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— Justin Bieber (@justinbieber) February 14, 2015
This story isn’t much, but I’m enjoying keeping tabs on the Justin Bieber redemption tour of 2015. Swaggy’s in New York City for fashion week. He attended Naomi Campbell & Kayne West’s shows. He also happened to pop into a diner for dinner and do a good deed. Swaggy bought dinner for a group of NYPD officers. The tab came to around $200, which (for now) is spare change for Bieber. Then he took a photo with the men in uniform and posted it to Twitter, just to prove he’s such a changed man boy.
Swaggy also paid another visit (a taped interview) to Ellen Degeneres. He did the same a few weeks ago when he wondered aloud if he was human. At the time, I gave Ellen the benefit of the doubt. She’s usually a gracious host, and I hoped she was humoring him. Now she’s hosting Bieber’s good-deeds tour again. Why? Maybe Ellen sees herself as the Oprah Winfrey to Swaggy’s Lindsay Lohan. Together, Ellen and Bieber prank called one of his fans. He pretended to be a professor and told a student she was doing terribly in school. Here’s a clip.
This is so annoying and not very funny at all. I don’t know why Ellen’s putting herself out there for Bieber. She’s not the only one. Naomi Campbell held hands with Swaggy at her Fashion for Relief charity show. Naomi plays a woman into younger men on Empire, right? Perhaps she was method acting here.
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During the big SNL event on Sunday night, a few people cracked jokes about Brian Williams’ situation. Jerry Seinfeld joked about Brian Williams being in Vietnam and Jim Carrey made a crack to Matt Lauer and Savannah Guthrie about “where are you hiding Brian Williams?” – you can see the video here. Tina Fey’s reaction is funny, you can see her saying “poor Brian” and then laughing at Jim’s jokes.
So, is that where we are with the Brian Williams scandal at this point? Is he just a punchline? Would he ever be able to recover? Many people believe that Williams’ six month suspension (unpaid) is just a chance for NBC to do a proper search for a new anchor and that in six months’ time, Williams will be gone. Contractually, how does that theory stand up? According to Page Six, pretty well.
Embattled NBC News anchor Brian Williams’ fate beyond his six-month unpaid suspension could hang on a “morality clause” in his contract — which means he could be fired if he offended “a significant portion of the community” or brought himself “public disrepute, contempt, scandal or ridicule,” among other concerns.
The anchor has lawyered up with Bob Barnett, the distinguished attorney who also repped Ann Curry during her dealings with NBC. Sources tell Page Six that Williams’ contract could hang on the morality clause issue, and whether NBC brass, including Stephen Burke and Comcast CEO Brian Roberts, rule he breached it.
Williams had recently signed a $10 million, five-year pact. Sources say that a “public morals” clause that appears in NBC News employees’ paperwork includes the verbiage: ‘“If artist commits any act or becomes involved in any situation, or occurrence, which brings artist into public disrepute, contempt, scandal or ridicule, or which justifiably shocks, insults or offends a significant portion of the community, or if publicity is given to any such conduct .?.?. company shall have the right to terminate.”’
Reports have said NBC execs seriously considered firing Williams before settling on the suspension.
[From Page Six]
Morals clauses always get you! I’m guessing that yes, Williams will be gone by the end of the year but he probably will get to keep that $10 million. They’ll consider it “going away” money.
As for the latest clusterwhoops that is Williams’ journalism career, there are a bunch of other stories about his lies and how everyone is gunning for him now. Tom Brokaw and Williams have apparently always disliked each other and Brokaw was telling NBC executives for a year that Williams was a fantasist. Williams also lied about being embedded with Navy SEALS, because of course he did. Gawker says Williams probably lied about meeting Pope John Paul as well.
Photos courtesy of WENN.
Now that baby has style!
Kourtney Kardashian took to Instagram lately to show off Aston Reign Disick’s style — and it’s quite amazing.
In the photo, baby Reign is wearing some Doc Martens and sporting a trendy black zippered onesie, which looks ultra cute. Kourtney captions the photo:
“Baby vibes”
Baby vibes.
A photo posted by Kourtney Kardashian (@kourtneykardash) on Feb 16, 2015 at 3:12pm PST
It looks like Harper has the best seat in the house.
Victoria Beckham’s family supported her by showing up at her fashion show in New York City over the weekend. David Beckham sat in the front row, along with his four kids.
David Beckham, 39, sat in the front row at the show with his daughter Harper, 3, on his lap. Sitting by his side was Brooklyn, 15, Romeo, 12, and Cruz, 9.
Later in the night, David, Brooklyn and Victoria were spotted going out for a bite to eat.
It’s trivia time!
Can you tell us who said the following line:
“I’m terrified because I’ve got the girl thing down. Little boys pee on everything.”
Leave your answer in the comment section below and don’t forget to check back tomorrow for the answer.
During a Monday appearance on The Ellen DeGeneres Show, actress Kristen Bell opened up about family life with husband, Parenthood star Dax Shepard, and their two daughters: Lincoln, 22 months and Delta, 7 weeks.
“As someone who has never experimented with drugs, I really enjoyed it,” joked Bell of having an epidural for her unplanned C-section during Delta’s birth. “While they were doing it, I was thinking, ‘What else could we get done down there?’ … Anything to keep the epidural flowing.”
But she started “scratching her face … like a meth addict” when the medicine began to wear off.
After Bell, 34, received some Benadryl to ease the transition back to sobriety, the House of Lies star said the “cocktail” had some interesting effects.
“Do you know what looks really good when you’re on that stuff? Hand bags,” she said. “Or throw pillows or rugs. I was just like, ‘Internet shopping, woo!’ ”
She added: “Thank God I didn’t remember my credit card number. So nothing bad happened, but … honestly, a picture of a throw pillow was as mind-blowing as seeing The Matrix for the first time. That’s how I felt. I’m happy to say I’m stone-cold sober today.”
As for adding to their brood, it sounds like the Hollywood couple are happy with two.
“No. No, no. We don’t want to be outnumbered,” she quipped. “Until, I suppose, I accidentally get pregnant and my third child watches this clip and realizes that he was an accident. Sorry, honey. No, but we’re gonna cap it at two.”
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While toting a bag of groceries, funnyman Will Arnett stepped out with his two sons – Archie, 6, and Abel, 4 – at their local farmers’ market in Los Angeles, Calif. on Sunday (February 15).
Sporting matching happy face hats, the brothers took along their walkie talkies for the fun afternoon outing.
Earlier this month, we spotted the boys with their famous mama, SNL alum Amy Poehler.
Arnett recently opened up about his upcoming film — which we’re sure his sons will love.
“I’ve been lucky enough to play Batman in The Lego Movie and moving forward in The Lego Batman Movie,” he told Vindy. “I got to be part of the game that came out around the movie. I’d like to take that a step further and play Batman not just in Lego Batman but in the next incarnation of the Batman games. That’d be rad.”
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Who is this adorable celebrity tot?
Hint: He is an only child.
Leave your best guess in the comments. We’ll reveal the answer later.
Rihanna looked gorgeous at the NYFW Fendi event. [Popoholic]
Stephen Amell gives us a lovely blind item. [Dlisted]
Gwyneth Paltrow will present at the Oscars. [LaineyGossip]
SNL made a Bill Cosby joke. [Buzzfeed]
George RR Martin says we’re not going to like Season 5. [Pajiba]
Petra Nemcova wore a really flattering Fendi dress. [Moe Jackson]
Recap of Downton Abbey: Maggie Smith was killing it last night. [A Socialite Life]
Laverne Cox loves a good twirl. [Go Fug Yourself]
This is the kind of person who uses Tinder. [The Blemish]
Justin Bieber is a ping-pong master. [Evil Beet]
Er, what’s going on with NeNe Leakes? [Reality Tea]
Steven Tyler was there for Liv Tyler giving birth. [Wonderwall]
A President’s Day story about Teddy Roosevelt. [Celebslam]
Blind item from the Saturday Night Live party. [CDAN]