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Camille Grammer says she & Brandi Glanville “have bonded” over their divorces
Gavin DeGraw got his ass kicked by some thugs, then got clipped by a taxi
Stacy Keibler & George Clooney are “more than a fling” but “not monogamous”
Petra Ecclestone plans huge wedding party in that $85 mill mansion she bought
How amazing does 53-year-old Sharon Stone look?
They’re remaking Dirty Dancing, is nothing sacred?
Jeremy Irons: Putting your hand on a woman’s bottom is “just being friendly”
Zoe Saldana “collapsed” under the weight of her own enormous fame
Sarah Palin is a grandmother again, her two kids over 18 both have kids now
Katie Holmes wears her own design at her premiere: frumpy or cute?

Camille Grammer says she & Brandi Glanville “have bonded” over their divorces

Posted: 09 Aug 2011 09:01 AM PDT

These are some new photos of Camille Grammer at last night's party for Hamptons Magazine - Bravo's Andy Cohen is the cover boy, so some of his Real Housewife girlfriends came out to celebrate. As I mentioned last week, Camille is looking extra-tweaked these days. Many of you seem to think it's an improvement - and for the most part, you're right. She does look mostly better, "fresher" I guess, although I wish plastic surgeons could find a way to work on the eyes without making everyone look so "surprised".

The other day, I mentioned that there were some new photos of Camille and Brandi Glanville floating around - you can see them here. As you may remember, Brandi has joined the cast of the Real Housewives of Beverly Hills, not as a "real housewife" but as a "friend of". It's looking more and more like Brandi is a "friend of" Camille. Camille recently spoke about their friendship:

Real Housewives of Beverly Hills star Camille Grammer can breathe easier now she’s no longer the villain on the highly popular show — those designer shoes have been firmly filled by newcomer Brandi Glanville, yes, Eddie Cibrian's ex.

In the season two preview trailer, fans see a catfight between Brandi and co-star Kim Richards where Brandi is overheard calling Kim a “b*tch” and accusing her of using “crystal meth.”

But, for all the catfights and b*tching, Brandi has found one unlikely ally, last season’s bad girl de jour, Camille.

“I like Brandi, and I enjoy her company a lot, actually,” Camille tells RadarOnline.com in an exclusive interview. “I think she speaks her mind and she’s a riot. She makes no excuses. She says what she feels and I like that genuine realness she has. It’s refreshing.”

Camille says she and Brandi are firm friends and that they bonded together as both went through very painful and public divorces.

“We discussed our divorces and connected,” Camille says. “She and I both went through a very difficult time, and I think we sort of bonded. She’s a year ahead of me in her divorce, and she’s a strong as nails.”

As for season two of RHOBH, which premieres on Bravo on Monday, Sept 5, Camille is staying mum on what we can expect.

“All I can say is that there will definitely be more drama than last year,” she says. “There’s so much more and many surprises. You’ve just gotta tune in.”

[From Radar]

Am I alone in thinking less of Brandi because she's made an ally out of Camille? Camille is crazy. Brandi is friends with Crazy. Ergo, Brandi is Crazy now too. I guess we already knew that from the second season trailer though:

Photos courtesy of WENN.

Gavin DeGraw got his ass kicked by some thugs, then got clipped by a taxi

Posted: 09 Aug 2011 08:26 AM PDT

This is a weird story. Gavin DeGraw, the singer best knows for such hits as ????? got his ass handed to him early Monday morning. The basic story is that Gavin was drinking with friends in the Lower East Side on NYC. Gavin left alone (presumably) and he was attacked by a gang of thugs sometime around 4:30 a.m. After the thugs beat him up, breaking his nose and cutting up his face but not robbing him, Gavin then tried to walk it off, I guess, and he wandered into the street where he was clipped by a taxi. What in the world?

Pop singer Gavin DeGraw was viciously beaten by a pack of thugs on the Lower East Side early today — and then hit by a taxi as he stumbled off, police sources said.

The 34-year-old crooner — who's spent the summer opening for superstar rockers Maroon 5 and Train — had been drinking and just left a group of pals when he was attacked by the marauding perps sometime between 3:50 and 4:20 a.m. at 6th Street and 1st Avenue, the sources said.

He had his nose broken and suffered cuts on his face, they said.

The creeps then fled, and the dazed singer, whose hit song “Chariot” went platinum, kept walking, sources said.

He wound up at 19th Street and 1st Avenue, where he was struck by a cab, although not seriously, they said.

He remained in Bellevue Hospital tonight.

The sources said the attack did not appear to be a robbery.

DeGraw, who hails from upstate South Fallsburg, has a Manhattan pad. He and his brother also own a bar, the National Underground, on East Houston Street.

[From The NY Post]

My guess is that the subtext of the "walking it off" part of the story is that Gavin was either not badly injured at first, or he didn't realize how badly he was hurt, or that he was just in shock. Or he was just too drunk and numb to really "get" what happened. But he didn't have a cell phone to call 911? It's all so weird.

People Mag has more details - Gavin was definitely alone when he was assaulted, and the police came when "someone" called 911 saying that "there was a man with blood on his shirt who appeared to be heavily intoxicated". Gavin's rep says: “Gavin DeGraw was assaulted … and was taken to the emergency room at Bellevue Hospital by ambulance. He is currently under observation. We have no additional information at this time.” Poor Gavin.

Photos courtesy of WENN.

Stacy Keibler & George Clooney are “more than a fling” but “not monogamous”

Posted: 09 Aug 2011 07:53 AM PDT

As we found out last week, George Clooney has a new piece. She's a blonde too, which doesn't give me confidence that she'll last more than a few months. The blonde in question is WWE wrestler Stacy Keibler, and she's already positioning herself to make the most of out of this liaison with Clooney. Girl has already been tweeting cryptic messages about how happy she is and how "sore" she is (no joke). So instead of asking "how long will Clooney keep her around?" we now face a barrage of reports about the state of their awesome relationship.

When former WWE wrestler and actress Stacy Keibler drove her Mercedes through the gates to George Clooney’s Studio City, Calif., home Sunday, she seems to have unwittingly confirmed that the two are dating.

“It’s more than just a fling,” a source told USmagazine.com, adding that the odd pair have known one another for a number of years and have even vacationed together in London and at Clooney’s home in Italy.

It was just a quick trip in California, though, that has people talking: As of Monday morning, a day after Keibler arrived at Clooney’s home, she had yet to leave.

If the two are camping out together in Clooney’s love nest, it’s been a long time in the making. They met in 2006 at an Oscars party and struck up a longtime friendship when the “Up In The Air” star approached Keibler and told her he recognized her from her role on the “Dancing With the Stars.”

“It’s so funny,” she told People magazine at the time. “George Clooney came up to me, and he was like, ‘You’re so great. You should win.’ And I said, ‘You watch “Dancing with the Stars”?’”

Clooney, who has over the years been linked to various ladies, recently split with his girlfriend of two years, Elisabetta Canalis, leaving him wide open for a beauty like Keibler to stake her claim.

[From NYDN]

Seriously, George Clooney watches DWTS? Mind-boggling. Maybe he watches a lot of reality programming to pick his girlfriends. As for Stacy "moving in" with Clooney - that's just how he operates. Once he chooses his girl, she gets the keys to the castle, and once he's done, her ass is thrown out of the castle immediately.

Meanwhile, OK! Magazine has an interesting piece about Clooney & Keibler too - her friends are already talking to the press, of course. An "insider close to Stacy" tells OK! Mag, "It's just fun, it's not as serious as everyone is making it out to be. He thinks she's gorgeous and fun to be around and she thinks he's George Clooney — smart, hot, talented. He's George Clooney — there isn't too much more to say than that. It's like asking someone if they wanted to go on a date with their 'dream man' and then having it turn out to be reality. She's always thought he was a good looking guy." The insider also claims: "They're not monogamous. It's just hanging out, hooking up. Really low key and chill." Eyeroll. Okay, Stacy, We get it. You're playing it cool and you're not going to push him for a commitment. The problem? Clooney likes his girls DUMB, and as soon as Stacy’s around for more than a second, she’ll start to think that she’s the one who can “change” him.

Photos courtesy of WENN.

Petra Ecclestone plans huge wedding party in that $85 mill mansion she bought

Posted: 09 Aug 2011 07:34 AM PDT

Remember that British socialite, Petra Ecclestone, 22, who is probably the world’s most spoiled offspring that we know of? Her dad is the head of Formula One and threw her an engagement party in May during which he gifted her a custom Bugatti worth $1.3 million and flew in Rihanna to sing. In June “Petra” bought Candy Spelling’s old mansion/estate/hotel, the biggest home in L.A. county, for $85 million. Anyway Petra is about to hit the scene with a huge party at her new place this fall to celebrate her wedding. From what I can tell, the last big wedding party that was held at that estate was Tori Spelling’s first wedding, to Charlie Shanian, in 2004. We all know how that turned out. It’s good for Petra’s dad that she supposedly has an ironclad prenup.

Petra Ecclestone will be hosting a post-wedding bash at her new 56,000 square foot mansion in Holmby Hills, California, RadarOnline.com is exclusively reporting.

The stunning, mega-wealthy daughter of billionaire Formula One racing chief, Bernie Ecclestone, is marrying businessman, James Stunt in Rome at the end of August.

Petra, 22, bought her mega-mansion from Candy Spelling for a whopping $85 million dollars — in cash!

“Petra will be throwing an over-the-top party at the house after she is married in Rome,” a source close to the situation tells RadarOnline.com. “The party will likely take place in late September, early October. She is planning the party as her official coming-out party to Hollywood. The party will be for James and Petra, but leave no doubt, this party is going to be all about her.”

The guest list for the post-wedding bash will read like a who’s who in Hollywood, definitely including: “Paris, Nicky, Rick & Kathy Hilton,” the source says. “Paris and Petra have been friends for years. Petra has been asking Paris for career advice, which Paris has been more than willing to share. In fact, Rick, who is a top realtor, sold the house to Petra.”

[From Radar Online]

Why is it not surprising to me that this girl is friends with Paris Hilton? Does this mean that she’s going to be all over the tabloids? It’s not like she needs to attend parties for cash like Paris and the Kardashians. What’s her angle? I’m honestly wondering why she’s asking Paris Hilton for career advice when it’s not like Petra will ever have to work another day in her life. And it’s not like Paris’ career is much to emulate, anyway. Put out a sex tape, get a reality show with your best friend, put out perfume, clothing and fake hair lines, show up to the opening of an envelope, get busted for drunk driving, get busted for driving without a license and go to jail, dabble in music and be accused of plagiarism, get busted for drugs, attempt a comeback and have it fail. That’s pretty much it. I’m sure I left some out, but what kind of career is that to try and follow when your daddy is a billionaire? If Petra is worried about how to pay for that house maybe she should have bought a $10 million house and lived comfortably off the rest of the money for her entire damn life.

Here’s Petra on 7/6/11 in that Givenchy dress that Kim Kardashian just wore to the Teen Choice awards. She looks like she gets her makeup done by the same guy as Kim too. Petra is also shown with her sister, Tamara, and with her fiance, James Stunt.

Photo Credit: WENN.com

How amazing does 53-year-old Sharon Stone look?

Posted: 09 Aug 2011 07:24 AM PDT

I've often wondered if Sharon Stone has gotten some minor tweaking over the years. If she has, I can't tell. It's not one of those situations where I can't put my finger on what a celebrity has gotten done, but I know for sure that they look different. Sharon always looks natural to me, in that she's not full of fillers and Botox, and she's never appeared to suddenly have a completely new face. She's 53 years old, and we should all be so lucky to look this good at her age.

Of course, in these photos, Sharon is being helped by professional hair and makeup. These are from the set of Gods Behaving Badly, where Sharon is playing a goddess living in NYC. The film also stars Alicia Silverstone and Christopher Walken (he's playing Zeus).

So is Sharon all-natural, or is her surgeon just one of the best in the business? Does she get tweaked, but keeps it as close to natural as possible, or does she simply take great care of herself and have great genes? I still don't know. I like the mystery, though. I wish more ladies had such natural-looking faces. I feel that way when I look at Meryl Streep too - at this point, I think ladies look YOUNGER when they are un-tweaked.

Photos courtesy of Pacific Coast News.

They’re remaking Dirty Dancing, is nothing sacred?

Posted: 09 Aug 2011 07:03 AM PDT

I’m of the age where Dirty Dancing was on HBO constantly when I was in high school. I’ve seen it countless times, and last year I was so thrilled to see a very accurate Dirty Dancing stage show in Berlin. (It was wonderful and gave me goosebumps. Props to my husband for taking me to such a chick flick show.) The movie is a complete classic and should not be remade on the big screen. (The way I see it there’s a huge difference between a stage show that pays homage and a film remake, but I’m open to arguments.) Since new ideas don’t impress the blockheads that run Hollywood, they’re messing with a classic and doing a remake. Of course they freaking are! At least the original choreographer for Dirty Dancing is directing the new version, because choreographers make such great directors:

Dirty Dancing” is coming back to the big screen.

Lionsgate says it is remaking the 1987 film that starred Jennifer Grey as a naive dance student and Patrick Swayze as her teacher and lover.

The studio said Monday that Kenny Ortega, who choreographed the original film, will direct the remake.

Ortega says he is eager to discover and cast “the next breakout triple-threats” to define dancing for a generation, the way Swayze did in the original “Dirty Dancing.”

[From AP via Huffington Post]

I looked up this Kenny Ortega guy on IMDB, and he also directed the Michael Jackson documentary This is It along with the High School Musical movie and the Cheetah Girls movie. So it’s safe to assume this is going to suck. I get that dancing shows are popular now with So You Think You Can Dance, Dancing with the Stars, and all those other reality dance shows that are cropping up like heads on a hydra.

There’s got to be a way to make a unique coming of age romance that heavily features dancing and doesn’t rip off a classic. Instead they’re dishonoring Patrick Swayze’s memory in order to make a buck. If they’re going to modernize this movie, and that remains to be seen, they’ll probably just give the lead characters iPhones and have them flirt on Twitter.

BabyHS: Keller’s sux, M sooo bored.

CastleCous: Meet me behind dock. Carry my watermellan.

Jeremy Irons: Putting your hand on a woman’s bottom is “just being friendly”

Posted: 09 Aug 2011 06:53 AM PDT

Jeremy Irons:“Who wants their ass groped?”

I don't follow gossip about Jeremy Irons. I have great affection for him as an actor, but I don't actively seek out information about his personal life. He's been married to the actress Sinéad Cusack since 1978 and he seems like a pretty nice, eccentric, lovely Englishman. I might have to rethink my opinion of him after this article, though. It's not just that Jeremy seems to be in the Dark Ages as far as his view of sexual harassment - it's also the information about his history with women other than his wife. Jeremy is definitely "PRO" sexual harassment - but of course, Jeremy might be in a different place than most men - because if Jeremy Irons patted my ass, I would probably giggle, not slap him.

Any woman 'worth her salt' should be able to take a pat on the bottom with good humour, the actor Jeremy Irons has said in a controversial interview. The 62-year-old declared that such an advance is nothing more than a man indulging in friendly 'communication'.

His views are sure to anger feminists and those who have campaigned for equality in the workplace but may find sympathy with those who believe political correctness holds too much sway in modern Britain.

Irons, who made his name as Charles Ryder in the 1981 television adaptation of Brideshead Revisited, said: '[Political correctness] has gone too far. There are too many people in power with too little to do, so they churn out laws to justify their jobs. I hope it's a rash that will wear itself out.'

Interviewed in this week's Radio Times, he went on: 'Most people are robust. If a man puts his hand on a woman's bottom, any woman worth her salt can deal with it. It is communication. Can't we be friendly?'

Irons has been married to actress Sinead Cusack for 33 years. The couple, who have two grown-up sons, Sam, 32, and Max, 25, are reported to have an open relationship.

Last year, the actor was seen in what was described by observers as a 'prolonged clinch' with a pretty Broadway assistant stage manager less than half his age. Then there was a bizarre incident in which Spanish actress Loles León successfully sued a five-star Madrid hotel for £39,000 after she broke her wrist and pelvis falling down steps in the actor's luxury suite.

She claimed she had gone to the suite so that she could tell friends she 'had spent the night with Jeremy Irons'.

The actor has previously described his relationship with his wife as 'dysfunctional' and claimed that 'part of our nature is to have as many partners as possible'.

He admitted: 'Sinead and I have had difficult times. Every marriage does because people are impossible. I'm impossible, my wife's impossible, life's impossible.'

He also once said: 'No marriage is what it seems. I will say that it is very difficult to be everything to one person.'

In this week's interview he is more circumspect, saying: 'I float ideas, which I shouldn't. But why not stir the pot? Lack of privacy is faintly aggravating, particularly if you have a salacious private life, which I hope most people have. We only live once. We all like dirty secrets, don't we? [But] I've never needed a super-injunction. They're terribly expensive you know.'

Irons is currently starring as Pope Alexander VI in the 15th-century drama The Borgias on Sky.

[From The Mail]

So, Jeremy has an open marriage (or an understanding wife). And if he wants to be friendly to a woman, whether she's a coworker, a waitress, a random on the street, he's going to put his hands on her. At what point does it become less about "being friendly" and more about him being a handsy, dirty old man?

Photos courtesy of WENN.

Zoe Saldana “collapsed” under the weight of her own enormous fame

Posted: 09 Aug 2011 06:39 AM PDT

Yesterday, CB and I debated whether we should cover Zoe Saldana's appearance at the Teen Choice Awards. CB's take was basically that Zoe isn't really important, in that people don't give a crap about her in general. My take? The people who do care enough about her only care enough to dislike her. Personally, I tried to like Zoe, but after that horribly annoying Calvin Klein commercial (which she "wrote" herself), I find her somewhat insufferable.

Anyway, CB and I ended up ignoring Zoe yesterday, so now there's even more to love (or hate) today. Zoe covers the September issue of Latina Magazine to promote her new film, Colombiana. The trailer is below - it's like The Professional meets La Femme Nikita, with a heavy dose of been there, done that. Don't get me wrong - it's certainly interesting to see Zoe try to take on this kind of stunt-heavy lead role in her own action film, but this doesn't look very good:

See? It doesn't look bad per se, it just looks repetitive, derivative and kind of tedious. As for Zoe's Latina interview, she doesn't come across too badly here:

Stunning Afro-Latina actress Zoe Saldana graces the September 2011 cover of Latina magazine's fall style issue, available on newsstands August 16th. The 33-year-old Dominican and Puerto Rican star of this month's Colombiana opens up to about how she nearly had an emotional collapse after catapulting to superstardom with Avatar, the highest-grossing movie of all time, and what helped her stay grounded.

On dealing with her newfound fame: "The year after Avatar was just emotionally overwhelming. I was traveling all over the world, waking up in different time zones. Your body gets exhausted, and by the end of the year I just collapsed."

On coming close to a total breakdown: "I was in Paris training for Colombiana, sitting in my hotel room, and I couldn't stop crying. I couldn't stay awake. I must have slept for an entire month. It took me the rest of the year, even as I was working and shooting Colombiana, to pick myself up. Thank God my family was there."

On the post-Avatar effect: "I just want the best filmmakers in the world to tell me, 'You're good, kid, you're legit.' The recognition will never get old, and I'll never get accustomed to it. I don't ever want to, because that will mean I'm taking it for granted. That's why I work, not for the luxuries or the awards."

On the simple joys of life: "I just stay at home and do absolutely nothing. When I was younger, that would have made me feel like such a failure. Now that I'm older, I know what it means to shut down. I don't shower if I don't want to. I don't answer e-mails. It's a healthy way of being selfish. You know you're old when gardening, the Food Network and voice notes from your nieces and nephews blow your mind."

On her small circle of friends: "If you surround yourself with good people, if you're having a bad day – which everyone does – they will protect you, and it will never reach any kind of surface. But if you surround yourself with people who don't really love you and care for you, they'll be the first ones to expose you. That's dangerous."

On the key to her 12-year relationship with actor Keith Britton: "I think the only reason we've made it this long is because we don't listen to anybody but ourselves. We've still managed to sustain a relationship in a world where half of the people we know are divorcing or going through problems. It's like that song we both love by Frank Sinatra – we did it our way!"

[From Latina]

Her description of the "simple joys" sound more like depression, right? I like to be low-key and sit around watching the Food Network too, but I still answer emails and take showers. As for how difficult it is for Zoe to be so famous - er… she knows that most people can’t pick her out of lineup, right?

Here are some photos of Zoe at Sunday's Teen Choice Awards. Her dress was Lanvin - it's pretty but kind of meh, much like Zoe. She looks a bit like Jada Pinkett Smith, right? Which is why it's extra weird that Michael Vartan is Zoe's love interest in Colombiana, considering he plays Jada's love interest in HawthoRNe.

Photos courtesy of Fame.

Sarah Palin is a grandmother again, her two kids over 18 both have kids now

Posted: 09 Aug 2011 06:34 AM PDT

Sarah Palin just welcomed her second grandchild, from her 22 year-old son, Track, and his bride of two and a half months, Britta Hanson, 21. So this 47 year-old abstinence advocate now has two grandchildren from two out of her five kids (the only two that are of age) that were conceived out of wedlock. Congratulations are in order!

Sarah Palin has become a grandmother for the second time, according to reporter Joe McGinniss, who is writing a book on the former vice presidential candidate.

Palin’s eldest son, Track, and his wife, Britta, welcomed a baby girl named Kyla Grace Palin on Sunday night, reports McGinniss, who moved next door to the Palins’s Alaska home in 2010 to gain better access to the family.

In May, it was announced that the high school sweethearts were married. The Palin family never officially confirmed Britta’s pregnancy, though pictures of her baby shower surfaced on Facebook.

The former Britta Hanson was once roommates with her husband’s younger sister, Bristol, in Anchorage, and served as an executive secretary in the governor’s office, beginning when her mother-in-law was governor of Alaska. She is currently a nursing student at the University of Alaska.

Track Palin, an Army Reservist, has said he plans to study at the University of Alaska after the commercial fishing season.

Neither Todd Palin, nor a rep for the Palin family responded to requests for comment.

[From People]

This story is confusing to me. People regularly runs official stories from the Palin camp, so it seems strange that they’re running this story based on details from the next door neighbor. I looked up this biographer neighbor guy, Joe McGinniss, and Palin once bitched about him moving next to her. She wrote on Facebook “Wonder what kind of material he’ll gather while overlooking Piper’s bedroom, my little garden, and the family’s swimming hole?” McGinniss called Palin’s response “the same kind of tactic that the Nazi troopers used in Germany in the '30s,” and she of course blurted something back because she never ignores any criticism, however absurd. So it’s safe to assume that McGinniss isn’t speaking on behalf of the Palins here.

Radar got a confirmation on the baby’s name and sex from Britta’s mother, the baby’s other grandmother. She said “Kyla Grace is great. She's beautiful.” That’s sweet.

I shouldn’t focus much on Palin at this point. She’s not as relevant now and she seems to have been eclipsed by the competition anyway.

Sarah Palin photos credit: WENN

Katie Holmes wears her own design at her premiere: frumpy or cute?

Posted: 09 Aug 2011 06:27 AM PDT

Yesterday, as I was covering the new photos of Tom Cruise, Katie Holmes and Suri, I was wondering why the family was in LA when it seemed like Tom was having the time of his life down in Miami (Those poor Miami hustlers - I bet they got audited. HARD.). Sure, Tom took Katie out for a "date night" Katy Perry concert (in which Katie wore one of the worst dong-repellent ensembles ever), but surely they didn't go to LA just for a concert? Yeah, they totally did. Because yesterday, the Cruise-Holmes clan flew to NYC for Katie's premiere. Her film Don't Be Afraid of the Dark had it's big red carpet premiere last night, and these are the photos. Note: Katie seems to have walked the red carpet by herself, but Tom was definitely there, and the paparazzi got lots of photos of the two of them after the premiere.

As for Katie's style… I don't hate the dress. It's not the best thing ever, but it's cute enough, especially when she pairs it with the grey cardigan. Guess who did the dress? KATIE! The dress is Holmes & Yang! It's always funny to me that Katie fronts like she's the second coming of Ralph Lauren when the Holmes & Yang line looks so budget. As I said, this dress is cute and everything, but if you were going to design something cute for your own premiere, why do a simple LBD?

What I do like about Katie's premiere look: her hair looks good. I think she's just decided to copy whatever Kate Middleton has done. And Katie's makeup looks decent too. It's funny, though - she looks alert and sober on the red carpet, but as soon as she's holding hands with Tom, it's like she becomes instantly zonked. Tom looked kind of weird last night too. What's going on with him? His hair looks limp, he didn't take his sunglasses off, and he didn't walk the carpet with Katie. Is anyone else worried?

Photos courtesy of WENN & Fame.

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