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I'm sorry for two Lindsay Lohan stories today, but I just couldn't resist this latest news. Page Six is reporting that Lindsay Lohan is just about to get kicked out of her digs at the Chateau Marmont hotel. Hotel staff are annoyed at her comings and goings at all hours of the night:
Lindsay shocked her accountants by running up a $1,000,000 bill at the Chateau Marmount last year. Why doesn't she just buy a house? There was another story that Lindsay spent another million on clothing alone when she easily could have been comped many of the luxury brands she wears.
There's also a report from a "Herbie: Fully Loaded" crew member that claims that Lindsay was as much of a lazy brat on that set as she's been publically chastized for on her latest film.
The way Lindsay is going she's going to spend all her cash on purses and hotel rooms and will have such a bad reputation in the industry that she won't be able to get another job. Maybe she gets her drugs for free though.
Here's Lindsay having a little upskirt accident and shopping. [via] and [via
Tori's essentially been cut out of her dad's will in a deal that would make most of us ecstatic with joy. Poor Tori can't continue her frivolous lifestyle unless her friends chip in to keep her in the illusory labels she's accustomed to. She's registered at a chic baby boutique, meaning that she's pregnant or desperately planning to be. The gossip rags have been divided on Tori's pregnancy, but it seems likely in light of this latest news:
“She was in with her husband [Dean McDermott], who was very sweet and seemed to be intimately involved with all the decisions,” reports a spy. “They registered for tons of things, including furniture.”
I would bet that Tori's seriously in debt. If she's resorted to selling her clothes on eBay she must have better things to worry about than whether her unborn baby will be decked out in the latest high-priced accessories.
Instead of reassessing her life and shopping at average stores for her baby stuff like the rest of us, Tori is still clinging to the vestiges of wealth. She doesn't know any better. It's making her miserable and she's going to lose everything, but she just can't let go.
Lindsay Lohan got a harsh letter from the CEO of the production company running her latest film, "Georgia Rule," that makes it clear that her bosses aren't buying the "heat exhaustion" excuse. I initially believed that Lohan was working every day and just had to go to the hospital once for whatever reason, because I'm gullible like that and there are plenty of pictures of her on set. It turns out that Lohan skipped a entire day of work and planned not to go in the next day, either.
Lohan's bosses are pissed that she showed up late to work a bunch of times and held up filming for a day, since
it costs big bucks to keep all those actors hydrated and gaffers fed. They sent a letter to the hotel she stays at last Wednesday.
You have acted like a spoiled child and in so doing have alienated many of your co-workers and endangered the quality of this picture.
This letter hit the Internet, thanks to The Smoking Gun, on Thursday. Instead of staying at home, maybe renting a movie or buying shit on eBay, Lohan was out partying again this weekend, and she didn't just stay close to home.
She went to Vegas with her boyfriend of one whole month and was seen at Jeff Beacher's variety show. She was photographed flashing her trademark peace sign.
Lohan has become a parody of herself and will have a steady career of increasingly more embarassing endorsements if she doesn't slow down and focus on her acting. Oh wait - she can sing too, right?
Lohan is shown at the show in question in Vegas on Saturday. She is also seen outside of The Ivy restaurant with her boyfriend, Harry Morton, who seems to think that a pack of cigarettes can shield him from the paparrazi.
Lohan and Morton got new tattoos in the wee hours of the morning last week, but they didn't pull a Scary Spice 'n Eddie Murphy, and opted instead for trite symbols that will last much longer than their relationship.
Pictures [via]
In this month's issue of Glamour, Ashley Judd did her duty as a B-list celebrity and revealed potentially embarassing details about her personal life. She said that she underwent in-patient treatment for depression after succumbing to pressure from employees at the facility that was treating her sister, country star Winona Judd, for a food addiction:
"I needed help," the 38-year-old actress tells the magazine in its August issue. "I was in so much pain."
Judd, the daughter of country music star Naomi Judd, says she entered the Shades of Hope Treatment Center in Buffalo Gap in February for "codependence in my relationships; depression, blaming, raging, numbing, denying and minimizing my feelings."
"But because my addictions were behavioral, not chemical, I wouldn't have known to seek treatment. At Shades of Hope, my behaviors were treated like addictions. And those behaviors were killing me spiritually, the same as someone who is sitting on a corner with a bottle in a brown paper bag."
Judd says she was visiting her sister, singer Wynonna Judd, who was being treated for food addictions.
"When (the counselors) approached me about treatment, they said, `No one ever does an intervention on people like you. You look too good; you're too smart and together. But you (and Wynonna) come from the same family so you come from the same wound.' No one had ever validated my pain before. It was so profound," she says.
We all have issues that could benefit from therapy, and I enjoyed nice outpatient visits with a kind woman who usually took my side when I told stories about my lousy ex-boyfriend. It sounds like Judd was brainwashed, though. Listen to how she explains "therapy:"
"My behaviors were treated like addictions. And those behaviors were killing me spiritually, the same as someone who is sitting on a corner with a bottle in a brown paper bag."
This sounds like a bullshit, oversimplified way to view one's issues. There are lots of different schools of thought and accompanying therapies that can be effective, but treating everything like an addiction is not something I learned about in grad school. It's based on the Alcoholics Anonymous model of dependency, which may be a semi-effective, albeit controversial, way to treat addictions, but is not a really constructive way to work through one's emotional issues.
If it worked for Judd that's great, but treating one's emotional problems under the umbrella of addiction can be woefully inadequate and ineffective.
I attended a few years of graduate school for psychology before ending up in IT just before the Internet boom, so I sort of know what I'm talking about. My preferred form of therapy is cognitive behavioral, which helps change your outlook by systematically changing your behaviors. The most famous cognitive therapist is Albert Ellis, and the most practical book I've read on the subject is "Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapy" by David Burns, which I would highly recommend if you're a bit depressed or having trouble getting out of a slump. (If you're depressed, get help from a therapist and/or go on medication. There's no shame in it.)
It sounds like Ashley Judd got convinced by the staff at her sister's facility that it would be great if she checked in. They probably realized how good it would be for their PR if they were able to "treat" two of the sort-of-famous Judd sisters.
Here is Ashley Judd at a Cartier party in early June with Selma Hayek, and at the Indianapolis 500 celebration in late May with her husband, Scottish racecar driver Dario Franchitti. Judd, 38, has been married to Franchitti, 33, since 1999. The couple divides their time between Tennessee and Scotland.
It looks like Vanity Fair's strategy of denying stars the cover unless they dish lots of dirt has worked, because Hilary Swank blabs in an upcoming interview with the magazine that her ex, Chad Lowe, is an addict! She says he's been sober for three years, but that his battle with substance abuse caused a serious rift in the relationship that they couldn't repair.
"I knew something was happening but I didn't know what" Swank tells Vanity Fair in the August editions set to hit newsstands today.
"When I found out, it was such a shock because I never thought he'd keep something from me. And yet, on another level, it was a confirmation of something I was feeling that was keeping us from being completely solid.
"He's sober now. I don't want to make it seem like that's the sole reason; there were other factors. But that just kind of blew it open. It made me look at things a lot deeper. That's when you realize it's not going to work."
Lowe, 38, and his managers could not be immediately reached for comment yesterday.
Although Lowe's struggle touched off their marriage's downhill slide, Swank said she's proud of her soon-to-be ex's three years of sobriety.
Vanity Fair does not detail the actor's substance of choice.
"It's an enormous obstacle to overcome, and he's doing it. He's living a sober life," said Swank, who married Lowe in 1997. "I know how difficult it is, and I'm really proud of his sobriety."
The actress says she had to stay with Lowe when his substance abuse came to light.
"When I found out, I wanted to be there," she explains. "I knew it was the most important time of his life. That's when he needed me most."
It sounds like once Chad beat whatever drugs he was on things were never the same between them and it was impossible to overcome.
This happened to a friend of mine who was with her husband for over ten years. He got addicted to Oxycontin for back pain and completely changed. He became uncommunicative and withdrawn. They had a big blowout and ended up getting divorced. He has a new girlfriend and is still addicted to painkillers.
For an actress with two Oscars Hilary Swank doesn't get a lot of attention in the press. This revelation will make people interested in her for a week or two. She's sporty, down to earth, and normal and people don't think that's particularly exciting. She should follow this up by going shopping on Rodeo Drive and having dinner at The Ivy with a hot new guy.
In the upcoming interview, Hilary addresses the problems between her high=profile Hollywood career and her soon-to-be ex-husband's lack of prospects, saying, "I think that any frustration for him stemmed from the lack of opportunities in his own career."
Swank, 32, says she's wary of the dating scene, "I thought of it - of that whole world - I can't imagine it! I can't imagine going out right now and trying to find someone else to be with."
Relationship guru John Gray recommends that men and women do the opposite of their natural instincts when trying to recover from a breakup. Women should start dating right away while men should take time to nurse their wounds instead of jumping into another relationship. Maybe Hilary should take a page from Charlie Sheen and start looking online.
Here is Hilary in new ads from Clavin Klein and at a party for the perfume giant Guerlain, which she also represents, on 6/14. [via]
Pete Doherty got up to all sorts of his usual trouble this week. When he flew into Sweden last weekend for some scheduled performances with his band, Babyshambles, he was so out of it he had to use a wheelchair to reach customs. The Swedish authorities were reluctant to retain him, but after he got out of the wheelchair and rolled around on the floor they were forced to do something and decided to search his luggage.
Due to Pete's delay at the border, his band Babyshambles went on an hour late for their performance at the Hultsfred Festival in southern Sweden. The police there were suspicious of Pete's drunken behavior and decided to test his blood for drugs. They found traces of cocaine and a mild tranquilizer, benzodiazepine, which Doherty says he has a prescription for. He was fined $1,900 and released.
At least he seems to be off heroin for a few hours. He was in a rehab clinic in Portugal at the beginning of the month, and his lawyer said treatment was "going well." In Pete's case that means he didn't bust up the place yet.
Doherty later got kicked out of the Debaser club in Stokholm in the middle of a "messy" and drunken performance. A girl was said to be freaking out after she stepped on some broken glass. Doherty was trying to handle the situation by "lashing out at people" and got booted from the club.
Doherty also plans to record a solo album this summer. We bet it has more do with the fact that his bandmates are fed up with him than trying to establish himself as a solo artist.
Doherty's frequent clashes with authorities may fuel his creative endeavors. He just announced that he's publishing his diaires that span back years:
"Some of it is very funny, some of it is pretty dark. All of it is incredibly readable," said Ian Preece, Orion Books commissioning editor.
Doherty was due to give a poetry reading at a publishing launch in a London pub, but failed to turn up.
"The diaries stretch right back to Pete's early years," said Mr Preece.
"It is intimate and honest stuff and a complete antidote to a lot of what you might have read about him."
In a statement, Doherty said: "I've always wanted to have a book published and it's all very exciting for me personally."
Even if it's total crap and as random and unreadable as Macaulay Culkin's "book," you know people will buy it.
Meanwhile Doherty's ex, Kate Moss, has wisely decided not to publish her memoirs. She was paid a £1million advance by Virgin books to write an autobiography about her cocaine abuse. She decided against it, and is wisely keeping that part of her past private. Moss was embroiled in a scandal in September of last year after a videotape was released of her snorting lines backstage at a Babyshambles concert. She was dropped from modeling campaigns with Chanel and Burberry at the time, but has since landed new lucrative contracts as the face of Nikon and Calvin Klein.
Here is Kate Moss outside a London Hotel earlier this week. [via] Doherty is shown at the Rock am Ring festival on 6/2.
Update: Pete Doherty images removed upon request.
Kate Moss was videotaped doing lines backstage at a Babyshambles concert last September. She was promptly dumped from her modeling contracts with Chanel and Burberry and went to rehab. She got new modeling contracts with Nikon, Calvin Klein, and came back with a vengeance.
She fled England after the scandal broke and was said to be wanted for police questioning, which she avoided for a while. In January she finally spoke to the police, but took the good advice of her lawyers and did not admit to any wrongdoing.
She was expected to be cleared on all charges, and an official announcement was made today. Cops said they couldn't tell whether Moss was doing amphetamines, cocaine, or ecstasy in the video and since those substances fall under different drug severity classes they can't charge her with anything and she gets off on a technicality:
"The film footage provides an absolutely clear indication that Ms. Moss was using controlled drugs and providing them to others," he said.
"However, in the absence of any forensic evidence, or direct eye witness evidence about the substance in question, its precise nature could not be established."
"Ms. Moss declined to provide any explanation when interviewed, and the direct eye witnesses also declined to provide evidence.
"Expert analysis of the footage, however, narrowed the possibilities down to three particular drugs: Cocaine, ecstasy or amphetamine.
"But these three substances fall into two different legal categories of controlled drugs.
"To obtain a conviction, case law establishes that the prosecution must prove beyond reasonable doubt the legal category to which the substance being used belonged.
"Proving that it was a substance belonging either to one or other of two different legal categories is not sufficient.
"Accordingly, as the available evidence fell short of establishing the necessary crucial facts, we decided that there was no realistic prospect of conviction and that a prosecution could not therefore be started."
It's not like Kate would be in too much trouble if she actually was prosecuted for using a controlled substance. It seems like Pete Doherty is in court every other week on drugs charges and he hasn't faced great consequences other than being ordered to rehab.
Here's the shaky video of Kate doing cocaine in case you missed it: (Commentary is in Italian)
And here is Moss at the Isle of Wight music festival recently. It looks like Courtney Love is behind her in one of the shots. [via]
Lindsay Lohan seemed like she was moderately improving. She didn't strike back at Paris Hilton or Brandon Davis for the firecrotch rant video, and she may have even made up with Paris depending on how you interpret the story. She also admitted to not being able to stay in a committed relationship. She came off as a sympathetic slutty character for a week or two. Then she had to go and open her mouth again.
A few weeks ago she told Matt Lauer that she's the "hardest working person" she knows.
In an interview in Harper's Bazaar, she takes her frenetic self perception to a new level by claiming that she's gone through more in her coke-fueled 19.75 years than most people have in a lifetime. Yeah, that's how you see the world when you're jacked up on coke.
As for her reputation as living in the fast lane, Lohan says people make too much of her busy lifestyle. "People like to think that just because I’m young and like to enjoy my life, I'm some crazy party girl," Lohan says. "I hate the term party girl – I hate it."
"I'm in this career for the longevity of it," she adds, "not just for doing everything too fast and then running out of steam."
These few quotes by Lohan provide a lot of fodder to rip on her.
It's completely out of touch and arrogant for Lohan to say she's been through more than most people - not some people - have in a lifetime. She shleps around handbags that are worth more than a large percentage of families in the world take home in a year. (Disclosure: I am totally superficial and would carry these same purses if I could afford it.) Doing a lot of drugs, guys, and shopping is not in the same hardship league as not being able to put food on the table.
In terms of Lohan saying that she's in it for the long term and doesn't want to run out of steam, that seems like a legimate concern she should have. Lohan is partying like a mad woman, and she's linked with a new guy every week. It's all well and good to say you have trouble settling down, but being known for going to the bathroom a lot and having catfights with models who date your older fuckbuddies isn't going to do much for her career. She needs to actually calm down and stay home for a while if she wants to be taken seriously. (And it's probably Brett Ratner who called her "kid," because don't all directors use that term?)
So let's call Lindsay Lohan "Kid Party Girl" from now on. It seems to bother her much more than "Firecrotch."
Here she is at a Cartier event looking completely sober.
Maybe being humped by dolphins skeeved Jessica Alba out so bad that she became a germ-o-phobe, because she admits to using antibacterial Febreze liberally when she has to stay in hotels:
It's not like Alba's staying at the Comfort Inn, so she has a serious problem if she can't trust the cleanliness at the Four Seasons or Ritz Carlton.
Alba hasn't been seen with her boyfriend, Cash Warren, in some time. She was said to have broken his heart by deciding to move to NY in the near future, and may have discouraged him from proposing to her. Commentors on Jmazone.de note that Warren may be working in Vancouver, which could explain his absence.
Here is Alba admitting her problem to Jay on "The Tonight Show." [via]
Lindsay Lohan says that she can't settle down with one guy, and tries to explain away her sluttiness by claiming she's like a guy:
Lohan's crush on McFLY star HARRY JUDD has prompted her to consider a move to London.
Lohan says she's not with McFly's drummer Harry Judd, and that they're "just friends," but Judd's bandmates wrote a song teasing him about hooking up with Lindsay, called "Please Please Lindsay Please."
Here's a story about the song on E! Daily. The lyrics: "You love yourself more than you love me."
Judd must be one of the "several men who live overseas" Lindsay's publicist says she dating. We suspect one of the other guys is Londoner Jamie Burke, Kate Moss' ex.
Lindsay may have a good excuse for not being able to stick with one guy - she's jacked up on so much cocaine that she needs constant excitement.
Lindsay is a busy girl, all right.
Here she is getting a less harmful stimulant and getting out of her car. [via]
Last weekend I took a cheap ass EasyJet flight with my family to Berlin. In case you're not familiar with EasyJet, it's the Southwest Airlines of Europe. You can sit wherever you want, but drinks and snacks are expensive and there are no TVs. The flight over was decent, but on the way back a British stewardess with an attitude named something like Jenine was wearing perfume so heavy it permeated the entire plane and gave my husband and me a headache. (I'm writing this on the off chance that my bitching will get back to the management at EasyJet without me going through the trouble of writing a complaint letter.)
Anyway Pete Doherty, the lead singer of BabyShambles and Kate Moss' on and off boyfriend, was on an EasyJet flight and took an extra long time in the bathroom. EasyJet staff found a bloody syringe hidden in the trashcan afterwards, so of course they had to blame poor Pete.
Spanish Guardia Civil met Doherty and four friends but found no suspicious substances in the lavatories.
They were not arrested. Doherty's band Babyshambles played at the Primavera Sound Festival in the city on Thursday.
The EasyJet spokeswoman said the crew became suspicious after Doherty spent "an unusual amount of time in the toilet".
After the discovery of the syringe, Doherty was questioned by crew and became "agitated and aggressive", the spokeswoman said.
The captain contacted Spanish police, who met the plane, which was held on the ground for about half an hour.
Officers only found a bottle of heroin substitute methadone, which Doherty is taking as part of a drug treatment programme.
Aviation regulations mean passengers must inform an airline in advance if they are carrying a syringe for medical reasons and Doherty failed to do so, EasyJet said.
Pete likes to create art while he's taking a dump and it's ridiculous that EasyJet staff would deny him the pleasure. It's already hard enough for the guy to catch a break without getting questioned over every little bloody syringe! Those EasyJet flights are so uncomfortable and the staff is paranoid and unaccommodating.
Pete and his Babyshambles bandmembers are permanently banned from all EasyJet filghts now, and they should be grateful not to have to go through that again.
Here are some Pete Doherty fans outside of his case review hearing at Thames Magistrate Court on 5/12. Love the devil guy.
Michelle Rodriguez was released from jail after serving a mere 4 hours of a 60 day sentence for violating parole. We initially thought she was arrogant and foolish for taking jail time instead of community service for an earlier DUI violation. She only served 65 hours of a 5 day sentence for that conviction, and praised the merits of jail, saying she sang show tunes, wrote poetry, and got along with the other inmates. The prospect of so much jail time seemed trying for the "Lost" actress, who was said to be "solemn-looking" while leaving court after sentencing. She got off with even less time served now, though, making it seem like she's working the system:
The 'Lost' star checked herself into jail last Thursday to begin a 60-day sentence for DUI-related probation violations. At the time, the star said she would serve her time, then flee the country for France.
But a spokesman for the LA city attorney's office said Rodriguez was released after just less than four and a half hours as part of a book and release program typical for non-violent offenders with sentences of less than 90 days. Steve Whitmore, a spokesman for the LA County Sheriff's Department, said the early release program was implemented in 2002 "as a last resort" to meet budget cuts that reached $180 million.
Surely someone pulled some strings for Rodriguez, or maybe this is standard procedure as suggested.
Last week Rodriguez told photographers that she was moving to France, because "people don't bother you there," but she was out in LA at the "Ultimate Fighting Championship" boxing match on Saturday, as seen in the header image, above. She seems to be enjoying herself, while her friends look like they'd rather be anywhere else.
Rodriguez still has 30 days of alcohol rehab to serve along with years of probation. Maybe that will help keep her sober since she hasn't faced stiff consequences yet for multiple DUI violations.
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In these new pictures of Nicole Richie on the beach in Malibu on Sunday she looks like she gained a little essential weight. She's still vastly too skinny, but you have to give the poor waif a little credit. She must have had a sandwich in the time between December and now, because there's a slight difference. It could be the fact that she's cleverly hiding her sternum beneath a scarf, but her stomach looks a little more filled out, and her legs are less skinny. It looks like a 5-7 pound weight gain. She isn't a normal weight by any measure though. Picking her apart probably won't help her face up to her problem, but we couldn't resisit.
According to one of Nicole's friends, her drastic weight loss was caused by an addiction to the over the counter weight loss drug hoodia.
She told Britain's More magazine that Nicole once told her: 'Hoodia makes you look hot in low-cut tops and backless dresses. It is good for me - the bushmen have sworn by it for hundreds of years and that's good enough for me.'
The troubled 24-year-old dropped from a US size 2 to a US size 0 in a matter of months following her brief split from Adam Goldstein last December and she recently confessed that she was too thin.
Nicole's friend sounds like she's covering up for her other addictions.
Thanks to celebworld for reposting the older picture of Nicole in a bikini for comparison.
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Singer Robbie Williams told everyone that he quit smoking in order to shape up for the British celebrity soccer tournament, "Soccer Aid." The Sun reported it on 5/21 as it was real news:
Despite being teetotal and quitting drugs, the wicked weed is one habit he has not been able to kick.
But the prospect of his celeb England team taking on Gordon Ramsay’s Rest of the World squad for charity has finally made Robbie chuck away the cigs for good.
Corrie star Bradley Walsh, who is on Rob’s team, revealed: “We are calling him ‘No Cigs Robbie’.
“He’s taking this very, very seriously and will do anything it takes to win.
“And we will win. Gordon couldn’t even beat us at swearing, never mind footie.”
Ex-Take That star Robbie, 32, once confessed he would like to quit smoking — but was too scared of piling on the pounds.
He said: “The thing is, I’m a fat bloke inside this body and the minute I stop smoking, I’ll get even bigger.
“It looks like I can’t give up until my fame runs out. Then I can be a healthy Robbie Nobody.”
Williams looks pretty gulty to be caught smoking outside the reception for the upcoming game yesterday. He must be more afraid of dealing with withdrawl and gaining weight than letting his team down.
"Soccer Aid" is a fund raiser for UNICEF. Robbie Williams leads the team for England, with the "Rest of the World" team lead by Gordon Ramsay. Teams match ten celebrities with six World Cup soccer greats. Argentinian football great Diego Maradona has joined the "Rest of the World" team. Coverage is on Britain's ITV (launches automatic sound), and Robbie's team won the first match last night. The final game airs on Saturday at 7:00 pm
Kate Moss was so pissed off about Pete Doherty's blood squirting stunt that she asked him to come over to her place. When he arrived she promptly kicked his ass!
At least Doherty didn't fight back, but we doubt the junkie would have had the strength even if he wanted to. Moss shouldn't have even bothered with Doherty, though. Why doesn't she just ignore him? She's supposed to be dating comic Russell Brand now anyway.
Meanwhile Doherty's antics have lead his record label, Rough Trade, to drop his group Babyshambles. An source is quoted as saying: "Rough Trade were in the process of renegotiating a deal, but the talks broke down because it just proved to be so difficult to deal with Pete and the people he surrounds himself with."
Maybe losing his record label will help Pete follow-through on kicking heroin as he's been planning. It won't be easy, but he needs it desperately.
Here's Kate in a Primal Scream video:
Kate Moss has been spotted out with Russell Brand, a British comic and Big Brother presenter who is also a former drug addict. At least he's sober now:
It's MTV/ Big Brother's Big Mouth presenter Russell Brand.
The pair were spotted out in a North London pub before moving onto a nightclub. And thus a rumour was born...
"Kate finds Russell hilarious and he has the sort of rock star looks she's attracted to."
That's not the only thing the pair have in common, however.
Both Kate and Russell have had publicised troubles with drugs - Kate with cocaine and Russell with heroin.
Perhaps they can help keep each other sober?
The rumors about Kate's involvement with Brand are probably true, because she was spotted buying high-end lingerie at Agent Provacateur recently. She's got someone in mind to see her new knickers and it's probably not her on-again off-again boyfriend, Pete Doherty.
Everyone is making fun of Brand for these pictures of him mooning the camera, but that's nothing compared to the stunts Pete Doherty pulls.
Doherty has vowed to get sober to keep her affections, and is headed to a clinic to take drastic measures:
Pete is heading to a clinic in Burford, Oxfordshire, next week to have a drug — which stops heroin having an effect on him — inserted into his stomach.
The star was devastated to learn yesterday that Kate has found a new man in comic Brand — who is fronting Big Brother’s Big Mouth for channel E4.
Doherty most recently squirted a syringe full of blood at an MTV camera and is way overdue for an intervention. Hopefully Kate will stay away, and Pete will realize that he needs sobriety more than any woman.
Here is Kate shopping for lingerie. [via]
The video of Pete Doherty squirting a blood-filled syringe has come out. You can view it below with a watermark on the screen:
Or go to an article about the incident on MTV and launch the video from the bottom right. It's now available to viewers outside the UK. There's a commercial before it, though.
Somehow we were expecting it to be more dramatic.
Posted to Abusive | Addictions | Drugs | Pete Doherty | Video
Pete Doherty squirted a syringe full of blood onto a camera during an MTV News UK interview, causing one of his band members to apologize and declare how f**ked up it was:
That wasn't just anyone's blood - it was heroin addict blood which is extra foul. The cameramen were said to fear for their health after coming in contact with the blood.
This comes right after news of Doherty smoking crack before he performed dressed in drag in Germany last weekend. He was wearing what looked like a wedding ring at the time, causing people to speculate that it was from his on-again off-again girlfriend, supermodel Kate Moss, whom he once bragged that he was going to marry.
There is a video of the blood-squirting incident, but MTV has ridiculously limited access to it to people who are in the UK or Ireland. I tried to use a UK proxy to view it, but it didn't work.
Pete's mom is writing a tell-all book about her son. There's not much about Doherty that can shock people, but it is sure to be full of interesting tidbits.
Here is Doherty in a different Channel 4 interview.
In the interview above he talks about his brief imprisonment and drug use, but he mumbles a lot and is really messed up, so it's hard to tell what he's saying. He does say he's going to "start a drug-free life." Yeah, right. Towards the end of the interview he waves to the camera and mouths "Hello Kate" when asked about his relationship with Kate Moss, but he doesn't admit much and calls the interviewer nosy.
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David Blaine does not want to die known as the man who failed to break the world record for holding one's breath after living in a snow globe in Lincoln Center for a week. He wants to be known as the man mauled by lions on reality television:
The magician plans to be left "alone" in the Tanzanian jungle where 150 people are attacked by wild lions a year with just a TV crew present to film his actions.
Blaine narrowly escaped death during his last stunt where he was suspended in a giant fishbowl for a week. The illusionist hoped to end this extravagant display by beating the world record for holding your breath underwater, currently held by Tom Zitas.
However, he fell short of the world record, which stands at 8 minutes 58 seconds, after passing out after around 7 minutes.
Blaine is currently recuperating after suffering from liver failure and severe [sic] caused by the aquatic stunt.
He probably feels like he failed or whatever, and "let the people down" as his physician said, but the guy got a lot of attention and he really gave it his all. It's only been a week since he got out of the bubble. He's probably afraid of slipping into obscurity.
His last gig was bringing magic to libraries as the spokesperson for the 2006 New York City summer reading program, so his fears are well founded.
He sound have kids and then he will realize how immortality is attained - through genetics.
Posted to Addictions | David Blaine | Weak
Pete Doherty may have been right when he declared that he's the new John Lennon. A little over a month ago he was quoted as saying:
“Honestly, I am the most important rock star now.
“And you will hear lots of great songs from me in the near future.”
The drug-addled Jaguar-loving Babyshambles lead singer was voted second in an NME poll of the greatest rock stars of all time. He was only bested by late Nirvana singer Kurt Cobain:
Speaking about Doherty's place on the list a NME spokesman said: "Surely he's just a worn-out drug addict who needs help if he's ever going to make decent music again?"
"Yes, there was a time when Pete Doherty lived his life with an unrivalled romantic zest, when he represented a truly anti-establishment voice. But is he really still your hero? Now that his second home seems to be the courtroom?"
Morrissey came third in the poll and Liam Gallagher fourth.
Getting a lot of press, however exceptionally negative, seems to have worked in Doherty's favor.
Pete's not doing that well despite the high regard of the music-loving public. He recently sold his cell phone to a stranger for some quick cash, presumably for drugs. He neglected to clear the memory on the phone, and there were SMS messages from his on-again off-again girlfriend, Supermodel Kate Moss, on it. Moss reportedly urged him to give up heroin and join her for a summer vacation.
Here he is in concert in Amsterdam on May 2nd.
Now that our faith in the gossip industry is waning, we're going to call it like we see it. (For a day or two at least.) The reporting paper where we read this tried to make out like Lindsay Lohan was in a catfight with Cameron Diaz since they both dated the same guy at some point, but it sounds like Cameron simply asked Lindsay to stop smoking when they were in the VIP section of a NY club together:
Scarlett Johansson, Lindsay Lohan, and Cameron Diaz have a lot in common – including dating Jared Leto!
That fact still makes Lindsay seethe and she has made no secret of her ire for Scarlett – and even reportedly wrote some pretty nasty notes on an NYC bathroom wall about Scarlett...
On April 24th Lindsay also lashed out at Cameron Diaz, who asked her to stop smoking in the VIP section of Shag club. It really wasn’t about smoking but Lindsay’s lust after Jared Leto still a pal of Cameron’s.
There’s a lot of jealousy there!
Lindsay's a nasty skank who thinks she can get away with whatever she wants. It's been illegal to smoke in bars in NY for years now, so she should know better. She was probably pissed because she knew Cameron was right.
Meanwhile Lindsay still hopes to clean up her image with that humanitarian mission to Africa we told you about. She's only considering it, doesn't have a date planned, and it's clearly all about making her look good:
"Lindsay knows the esteem in which Angelina Jolie is held has increased immeasurably since she started her work with the poor for the UN — and she'd like to be seen as more than an airhead who doesn't care about anything but partying..."
While Lindsay's rep said no immediate trip to Africa is scheduled, the source added: "Lindsay's ready to show a new, very human side — one that cares deeply about the problems in the world."
Lindsay's ready to try to get some good press for once is all.
Here she is in St. Paul, MN yesterday for the world premiere of A Prarie Home Companion. Stars were "carried in horse drawn carriages led by the Highland Park Senior High marching band down Wabasha St."
The Sun has pictures of Pete Doherty injecting heroin into a passed-out woman on his kitchen floor. Kate Moss is shown in another photo sleeping on a bed at Doherty's house, but she wasn't there when he drugged the unconscious fan. The pictures were said to be taken in the "past five weeks":
Other pictures seen by The Sun show the rocker — who faces drugs charges — injecting himself and being helped to take drugs by a girl using her hands to form a makeshift tourniquet.
Yet another sees Doherty, 27, smoke a “crack bowl”, his tattooed and blood-stained arms betraying his addiction.
The disturbing scenes were captured by a pal at Doherty’s pad in Hackney, East London, within the last five weeks.
Kate, 32 — who has been secretly seeing the singer despite claims they had split — was NOT present when the drug photographs were taken.
The comatose girl is from a middle-class background and idolises Doherty, often visiting him at his flat. She was left on the floor while he and his pals prepared more class A drugs for themselves.
Doherty was placed on 2 years probation and received orders to attend 18 months of outpatient rehab in drugs posession case last week. He was arrested again on drugs charges on the same day he was sentenced, and was let out on bail.
We thought Doherty might be cleaning up slightly, as he was praised for his efforts by the judge at his sentencing and he bragged of his sobriety at a recent concert. He might be trying, but he won't escape his past without a great deal of effort.
The Sun website says that you have to buy the print version to get the pictures. Once they're online, we'll post them. In the meantime Here are pictures of Doherty at a Babyshambles gig on 4/26.
Jennifer Aniston has said that she's quit smoking. She hasn't done it for her health or for the sake of our ailing planet, no, she's quitting smoking so that she can sing in a god-awful musical:
The former Friends star has been inspired by fellow actresses Reese Witherspoon and Nicole Kidman, who surprised film fans with their vocal ability in Walk the Line and Moulin Rouge, respectively.
She says, ""I have quit the cigs so that I can get my voice in shape.""
She probably figrues that since she can only do one character and all her movies suck, she may as well try to jazz it up with a change of genre. It may work for her, and it should provide hilarious fodder to mock her with for years to come.
Posted to Addictions | Arrogant | Jennifer Aniston
Charlie Sheen is involved in an incredibly stupid business venture: he launched a line of children's clothing this weekend!
Unfortunately for Sheen, the clothing line was in the works from some time, and announced over two months ago. The launch couldn't come at a worse time for him, because the allegations in his wife's divorce deposition are explosive.
The divorce statement from Denise Richards acquired by The Smoking Gun is pretty incredible and well worth the time to read. Richards says that Sheen:
It just goes on.
Charlie Sheen and Denise Richards were married in June 2002, and first announced their divorce in March, 2005 when Richards was six months pregnant with their second child. They reconciled in the fall of 2005, but announced that they were divorcing again in March of this year. They have two daughters, Sam, 2, and Lola, 9 months.
It's bad news for Sheen's new clothing line that his divorce details are now public, but it's rather suspect that he's involved in children's clothing if the allegations by his ex-wife are true.
Update: pictures from the Sheen Kids launch party. Charlie Sheen has of course denied Richards' allegations. And Denise Richards is now dating Richie Sambora.
Kelly Osbourne has been to rehab twice: in the spring of 2004 when her parents confronted her for abusing painkillers and again in the summer of last year after she was said to have fallen back into old habits.
That's why it's a little disconcerting to see the newly slender and on-her-own reality star looking really wasted. Kelly, you should know better!
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There are plenty of stories this week featuring quotes from Paris saying how much she loves playing poker and is obsessed with it. We thought that she was talking crap to get press, but apparently she has a serious gambling addiction.
She lost her Bentley in a poker game, and her parents even banned her from the casino named after her and want her to go to rehab!
The 25-year-old Simple Life star developed her penchant for gambling after spending the last few months playing poker in Las Vegas tournaments with her sister Nicky. Paris revealed: "I'm obsessed with poker. It's my favorite game now. I'm lucky in Vegas. I always win."
But her lucky streak ran out after she lost her Bentley GT in a high risk poker game. Paris agreed to stay away from the city's famous strip of casinos but has now reportedly taken up internet gambling to get her thrills.
She has a lot more to lose than most of us, if her boyfriend has any sense he'll keep a tight hold on that $275 million he just inherited.
Posted to Addictions | Paris Hilton
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