<![CDATA[Gawker: spencer pratt]]> http://cache.gawker.com/assets/base/img/thumbs140x140/gawker.com.png <![CDATA[Gawker: spencer pratt]]> http://gawker.com/tag/spencer pratt http://gawker.com/tag/spencer pratt <![CDATA[ Reality Stars To Open Bar, New York To Weep ]]> Because Angels & Kings didn't quite drive the knife of inanity far enough into New York City's weakening heart, a new celebrity-backed bar is opening in Manhattan. I'm sorry, did I say celebrity? I meant Heidi Montag and Spencer Pratt, the tumbleweeds from MTV's high-gloss people-spoof The Hills. Don't worry, the planned "upscale sports lounge" isn't in your precious East Village like Pete Wentz's sadness factory.

It's in Murray Hill (hills! the world is full of amazing connections!), whose state flower is the blue button-up shirt and official drink is the Totally Fucked Up, Man slinger. As Heidi is exactly as sexy as an unclothed Barbie doll, expect lots of hot girls and cool-as-Spencer dudes to frequent the joint. [W]

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Fri, 29 Aug 2008 11:13:00 EDT Richard http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5043479&view=rss&microfeed=true
<![CDATA[ Paris Hilton's Implant News Plant ]]> 82406448

  • Paris Hilton either added implants to "her A-cup" breasts or wants to spread gossip that she did so she can sell her stupid "push-up" bra. (Yes, you can click the thumb if you need a closer look. Yes, you will feel dirty. But don't you kinda feel that way already?) [P6]
  • Graydon Carter's wife Anna gave birth to a baby girl, Isabella Rose Carter, who can already get better reservations and invitations than you. [P6]
  • Oppressive Hollywood people will not let Danny Glover make a movie funded by beacon of tolerance Hugo Chavez. [P6]
  • Heath Ledger's daughter Matilda will receive money otherwise destined to the actors who completed Heath Ledger's turn in Terry Gilliam's The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus. Johnny Depp, Jude Law and Colin Farrell are all donating their proceeds from the movie. [Fox]
  • Heidi Montag and Spencer Pratt plan to marry on live TV and also wrest the Hills from Lauren Conrad.

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Tue, 19 Aug 2008 06:45:47 EDT Ryan Tate http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5038721&view=rss&microfeed=true
<![CDATA[ The Bitch Is Back ]]>
  • The new 90210 just got a whole lot better because Shannon "My Career Will Never Die" Doherty is in talks to play Brenda Walsh. Oh Hells Yeah. [Perez Hilton]
  • David Beckham's fish oil supplements give him bad breath, but he's contractually obliged to take them. I think I can ignore some funky breath when dealing with the hottest human being on the planet. [Hollyscoop]
  • Angelina Jolie has checked into a hospital in France for scheduled rest before the birth of the twins. She has not popped yet, to our knowledge. [Reuters]
  • Adrianne Curry is jumping in to the all-girl-celebrity-meat slugfest. She's joined Jessica Simpson's pro-brisket camp. [Hollyscoop]
  • Kate took Lance to visit the Goldie. [People.com]
  • Spencer Pratt apologized to Mary Kate for trash talking about her after her appearance on Letterman. Apologize!?! Truly, Spencer will do anything for press. [Hollyscoop]

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    Wed, 02 Jul 2008 06:07:25 EDT mr.guyball http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5021361&view=rss&microfeed=true
    <![CDATA[ Sheen Slur May Offend Veteran Best Man ]]> 71003137

    • Charlie Sheen is sorry to black people for calling his ex-wife Denise Richards a "f—king n—--r." He's especially sorry to "Tony Todd, an African-American, who was my best man at my first two weddings." Ha! Richards, with whom Sheen has been bitterly feuding, doesn't get an apology, and can presumably just "f—king" deal. [Us]
    • Yesterday, everyone was worried fashiongay Andre Leon Talley would ruin Michelle Obama by putting her in a bolero jacket or some other atrocious thing. He hasn't done that yet. Instead, the Vogue editor-at-large introduced the would-be first lady at a fashion-industry fundraiser while he was wearing "a kind of turban that recalled the much-discussed costume [Barack Obama] once wore in Somalia." No one should have a problem with Obama hanging out with what looks like a gay muslim, even an elitist gay fashion muslim in New York, so obviously no one, anywhere, will. [R&M]
    • Not only did Anne Hathaway break up with her scuzzy Italian boyfriend, she also moved out. Yay! But what's this business about dinner at Cipriani? [P6]
    • Relentlessly cranky novelist Tom Wolfe demanded to know why a developer insinuated he was anti-Semitic. OK, this time he might have a legitimate reason to be cranky. [P6]
    • Broadway and former TV star Mario Lopez is being named People's "Hottest Bachelor," but he's still totally getting evicted from his Broadway theater to make way for Katie Holmes. The guy's biceps can't catch a break.
    • Supposedly Heidi Montag and Spencer Pratt just bought a $10,000 stash of guns, including "two Benelli semiautomatic M4 tactical shotguns, two Wilson close quarter combat .45-caliber pistols and one Scout semiautomatic rifle." Suddenly, I'm kind of interested in seeing them in front of some reality television cameras again. Near other reality television stars. While drunk and angry. [The Superficial]
    • So sad: Freeloading music critics get free drinks, but no free food, at a listening party. They stormed out in a huff, logically. [P6]
    • The mother of 50 Cent's 11-year-old son claims the rapper burned down her Long Island mansion. He claims she totally monitors his cell-phone conversations with the son. Call it a draw? [R&M]
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    Thu, 19 Jun 2008 06:37:33 EDT Ryan Tate http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5017854&view=rss&microfeed=true
    <![CDATA[ Spencer Pratt Wants $100k Just to Leave the House ]]> Breaking: Spencer Pratt is an asshole. The resident villain and couch-sitter on The Hills was on David Letterman's little show on Friday night, talking about his high-rollin', baller lifestyle. He said that he demands $100,000 for a one-night appearance at a nightclub. The audience laughed, Dave laughed. It was a funny joke. Except then Spencer was all "naw, dude, I'm serious." And Letterman's expression changed sadly and Spence looked even more like a bratty little kid, slouched in his chair, not getting the extremely loud and glaring joke of himself. Then Paul Shaffer made a funny! Clip is above. [From Jossip]

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    Mon, 16 Jun 2008 11:18:00 EDT Richard http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=396248&view=rss&microfeed=true
    <![CDATA[ <em>Hills</em> Pretty Boy Is One Expensive Bouncer ]]> spencerpratt.jpegDon't expect to roll mobb deep to the club with Hills star Spencer Pratt unless you're ready to spread around some serious cash, my friend. In his closely-read advice column in Radar this week, the boy wonder responds to a needy fan—whom we envision wearing a tight shirt and a year-round tan—who's in anguish over only being able to hit the town with five of his boys at a time. "You can't roll in anywhere with more than five guys holding your hand," he explains. How can he satisfy all of his other homeboys who want to hold his hand in the club? Spencer says: Money money money money, monnneeeeyyyyyyy:

    You tell them that no hot club in L.A. is going to let two dudes in—let alone four or five—so you need to rotate trips to L.A. unless you don't mind partying at the non-exclusive clubs. Or tell them that they need to come with cash to offer the promoter or door person. If I was bouncing the door at a hot spot, five dudes would cost at least $500 dollars.

    Uh, hey Spencer: if you were bouncing the door, people would just walk in for free with a hard glare.

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    Wed, 14 May 2008 13:15:50 EDT Hamilton Nolan http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=390429&view=rss&microfeed=true
    <![CDATA[ Sneak Peek at <i>The Hills</i> Season Finale ]]> Picture 2-13OMG! The final episode—for now!—of MTV's semi-reality trainwreck The Hills is almost here and who can wait? I have no idea what's going on, but Heidi Montag and Spencer Pratt sure do look shouty and angry! Watch it here. [via OhNoTheyDidn't]

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    Sat, 10 May 2008 16:05:49 EDT ian spiegelman http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5008569&view=rss&microfeed=true
    <![CDATA[ Heidi and Spencer Are Well Aware of Themselves, Thank You ]]> heidistairs.jpgHeidi Montag and Spencer Pratt, two of the more invested stars of MTV reality smash The Hills, know that you know that they know that you know that they're fake. Phew. They don't bother with the pretense of being discreet in the way the pose for paparazzi photographs, cause fake "drama," and desperately ingratiate themselves to monsters like TMZ warlock Harvey Levin. "We're entertainers," Heidi tells the LA Times in a new story on the couple. Hm. Fair enough. I can actually, uh, sort of respect that. At least they're honest! And it works. According to Spencer, they get $50,000 each for a two hour club appearance. I don't know what's more disheartening, that they make more in two hours than I do in a year, or that a club can afford to pay such a ridiculous lump of sweaty cash, because business will in fact boom after a "Speidi" visit. I just can't believe that people actually want to drink with these fools. But aparently they do, and that's all Heidi and Spencer's doing. Which is kind of brilliant. It's one of the reasons why they're besties with Us Weekly editor Janice Min, I'm sure.

    They won over Min when she saw Speidi-related web traffic rise and rise. "That's when I thought, 'You know what? Let's just take a risk on these people,'" she says. And it's done wonders for Us. Janice must love them! And they love her too:

    "Janice Min at Us Weekly is like a family member to us," Spencer said. "We love her. If my mom and her are e-mailing me at the same time, I'm like, 'Uh, Janice or my mom?' "

    It's a real romance. Or parasitic relationship. One of those things.

    And the couple just keeps dreaming bigger and bigger. Heidi would like to keep pursuing her music, hoping to be "as big as Britney Spears and Madonna" one day. Spencer just wants to make money and be famous and maybe have his own reality show. And they both feel they deserve it. After all, what they do is hard work. Sort of:

    "No celebrity does anything, really," Spencer said. "Unless you're a famous athlete who actually physically does something, like, how much work is reading lines from a script? We're improv TV personalities. That's way harder."

    Heidi Montag and Spencer Pratt: "We're entertainers" [LAT]

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    Thu, 08 May 2008 18:03:00 EDT Richard http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=388737&view=rss&microfeed=true
    <![CDATA[ Why? ]]> spencertaco.jpg"If you're dating a guy, right away. If you're dating girl, I think you'll know pretty quick if she's into that. If they're not bringing it up, it's not something on their agenda. That's just realistic. My boxing coach Dirty Phi says, 'If you stick your pinkie in there, and then another finger, and then another, and she responds happily, then it's cool.'" - The Hills's Spencer Pratt on, um, when to bring up the topic of butt sex with your significant other. From Radar.

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    Tue, 06 May 2008 15:26:00 EDT Richard http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=387739&view=rss&microfeed=true
    <![CDATA[ Little Circus Bumbles Into Town ]]> [Reality TV stars Spencer Pratt and Heidi Montag (under the hat!) at LAX yesterday; image via Bauer-Griffin]

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    Mon, 05 May 2008 15:56:00 EDT Richard http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=387319&view=rss&microfeed=true
    <![CDATA[ After Partyness ]]> This one was too good to relegate to the map. Plus it's pretty long so it might show up funky. Behold: at a Tribeca Film Fest after party, we've got Rachel Dratch longing to be back on TV, Nikki "Hairspray" Blonski, Spencer Breslin, Heidi Montag and Spencer Twat trying to control who looks at them, and Ally Sheedy looking ancient. Sighting after the jump, old school Gawker Stalker style.

    At the 4/30 after party for film "Harold" that premiered at Tribeca.. spoke with Rachel Dratch. So friendly. Cuter in person but still gargoyle like. She misses SNL and when I suggested she go back and host she said "Please tell Lorne that"

    met Nikki Blonski, super nice. Very chubby and very short. She sat in a corner booth with her friends from home. When she introduced herself to Heidi Montag...Heidi had no idea who she was. Embarrassing.

    Spencer Breslin- so short and so cute

    Heidi Montag and Spencer Pratt, ew ew ew. Heidi had awful skin covered up by pounds of foundation. The blond and overly tan couple looked ridiculously out of place. Spencer literally shooed away reporters and at one point had a PR rep ask some girls to stop starring at Heidi and they were told to go to another part of the club. The audacity! Since Spencer and Heidi hate people looking at them?! Note: They did not even see the film Harold! Pathetic.

    Ally Sheedy- She has not aged well. Her body is tiny and very muscular but her face has some serious wrinkles.

    Later that night at the Waverly.... Valentino, Maroon 5, Leonardo DiCaprio, John Leguizamo- Much shorter than I had thought! All in all a good night.

    Send your sightings to stalker@gawker.com.

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    Sun, 04 May 2008 11:08:41 EDT Valerie Flame http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=386918&view=rss&microfeed=true
    <![CDATA[ Emailing "I feel in love with your daughter Uma" Is Bad Netiquette ]]> 80689425

    • Testifying against her alleged stalker, Uma Thurman's dad said the man emailed him a few times about the study-abroad program at Columbia, where the dad is a professor. He had no clue the guy was a stalker, or even knew who his daughter was. Then one day the alleged stalker wrote: "Today the center of my forehead is ticking now and then. I feel in love with your daughter Uma." And later: "Apparently hoping it would be forwarded to the actress.... 'Work on that accent for our wedding night. Pretty please.'"
    • Charlie Sheen resumed seeing hookers at least until last year, including while he was in rehab, using fake doctor's appointments, according to a former Los Angeles madam. Sheen's rep said "this is an old, old, old story," as though that's not the point. [P6]
    • Rosie O'Donnell on Miley Cyrus' Vanity Fair shoot: "Leave Miley Cyrus alone... Listen, Annie Leibovitz – I had two photo shoots with her... You kind of do what she says. It's intimidating. I also didn't think it was a pornographic photo in any capacity. I thought it was sort of a beautiful portrait." [People]
    • Spencer Pratt on Miley Cyrus' Vanity Fair shoot: "I didn’t think it was that bad. Supposedly, she’s wearing a top underneath. It’s artistic." [Us]
    • Jennifer Lopez's reality show will involve her stupid new perfume, and not the fortified wing of her house she and her Scientologist friends designed for her twins. Great, I just signed up for TLC, and now I have to cancel. [People]
    • Rehabbed actress Kirsten Dunst is supposedly taking co-star Ryan Gosling to 12-step meetings. [P6]
    • Singer Mariah Carey is engaged to rapper Nick Cannon. The ring is 17 carats and cost $2.5 million. Tasteful. [P6]
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    Wed, 30 Apr 2008 07:42:17 EDT Ryan Tate http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5007321&view=rss&microfeed=true
    <![CDATA[ <i>Hills</i> Star Settles For B-List Presidential Event ]]> 80880324Last week The Hills star Heidi Montag turned down an invitation to sit at MSNBC.com's table at the White House Correspondent's Dinner, reportedly because boyfriend/manager Spencer Pratt said the event, which includes top journalists and is attended by the president, wasn't "A-Listy enough." MSNBC awkwardly denied, then admitted that it had invited Montag. Well, it turns out Montag and Pratt condescended to come to the dinner (the picture at left was taken there), invited by the shameless celebrity panderers at Fortune magazine, according to Page Six:

    ...they managed to snag a last-minute seat at Fortune magazine's table.

    And, of course, the fame-hungry duo from MTV's The Hills spent the night snaking their way through the DC after-parties. They hit the Bloomberg LP soirée at the embassy of Costa Rica, which was such a disaster, half the invitees couldn't get in.

    Fortune? Bloomberg LP? Wait, neither of you is talking to Rupert Murdoch's Fox Business or Wall Street Journal, right? Please tell me I'm right.

    [Page Six]

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    Mon, 28 Apr 2008 05:45:26 EDT Ryan Tate http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5007113&view=rss&microfeed=true
    <![CDATA[ The Hills ]]> Spencer Pratt knows "for 100% fact" that a Lauren Conrad/Jason Wahler sex tape existed. One hundred. Fucking. Percent. Fact. Not 10% fact like reasons to invade a country. Not 50% fact like a Barack Obama campaign speech. Not even 75% fact like goings on at a Duke lacrosse party. We're talking 100%. And he'll take a lie detector to prove it. Oh yeah? [Us]

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    Fri, 25 Apr 2008 15:18:00 EDT Richard http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=384194&view=rss&microfeed=true
    <![CDATA[ No <i>Hills</i> Star For Bush ]]> Thumb160X HeidiusabikiniHeidi Montag cancels on White House Correspondents dinner, featuring fellow Republican George W. Bush: "MSNBC had invited Montag to be a guest at its table at the Washington Hilton. 'Then Spencer got involved as her manager,' a source told Page Six. 'He demanded first-class tickets for both him and Heidi - even though he wasn't invited.' When the network balked, Pratt canceled Montag's appearance, claiming, according to our source, 'It wasn't "A-listy" enough.'" [Post]

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    Thu, 24 Apr 2008 07:18:38 EDT Ryan Tate http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5006768&view=rss&microfeed=true
    <![CDATA[ Sad Things ]]> The Hills' Heidi Montag has a little video interview with Us where she talks about a potential spin-off series, all of her "ups and downs," and how "obsessed" her father is with her boyfriend/manager/wicked Rumpelstiltskin Spencer Pratt.

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    Fri, 18 Apr 2008 14:04:00 EDT Richard http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=381557&view=rss&microfeed=true
    <![CDATA[ We Are All Part Of The Problem ]]> Do you really want to know what Spencer and Heidi were wearing in Midtown today? Our stalker has the deets.

    I just saw Speidi outside the Sony building on Madison and 55th. They had clearly tipped off the dozen + paparazzi to their own arrival as the photogs usually are not hanging around in midtown. Spencer was wearing a suit in a desperate attempt to blend in with the other productive members of society but Heidi was wearing a purple minidress, aqua heels, and leather jacket channeling Julia Robert in Pretty Woman, pre-makeover.

    Send your Manhattan sightings to stalker@gawker.com and include the a/s/l time/date/loc so we can map it.

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    Wed, 16 Apr 2008 12:29:40 EDT Valerie Flame http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=380471&view=rss&microfeed=true
    <![CDATA[ Grand Old Tarty ]]> heidiusabikini.jpgSurprise! Odious strip of Laffy Taffy Heidi Montag is voting Republican. The Hills star recently told Us Weekly that she'll be voting for McCain because "he has a lot of experience." When boyfriend, manager, and Weasleys' garden gnome Spencer Pratt suggested she maybe shouldn't make a public endorsement, Montag replied, "I don't think anyone cares who Heidi Montag votes for." Heidi Montag is right. Heidi Montag can vote for whomever she wants and no one cares. Heidi Montag would like to go home now. Heidi Montag seems to be stuck in this chicken wire.

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    Wed, 02 Apr 2008 09:22:00 EDT Richard http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=375009&view=rss&microfeed=true
    <![CDATA[ Scientology's Glamorous New Friends ]]> Picture 9-9

    • Game over, Scientology wins, they have Pete Doherty and Sumner Redstone. Viacom chairman Redstone hasn't actually converted but did have lunch with Scientology bigshot Tom Cruise, probably canceling in his area a personal and business rift with the actor and paving the way for more sweet Mission Impossible money. Doherty has been reading up on the religion and shacking up with a Scientologist DJ who probably hasn't yet mentioned the religion's stance on psychoactive drugs.
    • Accidental gay porno fan (and singer) John Mayer posted a long rambly blog "about a young guy who maintains a celebrity blog... who has wrestled with a lifelong battle for acceptance as a gay man." Then, mercifully, "I'm going quiet now." [JohnMayer.com]
    • Star overlord Bonnie Fuller said singer Britney Spears' parents are "pimps" who treat their daughters like "cash registers" and "bank machines." To back this up, the American Media editorial director has both an anonymous quote and a book-plugging psychiatrist. Air. Tight. [HuffPo]
    • There's talk of a Hills movie. Well, of course there is. The question is, have they stockpiled enough stares. [MTV]
    • Hills stars Heidi Montag and Spencer Pratt "work on their relationship" by going to Vegas and staying in different rooms, in different hotels and barely talking. Actually, that is seriously a dream vacation for some couples. [People]
    • Atress Lindsay Lohan will play a member of the Manson family. [E! Online]
    • She's supposedly jetting off to rehab soon, but singer Amy Winehouse still can't manage to get to the jail on time to visit her husband. [Sun]
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    Fri, 28 Mar 2008 05:17:32 EDT Ryan Tate http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5004711&view=rss&microfeed=true
    <![CDATA[ Call Me ]]> Want to "talk" to The Hills' Heidi Montag? Call (310) 220-0244. Want to leave a message for her boyfriend, wicked Chucky doll Spencer Pratt? Call (310) 220-0215.

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    Thu, 27 Mar 2008 12:40:00 EDT Richard http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=372949&view=rss&microfeed=true
    <![CDATA[ Spencerz Cans Write? ]]> In a mutually beneficial stunt, Radar is giving Hills villain Spencer Pratt his own column, entitled "YO SPENCER!" Spencer would have offered his services to Us, but they're on Team Heidi. [AP]

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    Thu, 13 Mar 2008 10:01:14 EDT rebecca http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=367371&view=rss&microfeed=true
    <![CDATA[ Oh, What a Paradise It Seems ]]> Yesterday's tantalizing Hills clip featured Lauren "LC" Conrad getting some bad news about sorta boyfriend Brody "I vaguely resemble a honeydew melon" Jenner. In today's even MORE tantalizing preview of the upcoming season (again from Us Weekly), the nefarious Spencer Pratt and his Florence Foster Jenkins-esque girlfriend Heidi Montag quibble over some nonsense in front of Heidi's all too camera ready parents. Spencer declares his love. Heidi's mom basically has to call "line", so Heidi prompts her. The father sits there and thinks about that book Ladder of Years he read once. This is what love is like. Raw, real, and planned three hours in advance.

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    Tue, 11 Mar 2008 17:31:33 EDT Richard http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=366632&view=rss&microfeed=true
    <![CDATA[ Britney Spears Actually Investing At Least $2,500 Per Week Wisely ]]>

    • Singer Britney Spears, said to be worth around $50 million, has become steadily more sane since her father was placed in control of her finances and other affairs several weeks ago. She parted ways with hanger-on ex-paparazzo Adnan Ghalib and earned the right to see her children more often. Apparently her father is compensated at $2,500 per week for his oversight, and the many tabloids that make money off Spears insanity are incredulous. So is comedian Rosie O'Donnell, who wrote in her Web Q&A forum that Spears' dad's high pay has become "the problem." Apparently these people have never priced rehab, or done some simple math on the scale of Spears' image problem.
    • Singer John Mayer wrote the sweetest song while at the airport. It starts, "Dear Ex Lover, Perhaps you didn't understand the last time I told you to stop contacting me, so I'll do my best to spell it out for you." It just gets even more tender from there, if you can imagine that. [Mayer blog via Perez]
    • Jerry Seinfeld's pitch for his new network show: "Just like Curb Your Enthusiasm, but with Jerry, instead of Larry [David]." Curb Your Enthusiasm, of course, was like a slightly more improvised version of Seinfeld, but with Larry David instead of Jerry Seinfeld. Just admit you want your old show back, Jerry. [P6]
    • American Idol Season One star Nikki McKibbin had a Feb. 21 breakdown in the wake of weak album sales, her mother's August death and abuse of migraine medicine. [Star]
    • Posh Spice at last gets her Vogue cover, but notice only after the Spice Girls finally promised to finally just stop existing.
    • Irish actor Colin Farrell told off by boyfriend of model Meghan Lowther at the Rose Bar in Gramercy Park Hotel. "You tried. Now get out of here." [P6]
    • Sad: Harvey Weinstein wants a meeting with novelist Linda Fairstein, so she makes swanky reservations at a Midtown restaurant and alets the maitre d' about exactly who is coming. Turns out, it is Harvey Weinstein all right — the "octogenarian tuxedo manufacturer" who just loves her books. [P6]
    • Another girl got between Heidi Montag and Spencer Pratt of "the Hills." Shocker! [Us]
    • Kelly Rowan of "The O.C." is being kept hidden away by a reclusive Canadian billionaire, who doesn't like media attention. If you read between the lines in this item, it's like she's sending coded messages just begging some brave paparazzo to come rescue her. [P6]
    • Actor Will Smith is hosting world icon Nelson Mandela's 90th birthday party in London. [Sun]
    • Actor Patrick Swayze maybe not really going back to work, because he dropped out of a gay role in this one comedy flick. [OK!]
    • Actress Natalie Portman on Hillary Clinton: "A lot of the stuff people say about her, I hear it and my stomach falls because it's so sexist... You ask people why they don't like her and it's because her husband cheated on her! That was obviously not her choice." [Us]
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    Fri, 07 Mar 2008 09:52:18 EST http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=365099&view=rss&microfeed=true
    <![CDATA[ TMZ Shows Off Knowledge Of Idiots, Ethnology ]]> This is an in-house ad that is currently running on gossip site TMZ. Pareene hopes that next we'll meet the "Oriental" Ashley Tisdale. I'm hoping for the "Swarthy" Jonas Brothers. (Click for larger)

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    Wed, 05 Mar 2008 15:55:53 EST Richard http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=364312&view=rss&microfeed=true
    <![CDATA[ Romance ]]> [Desperate reality TV power couple Heidi Montag and Spencer Pratt candidly! smooch for unexpected! cameras in LA today; image via INF]

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    Tue, 26 Feb 2008 17:18:27 EST Richard http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=361098&view=rss&microfeed=true
    <![CDATA[ Reality Duo To Somehow Make Video Games Even Bigger Waste of Time ]]> heidi-spencer-spiderman-costume.jpgOh for Christ's sake. Eternally grasping and desperate reality TV stars Heidi Montag and Spencer Pratt are now saying that, in addition to Ms. Montag's super exciting music career, they will be working on a video game. "You can definitely play as us or you can play against us," says Pratt of the game. He was at some kind of video game function at the time, so maybe he was just drunkenly exaggerating. But, he does keep prattling (get it?) on about it, so mayyybe it's a real idea? Who the fuck knows anymore. [US] After the jump, a preview of the new Hills season! Plus, a preview of Montag & Pratt's new video game.

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    Wed, 20 Feb 2008 16:31:02 EST Richard http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=358856&view=rss&microfeed=true
    <![CDATA[ Heidi Montag Will Pray For You, While Doing Sit-Ups ]]> heidi_spencer3.jpgReality TV star (and the Maria Callas of her generation) Heidi Montag recently traveled to the exclusive resort town of Atlantic City, NJ where she and boyfriend/aspiring Svengali Spencer Pratt enjoyed the fine dining. Oh, and because they can't go anywhere without some branch of the tabliverse in tow, they happened to find time for an interview with OK! magazine. The interviewer, Alisandra Puliti, compliments Heidi on her appearance in her latest music video, saying "You have the abs that Britney used to!" Creepy! Even creepier is when Pratt describes Montag's good will toward men: "I'll find her on the floor praying and I'll ask, who are you praying for, and she'll say everybody." Aww/Shriek! She's just like Tiny Tim. I guess it's a nice idea, though. When I'm blue or lonely (usually after watching The Hills) I'll just think of Heidi, with her old Britney abs, rolling around on a beach or sprawled out on the floor, praying for me. [OK! via ohnotheydidn't] After the jump, one of the better parodies of Montag's "Higher" video.

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    Tue, 19 Feb 2008 13:31:19 EST Richard http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=358189&view=rss&microfeed=true
    <![CDATA[ A Sad End for Teddy Ruxpin ]]> [The Hills stars Heidi Montag and Spencer Pratt at LAX this weekend; image via Bauer-Griffin]

    Hortense's new line beats the original, Young Explorer Couple Returns From Arctic, Moon.

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    Mon, 11 Feb 2008 09:24:17 EST Richard http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=354892&view=rss&microfeed=true
    <![CDATA[ The Hills Are Alive With The Sound of Montag ]]> Reality star Heidi Montag, of The Hills, has been warbling on and on about her singing career for some time now. We've heard a leaked single, "Touch Me", and now we have a video. It's for a different song called "Higher" that makes no sense (something about flying with your wings and nothing stopping you.) It begins with strange sounds and shots of the chanteuse climbing rocks and scaring away birds. Then she writhes around in the sand for a while. Naturally, it was directed by her scheming boyfriend/manager/Chucky doll Spencer Pratt. Oh, and there is also a behind-the-scenes video (after the jump) where Spencer runs around with his little camera and a funky looking boombox. It certainly begs the question: Who was filming Spencer filming Heidi? Polyhymnia, Muse of Sacred Song, that's who. [US]

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    Mon, 04 Feb 2008 12:49:48 EST Richard Lawson http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=352327&view=rss&microfeed=true
    <![CDATA[ We Still Don't Know What The City-Destroying Monster Is, But Now We Know Why It Came ]]> [Spencer Pratt and Heidi Montag, two stars of the MTV "reality" series "The Hills" attend the "Cloverfield" premiere in Los Angeles last night; image via Splash]

    TedSez's new line beat out the original, Dopey Couple Attends Junior Prom, Becomes Wildly Famous.

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    Thu, 17 Jan 2008 12:45:08 EST Richard Lawson http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=346067&view=rss&microfeed=true
    <![CDATA[ How 'Tutoring' Spencer Pratt Cost One Woman Her Dreams ]]> spencer_pratt.jpg"You know that Newsweek feature MY TURN?," a tipster writes. "So about two years ago (maybe 3?) there was an essay from a former private tutor. She complains that so many spoiled terrible kids just expected her to do their work for them. She then goes into a sort of lengthy description of one particular disciple, who hung around his Downtown LA apartment all day, took tons of pills, and kept his girlfriend too high to leave the apartment. well guess who?! It was our Spencer [Pratt]. No one who knew him doubted it for a second. She actually painted a very accurate picture." And look: Here is that 'My Turn' essay from April, 2005! It's entitled "How Tutoring Rich Kids Cost Me My Dreams."

    "Welcome to the world of professional paper-writing, the dirty secret of the tutoring business," wrote aspiring L.A. singer-songwriter Nicole Kristal. "It's facilitated by avaricious agencies, perpetuated by accountability-free parents and made possible by self-loathing nerds like me. For three-hour workdays, the ability to sleep in and the opportunity to get paid to learn, I tackled subjects like Dostoevsky while spoiled jerks smoked pot, took naps, surfed the Internet and had sex." Was one of those spoiled jerks Prince of Malibu Spencer Pratt? Well ...

    Six months into the job, my boss sent me on a problem-solving mission for $10 more per hour than I was already making. He had earned C's and D's on papers for Evan (not his real name), a USC freshman my boss described as a "typical surfer retard." Evan's parents had hired "tutors" to compose their son's papers since he was 12 because he "wasn't going to be a writer anyway." They were furious.

    In Evan's penthouse, surfers carved across the screen of his 51-inch television, next to a poster of "Scarface." The former clothes model handed me his assignment: to describe utopia. "I couldn't ask for a better life. I mean, was my soccer coach," Evan said, naming a famous studio head.

    Despite living in utopia, during the session Evan purchased an ounce of weed and a bag of Xanax. His WASPy girlfriend washed down a pill with some Smart Water and offered me one. I declined. Evan sent me home with his $3,000 PowerBook to write his paper because he was "too busy" to work. Before I left, his girlfriend hired me to write her paper on "Do the Right Thing." I drove home at midnight, once again missing my chance to hit the music scene and battle my stage fright.

    No matter. After I scored an A on Evan's paper, he promised to pass my demo on to a legendary music producer—a family friend. He also promised a few leftover pairs of designer jeans. He never mentioned either again, and I knew I'd been played. The only help Evan offered came in the form of new clients, such as his roommate, who had one-night stands with strippers and said things like "Why should I care about some little black girl?" in regard to Toni Morrison novels.

    When my streak of A's ended after I scored a B-minus on Evan's paper about clanship in "My Big Fat Greek Wedding," I never heard from him again. His teenage sibling, for whom I composed countless high-school English papers, revealed that Evan had replaced me with a classmate.

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    Tue, 27 Nov 2007 11:00:41 EST Emily Gould http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=326853&view=rss&microfeed=true
    <![CDATA[ Heidi Kinda Stands Up To Spencer! ]]> Surprise, Heidi! Spencer totally packed your bags for you and booked the honeymoon suite in Vegas! Aren't you beyond psyched! Well, no. "This is about me, too ... this isn't Spencer's relationship." she told him, before saying that they should "think about [the wedding] longer." Then some sad music played! You know what that means: be sad.

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    Tue, 20 Nov 2007 13:30:24 EST Emily Gould http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=324941&view=rss&microfeed=true
    <![CDATA[ Heidi and Spencer Share A Moment And A Sex Tape ]]>
    Sort-of reality show "The Hills" is still keeping MTV alive! And its evil semi-star Spencer Pratt may be a prat but he is one smart cookie. When Heidi Montag, his inamorata, returns from lunch with Jenny, Spencer is sitting on the couch reading The Intelligent Investor: A Book of Practical Counsel, Benjamin Graham's classic 1949 guide to value investing. There's even a foreword by Warren Buffett! Anyway, according to Heidi, "Jen [Bunney] was telling me [Heidi Montag] that Lauren [Conrad] was saying Brody [Jenner] says that it was all Spencer [Pratt] who was spreading the sex tape rumors." (That would be the famed sex tape of Lauren Conrad and her once-and-current boyfriend Jason Wahler.) Pratt was once Brody Jenner's "manager-slash-publicist-slash-agent- slash-stylist! Deflection time! "He's such a little bitch!" says Pratt. Sure. Did Pratt fuel speculation about Conrad's sex tape? Almost certainly! But more importantly, was it a sound investment?

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    Tue, 16 Oct 2007 11:05:55 EDT Joshua Stein http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=311342&view=rss&microfeed=true
    <![CDATA[ Elodie's Terrible Vengeance Wrecks Heidi's Dinner?!? ]]> Guys! GUYS! Totes such hotness on "The Hills" last night! The gang all went out to Las Vegas to surprise Brody for his birthday and Lauren FULLY KISSED HIM? I think they may be getting back together! How great is that!? Lauren so deserves love!?! Meanwhile, Audrina TOTALLY THREW A BITCH FIT at her friends and some guy who is only wearing a towel because she thinks the rest of the girls are all, Don't date Justin Ricky Lee Harvey John Wayne Bobby, but you know what? They were just trying to be friendly to him. And also?!?

    She SHOULDN'T date him, he's a major butt, right?!? Also, they finally let the fat girl talk and they gave her a name, but I forgot it, because, come on, fat girl, right? Also, also, Lauren got flashed by Lo's vag and was all Brody, I saw Lo's Britney! Which is so funny, because, like, Britney Spears also has a vagina that she is always flashing? I Anyway, back in L.A.? It's Spencer and Heidi's anniversary? And Heidi tells the old dude at Bolthouse that she can't cover some event because her anniversary is that much more important, even though it's with Spencer who is a major dick and still won't tell his parents that they're engaged? And old dude is all, Fine, whatever, just make sure someone covers it? And Heidi's like, No problem? So she goes to Elodie—who she TOTALLY SCREWED OVER BEFORE—and is all, Hey, I really need you to cover this for me? And Elodie smiles and is like, Oh, sure, anything for you. Except what we know but Heidi doesn't even though this show is TOTALLY SCRIPTED, is that Elodie already made plans to quit her job? So Heidi's at dinner with Spencer and the phone rings and someone's all, You need to get down here now? And Heidi's like, but Elodie's covering it, and whoever's on the other end is all, Nuh uh, Elodie quit? And we're like, Hahahah, that's what you get, you job-stealing bitch!?!?!?! So Heidi is fully, I have to go to work? And Spencer acts like the big gay baby he is? How does Heidi not see what a stupid mean jerk Spencer can be?!?!?!?!?!?! It, was, like, so, satisfying, oh, my, God, you, guys!?!? Also? This is the last "The Hills" I will ever have to watch?!???!? And it sort of makes me sad, because when I watch "The Hills" I forget about war and poverty and basic math? And I, like, don't want to go back to caring about stuff or knowing the name of the President or reading books? But I guess I have to? Because you can't go through life being an Audrina (Audrina=retard) if you're not on a scripted reality show for MTV? I guess??!?!?!?!?!? Anyway, I'll miss you, "Hills." We'll always have that time where that one girl said that really stupid thing and everyone was all, What? I'll never forget it.

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    Tue, 02 Oct 2007 11:00:03 EDT abalk http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=306049&view=rss&microfeed=true
    <![CDATA[ Comcast speaks truth to power. [The Daily ... ]]> Comcast speaks truth to power. [The Daily Barf]

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    Tue, 25 Sep 2007 17:39:41 EDT abalk http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=303437&view=rss&microfeed=true
    <![CDATA[ There's no way of knowing whether this is ... ]]> There's no way of knowing whether this is real or not, but if this purported registry at Tiffany for "The Hills" cast members Spencer Pratt and Heidi Montag is the real thing, they've set a date for June 1, 2008... just in time to film a fourth season, should there be one! (Maybe not with Lauren, eh?) We're springing for the PEARL goblet, which will produce an incredibly satisfying smashing sound when Heidi finally throws it at Spencer's head. [Tiffany]

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    Tue, 25 Sep 2007 14:00:53 EDT abalk http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=303449&view=rss&microfeed=true
    <![CDATA[ Spencer Pratt Just As Ashamed Of Heidi Montag As The Rest Of America Is ]]>
    YOU GUYS. POOR LAUREN. OMG. So, on last night's "The Hills," Lauren's ex-BF Jason totally drops the "I do want you to meet my girlfriend" bomb on Lauren, even though it completely seemed like he and Lauren might get back together? And even worse? He's all, We're moving in together, come to our housewarming party? And then at the housewarming party, they're like, Oh, yeah, we're TOTALLY ENGAGED, and you could just see the hurt in Lauren's eyes and you SO wanted to give her a hug and maybe punch Jason! Why are guys such jerks? Also, Heidi's all trying on wedding dresses for her engagement to Spencer and then she find out HE HAS SO TOTALLY NOT EVEN TOLD HIS PARENTS ABOUT THE WEDDING. And she's like, Why? Are you embarrassed by me? And he doesn't say anything, but you can fully tell the answer is either, Yes, you're a total bitch or No, it's because I am secretly gay. Sigh. We, like, hate Heidi so much, but the look on her face is JUST SO SAD. So sad.

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    Tue, 25 Sep 2007 12:10:15 EDT abalk http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=303350&view=rss&microfeed=true
    <![CDATA[ Heidi And Spencer Defend Themselves ]]> heidiThe Hills' Heidi Montag is on the cover of the October issue of CosmoGirl, and the accompanying article (a Q&A with both Heidi and her boyfriend Spencer Pratt) is, we suppose, meant to set the record straight regarding Heidi and Spencer's relationship and their enmity towards Heidi's ex-BFF Lauren Conrad. But we came away from it feeling even more like Spencer has fully completed his takeover of Heidi's brain. Spencer is "smart, funny, sweet, genuine, and a great businessman. He's my dream guy!" Heidi gushes. "I could start crying right now when I think of being without Spencer." Crazy! Then they start trashing Lauren Conrad, and that's when things start getting really good.

    Spencer: Lauren is the show's Goody Two-shoes. Heidi is portrayed as the wild, goofy friend who is going through all these experiences that they can't have Lauren go through because she is the sweet, innocent character. But sometimes she's the craziest one of us all.
    Okay, fair enough—there certainly have been moments when Lauren seems rather tipsy (and what exactly did happen when she went back to Brody Jenner's apartment last week?). But then there's also Heidi's response:
    It's like I was the good girl on the show until I fell in love with Spencer, and then I became the bad girl. But they don't show the footage of how Lauren was sort of obsessed with Spencer, or how she called my mom in Colorado and told her I was involved in an abusive relationship, or how she would scream at me in the middle of the club if I wanted to leave at 2 a.m. to go see Spencer. I spent a lot of time with her during her breakup with Jason. I was there for her every day and night when she cried, and I have been there for her through some horrible things you never saw on-camera. No matter how much time I spent with her, it was never enough. Lauren always wants to have a friend around... The minute I started not hanging out with her as much because I wanted to spend more time with Spencer, she got really upset. It hurt me that she could turn off our friendship so quickly just because she wasn't happy with my boyfriend. I made so many attempts to make Lauren happy, but you don't see that on the show.
    And then Spencer:
    All I know is that once Lauren was out of our relationship, it became flawless. It was like I had this girlfriend who had this friend whose goal it was to break us up. Lauren's not dumb, and she knows how to get what she wants. She's got a really strong team of people around her; she knows how to work it.
    Seriously? All this talk of a "perfect," "flawless" relationship is kind of creepy. Lauren—who does seem like she has some abandonment issues, but who doesn't—was probably right to call Heidi's mom! Heidi and Spencer may not be in a physically abusive relationship, but there's definitely some psychological abuse going on. Talking about how perfect your relationship is and how the person you're with is basically a gift from God makes things a little tricky when there are problems, doesn't it? But we'll let Spencer have the last word: "Heidi and I both know that without Lauren there wouldn't have been The Hills, and believe me, we are grateful for that, and for being on a hit show." Ugh. Gross.

    Heidi Uncensored [CosmoGirl, not online]

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    Thu, 06 Sep 2007 16:40:04 EDT Doree Shafrir http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=297156&view=rss&microfeed=true
    <![CDATA[ Heidi Gets A Taste Of What Life With Spencer Will Be Like ]]>
    Last night on MTV's The Hills, some stuff happened with regards to the neverending fight between girl-star Lauren and former BFF Heidi and her BF Spencer. (The contextual details are getting too mundane, even for us; and don't worry, you don't need them.) But we also got a glimpse of Heidi Montag and Spencer Pratt's domestic bliss—or lack thereof. We don't take it as a positive sign that she can't even get him to look up from his computer to help her fold a couple of towels! Then Spencer has to make sure that when he lets Heidi out of his sight she's not dining with the enemy. Chauvinist control freaks are the best!

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    Tue, 04 Sep 2007 11:10:58 EDT Doree Shafrir http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=296111&view=rss&microfeed=true
    <![CDATA[ A quick shot of his computer reveals that ... ]]> A quick shot of his computer reveals that the Drudge Report helps "The Hills" boy-of-evil Spencer Pratt stay on top of things as he plans his nefarious schemes. Mustn't waste time, Spencer! [Get Excited]

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    Tue, 04 Sep 2007 09:40:03 EDT Emily Gould http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=296032&view=rss&microfeed=true