Mirabile dictu (in honor of the Pope’s U.S. visit) — Akon, the rap “artist” best known for dry-humping a 14-year-old girl in Trinidad, fabricated most of his “convict” street cred.
Even The New York Times is getting in on the bashing. Who could have seen this coming (besides, like all of us)?
All credit for the research goes to The Smoking Gun. But Hollyscoop has the best summary, for those of you who don’t want to wade through 3,900 words at TSG:
Rapper Akon is a big fat liar. He’s based his career (and record label) on the idea that he was “Konvicted” and served time behind bars, but that’s as far from the truth as it gets.
Throughout his career he claimed that he was the “ringleader of a notorious car theft operation” and served a four-and-a-half year prison sentence …
The documents reveal that although he was arrested for stealing a BMW, he never once set foot in a prison. The case was dropped by a Georgia court. He basically got away with three years probation.
So the moral of the story is, if you have high hopes of making it in Hollywood, don’t be shady and lie about your past. Because one way or another, we’ll find out the truth and you’ll look like an idiot.
Look, the kid’s got talent. But does he have to gild the lily like this?
Paris Hilton slammed her BFF Kim Kardashian’s curvaceousness on a Las Vegas radio program on Monday:
“I would not want [Kim's butt] - it’s gross! It reminds me of cottage cheese inside a big trash bag.”
Classy, right? Definitely something a role model would say. Especially one who bristles at the implication that she’s a superficial, back-stabbing whore.
She went on to apologize to InTouch Weekly for the mean-girls-esque comment.
“I was just joking around and I made a stupid joke. I felt really bad afterward, so I contacted Kim and apologized. It was a silly thing to say. Kim’s hot!”
Yeah, whatever, Precious. No wonder she has to do a casting call for a new best friend (and it’s even less shocking that only 40 people showed up to audition).
It feels weird to agree with big frownies like the Parents Television Council, but in this case they’re kind of right:
The Parents Television Council, one week after praising NBC for stating its 8 p.m. to 9 p.m. programming would target families, has now labeled NBC’s pledge “hypocritical” after it aired what the PTC described as “graphic scenes” in telecasts of its Thursday sitcoms My Name is Earl and 30 Rock.
“If NBC is going to commit to the Family Hour, then it must truly commit to airing content that the entire family can watch without fear of inappropriate or indecent content,” said Tim Winter, PTC president. “These scenes were purely gratuitous, intended to titillate and crossed the line of decency. NBC seems out of touch with what the term ‘Family Hour’ means. NBC’s Family Hour pledge is purely hypocritical.”
They cite last week’s 30 Rock, which featured a fictional reality show (aren’t they all?) called MILF Island. It’s kind of silly that some news outlets think they can’t even say “MILF” because of the “F” part, but this does seem like a pretty racy thing to depict during “Family Hour”:
That’s funny stuff — especially if you hate reality shows as much as you should — and I wouldn’t go so far as to call it “graphic.” But it’s not the kind of thing I’d want my young children watching, if they had any idea who or where I am.
If you’re not going to air family-oriented shows from 8 to 9, don’t call it “Family Hour.” Don’t try to appease people like the PTC and then turn right around and thumb your nose at them. Seems simple enough. But then, I don’t work in TV.
Ashlee Simpson’s fiancĂ© Pete Wentz was pretty pissed off about those persistent pregnancy rumors. He immediately went on the offensive to MTV News:
“There is a witch hunt for people to be pregnant whenever they get engaged in Hollywood,” he wrote in an email. “This is all news to me. I can’t wait for the story about how I’m really in a gay relationship and this is all just a cover. … I mean really, this is crazy. … I mean were engaged, that’s true, and happy about it.”
Should have cleared that denial with Joe Simpson first. Pete’s soon-to-be father-in-law has already started shopping around the rights to baby photos, should a bun happen to be in the proverbial oven.
Papa Simpson is asking for $1-million, but one gossip rag editor said off the record that would be unlikely.
“$60,000 maybe — but definitely not a million. The timing is a little suspicious. Her album ['Bittersweet World'] is dropping next week, and there was little to no interest until now. Ashlee’s lucky she got pregnant, frankly.”
Yeah, I don’t know that luck has much to do with it. She’s been pretending to be up the spout for at least a month now, ostensibly for that same suspicious reason.
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