Mel Gibson isn’t the only person interested in Britney Spears‘ love life as of late: TMZ has been keeping tabs on the pop star and her secret rendezvous with a mystery man. Sadly, that mystery man is all too recognizable — it’s Adnan Ghalib, former paparazzo and Spears hanger-on.
TMZ’s “sources” have reported that over the last few months Adnan has been entering the gated community where Brit and father Jamie live, but no one can say exactly what’s going on. But we can! Adnan missed the spotlight, Britney missed her enabler, and it was time for a special reunion. And yes, there are text messages involved.
Who's going to be the first paparazzi agency to score pictures of Britney Spears and Mel Gibson on holiday together in Costa Rica? Entertainment Tonight has video of them boarding a plane, but nobody has tape of them since they arrived in CR.
• Jack Nicholson continues to live the dream. Assuming "the dream" is sitting on a boat, with your gut hanging out, while stuffing your face with pizza.
• More trampy girls make videos about presidential candidates they know anything about.
• Nope, Brandon Davis isn't dead—just sweaty and disgusting.
• Michael Richards enjoys the company of Maddox's lost family, far away from those tacky N-word people.
• Turns out Perez has a raging case of repressed fat guy anger.
• Ever dream about living next door to Diana Ross? For $39.5 million, Mel Gibson can make it happen.
• Condoms…they never worked so well.
TMZ paying off public officials for publicly available information? As if! But that's not the way California State Assemblywoman Julia Brownley sees it, which is why she's introduced legislation to make it illegal to pay for information about criminal investigations. (Why there aren't already laws on the books prohibiting these types of bribes is, um, a shock?) Brownley is blaming TMZ's supposed news gathering techniques for the early release of information pertaining to Mel Gibson's arrest, among others. Reports Harvey Levin's soapbox:
Brownley said, "Mel Gibson was one of those cases where information was given out before his due process was executed." Huh? You may recall, L.A. County Sheriff's officials lied to TMZ and other media the entire day following the arrest, claiming it occurred "without incident." Officials ordered the arresting deputy to rewrite his report, eliminating all references to "f**king Jews" and other bad behavior.
TMZ goes on to point out that Brownley represents the district where a slew of celebrities, like Gibson, reside … and how this all might be a ploy to raise some celebrity dolla dolla bills for a reelection campaign. That, or she's tired of not receiving an invitation to Mel's annual Hate-a-thon, which, we hear, always has those little shrimp hors d'oeuvres we love.
• Band-aid heriess Casey Johnson was "devastated" to find out she couldn't adopt the 2 1/2 year-old child she'd bonded with for three (whole!) weeks. Luckily, there are other fish in the sea!
• Turns out disgraced Tyco chief Dennis Kozlowski is one funny jailbird!
• A Mayan women criticizes Apocalypto for its historical inaccuraces; Gibson fires back by pleasantly suggesting that she "fuck off."
• Janice Dickinson returns to what she does bust: crazy, incoherent rants.
• When Kirk Douglas walks into a room, you'd better start clapping.
• Gwen Stefani to guest-mentor on American Idol; Sanjaya to immediately stake his claim on "I'm Just A Girl."
• What really caused Anna Nicole Smith's death? The tabloids say they've got the scoop forensic experts can only dream about!
• Here's video footage of a drugged (and 8 months pregnant) Anna Nicole Smith dressed as a clown. The best part? You can actually hear Howard K. Stern's musings on how best to exploit her.
• And congrats to Anna for getting back in the game. We were starting to think Brit had overtaken her by bringing batshit insane back.
• Did Bridget Moynahan get preggers in a desperate attempt to trap Tom Brady into marriage? Or did Tom immediately dump his girlfriend of two years when she told him there was a bun in the oven?
• Michelle Pfeiffer randomly whines about how there are no good roles for pretty actresses, prompting a confused Charlize Theron, Penelope Cruz and Cate Blanchett to whisper, "Huh? That bitch craaazy."
• A-Listers snub Paris Hilton's bday bash, leaving her to party with a small monkey and army of midgets instead. Seriously.
• Which is just as well, really, seeing as Paris Hilton was worried Kim Kardashian would "steal her thunder."
• Mel Gibson confesses he'd rather be a doctor or a chef than an actor best known for his role in Braveheart and his antisemitic hate-mongering.
• Brit rocking the boat with mysterious sailor friend Isaac Cohen; Cohen to be immediately branded a "hotter version of K-Fed."
• Halle Berry continues to be maybe, possibly, debatably pregnant.
• Yep, it's just like we always suspected. Matt Damon is an evil genius.
• After only a year and half as EIC at Fast Company, Mark Vamos "speedily" replaced by Fortune's Robert Safian.
• Paris Hilton tragically miscast as "Hottie" in upcoming new film role.
• Stashwax suing SNL for being unfunny, unoriginal.
You gotta hand it to Lindsay — she's not going down without a fight. Between the drunken emails, the tumultuous relationship with occasional BFF Paris, and the most forgiving AA sponsor we've ever seen, Lindsay "Firecrotch" Lohan has put up a more than "adequite" showing this year.
But, in the end, it just wasn't enough to overtake the ever-modest Britney Spears, (whose vagina has graced the pages of this blog more times than we'd care to relate), for the title of "Most Contraversial Celebrity of 2006." And Spears, whose 2006 highlights range from using baby Sean Preston as an airbag to unceremoniously dumping Kevin Federline via text-message, has more than outdone herself the past few weeks. While Fed-Ex was out touring to promote his trainwreck of a rap album, Brit was cozying up to J.R. Rotem, a buddy of Federline's who may or may not have sampled Paris Hilton's blind stars along the way.
And she's planning a comeback album, y'all!
Honorable mentions go out to Mel Gibson, Tom Cruise and Paris herself for their invaluable contributions. Next up: The battle between Dina Lohan and Anna Nicole Smith for "Worst Mother of the Year" accolades.
• Mel Gibson's drunken anti-Semitic speech was a "gift," forcing him to realize what he needs to focus on. Like box office returns.
• With the Sex and the City movie supposedly back on track, Kim Cattrall conveniently forgets it was she who put up the roadblocks.
• All the women who want to sue American Apparel's Dov Charney will be happy to know he's got a big corporate backer to pay those out-of-court settlements.
• After Christina Ricci's biggest Internet fan dropped his website devoted to her and PETA named her to its Worst Dressed List because she wore fur, she's denounced her personal connection to the slaughter of our furry friends.
• If this supermodel ain't Naomi Campbell, we need a new list of anger-prone waifs.
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• Lindsay Lohan needs to purge her email address book, because everyone of those notes gets leaked.
• Vincent Gallo increases rate to sex you.
• Mary-Kate Olsen, soon to be seen as a decoy on Dateline: To Catch a Predator.
• If Lindsay Lohan can go a week without a drink, surely Paris Hilton can go six months without sex.
• Disgraced and soon-to-be-former Miss USA Tara Conner spends one last drunken evening with her tiara.
• One weekend of padding anti-Semites was enough for America: Mel Gibson's Apocalypto nose dived during week two.
• Lance Bass ditches Reichen Lehmkuhl for, ahem, Janice Dickinson and Jai Rodriguez.
Mel Gibson's Apocalypto sweeped the box office, despite, as the LAT puts it, "subtitles, unknown cast and obscure subject matter." Just how much did Gibson & Co. rake in over the weekend? $14.2 million, giving it the No. 1 ranking and putting it on track to become a global smash hit that will dump a few more millions into the pockets of a anti-Semitic drunk. Well done, everyone, we knew you could do it.
Because Mel Gibson is an expert on religious history and apologizing your ass off to Hollywood and America, he's using part of his Entertainment Weekly interview – promoting the upcoming Apocalypto – to dish out advice for a fellow embroiled star.
I felt like sending Michael Richards a note. I feel really badly for the guy. He was obviously in a state of stress. You don't need to be inebriated to be bent out of shape. My heart went out to the guy. Poor f—er, he's getting it now. They'll probably torture him for a while and then let him go. I like him.
Yes, poor Michael Richards. Throwing around racial slurs and then getting shit for it always makes us feel like a victim too.
It's Part 2 of 2 in the Mel Gibson Is Sorry tour that Diane Sawyer hosted on Good Morning America this week. Why two parts? Because as any anti-Semetic seeking Hollywood's forgiveness knows, two days of ratings spikes are better than one. So is Mel ready to completely make amends with the Jewish community during this holy week of Sukkot? One word: sortakindamaybeish.
Gibson said his remarks to his arresting officer in Malibu may have been sparked by the war between Israel and Lebanon, which had begun 17 days earlier. "Now, maybe it was just that very day that Lebanon and Israel were at it, you know," he said.
Asked if the Jews were responsible for that conflict, Gibson said, "Well, strictly speaking, that's, that's not true because it takes two to tango. What are they responsible for? I think that they're not blameless in the conflict. There's been aggression, and retaliation and aggression. It's just part of being in conflict, and being at war. So they're not blameless."
Also reasons they're not blameless: Killing Jesus, usury, and keeping borscht alive.
Mel Gibson Talks About His Anti-Semitic Outburst [Stephen Silverman, People]
• Hey, David Letterman. There is such a thing as too soon. Eh, who are we kidding? You, Letterman, made it already funny. [ETP]
• Here's your Mel Gibson sneak preview. We'll sum it up for ya'. Diane Sawyer: "But, you're a racist." Mel Gibson: "No, I'm a drunk." Diane Sawyer: "But you hate Jews." Mel Gibson: "No, I just really love the sauce." (Plus, the lotto numbers!) [FBNY]
• Ok, just breathe. Calm down. Jennifer Aniston that her and Vince Vaughn are not broken up. No word as to how she feels about Page Six sighting him with blondie the other day, but … she's obviously pretty desperate. [People]
• Someone replaced someone at the New York Times. What? They don't have a TimesSelect column. Nobody actually cares about their names. [E&P]
• See, Nick Lachey and Jessica Simpson know how to settle things. Well, er, Mollygood will settle it for them. [Mollygood]
• Tara Reid tells Us Weekly she will "never be perfect again." There are so many things wrong with that statement we don't even know where to begin. [Us]
• When Eliot Mintz was just a boy, do you think he dreamed of the shit show that is now his life? Eh, probably. [Mollygood]
• Mel Gibson has not gone out and tagged swastikas all over LA in 65 whole days. [AP]
• We always knew Vince Vaughn wasn't cut out for "relationships." He's already been spotted rebounding with a bottle of peroxide. [Page Six]
• Jon Friedman discovers Jon Stewart. He's funny! He has this really great comic timing! We're so grateful we have Friedman to point these things out for us. We would've never known there was just a funny, funny man out there. [Market Watch]
• Of course Google is buying YouTube. Up next: Google will also buy Pepsi, the CW, and an African child. [Mediabistro]
• Mel Gibson's publicist insists that he is completely sober and did not have a beer at a bar. Well, we didn't hear any "f'in Jews" comments come out of his mouth, so we know he wasn't drunk. [TMZ]
• Apparently Radar doesn't find a problem with magazine journalists accepting free trips to Istanbul where they ride on yachts and drink champagne. And here we thought they were such media watchdogs. [Radar]
• Harper's Bazaar really goes that extra mile by dressing Natalie Portman up as Audrey Hepburn. How did they ever come up with that? [AP]
• Shockingly, Pittsburgh loves Sienna Miller just as much as she loves them. They'll probably start calling her "stupid whore." (No, it doesn't need to rhyme … they're from Pittsburgh.) [Us]
• Never-been-Oscared director Martin Scorcese is going the "pretend you don't want it and maybe you'll get it" route with Departed. [Lowdown]
• Eva Longoria and Mario Lopez are on-again off-again lovers? We really need to start paying closer attention to the sex lives of TV stars. Ok, fine, we don't care at all. [Us]
• Uh-oh. Mel Gibson had a beer. Next thing you know he's building camps with special showers in them. [Scoop]
• Radar moves into abandoned Hearst offices. Roshan can only hope a little Esquire will "rub off" on his in-the-works rag. [NYO]
• Really? The guy on The Bachelor is a tool? But he looks so sexy and hip in his khakis and red bow ties. So Tucker Carlson it makes us drool. [Page Six]
Oh, how the mighty have fallen. There was a time, long ago, when Mel Gibson was the hottest guy in movies. And now, he's just an old, crazy, Jew hater who's forced to walk around in disguise. Take this recent incident, in which Gibson screened the uncut version of his new movie (yes it's still being made) Apocalypto.
Hollywood's most hated nut (possibly second only to Tom Cruise) headed to Oklahoma yesterday (the only state where they might be sympathetic to his ant-Simitism) wearing a wig.
The filmmaker and actor, fiercely criticized for his anti-Semitic outburst when he was arrested for drunk driving last July, showed the as-yet unfinished movie on Friday, first at a casino and at Cameron University in Oklahoma, where he arrived in wig and disguise, according to The Associated Press.
Then he went to Texas to spread his anti-war gospel. Without a disguise … which is the only part we don't understand. Nobody in Oklahoma cares if you think Hitler is the greatest man who ever lived … but tellin' Texans that this whole war is truly outrageous? We would have recommended a full cowboy outfit and mask.
For Mel Gibson, a New Movie and More Notoriety [Allison Hope Weiner, New York Times]
• Aaron Carter finds a wifey. And she was a Miss Teen USA. And their divorce will be in about 1.5 years. [Us]
• We hope Lindsay Lohan didn't break her ankle stamping Lost in Translation into bits and pieces. [Page Six]
• Joe Dolce will do anything to get his hands on Daniel Smith's autopsy reports for Star. Even ruin somebody's wedding. Nice. [Gawker]
• And speaking of ruined weddings, we hope this blushing bride — Mel Gibson's daughter — didn't have any Felds or Golds on her invite list. [TMZ]
• You know who the real threatening people in the not-so-friendly-skies are? They gay journalists who write for the New Yorker. [Queerty]
Remember when Lindsay Lohan was hungover on the Today show bragging about how she works harder than most of her friends' parents? That was kind of a bad day for her. But, uh, we think today might be even worse.
In an article about how big stars don't pull in the box office numbers anymore, the New York Times pulls a few bonkers whose movies aren't rakin' in the dough. And these are the examples they give: Tom Cruise, Mel Gibson, and …. Lindsay Lohan.
Poor Lindsay. She's kind of a train wreck. Though we have to ask the Times … are blowing lines and being a Firecrotch really as bad as driving drunk and yelling "I fucking hate Jews." Or being Tom Cruise? Come on.
A Big Star May Not a Profitable Movie Make [Eduardo Porter and Geraldine Fabrikant]
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