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Adam Lambert made his big musical debut outside the American Idol circuit at the 2009 American Music Awards, held over the weekend in Los Angeles, at the Nokia Theater. Unfortunately, his live performance of “For Your Entertainment,” the title single off his debut album, was not what most fans would have ... |
24 November 2009
04:14 GMT |
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The 2009 American Music Awards kicked off on very high notes, with Janet Jackson delivering an extremely superbly choreographed medley of her greatest hits, and continued with one fiery performance after another. Adam Lambert, the American Idol runner-up and currently the talk of the town, was the one to close the aw... |
23 November 2009
11:02 GMT |
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At the American Music Awards 2009, held last night at Los Angeles’ Nokia Theater, Adam Lambert made his live debut outside the American Idol circuit. Performing the title song and first single off his album “For Your Entertainment,” Adam danced, tripped and fell, sang his heart out and danced some m... |
23 November 2009
03:51 GMT |
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Earlier this week, the unspeakable happened and Adam Lambert, a singer very open about his orientation, came under fire with Out magazine for trying to come across as “straighter” in a recent number of the mag. The Editor-in-Chief and interviewer both assured that Lambert’s team made absurd demands,... |
21 November 2009
05:58 GMT |
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There is no longer any secrecy surrounding Adam Lambert’s orientation, since he publicly came out in Rolling Stone magazine, in what proved to be the most successful issue of the mag this entire year. Having recently done a cover for Out magazine, centered on people who made an impact in 2009 for the community,... |
18 November 2009
08:54 GMT |
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A judge sided with Jennifer Lopez issued a temporary injunction against former husband of less than a year Ojani Noa, who was planning the release of a tell-all movie in the guise of a parody. Although a confidentiality agreement is in place between the two for many years, Noa seemed to think he could bypass it to ge... |
12 November 2009
11:12 GMT |
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Days ago, the Internet almost went ablaze when a photo of baseball pro Sammy Sosa emerged, showing him with obviously much lighter skin tone. Speculation of him bleaching his skin to appear “whiter” immediately started to make the rounds but, strangely enough, no matter how intense the rumors go... |
12 November 2009
10:15 GMT |
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Carrie Prejean, the “biblically correct” beauty queen who made headlines around the world a few months ago for saying on the Miss USA beauty pageant that marriage should be only between a man and a woman, is again talking up a storm with the pageant that launched her. Although it was the Miss California U... |
11 November 2009
13:31 GMT |
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A few days ago, a photo of retired Major League Baseball right fielder Sammy Sosa surfaced online, showing him with a much lighter skin tone than what he used to have a while back. As imagined, speculation immediately began on whether Sosa was suffering from Vitiligo or whether he was doing something to make himself ... |
10 November 2009
11:28 GMT |
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British singer Joss Stone is currently preparing for the release of a new album and, in what the local media deems a desperate bid for attention and for publicity for the material, she antagonized anti-drug campaigners with a series of statements on weed and heavier drugs. Speaking to Star Magazine, the singer compar... |
10 November 2009
03:58 GMT |
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There’s a very good reason why they say Marilyn Manson is the ultimate shock rocker. Not a stranger to featuring blood showers (literally) and, at times, unspeakable acts of cruelty in his videos, together with some of the most unlikely instances, Manson has recently premiered the official video for his latest... |
6 November 2009
08:33 GMT |
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Mexico is joining the likes of Moscow and Dubai in having an entire fleet of taxis that cater to women and women only. Not only this, but Pink Taxi, the firm offering – of course – pink taxis driven by women, also comes equipped with beauty kits that are meant to offer ladies on the run just the solution ... |
22 October 2009
13:21 GMT |
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Kanye West has been laying low for quite a while, either because he’s finally taking the holiday he was talking about some time ago on Jay Leno or because he simply doesn’t feel like facing the backlash for what he did to Taylor Swift at the VMAs, an incident people still talk about. With this in mind, an... |
21 October 2009
10:19 GMT |
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Dutch model Lara Stone is featured in a 14-page spread in the October issue of French Vogue magazine, in what is meant to be a celebration of the fact that she’s not a size 0. While it might look like the iconic Vogue is joining other publications that have decided to feature models who are more like real women... |
15 October 2009
16:31 GMT |
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Former “Baywatch” bombshell Pamela Anderson shocked again in her usual fashion when she made an appearance on the red carpet at the annual Hollywood Style Awards in a pink Vivienne Westwood creation that seemed to have been made of other recycled items. However, Anderson also shocked by choosing to have t... |
15 October 2009
10:43 GMT |
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Kanye West is, at the moment, the closest thing Hollywood has to a persona non-grata. His VMA outburst, when he interrupted Taylor Swift during her acceptance speech to speak up for Beyonce, who had “the best video of all time,” ended up costing him dearly. Upset and ashamed, the rapper is said to be seek... |
14 October 2009
04:07 GMT |
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“Hey Hey It’s Saturday,” a long-running Australian variety show, is under serious fire after it featured a comic group doing a skit in blackface, as a parody of the Jackson Five. The men in disguise, as well as the network, have apologized for the offending skit, but it has barely managed to put a d... |
9 October 2009
05:55 GMT |
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Much has been said recently about the appropriateness of this much photoshop in women’s magazines and the fashion industry in general. While some claim that every photo thus retouched should come with a “legend,” others defend the practice by saying everyone knows not to expect real images of real w... |
9 October 2009
02:50 GMT |
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The American Girl line includes now a doll named Gwen that’s based on a character that is homeless. Created by longstanding manufacturer Mattel, Gwen has come under serious fire because, as some put it, it sends the wrong message to children playing with it, leaving aside the fact that it shamelessly capitalize... |
7 October 2009
04:49 GMT |
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As she continues to shoot for the documentary slash reality show on being a mother of 14, including the octuplets she gave birth to earlier this year, Nadya Suleman is adamant to show the world she’s a mother just like any other. The other day, she took all eight infants to the park where, aided by one of her e... |
18 September 2009
10:02 GMT |
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Anyone who’s anyone has already weighed in on the Kanye West VMA scandal, from Kelly Clarkson who has never met him to Ricky Martin and, as unlikely as it might sound, President Barack Obama. Taylor Swift fans are not happy about what the rapper did two nights ago at the MTV award ceremony but, according to E! ... |
15 September 2009
10:45 GMT |
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Caster Semenya, the 18-year-old athlete who became the 800m world champion in August, has been shown to have both male and female organs following gender testing demanded by The International Association of Athletics Federations. The official results of the tests have yet to be made public, but reports coming form in... |
11 September 2009
02:12 GMT |
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The September issue of Glamour magazine featured on page 194, almost suffocated by ads and fashion shots depicting stick-thin, almost breakable models, a small picture of a woman to whom every other one out there could relate. Her name is Lizzi Miller: she is a 20-year-old model who, at 1.80m, weighs about 80 kg, mea... |
3 September 2009
14:41 GMT |
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Just a few hours ago, the Michael Jackson drama opened another chapter, with several so-called close sources telling the media that Blanket’s real father was actor Macaulay Culkin, Michael’s friend from the days of yore. Jackson reportedly loved Culkin so much that creating a mini-version of him was the o... |
1 September 2009
10:25 GMT |
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Madonna’s date in Romania, Bucharest (August 26) from the “Sticky & Sweet” tour, in support of “Hard Candy,” her eleventh studio material, was the biggest concert ever to be held in the country, its total costs being estimated at around €5 million. It was still small change for the ... |
28 August 2009
05:52 GMT |
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18-year-old Caster Semenya, who ran away with the 800m world champion title last week, has three times the normal levels of testosterone in her body, as initial tests have revealed, a source close to the athlete shares for Fox Sports. While this doesn’t necessarily mean she’s a male or has a genetic condi... |
26 August 2009
14:21 GMT |
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Earlier this month, one of the biggest sensations at this year’s Teen Choice Awards was Miley Cyrus, the 16-year-old singer, songwriter and actress that Disney catapulted to international stardom. Miley graced the stage to hand and receive awards, and she also performed “Party in the USA,” one of he... |
21 August 2009
08:34 GMT |
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South African Caster Semenya, the new 800m world champion, is a woman, her family tells the media, following the gender controversy that broke shortly after she pulled the best time recorded in the world this year. In fact, Semenya performed so well for her first international sports competition that the Internationa... |
20 August 2009
15:21 GMT |
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It’s no longer a secret that magazines are heavily into digitally altering the images they run in their pages, but the extent to which this practice has been taken is truly starting to alarm the public and industry insiders alike. Kelly Clarkson is featured in the current issue of Self magazine and is the lates... |
12 August 2009
15:31 GMT |
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At the Teen Choice Awards 2009, Disney star Miley Cyrus performed “Party in the USA,” together with a crew of dancers and props like an ice cream pushcart and a glittery trailer. On the pushcart, there was a pole that the singer grabbed onto as one of her dancers were pushing her around the stage, which h... |
12 August 2009
07:46 GMT |
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With all evidence pointing to the contrary, former tabloid editor Kate Major, also known as Kate 2.0 in the media, insists she and relatively recently separated Jon Gosselin are actually an item, albeit they’ve taken a break to have him put his thoughts in order. As Jon is saying on one side that he’s wit... |
10 August 2009
11:08 GMT |
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Michael Jackson’s only daughter, the 11-year-old Paris, is not his, close friend of the late singer Mark Lester tells News of the World. The former actor and longtime Jackson friend makes the shocking revelation that he might be the father of the girl, judging by the fact that she looks so much like his own dau... |
10 August 2009
08:29 GMT |
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A poster showing President Barack Obama with his face painted white, with heavy black eyeliner around the eyes, red lipstick and huge scars on his cheeks, just like The Joker in the Batman movies, has started popping up all over the place in Los Angeles and on the Internet. The reactions to it have been mixed, not fe... |
5 August 2009
11:52 GMT |
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Following the scandal that American Apparel got caught in a few weeks back, when the entire online community and the media – including regular customers – criticized a series of ads that looked more like hotline commercials than as part of a promo campaign for a clothing line, CEO Dov Charney’s name... |
29 July 2009
07:23 GMT |
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Wikipedia is a constant source of controversy coming as a natural side effect of the openness and the number of different ideas and opinions trying to coexist on the site. If it isn't scientologists, it's public institutions that are getting roused up by the organization. And now some vocal groups of psycho... |
29 July 2009
05:35 GMT |
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The Gosselin drama seems a never-ending source of material for tabloids, especially since it has long gone beyond the limits of reality television. Jon Gosselin, the father of 8 that the public got to meet on the show “Jon & Kate Plus 8,” has recently been spotted with Kate Major, an editor for Star magaz... |
24 July 2009
11:34 GMT |
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Nothing sells like a beautiful endorser. Put in an ad two ridiculously looking endorsers in suggestive poses and what you have is the latest campaign for Calvin Klein, featuring actress Eva Mendes and model Jamie Dornan. As the ads with the two are literally burning holes on the Internet, not few are those who are as... |
19 June 2009
15:41 GMT |
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Amy Winehouse is, as fans must know, currently residing in St. Lucia after initially heading there only for a couple of weeks of vacation. The holiday extended into a semi-permanent stay, with speculation saying that she’s even considering applying for residence. In a scathing piece in the St. Lucia Star, Jeff ... |
18 June 2009
05:46 GMT |
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The size zero model controversy has never abated since it was ignited a couple of years ago. Following the tragic death of no less than three models in recent years due to complications stemming from anorexia, talk of who precisely in the fashion industry is to blame for the new standard of female model has only come... |
16 June 2009
15:01 GMT |
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Carrie Prejean, the self-titled “biblically correct” beauty queen that made headlines just recently for her take on marriage on the Miss USA beauty pageant, has just been stripped of her crown – only a month after Donald Trump let her keep it. Prejean has already been served the papers of terminatio... |
11 June 2009
04:20 GMT |
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Thomas Beatie, the woman who is now legally a man in the state of Oregon and is married to Nancy, has just given birth to his second child, ABC News confirms. Beatie, who made headlines throughout the world last year with his decision to use his female reproductive organs that he still retained to carry a pregnancy t... |
10 June 2009
09:45 GMT |
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In what has been named one of the worst handled animal awareness campaigns in the history of mankind, photos of Jessica Alba defacing Oklahoma City with posters of the great white shark surfaced yesterday on the Internet. The star plastered the posters wherever she could, including on a charity billboard, allowed her... |
10 June 2009
04:50 GMT |
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As Britain’s independent media regulator Ofcom is still investigating what happened with Susan Boyle on the latest edition of Britain’s Got Talent, more and more former contestants are stepping up to reveal what really goes on when the cameras are not rolling. They paint a picture of exploitation and utmo... |
9 June 2009
06:02 GMT |
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“Sabrina, the Teenage Witch” star Melissa Joan Hart has recently lost a lot of weight, as she reveals in a new interview and on the cover of People magazine, where she’s proudly showing off her toned body in a deux-piece swimsuit. Recently, the actress was heard saying how she lived in fear Farrah F... |
4 June 2009
09:43 GMT |
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Clay Aiken, who also came to know international fame thanks to popular singing televised competition American Idol, made a rather ill-advised move the other week, when he publicly dissed Adam Lambert via his blog. Now that the entire American Idol madness has blown over, Adam is finally speaking out on the issue, say... |
29 May 2009
09:25 GMT |
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Adam Lambert might have won the eighth season of American Idol had it not been for main sponsor AT&T favoring Kris Allen, a piece that ran in the New York Times the other day seemed to imply. However, the number of votes that have been cast with the help of the carrier were not enough to sway the results in Allen&rsq... |
28 May 2009
11:26 GMT |
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Stars are under constant pressure about their weight, and those few who refuse to comply are also the ones to speak openly about it. Disney star Miley Cyrus, for instance, has never been shy about talking about her body and the kind of (healthy) image she’s trying to promote for her young fans – in this s... |
18 May 2009
15:21 GMT |
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Carrie Prejean’s comments on marriage on the Miss USA final did not cost her her Miss California tiara, but heads still got to roll. Shanna Moakler, a former Miss USA and pageant director on the Miss California USA Organization, has just resigned from her position, saying the beauty pageant no longer represente... |
14 May 2009
08:30 GMT |
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Yesterday, Donald Trump and the Miss Universe Organization ruled that Carrie Prejean had every right to continue as Miss California, despite her statements on marriage and a series of modeling photos that came in violation of her contract with the pageant. Katie Rees, who was dethroned as Miss Nevada in 2007 also for... |
14 May 2009
06:12 GMT |
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Despite early speculation, Donald Trump and the Miss Universe Organization have decided that Carrie Prejean should not be stripped of her Miss California tiara for her answer on marriage in the Miss USA finals or for the set of photos that have surfaced in the meanwhile. At the same press conference held a few hours ... |
13 May 2009
05:48 GMT |
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