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Jennifer Aniston hated briefly living in NYC: “It felt like I was in a fishbowl”
Lindsay Lohan’s appearance on ‘SNL’ is critically panned: how did she really do?
Dr. Drew still hates Angelina Jolie: “She has the stigmata of malnutrition”
Rihanna: “Single life is so overrated… you want to share your life with someone”
Is Madonna considering a marriage proposal from her boy-toy Brahim Zaibat?
Alex O’Loughlin enters rehab for recent issues with prescription painkillers

Jennifer Aniston hated briefly living in NYC: “It felt like I was in a fishbowl”

Posted: 04 Mar 2012 08:16 AM PST

I don't understand why this is a big story. It's like you expect Jennifer Aniston to be taken at her word. First she says she wants babies for more than a decade and then calls you "narrow-minded" for assuming that she does, in fact, want children in her life. Now she spends years describing how she would love to move to New York, and when she finally does, she immediately moves back to LA and complains about the "fishbowl" of the city. No, I'm not going to yell at her for that one – I really don't think Aniston realized how few options she would have in exiting and entering her NYC condos, which she purchased last year. She thought she'd be able to move with the same kind of stealth that she has in LA, and that just wasn't happening in New York. So Aniston described her new-found dislike of city living in a recent interview, and she also talks about how happy she is:

She made have initially made her mark playing New Yorker Rachel Green on Friends, but that doesn’t mean the Big Apple was the right place for Jennifer Aniston.

“We tried New York,” the Wanderlust star, referring to herself and Justin Theroux, said Friday on Australian radio’s The Kylie and Jackie O Show in Sydney, but “it felt like I was [living] in a fishbowl.”

And while, “Justin still has an apartment there … It was a little rough with the paparazzi. It didn’t feel like the New York I grew up in and knew,” notes Aniston, 43, who now calls L.A. home.

As a result, Aniston’s current happiness level is at “10-plus,” she says, and her Zen approach to life is also a contributing factor.

“You have a more relaxed sense of the world and life,” she explains, “and you realize there’s nothing to be taken too seriously besides doing your work and being a really good person.”

[From People]

It feels sort of like Aniston did the classic girly bait-and-switch. She moved to NYC to be closer to Justin Theroux (back when he had a girlfriend), she acts like she's down with Justin's downtown New York hipster scene (complete with Terry Richardson photo shoots), and then when she gets her guy, she's all, "I hate the city, we have to move to LA!!" And Justin is along for the ride because… she's paying the bills? And why not? It's working for Aniston – this probably is the happiest she's been in a long time.

Photos courtesy of WENN.

Lindsay Lohan’s appearance on ‘SNL’ is critically panned: how did she really do?

Posted: 04 Mar 2012 07:00 AM PST

As you probably know, Lindsay Lohan had her crackie extravaganza last night on Saturday Night Live. Comeback! Sobriety! Work! Talent! I actually slept through this, so I'm just going to put up some of the video "highlights". I checked with Entertainment Weekly, and they say that Lohan wasn't even that heavily featured in most of the skits, and her "reliance" on cue cards became "excruciating". Other TV critics have also panned Lohan's appearance. Here's a funny/sad thought: while Lohan's cracked-out shenanigans and addiction issues have played out over the past six years, everyone always said, "But she was talented, it's such a pity." What if she never really was as talented as people remember? Anyway, some highlights:

This is the cold open which is Lohan-free. It's pretty funny, though, mostly because Bill Hader specializes in playing the freakiest bastards and his Shep Smith is hilarious.

Here's Lohan's opening monologue. They "joke" about her SCRAM, how she's probably carrying drugs on her person, and how dilated her pupils are. There are special appearances by Jimmy Fallon AND JON HAMM. The Hamm has been tainted by The Cracken!!!! Ugh.

Here's the "Sacred Straight" skit where LL plays herself. Why does that get applause? Her crack-face looks weird here, and the skit is not good.

This is the "Rude Buddha" skit. Is this offensive to Buddhists? And Lindsay should no longer be able to play "the hot girl," right?

You know what sucks about this SNL gig? Lindsay is using this to get more work. On Saturday, Page Six reported that Lindsay is now lining up some films – she's "joining the cast" of a "sexual thriller" directed by Johan Renck, who is best known for music videos. You can read more about it here – it doesn't say that the Cracken has officially signed on for anything, though. It's probably just a rumor.

Photos courtesy of Fame/Flynet & SNL.

Dr. Drew still hates Angelina Jolie: “She has the stigmata of malnutrition”

Posted: 04 Mar 2012 06:59 AM PST

Dr. Drew hates Angelina Jolie. Everyone has the right to hate Angelina or any other celebrity – that in and of itself doesn't bother me. What bugs me is that Dr. Drew bases his opinion of Angelina on tabloid reports – which he believes whole-heartedly, especially In Touch Weekly – and Dr. Drew uses those tabloid reports to create a medical "diagnosis" of Angelina's issues. And then he tells the world his diagnoses in interviews or on his show. Dr. Drew does this about many celebrities that he has never treated – in the past few years, he's "diagnosed" Scarlett Johansson, Ryan Reynolds, Eva Longoria, Miley Cyrus and many, many more. But he really has a hard-on for "calling out" Angelina specifically, as he has many times in the past. His latest hate-on for Jolie is with her appearance at the Oscars. Of course.

Her turn on the red carpet at the Oscars on Sunday made headlines across the globe. Almost a week on, THAT picture of Angelina Jolie’s jutting right leg is still generating talk – but now for different reasons.

Dr Drew appeared on The View today where he said Jolie looks dangerously malnourished in the eye-catching image.

As the picture was flashed up on a screen behind him, he warned that women should not regard the actress as an ideal of beauty on account of her remarkably skinny figure.

"She’s malnourished," he claimed, before reiterating: "I just see malnutrition. We should not look at that as an ideal of beauty, even though she might be a beautiful woman. It’s another condition where, I saw that, and I spoke up about it on my HLN program, because I felt I had to. I am tired of keeping quiet about this stuff. When I was quiet about the prescription drug use and everybody started dying, and now I feel an obligation to speak up. She’s malnourished. She has the stigmata of malnutrition. There are reports, Us Weekly reported she was doing it to make a statement about the kids in Africa that she was working with that didn’t have a chance to eat. Who knows what the reason is. I just see malnutrition there and we shouldn’t look at that as an ideal of beauty is what I’m saying. She’s a beautiful woman, but she needs to be better nourished.”

[Via The Mail & Dlisted]

Enough, Dr. Drama Queen. Enough. She's really skinny. We get it. I'd like to see her eat a sandwich as well, and I don't even have a "doctorate" to whore out with my opinions. WTF is the "stigmata of malnutrition"??? Was he trying to say "stigma" or is really so much of an epic concern-troll that he's comparing Angelina's skinny arms to STIGMATA? Dr. Drew continued, "The fact that she would look awesome if she gained twenty pounds is just like the crucifixion! I'm tired of no one listening to ME!!!! And if you call me a hack, I'll diagnosis you with narcissistic personality disorder, so help me God. I'm just like Saint Peter. No on ever realizes that."

Here are some photos of Angelina out and about yesterday. She and Brad went to McDonalds with the kids, and then Angelina took some of the kids to a movie.

Photos courtesy of WENN and Fame/Flynet.

Rihanna: “Single life is so overrated… you want to share your life with someone”

Posted: 04 Mar 2012 06:25 AM PST

As I've mentioned before, I think I'm more sympathetic than most people when it comes to Rihanna. I’ve noticed that I’m more sympathetic than most of the commenters too, it seems. I can’t help – I give the girl the benefit of the doubt. While it seems likely that Chris Brown and Rihanna were or are hooking up again, I tend to think this whole situation is a lot more complicated than simply an abuse victim getting back with her abuser. I don't know all of the specifics of the situation, and neither do you, and my default assumptions are along the lines of, "Chris is probably wrong in whatever he does, and Rihanna is probably too baked to care about any of it." Anyway, Rihanna was in London all of last week, thank God. I hope she stays there for a while and finds a new dude with an accent. While in the UK, Rihanna made an appearance on The Jonathan Ross Show, and now people are talking about her comments. They're trying to bill this as "Rihanna disrespects Adele," but if you read all of her comments, she's not.

In the wake of spending time with her ex, Chris Brown, in recent months, Rihanna has admitted that she’s not a fan of flying solo.

“Single life is so overrated,” Rihanna, 24, said on Britain’s The Jonathan Ross Show. “It sucks. I have such incredible experiences in my life. You don’t want to live your life and then meet someone. You want to share your life with someone. That’s what I’m missing right now.”

Though she insisted that she’s “not looking,” the “We Found Love” singer said she’d “love to date somebody cool, fun, funny.”

She’ll likely have a number of suitors to choose from. Rihanna had to fight off all sorts of male attention during a recent trip to London, where she partied for four days straight.

A source inside the Aura nightclub in London's Mayfair tells PEOPLE: "Rihanna came into the club last Sunday and a stockbroker spent [$105,000] on champagne, just so he could meet her.”

"It worked too, as he went over and said hello soon after,” the source added. “But I don't think he'll be getting any friendship from Rihanna out of it, put it that way. She politely spoke to him but that was about it."

While unattached, Rihanna said she found solace in another woman who’s been unlucky in love: Adele. She even confessed to attending the Brit Awards “just to stalk” the six-time Grammy winner.

“I saw her at the Grammys and I love her,” Rihanna told Ross about the British superstar. “I’m a big fan. … Her last album, 21, spoke to me so much. It was so personal to her, but I feel like everyone in the world identified with it, to the point that I had to stop listening because it was depressing me so much. If you identify with it, sometimes you don’t want to hear about it.”

[From People]

OK, first, let's talk about the stuff she said about being single – I've been saying this over and over, and I think Rihanna is trying to confirm it. Whatever is going down between Rihanna and Chris is a casual sex thing. Her emotions are not involved. Hopefully. I don't think, in Rihanna's mind, that she's "back" with Chris or that they're dating or anything. They might have just slept together a few times, and she considers herself a single girl. Is it dumb? Sure. But let Rihanna figure it out, you know?

As her comments about Adele – I think she just being honest. 21 is a depressing album. It's beautiful and Adele is awesome, but I reached a point where I had to put it away too.

Photos courtesy of WENN, Fame/Flynet.

Is Madonna considering a marriage proposal from her boy-toy Brahim Zaibat?

Posted: 04 Mar 2012 06:24 AM PST

All of this time, I've never really formed an opinion on Madonna's boy-toy, Brahim Zaibat. Really, though, I tend to forget that Madonna actually has a boyfriend. Brahim keeps quiet for the most part, although Madge has let him speak a few times recently, and let's just say that he's not really lightning in a bottle. He's cute. He has a good body. He's young. That's why Madge keeps him around. It also seems like Brahim is close with Madonna's children – perhaps as a like-minded playmate/babysitter. Who knows? Anyway, The Mail reports that Brahim has proposed to Madge, and that she did NOT turn him down flat. She's actually considering him?

She once said she would rather be run over by a train than get married again – but now Madonna is considering a proposal from her toyboy lover. The 53-year-old singer is 'making up her mind' after dancer Brahim Zaibat popped the question at a Kabbalah centre in New York three weeks ago. Twice-married Madonna, who kicks off a new world tour in May, has told 24-year-old Brahim that she needs more time to think about his proposal.

A source says: 'Brahim asked Madonna to marry him at the centre a few weeks ago, but Madonna hasn't given him an answer yet. She doesn't want to rush into anything. She is very happy with Brahim, although her friends are not sure she is ready for marriage again. That said, Madonna has a real fear of being on her own. It's a major issue for her, and she loves having a man in her life who is young and makes her feel young.'

It was Madonna's messy divorce from film director Guy Ritchie in 2008 after eight years of marriage that provoked her 'never again' comment, as she declared: 'I think I'd rather get run over by a train.'

But during a recent appearance on Graham Norton's BBC chat show, she appeared to have had a change of heart. 'Every girl wants to be swept off her feet by a knight in shining armour,' she said. 'Even if we are sophisticated, educated, intelligent, evolved human beings, we like to think in the back of our minds that Mr Right is going to sweep us off our feet and take us into the sunset, and we're going to live happily ever after.'

Her relationship with Brahim became serious when he took her to meet his 45-year-old mother Patricia Vidal, a strict Muslim who loves in France. Ms Vidal said of the meeting: 'My mouth fell open when I realised that my son was Madonna's new boyfriend. I'm still trying to come to terms with it.'

Quite apart from concerns about the 29-year-age gap, there is said to be tension between Brahim and his mother over his frequent visits to meetings of Kabbalah, which is a sect of the Jewish faith.

[From The Mail]

Yeah, I've got to wonder how the religious stuff plays out at home. When Brahim says anything about anything, though, I've got to think that Madonna just tells him to STFU. Maybe I'm not being fair, though. Madonna is so weird these days, and she really will do anything to look young, to act young, to BE young. So maybe Brahim is the answer.

Photos courtesy of WENN, Fame/Flynet and Pacific Coast News.

Alex O’Loughlin enters rehab for recent issues with prescription painkillers

Posted: 04 Mar 2012 06:03 AM PST

I pretty much only know Alex O'Loughlin from the film The Backup Plan, where he played the love interest of preggo Jennifer Lopez. By the way, even though that's not even close to being a good film, I came out of it liking Alex a great deal. He has an enormous amount of on-screen charm, and the man is totally gorgeous. Anyway, he's currently on Hawaii Five-0, which is probably pretty stunt-heavy work. Alex had a shoulder injury recently, and as such, he began taking prescription medication, likely some heavy-duty painkillers. And much like Gerard Butler's official excuse, Alex's representation is now announcing that Alex is seeking treatment for issues involving his abuse of prescription pain medication.

Alex O’Loughlin, who plays Steve McGarrett on CBS’s reboot of Hawaii Five-0, is expected to miss filming for at least one episode while he undergoes treatment.

The Australian-born actor, 35, is to “receive supervised treatment for prescription pain medication due to a recent shoulder injury,” his rep says.

The popular police show has already shot 19 episodes for the season with production said to be ahead of schedule.

“We respect and support Alex’s decision,” CBS TV Studios says in a statement.

“Everyone at CBS Television Studios and Hawaii Five-0 wishes him well and we look forward to his return.”

[From People]

Now, Alex is no Gerard Butler. For one thing, he's not as famous as Gerard, which may be why we've never heard a whiff of scandal about Alex. Or it could be that this story should be accepted as face value, that Alex never had a problem with anything until a few months ago, when he got hooked on Vicodin or whatever. I'll give him the benefit of the doubt, just because there doesn't seem to be any other scandal around him, and because he seems to be taking his treatment seriously, and he's coming clean with the world. Good luck to Alex, and I hope he gets clean and stays clean.

Photos courtesy of WENN.

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