Ron Burkle, BFF of Hill and Bill, is set to acquire AMI, which owns Shape, Star, the National Enquirer and Men's Fitness. GQ’s advice to the editors there: stay out of the Clintons' way. [WWD]
• Just because your name's Shar Jackson doesn't mean you can pull off an "I'm Shar Jackson, Bitch" t-shirt.
• Rachel Zoe deludes herself into believing that she's more influential to fashion than Anna Wintour
• When the headline reads: "Diapered man charged with stalking teen," there's pretty much nowhere to go but down.
• It's hard to believe the exuberant Zulema Griffin in front of us today is the crazy control freak who got booted from Project Runway shortly after barking, "I don't care if you're crying as long as you're still sewing!"
• We never thought "funnyman" Dane Cook was particularly funny. That is, until we saw him trying to be a serious musician.
Shar Jackson is nothing if not an opportunist. In Touch is nothing if not an exploiter of fame whores. So it makes sense the two got together to prove Star magazine wrong, which claimed Shar is pregnant with another of Kevin Federline's spawn.
That the E.P.T. stick is not yet available for purchase on eBay, however, remains a mystery.
Bonnie Fuller is getting the blunt end of the Shar Jackson sword, we're hearing.
Shar is said to be furious with the AMI editorial director over Star magazine's claims that she's is carrying a third child for Kevin Federline. She swears the rumors are false, and that they're damaging her children. Which means she's out for a payday (we're assuming), lawyering up and saying she "stand[s] by my truth by offering you an EPT test if you stand by yours and reveal your 'source' to me."
Only problem is: Bonnie is on holiday. She's in the Canadian Martimes with her family, we're told, and had nothing to do with the Shar rumors.
Rather, it's current Star EIC Candace Trunzo (and National Enquirer chief David Perel, if our source's calculations are right) who's behind the Shar pregnancy claims — and the push to blame Bonnie for any falsehoods.
Bonnie, meanwhile, hasn't had much control of the tabloid since Candace took over.
So redirect your nasty, Ms. Jackson.
So remember the other day when old Cindy Adams' copy of Star magazine arrived at her Yorkie-filled apartment a day early, enabling her to get that amazing "scoop" on Shar Jackson's pregnancy?
Well, turns out Cindy would have been better off using that magazine to pick up after her yappy little dogs instead. Because now, in addition to denying the whole thing, Jackson has already lawyered up, presumably with the intent of slapping Star with a fairly lucrative lawsuit.
TMZ has learned Shar Jackson has hired attorney George Gallegos in her fight against Star Magazine's claims that she is pregnant once again with ex Kevin Federline's baby. Popozao!
Shar, who denies the mag's claim, says her children are being affected by the rumors, and told TMZ through her rep, "When my kids hear things at school and then ask me if they are getting a new brother or sister, I have to put my foot down."
But wait! There's more!
Yesterday, we told you there was a rumor going around that Britney Spears and Kevin Federline were working through their differences and contemplating giving their marriage a second try.
And now comes further proof of a Britney/K-Fed reconciliation: Federline's ex-girlfriend, Shar Jackson, is seven weeks pregnant with his child.
Federline may have morning sickness, which could last for nine months when he reads this - but this is to tell him his on-again-off-again-and-for-sure-lately very on-again romance with Shar Jackson seems to have produced yet another baby between them. She’s into her seventh week, and at the instant I write this he doesn’t know. Star magazine is saying she’s hoping this brings them back together as a family. Ugh.
OK, we know what some of you are thinking. First of all, how is it that senile gossip columnist Cindy Adams has the scoop? And second, doesn't the fact that K-Fed is off impregnating other women mean he's not trying to weasel his way back into Britney Spears' joint checking account?
Our answers may surprise you.
• Shar Jackson and Jason Alexander help say goodbye to Spederline.
• Judy? We're worried about you, too.
• Britney? Don't let anyone tell you that you're not worth three-figures.
• Nick Denton gets spanked, didn't even need Match.com profile to arrange it.
• Ex-Rocketboomer Amanda Congdon's HBO deal is followed up by an ABC gig, 'cause everyone needs Mickey Mouse's floppy ears to follow mob boss ties.
• Fox News' Neil Cavuto has the type of faith in the U.S. auto industry as he does in President Bush: blind.
• Radar can't bear to whisper the New York Post's name.
• NYT op-ed columnist John Tierney says goodbye, but you didn't read it, 'cause you don't pay for TimesSelect.
• GQ bitch fight — over food. It's on.
• Justin Timberlake + Diddy = Prince? We are still struggling with the math. [NYM]
• Well if there are other Paris Hiltons in the world, we're sure there are other Diddys. [Y!]
• Despite the fact that he threatens to kill someone new in every song, it may be his bad driving that finally locks 50 Cent up. [E!]
• Wow, them Catholics will literally do anything to stop Madonna from performing. [Y!]
• Shar Jackson may have our undying pity, but there’s no way we’re considering her as an A-Lister. Sorry. [Page Six]
• If Shar Jackson wants to be like Britney Spears she doesn't need to sing. She can just get fat and pop out Federline spawn. Oh, except that didn't work last time. [MySpace, via Best Week Ever]
• Carmelo Anthony may not live up to expectations on the basketball court, but he sure can bring his own brand of mediocrity to other ventures. Hence, the record label. [BallerStatus]
• Kylie Minogue wrote a children's book about a girl named Kylie who wants to become a "showgirl princess." Just what the literary world needs — another memoir. [Guardian]
• Busta Rhymes is sad and all that his bodyguard was killed, but would really like the focus to return to him, his music, and the message of "unity." [MTV]
• The Brits are completely crazy. Case in point: they've commended Pete Doherty for "making progress" against drugs. Wasn't he arrested like nine times last week? [NME]
• It's a D-List clusterfuck! (Ok, this has nothing to do with music, but we just wanted to say clusterfuck.) Spurned lovers Shar Jackson and Jason Alexander hop in bed together … well, actually, they hop into Brandy and Nick Cannon's bed. There, music. [Page Six]
• David Lee Roth is more of a handful of Howard Stern? Lloyd Grove is still talking about all things H.Stern related? [Lowdown]
• Big Screen Concerts brings completely sterile rock experiences to old people and kids with overprotective parents. The Phish movie attendees really don't care, or notice though. ('Cuz they were high … shh) [NY Times]
• Though it is a bit unnerving that Joel and Benji Madden are looking to get further into the movie business, we suppose this means we won't be getting a new album from Good Charlotte anytime soon — Martha would say "it's a good thing." [Reuters]
• GLAAD has lashed out at American Idol for Randy Jackson's comments to one contestant about his gender. But, we don't understand. The kid thought the judges were "racist," What's GLAAD got to do with it? [MSNBC]
• Ashlee Simpson will provide Saturday Night Live's writers with plenty of material should her talks with the show's producers churn out a hosting gig. She's in talks to return to her lip-synching nightmare in October to coincidide with her sophomore release.
• Beverly Hills nip-tucker Dr. Frank Ryan is peeved over Shar Jackson's claims he tried to sell photos of her and her kids taken at a party he hosted with hopes of making a buck. He admits to peddling them to bidders but only to raise money for his inner-city children's charity. Aww.
• Naked chics protesting the arrest of a protesting naked chic? Hot! Ugly old men taking their shirts off and joining the cause? Not hot!
• Faggot Feud host and unofficial Manhattan tourism liason Amanda Lepore dropped to her knees at the Heatherette launch party at Henri Bendel, but not in the manner usually she's usually accustomed. Rather, she tripped when one of her five-inch stiletto heels snapped as she approached the stage.
• Darren Star has already picked up the rights to Candace Bushnell's upcoming Lipstick Jungle with hopes of turning it into another series about Manhattan women, only this time they'll be fighting their age even harder.
• There really isn't a reason to require more evidence of Tara Reid's lipo-suctioned tummy, but if the photos are there, why not peak?
• The real cost of the MTA's subway searches? Rising drug prices, as dealers refuse to take the train to make drop-offs.
• Bill Clinton is releasing his own CD compilation, but it won't have the chachet of being a Starbucks-only release.
• Kevin Federline must be too busy spending wifey's cash, which explains his absence from the first birthday party of his son Kaleb with ex Shar Jackson. Naturally Shar is going to feed this story to the tabs generate this week's income.
• It's war (or pussy fight) between Bill O'Reilly and Donny Deutsch, with laughable "author Bernard Goldberg at the center of it all.
• While Men's Health's David Zinczenko has been seen courting Mandy Moore around the Hamptons, she may have spent the weekend with ex-flame Zach Braff.
• Tom Sizemore is no out on probation since admitting to a judge he used a fake dick to pass a urine drug test. Now he's back in rehab, or as we like to call it, "career revival."
• Britney Spears' lil sis Jamie Lynn has been running her mouth in her online journal, revealing Brit's due date is in September.
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