Janet Jackson and Qatar billionaire businessman Wissam Al Mana became engaged recently — but don’t expect to see Janet’s new bling anytime soon. The singer/actress’ engagement ring is reportedly so huge that she keeps it “locked away” for security reasons. In addition to that, Al Mana is allegedly planning an over-the-top wedding that will rival royalty.
Miley Cyrus and Liam Hemsworth became engaged on May 31 of this year after three years of dating. But during a Christmas celebration together, Miley posted a couple of photos on her Instagram page that made fans wonder if the two had already gotten hitched.
Former singer with Danity Kane, Aubrey O’Day, had a Christmas Eve she will regretfully never forget. The 28-year-old was on hand at Seattle’s popular hotspot Munchbar when just after 1 AM 19-year-old Ja’mari Alexander Alan Jones walked into the club and shot and killed a patron while injuring another. Read O’Day’s tweets from the scene including a pic of police on hand that she posted.
There were rumors that Jessica Simpson’s second pregnancy was negatively affecting her multi-million deal with Weight Watchers, but that’s not the case at all. One of the spots Jessica filmed in November for Weight Watchers includes an announcement that she’s expecting, and Weight Watchers released a statement that they will continue to work with Jessica. Will she be using the program while she’s still pregnant?
21-year-old Aubrey Ireland, a student at the prestigious College-Conservatory of Music in Cincinatti, Ohio, has received a stalking order against her parents who admitted to placing tracking devices in her cellphone and laptop. Read on for the details of Aubrey’s unique story and why she felt she had to have the courts step in and why the courts agreed to take action.
Frank Ocean wrote “Wise Man” for Quentin Tarantino’s new movie Django Unchained, but while the director loved the song, he said he couldn’t find a way to fit it into the film and didn’t want to just throw it in there awkwardly. So Frank released the song himself, and it’s pretty amazing.
Kate Winslet got married earlier this month to billionaire Ned Rocknroll and didn’t tell anybody!
The 37-year-old actress wed 34-year-old Ned Rocknroll in a very private, intimate ceremony in NYC. Her Titanic co-star Leonardo DiCaprio gave her away in a wedding that her own parents didn’t know about. Her dad told The Sun: “It’s not something I know of – but nothing would surprise me with those two.”
The brother of Kevin Federline is claiming that he’s the father of Britney Spears’ oldest son Sean Preston. Even more head shaking than that, Christopher Federline is making this claim in court papers he filed in Florida seeking a restraining order against Spears. Read on for his allegations including credit card theft and Britney making fun of his “lack of size.”
Teen Mom 2 cast member Leah Messer-Calvert surprised her followers with some exciting news via Twitter on Christmas. The mother of twins revealed that she’s expecting another baby girl, this time with husband Jeremy Calvert. Read the tweet, and see another statement made via her Official Fan Page after rumors got out of control.
South Korean viral video sensation Psy has taken the world by storm with his addictively fun and surreal music video for the single “Gangnam Style,” which has surpassed Justin Bieber’s “Baby” as the most watched video on Youtube, recently becoming the first Youtube video ever to get a BILLION views! Yes, that’s right, I said a BILLION! So what does being an overnight viral video sensation with the most watched music video in the history of mankind equate to in dollars? I’ve tracked down two different accounts of the estimated revenue and constructed two handy dandy graphics illustrating their findings.
Rudolph the Red-nosed Reindeer is a beloved Christmas story that first appeared in a 1939 booklet by Robert L. May. It truly entered the popular culture canon in 1949 with the song version first performed by Gene Autry, and most of us simply can’t live a Christmas without the 1964 stop-motion CBS television special adaptation.
Rudolph is bullied by his peers for having a bright red nose, but it’s this unique attribute that helps him land a gig with Santa Clause.
Now, scientists finally found the secret behind Rudolph’s glowing schnoz. If only they could find out how the reindeer are able to fly!
Yesterday Farrah offered up her unabashed opinion on the possible reconciliation of former Teen Mom cast mate Maci Bookout and Ryan Edwards after the two were photographed out partying together followed by Ryan tweeting a marriage proposal to Maci Wednesday night. As you might have surmised from the title, she was a bit harsh on Maci. Keep reading for some seriously “Farrah and Balanced” reporting, although you should be forewarned — she has admitted “spelling is’nt my strong point when i’m passionate” because “spelling and punctuation take extra energy away from me!” As a result, her posts tend to read like they were originally spoken in Russian and then translated into English by a barely bilingual Russian fourteen year old.
It has been rumored for months (and months and months) that former Real Housewives of New York star Bethenny Frankel and husband Jason Hoppy were having difficulties making their marriage work, with a source on Wednesday going so far as to say the Skinnygirl Bethennterepreneur was already meeting with divorce attorneys and working out the details of their separation. Earlier today Bethenny issued a statement confirming the rumors, ending it by saying, “this is an immensely painful and heartbreaking time for us.” Keep reading for Bethenny’s full statment 🙁
Rihanna usually makes headlines for partying and posting pantsless pictures of herself on Twitter and Instagram, so it’s refreshing to see some of the more positive things she’s doing with her super-stardom.
She’s donating $1.75 million to a Barbados hospital in honor of her Gran Gran Dolly, who passed away from cancer this past June. At the time she tweeted: “Goodbye#grangranDOLLY get your beauty rest until I see you.”
Wednesday night seven-months pregnant Holly Madison showed off her cute baby bump at Planet Hollywood Resort and Casino in Las Vegas to attend the premiere of Coco temporarily replacing her in “Peep Show.”
It doesn’t seem like it could be right for a boss to fire you because he’s too attracted to you, even if you behave in a professional manner and never flirt; but that’s exactly what happened to dental hygienist Melissa Nelson.
This week Faye Resnick posted her first blog on BravoTV.com in which she addressed her confrontation with Brandi Glanville at Kyle Richards’ dinner party in the most recent episode. Though rather tame by “fighting with Brandi” standards, the reaction was HUGE and almost completely vitriolic towards Faye — so much so that her blog has since been deleted! (We assume that is the reason anyway.) Read Faye’s entire blog as well as Brandi’s reastion to the episode in which she refers to Faye Resnick as Kyle Richards’ “pit bull-slash-puppet Faye ‘Rancid’.”
Most fans who fell in love with Catfish the movie were a little bit wary when it was announced MTV would be taking the concept and turning it into weekly show. (It could be said we didn’t want to be too optimistic about the show until we met it in person, in case it turned out to be a catfish itself!) Well, the series is six episodes in and I don’t know about you, but I know about me and the other 2+ million folks who are tuning in each week — we’re addicted! Of course, MTV is well aware that viewers have taken to the show, and they announced earlier this week they will be bringing back Yaniv “Nev” Schulman and Max Joseph for a Catfish Season 2!
One of my favorite year-end lists is the CNN Hero project that highlights many people doing extraordinary things that I may not have otherwise known about. This was certainly the case for Catalina Escobar of Cartagena, Colombia. Escobar was volunteering her time at a local hospital in the town of Cartagena when a 12-day-old boy died in her arms. This was heartbreaking enough, but when she discovered his passing could have been prevented with a mere $30 she had in her pocket it was a situation she found untenable. This, combined with the tragic loss of her own son, led her to action and over the last decade she’s been credited with having saved over 2,000 babies. See her moving tribute video and find out how she’s doing much more as she looks to address the cycle of poverty for the teenage mothers for whom she cares about so passionately.
There have been rumors that Teen Mom 2 star Jenelle Evans has been using heroin and that her addiction to the drug was the real reason for her recent extended hospital stay, but she has denied those claims repeatedly, insisting her hospital stay was because of her continued problems with ovarian cysts. Today the 21-year-old single mom seemed to concede her heroin problem to a certain extent by retweeting comments made by her husband Courtland Rogers, who claimed Jenelle’s ex Kieffer Delp got her addicted to the drug. Keep reading for all the incriminating tweetage as well as a video that surfaced on Youtube a couple weeks ago in which Jenelle’s mother Barbara Evans also says Kieffer got Jenelle using heroin.
Parks and Recreation funnyman Chris Pratt has been really taking his body through the ringer this year. First he slimmed down and toned up (check the abs above!) to play a Navy SEAL in Zero Dark Thirty, and then he gained a whopping 60 pounds to play an overweight lawyer in Starbuck.
Thursday night during the final episode of Jersey Shore (don’t worry, you can still get your fix from Snooki & Jwoww and Pauly D’s new show on E!) MTV ran a commercial for the 2013’s Movie Awards starring the host, Rebel Wilson! Move over, Russell Brand.
Soldiers Army Sgt. Drew Fidler (27) and his wife Army Spc. Michelle Williams (27) were featured on The Today Show Saturday morning for their unconventional nuptials.
They were both deployed to Afghanistan, but they were so much in love, they wanted to get married right away. Because weddings are not performed by military chaplains in combat zones, they found another way to get hitched before returning home.
Todd Hoffman isn’t focused right now on getting gold out of the ground, instead he is issuing advice about how to put food into a bunker . . . .in case things get weird. Read on to see what gold mining and storing non-perishable foods have to do with each other, and how he turned his advice into a pep talk for those who lack the self-confidence to be outspoken.
We’ve profiled the cast from MTV’s upcoming new show Washington Heights, but after seeing the promos it’s apparent that we missed out on the main character: the actual place the show is about! In that vein I thought I’d put together a helpful post to answer the inevitable question everyone watching the show not from New York City will be asking — Where is Washington Heights?
Ashton Kutcher and Demi Moore may have been separated for more than a year now, but neither party had filed any documents to put an end to their six-year marriage… until now. This morning Ashton filed for divorce from Demi at the Los Angeles Superior Court citing “irreconcilable differences.”
You may not like it, but Kim Kardashian is without question one of the biggest celebrities on the planet, which is amazing considering she has done it all via the small screen in shows like Keeping Up With The Kardashians and Kourtney & Kim Take Miami. Butt (hee hee) now Kim is transitioning to a format more accommodating to her huge, umm, celebrity — the big screen, with a sizable speaking role in Tyler Perry’s new film Temptation: Confessions of a Marriage Counselor. Keep reading to check out the first trailer from the film, which feature’s Kim’s acting chops prominently.
Have you ever been so hungry that unwrapping your burger would just be entirely too time consuming? Well, you’re in luck. A fast food chain in Brazil called Bob’s has just created edible wrappers which will shed precious seconds off the time it takes customers to get their burgers off their trays and into their mouths.
Tis the season for random viral video thefts and so it was for Mr. Al Alverson from deep in the heart of Texas. Al had come home expecting the delivery of an iPad mini he had purchased as a Christmas gift for his daughter. When he discovered it was not there, he went to his surveillance footage and got a shock when he discovered why. It turns out that a UPS delivery dude who had brought a separate package had stolen the iPad mini that was delivered by a FedEx delivery dude earlier in the day. This IS NOT logistics my friends. See the crime after Al posted it to YouTube when he got no justice from UPS.
A few weeks ago, Rob made headlines when he accused his former girlfriend Rita Ora of cheating on him with 20 men. While 20 may be a pretty outlandish number, the identity of one man has now been revealed — and it’s pretty scandalous. According to a new report, Rita allegedly hooked up with actor Jonah Hill during a trip to New York.
LeAnn Rimes just can’t seem to stay out of the unflattering spotlight. Her recent appearance on X Factor alongside young hopeful Carly Rose Sonenclar went over like a led zeppelin and had some wondering if Rimes was under the influence on stage. Now Sonenclar’s fam is upset about a statement implying it was the young singer’s fault from Rimes which Rimes is now denying she ever made. Read LeAnn’s Twitter-denial and see the performance in question.
Tonight the world says goodbye to the boozing, cruising, and bruising Guidos and Guidettes of Jersey Shore as the show wraps up its sixth and final season on MTV. Following in their footprints in the sand so to speak will be the cast of the network’s latest offering, Buckwild, which features a similar batch of youthful Bohemians hundreds of miles inland and thousands of feet higher in the small town of Sissonville, West Virginia. Keep reading to find out what advice the reality show veterans of Jersey Shore would give to the newbie boys and girls of Buckwild! Plus, watch the original trailers for both shows for comparison!
Shahs of Sunset‘s Asa Soltan Rahmati is in the midst of her second season on a reality show, and yet she’s never had a love interest or even seemed remotely phased by any of the many men the gang parties with. So what’s the deal? Asa already has a boyfriend — and he comes from a very famous family!
Simon Cowell acknowledged that he and Carmen Electra are an item. So is it serious for Electwell!?! Read on to find out.
Nature abhors a vacuum and apparently so does Miss USA. Because 2012 Miss USA Olivia Culpo won the Miss Universe pageant last night, that means she is no longer Miss USA — that title goes to the first runner-up, Miss Maryland Nana Meriwether! Keep reading to see photos of your new 2012 Miss USA and check out her rather impressive resume.
Some peeps are trembling in their conspiracy theory boots that tomorrow’s predicted Mayan apocalypse will bring about the end of the world. This doomsday theorizing immediately made me think of one of the very first music videos I ever loved and still one of my favorites, R.E.M.’s “It’s the End Of the World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine)” from their 1987 release Document. Mainly, I wondered what the skateboard wielding kid in the clip was up to these days. Well, I’ve got the answer as well as some photos as we learn from him that life moves on, as it will after Friday.
According to Variety Ben Affleck has fallen out of Focus, or perhaps gained a little marital focus depending on how you look at it. He was all set to co-star with Kristen Stewart in the upcoming comedy that would have required some rather intimate scenes between the two. Find out why he’s no longer going to be in the film, or at least the reason given anyways.
Maci Bookout and Ryan Edwards surprised everyone when they were spotted hanging out at a local club over the weekend. While Maci has been single for months, Ryan was fresh off his break-up from long-time girlfriend Dalis Connell just one week prior, not to mention the former couple’s seemingly irreconcilable differences we all saw on screen for four seasons! Now it appears as though Ryan may be serious about a reconciliation — real serious. Sor serious in fact that he popped the question on Twitter last night!
Katie Holmes reportedly bought Suri Cruise an impressive playhouse for Christmas worth $24,000 from Sweet Retreat Kids.
The house comes with it’s own running water and electricity, so the six-year-old basically has her own house.
Homeland star Claire Danes gave birth to her first child with husband Hugh Dancy Monday night, a baby boy named Cyrus Michael Christopher Dancy.
Brandi Glanville has been using her gig on The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills as a chance to blast LeAnn Rimes in front of millions of television viewers, so LeAnn returned the favor last night by performing a new song about her affair with Brandi’s ex-husband Eddie Cibrian on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno! Keep reading to watch the performance and read the lyrics to “Borrowed,” which includes some rather harsh lines like, “Do you tell her that you love her like you do me? Do you make love to her the way you make love to me?” Also, LeAnn talks with Jay about the song and about her feud with Brandi.
As we reported earlier, former Teen Mom star Farrah Abraham had her Twitter account hacked and the culprit (who was apparently a “[spineless] boy”) tweeted a bunch of nasty things about Farrah, including an obscene image claiming to be her. Earlier today Farrah announced on Twitter that “Hacker Control is happening” and she has since posted a long statement on Sulia addressing the incident. Keep reading for the full statement, although you should be forewarned that Sulia apparently doesn’t have a spellcheck feature.
If January Jones is trying to distance herself from her role as Mad Men‘s Betty Draper then she’s doing a great job! First we got to see her as Frosty the Snowbitch Emma Frost in X-Men: First Class and next we get to see her as 19th-century former-prostitute-turned-gun-toting-homesteader Sarah in the new film Sweetwater, set to premiere at Sundance in January, 2013. Keep reading for photos from the set, including January’s character toting a vast amount of weaponry, all while keeping it sexy in a frilly bright fuchsia Victoria’s Victorian Secret dress. (Did I mention Jason Aldean is in the movie?)
While one new show via MTV from West Virginia featuring 9 youth has drawn the ire of a Senator ( Buckwild ), another show coming to the same network focusing on a separate group of 9 young Americans is flying under the radar. The show is called Washington Heights and we’re here to introduce you to the cast. Check out the trailer as well as cast bios and photos for the show premiering January 9.
Taylor Swift and Harry Styles are reportedly dating ; the young globe-trotting supercouple have been spotted together in such places as London and New York City.. Recently, Haylor (Stift?) hit up the popular Shamrock Tattoo Parlor in West Hollywood where Harry added some ink to his upper left arm. The tattoo is of an old clipper ship and looks eerily similar to the one Taylor’s video guy rocks in the music video to her new single, “I Knew You Were Trouble.”
LeAnn Rimes and Brandi Glanville have been going back and forth for years now. Whenever one of them is featured in a magazine, or makes an appearance on a talk show, or walks down the street they are bombarded with questions about LeAnn’s affair, with both seemingly always willing to offer up their thoughts. Between accusations of eating disorders, angry emails, and questionable Twitter photos, the drama never ends, and LeAnn is reportedly getting overly obsessed with it, including buying the same clothes and car as Brandi and even visiting the same doctors and haircare specialists!
We here at starcasm love us a good Duck Dynasty “before the beards” photo, and we here at starcasm love us a good mullet photo, but never did we ever expect the twain to meet! Keep reading to see a baby-faced mulletastic yearook photo of Willie Robertson when he was a student at LSU!
Justin Bieber just can’t seem to be tied down. The teenage heartthrob split with his longtime love Selena Gomez after two years of dating back in November, but shortly after, they began hanging out once again leading fans to believe they had reconciled. But now it looks like Justin has once again been caught with another woman — the same one he was hanging out with just days before Selena and him split.
This isn’t the first time we’ve read that Bethenny Frankel and her husband Jason Hoppy were heading for divorce and it likely won’t be the last, but this time things appear to be much more serious. Bethenny has allegedly already met with divorce lawyers and has even been spotted out in New York City without her wedding band.
Camden, New Jersey, one of the deadliest towns in America, launched a gun buyback program on the same day as the Newtown massacre and officials on Tuesday stated that over 1,000 guns were sold back, no questions asked, setting a record. See a video report, some mind-boggling images of the weapons all together and why officials believe the recent tragedy at Sandy Hook was the catalyst for the record haul.
Brooke Smitherman-Tarrant of 16 & Pregnant season 2b gave birth to a baby girl yesterday afternoon. This is the second child for Brooke who along with her husband Cody Tarrant welcomed son Brody in 2010.
You didn’t think the Kardashians were the only reality family to share an official holiday family photo did ya? The crew from Here Comes Honey Boo Boo, Mama June, Sugar Bear, Pumpkin, Honey Boo Boo, Kaitlyn, Chickadee and Chubbs got their pose on for a festive holiday photo in front of a snowflake back drop. Deck the halls with Honey Boo Boo y’all!
Two-time Olympic gold medalist snow-boarder Shaun White is probably more a bit more famous for his signature long locks of red hair, but now he’s decided to cut it all off and give it to charity.
Farrah Abraham is no stranger to controversial tweets, but imagine my surprise when I checked my Twitter feed earlier this evening and read this little 140 characters or less message from @F1Abraham: “The album I made sucks ass. I dont know what I was thinking. Thank God I autotuned it otherwise it would have been even more of a disaster.” Keep reading for more of the hacked tweets . We will update as soon as we have any sort of official statement from the actual Farrah Abraham about her account being hijacked.
UPDATE – Farrah just tweeted, “Hey Everyone! Hacker Control is happening, sad when people act out in disgusting ways but that is life and I’m better then that! Thanks fans,” so apparently things will be cleaned up soon!
Kail Lowry and her husband Javi Marroquin have been busy planning their upcoming wedding (they reportedly got married in at the courthouse in September, but are planning something bigger) lately, even making a trip to Philadelphia a few weeks ago. However, their big day has been put on hold as Javi pursues his career aspirations. Although Kail and Javi have yet to confirm exactly what he will be doing, tweets from friends and family have implied that he is heading to military training to prepare him for the Air Force.
By now, you’ve probably seen the human Barbie, Valeria Lukyanova, and her friend. But there was one key piece missing in this Barbie Dream World — a Ken doll. Enter Justin Jedlica. Justin has spent around $100,000 on plastic surgery including five rhinoplasties, a cranial drown bone shape and augmentations to his cheeks, lips, buttocks and chin, all in hopes of looking just like Barbie’s boyfriend.
American Idol alum Carrie Underwood has been struggling through some vocal issues the past few days (Underwood has been under the weather). On Friday night in Des Moines she soldiered through a set that was slightly shortened and towards the conclusion she did something quite out of the oridnary. Not satisfied with her own performance she announced that she would be returning all the proceeds from that evening’s show back to the community. See a clip of the gracious gesture that came as as surprise to those in attendance.
Last night, after six seasons, Gossip Girl came to an end — and the person behind the infamous gossip blog was revealed. Dan had given the last chapter of his book to Nate to publish on his site, The Spectator. Shortly after the cast members past and present found out who had been tormenting them and stalking their every move for so many years.
Jersey Shore is coming to an end tomorrow night after six fist-pump-worthy seasons, but Paul “DJ Pauly D” Delvecchio isn’t done with reality TV. Although his spin-off, The Pauly D Project, wasn’t exactly the ratings draw MTV thought it would be, the E! Network is ready to sign Pauly on for a season two with them — but it won’t be quite the same.
It’s no secret that Farrah Abraham is a fan of plastic surgery. The Teen Mom star may only be 21-years-old, but she’s already gotten a breast augmentation, a chin implant, and nose job. On top of that, she recently revealed plans for even more surgery, including a second breast augmentation and liposuction, so it’s not that surprising that Farrah would market the idea as a Christmas gift.
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