- Madonna is making moves in Malawi: This picture at the link shows 4-year-old Mercy, the girl she’s trying to adopt, holding hands with possible new sister Lourdes. [Daily Mail]
- Oprah faces yet another scandal involving her Leadership Academy for Girls in South Africa; seven students allegedly engaged in “inappropriate behaviors.” [Socialite Life]
- This report says that even though girls at Oprah‘s school were expelled, this is not a sex scandal. [MSNBC]
- Lisa Ling‘s sister Laura and another journalist being detained in North Korea are headed for a trial on the basis of “already confirmed suspicions,” which doesn’t sound good. [People]
- Bridget Moynahan is furious with Gisele Bundchen for telling Vanity Fair she loved Tom Brady’s son like he was her own. Someone close to Bridget says: “If Gisele loved Bridget’s child like he was ‘100 percent her own,’ then she would not talk about him in the press. Discretion and respect are not either of Gisele or Tom’s virtues, as was evidenced even when the child was still unborn and they publicly flaunted their relationship without any discretion whatsoever.” [Page Six]
- Kate Moss is supposedly in New York to open the new TopShop here and OMGCLOTHESOMG. [Daily Mail]
- Shocker: Britney‘s Candie’s ads have been Photoshopped! Won’t someone think of the children? [Daily Mail]
- Josh Holly, the dude who hacked into Miley Cyrus‘ email and had his apartment raided by the FBI back in October is still being investigated. Special Agent Scott Augenbaum says: “We’re still working on it. He hasn’t been arrested.” Guess what Holly has been doing in the meantime? Hacking celeb MySpace accounts and spamming their “friends.” [E!]
- Speaking of Miley, she looks ever so uncomfortable on the May cover of Glamour. [Just Jared]
- Stephen Colbert is warning NASA to name a new wing of the international space station after him or he will “seize power as space’s evil tyrant overlord.” [CNN]
- Holy crap yay! Taye Diggs and Idina Menzel are expecting their first baby! [Socialite Life]
- Singer Natalie Cole is in desperate need of a kidney; she went on Larry King last night to talk about it and dozens of emails came in, with offers from people saying they would get tested to see whether their kidney could be donated. Sometimes TV redeems itself. [CNN]
- In this photograph, Robert Pattinson looks like a folkie singer with long hair and a guitar. Scarier than a vampire? [E!]
- Kelly Rowland has left Columbia Records, the label she’s been with since her Destiny’s Child days. Good luck out there! [E!]
- American Idol‘s emo musical theater rocker, Adam Lambert, has a fan in Neil Patrick Harris: The How I Met Your Mother Star was in the audience last night and says, “No male in this competition has sung so well. He really hit those notes.” [E!]
- A TV station in Panama City, FL decided that Osbournes: Reloaded was “not keeping with community standards” and declined to air the show after American Idol. [E!]
- A sneak peek at the new Sherlock Holmes flick: “Leave it to Robert Downey Jr. to turn Sherlock Holmes into a wisecracking action hero who ends up handcuffed naked to a bed.” [Yahoo News via AP]
- Rachel McAdams says filming the Sherlock Holmes movie was “cold and dirty.” “The 1800s were kind of dirty, I realized. I didn’t think about that before.” [Mirror]
- Gavin Rossdale and Gwen Stefani will never collaborate musically: “We come from such band mentalities that it’s something we’ve really done well to avoid,” Gavin says. [Mirror]
- Dreamworks animated flicks like Kung Fu Panda and Monsters Vs. Aliens will be shown on FX, thanks to a deal between the channel and the distributor. [USA Today]
- Star Jones says her mind and body are not in sync: I’m still 300 lbs. in my head some days,” she told Oprah. [People]
- Wanda Sykes and the Fox network are finalizing a deal for a Saturday late-night show. Bring it! [Yahoo News via Reuters]
- Some Slumdog Millionaire DVDs were released without the “making of” feature and “deleted scenes,” which were advertised on the box. Buyers are bitching to Amazon about it; Amazon is blaming Fox. [Deadline Hollywood]
- Pedro, a film about the HIV positive Real World castmember Pedro Zamora, premieres tonight on MTV and LOGO. [LA Times]
- The Seattle home where Jimi Hendrix grew up has been destroyed; preservation efforts failed. [Mirror]
- Liam Neeson has completed Chloe, the film he was working on when his wife Natasha Richardson died. [CBS News]
- R.I.P Andy Hallet, who played the demon Lorne on Angel. [Yahoo News via AP]
- Blind item: “Which Academy Award winner, who constantly denies his philandering ways, was outed after sleeping with a publicist who blabbed to everyone?” [Gatecrasher]
- “I’m going to get smashed after doing this.” — Ed Westwick, at the Dressed To Kilt show, before which he apparently stripped down to his underwear in a corner to change into his kilt. [Gatecrasher]
- “I break down a couple of times a week, at least. It gets overwhelming. Sometimes I think that I can’t take this anymore. I just want to live a normal life. Olivia [Palermo] kind of mothers me and looks at me as a pet project…I’m not some country bumpkin. I’m from Los Angeles.” — Whitney Port on The City. [Page Six]
- “If women look like her, that would be the perfect world. She doesn’t need to change anything. Who likes stick skinny girls? Where’s the flavor? Whoever likes those stick skinny girls never had sex before in their life.” — Dancing With The Stars‘ “star” Gilles Marini, on people talking about Cheryl Burke’s weight gain. [E!]
- “I want my dogs to be in my wedding, I am so serious.” — Jennifer Hudson. [Mirror]
- “Girls are scary. Large groups of girls scare the (crap) out of me.” — Kristen Stewart. [USA Today]
- I haven’t read the books, but I saw the movie… I thought the movie was really bad.” — Whitney Port, on Twilight. [Perez]
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