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Princes Harry has a ginger happy trail & wears pink underwear
Courtney Love gives a cracked-out NYT interview: “I’d like to be trusted again”
Jennifer Aniston gets a Cinderella makeover in Adam Sandler’s ‘Just Go With It’
Katherine Heigl poses with Naleigh on the December cover of W Mag
Brad & Angelina take Pax, Shiloh & the Empress to the park
LeAnn Rimes tweets epic denial for engagement story
Lily Allen rushed to hospital under fears of septicemia

Princes Harry has a ginger happy trail & wears pink underwear

Posted: 07 Nov 2010 07:26 AM PST

These are new photos of Prince Harry from this weekend - he participated in something called "The Soldier Challenge" with Bear Grylls at The Imperial War Museum. Those photos are the ones with Harry in a black sweatshirt. Harry also went to a rugby match, and wore a suit. But you want the money shots, don't you? The ginger happy trail, and the ass shot. Here you go:

Happy? Harry has a really sexy ginger trail, and he wears pink boxers. Sweet Jesus, this boy. And he's funny too! A new book about Harry and William is coming out soon - it's called Behind the Palace Walls, and it was written by one of my favorite gossip queens, Katie Nicholl at The Daily Mail (UK). Nicholl gets great exclusives (that often pan out) about celebrities, and I've always felt that she has some sources very close to Kate Middleton, if not a member of the Middleton family (perhaps even Waity Katy herself). Anyway, Nicholl's book looks really interesting… USA Today has a few excerpts, and just wait until the part about the Queen's cellphone:

They might be the most famous brothers in the world, easily recognized by just their first names: William and Harry. Sons of Diana and Charles. Grandsons of Elizabeth. Paparazzi’s catnip.

Katie Nicholl, a royal watcher and columnist at the Mail on Sunday in London, uncovers what makes the two young Windsors tick in William and Harry: Behind the Palace Walls (Weinstein Books, $24.95).

As rumors swirl around an imminent royal wedding, Nicholl gives her own take on the romance between Prince William, 28, and his longtime but sometimes off-and-on-again girlfriend, Kate Middleton, also 28. Or “Waity Katie,” as she’s called by the British press.

There was a pact made in 2007, according to Nicholl.

“He promised her his commitment and said he would not let her down, and she in turn agreed to wait for him,” Nicholl quotes a member of their inner circle.

Possible wedding dates now are next summer or 2012.

“Royal weddings may seem like fairy tales to the public, but they are in fact all about timing and coordinating schedules,” Nicholl writes. The queen’s upcoming Diamond Jubilee celebrations in 2012, for instance, and the London Olympic Games, also in 2012, need to be taken into account.

More royal tidbits from the book:

•Harry, 26, an infamous prankster, was asked by his grandmother to activate her new cellphone voicemail greeting. The message: “Hey, wassup? This is Liz. Sorry I’m away from the throne. For a hotline to Philip press one, for Charles press two, for the corgis press three.” It was quickly removed after the queen’s private secretary, Robin Janvrin, called and “got the shock of his life,” according to an aide.

•Camilla Parker Bowles was so stressed before her 2005 marriage to Prince Charles, and meeting his two sons, that she took up yoga.

•Harry’s turbulent relationship with Chelsy Davy included her breaking up with him on Facebook by simply changing her relationship “status” to “not in one.” He quickly moved on to a number of other young women and has been linked to Norwegian rock star Camilla Romestrand.

•William’s constant struggle with a life already planned out for him.

•William’s arguments with Camilla’s daughter, Laura Parker Bowles, over who was to fault for the collapse of their parents’ marriages. “Your father has ruined my life,” she once yelled at William.

[From USA Today]

I would press "3" for the corgi hotline. Wouldn't you? In any case, the book should be a good read (hint, hint, Weinstein Books, I'd like a copy!). Also, New York Magazine points out that since the book is being published by the Weinsteins, a possible film adaptation might be possible. When they spoke to Harvey Weinstein months ago, he said: "Katie and I talked about her book out in Cannes this year. We were at a party, and Jennifer Lopez got involved and said how much she loved the British royal family. There was a pretty fierce bidding war with Simon & Schuster, and we were delighted Katie chose Weinstein Books. Who knows, maybe we’ll do a movie about the princes next." Who could possibly play Harry?

Photos courtesy of WENN & Bauer-Griffin.

Courtney Love gives a cracked-out NYT interview: “I’d like to be trusted again”

Posted: 07 Nov 2010 07:01 AM PST

British sources are claiming again this morning that Courtney Love is dating Uma Thurman's ex, Andre Balazs. I still don't believe it. Mainly because I'm almost certain that Courtney is still a f-cking mess. But I'll give her credit: she's an amusing and shameless hot mess. In addition to the new reports about Love and Balazs, Courtney also gave a new interview to the New York Times this weekend. She talks in great detail about her life-long interest in fashion, and how she knows that most people perceive her as a barely cognizant crackhead. Unfortunately, this is the introduction to the article (full NYT piece here):

On Wednesday night, at 7 p.m., Courtney Love was, by her assessment, "slightly drunk."

She was sitting in the lobby of the Mercer Hotel, giving an impromptu concert with a guitarist and an entourage of friends. She wore a strapless white Marchesa gown, which appeared to be slipping off, and she knocked over a martini when I walked over and greeted her. "I just need half an hour," she said, ignoring the mess. She directed me to wait in her room on the sixth floor, where she has resided, on and off, for much of the last year. She stayed behind, talking to André Balazs, the hotel's owner, with whom she has been romantically linked in the past.

While waiting in her room, I noticed the following things: There were two full-size rolling racks packed with designer clothes, a pile of jewelry from Hollister, a shopping bag from Lululemon, a pack of Marlboro Gold cigarettes, fashion magazines, a guitar, faxes from Grazia, three wilting bouquets of peonies and roses, a nondisclosure contract, chocolates from Vosges and a neatly stacked pile of books with titles like "Talking the Winner's Way," "100 Words Every Word Lover Should Know," "Getting Even," "How to Instantly Connect With Anyone" and "What to Say to Get Your Way."

Shortly after 8 p.m., Ms. Love burst into the room with the Marchesa dress slung on one arm and the noted German Neo-Expressionist artist Anselm Kiefer on the other. She was entirely naked and leaning on Mr. Kiefer for support. She made one lap around the room, walking in front of a photographer, an assistant, a hairstylist and me. She pulled over her head a transparent lace dress that covered up nothing, and demanded my assistance — "Not you," she said to Mr. Kiefer, who was bent over trying to help her — to stuff her feet into a pair of black Givenchy heels that were zipped up the back and tied with delicate laces in the front. Then she applied a slash of red lipstick in the vicinity of her mouth.

"I really must get out of here," Mr. Kiefer said.

"Just a minute," Ms. Love said, as she pushed her feet, shoes and all, through a pair of pink knickers that she said cost $4,000. She grabbed a trench coat, walked through the hotel lobby with her breasts exposed to an assortment of prominent fashion figures, including Stefano Pilati, the Yves Saint Laurent designer, and then exited the hotel.

[From NYT]

So you already know this sh-t is going to be good. And you know Courtney is going to spend the entire interview shooting herself in the foot. I'd also like to point out something that bothered me - this whole piece is about Courtney trying to get her act together so people will recognize her as a style icon and as some kind of fashionable, interesting celebrity. It's all about her public image. Courtney says nothing about the drama with her estranged daughter, or trying to be clean and sober for Frances Bean, or trying to reconnect with her. It's all about Courtney, all the time, forever:

On forgiving Russell Simmons for kind-of calling her a crackhead: "To be honest, I just don't care," she said. "I know I've done it so many times, where I've mouthed off and said something stupid and been portrayed as a nut bag. What right would I ever have to get angry by a little slip of the tongue?"

On how she'd like her public image to be: "I want to be trusted again, like I was at one point," she said. "I'm not trusted right now. People don't want to get in trouble. They think that I am probably going to talk about things I shouldn't talk about, which I do a little bit, but I am really trying to be trusted again."

On her nightstand: "These are my wakeup cupcakes, some anti-depressants and a cellphone book," she said without embarrassment.

On not wanting people to think she's a train wreck: "I speak to you as someone who doesn't want to be perceived as a train wreck," she said. "Living in L.A. had a really bad effect on me in particular," she said, describing what sounded like obsessive behavior regarding the legal cases regarding the rights to Mr. Cobain's estate and allegations of financial wrongdoing. "I didn't realize where my reputation had gone. In New York, you can attack the source of what's gone wrong. Like what Russell did today — I called him and said, 'You know, Russell, you are a little older than me and you should know by now, with all your crazy money and your good credit and your RushCards, to not mouth off.' "

Early interest in fashion: Ms. Love gained entry to the wardrobe department of Paramount. She became an expert on vintage Hollywood and later acquired, through dealers, an impressive trove of clothing from the estates of Clara Bow, Lillie Langtry, Lillian Gish and Norma Talmadge.

On her mother: She was rebelling against a mother, of whom she said, "I will never, ever forgive for not being glamorous." And in a way, she was also rebelling against the fashion designers who refused to lend her dresses

Her bad fashion phase: "For years, despite having impeccable taste, I didn't understand how to convey that I had impeccable taste," she said during our interview. "What is the word for the one pill that you took in your life that made you far more conservative and stop cursing so much? I don't know what that pill was, but somehow someone slipped that in my drink."

About the chanting: The day before our first meeting, Ms. Love, a Buddhist, had chanted for several hours, taking breaks for cigarettes and text messages. Meanwhile, she made a promise to herself that, if she were to get the lease to the town house, then she would give up worrying about money, be polite to everyone and stop taking antidepressants. When she got home, she said, she found out that she got the house. So she decided to chant again that night.

The last part of the article:

ON Thursday night, Courtney Love sent me a series of lengthy text messages, as she often does to anyone she meets, but these were unusually coherent. She apologized for what happened the night before and said she felt embarrassed for "living right up to my worst reputation." She blamed a combination of Zoloft and a cocktail. And she blamed herself.

"I'm so humiliated," she wrote. "That simply isn't me. It has been, but I haven't been such a mess for quite some time."

Just before 2 a.m., she ended with this:

"I trust you understand that our hearts can take us all to dark and ill timed places. Warmly, Courtney. xx."

[From The New York Times]

I thought the “wakeup cupcakes” and all of the stuff about chanting was the best. I love that she takes “chanting breaks” to smoke and text! Oh, Courtney. You crazy bitch. I was also thinking about Courtney in relation to that other hot mess train wreck, Lindsay Lohan. Is this what Lindsay is going to be like in two decades? Still in crackhead denial, still talking about clothes and herself, like that's the only thing that matters? Or is Courtney somehow better, because her crazy seems somehow more contained, like a lifelong eccentricity rather than a rampant narcissistic sociopathy? I don't have the answers.

Photos courtesy of WENN.

Jennifer Aniston gets a Cinderella makeover in Adam Sandler’s ‘Just Go With It’

Posted: 06 Nov 2010 02:49 PM PDT

The trailer was recently released for Adam Sandler's next hit movie (ugh), Just Go With It. In the film, Adam stars as a douche who picks up women by telling them he's married. In that, the plot copies one of my favorite Cary Grant films, Indiscreet. In Indiscreet, Cary Grant always tells women that he's married and could never get a divorce, just so he's never expected to commit - and then he falls in love with Ingrid Bergman (who wouldn't?). Honestly, this trailer just made me want to watch Indiscreet again. The film also stars Brooklyn Decker in her film debut as the chick who Sandler eventually falls for and wants to commit too - and let's just say I get the feeling that Meryl Streep's career is safe. I know, I know - Brooklyn is a crappy actress? Say it ain't so. Jennifer Aniston is also in it - she plays the chick/coworker/friend of Sandler, and Sandler somehow ropes her into pretending to be his estranged wife.

God, this looks dumb. I also find it interesting that Aniston is "the Cinderella" of the story - she's the one who gets the makeover, although from what I can tell, the makeover just consisted of taking her hair out of a ponytail, taking off her glasses and putting on a great white shift. I mean… are we supposed to buy Aniston as mousy when she has great highlights and a permanent bronze tan?

Nicole Kidman is also supposed to have a smaller part in the film, but I don't see her in the trailer at all. I wonder if that's on purpose? Was her face really, really jacked?

Oh, should I even bitch about the mind-numbing plot point of having a girl who looks like Brooklyn (and is that f-cking young) falling in love with a middle-aged, paunchy Sandler? Jesus.

Katherine Heigl poses with Naleigh on the December cover of W Mag

Posted: 06 Nov 2010 02:26 PM PDT

I'm not sure I have the words to respond to Katherine Heigl's December cover for W Magazine. Um… err…is it bad? W Magazine has had a new editor for the past few months (thus, that dumb Kim Kardashian cover), but it feels like they're trying to make the magazine like Vanity Fair now. This has a very "Demi Moore shot by Annie Leibovitz" feel to it. That being said, I think Naleigh is gorgeous and precious and lovely, and NOT JUST because she's raising her beautifully chubby little arm in a mock-triumphant pose of "Behold, my mother, The A–hole." And Hegel is all "Yup, I'm an a–hole, but my baby is really cute, y'all" pose. Here are a couple of interview excerpts:

Katherine Heigl posed with her gorgeous adopted baby daughter Naleigh for the cover of W magazine's 'The Family Issue.'

Katherine says she adopted Naleigh, who was born in Korea with a congenital heart problem that was corrected through surgery, just 'three or four days' before she starting filming 'Life As We Know It.'

"I was about to play a woman who inherits a baby, and I was experiencing the exact same thing," she said.

Inside the magazine she also poses with more of her family, including mom Nancy and sister Meg.

"My sister is Korean," Katherine said. "I hope one day she and Naleigh will be able to talk about what it's like to be adopted."

The actress says there was 'no way in hell' she was going to get rid of her six dogs before Naleigh arrived – and is happy she didn't.

"Naleigh loves them," she said. "Sometimes it reminds me of The Jungle Book. I'm like, 'Oh my God – she's being raised by animals!'."

[From Hollywood News]

"No way in hell" she would get rid of her dogs? Jesus, Heigl even makes being an animal lover sound bitchy and sanctimonious. I mean, I get the love for dogs, and I probably wouldn't get rid of my puppy either. But I also wouldn't stridently announce that there is "no way in hell" that I would change anything for a baby.

Also: I really think Heigl is taking my advice - she's just taking about the baby in interviews, and keeping her mouth shut about other stuff.

Cover courtesy of The Fashion Spot. Additional photos courtesy of WENN.

Brad & Angelina take Pax, Shiloh & the Empress to the park

Posted: 06 Nov 2010 01:36 PM PDT

I don't really having anything to add to the glowing cuteness of these photos. Brad, Angelina, Shiloh, Pax and Zahara came out to play in a public park in Budapest yesterday, shortly after Brad came back from his whirlwind NYC trip (in which he went to the premiere of Megamind). It seems like Pax and Shiloh got to play with some kind of zip line for kids - and relax, parents, the zip line was like two feet off the ground. Still, that brings up a question I had when looking through these photos, and seeing that Brad was the one trying to figure out the harness for the kids: would you allow Brad to harness you? I'm not talking about a sex thing, I'm talking about a safety thing. Personally, I would prefer Angelina to be in charge of my rig. I'm just saying - she comes across as the better parent for harnesses and such.

I don't see any photos of Empress Zahara playing in the zip line. She was all "Bitch, please. Like I would dirty my beautiful white coat." And it is beautiful. And so is she. Like, she's a ridiculously gorgeous little girl. And you know she's going to be the family heartbreaker - not Shiloh. Shiloh is too busy trying to be (and achieving) the Ultimate Tomboy. When boys try to flirt with her, she'll probably punch them. Bless her heart.

Photos courtesy of Fame & Bauer-Griffin.

LeAnn Rimes tweets epic denial for engagement story

Posted: 06 Nov 2010 12:59 PM PDT

Shocking no one, LeAnn Rimes finally stepped off of her Pedestal of Smug Narcissism to deign to deny E! News' report that LeAnn and Eddie had finally gotten engaged. Instead of just keeping the denial simple - something like "not so much" or "nope" LeAnn instead decided to get on her Twitter (of course) and tweet one long-ass piece of high-horse rant (operative word: rant). Like she and Eddie have a love too pure to be sullied by tabloid reporting. Nevermind that LeAnn stokes the reports with sh-t like this, the cheesy fake engagement photo she put on Twitter. And nevermind this, the interview that she and Eddie did together for ABC, like they were Diana Spencer and Prince Charles announcing their couple-dom.

Ok, I’ve about had it with the lack of “reporting” with E News. The fact that our “engagement” has spread so furiously over the past 24 hours off of an E News article that is 150% untrue just shows you the lack of credible “sources” they seem to find and build a story around. When CNN is calling my publicist off of a lie E News has reported, the media world seriously has a problem with their lack of responsibility to the public to actually report the truth. Even though this is positive “news” its not true. Imagine all the negative “true stories” they’ve reported over the last year that aren’t true either. Gina Serpe and especially, Whitney English reporting for E News should be investigated for their lack of “investigative reporting.”Eddie and I are beyond happy and in love and look forward to one day sharing such private news with you all and hopefully will be able to enjoy it privately and share it with our family and friend’s before the world knows (contrary to reports on our intentions). So, nothing has been “exclusively” broken E News except maybe some of your credibility, sorry…I’M PREGNANT TOO!!! LOL Thanks to all of our wonderful fans for the premature congats, but for now, let’s all be happy we’re happy and still and will remain together! Eddie and I felt we couldn’t let this rumor go on any longer.

@NadiaR13 I had to post something so my publicist’s phone would stop ringing cause it was about to explode!!

@elisagioia I felt the need to tell my fans because we’ve been overwhelmed with the amount of congrats tweets. Even friend’s were fooled LOL

@MyDreamIsAStory @enews hey E, there is NO family source on my side that would EVER call you! Your new article cracks me up! Can’t admit a wrong, sad!

@MyDreamIsAStory @enews I do however know where your source is coming from and it’s getting you into trouble. You should really stop listening!!

[From LeAnn Rimes' Twitter]

I'd just like to point out one thing - I doubted the E! News report too, but not because of any of the reasons LeAnn whines about (The media is so unfair! Don’t listen to people in my family that tell you that I’m engaged even though that’s what I told them! Blah). I doubted it because I think when she and Eddie get engaged, it's going to be an epic Twitter fest and it will involve a People Mag cover, complete with a smug "I'M ENGAGED" photos and interview and everything. I can't wait.

Photos courtesy of WENN.

Lily Allen rushed to hospital under fears of septicemia

Posted: 06 Nov 2010 12:37 PM PDT

Jesus, and I thought I was having a rotten week with my car and phone drama. It was just Monday when Lily Allen and her boyfriend confirmed that they had lost their baby, with only three months left to go in her pregnancy. Sources later claimed that Lily had lost the baby after contracted a viral infection. And now British sources are saying that Lily was just admitted to the hospital under fears she may have septicemia, which is basically blood poisoning, or a blood infection (the extent of my medical knowledge is House - correct me if I'm wrong, doctors). Septicemia can be fatal. Poor Lily:

LILY ALLEN was rushed to hospital by ambulance on Friday night (05Nov10) to be treated for potentially fatal blood-poisoning condition septicemia, just days after suffering a miscarriage.

The Smile hitmaker was devastated when she lost her baby son last weekend (29-31Oct10), six months into her pregnancy by boyfriend Sam Cooper. Allen has been recovering at her home and on Friday (05Nov10) afternoon she thanked her fans for their messages of support, revealing she was still feeling ill following the miscarriage. She wrote on Twitter.com, “I’m still very sick but the messages are helping me to be stronger.”

But just hours after writing the message, the singer’s condition worsened and she was taken to hospital to be checked for the bacterial infection, reports Britain’s Daily Mail.

A source tells the publication, “Lily had been recuperating at home with Sam and her family, but she has been taken back to hospital and is getting the best care possible at the moment. Everyone is extremely concerned, but she is in the best place and luckily she was admitted quickly. Lily needs time to recover in privacy.”

Further details about Allen’s condition were not known as WENN went to press.

[From WENN]

Thoughts and prayers to Lily. This is just awful. Hopefully, the doctors will take good care of her, and she'll take the time off and get some real rest, and come back as strong as ever.

Photos courtesy of WENN.

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