Wednesday, December 7, 2011

Kourtney Kardashian and 'Teen Mom' Farrah Abraham battle on Twitter

Kourtney Kardashian was excited to announce that she was expecting her second child with longtime boyfriend Scott Disick last week, but not everyone was happy about the news.

Farrah Abraham, the 20-year-old star of "Teen Mom" took to Twitter to voice her disapproval.

"I'm Shocked Kourtney Kardashian is pregnant again, did she not learn anything from TEEN MOM? Maybe it's a fake pregnancy like kims wedding SAD," Abraham Tweeted on December 2, adding later, "Double standards in this world? Yes & guess what! age and money honestly do not change a person's poor choice . Quit making excuses."

Abraham is one of the four teen mothers who appeared on MTV's "16 and Pregnant" and its spin-off, "Teen Mom." Abraham is mother to 2-year-old Sophia Laurent Abraham, whose father Derek Underwood was killed in a car accident in December 2008, before her birth.

"Why would I have anything to do with teen mom? I'm 32 years old! I may look young honey, but don't get it twisted," Kardashian responded on Twitter.

Disick also shot back at the "Teen Mom," writing, "We're not teenagers, ya [expletive] moron." And when Khloe Kardashian asked if he knew who Abraham was, he wrote, "I just thought she was some [expletive] stain on Twitter, no?"

"Caught wind of these dramatic articles, w/ loser scott disick or some boyfriend of kourtneys, is [expletive] Stain< racist 4 black? Great dad! NOT," Abraham fired back.

Abraham later clarified what she was trying to say, writing on December 2, "4 all who misunderstood: regards to kourtney K. I hope she takes her relationship w/her boyfriend more serious 4 their children-take care."

Kardashian made the announcement of her pregnancy to Us Weekly magazine on November 30.

"Now, I'm nine weeks along," Kardashian told the weekly. "You're supposed to wait 12 weeks to tell people, but I feel confident."

Kardashian said that she took the pregnancy test about five weeks ago and woke up Disick to tell him the news. The couple, who've been together for five years, are parents to their son Mason, who is nearly 2-years-old.

"It wasn't like we weren't trying," Disick, 28, said. "We kind of just said, 'If it's meant to be, it'll be.'"

Kardashian and Disick, have often argued with Kardashian clan matriarch Kris Jenner, who wants the couple to wed.

Kardashian's reality series "Kourtney & Kim Take New York" premiered on Sunday, November 27 to record ratings and featured Disick and Kourtney searching for the spark in their relationship and sleeping in separate bedrooms.

The E! network series also revealed early troubles in Kim Kardashian's marriage to basketball player Kris Humphries, before she filed for divorce at a Los Angeles court, 72 days after getting married.

The wedding of Kardashian and Humphries took place on August 20 under tight security at a $20 million estate near Santa Barbara. More than 500 people, including celebrities, attended the highly-publicized event.

Jesse James reportedly calls Sandra Bullock 'some Hollywood actress' during TV appearance

Jesses James made his return to reality television on Monday, December 5, with an appearance on "American Chopper: The Build-Off."

The 42-year-old used the appearance to apologize to his fans for changing over the years and partly attributed that behavior to his marriage to Sandra Bullock.

"I became a big shot and married some Hollywood actress and didn't talk to anybody anymore, so I feel bad," James reportedly said, according to Us Weekly, though he never mentioned Bullock by name. "I feel obligated to reconnect with all these people and show 'em that I'm still the same fabricator motorcycle guy. I'm not what I became."

He and Bullock married in 2005 and split in March 2010 amid reports James had been unfaithful, namely with a tattoo model named Michelle "Bombshell" McGee," which he later confirmed in media interviews. James and Bullock finalized their divorce that June.

James is making his big return to the Discovery Channel. The former host of the Discovery Channel series "Monster Garage" left the network in 2005.

James later became involved with "L.A. Ink" star Kat Von D in September 2010 and became engaged in January 2011 before breaking up in July. The couple reconciled in August and on announced on August 18, that their engagement was back-on.

The pair broke up again in September and in November Von D claimed that James cheated on her with 19 women.

The 29-year-old tattoo artist and reality star made her comments in a Facebook post, more than a month after she and James, 42, ended what she called a "toxic relationship."

"Today I encountered the 19th girl to add to the list of people Jesse cheated on me with during this last year," Von D wrote on Sunday, November 13.

"I know I deserve a big fat 'I told you so,' from everyone, and wish I didn't have to say, "You all were more right than you'll ever know' but you were," Von D said. "Not to worry, I've gladly paid the consequences for every mistake I've ever made, but learned so much from each of them."

"Yes, I am pretty tired of getting mistaken for the girl who everyone believes to have broken up Jesse and Sandra's marriage, just because I have black hair and tattoos like that other gal," Von D added. "That does get a quite annoying at times, and it would be nice to not be associated with her, but that's trivial in the grand scheme of things."

Robert Downey Jr. reveals his wife is expecting a baby boy -




During an interview on "The Tonight Show" on Monday, December 5, the actor revealed he and wife Susan Levin are expecting a baby boy.

"I am not permitted to discuss it but I keep dropping the ball everywhere. She'll [Levin] say, 'Don't tell your cousins until I' -- and then I tell them," he said to host Jay Leno in the interview, which can be seen below. "I can't say a word... We're having a boy!"

"I gotta be careful," he joked. "I'm going to have to see my wife some time after doing this segment with you, and I think I'm already in trouble."

The couple first announced Levin's pregnancy in August. On "The Tonight Show" Downey Jr. said his wife was due in late February.

Downey Jr., the 46-year-old star of the "Iron Man" films, has a 17-year-old son, Indio, with his ex-wife of 11 years, Deborah Falconer. The two divorced in 2004. He and his current wife, formerly known as Susan Levin, wed a year later.

Susan Downey, 37, co-produced the 2010 film "Iron Man 2" as well as several more of her husband's films, including "Due Date" and "Sherlock Holmes" and its upcoming sequel, "Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows," due on December 16.

Downey Jr. is the seventh-highest paid actor in the world, according to Forbes, which said last month that the star earned $31 million between May 2010 and May 2011.

He reprises his role as Tony Stark, aka Iron Man, in "The Avengers," which is directed and written by "Buffy The Vampire Slayer" creator Joss Whedon and features Chris Hemsworth as Thor and Jeremy Renner as Hawkeye.

Scarlett Johansson reprises her "Iron Man 2" role of Natasha Romanoff, aka the Black Widow, while Gwyneth Paltrow returns as Stark's assistant Pepper Potts and Samuel L. Jackson plays his previous character, Nick Fury.

Airline responds after Baldwin kicked off flight

LOS ANGELES (AP) — American Airlines on Wednesday used social media to explain its actions after Alec Baldwin complained he was booted from a flight for playing a word game on his cellphone as the plane was about to depart from Los Angeles.

Without naming the "30 Rock" actor, the airline said on its Facebook page that an "extremely vocal customer" declined to turn off his phone when asked to do so by a flight attendant.

The customer then stood up "with the seat belt light still on for departure" and took his phone into a restroom, the company said.

"He slammed the lavatory door so hard, the cockpit crew heard it and became alarmed, even with the cockpit door closed and locked," the airline's post said.

The passenger also was "extremely rude to the crew, calling them inappropriate names and using offensive language."

On Twitter, American Airlines said its flight attendants followed federal safety regulations regarding electronic devices.

Baldwin boarded another American Airlines flight to New York after Tuesday's incident, but said he wouldn't fly with the airline again.

The actor's spokesman, Matthew Hiltzik, said Tuesday that before being booted from the flight, Baldwin was playing a game called "Words with Friends" while the plane idled at a gate at Los Angeles International Airport.

"He loves 'Words with Friends' so much that he was willing to leave a plane for it," Hiltzik said.

After the incident, Baldwin, a prolific Twitter user, took to the social media site to vent, saying a "flight attendant on American reamed me out 4 playing Words With Friends while we sat at the gate, not moving."

Baldwin tweeted that it would be his last flight with American, despite the fact that they show "30 Rock" for in-flight entertainment.

He mocked American Airlines flight attendants on Twitter, saying the airline is "where Catholic school gym teachers from the 1950's find jobs as flight attendants."

American Airlines spokesman Ed Martelle declined to comment Tuesday, citing customer privacy concerns.

But the company said Wednesday on Facebook that "since an extremely vocal customer has publicly identified himself as being removed from an American Airlines flight on Tuesday, Dec. 6, we have elected to provide the actual facts of the matter," as well as the federal regulations.

The airline said the Federal Aviation Administration requires that all airlines have passengers turn off their cellphones and electronic devices for taxi-out and takeoff. The passenger in question declined to turn off his phone "when asked to do so at the appropriate time," the company said.

Airport police Sgt. Belinda Nettles said officers did not respond to the incident.

Baldwin called "Words With Friends" an "addicting" game. Players compete online to score the most points by building words with tiles on a Scrabble-like game board.

Baldwin plays the role of executive Jack Donaghy on "30 Rock" and played an amorous ex-husband to Meryl Streep in the 2009 romantic comedy "It's Complicated."

Tuesday, December 6, 2011

Ricki Lake thinks she's found her wedding dress

Actress and talk show host Ricki Lake thinks she may have found her wedding dress for her upcoming nuptials to fiancé Christian Evans.

"I may have found a dress," Lake told People magazine at the Trevor Project's "Trevor Live at the Hollywood Palladium" fundraising event on Sunday. "I have someone who has been looking for me. It's vintage."

The actress and former "Dancing With The Stars" finalist slimmed down significantly over the course of the reality dancing competition and put off shopping for the gown until after the ABC series ended, but she had a good idea of what she wanted.

"I wanted something simple, on the bias, and flattering. It's got a lot of detail. It's very pretty," Lake continued. "I'm not going to say any more yet because I haven't even seen it firsthand, I've just seen a picture!"

The 42-year-old actress and television talk show host announced her engagement to boyfriend Evans in August. The couple met through her best friend and the two have been dating since the summer of 2010. The couple has not announced an official wedding date.

"We are just starting to talk about it. Next weekend we're going away together and we're going to try to start figuring out what we're doing," Lake said of their wedding planning. "Then we're going to Paris on holiday for two weeks and then we'll start planning. But it's going to be soon."

"We're going to be very non-traditional in every way," Lake continued. "We're going to do something that is right for us and not what everyone else does. It's going to be a unique experience."

Lake and her first husband, Rob Sussman, divorced in 2005 after about 10 years of marriage. They have two sons - Milo, 14 and Owen, 10.

Ricki Lake told OnTheRedCarpet.com in the fall that she had lost several inches in her waist, hips and legs from dancing.

"I've lost 8 and a half inches in two weeks," Lake told OnTheRedCarpet.com during a recent rehearsal for the show on September 16. "I mean seriously, three inches in my waist, three inches in my hips ... you know I do have some weight to lose but I'm not that big."

Lake, who was paired with three-time "Dancing With The Stars" champion dance pro Derek Hough, told the magazine that the results she has seen so far from her "Dancing With The Stars" weight loss is different than her previous diets.

"When I lost weight a couple years ago, I weighed less than I do now, probably 10 pounds. But there is a difference. I didn't work out with that -- it was a crash diet," Lake said. "Now muscles I didn't know I had are defined. It's dramatic. Everyone is seeing it, and they are telling me, but I see it and I'm a tough critic."

Lake is best known for her syndicated talk show 'Ricki Lake,' which ran between 1998 and 2004. She is also an actress who has appeared in films like "Hairspray" in 1988 and "Cry-Baby," a 1990 musical movie starring Johnny Depp. Lake also starred in the 1994 dark comedy "Serial Mom."

She hosted the VH1 reality show "Charm School" in 2009 and is currently set to return to television full time in the fall of 2012 with a new daytime talk show.

As for her life now, Lake said, "I met the best guy in the whole wide world." she added. "I have so many great professional things happening -- I have a new talk show, a book coming out, all amazing but I wouldn't want any of it without him."

Carrie Underwood at the ACAs

Country crooner Carrie Underwood showed off her toned gams in a strapless, above-the-knee frock as she walked the red carpet for the American Country Awards at the MGM Garden Arena in Las Vegas on Monday. The songstress was up for Artist of the Year: Female and a trio of other honors at the ceremony. But whether she wins or loses, the real question is ... what do you think of that dress?

Do you recognize this singer?

The singing superstar has a brand new look. This weekend, Perry showed off her newly chopped locks at the Change Begins Within Benefit Celebration in Los Angeles. Perry's new 'do is short and blond with a dab of bubble gum pink near the roots. Sounds like a salon horror story, but Perry, no stranger to unusual hair colors, pulls it off.