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Selena Gomez Hated!? Pharrell a Sewer Rat? Time for Mean Tweets!

Keith GirardOctober 10, 2013

Selena Gomez hated? John Legend cries after sex? Pharell a sewer rat? Those were just some of the mean tweets that celebrities read aloud last night on Jimmy Kimmel in another hilarious addition of “Mean Tweets.” Here’s our favorite. It was directed a country singer Brad Paisley. “I don’t know your music, because I don’t drive a pickup and I don’t sleep with my sister.”...

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Naya Rivera’s Love Life Heats Up For Real, and on Glee (watch!)

Keith GirardOctober 4, 2013

Naya Rivera, the sassy singer and cheerleader on Fox’s hit show “Glee,” couldn’t ask for a spicier love life. She kissed singer Demi Lovato, her new Glee love interest on last night’s episode and also announced her engagement to rapper Big Sean. Rivera showed off her engagement ring at Latina magazine’s “Hollywood Hot List Party” at The Redbury Hotel in Hollywood....

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Tina Fey Spoofs HBO’s Pompous ‘Girls’ on SNL Hilarious! (watch!)

Keith GirardSeptember 29, 2013

Only Tina Fey has the chutzpah to skewer HBO’s series “Girls” for the pompous bombastic whining of over-privileged girls that it really is. She sends up the program in a “Saturday Night Live” skit that’s hilarious, playing a roommate with real problems. The show, written by and starring Lena Dunham is about four twenty-something women trying to make their way in New York City. Allison Williams, Jemima Kirke, Zosia Mamet, Adam Driver and Alex Karpovsky co-star...

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Chris Brown Reeks of Denial, Victimization in New Interview

Keith GirardSeptember 20, 2013

Chris Brown exhibits some classic neuroses in a new interview with Jet magazine. He clearly remains in denial about his abusive personality while claiming that he is being victimized by an unfair (read racist) society. “This generation is so used to racism that it’s normal; we don’t care. We aren’t on drugs or catching AIDS, but they still look at us as ni**as,” he asserts....

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Paula Patton Speaks on Miley Cyrus VMA Twerking (watch!)

Keith GirardSeptember 18, 2013

Paula Patton, wife of singer Robin Thicke, the other half of Miley Cyrus’ MTV Video Music Awards performance, expressed shock at the reaction it caused and said it was planned out days in advance. Patton appeared on NBC’s “Today” show to talk about her new movie, “Baggage Claim,” but talked extensively about Cyrus’ twerking and cavorting on stage with her husband....

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Chloe Moretz Finally Acts Her Age in Seventeen Magazine (photos)

Keith GirardSeptember 10, 2013

Chloe Moretz, the new icon for Hollywood teen over-sexualization (now that Miley Cyrus has grown up), finally looks her age in a new Seventeen fashion spread. For once, Chloe, 16, looks fun and flirty without heavy sexual overtones.The actress, this year, starred in “Movie 43″ and a sequel to her 2010 hit “Kick-Ass.” She plays a potty-mouth teen superhero in the movie....

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Gwyneth Paltrow Vespa Cuts Off School Bus, Nearly Killed (watch!)

Keith GirardSeptember 9, 2013

Gwyneth Paltrow demonstrated why driving in Los Angeles is like a Third World country. She cut off a school bus, narrowly avoiding an accident, while riding a Vespa motor scooter with her child on back. Of course, the whole scene was caught on videotape. Damn those paparazzi! Whether it was her sense of Hollywood entitlement, or just ditzy driving, she came within a whisker of being flattened. Only the bus driver’s quick reaction hitting the brakes prevented the accident....

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Lady Gaga Transforms in Wizard of Oz GMA Performance (Watch!)

Keith GirardSeptember 9, 2013

Lady Gaga went through four costume changes while performing her hit song “Applause” to a Wizard of Oz theme on Good Morning America this morning (Sept. 9). It’s a toss-up whether she was lip-syncing the song while she dance and whipped through her wardrobe. Gaga, 27, performed live in Times Square and kicked off her act with a verse or two of “Over the Rainbow,” from the classic 1939 film....

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Alison Pill Explains Errant Topless Tweet… Believe Her? (watch!)

Keith GirardSeptember 4, 2013

Alison Pill finally explains how that topless photo of her lying in bed went viral on the Internet. She told Conan O’Brien it was all a big accident due to her new Blackberry telephone. Would you believe the touch screen did it? Pill, 27, sent hearts racing among lucky Twitter fans in September last year, when the topless photo briefly appeared in her Twitter stream. She says she tweeted instead of deleted the photo....

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Jennifer Aniston on Jimmy Fallon, No Talk of Baby Bump (watch!)

Keith GirardAugust 2, 2013

Jennifer Aniston talked all about babies on Jimmy Fallon last night (Aug. 1), but not her baby. Rather, she talked about Jimmy’s new baby with wife Nancy Juvonen Fallon. Jen has been rumored to be pregnant (again) in some of the trashier tabloids. Fallon, 38, and his wife, 46, named their little girl Winnie Rose Fallon, who was born on July 24. So, befitting the name, Aniston,44, brought a gift onto the show, a little Winnie the Poo stuffed toy....

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Erin Brady, Miss Connecticut, Wins Miss USA Pageant (watch!)

Keith GirardJune 17, 2013

Erin Brady, Miss Connecticut, has a head for business and a body built for sin. But her “special talent” cooking, her love of bowling and her ability to field questions with the greatest of ease helped her capture the Miss USA crown last night in Las Vegas....

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Say What?! Miss Utah Wants to ‘Create Education Better’ (watch!)

Keith GirardJune 17, 2013

Marissa Powell, the fetching Miss USA contestant from Utah, proved the beauty pageant isn't all about beauty, after she crashed and burned on a question about pay inequality between men and women. The first sentence came out well, but it went straight down hill from there. Hello, third runner up....

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Miley Cyrus Takes Public Toke: Celebs Increasingly Flout Pot Laws

Keith GirardApril 7, 2013

Miley Cyrus didn’t seem to have a care in the world when she sat on he Miami hotel room balcony taking a long, deep hit of what could only be a marijuana blunt in full view of hovering paparazzi. But Miley is far from alone....

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Justin Bieber’s Manse: Sex, Drugs, All Night Parties, Oh My!

Keith GirardApril 5, 2013

Justin Bieber’s posh mansion in the exclusive The Estates of the Oaks neighborhood in Calabasas, Calif., has been in the news lately over non-stop parties with and without the Bieb’s presence. So, what’s it like inside? Would you believe sex, drugs and rock ‘n roll?...

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Paris Jackson, Jacko’s Daughter, Pursues a Normal Life (watch!)

Keith GirardMarch 6, 2013

Paris Jackson, daughter of late superstar Michael Jackson, wants nothing to do with her father’s secretive, off-beat, eccentric lifestyle. Since his death, she has gone out of her way to live the normal, everyday life of a young teenager. ...

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Johnny Depp on Letterman Doubles as Musical Guest (watch!)

Keith GirardFebruary 22, 2013

Johnny Depp dropped in on David Letterman last night and banged out a tune with musical guest Bill Carter and the Blame. Depp says he started out as a musician before focusing on acting....

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David Letterman Swims in Sports Illustrated Bikini Babes (watch!)

Keith GirardFebruary 12, 2013

Kate Upton led the charge of Sports Illustrated swimsuit models on David Letterman last night. It’s an annual rite of passages for the bikini babes. Dave was literally swimming in them. But what about CBS’s new standards of television and flesh?...

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Katherine Webb Set to Debut on ABC Reality Show ‘Splash’

Keith GirardFebruary 11, 2013

Katherine Webb, the All-American Southern beauty queen who caused a national sensation during the college football championship game–thanks to a salivating Brent Musburger–makes her debut in the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit issue....

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Rihanna Slips by CBS Censors in See-Thru Grammy Dress (photos!)

Keith GirardFebruary 11, 2013

Rihanna breezed past CBS censors at the Grammy Awards, even though her stunning Azzedine Alaia dress was sheer enough to see her nipple and protruding nipple stud. Under the bright lights and cameras flashes the dress was virtually see-through....

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Allison Williams Hilariously Mocks Prince William, Kate (watch!)

Keith GirardFebruary 8, 2013

Allison Williams, who plays the totally uptight Marnie on HBO’s hit show “Girls,” lets loose with a hilarious send-up of Prince William and wife Kate Middleton that’s resurfaced now that she’s famous for more than being famous....

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Kate Upton Gets Foamed Up in New Mercedes CLA Car Ad (Watch!)

Keith GirardJanuary 24, 2013

Kate Upton is no Charlie Tuna, not after Mercedes-Benz tapped her to tease the automaker’s Super Bowl ads before the game. She poses with the sleek new CLA sedan and supervises a sudsy bath to the sounds of a raucous jazz tune. ...

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Jennifer Lawrence Trash Talks Oscar Rivals on SNL (watch!)

Keith GirardJanuary 20, 2013

Jennifer Lawrence caught some grief at the Golden Globes for her Meryl Streep comment, but the gloves came off for her Oscar rivals in her hilarious “Saturday Night Live” monologue. Jessica Chastain, Naomi Watts and other nominees were her targets. Watch!...

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Jessica Chastain Does Best Mickey Mouse on Fallon (watch!)

Keith GirardJanuary 19, 2013

Jessica Chastain scored a Golden Globe for her role in “Zero Dark Thirty.” But it wasn’t always that way. She told Jimmy Fallon last night (Jan. 18) that she worked long and hard at some pretty odd jobs before making it as an actress. The stunning, red-haired beauty really only broke out last year in films Terrence Malick’s “The Tree of Life” with Brad Pitt and Sean Penn and “The Help,” for which she was nominated for an Oscar....

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Charlie Sheen Swears He Wasn’t Cracked Up During Meltdown (watch!)

Keith GirardJanuary 15, 2013

Charlie Sheen insists he was clean during his infamous 2011 meltdown that cost him his job on the hit television show “Two and a Half Men.” Then, what made him go whack? You won’t believe it. Sheen dropped by the Late Show with David Letterman last night (Jan. 14) an set the record straight about his drug use....

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Derek Jeter Hottie Hannah Davis Eyed for SI Cover (15 photos!)

Keith GirardJanuary 10, 2013

Hannah Davis, the Victoria’s Secret fashion model who is dating Yankees slugger Derek Jeter, is being named dropped as a contender for the coveted cover of the Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue. She’s got the goods, plus a sports connection. Some are comparing her to Kate Upton, who landed on swimsuit issue cover last year after being crowned “Rookie of the Year” the year before. ...

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