Last year, I covered one of Jeremy Clarkson’s seemingly endless racist controversies, and it seems like people were interested in him, so here we go again. Clarkson is the decade-long host of the BBC’s Top Gear (seen in the US on BBC America). Top Gear does celebrity interviews, they get celebrities to drive a tricky course in a reasonably priced car, and they also do non-celebrity road trips around various countries. In the past few years alone, Clarkson has been acting like a neo-colonialist buffoon, alienating Argentinians, referring to an Asian man as a “slope,” using the n-word (and then lying about it), mocking disabled people, alienating all of India and describing Mexicans as “lazy” and “feckless.” Seriously. And it’s only now that the BBC has gotten around to doing a temporary suspension. So mysterious, you guys.

Top Gear host Jeremy Clarkson has been suspended by the BBC “following a fracas” with a producer. The corporation said the 54-year-old presenter had been suspended “pending an investigation”.

“No one else has been suspended. Top Gear will not be broadcast this Sunday,” it said.

Clarkson was given what he called his “final warning” last May after claims he used a racist word while filming the popular BBC motoring show. At the time, he said the BBC had told him he would be sacked if he made “one more offensive remark, anywhere, at any time”. The BBC gave no further details on the current incident involving Clarkson, and said it would not be making any further statements at this time. Clarkson’s representatives have yet to reply to requests for a comment.

[From BBC]

So what was involved with this “fracas”? No one knows for sure. The Daily Mail says Clarkson threw a punch at a male producer. Seriously, and that was what went too far? Not when he said striking workers should be shot? Not all the racist crap?

Obviously, Clarkson has been making “jokes” on Twitter about his suspension – go here to read some of them. There are also a lot of Clarkson fan-boys signing a petition to force the BBC to reinstate him. Hm… is it like the Duck Dynasty thing in America? Like, Clarkson can be as racist and offensive as possible and there will still be knuckle-dragging jackasses who defend him because “people are too sensitive” and “political correctness has gone too far” and “you should be allowed to punch your coworkers, mate.”

Photos courtesy of WENN.

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Paris Fashion week has been all about pap walks, ill-advised peroxide jobs and photobombs. So it’s a pleasure to see a set of not-so-fresh faces on the runway. Some serious fashion. Blue Steel, if you will.

Derek Zoolander and “Hansel, so hot right now. Hansel.” made a surprise visit to the Valentino show. Their fierce stances and duckfaces ushered in an aura of hushed respect from the audience. Or perhaps people were trying not to laugh. Does it matter? You can see their runway walk in this video.

Really, this was simply a visit from Ben Stiller and Owen Wilson to announce their mutual career returns with Zoolander 2. Is anyone excited for this sequel? I don’t know. Twitter lit up with the #valentino tag when Zoolander and Hansel hit the runway. They posed with Anna Wintour backstage (for Mario Testino) and made a selfie-stick video backstage. Anna Wintour smiled. Be afraid.

You’d better work it, boys.

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Paris Fashion week has been all about pap walks, ill-advised peroxide jobs and photobombs. So it’s a pleasure to see a set of not-so-fresh faces on the runway. Some serious fashion. Blue Steel, if you will.

Derek Zoolander and “Hansel, so hot right now. Hansel.” made a surprise visit to the Valentino show. Their fierce stances and duckfaces ushered in an aura of hushed respect from the audience. Or perhaps people were trying not to laugh. Does it matter? You can see their runway walk in this video.

Really, this was simply a visit from Ben Stiller and Owen Wilson to announce their mutual career returns with Zoolander 2. Is anyone excited for this sequel? I don’t know. Twitter lit up with the #valentino tag when Zoolander and Hansel hit the runway. They posed with Anna Wintour backstage (for Mario Testino) and made a selfie-stick video backstage. Anna Wintour smiled. Be afraid.

You’d better work it, boys.

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Here are some photos of Iggy Azalea pouting on a horse in Calabasas a few days ago. These are a nice change from red carpet pics, no? Only last month, Iggy Azalea bragged to GQ magazine about her staying power and her upcoming first arena tour. Iggy talked about how hard she worked on stage design. She was excited to engage with her fans. Then Iggy kept getting into Twitter fights over substantive issues. She eventually quit social media over superficial stuff.

I expected Iggy to take some time away from the spotlight. She started giving radio interviews about how she deserved respect from other rappers, and she would have rejected a Grammy. Now Iggy’s attitude has jeopardized her 24-date, cross-country arena tour. The Wrap broke a story about Iggy’s deep riff with her “core team” (T.I.). She’s reportedly “increasingly unresponsive to her management and refuses to engage in promotion.” Iggy refuses to talk about her music to the media. She’s only complaining. Tickets weren’t selling, and her opening acts (Nick Jonas and Tinashe) weren’t happy.

After the Wrap released their exclusive, Billboard dropped a bomb. Iggy’s tour has been officially rescheduled to begin in the fall (instead of April). Def Jam Recordings simply says, “to accommodate for creative team availability and tour productions, it was determined that the tour will not be ready this spring.” The opening acts walked and won’t return.

Iggy’s a pill, but objectively, I wonder why anyone believed Iggy could pull off an arena tour. Iggy broke some Billboard records last year, but all of her hit singles are duets. What was she planning on doing — carting several artists along with her during the entirety of the tour?

Bye girl. Until next time.

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I used to think that Gwyneth Paltrow would never deign to appear on a television show. Surely she would find the experience too peasanty, right? But then she kept appearing on Glee, mostly because she was trying to make her singing career happen, and partly because she’s been banging one of the Glee producers for a while. As the years have gone by, I tend to believe that Gwyneth really isn’t getting the kind of film offers she believes are her due (coughMortdecaicough), so why not simply look for more television work? Would that help or hurt Gwyneth’s brand these days? She is trying to shill more to the commoners, after all. Fine, she’ll do TV! But only if it’s HBO! And that’s just what Lena Dunham was hoping for.

Kerry Washington isn’t the only mega-star Lena Dunham wants to see on Girls. She also wouldn’t mind adding Gwyneth Paltrow to her long list of celeb guest stars.

“We would love it,” Dunham told me at the Girls PaleyFest panel.

“Fingers crossed,” her producing partner Jenni Konner added.

Dunham said, “We’d be very grateful.”

She and Konner recently had an Instagram lovefest with the Oscar winner. Dunham marked her first “foodgram” when she posted a photo of turkey chili that Konner had made from a recipe featured in Paltrow’s cookbook, It’s All Good: Delicious, Easy Recipes That Will Make You Look Good and Feel Great.

“Fact: @campsucks [Konner] makes a mean turkey chili care of @gwynethpaltrow’s It’s All Good,” she wrote. “This is probably the only foodgram I’ll ever do- I just felt so loved. Another fact- as I took home my doggie bag Jenni joyfully yelled “it’s protein packed!”

Dunham told me, “Jenny made me that chili and I took it back to the hotel where I was staying. I had room service heat it up for me and then I just couldn’t shut up about the chili!”

[From E! News]

Gwyneth would probably fit into the Girls world pretty well. I mean, that’s her world. Second-generation Hollywood/New York upper-crust/rich white girl/expensive education/born on third base and thinks she hit a triple. Would Gwyneth deign to guest-star on it? Probably.

Speaking of Gwyneth’s upper-crust world, she posted this for International Women’s Day on Sunday. I know this is just a collection of her previous Instagrams, but surely she’s deigned to take a photograph of a rare friend who happens to also be a woman of color? This collection is very white, that’s all I’m saying.

Shouldn’t everyday be all of us equally day? I guess we’re #notthere #internationalwomensday @iwd2015 @clintonfoundation

A video posted by Gwyneth Paltrow (@gwynethpaltrow) on Mar 8, 2015 at 8:09pm PDT

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Back in 2013, many of us were surprised by Scott Eastwood’s very attractive Town & Country photoshoot. Clint Eastwood’s genes produced a young look-alike son, only Scott looks and seems much more “frat-bro” than his dad. That was sort of the beginning of Scott’s hustle too, as he’s tried to parlay his “Fratty Clint” looks into some bigger roles, without much success. Scott hustled his way into the Fifty Shades of Grey auditions last year, once Charlie Hunnam tapped out, only it was pretty obvious that producers were not going to make Christian Grey into a frat-bro. But to hear Scott tell it, he was the one who walked away from the role. It was his choice, he swears!

Reading for the Christian Grey role: “They had asked me to come in and read and test for it. But they had no script. I won’t do a movie where there is no script. I am not going to get locked in. And they wanted full frontal nudity. There were some things about it that were not for me.”

He took himself out of the running: “It’s not a bad thing. The movie made a ton of money. It’s been a success. It just wasn’t for me. It was not something I wanted to do. I just didn’t enter the running. It was like, “Okay, thank you.”

Has he seen Fifty Shades? “I’ll have to wait for it to get onto my home channels.”

[From USA Today]

Is it possible that Scott understood – once he got in there – that they were never going to cast him in the role and that’s why he took himself out of the running? Perhaps. But the way he was hustling for it last year, I doubt it. I think it’s far more likely that Scott went into audition and the producers were like “eh, no thanks.” You know who I think legitimately had no interest in the role whatsoever? Matt Bomer. All the fan-girls wanted Bomer but he was never in the running because he simply didn’t want it. And you never hear Bomer talk sh-t about it either.

Photos courtesy of Fame/Flynet.

Who’s up for a round of some celebrity mom trivia?

Can you tell us who the celebrity child is in the picture below:

Leave your guess in the comment section below and good luck! Check back tomorrow, which is when we will reveal the answer.

There’s a story going around right now that Taylor Swift has insured her legs for $40 million. The source is the National Enquirer. But since it’s about Taylor and seemingly so random and, well, she gives us pictures to use of her legs so often, the report is getting picked up everywhere….      

There’s a story going around right now that Taylor Swift has insured her legs for $40 million. The source is the National Enquirer. But since it’s about Taylor and seemingly so random and, well, she gives us pictures to use of her legs so often, the report is getting picked up everywhere….      

There’s a story going around right now that Taylor Swift has insured her legs for $40 million. The source is the National Enquirer. But since it’s about Taylor and seemingly so random and, well, she gives us pictures to use of her legs so often, the report is getting picked up everywhere….