July 2006 Gossip Archive (Page 3)

Will Ferrell can be silly. We've tried to show that through a couple pictures of the comedian, but now it's time to be serious ... and congratulatory!

On The Tonight Show with Jay Leno last night, Ferrell announced that he and his wife, Viveca, are expecting their second child. The new baby will join son Magnus, 2.

Know what this means, right? Frank the Tank finally got some!

Here's the problem with The Daily Show: it's too darn funny! While host Jon Stewart won't be going anywhere for awhile, correspondents continue to abandon the program for starrring vehicles on the big and little screen.

To wit:

• Steve Carell - Hard to blame to guy whose won critical acclaim for The 40-Year Old Virgin and The Office.
• Stephen Colbert: Watch The Colbert Report. Try not to laugh every three seconds.
• Nate and Rob Corddry: Each brother has a new show coming out in the fall. Nate will have a role in Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip, while Rob takes his bald head to Fox for The Winner.

And now comes news that Ed Helms will be joining the cast of the Emmy nominated, The Office, this season.

Who's leaving next? The camera man? The dolly grip? Where will it end? Who will spin the God wheel?

So, where have Brad and Angelina been hanging out with their kids? What about Suri Cruise? One famous actress knows the whereabouts of these famous families.

"They're at my house right now!" Julia Roberts told The Insider. "We're all together. Yes, yes, we hold hands and we sort of commune and they go, 'You're cute,' [and I go,] 'No, you're cuter.'"

Julia kids, of course. And The Gossip makes children-related puns. But America's Pretty Woman admits she does keep in touch with the non-gay talk show goddess, Oprah Winfrey.

"Auntie Oprah, she's in our life, she's good," Julia says. "She's sent them so many lovely, sweet things, all of which we've like put to use. Their book collection is impressive, just based solely on her alone. [It's] an enviable collection of books."

The "them," of course, would be Julia's twins Phinnaeus and Hazel, both of whom are are 18 months old and just starting to develop their own characteristics.

"Hazel was born incredibly feminine and [Phinnaeus] is very masculine. The first time in her lifetime that I got a pedicure was about a month ago, and I had color on my toes and she said, 'Shoes!'"

She sounds almost as smart as Britney Spears.

Newfound maternal instincts speak to why Roberts signed on to play an ant in the new animated feature, The Ant Bully, which is produced by Tom Hank and opens in today.

"She is the maternal sort of essence of this colony, I think," says Roberts of her animated character. "And I guess in my little, four-person colony, I am the maternal essence of it."

Hope you're sitting down for this one.

Some blogging counterparts of ours â€" Bricks & Stones â€" have posted pictures of a certain aspiring rapper in a new ad campaign. It is a pretty choice spread. Behold, the one and only Kevin Federline, in his new Five Star Vintage Advertising Campaign…

We would love to post a picture of Suri Cruise here today, on this, the 100th day after she was supposedly born. But since she isn't real, you'll have to settle for an ordinary pic of plain ol' TomKat. Sorry! What is your opinion of the alleged baby? Is she real, or the total farce / PR stunt we believe her to be? Leave us a comment or vote in our poll (above).

The relevance of the headline and picture shown here to the post itself? Zero. But look at her take that thing! So much for those eating disorder rumors!

In any case, Nicole Richie and Paris Hilton are set to publicly end their two-year-old feud as guests of David Letterman.

The late night talk show host has offered to assume the role of peacekeeper after inviting The Simple Life stars to appear together on his program in September. The two former gal pal had a falling out after it was reported that Richie held a private viewing of Hilton's controversial sex tape.

Both girls have refused to go into detail about their bust-up, with Hilton repeatedly telling journalists, "She knows what she did."

Hilton and Richie agreed to team up on TV again for the third season of reality show The Simple Life, but refused to work together on screen.

Good for you, Dave, for bringing these hoes girls together. The lesson learned? The bonds of friendship are strong, and there is no reason to stay mad, even if one holds a private screening of an X-rated video showing the other getting railed by an ex-boyfriend.

See! We said the latest Jessica Simpson album cover was a tad intense for this typically cheery beauty. Apparently her handlers (what a great job that is!) agreed.

Here is an image of the NEW CD for Simpson's "A Public Affair," set to hit stores on August 29.

Hmmmm … not much better, huh? It's okay to smile, Jessica. Look, your ex, Nick Lachey, knows how to do it.

He's the man behind the world's most successful TV show, as well as the owner of six platinum albums (!?) and is worth tens of millions.

But David Hasselhoff is tanking big time these days, hitting a new low this week when he was told he was too drunk to fly after staggering around a VIP lounge at London's Heathrow Airport. Scotland's Daily Record says the former Baywatch star was spotted drinking at 8 a.m. and babbling incoherently before ultimately being denied permission to board the plane.

A spokeswoman for Hasselhoff said he was not drunk, but suffering from the effects of antibiotics. He caught a later flight, but the episode made a mockery of his claims that he had beaten the battle with the bottle. He attended the Betty Ford Clinic for alcoholism treatment in 2002, but was convicted of drunken driving in 2004.

Friends are blaming his fall from grace on the bitter divorce he is going through with actress Pamela Bach, which became official yesterday. The 16-year marriage crumbled in January, with divorce proceedings taking a nasty turn when Bach accused the Hoff of breaking her nose and screaming at her in front of their two teenage daughters.

"The only person who broke my wife's nose was a plastic surgeon," David hostilely shot back, also accusing his wife of drug abuse and filing for sole custody of their children.

She denied his claims and won a restraining order against him.

But the divorce isn't the only part of Hasselhoff's life to take a nose dive. Despite a vast personal fortune, his career seems to be spiraling downward as he lurches from one debacle to the next. They include being booted out of Wimbledon after trying to barge his way into the players' lounge demanding beer. Man, even Pamela Anderson hasn't let herself go this bad.

"All I want is a drink. Do you know who I am?" witnesses say the actor yelled.

That came only a few days after a bizarre accident in a London hotel, in which the star says he hit his head on a lamp, causing a shard of glass to sever four tendons in his hand. A member of staff nearly fainted when The Hoff emerged naked from the bathroom looking for help as blood poured from his dome.

Hasselhoff made a fortune by buying the rights to Baywatch from NBC and turning into the world's most-watched TV series. But since the days of Mitch Buchanan, the Hoff has lost his golden touch. He was offered the chance recently to be a judge on America's Got Talent, the new series created by Simon Cowell of American Idol fame.

But now he's got other ideas.

"It's not my cup of tea. Simon Cowell conned me into it. I'm trying to get a sitcom, or maybe even my own show, Travels With The Hoff," he said.

He's even planning to follow up his recent appearance in Chicago on the West End stage with a musical of his own life. Hasselhoff: The Musical is set to open later this year in Australia. His latest single, "Get Outta My Car," is also being released down under. The incredibly campy video sees Hasselhoff shamelessly sending himself up as he cruises around in KITT with a chick half his age.

This endless material for parody has seen him become a favorite on the Internet. In a recent poll, he was named as the celebrity most likely to be mentioned in an email, ahead of stars such as Brad Pitt and Britney Spears.

That's just as well because, if his current career path continues, self-mockery will be the only way he'll be in the public eye.

We hope Jessica Simpson was busy studying her lines for The View on Wednesday afternoon.

At the very least, maybe her TV dial was broken; otherwise, the singer may have been tuned in to Total Request Live when ex-husband, Nick Lachey, appeared with girlfriend Vanessa Minnillo to promote his latest single. The pair was not unaffectionate:

The name of the single? I Can't Hate You Anymore. Absolutely no way that's referring to Simpson, right?

If Christie Brinkley can't find a good man, the New York Daily News poses, what does that mean for the average American women over age 19?

Does the plight of one of the world's most gorgeous people mean that the rest of the population is even more doomed? Or is this the story of the summer for the opposite reason -- because it bodes well for the rest of womankind?

Yes to both.

Normal-looking women will never have the pool of guys to choose from that Christie had, and probably still will, once she officially discards Peter Cook. And yes, the average woman is luckier for it. For many men, marrying a swimsuit model is a universal goal, up there with reeling in a 20-pound bass. It's a way of proving one's masculinity.

Does the man care if the fish is smart or funny? No. All he cares about is whether he can be seen with it. Then, when that gets old, he can dump her for a cuter, younger fish (Diani Bianchi) who wants to sing and has no idea there's anything wrong with sleeping with married men two and a half times her age to jump-start her career.

The point? The guys who actually go out and pursue models are generally not thinking of these women as individuals. Maybe Brinkley was doomed from the start. Those people who aren't as glamorous, however, know that when a man is interested, it's because of who they are as people. And that means they stand a better chance of being allowed to get older without being cast aside.

In Christie's case, she's not 19 anymore. She's 52. Anyone who finds that to be a detriment (and who actually thinks that Samantha Cole is a better catch, in spite of the fact that she's 23 years younger) is the kind of guy it's best to avoid anyway.