Simple Life star Nicole Richie has made peace with her weight loss and gas faced up to the fact that the ‘I’m just naturally thin’ line isn’t fooling anyone.  Richie opens up to Vanity Fair saying that she is afraid that young women who see her as a role model would aim to have her sleek, blowing-away-in-the-wind figure.

Richie reveals, “I know I’m too thin right now, so I wouldn’t want any young girl looking at me and saying, ‘That’s what I want to look like.’”

The socialite actress pleads that her weight loss is not due to an eating disorder and that she has sought medical advice.  Richie states, “I started seeing a nutritionist and a doctor… I do recognize that I have a problem, and I want to be responsible and fix it, and I’m on that path right now.”

But the docs aren’t convinced Richie’s weight loss isn’t due to anorexia.  In an upcoming Vanity Fair article one of her medics, Jeffery Wilkins, informs us, “If it’s not anorexia, she should be able to gain the weight. If it ends up being anorexia we can help her with that.”

So, either way it looks like Nicole Richie is on the right track to avoid having a string attached to her legs and being flown like a kite.  Now if she can only find a way to mend that broken Paris Hilton relationship… 

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We all know & love CHiPS star Erik Estrada & WKRP In Cincinnati‘s blondie Loni Anderson, but how well do we know these middle-of-the-road celebrities?  Well, we’re going to get our chance to find out when the TV Land network airs a new reality show this fall.

Back to the Grind reality series will feature Erik Estrada & Loni Anderson taking a stab at the jobs they played on their respective shows.  Estrada will attempt to be a highway patrolman & Anderson will be working as a secretary- or as we now say, ’administrative assistant’- for various radio stations.  
 
I’m all about this hilarious new reality show but only if Erick wears his tight patrolman pants & Loni Anderson dons her revealing attire.  Never mind, scratch the last one- has anyone seen Loni Anderson lately?  It’s not so pretty.  Now, is that going to make the reality series less or more funny?  Either way, I think this is the best idea yet.

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Pink is the New Blog:  Our man has caught Paris Hilton & Matt Leinart pink-handed

Egotastic:  Surprise!  Lindsay Lohan is a hoebag

It’s like a party girl sandwich with a Greek in the middle.  Paris Hilton, Stavros Niarchos & teen queen Lindsay Lohan have been quite the busy bees.  Paris, who stole Stavros from Mary Kate Olsen, recently broke up with the shipping heir.  Now it’s being reported that teen queen Lohan has stolen Niarchos from the open bachelor market.  Who is this guy, Adonis reincarnate?

According to Life & Style just hours after Hilton let loose of Niarchos, Lindsay Lohan had a handful of the Greek hotpants.  Niarchos was seen “sipping cocktails and dirty dancing” with Lohan at LA club Element.   

A bartender told the mag, “Lindsay was all over Stavros.  At one point, he had his hand up her skirt!”   Three days later, Stavros was spotted leaving Lohan’s room at the Chateau Marmont.  I’m sure he was just dropping by to say hello and making sure she had enough “fruit” in her “fruit basket”.  Maybe she didn’t have enough Greek “olives” in her “fruit basket”. 

Going back to the hotel heiress Paris Hilton, there are conflicting reports as to the motivation behind her breakup with Stavros.  Hollywood.com reports that Hilton ditched Niarchos because he wanted to spend the summer living it up on his yacht, while Paris plans to promote her upcoming album.  Yes, I said it.  Her damn upcoming album.  God save us.
 
Paris dumped Adonis right before she left for Austria this past Thursday where she made a short appearance at a music festival for a whopping fee of $1 million. 

A source tells Us Weekly, “Paris dumped him. He wanted Paris to spend the summer on his yacht, but she doesn’t want to party with kids on a boat. She’s going to promote her album.”

But hey, Paris is a bouncer, a get-back-on-that-horse-and-ride kinda gal and it looks like she’s doing just jim doodley.  Hilton was back in states Monday, where she met first-round draft pick football player Matt Leinart for lunch in LA

According to a source, “There’s an attraction, but they haven’t hooked up.”  Well, jeepers, she just jumped out of bed with Stavros, maybe she can handle being single for at least a week.

What a tasty sandwich that Paris-Stavros-Lohan sandwich is.  You know, to make things balanced, should maybe Paris & Mary Kate hook up?  I can just see the video now.

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Rosie O’Donnell will be cashing in a $2 million paycheck as the new co-host of The View, but only if she doesn’t do it up butch-style.  According to O’Donnell’s ABC contract she has been forbidden to cut her hair.   

Is this some kind of Sikh movement?  Nope, ABC & Barbara Walters, who created the show, have stipulated that Rosie must never return to that horrible cropped look which shocked fans in 2002.  They are trying to make Rosie look at fashionable as possible when she sits down with the likes of Joy Behar, Star Jones & Elizabeth Hasselbeck.
 
Empathetically O’Donnell said, “I don’t blame them. I remember that haircut. The hair will be staying long.”

I’m thinking that’s a good idea, Rosie.

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Defamer:  Halle Berry ready to adopt idea of adopting one day

PopSugar:  Paris Hilton releases Stavros Niarchos from her evil clutches

Perez Hilton:  Last night’s Costume Institute gala fashionwares

Dlisted:  David Blane is still doing freaky shit

The Superficial:  The new look of Scarlett Johansson, the one with a sign in front of her face

Breaking News: Anna Nicole Smith Dead

And the Anna Nicole Smith legal battle marches on. Yesterday the U.S. Supreme Court awarded Anna Nicole Smith the right to continue her legal battle in pursuit of her late husband J. Howard Marshall’s fortune.

As previously reported, the former Playboy playmate Smith married oil tycoon Marshall II, 89, in 1994 while she was a 26-year-old topless dancer in Texas. Marshall died the following year of their marriage and Smith contended that she was promised half his fortune, valued at $1.6 Billion. During their short marriage Marshall showered Smith with $6.6 million in gifts that included two homes, $2.8 million in jewelry & $700,000 in clothes.

Pierce Marshall, J. Howard Marshall’s son & Anna Nicole’s stepson, though I doubt they have mother & son talks, disputes Smith’s claims that J. Howard intended to give her half his estate & insists that the $6.6 million worth of gifts she received during the 14-month marriage was all she was entitled to.

However, Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg (that’s a mouthful) has determined that the recent appeals court ruling, which entitled Smith to nothing, was wrong. And now mother & stepson will engage in all out war. Can’t we just decide this via mud wrestle?

Pierce Marshall made his voice heard with a warning to Anna Nicole Smith & legal team, “(I’ll) continue to fight to clear my name in California federal court. That is a promise that (Smith) and her lawyers can take to the bank.”

And I bet they will. I bet they will.

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Katie Holmes, I mean Kate Holmes else Tom Cruise hits me over the head and says I’m not a woman, is in the heat of weight loss battle after giving birth to baby Suri on April 18.  Holmes is hoping to shed the pounds in preparation for her marriage to Tom this summer.  These plans, however, have been met with opposition from Katie’s, I mean Kate’s, father. 

As reported earlier, Holmes has already met with Buff Brides owner Sue Fleming who specializes in diminishing pounds for brides in a matter of weeks.  Tom Cruise is overseeing the fitness regime since Katie, I mean Kate, can’t really do a lot of sit ups with her hands tied.  Much to the chagrin of her father, Holmes is dedicated to loosing her baby weight. 

Martin Holmes tells British magazine Reveal, “My daughter needs rest, relaxation and recuperation. Katie is already doing exercises to build up her back and shoulders and I simply can’t go along with what is happening.”

Buff Brides Sue Fleming interjects, ”Katie can and will do it. She has great motivation. She loves her fiance and was proud that Tom oversaw this program.

“He told her he wanted her to be the most beautiful bride ever. She was in tears when he said that.”

I’m pretty sure Katie, I mean Kate, was in tears because she should already be the most beautiful bride to Tom Cruise, I mean Satan.  And probably mingled with a little regret and painful chaffing skin due to the ropes on her wrist.

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Publicity managers for Mission:  Impossible 3 got a different kind of publicity than they bargained for when a recent stunt went awry.  But don’t they say there is no such thing as bad publicity?

In LA, The Los Angeles Times newspaper racks were installed with strategically placed audio boxes which were set to play the familiar Mission:  Impossible tune when the door opened.  However, some of the boxes became disconnected and sprouted wires prompting newspaper readers to report potential bomb attacks.  Now come on, is the Los Angeles Times really all that bad?  I guess this is the part where Tom Cruise saves the day with Macgyver-like ingenuity?

Officials from The Times said the promotional stunt was created to transform “everyday news rack experience” into an “extraordinary mission.”  I always consider a potential bomb an extraordinary mission, don’t you?

The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department arson squad destroyed and box and stated, ”This was the least intended outcome. We weren’t expecting anything like this.”

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Gossip Rocks:  Catherine Zeta-Jones’ talent stops at the kitchen

 

It was all over the blogosphere last month when Punk’d hooligan Ashton Kutcher pulled the wool over X-Men star Hugh Jackman.  With the new Punk’d season underway, I thought we’d take a look at what Hugh had to say about being bamboozeled.

When Hugh Jackman thought he had accidentally blown up X-Men director Brett Ratner’s house, he was completely horrified.  Well, who wouldn’t be?  Ratner had staged the joke with MTV Punk’d personality Ashton Kutcher and left Jackman in a state of distress, to put it mildly.

Jackman explains, “I got Punk’d. They tell me it’s the biggest Punk’d they’ve ever done. I go to Brett’s house and he shows me around and tells me how much everything cost–the house itself is worth $14 million.

“Then he goes, ‘I’m going to cook for my girlfriend, but I’ve never cooked before.’”

Brett Ratner persuaded Jackman to take a peek at his grill, as he was uncertain on how to use it.  Jackman attempted to light the barbecue, but told Ratner that the wasn’t working properly.  The pair left for dinner only to return to director Ratner’s home engulfed in flames.

Jackman says, “When we get back there are four fire trucks, 100 fireman. The entire house is on fire. They had explosions, they had smoke, they were throwing couches out the window.

“After five minutes the guy came down and says, ‘We’ve discovered the source–it’s coming from the barbecue.’

“I was shaking and it just went on and on. I’m fully thinking my life is over. They told me three other houses were on fire, I’m thinking I’ve killed someone.

“When the guy told me I’d been Punk’d, I was so into it I was like, ‘How can he be joking at a time like this?’ When I finally realized (what was going on), I just lay down on the ground.

“They handed me the release form to sign and I’m like, ‘Whatever.’ I was this close to throwing up.”

Kutcher did say he felt “evil” and “wicked” when Jackman fell hook-line-and-sinker for the prank.  What a life Ashton must live.  Fooling celebrities by day, sleeping with Demi Moore by night. 

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According to new reports, Australian-born Heath Ledger shirked the Sydney premier of Candy, the first Australian film he’s done in four years, due to a paparazzi grudge.  Earlier reports stated the Brokeback actor was staying at home to watch baby Matilda due to girlfriend Michelle Williams‘ absence. 

Apparently the real reason why Ledger did not want to attend the Australian premier goes back to an incident in January.  Heath was squirted, Tom Cruise-style, by water pistols carried by members of the paparazzi at his Brokeback Mountain premier.

Candy producer Margaret Fink explained the actor’s nonattendance by saying, “I know Heath would want to be here, but he was put off by those jerks behaving so appallingly at the Brokeback Mountain premiere.

“Why would he want to come out here when people behave like that towards him? He was quite rightly infuriated.”

What a goof, that Heath Ledger.  I love a good confrontation.  Why snub the Candy premier when you can play with the paparazzi.  I’m no Tom Cruise lover but I did like the way he handled that whole War of the Worlds water gun thing in London:

“Why would you do that?  Do you like thinking less of people, is that it?  Don’t run away. That’s incredibly rude. I’m here giving you an interview and you do that … it’s incredibly rude.  You’re a jerk.”

One shining moment for the Cruise, I have to give him that one.

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You love her, you missed her, former talk show host Rosie O’Donnell is set to return to our TVs as the new co-host of The View.  

The comedienne let loose her own daytime show in 2002 so she could concentrate on raising her children with partner Kelli. 

According to reports,  ABC execs will announce the news that Rosie will take over Meredith Vieira’s role who is leaving to co-anchor the Today show.

Everybody Loves Raymond’s Patricia Heaton and news reporter Connie Chung have also been linked to the co-host availability.  Apparently the winner was decided via mud fight and O’Donnell won with a surprising S & M studded leather whip to Chung’s backside.

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PerezHilton:  Poor Pete Doherty is a very lost junkified man

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TheSuperficial:  More on the Denise Richards & Charlie Sheen smear campaign

Defamer:  Snoop Dog’s barking brawl

It looks like hot couple Angelina Pitt & Brad Jolie, I mean Angelina Jolie & Brad Pitt will again hit movie screen together.  The Mr. & Mrs. Smith duo have recently been linked to the much-talked-about-but-never-actually-goes-into-filming movie based on Ayn Rand’s famous novel Atlas Shrugged.

Lionsgate Films purchased the rights to the film version of the 1957 novel, which is considered to be one of the most influential books of modern history.  I dunno, I’d pay good money to see gambler & fellow Russian writer Fyodor Dostoevsky take on Rand in the literary ring.

According to Variety, the paper which subscribes to the spice of life, Angelina Jolie & Brad Pitt would play the lead roles of Dagny Taggart and John Gault.  I can see that.

Here’s an excerpt from Atlas Shrugged that describes Dagny in alluring detail, is this the perfect role for Jolie?

“He saw a girl standing on top of a pile of machinery on a flatcar.
She was looking off at the ravine, her head lifted, strands of
disordered hair stirring in the wind. Her plain gray suit was like a
thin coating of metal over a slender body against the spread of sun-
flooded space and sky. Her posture had the lightness and unself-
conscious precision of an arrogantly pure self-confidence. She was
watching the work, her glance intent and purposeful, the glance of
competence enjoying its own function. She looked as if this were
her place, her moment and her world, she looked as if enjoyment
were her natural state, her face was the living form of an active,
living intelligence, a young girl’s face with a woman’s mouth, she
seemed unaware of her body except as of a taut instrument ready to
serve her purpose in any manner she wished.”

You know, the more I read it the more convinced I am that I am the one to play this part!  Get Lionsgate on the phone, Jeeves!

The story revolves around the futuristic economic collapse of the US and illustrates Rand’s philosophy of objectivism.

Producers Howard and Karen Baldwin will adapt the 560,938-word novel into a feature film, a task I do not envy. 

Over the many years Clint Eastwood, Robert Redford & Faye Dunaway have had ties to the project.  It’s just another Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy.  We’ll probably be lucky if we see it in our lifetime.

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For Celebrity blogs with photos, try these on for size:

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Dailyblabber:  Recaps the fascinating world of American Idol

CelebrityBabies:  Angelina Jolie, Brad Pitt & family have been named the most beautiful fam ever

Egotastic:  An almost look at Jessica Alba’s nipple & her wardrobe mishap

PopSugar:  Gwyneth Paltrow glows at New York’s Food Bank Can-Do Awards Dinner, damn her

I would like to officially apologize for the lack of photos today.  Having a spot of trouble with the server which I soon hope to rectify, otherwise I’m likely to go insane and continue to punch my computer.

Thanks for your patience during this troubling time & enjoy the new ‘Technical Difficulties’ category.

Hollywood icon Elizabeth Taylor, 74, is bedridden at her Bel Air home & is planning her funeral.  Taylor’s health has been deteriorating for some time and has worsened recently after her heart began to fail.  In the prime of her acting career she was famous for Cleopatra & Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.

Knowing she does not have much time left, the actress legend has begun planning her funeral & finalizing her will. Taylor is expected to be buried next to the love of her life, husband Richard Burton in Switzerland.  It is reported that Liz Taylor will be leaving the majority of her fortune to AIDS research.

A friend says, “Liz is inching closer to death every day and she knows it. It is not a pretty picture.  It is very sad, these days she is very depressed and has lost her lust for life, She’s finally given into the fact that she is living on borrowed time and it is very painful to see.”

And so the two will be reunited & leave us forever, or at least that’s how I’d like to think of it. 

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Baywatch babe and nipple-shower Pamela Anderson is so very excited that Jessica Simpson will be taking over her role as C.J. Parker in the upcoming Baywatch movie.

David Hasselhoff is set to star in the film as well, though probably not as his original muscle-bound character Mitch. 

Anderson wildly approves of Simpson filling her sexy shoes & invites Will Ferrell to the plate, “Oh, my goodness, she sure could (fill my shoes).  Will Ferrell should play David Hasselhoff.  That would be hot.”

There are rumors that Pamela Anderson has quite the campy humor.  Mayhaps this was one fine example?  Will Ferrell?  Sexy?  What the hell?  Yes, I do believe we are being witness to the mysterious and esoteric humor. 

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