British Photographer Nick Knight was mad as hell about the racism he saw in the fashion industry, and he wasn't going to take it anymore. So he enlisted enlisted Naomi Campbell and some prop (I hope!) guns to illustrate the frustration that he and black models feel every day in a silent short film.
Violent celebrity Naomi Campbell is in the middle of a guest editing stint at Britain's Mirror, and she's using her soapbox to take a shot at scandal-laden celebrity Madonna — over Kabbalah. Who discovered it first? Who's knows what it's really about? Time to put on the boxing gloves, ladies. CONTINUED »
Although the recent LeBron James Vogue cover didn’t do so well on the stands for what, perhaps, are obvious reasons, there’s a lot of speculation that the all-black issue of Vogue Italia will exceed money-making expectations. For one thing the issue — see sneak-peek pics* from Naomi Campbell’s Vogue Italia spread above and below — has received international attention. For another thing, far more ads were sold for this special issue than normal. Sure, part of it is the novelty aspect. But it also dispels the myth that black models can’t sell magazines or products.
As soon as Naomi Campbell has settled one case, it’s time to plead guilty to another one. Such is life when you’re an angry lunatic with a crippling sense of entitlement. She pleaded guilty this morning in London to “two counts of assaulting a police constable; one of using threatening, abusive words or behavior to cabin crew; and one of using insulting, abusive, threatening behavior or disorderly conduct likely to cause harassment, alarm or distress” — a result of her recent temper tantrum at the British Airways counter at Heathrow Airport.
This is a video featuring Naomi Campbell that does not feature her surrounded by heroin, or throwing a phone. At least not at the help. It's also an example of ABC's brilliant promotional scheme for Ugly Betty, by delivering viewers additional content that they're ACTUALLY INTERESTED IN SEEING.
Now. Where's the Lindsay Lohan blooper reel?
UGLY BETTY, PRETTY NAOMI Watch Naomi Campbell swing a bat at something other than a member of the service industry. [Daily Mail]
"Naomi Campbell was arrested at Heathrow Airport this afternoon after allegedly SPITTING at a police officer. The supermodel was hauled away "ranting and screaming" from her flight at Terminal Five after a row over a lost bag. Naomi first kicked off in BA's first class lounge after being told that one of her three bags had not made it onto the flight. Despite apologies and assurances she would be reunited with her luggage, the temperamental supermodel flew into a rage. She began harassing airline staff who called cops as the flight was called and Naomi walked onto the plane. She was still yelling at boarding card staff as she took her seat. Three officers from the MET's SO18 Aviation security branch then came onto the plane. They tried to calm the model down, but she is alleged to have reacted by spitting at an officer and then laying into him with her fists." [Sun]
Naomi Campbell is furious that she can't keep her medical issues private. When she was rushed into surgery at a hospital in Sao Paulo, news of her cyst removal operation leaked out. Which is so unfair; in the U.S., celebrity patients' privacy is of utmost concern. Though she's also furious about those rumors she's throwing a Got Out of the Hospital party. Girl needs to learn to pick her battles.
HIGH FASHION, HIGH POWER Interviewing Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez for British GQ didn't satisfy her journalistic longings, so Naomi Campbell – currently appearing on French Vogue with Kate Moss – is going after Argentina's chief, Cristina Fernández de Kirchner. And perhaps just like Chavez, she'll wind up with a date. After she puts her pen down.
• Not hot: Jenna Jameson's augmented breasts.
• Naomi Campbell dating Hugo Chavez? Well, they have terrorism in common.
• Britney Spears might marry bf Adnan Ghalib. Take if from Pam Anderson: third time's not the charm.
• Shocker: Lindsay Lohan has a new beau.
• OMG!!! HSM3 is happening 4sur!
• Free time + photoshop = pictures of celebrities on money.
• Philadelphia Channel 3 loves the dykes. Their "vacationing" Anchorwoman Alycia “with a y” Lane is less amorous toward them.
• Ron Paul's blimp is as confused as Ron Paul's presidency.
• Kanye West doesn't care about black people.
• Progress: Women can bartend in India. Less progress: women in India can now exploit themselves for tips.
• Naomi Campbell is now a model slash journalist, specializing in Q&As with dictators even crazier than she is.
• Facebook is taking over the world. Or not. Probably not.
Did you hear? Scary British runway walker Naomi Campbell "took a meeting" with Venezuelan prez Hugo Chavez. And in case that's not weird enough already, now Palestinian terrorists are calling Campbell "courageous" and interpreting the Amazonian phone-thrower's precedent setting actions to mean the tides of America's political landscape are officially changing for the better.
Abu Nasser, chief of the Al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades terror group in the Old City of Nablus in the West Bank, said: "The visit presents a slap in the face to Bush and his government and his policy. The fact that she respects Chavez, and his ideals, can bring more people to follow this step."
At least, in theory.
Former supermodel/disgrace to humanity Naomi Campbell looks so unspeakably gorgeous at London's Fashion Rocks that we almost want to grab our cell phone and take aim at that pretty little face of hers. Almost.*
*See, Naomi? That's the difference.
At a panel discussion on race and modeling, Naomi Campbell said "I've never been on the cover of British Vogue and I've asked a million times and they've always refused me."
Except she has. Eight times.
Maybe Campbell was inspired by James Frey who told the New York Times last week that he had never written a short story in his life despite having published a short story last fall.
This is an earnest request to media types everywhere: If you’re going to lie, pick a topic that a single Google search won’t catch.
• The lead singer of Maroon Five denies ever saying that tennis hottie Maria Sharapova was a "double-fault" in bed.
• As usual, the Times is quick to weigh in with an already-reported scoop on Wikipedia.
• Keira Knightley's anorexic yearnings revealed!
• Dog-killer Michael Vick accepts a plea bargain. Ironically, the deal calls for two years of being some inmate's bitch.
• Naomi Campbell is convinced British Vogue doesn't like black people. But we're pretty sure they're just prejudiced against phone-throwing amazonian shitshows.
• First Leona Helmsley couldn't escape taxes, and now she can't avoid death. The hotel queen is dead at 87.
• Nicole Richie says she doesn't care if gains 40 or even 50 pounds during pregnancy, so long as she can go back to throwing up after every meal as soon as it's all over.
• "Just where does one acquire a stunning transparent sumo-inspired kimono like the one seen here on Britney Spears?" wonder our friends over at Yeeeah. "I’m guessing some place super-classy, like 'Great Big Geishas' or 'Fook Mi’s Big Happy Smile Poonanny Palor.' Um, we're guessing you're right.
• Lindsay Lohan's B-cups runneth over.
• Denise Richards wants Charlie Sheen to be the father sperm donor of their children.
• Naomi Campbell drops her cell phone underneath her chaise lounge, then makes her assistant pick it up for her, so she can throw it at him.
• Pamela Anderson is dating a nerdy magician version of herself.
• Lindsay Lohan fired before she even had the chance to show up late (and hungover) to set.
• Which paparazzo's dick do we have to suck to get our picture in the society pages?
• Shocker! In Brit's new music video, she's wearing…a bad wig and too-tight closed.
• Usher's pissy cease and desist letter makes his (former) biggest fan wonder what she ever saw in him, anyway.
• Naomi Campbell finds a way to make money off of her her penchant for throwing phones at people.
• Gossip columnist Claudia Cohen had a $60 million estate. Meanwhile, we're still holding out for dental.
• I never really looked into myself, deep below the surface…I was just caught up in my job and flying around the world and wanting to be fabulous. But there comes a point when it all catches up with you and you have to deal with it.
• After work, I take the subway uptown. The last time I was on the subway you had to use tokens.
• Two of the people in the room have never been on a plane. They ask me what it’s like, and I’m embarrassed to tell them I was on seven planes the week before alone.
–Supermodel Naomi Campbell opens up to W this month with the release of "The Naomi Diaries." [via Mollygood]
• It's no secret that Lindsay Lohan blows. But now, there's actually proof!
• Which may explain why the "hard-partying starlet" who dabbles in lesbianism is seeking new representation.
• Meanwhile, Felicity Huffman set a good example for her troubled (and still underage) costar by reportedly getting shitfaced on the set of Georgia Rule.
• Naomi Campbell is in the early honeymoon phone-throwing stages of her relationship with hotelier (and Uma Thurmon castoff) Andre Balazs.
• Stavros Niarchos ditches Paris for a beautiful hamburger-eating blond with a clean criminal record.
• Diddy will never let you forget that he's the man behind lots of other people's success. And Making the Band.
• Jennifer Lopez and Marc Anthony splitting? So soon after she referred to her husband by both first and last name on American Idol? Well, the item IS from OK!, so let's not start doing something crazy like buying her new Spanish album.
• Naomi Campbell manages to show up for community service, but not her own reality show.
• Jake Gyllenhaal and Austin Nichols should just move in together already.
• Lindsay Lohan's mother is every bit as irresponsible as you've come to expect her to be.
• Post-Jennifer, Vince Vaughn isn't doing so well.
• Kelis is pissing off the gays. And NOBODY pisses off the gays.
• Beyonce and Jay-Z table hopped at Waverly Inn so they won't be oogled at. At the Waverly. WHERE YOU GO TO BE OOGLED.
• Haikus about Larry Birkhead? Start counting your syllables.
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