"I had my four years there like high school or college. I'm ready for the next chapter—what it is, I have no idea. I don't want to be 48 saying, 'Hey kids, now it's Sean Preston Spears' video.' "
Vanessa Minnillo on why she's getting the hell out of TRL. ...
Even Sanjaya can't make David Letterman's Top Ten list amusing. [popbytes] It's not that Posh is anorexic, it's just that she obsessively controls what she eats to the point of being dangerously underweight. There's a difference, people. [DListed] I think Jessica Biel has the world record for most photos taken of anyone's ass while walking a dog. [Drunken Stepfather] It would actually be really awesome if Jay-Z did a remix of "Rehab." [Bossip] Damn, Britney. Lookin' good, girl. [Celebslam] It's Jonathan Rhys Meyers' turn to hit up rehab. [Glitterati] If you're one of those types who enjoys watching commercials just for fun, here's Beyonce's new Samsung one. [Concrete Loop] If at first you don't succeed, Jason Wahler, try, try again. [Celebslam] Anna Nicole's last film will premiere at Cannes. [Cele|bitchy] Check out the new single from Eve. [popbytes] Sheryl Crow recommends we save the environment at the expense of our personal hygiene. [Agent Bedhead] When even characters on The Sopranos wonder what happened to your career, I think you deserve to play the child abuse card, Chevy Chase. [Celebrity Smack] Take that, MySpace. [IBBB] Suri Cruise and Brooke Shields' daughter are totally BFF. Maybe one day little Grier will help Suri find her biological mother. [POTP] Can't Val Kilmer go to the bathroom at a gas station like the rest of us? [The Blemish] Lindsay Lohan gets all bikini'd up for Allure. [Jordan] Shanna Moakler explains why it made perfectly good sense for a 32-year-old mother to behave like a character in Mean Girls. [GTS] David Hauslaib is mustering up every ounce of white, gay strength he has to give Bossip a run for their black-gossip money. Don't worry, guys, we're still Team Bossip. Wanna make shirts? [Stereohyped]
Oh. Fuck. Yes.
It's the "very special" episode of American Idol. Ooh, is it the one where Melinda gets a beer spilled on her at the dance and Uncle Jesse thinks she's drinking? Or is it the one where someone's smoking a "roach" in the boys' locker room and Zack Morris and Blake Lewis learn an important lesson about responsibility? Or maybe even the one where Jordin's best friend thinks she might be pregnant and has to make a very difficult decision (and then is not pregnant, lest the producers have to make a very difficult decision)? Or is it the one where Ryan Seacrest finally admits to Simon that sometimes he feels a little tingle in his naughty place when they're standing close?
No, no. It's Idol! Gives! Back! And to emphasize the seriousness of the occasion, we're kicking things off with Ryan in the control room. It's that important. Ryan turns around to watch all the television sets, and, with his back to the camera, narrates, "The calls you make will not only save your favorite contestants," then turns around to face the camera. "They will also save lives." Ooooh. Did anyone else feel that? Yeah. It's a ratings boost.
Jesus, Ryan looks tired. Oh, there's a two-hour results show. Guess what I'll be watching tomorrow night? The Internet!
Now we're going to see a lot of poor people in Africa. It is dirty there and people are orphaned. Ugh, I shouldn't be so cynical about this. It's not even sweeps week yet (not for two more days). Maybe they are really trying to help. The musical theme is "songs that inspire."
Read More />Oh. Fuck. Yes.
It's the "very special" episode of American Idol. Ooh, is it the one where Melinda gets a beer spilled on her at the dance and Uncle Jesse thinks she's drinking? Or is it the one where someone's smoking a "roach" in the boys' locker room and Zack Morris and Blake Lewis learn an important lesson about responsibility? Or maybe even the one where Jordin's best friend thinks she might be pregnant and has to make a very difficult decision (and then is not pregnant, lest the producer...
Apparently the photo agencies are tired of this shit. From SplashNews:
We hit Perez Hilton with a multi-million million dollar copyright lawsuit yesterday.
Five celebrity photo agencies - Splash, Bauer-Griffin, Flynet, INF and London Entertainment Pictures warned Perez last December that we could no longer accept his unlawful use of copyright pictures without payment or credit.
He and his lawyers have refused to pay up and refused to take down unlawfully obtained photos. They don’t even have the decency to respond.
Most bloggers out there are decent, honest business people who understand the photographers need to earn an income and we thank all of you who do pay and credit and we are happy to supply you so you can entertain your readers.
But the time has come to show Perez he can no longer get rich off the back of other peoples’ work.
News reports and some boasting from Perez put his income at over $800,000 a year from advertising revenue and his appearances on TV shows, TV programs etc.
He says he gets up to 4 million unique visitors a day. Yet he doesn’t pay a cent to anyone whose material he uses to get fame and fortune.
$800,000 a year? Honestly, I think that's a pretty gross underestimate. Even his cheapest Blogads go for $1200/week. His most expensive go for $9000/week. He has at least 10 running at a time. Let's assume they are all priced at $1200. That's $624,000 right there. That is not counting what he's charging for advertising on his background (probably over $2000/day, although he doesn't have one running each day), for ads in his feeds, and for personal appearances. He's paying hosting costs and maybe some modest web design costs, but his overhead is negligible. He's easily clearing a million annually in pre-tax earnings.
Check out the rest of the details after the jump.
Read More />Apparently the photo agencies are tired of this shit. From SplashNews:
We hit Perez Hilton with a multi-million million dollar copyright lawsuit yesterday.
Five celebrity photo agencies - Splash, Bauer-Griffin, Flynet, INF and London Entertainment Pictures warned Perez last December that we could no longer accept his unlawful use of copyright pictures without payment or credit.
He and his lawyers have refused to pay up and refused to take down unlawfully obtained photos. They don’...
What? This is all absolutely in the stapler's best interest. But CAA plans to hire a bodyguard for themselves and the stapler. Just in case ... there are photographers around.
Alec left Creative Artists Agency on Monday. CAA had repped him since 2002, placing him in The Departed, The Aviator, Will & Grace, and 30 Rock. Talk about crap agents ... I guess they failed to place him in a state of mind in which calling his 11-year-old daughter a "rude, thoughtless little pig" was in any way acceptable behavior.
"This is strictly for personal reasons," said Baldwin's publicist Matthew Hiltzik. "It has absolutely nothing to do with his extremely talented agents who've done great work with Alec."
[via Defamer, where they're serious enough about this stuff to read the L.A. Times each and every day] />What? This is all absolutely in the stapler's best interest. But CAA plans to hire a bodyguard for themselves and the stapler. Just in case ... there are photographers around.
Alec left Creative Artists Agency on Monday. CAA had repped him since 2002, placing him in The Departed, The Aviator, Will & Grace, and 30 Rock. Talk about crap agents ... I guess they failed to place him in a state of mind in which calling his 11-year-old daughter a "rude, thoughtless little pig" was in any way acceptable beh...
TMZ says yes. She'll reportedly announce her departure tomorrow morning. It would be so sad if she left. Who would give her a daily, national podium from which to involve herself in any number of self-congratulatory, tedious feuds which I'd then have to write about while fantasizing about doing something more exciting, like studying orthodontia?
Sad indeed. ...
Because I can't even begin to imagine why Mel Brown (aka Sporty Spice) would give her daughter the surname of ex-boyfriend Eddie Murphy, especially after Murphy publicly questioned both his paternity of the baby and Mel's fidelity to him, and showed up at the Oscars with another woman while Mel was still pregnant. But whatever. At least now the kid has Murphy Brown in her name. That's kind of cool. Maybe Ginger Spice could change her kid's name from Bluebell Madonna Halliwell to, like, Cyndi...
Or contempt of court. Whatever.
Crybaby Joey had to wipe away tears and blow his sniffly little nose yesterday as he pleaded guilty to contempt of court. "I am sorry for my behavior. It was wrong. I had heard about appeals and things and I was confused. I am sorry, I really am," he said. Poor little Joe was sentenced to 35 days in jail for the crime, which should be extra stressful for him, as they took away all his Lorazepam and sleeping pills. And I can only imagine how hard it is for a ...
If anyone knows what it feels like to have an entire country gang up on you, it's Heather Mills. So perhaps it's no surprise that she came to Alec Baldwin's defense on Ryan Seacrest's radio show this morning. Seacrest asked the Dancing with the Stars contestant what her thoughts were on Baldwin's most regrettable voicemail ever. "It is wrong to speak to your daughter like that," she said, "but I am not someone to go, 'Ooh, that is terrible, and we are all perfect, it's all wonderful.'"
"I wou...
Wait, what? This is the Spiderman 3 premiere? Huh. Could've fooled me.
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Remember back in early February, when both Britney Spears and Paris Hilton bailed on the Heatherette show? Paris flaked in order to get trashed with Brandon Davis, but it was rumored that Britney didn't get the memo, and bailed because she didn't want to see Paris. Now, former publicist-turned-blogger Jonathan Jaxson tells the story from the inside.
I was at the Heatherette Fashion Show with two of my former clients and we were all located backstage, during all the mayhem, prior to the sh...