Dean Tong is an “internationally known family rights and forensic consultant on child abuse, domestic violence, and child custody cases.” He has appeared on stupid Dr. Phil and awful Nancy Grace as an expert on false abuse accusations, which you can read all about at his site, abuse-excuse.com.
That experience is going to come in handy, because:
Cops near Tampa responded to the home of Dean Tong, 51, after receiving a frantic call from his wife the night of Jan. 21… Tong was booked for alleged domestic violence and tampering with a witness. He was released on $1,000 bail…
“During the argument, he grabbed [his wife’s] arm, slammed the door into her foot, and took the phone away from her when she attempted to call law enforcement,” Hillsborough County Sheriff’s spokeswoman Debbie Carter said yesterday.
Tong was arrested in 1998 for alleged burglary and in 2001 for domestic violence, but wasn’t prosecuted for either one. It’s like they say: Do what you love, and the rest will follow.
Two weeks ago Dr. Phil quasi-apologized for talking about visiting Britney in the hospital, but the media frenzy surrounding her latest psych ward commitment has proven too great a temptation for the good doctor to resist:
“I don’t think [Spears’ current hospitalization] surprises anybody. All I’ve ever tried to do is help. By that I don’t mean doing therapy, because I don’t do that anymore, but I’ve always felt like let’s get her to the right kinds of professionals — ones that could provide psychological and psychiatric support … Certainly I haven’t been called or contacted. I know just what everybody else does. If this [current hospitalization] starts her on the road to getting some intervention, then that’s a good thing.”
Hasn’t the past month proven to anybody that his weighin in IS NOT HELPING!? So much for regretting making a statement about Britney’s mental situation…
Soccer “star” David Beckham, last seen sporting a t-shirt with his wife Victoria’s naked, airbrushed body on the front, has decided to make things more permanent by having her image squirted into his very flesh:
The marking on his left forearm depicts Posh as a naked angel surrounded by stars and is the first to feature a picture of her.
The seven-inch tattoo winds around a previous design which spells out her name in Hindi. It is a replica of a photo of her taken in a shoot for Pop magazine in 2004…
Beckham reportedly wants to have his upper torso covered in tattoos like Prison Break hero Michael Scofield.
The sleeve design on his lower arm was last year reported to be inspired by Wentworth Miller’s character in the hit US TV show.
So much for “Protect the Skin You’re In”! More like “Deride Your Hide.” If he’s going to imitate a TV show, why can’t it be Lost? As in, that’s what he should get.
Jezebel drew my attention to the new Bravo show Millionaire Matchmaker, which follows a dating service that pairs really rich men with really hot women.
Patti Stanger, the CEO of the Millionaires Club and star of the show, is a complete psycho hose beast. But pretty entertaining in her total self-unawareness. She rails on the quality of the gold-diggers who’ve applied to her agency for a set up:
“Attractive… attractive… no. What’s with the hair up? You’ve got to tell the girls to stop putting their hair up… Frankly these are plain. Plain Janes. I give them ‘7’s.”
And while watching a man’s application video in the very next scene:
“Can you give me someone who wants a real woman and isn’t affected by looks? I’m so nauseous, I want to vomit every day when you send me this cr*p. ‘I want perfect 10 looks. Problem is, I’m not a perfect 10.’ Millionaire men perpetually were geeks in their youth. Once they make a few bucks they automatically think that gives them the card to get into the cool club.”
That reminds me… Can the screenwriters’ strike end soon? Please?
The judges on American Idol have a bit of a double standard when it comes to contestants on their show being sex symbols.
Would-be Idol Bruce Dickson interviewed last week that he was planning to save himself for marriage and wanted his first kiss to be after his “I do’s.” However, he was given the kiss-off with Randy’s advice to “kiss some girls” before auditioning again next year.
However, this week brought 16-year-old contestant and Catholic schoolgirl Amy Flynn, who told Simon, Paula, and Randy that she is a virgin and volunteers for the abstinence course Students Teaching About Respecting Sexuality.
Their responses?
Randy: “I love that, I think that’s nice.”
Simon: “I think you’re absolutely right … I’m going to try to live by that code. We’re on the same page.”
Paula just drooled on the table and twirled her hair, so who knows where she stands on teen sex.
Hayden Panettiere got all indignant around a 17-year-old paparazzo, lecturing him:
“You should be getting an education, not running around with cameras.”
This from a homeschooled 18-year-old who has been around cameras her entire life. Her parents put her in commercials before she turned 1, and she was starring in soap operas by the time she was 5.
So how’s college treating you, Hayden?
Yesterday Holly told you about Victoria Beckham’s new “Protect the Skin You’re In” t-shirts to raise money for skin-cancer research. Courtesy of the Daily Mail, here’s her husband (That Guy We’re Supposed to Care About Even Though He’s a Professional Soccer Player) wearing one of the shirts:
It’s certainly a good cause, and an even better PhotoShop. But considering the message… shouldn’t it be a long-sleeve t-shirt?
Celebrity chef Nigella Lawson has announced her intention not to leave her children an inheritance, claiming she doesn’t want them to become spoiled:
“I am determined that my children should have no financial security. It ruins people not having to earn money.”
Right, except she herself is an heiress to the Lyons Corner House restaurant fortune. The former socialite was once fired from hosting a talk show because she bragged about how she paid people to do her weekly shopping; the producers on Talk Radio decided she didn’t fit in with the program’s “common touch.”
Lawson and her husband are thought to be worth about £110-million, or nearly $219-million in U.S. dollars. She has not announced any intentions to donate the money to charity, so it leads me to wonder if she’s just planning to spend it on herself?
Barbara Walters announced this morning on The View that Britney Spears’s manager and sometimes boyfriend Sam Lutfi called her to discuss Britney’s mental-health situation. He reportedly said Britney is receiving treatment for her “mood swings.”
Walters’s co-hosts on The View questioned whether he’s qualified to talk about this. Walters responded:
“I don’t know if anybody is telling the truth or not telling the truth … He has been with her constantly. He seems to be enormously supportive.”
Actually, he seems like a huge jerk who is totally unqualified to talk about mental-health issues. Page Six reported this morning that three people have taken restraining orders against him in California, including his ex-friend Danny Haines, who had this to say about when he cut Lutfi out of his life:
Lutfi humiliated him, e-mailing naked photos of him to his family, friends and co-workers. He texted and called incessantly and, according to court documents, told Haines he hoped his sister would be “raped to death.” Haines says that in one e-mail to him, Lutfi wrote of Haines’ mother that he hoped “Satan devours her flesh and bones” and he looked forward to the day when he would “p— on her burial.”
Btw, Barbara Walters is still a serious journalist.
According to the Reliable Source at the Washington Post:
Generation Y finally has its own Jane Fonda, and it is Hayden Panettiere… The bubbly 18-year-old starlet is kickin’ it ’70s style, snagging an arrest warrant for her face-off with Japanese dolphin hunters and raising the roof at a “Save the Whales Again!” rally yesterday in Dupont Circle…
But she really lit up when asked about the incident last fall when she and five other surfboard-riding activists disrupted a Japanese dolphin kill. “It was like ‘Mission: Impossible’! We had masks on… The water was so red with blood… This baby dolphin popped its head up and looked at me…”
No fear of a Fonda-like backlash? “We’re saving magnificent animals. I don’t think anyone objects to that. I don’t trust people who don’t love animals.”
Do you think our favorite lilliputian animal-lover brought her purse? You know, the big leather one she’s selling? Guess animals aren’t worth saving unless they’re “magnificent,” huh?
P.S. It turns out Hayden was wearing a “Save the Whales” sweatshirt and… Ugg boots. (Hint: They’re not made of plants.)
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