Duane ‘Dog’ Chapman is embroiled in an ugly racial scandal.
On Wednesday, an audio recording of the Bounty Hunter star surfaced. In that recording, Chapman can be heard saying the N-word over and over and telling his son not to date a girl that is of color.
In a shocking world exclusive The ENQUIRER has obtained tapes of two revolting phone conversations in which Duane “Dog” Chapman unleashes a filthy bigoted attack, littered with the N-word and other disgusting racial insults.
The star of the A&E reality show Dog, The Bounty Hunter directed his racist hatred at his son Tucker’s girlfriend Monique Shinnery, who is black.
I know, I know… it’s the National Enquirer. However, A&E has already taken action, so there must be some truth to this.
TMZ reports that A&E released the following statement,
“A&E has just learned of the story released by the National Enquirer concerning Duane Dog Chapman. We take this matter very seriously. Pending an investigation, we have suspended production on the series. When the inquiry is concluded we will take appropriate action.”
The Dog has already responded and issued the following statement to People Magazine,
“My sincerest, heartfelt apologies go out to every person I have offended for my regrettable use of very inappropriate language. I am deeply disappointed in myself for speaking out of anger to my son and using such a hateful term in a private phone conversation. It was completely taken out of context. I was disappointed in his choice of a friend, not due to her race, but her character. However, I should have never used that term. I have the utmost respect and aloha for black people – who have already suffered so much due to racial discrimination and acts of hatred. I did not mean to add yet another slap in the face to an entire race of people who have brought so many gifts to this world. I am ashamed of myself and I pledge to do whatever I can to repair this damage I have caused.
In Hawaii, we have something called Ho’oponopono, where people come together to resolve crises and restore peace and balance. I am meeting with my spiritual advisor, Rev. Tim Storey, and hope to meet with other black leaders so they can see who I really am and teach me the right thing to do to make things right, again.
I know that all of my fans are deeply disappointed in me, as well, as I have tried to be a model for doing the right thing. I did not do the right thing this time, and hope you will forgive me. We learn from our mistakes, as my story of overcoming a life of crime has proven, and I will learn from this one for the rest of my life.”
source: A&E Suspends Production on “Dog the Bounty Hunter” [tmz]; Dog the Bounty Hunter Duane Chapman Apologizes for Racist Slurs [people magazine]
In recognition of October being “Breast Cancer Awareness Month”, RawVegas.tv brought together four of their favorite breasts for a little education.
Denise Pernula, who graced the pages of the November 2007 issue of Playboy magazine, talks breast awareness with Patrice Hollis, Playboy Playmate for September 2007 and Playmate of the Year candidate, and both show viewers the steps for examining breasts.
When you’re done watching the pair of pairs, you can click the pink ribbon on the bottom left of the video window to make donations to the Susan G. Komen Society. It’s like getting rewarded for doing something nice.
Elvis Presley has been dead for thirty years. But he’s still making more money than anyone likely reading this.
Just because you are dead, it does not mean you can’t stage a comeback. Web site Forbes.com (www.forbes.com) said on Tuesday that Elvis Presley regained the top spot on its list of the highest-earning dead celebrities, ousting Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain who had beaten him last year.
Elvis shimmied his way back atop the seventh annual list of 13 top-earning legends that he had ruled since its inception, with estimated earnings of about $49 million in the year ending this month. The rise from $42 million last year comes after CKX Entertainment, which bought part of his estate from daughter Lisa Marie Presley, embarked on a mission to renew interest in the late singer and actor.
Forbes.com said in a statement that the top 13 — who generated massive amounts of merchandising revenue — grossed a combined $232 million in the year.
In second place came Beatle John Lennon, who was murdered in New York in 1980 at the age of 40. He earned $44 million while the creator of Peanuts comic strip, Charles M. Schulz, took the third slot with earnings of $35 million.
Cobain was one of four who fell off this year’s ranking. He debuted on the list in first place last year after his widow, Courtney Love, sold part of his song catalog for a reported $50 million.
Rounding out the top five on this year’s list were George Harrison from the Beatles, who died in 2001, with $22 million, and German-born physicist Albert Einstein with $18 million. Einstein has become a key trademark in child education due to the Disney-owned Baby Einstein brand of videos and toys.
Many members of these lists are one-year wonders, who get on there because a movie came out, their estate was sold, or something similar. Presley and Lennon, though, are mainstays who continue to sell massive numbers of records decades after their passing.
Remember Coolio? Apparently he released an album in 2006, but I don’t recall hearing anything from him since 1997’s C U When U Get There. Anyway, Coolio is getting his own reality TV show, and no, it’s not on VH1. It’s on Oxygen. WTF?
The production will be called “Coolio & the Gang”, and it will follow the rapper as he raises 6 teenagers by himself, while he also maintains a music career and launches a clothing line.
I’m pretty aware of the Oxygen demographic, and I have to say, this better have some emotional pull on the level of “Extreme Makeover: Home Edition” or it’s not lasting 2 episodes.
Source: “Coolio Gets His Own Reality Show” [Star Pulse]
Image courtesy of Picture Perfect, for use on Gone Hollywood
Heather Mills went on GMTV this morning and cried about how awful her life is, that she’s basically suicidal. Heather is currently involved in a messy divorce from Paul McCartney.
Among her complaints:
• ”I considered committing suicide’
• 18 months of media abuse, 4,400 abusive articles (4,401 counting this one)
• ‘I’m hounded just like Princess Diana and Kate McCann’
• ‘Divorce battle with Paul has left me $3 Million in debt’
• ‘Underground movement made death threats’
• ‘My daughter’s life is at risk’
She went on and on about how the media is portraying her as a whore and gold digger and making her go crazy. Heather said all the dollar figures have basically been made up and how do we even know she’s asking for anything?
Heather Mills raged at the media today as she claimed she is being hounded like Princess Diana and Kate McCann.
In an extraordinary TV interview, she said she had been driven to the brink of suicide following the break-up of her marriage to Sir Paul McCartney.
The 39-year-old former model wept when she said she had been “pushed to the edge” by intrusive paparazzi and media coverage portraying her as a “whore and a gold-digger”.
Ms Mills added: “I have a box of evidence that’s going to a certain person should anything happen to me, so if you top me off it’s still going to that person, and the truth will come out.”
In what I can only assume is an attempt to stay relevant, Jon Bon Jovi has revealed that he was a teenage drug dealer. Before making it big, Bon Jovi sold marijuana in New Jersey.
“I did the drug thing very young and wised up very young too, because I was into drugs a little too much. I was entrepreneurial even then, buying quarter pounds of dope and trying to make a couple of bucks.”
But the rocker’s bad experiences with drugs turned him off.
“Did you ever smoke dope that was laced with PCP and then have that whole summer of hallucinations? It was f*****g awful. That’s why I’ve never been a drug guy. I’ve always felt I didn’t have the mental stability.”
I know, I’m not surprised either.
Source: “Jon Bon Jovi: I was a drug dealer” [Now Magazine]
Image courtesy of Picture Perfect, for use on Gone Hollywood
I woke up this morning to two different Owen Wilson rumors - one says he’s been seeing Jessica Simpson, and the other says he’s getting back together with old flame Kate Hudson. For his sake, I pray that it’s not the first one.
As for the first story, Star Magazine is reporting that Owen and Jessica were seen having dinner at the Huntley Hotel in Santa Monica this past weekend, and then after dinner the two went back to Owen’s. A witness claims, “He couldn’t keep his hands off her.”
The two were also spotted together on October 16 in Austin, where they were shooting Willie Nelson’s video.
Please, please, say it ain’t so. I like Owen, and this just doesn’t sound good.
As for story number 2, Heat Magazine is reporting that Owen and Kate are reuniting. They have been in contact, emailing and calling each other, after Kate reached out to Owen during his recovery.
A source told Heat magazine,
“As soon as he could, Owen thanked her for her e-mails and phone calls. Now they plan to meet when he returns to LA from Texas. Owen is elated about the prospect. He’s in excellent spirits now, though they are determined to stay off the radar during the early stages.”
Yeah, the one involving Kate is just so much more believable.
I don’t really watch “Dancing With The Stars”, but it appears that maybe I should start. There’s all kinds of things going on there besides dancing, it seems. Last week Marie Osmond fainted, and this week Julianne Hough lets one rip on live television. I’m telling you, entertainment all around. (Perhaps juvenile entertainment, but entertainment nonetheless.)
You might as well just fast forward to 30 seconds left in this video, unless you really like to watch the dancing.
Source: “Julianne Hough Farts Live On DWTS (Video)” [Right Celebrity]
It really must be Halloween, that time of year when celebrities dress like sluttier versions of themselves and start acting crazier than normal. Take this latest celebrity couple rumor, for example - Ashley Olsen and Lance Armstrong were spotted at the Rose Bar together making out. Now that’s scary.
A bar spy says,
“They came together with a group of friends. Ashley drank red wine, sat on his lap and they were making out all night. They left together around 2 a.m.”
Lance is 36, Ashley is 21, and together they’re just plain creepy. I don’t know why, they just don’t seem to go together.
What others are saying:
Mollygood says, “Kinda gross, but the guy’s a cancer survivor, so he gets some leeway. Do what feels good, Lancey! Also: Who pegged an Olsen to be mature enough to look past a guy having only one testicle?”
dlisted says, “Ash is only 21. Everyone should spend their 20s slutting it up. Get in, get on, get off and get out! Lance is a hot piece of man meat, so she should suck that one nut and then move on.”
celebitchy says, “As a fit guy under 40, he’s not creepy-old for a 21 year-old, just in-denial old. This doesn’t make me go ‘ewww’ so much as say ‘why?’”
After stopping for a greasy slice of pizza and a soft drink to maintain that glowing complexion, Britney Spears went house hunting in Hermosa Beach, California.
That hat… yes, that hat along with those brown boots. Burn them both!
source: BRITNEY GOES HOUSE HUNTING, Y’ALL! [faded youth]
Award-winning singer-actor Robert Goulet has died at the age of 73. He passed away Tuesday in Los Angeles at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center where he was waiting for a lung transplant after being diagnosed with interstitial pulmonary fibrosis.
Goulet performed on Broadway and on screen with roles in films like Beetlejuice, Toy Story 2, and Naked Gun 2 1/2.
Goulet is survived by his third wife, Vera, and three children from his previous two marriages.
Source: “Singer Robert Goulet Dies at 73″ [People]
The incident allegedly occurred outside Casa Escobar last Friday in a Malibu mall about 6:15 PM. We’re told Brosnan allegedly committed a battery on Robert Rosen, a photographer.
According to Rosen, Pierce was there with his kids, when Rosen began snapping photos. Rosen says Pierce then said, “Why don’t you get a real f**king job.” Rosen says he then started complimenting Pierce on his Bond roles.
A short time later, an enraged Pierce allegedly told the photog, “Why don’t you f**k off, mate,” and then struck him in the ribs. A witness says the pap instinctively reacted by kicking Pierce — we’re told, in the stomach.
Sheriff’s spokesperson Steve Whitmore says his department is “actively investigating” the matter and will be referring the case to the L.A. County D.A. for review.
Blair Hanson from the Ability Films agency, who works with Robert Rosen, the cameraman involved in the alleged incident.
“My friend Rob was keeping his distance and saying nice things to Pierce like “I love your movies.’” claims Blair. “Pierce was just fake smiling and then went right in his face.”
Britney Spears didn’t regain custody of her children, in fact Commissioner Scott Gordon gave her two visits per week, from 12 noon to 7 PM and one overnight visit. The visits will still be monitored.
He went on to say in his order that Kevin and Britney must come up with a schedule for the holidays and Britney must ‘child proof’ her pool area by Friday.
In his order, the Commish wrote that when Britney has the kids,
“the environment at the house ranged from chaotic to almost somber with little communication at all.” The Commish also recounts what the parenting coach complained of — that “during all three of my visits Ms. Spears rarely engaged with the children in either conversation or play.”
The coach also said Spears seemed to have,
“a lack of general attention at times” but there was nothing she would characterize as “abusive in a traditional sense. The problem is that unless Ms. Spears realizes the consequences of her behavior and the impact that it has [on] her children, nothing is going to be successful.”
source: Judge to Brit — You’re Too Chaotic, Custody Denied [tmz]
After she married Tom Cruise, Katie Holmes changed more than just her personal life. She’s changed in her professional life as well. Instead of signing up for the second installment of “Batman Returns” opposite Christian Bale, she opted for the wacky crime caper “Mad Money” opposite Queen Latifah. Hmmmm ….
I’m just sayin’, she gave up Batman for this box office bust? I just don’t get it. You can see the movie in its entirety January 18.
Source: “Watch Katie Holmes’ New Movie Trailer “ [Us Weekly]
The National Enquirer reports,In a shocking world exclusive The ENQUIRER has obtained tapes of two revolting phone conversations in which Duane “Dog” Chapman unleashes a filthy bigoted attack, littered with the N-word and other disgusting racial insults.
Heather Mills raged at the media today as she claimed she is being hounded like Princess Diana and Kate McCann. 
