• It turns out this isn’t even the first time Ellen DeGeneres regifted a stray dog. She’s reportedly been peddling those second-hand bitches all over town!
• If you had to make out with one of these two Kid Rocks, which would you choose? (And no fair saying “assisted suicide.”)
• Young urban black communities continue to ignore the risks of smoking in favor of the allure of nicotine.
• Jake Gylennhaal tries to pull a Larry Craig, gets confused and ends up in a women’s lavatory with Susan Sarandon instead.
It’s been a confusing weekend. First, we saw actor/comedian Stephen Colbert appear on Meet the Press and make a complete mockery of the presidential campaign simply by appearing to go about it in earnest. Then we saw the author of “Harry Potter” shock millions (and, undoubtedly, offend the sensitive ears of the Christian right) by “confessing” that her fictional headmaster prefers the company of wizards to witches.
So we were more than a little bit relieved to stumble upon a beacon of normalcy in this otherwise topsy-turvy existence: “Kid Rock has been arrested in Atlanta in connection with a fight at a waffle house.”
And suddenly, the world (almost) makes sense again.
Kid Rock on why he doesn’t bother tuning into MTV. “There’s no reason to watch that channel anymore. They don’t play any music. I mean, who hell wants to watch some 16-year-old brat have a birthday party?” Nobody! Well, except for us. [NYP]
• Sharon Stone accidentally confuses her dress with a used tampon.
• Jared Leto finally shares his weight loss secret: curry powder and mediocre romps in the sack.
• We never thought we’d actually say this, but Amanda Peet could actually (gulp) benefit from the overpriced services of vapid raisin-face Rachel Zoe.
• Ozzy Osbourne reminds us all you need is sex, drugs, rock n’ roll and…Botox?
• A bikini clad Pamela Anderson shows us, Kid Rock why she’s still worth sucker-punching Tommy Lee smack in the middle of Alicia Keys’ performance at the VMA’s for.
• Apparently, the downside to being one of the numerous third world street urchins adopted by Brangelina is you have to sleep in their bed. (Or wait, was that the upside?)
• Kid Rock and Tommy Lee are offered a chance to finish what they started during a $1 million fight at the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino.
• Lindsay Lohan says she’s staying in rehab; paparazzi around the world cry.
• Dominick Dunne aids the Goldmans in their morally comprised campaign for justice.
• There’s a reason why Tom Ford’s new cologne smells like ass.
• If there was any doubt about the state of New York theater, Tori Spelling and that guy she’s always with are in talks to appear in Chicago on Broadway.
Now that Britney has officially crashed and burned, we can turn our attention to the other drama of the night, Kid Rock’s fight with Tommy Lee.
Fortunately for you, Tommy Lee offers a ranting incoherent explanation for what transpired on Tommy Lee.TV.
Read on to find out what really started the off-air fracas and to muse over the fact that rocker/sex-god Tommy Lee has the writing style of a 13 year-old girl. (Ellipses his).
Kid Rock and Tommy Lee duked it out last night in an anticlimactic “scuffle” over a woman comprised predominantly of silicone. Asked for his thoughts immediately following the kerfuffle, Lee replied, “What kind of guy comes up and punches someone when Alicia Keys is performing?” [Mollygood]
Make fun all you want about Tara Reid earning her dolla dolla bills by hosting a New Year’s eve bash at a Chicago Marriot, but at least she didn’t have to fly halfway around the world a la Paris Hilton to earn her fee. While Paris launches the new beer line Bondi Blonde on the New Year and Tara Reid hits the continental breakfast, what will their young Hollywood gal pals be up to? The LAT rounds out the list of how professional celebrities earn their dues:
• Britney Spears will be at Las Vegas’ Pure with a midnight toast from a champagne total worth more than Kevin Federline’s net worth
• Pamela Anderson will be at Vegas’ Tao pretending not to notice that:
• Kid Rock will be at Vegas’ Jet, where he’ll be treating revelers to a “rare DJ set.” Which, clearly, will involve a set of iPods.
• Christina Aguilera will be in New York at the Hudson Hotel, alongside gossip blogger Perez Hilton and hoards of hangers-on.
• Jessica Alba will be at Miami’s Setai hotel, but unable to carry the event by herself, she’ll be joined by Hilary Duff’s veneers and Ben McKenzie’s brooding.
We hear Talon Torriero has yet to lock down his New Year’s Eve hosting duties, but luckily there’s a new Valero gas station opening Jan. 1.
• As Kid Rock and Pamela Anderson both rush to the press to have their sides told, the has-been rocker insists he was the responsible parent.
• A judge in Malawi has decided to let 67 human rights groups get together for an “Is Madonna a fit mother” orgy.
• Now that she’s a $29 million-per-movie kinda gal, Reese Witherspoon can make demands like “no cellphones on set.”
• Fox 411 gossip Roger Friedman says he has the real scoop on Nicole Kidman’s pregnancy — and it ain’t so.
• Just moments after performing on The Tonight Show, Snoop Dogg has to perform in the back of a police cruiser.
• ABC still willing to work with Judith Regan, even post-O.J. Simpson.
• First there are the K-Fed sex tape rumors, now there are the K-Fed porn star rumors.
• Sofia Coppola gives birth to future Bungalow 8 patron.
It took just four months for Pamela Anderson to end her marriage to Kid Rock — and just days before she started giving interviews about the fallout. We hear the buxom blonde is already shopping her tale around, with Us Weekly among those on the list taking dictation. An insider tells us she spoke with Us before Janice Min put the issue to bed on Monday night (so you should expect to see it in this week’s issue, available Wednesday). Surely you’re just juiced for her yarn about what it’s like to finish off a case of Milwaukee’s Best in an hour and the pillow fights she had with Blonde And Blonder co-star Denise Richards, right?
Smells like best-selling issue ever to us!
• Blame Borat for Pamela Anderson and Kid Rock’s divorce.
• Owen Wilson plans to ask Kate Hudson to marry him with a mall-bought ring.
• Now that O.J. Simpson’s Fox TV interview is canned, every other network wants to sit him down for some meta chatter about the whole ordeal.
• PETA names Nicole Richie “worst dressed celeb.” Way to go, Rachel Zoe!
• Phil Donahue plans anti-Iraq war movie, encroaches on Michael Moore’s turf.
• While Al Sharpton handles the alleged race-based NYPD shoot-out on Saturday, the Rev. Jesse Jackson is left to boycott Seinfeld.
Pamela Anderson and Kid Rock, named “Newlyweds of the Year” in December’s GQ:
Pamela Anderson and Kid Rock, named divorcees of the year:
Then, Hilary Duff gushing to Jane’s December issue about how the paparazzi helps her relationship with Joel Madden:
Hilary and Joel today:
TMZ has learned that Pamela Anderson has filed for divorce from husband Kid Rock.
Anderson, who is represented by celebrity hotshot lawyer Neal Hersh, cited irreconcilable differences.
The couple was married August 3, 2006. Earlier this month, Anderson suffered a miscarriage.
And just think, it only took four weddings to get us here.
• That Tori Spelling is so crafty. She may not be known as the sharpest knife, but she was able to snag herself some free porn for life. [Page Six]
• Biggest exaggeration of the day: “The Earth is being overrun by Paris Hilton clones.” [R&M]
• Dina Lohan explains there is only so much hard core partying a child can take. And Lindsay Lohan just can’t snort any more lines without falling down. [People]
• Boing Boing is still popular. Almost as popular as the most popular girl on MySpace. [WSJ]
• Pamela Anderson and Kid Rock take part in the classiest wedding ceremony ever. Check out the bride all dressed in white. [Us Weekly]
• Ashlee Simpson, hard-working artist that she is, needs some rest. [MTV]
• If you’re a photographer on Monica’s trail, you should probably be fearing for your life. [NYP]
• Here’s what Beyonce has learned from boyfriend Jay-Z: whenever someone tries to sue her, she just brushes her shoulder off. Problem is, that doesn’t pay off $1.5 million debts. [Jam!]
• Justin Timberlake is rooting for Britney Spears. Or, at least hoping to score some free weed of K-Fed. [The Age]
• Kid Rock thought long and hard about Pamela Anderson while he was in jail. Ahh. Nothing breeds true love like avoiding rape in a Swiss prison shower room. [1063klen]
• Nelly Furtado makes us face this simple fact of life: we’re all gay. [Sun]
• Justin Timberlake officially just got cool again. Though, we should have figured him for a junkie … his girlfriend’s a crackhead. [MSNBC]
• The brilliant plan to take a guy called C-Murder off house arrest scares us almost as much as Ann Coulter roaming free. Almost. [Jam!]
• From the diary of Pamela Anderson: “Dear Diary, Kid and I finally set the date for our wedding! I just hope Tommy Lee takes me back before July 29.” [Us Weekly]
• Rap’s new motto: guns don’t kill people, bling kills people. [HipHopGame]
• Two things nobody cares to know about Avril Lavigne: she ate junk food before her wedding and can’t dance. (When it doubt, blame it on being Canadian.) [Jam!]
• Kid Rock returned the cameras he stole from the paparazzi in a scuffle outside a club the other night. Unfortunately for the photogs, Rock figured out how to get the film out of the camera. Too cheap to shoot in digital? [Page Six]
• Oh, what we wouldn’t pay to hear Britney Spears and Kevin Federline’s rendition of “I Got You, Babe.” [R&M]
• Kanye West: just like P. Diddy, only with talent. [MSNBC]
• Drew Lachey is set to co-host this year’s Miss USA Pageant. Or, more accurately, the parade of possible girlfriends for Nick. [AP]
• Surprise, Ludacris plays a murderer in his Law & Order guest spot. Of course, if they’re going to have a rap artist on the show, he’s gotta’ be a criminal. [MTV]
• Remember all those Isaac Hayes/South Park jokes from last week? The real reason Hayes quit is because he had a stroke. Awwwwkward. [Page Six]
• Top ten over-hyped bands of the last five years: Arctic Monkeys, The Vines, sure we’ll play along. But you lost us at Steven Segal. [Boston]
• The stress of the sex tape is finally getting to Kid Rock. He’s started to lash out Pete Doherty style at the innocent paparazzi. [TMZ]
• Are rumors of Sting’s tantric loving orgies really that ridiculous? [Page Six]
• Britney Spears got two midgets to deliver Kevin Federline his birthday cake. How creepy. [R&M]
It may not have done much for Rob Lowe’s career, but sex tapes are now on the “must do” list for any B-List actor or actress. So appropriate and tasteful are these tapes, that the Sunday Style section in the New York Times is now covering this celeb “trend.”
Even Joe Levy, executive editor at Rolling Stone, is all like “everyone else is doing it.”
“The huge difference between nearly 20 years ago and now is that pornography is more easily available, therefore there is far less of a stigma attached to it.”
Mr. Levy added: “In this day and age everyone has their own video camera and is free to use it in whatever manner they desire. The more people that make these tapes for their own pleasure, the less they think it horrifying that others have done so too.”
The problem is that the celebs you actually want to see naked and getting it on (you know who they are) never pull a “Stars are Just Like Us!” home video. It’s always Fred Durst, Kid Rock, Paris Hilton and other skeez-o types. But, the Sunday Styles does try to give us hope for the future of celeb sex tapes; the next Red Light District product should be out soon, according to the company’s director David Joseph.
He would not name names, but did drop hints. “It’s a girl,” he said, smiling mischievously, “and she’s in the music business.”
We have a feeling this might be the legendary Britney Spears sex tape. Blech. Wasn’t watching Chaotic torture enough?
Sex, Lawsuits and Celebrities Caught on Tape [Lola Ogunnaike, New York Times]
• Nothing says “crack baby” like a Whitney Houston pregnancy rumor. [Scoop]
• Graydon Carter might put Paris Hilton the cover of Vanity Fair, but that doesn’t mean her parents are welcome at his Oscar party. [Page Six]
• When Lindsay Lohan, the Olsens, and Paris Hilton get together for Amy Sacco, you’d expect such tension to be accompanied by a Nicole Richie arrival. [R&M]
• Rapper Shyne is changing his name to something Jewish and will take out a New York Post ad to announce it. Page Six, naturally, must cover it. [Page Six]
• Kid Rock blames Scott Stapp for losing their sex tape. And then thanks him for the PR, given his upcoming album. [AP]
• Dennis Rodman parties with the gays at Splash. Gays, everywhere, yawn. [Page Six]
• NBC White House correspondente David Gregory wasn’t drunk yesterday when he phoned in to Don Imus‘ show. He had the giggles. [R&M]
• What’s a Spin magazine celebration if there isn’t a simultaneous Spin snub? [Page Six]
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