Miley Cyrus's former childhood friend has given an interview to Radar, claiming that Miley Cyrus was a mega-bitch and a bully in middle school. I'm getting a flashback to that episode of 30 Rock, when Liz goes to her high school reunion and discovers that SHE wasn't the one who was always picked on in high school, that in fact everyone hated her because she was so mean and nasty. In Miley's version of her childhood, she always claimed that she was the victim of vicious mean-girling in her youth. Miley's former friend tells a much different story:
In her memoir, Miley Cyrus: Miles to Go, the Disney queen writes about her years in school where she said she was picked on and bullied. But in an exclusive interview with RadarOnline.com, Miley’s best childhood friend Nicole Mullen-Holm remembers a completely different scenario.
“Miley is a liar who bullied girls and was a real b*tch to everyone,” Nicole says. “I’m so in shock that Destiny, oh, I mean Miley, wrote a book about being the victim of middle school bullying when she was the mean girl of our school. Even though we were friends, she was still a brat. I knew her from the first grade and when she and I got to middle school, she just did a 180-degree turn in the wrong direction.”
Miley, who was born Destiny Hope Cyrus, was friends with Mullen-Holm when they attended Heritage Elementary School and Heritage Middle School in Spring Hill, Tennessee. Mullen-Holm says the two were inseparable and had a very tight bond.
“We would hang out and talk a lot at school. Typical girl stuff,” Mullen-Holm recalls.
But that all changed in middle school. “The girls took it beyond normal bullying. These were big, tough girls,” Cyrus says in her book. “I was scrawny and short. They were fully capable of doing me bodily harm.”
But like a good Disney story, Mullen-Holm says Miley’s version is just make believe.
“Miley became so mean, I remember her shouting at an overweight girl calling her ‘lesbian’ and ‘dyke,’” Mullen-Holm, 18, recalls. “Miley was a cheerleader and was with the ‘in’ crowd. She was never bullied in elementary or middle school. If anyone even touched her it would have been the end of the world. Her dad would own the school!”
Miley began working when she was nine years old with occasional appearances on her dad Billy Ray Cyrus’ sitcom, Doc, which was shot in Canada and had the family going back and forth for three years. Before she’d finished 7th grade, Miley won the role of Hannah Montana, and the Cyrus clan took off for Hollywood. That was the last time Nicole saw her.
While Nicole says she has no hard feelings toward Miley, she just wants her old friend to grow up and not let all the fame and fortune consume her.
“Miley is a good girl at heart but I’ve been seeing how she’s been partying and acting and she’s looking like Lindsay Lohan,” Mullen-Holm says.
“I don’t want her to be the mean girl that she was in middle school and I would hate to see her become the next train wreck. She’s very lucky and should show some humility.”
Part of me feels like "who cares?" I mean, I was a bitch in middle school and high school, and now I'm… well-adjusted…? Okay, so maybe I'm a bad example. But it's perfectly possible that Miley was a nasty piece of work in her youth and she grew up a bit and learned that calling someone a "dyke" is just stupid and wrong. Of course, does Miley seem well-adjusted to you? Yeah… she's probably still a piece of work, and she probably still thinks the world revolves around her. But whatever.
I don't know when Vogue is going to release their January cover interview and photo shoot, so I just thought I'd bring you the cover now. Natalie Portman, shot by Peter Lindbergh. The dress is J. Mendel. Natalie is the January cover girl to promote Black Swan, the film that will likely get her an Oscar nomination for Best Actress, if not the award. It's surprising to me that so many people are calling it Natalie's year to win - earlier this year, there was some talk of the Best Actress contenders being Annette Bening, Julianne Moore and Hilary Swank. But now most critics are ready to hand it off to Natalie… she would be one of the youngest Best Actress winners, at the age of 29. Hilary Swank was younger than that… as was Gwyneth.
As for the cover shot… Natalie's face is so weird lately. She's always been breathtakingly beautiful in my opinion, but lately we've been plagued with Natalie's spectacular bitchface. I would almost hope the cover shot would be another bitchface, but in this shot, she looks like she's about to burst into tears. What the hell?
Also - some commenters were asking/theorizing about Natalie's maybe-plastic surgery…? Some of you think she's had a nose job, but I don't see it. I think that's always been her nose. However, has Natalie always had those lips? Why are they all of a sudden really Lohan-esque?
Oh, GOD. This is going to be one of those days, isn't it? I'm looking through photos at our various photo agencies, looking for interesting photos from last night's Hollywood Style Awards, and every single woman at the event looks like hot death. Perhaps it was the lighting. Perhaps it was that the event was for "style" so every C and D-lister who considers herself a "fashion girl" decided to show up and fug it up. Perhaps I'm just in a bad mood. Ugh. You know it's bad when Kate Bosworth is one of the biggest "names" at the event. Here she is in a white t-shirt and a billowy, too-large pale green skirt. Don't even ask me who designed it. I have no clue. Nor do I care. All I see is bulimia jaw and forehead.
I thought Camilla Belle was one of the better dressed ladies - and that's not saying much. But I kind of like this dress, even though she's one of those Rachel Bilson girls who just shows up to events and barely registers as to why I even know her name.
Lea Michele… I just can't even with this chick. The bangs trauma, the emaciated body, the funky hemline of the dress, and the famewhore glint in her eye… ugh. It's like she's saying to the camera "I am the hottest girl here!" And the camera is saying "Not so much."
Emily Blunt… ugh. This dress is tacky hideous awful fug nasty SO SO BAD. Why?
You don't even want to see Mena Suvari's dress. It's all about THE FACE. The Face tells you all you need to know.
Yesterday, News of the World broke the scandalously delicious story that Elizabeth Hurley was/is fooling around on her husband Arun Nayar. Liz and Arun have been married for three years, although they've been together since 2002. He made her wait for a while, and once married, he bought her a big country estate with a farm, and Liz made this big deal about how she was a country girl and all of that. Meanwhile, she went to London at the drop of a hat to attend the opening of an envelope, and Arun didn't always go with her. Anyway, Liz was screwing around with Shane Warne, who is something of a notorious man-whore. After the NOTW story broke, Liz tweeted that she and Arun had been separated for months, a little tidbit designed, I suppose, to make her look like something other than a chick who just bones any rich guy she meets. Anyway, the British tabloids are all over this, and The Mail is running an interesting piece on the problems within Arun and Liz's marriage. You might not find this interesting, I know, but I find it fascinating. Liz is now and has always a pretty trashy woman, and it cracks me up that she tries to sell herself as this wronged LADY, don't you know:
All but her most devoted fans will attest that Liz Hurley is not a particularly good actress. But she and Arun Nayar have made a good job of pretending all was well in their three-year marriage. Only six weeks ago, she did her usual legs-cleavage-smile routine when the couple attended Elton John's Winter Ball. To those who knew her well, however, yesterday's announcement that the marriage has been over 'for some months' will have come as little surprise.
It had become increasingly clear behind the scenes that the marriage which started with such an exhausting display of wealth and togetherness in 2007 was on the rocks.
'He was hardly ever with her and she didn't seem to mind one bit,' said one of her society pals yesterday.
'I'd been hearing that it was over between them for more than a year, but she was always very positive about him when you asked her,' says another.
Perhaps the most significant clue was that this year she and Arun didn't go on their usual sunshine holiday in October, even though it was her customary birthday present to her husband. Others had noted how Hurley had started taking her new best friend, the gay shoe designer Patrick Cox, to social events instead of her husband. I'm told she has even invited Cox to be her guest at her Gloucestershire home this Christmas, indicating that she had been quietly planning for her first festive season as a single woman. One thing is for sure: though the public exposé of her extra-marital fling will have come as an embarrassment, the relationship between her and Nayar was already over when into the vacuum stepped Shane Warne – precisely the sort of diverting and dangerous company that she had missed so much.
You can see why the attentions of such a notorious womaniser would be catnip to a woman who is not yet ready to let go of her racy image. (You don't go out braless and in see-through shirts at the age of 45, as she does, if you aren't in search of a bit of attention from the opposite sex.)
So if this was her little ego-boost after the end of her marriage, when did the troubles begin?
In truth, the union between Hurley and Nayar had always been a fiery one. The couple met in late 2002 but even in the blissful early days of Eurotrash parties and ski-ing at St Moritz there was 'heavy bickering'. Right from the outset, Arun struggled at being seen so much in Liz's shadow. She, meanwhile, was impatient when it came to his gentle nature. She was especially annoyed by his relaxed approach to securing a divorce from his first wife, the Italian-born model Valentina Pedroni, who was never slow to issue disobliging remarks about Hurley 'stealing' her husband. In the end it took Nayar almost five years to become a free agent, and to be able to give Hurley the wedding of her dreams – an immense affair at Sudeley Castle, owned by her friend Henry Dent-Brocklehurst, followed by lavish Hindu ceremonies in Rajasthan. (The event was, of course, recorded for posterity over a mere 53 pages in Hello! magazine, which can now add another name to its long list of those whose marriage has been 'cursed' by featuring in the publication.)
Since then the relationship has progressed through several rocky troughs, thanks largely to Hurley's spectacular temper. She will admit that she is 'nervy' and 'hyper', whereas Nayar is laid back and gentle. He used to call her 'Minx' because he thought she was intoxicatingly sexy, but full of drama and mischief. She, in return, called him Slick – a joke about his vanity and taste for the high life. (His collection of expensive watches apparently has to be seen to be believed.) Nayar, an Oxford graduate, gave up a lot to marry the siren of Basingstoke – principally his playboy lifestyle which revolved around the more expensive European nightclubs and spending January in St Moritz and August in Nice. He was horrified when Hurley wanted to move out of Chelsea and into the country, where Nayar, a moneyed sophisticate who reads the Christie's catalogue in bed and collects cufflinks, was reduced to acting mostly as La Hurley's number one employee. (She has eight other staff on hand, should he fall short.)
It's perhaps no wonder, then, that Nayar has needed to travel to Mumbai to attend to his computer software business regularly. I'm told he has recently been there for at least one week in four, and sometimes considerably more than that. As a result, locals in Gloucestershire have been convinced for some time that all was not well in the relationship. The talk in their circle was that Arun was fatally unglamorous, and did not, in the end, manage to fulfil his high-maintenance wife's expectations.
His relative lack of financial success is said to have been a bit of a strain, too. They reportedly relied on Hurley's income from Estee Lauder, for whom she continues to model, to finance their fancy holidays. One time, he even flew using her Airmiles. For Nayar, too, life in Britain was becoming a bit of a let-down. In Mumbai, he still has considerable social cachet – he's the heir to a textiles fortune and his family are well known. In Britain, he was simply Mr Liz Hurley. And of course, there had always been a third person in the Hurley/Nayar marriage from the outset, namely Hugh Grant, who has lived at their home for extended periods, and holidays with the couple every August. In an interview this year, Hurley admitted: 'My overall best friend is Hugh. There is a part of my life neither Arun nor my sister Katie understand; a career part and a different emotional level where Hugh is still my number one. We've been best friends for 24 years and that's not nothing.'
She denies that there is even a faint flutter of sexual jealousy on any side, blustering: 'We're all grown up, and if I wanted to be with Hugh, we would be together.' But many were left wondering what marriage can accommodate a bond like that. On a more practical level, as Nayar struggled to keep his business going during the global financial crisis, his wife had seldom been busier. She has concluded the filming of a Living TV fly-on-the-wall documentary about her particularly glammed up version of country life, and recently launched her own range of snack bars and beef jerky. Then there's her range of swimwear, which she continues to promote. (Her Christmas card this year features her in a tiny bronze bikini from the Liz Hurley Beach collection, posing with a family of polar bears.)
Day to day, her brother Michael helps her to run her organic 400-acre farm, with its Old Spot pigs and Herdwick sheep, but it is an exhausting and time-consuming business. She also has Damian, her eight-year-old son by former boyfriend Steve Bing, to look after. She is devoted to 'Master D' as she calls him, and feeds him his tea while juggling the multiple demands of her empire.
Which brings us to one other major sadness in her marriage: the couple's failure to have a baby. She admitted that she and Nayar had been trying for years without any luck. Now that she is 45 she had started to accept that any further children were unlikely. 'Arun would love one,' she said recently. 'And I think it would be great if one came along. But we're grateful for what we've got.'
She said Nayar was a 'full father figure' to her son. 'Damian calls him daddy. He knows he's not his blood father. He'll sometimes forget, though, and say, "Tell me again why dad's brown and we're so white". And I'll say, "He's not blood, remember".'
That remark may have been casually made, but it does bear testimony to Liz Hurley's instinct for independence. Her friends have long admired her ability to do it all on her own – the modelling, the mothering and the earning. But as her marriage ends, it means of course that she has absolutely nothing to lose now that she's moving on.
God, this is good. Money, lies, babies, deceit, fame, and Hugh Grant endlessly hanging around as the third wheel. I'm telling you, Liz is crazy. It's insane to me that Arun ever married her - what the hell was he thinking? Her blow jobs can't be that good, you know.
Oh, and this Shane Warne guy just announced that his on-again/off-again marriage is over too. I think the woman is technically his ex-wife, but they were living together in Australia.
The last we saw of the Brown family, the polygamist stars of hit TLC reality show Sister Wives, the first three wives were jealous and upset that their one husband Kody, 41, had taken a whopping 11 day honeymoon with his newest wife Robyn, 31. Kody left the other wives behind to take care of his 13 biological children along with Robyn’s three children while he spent a week and a half in San Diego, CA getting loved up with Robyn.
According to the National Enquirer, doofus Kody hasn’t learned from experience that it’s hard enough adding a fourth wife to an already precariously balanced family. Now that Kody is famous and earning some more cash, he wants to add a fifth wife as some sort of plot point for the show. The other wives were pissed and allegedly banded together and banished him to the couch. What an ass this guy is.
“At a recent meeting with wives and show execs, Kody dropped a bombshell y suggesting he should start dating again so he can find wife No. 5,” a TV insider told The Enquirer.
“The wives were shocked and they immediately turned on him.”
The 42 year-old patriarch to 13 children and three stepkids said adding to his household would mean “ratings gold” for the show - but his wives clearly did not agree.
“Kody was brainstorming with TLC brass when he threw out the idea of sending himself back out in the dating world,” the source divulged. “The TV bosses loved it - but his wives freaked.
“The women ganged up on Kody. They told him he was insulting them and that he would be sleeping on the couch…
“Kody is desperately trying to work his way back into the women’s good graces.”
It’s not the first round of scandal for the show. Kody has battled money problems, having filed for bankruptcy.
[From The National Enquirer, print edition, December 20, 2010]
I could see goofy maniacal Kody casually suggesting he take another wife for the show and his own personal enjoyment. He probably thought it wasn’t a big deal. What’s another wife added to the mix? He compared his wives to his children on the last show, saying “To me, loving more than one wife is really not far from loving more than one child.” He dealt with a lot of very natural jealously, crying and blaming from his other wives when he took a fourth wife and such a long honeymoom. It’s incredibly clueless to suggest that he start dating again after all that his wives just went through.
The news may have been out before but this is the first I’ve heard that Kody filed for bankruptcy in the past. Why doesn’t that surprise me? The guy has more wives than he can handle and he can’t handle his money, either. Go figure. Kody drives a new two seater convertible, a Lexus, and has 13 kids and four wives. There are a lot of wives who wouldn’t be pleased with the father of their one child driving a flashy impractical car like that. Those wives would probably put their foot down if their husband slept with someone else though. Driving a sportscar is pretty minor in comparison.
It's been a while since we've had new photos of LeAnn Rimes or Eddie Cibrian, or of them together. So it's a pleasant surprise to see that they called the paparazzi on themselves over the weekend. They went out to breakfast Sunday morning (no church?) and these are the photos. Before they left, LeAnn tweeted: "Happy Sunday! Sitting here trying to be so quiet, drinking my coffee, watching Eddie sleep and listening to my dog, Virgo snore. Its super cute! Who knew a 4lb dog could make so much noise!!! Love Sunday mornings! Now everyone…wake up!!!" Her dog's name is Virgo?!? As a Virgo, I am offended.
I have a theory as to why LeAnn and Eddie have been keeping a lower profile the past few weeks - I think they are going to announce their engagement (with LeAnn purchasing her own ring), or even run off and elope sometime soon. I tend to think it will be an engagement announcement - just because LeAnn will want a big wedding to "celebrate their love" and an elopement seems out of character. Anyway, I think LeAnn knew that they were flooding the market with too many photos and stories, and she wants to drive up the price and the interest for the engagement announcement so that she can get the cover of People Magazine or something like that.
In other LeAnn news, remember she released her sketchy single "Crazy Women" - as told through the perspective of Brandi Glanville? Well, it's getting more press and more criticism now, and LeAnn answered the critics just a few hours ago:
I love that the press think I wrote “Crazy Women” when I didn’t. It came to me through three great writers. Press loves to stir the pot when there’s nothing there to stir. It’s just a great song. It makes me laugh. Do some digging before you assume, great journalism.
According to Star Magazine, Camille Grammer, the stick insect villain on The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills, is blackmailing her estranged husband, TV star and producer Kelsey Grammer, with some homemade sex tapes they made. Star claims that Camille told Kelsey she will release the footage if he doesn’t pay up in their divorce. These aren’t just vanilla sex tapes - allegedly. They’re said to have Kesley in “very compromising positions” that reveal his “twisted sexual appetite.” He’s always seemed like a kinky bastard to me. Star quotes a porn star ex of Kelsey’s who claims that he loves to have sex in drag. They also claim that the sex tapes with Camille contain footage of Kelsey getting spanked and talking in a baby voice.
Camille Grammer is considering releasing the wild sex tapes [she made with Kelsey] if he doesn’t pay her big bucks in their ongoing divorce.
And Kelsey seems to have a lot more to worry about than just the thought of everyone watching him romp in the buff! “Camille has quite a bit of footage of Kelsey in some very compromising positions,” a friend tells Star, “and if it gets out, it’ll be very clear just how twisted his sexual appetite is. Let’s just say that these tapes are real eye-openers!
“Camille likes to remind Kelsey all the time that she has dirt on him. And she’s so upset over him dumping her for young flight attendant Kayte Walsh last summer - plus the fact that they’ve already gotten engaged - that she’s been dropping plenty of hints she’s ready and willing to embarrass him if he doesn’t give her a huge alimony payment. The sex tapes are the perfect way!”
This week’s RHOBH didn’t feature Camille heavily, but she did talk about Kelsey and how he broke the news to her that he wanted to stay in New York, that his career in LA was over and that NY “loves him.” (She also had a dinner party where she bitched to her paid sycophants yet again about how Kyle wronged her. Next week the Camille and Kyle showdown redux is likely coming.) We know that it was more than just NY that was loving Kelsey.
Nine years ago, porn star Tiffany Storm, who dated Kelsey, 55, in 1996, claimed in an interview that he loved to have sex while dressed as a woman, in pantyhose, a spandex G-string, full makeup and a long auburn wig. Apparently, he reaches new heights on the kinky scale in his videos with Camille, 42.
“She’s occasionally shown the tapes, which were shot on a camcorder after they married in 1997, to her pals on a lark,” the friend tells Star. “In one, Kelsey is all tied up and begs Camille to have sex with him. In another, she spanks him while he talks in a baby voice and calls her ‘Mommy!’…
“Camille fully intends on staying a very rich woman. She wants a ton of money in the settlement.
“If she doesn’t get what she wants from Kelsey, I think she’ll leak the sex tapes through a friend and then feign outrage. She’ll act like a victim - but she’ll be the one pulling the strings.”
[From Star Magazine, print edition, December 20, 2010]
Given what a narcissistic piece of work Camille is, I believe that she would hold these sex tapes over Kelsey’s head and wouldn’t hesitate to release them if he didn’t meet her demands. She loves attention, she shows off constantly, and I’m sure she thinks she looks hot while having sex and would love to have the footage made public. Plus she could probably earn a few million off them given her newfound fame and Kelsey’s name. (If his legal team doesn’t squash them.) If this is true, I foresee Kelsey paying up.
Also, what kind of other kinky sh*t do you think Kelsey is into? I have some things in mind that involve molded accessories. You’d have to get up to some weirdness to be able to get it up for that harpy Camille. This just makes her look like even more of a mean witch.
These are new photos of Alex Rodriguez and Cameron Diaz in Miami over the weekend - after Cameron went on a week-long tour of Europe for some early Green Hornet promotion, it seems like she ran right back to Miami to finish her hookup holiday with A-Rod. While she was gone, of course, A-Rod seemed to live it up with the ladies, and Page Six even reported that he was all up on RHONY's Kelly Bensimon, although A-Rod's rep later told Us Weekly:"The whole story about Kelly and A-Rod is absolute, unadulterated hogwash. There were 1,500 people at that party at Wall, and Kelly was one of many that were clamoring to meet him." Ooh, burn. A-Rod was sending the message: Kelly was one of many ladies I nailed. Of course, an insider claimed the Bensimon incident was "an accidental collision at a party" and that Kelly "is not exactly his material."
Anyway, back to Camy and A-Rod. Camy returned back to Miami and it seems like she and A-Rod are going strong. After months of not even wanting to be photographed together, these photos seem strangely posed, right? What is Camy playing at? Does she think we're somehow jealous or envious of her relationship with Alex? We're not. Also - Camy and A-Rod went to the wedding of their mutual friends Joanna Garcia and Yankee Nick Swisher over the weekend too. Eh. Camy could do so much better, I think. A-Rod just seems like such a douche.
Anne Hathaway comes in as Katie Holmes at 2:20 On her SNL guest host gig about three weeks ago, Anne Hathaway did an amusing impersonation of Katie Holmes. Anne affected a soft voice and curled half her mouth up in a skit playing Holmes on a talk show hosted by “Miley Cyrus.” Anne later explained that she was a “big fan” and was channeling Holmes circa Dawson’s Creek in the late 90s. The impersonation was pretty accurate for how Holmes talks out of the side of her mouth in breathy superlatives and it didn’t seem like a tribute to Holmes’ Dawson’s era. If anything Holmes was bubblier and more outspoken when she was younger. (Here’s a recent interview with Holmes and here’s an interview with her in 1999. She’s spacier now and the mouth curl thing is more pronounced.)
According to the National Enquirer, Holmes saw that impersonation and is furious at Hathaway for mocking her. This might be made up, but it’s still funny enough to repeat. Katie is allegedly planning to turn the tables and mock Anne on Saturday Night Live, if they ever let her host again.
“Katie is feeling really hurt and less than thrilled about Anne,” according to an insider.
In an effort to make sure there are no hard feelings, Anne offered an explanation of her hilarious send up of Katie, who got her first big break on the TV series “Dawson’s Creek.”
Anne, 28, told a reporter: “I was a teenager when ‘Dawson’s Creek’ was airing. And I was a pretty avid fan, so it just sort of came from that. It wasn’t really Katie Holmes; it was more [her Dawson's character] Joey Potter.”
But Katie, 32, isn’t buying it, insiders say.
“Katie says she can take a joke but she thinks Anne’s backpedaling is ridiculous and insincere,” confided a pal close to the “Batman Begins” actress. “She and Anne have auditioned for some of the same roles, so there’s always been competition between them.”
Now, Katie and her hubby Tom Cruise, who’s terrific at impersonations, have cooked up a plan to get revenge against Anne…
“With Tom’s help, Katie has come up with a pretty dead-on impersonation of Anne,” the source divulged. “Katie has hosted ‘SNL’ in the past, and she can’t wait to reveal it on the air.”
[From The National Enquirer, print edition, December 20, 2010]
You know that Holmes is really jealous of the fact that Hathaway has a great career and a lot of opportunities while she’s stuck doing miniseries and spending her time blowing her husband’s cash at Barneys and planning designer outfits for her four year-old. She should take a look at Nicole Kidman’s career and realize that Tom Cruise, with all his wealth and connections, only brings his wives down. Then again, it’s not like she’s supremely talented. She did that Pieces of April movie and I guess she was OK in The Romantics but I doubt we’d be hearing so much about her if she didn’t marry Cruise. If she was still with what’s his drunken douche face she wouldn’t even be fodder for mocking on SNL.
Well, The Tourist "bombed" this weekend, and now everyone is scrambling to assign blame. Despite having two of the biggest stars in the planet, The Tourist only made $17 million domestically this weekend, coming in second after The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader. Narnia's number one box office was weak too - only making $24.5, when many experts were hoping for at least $30 to $40 million for the opening weekend.
So what was the problem? Was it the weather? There were huge blizzards throughout the country over the weekend, and most people stayed home. Was it the hideous reviews? Most critics mocked The Tourist as stupid and boring, and Depp and Jolie were accused of having zero chemistry. Was it The Chelsea Handler Factor? Too much bad publicity surrounding Angelina? Or was Depp's understated - read uncharacteristically boring - performance to blame? Eh. As I said in my review, I think the biggest problems with the film were an uneven tone (Is it a light Hitchcock-esque film? Is it action/drama?) and unmet expectations. The way the film was being promoted, I think people thought it was going to be super-sexy, and Depp and Jolie would be nailing each other in various Venice beckdrops. That's not what the film was though - instead of something super-sexy, the love story was just kind of sweet and silly.
Or maybe it was just released at the wrong time - this is the time when most filmgoers want to watch their Oscar-bait films. Perhaps The Tourist would have benefited from it's original release date, which I believe was supposed to be in February or March. I don't really know. But I'm admit, this isn't good for Jolie supporters. Our girl was in a box office "disappointment". Will the film make money? Sure - when it gets a wide release in Europe and Asia, it will make money. Depp and Jolie are two of the few celebrities with large followings overseas. But it's still bad news for Team Jolie (and Team Depp).
By the way, instead of going on some European or Asian publicity tour, Angelina is already in the south of France, with her family at their home. This morning she was grocery shopping. Interesting…
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