Saturday, December 25, 2010

Rehab Worker Decides To Drop Charges Against Lindsay Lohan

Lindsay Lohan got a nice pre-Christmas present: The rehab worker who claimed the starlet assaulted her has decided to the drop charges. Apparently the woman, Dawn Holland, now wants nothing to do with a potential criminal investigation against the actress.

"Dawn will not continue to press charges against Lindsay, nor will she be assisting any further in the investigation or prosecution," her lawyer said.

When news broke about the scuffle between Dawn and Lindsay when the actress arrived back at the Betty Ford Center after curfew on December 12, it appeared as though Holland would be pressing charges. She claimed Lindsay "twisted" her arm while trying to pull a phone away. Holland also said she went to the hospital because of her injuries.

Just hours after Holland spoke to TMZ about the incident, she was fired from the rehab center for violating their confidentiality terms.

Now, Holland, who is also a recovering addict, is singing a different tune, and apparently doesn't want "in any way shape or form to do anything that would violate Lindsay's probation or cause an arrest," the lawyer said.

Although the chemical tech doesn't want to pursue the case, it's ultimately up to the authorities to decide whether LiLo will be prosecuted.

Demi Lovato Gets To Spend Christmas Day with Her Family

Demi Lovato is getting one of the best presents of all for Christmas: Some quality time with her family. The starlet is currently receiving treatment for emotional issues and TMZ reports she'll be able to leave the facility for the day to take part in her family's holiday celebrations.

Sources say she'll have to come back to the facility for the night, but will be allowed to have dinner off-site before returning to continue her treatment. She entered the program  last month after she punched one of her backup dancers on a private jet.

She's since come up with a settlement with the dancer, Alex Welch, who said about the agreement (via People.com): "I'm happy. We came to an agreement and I'm ready to move on. I'm ready to start working again."

The terms of the settlement were not disclosed but Welch says a portion of the money went to charity.

Friday, December 24, 2010

Ricky Martin Is Thinking About Adopting

Ricky Martin wants to expand his family, and thinks adoption could be next. He currently has two-year-old twins, and might be open to adding to the fam down the road.

He said: “Adoption is beautiful – give it a try. Even though I started with surrogacy, adoption is probably my next step.”

Ricky is looking forward to Christmas with his young sons but said although he will teach them his holiday traditions, they are still too young to really appreciate what it is all about.

He told US TV show Extra: “Now it’s not about me, it’s about my children. The holidays are for them. I guess I’ll get up early in the morning – they’re only two years old so I’m teaching them what the holidays are all about. This is really their first Christmas so let’s wait and see.

Ricky will celebrate his 39th birthday on Christmas Eve but he doesn’t mind having his special day so close to Christmas because he already has everything he wants. When asked if he would prefer his birthday not to be so close to Christmas he said: No I don’t think about that I’ve been very lucky. I just want my children to be happy and to be healthy. And I guess that’s my wish."

Michelle Williams Still 'Can't Find A Meaning' For Heath Ledger's


Actress Michelle Williams says she still can’t find the meaning behind Heath Ledger’s death three years ago, in a rare interview talking about the late father of her child who died of a prescription overdose.

Williams, who since the actor’s death in New York in January 2008 has remained mostly quiet in interviews about her former partner, told ABC News show Nightline this week she could understand why the public was curious about her grief, but still could not understand why Ledger died.

“I’ve found meanings around the circumstance but the actual event itself still doesn’t have a ... I can’t find a meaning for it,” she said with tears in her eyes.

The 30 year-old actress, whose romance with Ledger blossomed on the set of Brokeback Mountain in roles for which they both received Oscar nominations (he won supporting actor), said she had found “meaning in things and people and relationships that have sprung up and friendships that have strengthened.

“I can find a lot of meaning in that, but not in why,” she said.

Williams had split with Ledger when he died. To deal with her grief, she said she read “The Year of Magical Thinking” by Joan Didion, the Pulitzer-Prize winning account of Didion’s year following the death of her husband.

“In a strange way, I miss that year, because all those possibilities that existed then are gone,” Williams told ABC. “It didn’t seem unlikely to me that he could walk through a door or could appear from behind a bush. It was a year of very magical thinking, and in some ways I’m sad to be moving further and further away from it.”

She said that for a time, she pondered the notion that one’s life can change in an instant.

Thursday, December 23, 2010

Paris Hilton Lands In 'Beautiful' Maui After Flight Scare

Paris Hilton was among passengers evacuated from a plane after a knife was found on board. The heiress and her boyfriend Cy Waits were on an aircraft destined for the Hawaiian island of Maui when it was detained at Los Angeles International Airport after a passenger found a four-inch serrated knife in a seat pocket.

Writing on her Twitter page, Paris said: “We were about to take off then security made everyone deplane because they found a big knife on board the plane. Scary that it got on plane.

“They just finished the security sweep of the plane. About to board again. So strange a knife got on board. Can't wait to get to Maui.”

However it was quickly revealed the knife was in fact a box-cutter belonging to the airline crew and passengers were soon allowed back on board. Police were not called as airline officials knew who the blade belonged to.

Paris later updated her Twitter account to reveal she and Cy finally made it to Maui.

She wrote: “Just landed safely in Maui. Aloha!

“Hawaii is one of the most beautiful places on earth! So happy to be here! :)”

The pair have joined Paris’ sister Nicky Hilton and her boyfriend David Katzenberg for a pre-Christmas break on the island.

Paris tweeted: “Hanging out with my love, @NickyHilton and @DavidKatzenberg. So nice to be with family and loved ones.”

Elle Fanning Is The Fashion's Newest Darling

Elle Fanning is just 12-years-old, but she already has top designers clamoring to dress her. At a recent slew of press events and premieres, she has worn Marc Jacobs, Rodarte and Valentino—just to name a few! People admire Elle's ability to make grown-up clothes youthful and her own.

But fashion news outlets are divided on the issue. Some, like The Daily Beast, are equally enamored with Elle, while others are questioning fashion's sudden obsession with someone who isn't even in her teens. They say it signifies something inherently wrong with how the industry operates and who it's designing for. Jezebel says:

"Elle Fanning is an adorable girl who shows all signs of being a very competent actress. But holding her up as a fashion exemplar largely because she's a child is just plain creepy. And frankly, beyond parody."

In head-to-toe Rodarte, Elle wore a gold look from their spring 2011 collection to a NYC screening; She was adorable in a black Valentino Couture dress with silver shoes (both bedecked with bows) to the L.A. premiere; Fanning wore another Valentino dress (this one made of lace) and mary-janes to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ Governor’s Ball.
Fanning attended the premiere of The Nutcracker: 3D in a blue embellished Azzaro dress and jeweled Mui Mui heels – a sparkling Jennifer Behr headpiece finished the look; Elle wore a white spring 2011 Marchesa look to the ELLE Women in Hollywood event.

Wednesday, December 22, 2010

Nicole Kidman Wishes Her Adopted Children Lived With Her

Nicole Kidman raised 18-year-old Isabella and Connor, 15, with ex-husband Tom Cruise, and she was saddened by their decision to live with their father when Nicole and Tom separated.

She said: "They live with Tom, which was their choice. I'd love them to live with us, but what can you do?"

Though she is upset about her eldest children not living with her, she is delighted to have become a parent again later in life, having had daughter Sunday Rose with husband Keith Urban in July 2008.

She admitted: "It's a beautiful thing at 43 to have a two-and-a-half year old!"

Explaining the youngster's unusual name, Nicole revealed she was named after the day of week that her and Keith most enjoy together.

She told Britain's HELLO! magazine: "When we were both alone, before we met each other, Sunday was the day we dreaded most, because when you don't have someone in your life Sundays can be really lonely.

"Then when we met, we went from dreading Sunday to really loving it. It was the day when nobody was going to bother you, you could stay in bed, you could do what you wanted to do. We just thought, What a great name for our baby!' "

Jake Gyllenhaal Dishes On 'Open And Intimate' Love Scenes With Anne Hathaway

Jake Gyllenhaal was happy to get naked for his role in the movie Love & Other Drugs with Anne Hathaway, because he believes stripping down makes the relationship more authentic.

He said: “If we were going to be as open and intimate in a love story as we could be we have to do the same thing with sex.

“When you see two people in a movie like that, particularly as an actor, and they are portraying two people in love, it’s like, how do you even unconsciously believe people are in love if they don’t want to be naked around each other.

“I don’t know about you guys but I’ve never had sex with underwear on and it’s an odd thing to watch an actor do. You can try but I wouldn’t recommend it! So that was really important. We knew that if we did we would get somewhere in the audiences’ unconscious that these were people who were actually in love and not just actors telling a love story.”

The Hollywood hunk wasn’t scared about getting nude and didn’t consider working out any harder at the gym for the role of pharmaceutical rep' Jamie Randall.

He added to BANG Showbiz: “We really didn’t think about getting in shape. I wanted him to be a little skinny and sinewy and slimy.”

Tuesday, December 21, 2010

Zac Efron Getting 'Chummy' with 'Lucky One' Co-Star

Zac Efron and Vanessa Hudgens have gone their separate ways, and insist that a third party had nothing to do with their split after 4 years -- but we hear Zac is already getting "chummy" with another gal. A source says he and his Lucky One co-star Taylor Schilling have gotten pretty friendly lately.

He's apparently been leaning on the 26-year-old since the breakup, and though things haven't turned romantic yet -- it sounds like there's some chemistry. "They joke around, eat together sometimes, run lines," said the source (via E! Online ), insisting it's all innocent friendship stuff. "Nothing out of the ordinary," the insider added.

Of course, there's speculation that the "good friends" bit easily turns into something more, but we won't get too ahead of ourselves quite yet. For now, Zac seems to be having fun with Kellan Lutz in New Orleans and has been mingling with the Twilight crew while all parties are in Louisiana.

Kate Moss Is Moving Because Her House Is Jinxed

Kate Moss has spent $11.6 million on a seven-bedroom new house in the Highgate area of London after a run of bad luck at her old home in nearby St. John’s Wood.

A source said: “Kate spent big money giving her old place a makeover after it was burgled, then flooded.

"But she still never quite felt at home there and called it her 'jinxed house'.”

Kate -- who lives with her partner Jamie Hince and her eight-year-old daughter Lila -- was encouraged to move to the area by Jude Law and Sienna Miller, who moved there from north London’s Primrose Hill, which was previously infamous as one of the favorite haunts of the supermodel and her friends.

The source added to The Sun newspaper: “Jude and Sienna have been talking up Highgate and encouraged her to move to the area.

Monday, December 20, 2010

Jason Segel: Playing Emily Blunt's Love Interest Was 'Toughest' Part Of New Role

Jason Segel is a modest man. He says it was easier to get in shape for his new role than it was to believably play Emily Blunt's love interest! Awww.

He said: “Here I needed to be fit. They got me a trainer, which is very different to what I am used to. I have hand-to-hand combat, and then I also have to be someone Emily Blunt could be attracted to. In fact, that’s been the toughest thing of all.”

Jason also admits he feels grateful to Jack Black, after the actor-and-rocker fought to get him cast in the movie.
He explained: “I love Jack. He gave me my first writing job when I was 20 years old on a pilot called Black Market Music that Seth Rogen and I were writing. Jack fought really hard for me on this movie and I owe him a lot.”

Elizabeth Hurley No Longer Seeing Cricket Player

Well, that was fast! Just a week after Elizabeth Hurley admitted she had separated from her husband amid rumors she was dating a cricket player named Shane Warne, the new couple is reportedly through. Apparently he was sending another woman naughty text messages, so Liz pulled the plug on their relationship.

According to reports, Shane began texting married business owner Adele Angeleri after meeting her in Melbourne with the hope of using a jacket from her shop in an advertisement.

A source said: "They exchanged numbers then Shane kept coming into Adele's shop, chatting her up and texting her. At one point he asked if she was married and was told the truth. Shane made all the running but Adele was flattered by the attention. Soon the texts were coming in daily."

The messages came to light when Adele had a fight with her husband Denis, who contacted Shane, leading him to deny anything serious was happening. The sports star told him: "There weren't that many texts anyway."

Denis told the Sunday Mirror: "As a person who has a wife who was pursued by him at the same time as Liz, I can tell you that it's hard to be a fan when you see the texts and how he works. My message to Liz would be steer well clear."

Shane, 41, took to twitter yesterday to talk about love, but did not mention Elizabeth.
He wrote: "No matter what anyone says if you know in your heart how you feel about anything or anyone who cares what people think / say !!!"

However, Elizabeth has not mentioned the cricket legend, instead enjoying the snow in England. She wrote on twitter: "It is the stillest day here. The thigh high snow has soundproofed our world. Even the mad budgie is silently staring out of the window."

Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie Planning a Christmas 'Adventure'

Angelina Jolie, Brad Pitt, and their 6 kids aren’t going to sit at home over the holidays — they’re going to jet to a “random” part of the world instead! Hopefully Santa can keep up with them.

She said: “We’re going to travel with the kids and go to a random part of the world. We’re going to travel and have an adventure because that’s what we love to do.”

Although the Jolie, Pitts will be traveling, Angelina revealed the children won’t have to worry about getting their Christmas presents because the organized mama has already sorted them out.

She told Ryan Seacrest on his radio show: “I’ve got it all boxed and ready to go. I went through it today. I’m trying to get every stocking right and all the wrapping paper.”

Sunday, December 19, 2010

Ricky Martin Loves a Man Who's 'Smart, Witty'

What's Ricky Martin looking for in a man? He wants a guy who's self-confident but not arrogant, and someone who's open to trying new things.

He said: "I love witty. I love mental strength. Just being secure.
"With all the stuff I come with, you have to be someone who is sure of himself. That turns me on.

"Somebody who is very sure of themselves without being arrogant -- smart, witty, has a career. Somebody who is very open-minded about things. That's what I love. Adventurous is the word."

Since he became a father to twins Matteo and Valentino, Ricky insists he is more wary about romance than he used to be because he has to think about the impact any relationship would have on his kids.

He added to Attitude magazine: "I used to fall in love quickly. When you are young you are open to taking risks and not afraid of anything.

"Now my priorities are different. I have children and they are the most important thing in my life. OK, I'm in a relationship and I know how lucky I am."

Michael Buble Wants to Have a 'Perfect' Wedding Day

Michael Buble's wedding is in 4 months, and now he's getting a bit nervous about walking down the aisle. It's not cold feet or anything -- he just wants the wedding to be perfect for his beautiful bride! Aw.

The Canadian singer is set to tie the knot with Argentinean beauty Luisana Lopilato on April 6, 2011 and there's a lot to be done before the big day!

In an interview with British TV show Daybreak, Michael said: “It’s only four months away and now I’m starting to get a little nervous.

The truth is I know that for a lot of women, this is what they dream of – that day – and I know that that’s a big deal for them in their life and they want it to be perfect. I’m a boy, I didn’t grow up thinking about my wedding day, so for me, I just want it to be good for her. Really, I just want her to feel like she’s had the perfect day.”

The 35-year-old star has also revealed he will not be singing at the reception, because Luisana has insisted on being entertained by Argentine-Venezuelan singer Ricardo Montaner. He added: “I asked my fiancee if she wanted me to sing and she said no. She said, ‘I want Ricardo Montaner’. So now I’ve got Ricardo Montaner coming.”

The "Haven't Met You Yet" hitmaker - who has been dating Luisana since 2008 - recently revealed the couple plan to have two weddings so both their families can be in attendance.
Michael explained: "We are doing one in Argentina and that's for her close family, and then we are doing one in Vancouver."

Angelina Jolie Buys Brad Pitt A 'Family Wedding' Ring

Angelina Jolie raises six children with Brad Pitt, so she splashed out on an extra special gift for his 47th birthday tomorrow: a personalized family wedding ring priced at $380,000.

An insider said: "The band has each of their children's names on it and Angie's on the top.

"This is a family wedding band to symbolize Brad isn't just married to Angelina but to the family as a whole. It was described as absolutely exquisite."

As well as fitting seven names onto the ring, Angelina also requested it be engraved with “mystical” references that are personal to the couple.

The source told the Daily Star newspaper: "She told me there are mystical references to his 47th birthday that have also been engraved on the band and the family all have their own interpretations of what the band means to them and of what 47 means to them."

Ashley Greene & Joe Jonas' Sinful New Years' Eve

































Jetsetting duo Ashley Greene and Joe Jonas are heading to Las Vegas very soon...but it's not for a quickie wedding. E! News has learned exclusively what the couple has in store for New Year's Eve and who they're doing it with. Keep reading for the lowdown... The cuties are attending the invitation-only Jay-Z and Coldplay NYE concert at the brand new Cosmopolitan resort And while Joe will spend Christmas with his brothers, they won't be joining Joe on his Vegas jaunt.

"Joe is really growing into his own," says a Jonas source, "He loves his brothers, but wants to have some time with Ashley alone and just party." Cheers to that!