Entries from November 2009 ↓

I didn’t want to use the word “shock,” but that’s what people are saying. Good Morning America canceled Adam’s appearance following the controversial performance he gave at the AMAs. They say he’s alienating his fans. I think he’s just being himself and trying to prove his flair for showmanship as well. Does anyone disagree?

Now that’s what I call loving your fans! Lady Gaga was at a Best Buy store when she noticed that she had LOTS of fans waiting for her…autographs, you know. Well, she bought $1,000 worth of pizza for them! I’d be a fan for pizza, wouldn’t you?

So what’s new, you may ask. He’s been accused of that before. But in front of his children? AT his children? This is crossing the line like no other, huh? Apparently, the twins said something about liking their mom better and daddy didn’t like it! Tsk tsk.

NOPE, they’re not together, but what do they have in common aside from dating Jennifer Aniston? John Mayer says “we’re both branded womanizers.” Gerard Butler, I am okay with. John Mayer, I am not so sure. I do like his Continuum album though. What say you?

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Perez Hilton couldn’t get a story right if we spotted him the letter R-I-G and H. (And probably T, too.)

The bad blogger, who’s so scared of Gossip Cop he’s blocked us – yes, blocked us – on Twitter, recently reported that Lindsay Lohan “feels the need to make her ex a little jealous” and has done so by having “agreed to pose in a new Terry Richardson spread in a French fashion magazine called Purple.”

Well, why would that make Samantha Ronson jealous?

Oh, wait… First, Lohan didn’t do a shoot with Purple, she did it with another magazine, but facts are not that important to Perez.

“Cop Blocker” explains that Lohan is intentionally making Ronson jealous by posing semi-nude with a dude and another woman. According to Perez, the pictures with the guy “won’t do much to bother Ronson, but the shots with another half naked lady certainly will.”

He even quotes a source saying, “Any photos of Lindsay with another girl in a provocative manner will, of course, irk Sam. Lindsay knows what she’s doing when she sets up in those positions. She wants Sam to see.”

This is all quite fascinating, but Gossip Cop spoke directly to Lohan, who wondered, “Why would I want to make someone that I care for jealous? That’s unnecessary and completely untrue!”

That’s a very good point.

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At some point the tabs’ desire to report accurately on Britney Spears will trump their impulse to create fiction around a pun on the phrase “Oops… I did it again.”

But we aren’t there yet.

“The pop star and her boyfriend Jason Trawick decide to say ‘I do’,” announces OK! magazine before launching into a cover story that begins with the “Oops…” line and devolves from there.

Alert Gossip Cop readers might remember the busted rumor from just yesterday that Trawick rejected a Spears marriage proposal.

In this version of events, Spears received “her boys’ blessing” and decided to “move ahead with plans for her third wedding in five years.” How does OK! know? A so-called “source close to the couple” describes a moment in Perth, Australia when Trawick tucked in Spears’ sons and four-year-old Sean blurted, “Good night, Daddy!” At which point, the tab’s eyewitness to the epiphany reports, “Britney’s heart simply melted” and she decided to marry her beau.

Having gotten her life and career back on track, OK! continues, Spears wants “a real wedding” (according to a “friend”) and has told pals she’d like it to be on a beach in either Costa Rica, Hawaii, Mexico or Australia. (What, just those four? How about Iraq? North Korea?)

And who’s attending the ceremony? Spears plans on “flying in about 200 guests – including close family and celebrity pals,” with Madonna, Paris Hilton, Lindsay Lohan, and ex Kevin Federline “among the rumored invitees.” The star’s parents are “all for her marrying Jason,” according to OK!, and after the Australian leg of her Circus tour ends, “Britney intends to put her bridal plans into action.”

Gossip Cop suggests Hilton, Lohan, and Federline leave their beach wear in the closet for the time being.

While Trawick and Spears may marry some day, it isn’t happening yet, and it isn’t happening because her son called her boyfriend “Daddy” in a moment that feels lifted from a syrupy made-for-TV movie. We don’t know why the gossip press is so insistent on Australia being the setting for Spears’ newest romantic leap of faith, but everything rumored from Down Under requires a huge leap of logic.

For what it’s worth, a source close to Spears tells Gossip Cop Britney beach wedding talk is “completely” untrue.

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“Swift Sues Sports Bar After Sting Operation,” read the headline of recent item about Taylor Swift on TMZ.

According to the post, “Taylor Swift wants justice — after a sting operation in Idaho revealed that a little sports bar was totally cheating her out of … a few dollars a month.” 

TMZ reported that record label “BMI deployed an ‘agent’ to go on a recon mission at The Sports Cellar bar sometime last year, and the agent noticed the bar was playing music — including Taylor’s stuff — that they hadn’t paid for the right to play.” The site went on to say, “Swift and co. are suing for unspecified damages — but compared to the millions she’s raking in right now, this thing in Idaho is totally small potatoes.”

Idaho… potatoes… Oh, we get it. That’s cute, but the story is a gross misrepresentation.

Neither Swift nor any of her reps initiated the lawsuit nor are they involved in it in any away.

In a statement from BMI, given to Gossip Cop, the label explained, “BMI filed a routine lawsuit against a bar for not licensing music over a span of several years. (We file dozens of such lawsuits every year.) On the two nights we surveyed music in the bar, there were ten songs we selected to include in the copyright infringement suit… One was a Taylor Swift song.”

(BMI has 400,000 copyright owners, including Swift, and when an artist joins the label, he or she signs a contract for these types of lawsuits, which the label may pursue independently.)

BMI added in its statement that “Other than by the sheer chance that Taylor owned one of the songs heard on the night our researcher visited the establishment, she personally has no direct participation in this copyright infringement suit.”

Guess “BMI Sues Sports Bar After Sting Operation” sounds less sexy (though more accurate ) than “Swift Sues Sports Bar After Sting Operation.”

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A couple of week ago the National Enquirer ran a headline that read, “Johnny Depp Sails to Rescue of Pal Nic Cage,” and went on to say that when “The Pirates of the Caribbean” star had learned of Nicolas Cage’s financial troubles, “Johnny called Nic and basically told him, ‘Look, don’t worry. I’ll help you. You just let me know, all right?’”

At the time, Gossip Cop was told by Cage’s rep that the story was “not true.” Oh don’t worry — it’s still not true.

But now comes word – also via the Enquirer – that George Clooney is “meeting with Nic and told him he would help him any way he can, including movie projects.”

Not only is this offer similarly gracious, but it is also not true.

Clooney’s rep tells Gossip Cop, “George has met Nicolas Cage once in his life, and that was three or four years ago at the Venice Film Festival.”

We’re looking forward to next week when the Enquirer has Cage being offered help from either Robert Pattinson or Carrot Top.

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In a New York City Best Buy on Monday to sign her new album, Rihanna had one very special visitor: six-year-old Jasmina Anema.

Back in February the performer heard of her young fan’s battle with NK-cell leukemia and appealed for new bone marrow donors. The plea led thousands of new donors to register with DKMS America – and resulted in a match for Jasmina. On April 2 the performer visited the youngster at NYU Medical Center as she awaited a transplant. The two spent several hours together, with Rihanna giving Jasmina a makeover and bedside manicure.

On Monday the two had their emotional reunion, the first since Jasmina’s transplant.

For someone who experienced life’s ugliness this past year, Rihanna’s good work on behalf of Jasmina is something to be thankful for – and to emulate – this week.

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Us Weekly is reporting that Ashlee Simpson-Wentz’s marriage to Pete Wentz is in trouble because her ”splurging habits are out of control.” 

According to the mag’s unnamed source, “Things are getting strained” between the parents of Bronx, because the “Chicago” star supposedly “keeps spending all his money.” In fact, the tab claims Simpson-Wentz recently “spent over $20,000 on his credit cards and acted like it was nothing. He’s over it!”

A few questions: Where was the shopping spree? When? What did she buy? 

Us doesn’t have any of those answers, just allegations.

When pressed, a rep for both of them unequivocally told Gossip Cop that Us‘ “piece is a fabrication,” adding that the so-called “strained” couple “just celebrated their son’s first birthday together.”

Any questions?

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