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Antoine Dodson’s BET Hip Hop Awards performance
Brad Pitt visits bossypants Angelina Jolie on set in Budapest
Robert Downey Jr: “Not having done drugs for literally five or six years is a lifetime”
Avril Lavigne is semi-topless in Maxim: do men want to see this?
Nicole Richie tells the paparazzi that she’s going to turn their asses in
Us Weekly: Jennifer Grey claims she never uses Botox
Carey Mulligan & Keira Knightley look adorable at the ‘Never Let Me Go’ photocall
People: Courteney Cox & David Arquette’s split was “the worst-kept secret”
Rachel Zoe is still allegedly pregnant, says Us Weekly
Gavin Rossdale says his relationship with a male lover was a one night thing

Antoine Dodson’s BET Hip Hop Awards performance

Posted: 13 Oct 2010 09:19 AM PDT

Whenever I think of that damn “Bed Intruder” song I start to smile and it gets stuck in my head. I’m smiling because the song is so catchy but also because Antoine Dodson’s story is so caught up in it. Here’s a guy whose sister was the victim of a crime who was able to completely change his future by speaking out and being himself.

Antoine performed his signature “Bed Intruder” song on the BET Hip Hop Awards last night. It was just a quick auto-tuned refrain accompanied by one of the Gregory Brothers, the band who remixed it and helped make him famous. The crowd went wild and you could tell that Antoine really enjoyed himself and was comfortable on stage. My only complaint is that it’s too damn short and they should let Antoine cover the song without interferences.

Gawker points us to this interview that Dodson did with The Root in which he talks about the performance, along with people’s concerns that he’s making light of a serious crime. He addresses the questions very well and says he’s hoping to speak out for rape victims. He also says that he’s a proud gay man and hopes to speak out on behalf of his community. The more I hear from this guy the more I like him. For real.

The Root: Did BET reach out to you to do the performance, or did you reach out to them?
Antoine Dodson: I am not desperate at all. I don’t call people and say, ‘Hey, I want to be on your show.’ They reached out to me and said, ‘You are the hot topic right now, so we want you to be on the show.’ I thought I was just presenting. I did not know what I was doing until I got there. So I was like, ‘Oh, I'm performing? OK.’ That was my first performance ever.

TR: Do you think your performance obscures the serious issue of the alleged sex-crime attempt?
AD: I hate that people might feel that way, but all I can say is, ‘What if you were in my shoes?’ So what people are saying is crazy. I’m performing the song because it’s such a serious situation. Not only am I performing the song, but I feel that if I keep performing it, it will keep the situation fresh. It won’t die down. People really need to stop and think before they make these crazy comments and these dumb opinions. I’m not trying to make this into a joke. If y’all can make the video viral, then you can make the message viral. You think a bunch of rumors and opinions are going to make me hide in the closet? If anything, I’m going to be on the camera even more.

TR: The first time you watched your news interview, what was going through your head?
AD: I was laughing like crazy the first time I saw the interview. My whole family was watching it. When I was doing the interview, I was mad as ever, but to see how I was acting when I was actually mad — I didn’t know that I act that way, so it was kind of funny. I’m still upset about the situation, but we feel like when we put it on TV, our voice got heard.

TR: African Americans have a particular, sensitive history with minstrel shows, which made a mockery of the conditions of black folk. Do you think people will connect your performance with minstrelsy?
AD: Of course they will connect it with that. The media is just going try to bring you down, but the whole thing about it is, I’m going to try my best not to be another Britney Spears and not let it take me down. I won’t go through it like she did, but she came out of it. People have jobs where they just dig up stuff, so you better count on it.

TR: Did the perpetrator ever get caught?
AD: No, he did not get caught, and the crimes are still happening in Lincoln Park. He must think that this is a hit around the world now and that he’s just going to keep going around breaking into people’s houses, thinking he can capitalize on it.

TR: What do you plan to do with the fame?
AD: I plan to do a lot of things. I want to be everywhere. I want to get into the music industry. I want to be the voice of the people. Most of my fans are rape victims who are scared to talk about it. I want them to speak about it and do it aggressively — not trying to make a joke out of it and become a celebrity, but to let it flow from their hearts. When it comes to serious situations like this, you should really speak out.

TR: So what are your goals with this?
AD: I’m just going into it as deep as I can. I want to talk about rape victims all over the world, and also my lifestyle. I'm an African-American gay man. Coming from Chicago [like I do], you will struggle with that lifestyle because people fear what they don’t understand, so I need to speak for them as well.

[From The Root via Gawker]

Antoine has an official Halloween costume that you can buy through BedIntruderCostume.com for $18.99. It comes with an afro wig, black tank top, red do-rag and a piece of paper to match the rolled up paper he was wagging in the news interview. He admitted on Fuse.tv that it was actually a bus schedule! He’s not riding the bus anymore.

Brad Pitt visits bossypants Angelina Jolie on set in Budapest

Posted: 13 Oct 2010 09:06 AM PDT

Angelina Jolie was on the Budapest set of her directorial debut (for non-documentary films) when her lover Brad Pitt showed up and ruined everything! Miss Bossypants (excuse me, SAINT Bossypants) had to stop yelling at people long enough to greet Brad and look all lovely dovey. Temporarily! Because as soon as Brad was out of sight, she went back to yelling at people.

Totally unfair? You know I love her. But the paparazzi caught her in several "compromising bossypants" situations, with her mouth mid-yell. It's funny though. I wouldn't mind if she yelled at me. And after all, she is the director. She's supposed to order people around. Or order people to order other people around (delegating!). Anyway, Us Weekly has the "scoop" on Brad's visit to the set - hint: they started making out in front of EVERYONE. Not really, it just seems like a little kiss. Scandal.

Angelina Jolie got a pleasant surprise Wednesday on the Budapest, Hungary- set of her Bosnian love story: Beau Brad Pitt!

The actress, 35, was all smiles as she showed Pitt, 46, around. At one point, they even smooched!

The still-untitled film - which is being produced by Oscar winner Graham King — centers on a love story set against the backdrop of the Bosnian War.

After wrapping up Moneyball in Boston, Pitt arrived overseas last week — with 2-year-old twins Knox and Viv — to join Jolie and the rest of their family.

With the kids enrolled in school, the Jolie-Pitt clan will likely remain in Europe for the next several weeks as filming continues.

[From Us Weekly]

Honestly, I'm still depressed that Angelina is doing this film. Sure, I'm proud of her for stretching and doing something different, but I have the sneaking suspicion that this might be a crappy film, based on a crappy screenplay (which Jolie wrote). I can't comprehend how she would do this as opposed to Gravity, which she rejected twice, even after the producers offered even more money than her already high asking price. If Angelina would have signed on to Gravity, she would have been one of the most highly paid women in Hollywood history. Instead, she chose to go to Budapest and direct this. Sigh… we'll see, Angelina.

Also - this dark-haired guy is kind of hot, right? I want some "Angelina is boning this guy" tabloid stories soon.

Here are more photos from the set:

Photos courtesy of WENN.

Robert Downey Jr: “Not having done drugs for literally five or six years is a lifetime”

Posted: 13 Oct 2010 08:41 AM PDT

Robert Downey Jr. is the November Playboy interview, and Us Weekly has some excerpts. Have you ever sat down and read one of RDJ's interviews? Like, one of his longer ones, for Rolling Stone or one of those men's magazines? He's an interesting interview subject, but… there's a lot of crap there too. He's always remarkably candid about his f-cked up past with drugs and addiction, but his mind… I don't even know how to describe it. It's like he's the most brilliant burnout f-ck up you'll ever meet. His conversation is like reading a thesaurus will tripping on acid. So while RDJ sounds lucid and sound byte-y in these excerpts, just know that these portions are probably heavily culled from enormous monologues of crap.

Robert Downey Jr. is sober these days, but he says he will never forget his ugly struggle with drug and alcohol addiction.

“Not having done drugs for literally five or six years is a lifetime,” he says in a candid interview in the November issue of Playboy. “I think of myself as someone who has no desire, use for or conscious memory of that life. And yet I don’t shut the door on it, and I don’t pretend it didn’t happen.”

He says he still has “very strong” recollections of his former self, whom he describes as a “messed-up kid … lost, lost in narcotics.”

Even today, Downey, 45, tells Playboy he feels like “a veteran of a war that is difficult to discuss with people who haven’t been there.”

And he doesn’t take his sobriety for granted.

“Looking back, I think, ‘Oh my God, I could have been done. I could have been so fried and so bad off and, oh my God, such a cautionary tale,’” he says. “And I still could be.”

An integral part to staying clean: “You take responsibility, whether you’re outraged by the results or not….” he says. People who think “‘I’m a victim; I’m being victimized!” are “out of line.”

Downey, who has a son, Indio, 17, and has been wed to producer Susan Levin for five years, also relies on self-discipline, which he says is “about respect. It’s not even about self-respect; it’s about respect for life and all it offers.”

On the heels on Iron Man 2, Downey returns to the big screen next month in Due Date, a comedy by the director of The Hangover, which is already generating buzz.

“My age and my recent set of experiences … have left me feeling I’m in the zone,” says the actor. “This is just the sweet spot of my career and my life so far, and strangely, they’ve come at the same time.”

[From Us Weekly]

He is in a sweet spot right now - he's one of the most in-demand actors out there, a place in Hollywood that I feel is very deserved. He wears his success well, and I buy that he's a good place right now, emotionally, spiritually and physically (he's in great shape!). But I still worry about him sometimes. I worry that his brilliant, f-cked up mind has some kind of design flaw and he'll back into some bad sh-t. Maybe it won't happen - after all, I think RDJ is more aware of the consequences than the people around him. That being said, I really, really want RDJ and Susan to have a baby - I think if he was around a baby 24-7, it might have a calming effect on him, for real.

Avril Lavigne is semi-topless in Maxim: do men want to see this?

Posted: 13 Oct 2010 08:12 AM PDT

I want to say on the onset that I am in no way hating on small, petite women. You petite bitches are beautiful, and God bless. My compliant is Avril Lavigne-specific. Are there really lots and lots of men out there who look at Avril and think "Oh, yeah, I wish I could see that girl topless." It's not that she's very small, it's the way she acts, the "drunk child" way she's styled, the general "not sexy" vibe I get from her. But maybe that's just me - I can't stand her and I don't understand why any man would find her attractive. She seems like one of those petite girls who thinks it's "fun" to climb on people like a little monkey. The kind of girl who thinks she can get away with anything because she's "forever cute." Eh. Beyond that, the styling on this Maxim photo shoot sucks balls too. Here's Maxim's behind-the-scenes clip:

She may not dress the part, but punk princess Avril Lavigne is really an old-fashioned girl – when it comes to relationships.

Does beau, Brody Jenner fit that bill? Lavigne tells the November issue of Maxim, on sale Oct. 12, “I like a classy man, a gentleman who opens the door and gives flowers and always puts the lady first. I’m a little old-fashioned like that.”

The singer, 26, who recently divorced Sum 41 frontman Deryck Whibley, 30, is ready to release a new album, which she admits is inspired by her personal life but, “is the first that is not boy bashing.”

Not that her life is drama-free. A regular target of the paparazzi, Lavigne has been snapped leaving nightclubs with Jenner, something she says she rarely does.

“The only time I really ever get photographed is if I decide to go out with my friends to a bar or club, so … it kind of looks like I do that more than I do, ” she says, “The majority of the time I stay in.”

Lavigne does take tabloid reporting in stride saying, “You can only laugh at it and roll your eyes because it’s like, “Really?” They usually just pull that stuff out of their ass, but I think people know that.”

When asked how she stays out of trouble amidst some of the notable teen star meltdowns, the Canadian native credits her roots, “I got here on my own. I came from a small town and grew up in a regular home. I know what I’ve worked hard for. I’ve seen a lot of people who have gone a little crazy and who are really into the Hollywood scene. I don’t really like to hang out with people like that."

[From People]

Um… remember when Avril spent like a year of her marriage getting absolutely wasted out in public? Yes, she's such a lady. So old-fashioned. Her idea of "classy" is the dude holding back her hair while she vomits in a driveway.

Photos courtesy of The Superior Pics Forums.

Nicole Richie tells the paparazzi that she’s going to turn their asses in

Posted: 13 Oct 2010 08:08 AM PDT

Nicole Richie has issued a very stern warning to the paparazzi who wait for her to drop off and pick up her daughter outside of preschool. She wrote a letter on her website to paparazzi agency X17 telling them that she’ll do background checks on all of them and turn in anyone who doesn’t have a license or (presumably) is in the country illegally. Richie also refers to an October, 2009 accident in which one of X17’s photographers rear-ended her car while chasing her for pictures. Nicole was hospitalized briefly following the accident, and was lucky to be in the car alone without her children. There was speculation that it was set up to cause a disturbance and create more valuable photos. Nicole was subsequently granted a three year restraining order against the two paparazzi involved. Here’s her letter:

Dear X17,

THANK YOU so much for posting the video of your employees sitting outside of my daughter's school, because now the entire world can see how creepy and disgusting you are.

You do not get to spend 200 dollars on a camera, and think that gives you a free pass to shadow my child. These are strangers, grown men, stalking young children. You think that's ok?

Here's a better visual: Pulling up to school and seeing grown men slouched in black windowed cars outside of a preschool, all day. I'm not even there, so you cannot say you are following me as you always do. You are stalking the children. Now how do you feel?

I PROMISE YOU that I am going to do a background check on each and every person that I see there. For the safety of my children and others. Because the last time I did a check on your staff, I found they had no license. Remember that day? The day that ended with a car accident and me in a hospital? You, x17, better be pretty confident in your actions, and feel really good about what you are doing. If I find out anyone has a suspended, restricted or invalid license, I will have them thrown in jail before they can pick up the phone and call their lawyers.

YOU SHOULD BE ASHAMED OF YOURSELVES. These are young children and you should know better. X17, you are irresponsible and repulsive. Consider this a warning.

Nicole Richie

[From Nicole Richie's website]

Nicole should lend a hand to Jennifer Garner too. I know a lot of people (Kaiser) think Garner calls the paps but I think that they hound and stalk her and her family relentlessly. There’s a new California anti-paparazzi law that went into effect in January, 2010 that makes it a crime to “sell unauthorized photos of celebrities in ‘personal or familial activity.’” Richie could call the cops on these creeps if they’re breaking the law. I think threatening to hire a private investigator might be slightly more effective at getting rid of them.

Here’s Nicole promoting her book on 10/6/10. Her hair is so pretty like that! I love the style and color - and her makeup is perfection! I hope she starts a new trend for celebrities to take out the ridiculous extensions. Credit: WENN.com

Us Weekly: Jennifer Grey claims she never uses Botox

Posted: 13 Oct 2010 07:33 AM PDT

I don't really watch Dancing With the Stars unless one of my other shows is on a commercial break. Which is how I got to see Jennifer Grey dancing very beautifully last night - NCIS was taking a long commercial break (by the way, NCIS was really good last night!). I like that Jennifer Grey is on DWTS - although I think the show would probably be more interesting if they only let people on with zero dance training. Still, it's good to see Jennifer again, even though I barely recognize her. She famously had a career-killing nose job after she did Dirty Dancing. But it's not just the nose job that's making her face weird these days - she really looks like an entirely different person, doesn't she? So it's a bit rich to see her on the cover of Us Weekly proclaiming that she'll never Botox. Baby, please. Settle down.

Out of the spotlight for more than 20 years, it wasn’t easy for 80s icon Jennifer Grey to return to the dance floor at age 50.

“Before the show, I thought, Oh, I should get some Botox, get rid of the wrinkles under my eyes,” the Dancing With the Stars frontrunner tells the new Us Weekly (on newsstands now). “When you put a lot of makeup, the lines become very apparent.”

But she says her husband of nine years, actor Clark Gregg, told her “not to touch anything, to be who I am, because I look great.”

And Grey — who famously underwent two nose jobs in the 1990s; the second operation left her unrecognizable — is glad she listened.

“Aging is inevitable and the idea that we can be eternally youthful is the pitfall of our society,” says Grey, mother to daughter, Stella, 8. “When my body and face were perfect as far as youth, I wasn’t happy. If you try to hold on to something you don’t have anymore, you can’t be happy in the moment.”

For more - including her “strong connection” to her late Dirty Dancing costar Patrick Swayze; how she conquered her scary battle with thyroid cancer; exclusive details on how she stays fit and why the Dancing Queen has no plans “on leaving the floor” - pick up the new Us Weekly today.

[From Us Weekly]

Well… sure. Okay, she didn't have Botox right before she went on DTWS. But she's done something to her face other than the nose job. That's all I'm saying. Beyond that, though, her figure is amazing! And she really is a gorgeous dancer.

Carey Mulligan & Keira Knightley look adorable at the ‘Never Let Me Go’ photocall

Posted: 13 Oct 2010 07:09 AM PDT

Do you want to see Never Let Me Go? I have had the book sitting beside my bed for too long. I want to read it before I watch it. But I will see it, if just to see these two girls, Carey Mulligan and Keira Knightly (with Andrew Garfield). These are pics from today's photo call for the film in London. I like that Carey and Keira seem genuinely giggly and girly and sweet together, like they genuinely make each other laugh, rather than some vague girl-on-girl hate and one-upmanship (see: Leighton Meester and Blake Lively). What is making them laugh so much? English humor? Peter Sellers? Biscuits?

As far as fashion and styling… well, I like Carey's whole look better. Mustard dress, cute blonde hair, nice makeup. It all looks good together. While I adore Keira new haircut and her skirt, I think everything put together looks kind of pleasantly disastrous. But they are both extremely cute girls. I kind of want to be their friend.

Also: Andrew Garfield is incredibly stiff. He's not the most photogenic of men, and he should learn how to loosen up for the camera a little. Still, he's kind of awkwardly cute.

Here's the trailer for Never Let Me Go… it looks like a tear-jerker, right? I'm getting a little choked up at the trailer.

10/13 Photo call photos courtesy of WENN.

People: Courteney Cox & David Arquette’s split was “the worst-kept secret”

Posted: 13 Oct 2010 06:43 AM PDT

Shock of shocks, David Arquette and Courteney Cox's split took only one cover story this week. And by that I mean, the big cover, not the sidebar. Their split made it to every sidebar story, and the tabloids didn't have time to do a big "WHAT HAPPENED?!" to Christina Aguilera and Jordan Bratman. But Courtney got her solo People cover - probably her first in a years and years. Unfortunately for all of the tabloids, deadlines are deadlines, and my guess is that no one got the chance to update their stories with David's candid comments to Howard Stern yesterday. So what we're left with is bits and pieces of unnamed sources doing a lot of hand-wringing - where were these sources when the blogs and the budget tabloids (like Star) were saying that something weird was happening in their marriage, and that Courteney was boning Brian Van Holt?

Shooting their movie Scream 4 this summer, things didn’t seem right between David Arquette and Courteney Cox. The pair put on a united front for daughter Coco, 6, but often retreated to separate trailers between takes.

“It seemed like the worst-kept secret that things were weird between them,” a set source tells PEOPLE in this week’s cover story.

In the wake of their separation announcement this week – and Arquette’s recent revelations about the couple’s issues and their sex life to Howard Stern – friends of the famously mismatched pair say they always had differences but seemed to work through them.

Now, however, both Arquette, 39, and Cox, 46, are figuring out where to go from here.

“This was not an overnight thing,” a source close to the pair says of their trial separation. “They needed to figure things out and try to find a happy place again.”

[From People]

Yeah, I feel pretty confident saying that they're not going to get back together. I'm just hoping that David doesn't spin out of control and that they both maintain a strong friendship for their daughter.

Meanwhile, many of these a-hole "sources" are putting the "blame" for the split on Courteney's years-long fertility issues. One source tells OK! Magazine: "They had trouble getting pregnant after Coco so it really put a strain on the marriage and on the relationship. Eventually they drifted apart." I find this a low-blow, and it offends me deeply. For all of her faults, I always admired Courteney's candid, honest discussion about her fertility problems, and I know she spoke for many women facing the same difficulties. I'm sure both David and Courteney would have liked to have had other kids, and maybe they still will, separately or in other, future relationships. It just seems like some of the tabloid "sources" are making sure that Courteney gets the "blame" for the split because she didn't have enough babies, or because she had fertility issues. When really everyone is ignoring her jump-off, you know?

One more thing - that chick Jasmine Waltz, the one David boned when he and Courteney were separated… well, she's trying to get her 15 minutes' worth. Radar and TMZ both have stories about her this morning. Ugh.

Here are some photos from a few months ago, with Laura Dern sitting in between them like the harbinger of DOOM.

People cover courtesy of CoverAwards.

Rachel Zoe is still allegedly pregnant, says Us Weekly

Posted: 13 Oct 2010 06:16 AM PDT

A couple of weeks ago, OK! Magazine's sources claimed that Rachel Zoe, 39, is pregnant. This whole past season of The Rachel Zoe Project was about Rachel and her husband Rodger sniping at each other about babies, and it seemed like the pregnancy rumors were just part of the series' promotion. But now Us Weekly's sources are claiming the same thing - that Rachel is expecting, and that it's all very "hush-hush."

So long, size 00. Pin-thin stylist Rachel Zoe is pregnant, the new Us Weekly reports.

"It's very hush-hush," a source says of the fashion maven, 39, who is expecting her first child with husband of 12 years Rodger Berman. "She's telling people she can't travel," notes the insider.

And a witness says that at the Veuve Clicquot Polo Classic event in L.A.'s Pacific Palisades area on Oct. 10, Zoe only imbibed water with lemon, while Berman sipped champagne.

The news even brought out well-wishes from her former costar, Brad Goreski, though it's been reported they're feuding.

"We're still close," he tells Us, without confirming the pregnancy. "I hope to be in the delivery room!"

[From Us Weekly]

Well… I tend to believe it more from Us Weekly's sources, honestly. I won't believe it entirely until People confirms it though. Please, no one make jokes about how Rachel is 50 years old - she's not! She's actually in her late 30s, early 40s. She just looks hard and bad and tragic for her age. If she is pregnant, then maybe it will agree with her and she'll look "filled out" and pretty, like her sister (who is older, but looks fifteen years younger). We'll see.

Also - these photos are from this past weekend. I'm not seeing pregnancy boobs or a bump or anything. Either it's still very early, or this is all bullsh-t.

Rachel on October 10, 2010. Credit: WENN.

Gavin Rossdale says his relationship with a male lover was a one night thing

Posted: 13 Oct 2010 05:56 AM PDT

In the new issue of Details, Gavin Rossdale sat down for an interview to discuss his music over the years, and how he is reuniting with the members of Bush. The full interview is here. Can I just admit something right now? Bush is one of those bands that give me such a heavy wave of nostalgia for my college days, it's not even funny. Like, I can taste the Boone's-mixed-with-clove-cigarettes in my mouth right now. In college, I also was friends with a dude who pretty much thought he was Gavin Rossdale - and he wore leather pants EVERY DAY. They showed off his adorable, perfectly-formed ass. Ah… memories. And no, I never hit it. But I did hit it with his roommate. Ah… sketchy memories. Anyhoodle, in the Details interview, Gavin talks in some detail about the drag queen/transvestite (I don't what she/he is, how this person self-identifies) Marilyn. Marilyn came out last year and claimed that he/she had a five-year-long relationship with Gavin when they were both very young. Since then, Gavin has never really spoken about it, other then to offer vague denials. Details gets him to open up a little:

Details: Last year, the cross-dressing pop singer Marilyn revealed that he was romantically involved with you in your teens—an assertion Boy George first made in 1995. Why haven’t you talked about those claims?
Gavin Rossdale: I think at the outset there was a sort of fear—that was right at the beginning of Bush, and I didn’t want it to be part of it. It felt like a cheap shot, so I was like, “I’m not getting involved.” I’ve never wanted to appear closed about it. It’s not something I’ve talked about really because it’s always been in the glare of a tabloid world. It’s just one of those things: Move on. When you’re 17, Jesus Christ. I don’t think there’s anything strange about any form of—you’re learning about life. It’s a part of growing up. That’s it. No more, no less.

Details: So it was just a one-time experimentation?
Gavin Rossdale: Yeah. That was it. You have to know what you like, and I know what I like.

[From Details]

Do I think it was just a one time thing? No. But I also don't buy that it was a five year affair either. Split the difference - they had a relationship for months, probably (long enough for them to pose for photos together). But I do buy that Gavin was just going through an experimental phase. Girls are allowed to (generally), so why not boys? Also, Gavin is really cute throughout the rest of the interview too:

Details: Your ancestral surname is Rosenthal. What’s the most Jewish thing about you?
Gavin Rossdale: My father was a lapsed Jew, but my grandfather was practicing, so he used to do the Friday-night thing. I love the culture of it, the tradition, the theatricality, the funny outfits, the buildings, the history. I’m half Jewish, half Scottish, so I have a bizarre obsession with being generous, because one of the stereotypes leveled at Scots and Jews is the inability to share. I’m fighting the good fight.

Details: You met your wife, Gwen Stefani, while touring with No Doubt in 1995. Do you remember your first date?
Gavin Rossdale: I threw a party in New Orleans just as an excuse to hang out with her. We drank a bunch of hurricanes and went around the French Quarter. We had our first kiss that night, just walking around, being careful to step over the puddles of pee. The next day we had that sort of cute, embarrassed, sober meet-up.

Details: You have two sons together—Kingston, 4, and Zuma, 2. Who’s on diaper duty at home?
Gavin Rossdale: Whoever’s nearest, really. We have good people around us. If there’s no one there, I can do it, but otherwise I sort of slide away—I get very interested in my BlackBerry at that point. A friend once told me, “By the way, they never thank you for changing their diapers when they grow up, so don’t sweat it.” I thought it was good advice.

Details: Is it true you and Gwen bathe together to conserve water?
Gavin Rossdale: The first half is true, maybe not the latter. Or, the ecological benefits are a healthy consequence.

Details: Keep your romance alive, save the planet?
Gavin Rossdale: Exactly! And stay clean! But no, we don’t stage bath-ins.

Details: You play tennis regularly with your friend Roger Federer. Ever come close to beating him?
Gavin Rossdale: No, it doesn’t really work like that! With Roger, my fun is just to hit with him enough so it’s a workout for him. That’s my Wimbledon: to hit with Roger and not waste his time. I’ve scored points on him, of course. If you hit a good serve, you could take out anyone in the world. But can you do it over five sets? Probably not.

Details: In 2004, you learned you have a daughter, the now 21-year-old model Daisy Lowe. How do you shift from being a dad to toddlers to being a dad to an adult?
Gavin Rossdale: With the boys it’s traditional: I’m all they know, and I’m with them all the time. With Daisy, I don’t know her in that context. The way I nurture those boys, I never got a chance with Daisy. I love my connection with her, but I don’t have any say in who she is. With the boys it’s my job to correct them and shape them. With Daisy, I just have to be respectful. I suppose it’s more like a friendship.

[From Details]

Honestly, I think Gavin is one of those rare guys like Tom Hardy - where he spent his youth f-cking everything and everyone, just for the hell of it. I buy that Gavin has matured into a loving husband and father - and I think he's lovely.

Photos courtesy of WENN.

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