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Christina Aguilera tones down the drag queen styles for W Mag
Chris Evans covers GQ: is he too pretty, too skeezy, or just kind of hot?
Justin Timberlake loves to smoke pot: ‘it gets me to stop thinking’
Fergie covers Allure, denies obvious plastic surgery makeover
True Blood portraits: can you hardly wait or is this show about to jump the shark?
Sarah Jessica Parker won’t admit that she complained about jury duty
Dakota Fanning’s latest “Lolita-styled” Marc Jacobs ad: gross or meh?
Jennifer Aniston’s new bf, Justin Theroux, just had his gf move out after 14 years
Blake Lively in NYC, in biscuit-grazing Marc Jacobs: cute or tragic?
Charlie Sheen might get a new sitcom, would you watch it?

Christina Aguilera tones down the drag queen styles for W Mag

Posted: 14 Jun 2011 08:50 AM PDT

As I already showed you earlier today, Beyonce is on some of the covers of the July issue of W Magazine. What's interesting is that W Mag decided that Bey should "share" dueling covers with Christina Aguilera. First of all - Beyonce is WAY more important than Christina, and if I was Bey, I would be offended. Second of all, Christina Aguilera?!? The drunken mess? The one who flashes her liquor-plumped figure in inappropriate clothes? Yes, that Christina. You might not have recognized her on this (low-quality) cover. Apparently, this shot of Christina is "recent". And I'm sure they didn't have to spend a full week Photoshopping her body.

Some people are comparing this shoot to some Lady Gaga photo shots in years past. I'll admit that Gaga did come to mind, specifically Gaga's Vanity Fair shoot last year, but I don't think this Christina shoot is a blatant copy. Lots of photographers do this "ethereal" style, so meh. I'm more offended by how ridiculous the Photoshop on her body is.

Last thing - Adam Levine slams reports that he and Christina are fighting on The Voice. He told MSNBC, "She’s great. I respect the s**t out of her. She’s going through a tough time, and God bless her. This show is great for her, but if she busts my balls, I’ll bust hers.” Also, Cee Lo Green claims that all of the judges - he and Christina, Adam, Blake Shelton will all be coming back for the next season, if there is one. So Christina is back on top, I guess?

Photos courtesy of WENN.

Chris Evans covers GQ: is he too pretty, too skeezy, or just kind of hot?

Posted: 14 Jun 2011 08:11 AM PDT

I know that some people just have a knee-jerk hatred of Chris Evans. I never had that reaction, but I understand how someone could. I have always had a knee-jerk hatred of John Mayer, Ryan Phillippe, and many others. For a while I actually, actively liked Chris, and thought he was hot. I don't feel that way about him currently, but I still have a soft spot for him. I think he gets unfairly painted with Chris PINE's douche brush. Pine is a d-bag - Evans never dated Audrina Patridge, and from what I know, Pine is just kind of a dude's dude. Anyway, Chris covers the July issue of GQ to promote the soon-to-be-released Captain America… as for the cover shot, it's an okay photo. I don't mind the chest hair, but you know my affection for skeevy men. He looks slightly douchey, but I'd still hit it, basically. Here are some highlights from the GQ interview (full piece here):

Chris Evans on getting over his initial reluctance to take on the role of Captain America:
"I said no a bunch, and every time I said no, I woke up the next morning so happy and content. I kept saying no; they kept coming back. And eventually I was like, 'You know what? This is your biggest fear—this is exactly what you have to do.' "

…on his character in Scott Pilgrim vs. the World:
"The character's supposed to be this horrible actor and a douchebag, and I get the job and so many people were like, 'You're perfect, you're gonna crush it!' " he continued with feigned anger. "I was like, So I got this role as an a–hole actor, and you guys think I nailed it? That I'm a natural and that nobody in town can do it better?"

…on how seeing sunsets are the "happiest" times in his life:
"The point is that when I see a sunset or a waterfall or something, for a split second it's so great, because for a little bit I'm out of my brain, and it's got nothing to do with me. I'm not trying to figure it out, you know what I mean? And I wonder if I can somehow find a way to maintain that mind stillness."

[From GQ]

I just skimmed the full article at GQ, and it's actually a really sweet, funny piece. GQ sent a single woman to interview Chris, and they were flirting with each other like it was a date. He comes across really nice and family-oriented (his mother is quoted extensively, and he introduces the reporter to his mom - you can tell he & his mom are tight, but not in a gross way). He also seems like a surprisingly good date, honestly. Sigh… I think I'm back to liking him.

Cover courtesy of GQ, additional photos by WENN.

Justin Timberlake loves to smoke pot: ‘it gets me to stop thinking’

Posted: 14 Jun 2011 08:05 AM PDT

Justin Timberlake has a new interview with Playboy Magazine in which he’s promoting… oh yes, Friends with Benefits. I forgot about that, since it seems like that movie already came out months ago. Kaiser reminded me of the last interview that we heard from Justin, with Vanity Fair, in which he called his ex girlfriend, Jessica Biel “the most special person,” and said he wished another ex Britney Spears the best but admitted that he hadn’t spoken to her in about 10 years. (He didn’t mention Cameron at all, another ex who actually stars with him in Bad Teacher.) US Weekly has some choice quotes from Justin’s Playboy interview, and it seems the most attention-getting are his thoughts on smoking pot, which he says gets him to “stop thinking” and turn off his brain. It has the opposite effect on me.

Forget his talked-about love life. Justin Timberlake is coming clean about one not-so-secret vice: He smokes pot.

“Absolutely,” the singer-actor, 30, tells Playboy magazine when asked if he’s a pot-smoker. Why the weed?

“The only thing pot does for me is it gets me to stop thinking,” the Bad Teacher star explains. “Sometimes I have a brain that needs to be turned off. Some people are just better high.”

High or not, Timberlake says he’s ready to slow down and chill. “I feel I’m just getting to a point in my life where I’m looking around, going, There’s a lot to enjoy if I can just sit still, actually stop and take more time.”

Part of that time out means no new music on the immediate horizon for the platinum-selling singer. “I don’t have a single song ready to go,” admits the star, who hasn’t released an album since 2006 smash FutureSex/LoveSounds. “People keep asking me when a new song or album is coming out, and I don’t know what to say. Music is not my focus right now. It may be someday. It could happen next month or next year but right now it’s not where it’s at for me.”

Maybe that switch from music to film is why he’s stuck around longer than other boybanders. “You always need to be learning something new,” he says. ” In whatever I’ve done, I’ve always looked at myself as a beginner. Hopefully I can continue to do that for the next 30 years as I grow into an older man.”

Since splitting with Jessica Biel in March after four on-and-off years together, Timberlake has been linked to Olivia Wilde, Ashley Olsen and Mila Kunis, to name a few boldfaced stars. He knows why he tends to romance fellow celebs, he tells Playboy.

“You probably gravitate toward people who understand your scenario. At the end of the day you just want someone who gets you, who can be a friend. That’s kind of the point of Friends with Benefits,” he says of his upcoming comedy with Kunis. “As corny as it sounds, the ‘friends’ part counts just as much as the 'benefits' part, if not more.”

How were those sex scenes with Kunis, anyway?

“I’d be lying if I said it wasn’t completely awkward. I couldn’t tell you the number of people in the crew watching me and my bare a*s, but it was a lot.”

[From US Weekly]

I haven’t smoked pot in over 15 years, and I barely did it when I was in college because all I would do is sit around and have “deep thoughts” that amounted to nothing and bugged the crap out of me. It made me think too hard and never get anywhere, so I stopped. Kaiser hasn’t smoked pot since college either, and she said it made her paranoid but that she got a decent buzz when she mixed booze and pot. I guess it does different things for everyone.

As for Justin’s lovelife and his “scenario,” what is it? That he needs to have something on the side at all times and his main piece is supposed to look the other way? The last we heard about Justin’s lovelife he was seeing Ashley Olsen. His people denied it, but then a source from Ashley’s camp told People Magazine they had “hooked up recently.” It sounds like Ashley didn’t get Justin’s “scenario,” which involves not crimping his style at all.

Justin is shown on 6/4/11 and 2/24/11. He does look high doesn’t he? Credit: WENN.com

Fergie covers Allure, denies obvious plastic surgery makeover

Posted: 14 Jun 2011 07:38 AM PDT

Fergie is the cover girl for the July issue of Allure. The cover shot is hypnotizing, right? And not in a good way. I feel like Fergie's eyes are trying to force me to get ~~plastic surgery~~ lipstick. Speaking of, Fergie takes this Allure opportunity to not only show off her recently re-done face, but also to deny ever getting anything done to make her look so drastically different. Fergie tells the magazine, “I did two major drastic things, which is hair to the side—it was the first time—and the big neon lip. I wanted to try something different, and all of a sudden it was this big backlash. People were saying ‘It’s a fake Fergie.’ I heard about some ridiculous amount of money that I spent on my face, which I think is absolutely insane.” What's absolutely insane is that she's even bothering to deny it. I hate that.

Fergie on her age: "I'm definitely young at heart, and I always will be, I'm just trying to age gracefully."

On her body: "I think people think that I'm pregnant sometimes because my weight fluctuates … My problem is my discipline. I see a Jack in the Box or a Del Taco, and I will impulsively want it. I'm a work in progress in that area … I gain and lose weight everywhere from the thighs up."

On her relationship with Will.I.am: "There is conflict, he's very protective, and it drives me nuts because I do a lot of my best work, writing-wise, when I'm completely alone."

On working so hard: "I took a break to have a wedding. I've definitely committed some time this year to the Peas, but not as [much as] I have in previous years. I need balance in my life, and the guys understand that … I don't think Will ever wants a break. We're very different in that way."

On her looks: "I've learned to love my nose because it's unique. It's interesting, and it just makes me a little different."

She tries to be a good person: “I try to be a nice person. I’m not filled with saccharine. Do you want me to give you some bad things that I do? I’m obviously married, so I don’t sleep around. I guess I’ve tamed my ways a little bit, but I am 36.”

Fergie on the plastic surgery rumors: Fergie is known—and loved—for experimenting with different looks. But one recent change sparked rumors. Moments after the singer performed on American Idol, viewers went on Twitter to speculate about whether she’d had surgery. “I did two major drastic things, which is hair to the side—it was the first time—and the big neon lip,” she says. “I wanted to try something different, and all of a sudden it was this big backlash. People were saying ‘It’s a fake Fergie.’ I heard about some ridiculous amount of money that I spent on my face, which I think is absolutely insane.”

[From Allure]

I used to kind of like her, and maybe I still do but… the woman has issues. I do think she looks somewhat better since her plastic surgery makeover, although I think that A) she never really looked bad before, she just looked like she had lived hard and B) she got too much done all at one, and it's going to take a while for her face to "settle" and not look so jacked. What I really can't stand are the bald-face lies and denials, though. That just pisses me off.

Allure photos courtesy of the slideshow.

True Blood portraits: can you hardly wait or is this show about to jump the shark?

Posted: 14 Jun 2011 07:01 AM PDT

Mild Spoilers for True Blood Season Four
True Blood comes back to HBO in just over a week, on June 26th. I haven’t been keeping up with all the news about the fourth season, but from what I’ve heard the series will use certain key plot details from the books, including a romance between two lead characters. It’s unclear how closely it will follow the books though, and as we’ve seen so far you can rely on twists and changes that will try and keep it unpredictable for those of us who have read all the Charlaine Harris novels. However, there were a lot of cheesy things in the book series that I would like to see played down, particularly the fairy angle. Judging from this latest preview clip from HBO, below, that’s not going to happen.

Spoilers for this clip obviously. It’s the first eight minutes of the first show. This immediately reminded me of Star Trek, and I just noticed that someone commented to that effect on YouTube as well. It’s frankly a little dumb and disappointing and you would think they would come up with a better opener to the season than this fairy fantasy fight sequence.

Meanwhile these “Got Blood” type cast portraits are pretty awesome, and remind me of all the great characters on this show, including some of the lesser players who are played by some incredibly talented actors, like Hoyt, Terry and Andy. I’ll watch this show with interest as always, but this latest clip has me raising my eyebrows and wondering how ridiculous it’s about to get. I like the vampire, the werewolf and the shapeshifter storylines. When you add in some fairies that go evil in an alternate universe it’s kind of too much, regardless of what’s in the books.

Thanks to E! Online for the heads up and True Blood Online for the photos, where there are some more.

Sarah Jessica Parker won’t admit that she complained about jury duty

Posted: 14 Jun 2011 06:59 AM PDT

I'm not sure if anyone else will be interested in this, but it amused me. Page Six has a story about Sarah Jessica Parker turning up for jury duty, just like Carrie did in that Sex & the City episode. But instead of spending her jury duty time reading or writing a column, the real SJP chose to complain loudly (according to eyewitnesses) about how she was simply too busy to do her civic duty. Just for the record - I've never been called up for jury duty (I think my foreign-sounding name must immediately disqualify me here in the sweaty armpit of the South), but if I was called up, I would have no problems complaining loudly and trying to get out of it too. What I'm finding amusing about this SJP story is that she used two different contradictory excuses for why she shouldn't be on a jury (her kid was sick AND she had somewhere else to be on business), and SJP spoke to the NY Post directly to try to brighten up her image:

She had her excuses as ready as a pair of Manolos. Sarah Jessica Parker got called for jury duty yesterday, but didn’t appear eager to serve. The Post overheard the “Sex and the City” star griping to another prospective panelist about the better things she had to do than cool her heels in Manhattan federal court.

“My daughter is at home sick,” said the actress, who has three children with actor-hubby Matthew Broderick. Parker, 46, also noted that she had an “international flight” tomorrow and fretted aloud that the fraud case being tried might last more than two days.

She then flipped out at a reporter and photographer outside the courthouse during a break, screaming, “Leave me alone!”

As it turned out, the jury box got filled before Parker was summoned for questioning, and she was discharged after being sent back down to the central jury room. In a phone interview afterward with The Post’s Bruce Golding, Parker denied having travel plans tomorrow and insisted she had been “ready, willing and able to serve.”

She confirmed that one of her twin daughters was home with a fever, but said she had hired a sitter to take care of the tot while she took the subway to court, arriving early at 8:40 a.m. And while other panelists offered an array of flimsy reasons why they couldn’t do their duty, Parker said, “I never once raised my hand. I don’t shirk any of my civic responsibilities.

[From Page Six]

Is this blown out of proportion? Probably. I don't think anyone would blame SJP for griping about jury duty to anyone who would listen, just because everyone there probably wanted to gripe about it, as is our right. But I think it's funny that SJP had to give an interview about it afterwards and deny that she was complaining. Seriously, SJP, we can handle it.

Photos courtesy of WENN.

Dakota Fanning’s latest “Lolita-styled” Marc Jacobs ad: gross or meh?

Posted: 14 Jun 2011 06:26 AM PDT

This is the new ad for Marc Jacobs' perfume Lola, starring 17-year-old Dakota Fanning. What's up with the Fanning girls lately, huh? I guess it's not really their fault that stylists, designers and photographers keep putting them in these "Lolita" photo shoots, but at some point, maybe their parents should say something? In Elle's case - with the Blackbook and Marie Claire photo shoots, which I considered much too adult for a 13 year old - I expressed my hope that the "Lolita" styling was just about how easily Elle's "look" can easily go to that retro Jean Shrimpton/Twiggy vibe. As for Dakota, who just graduated high school but isn't yet legally an adult, I feel like she signed on to this Marc Jacobs campaign with her eyes wide open. I mean, did they have to pose her with the "flower bottler" right on her crotch?

At just 17, Dakota Fanning is still a year under the legal age of consent in her home state of California, but this trifling fact doesn’t seem to concern Marc Jacobs. The 48-year-old designer chose to place the teenager in a provocative pose - in homage to a 1950s novel about sex with an under age girl - to sell his new perfume, Oh, Lola!

Jacobs’ long-term collaborator Juergen Teller shot the Twilight star in Los Angeles wearing a girlish, pink scalloped polka dot dress. The background, is similarly juvenile - it’s monotone pastel pink compounding the innocence of the composition. But then a large bottle of the scent, featuring it’s signature rose-top has been placed provocatively in between the young starlet’s legs. The teenager clutches it as she tilts back lasciviously and stares intently into the camera.

New Yorker Jacobs admits that his intention was to portray the young woman as a re-boot of the tragic character in Vladimir Nabokov’s 1955 novel, Lolita, which tells the story of young girl’s sexual relationship with a much older man, who becomes her step-father.

He told Women’s Wear Daily: ‘When we were speaking about who to use in the ads, I had recently seen The Runaways…I knew she could be this contemporary Lolita, seductive yet sweet.’

The iconic novel tells the story of sexual predator Humbert Humbert and his exploitation of his ‘Lolita’ from the age of 12.

Ironically, this is the age at which Dakota first posed for the successful designer.

The pull of Jacobs is so strong that Fanning admitted she was: ‘humbled by the offer and said yes immediately.’ Dakota recently graduated from high school and joined her peers to receive her diploma. She attended classes at the $30,000 a year private school in North Hollywood and last year was crowned Homecoming Queen. But despite her Hollywood career Dakota insists that she is a down-to-earth normal teenager.

She said: ‘I have such a normal life when I'm not working… It's just nice to be around people you care about and who know you best.’

[From The Mail]

So, Marc Jacobs wanted to create this creepy, sexualized image of a 17-year-old girl who looks 13. Gross. Of course, Jacobs also sexualized himself for the ads for his men's cologne Bang:

So… he doesn't have the best judgment. By the way, CB wanted me mention that Justin Bieber (of all people) is in trouble because his perfume Someday blatantly rips off the Lola flower bottle. You can see photos of the two bottles here, at E!.

Ads courtesy of Google.

Jennifer Aniston’s new bf, Justin Theroux, just had his gf move out after 14 years

Posted: 14 Jun 2011 06:15 AM PDT

This photo is of Justin and his girlfriend, makeup artist Heidi Bivens, in 2008. Credit: PRPhotos

Early last week we ran a story that was all over the tabloids, about how Jennifer Aniston’s new PR-friendly boyfriend, Justin Theroux, had a longterm girlfriend who was surprised to hear through the press that he was dating Aniston. This story was supported by a quote that the girlfriend’s mother gave Radar Online about how it wasn’t true that Aniston and her daughter’s boyfriend were together, and that they were just friends who happened to be out with a group of people when the tabloids (Aniston’s rep) decided to manufacture a new romance. I wrote back then that I couldn’t verify whether Justin and his girlfriend were living together, but according to The NY Post and the girlfriend’s rep they were, they’d been together for 14 years, and the girlfriend just moved out last weekend. It’s worth noting that Theroux is now repped by CAA, the same agency that continually plants Jennifer Aniston stories in the celebrity press.

Jennifer Aniston’s romance with Justin Theroux has ended his 14-year relationship with his live-in girlfriend Heidi Bivens — who moved out of their home last weekend, Page Six has exclusively learned.

Sources tell us Hollywood costume designer Bivens “is devastated” after Theroux abruptly ended their relationship as he got close to Aniston.
Aniston, 42, and Theroux, 39, met last fall on the set of “Wanderlust,” due in October, but in recent weeks they have become inseparable.

A source told us, “Heidi is heartbroken. She was completely blindsided. She and Justin had been together for years, they had a home. Then he met Jennifer and everything changed. At first he claimed he and Jen were friends.”

A rep for Bivens confirmed to Page Six: “Heidi and Justin have been together for 14 years. They met when she was 20 years old and he 24, and yes, she just moved out of their home last weekend. She has no comment.”

When Aniston and Theroux were first spotted dining together in May, her rep insisted they were friends. But it was reported at the time that Theroux is “edgier than the guys Jen usually dates . . . she really likes him.”

In recent weeks, the pair have repeatedly been seen dining out and reportedly spending weekends together, with Hollywood sources telling us that “things are moving fast. They are practically living together.”

Despite Heidi’s heartbreak, a friend of Theroux claimed, “Things were already over between him and Heidi before he got close to Jen…”

A rep for Theroux declined to comment. A rep for Aniston didn’t get back to us.

[From The NY Post]

Back when Aniston first started seeing this otherwise taken guy, her rep planted a “friendly dinner” story in People, and then denied the story to US Weekly. I’m thinking that Theroux got word of the People story and told Aniston’s people to back off and deny it, since he didn’t want word getting back to his girlfriend.

I’ll say what I said in the past about this story - we don’t know what kind of lines Theroux fed Aniston about his relationship with his live-in girlfriend. However, I’ll add the caveat that married and attached guys have hit on me using the “we’re just together for the kids,” or “she’s just staying here until she can get on her feet” line and I haven’t ever fallen for it apart from once when I was 18. (The guy wasn’t married, he was just living with someone and then I quickly realized what was up.) It’s usually obvious when a guy is creeping. When a guy is living with someone, smart women know not to go there, or at least to keep the situation at arm’s length and wait and see. Unless they don’t really care.

Why did Aniston play it like this though? Was this a fauxmance that went to the next level, or does she always immediately let her people let the press know when she has a new lover? You think she would know by now that she should play it closer to the vest.

Justin on 4/6/11. Doesn’t his face scream “douche” to you?

Aniston is shown on 5/5/11. Credit: WENN.com. Thanks to Kira for the tip!

Blake Lively in NYC, in biscuit-grazing Marc Jacobs: cute or tragic?

Posted: 14 Jun 2011 05:50 AM PDT

Here are some new photos of Blake Lively in NYC last night, attending the Ghetto Film School Awards… solo. No Leonardo DiCaprio. Blake wore Marc Jacobs, with Lorraine Schwartz jewelry and Christian Louboutin shoes. I hate the outfit. Yes, Blake usually wears miniskirts, and I always feel like she's about two seconds away from publicly flashing her biscuits, but usually she just looks trashy. This is just an ugly outfit, though. The top especially.

During the event, Blake presented an award, kept a smile plastered on her face, and waited patiently. After the awards, she met up with Leo, according to The Mail. They went to a restaurant, exited separately, but then moved on to Leo's apartment where Blake spent the night. The Mail also claims that while Blake and Leo were touring Verona, Italy, Leo took Blake to "Juliet's House" - the Dell Capello home which "features the famous balcony and is thought to have been the home of the real family who inspired the story of the Capulets."

By the way, Lainey had an interesting story about Leo and Blake yesterday - Lainey says that her sources are all saying that this relationship is very much "real" and that Leo is truly into Blake. You can read her story here - and I tend to believe it, only I think this is maybe "infatuation" rather than love. I think Leo is really into her right now, but we'll see where he is six months from now.

Photos courtesy of Pacific Coast News.

Charlie Sheen might get a new sitcom, would you watch it?

Posted: 14 Jun 2011 05:41 AM PDT

You know how TMZ just repeats everything a celebrity team feeds them lately without really questioning it or using common sense? (See their Lohan coverage.) I’m hoping that’s the case for this latest story that Charlie Sheen is in “deep negotiations” for his own sitcom in which he’ll be surrounded by a team of sycophants who don’t make him stop smoking crack or paying the stars of the “Barely Legal” porn series to keep him company for as long as they can stand it. Supposedly Charlie is just about to score a full series sitcom, not just a one-off test pilot, that will be aired on a “major network.”

Sources connected with Charlie Sheen tell TMZ … the actor is negotiating a “big offer” for a new TV series that could debut as early as January, 2012.

We’re told Charlie’s reps are in “deep negotiations” and the deal could be done by week’s end.

Our sources say the sitcom is being written specifically around Charlie and will air on a broadcast network. The deal does not call for a pilot. The show would go straight to series.

Our sources would not reveal details about the sitcom, except to say Chuck Lorre is NOT involved.

[From TMZ]

Is Charlie just going to play himself again? That’s the only way I could see this playing out. Charlie’s insane creative ramblings channeled onto a sitcom instead of a ranting stage show that’s hit or miss depending on his level of sobriety. He did get huge ratings when he was spewing his drug-addled life philosophy on 20/20 and to any outlet that would listen to him. I don’t see this deal going through, though. Deadline agrees, and report that sources rule out the major three networks as having any interest in him. They break down the networks we’ve heard that Charlie was potentially negotiating with in the past, including Fox and HBO. HBO is out, since his proposed plan for a talkshow with HBO, “Sheen’s Corner,” predictably fell through. They quote a studio executive who states the obvious, the career-killer, The “Lohan” - “He is uninsurable.”

Still, I’d watch it. I try not to slow down when there’s an accident but sometimes you just can’t help it.