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- “Happy New Year, hope you have a safe and happy holiday!” links
- Most Popular Celebitchy Stories of 2011
- Angelina Jolie still hates Madonna, and their bitch-fight will go down at the Globes
- Stacy Keibler thinks George Clooney will “eventually” want to start a family with her
- What will 2012 bring Gabriel Aubry, Halle Berry and Olivier Martinez?
- Shiloh Jolie-Pitt wants to change her name to “Shax” to be like her bros
- Ashley Greene was a total bitch when she deigned to film episodes for ‘Pan Am’
- Zooey Deschanel & Joseph Gordon Levitt are absolutely perfect together
- Tom Cruise got an emergency ‘MI4′ PR makeover to ward off the 2005 crazy
- Enquirer: Will Smith parties with a “hot blonde” in Miami, Jada was “nowhere in sight”
| “Happy New Year, hope you have a safe and happy holiday!” links Posted: 30 Dec 2011 08:37 AM PST
Happy New Year, everyone! And happy New Year to all of our gossip friends too! I hope everyone has a safe, happy and healthy 2012. Don’t drink and drive! Get blitzed at home and post on Celebitchy. Everybody wins. Seriously, Jessica Simpson is due in the spring. [Yeeeah]
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| Most Popular Celebitchy Stories of 2011 Posted: 30 Dec 2011 07:51 AM PST
Here are our most popular posts of 2011 based on number of comments:
Update: Here are the most popular stories based on number of pageviews, not comments. Disclaimer: The Goop story had so many hits because some huge newspaper website in the Netherlands linked it.
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| Angelina Jolie still hates Madonna, and their bitch-fight will go down at the Globes Posted: 30 Dec 2011 07:41 AM PST
Angelina Jolie and Madonna have hated each other for years. Well… maybe "hate" is the wrong word. I personally think that Angelina views Madonna as a wannabe, an annoyance, a try-hard and a dilettante. And I personally think that in 2006, Madonna decided her latest incarnation was going to be as "Angelina Jolie" or some half-hearted, Jolie-esque figure. Madonna decided to focus her efforts in Malawi, where she first "adopted" David, and then Mercy. Incidentally, Madge also did a ton of photo ops for her Malawian charity (Raising Malawi), with the idea that she would build some huge school there, but earlier this year, the charity pulled out after losing millions of dollars, likely because Madge staffed the charity with grifters and con artists. In the long run, Madge's efforts in Malawi were deeply offensive – she did not follow through on any of her promises, she "adopted" two children by basically bribing and paying off Malawian officials, and she posed for photos. Lots and lots of photos. Back in 2006-07, Angelina was asked about the Madonna-Malawi situation in an interview. Angelina was quoted as saying, "Madonna knew the situation in Malawi, where (David) was born. It’s a country where there is no real legal framework for adoption. Personally, I prefer to stay on the right side of the law. I would never take a child away from a place where adoption is illegal.” Angelina later retracted (partially) that sentiment, telling People Magazine, "The article included many falsehoods. I said many positive things that were omitted. I feel we must focus on the present and I encourage everyone to be supportive so that every child can adjust nicely to their new home. I have been horrified by the attacks she’s been subjected to. All that should count is the happiness of her little David.” I should also point out that I remember Madonna saying some veiled criticism of Angelina around this time, but I can't find the quotes right now. Anyway, as the years have gone by, Madonna and Angelina never seem to be in the same place at the same time, which I tend to think irritates the hell out of Madge. When Madge was married to Guy Ritchie, Guy and Brad were still tight and they would hang out whenever everybody was in London, but Angelina and Madge still never met. This awards season, Madonna's W.E. is up for some technical and music awards at the Golden Globes, and probably some other awards shows. And Angelina's In the Land of Blood and Honey is up for the GG Best Foreign Film too. So Madge and Angelina will be at the same awards ceremony at long last. What will happen? Star Magazine claims that if they meet, Angelina is totally going to cut a bitch:
[From Star Magazine, print edition] Madonna's rep told Gossip Cop that the story is "totally fabricated" nonsense, and GC's "source close to Jolie" says that "there's been absolutely no tension between her and Madonna – about their movies or otherwise." I want to think that Madonna isn't even on Angelina's radar, but I think Angelina acknowledges Madonna's existence, and she'll probably try to actively avoid Madge, like always. It will all depend on how close the Jolie-Pitts are to Madonna's table, I think.
Photos courtesy of Fame. |
| Stacy Keibler thinks George Clooney will “eventually” want to start a family with her Posted: 30 Dec 2011 06:49 AM PST
The double-edged sword of George Clooney's dating habits is obvious to everyone at this point: he likes somewhat dumb, budget girls in their late 20s or early 30s. He likes to "Pretty Woman" them – buy them clothes, let them move in to his house, they get to borrow great jewelry and walk the red carpet on his arm. He likes girls that don't have a lot going on – he loves a girl with a lot of free time. I guess that's fine, in all. But the double-edged sword comes into play because, by all accounts, George treats his girlfriends well, and in a matter of weeks or months, these dumb girls start thinking that "dating George Clooney" is part of their destiny, that they'll be the one to change him, that NOW he'll want to get married and have babies. George's current girl is no exception. Stacy Keibler thinks that she's changed George. She thinks that he'll totally marry her and have babies.
[From Star Magazine, print edition] See, Stacy's angle – right now – is that she's The Good Time Girl, the girl who is just at his beck and call, the girl who sort-of plays hard-to-get, but not really. Just wait for the awards season. Oscar-Date Barbie will get some questions on the red carpet, or maybe even an exclusive interview in People Magazine, and she'll mention babies or marriage, and it will all be over. These girls can't help themselves. PS… the photos below are from December 10, at the Video Game Awards. I have no recollection of ever using these pics before… how did I miss them? Anyway, I think Stacy looks super-busted here, but just in the face. She shouldn't do ponytails. Her body is amazing, though.
Photos courtesy of Fame. |
| What will 2012 bring Gabriel Aubry, Halle Berry and Olivier Martinez? Posted: 30 Dec 2011 06:43 AM PST
Something weird is happening. Over the past few days, we've gotten new photos of Gabriel Aubry and Nahla, out and about in LA, AND new photos of Halle Berry and Olivier Martinez, out and about in LA. Shock of all shocks, Halle and Olivier are still together and Halle let him out of his chains (seriously, where does he go when he's not around?). I feel like these competing photo ops are a sign of future craziness in the year to come. Over the past year, we were gifted with the motherlode of cray-cray from the ongoing custody battle for Nahla Aubry. Halle Berry and Gabriel Aubry broke up more than a year ago, but it was in January and February of this year that everything got dialed up to BALLS-OUT CRAY-CRAY. There was a ton of back-and-forth in the media, with Radar acting as Team Aubry and TMZ acting as Team Berry. Gabriel Aubry was accused of racism, and being verbally abusive to Halle and Nahla, and Halle told the courts that Gabriel didn't deserve to spend time with Nahla without some kind of third-party involvement. Gabriel's side was basically saying that Halle is crazy, that she harassed him, and that she would do anything to get sole custody of Nahla. Oh, and Halle also let everyone know her feelings on race and the "one drop theory" – which was one of our biggest posts of the year. So what will 2012 bring Gabriel, Halle and Nahla? I hope that Gabriel's custodial rights as Nahla's father are increased, and I hope that Halle brings the crazy once again whenever Olivier manages to get out of his chains and run for help. Seriously, how is Halle able to maintain the relationship with Olivier? Don't say "she's beautiful" or "crazy sex". At some point, Olivier will get tired of that, and when it ends, it will be a hot mess.
Photos courtesy of Fame. |
| Shiloh Jolie-Pitt wants to change her name to “Shax” to be like her bros Posted: 30 Dec 2011 06:27 AM PST
The tabloids are full of Jolie-Pitt stories this week, but I'm only going to cover a few of them. The Enquirer has three different stories, all of which I don't care for. One is about Angelina currently being 3 months pregnant, but that she and Brad have decided not to tell anyone because she's so underweight. There's another one about the kids not being allowed to swear which… meh. And yet another one about the family's trip to Las Vegas to see the Cirque du Soleil show, and how the kids were all acting like brats, acting rowdy and making a mess. That one seems the most likely – the Enquirer even has photos of kids at the show, and they look squirmy and there's popcorn all over the place. But really, this is my favorite story of the week. In Touch Weekly (I know, I know) claims that Shiloh is so obsessed with being like her brothers, she wants to change her name from Shiloh to Shax. OMG. Shax Jolie-Pitt. It's perfect.
[From In Touch Weekly, print edition] Vince Jolie and her tomboy daughter Shax. It does make sense! I wonder if Angelina is ever like, "Yeah, my mom put a curse on me, I have a daughter that is JUST LIKE ME." Marcheline got the last laugh. Shiloh is a fun, wild kid, just like Angelina. Let's hope that Shiloh does have quite the difficult trajectory that Angelina had throughout her teen years (and into her early 20s). But I have faith that like Angelina, Shiloh will figure her life out. And until then, I think Brad and Angelina have the right idea: just let their kids be kids. Let Shax be Shax.
Photos courtesy of Fame, WENN. |
| Ashley Greene was a total bitch when she deigned to film episodes for ‘Pan Am’ Posted: 30 Dec 2011 06:10 AM PST
These are photos of Ashley Greene from late November in NYC, when she was filming several episodes of ABC's budget-Mad Men show, Pan Am. Funny story about Pan Am – they stopped airing the show in December, and ABC claims that they'll finish airing the season in January, but after that, it's looking more and more like the show is being canceled. Anyway, before Pan Am's producers figured out that ABC wasn't going to support the show for very much longer, the producers decided to hire world-famous movie star Ashley Greene to "guest star" in a three-episode arc. The same Ashley Greene who is a legend in her own mind, and who conjures a litany of "WHO?" from great swathes of non-Twihards. So, with that in mind, enjoy this story of Ashley acting like a C-U-Next-Tuesday while deigning to grace a peasanty television show.
[From Star Magazine, print edition] "She referred to herself as a 'real movie star'." << That's what sealed it for me. That sounds like Ashley. She probably couched it in something equally terrible too, like, "Oh, I expected more from craft services, but then I get treated so well on all of the films that I'm starring in. Because I'm a real movie star, you know." I would compare her to Gwyneth Paltrow, but I have to admit – I don't even think Dame Gwyneth is this bad. PS… The combination of costume, hair and makeup just proves that Ashley really isn't that pretty. To me, at least. She only looks good at certain angles, and with a certain hairstyle.
Photos courtesy of Pacific Coast News. |
| Zooey Deschanel & Joseph Gordon Levitt are absolutely perfect together Posted: 30 Dec 2011 05:46 AM PST
If this was Ryan Gosling and [Random Disneyland Companion], I would be yelling and pulling out my hair right now. But my affection for Zooey Deschanel and Joseph Gordon Levitt has NEVER been higher at this moment in time. I absolutely love Zooey on The New Girl, and a few weeks ago, I saw 50/50 and fell in love with JGL hard. Like, I want him. And if I can't have him, I want to watch Joe and Zooey make out a little. Anyway, they starred together in 500 Days of Summer (which is totally worth watching if you haven't seen it), and they've known each other for years. So, of course, JGL stopped by Zooey's place and recorded a song with her. Try not to squeal when he flashes his dimples at her. Try not to coo when they give each other these absolutely magical looks. Aw….. Try not to watch it a million times. I already have. I love them. Both. They need to make babies together, like, right now. Anyway, Zooey posted the video the site that she's somehow associated with (?), Hello Giggles. Here's what she wrote:
[From Hello Giggles] So… they've known each other for more than a decade. Why not make babies together? Cute little hipster babies who are perfect and adorable. Sigh… I know I'm crushing hard on both of them, but Jesus, this is lovely.
Photos courtesy of WENN, archive images. |
| Tom Cruise got an emergency ‘MI4′ PR makeover to ward off the 2005 crazy Posted: 30 Dec 2011 05:17 AM PST
Man, I have to admit to thoroughly enjoying digging up the photos for this story because the memories of Tom Cruise’s 2005 public breakdown (particularly while he toured for War of the Worlds and MI3) really needed some refreshing. You see, Tom was rather well behaved during the entire Mission: Impossible — Ghost Protocol promotional tour. Basically, Tom was so tame in his behavior that we all focused instead upon his botoxy, nebulous, tweaked-up, plastic-surgery face. Well, that and his adorable little lifts, which by the way, really are much different Robert Downey Jr.’s lifts (RDJ proudly owns those things, and Cruise pretends they don’t exist at all). Yet Tom did very well during this tour to reign in the crazy. Someone very wise advised him to focus on talking about the stunts. There was no jumping up and down on couches, no mention of Scientology, no fingers pointed in journalist’s faces, no crazed expressions, no happy trails revealed at baseball games, no motorcyle rides down the red carpet, and no strange body language. In other words, there was none of this:
Tom also didn’t pull any sketchy red-carpet PDA on director Brad Bird like he did to poor Steven Spielberg:
In addition, Tom also significantly toned down the public perception of his relationship to Katie Holmes. Sure, he paid brief lip service how “amazing” she is, and he etched a love note to her on the Burj Khalifa, and then he papped himself for an entire weekend with Katie and Suri, but he also left Katie at home for all of the international premieres. When she did show up on the NYC red carpet, things were so restrained that Kaiser declared that Katie and Tom were “phoning it in”. That’s certainly a natural reaction while observing a zombie couple who used to act like this on the red carpet:
Essentially, Tom has been working very hard to reign in his wacky OT Level VIII, Scientology personality so that he can appeal more to the general public (a.k.a., “wogs). Now he’s fully “refreshed” in more ways than just his face. A story in this week’s issue of In Touch confirms that Tom has enlisted the help of PR experts, who helped him cultivate a less “obnoxious” and more “sophisticated” vibe while promoting MI4:
[From In Touch, print edition, January 9, 2012] This story mostly gets it right except for the finer detail about when Tom’s box-office potential tanked as a result of his outlandish behavior. Neither War of the Worlds ($234,280,354 domestic) nor MI3 ($134,029,801) were significantly affected because these were action films based either upon a great literary work or an existing franchise that people still really wanted to see regardless of the Cruise. However, when Tom tried in 2007 for a political drama in Lions for Lambs, no one showed up. That movie made a mere $15 million on a $35 million budget, and even though Meryl Streep and Robert Redford played supporting roles, people just didn’t want to see Tom in a leading role at that point. Part of this failure could be attributed to subject matter, but even a political movie should be able to recoup its relatively small budget when it stars A-listers. Primarily, that movie tanked because Tom’s crazy face continued well into 2006 and further tainted the well. Here’s more memories, this time of 2006 in Cruiseland:
Photos courtesy of Fame and WENN              |
| Enquirer: Will Smith parties with a “hot blonde” in Miami, Jada was “nowhere in sight” Posted: 30 Dec 2011 05:11 AM PST
Back in August, In Touch Weekly had an "exclusive" cover story, all about Will Smith and Jada Pinkett, and how their 14-year-marriage was/is on the rocks. Will and Jada denied the story at the time, but the effort totally seemed half-hearted. Part of the story was that Jada had an affair with Marc Anthony while both were married, and while they were working together on HawthoRNe. Jada and Will made some noise about suing, but nothing has been filed and the story is still sitting out there, being mentioned in every report about Will and Jada now. Anyway, a few months passed and there were new rumors about their marriage being in trouble. Will seems to be living permanently in Miami, while Jada is in NYC and LA. There are claims that both are "tired of faking it" and that Will is acting like a bachelor down in Miami. Now The Enquirer has "exclusive" photos of Will partying with a "hot blonde" in South Beach. We can't use the photos, so let me describe them – blurry Will Smith in the same frame as a Kristen Wiig-looking girl. Here's more from the Enquirer:
[From The Enquirer, print edition] I don't know. I don't know what to think. I get that some (many) of you think that Will and Jada's marriage is some kind of mutual bearding situation, and although I like conspiracy theories, I always bought that Will and Jada had a solid marriage. Was it a marriage with secrets and perhaps some Xenu-related drama? Sure. But… I like Will Smith. I always believed that he was a decent man. Is he screwing around on Jada? Was she screwing around on him? Are they pretty much separated at this point? I don't know.
Photos courtesy of Fame. |
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