Poor Lindsay Lohan.
During the same two-week span that saw Tyson Beckford crush her modeling dreams, and Lohan complain that the public is to blame for her failing career, the mediocre actress has received more bad news.
Her latest movie, Labor Pains, is headed straight to cable.
The unfunny comedy will premiere on ABC Family in July 2009.
In the movie, Lohan portrays a woman that fakes a pregnancy in order to save her job. She must then keep the lie going for nine months.
Not really sure if this fits Lohan’s description of desired roles. Earlier this week, she said "I want to help people by playing characters that can send a positive message out to whomever may need it."
You might think Rihanna would be the last person to glamorize violence after Chris Brown pounded her into oblivion and threatened to kill her last month.
But apparently, you’d be wrong.
For whatever reason, the 21-year-old star decided to have a small handgun tattooed on her body this week. The weapon has been etched across her ribcage.
Rihanna visited the appropriately named tattoo artist BangBang in L.A., and he initially drew a pair of guns on her guns – as in the sides of the tops of her arms.
The “Umbrella” singer decided against having a new tattoo inked on in such a prominent position, however, due to her contract with makeup brand Cover Girl.
BangBang wrote: “I really wanted to put it here [on her arms] … She loved ’em. But, Cover Girl wouldn’t have liked it much, and they pay the bills!”
Rihanna has been keeping a low profile in recent times following her “alleged” assault at the hands of boyfriend Chris Brown, who went off on her during a heated argument in his sports car the day before the Grammy Awards.
The couple, who reconciled after the incident despite the domestic battery and criminal charges Brown faces, are said to be taking a break. Still no word on who sent the infamous booty call text that sparked the argument, Tina Davis or Natasha Ellie.
Brown is expected to be back in court for his arraignment April 6.
Follow the jump for another photo of Rihanna at the tattoo place, this time just the sketches of the guns on her arms before she decided against that …
We have three words for Kim Kardashian:
You. Go. Girl.
Days after pics of her Complex photo spread were leaked, the reality TV star is the latest celebrity to come under fire for supposedly packing on a few pounds.
A few websites have uncovered photographic evidence that points to the airbrushing of a few images in the magazine.
Kim’s paraphrased response, courtesy of her official blog? Bite me! She writes:
So what: I have a little cellulite. What curvy girl doesn’t!? How many people do you think are photo shopped? It happens all the time!
I’m proud of my body and my curves and this picture coming out is probably helpful for everyone to see that just because I am on the cover of a magazine doesn’t mean I’m perfect.
Amid rumors that her fashion line failed and has been discontinued, Lauren Conrad has taken to her blog to clear up rumors about the line, which is currently "on hiatus," she says. The Hills star and fashion designer writes:
"A few days ago a statement was released to showrooms that carry my clothing line. It asked them to let stores know that I was planning on taking a couple seasons off from my line so that I could make some changes that I felt were necessary."
"As a result, a lot of people were under the impression that my line was being discontinued or had been dropped. This isn’t the case at all."
"The truth is, I was the one who originally asked to take a couple of seasons off."
Lauren Conrad says she has "learned so much in the past year and I want to apply that to the improvement of my clothing line. I also wanted to make some changes in production so I would be able to lower the price point."
"That said, I am really excited about beginning this process."
She has been spending the last couple of weeks working on new designs for the spring, "which is when I am planning to bring the (new and improved) line back."
Before signing off, Conrad told fans she has some "very exciting things going on that will be announced shortly." Like The Hills premiering Monday, April 6? Holla!
We know Shawn Johnson is cute, but this is going too far.
A man, later identified as Robert O’Ryan, was arrested Tuesday morning for attempting to break onto the Dancing With the Stars set. His reason?
He and the Olympic Gold Medalist are "meant to be."
According to court documents released by the LAPD last night, O’Ryan was spotted scaling the fence outside CBS Studios prior to this week’s taping of the reality competition. Responding to a trespassing call, security forces nabbed the intruder in the hallway. Scary stuff.
According to TMZ, Johnson’s mother filed a restraining order to protect Johnson, her partner, Mark Ballas, herself and Shawn’s father against O’Ryan.
In the court petition, O’Ryan told police "he packed all his belongings and permanently left Florida to drive across the country because he believes [Johnson] is speaking to him personally through the television and via ESP – and he will be with her no matter what."
Hollywood superstar Brad Pitt is out of upcoming movie State of Play as the director on hindsight felt he was too good-looking to play the role.
Pitt was originally to star in the big-screen thriller as a journalist but the actor quit during pre-production, citing concerns with the script, contactmusic.com reports.
Gladiator star Russell Crowe was roped in as a late replacement for Brad to star opposite actor Ben Affleck’s character of a Congressman in the film.
Director Kevin McDonald is convinced that Crowe’s rough features are more suited to the role.
"In a way, I was lucky it didn’t work out with Brad. The relationship between the journalist and the politician was meant to be between somebody who feels inferior, who’s a bit of a schlump, who kind of can’t get a girlfriend, and somebody he’s looking up to and admires his polished politician friend," he said.
"That is not the dynamic of a Brad Pitt. He’s not looking up to anyone thinking ‘Oh, I wish I could have your girlfriend’," he added.
Angels in Waiting attorney Gloria Allred has told "The Today Show" that Nadya Suleman’s babies are in danger.
"The whole issue is an issue of security," Allred said this morning. "Our nurses were rightfully concerned about security. After all, Nadya had told the world where she lives, when those babies are coming home. As a result, hundreds of reporters came. Her home is easily locatable on the Internet as a result of her doing daily blogs."
She adds that two intruders came into the home!
"In one case, she had one of our nannies call 911 to report the intruder because she was concerned she had done too many 911 calls," she said.
A baby could be abducted, Allred said. But instead of improving security, Nadya spent money on putting in a jacuzzi.
Asked if those babies are in danger, Allred said, "In the nurses’ view, yes. That is why they filed three reports."
Allred denied Suleman’s claims that the AIW nurses wanted Nadya to fail, not succeed.
"How can she succeed if she is subjecting her babies to potential risks of harm, if she doesn’t come into the nursery to feed her own babies, to hold them, to bathe them, to change them, to love them, to bond with them … except when the cameras are rolling?" Allred asked. "That’s wrong."
Natasha Richardson was known to be a giving and compassionate woman throughout her all-too-short life.
That’s probably why her family made the decision — most likely according to her expressed wishes — to donate her organs to save other patients’ lives. After she was taken off life support March 18 at Manhattan’s Lenox Hill Hospital, the race to harvest her strong and otherwise healthy organs began.
Organ donation "is very Natasha," a family friend told people. "She spent so much time fighting the stigma of AIDS; someone like that would naturally donate her organs. At least by donating her organs something good could come out of [the tragedy]."
Richardson, 45, died a few days after an unremarkable fall during a beginners ski lesson at a Canadian resort March 16.
An autopsy revealed that a blow to her head caused a fatal epidural hematoma, bleeding between her brain and her skull.
Bless you for giving to others in your last hour, Natasha.
We all have bullies in our lives and we just assume they’re evil, but largely I think that kind of behavior comes from somewhere," says Jason Ritter, who plays a neighborhood tough who commits an almost psychopathically vicious act in "The Education of Charlie Banks." "Certainly the bully in my life, as far as I could tell, the house he grew up in was completely devoid of any love. He had all the money in the world, but you walk around his house and it was cold like a museum. So the only reaction he could get out of people was fear. It made him laugh."
With neat, close-cropped hair and a scruffy in-progress beard like a cross between G.I. Joe and the Unabomber, the 29-year-old projects an inoffensiveness in person that makes his transformation in the movie all the more impressive. The brutal act perpetrated by his bulldozer-in-a-china-shop Mick is witnessed by sheltered uptown boy Charlie (Jesse Eisenberg). Mick then turns up years later in Charlie’s dorm room, insinuating himself into a life of privilege amid the well-to-do students.
"The challenges were consistent with my worst nightmare of how I’m perceived," he said at his publicist’s West Hollywood offices. It wasn’t that the character was so objectionable but so unlike him: "I generally care very much what other people think of me. I’m not proud of that trait.
"I had to start from the very beginning and ask, ‘What kind of man ends up so out of control that he can’t help but ruin his own chances at being anything?’ This was definitely one of my most challenging roles."
The son of the late actor John Ritter acknowledges he’s known for playing "innocent, nice guys"; his background was a lot closer to Charlie’s than Mick’s.
"When the script first was circulating, I auditioned for Charlie," he admits. Years after that production fell apart, the screenplay came around again. Thinking himself now too old for Charlie, he took a furtive stab at Mick. To his surprise, he got the part. "There was a huge part of me that was terrified and thought, ‘Oh, my gosh, I tricked them!’ "
To pull off the guise of a guy who never questions his actions but moves with a shark-like decisiveness, Ritter had to face down a couple of demons.
"I had to find a whole lot of confidence somewhere," he says with a slightly nervous laugh. "I’m always second-guessing myself. He never apologizes and I never cease apologizing."
The cast, especially love interest Eva Amurri, helped him settle into this rough and uncomfortable skin.
"The first time you see her talking to Mick in the bar, she’s sort of jittery and excited," he says, compared to her cool when dealing with the madly infatuated Charlie. That enabled Ritter "to lean back in my chair and say, ‘Oh, yeah. Mick doesn’t have the problems Jason has when talking to women.’
"I was also lucky [the cast and crew] believed I could pull this off. I’ve done other things where there was a producer somewhere going," he exhales in exasperation and rolls his eyes. "As much confidence as I had to pretend I had, it would have taken just one person to say, ‘I don’t buy it’ to let it all drain out. It was such a delicate thing for me."
Not exactly an imposing figure, Ritter decided to use his physicality and clean-cut appearance to his advantage.
"I’ve never been in a fistfight in my whole life. I don’t have a giant scar on my face; I don’t look like a tough guy. [But] Mick had to be able to blend in with the college kids; he had to look almost normal. The only thing keeping him from normal was that you had seen this violent act at the beginning," he says.
The actor felt a kinship with the character ("We’re disgusted by the same things"), believing he understood Mick. The question was whether it was too late for Mick to change.
"It’s hard when the only thing stopping you from everything you want is your own inner workings."
has topped a new list of Hollywood’s Sexiest Women in men’s magazine Details.
The newly single former friends star, 40, beat Transformers actress Megan Fox and newlywed Gisele Bundchen to land the top spot in the new poll.
The top five are:
1. Jennifer Aniston
2. Megan Fox
3. Gisele Bundchen
4. Freida Pinto
5. Kim Kardashian