Today's Evil Beet Gossip

Colbie Caillat Was Once Rejected from American Idol

I love stories like this! Colbie Caillat is one of my favorite new artists, and it turns out she was once rejected from American Idol. In fact, she didn't even get in front of the main judges -- she was rejected by the pre-screeners. A couple years (and 40 million MySpace plays) later she had a record deal and a booming career as a singer/songwriter. "It happened so fast," she says. "I was just writing songs and putting them up on MySpace, and then I got a record deal. Then it was like, 'Whoa, you're going on tour with the Goo Goo Dolls this summer.' So it was brand-new, but now it's b...

Extreme Makeover House Faces Foreclosure

Do they ever do "Where Are They Now?" episodes of Extreme Makeover: Home Edition? I often wonder what happens to those people after they suddenly go from lower-middle class to gigantic, fancy home ownership. Some of them, it turns out, have the good sense to put their entire home up as collateral for a $450,000 loan and then default on it.
More than 1,800 people showed up to help ABC's "Extreme Makeover" team demolish a family's decrepit home and replace it with a sparkling, four-bedroom mini-mansion in 2005. Three years later, the reality TV show's most ambitious project at the time has become the latest victim of the foreclosure crisis. After the Harper family used the two-story home as collateral for a $450,000 loan, it's set to go to auction on the steps of the Clayton County Courthouse Aug. 5. The couple did not return phone calls Monday, but told WSB-TV they received the loan for a construction business that failed.
"It's aggravating. It just makes you mad. You do that much work, and they just squander it," Lake City Mayor Willie Oswalt, who helped vault a massive beam into place in the Harper's living room, told a local paper. It's so sad that you can't build good sense with a hammer and nails. />Do they ever do "Where Are They Now?" episodes of Extreme Makeover: Home Edition? I often wonder what happens to those people after they suddenly go from lower-middle class to gigantic, fancy home ownership. Some of them, it turns out, have the good sense to put their entire home up as collateral for a $450,000 loan and then default on it. More than 1,800 people showed up to help ABC's "Extreme Makeover" team demolish a family's decrepit home and replace it with a sparkling, four-bedroom m...

Ryan Seacrest Bit by a Shark Tragically Survives

I'm going to leave it as an exercise for the reader to determine where the commas go in the above header. Ryan Seacrest got bit by a shark while swimming in the ocean this weekend. "He took a bite, and he left," said Ryan on his radio show this morning. He said he later found one of the shark's teeth in him. "It was like finding a splinter!" You know this is all a total cover-up. Ryan's sex party got a little out-of-hand Saturday night, and he needed to explain away the strange bite ma...

Very Exciting Christian Slater Update

Ahhhh ha ha ha. You guys don't care about Christian Slater, I know. But he's moving in with his girlfriend, who happens to be the head of Jimmy Choo, Tamara Mellon. I want the head of Jimmy Choo to move in with me. I'd totally go all Single White Female on her. And by that I just mean I'd steal all of her shoes. Okay. Go back to filling out expense reports. It's more interesting than this post. ...

Bono is Now The Godfather

U2's Bono is reportedly going to be The Godfather of Brangelina's new twins, Knox Leon and Vivienne Marcheline. "They have been friends for years. Brad is a massive U2 fan and told Bono how much he admired him when they were introduced at a party a few years back. Since then, they've become very close, which Brad is thrilled about. Angelina is inspired by Bono's humanitarian work and gets on with his wife Ali Hewson." Apparently Angelina has also consulted with her former girl-flame Jenny ...

Was Mary-Kate Olsen Heath Ledger’s Secret Lover?

The magazine Grazia is reporting that MK has confirmed to them that she was, in fact, Heath Ledger's lover at the time that he died. "I'm just completely shattered about Heath,'' Olsen is quoted as saying in Grazia. "I loved him so much. We had this amazing connection and now he's gone. I just can't get over him." Eh, take this for what it's worth. I, for one, am not sure I buy it. I mean, MK might have been hooking up with Heath, but she's not gonna be admitting in to some two-bit magazin...

Keira Knightley to Head Up Itty Bitty Titty Committee

Ha ha. I like saying "itty bitty titty committee." It makes me happy because it sounds funny, and because it reminds me that I have large breasts. Yay! Anyway, Keira Knightley reportedly refused to allow the studio to digitally increase her bosom in the publicity still for her new film, The Duchess. "She has insisted that her figure stay in its natural state," says a source. "She is proud of her body and doesn’t want it altered."...

My Love for Miley Cyrus Grows with Each Passing Day

Not to the point where I want to, you know, stick my tongue down her throat and grab her underage ass, as these photos show her ex-boyfriend, Thomas Sturges, doing, but still. This girl just gets more fun with each new article. It's only a matter of time before she's sleeping with Greek shipping heirs, throwing drinks in clubs, and posing with knives with Vanessa Minnillo. And I, for one, can't wait. Who wants to bet that Miley leaked these photos herself, to get back at Nick Jonas for hump...

Jerry O’Connell Lied to Us!

I will never watch Sliders the same way again! Actually, I was probably never going to watch Sliders again either way. But still. Jerry O'Connell was all on the red carpet last week whining about how he and Rebecca Romijn were trying to get pregnant. And guess what? She already was! You were playing a funny joke on us, Jerry. Ha ha. That was funny. You know what else is funny? You used to be fat. Rebecca is pregnant with twins, which were apparently conceived without any sort of...

Lindsay and Samantha Acela-rate

Okay, that's a dumb title, and that's not even how you spell "accelerate," but it's nearly 4 am and I can't sleep. I've made this new and exciting decision to stop taking my anti-anxiety meds, because they make me sleep like 14 hours a day, and the end result is that, while my body adjusts, I don't sleep at all. Plus: I'm anxious! It's totally awesome. I sit on my bed, surrounded by all my slumbering animals, and I stare at them with jealousy. And then I decide which one I'm going to wake up to ...