For the last few idiots left who look to Lynne Spears for parenting advice, consider this: The woman just leaked some of the "shocking" revelations from her new tell-all disguised as a celebrity parenting how-to in an effort to garner some publicity. The revelations include stories about Britney's sex life and drug and alcohol abuse, which would be surprising if the wise Road Kill Willie hadn't already spilled the beans.
Apparently Lynne claims that Britney began drinking alcohol at the age of 13, when she joined the Mickey Mouse Club. By 14, she had lost her virginity to an 18-year-old football player from her hometown, and by 15 she was taking drugs. Lynne details "the horror when Britney, just 16, was caught with cocaine and cannabis on a private jet."
'"X-Files" star David Duchovny, who currently plays a womanizing writer on the cable television series "Californication," said on Thursday he has entered a facility for treatment of sex addiction. [...] He has been married since 1997 to actress Tea Leoni, with whom he has a 9-year-old daughter and a 6-year-old son. "I have voluntarily entered a facility for the treatment of sex addiction," he said in a statement released through his lawyer, Stanton "Larry" Stein. "I ask for respect and privacy for my wife and children as we deal with this situation as a family."' [Reuters]
Cougars: NYC is endlessly fascinating, and the show itself hasn't even been fully cast yet. Just the fact that Cougars — older women who date younger men — steal a page from the gay handbook and call their partners "cubs" just shows the thin line these women tread between the absurd and the fabulous. Nothing wrong with dating younger men, but treating younger boyfriends like a piece of meat isn't going to solve millennium-old gender inequality. Which would seem to be the case to hear it straight from the cougar's mouth during another party/cattle call for the show:
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'KTNV-TV, Channel 13, reporter, Jeff Gradney has been fired after he and his girlfriend were accused of soliciting male partners on the Internet. Gradney, who joined the ABC affiliate three years ago, was dismissed Monday, after a disgruntled employee sent management and staffers a Craigslist ad, a source said, that appeared to show the reporter having sex with his girlfriend. The ad read: "hot, intensely passionate couple looking for a cool guy to play with."' [LVRJ, via]
The Parents Television Council, whose criticism of Gossip Girl was used as part of the show's marketing campaign, has found something new to criticize: sex on television. Actually, yes, they've gone there before, but this time it's different: They're mad that sex between two married people is shown as the boring, trite interpersonal exchange that it is, while sex between two unmarried people is shown as a hot, nasty, animal event, which in real life, it usually is. For their new study "Happily Never After: How Hollywood Favors Adultery and Promiscuity Over Marital Intimacy on Prime Time Broadcast TV," the PTC watched more than 200 hours of televised innuendo and found "verbal references to nonmarital sex outnumber references to sex in marriage nearly 3 to 1," and other shocking statistics like, "references to incest, pedophilia, partner swapping, prostitution, threesomes, transsexuals/transvestites, bestiality and necrophilia combined outnumbered references to sex in marriage on NBC by a ratio of 27 to 1." To be fair, Tina Fey is is a genius.
Bow Wow really, really, really, really wants us to know that shooting a sex scene with a porn star on Entourage was no big thing, because it's normal for him. It happens. It happens all the time, okay!!!!
And if you’re a lady and would like to remain in control of your sanity, you might want to skip this episode. Because you will go crazy if you see it.
Kathy Griffin, comedian and victim of a quitting assistant, normally charges in the tens of thousands of dollars to appear at your corporate retreat or nine-year-old's birthday party.
But there is another way to attach yourself to Griffin and generate at least a fraction of the buzz that would come with actually booking her: Trying to book her, getting no response, and then launching a marketing campaign that says "We tried booking Kathy Griffin but she ignored us" when you're actually trying to get everybody mentioning the non-scandal and linking to your site.
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It really is quite a sad state of affairs when the one gossip rag devoted to exposing beloved politico John Edwards for the possibly cheating-on-his-dying-wife is in deep, deep financial trouble. The National Enquirer, which seems to be the only media outlet beating the drum on Edwards' alleged cheating, is in the shitter. More accurately, its parent company American Media Inc., which also publishes Star, is the one getting a swirlie in the outhouse. With hundreds of millions of dollars in debt (this is not new), much of AMI's equity is about to be handed over to its creditors THL Partners and Evercore Partners (this is new) as makes the near impossible struggle to rid itself of endless red ink stains.
Oh, speaking of stains? Nobody is talking about the ones Edwards might be leaving around various hotel rooms as he cavorts with his maybe mistress. And here's why! CONTINUED »
Sen. Jon Edwards isn't the only high-profiler to be accused of cheating by a tabloid. Today, Star firmly places Matthew Broderick, husband of future reality TV show franchise and mole-free Sarah Jessica Parker, in that section of the Venn Diagram. Supposedly a 25-year-old red headed lass is the object of Broderick's affection, and they began a tryst earlier this year after meeting at a bar, and continued things while SJP was shooting Sex and the City. That Broderick's mistress calls him "Matty Cakes" adds a whole layer of authenticity to the report.
Hey, did you hear that sex sells? Yes, really! You can use sex to push anything on consumers, whether it's beer and vodka, movies and TV shows, or computer translation software and television sets. Sometimes the imagery and tone leans toward PG, like LG's Scarlett TVs. And other times it crosses the line into full on suggestive raunch.
Pictured here, one such example. It's from American Apparel — a company you would expect this sort of thing from, given it's headed up by notorious sicko Dov Charney.
Below, however, your "screw a teenage blonde" fantasy comes true from a slightly more reputable company. CONTINUED »
Now that we're in the running toward November's general election, the questions are getting TOUGH for candidates. Like this one aimed John McCain's way: Is it unfair that some insurance companies cover prescriptions for Viagra but not birth control? (It was McCain's own spokeswoman who said it was unfair.)
Watching McCain squirm around in his chair before admitting he "[didn't] know enough about it to give you a informed answer" perhaps resembles what McCain looked like during his first sexual encounter, when he and the young lass who took his V-card had the contraceptives conversation.
This month, Glamour, the magazine that makes you feel good about yourself by pointing out all your flaws, features "16 Seduction Tips," because 15 is too few and 17 is too hard to pronounce. Among them, the one pictured here.
We'd be the first ones to call bullshit on this love story, and suggest editors merely made it up, but alas, we've heard a real-life version of this scenario from a friend, only it was with two dudes. And it wasn't the anchor's desk, but the control room. [STA]
Gag gift of a person Victoria Beckham has admitted to dating 80s movie star Corey Haim way back in 1995, before he was selling his teeth and before she was unsalvageable. But, the Spice Girl says she did not have sexual relations with that teen heartthrob.
That's what Washington City Paper Angela Valdez is asking to mostly deaf ears. The National Enquirer ran with a story about CBS star Lara Logan having Baghdad romances with CNN's Michael Ware and U.S. State Department contractor Joe Burkett, and the New York Post picked it up from there. The story even made it to Howard Kurtz's CNN show Reliable Sources (video here), where he played Jossip's favorite game: Cover the gossip by reporting on the coverage of the gossip, and asking whether we should be reporting on this at all. Well, perhaps somebody like Kurtz shouldn't be wasting air time with it, but the Enquirer has a history of reporting on our news men and women; it just so happens that Logan's story involves sex, with multiple partners, and she's a pretty lady. So should we be upset by it? Maybe — it's likely Logan got heavier treatment because she's a woman, while plenty of male on-air sex trysts go unreported. But also: She's a high-paid attractive public figure who brought together the words "sex" and "Iraq" for the first time since this war began, and shouldn't the gossip industry be celebrated for that?
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