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Britney Spears does two video interviews: somewhat scripted and much improved
Linnocent throws a cracked-out roof party: why has she been so quiet?
Conan O’Brien’s Dartmouth commencement speech: “Life is not fair”
LeAnn Rimes changes her hair with help of Jennifer Aniston’s BFF
Middleton Mania: Pippa dumps her boyfriend, Kate recycles hats & coats
Denise Richards’ new memoir will share ‘beautiful love story’ she had with Charlie
Cameron Diaz, leggy at a ‘Bad Teacher’ photo call: lovely or meh?
Angelina Jolie’s Louis Vuitton ad preview: what’s up with her feet?
Rep. Anthony Weiner seeks ‘treatment,’ refuses to resign
Jennifer Lopez’s head-to-toe snakeskin: tragic, dated or sexy?

Britney Spears does two video interviews: somewhat scripted and much improved

Posted: 13 Jun 2011 09:35 AM PDT

Britney Interview starts at :58 in and goes to 3:30. At 2:45 she puts on a slight British accent that sounds like an accident, remember when she did that constantly?

Britney Spears’ new Femme Fatale tour stars this Friday and goes until the end of November with a whopping 54 shows in 53 cities around the world. She gets a six week break at the end of summer before she starts her European tour, which means she’ll do about four shows a week when she’s in the states. I would say that I doubt she’s up for it, but I said that before her Circus Tour in ‘09 and that went off almost without a hitch. Britney is a money-making machine, and this time around she seems like she’s ready for it emotionally. She’s still kind of strutting around the stage and lip syncing, but as many of you have pointed out she has a bum knee and might not be capable of the more demanding moves she was known for before she had knee surgery.

Anyway Britney hasn’t done any non-pretaped video interviews, as far as I can find, to promote this latest album. She’s done some print interviews that sound written by a PR team with Britney-isms added for authenticity. Carson Daly tweeted in late March that Britney’s people had some incredibly strict demands on any video interviews. They had to be pre-taped, pre-approved and presumably edited before they could be released.

So here are two new interviews with Britney that were probably scripted and were both pre-taped and likely approved by her people. She still comes across as genuine and as trying, especially in the British interview above. She lapses into a British accent at one point that seems inadvertent but then she puts on the accent again on purpose for effect. She’s funny and seems somewhat natural and comfortable. I love what she says about how she tries to make her tour buses and dressing rooms like home by using the same shabby chic style she favors. (I’m not a fan of that style, but it’s Britney and if she’s into it more power to her.) It’s also funny that she says she keeps slim by eating “clean,” considering the rumors that her tour has banned hot dogs and cookie dough.

In the Entertainment Tonight interview below she’s more “deer in the headlights” but still seems to be trying and to really care about her fans. She gets excited when explaining how pumped she gets to hear the fan response right before she sets foot on stage.

There’s something kind of sad and reluctant about Britney in that second interview, but at least she seems like she really enjoys touring and seeing her fans. It’s more than I expected from her, and gives me hope that she’s doing fine and is ready for this. It’s not the first time she’s toured and it’s worth noting that her last tour went off very well.

Oh - on their website ETOnline is going with the angle that Britney would do a reality competition show, like Christina Aguilera on The Voice, but I think she’s just being positive about it and isn’t ruling it out.

Interviews via ONTD. Photos are from 5/14/11. Credit: PRPhotos and WENN.com

Linnocent throws a cracked-out roof party: why has she been so quiet?

Posted: 13 Jun 2011 08:47 AM PDT

The last time I wrote about Linnocent was June 2. She's been surprisingly quiet for ELEVEN DAYS. Surely that can't be right? But it is. I've barely seen any coverage of her, and it seems like her house arrest (we're on Day 18 or 19, it seems?) has been going relatively smoothly. Unless you could that June 2 story, which was about the LAPD coming to Linnocent's crack lair because her ankle monitor mysteriously "went off". Part of the reason - I think - Linnocent has been so quiet during her house arrest is that she's not monitored for drugs or alcohol. She basically gets to go on a crazy, cracked-out, 35-day bender, all because the California legal system is a ridiculous, mind-numbing joke.

Anyway, Linnocent is making news today, because she was photographed having a party on the roof of her condo in Venice Beach. According to TMZ, she had a bunch of friends over for a BBQ - you can see the photo here.

So… we have another two and a half weeks of relative quiet on the Crack Front. Unless anyone wants to make a wager that Linnocent is still going to try to make a cracked-out escape…?

Meanwhile, you know how Linnocent "managed" (beej) to retain a part on that Gotti: Three Generations movie? Well, shock of all shocks, no major actor wants to touch the project. According to Page Six, while John Travolta and Al Pacino (ugh, I forgot about him) and Linnocent have all signed on, producers have approached James Franco, Johnny Depp, Jeremy Renner and Robert Downey Jr. for the part of "Junior". All of the actors have refused. I'd like to think they refused because of Linnocent.

Photos courtesy of WENN and Fame.

Conan O’Brien’s Dartmouth commencement speech: “Life is not fair”

Posted: 13 Jun 2011 08:38 AM PDT

On Sunday, Conan O’Brien gave the commencement address to 2011’s graduating class of Dartmouth College. It was a rousingly and oddly inspiring speech that touched upon what he’s learned from both the experience and failure associated with his short stint helming NBC’s “The Tonight Show.” As always, the talk show host’s speech featured a great deal of self-depreciating humor from the very beginning as he pointed out that President George H.W. Bush was also onstage:

I must point out that behind me sits a highly admired president of the United States and decorated war hero, while I, a cable television talk show host, has been chosen to stand here and impart wisdom. I pray I never witness a more damning example of what is wrong with America today.

From there, Conan painted his words for the graduates as an encouraging but also realistic picture of the opportunities facing them today. He was also very, very funny in the process. Here are some choice quotes:

Today, you have achieved something special. Something only 92% of Americans your age will ever know — a college diploma. That’s right, with your college diploma, you now have a crushing advantage over 8% of the work force. I’m talking about dropout losers like Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, and Mark Zuckerberg.

My first job as your commencement speaker is to illustrate the life is not fair. For example, you worked tirelessly for four years to earn the diploma you will be receiving this weekend, and Dartmouth is giving me the same degree for interviewing the fourth lead in Twilight. Deal with it.

You know, New Hampshire’s such a special place. When I arrived, I took a deep breath of this crisp New England air and thought, “Wow! I’m in the state that’s next to the state where Ben & Jerry’s Ice Cream is made.” But don’t get me wrong, I take my task today very seriously. When I got the call two months ago to be your speaker, I decided to prepare with the same intensity many of you have devoted to an important term paper. So late last night, I began. I drank to cans of Red Bull. Snorted some Adderall. Played a few hours of Call of Duty and then opened my browser. I think Wikipedia put it best when they said, “Dartmouth College is a private, Ivy-League university in Hanover, New Hampshire, United States.”

There are few things more liberating in this life than having your worst fear realized. Whether you fear it or not, true disappointment will come but with disappointment comes clarity, conviction and true originality.

Naturally, the audience enjoyed Conan’s candid appraisal of what the occasion truly meant. I appreciate the fact that Conan didn’t sugar coat the entire affair, and a self-effacing comedian like himself, who has (to a degree) lived life among us and experienced his own hard times of late, is much more appropriate than someone who will merely write a “cheerleading” sort of address. Out of the entirety of Conan’s speech though, I think my favorite part was watching the reactions of Dartmouth’s President, Dr. Jim Yong Kim, who laughed heartily at many of the well-received jabs aimed towards himself. “Stinky Pete,” indeed.

Photo of Conan all wet in the NYC rain on 5/18/11 courtesy of Fame Pictures

LeAnn Rimes changes her hair with help of Jennifer Aniston’s BFF

Posted: 13 Jun 2011 08:06 AM PDT

Friday, LeAnn Rimes managed to garner some attention by wearing a cartoonish awful ensemble while shopping with one of her stepsons, presumably for Father's Day. Incidentally, she also denied - on Twitter - the existence of a sex tape with her ex-husband, Dean. So, it's safe to say that LeAnn pap'd herself because she needed some attention, which everyone gave her, so that's all good.

But LeAnn was hungry for more, and I'm not talking about food (SILLY!). LeAnn decided to change her hair on Saturday, and she managed to get herself pap'd once again coming out of Chris McMillan's salon. If you know Chris's name, you know he's BFFs with Jennifer Aniston and he's responsible for basically every hair style Aniston has had in the past two decades. You might not be surprised - I wasn't. LeAnn's new hairstyle looks very much like various Aniston's styles.

LeAnn Rimes and Jennifer Aniston now have at least one thing in common: They share the same hairstylist! Rimes, 28, left an L.A. salon on Saturday with much shorter, layered new ‘do.

Naturally, she documented the hair makeover on Twitter.

“Total new haircut! Love it,” Rimes wrote. “Thx my dear Chris McMillan for taking four inches off! I’m a new woman!!!”

Celeb stylist McMillan knows a thing or two about conversation-making haircuts.

McMillan has been working with Aniston, 42, for decades, and was responsible for both the star’s iconic “Rachel” haircut back in the ’90s and the more recent chin-length cut Aniston debuted in February.

“I call it a hairline bob that follows the jawline down,” McMillan told Allure of Aniston’s latest look. “It’s shortened in back and longer in front.

By contrast, Rimes’ new look appears to be shorter in front and longer in back.

[From Us Weekly]

Shorter in front and long in the back is a MULLET, Chris. No, you can see that Chris gave LeAnn some Aniston-like chopped strands up front, and he gave her a darker shade, as well as some cheap, fug "highlights". I really, really dislike this trend for blonde women - if you want to be blonde, be blonde. If you want to have dirty blonde, highlighted hair, take the time, effort and money to get it done well. Don't do this "half-dishwater brown, with blonde pieces up front" look. It's totally mall-girl, not salon.

That being said, I think Chris was aiming for Aniston's signature "honey-caramel blonde-brown" but it just didn't take as well on LeAnn. I don't hate the idea of LeAnn as a brunette or with more of a "honey" color. But it's kind of funny that Brandi Glanville kind of has the same honey-colored hair, right?

Photos courtesy of Fame & WENN.

Middleton Mania: Pippa dumps her boyfriend, Kate recycles hats & coats

Posted: 13 Jun 2011 07:39 AM PDT

My "I told you so" smug is all over that Jessica Biel post, but what can I say? I'm having a good gossip day as far as my predictions coming true. Remember how Pippa Middleton went on a "friendly vacation" with a group of people that consisted of her ex-boyfriend (who will incidentally be the Duke of Northumberland), but not her supposedly current boyfriend Alex Loudon? And I said that Pippa is totally the kind of girl who was in the midst of reviewing her options, boyfriend and potential-husband-wise, now that her sister is a duchess and now that Pippa is getting so much attention. I said that Pippa was going to dump Alex Loudon and set her sights on becoming a duchess too. Well, guess what?

Pippa is single! That’s the news out of England, where Duchess Catherine’s younger sister, Pippa Middleton, is said to have broken up with boyfriend Alex Loudon, who accompanied her to the Royal Wedding in April.

“It is common knowledge in their close circle of friends that Pippa and Alex have recently split up,” a friend is quoted as telling the Times of London.

Middleton’s newfound celebrity put a strain on the relationship, though the pair will “stay good friends,” the Sun reports.

Loudon, 30, is a former professional cricket player turned broker.

Lately, Middleton, 27, has been spending quite a bit of time with George Percy, an old boyfriend from her college days.

She and Percy, the son of the Duke of Northumberland, recently partied in Spain together and also watched some tennis together at the Queens Club.

[From People]

OMG, how shocking! I can't believe that Pippa would be in the midst of trying to upgrade to someone with a title, who also happens to be loads richer and more prominent. Amazing!

Meanwhile, Pippa's sister Kate was all over the place this weekend. She did the Trooping the Colour thing with William and the royal family, then she and Pippa went to a wedding of one of their friends, AND then Kate and William went to a birthday party for Prince Phillip. Kate totally recycled too - she wore the same fug hat to the Trooping the Colour and the wedding, and she wore the same fug coat to Phillip's party that she wore several years ago to a wedding. I guess she's trying to send the signal that she's not a total diva clotheshorse who must have new outfits for every occasion? Yeah… that will change, I think.

Photos courtesy of Pacific Coast News and WENN.

Denise Richards’ new memoir will share ‘beautiful love story’ she had with Charlie

Posted: 13 Jun 2011 07:00 AM PDT

Denise Richards has a new memoir coming out next month, which I haven’t heard about until now. I would speculate that she started writing it to cash in on the Charlie hysteria following his incredible public breakdown, but she announced plans for it back in October, 2010, and Charlie didn’t start to lose his sh*t until around late January, with the apex happening in early March. Denise’s memoir was originally not scheduled to be released until the summer of 2012, but it’s been pushed forward to this year probably due to Charlie’s mess. We’ve already seen her 2005 divorce declaration, detailing how Charlie was addicted to hookers and porn and threatened to kill her toward the end of the marriage. Everyone vilified her for that at the time and there were plenty of accusations that she was embellishing her story in order to make out in the divorce.

Now that we’ve seen how off the rails Charlie really is, and how he abused his next wife too, most people think she was telling the truth. She never said “I told you so” or went into much detail about Charlie though, and remained really classy and probably more tight-lipped about the whole thing than she needed to be. Now that Denise’s memoir is coming out, I think we can assume that she won’t dish any more details than the divorce declaration has already revealed. She told OK! that it will also detail the “beautiful love story” that she had with Charlie. Snakes, con artists and sociopaths can be incredibly charming, can’t they?

As Denise Richards plans to release her memoir next month, the mom of two opened up about what readers can expect to find within the pages of her candid story, including what life has been like since going through "one of the worst" divorces with Charlie Sheen, how she is keeping her kids away from the drama, and her own head held high in the process.

"I went through a lot and I get asked a lot of questions about that time in my life so I figured that I would share my story and hopefully, anyone that is dealing with challenges will know that there is a light at the end of the tunnel," Denise explained to reporters of the content of her upcoming book to while out at the Time for Heroes Celebrity Carnival Sponsored by Disney to Benefit the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation.

While the memoir is set to focus on her entire life up until present day, Denise told OK! on Sunday that she does discuss going through a divorce and, "about how it is a struggle and we had one of the worst divorces so if we get into a good place, that's great."

The Wild Things star revealed that she also wanted to write about the better side of her marriage, "because people have only gotten the rotten stuff so you know, there was a beautiful love story between he and I and I know that it went the way it went, but I talk more about how I felt during that time because I feel like a lot of women can relate to that, going through a divorce and custody and being a single parent and trying to work and all of that stuff."

[From OK! Magazine]

I guess we can’t expect Denise to talk too much crap about Charlie given how she’s handled everything for the past few years. (She used to talk some mild crap about him, but stopped and just started saying that she was keeping it quiet for her girls’ aka “the money’s” sake.) Charlie’s probably starting to go broke given all he’s said about needing money and I bet that his child support payments aren’t as regular lately. Denise should just release a tell all about what it was like living with a bipolar whack job with a ton of resources at his disposal, but you can tell she’s not going to do that. I really want to know about her whole PR-friendly romance with Richie Sambora and what happened to her friendship with her then-neighbor, Richie’s ex Heather Locklear. Denise has kind of revealed all that already though, and claimed that she was never really close friends with Heather and that they had a falling out before she got together with Richie in 2006. Heather and Richie were supposedly already broken up with Denise got together with him, but still that had to sting somewhat.

Denise is shown on 6/12/11. Charlie is shown on 4/30/11. Credit: WENN.com

Cameron Diaz, leggy at a ‘Bad Teacher’ photo call: lovely or meh?

Posted: 13 Jun 2011 06:54 AM PDT

My God, Cameron Diaz's legs are insane. Her face goes from "OMG, WHAT HAPPENED?" to "Meh, she looks okay" while Camy's legs stand the test of time. And please don't give me a lecture on her athleticism. While I'm positive that Camy maintains her figure and specifically her magnificent legs through exercise and hardcore workouts, I'm sure Camy also benefits heavily from the "Amazing Legs" gene. Beyond the legs, though, I dislike this outfit. Camy has been doing variations on this outfit for a while - covered up on top, biscuit-grazers on the bottom. While the pink is nice, and her face doesn't look like it's melting, I don't really care for the ensemble.

Anyway, these are leg porn photos of Cameron doing a photo call for her new film, Bad Teacher, in Madrid, Spain. The promotion for this film has been all over the place - I think the studio is putting more emphasis on getting the trailers out there, in the hopes that the film will get buzz by simply looking hilarious. Usually, Camy is the one spear-heading a film's promotion, through magazine and television interviews, and endless red carpets. Not so much this time, although it might pick up closer to the release date (two Fridays from now, the 24th).

Meanwhile, have you heard the stuff about Cameron and Prince Harry being gym buddies now? While Cameron films Gambit in London, she joined a very posh, exclusive gym, and it happens to be the same gym that Prince Harry uses. They might have even been working out at the same time! According to Us Weekly, "Cameron Diaz wound up on the treadmill next to Prince Harry at London’s KX gym. Apparently, the 26-year-old red-headed royal put his towel on Diaz’s machine; just when the 38-year-old actress was about to ask for the towel to be removed, she realized who was working out beside her!" The Mirror claims that it was Harry who introduced himself to Camy, and "they hit off," joining each other for workouts several more times. A source told the tabloid:

"Since arriving in England, Cameron was adamant she would keep up with her strict exercise regime. Producers secured her membership at the ultra discreet, £3,500-a-year gym – totally unaware Prince Harry was also a member. Since first clocking one another and saying hello, they have coincided visits on two further occasions. During the second one, they were pounding along on adjacent treadmills and Harry cheekily nudged-up Cameron's speed dial, suggesting a one kilometer race. Cameron agreed… and won. They have become pretty friendly – Harry even invited his new gym buddy out drinking with him and his Sloaney chums."

[From The Daily Mirror]

Is this Camy & Harry, sitting in a tree, B-O-N-I-N-G? Eh. He seems to like trashy blondes, and it would be so much fun, but I don't really see it. I could totally be wrong, though. I tend to think Camy is still in an A-Rod dong haze.

Here are some photos of Harry playing polo over the weekend, and Camy in Madrid:

Photos courtesy of WENN.

Angelina Jolie’s Louis Vuitton ad preview: what’s up with her feet?

Posted: 13 Jun 2011 06:24 AM PDT

Here is the first ad for Angelina Jolie's newest ad campaign, for Louis Vuitton. Several months ago, it was announced/rumored that Jolie had signed on to a Vuitton campaign for a sum of around $10 million. Soon after, she and a few of her kids flew to Cambodia, where she was photographed by Annie Leibovitz for the campaign. I like the image a lot, I like how Jolie looks subdued and not fancy and made up. What I hate are her feet. She's a beautiful woman with one glaring flaw that comes up in too many photo shoots - her feet are totally jacked and gigantic. It's weird. Anyway, WWD got the preview of the campaign, plus an interview with some LV people:

She's barefoot, wearing her own clothes, no makeup and toting her own elegantly weathered monogrammed Alto bag. Yet Angelina Jolie looks radiant and completely in her element, reclining on a wooden boat in a verdant, lakeside landscape in Cambodia's Siem Reap province. Jolie discovered the country in 2000 when she filmed "Lara Croft: Tomb Raider," and it sparked her humanitarian activism.

She's the latest celebrity to pose for Louis Vuitton's popular "Core Values" campaign — and surely the only one who brought four children to the photo shoot, some of whom had to be shooed out of Annie Leibovitz's frame.

"People are not used to seeing Angelina in this situation," said Pietro Beccari, Vuitton's executive vice president, unveiling the image exclusively to WWD. "I like the fact that it's a real moment. This travel message we give through personal journeys is a fundamental one for the brand."

The ad is slated to break in the International Herald Tribune on Wednesday, followed by a range of news, general interest and lifestyle publications, including Vanity Fair.

Beccari declined to disclose budgets for the media buy, or comment on reports Vuitton paid the American actress millions for the shoot. He would only say Jolie donated an undisclosed portion of her fees to a charity.

The campaign is expected to run for at least 18 months alongside a few other recent "core values" personalities, including Bono and Sean Connery. Vuitton introduced the advertising concept in 2007 as a way to trumpet its travel roots and showcase its perennial monogrammed leather goods as a balance to its fashion-driven marketing — and to reach a broader audience. Other personalities who have posed for Vuitton include Mikhail Gorbachev, Keith Richards and Catherine Deneuve.

Also on Wednesday, Vuitton plans to post a teaser on its Web site, louisvuittonjourneys.com/cambodia, foreshadowing an interview with Jolie that will be posted later in the month. In it, she is expected to discuss how her visit to Cambodia was a life-changing experience, awakening her to the plight of Third World countries. She adopted her eldest son, Maddox, from Cambodia and she and husband Brad Pitt established the Maddox Jolie-Pitt Foundation, which is active in community development and conservation in the country.

"This campaign is about a very special person and a very special journey," Beccari said.

And a storied handbag. Beccari showed off several paparazzi shots of Jolie toting the Alto carryall, which is believed to be at least six years old. The style is no longer in production, but "we are considering to re-edit it," Beccari noted.

[From WWD]

This dude is probably talking about these photos of Angelina and Brad shopping for Shiloh's fifth birthday party, in which Angelina's LV bag can be seen. I have to admit, I'm not a tremendous fan of LV's monogrammed pieces, BUT I like the idea of this ad campaign, and I think it's done very well. I just wish I wasn't focusing on her feet so much.

Photos courtesy of Fame & WWD/LV.

Rep. Anthony Weiner seeks ‘treatment,’ refuses to resign

Posted: 13 Jun 2011 06:20 AM PDT

Congresspeople on both sides of the political aisle are calling for Rep Weiner (D-NY) to resign following the Weinergate scandal. We’ve seen plenty of evidence that the guy enjoyed getting his “ego” stroked online by random women through various outlets like Twitter, Facebook and I’m sure we can add instant messaging platforms to the pile. Maybe if he stuck to Skyping instead of sending out so many adoring photos of himself he could have postponed the inevitable scandal resulting from his online sexting addiction.

Weiner refuses to resign from Congress though, and like so many other idiots before him he’s seeking “treatment” for his “issues” while trying to hold on to his political career. The dude wants us to feel sorry for him, even after the story that he was messaging with a 17 year-old girl from Delaware. We heard recently that police were investigating Weiner’s twitter messages to the girl, which he claims “were neither explicit nor indecent.” Apparently she messaged him after seeing him speak during a school trip to Washington, and he responded and added her as a follow. It’s unknown if Weiner’s messages to her were inappropriate, but given the context this new information is damning. So instead of admitting that the gig is up and that he should leave Congress, Weiner is requesting a leave of absence and issuing statements meant to elicit sympathy. No one is buying it and his colleagues are saying that he should face reality and step down.

Defying forceful demands for his resignation, Representative Anthony D. Weiner of New York said on Saturday that he was entering a psychological treatment center and seeking a leave of absence from the House to deal with a pattern of reckless online behavior with women.

The announcement came as three top Democratic leaders declared that Mr. Weiner, 46, once a rising star in the party, needed counseling and should step down from Congress.

Pressure on Mr. Weiner to leave the House, and spare the Democratic Party from an increasingly embarrassing scandal, had been building all week, but intensified on Friday, after it was revealed that Mr. Weiner had traded private messages with a 17-year-old girl in Delaware.

Mr. Weiner, who friends say has become distraught and fragile in recent days, will use the leave to think about his future and whether to leave Congress, a possibility he has not entirely ruled out, a person close to him said.

But Mr. Weiner's plan did not satisfy exasperated Democratic leaders, who have been trying to persuade him that he is damaging himself, his family and his party by remaining a member of the House.

The House Democratic leader, Representative Nancy Pelosi of California, spoke to Mr. Weiner on the phone Saturday morning and, notably, released her statement calling for his resignation after he told her of his plan to get treatment and to take the leave. Mr. Weiner received a similar phone call from Representative Steve Israel of New York, chairman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, urging him to resign.

Mr. Weiner has been talking with a therapist in New York City over the past couple of days, as fallout from his online scandal worsened and he absorbed the message from his colleagues and advisers that his conduct reflected not just bad judgment but perhaps a deeper psychological problem.

"Congressman Weiner departed this morning to seek professional treatment to focus on becoming a better husband and healthier person," said his spokeswoman, Risa Heller. "In light of that, he will request a short leave of absence from the House of Representatives so that he can get evaluated and map out a course of treatment to make himself well."

Ms. Heller would not identify the facility or the precise kind of counseling Mr. Weiner, who has admitted having explicit communications with six women he met online, would receive. She stressed that he was carefully considering the calls from his fellow lawmakers urging him to give up his seat.

Mr. Weiner has been resistant in telephone calls over the past week with Ms. Pelosi and Mr. Israel, who have been warning him that if he does not quit, they will make their case publicly.

They were especially frustrated, according to one high-ranking Democratic official, when Mr. Weiner repeatedly told them he could not resign now because his wife, Huma Abedin, was traveling abroad with her boss, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton — an assertion they viewed as an unpersuasive pretext.

Ms. Pelosi had hoped that the congressman would reach the decision on his own to go. In addition to her concerns about the political distraction Mr. Weiner had become, Ms. Pelosi concluded that his behavior required medical intervention.

"When you are this self-destructive, there is obviously something deeper going on with you," said a Pelosi adviser who spoke on condition of anonymity for fear of being seen as betraying her confidence…

One friend said it had become abundantly clear that Mr. Weiner was no longer in a position to make clear-headed decisions about his career and health.

"He was falling apart," said a longtime friend, who spoke on condition of anonymity to protect the relationship.

Mr. Weiner, who prides himself on his dapper appearance and physical fitness, was losing weight, seemed run down and drawn and increasingly found it difficult to make it through telephone calls without losing his composure.

He began meeting with the therapist not only to discuss his online behavior, but also to cope with the fallout from the scandal. On Friday, with calls for his resignation multiplying, he agreed that traditional therapy was not enough. He told family and friends that he would enter an out-of-town clinic and made travel plans for Saturday afternoon. He will be evaluated before it is determined exactly what kind of treatment he will receive.

[From the NY Times via Radar Online]

Boo-f’ing-hoo. Meanwhile TMZ has a whole new crop of photos of the guy posing in the mirror at the Congressional gym. In some he’s clutching a towel and cupping himself. In another the towel is barely hanging over his d*ck. As I’ve said before, it’s not that he enjoyed getting off online with randoms, that’s relatively harmless and is something between him and his wife as long as he keeps it quiet - it’s that he lied about it repeatedly in the aftermath and was so arrogant and defensive. That is a huge reflection on his character, and shows that he has no qualms about lying when it serves his purposes. It’s all about Weiner and his precious d*ck.

Photos are from 2006 and 2010. Credit: WENN.com

Jennifer Lopez’s head-to-toe snakeskin: tragic, dated or sexy?

Posted: 13 Jun 2011 06:20 AM PDT

In the first batch of photos I saw of this London event, Jennifer Lopez had her mouth closed and she was posing like a normal person, without doing her patented "Sexy-Face". And then I chanced upon this batch of photos. Yeah. She only kept her mouth closed for a second, and The Sexy-Face was in full effect. Anyway, Jennifer was in London for "The Summertime Ball" at Wembley Stadium. She performed, as did Nicole Scherzinger from The Pussycat Dolls. You can see photos of their performances here, at The Mail.

As for Jennifer's outfit for the photo call… eh. Snakeskin? Really? Granted, this isn't as "desperate" as Jennifer's fashion has been lately, but it's still kind of dated, right? The matching snakeskin boots are Louboutins, by the way. Of course they are. Because Jennifer has a song called "Louboutins".

Meanwhile, even though Jennifer was trying desperately to win the pop-star pissing contest with Nicole Scherzinger, Jennifer gave some quotes during an interview that made her sound like she's fine with some healthy competition:

JENNIFER Lopez will "probably" watch the US version of The X Factor. The 41-year-old singer — who is a judge on rival pop star search show American Idol — loves watching talent programs and thinks she will tune in when the series airs in September.

Speaking at the 95-106 Capital FM Summertime Ball at London's Wembley Stadium last night she said, "You know what, I watch all those shows. I'm a big fan of those type of shows so I'll probably be watching."

The On The Floor hitmaker had kind words for Nicole Scherzinger — who will be a judge on The X Factor alongside Simon Cowell, L.A. Reid and Paula Abdul – wishing her "the best" of luck for her new venture.

"I just saw Nicole backstage," she said. "I gave her all my love and wished her the best, she says she's already started. She was supposed to be the host and now she's a judge and she's very excited about that."

Jennifer raises three-year-old twins Max and Emme with her husband Marc Anthony, and when she can she likes to have them with her when she is working on her various projects.

"The secret to working with kids? I just try and keep them close all the time," she said. "They're here tonight. I travel with them when I can. I want to let them know how love they are. Another child? Maybe, maybe."

[From Showbiz Spy]

It still sounds kind of patronizing to me, but whatever. I prefer J. Lo to Nicole, and so I'm kind of rooting for Jennifer anyway. By the way, I believe Jennifer is in the midst of renegotiating her American Idol for a truckload of money - she only signed on for one year, and Idol producers really, really want her to come back. So J. Lo is back on top! And she’s ready to buy all of the snakeskin biscuit-grazing dresses she could ever want.

Photos courtesy of WENN.

Monday, June 13, 2011

Cele|bitchy

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