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Kate Middleton’s nine-year Waity status got the whitewash treatment
Demi Lovato was bullied for her weight, cut herself at age 11
Lady Gaga on complaints that she’s copying Madonna: “That’s retarded”
Olivia Munn vs. Selita Ebanks: Battle Hymn of the Red Dresses
The Osbournes on Billy Ray Cyrus’ remarks on Miley: ‘really inappropriate’
Jennifer Lopez’s stomach-baring ensemble: Fly Girl Forever or just fug?
Tyler Perry lashes out Spike Lee’s racially-charged criticism: “He can go to hell”
Jill Zarin of RHONY cops to ‘liquid facelift’ after she’s rendered unrecognizable
Catherine Zeta-Jones talks about her bipolar disorder to People Mag
Halle Berry on her custody battle ’sometimes you reach an impasse’

Kate Middleton’s nine-year Waity status got the whitewash treatment

Posted: 20 Apr 2011 09:10 AM PDT

So much news about Prince William and Kate Middleton! Unfortunately, the news is not all that exciting, so I'm just going to recap some stories going around, and then I'll get to the good stuff (my rant about Lifetime's Will & Kate movie, which was dreadful). Here are some highlights:

*Kate Middleton's family has now given themselves a family crest. I find the idea of a family like the Middletons - nouveau riche! - getting a family crest to be rather pushy and silly in the grand scheme of things, but they've got one, and now the Middleton crest will be joined with William's crest once they are married. CB likes the Middleton crest - she thinks it's pretty and feminine. I think the upside-down acorns are fruity. Needs more lions.

*Will and Kate asked people to donate to charity in lieu of actual wedding presents, and the charities have already racked up six-figures in donations.

*George Michael recorded a cover of Stevie Wonder's "You and I" for Will and Kate. Michael says: “I want Will and Kate to know that this is a genuine gift, not a promo exercise. It’s a gift that they’ll be able to turn into many, many donations.” But he's not going to the wedding: "They should [be] surrounded by people they love…not dodgy ex-con pop stars.”

*As for the night before the wedding, sources are claiming that William is going to spend the evening with his father or with his brother, or perhaps both. According to the British tabloids, Will is spending the night at St. James's Palace with his dad because “Prince Charles is a loving father who’s a lot closer to his sons than people often realize. He’s made it clear his priority in the hours before the wedding is his son.”

* But what about Harry? According to Us Weekly's sources, “William asked Harry to spend the night at Clarence House, the night before the wedding… It’ll be great for the two brothers to be together before the big day. I’m sure Harry can help William with any last-minute nerves.”

*Kate Middleton went shopping for her "honeymoon gear". Ladies, whatever happened to the word "trousseau"? It's so much fancier.

Okay now for my rant - you don't have to read this if you didn't watch Lifetime's Will & Kate. IT WAS TERRIBLE. It was so bad, it wasn't even cheesy-good. They made so many huge errors in the actual timeline, and they just wholly manufactured a great deal. Their version of Waity Katie was all plucky, moody and uppity, while the version of Will was dashing and romantic. Does anyone believe that? I hated that they got the first photographed kiss (in Switzerland) wrong. I hate that they showed the 2007 breakup, and then two minutes late he was proposing! Um, there was like three years of WAITING in there. I also hated that Waity's job at Jigsaw - which she actually did for only a handful of months in 2006 - was somehow spread out over the course of the show like Waity was just WORKING and WORKING all the time. She wasn't. She just spent NINE YEARS WAITING for her prince to call her. I hated that the "other women" were so misrepresented - William dated/slept with many women while he was with Kate, during the course of those nine years.

I just felt like they got the basic personalities of Kate and William so, so wrong. Kate is docile, like a geisha. She doesn't storm out of cars in the middle of a fight. She doesn't talk smack to an upper-crust girl. She doesn't confirm or deny the state of her underwear. And William is in reality a wishy-washy bastard, like his father. They portrayed him as commanding and forward, and he just isn't. UGH.

Photos courtesy of WENN.

Demi Lovato was bullied for her weight, cut herself at age 11

Posted: 20 Apr 2011 09:02 AM PDT

It’s been a rough ride for Demi Lovato, who has spent the last several months narrowly avoiding becoming a premature Disney casualty. Just a few years ago, Demi was still denying that she cut herself despite plenty of pictorial evidence to the contrary. Messy breakups with Joe Jonas and the suspicious influence of Wilmer Valderrama (not to mention his continued involvement in her life) certainly didn’t help matters either. Then, she had a physical altercation with one of her backup dancers on tour and subsequently checked herself into treatment for both emotional and physical reasons, but she did her rehab time without any additional outward fuss (and is possibly still continuing out-patient treatment for the eating disorder). Now, Demi’s coming clean to “Good Morning America” about her extended affair with both eating disorders and cutting:

Demi told GMA anchor Robin Roberts that she was constantly bullied in school for her weight. “I literally didn’t know why they were being so mean to me. And when I would ask them why, they would just say, ‘Well, you’re fat.’”

The Disney star admitted that she developed an eating disorder early on, and has been having issues with food ever since. “I was compulsively overeating when I was eight years old. … So, I guess, for the past 10 years I’ve had a really unhealthy relationship with food.” While her food issues began at age eight, Demi says it wasn’t until age 11 that she began to cut herself. She explained her reasoning for the cutting, telling Robin:

“It was a way of expressing my own shame, of myself, on my own body. I was matching the inside to the outside. And there were some times where my emotions were just so built up, I didn't know what to do. The only way that I could get instant gratification was through an immediate release on myself.”

[From Celebuzz]

Lovato’s been talking a lot lately, which is key to making amends in recovery, although I suspect the fact that she’s been talking a lot to the press is because Disney’s forcing her to do it. Still, the fact that Demi’s owning up to the fact that teen stardom isn’t all sweetness and light (such as her recent admission of a nervous breakdown in Seventeen magazine) might actually be beneficial to her fans. Included in her fandom is my own 10-year-old daughter, with whom I have discussed Lovato’s troubles in an attempt to curb the Disney idol worship. Of course, Lovato herself will now be less of a Disney presence since she just announced that she’s quitting her show, “Sonny with a Chance” too:

“It made sense for me to go ahead and leave the show to focus on my music,” Lovato, 18, tells PEOPLE in this week’s issue. “It’s kind of sad for me that a chapter of my life has ended but there couldn’t be a better time for me to move on.”

“I don’t think going back to Sonny would be healthy for my recovery,” says Lovato, who returned to Los Angeles in January after completing three months of residential treatment. “Being in front of a camera would make me nervous.”

And she has the support of the Disney Channel.

“We respect Demi’s decision to focus fulltime on her music and not immediately return to her acting career,” a rep for the Disney Channel said in a statement. “She is a talented young woman and our hearts are with her as she continues to take action to improve her health and bounce back from adversity.”

Lovato’s career took off after starring in the Disney Channel’s 2008 original movie Camp Rock, opposite the Jonas Brothers. Next came “Sonny with a Chance,” which debuted in 2010.

But even without its main star, the show will still go on: the series is being reinvented as a sketch comedy program called “So Random!,” which will debut in June.

Lovato, who will continue to record under Disney’s label Hollywood Records, calls her decision to walk away from her TV gig “nerve-racking.” But, she says, “I’m really excited to see where everything goes.”

[From People]

Well, Disney’s not really losing anything here because they can easily spin off “So Random!,” which is the series-within-a-series featured within “Sonny” itself. It appears slightly ominous that Demi’s decision to focus on the music doesn’t mean striking out on her own and finding a new record label but, instead, just sticking with the easier option of Disney’s label. Unfortunately, she’s probably contractually bound to continue on with Disney, which is probably actually the case since they have put up the appearance of letting her “Sonny” obligations fall by the wayside. At this point, Lovato herself is merely 18-years-old, but she’s been with Disney for a few years already. I’d be interested to know whether she signed new contracts with Disney after she became an adult, or if she’s still fulfilling old agreements. It’s amazing how the law generally protects minors from entering into contracts, but the entertainment business is a whole different matter when stage parents and multimillions of dollars are involved.

Photos of Lovato announcing nominations for the 2010 American Music Awards courtesy of Fame Pictures

Lady Gaga on complaints that she’s copying Madonna: “That’s retarded”

Posted: 20 Apr 2011 08:31 AM PDT

Lady Gaga just pulled an Aniston! She used the word "retarded." What's worse is that I almost lost the significance of that as I was reading the transcript of her coked-out rant. The basic gist of it: Lady Gaga was doing an interview with NME, and she was asked about her blatant hijacking of Madonna's songs, vibe and modus operandi. Gaga's reply? "That's retarded." And then she just coke-ranted:

Long lauded for her civil rights work in the LGBT community, Lady Gaga just dropped the “R word.”

When NME asked the 25-year-old star whether she thought “Born This Way” was a knock-off of Madonna’s “Express Yourself,” the singer (real name: Stefani Germanotta) was outraged. “I’m a songwriter. I’ve written loads of music. Why would I try to put out a song and think I’m getting one over on everybody? That’s retarded.”

She raged on: “What a completely ridiculous thing to even question me about… If you put the songs next to each other, side by side, the only similarities are the chord progression. It’s the same one that’s been in disco music for the last 50 years. Just because I'm the first f***ing artist in 25 years to think of putting it on Top 40 radio, it doesn't mean I'm a plagiarist, it means that I'm f***ing smart. Sorry.”

When Jennifer Aniston used the word “retard” in a Live! With Regis and Kelly interview in August, Peter Berns, CEO of The Arc (a nonprofit advocacy group for those with intellectual and developmental disabilities), told Us Weekly her usage of the term was “extraordinarily offensive and inappropriate.”

“Frankly, someone in her position ought to know better,” Berns said of Aniston, 42. “She is using language that is offensive to a large segment of the population in this country… Even if [the word] wasn’t intended to insult them, that is the effect of it.”

Other celebs, including Lindsay Lohan and Howard Stern, have been blasted for their use of the “R word” as well.

Kirsten Seckler, spokeswoman for the Special Olympics, told Us that stars may want to use the word “ridiculous” instead. She added: “Think before you speak, especially when you’re making fun of yourself or others.”

[From Us Weekly]

Should Gaga apologize? Sure. But no one will buy Gaga's apology unless it involves the words "I admit to copying Madonna" and "cocaine binge" and "Luc made me."

Since I no longer want to get involved with Gaga's coke rages, I'd like to tell you another story about my mother's gay cat, Charlie. I talked about him in one of the last Gaga posts - I had to remind my mom that Charlie was "born this way." Anyway, one of my mom's other cats, Daisy, is a huge, aggressive girl cat, and she's homophobic. She beats the crap out of Charlie regularly, and he spends most of his days hiding in the closet. "Appropriate, isn't it?" my mother asked.

Gaga photos courtesy of NME & Bazaar.

Olivia Munn vs. Selita Ebanks: Battle Hymn of the Red Dresses

Posted: 20 Apr 2011 08:04 AM PDT

Last night, Selita Ebanks and Olivia Munn co-hosted an event at Pure in Las Vegas for Skyy Infusions Dragon Fruit. They'll throw a party for anything, won't they? Anyway, the evening unexpectedly turned into a red dress fashion-off! I don't know who designed these dresses, but I'm leaning more towards Olivia's cute, graphic cocktail dress as opposed to Selita's looser, more romantic dress. Plus, Selita's hair is mess (cough cough*BANGSTRAUMA*cough).

There is a problem with Olivia, though, and I think it's her hair too. She chopped off her long hair a few months ago, and she basically has no idea what to do with her (grown-out) bob. I think the bob is cute, but I'm tired of seeing her styled the same way on every red carpet - and the girl loves her red carpets, so she's been everywhere. But, if you're going to style Olivia, you should definitely keep her in these kinds of simply-cut dresses, rather than big, fluffy evening gowns.

By the way, you know how Olivia is out of a job because NBC cancelled Perfect Couples? And do you remember that Tina Fey likes her and recommends her to directors? Ugh. Well, Tina is promoting and defending Olivia once again, this time in Punchline Magazine:

"I find it interesting that Olivia [Munn, a correspondent on The Daily Show] gets people who go after her on some of these sites because she's beautiful, and that's part of it. I think if she were kind of an aggressive, heavier girl with a Le Tigre mustache posing in her underpants, people would be like, 'That's amazing. Good for you.' But because she's very beautiful, people are like, 'You're using that.' It's a mess. We can't figure it out."

[From Punchline Magazine]

Here's the thing - if Olivia Munn was as funny as Tina Fey, and Olivia was posing in her underwear THEN we would be like "I love her, sexy and funny." But because Olivia is not funny, not talented, and is in reality just a hustling famewhore who leaks stories about herself and who she hooks up with, AND all she really does is pose for photos in her underwear and pose on red carpets looking budget… all of that is the reason why I don't care for her. Plus, she has just ruined The Daily Show. Seriously.

Photos courtesy of Fame.

The Osbournes on Billy Ray Cyrus’ remarks on Miley: ‘really inappropriate’

Posted: 20 Apr 2011 07:35 AM PDT

Kelly and Sharon Osbourne were on the Piers Morgan show last night, and as these two have done so many times before, both individually and as a unit, they critiqued someone else. At least this one isn’t likely to result in a bitchy back and forth public feud. Piers asked the combative duo what they thought about Billy Ray Cyrus trashing his daughter’s route to fame, and Kelly called it “inappropriate” while Sharon said that Miley made her dad relevant again.

MORGAN: What do you make of what’s going on at the moment in Hollywood with — there’s two interesting things I thought for you guys to talk about. One, the Charlie Sheen thing, which is ongoing. And the second thing is what Billy Ray Cyrus said about Miley Cyrus, that he wished as a parent he had never let her go down the route she’s gone down, in terms of fame and stuff.

K. OSBOURNE: I think that’s a really inappropriate thing for someone to say, especially when what they did together gave that person their career back. And it’s not fair to do that to your own child.

MORGAN: Really?

K. OSBOURNE: It’s really inappropriate thing to say.

S. OSBOURNE: I do too. I don’t think he should have done that in print. He may think it. It might be, you know –

K. OSBOURNE: He might have meant it in a different way. But in black and white, it seems so just harsh, especially because I love Miley. She’s a dear friend of mine. I know how hard she works. She works so hard. I just think that that discredits everything she’s done in her life, not just for herself, but her whole family. It’s disrespectful.

MORGAN: She’s built an incredible career for herself. She’s very young.

S. OSBOURNE: She’s very talented.

K. OSBOURNE: And him.

S. OSBOURNE: Yes, she made him relevant again.

[From Transcripts.CNN.com]

I don’t disagree with them. Last night I saw that HLN Showbiz Tonight show on in the background when I was eating out. There was no sound and I just saw the headline “Osbournes trash Billy Ray Cyrus” or something and figured they were talking smack as they always do. In reality they kind of said what a lot of people did about this controversy when it first came out. Billy Ray has since made up for this, but I don’t expect Kelly and Sharon to follow gossip as slavishly as we do and know every detail about it. Piers Morgan is stirring the pot, and you would think that he would be up on the news that Billy Ray has since backtracked from these comments.

In other Billy Ray Cyrus news, the mullet is still trying to make up for that same “Hannah Montana destroyed my family” GQ interview. He gave an interview to Parade and said that he just hopes Miley is happy. He’s no longer saying she should give up on fame. “As long as she’s happy and loving making music — and I know she loves acting — that’s all that matters.” That’s much different from saying that the show destroyed his family, that he was underpaid and that he would “erase it all [the fame] in a second if I could.”

He later explained that he was a “mess” when he did that GQ interview and compared talking to the press at that time to going grocery shopping when you’re hungry. I had a lot of respect for the guy after that and felt like he was just saying his piece and trying to do the best he could. He was hurt by the breakup of his marriage, he’s since gotten back together with his wife Tish and called off the divorce, and he’s trying to make nice now. It may have been “inappropriate” to say all that at first, but Piers didn’t do his homework by bringing up that controversy from February without mentioning that Billy Ray apologized nearly a month ago. Piers also never asked Kelly and Sharon about their separate issues with paying taxes and owing money to the government. Now that’s what I want to know about. I don’t care what they think about the royal wedding. (More on that here.)

Here’s Kelly talking about her drug problem and how she turned her life around. She has Bride of Frankenstein hair and major bulimia face! It’s like she’s piling the hair up on her head to distract from her cheeks. You don’t get those chipmunk cheeks from normal weight gain, but I guess she’s looked like that for a while. Sharon’s face looks like a mask. How long until Kelly starts messing with hers too?

These photos are from 2/12/11. Credit: WENN.com

Jennifer Lopez’s stomach-baring ensemble: Fly Girl Forever or just fug?

Posted: 20 Apr 2011 07:28 AM PDT

These are photos of Jennifer Lopez at an album signing/launch. I don't even know what to call it. She just showed up in this outfit (ugh) and signed stuff for fans. First: her face looks strange. Botoxy strange. Second: Why is she obsessed with showing us her stomach? We get it, J.Lo. You had babies and your stomach bounced back. Now put on a shirt. I know this is mean to say and some of you will yell at me, but Jennifer is too old to be dressing like this. She basically put on a bra and an '80s jacket and called it a day. She's such a Fly Girl.

Next: her album is called LOVE? Seriously, there's a question mark. And after she released her first single "On the Floor" to mixed reactions, Jennifer has now released the second single, "Papi". Ugh. Here it is:

I find it sad. But Jennifer thinks she's the second coming of Rihanna/Beyonce/Gaga. Read this delusion:

Jennifer has complete faith in the record, although she likes having feedback from her entourage to confirm she hasn't lost touch with the music scene.

"To be honest I'm at the point where there's no need to put out something that I know is not good," she told Stylist.

"I have people around me who I trust implicitly: my record company and my manager. They tell me it's a great record and I go, 'OK, so I'm not crazy'."

The gorgeous star is proud to still be making hit dance records in her 40s, despite also being a busy mother and devoted wife. Jennifer has three-year-old twins Emme and Max with husband Marc Anthony, and she says her family consider her to be both a mom and a pop icon. Marc has two kids with ex-wife Dayanara Torres, and Jennifer admits one of the little boys cannot believe she is a parent because she's so glamorous.

"It's me, the same as ten years ago, but not the same and I'm proud of that," she smiled.
"Marc has two other sons, one of whom is six years old and he's always telling me, 'You don't look like a mom, you look like a rock chick.'"

[From Music Rooms]

Oh, Jennifer. Ugh. I mean, I get it. She's transitioning, and she doesn't realize that she's still not relevant, really. Sure, she was once the biggest thing - ten years ago. And while she made a good move by going to American Idol, let's not pretend she's on her way to becoming J.Lo circa 2000. That ship has sailed.

Photos courtesy of WENN.

Tyler Perry lashes out Spike Lee’s racially-charged criticism: “He can go to hell”

Posted: 20 Apr 2011 06:52 AM PDT

My opinion on Tyler Perry has changed for the better over time. I used to think his films were exploitative and dumb… and then I watched a couple. While his films will never be confused with high art or even traditional "good" films, they do have their merits - they are popular, sometimes funny, they make money, and they employ many, many black actors and actresses in lead roles, as well as majority-black casts and presumably crews too. It helps to think of Tyler Perry's films as Southern-style, African-American soap operas - lots of melodrama, lots of over-acting, lots of manufactured drama and low-brow comedy. All in all, I find them at worst harmless, and at best, an African-American writer/director/producer/entrepreneur giving a certain demographic of the population the kind of fun, easy, popcorn films that they enjoy.

Spike Lee does not agree. Spike has been one of Tyler's biggest critics for a long time, and when Spike attacks, he goes for the jugular. Spike basically thinks that Tyler's films are just new-age minstrel shows. And when someone brought up Spike's constant criticism to Tyler at a press conference a few days ago, Tyler finally let loose:

The long-simmering war of words between Tyler Perry and Spike Lee has is heating up again. Perry, in both a message on his website and a press conference to promote “Madea’s Big Happy Family,” hit out against Lee, who in 2009 said, among other things, that Perry’s films “harken back to ‘Amos n’ Andy’.” While Perry’s website message was vague and resilient, defending his work as both spiritually uplifting and fun, his words for Lee were blunt and harsh in the press conference.

“I’m so sick of hearing about damn Spike Lee,” Perry said during the press conference (via Box Office Magazine). “Spike can go straight to hell! You can print that. I am sick of him talking about me, I am sick of him saying, ‘this is a coon, this is a buffoon.’ I am sick of him talking about black people going to see movies. This is what he said: ‘you vote by what you see,’ as if black people don’t know what they want to see.”

Perry’s films are consistent high performers at the box office; all independently financed, they’ve taken in over $520 million in ticket receipts over the past six years. He recently extended his deal with distributor Lionsgate, with whom he has worked since 2005. Lee was critical in spite of that success.

“Each artist should be allowed to pursue their artistic endeavors, but I still think there is a lot of stuff out today that is coonery and buffoonery,” he said in ‘09. “I know it’s making a lot of money and breaking records, but we can do better. … I am a huge basketball fan, and when I watch the games on TNT, I see these two ads for these two shows (Tyler Perry’s ‘Meet the Browns’ and ‘House of Payne’), and I am scratching my head. We got a black president, and we going back to Mantan Moreland and Sleep ‘n’ Eat?”

Perry cited Lee’s previous lashings of other black media figures, including Oprah; Perry and the talk show queen worked together in 2009 when they executive produced the drama “Precious.” Perry will also star in the upcoming drama, “I, Alex Cross,” which he won’t be writing/producing.

He was also angry about the perception that his film’s characters were stereotypes that don’t fit what African Americans are actually like in modern times.

“Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. DuBois went through the exact same thing; Langston Hughes said that Zora Neale Hurston, the woman who wrote ‘Their Eyes Were Watching God,’ was a new version of the ‘darkie’ because she spoke in a southern dialect and a Southern tone,” Perry offered. “And I’m sick of it from us; we don’t have to worry about anybody else trying to destroy us and take shots because we do it to ourselves.”

In a 2009 interview with CBS, he revealed the origin of Madea, the grandmother who he plays and often headlines his films.

“Madea is a cross between my mother and my aunt. She’s the type of grandmother that was on every corner when I was growing up,” Perry said. “She smoked. She walked out of the house with her curlers and her muumuu and she watched everybody’s kids. She didn’t take no crap. She’s a strong figure where I come from. In my part of the African-American community. And I say that because I’m sure that there are some other parts of the African-American community that may be looking at me now going, ‘Who does he think he’s speaking of?’ But, for me, this woman was very, very visible.”

[From Huffington Post]

I think there's a valid debate to be had regarding the racial aspects of both Spike and Tyler's arguments, I just don't think I'm the one to start that debate. I see both sides of it, but I end up coming down more pro-Tyler, for several reasons. First and foremost, I think the whole "Spike vs. Tyler" thing isn't solely about race, it's also about North vs. South, as well as about education. Spike Lee is a New Yorker, and he came from an educated, affluent family. His brother went to Yale with Jodie Foster, for goodness sake. He's followed a more "traditional" route to become a director - a BA, and then film school (Tisch) where he got a MFA. Tyler grew up poor, in the South, didn't even graduate high school, is a self-taught writer, director and actor. Both men are influenced by their backgrounds, but I can see Tyler's Southern influences in his films, and he is right - while some of his characters seem like caricatures, those people totally exist here. And not just in the Southern African-American communities.

So yeah… maybe Spike should go to hell. And while he's on his way, he could try making a movie that will get a wide release. (Although I really did love Inside Job! MORE CLIVE, PLS.)

Photos courtesy of WENN.

Jill Zarin of RHONY cops to ‘liquid facelift’ after she’s rendered unrecognizable

Posted: 20 Apr 2011 06:47 AM PDT

Last week, we saw photos of Real Housewives of New York’s Jill Zarin looking like a completely different person after some obvious surgical intervention. Her nose looked different, her face was pulled and taut, and is she was a casual acquaintance of mine I would be hard pressed to identify her after all that plastic surgery.

Zarin said around that time that she hadn’t had any work done, and that “If I did, I would be the first to admit it.” Only she wasn’t the first to admit it and it took a ton of people and media outlets calling her on her BS for her to own up to anything. She’s not copping to a nose job, and is claiming that her reshaped nose is the result of some contouring makeup. She also says she had a “liquid facelift,” meaning enough chemicals injected into her face to mold her into a plastic version of someone else.

On the Wendy Williams show (video below) Zarin said her dermatologist “injects Restalyne on the side [of the face] so it gives you a pull. You don’t fill in the smile lines, because that’s too inaccurate… People used to use silicone, don’t use that stuff. Then she does Botox down here [gestures to neck]… tightens the neck. It’s all about pulling and tightening. Here I’ve been doing [between the eyebrows] for 10 years. My forehead and here. But this is really the difference… since I’m 5 years old I’ve always had bangs.”

Look at this lady talk. Only her jaw moves. She claims to always tell the truth, but why didn’t she admit to this “liquid facelift” before, when it was so painfully obvious? It isn’t her hair that makes all the difference, her face looks like wax and it’s freakish. At least she didn’t mess with her lips yet. Wendy Williams is such a kiss ass telling her that she doesn’t look any different.

[via ONTD]

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Catherine Zeta-Jones talks about her bipolar disorder to People Mag

Posted: 20 Apr 2011 06:17 AM PDT

Catherine Zeta-Jones and her bipolar disorder have taken the cover of this week's People Magazine. I would imagine that this will likely be one of People's best-selling issues, not just because big stars “in crisis” always sell, but because Catherine seems to be giving her story exclusively to People, and this cover story includes Catherine's first interview since the announcement about her disorder. Here's an excerpt:

When Catherine Zeta-Jones received a recent diagnosis of bipolar II disorder, a mental illness marked by prolonged periods of depression alternating with episodes of mild mania, she didn’t hesitate to step forward with the news.

“This is a disorder that affects millions of people and I am one of them,” the actress, 41, tells PEOPLE in an exclusive statement in this week’s cover story. “If my revelation of having bipolar II has encouraged one person to seek help, then it is worth it. There is no need to suffer silently and there is no shame in seeking help.”

In early April, the Oscar-winning wife of actor Michael Douglas, 66, and mom to son Dylan, 10, and daughter Carys, 8, checked in to Silver Hill Hospital, a mental-health facility in New Canaan, Conn.

Shaken by Douglas’s battle with throat cancer, Zeta-Jones was privately struggling, a friend says. As Douglas recovered, Zeta-Jones didn’t – and with her new movie, the romantic comedy Playing the Field, slated to start shooting in Louisiana, the actress realized she needed help in the face of mounting depression.

“The simple things would just seem overwhelming, like going out to dinner,” says the close friend. “There was just a little piece of her chipped away. It was hard to watch because I knew how hard she was trying.”

[From People]

I agree with everything being said here - there are millions of people with bipolar disorders, it's nothing to be ashamed of, and people should actively seek treatment. What does interest me, on a celebrity-gossip level, is the how, why and "why now?" of this. Catherine checked herself into a mental health facility a few weeks ago and stayed for less than a week, I believe. I also believe that Catherine wouldn't have come out and aired her (admittedly private) business if it not for an exclusive scoop that the National Enquirer got last week - only the Enquirer's story was about Catherine's problems with drugs and alcohol, which admittedly could have been bipolar-related. While I do think that whatever she's going through is private, and that she's taking steps to handle it and be a responsible adult about the situation, I also think that there's more to the story than what Catherine is handing to People Magazine.

Covers courtesy of CoverAwards, People. Additional pics by WENN.

Halle Berry on her custody battle ’sometimes you reach an impasse’

Posted: 20 Apr 2011 05:52 AM PDT

Halle Berry did an interview with Extra to help publicize her work with the Jenesse center for abused and battered women and children. (Video above and here.) Halle looked really hot in a lot cut fuschia dress that she wore to a fundraiser for the center over the weekend. Her face was impossibly smooth and glowing. If I could get some injectables, laser resurfacing and Botox and look as supernaturally perfect as Halle I would do it in a heartbeat. I’d probably get the dermatologist who ended up making me look like Jill Zarin, though. Maybe it’s genetics plus injectables though, like some people look more normal after getting work done.

Halle told Terri Seymour about how she helped set up a special room with clothing, art and educational materials at the shelter called “Nahla’s world.” She said that there’s a stigma associated with staying at a shelter but that she wanted to create something aspirational for the women there. Terri asked about Halle’s boyfriend, Oliver Martinez, who went to the fundraising event to support her. Halle got kind of excited and said “he is really proud and you know, he’s inspired. He’s got his own ideas of how he can get involved in the center and help the boys… be sort of a male figure.”

Terri said it’s been a year since she saw Halle at the last fundraiser and asked her what her year has been like. She answered. “It’s been a year full of challenges, but every year seems challenging in one way or another.” As for whether custody is going well she said “It is, and you know what, that’s a relief. When there’s a child involved, it’s a relief when you can resolve things in a good way. Our issues were never about fighting for her, you know? We know that a child needs both parents but I think what I want to say about it is that sometimes as a couple you reach an impasse. We need a court and a judge to help us work out some of the delicate issues, and I’m so happy we’ve arrived at that place… because for her sake, this is the best way. So we’re good… It’s a huge relief, because we both love her more than life.”

Halle talks a good game and you could tell she was being careful about how she phrased things. Extra! reports that this is the first time she’s spoken publicly about her custody battle, and I could have sworn that wasn’t the case. Only Halle has just leaked stories to the press in the past to try and make Gabriel out to be the bad guy. When she finally deigns to talk publicly, she couches everything in vague concepts like she was just an average mom getting a divorce who didn’t exploit her daughter’s normal emotions about her parents splitting up in order to try and malign her ex. She probably feels like she handled it all normally too, because the end result is that she’s reached a peaceful agreement with Gabriel. Rumor has it that he had some real dirt on her and that’s why she was so willing to play nice.

Wednesday, April 20, 2011

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