April 2007 Archives

It is time, yet again, for T.H. Gossip to break down last night�s gripping episode of The Bachelor: Officer and a Gentleman on ABC.

Oh, who are we kidding. We're going to do the usual thing and let the Sports Gal do the honors. The wife of ESPN�s beloved Sports Guy (a.k.a. Bill Simmons) does a tremendous job, as we know.

She recapped episode 2 brilliantly last week, and the drama only intensified last night as Andy Baldwin bid farewell to more aspiring trophy wives. Without any further delay, we turn it over to the Sports Gal!

We made history on The Bachelor this week! The show started with a drill sergeant waking up the girls and dragging them out for calisthenics. Bill thought the drill sergeant looked like Dick Bavetta on steroids. I'm not sure who he is, but okay.

I was more shocked that none of the girls was wearing makeup during an HD broadcast. They should've had a follow-up show with the girls watching this show in HD. I guarantee half would cry, two would pass out and the rest would flee to the MAC counter.

But that wasn't the history-making part. Running through a set of tires, Bevin wrenched her ankle and ended up with a displaced fracture plus a rose from a guilty Andy. Here was the history-making part:

The other girls became jealous because Bevin got a rose and 1-on-1 time with Andy Baldwin at the hospital. Now others may start maiming themselves for more time with Andy. We might see Tessa throw herself down a flight of stairs within the next three shows.

Obviously, Andy wasn't too upset because he made his first group date at the mud baths. Not a lot of highlights here except that BBBD ("Big Boobs/Bad Dresser") was in heat and kept rubbing mud on Andy as an excuse to molest him.

She's a tramp. Bill thinks there's an 80 percent chance she has a sex tape floating around out there and claims he has never Googled this to find out for sure. I don't believe him.

Follow this link to continue the Sports Gal's unique, in-depth coverage of The Bachelor ...

Forgive us for being grossed out over the idea of Lacey Chabert nude.

To us, she'll always be the little girl from Party of Five. And the only actress from that show we wanna see in the buff is Jennifer Love Hewitt.

Nevertheless, Lacey has grown up. Just read what she has to say in an interview with Maxim below:

In your new movie, you're being terrorized by a maniac who's been locked in an attic. Do you survive?
I can't say. But I do have one really cool scene where I go under the house to reset the circuit breaker and he chases me. I'm crawling through the mud on my stomach, trying to get away, and I have mud in my eyes, in my teeth, up my nose…I was sneezing mud for two days after that.

Sexy. Is there a horror flick that scarred you for life?
Chucky really freaked me out. At the time my little brother had one of those My Buddy dolls that looked just like Chucky [sort of like Clay Aiken does]. My sisters would torture us with it. They'd prop him up at night with a butter knife in his arm so he'd be sitting there like that when we woke up.

You've grown up a lot since Party of Five. What was it like being an awkward teen on national television?
I had to go through everything on that show - my first kiss, my first bra. I was 11 when it started and a late bloomer. They wrote an episode about how I'm changing in the locker room in junior high and all the other girls have bras, but I'm just in a little undershirt, so I get a Wonderbra and stuff it. I had a fitting to figure out what they'd stuff my bra with - tissue, silicone, padding. For a week everyone analyzed how I looked with boobs and said maybe I should grow some one day.

Looks like you took that advice to heart.
Yeah, when they finally arrived, they came with a vengeance.

Your character on the show, Claudia, was such a goody two-shoes. Did you ever want her to cut loose?
In the last two seasons, I was drinking and smoking, all those teen things. There was one scene where I was supposed to be drunk, and in the hair-and-makeup trailer beforehand they gave me a glass of red wine. I was 17, and I'm pretty strait-laced, so I'd never had a drink before. I held my nose and just downed it. I got so drunk I couldn't remember my dialogue. After the scene everyone applauded! I don't think anyone knew the truth. I actually got sick the next day just from that and haven't cared for alcohol since.

* The Hollywood Gossip note: Sort of like her Mean Girls co-star, Lindsay Lohan. Only the exact opposite.

That's a shame. Do you have any vices at all?
I'm really bad about not coming to a complete stop at a stop sign.

Whoa, reckless!
They call it the California roll, because instead of coming to a full stop you just slow down to, like, five miles per hour and then keep rolling through. But I've only gotten one ticket in my life, for an illegal U-turn. There was nobody on the road…except for a cop on a motorcycle right behind me.

Do you get that kind of attention when you go back home to Mississippi?
It's more relaxing there. You can go to a coffee shop in your sweatpants and no one cares. Though everyone in my hometown thinks Hollywood is so small. They think I live next door to J.Lo and hang out with Leonardo DiCaprio.

Who would want to hang out with that guy?
He was the first person who ever made me completely speechless. I had a huge crush on him when I was 14. I was coming back to the Four Seasons after the premiere of my first movie, Lost in Space, and he was in the elevator. I was silent all the way up to the 18th floor. When he got out I started crying, I was so overwhelmed.

* The Hollywood Gossip note: So is Bar Refaeli.

Aside from being Leonardo DiCaprio, how can a guy impress you?
The true test is if he's willing to go shopping with me. Will you go shopping, and will you hold the purse while I'm looking around and trying stuff on? He should be interactive and make comments, too, rather than reiterating how bored he is.

Would a pickup line ever work on you?
At least be creative. None of this, "That shirt will really look good on my floor," or, "All those curves and no brakes?" Somebody said that to me in Target. I was like, "First of all, we're in Target. Second of all, that's so cheesy!" I couldn't help but laugh, though.

Who better to throw Eva Longoria a bridal shower than her Desperate Housewives costars?

Longoria and castmates Teri Hatcher, Marcia Cross and Brenda Strong, along with hairstylist Ken Paves and stylist Robert Verdi, gathered at Felicity Huffman's Los Angeles home on Sunday for an outdoor bash.

Josh Henderson would have come, but he was busy eating (out) with Paris Hilton.

The guest of honor, who will marry Tony Parker in Paris on July 7, wore a taupe Badgley Mischka dress and Giuseppe Zanotti shoes to the party, where guests competed to make the most elegant wedding gown â€" out of toilet paper.

The revelers had been instructed to give the couple gifts for each room of their house. "I got the living room," Strong told People magazine, "and got her this really beautiful imported mirror."

We're jealous of whoever got the bedroom. Because there's where you can picture Eva Longoria nude.

Verdi tried to bring out Longoria's inner housewife by gifting her with a set of Calphalon cookware and a library of 30 cookbooks signed by top chefs such as Nigella Lawson, Wolfgang Puck and Mario Batali.

And what did Huffman get her friend?

"I'm giving her this damn shower," she said on Saturday at a gala for the American Fertility Association. "I don't have to get her a present as well, do I?"

Well, if you do, we know of many celebrity sex tapes from which you can choose.

You may be asking yourself, who the heck is Diora Baird!?

Does it matter? No. Is it possible you might never hear of her again after reading this article? Very. But because we do our research and you deserve the best we've got, here's the answer, courtesy of Wikipedia...

Diora Baird, 24, is an American actress and former model for Guess who has appeared in films such as Wedding Crashers and Texas Chainsaw Massacre. She is known for her large, natural breasts, which are 32DD.

That about says it all, doesn't it? End of discussion. It's easy to see why the French version of FHM chose Diora Baird to grace the pages of its most recent issue.

Hey, we certainly prefer her to that coked-up train wreck Kate Moss.

As with Keeley Hazell and Lucy Pinder, we feel it is our duty to introduce you to up-and-coming actresses and models of whom you have not yet heard.

You can thank us later. For now, enjoy these Diora Baird photos...

Britney Spears wants her career back.

Not only has the troubled, possibly insane pop princess been back in the music studio and taking dance classes, but insiders claim she's fired her inept manager, Larry Rudolph.

Spears, who's been suffering from severe postpartum depression, reportedly blames Rudolph for some of her recent missteps, including introducing her to her one-time BFF and current nemesis, Paris Hilton.

There may be legal ramifications for Britney Spears, as she signed a multi-year deal with Rudolph. But she just rehired her one-time PR chief, Leslie Sloane Zelnik, so at least it will be spun nicely in the media.

Sloane didn't know about Rudolph's status when contacted. However, reports of Rudolph's demise may be premature. As of this morning, TMZ has confirmed that Rudolph has not been fired ... yet.

Late last year, Paris thought of herself as a (skanky, worthless) role model for the newly-single Spears, and even claimed Britney was grateful to be under her wing.

But shortly after the alliance had been formed and the nude Britney Spears pictures displayed for all to enjoy, this ho train lovefest crashed hard and the two haven't partied together since.

Paris' rep, Eliot Mintz, fired back at the New York Post article reporting the rift, telling TMZ, "That's a matter between Britney, Larry Rudolph and Leslie."

It was definitely a bad idea for Britney and Paris to be friends. We've been saying for months how Larry Rudolph has no frickin clue what he's doing, and he should definitely get the pink slip if he hasn't yet.

Can't we all let it go now, though? Britney Spears, bless her heart, is fresh out of detox and trying to get her career up and running again. Paris has other things to worry about, such as who's doing the doggy style honors later tonight.

The Hollywood Gossip recently took you inside the new digs of Lindsay Lohan. It's time now for a bit of news on a celebrity mansion that you could own - for a paltry $2 million.

Less, actually. Rapper Snoop Dogg is asking $1.995 million for his eight-bedroom mansion, which was once featured on the MTV show Cribs.

And the 'hood? No, the D-O-G-G isn't rollin' down the streets of the L-B-C. Well, not all the time. The house is in the quiet community of Claremont, Calif., 30 miles east of L.A.

"It's virtually brand new," said Geoff Hamill, the Prudential real estate broker handling the sale. "It's on a cul-de-sac. It's in a family area in a college town."

Sounds like the type of place you'd expect to find, say, Hilary Duff. Not Snoop.

The nearly one-acre Mediterranean estate, in the exclusive Blaisdell Ranch area of Claremont, has a pool, basketball court, home theater and recording studio.

The rare tip-off that Snoop Dogg owned the home is the pervasive odor of weed. Just kidding. We're talking about a sign in the entry: "Wipe Your Bloody Feet."

Snoop, 35, currently on probation on a weapons and drug conviction, bought the home, which has 5.5 baths, in 1994 when it was 3,700 square feet, but expanded it to 6,500.

Among other amenities are marble floors in the entry, a gourmet kitchen, high ceilings and dual master suites. Sounds like it'd be great for David and Victoria Beckham, who are in the market for a place.

All of it could be yours for $1.995M... so long as you're not a biatch. Suffice it to say that Snoop nemeses Suge Knight, Bill O'Reilly and Don Imus shouldn't even bother getting pre-approved for a mortgage.

This honor may be more rewarding that a spot in the finals of American Idol.

Or maybe not.

But it's certainly a lot funnier: Sanjaya Malakar is today's Maxim magazine Girl of the Day.

We know what you're thinking: Isn't new sex tape star Olivia Mojica a much better choice? And, well, isn't Sanjaya a dude?

The answers, of course, are: "yes" and "most likely." But here's how Maxim defends its selection:

You've no one but the Devil's lawyer to blame for this androgynous American Idol stowaway, who, despite being detested by the judges, somehow remains in the hunt for the show's coveted prize as this year's top 40 footnote. We stopped watching after the auditions (the only digestible part of the show), but it's our understanding that we have Sanjaya to thank for the "ponyhawk," a hair-novation destined to tickle your underarm as you noogie hordes of copycat hipsters.

Makes sense to us.

But if we were going the Idol route for a featured female, Alaina Alexander or Haley Scarnato would come before Sanjaya. That guy can't win everything.

David Hans Schmidt, the celebrity sex tape broker who's featured in this month's issue of Details, has profited immensely from the videos he's released â€" as well as the footage he hasn't.

Lying on his couch one afternoon in late February, Schmidt puts Oprah on mute, grabs his ringing phone, and raises an eyebrow.

"Where's 732?" He flips it to speaker. "Hans Schmidt."

"Er, hi. I had a look at your website," says a male voice. "I've got footage of Cassandra Peterson copulating in the '70s. She was Elvira, Mistress of the Dark? She's in negotiation to do a reality show ... "

This is how it is for David Hans Schmidt these days.

If there's a celebrity sex tape out there, it has a way of finding him. Porn on a plate. Such are the rewards of being America's premier peddler of celebrity porn.

At 46, Schmidt has put together an extensive résumé that includes the Gennifer Flowers Penthouse cover, Tonya Harding's wedding night video, Paris Hilton's private diaries, nude shots of Private Jessica Lynch, Amber Frey, and Jamie Foxx, sex tapes of Colin Farrell and Dustin Diamond â€" and, if the man on the phone is for real (Schmidt is still determining the tape's authenticity), Elvira.

"Tell me, is there full sex, fellatio, cunnilingus?" Schmidt asks, pacing around the room in stonewashed jeans and cowboy boots. The man claims there's 18 minutes of high-res action. In color. With a money shot.

"Excellent!" Schmidt exclaims. "Okay, first we enter into a broker's-fee agreement, which stipulates a period of time in which I can effectuate a deal for you. Then you surrender to me a DVD, which I show prospective buyers on my laptop. And then, my friend, we'll go for the high buck. Somewhere between Sunset Boulevard and Wilshire, we'll come to a deal."

They swap information, and Schmidt shuts his phone, grinning.

"What you have just witnessed is a moment of history," he exclaims, stroking his mustache. "What might be the first deal for David Hans Schmidt since he almost got f**king killed!"

Continue reading this Details article here ...

Stop us if you've heard this before: a reality TV show may be the cause of a divorce. Somewhere, Nick Lachey just rolled his eyes.

The latest casualty of this phenomenon may be Linda and Hulk Hogan. The couple has been wed for over 20 years, but sources say they're "going through a very hard time and their marriage is under a lot of strain."

The problems, shockingly, started several years ago when the family - including the couple's kids, awful pop singer Brooke Hogan and amateur race-car driver Nick - started filming the VH1 show Hogan Knows Best.

One friend said: "They have different beliefs on how to raise kids. Brooke started her music career, and they started getting into fights."

Maybe over whether or not their daughter to continue to follow the lead of Audrina Patridge.

Some of the well-documented battles on the show have been over how scantily clad Brooke should be.

Or how late she could stay out with boyfriends, or how frickin tall she's getting.

Another source of tension has been that Hulk, 53, desperately wants to get back into the wrestling ring, while Linda somehow believes that WWE isn't exactly the place for a man nearing social security age.

At one point, the friend said: "Linda got so fed up she quit the VH1 show. She just walked off. No one knows what started that fight but it was serious."

While Linda is now back on set to film the show's fourth season, this pair might be better served to talk to Carmen Electra and Dave Navarro. That union ended as soon as the cameras stopped rolling.

Amazingly, the life of Orlando Bloom may be as interesting as his career onscreen. At 13, he found out his father was actually not his biological father. At 21, he fell three floors off a balcony and broke his back, only to walk out of the hospital 12 days later.

He once spent three weeks riding an icebreaker headed to Antarctica, and more than a year and a half riding Kate Bosworth! He also went on a date with Kirsten Dunst, briefly forming one of the best celeb couple names in Doom.

In the May issue of Details, the 30-year old Orlando Bloom opens about his career, religion, his rise to fame, and a whole lot more...

On learning that his dad was not his biological father:
"Think about that. Think about finding out when you're 13 that your dad is not your dad. It's like, okay, take it on the chin and keep going. No choice, really."

THG NOTE: Suri Cruise can take this to heart one day, when she learns that her biological father is not the great Tom Cruise, but rather some random Asian guy Katie Holmes knows.

On being told by doctors that he might never walk again:
"For four days I was thinking this was it, that I would be living my life in a wheelchair, and then I thought, no, and I knew I would walk. I just knew." 

On being famous:
"There's all this noise that happens. I was 22 when I starred in The Lord of the Rings. Nobody tells you what it is like to be famous. There's no guidebook, you know what I mean?"

THG NOTE: Britney Spears knows exactly what you mean.

On starring in Kingdom of Heaven:
"When you're [almost] 27 years old and Fox greenlights a movie with a budget of $150 million with you as the headliner, that's a tribute. And then all the press afterward was like I hadn't come through, like I hadn't delivered. But what did I not come through on?"

On his career:
"I have the patience to trust my own journey. Life is going to unfold as it should because life always does. If I'm true to myself, then all the rest is like, f--k it, man."

On being a Buddhist:
"The philosophy that I've embraced isn't about sitting under a tree and studying my navel, it's about studying what is going on in my daily life and using that as fuel to go and live a bigger life. When your girlfriend dumps you, when the bill comes through the door, and your mom calls you and tells you she can't handle the stuff in her life - that's hell, but that's just one world. If you are aware of what is going on, then you can grow and use that hunger, that fear."

On his filming two trilogies back-to-back:
"I've been white-knuckling it for so long. Between Lord of the Rings and [Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End], I've been going non-stop ... So now, on a personal level, I just want some time and space from everything, from all that; from the environment and the phone and the communication."

On spending three weeks aboard a Norwegian icebreaker bound for Antarctica:
"I felt isolated and vulnerable and I just had all this time to think. I just had time to read and think and I figured out that this moment is when I can use everything that I've done to my advantage, to choose a great project, to do something great and take a risk. I'm looking around and going, I cannot f--king believe how lucky I've been - [Pirates of the Caribbean] has afforded me the luxury of choice, and with it comes responsibility but also freedom."