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Evangeline Lilly was in labor for 30 hours, with 8 hours devoted to pushing
Kim Kardashian shuts down the baby rumors: “give us a year” to have kids
Katie Price promotes her new TV show in an unusual getup: tacky?
Cindy Crawford’s current Botox-face: better or worse?
Bethenny Frankel’s mom talks smack: ’she’s narcissistic,’ ‘husband is weak’
Beyonce accused of “plagiarism” by Belgian choreographer
Sandra Bullock and Louis go to a pirate-themed party, look adorable
Tom Cruise gets frisky, affectionate with Katie Holmes: cheesy or cute?
Michelle Williams in white Dior at the ‘Marilyn’ premiere: sexy, pretty or blah?
Miranda Kerr: “Becoming a mother puts everything into perspective”

Evangeline Lilly was in labor for 30 hours, with 8 hours devoted to pushing

Posted: 10 Oct 2011 08:35 AM PDT

These are some week-old photos of Evangeline Lilly at the LA premiere of Reel Steel, which was the number one movie this weekend. Evangeline (or "Evangelina" as my idiotic fingers keep typing) probably didn't have much to do with the box office, although you never know. Just because I absolutely hated her on Lost, doesn't mean that she doesn't have a devoted base of horny fan-boys. But is Evangeline liked by ladies? Will ladies ever say "Hey, let's go see that new Evangeline Lilly movie?" Probably not. But Evangeline is trying to win our support. Little does she know that I started crying and rocking as soon as I read her "natural childbirth" tale:

Evangeline Lilly knows how to hold her ground. The actress opted for a home birth for the delivery of her son last May, and was determined to see it through — despite the unexpected timeline.

"I actually skipped the hospital … We decided to have the baby at home because we wanted it to be a natural birth, and it turns out that it was 30 hours of natural," the Real Steel star, 32, explained during a Monday appearance on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno.

"Eight hours of pushing, that's the part that men don't understand. Women go, 'Oh, dear, oh, dear God, eight hours of pushing?' And the men are like, 'Okay, eight hours of pushing.'"

Fortunately for the former Lost star, her midwife eventually stepped in to save the day, much to Lilly's relief.

"After about five hours of pushing, my midwife and my birthing assistant said, 'You know, we have a few suggestions,'" she says. "And I was like, 'Really? After five hours of pushing you have a few suggestions? You couldn't have told me five minutes in?'"

Following the baby boy's birth, Lilly planned to "abandon ship for a little while," but the first-time mom — who hopes to have a "brood" of babies — admits that even the best laid plans often go awry.

"I was sitting with my newborn baby and Peter Jackson called and said, 'Would you like to be an elf in The Hobbit?'" she shares. "And I said, 'Yes, I really do! I really do want to do that.' So I'm sort of strapped in, as it turns out, to four movies now."

Luckily for Lilly, her son is brought to set each day to spend time with his mama — unbeknownst to him, however!

"He came to the trailer and I put him to my breast [to nurse] and he screamed his head off, staring up at this strange, pointy-eared, mess of a person that was not his mother," she laughs.

"And then that night I was feeding him at home and he was perfectly fine and my partner [Norman Kali] said to me, 'You know his internal dialogue right now is, "Mom, you won't believe what happened to me today!"'"

[From People]

Eight hours of pushing, thirty hours of labor, all with no drugs? Just shoot me in the face. Seriously. If it ever happens for me, I'm going to ask to be unconscious for the birth. The doctor can handle it, I'll be downing every pill I can find. Don't judge.

Evangeline gave birth mid-May, and we STILL don't know the little guy's name. Evangeline did reveal this blind-item about her son's name: "My baby did not have a name for a month. It took me a month to name my child… I had my baby outside in a thunderstorm. It was really romantic. His name means 'the thunder.'" The baby blogs are having a field day trying to guess - go here to see some of the Hawaiian (and other) possibilities. My favorite is Kane.

Photos courtesy of WENN.

Kim Kardashian shuts down the baby rumors: “give us a year” to have kids

Posted: 10 Oct 2011 07:53 AM PDT

I taped Kim Kardashian’s two hour wedding extravaganza last night and I had aspirations of watching it to at least get a perspective on the phenomenon that is this ubiquitously annoying family. So far I’ve only seen one episode of any of their shows and their baby voices and the stupid plot lines just bugged me so much I didn’t want to bother ever watching it again. I should have known I wouldn’t be able to actually sit down and watch the wedding yet. Plus there are two MORE hours of this sh*t, for real. It is airing over two nights and there’s more to come tonight. I feel confident in my decision to let Kim’s heavily sponsored wedding sit idly on my DVR and get deleted after 14 days by default.

Anyway the tabloids were claiming that Kim was pregnant a couple of weeks ago, then this week they’re claiming that she’s having trouble in her marriage since neither Kim nor husband Kris have been wearing their rings. It looks like the tabloids may have gotten it right more recently. Kim gave an interview to Ryan Seacrest in which she backtracks on her constant claims that she wants to have babies right away and then complains about how little her husband did to help her plan the wedding. The E! wedding special will end up lasting longer than this marriage. Here’s more:

Newlywed reality star Kim Kardashian has said she’s ready for kids – and now she’s put a specific timeframe on the project.

“I think we want to figure out where he’s going to play an where we’re going to live [first],” Kardashian, 30, told Ryan Seacrest Friday on his KIIS-FM radio show of her plans to start a family with husband Kris Humphries, who is unsure which basketball team he’ll play for while the NBA lockout is in effect.

But, she added cryptically, they will be thinking about the prospected date soon: “Give us a year.”

She also says their lives are so entwined that she’d slow down her glamorous Los Angeles-New York lifestyle without a second thought if necessary.

Asked what she would do if Humphries was picked up by the Oklahoma Thunder basketball team, for example, Kardashian replied, “I would go to Oklahoma City. We’re not going to live a separate life.”

And while the couple – who is now based in New York – is frenetically busy, they still find married life blissful.

“We are six or seven weeks in … his is six and a half,” she said. “I feel good. It was kind of crazy to go right from our wedding straight to New York.”

She added, “It’s been work non-stop, and I think [Kris] finally appreciates all the hard work we do. It’s like, ‘I’m running off here to do this’ … there’s so much going on. He finally gets it.”

Of course, things aren’t always perfect. She explained what was behind a pre-wedding spat with her husband over wedding-planning duties.

“I asked him to do a few things,” she said. “And he kept on being so opinionated … but when I asked him to do something, nothing would happen … It would take him forever to do something. So I think I finally just lost it and was like, ‘I can’t do his seating chart, I can’t do any of the things on his side of the family.’ It was just really frustrating because all of my things were done. So I just lost it.”

More will be revealed about the wedding on Kim’s Fairytale Wedding: A Kardashian Event, airing Sunday at 8/7 central and Monday at 9/8 central on E!

[From People]

Over the summer I got a blowout at a salon at a city I was visiting and the hairdresser and I totally bonded over celebrities. Usually when someone asks me what I do I’ll just say “I run a website from my house,” but sometimes I’ll say “I run a celebrity gossip website.” There are people who have looked at me like I’m a like I’m a pornographer or something so I have to approach it tentatively. Anyway this hairdresser loved The Kardashians and she loved Jessica Simpson and she knew all the gossip. It was so much fun to talk to her, and I rarely run into people who are as into gossip as I am. (And my hair looked gorgeous afterwards, BTW. If I already told you this story I’m sorry!)

My long rambling point is that Kim Kardashian has fans who totally love her and think she’s awesome, and they’re not bad people. She serves a purpose in our society, as Kaiser is often saying. But Kim has just as many detractors, probably more so, than she has fans. And we love to hate her. Hence the triple-K wedding spectacular, spread out over two nights and longer than the best movies that have ever been made. You would say it’s so presumptuous of anyone to think we would find that interesting for such a long period of time, but that basically sums up this whole Kardashian phenomenon.

Kim and Kris are shown out Saturday in New York. She had an outfit change. Look at her, she thinks she’s royalty. Credit: Fame Pictures

Katie Price promotes her new TV show in an unusual getup: tacky?

Posted: 10 Oct 2011 07:50 AM PDT

I'm just going to start this post off with Katie Price fully clothed because I want you to take a moment to prepare your eyes for the oncoming assault. These are pics of Katie promoting her new television series in the UK, "Signed: By Katie Price". Guess what it is? It's a "talent search" where the winner becomes "the new Katie Price". As in, a celebrity who does nothing, really. Katie actually had the audacity to say:

"A lot of people that came through, you could see that they just want the fame, they’re not really interesting anything else, ’cause I could tell by the questions I was asking them. So they wouldn’t have a chance anyway. I would listen to what people are saying. They have to say the right thing. Anyone can come along to an audition and say ‘I wanna be famous, I wanna do this and that’ but then you say ‘OK, but famous for what?’ You’ll see in the show they’ve got to be smart, shrewd, hungry and really want it. Looks helps. You can’t be pig ugly, let’s be honest. You’re not going to buy a pig ugly person on a calendar are you? Well I wouldn’t. They’ve got to have looks, they’ve got to have an aura about them, a bit of star quality.”

[From The Press Association]

She's so oblivious. She might even be worse than Paris Hilton, and I know how rough that is. Did you notice that Katie can't even answer her own "But famous for what?" question? Ugh.

Anyway, prepare your eyes. Katie started out in a suit that I guess included a stripper's tear-away skirt (??), and then she just did the rest of the photo call in her panties and garter… and a blazer! She's RIDIC.

Photos courtesy of WENN.

Cindy Crawford’s current Botox-face: better or worse?

Posted: 10 Oct 2011 07:22 AM PDT

Several months ago, I talked about some recent (at the time) photos of Cindy Crawford, where her face looked especially jacked. Now, Cindy has admitted to using Botox and collagen injections in the past - she claims she did it to restore elasticity to her face. So, it's not like the state of Cindy's Botox-face is up for debate at this point. She has a Botox-face, this is a fact. So now the question becomes: does Cindy need to be doing this much to her face? Would she look better if she wasn't so heavily "injected"? Back in May, I was horrified by the state of her, but then she showed up at the Cannes Film Festival (to support her friend and stalker George Clooney), and her face looked slightly better.

So these are new photos of Cindy in Russia today. In the closeups, you can definitely see where Cindy's cheeks have been "filled". But does she look better? I do think her face looks less jacked than earlier this year. I will say this, though - I think Cindy has done so much, one of her eyes has gone wonky, which happens to many celebrity women. I don't know the medical reason for it.

By the way, the frequent complaint I hear when I call someone a Botox-face or a cat-face is that they have wrinkles, thus they're somehow not using injections or Botox. Cindy has wrinkles. Madonna has wrinkles. Teri Hatcher has wrinkles. It's not about "wrinkles" and whether or not Botox or collagen makes the wrinkles disappear completely. Botox freezes, collagen "fills" and both leave behind the unintended tell-tale signs of the work done.

Photos courtesy of WENN.

Bethenny Frankel’s mom talks smack: ’she’s narcissistic,’ ‘husband is weak’

Posted: 10 Oct 2011 07:17 AM PDT

I don’t really follow Bethenny Frankel’s career and I didn’t watch “The Real Housewives of NY” when she was on. I’ve caught some of her solo reality show and found it mildly interesting. It struck me that she doesn’t have the best relationship with her new husband, but I really didn’t care too much about it either way. The thing that made me want to repeat this story is how incredibly bitchy and mean Bethenny’s mom Bernadette is being. This isn’t new, Bettheny has spoken out in the past about her terrible relationship with her mom, and her mom has denied Bettheny’s claims. As background I’ll include some of these priceless quotes from Bethenny’s mom in a July 2010 interview with The Enquirer. She’s such a bitch, but she amps it up in this more recent interview as I’ll cover in a moment:

Speaking about her mother in a recent interview, Bethenny, 39, stated: “I don’t want her to contact us and make it toxic. I’m never going to want her in my daughter’s life.”

A devastated Bernadette, 59, told The Enquirer: “I have kept my silence for many years. I didn’t want to say anything about the lies Bethenny has spread about me because she is my flesh and blood…”

Bettheny has claimed that her mom was a severe bulimic and “was always drinking.” Bernadette denies both allegations.

“I never got a DUI, and I couldn’t have held down the jobs I did if I had an alcohol problem,” she said. “They would have fired me…”

“I did everything I could to bond with her…

“All through her childhood, John [Bernadette's husband] was funding her. But after that, he hit a bad patch and could no longer pay her credit card bills.

“So she went to live with Bobby. She changed her name from Bethenny Parisella to Bethenny Frankel and cut John and I off.”

Bethenny has spoken to Bernadette only twice in the past 10 years.

[From The National Enquirer, print edition, July 26, 2010]

Listen to this lady. She wasn’t an alcoholic because she didn’t get a DUI and kept some jobs. That’s how alcoholics justify their addiction. She was living high on the hog with her husband, and then kicked her daughter out because they couldn’t afford her. It gets worse though. She’s moved from defending herself to trashing Bethenny and hoping that her life goes horribly wrong.

Describing her daughter as narcissistic, Bernadette says the highly strung and driven Bethenny will get what she needs from the relationship - children - before casing Jason aside.

“Right now, he is a good father, but soon she won’t need him and she will dump him,” Bernadette tells Star exclusively. “Her husband seems like a really nice guy, but it won’t last. He is really too weak for her”

Even worse, says Bernadette, Bethenny will always put money and power before everything else - including her own family.

“She sells everything because money and power is No. 1 for her, and there is never enough,” says Bernadette. “I find it amazing that she discusses having another child with her husband, but she barely has time for the first one…

“She only puts herself around people who can do something for her,” Bernadette says. “It is amazing how she turned out just like her father…”

Claims the Skinny Girl margarita was her idea
“When she was young, her godmother, Eleanor Mogavero, would come and visit, and her drink of choice was a margarita. She was overweight, so I’d make her really low-fat ones… But Bethenny would never give anyone credit - it goes against her narcissistic point of view.”

[From Star Magazine, print edition, October 17, 2011]

Holy crap! What do you do when your mom treats you like that - in public no less?! I guess you do what Bethenny does, you basically ignore the nasty wench. It’s awful that there are people like this in the world, whose hatred of everything, even their own family, just eats them up inside. I’ve had some issues with my mom, but they seem absolutely insignificant compared to this. My mom sometimes tells me what to do with my kid and I find it annoying, but she doesn’t put me down at all. This is incredible to me that there are people who talk like this about their own kids.

photo credit: WENN and Fame

Beyonce accused of “plagiarism” by Belgian choreographer

Posted: 10 Oct 2011 06:51 AM PDT

Earlier this year, at the Billboard Music Awards, Beyonce got a special tribute that made her sound like the Nelson Mandela of booty-shaking, and she also performed her then-new single "Run The World (Girls)". The performance was visually interesting, stunning even. But within 24 hours, critics pounced and pointed out that Bey had borrowed/stolen/hijacked large chunks of the performance from an Italian pop artist named Lorella Cuccarini. Beyonce issued a statement saying that Cuccarini was an obvious influence, she had seen it and tried to her own take. "Her own take" = grabbing several chunks.

So, now Beyonce has a new single and a new video out - "Countdown". We covered it last week, and I hated both the song and the video (and the disappearing and reappearing baby bump). I thought it looked like Bey was jacking from Funny Face, West Side Story, and other people mentioned Flashdance and some other films too. Honestly, the video is a too-jerky, too-rapidly-edited mess. And now Beyonce is being accused of outright theft once again. This time, she allegedly (or not so) stole some dance and imagery from Belgian choreographer Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker. Here's a side-by-side that someone put together:

Can you plagiarize a concept? Can you steal a visual setup? My opinion? Yes, you can. That's the opinion of Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker too! She told a Danish blog, "I didn’t know anything about this. I’m not mad, but this is plagiarism. This is stealing. They took pieces from Achterland and Rosas danst Rosas. … It’s a bit rude, I must say. … What’s rude about it is that they don’t even bother about hiding it. They seem to think they could do it because it’s a famous work. … Am I honored? Look, I’ve seen local school kids doing this. That’s a lot more beautiful.” Ha. Awesome. But Beyonce's "co-director" told MTV, "I brought Beyoncé a number of references and we picked some out together. Most were German modern-dance references, believe it or not. But it really evolved." I hope Bey comes out (again) and explains what she was thinking.

Photos courtesy of Columbia Records, WENN.

Sandra Bullock and Louis go to a pirate-themed party, look adorable

Posted: 10 Oct 2011 06:31 AM PDT

Sandra Bullock and Louis were photographed looking super cute while dressed up as pirates to go to a birthday party in Brentwood yesterday. At least Louis was all decked out like a pirate while Sandra put on a jaunty hat to go with her casual jean outfit. I’m pretty sure Sandra tipped off the paps since all the photo agencies we subscribe to have really clear gorgeous photos of this party. So at least I don’t have to feel bad about publishing these pictures. Sandra seems to have signed off on them, and she’s having fun so why not? It’s better to get the press to focus on how much fun she’s having with her adorable kid than to maybe realize that she got ditched by Ryan Reynolds for a chick who seems to date everyone. She’s making sure she gets some good photo ops, and these are the best. Here’s more on the party:

Dressed for the high seas, the adorable 21-month-old and his mom attended a friend’s birthday party in the Brentwood area of Los Angeles, Calif. Sunday.

Sandra Bullock joined in on the fun, sporting a pirate’s hat as she toted around her pride and joy. The 47-year-old actress, who stars opposite Tom Hanks the upcoming movie Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, adopted Louis Brado from New Orleans in January 2010.

Nicknamed her “Cajun Cookie,” Bullock says she “got lucky” with her her son. “Motherhood has made me a better person,” the star has said. “I really appreciate where I am.”

[From US Weekly]

I love these photos! Louis looks like he’s having so much fun, and it’s so great to see him smile. Most of the time when we see him he looks like he’s being rushed somewhere, and there’s probably a bunch of photographers yelling his name and confusing the poor toddler. He’s relaxing and having fun here, and so is his mom. Bullock really is a PR master. She gets it right every damn time. Even when it’s obvious she’s doing it, she still works it like no other. Well, someone else does come to mind but I’m not starting anything.

Photo credit: Pacific Coast News and Fame

Tom Cruise gets frisky, affectionate with Katie Holmes: cheesy or cute?

Posted: 10 Oct 2011 06:18 AM PDT

These are some new photos of Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes (and Suri!) from the weekend, where Tom continues to film One Shot in Pittsburgh, and Katie and Suri continue to look kind of zonked out for the paparazzi. Katie had been improving over the summer - her style was getting better, her hair and makeup looked great, there was life in her eyes - but now that she's back to spending her days (and nights?) with Tom, it seems like Xenu is taking its (his?) toll. Hey, at least she's not trying to make those overalls "happen" again. I really like her bellbottom jeans in the photos with Suri.

In the pics where she's wearing the purple skinny jeans, I think she's trying too hard to look like Duchess Kate. This seems like a Duchess Kate "casual" outfit, as interpreted by Katie.

As for Tom, he looks to be in good spirits, having worn his special "casual day" lifts so that he's a full inch taller than his wife. Get a good look at his boots - they're like clown shoes! They're comically oversized, probably with the latest in lift technology. He even manhandled her for the paparazzi. I love that Katie seems like she's wincing a little bit. The first photo (below) should be a caption contest:

Photos courtesy of Fame.

Michelle Williams in white Dior at the ‘Marilyn’ premiere: sexy, pretty or blah?

Posted: 10 Oct 2011 06:10 AM PDT

Last night was the New York Film Festival premiere of My Week With Marilyn, the film that I'm not looking forward to. I mean, I'll probably see it, but I'm not expecting Michelle Williams to blow me away as Marilyn Monroe, at all. Michelle's dress was Christian Dior, and although I'm not crazy about a white dress on a pale-skinned blonde girl, I am thankful that Michelle wore something relatively sexy. I got tired of her style during the last awards season, when Michelle was mostly covered up in a series of vintage-y looking dresses that looked more appropriate for young girls. It's nice to see her looking like an adult woman, and yes, this is a very Mia Farrow style from the neck up. It's not just the haircut, either. Michelle really does look like Mia, right?

I've also included some photos of Michelle's costar Eddie Redmayne, who I still think has a serial killer face. It's something about the eyes and the too-high cheekbones - he looks "off" (to me). Jake Gyllenhaal also came out to support Michelle, but we don't have any photos of it - you can see them together here.

Here's the trailer again. Michelle's Marilyn voice bugs even more the second time around.

Photos courtesy of WENN.

Miranda Kerr: “Becoming a mother puts everything into perspective”

Posted: 10 Oct 2011 05:46 AM PDT

Miranda Kerr covers the new issue of Harper's Bazaar Australia, and these are some of the photos from the shoot, as well as some of the behind-the-scenes photos, courtesy of Bazaar's slideshow here. The shoot is also notable because Miranda flashed her post-pregnancy bum - go here to see it. She looks great! In the interview, Miranda discusses baby Flynn, and posing nude and how she's confident. As I've said before, I've really started to like Miranda. I consider her the anti-Gisele - Gisele is all about patronizing non-mothers and mothers alike with wide generalizations and judgments. Miranda seems more like a "this is my experience, other ladies have other experiences" kind of person. Here are some highlights:

Kerr on her happiness: “I’d say what makes me happy is having this little man. I’m the happiest when I’m surrounded by those I love and we are in a natural environment … It’s the best thing I’ve ever done. Becoming a mother puts everything into perspective. You become more comfortable in your own skin.”

On balance: “I always say life is about balance, not about depriving yourself. If you want something then I encourage you to have it. When you deprive yourself, you naturally crave it more.”

On possibly trying to become an actress: “If someone approached me and it sounded interesting, I wouldn’t be opposed to it, but it’s not something I think about.”

[From The Mail & the Free Press]

Miranda also says that she's still breastfeeding Flynn, who is now ten months old. While Miranda had a rather triumphant return to the catwalk for Paris Fashion Week (she walked in several of the biggest shows), she talked about the push-pull of breastfeeding while working: "I'm still breastfeeding so I have to express milk and send it back to him, and then try and see him on my breaks. I was up for hours last night as he's teething. And when he's crying, he just wants Mommy! It's such hard work." She also said the Orly Bloom "loves it! But seriously, he's very hands on. I really couldn't ask for a better dad." And she couldn't ask for a better husband either - Orly adores the hell out of her.

Photos courtesy of Harper's Bazaar Australia.

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