Country Singer Willie Nelson, 77, was arrested and charged for pot possession in Texas at a border patrol stop. Cops allegedly found 6 ounces of marijuana on Nelson’s tour bus, and he is said to have admitted it was his. Nelson was carted away to the county jail, where he was freed on $2,500 bail. If he’s convicted, Nelson faces a minimum of six months in jail! The county sheriff seems to relish the though, and told the El Paso Times that if Nelson ends up in his jail he’s going to be treated the same as any other inmate.
Country-music legend Willie Nelson was arrested Friday in Texas and charged with marijuana possession after police allegedly found six ounces of marijuana on his tour bus.
The bus was stopped at the Border Patrol checkpoint in Sierra Blanca, east of El Paso, reports the El Paso Times. He posted bond and was released.
Nelson, 77, was headed from California to Austin, where he owns a ranch.
Nelson could face a minimum of six months in prison if convicted. Hudspeth County sheriff Arvin West told the El Paso Times that Nelson would be treated like any inmate if incarcerated in his jail.
“He could get 180 days in county jail, which if he does, I’m going to make him cook and clean,” West said. “He can wear the stripy uniforms just like the other ones do.”
TMZ.com reported that Nelson could argue that he forgot the marijuana was on the bus when he left California, where medical marijuana is legal.
I thought this guy was at least 10 years younger. It must be all the herb keeping him young. I hope that Nelson gets off on a technicality. 1/2 pound 7 ounces of pot is a huge amount, and chances are high (haha) that it wasn’t just Nelson’s and that he’s taking the fall for his entire crew. Nelson is a longtime supporter of medical marijuana, and marijuana legalization. It doesn’t make sense that pot hasn’t been at least decriminalized in the US. Let’s hope that this kind peace-loving old legend is in no way made an example of.
I missed this yesterday - according to Page Six, Justin Timberlake STILL thinks he deserves an Oscar nomination for his role in The Social Network, and he's still in the midst of some kind of awards season campaign. Now, I actually saw The Social Network, and while JT wasn't ghastly, it wasn't really memorable, either. I walked out of the theatre thinking about how wonderful Andrew Garfield was and is, and how if any of the cast gets a nomination, it should be him. But that's not going to stop JT from groveling to the Academy:
Justin Timberlake is mounting an aggressive campaign to land himself a Best Supporting Actor Oscar nomination for his role in “The Social Network.” The singer-actor is pushing to land the nod as his movie career takes off with three pictures out this year.
A source close to Timberlake, 29, who’s currently filming sci-fi thriller “Now” in Los Angeles with Amanda Seyfried, said, “He’s hell-bent on getting a nomination this year even though he has tough competition from his co-star Andrew Garfield. Sony is footing the bill for advertising the awards campaign, but Justin is also doing things his own way, including attending Academy screenings on his own and privately reaching out to award winners and Academy darlings Tom Hanks and Kevin Spacey for campaigning advice.”
Timberlake faces competition not only from Garfield but from Geoffrey Rush, who plays a speech therapist in “The King’s Speech,” and Christian Bale, who stars as the trainer to boxer Micky Ward (played by Mark Wahlberg) in “The Fighter,” which opens Dec. 17.
Timberlake’s reps declined to comment, but another source confirmed, “He’s doing everything to support ‘Social Network.’
"He has tough competition from his co-star Andrew Garfield…" Really? How about phrasing it this way, "source": "Andrew Garfield should get a nomination, but JT is going to whine like a baby until the Academy recognizes his terrible line readings. Plus, who gives a crap about Andrew Garfield anyway?!?"
LaineyGossip's sources say that JT is even bargaining with Academy, saying that he'll do stuff in exchange for a nomination. Does he really think this is how Oscar campaigns are run? It isn't. And Timberlake's neediness and ego will end up turning people off. Let's hope any other potential nominations the film might get won't suffer because of JT.
Back in September, In Touch Weekly ran a large cover story about an affair David Beckham allegedly had back in 2007. The affair was with a hooker, who went on to go into great detail about what Becks is like in bed - he loves to kiss passionately, he loves blow jobs and jerking off with fancy hotel lotions, and he likes some girl-on-girl action. All in all, pretty standard sex stuff - nothing of the (ALLEGEDLY) Clooney variety. Anyway, Becks ended up suing In Touch Weekly, even though ITW's editors and sources didn't show any signs of backing down. Now Radar reports that in new documents that ITW has turned over, it looks like ITW was only reporting the tip of the adultery iceberg:
David Beckham was suspected of having late night hotel trysts with multiple women behind-the-back of his Posh Spice wife Victoria, according to court papers filed by a magazine publisher being sued by the soccer superstar in a massive $25 million libel writ. In Touch Weekly and Bauer, one of the world’s largest publishers, used the privilege of court papers to make the seedy allegations against dad-of-three Beckham, claiming in the papers they suspected he carried on an affair with a Los Angeles-based lingerie saleswoman and would secretly meet her at the Figueroa Hotel near Staples Center after LA Lakers basketball games.
RadarOnline.com has exclusively obtained the explosive documents lodged in a Californian court last week, in which it’s alleged:
* A source told In Touch how the lingerie store worker showed friends text messages she received from Beckham and that In Touch “continued to believe that Beckham did have a relationship with this lingerie saleswoman” even though he and the woman had denied it.
* A source told In Touch that Beckham waited in the lobby at the Sunset Towers Hotel one night “speaking anxiously on the phone” before leaving with a “pretty young blonde woman”.
* At least three sets of independent sources — including “an acquaintance of Beckham” — detailed his strange behavior at two different hotels, at which he “appeared to be spending time with women who were not his wife”.
* Beckham’s nanny saw “suggestive text messages” implying that he had an affair with Shery Shabani, the Beverly Hill mother whose children go to the same posh private school as Beckham’s three boys.
A source close to Beckham — who nows plays for the LA Galaxy — last night told RadarOnline.com he was not concerned about the cheating slurs.
“This is a smokescreen and it is not going to hold up in court,” the close pal said. “He is not backing down, he plans to go full throttle in this matter and this posturing, with no evidence and no facts, isn’t going to stall the inevitable.”
However, the move is a dramatic escalation in the battle against In Touch, its editor Michelle Lee and the mag’s publishers Bauer — owed by billionaire German businessman Heinz Bauerwhich — which printed sensational claims that he romped with a Bosnian hooker. Beckham, 35, is also suing the former prostitute Imra Nici, 26, who peddled the story that she slept with him for $10,000 cash in London and New York in 2007.
In court papers, In Touch’s executive editor Deborah Baer said the mag received information concerning stories detailing how Beckham engaged in “extramarital affairs” before it published Nici’s pack of claims.
“Well before we received the information concerning Mr. Beckham’s relationship with Irma Nici… the magazine had for months been working on other stories that built on Beckham’s reputation for adultery,” Baer wrote.
“First, in approximately March 2010, one of our Los Angeles-based reporters received information from a source who said he or she was aware that a woman who worked at a lingerie store in Los Angeles had had an affair with David Beckham.
“We learned that the lingerie store employee told some of her friends about the affair. We decided to pursue the story.”
The magazine sent a reporter to Hawaii in a bid to speak with the woman’s parents, but were unable to locate her, the documents revealed.
“We also learned that she showed another friend text message she received from Mr. Beckham,” Baer said. “We understood that Mr. Beckham often would meet the lingerie saleswoman at the Figueroa Hotel near the Staples Center, after Lakers games. We sent a reporter to the hotel and confirmed that David Beckham had stayed there more than once. Thereafter, we contacted the woman directly. Ultimately, she denied the story of an affair, as did Mr. Beckham, and we elected not to publish the article. But we continued to believe that Mr. Beckham did have a relationship with this lingerie saleswoman.”
Baer also recalled how one of the magazine’s sources had reported seeing Beckham at the Sunset Towers Hotel on Hollywood’s famed Sunset Boulevard.
“After dining, Mr. Beckham waited in the lobby for more than an hour, speaking anxiously on the phone and claiming to wait for a ride,” she said. “Another source at the hotel confirmed that Mr. Beckham ultimately left that night with a pretty young blonde woman. Further, this source recounted that this was not the first time he saw Mr. Beckham meet women at the hotel in the past and leave with them.”
The magazine executive also alleged how it learned Beckham’s nanny had seen “suggestive text messages” that implied he was having an affair with Shery Shabani, a Hollywood jeweller to the stars.
As RadarOnline.com was first to reveal, Beckham was named in a divorce case by the woman’s “jealous” and “delusional” ex-husband, who claimed Beckham had an affair with the married mother-of-two. Beckham and his Spice Girls’ wife are claiming the huge sum - around $25 million - plus punitive damages, alleging libel, slander and intentional infliction of emotional distress, given the publisher was expressly warned that the story was total fabrication. The couple’s writ states: “The case arises from defendants’ publication of lies to make money for themselves and to embarrass and inflict emotional distress upon Beckham, a world-famous athlete. Defendants published these statements with actual malice and with intent to profit by causing harm to Beckham.”
Nevertheless, Bauer has filed a motion to strike the case from court, because it said it “did nothing more than report what it believed was absolutely true” based on the word of Nici and notorious madam Kristin Davis, who served four months in prison for supplying prostitutes to New York’s elite.
“In Touch Weekly published its article based on the firsthand recollections of Irma Nici as confirmed by Kristin Davis and the other woman,” it is said, in the filing. “It was a story whose many details were independently verified by the magazine and one that was entirely consistent with the magazine's own prior reporting, as well as previous widespread reports of other affairs by Beckham, including at least one with another prostitute. In the face of this evidence, Beckham provided only a general denial. In the end, the magazine and its editors absolutely believed in the truth of the story and most certainly had no serious doubts about its accuracy.”
It added, “Beckham… offers nothing other than his word to dispute the well- researched, well-sourced story that In Touch Weekly published. He ignores the years of press – unchallenged by any legal claims – documenting his prior affairs, including another one with a ‘high class prostitute’.”
Is anyone else surprised with ITW's due diligence? I tend to think ITW is one of the lazier tabloids, what with their multiple Kardashian covers and endless breakup stories for Katie Holmes and Tom Cruise, as well as Brangelina. But it looks like ITW was following legitimate tips, on this story at least, and really trying to nail down sources, and they ended up going with a story they thought would be the least likely to get them sued. I have to say… yeah, I think Becks has been screwing around on Posh for years, with multiple women.
Rachel Uchitel is famous for being a dumb whore. But she wants to change people's minds - Rachel wants us to know that she's a victim too. A victim of her crazy vagina. I think. No, according to Rachel, she's got a disease, and it's not (just) The Herpe. Rachel's disease is that she thinks that every time a married dude pays her to have sex and keep her mouth shut, that it means that he's her knight in shining armor come to rescue her from her whoredom. That's a disease now, just FYI. According to Rachel, “People think it is a moral issue if somebody falls in love, all over the place. It is not, it is a disease and disorder; it is where you feel like you have a hole in your heart and you are waiting for a knight in shining armor to come and save you." FOR REAL. She can't help it, people. She's got a DISEASE.
Rachel Uchitel, in a rare TV interview with the Today Show on Monday, talked about her addiction to love and how it led her astray - and into Tiger Woods’ bed. Uchitel, 35, also denied talking about her affair with Woods in a recent Daily Mail article, saying she only discussed her stint on the upcoming season of Celebrity Rehab with the English paper.
Uchitel, the Manhattan hostess who was the first mistress reported in the Woods infidelity saga, appeared on the show in a sexy black skirt and pumped-up lips alongside her Celebrity Rehab mentor, Dr. Drew Pinsky.
Uchitel was quoted by the Daily Mail earlier this month saying she’d “never ever imagined in my wildest dreams that I would be caught up in a scandal like this,” as well as admitting she’d “plunged headfirst into relationships which I should never have been in."
Not so, Uchitel said Monday.
“Those words never even came out of my mouth,” Uchitel, who received a rumored payout estimated as high as $10 million from the golfer in exchange for her silence, told The Today Show Monday. “The interview was about Celebrity Rehab. I knew that I needed help,” Uchitel, who said she went on the program to deal with a love addiction. “And I wanted to get it from Dr. Drew.”
Uchitel also said she was being treated for addiction to Ambien and other prescribtion medications, which she did not identify. Pinsky said that Uchitel’s condition is partly triggered by traumatic events in her past, such as the premature deaths of her father and her one-time fiancée Andy O’Grady, who perished in the September 11, 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center.
“I’m a completely different person now than I was before I went on the show,” Uchitel said.
In an earlier exclusive interview with RadarOnline.com, Uchitel foreshadowed what she would say on Today.
“People think it is a moral issue if somebody falls in love, all over the place,” Uchitel told us. “It is not, it is a disease and disorder; it is where you feel like you have a hole in your heart and you are waiting for a knight in shining armor to come and save you. But it is not an excuse for anyone’s behavior. You get stuck in relationships that are not right for you; you basically put a mask over somebody's head and pretend they're somebody who they're not. In the end, you get disappointed when they don't react the way you want them to.”
The new cycle of Celebrity Rehab — described by Dr. Drew as "the most intense season" yet — premieres on Wednesday at 10/9c on VH1.
Everybody's always a victim, aren't they? Every a–hole is always in a state of perpetual martyrdom, always pulling some angle to excuse their stupid behavior. Whatever happened to a chick like Rachel saying "Yeah, I slept with Tiger Woods because I wanted to, because I'm so dumb I thought he'd marry me." Stupid is not a disease. Stupid is just stupid.
Natalie Portman has been dating her sexy boyfriend Benjamin Millepied, the NYC Ballet's principal dancer, for about a year now. The first reports of their relationship started happening this past January, when Natalie was completing work on The Black Swan. Natalie and Benjamin met on the film - he was given a small on-camera part, and he was one of the ballet instructors for the film. Also - it was widely reported that Natalie "homewrecked" Ben's relationship with his ballerina girlfriend, as it seems there was little to no time in between Ben's relationship with the other chick and his relationship with Natalie. Now Page Six has an interesting take how their relationship really started:
Choreographer Benjamin Millepied became so obsessed with Natalie Portman on the set of “Black Swan” that he paid less attention to other dancers on set, a source says.
“They would go to do their shots and wouldn’t know any of the choreography because he was so involved with helping ‘Natalie, Natalie, Natalie,’ all the time,” an insider tells Page Six Magazine, out on Thursday. “There was a lot of drama.”
The source also suggested New York City Ballet principal dancer Millepied dumped his ballerina girlfriend Isabella Boylston for Portman to social-climb.
“Maybe they have a great relationship . . . But knowing Benjamin, I don’t think that’s how it is,” the source said.
I find this very interesting - and I'm kind of hoping there's some truth to it, just because it would be fascinating to think that Natalie is dating a dude who was basically obsessed with her, and with the idea of dating someone famous. Ben has been attending all of the major film festivals with the rest of the Black Swan cast, although he and Natalie have taken pains to not pose together. Honestly, I was kind of wondering if they were even still together. They probably are - Natalie probably won't dump him until the film's promotion is over. That will teach him.
Canadian singer Justin Bieber, 16, has changed up his signature bowl cut and is sporting a lighter shorter style that’s more “Chace Crawford” than Bieber. He looks more mature, and more feminine. It’s possible his hair is just wet, though. The boy is just so pretty and you can see his features when his hair is out of his face. If you compare recent photos of Bieber with his mushroom ‘do to his new hair, it’s like he’s aged three to four years overnight. When you’re that young, that’s a good thing.
Does this herald the end of the Bieber bowl ‘do? We can only hope. Maybe Gisele will finally let Tom Brady cut his hair.
Justin is promoting his new autobiography, First Step 2 Forever. It seems ridiculous that a 16 year-old kid has an autobiography, and the title suggests that at least some of it is written in text speak. A quick glance at the reviews on Amazon confirms my hunch, with a reviewer named Andrew Shaffer noting that “The book simply reproduces many of Bieber’s Tweets without fixing them for grammar or spelling.” Bieber is also said to spend a lot of time “writing” about girls and even fills an entire page with the phrase “I like girls” over and over - as if that’s enough to dispel any doubt.
At the book signing in New York on Friday when these photos were taken, Bieber was delayed by some rain. He made it up to everyone by letting in a 1,000 extra fans and taking time to meet with them. That’s sweet, and will surely sell more copies of his book. Half of which is said to consist of photos of Bieber. Does that make up for the extremely thin content? It’s not like his young fans are going to care.
Here’s Justin on The Today Show Friday [via ONTD]. His voice is changing. He says that doesn’t plan on going to college and won’t comment on whether he has a girlfriend or not. He also has a new acoustic album out.
Well, it looks like the Jolie-Pitts flew from Budapest to Paris over the American holiday, and they spent their time shopping and celebrating. Us Weekly reports that last night, Brad, Angelina and the four oldest kids went on a boat ride to celebrate Pax's seventh birthday. Even though I like the idea of a boat birthday party, and I'm sure Paris is really beautiful at this time of year, and at night, I have to think all of the Jolie-Pitts were freezing their nads off. Especially Angie!
Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie took Pax for a Parisian cruise Sunday evening to celebrate his seventh birthday.
Sibs Maddox, 9, Zahara, 5, and Shiloh, 4, also joined them for the ride down the River Seine. On the boat: Cake and some birthday balloons.
Pitt, 46, was spotted filming the kids on his video camera, while Jolie, 35 (in a beige trench coat) was seen pointing out notable sights during the ride.
The gang spent the Thanksgiving holiday in Paris, where Jolie is promoting her new Johnny Depp thriller The Tourist.
They will soon have another reason to celebrate: Pitt turns 47 Dec. 18.
I wonder if The Tourist's promotional tour is going to start in Paris? Do you think Angelina and Johnny Depp will be doing their press junket there? That's pretty sweet - I imagine many of the Entertainment Tonight and Access Hollywood journalists will be thrilled to go to Paris for the junket. But this thought just occurred to me - Ryan Seacrest and his "girlfriend" are in Paris right now too. La Seacrest and the Jolie-Pitts are mortal enemies, you see. Could Seacrest make a move to get some kind of Paris exclusive?
Here are more pics from the birthday party… the quality isn't that great, I apologize.
Header photo courtesy of Bauer-Griffin. Additional photos courtesy of Fame.
In one of last week's many Kate Middleton tabloid cover stories, I read a line that I can't get out of my head - I think it was from Us Weekly, but now I can't find it, so whatever. Anyway, the line was that this Christmas would be Kate Middleton's last one with her parents, because when she and William get married, she will be "forced" to spend the Christmas holiday with the royal family, and her parents won't ever be invited. Thus, I tend to think of the royal family as the mob or witness protection. Once you marry into them, you have to give up your old life completely, even if that means never spending a holiday with your parents again. Well, anyway, People Magazine has more details on this "Where will Kate spend the rest of her Christmases?" issue - and apparently, it's more complicated than you would think:
With an extravagant April wedding to plan, Prince William and Kate Middleton may be happy to enjoy a low-key Christmas holiday this year – away from the rest of the Royal Family.
In fact, for the holiday the prince, 28, is on duty at his base, RAF Valley, in North Wales, his office confirmed to PEOPLE, meaning that he will not be with Queen Elizabeth and the extended family at their royal retreat of Sandringham House, Norfolk, on the festive day.
His fiancée is not expected at the annual gathering of the Windsors either. But whether she will be with her parents for one last Christmas as a single woman or spend it with William, who will be flying his Sea King rescue helicopter, remains to be seen.
As for the future, William is expected to ensure that the Middletons are very much part of his life, and not ignored by the royal system. And he has reportedly indicated that while he has the excuse of working this year, it is not certain he will be at the Sandringham gathering every Christmas.
The prince made a big point of the fact that he is close to the family, whom he referred to as “Mike and Carole” in his official engagement interview on Nov. 16. And Mr. Middleton had earlier paid tribute to the couple, saying “They’re great fun to be with, and we’ve had a lot of laughs together.”
A palace source would not say whether it was a signal that the future king might spend some Christmases with his in-laws. “That is the future,” says the source. “The fact is he won’t be there this Christmas.”
Another palace source adds, “It’s quite obvious that Catherine comes from a close family and her parents are very supportive of both of them and I’m sure that will continue.”
It's funny that it's considered somehow shocking or groundbreaking that a girl marrying into the royal family might not be comfortable with cutting off ties to her family every Christmas. Bunch of dysfunctional loons. Anyway, I do hope that Prince William fights for the Middletons' right to spend time with their daughter - after all, it was through the Middletons' largesse and years of understanding that Kate was able to wait around for William for nine years.
We finally have a picture of the elusive couple that have yet to be given a combined nickname. I vote for “Jaylor.” A bystander photographed Jake Gyllenhaal and Taylor Swift getting coffee and breakfast together in Nashville on Saturday, just two days after they were allegedly seen ordering Maple lattes in Brooklyn. On Friday I reported a story from US Weekly that Jaylor was holed up at a hotel in London for a no-longer “secret” tryst earlier this month. A lot of you yelled at me for being so naive about a romance that had the whiff of a PR stunt. It probably still smells foul to some of you, but I’m buying it. These two seem like they’re together, they’re doing couple-y stuff, and the press is either eating it up or making it up. If the blurry photo is a PR stunt, it’s a genius move. Here’s People’s report.
It’s been a busy travel weekend for most Americans – and especially for Taylor Swift and Jake Gyllenhaal.
Two days after enjoying maple lattes together in Brooklyn, N.Y., on Thanksgiving, Swift and Gyllenhaal popped up in the singer’s hometown of Nashville.
On Saturday afternoon, the couple were spotted getting a late breakfast at Fido, a coffeehouse and café near Vanderbilt University and Music Row.
“They were smiling and laughing. They were talking a lot and enjoying each other’s company,” fellow diner Elaina Mishu tells PEOPLE. “They didn’t look like [just] friends.”
Customer Emma Rice, who snapped a photo of the pair, calls the duo “very cute” and says, “They seemed close.”
The singer, 20, and actor, 29, were first spotted together in late October.
And while Gyllenhaal has avoided commenting on his relationship with Swift, they aren’t hiding their affection.
“They were not trying to be discreet by any means,” another eyewitness says of the pair, who sat at a table near a window. “They were definitely a couple. They looked very happy.”
Now, the fact that People was one of the first outlets to get this photo is suspect to me, especially since they breathlessly reported that “maple lattes on Thanksgiving” story. These two have been apple picking, they love fancy coffee, and they’re traveling around the world together. I get why a lot of you suspect that it’s some publicist’s vision of an ideal romance. It’s certainly playing out like one, complete with a strategically leaked photo. Perez ran this photo too, and said a reader sent it to him. He didn’t even draw on it or stick his logo on it. Someone had to be sending this around and it doesn’t seem like they posted it anywhere before notifying the celebrity outlets. Wouldn’t a “real person” put it up on Facebook or Twitter first? The plot thickens.
Film legend Leslie Nielsen has passed away at a hospital near his home in Fort Lauderdale, Florida after a battle with pneumonia. Canadian-born Nielsen, 84, is best known for his comedic roles in the 1980 classic Airplane! along with the Naked Gun series of the late 80s and early 90s. A statement from Nielsen’s publicist confirms the news, along with the fact that he was surrounded by his family and friends.
Actor Leslie Nielsen passed away today at a Ft. Lauderdale, Florida hospital, according to his agent John S. Kelly. He died of complications from pneumonia at the age of 84.
Born on February 11, 1926, Nielsen is most known for his roles in comedies such as Airplane! and “The Naked Gun” films.
His agent sent out the following statement:
We are saddened by the passing of beloved actor Leslie Nielsen, probably best remembered as Lt. Frank Drebin in THE NAKED GUN series of pictures, but who enjoyed a more than 60 year career in motion pictures and television.”
Mr. Nielsen, 84, died of complications of pneumonia in a hospital near his home in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, surrounded by his lovely wife and dear friends at 5:34pm EST today.
In lieu of flowers, the family requests donations in his name to the charity of your choice.
Nielsen appeared in over 100 films, including Forbidden Planet and The Poseidon Adventure, as well as over 1,500 TV programs during his career.
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