Entries from May 2011 ↓

It was a night of firsts…and lasts.

During tonight’s special three-hour Celebrity Apprentice, La Toya Jackson, who Donald Trump brought back into the competition last week, stepped…

Prom is a big-deal rite of passage for every teenager, but for TV teens, it is nothing less than the pinnacle of existence. Yep, at long last, it’s time for the crazy, mixed-up kids…

After 40,000 miles, nine countries, five continents and two aggressive product placements for Travelocity and Snapple, a pair of former losers won The Amazing Race: Unfinished Business….

Have Pippa Middleton and brother James attracted the attention of a certain celebrity sex tape purveyor?

Following pics surfacing of Pippa partying in her bra and her brother, James, in…

Lindsay Lohan has gone vamp.

The Mean Girls star slapped on some fangs and sultry red lipstick to portray a vampire in photographer friend Tyler Shields’s photo exhibit, “Life is…

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Carson Daly blasted Perez Hilton for posting In Touch’s 100% false report about Christina Aguilera’s alleged “diva behavior” during a feisty radio interview with the blogger.

After Perez called into Daly’s program on Friday to discuss the latest gossip, the host immediately took him to task for spreading the magazine’s bogus story about a feud between Aguilera and their “The Voice” colleague Adam Levine.

“I was merely reporting what they were talking about,” protests the brutally bad blogger.

“You, by taking that story and running with it, are supporting it!” Daly fires back.

“Well, good. Good to know,” responds Perez, whose entire argument for repeating In Touch’s falsehoods as though they’re factual is – we’re serious – they “didn’t sound completely far-fetched.”

“It couldn’t be further from the truth,” says Daly, reading back portions of Perez’s post and concluding, “You should be ashamed of yourself for printing nonsense.”

Gossip Cop is happy to hear Daly calling Perez on his b.s.

Listen to the exchange below!

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Will Smith is reportedly the frontrunner to star in Django Unchained, Quentin Tarantino’s upcoming movie about a slave in the Old South searching for his wife.

The “spaghetti Western” would team the title character with a German bounty hunter, expected to be played by Christoph Waltz, as they look for Django’s wife and attempt to take down a plantation owner.

No official offer has been made, but Tarantino wants Smith for the role, according to THR.

Samuel L. Jackson is also being lined up for a part in the movie, Tarantino’s first since Inglourious Basterds. Filming would begin in the fall.

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Thor hammered its way to the top of the box office this weekend, projected to debut with $65 million after a huge opening Friday.

The Chris Hemsworth–Natalie Portman comic book adaptation is expected to beat out last week’s champ, Fast Five, itself on pace for a $34 million weekend.

A fierce competition is brewing for third place, with the new releases Something Borrowed and Jumping the Broom both tracking toward hauls in the neighborhood of $13 million.

Rio keeps rolling in its fourth week, with the animated hit expected to do roughly $10 million in business.

It looks like Water for Elephants will snare sixth place with $6 million, ahead of Madea’s Big Happy Family ($4.5 million), Prom ($2.5 million) and Soul Surfer ($2 million).

Hoodwinked Too! should round out the Top Ten with just under $2 million.

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Taylor Swift has announced that she is turning the final dress rehearsal for her Speak Now Tour into a fundraiser to benefit victims of the tornadoes that have ravaged the southeastern United States.

The event for 13,000 fans will be held on May 21 at Bridgestone Arena in Nashville.

100% of ticket sales will go directly to disaster relief.

“I was watching the coverage of the tornadoes backstage at rehearsals, and I wanted to do something for the families affected by the damage,” says Swift.

“I’ve never opened a rehearsal to the public before, but I felt that inviting my fans to the last rehearsal for the Speak Now Tour would be a great way to raise money. So, tickets will be available for people to come see us in the Bridgestone Arena, where we’ve been rehearsing for the last five weeks.”

“We’ll probably still be doing some fine-tuning to the show that night, since this will be a true rehearsal,” continues Swift, “but I feel like it is so important for me and my fans to help if we can.”

Tickets will be made available on Swift’s official site on Monday, May 9.

The North American leg of Swift’s tour (officially) kicks off in Omaha on May 27.

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It’s time for the Stupidest Story of the Week!

The winner?

In a stunner, it’s HollywoodLife!

Kate Gosselin and Ian Somerhalder will both be at the Kentucky Derby on Saturday, observes the site, which then asks the question on absolutely no one’s mind.

“Even though we’re pretty positive Ian is dating his ‘Vampire Diaries’ co-star Nina Dobrev – do you think Kate will make a run for Nina’s man?”

[staring blankly]

Um, what?

“It might actually happen this weekend because they’re both in Louisville, Ken., for the 2011 Kentucky Derby!”

What might actually happen?

“We know the mom-of-eight wants an ‘older man,’ but who could resist Ian?”

Apparently, HollywoodLife is confused.

The site thinks the Kentucky Derby is a candlelit dinner for two.

It’s not.

“We know it’s far-fetched,” admits the stupefying site, “but wouldn’t it be an interesting match? We wonder what Ian’s girlfriend Nina Dobrev would have to say about it!”

She’d probably be totally baffled by this entire story, as would any rational person.

If HollywoodLife just wanted to do a story about celebrities attending the Derby – as it clearly intended, later mentioning Miranda Lambert, Nick Lachey, Erin Andrews and Audrina Patridge – why does it feel the need to concoct a bizarre, utterly baseless hypothetical Somerhalder-Gosselin pairing?

Does the site think the Kentucky Derby is actually speed dating for random Hollywood personalities?

Maybe Patridge will start dating Andrews?! Lambert could wind up with the winning jockey! Lachey may fall in love with a horse!

In any case, we’re not sure who’ll win this Saturday’s big race… but for Stupidest Story of the Week, the smart money is on HollywoodLife!

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