapist. I have nothing against therapists. I want to think I can do this on my own.’ And she recommended that I try a medication. … Now I can sit here; I can go into a store; I can handle a photo shoot. I’m able to get rid of all that stuff in the periphery. It makes everything easier.”
On the future: “I want to be a father so badly. I want (kids) one day. Not now. … I would love to adopt. There’s an orphanage not too far from my house, and I’ve been up before with church. I always thought, ‘What happens to those kids who have the potential to go to college but just can’t afford it?’ I’ve been thinking a lot lately about finding a way to pay for one of those kids to go to college.” source
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The third cycle of ABC’s Dancing With the Stars had its biggest start yet as 20.2 million viewers tuned in Tuesday. I’ll have to admit, I haven’t been able to catch it on TV yet… but I’m dying to watch Jerry Springer cut a rug! He just looks so out of place to me.
•Dance fever. That’s up from 17.5 million for January’s opener and 13.5 million for its start as a regular series in summer 2005, and trails only the two previous finales. Wednesday’s first results show averaged 16.3 million.
•Survivor race. Despite massive publicity from its controversial sorting of teams by race, the Survivor: Cook Islands premiere averaged 18 million viewers Thursday, down from 18.4 million last fall to the smallest opening audience since the series’ first season. The Amazing Race 10 opener averaged 10.1 million viewers Sunday, also down slightly. Tuesday’s Big Brother finale averaged 8.4 million, up from 8.1 million last September. And Wednesday’s Rock Star: Supernova capper (7 million) was down from 7.8 million.
•Gridiron. ESPN’s Monday Night Football debut (12.6 million) set a channel record; a late second game was solid at 10.5 million. NBC’s Sunday game drew 18.4 million, vs. last week’s 22.6 million.
•Trees fall. A special preview of ABC dramedy Men in Trees averaged 11.7 million viewers following Dancing on Tuesday, then withered to a still-first-place 8.1 million in Friday’s regular time slot premiere.
•House divided.Dancing also proved potent against Fox’s Tuesday dramas: House fell to 15.2 million, down 23% from last week’s season opener, while Standoff (9 million) dropped a steep 34%.
•Katie comedown. The CBS Evening News With Katie Couric clung to a razor-thin lead last week, averaging 7.9 million viewers, down from 10.2 million for Couric’s much-hyped debut a week earlier. NBC finished second with 7.83 million, up from 7.1 million; ABC had 7.53 million, up from 6.9 million. (Night by night at right.)
•Whose network? The debut week was weak for MyNetwork TV, which replaced WB or UPN programming with telenovelas on many stations. Desire averaged 1.2 million for its Sept. 5-8 premiere week, and Fashion House claimed 1.3 million, little more than half the audience for UPN summer repeats.source
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Jessica Simpson looks like a complete dork. That’s not saying that Dane Cook looks much better, but her outfit screams Donna Reed, no? He reminds me a bit of Chevy Chase… and she looks like she’s got a mouth full of [blank] in that second photo. Ok… I’m done now. [heh]
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Um… that headline is a lie. But if you take a look at the picture of Mischa Barton below, it’s full-on believable…so I am going with it. That’s my story.
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Let’s dissect this, shall we? Joe Simpson wants to be able to “zoom-in” on Jessica & Ashlee Simpson‘s breasts without being considered a pervert. Yep… that about sums it up!
Joe Simpson wants to put daughters Jessica and Ashlee in pictures – his pictures. Radar online reports that the singers’ dad/manager has become a part-time paparazzo in order to control how his daughters are portrayed in the media.
According to Radar, the Simpson patriarch has struck up an arrangement with WireImage, the wire service that dominates red-carpet and high-profile events. On several occasions, a camera-wielding Simpson has been seen running interference with other photographers for shots of his own daughters, then approved only his own images for distribution through WireImage. At other times, he has provided the agency with exclusive (and even risqué!) photographs of his daughters on family getaways.
Needless to say, other photographers aren’t thrilled with the new arrangement. One shutterbug recounts being invited to cover an event only to find her shots repeatedly blocked by Joe and his Nikon. “I thought it was really odd that he was always in my way, since I was the one who was paid to be there shooting,” she says. And when the freelance snapper finally did get some shots, Joe’s were the only ones WireImage deemed worthy of distribution.
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I’m not sure about the rest of the bloggers out there, but this is one of 5 jobs that I have. You see, Fergie, I’m mother of two children. I work very hard to raise them…. and these days, one job just doesn’t seem to pay the bills.
For the record, we do not make Ms. Fergie go out in public with rollers in her hair or wet stains between her legs, she does this all by herself. We merely comment on it.
The singer recently spoke to New York City’s HX Magazine about the song, Pedestal, her beef with some bloggers is clear. “I just think, ‘Wow, I’ve worked so hard for this, but what are you doing other than sitting there behind your computers and talking s**t about people?’ If people don’t like me, fine, but don’t dis people if you’re not getting off your ass and doing something about your own life
Of course, Perez Hilton is so vain… he thinks the song is about him. Which happens to be another song altogether. It’s by Carly Simon… look it up.
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Sadie Frost… a vegetarian since birth stripped her clothes off for PETA.
We all know that she’s the mother of Jude Law’s children…What else do you know about Sadie Frost?
Sadie Frost (born Sadie Liza Vaughan on June 19, 1965), is an English fashion designer and former actress. She is probably best known for her six-year marriage to Jude Law, which has made her a staple of the British tabloids.
Frost was born in London. Her father, David Vaughan, was a psychedelic artist who did work for The Beatles. Her parents were sixteen and seventeen when she was born. Frost had a somewhat unconventional childhood, with numerous siblings and step-siblings, including a sister named Sunshine Purple Tara Velvet. She was brought up in Primrose Hill, London, but spent quite a lot of her youth in Ashton-under-Lyne, Greater Manchester, when her parents separated.
Regularly featured in tabloid and gossip magazines, she is better known for her series of high-profile relationships, than her own film and television work. At the age of five, she appeared with Morecambe and Wise. She studied acting at the Italia Conti Academy of Theatre Arts. At nineteen she joined the Manchester Royal Exchange Theatre to appear in Mumbo Jumbo. The majority of her film credits have been brief supporting roles in mostly forgettable films, however, she made a memorable appearance as vampire Lucy Westenra in Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1992). She is also featured in the music video for Pulp’s “Common People”. She now co-owns the fashion label Frost French.
Frost has been married twice. She married first husband, Spandau Ballet’s Gary Kemp on May 7, 1988, and with him she has a son, Finlay Munro (born September 20, 1990). They divorced in 1997. She married actor Jude Law on September 2, 1997, and with him she has three children: son Rafferty (born October 6, 1996), daughter Iris (born October 25, 2000) and son Rudy Indiana Otis (born September 10, 2002). They divorced in 2003.
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I guess that Victoria Beckham wanted to show off her plastic nipples. What is this anyway… who can get the most attention via nipple slips and panty slips? Question… is she on drugs? I mean… her eyes are always forced “WIDE-OPEN”… that deer in a headlight look.
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After a year hyping his exodus to Sirius satellite radio, it looks like Howard Stern is now working a deal to go back to good old FCC-controlled air, according to the NY Post‘s John Mainelli.
 Howard Stern may be coming back to earth – on WPLJ or WABC. Radio insiders are reporting rampant rumors that the shock jock will “do an Opie & Anthony” and return to old-fashioned radio from the obscurity of satellite radio.
Persistent industry chatter says “some sort of mega-deal’s brewing among Sirius [Satellite] chief Mel Karmazin, Stern and Mel’s longtime associate Farid Suleman,” says Inside Radio editor Tom Taylor. Suleman currently runs Citadel Broadcasting, which is buying Disney/ABC’s radio division, including WPLJ (95.5 FM) and WABC (770 AM). In his widely read tradesheet, Taylor said the rumors “just won’t die, despite what Stern and Sirius have said in the past.” This much is certain: Stern has complained loudly of late about published reports that he’s lost his influence and is no longer a “watercooler topic” since he bolted from CBS for Sirius in a $500 million deal last January.
My wife and I bought Sirius last Christmas at least partly for Stern. After about two episodes, we gave up. Stern had to be clever to get away with being “dirty” on regular radio. It’s just too easy to do a blue show and gimmicks gave way to raunch.
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Teri Hatcher’s nipples have been digitally altered by the folks at Desperate Housewives and she’s not going to take it anymore.
TERI HATCHER is furious with Desperate Housewives bosses, because they keep digitally reducing the size of her nipples. The brunette beauty’s excitable nipples mean producers have to spend thousands on computer wizardry to clean up the sexy shots.
However, Teri insists other TV shows would allow her to flaunt her best assets. She said: “The whole first season, thousands of dollars were spent digitally erasing my nipples. “I think Grey’s Anatomy gets to have nipples and I have a little beef to have with the network about that. “Then again, they are on at 10 o’clock – 10 o’clock, you can have nipples, 9 o’clock, no nipples.”
I’m firmly with Teri on this one. America deserves her nipples!
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Kelly Brook is most certainly eye candy. I bet Freddy has posters of her taped to his bedroom ceiling. [covering mouth] Did I just say that?
Kelly Brook (born Kelly Ann Parsons on November 23, 1979) is an English model, television presenter, actress, and swimwear designer.
After leaving school in Rochester, Brook studied at the Italia Conti stage school in London for three years before becoming a professional model. She is currently engaged to actor Billy Zane, having previously dated actor Jason Statham.
Brook’s modelling career began at 16 after winning a beauty competition, her early work was in a range of advertising campaigns, including for the new “Bravissimo” company that specializes in bras and lingerie for full-figured women, and for Foster’s beer. Brook is 5 feet, 8 inches (172 cm) tall, and her voluptuous figure (Brook’s bust measures 32E) caught the eye of the editorial team of the Daily Star who began featuring her as a page three girl.
Brook’s picture soon began appearing in other lad mags such as FHM (repeatedly landing in its list of the “100 Sexiest Women of the Year”) and Loaded. She topped the ‘FHM 100 Sexiest Women in the World 2005′ list, which was said to have polled 15 million people. In a poll over 5000 women in April 2005 for Grazia magazine she was considered to have the best British female body. She ranked 5th at ‘FHM 100 Sexiest Women in the World 2006′ list.
Brook has also done a large amount of commercial swimwear, sportswear, and hosiery modeling, and a limited amount of nude & semi-nude modeling. Recent modelling work for Triumph Bras caused quite a stir because of specially commissioned 50-foot high billboards of Brook’s bust. source
  
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