Gabsmash: February 2006

Tuesday, February 28, 2006

Anderson to host the Juno Awards

Canadian born Pam Anderson will host the JUNO Awards, Canada's music awards, in Halifax, Nova Scotia, on April 2.

The show will include performances by Bryan Adams and Coldplay.

"Canadian music rocks," Pam says. "No matter where I am in the world I can listen to Canadian music and feel like I'm at home. This is going to be one kick-ass awards show!"

She's got a good grip!

John Travolta and Italian host Ilary Blasi during the opening night of the Festival di Sanremo songs contest in San Remo, Italy. Travolta is one of the international guest stars featured on the Sanremo show, airing on Italian State TV from Monday through Saturday, March 4

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No autographs please

Anna Nicole Smith arrives for her hearing at the Supreme Court in Washington today. Smith is claiming half of her late husband J.Howard Marshall IIs estate, estimated at over 1.5 billion dollars. The estate has been held for over 11 years by an ongoing legal dispute with Marshalls son, Pierce Marshall. Good luck with all that

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Brit's in New Awleans

Spears spent part of Mardi Gras with a group of students whose lives were undone after Hurricane Katrina.

Brit took the kids shopping and to dine at Emeril Lagasse's restaurant for some Southern comfort food, including fried chicken and red beans and rice. Yea, you right.. Pass the king cake!

"It was an honor to be here with all of them," Spears said.

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Nicole hangs with big time

Nicole Richie out with agent Benny Medina in Hollywood. Medina's clients include Jennifer Lopez (ended 2003, when Lopez sued), Brandy (ended 2004), Mariah Carey and Tyra Banks

Looking great as usual

Jessica Alba in Paris

Pic: jmazone

McConaughey thinks Sarah Jessica is peculiar

Matthew McConaughey and Sarah Jessica Parker star as onscreen sweethearts in Failure To Launch, but the actor reportedly couldn't stand Parker off-screen and found her "peculiar."

Sources on the set say filming was anything but fun. One insider tells The Scoop, "Matthew gets along with pretty much everyone, but he basically couldn't bear Sarah."

The actor recently made an appearance on Oprah and seemed uneasy when asked about Parker. Winfrey asked Matt to sum-up working with Parker, and he eventually came up with, "Great comedic timing." Matthew added, "Very peculiar, too. Man, she's a very interesting woman. Yeah."

Reese passes Julia

Reese Witherspoon has surpassed Hollywood star Julia Roberts to become the highest paid actress of all time. Later Julia

Witherspoon will earn $29 million for the upcoming horror film Our Family Trouble - beating the $24 million Roberts was reportedly paid for Mona Lisa Smile.

Reese is a fav to win the Best Actress award for Walk The Line at Sunday's Academy Awards

Photo: limelight

Monday, February 27, 2006

So much like her dad

Frances' father, Kurt Cobain 1967-1994

Had to add one more to compare:

Courtney Love and daughter Frances Bean Cobain, 13, at the premiere of Aquamarine in Los Angeles yesterday (top photo)

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Nick aint touchin' this money

Jessica Simpson on set of her next film, Employee of the Month. In Touch mag reported that she is getting paid $1,240 a word. Her character spits a total of 806 words during the comedy

Pics: Sweetkisses.net

Hmmm, I'm thinking hotness

Matthew McConaughey at a press conference

Photos: JJB

Part of the Vanity Fair cover?

No, no...but pass the clear eyes. Nicole Kidman at the American Society of Cinematographers 20th Annual Outstanding Achievement Awards in Los Angeles yesterday

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Author Dan Brown in trouble

The Da Vinci Code author Dan Brown has been accused in Britain's High Court of taking material for his blockbuster book from a 1982 book about the Holy Grail.

Richard Leigh and Michael Baigent are suing Brown's British publisher Random House for lifting "the whole architecture" of the research that went into their 1982 non-fiction book The Holy Blood, and the Holy Grail.

If the lawsuit succeeds in getting an injunction- the scheduled May 19 release of The Da Vinci Code film starring Tom Hanks and Ian McKellan (above) could be threatened. Bummer! Read more

Photo: darkhorizons

Lachey wins "Dancing with the Stars"

Drew Lachey and dance partner Cheryl Burke won the "Dancing with the Stars" competition yesterday

Celeb quote of the day

"Some big, fat gold chains. I was trying to take it back to the old school days of Run DMC."

Nick Cannon, on his last purchase

George Michael got the good stuff...busted!!

George Michael was arrested on Saturday morning on suspicion of possessing drugs. Michael was apprehended by police after a phone call from a concerned passer-by who saw George passed out in the front seat of his car near Hyde Park Corner in London.

George was bailed out on Sunday morning, but he has to return to the police station next month after the substances that were found in his car have been analyzed.

"We were called by a member of the public to a man seen slumped over the steering wheel of a car. Police spoke to the 42-year-old man," a Metropolitan Police spokesperson confirmed. "A search revealed what are believed to be controlled substances. He was subsequently arrested."

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Sunday, February 26, 2006

Celeb quote of the day

"I'm not saying I'm frigging Shakespeare. But even writing a melody, it's a release. And I really have a need to express myself."

Mariah Carey

Spears guests on Will & Grace

Airs Thursday, April 13 on NBC

Leo has a new, younger mannequin

DiCaprio has moved on from supermodel Gisele to a younger carbon copy, Israeli model Bar Refaeli (above) They have been dating since December. A source said, "He is totally in love."

Leo is in South Africa with her now while he is filming The Blood Diamond, also starring Jennifer Connelly

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Crossfade Christina

Christina Aguilera on TRL, do you think she busted out like K Fed and jammed to her own song?

RIP Don Knotts

Don Knotts, the character who kept generations of television audiences laughing as Deputy Barney Fife on "The Andy Griffith Show," has died. He was 81.

Knotts died Friday night of pulmonary and respiratory complications in Beverly Hills.

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Saturday, February 25, 2006

Gabfest

Mary Kate & Ashley are above all the drama

Nicky Hilton's got back

Ciara goes all lady like

Kristy Swanson is a loser

Hilton sports a baby bump

Demi and Ashton get it on

Katie is trapped with Tom Cruise, poor girl

Two hearts beat as one....

Bono and The Edge perform during Carnival in Salvador Brazil. Bono is attending Salvador's Carnival as a guest of Brazilian Culture Minister and pop star Gilberto Gil.

50 Cent in Taiwan

50 Cent holding a gift presented to him during a press conference yesterday in Taipei, Taiwan. 50 is going to perform for the first time in Taiwan, part of the Asian leg of his world tour

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Sheryl Crow recovers from breast cancer surgery

Sheryl Crow had breast cancer surgery in Los Angeles on Wednesday and is recovering without complications. Doctors said she should make a full recovery.

In a statement posted on her Web site, Crow called the surgery "minimally invasive" and said she will be undergoing radiation treatment as a precaution. She said she benefited from early detection, and urged other women to have themselves checked.

"Once again I'm reminded of just how pervasive this illness is, as it has now touched someone I love deeply," said Lance Armstrong, who is a survivor of testicular cancer.

"Based on my contact in recent days with Sheryl, her doctor and her family, I am confident that she will have a full and complete recovery and the world will be a better place for it," said Armstrong, who asked that Crow's fans keep her "in your thoughts and prayers." And that we will do...

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Friday, February 24, 2006

Just a couple more of Brit

We can't help it. Britney Spears in Maui

Affleck is back out

Ben Affleck, with Alfre Woodard, at the premiere of Tsotsi in West Hollywood on Wednesday. The film is an Oscar nominee for Best Foreign Language Film.

Celeb quote of the day

"We will never get divorced. We're never together. We're not together long enough to fight. I'll see him in March, maybe, if he comes home for my brother's wedding, but that's unlikely."

Pink, on her new hub Carey Hart