- Prince Harry and his girlfriend of nearly 5 years, Chelsy Davy, are dunzo: Davy initiated the break up and has already made the breakup official by changing her Facebook relationship status to “single.” Oh, snap!
- Davy blames the breakup on Harry’s military career: “She and Harry had an incredible holiday together, but after he left, she really started thinking and realised he wouldn’t have much time with her during his training with the Army,” a source says. The breakup, however, is reported to be “amicable.” [DailyMail]
- Kanye West isn’t too happy about the nasty things 50 Cent has been saying about him. “I can’t say that it doesn’t affect me. I was such a fan of 50,” Kanye says, “For me, as a fan of him, I felt, like, if he said something negative and tried to make it like I’m negative, it’s almost like if a little kid walks up to you at the airport and is like, ‘Man, I love you so much,’ and then you spit on him.”[ShowbizSpy]
- Shakira was very impressed by the Obamas when she met them: “He really gets in touch with every person and connects with every person he’s talking to,”she says of the President, “You know he’s in the moment, and that is pretty remarkable. And he was very warm and very nice, as well as Michelle. What a woman, she’s very intelligent and also very accessible. I really liked them. I don’t sound very objective when I talk about the Obamas because I like them too much.” [Popdirt]
- Julianne Moore is enjoying her forties: “When you’re younger, you’re always working for something, and now you realize, this is really it,” Moore says,”You’d better be enjoying this, because this is pretty good.”[People]
- Rumer Willis, who admits she once had posters of her step-father, Ashton Kutcher, on her wall before Kutcher married her mother, says she’s not interested in riding her parents’ coattails to fame: “Most people’s idea of celebrity children is that they are trust-fund babies who don’t have any desire to work and are just going to ride their parents’ train. But I never wanted to be that girl,” Willis says. Mmm-hmm. [DailyMail]
- What?! The inaugural song played by Yo-Yo Ma and Itzhak Perlman was actually a tape, due to the cold weather: “They had to perform in such cold weather, the instruments couldn’t possibly be in tune,” says Carole Florman, a spokeswoman for the Joint Congressional Committee on Inaugural Ceremonies, “They were able to play in sync with the tape. It’s not unusual.”[MSNBC]
- Is Paul McCartney getting married for a third time? A source says he’s ready to propose to his girlfriend, Nancy Shevell, after getting his daughter Stella’s approval. “Paul is a big believer in the institution of marriage,” the source says, “and his friends are in absolutely no doubt he will propose to Nancy in time.”[ShowbizSpy]
- Meanwhile, Paul’s ex, Heather Mills, is now comparing herself to Hillary Clinton: “When you marry a Beatle, you marry 120 million fans who are also madly in love with him. This has meant years of hurtful and untrue press… my friends remind me that this happens to many strong, successful women,” Mills says, “I’ve watched my friend Hillary Clinton go through a hell of a time and still come out on top due to her strength.”[ShowbizSpy]
- Are Kirsten Dunst and Josh Hartnett an item? “They were whispering and smiling at each other,” says a source. “At times it looked like she wanted to grab his hand, but stopped. She was especially smitten with him.”[PageSix]
- Tom Cruise insists that his daughter, Suri, is very happy and not sheltered in the slightest: “[Suri] is such a happy girl, and I think that Kate is an extraordinary mother and very calm. Protecting her, but also you don’t want her to be sheltered in any way, and to be able to be engaged in life, and I think that’s like any parent.”[JustJared]
- Meryl Streep isn’t going to lie about how much it actually sucks to lose an Oscar, once you’re nominated: “When you lose you think ‘my work wasn’t any good’,” Streep says, “But it’s an honor to be nominated, and it is! It is. But you just feel worse when you lose than you did before you got nominated.” [Reuters]
- Like sands through the hourglass, so are the Days of Our Lives. And yet, our Days will be a little less wacky without John and Marlena (Deidre Hall and Drake Hogestyn) who have been written off of the show after 20 years. But who will the Devil possess now?! [EW]
- Kate Winslet and husband Sam Mendes refuse to fly together, for fear that a plane crash will take them both away from their children. Mendes was scheduled to fly aboard American Airlines Flight 77 on September 11, 2001, but missed the plane due to last minute plans. “Where possible, Kate and Sam do prefer to travel in separate planes,” a spokeswoman says, “It is not always possible but, for obvious reasons regarding the children, they do travel separately when they can.”[DailyMail]
- Tracy Morgan admits that he has a pretty hilarious tattoo in a very private place: the words “Stove Top” are etched along the side of his, uh, stuffing. “I’m pretty well-endowed,” Morgan tells Maxim, “A girl told me to get that because I stuffed her up like a turkey. She said, ‘You should call that Stove Top!’”[CollegeCandy]
- 22-year-old Katie Stam of Indiana was crowned Miss America last night, overcoming laryngitis and a throat infection to take the crown. Meanwhile, Hortense was crowned Miss Chocolate Donuts in her home this morning, overcoming below zero temperatures to go to the store to pick up breakfast. There she is! Miss Chocolate Dooonuts! There she is! There’s frosting on her shirt! [NYTimes]
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