Entries from March 2010 ↓

It turns out that a year before Michael Jackson’s tragic passing in 2009, he signed a contract that allows Netherland Presentations to feature music from his albums Thriller and Off the Wall for a musical play.

According to TMZ, the production hit a major road bump last year when John Landis, director of the music video “Thriller,” claimed that they needed his permission to use the song for the musical.

A lawsuit is now pending. Howard Weitzman, legal guru for the MJ estate, told TMZ, “I’ve seen their creditor’s claim. I don’t agree with their request.”

Would you watch a Michael Jackson-inspired musical?

Justin Bieber’s second album, My World 2.0 is finally out. It features songs such as “Never Let You Go,” which is now on the iTunes singles chart and “Baby” (featuring Ludacris) which has been steadily climbing the Billboard 100 chart.

Another song featured in the album is “Eenie Meenie,” a collaboration with Justin’s real-life bff, Sean Kingston. The song will also be part of Sean’s untitled third album.

“’Eenie Meenie’” melds Sean Kingston’s island-inflected dance-pop with Bieber’s sweet tween R&B,” according to MTV.

Have you purchased the album? If not, listen to “Eenie Meenie” here:

Also check out Justin and Sean working on the song in their studio:

 

(TMZ.com)

TMZ ran with a story today – picked up all over – that blared, “Lindsay Lohan: ‘She’s Going to Die.’” But the actress herself tells Gossip Cop she’s fine.

TMZ reports that an unnamed individual, who is “extremely close to Lindsay,” says, “If she doesn’t get help soon, she’s going to die.”




According to the site, which features several unflattering photos, Lohan needs “help for substance abuse,” and people are “trying to convince Lindsay to go to rehab again.”

But Lohan is dismissing the TMZ report.

Lohan tells Gossip Cop exclusively, “I’m fine… I’m working and healthy.”

Gossip Cop would like to know if you believe these reports or Lohan’s own words.

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NFL star Joey Porter was arrested in Bakersfield, CA today after a traffic stop outside a Taco Bell turned physical.

According to the California Highway Patrol, the Arizona Cardinals linebacker was arrested around 1:20 AM on suspicion of driving under the influence, battery on a peace officer and resisting arrest.

Reportedly, police stopped Porter’s friend in the Taco Bell parking lot and Porter pulled up behind the CHP patrol vehicle. An officer smelled alcohol in Porter’s car and asked for his license, which Porter allegedly refused to provide.

When the cop reached into Porter’s vehicle to attempt to unlock the door manually, Porter placed his hand on top of the officer’s to keep the lock down. The NFL star is said to have then exited the car in a “confrontational manner,” leading the officer to order him to the ground.

Porter and an unnamed passenger were taken into custody.

DEVELOPING…

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We imagine Perez Hilton is still recovering from his birthday celebration… because he’s only now taking the chance to misreport some old stories.

Finally flipping through his copy of In Touch Weekly to repeat whatever it says, Perez reheats the cold dish claiming Gwyneth Paltrow and Chris Martin are currently living separately.

Not only can’t he muster the strength to add any new information to this Gossip Cop–busted rumor, Perez even fails to win us over this time with his Photoshop wizardry, writing barely visible white words against a white, overcast sky.

If he’s going to be several days late and wrong with his reporting, Perez could at least give us some clever art work!

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The good folks at HollywoodLife.com took a short break from botching celebrity news to publish an upskirt photograph of Courteney Cox and scold her for not using a “crotch cover.”

On the set of her TV series “Cougar Town,” Cox rode a bike while wearing a short skirt. A paparazzo snapped a pic from a low angle (which Gossip Cop cropped), and HollywoodLife decided it was important for everyone to see.

And if anyone DIDN’T squint hard enough below Cox’s skirt, the site helpfully provides another picture that zooms in on the critical area.

With the tact of a first grader, HollywoodLife exclaims, “Hey, Courteney, we can see your underwear! (And we really do hope it’s underwear down there.)”

We have two questions for the editors:

1. Are upskirt paparazzi photos of actresses really what your visitors crave?

2. Shouldn’t a female-targeted and -operated site claiming to be everyone’s “Style BFF” know what it would, um, look like if Cox weren’t wearing anything beneath her skirt?

Just curious!

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The Sun has an “exclusive” report on whose “hot new date” Kim Kardashian is.

We’re sure Kardashian’s more anxious than anyone to find out.

According to the paper, soccer star Wayne Bridge and Kardashian were introduced at Miami’s Nikki Beach Club earlier this month. The two “have been swapping texts ever since and plan to meet” when Kardashian is in London next week. Bridge’s “pal” tells the Sun the soccer stud and reality TV queen “got on like a house on fire.”

They’ve “been in touch ever since and will be hooking up” in the UK, adds the Sun source. “He’s looking forward to catching up when she’s in town.”

We’re sure Kardashian is looking forward to “catching up,” too.

One thing, though.

She has no idea who her rumored hookup is.

“Who the hell is Wayne Bridge?” Kardashian tweets. “LOL Someone please fill me in because I have no clue!”

That’s how “good” the Sun is — it knows who you’re dating before even you do!

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In a piece titled, “EXCLUSIVE: Jesse James Alleged Mistress #3 And Her Connection To Kristen Stewart,” RadarOnline quotes a January 16 entry from Brigitte Daguerre’s blog in which she claims to have shared a holiday meal with Kristen Stewart at the Twilight star’s home.

The Radar story, of course, was picked up by a slew of other outlets that (similarly) did not fully report out the story.

Daguerre, in her January 16 entry, first notes, “I live in the heart of the entertainment capital of the world and have been in and around the entertainment and fashion world since I was a kid,” before oddly adding, “Next I’ll be blogging about my Christmas eve dinner at Kristen Stewart’s house who is, in case you live under a rock, the star of Twilight. So keep checking in.”

Besides the fact that it’s strange Daguerre would discuss a Christmas Eve dinner at Stewart’s home on January 16 — it also never happened. (And as far as we can tell, Daguerre never blogged about it.)

Gossip Cop checked with a Stewart confidante, who assured us Daguerre’s claim of a “Christmas eve dinner at Kristen Stewart’s house” is absolutely “not true.”

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The rumor mongers over at MediaTakeOut.com have another doozy, fresh off of yesterday’s “exclusive”-ly WRONG announcement that Beyonce is pregnant, which Gossip Cop was first to bust.

Now the site’s “sources” claim Robert Kardashian and Angela Simmons are getting a reality show.

“You could see this coming a MILE AWAY,” declares the same outlet that once bizarrely insisted Robert’s sister Khloe’s marriage to Lamar Odom was a “switcheroo” conspiracy to publicize nuptials between Kourtney Kardashian and Scott Disick.

The site reports Kardashian’s mother “has been pitching the idea through Ryan Seacrest’s production company,” and E! executives are “very interested” in picking it up.

What’s more, a MediaTakeOut “insider” claims Kardashian’s relationship with Simmons is “100 percent staged.”

Well, MTO’s story is 100 percent false.

A source close to the Kardashians told Gossip Cop the show rumors are “not true.” As to whether Kardashian and Simmons are dating, we’re informed that they’re “just friends.”

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“Oh, No! Sandra Won’t Be At The Kids’ Choice Awards! Is She Too Upset To Be In Public?” asks HollywoodLife, which rarely has the answers.

The site, which can’t be bothered with nitpicky things like accuracy, writes that Sandra Bullock “does NOT want to be seen and is skipping the Kids’ Choice Awards March 27! Can you blame her for wanting to stay at home?”

Well, no one can blame Bullock for wanting to keep a low-profile amidst her husband Jesse James’ sex scandal, but one can definitely blame HollywoodLife for not fact-checking.

Bullock isn’t “skipping” the Kids’ Choice Awards – for which she is nominated for Favorite Movie Actress – because she’s “too upset to be in public.” Bullock won’t be at the awards show because, as her rep told Gossip Cop, she “never planned on attending.”  

That’s a big difference.

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