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11
Aug

Hayden Sez: Save The Whales, Screw The Homeless

By The Oversneer 25 Comments Digg! Digg this
Categories: Activists, Television Stars and Uncategorized

The Whaleman Foundation’s motto is “Bringing whales and mankind together to preserve and protect our world.” Is it just me, or have the humans being doing all the heavy lifting so far? I think it’s time for the cetacean creatures to start pulling their considerable weight.

Hayden Panettiere might disagree, since she spent last night hosting a benefit for the Whaleman group (not to be confused with the Blue Man Group, another truly deserving charity). JustJared has a photo gallery of Hayden looking all hostess-y with Eva Longoria, another noted marine scientist.

But while the “Heroes” starlet is busy raising bucks for needy baleines (I wonder if they served beluga caviar — wouldn’t that be ironic…), apparently she’s not all that fond of needy people.

Star Magazine reports:

Hayden Panettiere proved to be not so heroic to a San Diego homeless man panhandling at the Comic-Con event she was attending.

While the Heroes cutie was outside taking a break, a homeless man approached her and asked for some change. When Hayden reached into her purse and realized the smallest bill she had was a twenty, she asked him if he could break it!

“When he said no, she apologized and assured him that she would find him later,” the source says.

I’m sure Hayden spent her entire afternoon looking for a homeless guy outside Comic-Con, desperately seeking a home for a quarter or two. Actually, she probably told her assistants what the guy looked like and had them find him: “He’s, like, really yucky looking, and he has horrible skin, and he never moisturizes. And that hair! Oh… my… God… Tell him he has got to save up for an Aveda cleanse.”

You stay classy, cheerleader!

11
Aug

Jessica Simpson Should Have Thought This One Through

By Holly Won't 22 Comments Digg! Digg this
Categories: Bad Boys & Girls, Musicians and Sports Figures

Oh lawd.

Jessica Simpson reportedly announced to boyfriend Tony Romo’s parents that she is pregnant (although it appears it was a false positive). They didn’t react exactly the way she probably had hoped:

“There was a huge fight on July 18 at the Romo home,” a source close to the family told The Enquirer. “Jessica and Tony thought she was pregnant and happily announced it to the family.

“The news resulted in dead silence. Then Tony’s dad Ramiro said, ‘You’re not married. this is crazy!’ Tony’s mom Joan joined in, demanding, ‘How can you do this to us?’”

Jessica, 28, said her home pregnancy test showed a positive result and that she was heading for a doctor to find out for sure.

A spokesperson for Jessica says she is not pregnant, but pals say it’s not for lack of trying.

“Her friends know she’s feverishly trying to conceive,” confided an insider.

Jesscia Simpson as aspiring shotgun bride is a long way from Jessica Simpson, virgin until the honeymoon. I mean, way to ruin a family dinner there, Jess.

08
Aug

Jenna Jameson And PETA — Which One Is The Hypocrite?

By The Oversneer 38 Comments Digg! Digg this
Categories: Movie Stars, PETA and Television Stars

You know, maybe I’m approaching this all wrong. I was just about to write a post about how Jenna Jameson posed naked to promote PETA this week, and how she’s a total hypocrite because — well…

And so on. If you’re a regular reader, you’ve heard the litany. I was thinking, again, that this overexposed porn flake endorsing PETA would be like a kleptomaniac nymphomaniac serial killer doing infomercials for the Catholic priesthood. PETA’s whole schtick, after all, is defined by what you can’t do. It’s like being in Lent all the time.

But then I saw that on the same day PETA is promoting Jenna (the oyster-slurping, leather-wearing angler), it’s bitch-slapping Eliza Dushku for doing a bowhunting demonstration on the  Jimmy Kimmel show, and describing how she goes hunting with her boyfriend:

“When you’re in a relationship with somebody you have to, like, experience things that they do. A lot of people eat meat… and I eat what I kill.”

At which point PETA went absolutely nutters.

How is this any different from Jenna Jameson fishing with her boyfriend?

Oh yeah … Eliza hasn’t posed for a PETA poster. It’s like buying indulgences from the Pope, apparently. Makes it all okay.

Here’s the Eliza Dushku appearance on Kimmel. Scroll forward to [03:12] to hear what set off the PETA folks, and then skip to [6:00] to see Eliza shoot her crossbow compound bow.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PDYRnCeEs34

08
Aug

TV and Newspaper Reporters Pounce on Three-Week-Old Story

By Simon Scowl 18 Comments Digg! Digg this
Categories: Newscasters, The Naughty Bits, The Washed Up, U.S. Left-wing Politicos and Writers

Kind of a Major Update to the Following Post: Edwards Admits Sexual Affair; Lied as Presidential Candidate

The word about John & Rielle’s Excellent Adventure keeps trickling into what some people insist on calling “the news.” Go get ‘em, well-paid media professionals!

  • According to the New York Observer, Brian Ross at ABC News is looking into the John Edwards/Rielle Hunter story. Best of luck fending off the other 0 network news reporters for the scoop, Bri.
  • The NY Daily News picks up on the “Will John Edwards speak at the DNC?” angle. I’m pretty sure this is their first mention of this whole thing since the story broke. Apparently, a presidential candidate knocking up a subordinate and going to great lengths to cover it up (allegedly) isn’t news, but the possibility that it might hurt Obama is.
  • The NY Post has been on it, of course, but only Page Six. They’re talking about the DNC angle as well.
  • The British press continues to laugh at us. Today it’s The First Post and Metro.co.uk.
  • Brad Warthen, editor of The State (”South Carolina’s largest newspaper”), explains why this isn’t really a news story even though you might be dumb enough to think it is. I especially enjoyed his denial that John Edwards is a public figure:

    Oh, yeah? Maybe you should leave the blogosphere and pick up a few newspapers.

    This guy wants to play gatekeeper while the whole fence is getting knocked down.

  • Byron York at National Review Online examines the reasons behind the media blackout. In sum:

    …they’re waiting for the Enquirer to fully report a story that they wouldn’t otherwise report… because it’s in the Enquirer.

  • If you picked up a few newspapers but couldn’t find any information on this story, you can always check out Deceiver’s complete coverage here. You might find one or two tidbits you haven’t heard about before.
08
Aug

L’Oreal/Beyoncé Controversy Just History Repeating

By Holly Won't 28 Comments Digg! Digg this
Categories: Businesses, Movie Stars and Musicians

Cosmetics giant L’Oreal drew a lot of heat yesterday for their new Feria haircolor ad featuring a strangely white-looking Beyoncé. (And the controversy hasn’t even mentioned that her straight blonde hair looks absolutely nothing like it used to.)

TMZ fanned the flames by polling its readers: “Is the ad a slap to Blacks?” Fifty-eight percent said yes.

So of course, L’Oreal had to do some immediate damage control, denying that her features or skin tone were retouched for the ad campaign.

O RLY? Because this would not be the first time L’Oreal has gone out of its way to make sure its hair products are being promoted by light-skinned people.

Last year, the company was found guilty of racial discrimination in France for hiring only white salesgirls to push its Garnier Fructis Style line of shampoo. Among the evidence:

In July 2000, a fax detailing the profile of hostesses sought by L’Oréal stipulated women should be 18 to 22, size 38-42 (UK size 10-14) and “BBR”, the initials for bleu, blanc, rouge, the colours of the French flag. Prosecutors argued that BBR, a shorthand used by the far right, was also a well-known code among employers to mean “white” French people and not those of north African, African and Asian backgrounds.

After the ruling, the company said in a statement, “We believe that diversity and difference are a source of richness and we do not tolerate any form of racism or discrimination.” Except, I guess, when you have a highly successful spokeswoman whose skin is just too dark.

07
Aug

Angelina Jolie Micromanages Her Kids’ Lives

By Holly Won't 28 Comments Digg! Digg this
Categories: Activists and Movie Stars

In an interview with Hello! magazine, Angelina Jolie casually mentions that she’s selected a career for megacute tot Zahara:

Hollywood actress Angelina Jolie is planning to build an AIDS clinic in Ethiopia for her daughter Zahara to manage when she grows up.

Jolie will make a trip to her adopted daughter’s native country to discuss building the clinic as part of the work of the Jolie-Pitt Foundation, a charity she set up with her husband Brad Pitt in 2006 for humanitarian aid around the world.

“We will be building a Tuberculosis/AIDS clinic in Ethiopia. The one we plan for Zahara to take over when she is older,” Jolie told Britain’s Hello magazine.

Zahara could very well grow up to want to become a philanthropist like her mum. But Angelina seems to have forgotten that era when she resented her father for pushing her into show business, even dropping his name so she wouldn’t be associated with him.

And as a teenager, she didn’t even want to be an actress; she considered a career as a funeral director instead.

Perhaps she ought to remember that not everyone grows up to be what they wanted to be when they were three years old. (Except for me, I’ve always wanted to dish dirt on really good-looking people.)

07
Aug

Tila Tequila Disagrees That The Shot Must Go On

By Holly Won't 26 Comments Digg! Digg this
Categories: Bad Boys & Girls and Television Stars

The airwaves just got a little less skanky: Tila Tequila won’t be back for a third season of A Shot of Love.

Tequila tells In Touch magazine she’s found real love with new girlfriend Courtenay Semel, and doesn’t want to jeopardize her new relationship by cavorting with wannabe lovers on TV.

She says, “MTV asked me to do another season, but I don’t want to do that right now. I’m going to do something else with my life. It’s time to move on.”

Tequila was “humiliated” at the end of her show’s second season when Playboy model contestant Kristy Morgan dumped her during a highly-charged finale, but now she insists she’s found true romance with Yahoo! CEO Terry Semel’s daughter, a former party pal of Lindsay Lohan’s.

Having a real-life significant other hasn’t stopped her before. But duh, her ex-boyfriend probably wasn’t the offspring of a billionaire.

I’m so naive sometimes.

07
Aug

For Bill Clinton, “Monogamy” Means Only Having One Extramarital Conquest At A Time

By The Oversneer 18 Comments Digg! Digg this
Categories: Bad Boys & Girls, The Washed Up and U.S. Left-wing Politicos

 

I really can’t find a way to improve on the raw news coverage, since I’m too busy rubbing my eyes in that Jon Stewart Daily Show fashion that you all know so well.

So here it is, from London’s Independent. Prepare to spit out your drink.

Bill Clinton made a plea yesterday for a new emphasis on monogamy as a key element in the battle against AIDS.

The former US president, not noted for his ability to keep his own marriage vows, said it was very important to change people’s attitudes to sex.

In an interview with the BBC recorded in Africa, Mr Clinton said that increasing support for monogamy was not just a problem for the continent worst hit by AIDS but for the world.

“To pretend we can ever get hold of this without dealing with that – the idea of unprotected sexual relations with unlimited numbers of partners – I think would be naïve,” he said.

Oh.

My.

God.

06
Aug

Jennifer Aniston’s Strategy: Deny, Deny, Deny

By Holly Won't 14 Comments Digg! Digg this
Categories: Movie Stars, Musicians and Television Stars

I want to start off by saying I think Jennifer Aniston gets an unfair rap. Unless she’s completely emotionally unstable, there’s no way she’s as obsessed with Brangelina as the tabloids would have you believe.

And I really don’t buy that she’s going to have a revenge baby.

However, OK! magazine decided to run a cover story based on “insiders” and “sources” that she’s planning a big ol’ wedding to John Mayer this year.

And her press rep Stephen Huvane came right back and denied it.

But you know what else Stephen Huvane has denied over the years? Pretty much Jennifer Aniston’s very existence. According to Us Magazine, a review:

1) BRAD AND JEN ARE NOT ENGAGED
After Jen and then-boyfriend **Brad Pitt** took the stage during a Sting concert in November 1999 and Jen flashed a big diamond ring on her left ring finger, Huvane told the media: “She has a ring, but it’s not an engagement ring.” He continued to deny any engagement until the couple married July 29, 2000.

2) BRAD AND JEN ARE OK
Two weeks before Brad and Jen announced their separation on January 7, 2005, Huvane told Us: “They are looking forward to spending the holidays with each other. There is no split. They are fine.”

3) JEN ISN’T MOVING TO HER FORMER BACHELORETTE PAD
In February 2005, Huvane denied reports that Aniston was planning to move back into her former Hollywood Hills home, telling the New York Daily News, “Jennifer is not planning to move back into her home that is leased out to Ali G [Sacha Baron Cohen]. That is another fabrication.” Cohen and his fiance, Isla Fisher, were ousted from the place that same month, Aniston moved back into her old pad later that year, and Vaughn joined her in January 2006.

4) JEN AND VINCE ARE NOT DATING
When pictures of Vince and Jen cuddling on the set of The Break-Up surfaced in July 2005, and rumors circulated that the costars were dating offscreen, Huvane denied the coupling to the New York Post: “There is no romantic interest. Vince is a good friend of Jennifer’s. I think the tabloids are so eager to see her with someone romantically that they just make these false assumptions.”

5) GWYNETH IS NOT DEPRESSED
In 2003, rumors surfaced that **Gwyneth Paltrow**’s depression over her father’s death caused the actress to drop out of the films I Heart Huckabees and Happy Endings. Huvane, who is also Gwyneth’s publicist, denied the reports, saying, “She’s not going through a serious depression, she just needs some time off.”

“I was so depressed about my father,” the actress later said of the time in her life.

What’s the point of having a publicist if you don’t want any publicity?

06
Aug

It’s a Good Thing Pam Anderson Doesn’t Read Deceiver

By Simon Scowl 20 Comments Digg! Digg this
Categories: PETA, Television Stars and The Washed Up

If she did, she might realize how ridiculous she looks to normal people and quit being so entertainingly brainless. Probably not, but it’s possible. Not to mention that she’d know that the KFC “vegetarian” fake-chicken sandwich she’s chowing down on here was cooked in the same fryer as the dead animal parts. PETA = Pam’s Eating Tallow from Animals!

(Hat tip: Mollygood)

She must have been hungry after traveling back from Australia, where last month she led an anti-KFC rally. That is, when she wasn’t appearing on the Aussie version of Big Brother, which was sponsored by… can you guess?

By the way, does that sandwich contain mushrooms? (Bottom-right corner. Once seen, cannot be unseen.)

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