Kelly Osbourne In Rehab

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  • Kelly Osbourne checked into Oregon’s Hazelden Alcohol and Drug rehabilitation center on Wednesday. Her mom, Sharon Osbourne, says:

“She knew that it was the right thing to do at this point and we’re proud that she did it. The family is all standing behind her. Kelly knew that she needed help and she’s getting it.” [Star]

  • This is 24-year-old Kelly’s second time in rehab; she went when she was 18. [Daily Mail, The Sun]
  • The SoHo apartment in which Heath Ledger died has yet to be rented. It’s empty, and had been on the market, but was taken off last month. [UPI]
  • Heath Ledger’s sister says of her family: “We are still all nursing broken hearts. Like anyone who loses a family member, it has opened our eyes to the intense suffering and painful journey that is death.” [People, News.com.au]
  • During an Oscar Roundtable, Brad Pitt was asked if he Googles himself and said: “Dear God. No. Never. First of all, I don’t really know how to operate a computer.” But! Robert Downey Jr says: “Oh, I love all that shit, personally. Sorry. I love it. Because it’s a hoot. Some people overstate their support, like they know you. Other people are busy doing something else and just want to go on this chat site and say some despicable character assassination, which I honestly think they kind of nailed it. I do have that shortcoming. It’s really fun.” [Perez]
  • Mariah Carey was “furious” on inauguration day, because she was seated in the VIP section instead of with the Obama family. So she bailed on the ceremony. LOL. [Page Six]
  • Engaged: Mad Men‘s Elisabeth Moss and SNL‘s Fred Armisen. That was quick! [Yahoo News via E!]
  • Gisele and Tom Brady: Not engaged, despite persistent rumors. [NY Mag via Boston Herald]
  • Jennifer Lopez and Marc Anthony’s marriage seems totally fine, despite all the rumors. [MSNBC Scoop]
  • Someone’s been spreading a rumor that Kanye West is going to do bisexual porn; Kanye says it’s not true and “PLEASE I BEG YOU GIVE ME A BREAK!!!!” [ONTD]
  • The appellate court has granted an emergency stay in Roman Polanski’s sex abuse case; a proceeding scheduled for Wednesday has been postponed. [UPI]
  • Kate Hudson is in the Rob Marshall film adaptation of the Broadway musical Nine, playing a fashion writer for Vogue. Hudson, who sings and dances and the flick, says: “I was taking dance since I was a little girl. So to do it with a choreographer like Rob, you could only hope to work with him. It’s a childhood dream.” [USA Today]
  • Is David Beckham in love with Milan and hoping to stay in Italy forever? [Daily Mail]
  • Pregnant Gossip Girl star Kelly Rutherford continues to spar with her estranged husband in court; the hubs wants custody because he says she’s always working, and Rutherford counters: “If I’m being asked to choose my career over my son, I choose my son. [But] I need this job to pay my bills, legal bills, and [my husband] has offered no support.” [People]
  • A security gate fell on Tom Cruise’s car at Heathrow airport, but Xenu made sure no one got hurt. [TMZ]
  • Mickey Rourke is being offered $250,000 to play Crimson Dynamo in Iron Man 2. That’s what’s known as “lowballing.” [Perez]
  • Did anyone see Sigourney Weaver flash her underwear on The View? [Daily Mail]
  • So you know how Sienna Miller is out as Maid Marian in Ridley Scott’s Nottingham? Well Kate Winslet has passed on the role. An offer has gone out to Cate Blanchett, but she’s expected to decline as well. Is it that no one wants to kiss Russell Crowe as Robin Hood? [Fox 411]
  • By the by, Sienna Miller will make her Broadway debut in September, playing Miss Julie in After Miss Julie. [Daily Mail]
  • Marisa Tomei met an exotic dancer named Misty when she was researching her role in The Wrestler and says even though she learned some pole dancing moves for the film, “I ended up not using all of them… I guess you can say I still have some tricks up my sleeve.” [Page Six]
  • Blind item! “Which d-bag actor beats his beautiful action-star girlfriend?” [Gatecrasher]
  • Patrick Swayze and his wife of 33 years are working on a memoir together. [UPI, EW]
  • “I am your father!” James Earl Jones is getting a lifetime achievement award at the SAG event on Sunday. Did you know he was one of the first black actors to play a president on film, in 1972’s The Man? [USA Today]
  • Lost‘s season premiere bombed, ratings-wise, with numbers down 25% from last season. [Fox 411]
  • Simon Cowell fired Kelly Brook from Britain’s Got Talent and is now apologizing and offering her a role on spinoff Britain’s Got More Talent. Fun? [Daily Mail]
  • Alex James from Blur says when he had a record label in the ’90s, he didn’t sign Coldplay becayse “they were ordinary.” [The Sun]
  • Prepare yourself for a new celebrity offspring in the spotlight: Simon Le Bon’s daughter Amber is 18, gorgeous, leggy and ready to party. [Daily Mail]
  • News you cannot use: Andy Dick is trisexual. “I’ll try anything,” he told Tyra Banks on an upcoming show. “I really have tried everything, except nothing with animals. There’s only room for one animal – that would be me.” [NY Daily News]
  • SNL funnylady Kristin Wiig will appear on an episode of Flight Of The Conchords, playing a woman both Bret and Jemaine fall for! [Chicago Tribune]
  • Ouch: Larry King lost over $1 million by investing with Bernard Madoff. [Page Six]
  • Ugh, they’re already casting for round two of Paris Hilton’s My New BFF. As for the “winner” of the first season, a spy says: “Paris treats her BFF like an unpaid assistant.” [Page Six]
  • “A 50-year-old woman is equivalent to 40 when I was growing up. If you take care of yourself, 60 is nothing for women these days. In today’s world you can be the kind of woman you want to be. I remember my grandmother wearing the apron and the hairdo, but that’s gone. Believe me, that is totally finished.” — Tina Turner. [Daily Mail]
  • “I just hope I can stay famous enough for a little bit so someone rich will marry me. That’s all I really care about these days.” — Lily Allen, who looks smoking hot in these pictures from Interview magazine. [Daily Mail]
  • “I don’t know if this film is going to help my box-office career. The fans who liked my earlier films, who watch films to escape and have some fun, this won’t be their cup of tea. But I think I will gain a different kind of audience.” — Jean-Claude Van Damme on JCVD. [Guardian]
  • “There is a lot of whisper acting these days. Paul Giamatti in John Adams whispered most of his dialogue. Not to criticize him, but, one, I’m hard of hearing. And, two, voice is voice. Not aspiration. A whisper is a raspy sound. A voice is a full sound. Speech is a very important aspect of being human. A whisper doesn’t cut it.” — James Earl Jones. [USA Today]
  • “I’ve got so many stunning girlfriends who can’t get a boyfriend. But when I go out here, I get asked out all the time, and my girlfriends — who are better looking than me — say, ‘How the hell does that happen?!’ Maybe it’s because I’m comfortable with myself.” — Heather Mills, underminer. [Page Six]
  • “YOOOO WHY WON’T YOU LET ME BE GREAT!!! I HAD THE TWO GREATEST DAYS OF MY LIFE AND WHEN I GET BACK FROM THE LOUIE SHOW I READ SOME SHIT CLAIMING I SAID I’M DOWN TO DO PORN AND SOME BISEXUAL PORN!!!! I CAN’T BELIEVE THE AVN WOULD POST FIRST PEOPLE BELIEVED THE TWITTER/STEVEN COLBERT THING, ROLLING STONE EVEN PRINTED IT!!!! NOW SOMEBODY HAS BEEN HACKING INTO MY MYSPACE AND SOMEBODY’S ACTUALLY HACKED INTO MY PERSONAL GMAIL ACCOUNT AND HAS BEEN EMAILING PEOPLE FROM IT… HEY WORLD I NO LONGER HAVE A GMAIL!” — Kanye West, naturally. [ONTD]
 
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