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Jan 12, 2010 9:03 AM CST

Simon Wants Paula on X Factor

Cowell, Abdul in talks to team up on new show

(Newser) - Good news for anyone pining for the good ol' days of American Idol: Paula Abdul and Simon Cowell may be reuniting for Cowell’s X Factor. Sources tell TMZ the pair is discussing the possibility of Abdul coming on the US version of his UK hit as a judge. Cowell...

Suri Cruise Gets $30K Toy Car

CELEBRITY RACE CAR DRIVERS

Jan 11, 2010 10:52 AM CST

Suri Cruise Gets $30K Toy Car

Tom Cruise, Katie Holmes buy daughter Indy 500 replica

(Newser) - Suri Cruise’s latest extravagant plaything: a $30,000 toy car. To be fair, there's a lot under the hood—the car is a custom-made miniature of an Indianapolis 500 race car, reports Australia’s News Network . Days of Thunder star Tom Cruise bought his daughter the car because she's...

David Beckham Just
Can't Keep Clothes On

Jan 11, 2010 10:39 AM CST

David Beckham Just Can't Keep Clothes On

Soccer star changes shorts during AC Milan match in Turin

(Newser) - David Beckham’s more enthusiastic fans were sure to be pleased by the display he offered up yesterday, changing shorts mid-match. The pantsless moments, caught on film, came during an AC Milan match in Turin, Italy, Just Jared reports. As you’ll see in the above slideshow, he was later...

Meet Lady Gaga,
Puppet of the Occult

conspiracy theories

Jan 10, 2010 11:22 AM CST

Meet Lady Gaga, Puppet of the Occult

At least 10 signs show she's not what she seems

(Newser) - Lady Gaga: The next Madonna, or a “puppet of the Illuminati”? If you read the Vigilant Citizen blog, she’s the latter. LA Weekly boils down a three-part series analyzing Gaga to a helpful top 10 list of reasons the pop star is really a puppet of occult...

Gabourey Sidibe:
'I Feel Like
a Model'

Jan 8, 2010 12:29 PM CST

Gabourey Sidibe: 'I Feel Like a Model'

Precious star talks self-confidence, and her hatred of yoga

(Newser) - Now that Precious has catapulted Gabourey Sidibe to fame, the former psychology major from Harlem finds herself wearing fancy dresses, attending premieres and parties, and doing photo shoots—and she loves it all. Highlights from her Harper’s Bazaar interview:

On photo shoots: “I feel like a model. It

...

8 Comebacks to Watch in 2010

IT'S KELLY!

Jan 8, 2010 10:58 AM CST

8 Comebacks to Watch in 2010

Blossom, Urkel, Kelly Kapowski, and more—they're all back

(Newser) - Sure, Britney Spears staged an amazing comeback last year—but that's nothing compared with the sure-to-be-epic return of Tiffany, coming to (country) music charts this year. The Frisky singles out eight former household names returning in 2010:

Mayim Bialik: Better known as “Blossom” from the eponymous TV show, she

...

Ellen: Simon Is Smart But Mean

'AMERICAN IDOL' RUN-UP

Jan 8, 2010 10:38 AM CST

Ellen: Simon Is Smart But Mean

DeGeneres talks Cowell, Paula Abdul as American Idol returns

(Newser) - Ellen DeGeneres makes her debut as the newest American Idol judge on Tuesday, and she talks Simon Cowell (he’s “smart,” but “mean” and “insensitive”) and more with the Wall Street Journal :

Paula Abdul: “I don't know if I'll be as nurturing as she

...

Meryl Streep 'Looks Like an
Unmade Bed': Sharon Stone

MEOW

Jan 8, 2010 9:25 AM CST

Meryl Streep 'Looks Like an Unmade Bed': Sharon Stone

Is Stone giving Streep a backhanded compliment?

(Newser) - Sharon Stone tried to explain Meryl Streep’s success by saying she “looks like an unmade bed,” all the while touting her own—completely natural!—appearance. But Stone was being complimentary, see: Streep is working so much because she “looks like a woman we can all...

Meet Ke$ha: The New
Britney Spears

OPINION

Jan 7, 2010 9:57 AM CST

Meet Ke$ha: The New Britney Spears

And, by the way, it's pronounced 'Kesh-a'—not 'Kee-sha'

(Newser) - Who the heck is Ke$ha? She’s the decade’s first No. 1 artist on Billboard’s Hot 100, and just had the biggest-selling week of all time, for a female, on iTunes. There's a good chance you've heard the catchy if not lyrically impressive song "TiK ToK", but...

Kanye West Is the
Next Maya Angelou

OR SO HE SAYS

Jan 7, 2010 9:29 AM CST

Kanye West Is the Next Maya Angelou

He's back in studio, comparing himself to legends

(Newser) - Famously egotistical rapper Kanye West is back in the studio—and comparing himself to Kobe Bryant and Maya Angelou in a typical-for-him, all-caps blog post . Unlike many rappers, he promises he won’t get worse with age, because “true poets get better,” he writes. There’s just one...

Vampires Rule at
People's Choice Awards

MARIAH: TIPSY AGAIN?

Jan 7, 2010 7:24 AM CST

Vampires Rule at People's Choice Awards

Mariah Carey, Johnny Depp also among winners

(Newser) - Vampires were big winners at last night’s People’s Choice Awards, with Twilight, True Blood, and The Vampire Diaries all taking home trophies. Mariah Carey, helped to the stage by husband Nick Cannon to accept her Favorite R&B Artist award, later addressed the question of whether or not...

Kate Gosselin
Ditches Her
Screwy Hairdo

ALSO 'MAKING ROOM FOR ROMANCE'

Jan 6, 2010 10:55 AM CST

Kate Gosselin Ditches Her Screwy Hairdo

The Jon and Kate Plus 8 star ditches signature hairdo

(Newser) - BREAKING NEWS: Kate Gosselin has a new hairdo. That’s right, the reality star and mom of eight has finally bid adieu to her oft-mocked asymmetrical haircut in favor of a longer style, which she debuts on the cover of People, Cover Awards reports. More good news? According to the...

13 Reasons
Warren Beatty
Didn't Bed
13K Women

LA TRAFFIC, FOR ONE

Jan 6, 2010 9:23 AM CST

13 Reasons Warren Beatty Didn't Bed 13K Women

Biographer's hypothesis also doesn't take into account squash

(Newser) - When the Slate staff discussed the topic of Warren Beatty potentially sleeping with 12,775 women , as biographer Peter Biskind asserts, “most of the men present found Biskind's number preposterous. Several women, though, argued it might be feasible. Interpret that, dear reader, as you will,” writes Nathan Heller....

No, No, Beyoncé
Performed for
Gadhafi's
Other Son

feuds with dictators' kids

Jan 6, 2010 7:14 AM CST

No, No, Beyoncé Performed for Gadhafi's Other Son

Seif al-Islam's rep tries to give Gawker lesson in journalismism

(Newser) - Beyoncé spent her New Year’s Eve performing for Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi's son—although Seif al-Islam's PR firm will have you know it wasn't him, as originally reported. “She actually performed for Col. Gadhafi’s other shithead son, Hannibal,” writes Adrian Chen on Gawker , before running down...

CNN Dumps Kathy Griffin

...OR MAYBE IT DOESN'T

Jan 5, 2010 2:30 PM CST

CNN Dumps Kathy Griffin

Griffin's New Year's Eve F-bomb faux pas won't get her invited back

(Newser) - After dropping the F-bomb, asking for a “bump” of cocaine, and theorizing on Anderson Cooper’s masturbation habits on New Year’s Eve, Kathy Griffin has finally gotten herself banned from CNN...or has she? “She was a total embarrassment,” a CNN insider tells PopEater . “Even...

Casey Johnson:
Drama Surrounds Me

REMEMBRANCE

Jan 5, 2010 10:56 AM CST

Casey Johnson: Drama Surrounds Me

Heiress' troubled life remembered

(Newser) - Casey Johnson’s premature death caps a lifetime of trouble that the heiress herself summed up in a 2006 Vanity Fair piece: “Drama seems to kind of surround me.” Peter Davis, who first met Johnson a decade ago as a leather-clad “Chapin girl” who idolized Marilyn Monroe,...

Rosie O'Donnell
Dishes on New Galpal

RELATIONSHIP IS 'DELICIOUS'

Jan 5, 2010 8:15 AM CST

Rosie O'Donnell Dishes on New Galpal

Romance with Tracy Kachtick-Anders seems 'too good to be true'

(Newser) - Rosie O’Donnell dished on her new girlfriend, the “lovely, lovely, lovely, lovely” Tracy Kachtick-Anders, on her Sirius radio show. “I felt like Madonna for a moment” when they were snapped by photographers holding hands, she says in the clip above. “I had no idea that it...

Vince Vaughn Secretly Marries

WEDDING CRASHER

Jan 5, 2010 6:50 AM CST

Vince Vaughn Secretly Marries

Jennifer Aniston's ex had small ceremony with Kyla Weber Saturday

(Newser) - Vince Vaughn kicked off the new year by having a small, private wedding—which, Radar makes sure to point out, ex-girlfriend Jennifer Aniston did not attend. Vaughn, 39, married Canadian real estate agent Kyla Weber, 31, in a historic mansion outside his home city of Chicago. The pair was engaged...

Alexa Ray Joel
Talks Suicide Scare

'NOT MY MOM'S FAULT'

Jan 4, 2010 8:24 AM CST

Alexa Ray Joel Talks Suicide Scare

Heartbreak—not Christie Brinkley—to blame, says Billy Joel's daughter

(Newser) - Alexa Ray Joel spoke out against reports that her suicide scare was a result of a fight with mom Christie Brinkley, blaming it instead on “heartbreak-related depression.” On her Facebook fan page, Joel called Brinkley and dad Billy Joel “my role models and best friends,” slamming...

Bow Wow Drinks,
Drives, Tweets

CHRIS BROWN ALONG FOR RIDE

Jan 4, 2010 8:04 AM CST

Bow Wow Drinks, Drives, Tweets

Rapper broadcasts bad behavior on Twitter

(Newser) - Bow Wow, you know you’ve hit a low point when Chris Brown is giving you advice. The rapper and Brown spent New Year’s Eve together—and Bow Wow allegedly got drunk, insisted on driving his Lamborghini, then Tweeted about it all the while. “Chris seemed like he...

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