If you’re-so-over Paris Hilton is trying to regain her position in the hierarchy of tabloid headliners, then phase one of her campaign has scored a hit. Hilton recently fired a shot at The New York Post’s Page Six gossip column. Writing from her MySpace blog, she claimed the column made up an item about her moving [...]
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Paris Hilton Roasted By Tabloids
Posted in Celebrity news & gossip, Culture, Media, entertainment, tagged new york post, page six, paris hilton, Paula Froelich, reality tv on July 16, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Amber Hay On Cover of ‘Girls Gone Wild’ Magazine
Posted in Celebrity news & gossip, Media, entertainment, tagged amber hay, ashley dupre, girls gone wild, joe francis on July 15, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Amber Hay is the latest to grace the cover of Joe Francis’ Girls Gone Wild magazine, posing with a guitar and not much else. Hay, an obscure actress who has played small parts in several movies, including “Ocean’s 13” with George Clooney and Brad Pit, apparently paid the ultimate price [...]
Angelina Jolie Birth Scoop a Coup for Small French Paper
Posted in Celebrity news & gossip, Media, entertainment, tagged Angelina Jolie, brad pitt, brangelina, Jean-Francois Rouboud, knox leon, lenval hospital, nice matin, vivienne marcheline on July 14, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt helped put a small French newspaper on the map when it handed Nice Matin exclusive first news of their newborn twins’ July 12 birth. While TV shows, newspapers and magazines from around the world were camped outside Lenval Hospital around the clock clamoring for updates on the birth, Brad [...]
Christie Brinkley is a Psychotic Hag, Says Peter Cook
Posted in Celebrity news & gossip, Finance, Media, News, entertainment, tagged Christie Brinkley, Diana Bianchi, norman sheresky, peter cook on July 6, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Christie Brinkley’s bitter public divorce battle against estranged husband Peter Cook is set to resume Monday July 7, and this time it’ll be Cook who’s taking the pot shots. Cook’s lawyer, Norman Sheresky will paint Brinkley as a psychotic, bitter scorned woman who sent Cook caustic e-mails and tried to cut Cook out of his [...]
‘Fat’ Attacks On Model Karolina Kurkova Ignites Firestorm
Posted in Advertising, Beauty & Fitness, Celebrity news & gossip, Culture, Media, entertainment, fashion, tagged anorexia, eating disorders, fat model, fat supermodel, Karolina Kurkova, karolina kurkova fat, modeling industry, too fat for runway on June 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
A Brazilian newspaper that trashed supermodel Karolina Kurkova for being “too fat” has unwittingly set off a media firestorm. Around the world, journalists and bloggers went on a rampage, trashing the thought that anyone in their right mind could call the leggy 5′11″ Kurkova “fat.” Read more.
Why Scott McClellan Talked
Posted in Culture, Media, News, Politics, tagged iraq war, james krehbiel, lies bush told, president bush, Scott McClellan, what happened, white house press secretary on June 5, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Most people familiar with the workings of the George W. Bush White House are not surprised by the stunning revelations of former White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan in his riveting new book, What Happened. His account punctuates the deception orchestrated by an administration that lied about the run-up to the war in Iraq and [...]
Tennis Star Ashley Harkleroad Poses In Playboy
Posted in Celebrity news & gossip, Media, Sports, tagged 2008 french open, anna kournikova, ashley harkleroad, playboy, serena williams, USTA, women's tennis on May 26, 2008 | 1 Comment »
American tennis player Ashley Harkleroad will appear nude in Playboy magazine’s August 2008 issue. Harkleroad, who was defeated by Serena Williams at the French Open this weekend, told reporters she has already done the photoshoot. “I’m proud of my body,” says Harkleroad, 23. “I was representing a female athlete’s body.” Read more.
Miley Cyrus: I ‘Got Milk’
Posted in Advertising, Celebrity news & gossip, Culture, Media, entertainment, tagged disney, got milk, hannah montana, miley cyrus, tween queen, vanity fair photo scandal on May 13, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Beleaguered Disney tween queen Miley Cyrus has kept a low profile since her semi-nude Vanity Fair photo scandal erupted a few weeks ago. But now, she’s trying to remind fans of her wholesome side. In the new Got Milk? ad campaign extolling the virtues of drinking cow milk, Cyrus is pictured with a milk moustache [...]
Fox, Bill O’Reilly King of Lewd News
Posted in Celebrity news & gossip, Culture, Media, television, tagged bill o'reilly, fox news on May 3, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
That conservative Fox-TV commentator Bill O’Reilly has a filthy mind and potty mouth in private is well known. A female news producer sued him four years ago, claiming that he spoke often, and explicitly, to her about phone sex, vibrators, threesomes, masturbation and other kinky fantasies. On air, of course, he constantly complains about [...]
