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Britney Spears Upset Fans Walk Out of Australia Shows

Britney Spears is touring Australia for the first time in her career, but, contrary to expectations, it’s not a joyous occasion, having already been marred by controversy despite playing one single venue to date. Amidst talk of selling tickets for her shows with disclaimers and ongoing speculation that fans are...

10 November 2009
03:00 GMT

Jon Gosselin in Violation of Safety Regulations

The US Consumer Product Safety Commission clearly states that children under six are not allowed to drive an ATV, while also saying that two persons should not get on one at the same time. Jon Gosselin violated both stipulations by taking one of his children with him on a ride over the weekend, thus getting safety ad...

9 November 2009
11:56 GMT

Britney Spears Lip-Synchs in Australia – The Scandal Continues

A couple of days ago, Australian officials issued a press statement saying that fans Down Under should have been able to buy their tickets for Britney Spears’ upcoming concerts with a disclaimer that part of the performance was pre-recorded. This way, they would have avoided going to the show and thinking it wo...

9 November 2009
04:26 GMT

I Thought People Would Love Me, Nadya Suleman Says of Octuplets

Nadya Suleman got tagged with the OctoMom nickname much against her will after giving birth to octuplets in January this year. She was, for a brief while, some sort of a national hero – but all that changed when it was found that she had yet another six minor children at home, no job, and was living on governme...

8 November 2009
04:25 GMT

Jennifer Lopez Sues Ex to Block Tell-All Movie

Jennifer Lopez may finally have the perfect marriage and perfect family with now-husband Marc Antony and the twins they have together, but there is one man in her past that will simply not go away. Ojani Noa, the singer’s first husband, is looking to release a tell-all movie and intimate home videos shot while ...

8 November 2009
02:18 GMT

Australia Targets Britney Spears for Lip-Synching

Britney Spears, the one and only Princess of Pop, as she’s still referred to in the media, has an impressive reputation in terms of putting on the most incendiary shows whenever she performs. The price she “pays” for these shows is that she doesn’t sing live, which is yet another well known fa...

7 November 2009
05:10 GMT

Lindsay Punched Me, Mother Says on Leaked Tape

Michael Lohan has gone through with his threat of going public with recordings of private conversations between him and his former wife and mother to Lindsay Lohan, Dina, in one last bid to make the actress see she needs rehab. Consequently, he gave Radar Online an audio recording of a phone conversation he and Dina ...

6 November 2009
10:06 GMT

Amy Winehouse Shows Off New Implants, Embarrasses Herself

Not long ago, Amy Winehouse’s father, Mitch, was telling the British media that his extremely talented but much troubled daughter was on the clear path to recovery, having successfully overcome her addiction to drugs and alcohol. According to the Daily Mail and based on photos just published, the battle might n...

27 October 2009
09:44 GMT

Kate Gosselin Answers All Your Questions on TLC Special

Viewers and fans of the soon-to-be-defunct “Jon & Kate Plus 8” reality show, as well as all those who’ve become recently fascinated with the drama of Jon and Kate Gosselin, will have a rare, one-time opportunity this Monday of getting all the answers straight from the mother of eight. TLC will air a...

21 October 2009
10:56 GMT

Another Ralph Lauren Ad with Stick-Thin Model Surfaces

It’s only a few days ago that Polo Ralph Lauren came under serious fire – and some serious mockery as well – for an ad that appeared in a mall in Japan, showing Filippa Hamilton with a waist and hips smaller than her head in what was deemed the biggest “photoshop flop” in the industry. A...

16 October 2009
09:46 GMT

Meghan McCain’s Twitter Photo Leads to Uproar, Apology

Meghan McCain, daughter of presidential candidate Sen. John McCain, is, usually, a person who likes to keep to herself and not draw unnecessary attention unless she really has something important to say. With all that, just hours ago, she found herself at the center of a storm on the Internet over a photo she posted ...

16 October 2009
06:57 GMT

Jon Gosselin Hacked into Kate’s Emails and Personal Accounts

A new allegation has come to make the very public and extremely bitter divorce battle between Jon and Kate Gosselin even more… well, public and bitter. Former nanny Stephanie Santoro is telling Radar Online in a new, explosive interview that she knows firsthand that Jon hacked into everything Kate had access t...

16 October 2009
06:35 GMT

David Letterman Apologizes to Wife, CBS Staff on Show

David Letterman had several affairs with CBS female employees and it eventually transpired in the media, as a man tried to blackmail him for $2 million to keep his mouth shut. Instead of complying, Letterman went to the police and then publicly discussed the extortion attempt on his show – but little did he ima...

6 October 2009
05:42 GMT

Jon Gosselin Defends Himself on Larry King

Jon Gosselin was fired from his own show on TLC, “Jon & Kate Plus 8,” and has been publicly slammed by his soon to be former wife for his recent statements to the media. For now, Jon has managed to block production on the show until an agreement is reached between the three parties, but he also needs to w...

2 October 2009
09:36 GMT

Kate Gosselin Lashes Out at Opportunistic Jon, Show Put On Hold

The newly renamed TLC show “Kate Plus 8,” featuring Kate Gosselin and her eight children and minus soon to be ex-husband Jon, has just been put on hold, TMZ informs. The problem, it seems, is that Jon sees it as an exploitation of his children and, concerned they may come to be harmed from continuing to b...

2 October 2009
05:06 GMT

Nanny Speaks of Affair with Jon Gosselin

Ever since Kate and Jon Gosselin announced on their show “Jon & Kate Plus 8” that they were getting a divorce, allegations of infidelity on his part have not for a second ceased to circulate. The latest issue of InTouch magazine (story via the Huffington Post) includes an interview with Stephanie Santoro,...

17 September 2009
10:10 GMT

Interrupting Kanye West Becomes Internet Phenomenon

Most people who saw this year’s MTV Video Music Awards and even those who only heard or read about it later had only harsh words for Kanye West for cutting Taylor Swift off during her acceptance speech to tell her that Beyonce should have won the Best Female Video award. As awkward and embarrassing as the scene...

16 September 2009
12:01 GMT

Barack Obama Caught on Tape Insulting Kanye West

Many celebrities have expressed their disapproval of Kanye West’s outburst at the MTV 2009 Video Music Awards, most of them taking to their Twitter pages to do so and downright call out the rapper for being an insensitive bastard, in more or less words. Yesterday, it emerged that President Barack Obama also had...

16 September 2009
04:07 GMT

Exploitation Row for Channel 4 as Ed Wardle Escapes Starvation

Ed Wardle, a documentary maker, was supposed to survive twelve weeks in the Canadian wilderness with nothing but a rifle, a fishing rod and a camera, but had to be emergency airlifted after only seven weeks after he sent a distress call, on the brink of starvation. As of now, Channel 4, the network for which Wardle w...

26 August 2009
06:45 GMT

Jon Gosselin Will Always Be a Cheater, Kate Major Says

They say hell hath no fury like a woman scorned and this also applies to Kate Major, the woman who claims she dated Jon Gosselin, and of whom he and his current girlfriend, Hailey Glassman, say she’s “cuckoo.” Speaking with the latest issue of Life&Style magazine (story via here), Major spills all t...

20 August 2009
09:29 GMT

Hailey Glassman Talks Jon Gosselin, Fame and Love

Amidst talk that the Gosselins’ reality show is slowly going down the drain, the women in Jon Gosselin’s life are taking turns at putting the truth out there, opening up and speaking their mind to the media. After would-be rival Kate Major and former wife Kate Gosselin, it’s now the turn of Jon&rsqu...

17 August 2009
09:37 GMT

Leaked Personal Photo of Jamie Foxx Is Real

Over the weekend, Oscar-winning actor Jamie Foxx became the latest celebrity to be exposed to the public, as a personal photo of him got leaked on the Internet. In the few hours since it went online, attorneys for the actor have been pulling almost every copy of it down, which only goes to show that it was the real d...

17 August 2009
03:10 GMT

Police Called to Jon and Kate Gosselin’s House After Fight

As the Gosselins’ popularity is reportedly taking a major hit since few are those who want to see them as parents of eight if they are not married, the civility they show to each other is also dwindling. The two got into such a massive fight the other night over Jon’s supposed affair with his nanny that s...

15 August 2009
04:16 GMT

Kate Major: Jon Gosselin Is a Liar and a Coward

Father of eight Jon Gosselin has repeatedly denied that he and former Star editor Kate Major, also known in the media as Kate 2.0, were anything more than just friends. That does not change the fact that they did date, Major says in a new interview for E! Online and cited by OMG Yahoo!, adding that it only goes to sh...

11 August 2009
07:57 GMT

‘Twilight’ Star Ashley Greene Caught in Photo Scandal

Ashley Greene, who plays good vampire Alice Cullen in the highly successful “The Twilight Saga,” is the latest celebrity to find herself in the midst of a photo scandal. Photos of the star have surfaced on the Internet just hours ago and are already being pulled down, as lawyers for the star threaten lega...

11 August 2009
03:48 GMT

Kate Major on Whirlwind Romance with Jon Gosselin

Even if, just a couple of days ago, reliable sources from Major’s camp were saying that she was still dating Jon Gosselin, the father of 8 who rose to fame with “Jon & Kate Plus 8” and is now described in the media as a serial dater, she’s telling a different story in her latest interview. Sit...

7 August 2009
10:52 GMT

Kate Major Lands TV Interview to Talk Jon Gosselin Affair

As Jon Gosselin insists that either he’s single or in a serious relationship with 22-year-old Hailey Glassman, Kate Major, the former Star editor that resigned a short while ago because she was in love with him, is preparing to do the media rounds discussing the “affair.” The first revealing intervi...

4 August 2009
10:18 GMT

LeAnn Rimes Talks Divorce from Dean Sheremet

Over the weekend, news broke that singer and actress LeAnn Rimes was divorcing her husband of seven years, Dean Sheremet. Following Brandi Glanville and Eddie Cibrian’s divorce announcement of last week, this did not surprise too many people. Still, the separation might have had nothing to do with the scandal o...

27 July 2009
10:28 GMT

Silvio Berlusconi’s Escort Tapes Made Public

Back in April this year, Silvio Berlusconi’s wife was scolding the politician in an open letter sent to a media agency for getting into a relationship, whose exact nature was not known at the time, with a much younger girl. A few weeks afterwards, Veronica Lario, the wife, was filing for divorce. Now, the perma...

21 July 2009
05:03 GMT

Morgan Freeman to Marry Step Granddaughter, 27

Last month, the rumor mill went into overdrive as reports on Morgan Freeman’s personal life started to leak to the tabloid media and on the Internet. The 72-year-old actor was said to be having a long-secret affair with his 27-year-old step granddaughter, which tore the family apart and also led to his divorce....

9 July 2009
10:48 GMT

Dr. Arnold Klein Speaks Out on Michael Jackson Accusations

Reports earlier this week had it that no less than five doctors who had treated Michael Jackson in the months prior to his death were being investigated by police on suspicion of fueling the drug habit that eventually led to the cardiac arrest that killed him on June 25. One of these doctors was said to be dermatolog...

9 July 2009
09:15 GMT

Skating Champ Nicole Bobek Arrested for Dealing Meth

The 1995 US skating champion Nicole Bobek has been arrested following a drug ring bust, and is currently sitting in jail on $200,000 bail. Bobek has been detained and charged with possession and intent to distribute methamphetamine, reportedly playing an important role in the drug ring, the New York Daily News inform...

8 July 2009
10:02 GMT

William Shatner Flips the Bird on Conan O’Brien Show

William Shatner is famous for his portrayal of Captain James T. Kirk on the televised series “Star Trek” but, just the other night, he also made international headlines for a series of rude, offensive hand gestures he did as a guest on Conan O’Brien’s The Tonight Show. CNN describes Shatner&rs...

19 June 2009
06:20 GMT

Morgan Freeman Has Affair with Step Granddaughter

Morgan Freeman is again making the headlines for issues pertaining to his personal life, after he also did so when he and an alleged mistress were involved in a car crash that eventually led to the discovery of their relationship and to his wife filing for divorce. This time, the actor has reportedly scandalized his ...

18 June 2009
10:34 GMT

Civil Rights Organizations Outraged by ‘Bruno’ Movie

The release of Sacha Baron Cohen’s latest mockumentary, “Bruno,” is just around the corner and several groups are already urging Universal and the British comedian to redo parts of it, or at least to consider what the film will do for a particular segment of the public. Consequently, they have taken...

12 June 2009
10:54 GMT

Chris Brown Denies Involvement in Rihanna Photo Scandal

Chris Brown has finally spoken out on ongoing allegations that he is in some way involved in the leak of several personal photos of Rihanna, which continue to make the rounds on the Internet despite sustained efforts from Def Jam, her label. Brown has nothing to do with the leak, a publicist for him sets the record s...

12 May 2009
09:58 GMT

More Celebrity Photo Scandals on the Way, Insider Reveals

Last week, personal and potentially compromising photos of Cassie were leaked on the Internet, when someone “hacked” into her computer and stole them. Over the weekend, a set of pics presumably of Rihanna also emerged, although no one from her camp has yet confirmed they’re really of her. More is to...

11 May 2009
11:01 GMT

Rihanna Caught in Leaked Personal Photos Scandal

A couple of hours ago, a series of personal photos presumably belonging to Rihanna surfaced on several sites from the darkest corners of the Internet, US media outlets inform. Showing the singer in what can only be described as compromising postures, the photos are taking the net by storm, as legal representatives fo...

9 May 2009
04:55 GMT

Hulk Hogan Using Kids to Spread Lies About Ex

Yesterday, a Brooke Hogan interview came out in OK! Magazine, in which the aspiring singer was saying that she couldn’t stand her mother’s new boyfriend presumably because he was pushing her into doing drugs. Today, Linda Hogan’s rep is telling Perez Hilton that this interview is nothing but irrefut...

7 May 2009
09:18 GMT

Brooke Hogan Spills the Beans on Her Mother’s Drug Habit

Although she initially charged at the media for jumping on her dad for saying that he could have killed his soon to be former wife “like O.J. Simpson,” Brooke Hogan is now opening up more about her personal life. Among the topics up for discussion: Linda Hogan’s relationship with a 19-year-old man a...

6 May 2009
09:31 GMT

Silvio Berlusconi on the Verge of Divorce

The Italian Prime Minister has a fortune estimated at about $9 billion and it will be at the center of what will presumably be the costliest divorce ever, as well as one of the most mediated. Veronica Lario, Berlusconi’s wife of many years, filed the divorce papers, admittedly tired of seeing the 72-year-old po...

4 May 2009
06:26 GMT

Silvio Berlusconi’s Wife Scolds Him for Media Stunt with Teen Girl

Silvio Berlusconi’s wandering eye has again got his wife to publicly scold him via the Italian press. The Prime Minister attended a birthday party for the 18-year-old daughter of a business partner, and did not miss the opportunity of showering her with presents and being overtly courteous, which, in turn, has ...

30 April 2009
05:17 GMT

Mel Gibson and Secret Girlfriend Do ‘Wolverine’ Premiere

Famous actor and moviemaker Mel Gibson and his reportedly pregnant girlfriend have just made their first public appearance together since Robyn Gibson filed for divorce. It happened at the Los Angeles “Wolverine” premiere just a couple of hours ago, and there are plenty of pictures to prove it, as The Tel...

29 April 2009
10:06 GMT

Olympic Sensation Diver Tom Daley Bullied, Threatened in School

Britain’s youngest Olympic competitor Tom Daley has been pulled from school for an entire week now because of bullying and the repeated threats he receives from older boys, The Guardian informs. Speaking out on the issue, Daley, who is just 14, says the situation has gotten to a point where he can’t just ...

24 April 2009
06:17 GMT

Haters Are Idiots, Beyonce’s Father Says of Doctored Recording

Yesterday, Howard Stern aired an audio recording of Beyonce on The Today Show, in which what the audience could hear was reportedly the board feed from the “live” performance. The screeching and the yelling on Beyonce’s part were unbearable, and almost convinced some that she rarely sang live, if ev...

23 April 2009
10:26 GMT

Slumdog Father Denies Trying to Sell Rubina Ali

The children who appeared in the Oscar-laden “Slumdog Millionaire” continue to live in poverty, although trust funds have already been set up for them by director Danny Boyle. Still, the money is not enough for their families to leave the slums and lead a decent life, but that does not mean that they woul...

21 April 2009
03:28 GMT

Billy Ray Cyrus Responds to Jamie Foxx’s Comments on Miley

A couple of days ago, an audio recording made during Jamie Foxx’s Sirius radio show had the actor talking about teen star Miley Cyrus in very vulgar and offensive terms. Since then, Foxx has more or less apologized to Miley, but father Billy Ray says the family is still deeply upset about the things he said on ...

17 April 2009
10:08 GMT

Brad Garrett Slammed for Hurling Racial Slurs at Paparazzo

Actor Brad Garrett, star of “Everybody Loves Raymond,” is no stranger to getting vocal about the way paparazzi are always in the face of a celebrity whenever they step out in public. However, it’s just now that he’s being targeted by several groups, the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Commit...

17 April 2009
09:31 GMT

Relatives of O.J Simpson Victims Slam Hulk Hogan

Hulk Hogan is being attacked from all sides for the comments he recently made in a Rolling Stone interview. The wrestler said he could understand why O.J Simpson killed his estranged wife and a friend of hers, making many, including the relatives of the two Simpson victims, speak out against this type of attitude tow...

16 April 2009
10:58 GMT

Bruce Springsteen Has a Stalker, Is Not a Cheater

Exactly one week ago, Bruce Springsteen’s name appeared in divorce papers filed in court by a businessman, as the “other man” in his wife’s life. Since the singer is also married, it was believed he was cheating on his wife of 18 years with Arthur J. Kelly’s estranged spouse. Now, source...

16 April 2009
09:55 GMT


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