<![CDATA[Gawker: Britney Spears]]> http://cache.gawker.com/assets/base/img/thumbs140x140/gawker.com.png <![CDATA[Gawker: Britney Spears]]> http://gawker.com/tag/britney spears http://gawker.com/tag/britney spears <![CDATA[ Britney's Mom's Memoir Apparently Riveting ]]> 320_bspears_lspears_72621145_51364240_emiller_sshugerman.jpgPublishing insiders are all a-twitter about Lynne Spears's memoir about her troubled pop-star daughter Britney. CEO Michael Hyatt, of Christian publisher Thomas Nelson, microblogs: "I'm reading through the second draft of the Lynne Spears manuscript tonight. I am hoping to be able to approve it tomorrow. It's totally compelling." A few minutes later: " I can't put it down—and I'm not even the market!" One hour later: "Wow. People are going to be surprised. The media have it so wrong." Teach us, Lynne. [Michael Hyatt's Twitter]

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Wed, 02 Jul 2008 10:35:54 EDT Sheila http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=397720&view=rss&microfeed=true
<![CDATA[ Lauren Conrad Is Less Stupid And Inane Than You've Been Led To Believe ]]>
  • A reporter from Glamour had to spend time with Lauren Conrad and says she's "shockingly well spoken" and shy. Is everything we know about The Hills a lie? Is Lo Bosworth not a shrill manipulating shrew? [Glamour]
  • Victoria Beckham confirms she dated Corey Haim in 1995, but says "We didn't have sex or anything... In actual fact, he didn't seem to want to try. The most we did was kiss." [Now Magazine]
  • Jason Lee was spotted in line to get a marriage license. Jason and his girlfriend Ceren are expecting a child in the fall. [TMZ]
  • Britney's looking for a home in a quieter part of LA. Unfortunately, once she moves there, it will no longer be quiet, and we can only assume the constant crush of paps will devastate her neighbors' real estate values. Try Encino! [ET Online]
  • Jeffrey Tambor has confirmed that there will be an Arrested Development movie. Maybe, finally, Lucille Bluth will get a son who will finish his cottage cheese. [HollywoodInsider]
  • Pete Wentz is talking about kissing boys again. "When I said that I make out with dudes, there was a slight sense of sexual rebellion in that. I probably even made it a bigger deal than it was." He needs to give up on these homoerotic fantasies and focus on designing hooded sweatshirts and applying eyeliner. [P6]
  • Guy Ritchie has actually arrived in the same city as Madonna. No word on whether being in the same time zone has helped to heal the growing rift in their marriage. [People.com]
  • Michael Lohan has taken a DNA test to determine whether he's the father of a 13 year old Idaho girl. There is another! [Star]
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    Tue, 01 Jul 2008 04:59:55 EDT mr.guyball http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5020981&view=rss&microfeed=true
    <![CDATA[ What's The Most Regrettable Music You've Ever Listened To? ]]> The_Beatles_4_small.jpgGod I love these perverse little lists: A web site that tracks what its users listen to on iTunes has compiled a list of the songs its users most often delete from their records, presumably tracks that people listened to but don't want anyone to see. So what are the most popular guilty pleasures?

    Surprisingly, the Beatles are the most often deleted artist (after "unknown," for obvious reasons). Maybe there's an error, but maybe they're so often played but so little identified with modern cool. Couldn't imagine why, really, other than "Birthday" inexplicably popping up in everyone's Party Playlist. Second place goes to Radiohead, then more predictably Britney Spears and Avril Lavigne.

    Spears also tops the single tracks list, with her song "Piece of Me" winning the spot of Most Regrettable Song. She shares the rest of the list with Amy Winehouse's "Rehab" and Avril Lavigne's "Girlfriend," definitely guilty pleasures for the sort of hipster who would try to clean up their own listening history.

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    Tue, 01 Jul 2008 02:32:32 EDT Nick Douglas http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=397579&view=rss&microfeed=true
    <![CDATA[ This Great Country of Ours Soldiers On ]]> [Former entertainer Britney Spears, who tragically died seven months ago, pictured in Los Angeles yesterday; image via INF]

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    Mon, 30 Jun 2008 11:15:00 EDT Richard http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=397469&view=rss&microfeed=true
    <![CDATA[ Anne Hathaway Almost Bought A House With Follieri ]]> 81596889

    • Sad Anne Hathaway had been shopping for homes with her scummy Italian boyfriend Rafaello Follieri right before the movie starlet finally realized she had to dump the loser. She told InStyle, for next month's issue: "If we get a house as opposed to an apartment, the first two floors will be a bit more traditional for him to be able to receive people, and the top two floors will be whatever I want." [P6]
    • Socialite Tinsley Mortimer's Gossip Girl cameo was in an all-white party scene. Apparently "it was like a virginal reference not a reference to Puffy." [Observer]
    • Like Sean Avery, tennis star Anna Kournikova would like to work for Anna Wintour at Vogue. Unlike Avery, she made the mistake of putting the editrix at number FIVE on her list of the 10 people she'd most like to work for, post-tennis. [P6]
    • The corporate infighting over Madonna's $120 million Live Nation has already begun. Looks like there may be layoffs. [Post]
    • Rapper DMX may lose a townhouse because he didn't promote a line of "urban doggie wear" as promised. The dog-gear company hooked up with DMX after hearing his gravelly voice in public service announcements he made about pets. It turns out DMX was ordered to make those ads after being found guilty of cruelty to his own 14 pit bulls. [Post]
    • Heather Locklear checked into rehab for athlete's foot or something. Seriously, though: For "psychological treatment." Everyone is pulling this "rehab-but-not-for-drugs" stunt now. What does rehab even MEAN any more? [OK!]
    • Stable for several months now, Britney Spears finally gets to have her kids over for sleepovers again. [TMZ]
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    Wed, 25 Jun 2008 10:55:40 EDT Ryan Tate http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5019518&view=rss&microfeed=true
    <![CDATA[ Sean Avery Raiding The Wrong Closets At <i>Vogue</i> ]]>

    • Hockey star and Vogue intern Sean Avery showed up to a concert "dressed head to toe in black with a black newsboy cap... he looked like he was straight out of a 1998 J.Lo video." [P6]
    • Cynthia Nixon said she so did not have a boob job, as the Post reported. The breast cancer survivor and Sex And The City star just visited a hospital oncology department for a checkup. [R&M]
    • Britney Spears watched her 17-year-old sister give birth, and then had to take a long airplane flight back to Los Angeles, and then some paprazzo almost got in a fight with her bodyguard, so she totally cried.
    • Reality TV sexpot Tila Tequila supposedly got a Manhattan apartment broker to kiss her husband's ex wife. The ex wife also flashed Tila Tequila? And there was boob nuzzling? I guess if you're obscure, this is what you have to do to get into Page Six. [P6]
    • Jennifer Lopez's entourage supposedly numbers eight people, including two guards with visibly-holstered guns. They reportedly demanded that a clothing boutique be sealed, while J. Lo was shopping, and that the actress/singer get a 50 percent discount. What's insane is that her twins' entourage is both larger and more surly. [P6]
    • For Nelson Mandela's 90th birthday party, there will be medics on standby. Not for Mandela but for barely-able-to-stand performer/drug addict Amy Winehouse. She had to overcome so much to make it to the show. Sniffle. [Mirror]
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    Mon, 23 Jun 2008 08:31:05 EDT Nick Denton http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5018755&view=rss&microfeed=true
    <![CDATA[ It's a Girl, Not Yet a Woman, for Jamie Lynn Spears ]]> therumorslynn.jpgOh mah gawww y'all! Britney Spears is an aunt! Jamie Lynn Spears, sister to gumball-filled ex-singer Britney, has spurted out a baby! The 17-year-old GED-certified ex-Nickelodeon star welcomed daughter Maddie to the steamy, southrun world in McComb, Mississippi this morning. Britney and family were there, along with Jamie Lynn's fiancé and baby daddy, 19-year-old Casey Aldridge, a pipe layer (hahahaha! seriously that's his job! a pipe layer!) Spears' pal (and fellow member of the Tabloid Class of 2010) Miley Cyrus, said that she's "proud of her." So, another addition to this noble bloodline. We personally wish the happy new family all the best. We professionally wish them all the worst.

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    Thu, 19 Jun 2008 13:11:00 EDT Richard http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=396573&view=rss&microfeed=true
    <![CDATA[ If Bruce Willis Doesn't Really Own This Wine Bar, I'm Leaving Right Now ]]> 77331338

    • Republican-leaning movie star Bruce Willis opened a yuppie-friendly wine bar in the East Village, which prompted protests from neighborhood lefties and counterprotests from the Young Republicans. Turns out? He's not a partner in the bar, he just lent his name as a favor. Because, you know, wine, action movie star Bruce Willis — the connection is obvious. Plus he totally made those wine cooler commercials in the 80s. [Observer]
    • Premium seats for Broadway's All My Sons will sell for $251, as opposed to the usual $100, because of sudden surge in the popularity of Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Arthur Miller. Ha ha, just kidding, it's because the play features Katie Holmes, the middling movie star married to insane cultist Tom Cruise. The market works! [E!]
    • The threesome involving Scarlett Johansson, Penélope Cruz and Javier Bardem takes up less than 20 seconds of Woody Allen's new movie, according to Allen, but the marketing department is going to milk those precious seconds for all they are worth, starting with the poster.
    • OMG a fashiongay is going to ruin the Obama campaign! "Some Dems fear that in the months ahead, [Andre Leon] Talley, a huge fan of Oscar de la Renta, will steer Michelle into a Bolero jacket or an outfit even more ill-advised." Yes, a big public fight about which expensive outfits Michelle Obama should wear is just what Barack "Elite" Obama needs right now. [P6]
    • Miley Cyrus' dad, country music star Bill Ray Cyrus, revealed that he left the Vanity Fair photo shoot before Annie Leibovitz took the infamous picture of his daughter in a bed sheet. "Stuff happens. That's life... It's not a mistake to me." [Daily Star]
    • Here's a picture of Kate Moss flashing her boobs in Turkey and setting back Islamic/Western relations 20 more years. [Sun]
    • Ashey Olsen went public with her dalliance with movie star Justin Bartha, then proceeded to get way too cutesy: "Told they had a reserved love seat in the theater, Olsen affectionately rubbed Bartha's back and giggled, 'That sounds good!'" Awww... barf.
    • Matthew McConaughey's wife is pregnant, so he went "surfing" in Nicaragua alone, which of course means mostly carousing in bars. He denies hitting on various women, but admits to losing his left flip-flop, and even offers a reward, which is JUST bizarre enough to make you forget about the cheating. Smarter than he looks. [R&M]
    • Police have been searching for Sam Israel, a hedge funder they think faked his own suicide just before starting a 20-year-prison sentence. But it turns out he thinks he can time travel, so the Post wonders if he "FLED TO THE PAST?"
    • If her friends weren't here, Naomi Campbell would totally stab you! And then come back the next day to apologize! And then try to put the incident behind her! [Showbiz Spy]
    • Britney Spears is selling her house, which means the paprazzi will leave and broke neighbor Ed McMahon may finally be able to sell his place. Spears will be destroying property values in Encino next. [E!]
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    Wed, 18 Jun 2008 08:06:07 EDT Ryan Tate http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5017495&view=rss&microfeed=true
    <![CDATA[ 'Atlantic's' Britney Cover Actually Noble Charitable Gesture ]]> When ancient and respected old magazine The Atlantic put Britney Spears on their cover for an utterly so-so story on the celebrity-industrial complex or whatever (it was OK but Rolling Stone's piece was better), everyone (i.e. us) mocked them for selling out and claimed it was a cynical ploy at boosting newsstand sales or something. Well. Mea culpa! Because if it was a cynical ploy at boosting newsstand sales, it failed miserably. "The magazine sold approximately 24,000 copies at the newsstand, some 21,000 less than March and nearly 30,000 less than its January/February issue." According to Atlantic Media president Justin Smith (the man who destroyed The Atlantic), they meant to do that.

    "The irony is, we were doing this at our own peril, because most of our newsstand executives and circulation executives were saying ‘Don't put Britney on the cover! It's going to bomb on the newsstand!' So we put Britney on the cover despite some of our newsstand advisors."

    Of course, when Rolling Stone did it, their website traffic doubled. But you know, The Atlantic is not exactly available by the register at the A&P so yeah maybe Smith is not even lying and they knew it would tank. Still, it was basically the only reason we talked about the magazine since we made fun of their web rebranding so hey, good on you guys. [Folio]

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    Tue, 17 Jun 2008 10:42:32 EDT Pareene http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5017152&view=rss&microfeed=true
    <![CDATA[ Mean Huffington Won't Even Praise Russert's Ties Or Whatever ]]> 56598032

    • Observers note that Arianna Huffington waited several days to personally blog anything about the death of Tim Russert of Meet The Press, who she often criticized. Then when she did say something, she didn't really praise the man. Not even faint praise! Dammit, Arianna, the public DEMANDS DISINGENUOUS EULOGIES! [R&M]
    • Condé Nast is accused of stiffing the widow of advertising rainmaker Steve Florio by not handing over her husband's full severance, insurance and benefits. [P6]
    • "Oh, hey, you know what would be romantic, clingy Jennifer Aniston?" "What, manorexic John Mayer?" "A stay at the Mexico vacation home of Girls Gone Wild founder Joe Francis, who served jail time for filming naked underaged girls! He just asks that we not disturb any evidence!" "Yaaay!" (Sorry, it's a lot better with the puppets.)
    • This picture of movie Harry Potter is seriously the most frightening thing I've seen all night. Oh, also, he's buying a butt exerciser for some kind of Broadway role (picture does not involve his butt). [R&M]
    • Britney Spears took a topless swim at a tops-optional Las Vegas pool lounge. None of the paparazzi got any shots, except of Spears in a skimpy outfit, and now Spears is said to be hawking her own topless photos from the swim. Or, well, technically her father runs her business affairs now by court order so... Ew.
    • Lindsay Lohan has been "amazing" on the set of her movie, which means she's not getting drunk or high or passing out or committing felonies during working hours. Well, sure, but it's summertime. There aren't any nice coats lying around to steal. [People]
    • Denise Richards admits to having 10 dogs. Sure they're on a ranch, but... why? "I am not sure why there is so much drama about how many animals I have," she said. Also: after she split with Charlie Sheen, Richards totally stole Heather Locklear's man, while they were friends. But on her reality show, she says they totally weren't friends any more, for three months. [P6]
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    Tue, 17 Jun 2008 07:52:26 EDT Ryan Tate http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5017087&view=rss&microfeed=true
    <![CDATA[ Paparazzo Purposely Got Run Over By Spears, Say LA Authorities ]]> Wenn5141852Britney Spears is at all times, in public at least, surrounded by a gang of ex-con illegal-immigrant paparazzi with no regard for traffic laws, so it's probably no surprise that the Los Angeles district attorney's office now says one of the paps intentionally got himself run over, presumably so he could sue the singer. The unidentified photographer asked county prosecutors to investigate an incident in which, he claims, Spears ran over his foot with her SUV. He wanted her brought up on charges. The DA looked into it — Spears had a parking lot hit-and-run incident once — and found that, actually, if the collision happened at all, it was the photographer's fault:

    After reviewing police records and a videotape of the incident last year, Deputy District Attorney Joseph D. Shidler wrote Friday that the "only way the victim's foot could have been where the video indicates it to be was by the victim placing it in that location."

    Apparently the video showed enough to place blame on the pap but did not actually show the alleged run-over. It did show a lot of "noise and confusion" surrounding the vehicle, which was going "extremely slow."

    Note to paparazzi: If you've been run over by Britney Spears' car, and there's not a single video or photo definitively proving it, it didn't happen, period. No one is going to believe that not a single cameraman in that desperate hive managed to get a shot of your foot being crushed.

    [AP]

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    Mon, 16 Jun 2008 22:10:50 EDT Ryan Tate http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5017040&view=rss&microfeed=true
    <![CDATA[ Defeated Britney Spears Tells Us Where She'd Like to Be Buried ]]> britneygrave.jpgPoor, deep-fried, wistful tiny car driver (and, I suppose, musician) Britney Spears has chosen her burial plot. It's located in the bittersweetly named Hollywood Forever Cemetery. After hearing about Marilyn Monroe picking her own grave site, the singer wanted to follow suit and "when Britney saw Rudolph Valentino's grave at the cemetery she shrieked and said she wanted one." Though, she doesn't plan on going there anytime soon. "I'm going to live so I want to be brought to the Forever Cemetery when I'm 101," she said, with devastating optimism, to a pal. We like to imagine that the service, before she is entombed in Hollywood Forever, will consist of mournful piano renditions of her hit songs like "I'm Not a Girl, Not Yet a Woman" and "Lucky," while her two sons, wearing sailor costumes, slowly waltz.

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    Tue, 10 Jun 2008 14:22:00 EDT Richard http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=395694&view=rss&microfeed=true
    <![CDATA[ Photo of Britney Spears In Tiny Car Makes Us Wistful ]]> We know it's been around the internet a couple times since yesterday, but we just find something so lovely and sad and telling about this photograph of a be-tube-topped Britney Spears, alone in a sea of asphalt, riding atop a tiny Escalade. Our Daytime Editor Alex Pareene says, "Here is your 21st century, America!" Here it is indeed. Puttering slowly in circles, bottled water clutched in hand, the hot sun beating down. Some days it feels as though we will do nothing else but form those lazy circles for the rest of time, until the day we all sigh, nod our heads, and disappear.

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    Fri, 06 Jun 2008 14:53:00 EDT Richard http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=395324&view=rss&microfeed=true
    <![CDATA[ Bill Murray's Wife Says He Has A Girl In Every Port ]]> 78080753

    • Bill Murray's wife wants a divorce and claims the actor is a pot-smoking globe-trotting sex addict who is physically abusive. The Daily News recalls: "At a bash at Robert De Niro's Tribeca Grill in the '90s, we watched as Murray punch-shoved photographer Diane Cohen in the chest."
    • Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes are having a housewarming party at their new Beverly Hills mansion tomorrow, all the other Scientologist living gods are sure to be there.
    • In the meantime, Holmes conducted a big business meeting at the Carlyle Hotel in New York, which illustrated that she is "a very strong and determined" actual businesswoman who can do important businesswoman stuff. Evidence: During the meeting, which was related to her coming role in a Broadway play, she listened intently, took notes, and when her phone rang SHE DID NOT ANSWER IT. This is the glory of being a "clear," people. [OK!]
    • Amy Winehouse if a filthy drug addict with a disgusting skin condition, so logically men are fighting over her. Fellow druggie musician Pete Doherty wrote to Winehouse's jailed husband, Blake, demanding he divorce Winehouse so Doherty can finally seal his bond of desperation with her. Nelson Mandela is also into Winehouse, but only as a performer at his 90th birthday.
    • Remember how Kirsten Dunst said she went to rehab for depression instead of for drugs? Now Steven Tyler of Aerosmith insists he checked into rehab to recover from a foot injury. It's amazing how rehab clinics have diversified these days, now that all the stars are clean. [Us]
    • Britney Spears' lawyer argued her health is too "fluid" for the singer to participate in the court case over her posessions, now under the care of her father. This may just be a ploy to ensure visitation with her sons until she stabilizes, since the visitation is better protected when her father is acting as conservator.
    • John Mayer, former Perez Hilton make-out partner, gets pretty gushy toward fellow musician Pete Wentz on his blog. "I think the world of you." [Showbiz Spy]
    • Recent drunk driver Mischa Barton continues to act erratic, and now her legs look screwy. [Rush & Molloy]
    • Charlie Sheen may be on his fourth baby. It's the third mom. [Rush & Molloy]
    • Clay Aiken, 29, donated sperm to his record producer, 50, and plans to be "part of the baby's life." [P6]
    • Bill Cosby's famous Cosby Show sweaters are being auctioned for charity. [NY Sun]
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    Fri, 30 May 2008 10:08:39 EDT Ryan Tate http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5011846&view=rss&microfeed=true
    <![CDATA[ Lindsay Lohan In Near-Lesbian Intimacy SHOCKER ]]> Lindsay-Lohan-Lesbian

    • OMG smoking gun: Lindsay Lohan and Samantha Ronson are hugging and holding hands and putting their faces close together and everything! It's nearly almost practically lesbian kissing, and thus proof that they are girlfriends in that way. [Egotastic] (Photo via Egotastic)
    • Yesterday it was reported that singer Amy Winehouse "fled her home, claiming ghosts were trying to harm her." Today the ghosts kept her from showing up on time to accept a prestigious songwriting award for her tune "Love Is A Losing Game." Wait, I think I know this ghost — kind of smoky, likes to hang around glass?
    • Hooker-loving actor Charlie Sheen is — go figure! — having a very nasty divorce from Denise Richards, and yesterday he and his friends spread word about the $52,000 per month in tax-free child support Richards gets from Sheen, plus a disputed email in which she asked for access to Sheen's sperm. Today Richards fired back with a purported text message from Sheen: "I hope you and your worthless retarded father get cancer and join your stupid mom. Rot in hell you [bleeping] whore." [P6]
    • Tom Cruise had his lawyers threaten a baby boutique owner for supposedly leaking to the press false info that Cruise and wife Katie Holmes spent upwards of $350,000 on baby clothes for Suri in just two years. That money was specifically earmarked for stuck-thetan dry cleaning, and Cruise has the receipts to prove it! [TMZ]
    • Can Miley Cyrus ever say no when asked to pose for racy photos? This time it was fellow teen star Nick Jonas who did the asking, and Annie Leibovitz hadn't even put her under hypnosis yet. [Oceanup]
    • The woman who voices Lisa Simpson filed for divorce from her husband. E! Online wrote that the divorce came "despite having all the answers on The Simpsons," while TMZ decided to go with "Lisa Has A Cow."
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    Fri, 23 May 2008 09:41:17 EDT Ryan Tate http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5010685&view=rss&microfeed=true
    <![CDATA[ Does Jennifer Aniston Seem Clingy? Because She's Not Trying To Be Clingy! ]]> 81069159

    • While girlfriend Jennifer Aniston has been acting like a goody two-shoes, John Mayer has been a total party boy, drinking it up all night at a bar in New York. But he's also been totally domestic and whipped in Las Vegas, where the singer dodged groupies right and left to go to bed early. Since Aniston is really into mixed signals, the actress decided Mayer is "the one." None of this is going unimpregnate Angelina Jolie, Jennifer.
    • Kiefer Sutherland's second marriage ended in divorce after eight years. Which the actor could probably cope with better if they'd let him torture some more "terrorists" on 24, but the show is trying to cut back on the brutality because some general from West Point said the program was actually making it harder to train soldiers. Already busted twice for drunk driving... There's got to be some way for Sutherland to get catharsis! [Reuters]
    • Bruce Willis and Demi Moore's daughter is 19, and she's dancing on tables in New York clubs. To Morrisey, while drinking Red Bull. At least she's not eating condoms any more. And you guys did name her "Rumer," so none of this is entirely unexpected. [Rush & Molloy]
    • After Boy George was spotted selling clothes at the swap meet or whatever, he was swamped with fans, who were mostly too cheap to spend a lousy 10 pounds on one of his t-shirts. He eventually stomped off. In fairness, 10 pounds is like 300 worthless American dollars. [Sun]
    • Britney Spears' mom is taking advice from Jill Zarin of Real Housewives Of New York City. They met backstage at a concert in New Jersey and chatted. Such a good place to find a mentor. [P6]
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    Tue, 20 May 2008 09:46:16 EDT Ryan Tate http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5009896&view=rss&microfeed=true
    <![CDATA[ Update: Britney Spears Is <i>Not</i> Pregnant, Thank You Very Much! ]]> Britney-Young-400-012307Despite looking slightly, vaguely puffy in some recent photos, Britney Spears is not expecting a third kid. "U.S. pop singer Britney Spears says she is not pregnant for a third time despite recent photographs showing her with a bloated stomach. The 'Toxic' singer says a new medication she is taking was responsible for her recent weight gain and not a third pregnancy, the Daily Mail reported Saturday. 'I am not pregnant — it is just my medication that makes me bloated,' Spears said of recent pregnancy rumors. A source close to the 'Baby One More Time' star told the British newspaper Spears has struggled with her weight since the birth of her 20-month-old son Jayden James. Meanwhile, a friend of Spears said she is spending some time with actor Mel Gibson and his wife in Central America to help her gain some perspective in her life."

    "Mel and his wife Robyn clearly saw a woman in crisis and wanted to extend themselves in any way possible," the unidentified friend told the Daily Mail. There are no expectations, there is no agenda. It's simply an act of human kindness, one neighbor reaching out to another." Aw! Britney has a new friend! [UPI]

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    Sat, 17 May 2008 12:34:02 EDT ian spiegelman http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5009484&view=rss&microfeed=true
    <![CDATA[ New Britney Spears Bikini Pics ]]> SpearscrSlowly healing pop tart Britney Spears is reportedly vacationing at Mel Gibson's ranch in Costa Rica. (Ew! He's old!) Anyhoo, this is what she looks like in a bikini lately. I wanna go to the beach too! Waaah!

    Spearscr2More pics here.

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    Sat, 17 May 2008 11:31:48 EDT ian spiegelman http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5009477&view=rss&microfeed=true
    <![CDATA[ Newest Disaster Also Not Miley Cyrus' Fault ]]> 81054860

    • An LA band called Lustra called out Miley Cyrus by name for a song that sounds way, way too much like one of their songs. But it turns out Cyrus doesn't write any of her own songs, so now the band kind of looks like a bunch of assholes. [P6]
    • Natalie Portman took a jet ride with movie producer Ryan Kavanaugh and then supposedly "looked smitten." But she's still in love with hippie folksinger Devendra Banhart. [P6]
    • Sarah Jessica Parker insisted she is not in a massive catfight with Sex And The City co-stars, particularly Kim Cattrall. Supposedly Cattrall refused to sit through the movie's premiere. Parker said, "I wouldn't have wanted to do it with anyone else," which doesn't really address the rumor. [Daily Star]
    • Pete Doherty keeps writing songs for Amy Winehouse, who keeps calling them "shit" and "rubbish." [Mirror]
    • You know how you can tell Britney Spears is, indeed, pregnant? Because she recently visited a doctor. [Showbiz Spy]
    • First Jack Black revealed Angelina Jolie is pregnant, now Dustin Hoffman has leaked the due date, August 19. More cameos! [Sun]
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    Fri, 16 May 2008 06:10:05 EDT Ryan Tate http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5009308&view=rss&microfeed=true
    <![CDATA[ Oprah's Dogs Get Pharaoh Treatment ]]> Picture 15-13

    • This gold bust of Oprah features two dogs above her head, begins showing next week at a gallery and is intended to highlight "the overlooked threat of accidental pet fatality by common household products." [Oh No They Didn't] (Photo from Caplakesting.com via OhNoTheyDidn't)
    • There are rumors of a sex tape involving crazy Britney Spears and former slimy hanger-on and alleged drugger Adnan Ghalib. Also, there are again rumors Spears is pregnant. All this according to the Sun, which provides no details whatsoever. [Sun]
    • Ashlee Simpson and Pete Wentz sent out Evites for their wedding, then started auctioning off press access. The bidding is somewhere above $1 million, because it is surely a once-in-a-lifetime event for both bride and groom: "Ashlee is so needy - she just hangs all over Pete... He's always had a thing for vulnerable girls... I can't imagine one would ever leave the other." [Daily News]
    • Michelle Trachtenberg of Gossip Girl fainted Tuesday night at a Sunglass Hut store in SoHo. [P6]
    • Angelina Jolie confirmed the rumors she is pregnant with twins on the Today show, where she was plugging the movie Kung Fu Panda. None of her previous opportunities to speak out on the matter provided equivalent gravitas. [P6]
    • Pete Doherty buys pregnant mice to feed to his cat, probably to keep them from slashing him up again. [Sun]
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    Thu, 15 May 2008 08:41:05 EDT Ryan Tate http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5009128&view=rss&microfeed=true
    <![CDATA[ Britney's Toxic for New Parents ]]> The popular celebrities of the day influence baby names, because we worship them! As you can see from this graphicle, the popularity of "Britney" as a baby name (gleaned from the Social Security database, which is searchable), has plummeted. What mom in their right mind would want to mark their child from birth with a reminder of a mentally unstable child star turned Lolita Pepsi-selling shill turned Blanche DuBois? "Britney" was at #200 in baby names in 1993, and its decline in popularity mirrors the pop star's own, beginning its descent to #600 around 2001. Yep, sounds about right.

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    Tue, 13 May 2008 15:06:44 EDT Sheila http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=390082&view=rss&microfeed=true
    <![CDATA[ World's Sanest Family Seeks New Thetan ]]> 81004284

    • Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes are supposedly in the market for another screamless Scientology birth. [E!]
    • Paris Hilton isn't engaged to singer Benji Madden, she's just wearing those two diamond bands on her ring finger in an effort to look extremely desperate. She also claimed, "I cook great lasagna," which pesumably involves toggling between 30, 50 and 100 percent power on the microwave when the Stouffer's is in there. [People]
    • Liv Tyler is separating from her husband Royston Langdon, a British musician. [People]
    • Defeated American Idol contestant Jason Castro on forgetting lyrics on camera: "I definitely did not do that on purpose." [ET]
    • Ashlee Simpson calls fellow singer Britney Spears a "trashy girl" on an excruciating celebrity talk show improbably run by Nokia. Also, apparently a "Britney Spears" is code for "a beer" in some parts of the world. [Sun]
    • That painting of actor Heath Ledger, for which he posed just prior to his death, won the people's choice award at the Archibald Prize Exhibition in Australia, where the painter lives. [People]
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    Fri, 09 May 2008 06:11:24 EDT Ryan Tate http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5008400&view=rss&microfeed=true
    <![CDATA[ Britney Ruled Less Toxic To Children Than Previously Believed ]]> Wenn1855011

    • Britney Spears managed to stay out of the mental hospital for, like, three whole months, so a court commissioner was "extremely impressed." The singer now gets more time — possibly three days per week — with her kids. No one seems to know how much time she had with them before. But she can maybe have the children over for sleepovers in a month, depending, probably, on how her next TV cameo goes. The system works!
    • A Columbia student's $11,000 mink coat was stolen from a New York club during a private party, and she figured she was screwed. Then she saw actress Lindsay Lohan wearing it in a paparazzi photo. She went apeshit and had it returned, but no explanation was forthcoming. "Reeking of cigarettes and booze with a slight tear in the lining, the fur coat was no worse for wear after a dry cleaning and quick patch-up." [P6]
    • Actor Charlie Sheen has a date for his wedding. Oh, and he's also putting it on the calendar. HEY-OH! Seriously, though, May 30. Only 22 bachelor parties to go! [Perez]
    • Angelina Jolie's forthcoming twins are girls, but there are all kinds of worries about the birth. [Star]
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    Wed, 07 May 2008 08:23:05 EDT Ryan Tate http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5008100&view=rss&microfeed=true
    <![CDATA[ Last Year, Britney Spears Spent The GDP of the Falkland Islands ]]> Picture%203.pngBritney's broke! Britney's broke! Well, OK not broke, but she did spend an estimated 61 million clams last year. Between rehab, legal expenses, wig refurbishments, that plane she had fly over her house and drop Necco wafers, her three ocelots, those two kids she bought, maintaining Walt Disney's frozen head, and all those stilt-walking lessons, she's been blowing a ton (heh) while not making anything. Remember her last album, Blackout (do you get the joke that I just made)? If she'd gone on tour with that puppy, she could have made something like 50 million bones. But she was out of shape and wandering around saying "the loons! the loons!" so it didn't happen. The real point of this, though, is that she still has roughly $40 million left and that this "$61 million" figure comes from some accountant in Los Angeles who has no affiliation with Ms. Spears. No one will truly know how much she's worth until they foreclose on her house and repo men come to take away her solid gold NordicTrack. [In Touch via Radar]

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    Thu, 01 May 2008 13:43:00 EDT Richard http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=386219&view=rss&microfeed=true
    <![CDATA[ Tyra Banks Gives You One Warning About Miley ]]> Dc1833627C2Cd647Fa40A30750Ac7648

    • Tyra Banks ended the Miley Cyrus controversy, issuing the following fatwa on The View: "She is a 15-year-old, and I just wish everybody would leave her alone!" Follow this edict or Tyra will claw your eyes out, then stab you, then set you on fire, all using only her tightly-controlled stare of rage. [Showbiz Spy]
    • The Jennifer Aniston/John Mayer thing may be, horrifically, an ongoing concern. [Egotastic]
    • Britney Spears will get to spend Mother's Day with her kids. Also, ex-husband Kevin Federline calls Spears his "lady," and Spears says "I love you" at end of phone calls with him. [Sun]
    • Madonna repeatedly and unsuccessfully invited Justin Timberlake to discover her Wardrobe Malfunction over the course of several agonizing minutes. [Daily Mail]
    • Wait, so now Rob Lowe's wife sexually harassed their supposedly extortionate nanny? And a cock ring is involved? [TMZ]
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    Thu, 01 May 2008 07:33:26 EDT Ryan Tate http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5007461&view=rss&microfeed=true
    <![CDATA[ Generational Change In Loss-Of-Innocence Industry ]]> For years, people have wondered what it would take for the public finally to lose interest in that tediously troubled singer, Britney Spears. And now we have an answer: an even younger starlet, 15-year-old Miley Cyrus, who has so much more innocence yet to squander. Even before "artistic" semi-naked photos of the Hannah Montana actress hit the web, her name was more often searched on Google than Britney's.

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    Mon, 28 Apr 2008 13:48:47 EDT Nick Denton http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5007151&view=rss&microfeed=true
    <![CDATA[ Watch Jennifer Lopez, Scientologists Raise A Baby ]]> 80840423

    • Jennifer Lopez is going to star in a TLC reality show about raising her twins. Oh this is going to be awesome. We're going to get to see all of the crazy stuff Tom Cruise and Lopez's other Scientologist advisers had installed for the little ones: the security cameras, "sterile" baby wing, sanitized flowers and the staff of baby bodyguards and color therapist.
    • Semi-retired comedian Rosie O'Donnell on Star Jones' divorce from Al Reynolds: "we all fool rselves [sic] / sometimes." Also, Drudge dropped her from his blogroll for some reason. [Ask Ro]
    • Amy Winehouse got high in the street, headbutted someone, punched someone in the face, stiffed her cabbie and made out with some dude. Leave it to Fleet Street to hype up a typical Wednesday night like it's some big thing. [Sun]
    • Ashley Olsen's mansion is undergoing a $1.6 million spruce-up and the actress was kind of wondering if she could crash at your place for a while?? Five-star hotels get so lonely. [Star]
    • Doogie Howser went on Ellen and pretended to have his head cut off. This is the same guy who didn't want any more Britney Spears cameos on his sitcom because it infringed on his artistic integrity. [YouTube]
    • John Mayer is totally going to work his way up to black belt. [X17]
    • Meadow from Sopranos broke up with her boyfriend. [Us]
    • FHM magazine decided Megan Fox was the hottest woman in the entire world, this year. Angelina Jolie slipped four places to number 12, because pregnancy is so not hot, and Britney Spears somehow rejoined the list at #100, because crazy is very much hot. [OK!]
    • We have all made Naomi Campbell so furious with our incompetence that either her hair is falling out or the supermodel is tearing it out. [Sun]
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    Thu, 24 Apr 2008 08:01:59 EDT Ryan Tate http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5006769&view=rss&microfeed=true
    <![CDATA[ Bally's Is Not Ready For A Britney Spears Endorsement ]]> britneygym.jpegThe internets are ablaze with the controversial question that has come to define our era: Will Britney Spears be the next spokesperson for Bally's Fitness? The rumors started this month, with appropriate denials from the company, Ever since the LA Times broached the topic last week by noting all the time Britney's been spending at the gym with her two trainers, the celebroblogosphere has been on permanent Bally's watch. The company claims they're just helping her get into shape out of concern for her health. And let's hope so. Can you imagine the escape clauses that would have to go into a spokesperson contract with the mentally unstable pop tart?

    —Any gain in body fat of more than 5% will result in this contract being void.

    —Trips to fast food outlets in excess of one per week will result in this contract being void.

    —Publicized drug use will result in this contract being void.

    —Photos showing spokesperson driving with kids not restrained by child safety seats will result in this contract being void.

    —The release of a new album that sucks will result in this contract being void.

    —On stage performances featuring a zombified spokesperson who is clearly too drugged out of her mind to perform the necessary dance moves will result in this contract being void.

    —The spokesperson's inevitable regression towards her natural body composition will result in this contract being void.

    —Discovery that our spokesperson is in fact Britney Spears, a danger to herself and others, will result in this contract being void.

    —How about we just give you two free personal trainers and reap the free publicity instead?

    (Confidential to Britney: These people don't care about your health. Drop them immediately in favor of this:)

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    Wed, 23 Apr 2008 14:15:27 EDT Hamilton Nolan http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=383230&view=rss&microfeed=true
    <![CDATA[ Even Natalie Portman Gets Peed On Sometimes ]]> 79839379

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    Tue, 22 Apr 2008 07:26:21 EDT Ryan Tate http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5006528&view=rss&microfeed=true
    <![CDATA[ Anne Hathaway Will Scratch Kate Hudson's Eyes Out Some Day ]]> 6Rn3H5

    • Kate Hudson said Anne Hathaway's boyfriend is a loser because he was arrested for writing a $215,000 check he could not cover. Hathaway was all, "whatever, I'm over it," even though she totally wasn't. Now they don't get along. [Oh No They Didn't] (picture via Oh No They Didn't)
    • Britney Spears picked up "a hot shirtless dude" on her way to the hair salon, recruited the top two trainers at Bally Total Fitness and paid out around $400,000 in advances to her lawyers.
    • Here are pictures of Angelina Jolie, at 16, in skimpy outfits. Sort out the ethical ramifications of looking at them on your own. [Sun]
    • Nicole Kidman supposedly wants to get her kids out of the Church of Scientology, according to this guy who talked to this guy who talked to Page Six. [P6]
    • Tom Cruise's flack is calling "completely untrue" reports his marriage to Katie Holmes is crumbling. Katie Holmes appeared in pictures looking "like a damn zombie," albeit a zombie with very cute hair.
    • Kimora Lee Simmons, who the Church of Scientology bragged was their inner-city recruiter, continues to be determined to reproduce. She said if she wishes hard enough, it will happen: "I would be very proud to have a baby, so it will come soon." [OK!]
    • Is this the guy who sent Jennifer Anniston those secret admirer bouquets? "Mets pitcher John Maine... says, 'I just love her soft and natural, girl-next-door looks and the way she carries herself, her whole demeanor.'" Maine will only move in if Anniston promises he gets to tend the rabbits. [HollyScoop]
    • Amy Winehouse was supposedly making a big special album for addict husband, who is in jail. But when the big day came, she did not visit, or even send a card. You just knew this was going to happen, but still — so lame. [Sun]
    • Madonna will be paid close to $25 million for two gigs in Dubai. [Sun]
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    Fri, 18 Apr 2008 07:29:55 EDT Ryan Tate http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5006199&view=rss&microfeed=true
    <![CDATA[ Pregnancy "Witch Hunt" Snares Ashlee Simpson ]]> 80430731

    • Us reported that Ashlee Simpson was pregnant, as did OK!. An October due date was even floated for the musician's baby. But husband Pete Wentz sent an email to MTV News denying everything and positing a massive conspiracy: "There is a witch hunt for people to be pregnant whenever they get engaged in Hollywood."
    • Amy Fisher, meanwhile, happily confirmed she is pregnant, with her third child. [OK!]
    • Elizabeth Taylor mixed booze with prescription drugs, began vomiting and couldn't breathe. Her assistant rushed her to the hospital and Taylor went home the same day. All according to the National Enquirer. [Perez]
    • Kate Moss, the supermodel who is not banned for life from British Airways, was livid after the airline lost a $20,000 bracelet she bought as a gift for a friend, along with the Louis Vuitton bag it was in. The airline had a disaster of a time trying to open a new terminal at Heathrow last week and an untold number celebrities were inconvenienced and even mortally embarrassed. [Sun]
    • Without the stabilizing influence of normal parents like Britney Spears', Lindsay Lohan needs constant monitoring by her best friend to stay out of trouble. [P6]
    • Heather Mills convinced Donald Trump to let her help host the Miss USA Pageant despite her extraordinary demands, and was then booed and hissed by audience members. The Paul McCartney ex hailed the appearance as evidence that she is beloved in the U.S. [P6]
    • Madonna and Gwyneth Paltrow worked out at the gym together in London. [Splash]
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    Tue, 15 Apr 2008 06:03:31 EDT Ryan Tate http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5005860&view=rss&microfeed=true
    <![CDATA[ Cate Blanchett Delivers Third Son ]]> 79976665

    • Actress Cate Blanchett had her third son, Ignatius Martin, with husband Andrew Upton. Ignatius was born in Sydney. [