As soon as I heard that LeAnn and Eddie Cibrian had “officially” gotten engaged, my first thought was that Brandi Glanville was probably sitting somewhere with a stiff drink, and that I hoped one of her friends took away her car keys. Well, one of Brandi’s friends has “told all” about Brandi’s reaction to Us Weekly, and while Brandi sounds a little toasty, she thankfully doesn’t sound full-on hammered.
Guess Brandi Glanville won’t be sending a bottle of champagne to her ex-husband Eddie Cibrian and his brand-new fiancee LeAnn Rimes.
An insider close to Glanville — whose marriage to the actor went down in flames last year following his affair with Rimes — tells UsMagazine.com what she thinks of Cibrian’s engagement to the 28-year-old singer, announced Monday.
“Brandi knew this was coming for a while, but after everything she’s been through since finding out, she couldn’t care less. LeAnn has gotten exactly what she wanted from the get go,” the source says. Us Weekly was first to break the story of Rimes and Cibrian’s affair, which began on the set of their 2009 Lifetime flick Northern Lights.
Former model Glanville was married to Cibrian, 38, for 8 years, and they have two sons together: Mason, 7, and Jake, 3. Their divorce was finalized in August; Rimes’ 7-year marriage to Dean Sheremet official ended this time last year. (Sheremet himself is engaged to girlfriend Sarah Silver.)
The insider continues: “[Brandi] never wanted Eddie back, so it didn’t matter if they got engaged, broke up or whatever. But now he’s LeAnn’s problem.”
The source warns: “She can wonder what he’s doing on those boys-only trips, who he’s always texting, who’s at his poker nights. As long as she continues to be good to her two boys, it doesn’t matter to Brandi.”
Mason and Jake moved in with their dad into Rimes’ Malibu home over the summer. “LeAnn should keep her eyes open,” the insider says. “A tiger never loses his stripes.”
[From Us Weekly]
Fortunately, Brandi seems to have given an actual statement to E! News, which E! folded into their coverage of LeAnn’s engagement. Quite honestly, I absolutely adore this E! story – it manages to achieve the gold standard of bitchiness. You many remember, E! News claimed (correctly) that LeAnn and Eddie have been engaged for a couple of months now, but that they were waiting to announce it for a big payday from People Magazine. Here’s the story:
In case you somehow missed our exclusive scoop last month, LeAnn Rimes and Eddie Cibrian are finally making it official.
After cheating on their respective spouses last year, then splitting with them on their way to shacking up together, the controversial couple has finally copped to being betrothed.
“For those who haven’t read, Eddie and I got engaged over the holidays. That’s the news. It’s for real this tine and the first time EVER!” she tweeted.Like tell us something we don’t already know.
E! News was the first to report last month that Cibrian, 37, actually popped the question around Halloween and that Rimes, 28, gleefully accepted, according to extremely close family sources.
But with the news leaking out before they were ready to go public (and costing them a big-money deal with a glossy), the twosome got “pissed” and tried to deny their engagement.
We’re happy to hear the country crooner is singing a different tune now.
“It was nice to have our little secret for us our families and friend’s a few days! So excited to now share the wonderful news with our fans,” she added.
A few days, huh? Not according to the ex-CSI: Miami star’s former missus, Brandi Glanville, the mother of his two children whom he divorced in September.
“They’ve been engaged forever, but I continue to wish them congratulations and luck!” Glanville told E! News.
Cibrian’s publicist also confirmed today’s good news. And just for good measure so people know that it’s for real this time, LeAnn made sure she was spotted Monday strolling a Malibu beach with Eddie wearing a diamond ring. The platinum sparker is a 5-carat oval diamond set in rose gold fleur-de-lis connected to the band.
“We are extremely excited and look forward to a beautiful future. It’s been an incredible last few days,” Rimes tweeted. “I was shocked!!! We are blessed, our families are so happy and our lives are filled with love.”
Best of luck (again) to the happy couple.
[From E! News]
A great read. It’s funny and bitchy and there’s a healthy dose of nastiness. Perfect for this story. I love that LeAnn pissed off E! News, and that E! is holding a grudge. LeAnn isn’t important enough to suck up to.
I agree…I love E for that! They even have it on their crawl that they pegged the engagement news last month…ha!
Love the Us item, too! And love you, Kaiser, for covering both!!!
lol.
I bet Brandi is far more pissed that LeAnn is trying to replace her as the boys’ mother and couldn’t give a crap about them getting married. LeAnn needs to back off. Those boys have a mother. They don’t need her.
Why is it when people “don’t care” that they have to make statements stating that “they don’t care”..
From what I know when people “don’t care” they just say nothing and keep going.
People judge you by the way you live your life. Just move on and live you life. Being happy is the best answer to any question or attack.
Unfortunately Brandi like a lot of women is not so mad that he left; but some women get pissed by the way the man treats the other woman. The life he lives with her. The way they are together. That to many women is the dig. Thus the reason this was added to the article..
The source warns: “She can wonder what he’s doing on those boys-only trips, who he’s always texting, who’s at his poker nights. As long as she continues to be good to her two boys, it doesn’t matter to Brandi.”
Women hate how the man is when he is with the new woman. I hear it all the time. HE was never like that with me. Or if he did such and such when we were together it would have been different. Those boys are not babies. They may like or love LeAnne but they will forever know who their mother is. Brandi needs to just prepare them for the time when Eddie and LeAnne have a baby of their own. I just hope LeAnne is still IN LOVE with the boys then.
Bottom line they are together and may get married. Time will tell.
why are the boys living with Leanne and Eddie – is it cause shes a drunk?
Uch. Those to can f*ck off for all I care. Eddie is just going to cheat on her, just like he did Brandy.
All I hope is Brandy gets her kids for Christmas 2011. As a mom, her not having them 2 years in a row pissed me off!
I hope she finds someone nice (and good looking). It’ll be interesting to watch Eddie then.
I’m tired of all of these people- d-list or worse! Why can’t they just go away and quietly exist?
LeAnn is just pathetic, Eddie is a male ho and Brandi’s face looks like the morning after picture of a plastic surgery bender. Her lips are driving me crazy!
Yes, I would still like to do Eddie- hot douche that he is….
LOL! That was hilarious! You go ENews. I wonder if/when LR will fire back via twitter…
Yes, best of luck, LeAnn.
She did sound really bothered on her twitter right after the announcement though.
Brandi is probably laughing her butt of at crazy Leanne’s delusional tweets, she knows full well what’s in store for her as his wife.
Brandi’s anger is over flowing on her Twitter…as usual. She cares!!!
Why is everyone so pissed at leann and eddie when anjolina and brad did the same exact thing and they get praises?? Makes no sense to me as to how people can think the two are different and hold such a grudge on Leann??
Initially, I think Brandi reacted as we all would with a little self examination. She regretted the times she bitched at Eddie, wondered if she gave him too much or too little freedom, did she give the kids too much attention and Eddie not enough? Then one day she examined the real Eddie. A man who finally told her he’d been cheating on her since day one, took his mistresses on luxury vacations while Brandi had morning sickness and trying to take care of the home. Within weeks prior to and after the delivery of Eddie’s son, Eddie was boning “strange”. Brandi realized Eddie lied to her every day. The Cibrian house had to be sold because he couldn’t afford the payments and yet spent money on his own pleasures. Brandi understands that Eddie encouraged LeAnn to buy the house near the kid’s school in the hopes that Brandi would just go away because Eddie didn’t want the divorce to dig into his play money. Finally, Eddie is an ex who refuses to let Brandi call her children when he has them and won’t notify her if they are ill or injured. One day over a year ago Brandi came to the full realization that this was not the man she thought she married and knows she’s better off without him.
Note to LeAnn Rimes: The syndrome referred to as the Male Midlife Crisis does not even begin until he reaches 40 yrs old. Good luck with that smirk gurl.
@deedee
Angelina didnt tweet about her relationship and kids that do NOT belong to her every minute of the day. Leanne brings this all on herself by throwing everything she does in everyone’s face thru her tweets.
@deedee Some of us (like me) put Brad/Angelina in the same boat as Eddie/Leann. However, Angelina has been FAR savvier in her attention seeking than Leann and that is why she doesn’t get as much grief in general.
Leann and Eddie have talked very sanctimoniously about the public’s reaction to them and act as if they are the only ones entitled to act holier-than-thou. They are so dumb that they got caught negotiating with a tabloid for engagement coverage, then tried to cover up and deny that it happened. It turns out that E! and In Touch Weekly actually had the correct scoop. Didn’t one of Eddie’s sons prematurely confirm the engagement to a paparazzo? That is why they continue to get lambasted and mocked by the public. They choreograph photo ops and tabloid stories but talk out of the other side of their mouths demanding privacy.
In contrast Angelina’s minimized her public comments and instead fed the world a steady supply of pictures that give a Mother Earth/philanthropist image. She has very smartly turned the conversation into one where you almost have to qualify your statements about her by saying at least she is raising awareness of causes and situations that deserve it. Are her public appearances any less choreographed than Eddie/Leann’s? No. But they are much more effective at changing the conversation about Angelina and Brad’s image.
I’d go as far as saying Leann’s a much more talented singer than Angelina is an actress. But in the media/PR game, Angelina’s got Leann beat by a country mile.
deedee Angelina and Brad did not do the something nor did they get praises if you what to compare any one to Leann and Eddie it would be Britney Spears and Kevin Federline.
Z-lister Ed has a publicist?
I hope Brandi knows that a lot of people feel for her and wish her the best.
Brandi will have the last laugh on this topic…GUARANTEED
First off Dre Brandi is not a drunk. Second those lips and her cheeks are real. Third Brandi really doesn’t care and her tweet was nasty because LeAnn and Eddie informed the media first of their engagement before telling the boys.
deedee, irena, and dre
Where did all of these Leann supporters come from? One minute there are no fans and the next they are coming out of nowhere.
You can always tell when things are not going well for Leann and EC( so even though just about every media outlet is covering the story, the overall response from the public must not have been very favorable) because out rolls the “BG is a very, very, very, bad person because…” posts and the “But what about AJ and Tori, how come you are not trashing them the way that you trash Leann? That is just so unfair” posts.
As many people have pointed out, Leann takes the cake when it comes to the cheaters because she just won’t shut up or lay low. Now was it really necessary for Leann to set up her engagement annoucement with People magazine? Why didn’t Leann just enjoy her engagement instead of doing that “Look at my ring” photoshoot with People mag? It also doesn’t help that these LR “fans” have bad habit of attacking BG via twitter and then LR writes “I love you” posts to those fans and thus continuing the cycle.
EC and LR are drunks too, they post photos of themselves with drinks in their hands and then get in cars afterwards.
@Rita….he’s worse than I thought, and that was pretty bad. Be careful what you wish for, Leann.
You Irena couldn’t be more wrong. But hey whatever helps you sleep at night
Good for Brandi! Maybe she can get more alimony now since his income will go up so should hers.
@ brin Brandi knows sweetie 🙂
So what was the point in having the kids for Christmas Eve and Christmas morning if they were not going to tell them? What were the “happy…family and friends…” tweets about if she hadn’t told the kids?
That is right, they are just props. She probably had the kids around to give the illusion that she and EC have the perfect family. And this is “My family, don’t we all just look so happy and in love?”
I’m starting to think that this proposal didn’t take place at all, and that it was more of just Leann telling EC that they were engaged and then setting it up with People magazine to annouce it and then take photos of the ring.
LR and EC didn’t tell the kids that they got engaged (I’m assuming on Christmas night)because the kids knew that they were already engaged back in Nov. One of the kids even said that EC and LR were engaged.
Yeah fart me a new one Brandi, you care. That’s the ho who stole your man and is trying to be a mom to your kids.
Try again.
What a coincidence-cuz i couldn’t care less about it, too.
Although, I could also not care less about what brandi thinks about it, as well.
once a cheater, always a cheater. I just wonder which one of them will be the first on the way out.
Hahaha. E! is deliciously bitchy, and I love it.
LOVE it, LOOK out when a news media source knows you’re a bitch!!
LeAnn can have Brandi’s leftovers and she’s gonna regret it–LOL
Ed is slick and LeAnn is spoiled and dumb–I can’t turn away!!
Let the games begin!
Brandi should feel great, he is no longer her problem–and pay back is a mother, LeAnn LOL!
Maybe Eddie’s flings and cheating will add some spice to Rimes carer!! she can sing aobut a “tear in her beer”. LOL
A man who marries his mistress has created a job opening.
Can’t remember who said it, but it’s so true, especially with this one.
Good on Brandi. The only way her children are going to understand their dad, one day when they’re older, is by looking at the press. It stinks for Brandi Glanville, because she’s a civilian who wouldn’t get any press. But DAD is a public dick, and so his dickness gets to be chronicled…by E! and Celebitchy!
Team Brandi! (and her children)
@TeeTee…true…lol!
hahaha, yeah sure she doesnt care…
I get a laugh when people say they couldn’t care less then go on and on about the subject forever.
Did Brad and Angelina have an affair? That’s debatable. Frankly I have a hard time believing that they were together for a year before the divorce. Brad admitted to Jennifer he was attracted to Angelina. So I can’t imagine he could or would keep such a big secret for months. Also Angelina was doing charity work at least 5 or 6 years before meeting Brad. I don’t understand why the haters keep saying that she got involved only after Brad.
People are turned off by LeAnn because of her obnoxious tweets. She’s so full of herself and keeps rubbing the relationship in Brandi’s face.
Deedee and flutters I don’t know what you two are smoking but Angelina and Brad were/are nothing like Leann and Eddie they did not tweet, post or talk about their relationship much for like the first 3 years and can go month without hear or seeing them but haters will try to put Angelina and Brad in ever post they can. As some on has already stated Britney spears and Kevin Federline were like Leann and Eddie they talk and want to every magazine they could throw out their entire relationship. Britney talk about everything she bought Kevin’s daughter and how much she would spend on her just like Leann until Britney had her own baby and Kevin’s daughter was push to the side and Britney was never photograph with her again nor did she talk about her.
@Maryann, if you read my post, you would see that I made the EXACT point you did about the way Brangelina handled the media. The only things I was equating between the Brangie and Squint-Squared situations is the infidelity and the attention-seeking behavior. My whole point is that Brangie did a MUCH better job of changing the conversation by making sure their choreographed photo ops were philanthropic and by avoiding sanctimonious comments about their relationship, unlike what Eddie and Leann are doing.
It’s just so clear that Brandi cannot move on….her words say one thing but her tone and vibes tell the real story. Eddie must be a great guy if she just can’t let him go.
I’m happy for LeAnn & Eddie…I suspect there is so much more about this story than we’ll ever know. I think BG must have some skeletons in the closet that Eddie could not stomach any longer.
@Irena #41
Am I mistaken or weren’t you banned last week for posting under multiple names?
@ Irena give it up it’s just so clear WHO you are and it’s very clear what YOU are trying to accomplish. You also set some pretty low standards on what a great guy is.
Were you by chance sitting next to Brandi when she tweeted? Did she give you the 411 on her vibes? Are you perhaps maybe trying to poison with your sly innuendo?
You might be of better use purchasing a certain someones music because last time I checked it looked to me like it was circling the drain.
I know a lot of unhappily married people. Affairs happen a lot. Many don’t leave until they find someone, because they stay for the children. The new love is the catalyst to leaving. It’s not fair but it’s the way it is. Maybe one day Brandi will find someone and the bitterness will fade.
but haters will try to put Angelina and Brad in ever post they can.
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Really, what is up with the obsession? Don’t get it. It’s not bad enough that they are brought up in every post about Jen, but now we have to read this crap in Eddie and LeAnn posts.
For me, the difference is there were no children involved. If Brad and Jen had a couple kids and Angelina tried to push Jen aside and take over as mom, I’d have a huge problem with it. But that did not happen. Having kids completely changes the dynamic of divorce. It just does.
“Leann’s a much more talented singer than Angelina is an actress” LOL
I am happy she doesn’t care about their engagement but didn’t care enough to think before driving drunk.Famewhores,all three of them
I knew Kaiser was right on about this one, sadly. I just feel sorry for the children. Leann just seems so obnoxious about this, like, “Look at me! Look at me! Oh, I’m SO sorry about what I did to my own husband and to someone else’s wife.” Yeesh. Not that Eddie is so wonderful either. And there are indeed plenty of other couples that have done this that upset me from Angelina and Brad to Tori and Dean and many more inbetween. My last ex had cheated on me and then I heard he got engaged after I moved to Asia. I laughed because I knew it wouldn’t last. I was right. A month after that, a friend emailed me that she had it with his b.s. and shoved him out of a moving car. Their engagement was off. BUT not every cheater gets theirs, sadly. I think of one of my dearest friends and how his mom was such a lovely person. Her husband cheated on her and wound up marrying the woman he was cheating on his wife with. They are STILL together and it’s been about 20 years now. Kaiser, I wonder how long it will be before Leann cheats on Eddie or he cheats on her. OMG, or how long it is until Leann gets pregnant. Eek!
Brandi is so much prettier than Leann could ever hope to be. Eddie will cheat on Leann and probably many times before she does anything about it. My ex married his mistress and she was smug as hell like Leann, she seemed to think she had really taken something important from me. I could have cared less and I told her so but my daughter is and was another story. You just don’t try to take over someone’s kids, well not if you have any class you don’t.
‘I think BG must have some skeletons in the closet that Eddie could not stomach any longer.’
EC is a serial cheater plain and simple and there is nothing BG or any future spouse can do/not do to change that. Well, if LR makes him sign a pre nup that might keep him from cheating.
LR wasn’t the only person he cheated with, his marriage was ruined long before LR came along, BG just didn’t know until then.
I was raised by someone like EC. I’ve watched my dad have affair after affair and long ago realized that there is something inside my dad that is unhappy and feels the need to do this. I feel bad for him b/c he’ll always be looking for the ‘next’ person.
I really don’t get the negativity toward Brandi. She didn’t cheat and break up her family and she has every right to vent about it.
@brin some of the negativity toward Brandi
could be planted on purpose.
It’s an old PR tool
called “Blame the victim” to try and deflect some of the sympathy towards the people who don’t deserve any. It’s done with innuendo and other such comments so that we start to question whether the actual victims were more at fault than perpetrators. It’s called dirty pool.
@deb…ugh. Poor Brandi, she never asked for any of this.
Jayna,
If you know alot of unhappily married people then that means that YOU need to change your environment and the people you are hanging around.
Now if EC and LR were so unhappy in their marriages, why then did EC and LR continue to kiss and make out with their spouses in public? Why then did LR keep flashing her wedding ring in the same manner she keeps flashing the ring that she bought for herself?
If EC and LR kept making out with their spouses if as you say they were unhappy, then doesn’t that mean that all this pda that EC and LR are doing is just an attempt to cover up that their relationship is in trouble?
You are wrong, if Leann was the catalyst in EC leaving, why then did it take him so long? If EC wanted out of his marriage, his divorce would have been final in the a timely manner and he would have left his wife instead of going to clubs and kissing all over her. Why was he still sleeping with his wife when he and LR had officially came out as a couple.
I love that you claim that it’s BG who is bitter. The fact that LR wanted a date close to the same engagement date as BG is proof enough that Leann is the bitter one. LR has EC, so why is everything she does a direct swipe at BG?
How in the world can BG move on when LR makesure to play this out in the public EVERYDAY?
irena,
What is clear is that whenever LR and EC are not winning any points with the public and some media outlets, is that all these “Fans” come out of the woodwork with these “It’s all BG fault…” posts.
BG and DS are trying to move on and everytime they try to get on with their lives, LR and EC do something insensitive, like that ABC interview.
BG tone and vibes tell a story of a woman who is attacked by LR “fans” constantly and constanly being disrespected by LR because LR feels threatened that EC may just go back and run off to be with his ex wife if she doesn’t stand in the middle while they try to parent their kids.
If you were happy for LR and EC, then you wouldn’t have to resort to the “I’ll make LR and EC look better by trashing the people they hurt” posts.
Why do LR and her “fans” keep insisting that there is more to the story? How about GET A DIVORCE and don’t stage photo-ops where you kiss all over your spouse while you are cheating on them.
Seriously, so that is why EC was at that club kissing all over his wife (and that photo must have made bothered because a year later she stages the same photo with EC at the same club) because EC couldn’t stomach the skeletons? That was why he was still sleeping with his wife, despite the fact that you and he had officially came out about your romance because he could’t stomach the skeletons?
Let’s not forget that EC cheated on LR last year with SMJ. So does that mean that EC did that because he just couldn’t stomach the skeletons in LR closet any longer?
Well one thing is for sure, while the media may be eating up EC and LR engagement, the public isn’t as evidenced by the fact that all these “fans” who keep showing up out of the blue to write about how LR and EC are the victims because BG and DS are the villians.
Deedee, its pretty well been proven that Angelina and Brad DIDN’T have an affair. Besides, even when people didn’t know better, and actually bought into the TABLOID-CREATED *hoax* of an
‘affair’, she got more flack than LeAnn has ever gotten – to date! NEVER has there been a woman MORE slammed than Angelina, despite her being an innocent woman and the tabloid/Huvane/Aniston driven witch-hunt vendetta. It IS nice and refreshing to see Angelina getting a BREAK – for ONCE!!! I’m glad of the LeAnn distraction for Angelina. She deserves a break after SIX freaking years of being smeared, hounded, burned at the stake and had a malicious well planned and executed malicious vendetta against her – and her being innocent of the TRASHloid HOAX didn’t save her. So why should LeAnn be spared, when she DID in fact, have an affair. its about freaking time someone other than Angelina was attacked.
Flutters, Angelina has been doing work for the UNHCR (United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees) looonnnggggg before she even MET Brad or filmed Mr&MRsSmith – back when he was still with Gwynneth, I believe. She’s been doing this for a third of her lifetime, with, and without, Brad. She even wrote a book about her work – once again, WAY BEFORE she even MET Brad. Besides, as a CELEBRITY UN Ambassador, its her JOB to liaise with the media, to draw ATTENTION to the causes (not to herself). That is why CELEBRITY Ambassadors exist. The WHOLE ENTIRE POINT is to use their face and name to promote causes. She doesn’t have a choice in the cameras being there (much like a pollie has to deal with the media – part of the JOB *duties*). As far as PR media experts and expert manipulators, one needs to go no further than Aniston, who with Huvane and Handler, is more savvy and manipulative than anyone in Hollywood – COMBINED! She has everyone FOOLED by her phoney goody-two-shoes sweetheart butter-wouldn’t-melt-in-my-mouth ACT. She is cold, slimy, scheming, calculating, conniving and malicious. She is *THE* MASTER media (and public masses) manipulator.
I think Brandi was over Eddie a LONG time ago. I truly believe she doesn’t care about him and LeAnn together. I do believe she is concerned, and rightly so, about their influence over her 2 sons. Brandi can do so much better than that arsehole and I believe she knows it. Besides, I have heard the saying that the best thing you can do if you find out a woman has schemed to take you man is to let her have him. Say to her; good luck, and when he cheats on you, call me up and we’ll go out and have drinks together. Its punishment enough that the other woman has to deal with him. Its punishment all on its own. Let her have him. Because she’ll only suffer for it. LeAnn is a slutbag piece of trash and deserves everything she gets, and WILL get. And every doubt she gets in her mind about where Eddie is when she is not with him; she deserves. Its torture and the best revenge a betrayed woman can do, is let the other woman have him.
Well said, Salem, well said.