| Sir Elton John still wants to adopt |
[Dec. 16th, 2009|02:33 pm] |
Sir Elton John and David Furnish still want to adopt.
Furnish, 47, says he and the 62-year-old pop legend - who married in an extravagant civil ceremony in 2005 - still want to open their home up to a disadvantaged child, despite being prevented from adopting two brothers from the Ukraine.
John and Furnish tried to adopt 17-month-old boy Lev - who has a three-year-old brother Artyom - this year but were stopped as their civil partnership isn't recognised in the Eastern European country and the Rocket Man singer is too old under Ukrainian law.
Furnish - who along with John was offered a guardian role in the child's life - said: "We want to support Lev and his brother and get them into a Ukrainian home and out of the orphanage.
"We were upset not to be allowed to adopt but we'll fight and work with the Ukrainian government to change the law so that HIV positive children can be adopted.
"We'll be like uncles. They can visit us on holidays."
He said he and John - who was hospitalised after he was diagnosed with the E. coli bacterial infection and influenza in September - will be taking time out at Christmas to consider their options.
He told New magazine: "That's part of what Christmas will be about - a chance to get out the treadmill and chill out. There is a lot to talk about."
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| More Globes reactions, now with more people we care about |
[Dec. 16th, 2009|05:49 am] |
Joseph Gordon-Levitt, "500 Days of Summer"
“These days it seems like the world's becoming one big international family and that's a good thing! That said, I'm particularly happy and grateful to be honored by The Hollywood Foreign Press, an association defined by it's international, or shall we say 'global' character. Movie making is so collaborative, the work I did in '500 Days of Summer' wouldn't even exist if not for the film's director Marc Webb, screenwriters Scott Neustadter and Michael Weber, and of course, my dear friend and sister-in-craft, Zooey Deschanel.”
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| Simon Cowell: I'd like Bowie as a guest next year |
[Dec. 16th, 2009|04:18 am] |
The music mogul - who has barely rolled out his beach towel on holiday in Barbados - said credible singers such as the Ziggy Stardust star would stop the show going stale. Cowell said: "I'm thinking we should do something for David Bowie. I think that would be good. Just because he's a great songwriter." He added that an indie music night was a "possibility" after alt-rocker contestant Jamie Archer helped to pull in the viewers.
And Cowell confirmed he had asked Eminem to be a guest judge after the rapper said he and legendary producer Dr Dre would be ideal for the show.Cowell said: "I'd love to have them on as guest judges on a theme which would make them comfortable. I've extended the invitation to Eminem already. What did he say? I don't know yet." But there is little chance of much punk rock featuring any time soon.Cowell revealed he had a bad experience at a Stranglers gig as a youngster - as everyone was SPITTING. He said: "That's all they did. The minute you walked in they spat at you. I remember thinking I couldn't think of a worse way, genuinely, to spend a night." Despite the planned changes, Cowell told NME magazine that the X Factor shouldn't get too serious. He said: "Once the show starts to take itself too seriously then it puts everyone off. There has to be a sense of humour in it and it is what it is. It's just a bit of fun. We went through a period, certainly in the last 10 years, when everything for me became too cynical and sniffy, as if the world is being run by so-called tastemakers and I don't like that." Cowell defended himself against a charge from singer La Roux that he was responsible for "ruining the music industry". And he lashed out at "snobs" who have criticised his TV show music acts. He said: "I'm not sure who has the right to say that you have better taste than somebody else, because essentially what you're doing is calling millions of people morons."He said he had tried to watch Jools Holland's BBC2 music show and had to turn it OFF.Cowell said: "I looked at the show the other night and I lasted 20 seconds. I just didn't like the look of it. I looked at the acts, listened to the songs and just didn't get it. But there are people who do like it, so I would never scream at him, 'Take your show off the air, you're destroying the business!' It's more like, good luck to him." He said that The X Factor had actually helped the British music industry as it got more people into record stores. He added that he still hadn't heard from Leonard Cohen after he chose his song Hallelujah for the X Factor winner's song last year. He said: "I would have liked to have heard from him." source
... yeah bowie coming out of retirement to do this? lol
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| Uffie's "Debut" Single (Like Ke$ha, but good) |
[Dec. 16th, 2009|01:34 am] |
The original trashy hipster bitch is back!
Uffie is fiiiiiiiiiinally about to release her debut album. Years after her demos were released and she performed at gigs all over the world, she is set to drop Sex Dreams and Denim Jeans on February 14, 2010. The first single off the record is "MCs Can Kiss" produced by Mr. Oizo.
Fun fact: she's preggers
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| Project Runway Season 7 |
[Dec. 16th, 2009|02:48 am] |
Thanks to TLo
( Can't believe they're back already )
Season 7 Premieres January 14th
After waiting for what seemed like a decade for season 6 to premiere, Lifetime isn’t wasting any time in getting the next season of Project Runway to a living room near you. Lifetime has announced that it will be renewing both Project Runway and Models of the Runway for another season. Both shows will premiere on Thursday, January 14, 2010 and will be available for the first time in High Definition!
Project Runway season 7 will be filmed in none other than New York and will return with host Heidi Klum and mentor Tim Gunn. The newest batch of designers will be creating one of a kind looks to impress returning judges Michael Kors, Heidi Klum and Nina Garcia with special guest judges along the way. The season will premiere on January 14 at 10 PM ET/PT on Lifetime.
Immediately following the premiere, the second season of Models of the Runway will air. The thirty-minute installments give a behind the scenes look at the reality competition from the model’s perspective. |
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| Snooki Getting Punched Brought Jersey Shore Cast Together |
[Dec. 16th, 2009|12:12 am] |
The Jersey Shore housemates are all about having fun and looking good in the process, but a disturbing incident that was set to air on Thursday’s episode has since been pulled by MTV.
Nicole “Snooki” Polizzi, a 21-year-old from Marlboro, N.Y., and one of eight self-described “Guidos” and “Guidettes” that make up the cast, is shown in a clip receiving a vicious blow to the face while drinking with her housemates at a bar.
The assailant, Brad Ferro, a 24-year-old high school gym teacher, was arrested and charged with “simple assault,” but the image of Snooki getting hit proved to be too much for the controversial reality show.
While MTV deals with the fallout, the housemates point to the incident as a turning point of their time together, saying that the attack on Snooki actually served to unite them.
“A positive came out of it,” an unfazed Snooki tells PEOPLE. “It definitely brought us closer together. It definitely brought us together as a family. We have each other’s backs and it was a positive.”
As far as silver linings go, this may be as good as it gets. “The first couple of episodes, [Sooki] didn’t fit in,” Mike ‘The Situation’ tells PEOPLE, “and when that happened, we thought, ‘That’s not cool. You should never touch a girl, in that way, no matter what!’ That brought the group together in a way that we cannot describe.”
According to Mike, the rules of Jersey Shore are as simple as they are steadfast: Look good, feel confident and treat women with the “utmost respect.”
And when Snooki went down, the rest of the house stepped up. “That was a very, very unfortunate situation,” Pauly D says. “It should never have happened, but the thing is, it brought the whole house together as a family. I felt like Snooki was my sister. I met her, we weren’t close, but something bad happened to her and it brought us closer together.”
MTV has since released a statement explaining their decision to pull the footage, saying, “What happened to Snooki was a crime, and obviously extremely disturbing.” But the real lesson here can best be summed up by Sooki herself, who says, “It made me more aware about going out. There are –holes out there, and it made me more aware about who I am surrounded by.”
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| A-Rod Pal on Split: Kate "Always Wanted to Be on Camera" |
[Dec. 16th, 2009|12:23 am] |
Yankee Stadium, cheering on her boyfriend at the World Series. In the wake of Monday's announcement that Kate Hudson and Alex Rodriguez have ended their six-month relationship, a Rodriguez source tells Us that the actress' less-than-subtle presence at Yankee games was "a turnoff" to Rodriguez.
"[Hudson] wanted more camera time each and every game," the pal tells Usmagazine.com. "She would always want to be styled before games and she'd insist on front-row seats." Her motivation, the friend says, was more of a PR move than genuine devotion. "It was a turnoff to have a girlfriend who always wanted to be on camera," the source quips. "Alex wanted someone who was more interested in building a long-term relationship than just building their profile."
For those confused by the timeline of the couple's split and who initiated what, the A-Rod friend insists that "he broke up with her over a week ago," but they continued to spend time together publicly after the fact. "Alex wanted to end this relationship well over a month ago," the source says, but the baseball star, 34, didn't want to disrupt Hudson's premieres and promotional events for her new film Nine. "He felt that would be counterproductive and unfair to her."
And while many reports claim that a jealous Rodriguez "smothered" Hudson, 30, the friend suggests the opposite was the case, observing, "She seemed compelled to track and follow his every move" during his busy pre- and post-season schedule.
Ultimately, the pal says that Hudson tried to give Rodriguez "an ultimatum" and to "fast track" the relationship. "He's just coming off of a 13-year relationship with his ex-wife and a recent divorce," the friend points out. "He has two lovely children with his ex-wife, and that requires a certain amount of responsibility. She gave him ultimatums that a newly divorced father can't meet."
The friend says that things ended amicably -- and maturely. "They're two mature adults. She did take the relationship seriously, and he has a lot of respect for her. They had some really wonderful times together."
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| COVER STORY: Meet Kendra & Hank’s Baby Boy! |
[Dec. 16th, 2009|12:32 am] |
World, meet Hank Randall Baskett IV — newborn son of Kendra Wilkinson Baskett, 24, and her husband, Hank, 27, a wide receiver for the Indianapolis Colts.
After initially planning a natural childbirth, the former Playboy model delivered the couple’s first child by C-section at 12:37 a.m. on Dec. 11, 2009, in Carmel, Ind.
“I was just in heaven,” the star of E!’s Kendra tells OK!. Echoes Hank, “It was awesome.”
From their room at Clarian North Medical Center, the proud parents, who wed on June 27 at the Playboy Mansion in L.A., opened up to OK! about their big (9 pounds, 5 ounces, and 22 inches!) bundle of joy.
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| NJ Housewife: Bethenny Frankel's Naked PETA Ad Made Me Vomit |
[Dec. 16th, 2009|12:19 am] |
The housewives are hating on each other again.
Real Housewives of New Jersey star Teresa Giudice has slammed pregnant Bethenny Frankel's new nude PETA ad.
"To quote Bethenny: 'I just threw up a little in my mouth,'" Giudice, 36, Twittered Tuesday.
Frankel, 39, boasted in the New York Post that she was "already pregnant" when she shot the ad and she was "pleased" with how it turned out "because it doesn't look like there's been any airbrushing."
Giudice begs to differ.
"Help me understand this," she Twittered. "Bethenny is happy with her naked pic because she was 'already pregnant' at the time. She says she's now three months along, but she did the shot in August. Even if she's four months pregnant now, she would've been, like, one hour pregnant in the pic."
She added, "Someone tell Bethenny that sperm does not make you look fat, and I'm not buying the airbrushing thing in any case."
What's Giudice's beef with Bethenny?
In September, Bethenny told TV Guide that Giudice is her "least favorite housewife" because she is "whiny and unintelligent."
Giudice Twitted to fans that "it's cool if you like Bethenny. She probably didn't give an interview to TV Guide that hated on you. Me, not so lucky."
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| PHOTO: Bethenny Frankel Bares All in PETA Ad |
[Dec. 16th, 2009|12:08 am] |
The Real Housewives of New York star Bethenny Frankel is the latest celebrity to take everything off and pose for PETA’s “Fur? I’d Rather Go Naked” ad campaign. Her billboard is located in New York City’s Times Square.
“I used to wear fur. I went to a cocktail party, walked outside on Fifth Avenue, and a PETA protester was holding up a skinned animal,” Frankel said in a statement. “I looked at it, and it made me sick. I felt disgusting. That day was a huge change, and since then I’ve really been against fur. I’m cleaning out my closets — trim, everything. I don’t see any reason for cruelty.”
Eva Mendes, Kristen Johnson, Mickey Rourke, Audrina Patridge, Khloe Kardashian and New Moon star Christian Serratos have all posed for PETA.
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| Lady Antebellum's next single |
[Dec. 15th, 2009|11:30 pm] |
After spending a record five consecutive weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard Top Country Songs chart with “Need You Now,” Lady Antebellum released the second single, "American Honey,” from their forthcoming sophomore album Need You Now (out Jan. 26) to radio yesterday.
“I think everyone, man or woman, it doesn’t matter, you get to a place in your life when you really miss the simplicity of growing up. I’m only 23 years old, but as things in our lives get crazier, there’s moments in time where I’m like, gosh, it would be great to just go back to when I was playing hide and go seek with my neighbors or laying on the screened-in porch in my aunt’s house — going back to the smells and the sights and all those things,” shares Hillary Scott. “That’s what I loved about this song...the nostalgic thing. It just has this sweetness to it, and it warms your heart.”
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| Jay Sean Calls for Show Promoters to Be More Honest |
[Dec. 15th, 2009|10:31 pm] |
JAY SEAN CALLS FOR SHOW PROMOTERS TO BE MORE HONEST
British R&B star JAY SEAN has hit out at U.S. event promoters for "misleading" fans by advertising club appearances as live concerts - because he feels he's "letting down" his devotees whenever it occurs.
The singer shot to fame Stateside when his single Down became a summer smash and topped the Billboard chart in October (09).
Sean has been touring the U.S. ever since, with shows and appearances in cities like Los Angeles, Atlanta, Georgia, Chicago, Illinois, and New York - but he admits he's unhappy with the way some promoters have been falsely advertising events he's only meant to be hosting.
He tells WENN, "We've been doing so many shows and afterwards it's an afterparty or something like that and because of the wording in the flyers and posters, sometimes fans are led to the assumption that it's a full on concert with a band and dancers.
"Then when I turn up I only play my singles and then I feel awful 'cause I feel like I'm letting the fans down. I was in Pittsburgh on Sunday and it was billed as 'live in concert', but I didn't see the flyer until I got there.
"It's unfortunate 'cause I know fans will feel like I've let them down. Even knowing that, I tried to extend it (his set). I did acapellas, beatboxing... as much as I could without the full stage equipment."
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