Celebrity Weasel

It looks like Christina Aguilera is one of few celebs not opting for the “post baby touchup” that starlets like Nicole Richie look like they’ve had. Still carrying a bit of baby weight and hefting around even larger (if that’s even possible!) breasts than she had when she was pregnant, Christina looks the way most new moms look … tired, more out of shape than they’d like, and happy.

The ever-present drag makeup just serves as a reminder that this is not a regular new mom, but a pop star new mom.

I’m quite proud of her, actually. I expected her to turn up like Nicole Richie, looking like she’d never even been pregnant, her body back to it’s super-petite pre-baby size. But she once again proves she’s much more normal than she’s given credit for.

John Ritter’s family is suing the hospital where he died. Four years later. Bitter much? (source: Mollygood)

When I go to the airport, I’m in sweats and most likely haven’t showered. When Dita Von Teese heads to the airport, it’s like a fashion show! (source: Just Jared)

Patrick Swayze was checked into the hospital over the weekend for a “serious gastro-intestinal procedure”, but sources close to the actor say he’s home now and resting comfortably. Wonder what was wrong? (source: Hollywood Grind)

Despite being proud of her 32G’s, Jordan’s looking to just be a mommie now, I guess. She recently had them reduced, and while she claims she wanted them to go down to a 32C, they’re still at a 32F. Poor girl! (source: D Listed)

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Jamie Lynn Spears might just be getting sick of her momma! Rumor has it she’s looking to move to LA before she has her baby, wanting to live with her father and get into movies as soon as she’s lost her baby weight. She may also be jealous of all the attention her big sister is getting, and thinks that moving to LA will help get her on more tabloid covers.

In reality, if she were spotted out and about with her baby bump, she’d be almost guarranteed to make several tabloid covers, but it’s probably not in her best interest to follow in her sister’s footsteps.

As to whether or not her mother or father is a better parental figure in this moment, I think what the courts have decided speaks volumes. Despite Lynne Spears being the more vocal parent during all of Britney’s drama, it’s her father that’s been given custodial rights. While Lynne’s been trying to get a parenting book published, it’s Jamie that’s been doing the taking care of his kids, it would appear.

So if Jamie Lynne wants to go live with him, she can’t be any worse of than she is with controlling Lynne!

(source: D Listed)

Angelina Jolie left LAX yesterday solo, to head to Jordan for some UNHCR work. Here’s hoping if she *is* pregnant she’s taking precausions. And hopefully Brad’s got some extra nanny’s on board for the time she’s gone. Four kids by yourself is hard to handle! (source: Angelina Jolie Watch)

Paris Hilton sat down with Parade and hammed it up, yet again. This time she let us all in on her little hockey secret … she’s apparently really good at ice hockey, even playing defense! Sure, Paris. Plus, she “confirmed” she’ll be a guest on The L Word next season. Making it the first time since the show’s inception fans across the globe are hoping the show is cancelled after this season is done. (source: Just Jared)

Looks like we’ll be seeing more of Lindsay in print than just in UK Glamour; she’s also been paid $2 million to write her autobiography by Simon & Schuster. Maybe. The longer this story sits out there on the internet, the more convoluted it becomes. For now, file it under “unlikely”. (source: Cele|bitchy)

Looks like John Travolta finally got rid of that super-obvious weave! (source: D Listed)

I love this year’s lineup of hot young starlets for Vanity Fair! (source: Just Jared)

It’s still in the rumor stage, but it sounds like Arrested Development will be coming to a theater near you! Jeffery Tambor stopped into a radio station recently and told them that Ron Howard has been hinting at bringing the banana stand back in business and picking up where the tv show left off … with Michael and George Michael heading off to Mexico on the family boat. If this actually happens, I’ll be taking off work to be there the day it opens!

With it being Super Bowl Sunday and all, I’m going to be tied up most of the afternoon and the evening. But before I go, here’s some gossip to get you through your Sunday.

Songstress Lily Allen and her boyfriend Ed Simons have split, and just weeks after she miscarried. Poor thing! Apparently she’s throwing herself into her music to cope. (source: Hollywood Grind)

The Spice Girls have taken themselves off tour! The group have cited “family commitments” as reason to not finish their tour, but I’m betting it has more to do with their lack of ticket sales. Time for these ladies to find new jobs. (source: Just Jared)

In Britney News: her father has been given custodial rights over her finances and affairs, which is a good thing. Sam Lufti is super pissed, not just because he’s been cut off financially, but also because he’s been slapped with a 22-day restraining order keeping him away from Britney! (source: Cele|bitchy)

George Clooney might just be settling down after all! He’s officially started moving 29-year-old girlfriend Sarah Larson into his Hollywood Hills home. (source: D Listed)

Katharine McPhee got married to her boyfriend Nick Cokas over the weekend! (source: Hollywood Grind)

Brad and Angie showed up at the Santa Barbara Film Festival with Angie wearing another super-flowy outfit!!! Althogh, with at least one of the pictures NOT looking like she’s got a baby bump, who knows what gossip columns are going to be saying Monday morning about it all! (source: Brad Pitt Watch)

I swear I have a ton of Really Important Things To Say ™, but right now all I can think about is that it’s Friday and in a few hours I’ll be having drinks and dinner with one of my bestest friends. So all you get is this link list. Again. I know, I know, bad Robyn. Where’s the commentary, yo?!

First Lindsay went to rehab, then Paris went to jail. Now Britney’s in a psych ward. But Eva Mendes proves all things old are new again, by checking into Cirque Lodge for an undisclosed issue. Someone wants to be like Lindsay when she grows up! (source: D Listed)

What better way to celebrate your boyfriend’s tv show anniversary than to make a video with Matt Damon? In Sarah Silverman’s opinion? None. (source: Just Jared)

Freaking Brilliant!! Mollygood claims Lindsay Lohan has stepped in to save Starbucks in Britney’s absence! I love it!

Jennifer Lopez is in the hospital birthing her twins? Nope! Turns out she’s in New York bikini shopping. Someone’s on the post-birth lipo plan for sure!

According to Courtney Love, there is a short list of celebs who are “cool enough” to have been strapped to a gurney. That list is herself, Marilyn Monroe and one Britney Spears. Marilyn is rolling over in her grave at the comparison that makes! (source: D Listed)

Britney’s still in the hospital, and it looks like at least one of the people around her has her best interests in mind: her psychiatrist. (source: People)

In happier news, Julianna Margulies gave birth to a little boy named Kieran! Congratulations to the new mom! (source: Us Magazine)

Jessica Alba’s been talking up a storm on her promotional tour for The Eye recently. Everything from her pregnancy boobs (she loves them!) to the paparazzi (she hates them!) have been fair game. (source: Cele|bitchy)

Amy Winehouse’s detox isn’t going so well for her, it would seem. She got so dehydrated during the detox process that she had to be admitted to a hospital and put on a fluids drip! (source: D Listed)

It’s not a happy time for Scientolgoy, that’s for sure. First there’s “anonymous”, and now they’re getting mysterious white powder packages delivered! (source: Mollygood)

Katie Holmes is FINALLY denying the rumors that Chris Klein is truly Suri’s daddy. I still think he is. (source: Tom Cruise Watch)

Now that Britney’s back in the psych ward again and Jamie Lynne is five months pregnant, you’d think the gossip rags and blogs would be spending a lot of time tearing into Lynne Spears. But for some reason, it’s not the case. Instead, people are COMING TO HER DEFENSE! Lynne claims to be super concerned about both her daughters, and it looks like she’s got some people convinced.

“Britney’s on my mind day and night. She never leaves my thoughts.� Nor does Jamie Lynn, who’s 16 and nearly five months pregnant. “Jamie Lynn’s my baby,� Lynne confided. “I’m doing my best. I’m doing as well as can be expected.�
“I love Britney dearly,� Lynne tells Life & Style. “I want nothing more than to protect her and make everything all right for her.� Told that people still believe she’s a good mother, Lynne managed a smile and replied, “Thank you. That means a lot right now with everything that’s happening.�

I’m just not on the bandwagon yet. I still look at Lynne Spears and see a mother who has pimped her daughters out to the highest bidder from a young age (Jamie Lynne even younger than Britney), and when they start to react to the constant exposure (and in some cases paparazzi-stalking!) in just about the only way they can, she’s upset and confused and worried for them.

Really?!?! Anyone could tell you that the amount of exposure she’s forced on her “babies” they’d crack eventually. Unfortunately for Jamie Lynn, that’s happened much earlier than with Britney. And unfortunately for Britney’s babies, they’ve gotten dragged in.

Maybe someday I’ll feel more sympathy for Mama Spears, but for now, I’ll stick to quietly judging.

Does anyone else find this tee shirt funny? It’s about not tanning, saving your skin (and yourself) from cancer. And it’s Victoria Beckham. Really Posh???

Amy Winehouse is finally in rehab, and is supposedly doing just peachy, thankyouverymuch. I’m betting there’s going to be a Lohan-style crash and burn as soon as she gets out.

Now that the pictures from the SAG Awards pretty much gave up the pregnancy bump for Angie and Brad, is there anything else to talk about?

Paula Abdul might not be performing live at the Super Bowl after all. Poor us, not getting to see her drunk ass trying to dance and sing!

* It looks like things are starting to go back to normal for Dennis Quaid, his wife Kimberly Buffington, and their twins. The parents were spotted out shopping, and with their babes home safe with them after their hospital scare, you can bet those two are buying their kids whatever they want! I know I would be if my kids had almost died! (source: Flynet Online)

* It looksl like troubles still surround Lindsay Lohan, despite her being linked recently to Brody Jenner. Her rumored girlfriend has moved out of their shared home, and now Lindsay is staying in yet another hotel, this time with a sober companion in the next room. She may be getting a new roomate soon, though, so the lesbian rumors will surface yet again I’m sure. She’s also reportedly so broke she’s put herself on a $1k a day shopping budget. Which is still more than $300k a year, just for shopping. Poor little Lindsay! I’d love to find out that she’s really still sober, not sleeping around at all, and has actually become a normal person. That all this drama is simply paparazzi-created. Ah, per chance to dream! (source: Cele|bitchy)

* Now that Nicole Richie has dropper her baby weight in record time (just two short weeks!), she’s already out partying it up again! Rumors are flying that she tried to “borrow” several friends’ kids to practice parenting because she was so scared to be a mommy, but I don’t believe it. If she was that scared, she’d never look so normal haning out with her step-siblings, and a bit of fear is normal for every parent. (source: Cele|bitchy)

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I think it’s just going to be one of “those” gossip weeks. The ones you look back on in awe. First, the sad news of Heath Ledger dying, and now this.

A teenager has been arrested after trying to hijack a plane flying from LA to Nashville, wanting to crash the plane into a Hannah Montana concert.

I feel really bad for this kid, but there’s this huge part of me that’s laughing, and I hate to admit it. Crashing a plane into a HANNAH MONTANA CONCERT??? Of all the places you wanted to crash a plane, go down in a firey rage, Hannah Montana?

Plus, the boy was sixteen, and I didn’t think anyone but eight year old girls like my niece cared about Hannah Montana. Poor thing.

By now most of us know the sad news that Heath Ledger was found dead in his NYC apartment yesterday afternoon. While details are still sketchy, and rumors are already starting to fly, what we do know is this.

Heath, 28, died leaving behind a world that loved him. He is surivived by his two-year-old daughter Matilda (with ex-fiance Michelle Williams), and his family had the unfortunate experience of finding out about this thanks to the media.

He was an amazing actor, taking on challenges from the beginning, and defying stereotypes. A teen hearthrob thanks to movies like “10 Things I Hate About You” and “A Knight’s Tale”, Heath stretched our views of him with roles such as his most well-known, Ennis in “Brokeback Mountain”. He had just finished filming “Dark Knight” and was back and forth to London filming “The Imaginarium Of Doctor Parnassus”.

And so we are here, writing an obituary of sorts, still in shock that this is even real. He definitely wasn’t one of the celebrities you would have thought twice about dying young. There are already others in the 451 network that are writing their thoughts on this (Brad Pitt Watch has a great statement up), and I’m obviously throwing in my feelings now. And barring any shocking new news regarding his death, I’m going to try to stay away from the media hoopla that will inevitably follow. I will post no pictures from the funeral, as that is a private time for family and friends.

Feel free to jump in on this discussion in the comments, however, adding news as it becomes available. If there’s enough of it, I’ll do another summary post tomorrow. For now, enjoy some photos from Heath’s life.

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So, I go on vacation for a few days, and discover that much to my dismay, chalets on the side of ski slopes don’t always have internet access!! So I didn’t get to post for awhile. Instead of trying to write a bunch of posts to catch up, here’s a huge list of all the things I missed.