Despite reports that things would be settled today, it seems we’ll have to wait until at least Monday to find out the decision of the custody battle between Britney Spears and Kevin Federline.  There are many conflicting reports, so stick with me and I’ll try to put them in some sort of cohesive order.

First of all, any media in the courtroom were shooed out once proceedings began.  In fact, the entire floor was closed off to anyone except essential personnel…and that included Brit’s hangers-on, Alli Sims and Sam Lufti.  Pretty much all are reporting that she’s made no less than three bathroom trips during the three-hour proceedings, during which she changed her hairstyle and sunglasses and touched up her makeup.  (btw, did you see her lips in the photo above…they’re huge!)

An early break prompted Brit to proclaim to reporters that, “Everything’s great,” but later when asked how she was doing, she screamed, “Eat it, lick it, snort it, f**k it!” and reentered the courtroom in tears.  (Reports differ on whether the remark was directed at an Us Magazine reporter or an Extra TV reporter.)  Each time she left and reentered the courtroom, she looked more and more upset, her earlier upbeat mood disappearing rapidly.

But wait, there’s more…

TMZ is reporting that actor Orlando Bloom will not be charged in the October 12 accident that injured his passengers:

In the D.A.’s Charge Evaluation Worksheet, the D.A. states that they are declining to prosecute the “Pirates of the Caribbean” star because of “insufficient evidence.”

According to the document, Bloom “was being pursued by 4 vehicles containing paparazzi and one vehicle containing fans.” Bloom “took evasive action resulting in a collision.”

As for walking away, they say he “walked approximately 60 feet from the scene in an apparent attempt to avoid paparazzi’s continued pursuit.” They say “[Bloom] was not D.U.I. but was dazed.”

Also, they report that “[T]he investigating officer tells TMZ the driver of a car that did not make contact with another vehicle could still be prosecuted for hit and run if that driver caused the crash.”

Interesting.  I have no doubt that he was being pursued by the paps.  But a vehicle containing fans?  That seems kind of stupid.  At least paps are doing a job (even though it can be an annoying job), but fans?  That’s just dumb.  I mean, it’s an actor.  What do they think he’s going to do?

And I find “insufficient evidence” amusing.  Of course there would be.  They didn’t give him a field sobriety test or a breathalyzer at the hospital.  I also wonder which tape they watched, because on the one I have seen he is leaving the scene of the accident and is talked back to the scene by photogs.  I’d greatly love to see the other video involved, but I wonder if that will ever be released.  Doubt it.

All in all, Orlandy is extremely lucky on this one.  Maybe he’ll learn from this and hire a driver from now on.  Don’t tempt fate twice, Will Turner!

(seriously…somebody tell me what is so attractive about this guy???)

I say allegedly for legal purposes only, but let’s face it, where there’s smoke there’s almost certainly fire.

Remember Larry Craig, the Idaho senator who was busted for soliciting an undercover officer for gay sex in an airport bathroom? Yeah, well if that wasn’t unsavory enough for you, this handsome burly gay man has come forward with some very salacious allegations about Craig from 20 years ago.

The equally unsavory Wonkette has the straight scoop:

One night, Phillips continues, “I followed [Craig] from The Follies to a Capitol Hill neighborhood, parking on the street no telling how far from his house. We walked up the alley and through the back door of a house, with him repeating several times, ‘You were never here. You don’t know me. Right?’ and me responding, ‘Right!’ in boyish submission. As we tiptoed from the back door to the stairs to the upper floor, as if somebody else was home, he turned to grope my crotch and brush my face with his hand.” The house’s decor led Phillips to believe that this was a married man: “The bric-a-brac with family pictures didn’t scream ‘old queen’ to me; it announced a woman’s influence. Still, we made our way upstairs.

It gets WAY more detailed from there and I caution the reader, it is not for the weak of constitution. But in summary the gentleman telling the story, David, describes what is the typical MO for gay men (married or not) who are in the closet, hold positions of authority and feel free to use and abuse young men who are confused and insecure.

It really is no different than the way straight men use and abuse young women who are confused and insecure.

I lived in DC (including Dupont Circle - a predominantly gay community) from ‘87 to ‘96. I even visited male gay bars (I am a straight female, the music in these clubs were always great and the guys never hassle you, so there!) and there was definitely a heavy inclination on anonymous sex and some real promiscuity. And this was during a time when AIDS was an iron-clad death sentence.

Being gay, IMHO, is absolutely something a person has no choice in. You are what you are, and it is what it is. Really, what’s the big deal. We should all strive to be true to ourselves. But I never was able to comprehend the distasteful way some gay men treated each other. There were literally places you could go to and have sex with someone without even looking them in the eye, let alone knowing their name. It is this tawdry side of (mostly male) gay life I think people have a hard time coming to terms with. Dalliances and infidelities happen within every kind of sexual orientation, but men are so hardwired for sex, that when you put them together in groups as objects of sexuality, the results can be grim.

This is why I support gay marriage. As a society we should be encouraging monogamy, in what ever form love takes.

*steps off podium*

Oh, and Larry Craig is a disgusting, mean-spirited perv for treating a fellow human being like that.

Source: dlisted

Remember a few days ago when D posted her article about Nick Hogan (or whatever his name is, I don’t really care) blogging on MySpace?  Here’s what he had to say at the time:

omggggg its been forever since i blogged…hell i dont even know what blog means but i guess its where you write stuff for people to read

anyways my last one was before i even drove for mopar, if you check my pics youll see that i did end up driving for them for my amateur season and most of my pro rookie season. i recently left the mopar team tho…things didnt work out to well

but!….i picked up a new title sponsor…POLAROID! and started my own team with twin 350z’s pretty cool i know

anyways id like everyone to wish my luck for my 08 season and keep john graziano in your prayers

Not so fast, speedy boy.  Polaroid has come out and said that absolutely no way are they sponsoring Nick:

Polaroid is not sponsoring Nick Bollea for the 2008 racing season, according to the company’s vice president of marketing, Cheryl Mau.

Mau sent an e-mail in response to an interview request. Mau declined to comment.

Bollea, son of famed wrestler Hulk Hogan, has Polaroid listed as a sponsor of his race car team, the Polaroid Drift Team, on his Web site, www.hogandrift.com.

According to photos on his website, Polaroid was a sponsor at one time, so they must have pulled sponsorship pretty fast after the accident that put John Graziano in the hospital.  My guess is that people were so incensed that Polaroid yanked their money pretty fast.

It also is alleged that at the time of the accident, Nick’s Supra was only insured for racing (on tracks), and he was driving on a license that restricted him to daylight driving only for six months.

I mean, I like auto racing too…I am actually a big fan.  But racing belongs on racetracks, not on city streets.  Nick is extemely fortunate that the accident wasn’t any worse than it was.  It could have hurt innocent bystanders as well.

Oh, here’s one more thing:

Graziano’s lawyer, George Tragos, said Tuesday that the young driver should keep a low profile until the matter is resolved.

The boy (and that’s what he is, a seventeen-year-old boy) needs to sit down and shut up, and not just about Polaroid.

 

The Smoking Gun today released the contents of several emails concerning Iggy the dog, who now has a new home.

They start with Portia emailing Marina on September 11 and updating her on Iggy’s progress, saying that he is “incredible” and that it was “hard to let him go” (to the trainer for training).  Iggy spent some time with a trainer and was neutered.

Next, Marina writes back and ask about Iggy on October 12.  Portia emailed back the next day and said that they tried very hard to work with Iggy but that it just wasn’t working out, due to there being too many workmen in and out, different employees every day, and all the things associated with moving.  She said that since the hairdresser expressed such a desire for Iggy, that they went ahead and gave the dog to her about two weeks earlier.  She said she wanted to ask Marina about changing his information, and that they had reached this decision after a lot of thought.

(If the trainer had Iggy for about nine days, as has been reported, and Portia and Ellen gave Iggy to Cheryl about two weeks before October 12, that would mean that Iggy had lived at Ellen’s home for about ten days, give or take…time to discover if the dog would fit in with her other pets.)

But wait, there’s more…

 

Paris Hilton will have to look a little closer to home for her philanthropic actions, as her planned trip to Rwanda has been postponed indefinitely:

“Due to the restructuring of the Playing for Good Foundation, the philanthropic trip to Rwanda that the foundation had previously planned with Paris Hilton has been postponed,” the organization said Thursday in a statement.

“Paris has been a loyal and gracious supporter of Playing For Good but the foundation has to regrettably reschedule this trip. Playing for Good would like to thank Ms. Hilton for her generosity and her continued support of this initiative and is looking forward to rescheduling the trip with her at a later time.”

A visit to the group’s website still shows the information for the “Playing For Good Philanthropic Summit”, scheduled for August 30-September 1.  It doesn’t appear to have been updated in a while.  I wonder just what the “restructuring” is that is going on, and I wonder where the money has gone that has been donated thus far.  The trip was to be documented by the organization’s founder for a new reality show, “The Philanthropist”.

You know, I’m all for doing good around the world for those in need.  I understand that there are so many in the world who have it so much worse than we do, and I do believe we need to help where we can.  But I think if Paris were serious about her new-found philanthropic desires, I’m sure there are many, many charities in her area who could use her help, money, and famous connections.  I’m positive there are organizations for the elderly homeless people, abused children, unwed mothers, drug addicts, and the needy within a Jimmy Choo’s throw of her house.  Why not help one of those?

Or can’t she get media coverage for something like that?

Do you think that inside she’s secretly going… -whew-

Oh, I so called this.  But then, this is sort of like shooting fish in a barrel.

It would seem that Pete’s whirlwind romance and engagement with model Irina Lazareanu has cooled, and he’s given her the big boot:

[T]he Babyshambles frontman, who emerged from court in triumph today after a judge removed the remaining term a drug treatment order, had grown tired of the whirlwind romance.

Irina joined Pete at a gig at Glasgow’s Barfly on Sunday, but the pair split the following night after a firey argument.

A friend revealed: “Irina has been following him around since the moment she caught his eye.

“He got engaged in a moment of madness when he was off his head before he checked into rehab and has been questioning his sanity ever since.”

The source told The Sun: “He liked Irina but admits the only reason he got together with her was on the rebound from Kate.

Well, there’s a shocker.  I’m so surprised at that news.

Kate, for her part, seemed to have moved on:

Kate has put her £3.25million home, where she spent most of her time with ex-lover Pete, on the market, and is rumoured to be moving into a £7million home nearby.

Kate and Jamie [Hince], 33, decamped to the South of France following a week which saw her paint the town red at Swarovski Fashion Rocks, and party at the launch of her latest TopShop clothing range. 

However, in photographs of the couple on the beach, she looks a bit cold as Jamie goes to hug her, keeping her arm at her sides and only offering her cheek for a kiss.  And the couple have had huge fights over Kate’s calling Pete while he was in rehab…but she was dating Jamie at the time.  You will recall that Kate and Jamie are “engaged“, but that really just means he gets exclusive sex privileges.  You’ll also recall Kate’s attempt to send Pete a “sign” via the redtops a few weeks ago.  Are these two just trying to make each other jealous, crazy, or what?

Pete had his drug treatment order revoked by the court, pending his new (and thus far, successful) clean and drug-free testing results.  He now seems bent upon pursuing his other unhealthy obsession, Kate Moss.

They should just get married.  You know it’s going to happen.

(what does she see in these guys?)

The buzz on the street is that Paris Hilton’s new film, a musical horror flick called REPO:The Genetic Opera is destined for the bargain bin of the dvd section at Wal-Mart. Based on the trailer, it’s like a cross between SAW and Phantom of the Opera, which from my viewing tastes, couldn’t be worse.

Which brings me to my next question. Who on earth watches these gory, vile films full of person on person violence? Don’t get me wrong, I like scary stuff. Seriously. In our house, we celebrate Halloween all month long, which includes monster movies, scary themed music, all the various campy films that embrace the spirit of Halloween.

But I really don’t understand why people want to fill their minds with images that are so violent in nature, only a mentallydisturbed person could truly appreciate them. Yes, I know these films are for the 18-25 set, but what the hell is wrong with the 18-25 set that they need to watch people being disembowled, dismembered and decapitated?

Sick and twisted. Of course, this is the same group of people who made Paris Hilton famous to begin with, so there you have it!

Okay, I admit it.  I’ve never heard a Spice Girls song, that I know of, and I had never heard Mad Posh speak until her NBC special earlier this year.  That show didnt make me a fan, either…I understood her dry “British Humour” (and yes, I got that she was being facetious and self-depreciating to Perez when she said she could never be caught smiling or eating, and she had to look miserable), but I found her entire attitude towards everything condescending and trite.  And let’s face it…seeing her constantly pouting is just irksome. She’s rich, thin, and relatively pretty, she has a loving husband and three beautiful children…what’s to look so unhappy about?

But stop the presses….it seems that Victoria can actually (wait for it) smile.  dun-dun-dunnnnnnnn

She appeared on a game show in Japan, Smap Smap (translation?) as part of promoting the upcoming Spice Girls reunion, and in the process relaxed her facial muscles and smiled for the camera.

You know, I like her smiling.  She looks nice when she smiles…she looks calm, gracious, and like she’s having fun.  Like she took the stick out of her bum.  Like she’s warm and friendly.  Like…a very pretty woman.

I like these photos…she doesn’t have the Frankentits going, she doesn’t have on some weird feathery leathery mess, the hair isn’t all did…this is an excellent look for her, and she should consider looking like this more often.  Even though they were being silly on the show, she seems to be taking it all in good humour, and that’s a very important thing to remember in one’s life, not to take oneself too seriously.

She really should consider smiling in public more often.  She doesn’t come across as “Posh Spice”, the International Pout; she comes across as Victoria Beckham, wife, mom, daughter, yes a celebrity, but an attractive woman.  It’s amazing how one simple action can change one’s entire look…she went from haughty to soft in one second.

Oh, and here’s one for you…a few weeks ago, her husband, David Beckham, actually had her laughing!  Could the more relaxed attitudes of the US be rubbing off on her?  This looks nice!

Remember, Victoria, a smile is your best fashion accessory.

It’s not often we here at Glosslip get to write about happy, cheerful events as far as celebs are concerned. Let’s face it, celebrities are most adept at screwing up their lives or acting like self-important knobs. But in this case, we can say without sarcasm, Halle and the girls are looking great. No implants needed!

The 39-year-old actress announced last month she was pregnant with her first child, fathered by her equally gorgeous boyfriend Gabriel Aubrey. Ms. Berry is currently working the red carpets promoting her new film What We Lost In The Fire, which despite decent reviews, is sadly not doing so great at the box office. But you’d never know it by the radiant, happy glow which Halle is wearing.

Not so happy, is her ex-husband, retired baseball star and former Indians outfielder David Justice. Justice is just one of the many Californians who have lost their homes in the horrific fires sweeping across southern California. Very sad.

photo source: Dlisted