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09
Oct

Courteney Cox Got Botox While Shilling Pricey Skin Care Products

By Holly Won't 10 Comments Digg! Digg this
Categories: Businesses and Television Stars

Courteney Cox’s completely photoshopped visage appears on the cover of November’s Marie Claire. She opened up to the magazine about her “miserable” experience with Botox:

“I think it’s fantastic and also horrible.

“I mean, they’ve come up with this stuff that can make you not look angry. But you have to use it sparingly.

“I went to this doctor once, and he was like, ‘Oh, let me do it just here and here and here.’

“And I was miserable.”

I’ll bet that Kinerase is surprised to hear her cop to Botox use when she’s been paid to sing the praises for their megabucks skincare line for more than two years now. At her most recent contract renewal, she was quoted as saying “Kinerase simply works. I have been using Kinerase since 2001 and love what we are doing with the line.”

Yet just two months after that, she said in an interview that her husband David Arquette has banned her from getting a facelift:

“David has a huge problem with surgery, but I don’t. It’s hard getting older. It’s hard not to be the young one anymore, to see your face change, your skin change, and not judge it.”

So what I’m taking from this is that Kinerase totally works, except you still get wrinkles anyway and have to resort to Botox and possibly other procedures to keep the contract with Kinerase. Because lord knows she doesn’t act anymore.

09
Oct

Mischa Barton of All People Slams Victoria Beckham’s Style

By Holly Won't 11 Comments Digg! Digg this
Categories: Bad Boys & Girls, Fashionistas, Socialites and Television Stars

I’m not sure this even warrants a disclosure, but I was a major fan of The O.C. As crazy as it sounds, it’s more or less the reason I moved to Southern California. Seriously.

And I even liked Marissa and her pretty, pretty hair (not to mention her awesome mother, Julie Cooper Nichol Cooper Roberts Atwood).

So this is not the point of the post. The point is that Mischa Barton of Marissa infamy has absolutely no idea how to dress herself. Her fashion sense is basically comedy. She even deserved her own section on Go Fug Yourself and secured a big feature in the accompanying book, The Fug Awards. Unfortunately she lost out in the Most Inexplicable Style Icon category to Chloë Sevigny.

Which brings me to Mischa’s criticism of Victoria Beckham:

“Posh doesn’t strike me as particularly stylish.

“I don’t think she’s a good example of British style at all.”

The former OC star added: “I don’t dress for anybody else, and I think the reason people like my style is that I do my own thing.”

Coming from someone who routinely dresses like a hobo, I hope Posh doesn’t give this much credence. You can dance to the beat of your own sartorial drummer but please don’t turn it into a mosh pit.

08
Oct

New Voting PSA Shockingly Features Left-Leaning Celebrities

By Holly Won't 20 Comments Digg! Digg this
Categories: Activists, Movie Stars, Politicos, Television Stars and U.S. Left-wing Politicos

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uCcLzu3jz1M

The Creative Coalition has been promoting an ad featuring tons of movie and television stars encouraging people to vote. (For those of you wondering, it’s similar in structure and production value to the one that Leonardo DiCaprio produced but the two are unaffiliated.)

It’s a point I’ve made before, but certain celebrities who appear in this video have a well-established record of supporting only Democratic candidates. Susan Sarandon, I’m looking at you. You too, Samuel L.

It’s one thing to get the word out and use star power to register young voters. But when the message comes from partisan players, it limits the PSA’s impact and makes it look like young people of a certain political persuasion are the only ones who matter.

Also, not a single Asian person to be found in the ad? Really? Yet they used Gossip Girl actor Ed Westwick — who I positively love, btw — and he isn’t even American.

08
Oct

Déjà Vu: Jamie Lynn Spears Pregnant Again Already?

By Holly Won't 28 Comments Digg! Digg this
Categories: Bad Boys & Girls, Teen Idols and Television Stars

Hoo boy. The National Enquirer, whose Which Celebrity Is Knocked Up Now? bureau tends to be dead-on with their reporting, has an exclusive that Jamie Lynn Spears is pregnant again.

Sources say she’s eight weeks along — just three months after giving birth in June. Take it away, TNE:

The unplanned pregnancy came as a shock to Jamie Lynn, who’d been breast-feeding her infant daughter Maddie Briann, insiders say.

“Jamie Lynn believed she couldn’t get pregnant while she was breast-feeding,” said the close source. “She’d expected to have her period by early September.” A home pregnancy test came back positive and Jamie Lynn cried her eyes out, said the source.

Her mother Lynne was livid when she found out, divulged an insider.

Meanwhile, insiders say that those close to Jamie Lynn are urging her to abort!

“They’ve reminded Jamie Lynn how much trouble she had adjusting to motherhood with Maddie, and pointed out that having a second baby now would only be a recipe for disaster,” said the close source.

Sex education, people! But this seems to be a reversal from those halcyon “being a mom is the best feeling in the world!” days. Such a great feeling, she’s ready to do it again!

06
Oct

Miley Cyrus Hosts ‘Birthday Party’ at Disneyland

By Holly Won't 17 Comments Digg! Digg this
Categories: Bad Boys & Girls, Businesses, Musicians, Teen Idols and Television Stars

Celebritology wrote an article that left my cold, black heart feeling kind of guilty for being hard on Miley Cyrus over the past few months. To wit:

I felt a little verklempt when I read about Miley’s 16th birthday bash at, of course, Disneyland. Because not content to let this girl — excuse me, I mean child — celebrate this milestone with a modicum of privacy, she was instead costumed, handed a mike and pushed on stage to perform four songs to an audience of paying ticket-holders.

“Miley is really hard to surprise,” dad Billy Ray Cyrus told the Associated Press. I’m sure that’s true, especially when the guest of honor is tasked with making good on those $250 tickets.

It goes on to analyze how Miley isn’t really living the life of a teenager. “That’s just my personality. I don’t get shaken or stirred up over anything. Which can be a problem sometimes. I’m just, like, so no emotions,” she said in that infamous Vanity Fair profile.

But I keep coming back to that Billy Ray Cyrus quote. “Miley is really hard to surprise.” So does that mean the event for which Disney charged $250 a head was supposed to be a surprise party, albeit one where she was contractually obligated to provide the entertainment? When does she just get to be a girl?

Btw, her real birthday isn’t until November 23 (which you’d hope her dad would know). I just can’t help but get the impression that Billy Ray is standing behind the curtain, whispering “dance, monkey, dance!” whenever Miley goes on stage.

06
Oct

Jennifer Love Hewitt Blah Blah Blah Weight Loss

By Holly Won't 7 Comments Digg! Digg this
Categories: Television Stars

Jennifer Love Hewitt caught some flack from me when she went on the cover of Us Weekly in August to brag about her weight loss. I thought she was being a big ol’ hypocrite for flaunting her new svelte look after telling “all girls with butts, boobs, hips and a waist” to wear their bikinis with pride and feel beautiful no matter what their size.

Well now she’s telling TV Guide that she never agreed to go on the cover of that magazine:

TVGuide.com: Having lashed back at the media about that “controversy,” did you hesitate about participating in that Us Weekly cover story about your 18-lb. weight loss?

Hewitt: You know what’s funny is I didn’t participate in it. Everybody thinks I did, but…. They talked to my trainer, who I think was just trying to say nice things and it kind of went on. I literally got a phone call saying, “P.S. You’re going to be on the cover of Us, and they’re talking about you losing weight.” I was like, “What?!” [Laughs]

TVGuide.com: I myself thought, “How could she do that, having criticized the media for obsessing on body image?”

Hewitt: I know, and that’s what everybody keeps concentrating on, but I had nothing to do with it. I didn’t go lose weight because of that. I’m not a “work out” kind of girl — I’d rather shop or see a movie! — but I got this “bug” in me to run a marathon for my 30th birthday [next Feb. 21]. I started training, and when you’re doing anything like that which you’re not used to, you drop weight. When I heard all the compliments and nice things, it made me nervous. I didn’t want people to think what I said [last year] wasn’t true, because I stand by what I said. People’s bodies are going to change. Sometimes you’re going to go up, sometimes you’re going to go down…. I wish people would stop talking about it all together, to be quite honest.

I wish “they” would too, JLH. By which I of course mean “you.”

But more importantly, does anyone believe that she didn’t grant an interview for the cover? One in which she is directly quoted. And then at the Emmys two weeks ago, she repeated the sentiment in an interview with Access Hollywood. Or did she not knowingly participate in that either?

03
Oct

God, Not These A-Holes Again

By Holly Won't 15 Comments Digg! Digg this
Categories: Activists, Bad Boys & Girls, Businesses and Television Stars

Hills d-bags Spencer and Heidi volunteered at Taco Bell yesterday in Los Angeles to raise money for world hunger.

Taco Bell donated $10,000 in their names to the World Food Programme at the event. Spencer and Heidi themselves donated nothing, which is really not that surprising. Just shameful is all.

But it kills me that these classless asses feel the best way to raise awareness about world hunger is to stuff their stupid faces with food. As if to say, “Suck it, third-world poor people! Scrounge together 99¢ and buy your own Chalupa.”

God, I didn’t think I could hate them any more than I did.

01
Oct

Ashton and Demi Want You to Vote (for Obama)

By Holly Won't 22 Comments Digg! Digg this
Categories: Activists, Movie Stars, Television Stars and U.S. Left-wing Politicos

Superstar marrieds Ashton Kutcher and Demi Moore are in the middle of a little tour of Iowa, that swing state with so many universities. Supposedly they’re doing a Rock the Vote type of appearance, just lending their star power to encourage college students to register to vote before the election.

Except then the couple put out this lame MySpace video, again telling people to vote … but this time, specifically for Obama.

I think if you’re going to be at all effective in registering more young people to vote, you have to be nonpartisan about it. You’re just losing credibility when you pretend like it’s important that all young people register and make their voices heard, and then you later come out and it’s clear you only care about one party’s members in particular.

Plus I still hate Ashton Kutcher for putting trucker hats on the map. Yes, I am a champion grudge holder.

29
Sep

Ellen DeGeneres Is Against Animal Cruelty … Sometimes

By Holly Won't 33 Comments Digg! Digg this
Categories: Activists, Businesses and Television Stars

Ellen DeGeneres headlined an event in California over the weekend to promote legislation that would make all chicken farms in California become cage free.

Ellen, who appears to be going down the vegan route, has been a vocal proponent for Proposition 2, which is up for vote in November.

Which makes her newly minted status as a CoverGirl spokesperson all the more inexplicable. You see, CoverGirl is one of the largest cosmetics brands that still tests on animals. Something maybe she should have researched before endorsing those checks for the ad campaign, which debuts in January:

She says she’s “very, very excited” about the new gig.

She adds, “It’s a very cool thing I’m honored and the photo shoot was ‘easy, breezy, beautiful CoverGirl.’”

Cruelty to barnyard animals is bad, says Ellen. But testing mascara on rabbits is AOK because she’s getting paid mad bank to shill it. Everyone up to speed now?

29
Sep

Rachel Bilson is an Awesome Fashion-Designer-slash-Ripoff-Artist

By The Oversneer 13 Comments Digg! Digg this
Categories: Fashionistas, Teen Idols and Television Stars

When all you’re known for is your work on a TV show as stunningly unoriginal as The O.C., breaking new ground isn’t always at the top of your “to do” list. So here comes Rachel BIlson with a new line of clothing for DKNY Jeans called “Edie Rose.”

Guess what’s coming? A celeb-u-tard who doesn’t know her limits.

I rally like what Donna Karan’s marketing gurus did with the Edie Rose promo website. They have a whole section called “inspiration,” listing books, magazines, actors, and other “faves” that influence Bilson’s clothing designs.

Funny thing: They left out one important inspiration — a clothing company called Sretsis (based in Bangkok, the name is “sisters” spelled backwards), which is where Bilson totally ripped off the yellow dress in her line.

At right is Bilson actually wearing the Sretsis dress in question last December, at the Dubai International Film Festival. She liked it so much that she basically copied it — and is now passing it off as her own “design” for DKNY.

Below is Rachel’s little yellow version, soon to be available at a department store near you. She’s such a little trailblazer. Blogger Natalie at Fashionista quips: “… it’s a nice gesture that she left the studs off the neckline, kind of like changing a semi-fictional character’s last name to avoid legally-upholdable comparisons.”

Coincidence? No way. Bilson follows this obscure little Thai clothing label pretty closely, judging by how often she’s photographed wearing their stuff. (Click here, here, and here for three examples that Google found in about ten seconds.)

So here’s the question, Deceiver fanatics: Is anything else in Rachel Bilson’s new collection ripped off from something in her closet? Nitrolicious has a one-page visual of the whole Edie Rose line. Do any of you fashion-conscious readers out there smell another rip-off?

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