Wednesday, December 28, 2011

Cele|bitchy

Cele|bitchy


“Steven Tyler is probably engaged to Erin Brady, and his family is pissed” links

Posted: 28 Dec 2011 08:40 AM PST

Steven Tyler & Erin Brady are (probably?) engaged. Erin looks like a soul-eater. [Bitten and Bound] and [HuffPo]
I don't understand half of the words in this Snooki headline. [Celebslam]
Hooker in a bikini. Hint: she's older than the Cracken, but way less busted. [Yeeeah]
Rick Perry is anti-choice, with no exceptions for rape or for the mother's life. [Jezebel]
Deion Sanders announced his divorce to the media before telling his wife. [Bossip]
Olympian Scotty Lago's cute butt in the snow. [OMG Blog]
Amanda Seyfried's red pants look… budget. [I'm Not Obsessed]
Kitteh-on-Kitteh violence is hilarious. [Seriously? OMG! WTF?]
More evidence that Katy Perry & Rusty are OVER. [ICYDK]
Anthony Weiner wanted threesomes with other dudes. [CDAN]
Kristen Wiig is still boning Fabrizio Morretti. [Life & Style]
Kim Kardashian & Barbie were tweeting each other. [PopBytes]
Kat Von D still gets pap'd. [Hollywood Rag]
Ol' Dick Nixon was GAY?!?! OMG. [LimeLife]
Alessandra Ambrosio is knocked up again. [Celebs]
Happy 30th birthday, Sienna Miller. [CityRag]
Chris Evans is so neurotic. It's kind of funny, really. [Starpulse]

Jennifer Aniston on why she cut her hair: it looked fake & extensions were thinning it

Posted: 28 Dec 2011 08:19 AM PST


I remember last year when Jennifer Aniston’s extensions were looking obvious. It surprised me, because up to that point I’d assumed that Aniston’s trademark hair was all natural. (And I’ll be honest, I coveted her hair.) After a while, though it was just looking too full and fake. It wasn’t Lindsay Lohan levels of fake hair, but you could tell she was using pieces. Well Aniston chopped off her hair to a shoulder length bob in February. She’s been growing it out ever since. Her longtime hairdresser, Chris McMillan, did an interview with Allure afterwards explaining the new look, and he sort-of suggested that she’d had extensions, but didn’t say it outright. He said Aniston’s old look was played out. “But The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills all have that [hair style]. You know what I mean… They all have that natural, piecey hair. It's nice to take the extensions out of the hair and do something more natural.”

Now Aniston has confirmed that she had extensions and that they were damaging her hair. This sounds like a throwaway comment until you realize how much press it’s going to get her. She told InstyleThe real reason I cut my hair? My real hair was getting thinned out again from all the extensions. It was starting to look fake.”

That’s true, Aniston’s hair was looking fake. I think her decision to cut it had more to do with McMillan’s influence though. He very clearly told Allure why he wanted to take Aniston’s hair in that direction: it was the upcoming trend in fashion and hair, and he wanted his client to be a leader, not a Real Housewife follower. Kaiser thought that Aniston might be selling out her hairdresser with that extensions comment, but I get the impression that they’re on the same page and that he’s the one who convinced her that her hair was looking phony.

The thing is, Aniston’s hair has been reverting back to her long piecey look from 2010. Here she is in October of this year at an Elle event. I’m thinking she has extensions yet again here, and that she really prefers this style. We heard rumors that she thought she looked like a soccer mom with that hair. Those stories were probably accurate, since she didn’t keep that bob style for a hot minute.

10/17/11. She has the extensions back in, doesn’t she? I don’t think her hair would look as full without them, but I could be wrong.

9/26/11. All natural? Maybe. I think this shows that she did get extensions for that Elle event (above) and later that very same day (below)

9/26/11. Her hair grew a couple inches in a day, so she’s still hitting the extensions.

I did a forensic analysis of Aniston’s hair earlier this year, where I found photos of her with and without the extensions prior to the big chop. You can see those photos at that earlier story, and here are a couple of her with the long obvious extensions.

11/18/10

11/19/10

So the verdict is that she’s still using extensions, but they’re more subtle and not as fake-looking as they were before. I prefer her hair longer, not the super long style but the look she’s sporting now. She probably does too, since she keeps returning to that style. She knows what works for her. This story makes me fantasize about how awesome it would be to have a hair guy with me every day, a BFF who would gossip with me and make me look gorgeous.

Duchess Kate praised by animal rights groups for not participating in royal hunt

Posted: 28 Dec 2011 07:28 AM PST

As we saw a few days ago, Duchess Kate's first royal Christmas seemed to go very well. She got lots of attention in her plum coat and coordinating hat, she wore her seemingly new Christmas gift earrings (green amethysts!), and she looked happy. But all was not perfect in The Queendom of Waity. Animal-rights activists had basically come out and said that they would be putting a fatwa out on Kate if she participated in the royal family's annual Boxing Day pheasant shoot. So what did Kate do? She went to the hunt, but she "stayed in the background," not participating in the blood sport. Good for Kate? I don't know. It seems like the animal-rights people are gloating, and they feel like they have leverage on her now.

Kate Middleton has declined to participate in the Royal Family’s traditional Boxing Day bird shoot. The wife of Prince William reportedly went against protocol and opted to “stay in the background” following pleas from animal rights organizations to step out of the Sandringham Estate celebration.

“At the moment Kate is very much the bright new star of the Royal Family and the Palace is keen for her to keep her nose clean,” a source told the Daily Star. “Activists have begged her not to join the shoot. No-one wants to see her caught up in a scandal so soon.”

Middleton’s move has been commended by a number of charity representatives, with the League Against Cruel Sports commenting: “We are pleased that Kate has decided not to take part in the annual bloodbath.”

PETA further praised the Duchess of Cambridge for continuing the anti-bloodsport sentiments held by her late mother-in-law Princess Diana.

“The Royals have always had a hard time adjusting to social value,” president Ingrid Newkirk commented. “Rather than emulating Diana the Huntress, perhaps the British public is seeing a new Kate who is taking after Diana, the Princess of Hearts.”

Prince Philip was absent from the Boxing Day shoot due to his hospitalization for a blocked coronary artery. He was discharged this morning (December 27) after recovering from heart surgery.

[From Digital Spy]

"No-one wants to see her caught up in a scandal so soon." Is it really a "scandal" to take part in the royal family's annual Boxing Day activities? She would have been criticized if she had taken part, but it wouldn't have been a "scandal," it would have just been a (minor) animal-rights controversy. You know I'm no Kate-defender, but I dislike how the animal-rights groups are using poor Kate. She's damned if she does, damned if she doesn't, and why is only HER participation an issue? What about the other members of the royal family?

So… in my opinion, the only real "scandal" Kate is currently embroiled in is The Great Weave Scandal. I still have concerns that Kate is employing weaves and extensions. Oh, and let's not forget The Raccoon McWaity Scandal. I wonder what her eyeliner budget is? Why doesn't anyone think of the poor, victimized eyeliner?

Photos courtesy of WENN, Fame.
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Singer John Legend and model Chrissy Teigen got engaged over Christmas

Posted: 28 Dec 2011 07:00 AM PST

Well, I’m not sure how many people will care about this story because (to paraphrase CB) it concerns a decidedly non-scandalous couple, but we could all stand a little bit of good news about a couple of non-famewhorey celebrities, right? Over a Christmas holiday in the Maldives, singer and songwriter John Legend (who has collaborated with The Roots and Kanye West) became engaged to his girlfriend of four years, Sports Illustrated model Chrissy Teigen:

“Ordinary People” soul singer John Legend is doing something extraordinary – he’s getting married.

“John Legend and his girlfriend, model Chrissy Teigen, got engaged over the holidays while vacationing in the Maldives,” Legend’s rep, Cindi Berger, tells PEOPLE.

No further details were provided, but Legend’s whereabouts this coming weekend are being reported in Las Vegas newspapers.

The singer, 32, will be performing at The Pearl at the Palms on New Year
s Eve. His latest album, with The Roots, is Wake Up!.

[From People]

Sigh. Wouldn’t it be wonderful to date and marry a soul singer like Legend? I mean, anytime the romance is otherwise lacking, he could just whip out the smooth baritone and go all Barry White. Chrissy is such a lucky lady, and if you’ve ever followed her on Twitter, you’ll know that she’s very sharp, funny and largely unaffected (by fame) as well. Then again, she’s claimed in the past to be a huge fan of Pajiba, so maybe I’m a bit partial.

Photos courtesy of Fame and WENN

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Demi Moore needs to fire her publicist & position herself much differently

Posted: 28 Dec 2011 06:43 AM PST

Demi Moore has been keeping a very low profile since officially splitting with Ashton Kutcher. I think she's only been photographed a few times in the past two months, and the photos were super-exclusive (so we don't have them). From what I've seen, Demi still looks really drawn, tired and really, really thin. I'll give her credit for not arranging some "candid" photo-ops to show off "The New, Single Demi" – but I worry that she hasn't arranged those photo ops because she's not in a good place right now. Still, Demi's publicist (the one she shares with Jennifer Aniston, btw) is working overtime to convince us that Demi has still "got it" and that EVERYBODY finds her sexy and desirable, of course. Look at the obviousness of this Page Six plant:

Demi Moore looked like she was back in action during a mother-daughter Christmas vacation in Turks and Caicos. Though the actress has kept a very low profile since her split with estranged husband Ashton Kutcher, she seemed to shake off any malaise from her impending divorce with some holiday booty-shakin' in the Caribbean.

The "Margin Call" star and svelte mother of three, 49, was spotted with her daughter, Rumer Willis, at the uber-private Parrot Cay resort, where the two shared a rocking Christmas Eve at a poolside bar and Moore "danced up a storm."

Spies tell Page Six that when Rumer took over DJing duties, Moore began to boogie.

"Demi was dancing seductively for all the guys [at the bar] and they were going nuts," one spy told us. Another added, "Demi could do 'The Wiggles' dance and still look hot."

The slinky moves even earned the raven-haired beauty the nickname "Single Hot Demi" or, simply, "SHD," from other hotel guests during their stay.

Rumer's DJing turn didn't get quite as high marks as her mother's moves, a spy said.

Ironically, Moore and Kutcher headed to Parrot Cay just last month for a romantic getaway, to try and repair their marriage and celebrate Moore's 49th birthday, after Kutcher was caught cheating with Sara Leal, 22.

But shortly after their tropical escape, Moore announced she'll file for divorce. Moore and Kutcher often vacationed on the island at the private residence of Moore's ex, Bruce Willis.

On this, more happy, trip, Demi and Rumer were also spotted having dinner with Donna Karan and her daughter Gabby.

Other celebrities in Parrot Cay for the holidays included Charlize Theron, with her mother, and "Mission: Impossible — Ghost Protocol" producer J.J. Abrams and his wife, Katie McGrath.

Reps for Moore could not be reached. A rep for Parrot Cay declined to comment.

[From Page Six]

Ugh, "Demi could do 'The Wiggles' dance and still look hot." SRSLY? Stop it. It's not 1994. It's not even 2004. Demi's fall-back publicity position should NOT be "Let's make everyone think Demi is super-sexy and single and she can compete with the younger girls!" Demi is 49 years old, and she just went through a very public debacle when her younger husband screwed around on her openly. Find a new image for the post-Ashton Demi, you know? Create an image of a confident, capable woman of means and maturity. Talk up her producing projects, get Demi a gig on a quality television show, sign her to a memoir deal for a huge sum of money and get her to go on dates with men closer to her age. Don't position her as a delusional divorcee, clinging to the dusty fragments of her youth by any means possible.

Photos courtesy of WENN, Fame.
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Kyle Richards’ extreme duck face on her smug advice book: ridiculous

Posted: 28 Dec 2011 06:25 AM PST


I can’t stand Kyle Richards. She’s a nasty, petty, narcissistic piece of work – in other words she’s perfect for the Real Housewives of Beverly Hills because the drama, backstabbing and catfighting come naturally to her. Yesterday I got an e-mail from the PopSugar network that alerted me to this new self help book by Kyle called Life Is Not a Reality Show: Keeping It Real with the Housewife Who Does It All. It’s just so ridiculous I had to share. In the book trailer on Amazon, Kyle calls herself “the quintessential girl’s girl” and says she wants to “share my thoughts on everything, from my personal life to how I dressed at night, to how I put myself together to how I get up and make my kids snacks in the morning.” That’s pretty much why Gwyneth Paltrow started Goop. She thought that the public wanted nothing more than to have her life, and Kyle suffers from the same delusion. Here’s the book description:

In the wild world of Beverly Hills, high-priced glam squads, flashy cars, and off-the-charts drama are the norm. Enter Kyle Richards: born and raised in the nation's most dazzling neighborhood, she's practically royalty in the 90210 zip code. And yet her loving family life, lack of pretention (no nannies, stylists, or personal chefs for this diva), and "girls' girl" attitude make her a breath of fresh air on The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills.

Now, she's revealing how she achieves that perfect mix of celebrity and normality. In this collection of the best tips, advice, and strategies she knows, Kyle's talking friend to friend so you can create that blend of glitz and know-how in your own life:

Family
Kyle's a hands-on parent who shares how she's raising her four daughters to be self-sufficient, compassionate, and—above all—not spoiled. (Kyle grew up in a family of all women with her extraordinary mother teaching all the children her unique take on life.)

Men
Being married to Mauricio, a devoted husband and wonderful father, Kyle is often asked what makes a happy and lasting marriage. She shares all of her best advice for keeping a marriage strong and, for single women, how to find the perfect partner.

Hair
Would you believe those famously luscious locks are courtesy of drugstore shampoo? Turns out Beverly Hills style doesn't have to cost a fortune!

Beauty
Kyle's beauty routine is practical and never too trendy. She shares her secrets for choosing the best lip glosses, blushes, creams, and cleansers, and explains how you can look gorgeous even if you're on a budget. (Her tips on applying glam-inducing false eyelashes alone are a must read.)

Entertaining
After years of soirees fit for the Hollywood elite, Kyle knows what it takes to throw a party your friends will talk about for years…without breaking the bank.

Childhood memories, tales from behind the scenes of The Real Housewives, warm and hilarious family stories—Kyle's sharing all.

Stop imagining what it's like to live in the country's most glamorous zip code…and start trying out the good life yourself!

[From Amazon]

Kyle spackles on the makeup and she has huge fake hair extensions. She’s cruel to her sister and is a catty, petty person. Of course she considers herself an expert on everything and a “girl’s girl” when she’s anything but. This is going to sound super bitchy, but here goes. Like that evil drunken psychic last season on RHOBH, I get the impression that Kyle’s husband Mauricio is a cheater. He projects this good guy image, but he’s super slick and confident and I just get the cheater vibe from him. Maybe I’m hoping that’s the case because I just so thoroughly dislike Kyle. It’s wrong to wish ill will on people, but there you go.

Also, Lisa Vanderpump has a book out too. It’s called Simply Divine: A Guide to Easy, Elegant, and Affordable Entertaining. At least Lisa has experience in those matters, having owned successful bars and restaurants for decades. She does think it’s perfectly acceptable to have your dog eat at the table with you, though. No matter how cute the dog is, that’s just wrong.

These photos are from 12/14/11 and 10/29/11. Nice Halloween costume. It looks like something her niece Paris would wear. Credit: Fame

Beyonce parties in NYC while hospital goes on “high alert” for “birth”

Posted: 28 Dec 2011 06:08 AM PST

Last we heard from Beyonce, she was nine months pregnant and she had flown to Vancouver, where she was partying her pillow off with her husband. While in Vancouver, there were a few photos of Bey, and she totally looked more "authentically" pregnant than ever before – go here to Dlisted to see one of the latest Bey photos. Her face totally looks heavier, and for a brief moment, I was like, "Oh, okay. Maybe all of the conspiracy theories were totally wrong. Maybe Bey has just had a really crazy pregnancy where her bump collapses and goes up and down constantly BUT she really is preggo." Of course, there's a blind item that covers Bey's weight gain too:

It's coming down to the wire, folks! Just a few weeks to go. There's one problem, though. She was looking too thin to be convincing. Thankfully, she found a solution that doesn't include eating a single bowl of ice cream. It's called Prednisone. Taking excessive amounts of corticosteroids over time can result in some serious effects, including hypertension and cataracts. Another side effect is gaining weight, especially in the face and neck and abdomen. She knew this because it happened to her before. Last time it was accidental and was upsetting for her. Now, though, it's purposeful, and is a solution to her problem.

She started taking Prednisone a couple of months ago, so she should be plumping up pretty soon. Fat face and neck coming right up! She not worried, though, because she's been told that the weight will drop quickly once she tapers down below 10 mg a day. Followed, of course, by claims of how hard she worked to take off the weight.

[From Blind Gossip]

Yes, it's just a blind item. No, I can't verify its accuracy or even WHO is having the 'roidy fake-pregnancy. But… but… but…

Anyway, Page Six has this interesting little blind item for all of the conspiracy theorists out there:

While St. Luke's Hospital was reportedly on high alert last night, piquing suspicion that Beyoncé might give birth there, the pregnant singer apparently stopped by one more party before she went into labor.

On Friday, she and husband Jay-Z were spotted at SoHo hot spot W.i.P. for a bash celebrating youth arts program Creation Nation and its Creators Club, which will meet weekly in the space. Beyoncé — who reports say is nine months pregnant — and Jay-Z were spotted sitting tight in a VIP booth and fielding greetings from friends. Beyoncé was overheard saying that her pregnancy was "the best Christmas present possible."

Our witnesses report that the rapper "was very attentive to his wife, at one point getting up to get her some water."

[From Page Six]

Of course I have moments of doubt. Of course I stop every now and then and say, "What if she's really pregnant? What if this isn't some huge conspiracy? What if she really has the energy to party and fly to Vancouver in the last days of her pregnancy? What if she really can balance on sky-high heels even in the third trimester?" I don't have anything to add to that, really. Your guess is as good as mine. I think there's enough evidence and "common sense" wisdom to make a case for the pillow baby theory, or for the "real pregnancy" theory.

Photos from September, October & November, courtesy of WENN.
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LeAnn Rimes & Eddie Cibrian take Mason & Jake to Aspen after Christmas

Posted: 28 Dec 2011 05:41 AM PST

These are some new photos of LeAnn Rimes, Eddie Cibrian and Eddie's two sons in Aspen, Colorado yesterday. As you may remember, Eddie and LeAnn spent some time before Christmas in Mexico, where they pap'd themselves daily in various beachwear ensembles, LeAnn's bolt-ons glistening in the hot Mexican sun. Did that just make you nauseous? I made myself nauseous. After that holiday, LeAnn presumably gave Eddie and her "bonus boys" all of the inappropriate Christmas gifts she could afford, and then everybody headed off to Aspen on Monday.

Apparently, LeAnn has already been bitching about how there's not "enough" snow in Aspen, and she's on Twitter 24-7 talking to people, so I have no idea when she finds the time to actually ski or out-mother Brandi Glanville. Speaking of, this Aspen trip was already a controversy a month ago, when it seemed like Eddie and LeAnn were leaking info to the tabloids, claiming that Brandi was being unreasonable about the holiday plans for the kids. Brandi gave us her side of the story in mid-December - go here to review.

By the way, as I was looking through the latest LeAnn news, I found this interesting story about a columnist/blogger who felt the "wrath" of LeAnn Rimes' cray-cray BFF, Darrell Brown. Go here to read Ilana Angel's hilarious post on how LeAnn is "totally a skank" and how her BFF Darrell is an idiot.

Photos courtesy of Fame.
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The adorable Affleck girls set up a lemonade stand and sell drinks to the paps

Posted: 28 Dec 2011 05:33 AM PST


These are just some adorable photos of Ben Affleck, a very pregnant Jennifer Garner (she’s shown below, that’s the nanny above) and their girls Violet, six, and Seraphina, almost three. The girls set up a lemonade stand outside their mansion and sold drinks to the public. They even sold them to the paparazzi!


Here’s the description from the photo agency, Fame. It’s worded strangely but you get the point:

Violet and her little sister Seraphina Affleck took to their driveway in the Pacific Palisades, California to sell sweet drinks from their homemade lemonade stand on December 27, 2011 with the help of their nanny. Their mother a very pregnant Jennifer Garner bought a cup herself along with her mother and shortly after dad Ben Affleck came out in sweatpants to help get the girls more customers. Ben asked a few of the surrounding photographers if they would like to buy a glass that a few did enjoy from the girls

I think the lemonade stand is a metaphor for how Garner deals with photographers. She knows they’re there and she’s learned to go with it and maximize the cuteness while Ben is not entirely on board. She surely stages some photo ops, but I still don’t believe that every paparazzi outing with this family is orchestrated. I could be wrong, who knows. I give her the benefit of the doubt because she seems normal. (You’ve probably heard me discuss this before about them, it’s my go-to topic with the Garner-Afflecks.)

Garner is looking like she’s due any day now. She might very well be. She made the announcement of her pregnancy back in late August, and if she was four months along at that time she would be eight months now. It’s possible she was even further along in August and wasn’t showing that much. So the Afflecks are going to welcome another little one soon. I’m wondering if they’ll have another girl or if they’re going to have that boy that Ben is rumored to want.

The family is shown with their nanny, and I’m pretty sure it’s the same one Garner gave a shout out to on Jimmy Kimmel earlier this year. Garner’s mom is also there.

Those girls are just so sweet and cute. Seeing them makes me want to have another kid. Look at Seraphina’s bunny slippers! That sign just slays me.

Photo credit: WENN and Fame

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Benedict Cumberbatch sick of being typecast as ‘asexual, sociopathic intellectuals’

Posted: 28 Dec 2011 04:34 AM PST

Come, all ye Cumberbitches, for I have a new interview with your icon of strange, unsettling beauty. Benedict Cumberbatch has a new interview with the Radio Times (via The Mail) to support the new season of Sherlock, the modernized Sherlock Holmes series done by the BBC. To the delight of this Cumberbitch, Benedict discusses how he's so deliciously posh and how he's often typecast as a "slightly asexual, sociopathic intellectual." OH CUMBERBATCH. I love you.

Being posh doesn't seem to have done his career much harm so far. But Sherlock star Benedict Cumberbatch has complained that his privileged background and elite schooling have left him typecast. The 35-year-old actor grew up in Kensington, West London, and was educated at Harrow – where fees are £30,930 a year – before studying drama at Manchester University.

As a consequence, he claims he suffers from 'class-typing' in his career. Cumberbatch, who also starred in this year's film version of Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, said: 'I was brought up in a world of privilege. It can ostracise you from normal codes of conduct in society. Being a posh actor in England you cannot escape the class-typing from whatever side you look at it. I realised from quite early on that, although I wasn't trying to make a class specialty of it, I was playing slightly asexual, sociopathic intellectuals.'

He added that the fact that he went to one of the oldest schools in the world 'does not make me an archetypal product of that school'.

Cumberbatch told Radio Times: 'We all want to escape our circumstances, don't we? Especially if you are an actor. It is an imaginative process that gets my juices going. The further you get away from yourself, the more challenging it is. Not to be in your comfort zone is great fun.'

The actor has won plaudits for his portrayal of a brilliant but emotionally dysfunctional Sherlock Holmes in the BBC1 series, which returns in January. Earlier this year he starred as Stephen Hawking in the award-winning BBC2 biopic about the acclaimed scientist, and as spook Peter Guillam in the updated film adaptation of Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy.

He has also played 'toff roles' such as Scarlett Johansson's unbearably pompous husband in The Other Boleyn Girl, and the arrogant Edmund Talbot in the BBC adaptation of William Golding's epic To The Ends of the Earth.

He will soon be back on the big screen as Major Jamie Stewart in Stephen Spielberg's Hollywood version of the West End theatre hit War Horse, which is released in January.

In the past Cumberbatch has said his parents – the actors Wanda Ventham and Timothy Carlton – sent him to Harrow in the hope that he might not follow in their professional footsteps.

[From The Mail]

Sigh… the Brits love their caste system, don't they? Sure, we have a class system in America too, but I don't feel like ours is as pronounced and die-hard as the British system. Americans believe that you can be born into poverty and you can work your way up to the upper echelons of society, and that's an admirable thing. When that happens with an Englishman, they get publicly mocked in the tabloids for thinking they're above their station. As for Benedict being typecast – I personally think it's his voice. He's got that gorgeous, rich voice that just reeks of old money and privilege and education. It's certainly not the worst thing. When you think about it, an American actor like Laura Linney has the same problem – whenever she plays working-class, I find it hard to believe. She just seems too educated and refined. Benedict and Laura should do a movie together. They'll play a rich couple who do horrible things in beautiful places. Hmm….

Photos courtesy of WENN.
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