January 2008 Gossip Archive (Page 39)

Bar Refaeli is having a tremendous start to 2008.

First, she was spotted making out with her former flame, and perpetual hottie, Leonardo DiCaprio on New Year's Eve.

Now Arena Magazine has named the model its "Body of 2008."

Wondering why? Just take a look at these Bar Refaeli nude pics from the issue's photospread and you won't have any more questions... 

Jennifer Love Hewitt and Britney Spears have a lot in common:

• Each have been famous since they were teenagers;
• Each have amble bosoms;
• And each have turned down offers to pose in Playboy, crushing the spirits of men around the world.

Of course, Hewitt is yet to squeeze out any children or go insane, but she can still sympathize with Spears.

"I think that sometimes in this business, stuff happens and sometimes the only cure for it is to get out," the actress said. "I feel bad because everyone kind of judges her and splatters her business everywhere. No one goes, 'Why is this happening?' They just judge and judge and judge. It's too bad."

Jennifer Love Hewitt and her two, large, personal friends support Britney Spears.

Thankfully again, this is not a Miley Cyrus nude photo scandal.

Or even a supposedly racy Miley Cyrus picture scandal.

Instead, the young singing sensation is faced with a body double scandal. Huh?!?

While millions of fans have forked over years of allowance money to see the star perform her Hannah Montana concert live, not all are pleased with the results. And it's because not all songs are actually sung by Cyrus.

Check out the video below (around the 2:30 mark): it's evident Miley uses a body double during one song so she can make a costume change.

Understandably, this act has upset at least one fan in attendance.

"When it got the to bridge of the song "We Got the Party," her dancers began to crowd around her. Then they covered her with a black sheet and she went through a secret door. Within a second, a new 'Hannah' came out of a different door wearing oversized white glasses," a concert-goes said.

The same fan added:

"The whole time this was happening Miley's vocals were still playing. It was obvious that the song was being lip-synched. The new imposter had her back turned from the stage while she danced trying to hide that fact that was not Miley Cyrus."

"I paid good money to see the concert. I was disappointed and I felt like I was played for a fool," the angered fan concluded.

We wonder how Priscilla Ceballos feels about this development.

Seriously. Britney Spears can't drive a car to save her life, but at least her breasts are safe, ample and accounted for. We were worried there...

After spending a hot weekend in Santa Barbara and Palm Desert with Adnan Ghalib, Britney was back to her old self last night - driving around with no purpose, looking for attention and getting a flat tire. Standard.

Britney and her assistant got a flat while driving down Sunset Blvd, and, of course, kept going for about two miles before pulling over.

It gets better. Britney Spears and her assistant abandoned the car in the middle of the street and got into a car of one of the celebrity photo agency people that was chasing her as usual. He took them home.

It gets better yet. After getting back to her home in Beverly Hills, Spears left again, driving her assistant's beat up Toyota Camry, and headed for the Four Seasons Hotel - which is apparently letting her in again?

Britney's white Mercedes was impounded, by the way, because it was blocking the road. She will face a steep $105 fine and $32 for every day it sits in the lot. Good to see Spears back on her game - and reloading for the next meltdown.

Not all celebrity gossip revolves around Britney Spears wearing no pants. It can sometimes takes radically different forms, such as Hillary Clinton crying or a star pitcher defend himself against damaging allegations of steroid use.

On that note, a recording of a conversation last Friday between Roger Clemens and Brian McNamee - the trainer who accuses him of taking steroids - was played Monday at Clemens' news conference as he tries to clear his name.

Roger Clemens' lawyers said that because Brian McNamee didn't deny Clemens' claims that he never used steroids during the 17-minute tape, it amounted to proof that Clemens is telling the truth that he is clean. But does it?

Roger Clemens and his attorney defend the pitcher's reputation.

"I'll go to jail, I'll do whatever you want," McNamee said.

"I need somebody to tell the truth," Roger Clemens said, yet without actually asking why McNamee said what he did, or urging him to recant it.

Also noteworthy: McNamee never said he lied when he told baseball investigator George Mitchell that he injected Clemens with steroids several times from 1998-2001. This information was published in the Mitchell Report.

"I'm in your corner," Brian McNamee said. "I'd also like not to go to jail."

Clemens filed suit against McNamee for defamation of character on Monday. Both will testify before Congress later this month. Here's the first part or Roger Clemens' press conference, before the McNamee was played...

Amy Winehouse's jailed husband, Blake Fielder-Civil, is not happy with his bride right now. While he sits in jail awaiting trial for assault and witness tampering, Amy fled to the Caribbean - with her ex-boyfriend!

According to the UK's Daily Mail, Amy Winehouse spent her holiday with George Roberts (seen with Amy in the file photo below). Blake Fielder-Civil is livid - and not just from heroin withdrawal. He wants an explanation.

A Daily Mail source says: "He is furious she was with George Roberts while he was locked up. She lapped up the sun while he's been on his own feeling miserable. He doesn't like her friendship with George as it is. Being in jail, he feels detached from Amy. He also wants an explanation, but he's desperate not to lose her."

Amy Winehouse and ex George Roberts - seen here in an older photo - recently reconnected and vacationed together in the Caribbean. Her husband? Not happy.

During Amy Winehouse's last prison visit with Blake Fielder-Civil, she told him she wanted a baby - which she feels that a baby will bring them together and help them focus on something positive. God help us all.

Regardless, sources say Amy Winehouse loved spending time with George Roberts and he helped "take her mind off of her troubles."

We can only imagine.

Says the Daily Mail informant: "The truth is, Amy and George have been having a blast. They used to date and had a very passionate love affair. They are still very close... Amy wouldn't have invited him otherwise."

In this day and age, you're just not "Hollywood" if you don't have fake hair (and a DUI conviction). Well, the newly 21-year-old Kristin Cavallari and Amanda Bynes have not gotten popped for DUI (that we know of), but both of these cuties have got some hair extensions all right! Nope, those blonde blocks aren't all real.

Doesn't mean they're not attractive, of course. Or are they? Tell us, who do you think is hotter, hair extensions and all - Amanda Bynes or Kristin Cavallari?

Somewhere, Heidi Montag is already thinking of when she can fit hair extensions into her busy schedule of staging bikini pics and talking $h!t about LC.

Philadelphia news reporter and anchor, Alycia Lane, has apparently broken one too many news stories. Involving herself, that is.

Lane, who was arrested in New York in November after allegedly slapping a female cop and calling her a "f*%king dyke b!tch" in a traffic spat, got the boot from Philly's CBS 3 yesterday afternoon, reports the station.

In a statement on the matter, CBS 3 President and GM Michael Colleran said, "We have concluded that it would be impossible for Alycia to continue to report the news as she, herself, has become the focus of so many news stories."

Alycia Lane gained notoriety last year for sending bikini photos of herself to NFL Network anchor Rich Eisen - except his wife, Suzy Shuster, found them in e-mail first. Whoops!

This before Alycia Lane and boyfriend Chris Booker slapped a cop and made gay slurs. That was apparently quite enough for her employer. Lane's Attorney, Paul Rosen issued the following statement on her behalf:

We have learned today that KYW-TV (Channel 3) has unilaterally terminated Alycia Lane's employment. The conduct of KYW-TV is contrary to the terms of her Employment Contract which has many additional years remaining. The termination comes at a time when there has been absolutely no determination that Alycia is guilty of any wrongful conduct, and after KYW-TV has aired her categorical denial of the alleged charge that is pending against her.

The termination is unfair because Alycia Lane has never had an opportunity to defend against this charge, and tell her side of the story publicly, before KYW-TV has taken this unusual and unwarranted step to terminate her employment. Obviously, on the advice of counsel, Alycia cannot talk about these matters because of the matter that is pending in New York.

Expectant mom Jamie Lynn Spears attends a test preparation class with mom Lynne Spears at the Tangipahoa Parish School System Adult Education Center in Hammond, La., on Friday. Way to further that education, Jamie Lynn!

The 16-year-old knocked up Nickelodeon star was seen carrying out a GED study guide, used to study for one's high school equivalency degree. Guess with Zoey 101 about to get the axe, you gotta have that degree to fall back on!

Jamie Lynn Spears studies for the GED. That means Good Enough Diploma.

Jamie Lynn Spears announced less than a month ago that she is pregnant with her first child. The father is longtime boyfriend Casey Aldridge.

While Hillary Clinton cries over her failed presidential run, her husband is crying foul over how unfair politics can be.

Bill Clinton was forced to receive oral sex from Monica Lewinsky... while French President Nikolas Sarkozy gets to fondle Carla Bruni nude every night?

Damn those frogs.

Like another hot, new couple - Hayden Panettiere and Milo Ventimiglia - Carla Bruni and Nikolas Sarkozy have taken their relationship public. This holding of hands is proof.