Links To Hollywood - #236

Roberta @ Gone Hollywood  | Wednesday, April 29, 2009

Tags | Links To Hollywood Celebrity Engagement Rings, Chris Brown, Christina Aguilera, Gisele Bundchen, Heidi Montag, Jennifer Aniston, Jennifer Love Hewitt, Kate Winslet, Leighton Meester, Lindsay Lohan, Naomi Campbell, Pam Anderson, Paris Hilton, Samantha Ronson, Shia LaBeouf, Spencer Pratt, Tom Brady, Tupac Shakur, Tyra Banks, Vanessa Hudgens

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Links To Hollywood - #235

Roberta @ Gone Hollywood  | Tuesday, April 28, 2009

Tags | Links To Hollywood Ashlee Simpson, Bronx Mowgli Wentz, Dakota Fanning, Heidi Montag, Jade Goody, Jonas Brothers, Lily Allen, Lindsay Lohan, Mary-Kate Olsen, Matthew Broderick, Megan Fox, Michael Jackson, Pamela Anderson, Paris Hilton, Sarah Jessica Parker, Spencer Pratt, Tyra Banks, Wendy Williams

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Sarah Palin Camp Rips Daughter’s Ex Baby Daddy

Allie @ Gone Hollywood  | Monday, April 6, 2009

In an interview set to air Monday on the ‘Tyra Banks Show,’ Levi Johnston, the father of Bristol Palin’s infant son, described some tension with Alaska’s first family.

He told Banks that his former fiancee lets him visit but won’t let him take the baby out, and that Bristol’s mother, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, probably knew the teenage couple were having sex. “Moms are pretty smart,” he told Banks.

The Palin camp fired back in a statement from the family’s spokesperson, Meghan Stapleton, released Friday.

“Bristol did not even know Levi was going on the show. We’re disappointed that Levi and his family, in a quest for fame, attention, and fortune, are engaging in flat-out lies, gross exaggeration, and even distortion of their relationship.

Bristol’s focus will remain on raising Tripp, completing her education, and advocating abstinence. It is unfortunate that Levi finds it more appealing to exploit his previous relationship with Bristol than to contribute to the well being of the child.”

“Bristol realizes now that she made a mistake in her relationship and is the one taking responsibility for their actions,” the statement concludes.

video: [cast tv]

Tags | Celebrity Divorces, Celebrity Fueds, Gossip, Notables Baby, Bristol Palin, Fight, Levi Johnston, Sarah Palin, Scandal, Tyra Banks, Verbal Slam

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Links To Hollywood - #199

Roberta @ Gone Hollywood  | Thursday, March 5, 2009

Tags | Links To Hollywood America's Best Dance Crew, AnnaLynne McCord, Ashley Cole, Beyonce, Jennifer Aniston, Johnny Depp, Katie Holmes, Kelly Brook, Lindsay Lohan, Madonna, Michelle Obama, PETA, Public Enemies, Seinfeld, Shia LaBeouf, Teri Hatcher, Tyra Banks

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Links To Hollywood - #159

Roberta @ Gone Hollywood  | Monday, December 22, 2008

Tags | Links To Hollywood Adam Sandler, Amy Winehouse, Angelina Jolie, Axl Rose, Barack Obama, Brad Pitt, Brandi Mahon, Cameron Diaz, Chris Brown, David Beckham, Elizabeth Hurley, Hilary Duff, Jessica Alba, Jessica Simpson, Kendra Wilkinson, Kirsten Dunst, Mary-Kate Olsen, Michael Jackson, Pamela Anderson, Paris Hilton, Paul Sculfor, Pete Doherty, Pete Wentz, Rihanna, Rock of Love, Rock of Love: Charm School, Sadie Sandler, Sopranos, Stephanie Seymour, The Unborn, Tyra Banks, Victoria Silvstedt, Wall-E

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Tyra Banks Surprises Contestant With Sex Change Operation

Allie @ Gone Hollywood  | Monday, November 17, 2008

Tyra Banks surprises Isis King, the first transgender contestant on America’s Next Top Model, with sex reassignment surgery in an episode of her talk show to air Tuesday.

“This is not happening!” King, who was born Darrell Walls, says when Banks introduces her to Dr. Marci Bowers, a leading gender reassignment surgeon who has experienced the surgery herself. Bowers is paying for the surgery.

“[I feel] like I’m about to wake up,” says King - who lived in a homeless shelter in Maryland before trying out for the show.

The 22-year-old hadn’t gone under the knife yet because she couldn’t afford the $20,000 to $35,000 price tag.

“It’s hard. I try not to think about it because it is something I’m really passionate about,” she says. “I feel like I really was born in the wrong body, and it’s just the one thing that makes me feel uncomfortable.”

King wouldn’t allow photos of herself as a male shown on the 11th season of ANTM, but reveals them for the first time on The Tyra Banks Show.

Why was she hesitant about the pictures?

“I look at it like yes, I’m the first transgender contestant, but okay, lets move past it now,” King explains. “I’m just a woman trying to compete just like everyone else.”

Tags | Gossip Darrell Walls, Isis King, Sex Reassignment, Transgender, Tyra Banks

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Britney Spears Gets Photoshopped

Paul @ Gone Hollywood  | Tuesday, September 23, 2008

Earlier today The Sun reported that these images of Britney Spears would be used to promote her new single Womanizer.

Now thanks to ONTD we know that these photos are not just airbrushed, but completely false.

A fan photoshopped old pictures of Britney and mixed them together with some pictures of Tyra Banks.

Tags | Gossip Britney Spears, Circus, Music, New Album, Photoshopped, Tyra Banks, Womanizer

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Celebrity Photoshop Gone Wrong

Allie @ Gone Hollywood  | Saturday, August 23, 2008

It’s no secret that magazines and other media outlets use Photoshop to make their cover models look “just so,” but is lightening or color correcting a photograph the same as completely changing the way a person looks?

Is this practice of over-photoshopping contributing to damaged body images of Americans?

W Magazine turned a golden goddess Kate Hudson into the ice queen on its September 2008 cover. W is claiming that the image is an actual photograph of Kate Hudson. We’re sure it is, but it looks like the photo editors glossed it over and slicked it up in Photoshop. The image also bears an uncanny resemblance to photographer Patrick Demarchelier’s 1994 Harper’s Bazaar cover photograph of Nadja Auermann. So perhaps W is guilty of more than just changing someone’s face. Way to be creative … stealing someone else’s idea and using it on one of your biggest issues of the year.

Caution: Objects may be larger than they appear. In this case it appears that Seventeen magazine used Photoshop to place Miley Cyrus‘ head on a smaller body. Does this petite 15-year-old really need to appear smaller? It also looks as if they elongated her front teeth and somehow inverted her arms. Or did they do that pose on purpose? That must have been an uncomfortable photo shoot.

Funnyman Dane Cook has recently been complaining about the movie posters for his ssoon-to-be-released flick ‘My Best Friend’s Girl.’ A few of Cook’s complaints are: “The left side of my face seems to be melting off of my skull. It looks like I’m wearing Maybelline Water Shine Diamonds Liquid Lipstick. It’s no secret that I’m more rugged facially due to a drunken visit by the teen acne fairy, but according to this poster I’ve got perfect porcelain flesh.” You missed one Dane: where is the scar on your eyebrow?

Jennifer Love Hewitt was splashed on the cover of US Weekly showing off her 18-pound weight loss, claiming that she lost the weight in 10 weeks. Skeptics are saying Jen used the “Photoshop diet” to shed those pounds. Bloggers have been calling her a hypocrite after her statement when she defended her weight gain on her website: “I know what I look like, and so do my friends and family. And like all women out there should, I love my body.To all girls with butts, boobs, hips and a waist, put on a bikini — put it on and stay strong. XoxoJLH”.

On her new album cover, singer and actress Jennifer Hudson seems to have melted away at the midriff. Jennifer has refused to comment on her new cover.

Ukrainian actress and model Milla Jovovich is not the 13-year-old model she used to be. Can someone please tell Lucky magazine that it’s OK to look your age?

In its September 2008 issue, Elle decided to chop up (lumberjack) Jessica Simpson for the cover. It appears as if the editors chipped away at her waist and part of her left thigh and buttocks. They somehow also made her hair as wide as her hips.

James Franco is glowing on the September cover of GQ. What exactly makes a man glow like that?

Michelle Obama has discovered the fountain of youth. On this month’s cover of Ebony she doesn’t have a single line on her face. Her skin is so beautiful anyway, there was no need to make it unnatural.

Teen Vogue allowed Vanessa Hudgens to look her age on its September cover. She looks natural and very much like herself. There is some shadowing underneath her eyes in the photo on the right, but that’s nothing that a fill light wouldn’t take care of. We think this cover is the least Photoshopped of the month.

At first we thought this was a photo of Mischa Barton’s wax figure on Marie Claire’s UK cover, because apparently her skin has a shiny plastic coating.

‘Gossip Girl’s’ Blake Lively has reportedly been unhappy with recent magazine photographs, but we think she looks beautiful on the September 2008 cover of Cosmopolitan. Her hair is wider than her hips, too, but nonetheless.

Harper’s Bazaar might have made a few minor changes, but Tyra Banks still has it. She even looks great under the glare of flash bulbs (picture at right). The former professional model still knows what she is doing.

We’re comparing the ad to a more recent photo of Beyonce from May 6th. Her skin tone does appear lighter with blond hair than dark brown, but not that light. This week Essence magazine published the same ad from L’Oreal with a much darker-skinned starlet.

Tiny sleeping beauties Knox Leon and Vivienne Marcheline were recently splashed across the covers of two mags, People and Hello. Skeptics are claiming the smiling infants were Photoshopped. They argue that babies do not typically smile from external stimulation until they are 2 to 4 months old. The millions paid by the magazines to the couple to secure the rights to the photos went to the pair’s charity foundation.

Tags | Celebrity Babies, Gossip, Magazine Covers Angelina Jolie, Beyonce Knowles, Blake Lively, Brad Pitt, Dane Cook, James Franco, Jennifer Hudson, Jennifer Love Hewitt, Jessica Simpson, Kate Hudson, Michelle Obama, Miley Cyrus, Milla Jovovich, Mischa Barton, Tyra Banks, Vanessa Anne Hudgens

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Links To Hollywood - #140

Allie @ Gone Hollywood  | Wednesday, August 13, 2008

Tags | Gossip, Links To Hollywood Aubrey O'Day, Barack Obama, Billy Bob Thornton, Dane Cook, Elvis Presley, Jessica Simpson, John McCain, Katie Holmes, Kim Kardashian, Lindsay Lohan, Peaches Geldof, Sharon Stone, Tori Spelling, Tyra Banks

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Transgender Contestant to Compete on Top Model

Allie @ Gone Hollywood  | Wednesday, August 13, 2008

One of the 14 girls who will compete on the new season of America’s Next Top Model – which returns to The CW on September 3 – is transgender.

“My cards were dealt differently,” Isis, a 22-year-old former receptionist, tells Us Weekly exclusively in its new issue, on newsstands now.

Hailing from Prince George’s County, Maryland, Isis identifies herself as “a woman born physically male.”

Will she be a role model?

“I like to help people, but I’m here to follow my dreams,” she tells Us.

The inclusion of Isis is being hailed by GLAAD president Neil Giuliano as “an unprecedented opportunity for a community that is underrepresented on television.

“We applaud Tyra Banks and The CW for making this historic visibility of transgender people possible,” Giuliano said.

source: Transgender Contestant to Compete on Top Model [us magazine]

Tags | Gossip, Television America's Next Top Model, Isis, Transgender, Tyra Banks

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Hollywood’s Thriftiest Stars

Allie @ Gone Hollywood  | Friday, August 1, 2008

Fame and fortune doesn’t necessarily always turn celebrities into financial fools. While frugality may not be the biggest Hollywood trend, there are a few celebrities who can pinch a penny with the best of us — and we’re not just talking about getting snapped by the paparazzi stocking up on party munchies at Costco every once in a while.

Eva Longoria

The Frugal Facts: Her wedding in 2007 reportedly cost $1.5 million, but this ‘Desperate Housewives’ star still scored a lot of freebies to give to her 200 guests: Van Cleef & Arpel 18K yellow gold charm bracelets, and L’Oreal, Cole Haan, and Bebe products were a few. She says the frugal gene runs in her family, explaining that her dad would take her and her three siblings camping with no food. “He would tell us that we could live off the land. I can skin a deer, a pig, a snake … ”

Tyra Banks

The Frugal Facts: Despite a fortune estimated at $75 million, this 34-year-old is an avowed penny pincher. “I am frugal,” she said in a June 1 ‘New York Times Magazine’ profile. “I’ve always been this way. When I was young, my mom would give me my allowance, and I’d peel off a little each week and have some to spare. ” Banks’s culinary tastes runs toward Cheesecake Factory, and is known to stock up on hotel soap.

Sarah Jessica Parker

The Frugal Facts: Contrary to Parker’s character in ‘Sex and the City,’ the 43-year-old isn’t such a slave to fashion. In fact, she used to get sick from buyer’s remorse and return items the next day. Explaining that her family went through a time when they were on welfare, Parker says of her son, “Just because mommy and daddy are rich and famous, that doesn’t mean he should ride the gravy train through life … I want [James] to be normal.”

Mick Jagger

The Frugal Facts: Jagger reportedly pulled out of buying a painting by bandmate Ron Wood because the $140,000 price tag “scared him off.” His ex-wife, model Jerry Hall, complained, “He always wanted me to pay for everything to do with the house and the children. He’s generous with gifts and presents, but yeah, he’s pretty tight with the day-to-day stuff.” He explains that he was taught as a child to be frugal: “We don’t like to throw computers away as soon as they don’t work — apart from out of the window in frustration. We like cars to be repaired instead of junked.”

Paul McCartney

The Frugal Facts: Paul McCartney is worth more than $1 billion, but he’s not likely to advertise it. At a birthday party for his ex-wife, he made the guests pay for their drinks. Even his fashion designer daughter, Stella, reportedly called him “a tight bastard” for sending her and her three siblings to local state schools rather than posh private ones. Nor is he resting on his investments.

Tobey Maguire

The Frugal Facts: Even after his price jumped up to $26 million a picture thanks to three ‘Spider Man’ mega-hits, Maguire is usually snapped wearing lived-in t-shirts and jeans. “You know those Lotto winners, who win big and blow through all that money? That would never happen to me,” says Maguire, who credits his poverty-stricken childhood as the impetus for his quest for financial security. “I just never wanted to put myself in the position where my spending was so huge that I had to keep making movie after movie.”

Halle Berry

The Frugal Facts: Halle Berry can make a fashion designer millions simply by wearing a gown on a red carpet. After all, she’s one of the world’s most photographed women. Still, this fashion icon would sooner hit the sales racks than fly to Paris for a couture fitting. Berry, whose mom struggled to raise her and her older sister after their father walked out when she was four, is an unabashed saver. “I am pretty frugal,” say the twice-divorced Oscar winner and new mom. “I save a lot because I’m always worried about when this trip is going to stop. So I’m saving for that day so I can have a life that is secure and comfortable.”

Jay Leno

The Frugal Facts: Despite his huge fortune, the only flashy thing about Leno is his collection of cars and motorcycles. “When I was a kid … I had one job which the money went in the bank and the other job that I lived off of,” he said in 2004. “I still do that to this day. I have yet to touch a dime of my Tonight Show salary. I live off the money I make as a comedian … Maybe it comes from having parents who grew up during the Depression.” Yet, While Conan O’Brien offered to cover the salaries of pink-slipped staffers during the writers’ strike, Leno only did so after being shamed by all the bad press.

Sarah Michelle Gellar

The Frugal Facts: Growing up, money was tight at Sarah Michelle Gellar’s house, especially when her dad walked out she was just six. Now after soap opera and movie fame, the New York native remains careful about her money. “I take my reusable bag to Whole Foods so I get a discount,” Sarah told Self magazine in 2007. “I go to Bloomingdale’s on double reward days. And I always print my dry cleaning coupons before I go. The main thing I want to do is make sure that I can take care of myself and my mother,” she said in 2000.

Leonardo DiCaprio

The Frugal Facts: Other than shelling out $2.5 million for an island near Belize in 2005, the environmental activist tends to live on the cheap. “I don’t pay lavish expenses,” he has said. “I don’t fly private jets. I still have only one car, and that’s a Toyota Prius. I don’t spend money on a lot. Money is very important to me because it allows me the freedom to choose what I want to do as an actor and most importantly because I want to accumulate enough so that one day I can do something really great and beneficial for other people, for the environment or for children.”

Tags | Gossip Eva Longoria, Frugal, Halle Berry, Jay Leno, Leonardo DiCaprio, Mick Jagger, Paul McCartney, Penny Pinchers, Sarah Jessica Parker, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Tobey Maguire, Tyra Banks

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Links To Hollywood - #135

Allie @ Gone Hollywood  | Thursday, July 24, 2008

Tags | Gossip, Hotties, Links To Hollywood Amy Winehouse, Angelina Jolie, Britney Spears, Corey Feldman, Greg Laurie, Jamie Lynn Spears, Jessica Simpson, Lauren Conrad, Lindsay Lohan, Lisa Marie Presley, Pete Doherty, Samantha Ronson, Screech, Tim Burton, Tyra Banks

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Links To Hollywood - #123

Allie @ Gone Hollywood  | Wednesday, May 28, 2008

Tags | Gossip, Hotties, Links To Hollywood Ali Lohan, Benji Madden, Bikini, David Beckham, Gossip, Heidi Montag, Jennifer Aniston, Kim Kardashian, Mariah Carey, Pete Doherty, Pink, Reese Witherspoon, Sex, Tyra Banks, Victoria Beckham

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Links To Hollywood - #119

Allie @ Gone Hollywood  | Wednesday, April 30, 2008

Tags | Gossip, Links To Hollywood, Television Affair, Alessandra Ambrosia, Ashlee Simpson, Ashley Olsen, Brooke Hogan, David Blaine, Disney, Halle Berry, Jessica Simpson, Madonna, media, Miley Cyrus, MILF, Mindy McCready, nude, porn, Salma Hayek, Topless, Tyra Banks, Video

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