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Billy Ray Cyrus’s Mullet speaks: “Hannah Montana destroyed my family”
Johnny Depp’s weird faux-carpenter pants: hideous or he’s still lovely?
Irina Shayk is the new Sports Illustrated: Swimsuit Edition cover girl
Lady Gaga says Madonna’s people sent an email to support “Born This Way”
Channing Tatum’s mostly clothed GQ photo shoot: still hot, or still a caveman?
Gerard Butler & Ralph Fiennes bring the homoerotic hotness to Berlin
Charlie Sheen still insists he’s able to work, blames others for production hiatus
Emily Blunt in frothy pink Elie Saab: adorable or unbelievably tragic?
Christina Hendricks’ sparkly boob capelet & bunchy pants: tragic or cute?
Blake Lively rubs her bolt-ons on my boyfriend David Gandy

Billy Ray Cyrus’s Mullet speaks: “Hannah Montana destroyed my family”

Posted: 15 Feb 2011 08:44 AM PST

The Mullet Speaketh. To GQ. Billy Ray Cyrus has given his first big post-split interview after the drama with his estranged wife Tish (and perhaps Bret Michaels). I honestly have a twinge of sympathy for The Mullet. I think he got cuckolded (I'm trying to bring back old-timey terminology), and I think the pain of it still stings. Anyway, the interview takes place in The Mullet's old, rambling Tennessee home, where The Mullet has been living alone, post-split. He doesn't even want to turn the lights on for guests. It's a surprisingly good read! The full piece is here, and here are the highlights:

The Mullet is nostalgic: "My kids learned to color on this table. There’s been a lot that’s went around this table. Waylon Jennings sat right there in that chair and showed Miley the chords to ‘Good Hearted Woman.’ Sitting in that chair. This table’s a bit like life. It’s a circle. And I believe everything in life is a circle. You come into this world a little teeny wrinkled-up fetus…”

The Mullet on Miley-money rumors: "I’m proud to say to this day I’ve never made one commissioned dollar, or dime, off of my daughter."

Battling against Miley's controversies: “Every time something happened in Miley’s career, every time the train went off the track, if you will—Vanity Fair,2 pole-dancing,3 whatever scandal it was—her people, or as they say in today’s news, her handlers, every time they’d put me… ‘Somebody’s shooting at Miley! Put the old man up there!’ Well, I took it, because I’m her daddy, and that’s what daddies do. ‘Okay, nail me to the cross, I’ll take it….’ All those people around, they used me every time. It became so obvious that, man, no matter what happens, they’re going to put you up there and let you take the bullet

Why he chose not to attend her 18th birthday party: "Because they were having it in a bar. It was wrong. It was for 21 year olds and up. Once again all them people, they all wanted me to fly out so that then when all the bad press came they could say, 'Daddy endorsed this stuff.…' If I would have went out there I would have been right in the middle of all this stuff that's going on right now with the bong."

On David Lynch: “Were it not for David Lynch,” Cyrus asserts, “Miley would never have been Hannah Montana.” The most wildly incongruent item in Billy Ray Cyrus’s CV is his appearance in David Lynch’s 2001 movie Mulholland Dr. Cyrus is smart enough to know that to a certain kind of audience this will count firmly in his favor, and has likewise learned that a sound bite like “were it not for David Lynch…” will always get quoted in an interview like this. (The slightly tenuous reasoning: If not for Lynch’s leg up, Cyrus might not have spent four years in Toronto starring in the uplifting, moral TV medical drama Doc, in which his daughter Miley would get early opportunities to guest-star…and so on.)

On Hannah Montana: Still, the acting role for which he is now most famous is as a teenage pop star’s father, a part he says he only took to support his daughter. “I knew I was working for peanuts. I’m not the smartest man in the world, but I know the difference. I went from $12,000 a week to, after four years and the millions that they make, $15,000 a week. Hell, yeah.”

After the first two seasons he felt things changing. “The business was driving a wedge between us,” he says. He tells me that he has never been able to discipline his kids and that he now wonders whether that was a mistake. “How many interviews did I give and say, ‘You know what’s important between me and Miley is I try to be a friend to my kids’? I said it a lot. And sometimes I would even read other parents might say, ‘You don’t need to be a friend, you need to be a parent.’ Well, I’m the first guy to say to them right now: You were right. I should have been a better parent. I should have said, ‘Enough is enough—it’s getting dangerous and somebody’s going to get hurt.’ I should have, but I didn’t. Honestly, I didn’t know the ball was out of bounds until it was way up in the stands somewhere.”

On the Mullet: “It started way before me,” he points out. “David Bowie rocked a heck of a mullet long before I did.” Cyrus’s contribution, if that is the word, was to popularize the extreme version where the hair clipped short at the front and the hair cascading past the back of the neck seem to belong to two entirely separate hairstyles. “I read that I have the distinct honor of creating the Kentucky Waterfall,” he notes. “I think that’s a pretty good name for it. Though I do love the Missouri Compromise.”

On trying to help Miley through her controversies: “You know what, there’s no doubt I did stuff when I was a teenager that I’m sure could have turned out horribly,” he agrees. “I’ve done some stupid crap—I do stupid crap. We all do. But it’s different when you sit back and you see it happening to your little girl. I feel like I got to try. It’s my daughter. And some of these handlers are perhaps more interested in handling Miley’s money than her safety and her career.”

On Hannah Montana's impact on his family: “Oh, it’s huge—it destroyed my family. I’ll tell you right now—the damn show destroyed my family. And I sit there and go, ‘Yeah, you know what? Some gave all.’ It is my motto, and guess what? I have to eat that one. I some-gave-all’d it all right. I some-gave-all’d it while everybody else was going to the bank. It’s all sad.”

Wishing it had never happened: “I hate to say it, but yes, I do. Yeah. I’d take it back in a second. For my family to be here and just be everybody okay, safe and sound and happy and normal, would have been fantastic. Heck, yeah. I’d erase it all in a second if I could.”

[From GQ]

The Mullet even has a Kurt Cobain story - it's a sweet one that made me like Kurt Cobain more. He compares Miley to Kurt - thankfully not musically. He compares her to Kurt in the "everybody can see the train wreck" way. He's very grandiose, the Mullet. He also talks about God and Jesus and the Devil and God's Way, and there's some New Age stuff thrown in too - I don't think he has a God Complex, I just think he considers himself a man of faith, and his convoluted understanding of his faith has lead him to do strange things. But this was seriously not the interview I was expecting - it's interesting to think The Mullet is in a position to disavow the Disney machine that has made his daughter a millionaire hundreds of times over.

Header photo courtesy of GQ. Additional pic by WENN.

Johnny Depp’s weird faux-carpenter pants: hideous or he’s still lovely?

Posted: 15 Feb 2011 08:41 AM PST

Johnny Depp has looked like this for too long, I think. When I'm looking through photos of Johnny and the first thing that I notice is that he's still accessorizing his outfits with a dong sheath/hankie that was all over the place during The Tourist’s promotion, you know he needs to change up his look. Maybe Johnny is like so many of those former pretty-boys, still trying to screw up his appearance so people will focus on the work rather than the pretty. But isn't Johnny far enough from his pretty-boy past? Isn't this current dirty, dong-hankie incarnation just his style at this point?

Also: those pants are as bad as Christina Hendricks’ faux-maternitywear. Is Johnny wearing OshKoshB’gosh?

Anyway, these are photos of Johnny yesterday, at the premiere of Rango. Johnny is currently promoting his voice work, as the lead "Rango". Who is some kind of desert lizard, I think. When CB and I went to see True Grit, we saw the trailer for Rango, and I'll admit, it did look cute.

I like how the lizard kind of looks like Johnny… and like Hunter S. Thompson…?

Oh, and I guess Isla Fisher is in it too. Why is there so much too-bright turquoise/cerulean lately?

Photos courtesy of Fame.

Irina Shayk is the new Sports Illustrated: Swimsuit Edition cover girl

Posted: 15 Feb 2011 08:08 AM PST

Well, at least it wasn't Brooklyn Decker. I'm actually happy about that. Russian model and boob-pusher-outer Irina Shayk is this year's Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Edition cover girl. Is it okay if I say that it looks like they mangled her pretty face with too much Photoshop, AND that the chick's boobs look fake? Am I just being a hater? Probably. Anyway, I was wondering why I knew this girl's name (and yet, was unable to pick her out of a lineup), so People Magazine published this helpful guide to who she is and why we may know her:

She’s just been revealed as the cover model for Sports Illustrated’s 2011 swimsuit issue, but Irina Shayk is hardly a household name – at least, not outside her native land of Russia. But that’s surely destined to change with the coveted SI cover, one of the most high-profile assignments in the modeling world. Here are five more things to know about the 25-year-old shapely swimsuit siren:

1. She’s Cristiano Ronaldo’s girlfriend
Shayk has been dating the Portuguese star of famed Spanish soccer club Real Madrid since 2010, and they make quite the power couple. But now Irina has one-upped her boyfriend. Widely considered the world’s best soccer player, Ronaldo has yet to grace the cover of Sports Illustrated.

2. She hails from a small town near Chelyabinsk, Russia
She was “discovered” in 2004 while on a three-day train ride from Chelyabinsk to Moscow. Since then, Shayk has gone on to grace numerous magazine covers and been featured in ad campaigns for brands like Intimissimi, Lacoste and Guess. This is her fifth appearance in SI’s swimsuit edition.

3. She called her mom and sister in Russia first after getting the SI cover
“They didn’t sleep!” she tells PEOPLE of her relatives, who had stayed up into the wee hours, due to the time difference. Shayk adds that her mom and sister are her biggest fans, and they “always think I’m the best.”

4. She wasn’t expecting to get the swimsuit cover
“It was a total surprise,” she says. The announcement was made on CBS’s The Late Show, with Shayk and nine other models listening backstage. Shayk says the other girls weren’t jealous. “We’re like a big family, and we work together all the time and we know each other,” she says. “Everyone is very friendly and happy.”

5. She doesn’t diet
Instead, she works out with a personal trainer to stay healthy and happy. “I love to eat everything,” she says. “I think I love food too much to not eat.”

[From People]

So I knew her because of Cristiano Ronaldo. She was his girlfriend through the whole baby drama thing - where Cristiano hooked up with some New York chick, the chick got pregnant, and Ronaldo bought the baby - and Irina stayed with him. Ugh, really?

Here are some additional pics of Irina:

Cover courtesy of HuffPo. Additional photos by WENN.

Lady Gaga says Madonna’s people sent an email to support “Born This Way”

Posted: 15 Feb 2011 07:57 AM PST

There’s a lot of talk about how Lady Gaga is so blatantly copying Madonna’s moves and music but decided to compliment Whitney Houston when she exhibited some false modesty during her Grammy acceptance speech. During an appearance on the Tonight Show last night, Gaga said that Madonna’s people sent their support for her new song, the one that sounds just like “Express Yourself,” and that everything is good.

There is really no one that is a more adoring and loving Madonna fan than me. I am the hugest fan, personally and professionally. And… Well, the good news is, I got an e-mail from her people and her sending me their love and complete support on behalf of the single. And if the queen says it shall be, then it shall be. And I think it’s so important as well, I think today in music there’s the freedom in the song, the sort of R&B early 90s vibe that it has. It’s so full of love and spirit. I think it’s the spirit that people are reacting to the most. I just want everyone to rejoice and celebrate and be unafraid to be happy with music. It doesn’t always have to be so dark. It doesn’t always have to be so sexy. Sometimes it’s just wonderful to celebrate life and kind of go to church with it.

[via DListed]

I watched most of Gaga’s interview and she’s so full of sh*t that it really annoys me. She name drops designers constantly and talks as if she’s here to enlighten the masses about the meaning of life through music and performance art. On the meaning of “Born This Way,” she said “It’s about being able to know that when you were born, you weren’t just born in that moment. You have your entire life to realize the person that you’re potentially going to become, and whoever you chose to be was part of your destiny. So I’m encouraging people to know that if in this moment you don’t feel entirely happy with who you are, you feel bullied or disenfranchised, it’s never too late to harness your confidence and your inner superstar.” See - she’s like a one-woman cult with her “little monsters” and her pep talks. All you have to do is listen to her derivative music and watch her copycat moves and you too will be saved.

I used to like Lady Gaga, but at some point her hype stopped being humorous and she started to take herself seriously.

Channing Tatum’s mostly clothed GQ photo shoot: still hot, or still a caveman?

Posted: 15 Feb 2011 07:47 AM PST

As I mentioned earlier this morning, I am a fan of Channing Tatum. Not his work specifically, but him as a person. I think he's funny and sweet and very much like the good ol' boys hustlers I grew up with. Anyway, there's a special treat for those of us who like him - he's the March cover boy for GQ Magazine! He's done GQ before - he was their cover boy in 2009, where he posed shirtless in nearly every shot. In this cover shoot, they let him keep on his clothes for the most part. BOO. GQ hasn't released their interview yet, but they did send us this little preview, and I can safely say that Channing sounds like he gave yet another great interview. The boy just does his thing, and he has no qualms about spending 24 hours with a journalist and getting hammered:

Channing Tatum has to be one of America's most fun movie stars, he's also crazy (it's his life motto). Don't believe us? Just ask Jessica Pressler, our writer who spent twenty-four hours deep in the California Desert with "Chan" armed with glow sticks, tequila, snacks, and Snuggies.

Before camping out together (don't worry, he called his wife first!), the pair spent the night bar hopping through a tiny mining town, mingling with the locals, and touring the area's abandoned bordellos.

During their journey, Tatum opened up about his stint as a stripper, "I'm not ashamed of it. I don't regret one thing. I'm not a person who hides sh*t"; being type casted as a beefcake, "No one's calling me for lawyer roles. I still have a lot to prove to myself"; and why doing his own stunts is important, "I think people pay money to see the actor go through a wall. I want to be like, 'Holy sh*t, Johnny Depp actually jumped off that building. That guy's f*cking crazy. I want to be him.'"

[From GQ]

Yes, he probably won't be cast as a lawyer anytime soon. But it may happen eventually. And hey, it's not so bad being a beefcake. Lots of male actors would love Channing's reputation as an easy-going beefcake steadily building his resume. Hey, Channing just worked with Ron Howard! And now he's starring as a Roman something in ancient times. So, it's not like he's only getting parts where he plays the dim-witted dancer boy. I would like Channing to do more comedy, honestly - he's so funny in interviews, it would be interesting to see him steadily build a comedic portfolio.

Oh, and he's totally going on HGF this week!

Photos courtesy of Nathaniel Goldberg/GQ, more pics at GQ's slideshow.

Gerard Butler & Ralph Fiennes bring the homoerotic hotness to Berlin

Posted: 15 Feb 2011 07:18 AM PST

I tried to prepare you yesterday with those Gerard Butler photos - and now it's come. I am SO EXCITED. This is the highlight of my morning, going through photos of Ralph Fiennes and Gerard Butler, who are promoting Coriolanus at the Berlin Film Festival. Ralph stars in it, and this marks his debut as a director. Gerard also takes a big part as Aufidius, the "villain" of the story. The film is getting rave reviews, and Miramax has already acquired it. I saw this play done at Washington's Shakespeare theatre, more than a decade ago - it was an excellent production, but unfortunately I don't remember the bulk of the story. Which means no spoilers, thank God. Just photos of my men. Oh, and Vanessa Redgrave, looking regal and old as dirt - thank God she hasn't had any work done, because I love her real face.

Oh, the ginger SLUT is some actress named Jessica Chastain. In half of the photos, she's draped herself on Gerard. Note to Gerard: you better knock that ginger on her ass if you ever want my love again.

I prefer the photos of Ralph and Gerard embracing tenderly. Gerard's gentle curls brushing against Ralph's cheek… and their eyes meet. "This is right," Gerard growls. "I know," Ralph whispers back. Gerard leans down and finds Ralph's mouth. Ralph's hand flies to the back of Gerard's head, giving his curls a rough tug.

Photos courtesy of WENN.

Charlie Sheen still insists he’s able to work, blames others for production hiatus

Posted: 15 Feb 2011 06:50 AM PST

I’ve been putting off covering this story about Charlie Sheen because I’m so fed up with him. He’s an addict, he makes excuses and denies things and then expects his life to go on as usual as if it’s everyone else’s problem that he’s an addict. That’s pretty much the gist of his call-in interview to a radio station yesterday, in which he bitched and moaned that production is still shut down on Two and a Half Men because he’s ready to go back to work.

Charlie Sheen says he’s all better…for now.

A week and a half after his 36-hour bender — reportedly featuring cocaine and porn stars — landed him in the hospital, the actor wants to get back to work on Two and a Half Men.

Sheen, 45, was a surprise caller Monday morning on the Dan Patrick Show — sounding raspy-voiced and defiant about CBS’ decision to put his hit show on hiatus while he recovers via at-home rehab.

“I just figured I was supposed to go back to work because I’m ready,” the actor explained. “They said, ‘You get ready [and] we’ll get ready.’ And I got ready.”

The father of five blasted the network’s perceived meddling into his “personal life.” (There is a morals clause in his show contract.)

“Nit pick, nit pick, but I don’t think [the clause] covers, ‘Let us totally dominate and interfere with your personal life,’” Sheen complained. “I have a contract. They said, ‘Get your act together,’ and I did.”

To those skeptical about such a fast turnaround? “I heal really quickly, but I also unravel pretty quickly,” Sheen warned. “So get me right now, guys. Get me right now!”

What drives him to drink and party? “Boredom,” Sheen said. “Wanting to make things better – whether it’s real or imagined.”

Sheen’s not a fan of 12 Step programs like Alcoholics Anonymous either, he said. “I was sober for five years a long time ago and was just bored out of my tree,” he said. Calling himself “sober,” Sheen explained, would be “inauthentic –it’s not who I am.”

These days? “I’m having a ball,” Sheen said. “I am enjoying every moment.”

[From US Weekly]

You can listen to Charlie’s interview here. He talks about his bizarre meeting with the UCLA baseball team, during which he told them to “stay off the crack, drink a chocolate milk.” He also claims to be sober, but then makes a bunch of excuses about why he’s still drinking about says that it’s “inauthentic” for him not to be a drunk drug addict.

There were eight episodes left to be filmed for Two and a Half Men this season, but due to the hiatus four have been cut. The crew is pissed off because they won’t get paid for those four cut episodes, and that may be part of the reason why Charlie is so anxious to get back to work. He’s agreed to pay a third of the crew’s salaries during the hiatus, which could run him over half a million dollars. He probably spends that on an average weekend of high paid porn stars and the finest cocaine.

Also, is Sheen threatening producers? He said “I heal pretty quickly. But I also unravel pretty quickly,” as if he’ll go off the rails again if they don’t start his show soon. Production is scheduled to start at the end of February. Somehow this barely functioning addict became the highest paid star on television. Maybe by continuing to talk smack he’ll piss off enough higher ups for them to finally do something about it.

Charlie Sheen is shown in June, 2010. Credit: Fame

Emily Blunt in frothy pink Elie Saab: adorable or unbelievably tragic?

Posted: 15 Feb 2011 06:49 AM PST

Last night was the big New York premiere of The Adjustment Bureau, which I personally think looks like a bad movie. I realize that Matt Damon loonies (like CB) will probably want to see it, and maybe moms will want to see (my mother called me when she first saw the ads and asked if I would take her). But I just think the film looks like it has a really asinine plot, and I don't even like the idea of Matt and Emily Blunt as each other's love interests. They just don't seem like they would fit together, at all. It's too brother-sister. Anyway, for the premiere, Emily wore this frothy pink Elie Saab number that I absolutely hate. The color is wrong for her, and Emily shouldn't do frothy, frilly stuff. It looks like something Taylor Swift would wear. And then there's the little matter of whatever the hell is happening to Emily's face:

Matt looked good, though. And Lucy came too! Lucy looked so much better than Emily.

If I do go to see this movie, it will only be for the delicious man-meat of Damon, Anthony Mackie (this boy, my goodness) and John Slattery (with his son, I think). There are other hot guys in the cast too, but I'm only choosing to recognize John and Anthony:

Photos courtesy of WENN.

Christina Hendricks’ sparkly boob capelet & bunchy pants: tragic or cute?

Posted: 15 Feb 2011 06:27 AM PST

Christina Hendricks did voice work for an animated film called All-Star Superman, which seems like a direct-to-DVD affair. But still, they had a little party for the project, and Christina and her husband walked the red carpet. Now, it wasn't really an occasion for some flashy cocktail dress… but is this ensemble a good idea ever? A glittery boob capelet and some bunchy old-man pants? Oh, Christina. The only way this could be worse is if she wore her Sgt. Pepper coat over this outfit. I seriously think that her clothing issues aren't about her curvy body whatsoever. I think the girl just has bad style.

Mad Men star Christina Hendricks made a decidedly lacklustre red carpet entrance last night as she attended a screening in New York. The 35-year-old actress donned a pair of high-waisted trousers and a tucked-in bunchy blouse. Her ensemble, which she teamed with a bejewelled shrug, was a far cry from her usually-glamorous attire.

Hendricks, who is famous for her curves, usually knows just how to dress to compliment her body shape. But last night was a different story as she walked the red carpet in her outfit which did nothing to flatter her voluptuous shape.

Christina was joined by her husband Geoffrey Arend as they attended a special screening of All Star Superman. The actress voices the character of Lois Lane in the direct-to-video animated film based on the acclaimed comic book series.

James Denton, who plays Mike Delfino in the television series Desperate Housewives, takes on the role of Clark Kent. Co-incidentally Denton plays the on-screen husband of Teri Hatcher, who starred as Lane alongside Dean Cain in the ABC comedy-drama series Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman.

[From The Daily Mail]

If I'm really nit-picking (and I seem to be in the mood, right?), I don't find the boob capelet offensive. Sure, it looks like a holiday sweater my mom would have picked out, but it's not hideous. What is truly disturbing is the fit and design of these pants. Look at the detailing - it's like there's a built-in stomach panel, like with maternity pants. And look at the fit in the crotch! Ladies, would you ever buy a pair of pants that fit like this?

Photos courtesy of WENN.

Blake Lively rubs her bolt-ons on my boyfriend David Gandy

Posted: 15 Feb 2011 06:03 AM PST

I swear to God, I will get out my slut-shank and take care of this girl for good. No hesitation. Is this what all of you Ryan Gosling-loonies felt when Blake Lively was shoving her bolt-ons on the Gosdong? Because with Blake nearly humping David Gandy - MY LOVER - I am now completely over her. She needs to go home. Now.

These photos are from last night's Elle Style Awards. If you're anything like me, you might be thinking to yourself, "How many times is Elle UK going to hold an awards show for style?" I'm pretty sure there was an "Elle Style Awards" about a month ago. Last night's show involved Blake Lively getting some award for her work in television or something. And it involved her rubbing her bolt-ons on David Gandy. Ugh.

Blake's dress is Emilio Pucci. If it was another occasion, I might like the dress. But considering it's probably on the floor of David Gandy's bedroom right now (SOB), I can't stand it. Plus, it seems kind of "vagina drapes" to me.

Thanks to LaineyGossip for the story lead!

Photos courtesy of WENN.

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