A British Virgin Airline ride from LA to London had to make an emergency landing because Winona Ryder overdosed on Xanax. Of course, that's the British gossip's version of it. Our way subtler US Daily News just says that Ryder suffered from "a mysterious illness" and is better now after being admitted into a British hospital.
Rather than tuck her boobies inside a bikini top, bitter actress Sienna Miller is suing Big Pictures, the photo agency responsible for exposing her bits, and News International's News of the World and Sun, which printed the pics.
Though, Miller might be less upset about having her breasts printed in the tabloids than she is about the exposure of her her relationship with married Brothers & Sisters actor Balthazar Getty, who was forced into acknowledging a separation from his wife when the photos surfaced.
In December, Miller successfully scored a $75k judgment against those same two papers when they printed pictures of her filming a nude scene for a movie. And if she secures a similar award this time around, she'll have the budget to support her lifestyle and continue making art house films, steering clear of any cineplex we'd ever visit.
The downside of printing celebrity gossip that sometimes plays loose with the facts? Sometimes you have to retract it, apologize for it, and tuck a few bills in an unmarked manilla envelope to express your regret to the offended party.
Britain's The Sun has been through this before (like in 2006, when they admitted an article about Teri Hatcher screwing some guy in a van outside her house was "totally incorrect"). Yesterday, they found themselves in familiar territory with Italian soccer player Marco Materazzi.
Back in 2006, the paper might have "wrongly stated that during the World Cup final the Italian Defender, Marco Materazzi, used vile racist abuse by calling Zinedine Zidane the son of a terrorist whore thus goading Zidane into angrily headbutting him. We also said that Mr Materazzi was a hypocritical liar when he denied it and was rightly condemned for what he said."
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As if recent pictures of Amy Winehouse weren't enough proof, The Sun has a video of Amy Winehouse doing crack, coke and ecstasy.
The tormented singing sensation took hit after hit of the deadly drug after a 19-minute binge in which she snorted powdered ecstasy and cocaine.
And she admitted she had just popped six Valium pills to “bring myself down”.
Kate Moss snorting coke on tape had some glamor to it; see her follow-up cover on Vanity Fair. Amy Winehouse doing crack is a DARE ad.
The Sun, Britain's most gossip-y publication, printed a story last August that put Teri Hatcher in a van, having sex with some guy right outside of her house. And now the paper is pretty much saying that they made it up, it isn't true, and that they're really, really sorry.
The Sun now admits the article was "totally incorrect" and regrets "the embarrassment caused" to the Desperate Housewives star, reports the Associated Press.
Hatcher's London-based legal firm, Schillings, said the Sun had agreed to pay undisclosed damages as well as Hatcher's court costs. It also said the celebrity magazine Heat agreed to apologize for printing the same allegations in August.
See, that's how gossip works on the other side of the ocean — the papers pay the people they write about. Not the other way around.
Forget having a good skin day. Cameron Diaz is having a good skin week!
Hot off the conviction of photog John Rutter who forged her signature on release forms for those kinky topless photos, Diaz is cleaning up in her libel lawsuit against Britain's The Sun.
The tabloid publicly apologized to Justin Timberlake's squeeze for its story claiming she "enjoyed more than just a professional relationship" with her Trippin' producer (and blogger) Shane Nickerson, a story both denied. Diaz is also collecting an undisclosed (but "substantial") sum of cash as part of the agreement.
Keep those lawsuits coming, Cameron. Anything to keep your pockets stuffed so you needn't force us through another Charlie's Angels.
