“I just eat the right things.” — Heidi Klum
“People always starve themselves, and then they get hungry, and then they eat the wrong things, like chips or cookies or whatever they can grab.” — Heidi Klum
“The main thing is healthy eating, exercise…” — Heidi Klum

“Ich werde alles für Geld!”
(Hat tip: Splash News Online)
Another chapter in the continuing saga of French model Alexandra Paressant, who claims Tony Parker has been committing flagrant fouls with her ever since they met at his wedding to Eva Longoria. Parker and Longoria have been disputing the call. Now Longoria’s rep says:
“These allegations are 100 percent false and untrue … this is not the first time this woman has used an athlete to gain public notoriety.”
That’s referring to some soccer player Paressant went out with, I think. Who cares. It’s soccer. Anyway, the allegations are false and untrue? Why didn’t Longo say so to begin with? Case closed!
Paressant has produced what she claims are text messages from Parker arranging their trysts, while the happy couple have countered by skipping happily around LA because they’re so happy. Did I mention their complete happiness? Who knows how solid the text-message evidence is, but I’m willing to believe that French putain over them because it’s much more interesting that way.
The gingerbread latte fix at Starbucks is an essential part of any 20-something’s morning routine (see: Britney Spears, Lindsay Lohan, me).
So I’m particularly disappointed to hear that Paul McCartney is too good for a Starbucks brew, even though they paid him tons to be the first artist to sign onto the coffee chain’s “Hear Music” label earlier this year.
At the time he signed his deal, he praised the company:
“For me, the great thing is the commitment and the passion and the love of music, which as an artist is good to see … It’s a new world now, and people are thinking of new ways to reach the people and for me that’s always been my aim.”
But now:
“I go to the cafe next door to one of the Starbucks … I don’t often sit in Starbucks.”
Commitment, pffft. It sounds to me like he’s trying to restore his street cred among aging hippies, all while pimping out his image to make money off Starbucks’s yuppie clientele. See also: McTwee, a white tea that the former Beatle enjoys both brewed as a beverage or smoked (!?) in a pipe.
With oil prices going through the roof, the middle class in oil-rich Venezuela have a dilemma: Should they enjoy the fruits of capitalism, or follow the lead of Hugo Chavez and embrace the austerity of hard-line socialism?
Thankfully, Venezuelan Interior Minister Pedro Carreño is making the decision oh-so-easy. During a press gaggle on Wednesday, a reporter asked Carreño if it wasn’t a bit contradictory to insist capitalism sucks while wearing Gucci shoes and a Louis Vuitton tie.
Carreño’s stammering is priceless even if you don’t understand Spanish, but a rough translation is below.
Carreño: The only way to justice is socialism, it is not capitalism, it is not capitalism … to the state…
Reporter: Yes sir, but it’s a contradiction to talk about capitalism when you are wearing a Louis Vuitton tie and Gucci shoes…
Carreño: I don’t — uh — I — Of course, it’s not contradictory because I wish Venezuela produced all of this, and then I would buy everything made here, and not have to import 95 percent of the things that we consume.
“America’s Next Top Model” winner Saleisha was already a model when she applied to be on the show, appearing on an ANTM runway during the show’s sixth season, on Tyra Banks’s talk show, and slinging burgers in a nationwide Wendy’s commercial last year. (Kudos to Jezebel for breaking this story weeks ago.) All of this should have disqualified her from entering the competition, but since two of her previous gigs were for Tyra TV, I guess the rules didn’t apply to her.
Not only that, but as Tyra revealed during the casting episode, Saleisha is an alumna of Tyra’s own “TZone” camp, which sends teenage girls off to the woods for self-esteem-ification. And what boosts a girl’s ego more than being hand-selected by Tyra Banks to be condemned to a year’s worth of “My Life as a CoverGirl” ads and promotional appearances at drugstores near you?
Hilary Swank told fashion magazine W that she takes 45 supplements a day to maintain her trim figure.
But that’s not what she told People earlier this fall, when she attributed her slimness to genetics:
But ultimately it’s Dad who gets the credit. “I try and get out as much as I can,” she says, “but I think in the end I really have to give it up to my genes.”
And also, isn’t that a lot of pills to be popping for someone who divorced her husband for substance abuse?
Pro football hall of famer Mike Ditka blasted the NFL and its players union earlier this year for not doing enough to help needy former players. Funny, because the charity he founded to do his part has actually done almost nothing at all. And now the loudmouth former coach is set to dissolve it entirely.
Writes USA Today:
The Mike Ditka Hall of Fame Assistance Trust Fund has collected $1.3 million and netted about $315,000 after expenses. But it has given only $57,000 to former players in need, according to federal and Illinois tax records.
Ditka promised in 2004 to give away $890,000 during the fund’s first three years, but no grants were made until just last year, when ten retired players collected modest checks. (Click for tax returns from 2004 and 2005.)
Meanwhile, the NFL and the union Ditka trashed? They gave out an average of $1.1 million each year from 2000 to 2005.