Archive for March, 2008

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More photos of the engagement ring wearing Jamie Lynn Spears after the jump.

Here is a trailer for the movie that I can’t believe hasn’t been made before. Zombie Strippers stars Jenna Jameson in a film, whose press release describes the plot as the following: “When a secret government agency lets out a deadly chemo virus causing the reanimation of the dead, the first place to get hit is Rhino’s, a hot underground strip club.”

That’s the first sentence and already, I’m sold! A recipe for success, the movie has zombies, bad acting, a porn star and Robert Englund. What more could you possibly want? According to the press release, “ZOMBIE STRIPPERS is a sexy, bloody, hilarious good time!” and quite frankly, I believe it!

Also, finding out that Jenna Jameson is actually a zombie would explain a lot.

Kathie Lee Gifford will soon be back on TV’s early shift.

The former co-star of the syndicated “Live” talk show will join NBC’s “Today” next Monday. She will be teamed with Hoda Kotb (pronounced HO-dah COT-bee), a current anchor of the program’s seven-month-old fourth hour, which airs live at 10 a.m. EDT.

The announcement was made during Monday’s broadcast, with Gifford seated alongside the program’s established stars, including Matt Lauer and Meredith Vieira, co-hosts of the first two hours.

Gifford, 54, who left Regis Philbin and “Live” in 2000, joked that the timing of her TV return “couldn’t be worse” in certain ways: “I’m eight years older, 10 pounds heavier, a half-inch shorter, and just in time for HD television.”

Long married to former NFL star and sports announcer Frank Gifford, she joked, “It’s going to be good to be working. I’m really tired of staying home and watching Frank’s old highlight films.”

Ann Curry will continue her role as news anchor of the 7 a.m.-9 a.m. hours of “Today,” as well as co-host, with Al Roker, of the 9 a.m. hour. Natalie Morales will join Curry and Roker as a third co-host at 9 a.m, and will serve as the show’s national correspondent, the network said.

It’s love - love for Andy Roddick and Brooklyn Decker – they’re engaged!

The tennis star is officially off the market after popping the question to Decker last Tuesday, sources, including Decker’s rep, confirm to PEOPLE.

On Roddick’s official Web site, andyroddick.com, a statement tells fans, “The couple wanted to tell their family and close friends first but good news travels fast. By the time Andy arrived in Miami for the Sony Ericsson Open, the tournament was bustling with the news.”

The pair, who have been dating since 2007, first met after Roddick, 25, asked his agent to track down a number for Decker, 20, a model who has appeared in the Sports Illustrated swimsuit edition.

“With their hectic travel schedules, Andy and Brooklyn plan to enjoy their engagement and will wait to set a wedding date,” adds Roddick’s online statement.

Madonna once again shocked us all with her latest Vanity Fair cover. She looks amazing on the cover and inside the mag. She also gave an interesting interview. Here are some tidbits from the interview:

On Britney Spears: When you think about the way people treat each other in Africa, about witchcraft and people inflicting cruelty and pain on each other, then come back here and, you know, people taking pictures of people when they’re in their homes, being taken to hospitals, or suffering, and selling them, getting energy from them, that’s a terrible infliction of cruelty. So who’s worse off?

On adopting her son David from Malawai: People always ask me why I chose Malawi. And I tell them, I didn’t. It chose me. I got a phone call from a woman named Victoria Keelan. She was born and raised in Malawi. She told me that there were over one million children orphaned by aids. She said there weren’t enough orphanages. And that the children were everywhere. Living on the streets. Sleeping under bridges. Hiding in abandoned buildings. Being abducted, kidnapped, raped. She said it was a state of emergency. She sounded exhausted and on the verge of tears. I asked her how I could help. She said, You’re a person with resources. People pay attention to what you say and do. I felt embarrassed. I told her I didn’t know where Malawi was. She told me to look it up on a map, and then she hung up on me. I decided to investigate, and I ended up finding out much more than I bargained for, about Malawi, about myself, about humanity.”

On Kabbalah: “A lot of people join the group, but don’t know why,” Madonna said. “I was raised a Catholic and was never encouraged to ask questions, or understand the deeper meanings or mystical implications of the New Testament or the history of Jesus, or the fact that he was Jewish, or anything, you know? So I rejected that, because who wants to go through life being told you do things because you do things? When I started going to classes and studying [Kabbalah], I did it out of curiosity. I was told it was the mystical interpretation of the Old Testament.”

To read the full interview click here.

It’s been three months since her Christmas-themed wedding in Park City, Utah, and Katherine Heigl can’t stop singing the praises of her new husband, musician Josh Kelley.

“He was everything I was looking for, or needed or wanted in my life,” the 27 Dresses star told Britain’s Sunday Times. “He’s just so easy to be around. He lightens up the room and lightens my load.”

In fact, the 29-year-old Grey’s Anatomy star already has babies on the brain. “I think he’d prefer to wait a little more time, but I kind of wouldn’t,” she told the paper, adding that it would be “foolish” to waste their current career opportunities. “I think we’ll meet somewhere in the middle.”

When it comes to maintaining her famous figure, Heigl relies on that same spirit of compromise. “I’ve just discovered if I don’t eat bread or pasta, my stomach doesn’t feel so bloated all the time,” she said. “I try to eat healthy, but I think if you cut out every wonderful thing you love, what’s the point? I’d rather feel sick.”

Overcoming Family Tragedy
Heigl may seem to have it all these days – a rock-star hubby, a hit TV series and comparisons to America’s Sweetheart Julia Roberts. (”I can’t help but feel that’s a little insulting to Julia Roberts,” she joked to the Times.) But her life wasn’t always so picture perfect.

When she was only 7, her older brother Jason died from injuries he sustained when he was thrown from the back of a pickup truck.

“For a long time, [Jason’s death] made me afraid of being too happy because things happen so unexpectedly,” she said. “Your world can change and every aspect of your life is different.”

In fact, Heigl said, she’s still learning to let down her defenses. “[His death] made me afraid when good things happen. It made me brace against it that little bit,” she explained. “I’m trying hard not to do that any more. It doesn’t make something terrible easier – and I don’t want to waste my happiness.”

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In an interview with Vanity Fair to promote all the crap she’s been working on lately including her new album Hard Candy, her feature film, Filth and Wisdom, which she’s directed and her documentary about Malawi I Am Because We Are. She is a busy woman, so it’s amazing that she found time in between destroying her marriage (kidding!) to give an interview, but she is the all-powerful, all-knowing Madonna, so she managed to squeeze it in.

The article doesn’t really reveal anything new about the ambitious pop star, except they did describe her unique patois as “the voice of the upper Midwest painted in Oxford glaze,” which I thought was the most hilarious euphemism I’ve heard in a long time.

More of Madonna from her Vanity Fair photo shoot after the jump.

Kim Kardashian has been trying to eat better in 2008 – a resolution she made after downing deep fried Oreo cookies on New Year’s Eve – but her adoration for junk food has been hard to curb.

“I figured just eating well would help me lose five pounds or so,” Kardashian, 27, tells PEOPLE, admitting that three months into the New Year, her diet isn’t getting any better. “It’s so hard to eat well because I love so many unhealthy foods. I just can’t stop eating junk. It’s awful!”

Kardashian, who served as the Celebrity Hostess of Wrestlemania XXIV in Orlando on Sunday night, lamented a disastrous trip to the International House of Pancakes earlier in the afternoon. “I decided not to have pancakes, because those aren’t good for me and I didn’t want the carbs. So what did I get? Chicken strips. I knew they were bad for me, but they were worth it.”

For now, Kardashian is relying on exercise to keep her figure. “I’ve got a personal trainer who keeps me active,” she says. “I work my butt and legs just about every day, and I do cardio to burn fat. I’ve actually started videotaping my workouts so I can do them on the road. I’m going to start selling the videos soon on my Web site so that others can do the same workout that I do. They’re short videos, but if you do them one right after the other, it’s a really good workout.”

One person who loves her curvy body, regardless of what she puts into it: boyfriend Reggie Bush, who hung out with some of the wrestlers while Kardashian rehearsed. “He doesn’t care what I eat,” says Kardashian. “He loves me just the way I am.”

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She’s usually a model of poise as she poses and pouts for the paparazzi.

However Paris Hilton has shown she can by as clumsy as the rest of us, even if she had swapped her trademark vertiginous heels for a pair of trainers - not footwear usually associated with danger.

The socialite was attempting a quick exit from a music store in Prague, the Czech Republic with boyfriend Benji Madden, when she tripped over a step, fell face down and banged her chin on the ground.

To add to her distress, Madden failed to play the doting beau and help Hilton to her feet and instead stepped over the hurt heiress.

However, in a move which shows chivalry isn’t completely dead, Madden, on realising the severity of Hilton’s fall, turned back round and helped her up.

But the damage was done and Hilton was overheard telling Madden: “Prague…never again.”

Up until now, Hilton has been enjoying her globe-trotting holiday which has included stop-overs in London, Cape Town, Berlin and attending the Miss Turkey 2008 beauty contest in Istanbul.

Perhaps her latest trip, the one on the ground, was down to her huge U.S. size 11 feet.

The socialite recently complained: “Yeah, it sucks, because I see all these super cute shoes in the stores: Guccis, YSLs, Manolos. And when they bring them out in my size, they look like clown shoes.”

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