YouTube is full of gems. It can turn a nobody into a somebody overnight. Or it can be a place for former reality stars to shamelessly whore themselves out in an attempt to extend their brief few moments of fame.
Scott Herrman of MTV's The Real World: Brooklyn has his own channel on YouTube. Why exactly? So he can provide us with really complicated tips, like in this video, where he explains to us the painstaking task of shaving his chest. No, not just explains, demonstrates, as in the shower.
And we're sure you're already aware, but you can get even more groundbreaking "fitness" tips (others include How to Pick Someone Up at the Gym and a Captain America impersonation) from Scott on his website, scotthermanfitness.com. It's almost as great as laurenconradthinksshecanwriteanovel.com.
While rumors that she is intersex are all the talk on the internet these days, Lady GaGa just keeps doing what she does best -- performing the hell out of The Fame.
While the pop diva is usually featured in these parts for her ferocious fashion and show quality, here's a testament to the fact that the girl can legitimately sing. Watch the vid to hear GaGa sing a stripped down version of "Poker Face" in Tokyo yesterday.
And if that's not enough to get you to watch it, there's also an elephant in her hair. Oh, GaGa.
> Ellen DeGeneres and Portia de Rossi will finally be heading down the aisle this weekend. When gay marriage became a very real possibility in California earlier this year, DeGeneres announced her intent to marry de Rossi saying, "It's something that we've wanted to do and we want it to be legal and we are very, very excited." Us Weekly reports that there will be "a small, intimate ceremony with only a few close friends and family," but otherwise details about the event are scarce. But don't despair -- we're sure Entertainment Tonight, E!, The Insider, and every magazine from the Enquirer to Dog Fancy will be covering the wedding and soon you'll be able to name every passed hors d'oeuvre they served and who barfed in front of the DJ booth after 14 too many Appletinis and a disastrous attempt at the Electric Slide.
> Our favorite pretty boy Zac Efron apparently didn't feel quite pretty enough at the Teen Choice Awards. Star magazine says the High School Musical star asked someone backstage to track down a curling iron to help tame his lifeless, uncooperative locks.
"One of the awards staff asked Zac who it was for, and he said [girlfriend] Vanessa Hudgens, but it was really for him!" a source told the gossip rag. A short while later, Zac was seen using the curling iron on himself. "He said the humidity was killing his hair and that it was flat," the source explained. We feel your pain Zac, and there's no need to lie or feel embarrassed about utilizing the necessary tools to achieve your trademark look. We're sure the thousands of 13-year-old girls -- and gays of all ages -- who monitor your every move surely understand and appreciate the lengths to which one must go to in order avoid a very public personal haircare crisis.
> At the Radar magazine-sponsored party for her new reality series The Cho Show, premiering on VH1 later this month, Margaret Cho revealed she wants to be the first celebrity to have a threesome with Lindsay Lohan and Samantha Ronson. "I want to be the guest star in that bed," she told New York magazine at the party.
"I would hope that Samantha Ronson would be this hot, mean, butch top.
I don't know about Lindsay, though. I'd have to see. I think the three
of us would be great in a daisy chain." Unwilling, or simply unable, to stop herself from discussing sex with the famous -- or perhaps infamous is now more appropriate -- Cho went on to say that she'd also like to sleep with Senator John Edwards. "He is a good leader. I definitely wouldn't want to marry him," she said of the recently exposed adulterer, before adding, "He is
cute, though. I wouldn't want to be his wife, but I'd do him." Get in line, Cho.
> Tori Spelling has quit the new 90210 before she even started. Initially tapped to resurrect her role as boutique owner Donna Martin in the series, which premieres on September 2nd on the CW, Spelling is apparently miffed by salary differences between her and the show's other actors. It seems that Spelling was to be paid $10,000-$20,000 an episode while co-stars Shannen Doherty and Jennie Garth would be pulling in $35,000-$50,000. A representative for Spelling told Usweekly.com, "At this time, there are no plans for Tori to appear in the 90210 spin-off," even though Donna Martin was mentioned in the original press release for the new show. "She thought she deserved parity, and she's got a point," an insider told DeadlineHollywoodDaily.com. Damn straight! Tori's series Tori & Dean: Home Sweet Hollywood is the highest rated show on the Oxygen network right now, she's written a best-selling book, and she has the Spelling name behind her! What more will it take for this woman to taken seriously and paid the big bucks? A hunger strike? Riots in the streets? Just say the word, Tori, and we'll start the Molotov cocktail assembly line.
> Amy Winehouse isn't merely a Grammy Award winner, now she's also the star of a video game. Created to promote the new spoof film Disaster Movie, Escape from Rehab's tag line reads in part, "[Amy] is drunk, she's drugged up, and she's in heat!" In the game, an animated Winehouse beats down Batman and The Hulk with a crack pipe and her deadly "Beehive attack" and reveals "I haven't had a crap in two weeks!" Further into the game Winehouse attempts to break her husband, Blake Fielder-Civil, out of prison. But don't take our word for it -- log onto Escapefromrehabgame.com and be the big ol' mess you've always wanted to be without actually having to go to spend weeks in rehab, jail, or the dentist's chair.
> Still smarting from rumors that her marriage is over, Madonna is now the subject of a whole new batch of sidewalk talk. Us Weekly is reporting that the pop star -- who is currently in rehearsals for her upcoming world tour -- has been receiving late night visits from Yankee's third baseman Alex Rodriguez (also known as A-Rod, or perhaps you remember him better as Derek Jeter's on-again, off-again beffie.) Supposedly the married 32-year-old baseball star has been seen at Madonna's New York penthouse apartment often creeping out "as late as midnight" leaving "all of the doormen talking," a source told the magazine. A-Rod was at Mo's April 30th NYC concert and she was recently photographed taking in a game at Yankee stadium with her children in tow. When questioned about the "friendship," Guy Oseary (who manages both Madonna and A-Rod) hung up the phone. Won't we all feel really stupid and childish when we find out A-Rod's been hired as a consultant for the A League of Their Own section of Madonna's new tour and the two have merely been working feverishly trying to get her batting stance exactly right? (This may or may not be a bit of an attempt to go a little easier on Madonna -- I've been awfully hard on her lately and the last thing she needs is another queen constantly puking all over her yoga pants. But don't expect me to look the other way every other day, Madge.)
> Pharrell -- who just released a new album with his
group N.E.R.D. and has a guest spot on Madonna's new single "Give It To Me"
-- has grown weary of the tattoos covering his arms and is looking to
an experimental procedure to rid himself of the ink. He told the UK's
The Mirror, "I got fire on my arms, I don't need fire on my arms! I'm a
grown man." Rather than have the tattoos lasered off -- an expensive,
time consuming, painful and still inexact science which often leaves some
pigment behind -- Pharrell is growing new skin in a test tube.
"There's an institute called the Wake Forest Institute in North
Carolina
for Regenerative Skin Treatment," he says. "It's basically like getting
a skin
graft, but you're not taking skin from your ass or legs -- these guys
actually grow the skin for you." Weird, science fiction-y, and the best
(er ... worst) part is that Pharrell is only doing this so that he can
get his arms tattooed all over again! "First you have to give them a
sample of your skin, which they then
replicate. Once that's been done, they sew it on -- and it's seamless,"
he says.
"When it has healed you can go get whatever tattoo you want." Might we
suggest the classic arrow pointing to yourself with the tag line "I'm
with stupid"? Or maybe the timeless "Idiot on board"? Or he could just go back to his own classic collection and, "I just love my...brain."
> Looking for the perfect gift for the Kate Moss fan in your life? Or perhaps you need a little fashion celebrity pick-me-up yourself? Well, you're in luck. A German photographer is selling genuine Kate Moss hair extensions, fresh from the model's head, on Ebay. Apparently Moss lost the hunk of hair when trying to escape the paparazzi, and this enterprising photog scooped in and scored the extension. The auction appears to be for charity (a blurb on the auction site reads, "THE MORE MONEY THAT COMES TOGETHER: THE MORE CHILDREN THAT WE OR YOU WILL HELP TO GET A DRUG FREE LIFE!!!!!") but considering the seller's day job we're not totally convinced. And yes -- we realize maybe that's a case of the pot calling the kettle black, but while we may be guilty of many indiscretions in the name of gossip, hiding in bushes waiting for the chance to snatch a handful of famous fake hair is not one of them.
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