In a move that surely predicts the worst selling magazine issue ever, Justin Bieber covers the April issue of Men’s Health. The magazine seems to realize the futility of this editorial snafu — they titled their feature, “Why Is Justin Bieber on the Cover of Men’s Health?” What an excellent question.
This cover feature is part of Swaggy’s ongoing redemption tour, although I’m not sure he’s preaching to the right demographic. This is some hefty photoshop on the cover, right? As with the Calvin Klein ads, Bieber truly wants us to think he’s ripped, but look at this fantastic picture of a boxing Bieber. The trainer is barely flexing to hold off the blows!
The interview is kinda, like, fussy. Bieber, like, uses the word “like” a lot. Especially when he talks about his massive muscles:
On becoming a man: “There’s a part of me that I don’t ever want to grow up. I want to always remain … to have that sense of purity inside of me where I don’t … I don’t want to lose that sense of purity.”
His insanely ripped body: “Yeah, you know I’m just getting bigger, man. It’s like, my shoulders don’t fit in some things.”
The struggle is real, yo: “[It’s] almost like I grew up for the public but I didn’t necessarily grow up. There were things I had to do, as far as the way I had to make relationships, and conversation, but as far as actually growing up, there were a lot of things I missed out on.”
On romance: “I’m very much a relationship guy. I like to bounce ideas off the person that I love. I like having a real connection …”
An obligatory mancrush: “Ben Affleck. I think his vibe is cool.”
His body art: “Like the tattoos and stuff? Maybe that’s like a cover for me being a softy. I want ‘LL’ tatted right here [chest]. When you’re Low, Lift. Because we often want to keep our heads down. But we should lift our heads.”
[From Men’s Health]
Most of what he says is utter crap, of course. I’ve wondered before if Bieber’s resorted to steroids, but who knows. I do think he’s taking advantage of strategic spray tanning and lots of airbrushing. He doesn’t seem like the type to stay consistent in the gym and maintain the correct diet to build lean muscle. Men’s Health released a behind the scenes video in an effort to prove this is 100% Swaggy’s body, but I’m not buying it. These 40-pound dumbbells must be hollow. You can see more of the shoot here.
Photos courtesy of Peter Hapak/Men’s Health, Fame/Flynet & WENN
Matthew Perry was my favorite ensemble member from Friends. I liked all of the characters except for Ross Gellar, but Perry is particularly gifted at physical comedy and feigning outrage. He’ll always be Chandler Bing (or Chanandler Bong) to me. Perry has a new show (or an old one, depending how you look at it). He’s starring in a remake of The Odd Couple with Thomas Lennon (of The State). Perry plays the messy Oscar, and Lennon plays the uptight Felix. Perry sat down with HuffPo for promotional duties, and he revealed his own tendencies as a proud slob. This was a 20 questions interview, so the answers are short:
His most obsessive habit: “I play video games for hours and hours and hours at a time.”
Does he take out his own garbage? “I pay somebody to do that for me.”
How long has he let sheets stay on his bed? “Three months.”
How long is the wait for the dishwasher? “The sink gets pretty full.”
Is he in a relationship? “No. I’m looking for Miss Right at the moment.”
His relationship deal breaker: “Someone who’s unhappy. Being unhappy, not liking the move Annie Hall and being unhappy with the movie Annie Hall”
How he flirts: “I act like an imbecile. I try to impress them and I just act like a … I try too hard at times I think.”
[From HuffPo]
Perry has an admirable, self-deprecating sense of humor. I wonder if he’s exaggerating about leaving sheets on his bed for three months. He did say this only happened until he hired a housekeeper, so it’s not like it’s an ongoing problem. But three months is pretty gross. I used to be obsessive about changing sheets too often but now follow the standard once a week recommendation. That’s normal, right?
I don’t know what to think of Perry’s Annie Hall qualification for dating women. The Woody Allen worship runs deep in Hollywood.
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Last month, Norman Reedus gave a video tour of his Walking Dead trailer to Entertainment Weekly. It wasn’t a look into his fabulous mobile amenities (have you seen that Celebrity Motor Homes show? Jason Mraz did the best one) so much as a view at the souvenirs and junk he keeps. Reedus keeps a lot which is kind of sweet. If a Walking Dead fan gives him something, it has a good chance of going on display in his trailer. Reedus also likes to steal mementos from the show. He took a Polaroid camera from costuming and he swipes one of his character’s crossbow about once a season.
Spoilers for the episode of Walking Dead follow
One of the weirdest things that Reedus has taken from the WD set is Andrew Lincoln’s beard. As those of you who watch the show know, our intrepid zombie fighters have landed at a protected community in Alexandria where the people actually seem decent. Headed by a former congresswoman, their new location seems safe and close to life before the virus. It’s hard for them to adjust, and they’re suffering from PTSD while waiting for the other shoe to drop. Lincoln’s character Rick Grimes shaved his beard and accepted a haircut on arrival at his new mcmansion and holy sh*t he looks so hot. And Reedus saved the beard remains. He told this to Entertainment Tonight:
On if he’ll ever shave his own facial hair
This takes a good year to grow these five little hairs right here. But I actually have Andrew’s beard in my refrigerator in a Ziploc bag in Florida. I don’t know [what I’m going to do with it.] He’s kind of my dude.
1. @cfn804: If you weren’t acting what would you be doing?
I’d be living in a house in Montauk with about 12 cats walking around in a onesie.
2. @Jskuminime: How did you become an actor?
I was at a party and I yelled at a bunch of people and somebody asked me to be in a play.
3. @miri_lars: What should we expect from the season finale?
Wow, bring your Kleenex and you’ll be screaming at your television.
4. @Shansberry89: Do you have anything in common with Daryl in your personal life?
Yeah, I’m super awkward. I mean what I say and I wear my heart on my sleeve for the most part.
5. @oddkin13: Do you still take the crossbow home every day?
At the end of the season I steal a crossbow and I’m driving back to New York and I get a call saying, ‘You did not steal that crossbow?!’ and I’m like, ‘I stole the crossbow!’ So I have a bunch of crossbows in New York.
[From Entertainment Tonight]
It sounds gross, but maybe Reedus knows that Lincoln’s beard (Lincoln’s beard, ha!) is worth good money.They can auction that thing off for charity at some point to support a good cause. This also brings it home to me that Reedus is the one doing the promotion and heavy lifting for Walking Dead. It’s seems like Lincoln is too good for this.
Also gross? Reedus’s habit of licking people. It’s become his thing now and he plays it up on social media. Reedus talked about it on Conan earlier this week. Fans will ask him to lick them and he usually obliges – until it gets weird. This headline on MTV News pretty much summed it up. Also on Conan his hair looked just as greasy as it does on Walking Dead. I think that’s due to the color, because he must be allowed to wash it in between takes.
Here’s Reedus on Entertainment Tonight. At the end they shoot Nerf crossbows at zombie celebrities.
And here’s Reedus on Conan. The best part is when he wishes happy birthday to his mom.
I went through Reedus’ Instagram looking for the licking pictures. (Pajiba has a ton of them.) Instead I found this gem from two weeks ago that I somehow missed.
@flauntmagazine – @burberry and @cultdenim. See full feature on flaunt.com ! #thelocationissue
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https://soundcloud.com/chances-with-wolves/episode-303
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Close up. Yup. #ricksbeard. In tha fridge. http://comicbook.com/2014/10/19/the-walking-dead-s-norman-reedus-has-andrew-lincoln-s-beard-in-h/
A photo posted by norman reedus (@bigbaldhead) on Oct 20, 2014 at 8:14pm PDT
Bonus gifs of Andrew Lincoln shaving,
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Yesterday, we learned that Chris Brown had fathered a mystery baby with a mystery woman. We are living in a world where Chris Brown is the father to a baby girl, which is surely one of the signs of the apocalypse. In any case, TMZ dug up some dirt about Nia, the mystery baby-mama – you can read more about her, plus see some NSFW photos here. She’s a sometime model and video girl, which is how she met Breezy in the first place. The Daily Mail says that Nia used to hang with Chris and Karrueche Tran back in 2013, and there are photos to prove it. The photos make it seem like Breezy used to/currently has something of a harem.
Oh, and TMZ reports that the baby’s name is Royalty. Royalty Brown. SERIOUSLY. And E! News said last night that Chris hasn’t had a paternity test done on Royalty yet. Sigh…
When covering this stuff yesterday, I speculated about the state of Chris Brown and Karrueche Tran’s relationship currently and at the time this little girl was conceived. It seems like every month, Karrueche and Chris are breaking up or making up and I stopped paying attention to their drama a long time ago, despite the fact that they both seemed to want people to pay attention to their status. We’ve all known couples like that (or perhaps been in that sort of couple) – it’s all drama, all stupid, all crazy, all the time. But here’s what surprised me… Karrueche actually got on Twitter and publicly dumped Breezy. Really?
Listen. One can only take so much. The best of luck to Chris and his family. No baby drama for me. ????
— Karrueche Tran (@karrueche) March 4, 2015
“One can only take so much”??? Gurl, please. You were his side piece when had more high-profile “official girlfriends,” you stayed with him when he cheated on you over and over. You stayed with him as long as you were the most valued one in the harem. And now you’re going to play it like you’re the long-suffering girlfriend?
Photos courtesy of WENN.
Here are some photos of Dev Patel at Tuesday night’s NYC premiere of The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel. That’s a nice velvet suit, isn’t it? It’s Ferragamo. I wish it was just a tad darker, more of a chocolate brown. But he looks really great with that beard and longer hair. Anyway, Dev is currently promoting Marigold and Chappie, the robot film with Hugh Jackman. So that means there are lots of interviews, although none as good as his recent Guardian piece, in which he called out Mario Testino as a big jerk. Here are some assorted quotes from various interviews with Dev:
Whether he’s a technology nerd: “I am pretty bad when it comes to technology. I refuse to have an iphone, I have an old touch screen phone. It’s a conscious choice because I like keeping things simple. Everyone is constantly on phone these days. It’s really a shame because you get disconnected from actually being face to face with humans. Even with my friends, I hate texting. I love talking. That’s the kind of person I am. I am not on social media, instant chat messenger either.”
What he loves about India: “Absolute optimism is what I adore. The nation is developing so fast. Triumph and determination of people here is so intimidating. I love it here, I never felt more alive. I find India to be a great source of inspiration… It’s part of my culture and heritage, which I’m proud of.”
Indians have a problem with his ‘Marigold’ accent: “India is so diverse, lots of people have qualms with my accent in Marigold. My argument is, it’s not based on a person but is a comedic creation. I play India’s acclaimed mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan next and that requires a different accent as it’s a different persona altogether. You try and discover.”
He hates dancing: “I absolutely hate dancing. I am very conscious about my gangly limbs, think it’s a great obstacle.”
When asked about Frieda Pinto: “Sorry, no personal questions.”
Whether he’s single: “Ha ha, am I single? I can’t answer that right now.”
Whether he’s typecast as nerdy Asian stereotype: “My character’s name in Chappie is Deon Wilson. So I don’t know how it is typecast. I came into it, so it became a guy of Indian origin, because of the colour of my skin.”
[From The Hindustan Times & Times of India]
It’s funny to me that Dev hates dancing because in all of the ads for the second Marigold movie, they show the clip of Dev dancing in a typical Bollywood-like scene. He doesn’t look half-bad! And yes, he’s very tall and “gangly” but I think he moves very well. Maybe he just needs a few more years to really “grow into his body.” As for being anti-technology… I feel him. Sort of.
Photos courtesy of WENN.
Well, at least Chris Brown is going to have some help when it comes to raising his alleged daughter.
Yesterday, TMZ reported that Chris Brown has an alleged child. Now, a source has opened up to HollywoodLife saying that Joyce Hawkins, Chris Brown’s mother, will help him raise the child, as if it were her own.
Chris Brown, 25, has went through some fairly dark times in his life, and his mother has stuck by his side through all of those times — and she’ll continue to do exactly that! A source told HollywoodLife:
“Joyce loves her son and she will never think that anything Chris does is wrong. They’re just learning experiences. She accepts Chris’ baby girl and will have a hand in raising her grandchild. It’s that simple. Family is family. Blood and blood. That’s that.”
To find out what else the source had to say, you can continue reading at HollywoodLife.
Get out the tissues, because this is going to melt your heart!
There’s so many different reasons you could love Taylor Swift, and she just added another reason to the list. Taylor Swift is known for absolutely adoring her fans, and going out of her way for them, but what she did for one fan will bring you to tears. Taylor Swift, 25, reached out to one of her fans — a 4-year-old girl, Jalene Salinas, who has been battling an aggressive form of brain cancer since last year. Being terminally ill, Jalene decided to start a bucket list. She’s been able to mark most things off of her list, but dancing with Taylor Swift to “Shake It Off,” was still on the list.
Jalene’s final wish began to trend on Twitter, and Swift caught wind of it. That’s the moment when Swift decided she was going to reach out to the girl and make her dream come true. So, Swift called up Jalene on FaceTime, but unfortunately, Jalene wasn’t feeling well and could barely even talk. However, she was extremely happy just to see Taylor Swift’s face. Watch the tear-jerking video below and you’ll see!
Willow just wants to whip her hair back and forth!
In a recent interview in CR Fashion Book’s Issue 6, Willow Smith, 14, reveals what her goals are for this year — and you may be very surprised! When asked about what she hopes to accomplish in 2015, Willow kept her answer very simple:
“I just want to have dreads. I want to embrace my full self, as natural as I can be.”
It sounds like Willow wants to go the natural route, and we totally support her choice! She’s a beautiful girl and can definitely pull it off.
While Alyssa Milano has been guest co-hosting on The Talk, the Who’s The Boss alum has brought along her 6-month-old daughter Elizabella.
“Getting ready to co-host #TheTalk!” the actress, 42, donning a white robe, captioned the Instagram video. In the clip, the Mistresses star reaches out for her baby girl to sit on her knee while getting her makeup done.
Looking adorable in a blue dress paired with a hot pink headband, the beautiful baby girl is seen playing with a plastic banana. The actress goes on to share some more shots from her co-hosting gig.
Milano and her CAA agent husband David Bugliari — who were wed in 2009 — are also parents to 3-year-old son Milo.
Last month, the actress shared a breastfeeding selfie with her sweet tot.
“#MondayMuse Baby Elizabella,” Milano captioned the precious photo. “She inspires me every day to be better. I want her to know she can be everything and anything with kindness and love in her heart. I will try to be that example for her.”
Getting ready to co-host #TheTalk!
A video posted by Alyssa Milano (@milano_alyssa) on Mar 3, 2015 at 9:57am PST
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Buffy the Vampire Slayer alum Sarah Michelle Gellar and daughter Charlotte, 5, took a bite out of the Big Apple.
“I’m off on a girls weekend with two five year olds,” SMG posted on Instagram before departing L.A. for New York City. “My airplane cocktail has been replaced with water #Mocktail #WishMeLuck.”
The mother-daughter duo first stopped at the city’s famous Times Square.
“My hometown can definitely be a bit overwhelming,” Gellar captioned a photo of Charlotte taking in the sights. “My little #Angeleno daughter #NYPride.”
Next up, the pretty pair hit Broadway, where they caught up with “Auntie” Kristin Chenoweth.
“Auntie Kristin teaching Charlotte the ins and outs of being a Broadway star #OnThe20thCentury,” Gellar, 37, wrote. “@kchenoweth the greatest talent in the tiniest body and all love.”
SMG and Charlotte have now returned home to papa Freddie Prinze, Jr. and lil’ brother Rocky, 2. The actress is set to join her hunky hubby on Disney XD’s Star Wars Rebels for its second season.
#TimesSquare My hometown can definitely be a bit overwhelming. My little #Angeleno daughter #NYPride
A photo posted by Sarah Michelle (@sarahmgellar) on Feb 28, 2015 at 7:42pm PST
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