British singer Leona Lewis (whose chart-topper “Bleeding Love” you’d definitely recognize) has been crowned PETA’s Sexiest Vegetarian:
Lewis—whose album Spirit made her the first British artist to top the U.S. Billboard chart with a debut album—has a squeaky clean history. And when it comes to the dirty business of animal abuse, she’s a woman of action. “I am vegetarian so I don’t have clothes, shoes or bags made from leather or suede or any animal products. … I’m on a mission,” she says.
Hold up.
That bag you see there on the right? It’s Prada. It costs $990, and it’s leather. Plus it has feathers — from birds.
And then there was the time in January when she went on MTV’s TRL and wore a leather jacket.
And before that, she didn’t seem to object when X Factor (which is kinda the U.K.’s version of American Idol) made her over and slapped a pretty slammin’ leather bomber on her.
Is this really the best PETA can do?
The long-awaited parenting book written by Britney and Jamie Lynn’s mom has changed a lot since it stalled following her youngest daughter catching a case of pregnancy.
Lynne Spears’s surefire bestseller Through the Storm: A Real Story of Fame and Family in a Tabloid World is set for release in September.
Also known as “just after she’s become a grandmother for the third time to a child who will surely need years upon years of therapy just to reach 18.” Hopefully without getting knocked up or divorced first.
More specifically, PETA doesn’t like the t-shirt she somehow managed to stretch over it:
(Picture courtesy of Bauer-Griffin)
Simpson’s torso is a living, jiggling billboard for the benefits of omnivorousness as it is, but apparently this was a step too far for the excitable PR group. Over at the hilariously titled PETA Files blog (that name must go over like gangbusters in England), they list five reasons Simpson shouldn’t be allowed to express her opinion breastentatiously. Here’s my favorite:
2. Real girls don’t support animal abuse. Compassion is super sexy, if the huge number of hot celebs ditching meat is any indication. Young women turn vegetarian in droves when they learn that the meat industry cuts the sensitive beaks off newborn chicks and cuts off the tails of baby piglets.
And don’t forget how they run a death camp for stray puppies and kittens, and throw their adorable little corpses in a dumpster behind a Piggly Wiggly grocery store. Oh, wait… PETA does that. Super-duper sexy!
(Hat tip to Deceiver reader Megan Deshaies)
UPDATE (June 29th) –Welcome, FoxNews.com readers! The latest development? During a radio interview in Australia, Pammy was asked about Jessica’s t-shirt, and the PETA spokes-blonde called her a “bitch” and a “whore.” Classy, huh? Especially coming from someone whose naked cha-cha has been all over the Internet for years.  – The Oversneer
So Miley Ray Cyrus has gotten herself a whole lot of negative publicity this year, eh? Scandal after scandal after scandal.
I’ve become so desensitized to the whole thing that this barely registered.
On her MySpace page, she recently posted some photos of her lying in bed with her 22-year-old backup dancer named Marshall. No word from Billy Ray about why she’s allowed to be alone in her room with someone old enough to hold a college degree (and who, let’s face it, probably doesn’t have one).
I’ll allow that it’s unclear anything untoward happened, but she’s 15, so that automatically makes it bad news. And it’s also, what, the third guy she’s been caught canoodling with this year? She says she does it all for Jesus, but even Jesus is now like “enough already, you’re not helping.”
Dumb.
Self-styled environmentalist Justin Timberlake has purchased a golf course in Memphis to “save” it from developers:
He confesses he only “got into” the sport six years ago, when he was 20 — but the childhood trip to the Memphis, Tennessee, course inspired him to rescue it from being turned into apartments.
Timberlake tells talk show host Jay Leno, “My dad taught me to hit a golf ball on this course, when I was 12 years old. They were going to auction it off and turn it into a development, so we swooped in and got it.”
The singer is currently battling his mother’s plans to name the course after the famous family, adding, “My mom wants it to be called ‘Timberlake Trails’ or something like that.”
Just leaving behind his various not-so-green habits, does he realize that operating a golf course requires a lot of gasoline? As far as I know there aren’t any solar-powered lawnmowers to keep the grass so evenly trimmed, although there’s a million-dollar idea right there.
So remember Glitter? Of course you don’t. But to summarize, in Mariah Carey’s ill-fated autobiographical vanity project, she portrays a young singer just trying to make it big without losing herself in a vain and materialistic industry.
No wonder no one went to see that trash. That plot has been contradicted every day of her life.
Just in case you were worried that Mariah was starving in the streets, she and Nick Cannon (or has he taken her last name by now?) have registered at Bergdorf Goodman. Her assistant sent an email out to 100 of her closest, wealthiest friends to alert them of the fact, even though those pals were not invited to her wedding.
According to a source:
“It’s odd because she’s not even having a big wedding party or anything. It was assumed they’d have a big celebration when they got back, but no. They just want the gifts.” On the list are “fine china, very expensive silver stemware” and other items.
What’s so odd about it? I find nothing about this surprising in the least.
Jessica Simpson must really want to be on the cover of something other than Us Weekly, because she apparently agreed to an interview with Dear Doctor Dentistry & Oral Health magazine.
In it, she talks about her work with Operation Smile, a health group that provides free plastic surgery to kids with facial deformities in third-world countries. Specifically, she reminisces about a trip she took with them to Africa to 2005 (coincidentally, the last year she did anything noteworthy whatsoever):
“My experience in Kenya with Operation Smile was incredible. To witness the truly miraculous transformations in the lives of so many desperate needy children was both powerful and personally rewarding.”
Sounds touching, right?
But wait… MSNBC has the real scoop.
[A] source who was involved in planning the original trip was surprised to see references of any kind resurface. “She went on a wildlife tour at one point instead of visiting the hospitals she’d committed to seeing. The press was so, so bad,” said the source. “She backed out of PSAs that were supposed to run afterwards. I guess the lesson is that she and Joe (Simpson) really never cease to amaze.”
And that is why she deserves the cover of Us Weekly.
Everyone knows about Wal-Mart’s longstanding refusal to carry albums they consider not to be family-friendly.
Victims of the policy include John Cougar Mellencamp, who had to edit out a devil on an album cover; Nirvana, which was forced to change the name of the song “Rape Me” to “Waif Me” (I know, what?); and Sheryl Crow, whose album was summarily banned from the store’s shelves because of the song “Love Is A Good Thing,” in which she sang “watch our children as they kill each other/with a gun they bought at Wal-Mart discount stores.”
But because the nation’s biggest retailer accounts for more than 10 percent of CD sales in the country, most musicians are willing to release a sanitized version to be sold there.
So it comes as a bit of a surprise that the store has signed veteran rockers AC/DC to an exclusive agreement for their upcoming album.
Obviously this can’t be the long-awaited greatest hits compilation. Otherwise we could look forward to such anthems as “Highway to Heck,” “She’s Got Guts,” and “You ***** Me All Night Long.”
John Mayer crapped all over everyone’s fun and criticized Guitar Hero in the pages of Rolling Stone.
“Guitar Hero was devised to bring the guitar-playing experience to the masses without them having to put anything into it. And having done both, there’s nothing like really playing guitar. I mean, what would you rather drive, a Ferrari or one of those amusement-park cars on a track?”
I will have you know, John Mayer, that I have put entire weekends into Guitar Hero, thank you very much.
And this is awfully elitist coming from the guy whose hit track “Your Body Is A Wonderland” uses four pretty basic chords. I’m skeptical that he has a lot to contribute to music history other than a few more trite pop songs.
Steven Tyler took a page from the Kirsten Dunst playbook and came up with this bullcrap excuse for his recent rehab stay: his feet hurt.
No, seriously.
“The doctors told me the pain in my feet could be corrected but it would require a few surgeries over time,” Tyler says in a statement released Thursday. “The ‘foot repair’ pain was intense, greater than I’d anticipated. The months of rehabilitative care and the painful strain of physical therapy were traumatic. I really needed a safe environment to recuperate where I could shut off my phone and get back on my feet. Make no mistake, Aerosmith has no plans to stop rocking. There’s a new album to record, then another tour.”
According to the statement, Tyler was treated at the center after a series of surgeries and post-operative physical therapy “to correct long-time foot injuries resulting from his trademark athletic performance onstage.”
He checked into the Las Encinas Hospital drug clinic in Pasadena two weeks ago. The clinic is where VH1’s Celebrity Rehab’s psychiatrist Dr. Drew Pinsky works.
In an ironic twist, Dr. Drew was the one who taught me that you can’t go to rehab without being an addict. To wit:
“You cannot be admitted to a chemical dependency center in California without meeting the criteria, without being chemically dependent.”
And really, when you’re Steven Effing Tyler, you don’t get the benefit of the doubt.
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