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Apparently this is going to be the new tack for Global Warmingers who don’t live like Global Warming actually exists: “I realize I’m a hypocrite! How can you criticize me for being a hypocrite if I’ve already admitted it?” You got us there, Arianna, I guess we can’t. But we don’t have to take you seriously either. “Save the planet, dahlink!” Every time I hear her voice, I expect Eddie Albert to pop up with a pitchfork.
(Hat tip: Hot Air)
Miley “I Do Everything For Jesus” Cyrus has admitted that it was indeed her (and not a lookalike) in those bra-baring photos we talked about last week.
And for all you pervs out in the interwebs, there are evidently more to come in the June issue of Vanity Fair.
Photos of the Disney star wearing just red lipstick and a bed sheet — shot by legendary photographer Annie Leibovitz — have popped up online. For which Miley is already apologizing (again):
“I took part in a photo shoot that was supposed to be ‘artistic’ and now, seeing the photographs and reading the story, I feel so embarrassed,” Miley said in a statement. “I never intended for any of this to happen and I apologize to my fans who I care so deeply about.”
Disney seems to be afraid that their little girl is going the Britney path a little too soon, but Vanity Fair stands by the shoot:
“Unfortunately, as the article suggests, a situation was created to deliberately manipulate a 15-year-old in order to sell magazines,” Disney spokeswoman Patti McTeague asserts to the Times.
Not surprisingly, Vanity Fair has a different take on how the photo shoot went down, with a rep insisting, “Miley’s parents and/or minders were on the set all day. Since the photo was taken digitally, they saw it on the shoot and everyone thought it was a beautiful and natural portrait of Miley.”
This is pretty much why it’s never a good idea to try to make money off your morals: Someone always notices when you slip up.
Perez Hilton has decided to follow Oprah’s lead — not on some faddish diet, but in speaking out against puppy mills.
Um, except he bought his dog Teddy from a breeder in October.
How’d we stumble upon a Goldendoodle?
We typed in “small” “cute” and “smart” into Google and they popped up!
Teddy will grow up to be about 20 lbs and even more adorable than he already is.
We got him at Southern Cal Kennels, Grade A mini Goldendoodle breeders.
We are just so in love.
Our little Teddy bear!
Just so we’re straight… Perez can drop $1,200 on a designer pup — and the kennel will even ship your dog to you! — but he wants you guys to be sure not to do that. “Do it for the doggies.” Got it?
The Hills stars Spencer Pratt and Heidi Montag have ducked out of attending the White House Correspondents dinner on Saturday — because, as Spencer reportedly sniffed, “It wasn’t ‘A-listy’ enough.”
You mean … Hollywood’s most notorious media whores are turning down an opportunity to be surrounded by the media? What a change in pace for these idiots.
Other sources claim the real reason they’re not going is that Heidi was invited but Spencer wasn’t, and as manager for the “feminist hero,” he calls the shots.
I think the real question is, why did President Bush even invite Heidi in the first place? It must have been that they needed someone to class up the joint, with Ashlee Simpson, Pam Anderson, and Karl Rove set to attend.
P.S. — I want to sit at that table.
Courtesy of a friend who buys advertising for a living, this is the gratuitous self-promotion that TIME magazine is sending its real customers this week (the ad buyers, not the subscribers).
Ooh! Nothing shows commitment to the environment like using green ink instead of red ink! Never mind how many trees we killed to print 5 million green-colored copies. Nothing to see here… move along.
When was the last time a news organization actually declined to publish a dead-tree edition of its magazine or newspaper, or offered it only online, in homage to Earth Day? Now that’s something I could respect, even if the whole “going green” thing is a bit overdone these days.
And don’t get me started about the Iwo Jima reference in the cover photo.
You give some people an inch, they take a mile and run into fantasy land.
Steven Vander Ark, a school librarian and obsessed Harry Potter fan, developed the Harry Potter Lexicon, an online encyclopedia of all things Hogwarts.
J.K. Rowling, the author of the hugely successful wizard series, praised his efforts and said it was so comprehensive, it even helped jog her memory while she was writing.
So what happened to all this goodwill?
Vander Ark decided to cash in. He received an advance from RDR Books to publish his encyclopedia, but oops, forgot to check with Rowling first.
So she sued him. As you do when people you try to help then try to steal from you.
Seriously, who does that?
The Human Landfill is going back to court. And this time… it’s personal!
According to The Smoking Gun, Hilton, AKA Mario Lavandeira, is suing fellow blogger Jonathan Jaxson, AKA Jonathan Lewandowski, for claiming the plus-sized pap-sucker cajoled, wheedled, and outright begged Jaxson to send… oh, let’s just call them solo sex videos. This was in exchange for promised career help from Hilton that never, er… came.
But that’s not even the best part!
Lavandeira, 30, charges that these claims are false, adding that Lewandowski has also invaded his privacy by posting his cell phone number online.
That’s right: He invaded Perez Hilton’s privacy. He invaded the privacy of the guy who’s made a career of outing gay celebrities and sticking his bloated face in front of any red-carpet camera that doesn’t crack at the sight of him. Deceiverrific!
Oh, and:
In his complaint… Lavandeira contends that, as a result of the 24-year-old Lewandowski’s actions, he has “suffered loss of his reputation, shame and mortification” and “mental anguish.”
The only way Perez Hilton’s reputation could possibly suffer would be if he took classes in English, drawing, and/or Pilates. As for the shame, mortification, and mental anguish, he might try going around the house and covering up all the mirrors.
Get it? He’s fat.
(Thanks to Pastafarian for the tip. Um, about the story. And if you’re reading this because you clicked one of the ads we bought on Hilton’s moronic site… Sucker! What do you think he’s gonna do, turn down money?)
Remember how last year X17Online ran with the story that Parker was fooling around on his new bride Longoria, but then it turned out to be a bunch of hooey? X17 finally fessed up. Here’s their statement, in its entirety:
In December 2007, X17online.com published over ten articles concerning Tony Parker and a woman named Alexandra Paressant. Various of the articles asserted that, after Mr. Parker was introduced to Ms. Paressant by Thierry Henry at this wedding to Eva Longoria, Mr. Parker engaged in sexual relations with Ms. Paressant. Since the publication of these articles, X17online.com and X17, Inc. have discovered that Mr. Parker has never met with, or spoken to, Ms. Paressant nor has he ever had sexual relations with her. X17online.com and X17, Inc. regret having been misled by Ms. Paressant and her representatives and apologize to Mr. Parker for any damage or inconvenience this may have caused him or his wife.
Confession is good for the soul. And so is avoiding a $20 million lawsuit! For what it’s worth, Deceiver’s own apology is here. (Note the date on it…) And here is Dana Kennedy’s detective work that blew the story wide open. Whaddaya call that, when you actually check facts and stuff? Oh yeah: Reporting.
The many of you who come to Deceiver via Perez Hilton probably already know that he of the Technicolor Dream Hair and John Mayer hooked up in NYC recently.
For the rest of you, as a courtesy I waited until after lunch on the East Coast to post this so you wouldn’t lose your appetite.
As Perez noted, Mayer’s rep didn’t bother to deny the story because it’s true.
Which leads me to remind you all about John Mayer’s fear that his future wife will want nothing to do with him because of all the supposedly-untrue gossip she will have presumably read about him in the tabloids:
“My fear,” he says, “is that I go up to the girl of my dreams and say, ‘I’m sorry, but I’ve got to say hello to you,’ and she slides the stool back and gets up and walks away, saying, ‘Not for me, Bub. I don’t want anything to do with you.’ And she says that because of something in my past. I mean, I know how to be a celebrity. I know how to be a guy on the street. I know how to roll with the punches. I know how to do the whole thing. And my past is actually pretty sterling. But when I think about my wife, I worry. I worry about what she thinks when she reads about me in US Weekly. It’s all vapor, nothing, ether. But I worry about it. I worry about what she thinks.”
I think it’s safe to say that the girl of his dreams is preemptively running for the hills. C’mon, this bit of news tops anything that was ever written about him and Jessica Simpson, right?
Sometimes Deceiver posts just write themselves:
It seemed like an honorable goal: Draft an honor code for University of Texas at San Antonio students to follow, exhorting them not to cheat or plagiarize.
But when students threw a draft of the new honor code onto the Internet for feedback, some noticed a problem: Parts of the code appeared to have been lifted word for word from another school’s honor code, without attribution. Even the definition of plagiarism was, well, plagiarized.
Akshay Thusu, the student in charge of the honor code effort, said it was an oversight, the result of a draft that was crafted five years ago and passed through different students and faculty advisers before landing in his lap.
“We believe there might be a citation page,” Thusu said. “We are still looking for it.”
Thanks to ultracute reader Toby for the tip!
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