Thursday, December 29, 2011

Cele|bitchy

Cele|bitchy


“Tom Felton is shirtless, pale and surprisingly sexy in Miami” links

Posted: 29 Dec 2011 08:18 AM PST

Tom Felton is in Miami, being pasty and… sexy? Yes, I'm hot for Felton in these photos. I would nail that pasty English boy to the wall. [Celebuzz]
I can't even start with this Lil' Kim photo. [Dlisted]
Ryan Gosling Fatigue '11. Or, "Stop trying to be the cool RA." [LaineyGossip]
First look at Ben Affleck in Argo, The 1970s Wiglet Movie. [Pajiba]
Here's Owen Wilson & his baby, Robert Ford. [Pop Sugar]
Caleb Followill & Lily are expecting their first child. [Celebrity Baby Scoop]
Blind items! I want to know the first one. [Gawker]
Sparkles & Kristen Stewart were apart for Christmas. OH NOES. [Amy Grindhouse]
The Year In… Pippa Middleton's ass of lies. [Moe Jackson]
Emma Watson's hair was more important than Jennifer Aniston's. [The Frisky]
George Clooney & Stacy Keibler are still in Cabo. [Radar]
Oh, but here's Sparkles at LAX, about to reunite with K-Stew. [A Socialite Life]
Jessica Biel's fug fashion history. Girl can't dress. [Go Fug Yourself]
Kelly Brook is super cute. [IDLITW]
Matt Damon jokingly called ScarJo a bitch. [The Blemish]
How crazy is the Lohan Family Christmas Photo? [Evil Beet]
I love these Marc Jacobs photos. [INFDaily]
Videogum's favorite movies of 2011. [Videogum]

Michelle Duggar records a message for her lost baby, includes a lot of pro life talk

Posted: 29 Dec 2011 08:17 AM PST

Jubilee Shalom Duggar from WMtek Inc on Vimeo.

Reality star Michelle Duggar, 45, miscarried what would have been her 20th baby around her 19th week of pregnancy earlier this month. The family held both a private ceremony and a larger memorial for the baby, a daughter whom they named Jubilee Shalom. During the memorial, photos were shown of Michelle holding Jubilee’s tiny hands and feet. While some people took offense at that, others pointed out that it’s common to photograph the dead and that sometimes these photos are all grieving families may have to remember the little ones they lost.

Now Michelle has recorded a message for Jubilee. One one hand, it’s touching and sad. She’s mourning for what she lost and what she’ll miss with this child. Some of what she said really moved me. All her child are special to her and this was a huge loss to her family. On the other she really goes into some pro-life territory here and spends a lot of time talking about how other people don’t value babies. It’s obvious exactly what she means. I’m trying to be measured here, but the amount of preaching she does is obvious. Plus she’s making it public and this was posted on the Duggar family website, it’s not like they’re only choosing to share it with friends and family.

Dear Jubilee, mommy wanted to write a letter to my precious baby girl. You know, your name Jubilee Shalom Duggar means “joyful celebration of peace.” We were so thankful to God when we found out we expecting you.

So often in society babies are looked upon as a problem, trial or responsibility, but God says babies are a blessing. We do not believe that babies are a bother, a headache or a financial drainer or a career interrupter. We love babies. Your siblings did not view you as the competition. They are truly saddened and disappointed to not have really known you. Only God knows how much you were already loved. You are not loved any less because you were baby number 21 or Duggar grandbaby number 23. We are blessed because you lived. You were only here with us such a short time. It’s an awesome thought to me that you fulfilled your life’s purpose in such a short time. What a blessing to know that you are in the arms of Jesus and that is was His face that you saw first.

You were loved, you were wanted. Your parents wanted you to be. Your grandparents wanted you to be. Your brothers and your sisters wanted you to be, and the rest of the family wanted you to be.

I will miss listening to your heartbeat and praying for you as you grow in my womb. I will miss feeling you kick in my tummy. I will miss cradling you in my arms and singing to you. I will miss teaching you to sing Jesus loves me. I will miss watching you grow up and learn. I will miss seeing life through your eyes… I will miss noticing how you do things like the others, or how different you are… I will miss holding you, hugging you and kissing you…

You’re a love I was able to touch for such a short few moments, and a life I will hold in my heart. I don’t know God’s purpose for taking you on to Heaven, but I know your short life will help me remember truly how fragile life is. It will help me to more fully enjoy the time I have here with the other family members. It will help me to focus on what truly matters in life, and help me to be more aware of Heaven and the ultimate destination…. I like to think of you being in Heaven with our other loved ones… From now on when I’m asked how many children I have, the answer will be 21 19 here and 2 in Heaven. You are precious to me Jubilee, mommy loves you.

I’m sorry this woman lost her baby. That must have been horrific and awful and heartbreakingly sad. The fact that they already have a big family does not change what a tragedy it was. Most of what she said touched me and made me feel very sorry for her family.

Abortion is legal in this country and all the sweetness and preaching and sad stories are hopefully not going to change that. You cannot reduce the issue to one in which people somehow think babies are a “burden.” I wouldn’t expect the Duggars to grasp that it’s much more complicated than that, since they also believe that the earth is about 6,000 years old and that dinosaurs and humans co-existed. I’m sorry, that’s what they believe. These people have a platform and they’re using it and we’re pointing that out. I’m very sorry for her loss and in no way mean to make light of it.

Kim Kardashian’s Photoshop diet on the cover of Us; claims to be a size 2

Posted: 29 Dec 2011 07:36 AM PST


Did you know that Kim Kardashian magazine covers sell? It’s true, the issues of Glamour and Cosmopolitan with Kim solo on the cover were the highest sellers last year for those publications. Her other many magazine covers had mixed performances, but her Botox face and spider lashes can move copies.

So here we have Kim on the cover of the US Weekly diet issue, showing off her bikini body. This was obviously achieved through the Photoshop diet. We’ve seen plenty of bikini candids of Kim and she looks good albeit totally fake, but she doesn’t look like this. Someone went way overboard with the ‘shop. I also doubt that this photo is at all recent.

In that Cosmo interview for their August issue, Kim claimed to be a size 4, which many people scoffed at. In the new issue of US she’s claiming to be a size 2. I get that she’s shorter at 5’2″, but a size 2? Why doesn’t she just go for the gold and claim to be a zero? Here’s her vague diet advice and some words from her trainer:

Steers clear of sugar
The onetime sweets lover has dropped refined sugar from her diet. “Changing my eating habits makes a big difference,” the E! star tells US of keeping her size-2 body trim. Her healthy menu? “I wake up and eat eggs with turkey bacon, then salad for lunch and fish, pasta or chicken for dinner.

Goes organic
The newly single 5-foot-2 star has been inspired by big sister Kourtney, 32. “She’s taught me to eat more organically,” admits Kardashian, who has also downed wheatgrass shots with her sis. “She’s a bit extreme, but slowly I’m learning to love it.”

Sweats it out – hard!
There are no water breaks during the 31 year-old’s hour-long sessions with Gunnar Peterson. “Every minute is accounted for,” says the trainer. “You go from running to pull-ups to lunges to crunches to overhead presses. You get more work done in the same time.”

[From US Weekly, print edition, January 9, 2012]

That’s their entire article on Kim and her “exact meal plan.” At least she’s no longer shilling for that shady diet company that Scott works for. And at least she’s not training with that scam artist Tracy Anderson. Plus her diet sounds sensible even though she doesn’t give much advice, and I like that she’s not advertising for some paid plan. (Which she probably would be if one would have her.) Other than that I don’t have anything nice to say. I hope that her reign at the newsstands will soon be over.

Kim in March, 2011:

December 16, 2011:

Robert Downey Jr. has to special order his Tom Cruise-esque 3″ high heels

Posted: 29 Dec 2011 07:35 AM PST

For better or for worse, we (I) make fun of Tom Cruise's lifts all of the time. Tom is a shorter-than-average man, but he really, really wants people to think he's a super-butch action star, so he wears lifts (or high heels, as I call them) all of the time, on and off the set. This isn't so shocking really, I just like to look at Tom Cruise photos and try to spot where the "hidden" lift part of the shoe starts, and I always get a kick out of Tom trying to pull off skinny jeans and high heels. Over the years, I've also noticed that Robert Downey Jr., a fellow short dude, also wears lifts, although RDJ's lifts aren't a Tom-Cruise-level, OCD compulsion. RDJ seems to wear lifts for his job, when he's filming a movie and he wants to look the same height as… Gwyneth Paltrow, I guess. In red carpet appearances, RDJ either wears sneakers with an extra inch of sole, or he just wears regular dress shoes.

Anyway, Us Weekly has a funny little story about RDJ's special-order of some 3-inch heels. They're for a movie, for the love of God!

Robert Downey Jr. needs a raise! Us Weekly's Hot Stuff has learned that a fashion stylist for the 5-foot-8 actor, 46, has asked a custom shoe company to create 3-inch lifts for him to wear while filming Iron Man 3 in North Carolina this spring.

"They're working on a special pair just for him," reveals the source, adding, "The lift insole needs to be concealed in a high-top shoe or boot. The highest that's offered to the general public is 2 inches!"

[From Us Weekly, print edition]

So here's a question: why am I not delighted by this? Tom Cruise's lifts are a source of constant amusement to me, but with Robert, it just feels like… meh. Of course, I'm of the opinion that RDJ is just wearing lifts for his job, to look taller on screen, and that he's fine with his height and his body in real life. If his height really does bother him, though? That might bug me. Short guys can be sexy! They just have to own it.

…OK, now that I'm looking at some photos of his red carpet kicks… yeah, he's wearing really HIGH heels. Damn it, Robert! Don't go all Cruise. Own your height.

Photos courtesy of WENN.
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LeAnn Rimes shockingly spends time with a “friend” in Aspen, Colorado

Posted: 29 Dec 2011 07:33 AM PST

A while ago, CB and I issued a temporary ban on LeAnn Rimes and Brandi Glanville stories, just because the commenting and bitching back-and-forth was getting a little cray-cray. Eventually, we returned to covering them, and many commenters made a concerted effort to dial down the crazy. But it has returned. So, this is your notice – please dial it down. Please don't expound with pro or anti-LeAnn conspiracy theories and bully and mock other people who don't share your views. Ordinarily, I would be fine with just letting you guys work it out however you want, but there have been complaints, and even I think you guys are going overboard. You can still snipe and bitch about these C-list celebrities, but just dial down the commenter-on-commenter hate.

Mostly, I don't want to do a temporary ban on LeAnn stories because I actually enjoy writing about her and her insanity. We have new photos of LeAnn in Aspen – with a FRIEND! LeAnn has FRIENDS, y'all! Here she is, walking around Aspen in a pair of ill-fitting hot pink ski pants with an actual, honest-to-God female friend. Who is this girl? How does maintain a friendship with someone like LeAnn? She must be exhausted.

Also – LeAnn made sure that the paparazzi got some photos of her and Eddie kissing in public. You can see them here. They look super-posed.

Oh, and I checked LeAnn's Twitter to see if she was having any hissy fits in Aspen, and I couldn't find anything scandalous. But! She tweeted something about meeting Perry Farrell!!!!! Jesus take the wheel. Perry Farrell, Rock God, Jane's Addiction, etc. THAT Perry Farrell. And LeAnn met him. Ugh.

Photos courtesy of WENN.
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Ryan Reynolds & Blake Lively “love to sit at home & cuddle” with their cupcakes

Posted: 29 Dec 2011 07:29 AM PST

We all know what's going down with Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds. We know because Blake wants us to know, and because Ryan is to hypnotized by Blake's biscuits to care about her famewhore ways right now. Blake and Ryan (RAKE) spent Thanksgiving together. They shacked up in Boston together. They're apartment-hunting in NYC. They vacationed with Muffy & Boomer in Connecticut. They go to ice cream socials and little out-of-the-way bed & breakfasts, where they are photographed mid-makeout session. And now they've spent Christmas together in Canada. Us Weekly SOMEHOW managed to get all of the details:

It was a crisp 35 degrees in Vancouver on December 20. So naturally, Blake Lively was all bundled up while picking out a birthday cake with her new boyfriend, Ryan Reynolds, for his dad at Original Cupcakes. But the Gossip Girl star really warmed up when the Canada native selected a few special treats just for her.

"The salesperson told them Jay-Z had come in a few days earlier and bought an eggnog cupcake for Beyonce," a source tells Us, "So Ryan ordered six of them for Blake!"

That kind of simple romantic gesture is one way the actor, 35, has won over Blake after two months of dating. And sources say Lively, 24, is just as giving.

"She's making an equal, is not greater, effort to make Ryan happy," says one insider of the couple. Indeed, a caring girlfriend who whips up homemade dinners and prefers home-movie nights to premieres seems to be an ideal antidote for Reynolds after his rocky marriage to Scarlett Johansson.

"Scarlett treated Ryan badly, so he loves the comfort that Blake provides," says the source. "It's like, 'You were on the cover of Vogue and you want to cook me dinner? Yes, please!'"

While in Vancouver, a Reynolds family dinner was on the itinerary, and a trip to the Granville Island Public Market, where Lively bonded with Reynolds' mom, Tammy. "Blake and Ryan held hands and Tammy had her hand on Blake's back as they walked around," says an eyewitness. "They laughed all the way to the car – and Blake let Tammy have the front seat!"

The duo is making the most of their holiday time together – "They love to sit at home and cuddle," adds the insider. "Those two are over-the-moon in love."

[From Us Weekly, print edition]

"They love to sit at home and cuddle." Just gag me. I know, I know. I'm often accused of thinking, talking and writing like a dude, but really, Ryan needs a much butcher image than cuddlefesting with his Gossip Girl. That being said, I get it. Blake is really putting some effort into this relationship, and I do believe that she and Ryan are truly loved up, in every sense. Now, do I believe that "Scarlett treated Ryan badly, so he loves the comfort that Blake provides"? Eh. I think Ryan is one of those guys who likes "traditional" girls. He wants a girlfriend/wife who will make a fuss over him, cook for him, drop everything to be with him, and act like he's the center of her universe. Bless her heart, Scarlett didn't do that. Blake is playing along, though.

Photos courtesy of Fame, WENN & Pacific Coast News.
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Ryan Gosling “sings covers of Eva Mendes’ favorite songs & sends them to her”

Posted: 29 Dec 2011 06:51 AM PST

About a month ago, I discussed the working theory I had about Ryan Gosling and Eva Mendes, and I was surprised with how many of you cosigned. My theory is basically that Ryan realized that he had spent the last year taking many, MANY women to "Disneyland" (in his pants) and he was starting to seem like a Gerard Butler-esque womanizer. So Ryan decided that he just needed to settle down for a bit, have a real girlfriend and a real relationship, just so he wouldn't destroy his fanbase of women who think he's boyfriend material (when really he's just one-night-stand material). So, Ryan and Eva Mendes happened. And they keep happening, in public. We're getting lots of tabloid stories about Eva and Ryan being loved up (Ryan thinks Eva is The One!), and Ryan and Eva even did a Funny or Die video together:

So, it's not like they're being low-key. Every photo agency got pics of their saunter around Paris during Thanksgiving, and *somebody* is really trying to get and maintain interest in Gosling and Mendes as a couple. Anyway, this Us Weekly story is just a little thing, but it really annoyed me to see Ryan and Eva described as "private". Bitch, please.

Ryan Gosling and Eva Mendes ditched their low-key MO when they got under the covers to play husband and wife for Funny or Die's December 20 "Drunk History Christmas" video.

"It was fun watching this couple that's so private be so affectionate," says a source. "They were getting into the spirit."

A source close to Mendes, 37, says she's thrilled to be wooed by Gosling, 31. "He even sings covers of her favorite songs and sends them to her."

[From Us Weekly, print edition]

"He even sings covers of her favorite songs and sends them to her." OMG. Gosling is That Guy. AAAARRRGH. NO. I would have fallen for that move when I was 18 years old. Eva is two decades past that, and she's still falling for it? Dear God, how drunk is she? And now I think less of Gosling, taping himself making cover versions of "I've Had the Time of My Life" whilst wearing his hipster ensembles, sitting beside his mohawked, hipster dog on a retro bean bag. Gosling is That Guy. That Guy needs to sack up and move beyond these "I'm the cool RA that all of the freshman girls have a crush on" moves. You're 31 years old, Ryan. You are not the cool RA.

Photos courtesy of PCN, screencaps of Funny or Die video.
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Kate Bosworth & Michael Polish are still loved up, five months after Alex Skarsgard

Posted: 29 Dec 2011 06:19 AM PST

These are some new "candid" photos of Kate Bosworth and Michael Polish, her boyfriend of some-odd five months or so. The Bos and Polish were photographed together just DAYS after Kate and Alex Skarsgaard announced their split this past July. After all of the bitching and moaning about The Bos and Alex and how she was clinging to him and he was too good for her, it really does seem like Kate played Skarsgard. It seems like she was screwing around on Alex with Michael Polish, who directed her in Big Sur earlier this year. And for what it's worth, I think Kate seems much, much happier with Michael Polish too. She's got a boyfriend who holds her hand on the red carpet and agrees to these kinds of staged "candid" photo-ops every month or so.

A few months ago, Kate was even describing Michael as her "life partner" too. You know what? I think this one might actually stick. I could see Kate marrying him, for real. And it wouldn't even be the worst move. She would be the wife of a critically acclaimed director. She would get to sell her wedding photos, maybe. She could set herself up like Nicole Richie, doing clothing and jewelry lines without the blatant try-hard hustle. Oh, and Michael has a daughter from a previous relationship too, so Kate would get to be a step-mother too. I can totally see this happening, and I find myself respecting Kate's trajectory over the past year. She went from "much-hated girlfriend of a hot, breakthrough actor" to "low-key girlfriend of a respected director." Good gig. Also, I think she might have gained 2 or 3 pounds, and it looks good on her.

Photos courtesy of Fame & WENN.
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Life & Style: Pippa Middleton worries that she will never get married

Posted: 29 Dec 2011 04:40 AM PST

Ah, Pippa Middleton got a tabloid cover. Huzzah? Not so much. It's Life & Style, and it's about Pippa's love life or lack there of. Last we heard from Pippa, she was engaging in some Three's Company shenanigans with two filthy rich roommates, JJ Jardine Patterson and George Percy, both of them ex-boyfriends, and both of them seemingly "up" for some Pippa Play. Still, I guess the British and American tabloids want Pippa to conform to some kind of "virginal sweetheart" and/or "Miss Lonelyhearts" image. In reality, I think Pippa is just an ambitious party girl who likes attention and wants to snag the richest dude with the best title.

Kate Middleton’s younger sister, Pippa, wonders why guys are running away! After attending her seventh wedding of the year earlier this month, a friend of the 28-year-old tells Life & Style that Pippa has begun to wonder whether she’ll ever be the one standing at the altar. “Pippa is scared she’ll never find someone who’ll be able to accept her life,” the friend tells Life & Style.

In November, after growing increasingly uncomfortable with her fame, longtime boyfriend Alex Loudon called it quits with Pippa for the second time this year. Ever since the split, according to the friend, Pippa has been deeply worried that she’s become undateble, now that she’s the sister-in-law of the future king of England.

“The men Pippa knows are all majorly turned off by the circus surrounding her,” an insider reveals. Things have gotten so bad, one British magazine has even dubbed it the “Pippa Problem.”

“Pippa is happy for Kate and for her old university friends who are getting hitched, but she’s starting to wonder if she’ll ever find her own Prince Charming,” the friend tells Life & Style.

[From Life & Style]

She's only 28! And I hope Pippa knows that her sister's nine-year-WAIT was the exception to the rule, and that Pippa should not play that particular game, pining away for a man for nearly a decade, putting every part of your life on hold in your quest for the ring. And now everyone acts like Kate had the right idea – she's the exception, I'm telling you. Anyway, Pippa will find her way. She's ambitious, she's Uptradey, she has contacts, an unlimited supply of coats and she has a cute ass. I'm not worried – Pippa will find someone, and he'll be super-rich and connected too.

Photos courtesy of WENN.
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Did Nikki Reed just call Robert Pattinson a liar & confirm a feud with Kristen Stewart?

Posted: 29 Dec 2011 04:37 AM PST


I have some affection for Nikki Reed as a relatively nice-seeming castmember of the Twilight franchise. I haven’t seen an interview with her before. So I was surprised by the fact that she has a kind of a nasally, mildly annoying voice. Nikki takes the cover of Seventeen’s December/January issue, which we first saw a preview of six weeks ago.

Seventeen released a behind-the-scenes video of Nikki’s interview and photoshoot (above) and she gives some totally unremarkable comments about what she’ll miss about her Twilight costars. She says that Kristen Stewart makes good desserts, that Robert Pattinson tells elaborate stories and is a “good storyteller,” that Taylor Lautner has a lot of energy, and that Kellan Lutz is a goofball. Ashley Greene gives her workout tips and fashion advice (I get the impression that she’s a mini-Goop) and Jackson Rathbone jams out with her now-husband, former AI contestant Paul McDonald.

So everything Nikki said was diplomatic and my impression of her as a nice person was confirmed. If you read between the lines on what she said in the actual interview she may be hinting at some kind of issues with her costars. She said (and we covered this a while ago) that “success comes along and changes the dynamic. We're not all best friends, and we're not all going to hang out together after the final movie is done.” She also claimed in that video interview that what she’ll miss about Twilight is the time at the beginning of filming, when everything was innocent.

HollywoodLife claims that in this video Nikki disses Robert Pattinson as a liar and confirms a feud with him and his now-girlfriend, Kristen Stewart. GossipCop calls them out for drawing spurious conclusions, and I agree that they’re really reaching with that one. That doesn’t mean that there’s no feud though.

Quick background: Rumor has it that Nikki dated Robert Pattinson before Kristen Stewart and that Kristen and Nikki were friends back then. Kristen had another boyfriend at the beginning of filming, who was also friends with Nikki prior to when Kristen dumped him and hooked up with Robert. (Not necessarily in that order and more background is here.) So there’s probably bad blood there but I doubt they’re seething at each behind the scenes.

I think the most telling thing in Seventeen, though, is this first person work of “fiction” Nikki wrote about a young girl in love with a charismatic guy who convinced her that they should keep their romance a secret:

It had been almost a year since we began dating, but nobody knew about us. Sometimes I would bring it up casually, but he always found a way to twist and turn his words until they morphed into a theory that seemed to make sense. He was good with his words, and I was good at coming up with reasons to believe them. Only a few friends at school were allowed to know about us, and they were mostly hand selected by him.

At the time it made sense, because he was convincing when he spoke about privacy being a persons number one priority. Sometimes I would tell him half jokingly that I wanted to scream it out to the world on a megaphone, because that's what being in love made me feel like doing. He never smiled at that. Although my mom sensed there was something unusually dark about him, I always argued that it was self-induced. Besides, I couldn't let myself believe that I was too good for him. He was endlessly charming, and intelligent, and philosophical beyond his years. At least that's how he would secretly want to be described.

I knew I loved him, and that's all that mattered. Sure I wasn't the prettiest girl in the world, but he always said he liked me for that very reason, so I felt content with that. Most of the time that is. One time, I gathered the courage to sing a song in front of him in the lunch room (I had always loved singing), and he laughed and said "…that's what's so great about you; even though you aren't a good singer, you're not afraid to try." That's a compliment right?

[From Seventeen, written by Nikki Reed]

That to me is way more revealing than the fact that she called Robert a good story teller. She’s married at this point, so you would think she’d be over this though. Maybe that explains why she got married so quickly in the first place.

Nikki is shown on 11/14, 11/15 and 11/16. Credit: Pacific Coast News and Fame

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