I wasn’t going to cover this interview in which Evan Rachel Wood sort-of confirmed that she’d broken off a sweet, sweet piece of her True Blood costar Alexander Skarsgard, but then I saw these amazing photos of her at the Rocky Horror 35th anniversary tribute show in LA. She’s a perfect Magenta in a maid’s costume right down to her black and red manicure. (Although the original Magenta didn’t have black nail beds.) Evan has a brief interview with E! Online, in which she oh-so-casually drops that she’s dated a castmember on True Blood. This girl is smooth and she knows how to feed information on the press without making it obvious. We first heard that Evan and Alex were dating last September. Shortly afterwards, Kate Bosworth got her emaciated claws into Alex and Evan reconciled with Marilyn Manson, only to thankfully break up with him again. I guess losing Alex Skarsgard to Kate Bosworth is enough to send a poor girl into Marilyn Manson’s arms.
We chatted with Wood at last night’s Rocky Horror Picture Show tribute benefit for the Painted Turtle in L.A. about the very successful love lives of the show’s cast.
“God, that set is just a lovefest over there,” she told us. “I’ve even been there myself. I did date one of the castmembers already.”
But that’s in the past. Now, she has another costar to think about. He’s not someone on True Blood, but a young hottie in The Ides of March, a political drama directed by George Clooney.
“My character gets herself into a bit of a predicament with one of the politicians, and she’s also Ryan Gosling’s love interest,” Wood said. “I’m very excited [because] I’ve had a total crush on him forever. It’s going to be amazing!”
As for working with Clooney, who’s notorious for pulling pranks on his costars, Wood said, “I’m excited for the practical jokes…Bring it on!”
I find Wood pretentious but anyone who can do a costume so well earns major points in my book. She’s lovely as Magenta, and I found her somewhat believable on True Blood as Louisiana’s vampire Queen Sophie-Anne. The girl is just 23 and she survived a longterm relationship with Marilyn Manson. She’s probably kicking herself that she lost out on one to Alex Skarsgard, although the fact that he’s been with Kate Bosworth for so long just makes him seem inadequate despite all the evidence otherwise.
Guess who wins again for Mother of the Year? No, I won't judge her. These are photos of Christina Aguilera, totally boozed up yesterday, for Halloween. She was some kind of "slutty cop" I think. Not just a "cop" - that skirt isn't regulation. And neither is getting trashed while in uniform. But it's Halloween! Let the girl get wasted. She was probably out with her gays - but not Samantha Ronson. Sam isn't one of Christina's "gays". Sam is likely Xtina's girlfriend at this point. Over the weekend, The Sun's sources were gossiping away about the state of Christina and Sam's relationship:
SAMANTHA RONSON is like the Pied Piper of lipstick lesbianism - her tune is a pulling machine. The DJ, seen shopping for pumpkins, has been talking about her latest celebrity conquest CHRISTINA AGUILERA. She joins LINDSAY LOHAN on Sam’s CV of lovers - which would be the envy of Hollywood’s biggest male shaggers.
Sam’s music producer pal MARLON DAVID confirmed that Christina has been involved in threesomes - but it wasn’t the reason for her splitting from husband JORDAN BRATMAN.
Marlon said: “Jordan was never comfortable with Xtina liking girls but he thought it would make the marriage work. Sam said she had a threesome with Xtina in Mexico last month, that’s when she realised she was a ‘hot piece of ass’. Sam said Xtina is ‘horny as a college freshman’.” Marlon also Xtina gave Sam a Skype peep show."
I could have gone my whole life without knowing that little piece of gossip. Here's my theory: this isn't a phase for Christina. I know that's the popular theory, that Christina is just having fun with a lady named Sam just after the split, and that Christina will be back to men at some point. I don't think so - I think Christina really is into women. And I think she broke up her marriage to be with Sam. We'll see.
Well, I've been prepared for this. Jennifer Love Hewitt really is an old-fashioned kind of celebrity. She still "rolls out" a new boyfriend in the oh-so-standard way. First is the "rumor" that she's dating someone. Then, the coy confirmation. Then some candid photos of the two of them running errands ("Oh, the paparazzi caught us walking the dog! How cute!"). And then the interviews and more formal red carpet photos. That's where we are now - Jennifer Love has been dating Alex Beh for several months, and they just did their first red carpet photo op, on the heels of their joint interview talking about how "in love" they are. Next up: they get engaged, Love gushes in interview after interview for a year, and then the engagement is called off. Rinse and repeat. By the way, I still can't get over how much this Beh guy looks like John Mayer. Beh and Mayer could be brothers. Love really has a type. Ugh.
But it's not all repeating the worst dumb patterns! Variety reports that Love is slated to produce several new comedies in the coming year:
Now that she’s no longer whispering to ghosts, Jennifer Love Hewitt has been busy behind the camera developing several TV projects. Through her Fedora Films shingle, Hewitt and production partner A.J. Rinella have set up comedies at ABC and Fox, as well as a series adaptation of her TV film “The Client List” at Lifetime.
At ABC, Hewitt is behind “Bad Taste in Men,” from scribe Austin Weinberg. The single-camera half-hour comedy centers on a Chicago woman who’s been unable to find the right guy and settle down.
Hewitt is exec producing with Rinella, Brillstein Entertainment’s Peter Traugott and Untitled Entertainment’s Dannielle Thomas. ABC Studios, where Fedora has a first-look deal, would produce.
In the case of “The Client List,” Lifetime is looking to develop a fresh take on the TV movie, which starred Hewitt as a Texas housewife who becomes a prostitute. “The Client List” posted Lifetime’s second-highest audience for an original TV movie this year. Jordan Budde (”90210″) will write the series project, which will offer a new take on the idea — originally based on a Texas Monthly magazine article. Hewitt, Rinella, Thomas and Howard Braunstein (whose Jaffe-Braunstein shingle produced the movie) are all exec producers.
Then there’s the untitled comedy project at Fox, which is being written by Tiffany Paulson. Single-camera laffer is a romantic comedy told from the p.o.v. of a career-driven woman. Walt Becker is exec producing with Rinella, Dana Dubois and Walt Becker.
Hewitt will be seen in the Hallmark Hall of Fame movie “The Lost Valentine” opposite Betty White. Telepic will air on CBS in early 2011. Hyperion recently published Hewitt’s book, “The Day I Shot Cupid.”
Wow - it sounds like Love could actually become a pretty successful television producer, and a producer who employs many up-and-coming women behind-the-scenes. Good for her - that's the kind of feminism I can get behind, even though it sounds like most of the projects are about finding a man and/or being a hooker. Oh, well.
Last year, I kept seeing nice photos of Colin Farrell all dolled up in a suit, filming a new movie. The movie was/is called London Boulevard, and it also stars Keira Knightley and Ray Winstone. Here's the thing: I was under the impression that this was some kind of romance or just a straight up modern drama. It's not. It's a gangster film, and it reminds me of Guy Ritchie and Matthew Vaughn's films, like Rock'NRolla and Layer Cake. Colin stars as the gangster who doesn't want to be drawn back into the web of crime. Keira is the movie star who Colin protects as a bodyguard. Winstone plays the crime boss, it seems. And you know what? This sh-t looks GOOD.
Right? I want to see those sex scenes between Keira and Colin. I want to see Colin pistol whip somebody. I want to see Colin play a badass in a suit. I'm so seeing this movie.
Comic Zach Galifianakis lit up what was supposedly an actual joint while he was on the Bill Maher show over the weekend. Zach and the panel were discussing Prop 19, which essentially legalizes marijuana in California and is up for vote tomorrow. To make his pro Prop-19 point, Zach pulled a joint out of his jacket and fired it up. Considering that they were in California, I’m sure he was violating all sorts of smoking bans. Smoke offends me in a way that drug use does not. I would vote “yes” on this measure if I was a resident of California, having skimmed the details. As long as people aren’t driving and aren’t in a closed public place while they’re smoking I have no problem with it. I don’t see how so many prescription drugs are legal but marijuana is not. (Outside of California.) Here’s E! Online’s coverage:
Love ‘em or leave ‘em, Zach (and host Bill Maher) are longtime proponents of weed. So what better time and place to light up a joint than during the Real Time round table discussing this week’s vote in California to decriminalize the drug.
“It’s a tricky thing politically to jump on that bandwagon,” The Hangover star mused of the legalization of pot before pulling the marijuana out of his sport coat and puffing away. “Because I think that maybe people still see it as taboo.”
The risky stunt was met with lots of laughs from the panel, but surprisingly, the biggest and most amused response came from Conservative panel guest Margaret Hoover. The reporter actually grabbed the blunt from the funnyman, sniffed it for herself, checking that it was the real deal, then passed it back across the table, all the while laughing hysterically.
Californians will have to wait until Tuesday’s election to see in Galifianakis’ Proposition 19 ploy was successful—or not, depending on which side of the debate you fall on.
I like Zach Galifinakis while he’s playing a character, but I tried to watch one of his standup routines on Netflix on demand and found that his humor fell completely flat for me. He just wasn’t funny and seemed kind of dull to me. Maybe you need to be high to really get the guy. As an actor I like him, though. Much of that is due to the sheer number of times I’ve watched G Force. (I have a six year old!)
Can you imagine being on your honeymoon with your new husband Russell Brand? Okay, let's start smaller: can you imagine having sex with Brand? Chances are pretty good that at least a few of you commenters already had sex with him, so let's start it there. Let's say you had sex with Brand, the "Shagger of the Decade", and you fell in love. Let's say he took you to India and proposed. Let's say you eventually married in India, and now you're on your honeymoon. Once there, once you are finally officially hitched and The Shagger of the Decade is your lover for life… wouldn't that alone seem like a come-down? I'll admit, Brand seems like he would be fun in bed. But he's not husband material. Thankfully, Katy Perry isn't really wife material, so I'll imagine they can make it work for a year or two. Or maybe less, if the honeymoon is any indication. Radar reports that Katy and Russell's honeymoon is like something out of a Doris Day comedy - what with Katy refusing to "consummate" their marriage because of a rash. That's seriously the plot of a Doris Day movie.
Katy Perry and Russell Brand’s honeymoon in the Maldives didn’t go exactly as planned, RadarOnline.com has learned, as the new bride was bitten by a spider their first day there, dampening the mood for the newlyweds.
Brand and Perry had refrained from having sex for a month prior to their wedding in India last week, according to the Australian magazine Grazia. After a spider bit Perry shortly after the pair arrived in the Maldives, the I Kissed A Girl singer developed a nasty rash on her legs, which led to her taking a medication that left her tired, drowsy and unable to consummate the marriage.
Grazia magazine also reports Perry, 26, and Brand, 35, spent their honeymoon at the Soneva Fushi resort in the Maldives, a nation of tiny islands in the Indian Ocean that boasts some of the world’s most gorgeous resorts.
The Get Him To The Greek star chose the secluded, $8000-a-night location because it’s "paparazzi proof,” according to the magazine. Other celebs who have frequented the island retreat include Madonna, Paul McCartney and Tom Cruise.
I wonder what the "nasty rash" is? It could be something from the plant life, an allergy she didn't know she had, something like that. But in the Doris Day movie, it was psychosomatic - in Touch of Mink, Doris breaks out in hives whenever she's in a hotel room with a man.
So… I give it another week until Brand is boning other women, basically.
Jesus, this news just made me so sad this morning. Lily Allen and her boyfriend just confirmed that she suffered a miscarriage (some are saying the baby was stillborn). Lily was six months pregnant, and this is her second miscarriage in two years time. Back in September, after she confirmed the pregnancy, she spoke candidly about the complications she suffered in the first trimester - there was bleeding, and Lily said that she was "living in fear" that she wouldn't be able to carry to term.
Lily Allen has again suffered the heartbreak of losing a baby during pregnancy.
“It is with great sadness that we have to confirm that Lily Allen and Sam Cooper have lost their baby,” the British singer’s rep tells PEOPLE in a statement. “The couple ask that their privacy be respected and that they be left alone at this deeply distressing time. No further comment will be made.”
Allen, 25, announced a few weeks ago that the baby, a boy, was due in January. This is her second such heartbreak – coming almost three years after she suffered a miscarriage during her relationship with musician Ed Simons.
Allen and Cooper, an upmarket decorator, had announced their pregnancy in August. Allen had also Tweeted a pic of herself excitedly holding up a newspaper with the good news.
Allen has spoken of having children as “ultimately my main goal” in life.
The lovely Betty White is the cover girl on this week’s Parade magazine. Inside, Betty talks about her support of same sex marriage, her love of animals and the fact that she gets less than five hours of sleep on an average weeknight. I guess we know now how she does it all. When my grandmother was in her 70s she was sleeping only a few hours a night like that, but I know that I can’t get by on less than 7 hours, 6 if I’m pushing it. I just get too tired and cranky during the day. Here’s some of Parade’s interview with the 88 year-old comedian, with more at the source.
She's a stair master… Every weekday, White gets up at 6, feeds her dog, showers, works on a book, heads to the set (whether TV, movie, or commercial) for a day of shooting, comes home, plays with her dog, does a crossword puzzle, writes some more, and goes to bed at 1:30 a.m. (It tires us out just writing this.) How does she stay in shape? "I have a two-story house and a bad memory, so I'm up and down those stairs all the time," she says. "That's my exercise."
…But she likes her junk food, too. A devoted meat-and-potatoes gal, White eats fries every night (along with a salad or vegetable) and has a hot dog named after her at the legendary Pink's in Los Angeles ("It's called 'Betty "Naked in the City" Hot Dog'…because I don't put anything on it"). On the set of Hot in Cleveland, her co-star Wendie Malick says, "Betty has a complete thing for Red Vines licorice, the most disgusting candy I ever tasted—with a color that's not found in nature. But you look at her and think, How does she do it? Maybe that's her secret." What does White credit her good health to? "Good genes, I guess. My dad died when he was 83 and my mom died at 85. They were active right up until the very end."
Her parents passed down their comic timing—and puppy love. "They had delicious senses of humor," White recalls. 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 loves her Pontiac. When White was offered the part of Ryan Reynolds' grandmother in 2009's The Proposal, she turned it down because the shoot would have required several weeks away from Pontiac, her beloved golden retriever. She signed on only after the producers tightened the schedule. White, who has three stepchildren, has always loved animals. She's chairwoman of the Greater Los Angeles Zoo Association and has volunteered for 40 years with the Morris Animal Foundation, a Denver-based group whose efforts have led to advances in the health and welfare of animals worldwide…
Nobody drives Miss Betty. Ask White if she still drives and she replies, "Of course!" She owns a silver Cadillac nicknamed Seagull. "I love Cadillacs and name them after birds." Her previous ride, the pale-yellow Canary, was preceded by the green Parakeet.
She's a pinup girl. Move over, Bettie Page. In 2011, walls across America will showcase 12 months of White—strutting with a boom box, lounging with shirtless menservants, and more. And following in the footsteps of Sienna Miller and the Olsen twins, White has recently unveiled a line of T-shirts and sweatshirts. "I wanted them to feature dogs and cats, but the designers insisted on putting my face on the front," she says in mock astonishment. A portion of the money from the calendar and from the Betty White Collection will benefit the Morris Animal Foundation.
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."
She plays to win… Once a month or so, White and "family"—pals like Frasier's Millicent Martin (who played Jane Leeves' mother) and Password creator Bob Stewart—get together for poker night. "It's a heavy game," White says. "You can lose as much as five dollars!" When she was a guest on Late Night With Jimmy Fallon in 2009 and again in May, Fallon challenged her to beer pong. "I explained that you try to throw ping-pong balls into the other person's beer cup," he said. "If you get the ball in, your opponent drinks. She said, 'I'm in!'" and nailed her first toss. "Betty plays the cute factor," Fallon says, "then goes for the jugular." He rallied—"I wasn't going down without a fight"—and eventually won.
Here are some photos of Betty from Parade. I love the kind of half-assed Halloween costumes they put her in. She looks like a superhero in a cardigan. Someday I hope to interview Betty. I really don’t care about meeting any other celebrities (ok, Matt Damon, Joel McHale and Alan Cumming, you got me) but Betty is at the top of my list. You know she’ll crack you the hell up too. Betty is working on two books, her first is due out next Spring and is about “life, love, sex and celebrity.” No wonder she gets barely any sleep with that work schedule.
Emma Watson is the December cover girl for Vogue UK, to promote the first part of Harry Potter and the WhatsIt (whatever). Even though we only have a couple of lower-quality photos from the Vogue shoot (by Mario Testino), there are a few interesting interview excerpts already out. Emma talks about being one of the richest young women in the UK, and how she couldn't cut her hair until she'd been released from her Potter contract:
She may play Harry Potter’s bookish sidekick Hermione Granger, but there are some books that caught Emma Watson by surprise – her financial ledgers.
Throughout her early career, Watson, 20, had been given a small weekly allowance of about $75, having no idea of the fortune she was amassing from the hit movie series until she had a “money conversation” with her father, Chris Watson, when she was around 17, the actress – and Brown University student in Rhode Island – tells December’s edition of British Vogue.
Watson is now said to be worth $32 million, give or take a few pounds sterling.
“By the third or fourth film, the money was starting to get serious,” she told Vogue, according to published reports in the U.K. “I had no idea. I felt sick, very emotional.”
She has barely touched her fortune, for which she was named Hollywood's highest paid female in Vanity Fair earlier this year. She chose instead to live in student digs while studying at Brown University in Rhode Island.
It is such stoic self control that led her to ban herself from reading the tabloids.
"There's tons that's not very nice and I'm very, very self critical, so it was like a drug for me," she said.
Watson told how she decided to experiment with her new elfin hairdo after being released from her contract, which banned her from wearing heavy make-up or getting her ears pierced during the Harry Potter shooting schedule.
I'm always impressed with Watson - she really does seem to have a good head on her shoulders, and she seems like an intelligent, classy young woman. It will be interesting to see how much promotional work she does for these last Potter films - that's got to be rough on her university schedule, and I can't imagine every one of her professors accepts "I had to do the Today Show" as an excuse for missing an exam.
Last week, PETA sent an open letter to Lindsay Lohan offering to pay the more than $50,000 bill for Lindsay's Betty Ford Clinic rehab (her fifth rehab stay, I believe). But, like everything in life, the offer comes with a "catch". For PETA to pay Lindsay's bill, they are asking that Lindsay become a vegetarian (or a vegan). Part of the open letter states: "PETA will help pay your $50,000 bill for substance addiction treatment if you'll rid yourself of one more toxic substance: meat. As you know, a crucial part of any recovery is showing charity to others. One way to do this is to be kind to animals, the Earth, and your own body. You'll never regret it." I would have thought that Lindsay would prefer to sell her own stolen jewelry rather than take orders from PETA, but sources tell Radar that she's considering the offer seriously:
Lindsay Lohan’s financial woes are no secret, and PETA offered to pay $50,000 for LiLo’s stint in rehab - if she gives up meat, RadarOnline.com has exclusively learned.
A source close to the Mean Girls star, 24, tells us: “Lindsay is seriously considering the offer from PETA. There is thoughtful consideration about PETA’s very generous offer. Lindsay loves animals, and looks at it as a ‘win-win’ since being a vegetarian is a healthier lifestyle that she is striving for.”
As RadarOnline.com has previously reported, Lindsay’s stint in rehab at the Betty Ford Center is going to cost upwards of $150,000. Lindsay has absolutely no source of income at the present moment.
“Lindsay is making arrangements to make payments to the Betty Ford Center to pay for her bill. Betty Ford does work with patients who have financial problems and are unable to pay the bill in full. This is a very common practice of Betty Ford. Lindsay realizes that Betty Ford is giving her an opportunity and essentially taking a chance on her, given her past track record,” the source says.
Lindsay would “love it if PETA would offer to pay her entire rehab bill. However, she isn’t expecting that to happen, and is just grateful for the offer PETA has made. Lindsay seems to have really grown up a lot since her last appearance in court last Friday. Lindsay isn’t expecting, nor does she want a free ride, which is a very good sign for her recovery. Lindsay is taking responsibility and seems to be working the 12 steps of AA,” the source added.
Lindsay must stay at Betty Ford until January 3, 2011.
Always on the hustle. I read the open letter carefully, and it is clear that PETA is looking for a hard confirmation that Lindsay quit meat. There is no "trying" or "considering" the vegan lifestyle, there is only doing it for cash. Personally, I wouldn't be able to give up chicken for $50,000, but chicken is my LEGAL addiction. Maybe Lindsay's love affair with drugs isn't the same as her affection for meat.
Photos courtesy of WENN.
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