The Kardashian Mastercard has been cancelled. You can no longer have the pleasure of charging five dollars worth of soda and candy on your Kardashian Kard. Ordinarily, I wouldn't really give a crap, but the statement that the Kardashians issued to Gossip Cop is worth its weight in gold. It's the funniest thing I've read all morning:
The Kardashian Kard is kaput.
Kim, Khloe and Kourtney's much-hyped prepaid debit card has been dumped over allegations that it contains several hidden fees that may be illegal.
This afternoon, legal counsel for the Kardashians' corporation, Dash Dolls, LLC, sent a "notice of termination" to the companies behind the Kard, ending the endorsement deal after the fees controversy surfaced.
Connecticut's attorney general, Richard Blumenthal, announced last Friday — the so-called "Black Friday" after Thanksgiving that sees enormous shopping activity — that his office was investigating whether the Kardashian Kard violated consumer protection laws with "predatory" monthly and service fees.
The notice of termination letter says that the Kardashians "have worked extremely long and hard to create a positive public persona," and are recognized as "honest, ethical, and fun-loving individuals who are kind and caring to others."
Because the card "might violate" certain laws, rules and regulations, notes the letter, Dash Dolls "terminates the agreement in its entirety, effective immediately."
Gossip Cop called William "Claude" Butler from the Revenue Resource Group, the firm behind the Kardashian Kard, but has not received a response.
Yes, whenever I think of "Kardashian" the first words that pop into my head are "ethical" and "positive public persona". I definitely don't think "famewhore" or "Kat-Face" or "famous for a sex tape". Granted, the Kardashians on the whole are relatively harmless (in my mind), and I don't begrudge them their "takesies-backsies" on the whole credit card thing. But here's a funny story - I bet they kept the thousands of dollars they got as an appearance fee to launch the credit card. Ah, ethics. http://www.celebitchy.com/125823/kardashian_sisters_kriticized_for_earning_75k_appearance_fee_and_leaving_after_an_hour/
PopEater's gossip guy is at it again, this time theorizing what went down at Jennifer Aniston's asstastic Cabo vacation over the Thanksgiving holiday. We already know that Aniston invited several of her friends to spend the holiday at Joe Francis's mansion, and that one of those friends was Chelsea Handler. Well, Rob Shuter claims that Chelsea got her invite because she doesn't molly-coddle Aniston - allegedly, Chelsea encourages Aniston to "meet new men" and stop with the "quiet nights" with Courteney Cox. And in return, Aniston supplied Chelsea with the motherload of vodka (my guess: those weren't the only party supplies). Also: Chelsea wants Aniston to cut her hair. NOO! How would Aniston be able to survive?!?
Call them the new odd couple. America’s sweetheart Jennifer Aniston and sassy-pants comedienne Chelsea Handler are new best friends!
“Jennifer wanted to get away for Thanksgiving and hired two private planes to bring a bunch of friends to celebrate with her at a private home in Cabo San Lucas,” an insider tells me. “Jen has more money than she will ever be able to spend in her lifetime, so she decided Thanksgiving was the perfect time to splurge on the most important people in her life.”
And showing just how caring and thoughtful she can be, my source reveals that Jen “made sure Chelsea had plenty of vodka.”
Chelsea and Jennifer are not an obvious fit, but that’s what makes this friendship so exciting. Sources tell me that unlike Jennifer’s old pals, Chelsea isn’t afraid of telling Jen she needs to get out more and meet new people, especially new men.
“Many of Jen’s closest friends were with her when Brad broke her heart and have discouraged her from spreading her wings too quickly for fear she will get hurt again,” a source close to the actress tells me. “Chelsea is the opposite. She believes Jen is fabulous in her 40s and needs to paint the town red. No more sitting at home alone with her dogs. No more quiet dinners out with Courteney Cox and the girls.”
It looks like Jen is being encouraged to let her hair down, a bit of advice that Chelsea is taking literally. “She’s trying to convince Jen it’s finally time to cut off all that hair and start over.”
Even though I can't stand Chelsea, if she's giving Aniston that advice, it's not bad. Of course, now I have an image of Aniston and Handler trolling Mexico for lithe young whippersnappers to pleasure their cougar needs. Also - who buys that Chelsea is six years younger than Aniston? Right?
I guess awards season is officially open us, because last night the Gotham Awards were held, and today the Independent Spirit Award nominations are coming out. It will probably be just a matter of days until the Golden Globe nominations come out, so we're in the thick of it. Now, the Gotham Awards aren't really known as any kind of awards-harbinger - they mostly recognize independent films, and low-budget fare filmed in and around New York. If you'd like to read a decent summary of what went down at the Gothams, go here. Still, it was a pretty good night for fashion. First up: Hilary Swank, in Emilio Pucci. I don't really hate it - the dress looks nice on her figure, her hair is loose and her makeup is conservative. All in all, Hilary looks way better than she has in past red carpet appearances.
Next: everybody's girl-crush, Mila Kunis. Mila wore Oscar de la Renta, and she was my pick for best-dressed of the night. I love blue-black, and she pulls it off really well.
Julianne Moore wore Lanvin. Ugh. I mean, it's not hideous or anything, I just think she could do so much better.
Leighton Meester in menswear-inspired Thom Browne… I actually don't hate this. You'd think it would look completely dumb, but it doesn't.
Natalie Portman in Lanvin for H&M…eh. She has a major case of bitch-face lately, and I feel like the dress is completely boring.
I also thought Winona Ryder's Dolce & Gabbana dress was boring too - it looks like something she wore to a recent premiere.
Oh, I forgot about Anne Hathaway. Maybe I wanted to forget about her. I don’t care for this dress either.
And now for some man candy - my lovers Anthony Mackie, Vincent Cassel and Ethan Hawke were all there!
Keith Urban and Nicole Kidman were on Oprah yesterday, and I think recent coverage of the slightly additional movement in Nicole’s face has been accurate. She still looked like a delicate porcelain doll. Both Nicole and Keith have projects to promote, with Nicole promoting her new movie Rabbit Hole, out in limited release December 17 in the US, and Keith promoting his upcoming album, Get Closer, out November 16. They each said some very emotional, personal things about each other and their daughter Sunday Rose, two, and I was struck by how alike they are. I’ve found Nicole to be affected and overly flowery, but she seems to have met her match in Keith. They come across as deeply in love and more than willing to share it with the world. Here’s some of what they told Oprah. Keith also read a love note to Nicole, which is included in his CD liner notes:
Keith on how Nicole saved him from addiction early in their marriage Reality hit home when Nicole and a few close friends staged at intervention for Keith. “It was really a profound moment in so many ways. Then, the way in which Nic handled that moment was just perfect,” Keith says. “Everything was just designed, I believe, for that moment to fuse us together.”
At first, Keith says he questioned whether he should go to rehab so soon after getting married. “[I thought], ‘Surely let’s give it a few years so we’ve got some solidity, because this kind of thing could tear us apart,’” Keith says. “‘This could just destroy us.’”
Ultimately, he decided it was time to get help. Keith left the same night as the intervention for treatment. “I just said, ‘I don’t want to do anything but go,’” he says. “I didn’t care about anything else.”
On how Nicole opened his heart Early in his relationship with Nicole, Keith says they went to a park. While sitting on a bench, he says he asked her, “How’s your heart?”
“I didn’t know why I asked that question,” Keith says. “I’d never asked anybody that before. I don’t know what answer I was expecting.”
She answered, “It’s open.”
“It was not only beautiful because it said so much about her, but it instantly made me ask myself: ‘Is mine? Is my heart open?’” Keith says. “‘Or is it 80 percent open, but I’ve got a little exit strategy? If I do, then why is that?’”
As anyone who’s ever loved and lost knows, once you’ve had your heart broken, it’s hard to love again. For this reason, Keith says he was scared. “I looked back and realized that I stayed in this pattern because I wasn’t really loving,” he says. “I hadn’t met the right person. I wasn’t the right person, but I wasn’t really giving myself fully. I was holding back because I was scared.”
His love letter to Nicole in the liner notes to his CD “Nicole Mary—I continue to be brought to my knees by this love of ours… I am in awe of how this blessed family we are creating stretches and fearlessly opens my vulnerable heart…and I just want to be a better man, for you, and father for our heavenly Sunday Rose and have you go to sleep every night knowing that no one has ever, or will ever, love you as much as I do…and all we need is faith.”
Nicole on her marriage “I think marriage is about, every day, trying to make it better and working through things and when things are tough, saying, ‘I’m going to come to you and talk,’” Nicole says. “We’re just very tight, and we stay really tight.”
Nicole on Keith’s love letter “He’s got a way with words. The thing that really touches me is that he says, ‘Let me put it into action.’
It’s all very sappy to me, but if that’s how they roll and they’re both deeply committed and in love good for them. It’s like Keith is even more of a romantic than Nicole, and she seems to eat it up. I don’t remember hearing that Nicole staged an intervention for Keith to go to rehab. It must have been a tough thing to deal with so early in their marriage, and seems to have made their relationship much stronger.
Johnny Depp is Vanity Fair's January cover boy - all to promote The Tourist, which opens in a few weeks. I was slightly surprised to see Depp cover VF again - it feels like he just had a cover… but I guess that was last year? Yeah. So the photo shoot is by Annie Leibovitz and the interview is conducted by Patti Smith. Depp talks about everything, really - he covers working with Angelina (including a comparison to Elizabeth Taylor!), to Captain Jack being gay, to feeling like he should have been born in a different era. Here are VF's excerpts:
"Meeting her and getting to know her was a real pleasant surprise," Johnny Depp tells rock legend Patti Smith, writing for Vanity Fair, of working with Angelina Jolie on their upcoming film, The Tourist. "You don't know what she might be like—if she has any sense of humor at all. I was so pleased to find that she is incredibly normal, and has a wonderfully kind of dark, perverse sense of humor."
Depp tells Smith of the challenges he and his co-star faced with constant media scrutiny on set. "Poor thing, dogged by paparazzi, her and her husband, Brad…all their kids," Depp says of Angelina and her famous brood. "There are times when you see how ridiculous is this life, how ludicrous it is, you know, leaving your house every morning and being followed by paparazzi."
Depp tells Smith about the difficulties that arose while filming together—having to be discreet to avoid unwarranted speculation—which included "having to hide, sometimes not even being able to talk to each other in public because someone will take a photograph and it will be misconstrued and turned into some other sh-t."
Depp compares Angelina to another famous leading lady. "I've had the honor and the pleasure and gift of having known Elizabeth Taylor for a number of years," he says. "You know, you sit down with her, she slings hash, she sits there and cusses like a sailor, and she's hilarious. Angie's got the same kind of thing, you know, the same approach."
On the set of the upcoming installment of Pirates of the Caribbean, Smith asks Depp what it's like to play the iconic role of Captain Jack Sparrow. "Somebody once asked [Hunter S. Thompson], "What is the sound of one hand clapping, Hunter?," and he smacked him. Captain Jack was kind of like that for me, an opening up of this part of yourself," Depp says. "There is a little Bugs Bunny in all of us."
"They couldn't stand him. They just couldn't stand him," Depp says of Disney's reaction to his controversial interpretation of Sparrow. "I think it was Michael Eisner, the head of Disney at the time, who was quoted as saying, 'He's ruining the movie.' Depp reveals to Smith, however, that he remained unfazed by the studio's hysteria. "Upper-echelon Disney-ites, going, What's wrong with him? Is he, you know, like some kind of weird simpleton? Is he drunk? By the way, is he gay?… And so I actually told this woman who was the Disney-ite… 'But didn't you know that all my characters are gay?' Which really made her nervous."
Depp tells Smith why his role of a mathematician in The Tourist appealed to him: "I was always fascinated by people who are considered completely normal, because I find them the weirdest of all."
Of the complications of having played so many eccentric roles in his career, he says, "They're all still there, which on some level can't be the healthiest thing in the world…. I always picture it as this chest of drawers in your body—Ed Wood is in one, the Hatter is in another, Scissorhands is in another…. They're still very close to the surface."
Elsewhere in the interview, Depp talks to Smith about their shared fondness for the Monkees' 60s pop hit "Daydream Believer"; the music career he almost had ("Going into acting was an odd deviation from a particular road that I was on in my late teens, early 20s, because I had no desire, no interest, really, in it at all. I was a musician and I was a guitarist, and that's what I wanted to do"); being born in the wrong time ("I really believe that, at a certain point, if you're born in '60-something or whatever, you got ripped off—you know what I mean? I always felt like I was meant to have been born in another era, another time"); and what he'd still like to accomplish: "[Marlon Brando said,] Why don't you just take a year and go and study Shakespeare, or go and study Hamlet. Go and work on Hamlet and play that part. Play that part before you're too old…. So what he was trying to tell me was: play that f-cking part, man. Play that part before you're too long in the tooth. Play it. And I would like to. I'd really, really like to."
Here are some additional photos from last night's Paris Megamind premiere (I covered the first photos last night). I also found out what designers Brad and Angelina were wearing - Brad's baggy leather pants are Julius Sheep (?) and Angelina's outfit (including the old lady harem pants with an old-school zippered taper) was L'Agence.
“Angelina Jolie’s ignorant attitude towards victims says enough about the scenario and gives us the right to continue having doubts about it.”
“We have insisted to meet Angelina Jolie since we don’t want to be wrongly presented in the world . . . Our voices are worthwhile and we should have got much more respect.”
“Angelina made a big mistake. We feel that she did not act like a real UNHCR ambassador and we believe that she has no more credibility to remain the ambassador.”
Jesus Christ. She's not making a movie about rape! I'll admit, I'm not jazzed about this movie whatsoever (I'm still a card-carrying Brangeloonie, chill out), but my ambivalence is mostly about my desire to see Angelina do better work as an actress - she directed (and wrote) this film instead of signing on to Gravity for a more than $20 million paycheck. This Bosnian story seems like it's going to be boring, and probably dripping in sanctimony, considering Angelina considers her work as a writer/director "the voice" of the Bosnian people. Protest that, haters. Don't go on and on and on about a piece of propaganda that was reported and denied by everyone involved in the project, and by the Bosnian government, who got to read the script. I think Angelina can tend towards to the sanctimonious, but I really, really doubt she's so dumb (or "ignorant") as to make a film glorifying rape or rapists. And to question her as a goodwill ambassador based on a piece of propaganda? How about this: I don’t this group has the credibility to accurately advocate for rape victims.
Radar Online has a story that’s probably meant to drum up sympathy for the much maligned mom of eight, but only provides more fodder to make fun of her. According to Radar, which has run many pro-Kate stories in the past, she’s lonely, depressed and having trouble hanging in there now that the reality of her privileged life as a single mom has set in. All this “poor Kate” crap is somehow supposed to counter all the photos that show her out alone, getting manipedis and spray tans while her kids are cared for by nannies and tutors. Kate’s only friend is supposedly her bodyguard and of course there’s nothing going on there since the dude is married with a wife a kids. Listen to this story, it’s straight from Kate:
Despite having her own reality TV show and eight beautiful kids, America’s most famous mom, Kate Gosselin, has been left ’sad and lonely’ with no real friends that she can confide in.
That’s the heartbreaking conclusion of someone close to the celebrity mother who spoke out to RadarOnline.com in an exclusive interview.
“The truth is Kate is really sad and lonely with few true friends,” the associate said.
When she’s not looking after her kids or filming Kate Plus 8, the perfectionist mom-of-eight is regularly photographed going to the nail spa, popping into the tanning salon or even traveling to New York, where she is known to get her hair done.
What’s more, she has a dedicated routine routine of going on grueling jogs to relieve stress and keep herself in tip-top condition.
“Even her kids have noticed that their mom is sometimes too tired to play with them when the cameras are not rolling,” the source said.
“Her bodyguard Steve Neild is the closest person to her, but he’s married with two kids of his own.
“Steve lives in the basement of her home and he accompanies Kate everywhere, but they strongly deny that there is anything going on between them despite the fact that they have taken trips to Alaska and to Mexico together.”
The insider told RadarOnline.com the salt-and-pepper haired Neild is Kate’s only confidante.
Said the source: “Apart from Steve she does not have many true friends to confide in or just go out and have fun with while she does not have the best relationship with her family either.”
Even locals in the neighborhood have become judgmental, the source added.
“They don’t think greatly of her and she is not popular at the local stores, post office or car wash, because she cannot win people over and comes across as cold and aloof,” the acquaintance said.
“Kate just finds it hard to be friendly towards people and is very domineering - at the moment she is pre-occupied with looking her best and keeping-up appearances.”
But it’s not all her own doing.
As the source said, “Kate’s life revolves around her kids and the reality show… when have you ever seen Kate photographed having fun on a girls’ night out?
“The paparazzi are camped outside her home a lot of the time and often she will just not go out which is sad for her kids too.
“Kate has money coming in but nobody to share it with - having her own reality show has come with a price for her but ultimately that was her own choice.”
After her bitter divorce from her reality husband Jon, the former nurse forged ahead with her own reality show even battling in the courts with him over her rights to do Kate Plus 8 on the TLC network.
Aw, Kate has no friends because she has a reality show and she doesn’t have the energy to interact with her kids because she exercises. It’s everyone else’s fault that she’s a meanie because they misjudge her, and that just makes her upset and unable to extend basic human kindness to others. See - we’re bringing Kate Gosselin down! We have to worship her for the sad, lonely stay-at-home mother she is, a person who would be gossiping with her girlfriends, dedicated to her children and friendly to shopkeepers if only she weren’t rich, famous and preoccupied with her appearance.
Mila Kunis is the December/January cover girl for Nylon Magazine, to promote her supporting role in The Black Swan. Mila could conceivably get an Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actress for this part - although I think the big-money campaign will probably be for Natalie Portman. Unlike Justin Timberlake, Mila is not making us cringe with her naked need for recognition - she's just doing her promotional duties like she's having fun with it, and still giving acknowledgement to the less Academy-friendly aspects of her career, like her voice work on Family Guy. Here are some excerpts from the Nylon interview:
On Black Swan: "It was the most intense training I've ever had in my life, and probably will have for anything. I lost 20 pounds, so I went down to 95 pounds. I weigh 117 usually, like today. I looked like Gollum [from The Lord of the Rings]."
On her career: "Literally, at this point, my career has been built on low expectations, and when you surpass those low expectations, you're a winner."
On shooting Friends with Benefits with Justin Timberlake in NYC: "I've never seen people in my life with so little respect [as the paparazzi]… when we were filming on the street in New York it was pure and utter insanity."
On Family Guy and its fans: "It's the greatest gig ever… It's the greatest fanbase ever, but weird. They're all f—ing stoners. It's the largest fanbase of anything I've ever done, I hope it never goes off the air."
On wanting to quit acting when she was 20 years old: She had earned enough money from That 70s Show to keep her financially “secure” for the rest of her life, and she contemplated stepping away from the spotlight in 2003 because she had sufficient funds to survive on after working as an actress and model for 11 years. “What a lot of people don’t realize is that you make more money in TV than you will in film; it’s a very steady salary. An obscene amount of money gets given to you for, like… what? So I was 20 and I looked at my bank account and realized that I was secure for the rest of my life. I was like, ‘I’m OK. I can go do other things now.’ I wanted to rethink my life for a minute because I didn’t think acting could be a career. This is the worst industry you can put yourself in because there’s no security whatsoever… I was just like, ‘Can I really do this for the rest of my life?’”
On how she sees acting now: “I realized that acting is the one thing I love to do. I asked myself, ‘What else could I do that would make me happy? What else could I do where I wake up in the morning and think, I get to go to work and do something great and have fun?’ I couldn’t think of anything else.”
She consistently seems like she has a great head on her shoulders, and I like that she doesn't disrespect her early work in television. Many people still have so much love for the character of Jackie, and the fact that she's still doing voice work on Family Guy every single week - even when she's on the verge of being on the A-list, and getting an Oscar nomination - well, I just respect that. She's not pretending to be some fancy-schmancy "Actor". She doesn't knock her paying gigs, or the television show that probably gave her the best acting training. LOVE it.
Also… these black-and-white Nylon photos are gorgeous!
Teen Mom star Amber Portwood has been reunited with her two year-old daughter, Leah, after Leah spent several weeks in the care of her father. Leah will return to live with Amber at least part time. Many people hoped that Leah would be under her father Gary Shirley’s care permanently after we heard that Leah was made a temporary ward of the state of Indiana pending Amber’s investigation for two counts of felony domestic violence. Amber was shown choking and slapping Gary in two separate abuse instances on the show. Now Amber, 20, has moved to a new home, and she’s bought a bed for Leah and had the place professional cleaned. It seems to have been enough for Child Protective Services, as they’ve allowed Leah to live with Amber yet again. It’s not known whether this arrangement is permanent or temporary:
After having her two-year-old daughter temporarily taken away from her last week, Teen Mom star Amber Portwood cleaned up her home and on Monday was reunited with her daughter Leah, RadarOnline.com has learned.
"Amber hired someone to clean up her apartment recently and even went out over the weekend to buy a proper baby bed for Leah," a source close to the situation told RadarOnline.com.
"She was trying to get everything up to par at home so that Child Protective Services would deem it a suitable place for Leah and she'd get her back; and it looks like it worked."
Sources tell RadarOnline.com the exchange happened at 4:30 p.m. EST and that the baby's father, Gary Shirley was very upset about the decision.
"He really loves Leah and was so excited to have her when the court placed her in his care," the source said.
As RadarOnline.com previously reported, baby Leah became a ward of the state of Indiana last week after an emergency child placement hearing on Tuesday in which Leah was temporarily placed with Shirley.
An assessment of Leah's living quarters with Portwood by CPS proved unsuitable, although Portwood was awarded monitored visitations.
It's unclear if Portwood's parental rights have been reinstated.
"Originally Amber was supposed to have a monitored visit today with Leah, but when CPS saw the change in her apartment they decided it met Leah's needs," the source told RadarOnline.com.
"CPS will continue to monitor Amber a few times a week and check in with her to make sure it's going well, but as of now, Leah is back in her care."
The 20-year-old mother of one was charged with domestic violence earlier this month after an aggressive assault on Shirley was caught by MTV cameras while Leah stood at her feet.
Child Protective Services and the Anderson Police Department were unavailable for comment when contacted by RadarOnline.com.
I really feel for that poor little girl. Amber is an angry manipulative person who seemed to spend very little time with Leah on the show. She was either ignoring her or yelling at her on Teen Mom, and the only one who really interacted with Leah was her dad. Now Amber has moved and she actually bought Leah a bed, so that makes her a fit mom? At least CPS has an eye on the situation, but given this latest decision it’s not looking hopeful for Leah.
Pink is really excited about her pregnancy, you can just tell. She loves gushing about it, and unlike some pregnant celebrities who turn to weak platitudes to describe their happiness, Pink goes her own way. In a new interview with Access Hollywood, Pink talked about potential baby names. Her doctor already told her that she's likely carrying a girl, but Pink is already preparing boy names, I suppose in the hopes that karma won't kick her ass quite yet. However, if Pink and Carey Hart do have a boy, it's pretty likely that he'll be pleasantly messed up too - after all, Pink wants to name a future son after her favorite brand of whiskey:
Pink, who is a little more than three months pregnant, says she and husband Carey Hart are halfway there when it comes to naming their baby. If it's a boy, says the singer, their first child will be called Jameson.
"My dad's name is James, and my brother's name is Jason," Pink, 31, told Access Hollywood. "[Carey and I] are both Irish, Carey's middle name is Jason, [and] Jameson — we like whiskey. That's a no brainer."
There's just one problem: Their doctor believes they're expecting a girl. And, says Pink, finding the perfect name has been a struggle.
"We're all over the place," she says of the naming process. "I'm all about meaning, and Carey feels like he had a girl's hair cut and a girl's name, and he doesn't want kids to have a weird name. I have to get him on the boat for originality, so I'm working on him."
Even though she's chosen a boy's name that evokes a brand of whiskey, Pink says she's not tempted to drink alcohol at all — even if the doctor okays it.
"You know what? I thought I'd be like that – I couldn't even comprehend someone not wanting wine," the "Raise Your Glass" singer says. "But honestly, I just don't. I don't want anything bad."
If I didn't have it in my head that she was naming a kid after whiskey, I would really love the name Jameson. It's rather sexy (when he's all grown up, of course). I approve. But I suspect Pink is going to have a girl… Captain Morgan, perhaps? Absolut Hart? Perhaps a daughter would just get the name of a cocktail: Mojito Moore-Hart? I kind of like that one.
Photos courtesy of WENN.
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