For years when someone proposes marriage, it’s expected that it will A: Be a surprise, and B: involve a beautiful engagement ring, usually diamond. It turns out 20th century advertising are behind both of these cultural expectations. Blame Don Draper for feeling the heat to pick out the biggest, sparkliest, and purest diamond for your future wife.
When Jake Gyllenhaal stopped by GMA to promote his new movie Prisoners with Hugh Jackman opening this week, they ambushed him with an old clip from 1991. The 11-year-old actor was giving good interview on the red carpet premiere of City Slickers.
In 19 U.S. states parents of overweight and obese students may soon be sent, or are already being sent anonymous “fat letters” from their children’s school alerting them when their child’s BMI goes above what is considered healthy. Should this sensitive issue be something that a school monitors and alerts parents about?
The sadness just won’t stop! Breaking Bad is ending in a few weeks, and now AMC has announced that the series that started their foray into quality, groundbreaking television is going away too! Mad Men‘s next season will be it’s last, but we won’t see the final episode until 15. The series is taking a cue from Breaking Bad, and splitting the final season into two part.
Jennifer Aniston’s 24-year-old long-lost brother AJ (Alex John) Aniston lives quite a different lifestyle from his America’s Sweetheart sister. The punk rock drifter was photographed for the first time in nine years at Nevada’s Burning Man event.
Mark Wahlberg decided to go back to school online and finally get his high school diploma! Find out why he dropped out of school, and why he decided to go back and get his degree.
Miley Cyrus covers the October 2013 issue of Harper’s Bazaar, and of course she had quite a few interesting quotes. Find out what she had to say about her post-Hannah Montana days, her fashion style, and what advice she has for Justin Bieber.
36 years after she was raped at age 13 by director Roman Polanski, Samantha Geimer is finally telling her side of the story. In a controversial move she decided to make the cover of her book The Girl: A Life in the Shadow of Roman Polanski a photograph he took of her while they lounged at Jack Nicholson’s house. Find out what she has to say, and why she’s still in contact with Polanksi.
Gina Gershon looks amazing in her transformation into Donatella Versace for the upcoming Lifetime movie House of Versace. But can she hack the accent?
Over 12,000 Colorado residents have been forced to leave their homes due to a ravaging flood, and some have even lost their lives. Hundreds of people are currently unaccounted for, and a handful have been pronounced dead, including a pair of 19-year-old lovers who were swept away in front of their friends.
I mean, wow! Last night’s Breaking Bad was an emotional nightmare. All the consequences of Walt’s actions came crashing down as his family was finally torn asunder by the destruction of his thirst for power. Walt began his journey in the underworld hoping to find salvation for his family, and got so sucked into the game that he ended up being a toxic entity that would rip everything apart.
Meth is a crazy drug, kids. Washington state resident Jonathan Harty, 31, was in tears Friday in court as he faced sentencing for crashing his car high on meth while his two young daughters (4 and 6) were in the back seat.
27-year-old model Chrissy Teigen married 34-year-old singer John Legend in a lavish ceremony on Italy’s Lake Como Saturday, and the happy couple are sharing some of their special day on social media.
The hottest actors and singers are rolling in millions for their work, but their most lucrative paychecks can come from advertising campaigns. Beyonce topped the list of the Hollywood Reporter‘s highest earning celebrities with a $50 million payday from Pepsi. Robert Downey Jr. was the only star to tie with her, raking in $50 million for the third Iron Man movie. Cameron Diaz comes in third because she was able to snag a $42 million for Bad Teacher by taking only $1 million upfront, so she could get a bigger cut of the backend. George Clooney followed close behind with $40 for his Nespresso ads.
Elton John wrote the title track from his new album The Diving Board about young stars like Lindsay Lohan and Justin Bieber who get “swallowed up” by fame.
Friday Kanye West was charged with with attempted grand theft and misdemeanor battery related to a caught on camera altercation he had with a paparazzo named Daniel Ramos July 19, 2013.
On Katie this week Lil Wayne, an honor roll student AND high school dropout, gave an order to his fans, AND his children to finish school, even though he doesn’t regret dropping out himself. “I mean, kids, please finish high school. And all my kids, you are finishing high school!” he admonished.
Most kids don’t end up with a lucrative recording contract. It occasionally makes sense for children to drop out of school, but only like 0.000000001% of a time. Wayne revealed that it was his mother who actually suggested that he quit school and get his GED after she found out he was carrying a gun in his backpack for protection.
But back to the kids comment. Just how many children does Lil Wayne have, and who are the babies’ mothers?
Yesterday for Throwback Thursday Lindsay Lohan shared an adorable modeling photo of herself and Kirsten Dunst when they were little girls.
Miley Cyrus has finally ditched her platinum blonde hair (that aways seemed to look too much like P!nk’s hairstyle) for a dark brown shade. There aren’t any good photos yet of the change, there’s just a grainy Youtube video shot in Paris.
Lady Gaga covers the next issue of Elle magazine, and she reveals why she adopted a stage persona for her pop career. “I am – Stefani [Germanotta] is – a perpetually tortured artist. That’s why I changed my name. I can’t be her in public. She would be a mess,” Gaga told the magazine.
Lady Gaga is known for her wild fashions, but one has a special place in her heart. Find out which of her crazy outfits is her favorite!
Fairy Playboy princess Holly Madison had a Disney wedding with her baby’s father Pasquale Rotella! Her rep confirmed to U.S. Weekly that the pair wed Tuesday evening at Disneyland!
Jared Leto (or Jordan Catalano forever and always for me) is in an upcoming movie called the Dallas Buyer’s Club about a straight Texas with AIDS who smuggled in alternative treatments through Mexico in the 80s. Jared, who now is best known for his bad 30 Seconds from Mars, plays a transsexual stricken with the disease.
This viral video is funny and extremely touching all at once. A man posted this video of himself coming to after surgery, and realizing that the pretty lady taking care of him is his wife.
Tomorrow Lindsay Lohan’s parents team up together to be one of the first guests on a new daytime talk show called The Test. As per usual, they hurl accusations at each other, but it doesn’t look like they came any closer to resolving their deep-seeded issues.
Remember that complicated and fiery twerking fail video from last week that swept the internet, and made you feel all kinds of things inside? It was a big fat fake!
28-year-old Victoria’s Secret and L’Oreal model Doutzen Kroes opens up about how she views her body in a new interview. She says she’s not a size 0, the usual sample size, and lives an extremely healthy lifestyle, and has had a baby, so so she has no problems not fitting into clothing designed to fit a prepubescent girl.
Reuters and NBC News are investigating a disturbing trend: American parents search online for new parents for the children they adopted from other countries. When some parents clash with the new child from another culture they’ve brought to live with them, they put up “advertisements” for the children online for prospective parents to take them off their hands. Often the ads are brutally honest, describing the worst attributes of the children, or saying that they “hate” them. As it turns out, the type of people looking to take in unwanted children in an unvetted process outside the regulated system, usually don’t have the children’s best interests at heart. But as long as the right document is drawn up and signed, it’s legal, and not considered child trafficking because no money is exchanged.
Lady Gaga performed a Wizard of Oz take on her “Applause” single today on GMA, and it was super cute. I’ve been afraid that Gaga’s been taking herself too seriously with ARTPOP, but this performance was so adorable, I’m back on board.
Something odd happened, though. She appears to have used a Perez Hilton look-a-like as her cowardly lion.
A new film starring Naomi Watts as Princess Diana follows her life for about two years before her death in a car accident during a paparazzi chase. At the time of her death, July 1997, the divorced princess was dating billionaire Harrod’s heir Dodi Fayed. The film follows the romance between Diana and another man, heart surgeon Hasnat Khan, who she had just broken up with a few weeks before the tragic accident. There’s been a lot of controversy about the movie, which opens in the U.S. Nov. 1, which many critics saying it’s boring, and others close to Diana saying it’s completely wrong.
What really happened between Diana and boyfriend Hasnat Khan?
Dr. Phil has an $65,000 egg-chamber fountain of youth thing in his house, according TMZ.
31-year-old Jennifer Hudson plays a heroin addicted mom in The Inevitable Defeat Of Mister And Pete, but the singer and actress says she’s never touched any substance, including alcohol.
Eminem premiered a clip of his new music video for Berserk tonight on ESPN at the halftime of the Michigan vs. Notre Dame game, and his behavior was kind of odd to say the least.
Nicki Minaj was less over-the-top and more elegant glamour at Saturday night’s The Herve Leger by Max Azria Spring 2014 Runway Show Collection.
43-year-old Zach Galifianakis and wife Quinn Lundberg are expecting their first child any minute. No one knew Quinn was pregnant, and the couple still haven’t confirmed that they are actually married.
Justin Bieber attempted to grow a mustache earlier this year, and now he’s at it again.
“Paparazzi” is one of my favorite Lady Gaga songs, and a small part of why of I like it (I mostly just like it because it’s a fun song) is because of it’s comment on fame, love, and paparazzi and tabloid culture. It could be argued that it’s from the point of view of the paparazzi, or the star, or a that it switches at some point, but for me it always seems to almost be both at the same time. Of course, all of that is in the song, but it turns out the true heart of the song, the true inspiration is Lady Gaga’s unrequited love for ex-boyfriend Luc Carl.
When she was still pregnant Kim Kardashian did a photoshoot with Karl Lagerfeld for CR Fashion Book.
Jian Yang, 33, of Singapore, has one of the largest doll collections in the world. Of the 9,000 dolls he owns, 6,000 of them are Barbies. His obsession started when he was 13 and bought “Great Shape” Barbie, which first came out in 1983 and re-released for Toy Story 3. “Before I knew anything about social norms, I was a boy that watched this on TV, liked it and wasn’t allowed to have one,” he says in a clip from a British reality show. “As I grew older, got my own allowance, that’s where I started getting the freedom to buy whatever I wanted.”
E! has some exclusive photos of Kim Kardashian’s new honey blonde hair. Over the weekend Kim went to a friend’s Labor Day party in Beverly Hills with the new look. Should Kim keep the blonde, or go back to brunette?
Lana Scolaro, the girl in the infamous Robin Thick butt grab pic, is now saying she did more than just pose for photos with the 36-year-old pop star. Scolaro tells Life & Style that they made out while his wife Paula Patton was just a few feet away.
Amanda Bynes is currently undergoing treatment in a psychiatric center that may continue throughout the end of the year, and beyond. Doctors are currently tweaking her “drug cocktail,” but remain optimistic that Amanda will be able to function well. Although she hasn’t been diagnosed with schizophrenia, she is reportedly being treated for the disorder. TMZ ran some of the numbers and found that Amanda’s longterm hospitalization comes with a hefty price tag.
Michelle Dockery has a lot to smile about. Her international hit show Downton Abbey released a Season 4 trailer, and she’s fairing much better in the love department than her onscreen character Lady Mary. So who’s the lucky man in Michelle’s life?
Lady Gaga kicked off the iTunes festival in London Sunday with a preview of a bunch of her new songs (click here to read a rundown of what happened via MTV.com, apparently she tries to rap.) Afterwards she was seen in an outfit, that’s a comment, or maybe an evolution of her famous bubble outfit from the early days.
That’s right, Lady Gaga is now wearing a bubble machine.
Khloe Kardashian opened up about having memory loss problems, including most of her childhood years. On tonight’s episode of Keeping Up With the Kardashians sister Kourtney and mom Kris ask her if she remembers things like going horseback riding, trips to San Diego, or Kourtney protesting her mom making only spaghetti, Khloe says she can’t recall any of it. “You have no memory of your childhood. It’s bizarre,” Kris says. What’s going on with Khloe?
Showtime’s new series Ray Donovan stars Liev Schrieber as a Hollywood “fixer,” a steely man who handles difficult situations for L.A.’s most powerful people.
In the first episode Ray takes care of a basketball player who wakes up next to a dead girl, a movie star who wants to avoid being caught with a pre-op transsexual, and an epileptic addicted starlet’s stalker. Who is this character based on? Are there still “fixers” in L.A.?
Before Joe and Teresa Giudice were charged with 39 counts of fraud, Joe opened up about his fears of going to prison while taping Real Housewives of New Jersey. Before these charges were made, Joe was facing prison over another matter: identity fraud charges for using his brother’s drier’s license after he lost his own from a DUI charge.
Lady Gaga debuted two new looks this weekend while rehearsing for Sunday’s iTunes Festival in London where she’s set to debut seven new songs from her upcoming ARTPOP album to the world.
Robin Thicke, who has a 3-year-old son with wife of eight years Paula Patton, had a bit of a scandal that didn’t involve Miley Cyrus after a fan tweeted a photo of him groping her butt at a VMA after-party.
In the past Divergent star Shailene Woodley has hinted that she leads a more “natural” lifestyle and struggles to marry it with the materialistic world of Hollywood. Now she’s revealing just how dedicated she is to living an “alternative” DIY lifestyle.
Nev had injured his foot working out and was on crutches, but he still had to spring to action and prevent a fight at the conclusion of this week’s Catfish. It was a usual Catfish scenario in that there were too many red-flags to mention, but what was really going on was completely unexpected and unprecedented on the show.
Selena Gomez turned on her sense of humor Monday night at the Getaway premiere in LA by poking a little fun at her fellow former Disney star Miley Cyrus.
New dad Alec Baldwin got into another altercation with a paparazzo Tuesday, with both sides admitting to pushing each other, and neither claiming fault.
Miley Cyrus has succeeded in seriously distracting everyone with her twerks and grinds, and tongue action (just to mention a few of the things) at the VMAs Sunday night, which is kind of sad because Kanye West’s simple, stripped down performance is being largely overlooked.
One Direction now has a signature fragrance called “Our Moment.” Harry Styles has described the scent as smelling like a “summer day.” Contributing to the olfactory experience are jasmine petals, frangipani, pink grapefruit, wild berries and red currants. Their cheesy commercial features the boys interacting with all those things while a super-sweet rendition of “My Favorite Things” sung by Diana Vickers.
Kate Gosselin filed a multi-million dollar lawsuit against ex-husband Jon Gosselin Monday in Philadelphia.
Justin Timberlake won the Michael Jackson Video Vanguard Award last night after performing a long, impressive medley of his hit songs over the years. For a brief segment of that medley his old pals from ‘NSYNC joined him on stage for a reunion that melted nostalgic hearts of young women everywhere.
Before boyfriend Cory Monteith’s drug overdose death, Lea Michele began wearing a gold necklace with his name on it, and needless to say, after he passed away, she did not take it off. Friday Lea shared a photo with her Twitter followers of a similar necklace her Glee character Rachel Berry is wearing for Cory’s…
When I heard there was a Reality Bites TV Show in the works, I felt giddy, but I quickly realized I would only enjoy this if it starred Winona Ryder, Janeane Garofalo and Ethan Hawke. That’s impossible because the show’s concept is still about recent graduates, but recent graduates these days are about 40, so maybe it can still happen.
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