Tyler Durden and Perez Hilton are in some kind of blogger pissing match over who has the exclusive on Kendra Wilkinson from The Girls Next Door, who is either dating or marrying someone other than Hugh Hefner.
The premise of the show, if for some reason you don’t watch a reality program filmed inside the Playboy Mansion, is following around Hef’s three girlfriends and watching them catfight. You can witness as Holly Madison, knocking at 30’s door at nearly 29, competes with Kendra, the 23-year-old wild child. The other girl is just kind of old and boring. (In the photo at right, Kendra is the blonde with the fake boobs. Take your pick.)
But Kendra is supposedly now engaged to Philadelphia Eagles wide receiver Hank Baskett III, claims WWTDD.
Whatever, I don’t really care. But while it seems patently ridiculous that Hef wants fidelity from each of his, ahem, three girlfriends (and pays them each a $1,000 weekly stipend as part of that de facto contract), should Kendra really be marrying someone else? Just drop the pretense and get a real job. Or maybe live off someone else’s money.
Billy Ray Cyrus sure is showing Miley how to handle showbiz pressures with grace and professionalism.
Sources on the set of Hannah Montana are reporting some extremely immature behavior coming from the Cyruses. In an attempt to get fired and thus released from their contract, Miley and her dad are showing up hours late, stalling production schedules, and pissing off everyone from costars to crew.
The reason? They believe there’s more money to be made in singing than in a Disney show.
This greedy display is a long way from Billy Ray’s whole sitdown with 20/20 last year about how he’s teaching his daughter to cope with the responsibility that comes along with making a billion dollars a year.
But if there’s one thing they should remember before they continue this stunt, it’s that you should never, ever eff with The Mouse. You just know that contract is more ironclad than Mariah Carey’s pre-nup.
Before you press “play” on this video, you may want to consider the future health of your hearing. Don’t say I didn’t warn you.
For context, this appears to be a live “board tape” of Britney Spears’ microphone track (without any digital processing) from a 2001 Las Vegas show, which HBO later aired as a broadcast special. Someone then synced up the audio, which was first leaked to a file-sharing fansite in Poland (don’t say we didn’t do our research…), with selected bits of the HBO video to make the finished product.
The final video illustrates a number of things, not the least of which is why big stars have backup singers, and how unrealistic it is for teens and ‘tweens to expect their favorite “singers” to dance and make any kind of noise worth paying to hear at the same time.
So without further ado, this is what Brit-Brit really sounds like when she’s on stage.
It’s her world, folks. We just live in it.
Apologies if you’ve seen this before, but I was entertained.
A hat tip goes to Deceiver reader Henrik, who wrote all the way from Sweden to share the video.
Rapper T.I.’s week just went downhill.
He started off performing at the VMAs (introduced by Jordin Sparks’s newsmaking comment), but now his baby mama is suing him for more money to raise their kids together.
Normally this would be where I call Lashon Dixon — his childhood sweetheart, mind you — a gold-digger, but she gets a measly $2,000 a month from him for the two boys (ages 7 and 8). That doesn’t sound like very much to me to raise a family on, and I think it’s only fair that he pays up.
If he fights it, Dixon can always reference the lyrics in his big hit “Whatever You Like”:
Gas up the jet for you tonight
And baby you can go wherever you like
I said you can go wherever you like
Anytime you want to, pick up the telephone
You know it ain’t nothin’, drop a couple stacks on you
Want it, you can get it, my dear
Five million dollar homes, drop Bentleys, I swear, yeah
Unless he pulls a Diddy, it sounds like he can afford it. Though maybe it would have been better if she didn’t have to drag him to court for it.
Guns ‘N Roses guitarist Slash is a legend in his own right, but calling modern musicians “sell-outs” looks a little petty.
“I think what was great about Guns N’ Roses is that we made it on our own integrity and we didn’t give up anything to anybody and made it on our own merit. The early gigs didn’t pay well at all. We actually looked forward to getting paid after a gig, but it was usually for the beer. I kept a straight job for a while.”
He says of fame-hungry modern rockers: “Everybody else is making compromises and concessions so that they can make it big and get their picture on the cover of Teen Beat or Us Weekly or whatever, you know, so, so…There’s a sort of, kind of, selling out to that.”
To that, The Audio Perv replies with a bootleg video of Slash performing “Sweet Child of Mine” with… Fergie. Of all people.
Even better is that lawyers for Guns ‘N Roses are suing the makers of video games Guitar Hero and Rock Band for more money, forgetting that Slash is front-and-center on the packaging for Guitar Hero 3 — and I’m sure richly compensated for that honor. The sour grapes are news to us, since he played “Welcome to the Jungle” at a GH3 press event in January.
What was that about compromises and concessions?
First, a little bit of history:
- Paris Hilton headlined PETA’s “worst-dressed” list for 2005 because she wore lots of fur coats.
- In February 2006, anti-fur PETA activists pelted her with “flour bombs” (like a water balloon with a puff of smoke instead) after she appeared in Julien Macdonald’s show at London’s Fashion Week.
- Sometime in the next three months, PETA got to her. By May, Paris had sat down with Heather Mills and watched the group’s anti-fur videos, and started saying that she would no longer wear fur. Paris even told Pam Anderson that she might want to start being an anti-fur spokesperson.
- In June 2006, Paris’ spokesman Eliot Mintz told TMZ: “Paris does not wear fur, nor will she wear fur described as artificial fur knowing it came off the backs of animals.”
- More firm quotes followed. To World Entertainment News Network: “I am not going to be wearing fur anymore.” To China’s Xinhua news agency, about the meeting with Heather Mills: “From that point I’ve never worn fur and I never will.”
- Mills herself claimed last year that Paris was “an absolutely lovely girl and actually quite bright” (which should be the first sign that something is amiss, but I digress…) “After she had used a box of tissues she said, ‘I will never, ever wear fur again and I will hand all my fur over tomorrow’, and she did.”
Which brings us up to the present day. Berglund of Copenhagen, a famous furrier in Denmark, announced proudly on its website last month that “Paris Hilton ordered 3 jackets … at her recent visit.” And unless I’m misunderstanding something, Paris was also wearing Berglund furs in a December 2007 issue of Star magazine.
Here’s a lovely MSN StarLounge story with a slideshow of Paris Hilton’s many Danish furs (that first one sells for over US $45,000). Now why on earth can’t you find this anywhere in the English-speaking world? Does anyone out there read Danish? I know that their coins have holes in the middle, and their pastries don’t. That’s about it.
Everybody repeat after me: Celebrities who say they’re too “moral” or “ethical” to wear fur coats or eat meat are not to be trusted. They all float back to earth eventually — as soon as they realize that they’re not that special, or that PETA is a corrupt bunch of opportunistic leeches.
Sean Diddy Combs (can we agree to call him that?) recently made an online video to rant about the cost of fuel for his private jet. His diamond shoes must be too tight too.
He went on to say he’d degraded himself to flying coach on American Airlines:
“Even your boy is being affected by gas prices!” Sean “Diddy” Combs said in the video, which was filmed at an airline gate as he entered a plane. “As you know, I do own my own jet and I have been having flying back and forth to L.A. pursuing my acting career. Now, if I’m flying back and forth like twice in a month, that’s like $200,000 or $250,000 round trip. I’m back on American Airlines right now. OK? Your boy Diddy right now is on American Airlines.”
Green bloggers rejoiced at his announcement, thinking maybe this also meant Diddy was paying attention to his carbon footprint.
Not so much. Turns out Diddy has never owned a private jet, according to federal records.
One private aviation source scoffed: “It’s my jet this, my jet that. I have list of every plane with the name of the owner, and he’s not on it.”
Heh. But what I don’t get is why Diddy would lie. He’s been in the business long enough that he has established street cred, unlike, say, Akon and we all remember what happened when those exaggerations came out.
Evidently we were misled last week by leaked snippets of Lynne Spears’s tell-all book about raising Britney.
Now that Through the Storm has been released, it can be confirmed it does not discuss such gossipy tidbits as Britney losing her virginity as a middle-schooler or her teenage drug use. That’s not to conclusively say it didn’t happen, but it’s not part of the book.
Instead, Lynne focuses on how Britney’s eventual slut spiral was all her managers’ fault.
Page Six reports:
Britney Spears is said to be “furious” with her mother, Lynne, after Lynne detailed her daughter’s past in her memoir, “Through the Storm.” While the book doesn’t dish on Britney’s sex life or drug use, it blames all of Britney’s problems on her daughter’s former managers. Spears - who already considered her mother a siphon on her purse — is “upset” about the book, spies said, especially when she feels Lynne herself caused so many of her problems and issues.
Precisely. Is it any wonder that Britney grew up to be declared an unfit parent when her own mother apparently gave up personal responsibility for her and her sister years ago?
So some of you are eager to escape the political posts, and who am I not to give you what you want? Which brings me to everyone’s favorite dumb bitch, Heather Mills.
Fired rep Michele Elyzabeth — who is in a dispute with Mills over back pay — reports that Mucca leaked some whoppers about Paul, including a story that his heart surgery earlier this year was due to alcohol and drug abuse. I’m particularly impressed by Elyzabeth’s ability to hold a grudge. It makes for excellent Deceiver fodder.
If you’re wondering what it’s like to work for Heather Mills, wonder no more:
“That witch tricked me into spreading lies about Paul … I stood up for her, insisting Paul wasn’t paying her [spousal support]. But it was a pack of lies … She uses whatever comes her way to get sympathy and boost her image … I think her prime concern was getting hold of his cash, and that took up all her time.”
Kind of makes you appreciate your boss, doesn’t it?
And get your Amazon pre-orders ready: Mills is writing a totally fictional book about a model who marries an aging rock star. I smell the Nobel Prize in Literature!
Lynne Spears’s first foray into publishing is so not a parenting book! I feel deceived.
There were rumors that the tenor of Through the Storm: A Real Story of Fame and Family in a Tabloid World was going to change after news of Jamie Lynn’s pregnancy broke last winter.
But apparently the change was more drastic than anticipated, as it became a page-turning exposé about Britney’s wild behavior as a teen:
In a tell-all book, Spears’ mother, Lynne, reveals her daughter surrendered her chastity to a high school football stud when she was just 14.
Mama Spears, 53, also dishes that the pop icon took a liking to booze when she was a 13-year-old Mouseketeer and began experimenting with drugs at 15.
By age 16, Britney’s wild-child behavior stunned her family when she was caught with cocaine and marijuana on a private jet, Lynn Spears claims.
And there’s more!
Lynne Spears, 53, confesses her regret of losing control of Britney’s career to handlers who promoted her as a sex object and put her in raunchy videos.
She admits she allowed her then 16-year-old daughter to sleep with Timberlake, her Mickey Mouse Club co-star, and went along with the hoax that Britney was a virgin.
Timberlake had shattered the fair-maiden myth in 2003, blabbing to reporters, “She lost her virginity a while ago - and I should know.” He also told Barbara Walters that he gave Britney her first kiss.
Lynne Spears reveals Timberlake was misled and that Britney lost her virginity to a Kentwood, La., high school football player.
Insisting Britney is even more messed up than we originally suspected is probably not the best way to shepherd along that reported reconciliation with her daughter. Haven’t enough people capitalized on the poor girl’s fame?
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