- Amy Winehouse must be coming to her senses: she’s given control of her £15 million fortune to her parents. She can’t spend her own money without their approval, so drugs are probably out. [Mirror]
- Michael Phelps says of smoking that bong: “I engaged in behaviour which was regrettable and demonstrated bad judgment.” And! “I’m 23 years old and, despite the successes I’ve had in the pool, I acted in a youthful and inappropriate way, not in a manner people have come to expect from me. For this I am sorry. I promise my fans and the public it will not happen again.” [Guardian]
- Madonna, Guy Ritchie, and the kids all went to the same service at the Kabbalah Center in New York yesterday. Madge and Guy arrived and left separately, but things are “amicable.” [Daily Mail]
- Madonna was spotted with that hot Brazilian model in New York on Sunday, Jesus Luz. Are Madonna and Jesus gettin’ Biblical? [Perez]
- Britney’s dad has obtained restraining orders against Adnan Ghalib and Sam Lutfi, who are “now working in concert to disrupt the conservatorship,” according to the paperwork. Apparently Britney informs Adnan of where she’s going, and he arranges for paparazzi to show up and photograph her for his financial benefit. Sam, meanwhile, tells Brit he’s “trying” to “free” her from her conservatorship. [Extra]
- Get ready: Kate Moss wants to be an actress. [Elle UK]
- Wings and cupcakes: Jessica Biel threw Justin Timberlake a Super-Bowl themed surprise party in the penthouse of the Roosevelt Hotel in Hollywood. [People]
- Tommy Lee‘s helicopter was pulled over by LAPD. No, really. [TMZ]
- Foxy! Pix of Slumdog Millionaire‘s Freida Pinto as a young aspiring model. [Daily Mail]
- As for Slumdog‘s Dev Patel, he says: “If you asked me a year ago would I ever have been doing a movie with [director] Danny Boyle, I would have absolutely laughed in your face.” [NPR]
- Aw, 9-year-old Rubina Ali, who also starred in Slumdog Millionaire and lives in a “one-room shack” with her family in a Mumbai slum, wants to be a Bollywood star. “I like films. I like poems and I like my school,” she says. [Reuters]
- Jennifer Aniston‘s house: Still a construction site after 2 years of remodeling.
Star] - Ciao, Hollywood: David Beckham will leave the LA Galaxy and join AC Milan permanently, after getting approval from wife Victoria. [Mirror]
- Here’s Victoria stepping out with Cruz and Romeo, who are wearing matching shirts. [Daily Mail]
- Is it really the end for Prince Harry and Chelsy Davy? A source says they are still speaking and this may just be a “blip.” [Daily Express]
- Although Chelsy was out partying and kept talking about how she wants to go “home” to Zimbabwe. [Daily Mail]
- Ellen DeGeneres and Portia de Rossi had a joint birthday party where Samantha Ronson DJ’d and celebs like Jennifer Aniston and Drew Barrymore celebrated. Our invitation must have gotten lost. [ People]
- Chris Martin has been banned from recording with Coldplay for two weeks. [Mirror]
- Even though Warner Bros. didn’t push for Gran Torino to win an Oscar, the movie is actually cleaning up at the box office, unlike some other nominated flicks.It’s “Clint Eastwood‘s $110 Million Revenge.” [Fox News]
- Billy Bob Thornton claims: “I’d like to do another movie with Angie one of these days. We talk all the time. She and I keep looking for something to do together; we just have to find the right thing.” Sure, sure. [Daily Express]
- Even though Courtenay Semel beat up Casey Johnson last month and set her hair on fire, they are back in love and “soul partners.” [Page Six]
- Kristen Johnston talks about her role on the new Absolutely Fabulous: She will indeed play Patsy, not Edina, as previously reported. And the show will be “different.”: “We don’t smoke, we are hungover all the time, we chew Nicorette, we’re trying to be more PC, but I think it really works. It’s one of those scripts that’s like my favorite kind because on paper you’re like, Oh, this is funny, but when you read it out loud with two actresses, it’s, like, the funniest shit ever.” [EW]
- Score: Snoop Dogg coached his Snoop Youth Football league team to victory! [UPI]
- Mary Lynn Rajskub and Janeane Garofalo get the giggles when shooting 24 scenes together. “If we make eye contact, forget it,” Garofalo says. [USA Today]
- Check out Zoe Kravitz, all dolled up for a photo shoot with Annie Leibovitz. The pix will appear in an upcoming issue of Vanity Fair. [Daily Mail]
- Blind item! “Which heartthrob actor keeps turning up drunk to the set of his TV medical drama?” [Gatecrasher]
- Nick Lachey loves that his girlfriend is a sports fan, blah blah blah. [People]
- Is ABC Family, with shows that contain teenage pregnancy and underage drinking, too edgy to be called a family channel? [UPI]
- The latest ABC family shows are all “female-oriented,” including one series called 10 Things I Hate About You, based on the movie. [Reuters]
- Lisa Loeb got married on Saturday! The lucky guy is Roey Hershkovitz, a music supervisor for Late Night with Conan O’Brien. The bride wore pink. [People]
- Kate Middleton‘s childhood home is up for sale. [Telegraph]
- Because the world could not function without his opinion, Sanjaya Malakar would like for you to know he approves of the 4th judge on American Idol. [UPI]
- John Cleese‘s ex-girlfriend says when Cleese dumped her via a message on her answering machine for lying about her age, she texted back: “Look, at least it wasn’t a sex tape.” [Mirror]
- “To me, it’s a party whenever I go to work. The writing is so wonderfully dark, and everybody’s lying to everyone else, that it’s funny. It was a very relaxed time for me — actually, way more relaxing than comedy. Comedy makes me uptight. Because in comedy, everything is not funny until that one thing that is. ” — Ted Danson, best known for doing comedy, now getting attention of his dramatic role on Damages. [Washington Post]
- “Oh God, wasn’t that awful?” — Kristen Johnston, on Bride Wars, in which she had a small part. [EW]
- “I’m not a romantic guy at all. It’s not that I don’t believe in romance. It’s that I don’t believe in dinner for two by the ocean, walking down the beach holding hands – that version of romance. I think I’m probably romantic, but I’m not outwardly romantic. I’m not a player.” — Jonathan Rhys Meyers. [People]
- “I loved [Vicky Cristina Barcelona character] Maria Elena, yes. I mean, I hope I’m not too similar to her! And I didn’t want to ever think, ‘Oh, I’m playing a crazy person.’ Because I mean, who’s normal? I don’t know anybody that is normal.” — Penelope Cruz. [CBS News]
- “I asked my agent if I could have my costumes in my contract – but she laughed in my face! I guess that doesn’t really happen.” — Isla Fisher, on Confessions Of A Shopaholic. [The Sun]
- “It was pretty tough turning 18. I realised that overnight I’d become fair game. I had a party in town and the pavements were just knee-deep with photographers trying to get a shot of me looking drunk, which wasn’t going to happen. I don’t have to drink to have a good time. The sickest part was when one photographer lay down on the floor to get a shot up my skirt. The night it was legal for them to do it, they did it. I woke up the next day and felt completely violated by it all. That’s not something I want in my life. I just kept thinking that if it had happened a day earlier people would have sued their asses off… I find the whole concept of being ‘sexy’ embarrassing and confusing… I know everyone wants a picture of me in a mini-skirt. But that’s not me. I feel uncomfortable.” — Emma Watson. [Daily Mail]
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