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outrage
Proud Reputations of L.A, Television, Fox Destroyed by Harlot
Body-displaying sex symbol Jillian Barberie Reynolds still has a job as a, heh, "weather and lifestyle anchor" on Fox TV in L.A., while actual journalists are getting laid off. How long will we allow sexy ladies to defile our televisions? More » -
the gays
The Crowdsourced Celebrity Gay List
Crowds may be wise, but they're not necessarily savvy. Witness this online poll, where the first 2,500 respondents have deemed Mario Lopez flamingly gay, while Kevin Spacey and Vin Diesel get loads of votes as straight.
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spectacles
The Michael Jackson Memorial Clusterfuck
Michael Jackson's memorial service happens in LA today. Is it a media circus out there? Check out the elephants! Eh? Seriously, it sounds like the media equivalent of the Superdome after Katrina. A brief rundown of the clusterfuckery: More » -
celebrity science
Michael Jackson Is Finally King of Facebook
As it has for so many other celebrities, death has bolstered Michael Jackson's image. The late pop singer just surpassed Barack Obama to hold the most popular page on Facebook. The numbers are pretty staggering: More » -
the internet
50 Cent Squashes Beef With Pubescent Tween Dis Master
Canadian tween 'Pruane2Forever' is best known for calling out 50 Cent for having no street cred, in a YouTube video, filmed in Pruane's South Park poster-bedecked room. Now 50 got him, for real. Click to watch and learn (PR). -
bad break-ups
You Will Never Unsee Mimi's Revenge
After ex-boyfriend Eminem took a potshot at her on his new album Relapse, Mariah Carey decided to beat the rapper at his own multiple-personality game, by dressing as him on the NYC video shoot for her latest single, "Obsessed" yesterday. More » -
michael jackson
The Last Megastar
Michael Jackson was a beloved worldwide star for the entire 1980s. Even after his reputation darkened, he remained a global obsession. But underlining his death is a sense we'll see no more stars of that scale and endurance. More » -
celebrity science
Handicapping the Jon and Kate Announcement Thing
What is today, America? Lo, it's the day when Jon and Kate Gosselin make their big announcement on the reality show they have, with their kids, on the TV. This could save gossip magazines! We rank the possibilities, below. More » -
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mediaite
Unlaunched Media Blog Has Facebook Sibling Intern. (Plus: A Preview!)
An addition to the Celebrity Media Intern Class of '09: Arielle Zuckerberg, the kid sister of Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg. She's indentured herself to Dan Abrams-affiliated media blog Mediaite.com. It hasn't launched yet, but we have an exclusive preview! More » -
freedom
RadarOnline Fights for Its Right to Baby Freakshows!
New information has emerged on the child labor violations of "fledgling internet site" (ha) RadarOnline. We will cover this story with the same verve with which RadarOnline covers Octomom. Illegal, baby-endangering verve, that is! More » -
cronyism
Celeb Media Interns '09: Qualified
A new summer has blossomed (technically), and with it a new crop of celebrity media interns, riding their family names into coffee-fetching and fact-checking gigs that should rightfully go to miserable, debt-wracked, overqualified J-school graduates. This year's celeb intern class: More » -
media
Why Can't Gisele Sell Magazines?
If Gisele Bundchen covers can't sell magazines, what is it that you people really want? This may be Michelle Obama's fault. More » -
scandals
TV Lady Who Reports on Nude Celeb Pics Outraged at Her Own Nude Celeb Pics
Daisy Ballmajo is the co-host of Paparazzi TV Sensacional on Mega TV—sort of a Spanish-language version of TMZ. The type of show that loves leaked photos of nude celebrities! Now Daisy's own nude photos have leaked. She's upset! More » -
accidents
Carradine Death Looks Like Sex Gone Wrong
When Kung Fu simulator David Carradine was found hanged to death in Bangkok hotel room closet Wednesday, suicide was reasonably suspected. But now, evidence seems to be pointing to one of those grisly masturbation accidents:
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divorce
Rich People Come Out Against Having You All Up in Their Business
Should you, the Average Joe Schmoe Loser Nobody "Little Person," be allowed to see all the dirty details of a rich, famous person's divorce? Rich, famous people do not think that you should, surprisingly! More » -
scarjo
Breathy Blonde Sings Again
Well well. If you didn't get enough of Scarlett Johansson's ruinous crooning with her thoroughly unnecessary vanity album of Tom Waits covers, it is your lucky year: she is putting out a musical album, again! More » -
Celebukids
Theo Spielberg, Student, Joins New York, as Intern
Celebrity spawn news! New York magazine has used a fair and impartial process to hire new interns, and one of them happens to be Steven Spielberg's son! Allow him to introduce himself [UPDATED below]:
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Media Crack
Us Weekly Stands Up for Journalistic Integrity
In your dire Thursday media column: Us Weekly starts a war, America refuses to watch gay broadcasters, "I.D." is the unluckiest magazine name, and North Korea will try the US reporters it snatched: More » -
the rich
Prince Marcus von Asshole's Gallery of Glory
Yesterday, asshole expert Jared Paul Stern identified German "Prince" Marcus von Anhalt as the "World's Richest Asshole." Like all noblemen, the Prince has a Myspace page: More » -
pic of the night
Counter Error Unit
Kiefer Sutherland was in a New York police precinct house for two hours, being charged with assault for headbutting someone at a Met Costume gala after-party. But he has yet to answer to Anna Wintour. More » -
celebrity science
Oprah Joins List of Celebs Enabling Jenny McCarthy's Conspiracy Crusade
Oh, good, Oprah is going to give Jenny McCarthy a talk show, because she wants your kid to die of the measles. More »
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rumormonger
OK! Magazine Flails About Wildly
We hear OK! Magazine has laid off creative director Sean Bumgarner, #3 on its masthead. This follows a weekend full of shakeups. What is going on over there? Grasping desperately at shrinking market share, probably! More » -
reality tv
David Letterman's Underminey Digs at Lauren Conrad
Lauren Conrad's most recent and, let's face it, quite possibly last appearance on the Late Show was an odd cocktail of passive-aggressive barbs and ribald, lusty commentary from host David Letterman. More » -
things we actually like
Sarah Silverman on Twitter (For Real This Time)
Six months ago, someone made a fake Sarah Silverman Twitter account. But this seems genuinely to be the comedian's work, what with all the facetious jewish jokes and invented profanities. (Click for highlights.) More » -
things to buy
Michel Gondry Now Hustling $20 Caricatures
Maybe all the cool kids already knew this, but for the rest of us: did you know that for the low low price of $19.95, HIP and FRENCH movieperson Michel Gondry will draw your portrait? More » -
feuds
Why Ryan Adams Quit New York
Apparently Ryan Adams lives in Los Angeles forever now? The whiny singer blames his departure from New York on a mean, vicious publication—That's not a filthy blog like the one you're reading: a newspaper.
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violence
L.E.S. Celebudogs in Twee Clash
Let's say an angry pit bull has a Menace Factor of 10. But make it a Japanese DJ's dog facing off against a "Celebrity facialist's" Yorkie on the L.E.S., and the Menace is, like, three. More » -
celebrity science
Woody Allen Is Feeling Bleak Enough Without Your Judgement
Woody Allen uses the word "tragic" four times in his front-page interview with the New York Observer. Also, "nihilistic," "dreadful," "sad," "malcontent" and "embarrassment." And that's before he gets going about the "appropriate police." More » -
real estate porn
Madonna's New NYC Crash Pad
Madonna, a song singer, paid $40 million to some lucky bastard for a townhouse on the UES. It reminds her of London, they say! Whatever. Here are some interior pictures of this rich, rich place: More » -
feuds
Alec Baldwin Picks Fight with AOL for Saying He Picked a Fight
Today in his Huffington Post column, Alec Baldwin delivered an important lecture about how to practice good, proper journalism. First lesson: Don't mess with Alec Baldwin. More » -
art
Mickey Rourke Peed Upon by Star Dog
Hello, pancake painter-to-the-stars Dan Lacey has completed another work of art suggested by you, the celebrity-obsessed Gawker readers. Today: "Mickey Rourke and the canine-star of Beverly Hills Chihuahua urinating on him." More » -
reality tv
Octo-Mom's Dating Show Sure To Attract Quality Men
Good news in dark times: You'll seen be able to take Nadya Suleman away from her 14 kids, on a date, to be filmed by reality show cameras and watched by a confused, frightened nation. More » -
crime
Rihanna Would Like Chris Brown's Problems To Go Away
After Chis Brown pled not guilty to assaulting Rihanna in a Los Angeles courtroom Monday, Rihanna's attorney said something peculiar: The apparent victim of Brown's attack would like to bring the case to a rapid conclusion. More » -
paparazzi
'Shooting' War: Tom Brady and Gisele's Hired Thugs Protect Mag Exclusive With Gunfire
Paparazzi life is war! Two photographers who were trying to photograph Tom Brady and Gisele Bundchen's wedding ceremony in Costa Rica say the couple's bodyguards shattered their car window. With a bullet, from a gun! More » -
nightlife
Marquee's Secret: All Those Free-Spending Bankers
Some wacky Harvard Business School kids decided to write up a case study on undead Chelsea celebuclub Marquee, probably so they could get past the doorman. They found out Marquee's profit: More » -
videuhoh
Brittany Murphy's Sudden Irish Accent: Drinking or Nerves?
Brittany Murphy clearly threw Craig Ferguson off last night on the Late Late Show: Why was an actress raised in New Jersey speaking in an Irish accent? And why was she acting so loopy? More » -
flackery
OctoMom's Realtor and Publicity Wizard
How did OctoMom get so much good press, making her America's sweetheart? By having the sales manager at All American Real Estate Mortgage Co. in La Habra, California as her publicist: More » -
celebrity science
Chris Brown's Ad Man Talking Comeback
Steve Stoute thinks Chris Brown can totally get past this whole "beating his girlfriend, Rihanna" thing and start endorsing products again. Just like he used to do for Soute! More » -
marketing
Sponsors Flee Perez Hilton's Birthday Party
Woe is Perez Hilton, in many ways. His marketing firm put together such a neat Powerpoint show to get companies to sponsor his birthday party last weekend. How did that go? More » -
celebrity science
Glenn Beck Calls Himself a 'Rodeo Clown'
Deep down, past the creepy post-apocalyptic conservative rhetoric like "we surround them" and "you are not alone," who is Glenn Beck? "A rodeo clown," he told the New York Times. Or maybe worse. More »
































