The Golden one Betty White is featured on the cover of this week’s issue of Parade magazine and in her coverstory interview, Betty opens up about what kind of men she likes, what she learned from her parents, her thoughts on marriage equality and more. Here is our first look at Betty‘s Parade coverphoto and some excerpts from her coverstory interview:
Don't call her a cougar! White she may lust after Robert Redford (who is 14 years her junior), Betty insists, "I've always liked older men. They're just more attractive to me. Of course, at my age there aren't that many left!" Apparently, that hasn't presented much of an obstacle. "I've enjoyed the opposite sex a lot," says White, whose beloved husband of 18 years, Allen Ludden, died in 1981. "Always have. Always will."
Her parents passed down their comic timing—and puppy love. "They had delicious senses of humor," White says of her parents. Her father was a traveling salesman who would bring home jokes from the road. He and her mother were also animal people. "They would come back from a walk with a dog, saying, 'Betty, he followed us home. Can we keep him?' My parents had a cat named Toby who liked to sit on my crib. My mom always said that if Toby hadn't approved of the baby, she'd have gone straight back to the hospital."
She believes everyone should have the right to say "I do." White's status as a gay icon dates to the mid-80's popularity of The Golden Girls. "Gays love old ladies," she says of the phenomenon, which saw fans from West Hollywood to New York City turn on their TVs between 9 and 9:30 on Saturday nights to watch the exploits of Rose & Co. "I don't care who anybody sleeps with. If a couple has been together all that time—and there are gay relationships that are more solid than some heterosexual ones—I think it's fine if they want to get married. I don't know how people can get so anti-something. Mind your own business, take care of your affairs, and don't worry about other people so much."
As if it weren’t possible to love her anymore, she goes and gets even MORE lovable … and wait ’til you see a few photos from her Parade photoshoot. Check out Betty White‘s Hallowe’en themed photos, after the jump …
You know what, Betty is right … gays DO love old ladies … but EVERYONE loves Betty White :) Wee!!
he girl with everything is likely to have some seriously pampered pooches. Hilton heiress Paris met up for lunch with her sister Nicky at the Chateau Marmont Hotel in West Hollywood yesterday and the reality star brought along two of her furry friends for the ride. And like any good attention seeking star, Paris, 29, got her two dogs dressed for the occasion in cute Halloween outfits. Paris, who has admitted in the past to owning 17 dogs in total, brought along a tiny teacup chihuahua dressed in a yellow duck costume and a cream pomeranian dressed like a coyote.
I’m convinced that pets, dogs especially, hate it when they are dressed up in costumes or clothing so, yeah, I feel bad for these little guys. That being said, they do look kinda cute … but let’s just hope that Paris doesn’t make her little doggies wear these costumes for too long. At least they don’t look as “trashy” as their owner in her Hallowe’en getup.
Thus far, In Style has yet to update their official website with any other photos or info from Xtina‘s coverstory article so we don’t know if she discusses her pending divorce with Jordy in her interview or not. My guess is that this interview was likely done before news of her split broke so we may likely learn nothing new. To be honest, I’m not crazy about this photo … I hate the leopard print (tacky) and I’m not fond of the big braid (meh) so … let’s just hope the rest of the photos from her shoot turn out better ;)
She may be laughing it off but Kim Zolciak’s pregnancy is no joke. Star can confirm The Real Housewives of Atlanta star is indeed with child — despite the fact that she called our report yesterday “hilarious.” Kim’s former lesbian lover, DJ Tracy Young is standing by her story, published exclusively in this week’s issue of Star … “While I was staying at her house in Atlanta, I watched Kim do numerous pregnancy tests all of which came back positive,” Tracy tells Star. “Further to that, we went together to a local Target store where we purchased prenatal vitamins as advised by her doctor.” Adds Tracy, “For her to deny it is ridiculous but it doesn’t surprise me in the least. It’s typical Kim with an agenda. Who knows what that is. Maybe her own show??” In these exclusive photos, Kim proudly displays the gender test she took and points toward a positive pregnancy test. “It’s quite amusing she had me photograph the entire process and send the pictures to her mother via email. Why she would deny this I don’t understand.” Still, Tracy sends her congratulations to Kim. “I wish her and her growing family all the best.”
HMMM … it looks like Star magazine’s photo successfully hits back at Kim and her mother’s denials. In the end, a “secret” like this cannot stay hidden forever … but it sounds like Kim is gonna keep as mum as possible for as long as she can. I’m thinkin’ she’s pregs … and is trying to figure out a way to capitalize on the news. Might Kim Zolciak be jockeying for her own Bethenny Getting Married-type spin-off show of her own? HMMMM.
Last night Hollywood.tv ran into a very inebriated Lynn Patridge, mother of reality TV star Audrina Patridge (who was just axed from Dancing with the Stars), and Lynn was inspired to share her thoughts on a few things. First, she wanted to express how much she loves her daughter. Next, she wanted to express how unfairly her daughter was treated on DWTS. She also decided to chime in about Audriana‘s former Hills co-star Lauren LC Conrad … and call her a bitch. Yes, folks, it was all caught on video:
In an obscenity-laced rant caught on camera Wednesday night outside Hollywood hotspot Beso, Lynn Patridge swore her daughter was meant for bigger things and took aim at her daughter’s former The Hills castmates. “Audrina is going to fucking rise. And She’s got class … She’s a Polish, Catholic, fucking full-on Italian,” Lynn, smoking a cigarette, said into the camera. “Not only that, she was raised right.” During the five-minute diatribe, a friend attempted to intervene to stop the interview but Patridge, who admitted she’d been drinking, resisted. “I’ve been a celebrity mom for eight years through this Hills” bull–,” she said, “but Audrina is going to the next level… She’s got it in her. She’s a sweetie.” Lynn also addressed Audrina’s surprise DWTS elimination. “One door closes, another one opens. I was proud of her,” she says. “Last night, she fucking kicked ass . . . It’s all show business, baby, the show must go on” … she wasn’t so nice when asked about the “Hills girls” – her daughter’s costars in the MTV reality show. She called them “Hills tramps” and targeted Lauren Conrad in particular, calling her a “bitch.”
And I bet you thought YOUR mom has embarrassed you in public … I think Lynn Patridge takes the cake on embarrassing moms … well, at least for this week ;) After the jump, check out the full 5 minute drunken rant by Audrina‘s mother Lynn …
Mother of the Year for 2010, y’all … Lynn Patridge — you win! LMAO!! I can’t WAIT to see this crazy lady on Audrina‘s upcoming new reality TV show. Damn, give this woman a show of her own … er, but make sure you give her a bottle of booze first ;)
Last night David and I made our way to the Gibson Amphitheater in Universal City, CA to see Gorillaz live in concert on their Escape to Plastic Beach Tour. What we got was a 2-hour visual and musical spectacle that never failed to entertain and had the entire sold out audience dancing in their seats and in the aisles:
I’ve been a big fan of Gorillaz for years and I only got to see them perform live once on their very first tour. Last night’s performance not only blew away that first performance I saw all those years ago but it also blew away most of the concerts I’ve seen in the past few months. After the jump, check out some photos and video from last night’s fantastic concert performance …
Because Gorillaz is an animated band, they are a very visual band … the accompanying graphics thruout the show were so damn cool. But don’t let that fool you, on stage was a full band complete with a string section, a chorus of back-up singers, a brass horn section and more! Musical and visual mastery at its finest. Bobby Womack, Lou Reed, De La Soul and others came out to perform on stage with Gorillaz … it was just a fantastic show. Here is video of last night’s performance of 19-2000:
Here is video of Gorillaz, with guest vocalist Daley, performing their brand new single Doncamatic:
And that is just a taste of how fantastic the show was last night. If you get the chance to see Gorillaz on one of their remaining tour stops, you MUST see them live. They put on, quite possibly, my favorite concert of the year.
I’m not sure what the plan is for today … David and I may stay in. It’s supposed to get up into the high 80′s today … so … we’ll see how our Thursday unfolds.
Joaquin Phoenix is 36, Brad Paisley is 38, Julia Roberts is 43 and Charlie Daniels is 74 years old today. Click HERE to see who else is celebrating a birthday today.
Those clever folks at Next Media, who have created extremely entertaining animated videos about Paris Hilton, Nicole Snooki Polizzi, ex-JetBlue employee Steven Slater and more, have turned their attentions toward Charlie Sheen and his latest insane meltdown. As you undoubtedly may have heard, Sheen got himself into a bit of drama earlier this week when he was found in a trashed hotel room in NYC completely naked and with a scared female escort locked inside the closet. But, instead of telling you what went down … how about we check out an amazing Taiwanese animated video that shows you how things very likely went down:
The escort, the trashed hotel room … the COMPLETE nekkidness … it’s all here. Check out the video in full, after the jump …
I LIVE for these videos. Charlie Sheen‘s trainwreckness is the PERFECT fodder for this fun animated treatment. Ain’t this video the best? LMAO!!
David Arquette just can’t keep quiet about his break-up with Courteney Cox. After apologising for sharing too much in his last interview, Arquette, 39, returned to Howard Stern’s radio show today and revealed yet more cringe-worthy details about the end of his 11-year marriage. The actor revealed he cried after having sex for the first time he slept with a woman following his split from the Friends actress. ‘After the first girl I slept with … a few days later … I was, like, crying,’ he confessed. ‘It was the end of all the intimacy I shared with my wife. It was like a new thing. It was like … putting that away.’ He went on to claim that it wasn’t satisfying experience, explaining it lacked ‘that emotional love that I always had with Court.’ However, the missing intimacy didn’t seem to bother the actor as he revealed that he also slept with a blonde Australian he met at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel. After spouting off, he realized he had revealed too much yet again, saying: ‘I'm pretty sure I'm up shit's creek right now.’ Although this time around he was wise enough not to name and shame the mystery woman. Spurred on though by notorious shock jock Stern, Arquette also revealed the couple didn’t have a prenuptial agreement, meaning Arquette could get half of Cox’s fortune, which he said is worth around $100 million dollars. A short time later, the actor went on the chat show Live with Regis and Kelly to plug Scream 4, which he co-stars in with Cox and Neve Campbell. Arquette told the hosts he still has a good relationship with Cox despite their separation and went on to reveal that they had in fact gone for dinner together just the night before. He also revealed the two are just in different places in their lives, with Cox wanting ‘growth’ and him ‘feeling a little wild.’ And one thing Arquette was very adamant about? The actor insisted he had never cheated on his wife of 11 years, despite rumours to the contrary.
OH David … what a big mouth you have. As cringe-worthy as much of what comes out of Arquette‘s mouth is, I’m certain in the 11 years that Courteney has been married to him, she is WELL used to his childish antics. I have to say, I kinda enjoy hearing all the dumb stuff that seems to just fall out of his mouth … I mean, I feel bad for Courteney that he feels the need to spread their biz all over the place but he sure is entertaining to listen to. I wonder if he’ll be apologizing for his interview anytime soon. Scream 4 is still many months away from release … still PLENTY of time for David Arquette to give more interviews about his split from Courteney Cox. Ugh, poor thing.
After dramatically changing her diet and lifestyle, Kelly Osbourne is looking slimmer than ever. So with the reality TV star feeling more confident with her body than ever before, Kelly has decided to bare nearly all in a new campaign. The former pop star, who turned 26 yesterday, celebrated her shapely figure by posing nearly naked in gold paint in the style of Shirley Eaton in Bond film Goldfinger. Fans of the 1964 007 movie will remember Eaton’s character Jill Masterton ended up dead on a red sofa after suffocating after she is covered in gold paint by villain Oddjob. Kelly was persuaded to strip off to mark the launch of Sky+HD reaching over 50 channels in high definition. She enthused: ‘I love watching TV in HD, you really can see everything in a lot more detail and it makes everything look so much better. Although if you're on the other side of the camera then the pressure is on you to make sure you look good! Since my weight loss I'm a lot more body confident in front of the camera. It's not just celebration for Sky+HD, but for me too.’
In all honesty, even as fabulous as Kelly O looks, she ain’t my favorite Golden Girl … but she don’t look half bad. Kelly looks so much like her mother Sharon Osbourne in this photo, is uncanny. After the jump, check out one more promo photo for Sky+HD that features golden Kelly draped on a velvet red sofa …
The campaign is fun … and good for Kelly for feeling confident enough to strip down for these photos. To me, Kelly‘s most attractive trait is her confidence … which is on full display in these new photos.
For fans of superhero movies, the most patriotic holiday on next year's calendar won't fall on July 4th, but exactly 18 days later. That's when Paramount Pictures will release Captain America: The First Avenger, a big budget adaptation of the Marvel Comics shield-baring super-soldier. The new issue of Entertainment Weekly offers your first look at star Chris Evans in the hero's red, white and blue threads — but you can get a peek at the man in uniform right here, right now … "At the time, I remember telling a buddy of mine, 'If the movie bombs, I'm fucked. If the movie hits, I'm fucked!'" After declining the part three times, Evans took a meeting with Marvel execs and Johnston and was dazzled by their plans for the movie. He still felt wary about suiting up for Captain America — but then he had an epiphany. "I was just scared," he says. "I realized my whole decision making process was fear based, and you never want to make a decision out of fear.'" Evans signed a six-picture deal with Marvel to play the character, and he has no regrets: "I can't believe was almost too chicken to play Captain America." The movie — which also serves to set up Marvel's 2012 superhero team-up, The Avengers — hews closely to Captain America's WWII-era origins … "The interesting thing about this character is that he's an everyman who in the course of a few minutes become a perfect human specimen. That has to create some interesting personal issues," says Johnston. "I saw it as an opportunity to make a superhero movie that felt real, that didn't have to rely on an overabundance of fantasy elements."
I mean, you don’t get more All-American than Captain America … or Chris Evans. He’s got the handsome, guy next door look down pat and seems like the perfect choice to play America’s comic book super soldier Captain America. I’m not quite sure how I feel about the costume, tho … I’ll need to see more, full-size photos but … doesn’t Chris‘s head look superimposed on the body featured on this magazine cover? I must admit, this incarnation of the Captain America costume is starting to grow on me … it looks like a uniform first and a superhero costume second. I want to see more … but at this point, I’m happy with what I’ve been seeing thus far. What do you think?
Miley Cyrus’s parents, Billy Ray and Tish Cyrus, are divorcing after 17 years of marriage, they tell PEOPLE. “As you can imagine, this is a very difficult time for our family,” they say in a statement. “We are trying to work through some personal matters. We appreciate your thoughts and prayers.” The couple have five children, including the pop star. Divorce papers were filed Wednesday in Tennessee citing irreconcilable differences.
And so … the question becomes … which Cyrus parent will have managing control over their famous daughter? Despite the niceness expressed in their joint statement, things get very ugly in divorce proceedings. Invariably the issue of money will come up and that’s when things get nasty. Sure, both Billy Ray and Tish will still stay extremely rich but one of them will end up being richer … and that richer parent will be the one who wins Miley in the divorce. HMMMM. They’re being nice now … I wonder how long ’til the cracks begin to show.
Late night talk show host and all around funnyman Conan O’Brien, whose new TBS talk show Conan will premiere in just a few short weeks, is featured on the cover and in the pages of the new issue Rolling Stone magazine. In his coverstory interview, Conan opens up about the depression he felt in the wake of losing his hosting gig on The Tonight Show and explains what his life was like after he completed his nationwide Legally Prohibited from Being Funny on Television Tour. Here is our first look at Conan on the cover of RS mag and some excerpts from his coverstory interview:
In July, shortly after his Legally Prohibited From Being Funny on Television Tour wrapped up, Conan O’Brien began visiting the set of his new talk show, at Warner Bros. Studios in Burbank, California. For various reasons, the show had not been staffed yet, nor had the set been built, so on those days, O’Brien would occasionally pause en route to his office and stand alone in a giant, empty warehouse … O’Brien had lost his dream job as host of The Tonight Show in January, at a speed (seven months!) almost as humiliating as the circumstances of his departure (ousted for Jay Leno, which is the comedy-world equivalent of being left at the altar for a cast member of Jersey Shore). “My wife says those first couple of months, the thing I said most often was, ‘Wait a minute, what just happened?’” O’Brien recalls. “Those weeks after the tour, where not much was going on, Conan was miserable,” confirms his wife, Liza Powel, a blunt and dryly funny former advertising executive with whom O’Brien has two children. “That was when he was the most depressed.” Powel says she had “all sorts of grand designs” about keeping her idled spouse busy: He would be responsible for camp drop-offs, he would cook dinner at least one night a week. None of which ended up happening. O’Brien did go for long bicycle rides, and read lots of history books. At a parents’ night at their son Beckett’s preschool, there was a stack of volunteer sign-up sheets, and O’Brien, who still had too much time on his hands, became overly ambitious and started signing up for everything: “Oh, I’d love to come talk to the kids about natural history!” “He was in the house all the time,” Powel recalls. “I said, ‘This can’t last – it’ll drive us crazy!’ Literally every 10 minutes, he’d poke his head in the room and say, ‘I don’t wanna bother you, but do you know where the Band-Aids are?’ ‘I don’t wanna bother you, but do you know how to use the phone?’ He was so sweet about it, and I felt like such a jerk. But seriously, I almost rented an office for him.” The morning after O’Brien’s final Tonight Show – his second-highest- rated episode ever, quadrupling his average nightly viewership – he and Powel drove up to a resort in Montecito. “I felt like I’d just been in a car accident,” O’Brien says. “Like a crazy mix of elation, anger, sorrow. Confusion was a big one.” That night, when they entered the dining room and the other guests stood up and applauded, O’Brien says, “It almost made me cry.”
This Rolling Stone excerpt continues after the jump, where you will also find a photo from Conan‘s RS photospread as well as behind the scene video from the shoot …
“I hated to see him in such a state of tension and unhappiness,” Powel says. “It was very painful for him to let go of this hallowed ground that he’d finally got a chance to stand on.” But, she goes on, “There were so many factors at work, such a confluence of change that had to do with so much more than him. The truth is, The Tonight Show was the definition of cultural relevancy for decades. And all of a sudden, it’s not. That’s not Conan’s fault. It’s not anybody’s fault. It just happened. And it’s no longer a show he should be pinning his life’s hopes on hosting.” Indeed, the spontaneous pro-Conan Internet campaign generated by fans in January – complete with Shepard Fairey-style iconography and its very own slogan, “I’m With Coco” – was driven largely by young people for whom the venerable institution of The Tonight Show meant little or nothing. For some, the show might have even made O’Brien less cool by association. The Tonight Show had been unhip for a very, very long time, not just for the past 17 years it has been hosted by Jay Leno, but for (let’s be honest) pretty much all of the Eighties … Consequently, when O’Brien was undone by NBC’s fecklessness and Leno’s treachery, it only affirmed what we knew all along: He’d thrown his lot in with the wrong crowd. Overnight, O’Brien not only regained the underdog status he’d held for much of his career, but actually found himself in a wholly new position: rebranded as an indie icon.
The full coverstory interview/article can be read in Rolling Stone magazine. They make a great point about how disassociating himself from the lame Tonight Show really reinvigorated Conan O’Brien‘s career … thus far. Sure, he’s gonna hafta do well with his new TBS talk show but I don’t think that will be much of a problem. His huge fanbase will be a boon for TBS. Getting fired from NBC will prolly be the best thing to ever happen to our dear Coco. Here is behind the scenes video from Conan‘s RS photoshoot:
Conan‘s time is now … I honestly believe he is about to embark on the next, even more successful stage of his career … and it couldn’t happen to a nicer guy.
Yay!!! At last … Mariah Carey has officially confirmed what pretty much everyone on Earth was sure of … she and hubby Nick Cannon are PREGS with their first child! Mr. & Mrs. Cannon officially broke the news to Access Hollywood‘s Billy Bush on The Today Show earlier today. While the couple are extremely thrilled to be expecting their first child together now, their happiness wasn’t always so … when pregnancy rumors first started for the couple 2 years ago, Mimi sadly reveals that she had a miscarriage a month after she first discovered she was pregnant. But, that sadness is gone now, cuz Mariah and Nick are officially expecting their first child together:
“Yes, we are pregnant. This is true,” Carey, 41, said on the Today show Thursday morning as part of a sneak peek at a three-part Access Hollywood interview. “It’s been a long journey. It’s been tough because I’ve been trying to hold on to a shred of privacy.” Husband Nick Cannon, 30, joined the interview to talk about the “absolutely emotional” news, adding, “The greatest gift on earth is a child.” Carey, who also told of a miscarriage two years ago, would not reveal her due date. She would only say “it’s still early” and “expecting is great.” Ever-supportive Cannon said of the loss, “It strengthened our relationship so much … she handled it so well.” The news, of course, won’t surprise those who have followed the couple’s coy references to pregnancy and babies over the past few months. Rumors flew as the expanding singer seemed to bloom a little more every week, and both Cannon and Carey have spoken about their desire for children. In August, Carey fanned the flames by stepping out in Brazil wearing a maternity dress. She quickly addressed the ensuing frenzy, explaining she is “superstitious” about pregnancy and promising, “When the time is right, everyone will know.” Days later, Cannon gushed about his wife’s motherly instincts, telling PEOPLE that “she’s very nurturing.” But not until now have they admitted they’re soon to welcome their own bundle of joy. Now that the news is out, people will clamor to know the sex of the child. The couple wouldn’t say yet, but eventually Carey will cave, because she loves to decorate.
You may recall that Thandie Newton inadvertently spilled the beans about Mariah‘s pregnancy on yesterday’s episode of The View … but now that we’ve learned the HAPPY HAPPY NEWS straight from Mimi‘s mouth, we can officially offer our congratulations and love to the happy family. This is just the best news ever … even tho we all pretty much knew she was pregs, it’s so exciting to hear the news from Mimi … especially when we see the elation on her face. After the jump, check out video of Mariah and Nick‘s big pregnancy announcement earlier today on The Today Show …
This is just so great … I couldn’t be more thrilled for Mariah and Nick. But, now that the cat is out of the bag the couple will be forced to deal with the intense scrutiny of the media, scrutiny that Mariah and Nick are at this point in their careers very well aware of. So, I guess that’s it … Mariah Carey is pregnant … let her Bump Watch officially get underway!
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