February 2007 News Archive (Page 2)

Conan O'Brien let the stork out of the bag Monday night �" by congratulating Liev Schreiber for expecting a baby with Naomi Watts.

"Yes, I'm going to be a dad," Schreiber said in response to the announcement by the Late Night host. "Very exciting."

Before that, the couple had been officially mum on the subject. However, a publicist for the Escada fashion house, which designed Watts's Oscar gown, revealed the news Sunday in a press release.

It read, in part, "The ESCADA gown set off her most precious new asset �" the baby she is expecting with longtime boyfriend Liev Schreiber."

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At Paris Hilton's birthday bash on Saturday with her daughter, Frances.
Trying to look decent in Vogue Italia.

Katherine Heigl has dropped out of contract talks with Grey's Anatomy over salary, a well-placed source tells People.

"Katie is disappointed and hurt that (producer) Touchstone doesn't value her as much as her other costars, especially Sandra Oh and Isaiah Washington," the source says.

Heigl plays Dr. Isobel "Izzie" Stevenson on the ABC hit medical drama.

A rep for ABC Touchstone TV had no comment.

I'm on no one's side. Actually, I'm on Touchstone's side. Everyone needs to get along. Life isn't always fair. Sandra Oh won a golden globe, Isaiah Washington is much more famous. And Izzie's character gives nonsensical speeches to George, so I don't really like her. Pay the ho less.

Totally joking. Or not.

An urgent warning has been issued by the Health Department, warning the star-studded crowd who attended the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue party on Valentine's Day that they may have been exposed to acute hepatitis A.

 

The list of possibly exposed guests: Beyonce Knowles, Leonardo DiCaprio's girlfriend Bar Rafaeli, and dozens of other models.

The Los Angeles County Department of Public Health has strongly urged anyone who attended the SI party, or any of the 13 other events catered by Puck between Feb. 1 - 20, to get an immune globulin shot by tomorrow to prevent illness.

Puck's catering company would not tell tmz which other events Puck catered, nor would they reveal how many other people may have been exposed to the illness. No one who attended Sunday's Governor's Ball at the Academy Awards is at risk.

A rep for Beyonce said they "were looking into it."

 

The celebs will be fine, hopefully. I'm concerned bout the Wolfgang Puke employee. Hepatitis is real serious.

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Ads for The CW's Top Model 8, which debuts tomorrow night, have been removed from buses in Santa Monica.

"It's a matter of public taste. We try to be sensitive to the community," the city's director of transit services, Stephanie Negriff, told Variety.

The city received complaints not necessarily because of the photograph itself, but because, as Variety explains, "protests came from people concerned that the city was somehow endorsing a show that may objectify women."

Negriff said the city took down the ads and refunded The CW's money because "We wouldn't want to do anything that would disrespect women."

Of all the things to complain about?! I'm guessing some big girls were behind most of these complaints.

The Delta Zeta sorority used "fatism." This is some straight up "skinnyism." And I don't support either cause. I support "acceptism" aka acceptance, or just not talking shit to peoples' faces and, er, don't exclude big girls cuz, um... huh?

The Top Model ads are fine.

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Sources tell TMZ that Britney Spears isn't in rehab for substance abuse, but she's apparently suffering from post-partum depression.

Britney's doctors have two operating theories -- either that she suffers from post-partum depression or bipolar disorder. The doctors strongly believe post-partum is the problem.

TMZ is also claiming that we all know Britney likes to drink, but they believe her boozing is her way of dealing with her depression.

She's also reportedly reading Brooke Shields' post-partum depression book, "Down Came The Rain," where she talks about her post-partum depression battle that later spawned her "you should take vitamins" feud with Tom Cruise.

Britney is enrolled in a 30-day program at Malibu's Promises rehab facility.

I can only imagine how rough post-partum must be. You're supposed to be all happy when you make babies. I want her to get well, spill the beans on the crazy and stay outta Hollywood so she can live happily with her country folk.

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Oscar winner Jennifer Hudson may have walked away with gold, but according to the actress (and many critics), her red carpet style was anything but award-winning.

In a Today Show interview, the 25-year-old American Idol alum admitted to Matt Lauer on Tuesday that her outfit was her only Oscar regret - adding fuel to a Page Six report that Hudson was forced to wear the much-maligned metallic bolero jacket picked by her stylist, Vogue editor Andre Leon Tally.

"Jennifer was kind of sponsored by Talley and Vogue," snitches a Page Six source. "Andre insisted she wear that hideous Oscar de la Renta dress with the awful, awful gold python bolero.

"Jennifer really didn't want to, and so [noted celebrity stylist] Jessica Paster got her a beautiful gold Roberto Cavalli custom-made. But when Andre found out, he went ballistic. Moments before she left for the show, there was a power struggle and Jennifer ended up putting his outfit on."

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Or am I just trying to create a new word?
DePauw University's Delta Zeta sorority kicked out 23 of their overweight, fug sisters because they were "insufficently committed" to staying hot. OMG! We're like super really hot, and we can't have fat girls in our clique! Like, never!

From the NY Times:

Worried that a negative stereotype of the sorority was contributing to a decline in membership that had left its Greek-columned house here half empty, Delta Zeta's national officers interviewed 35 DePauw members in November, quizzing them about their dedication to recruitment.

They judged 23 of the women insufficiently committed and later told them to vacate the sorority house.

The 23 members included every woman who was overweight. They also included the only black, Korean and Vietnamese members.

The dozen students allowed to stay were slender and popular with fraternity men â€" conventionally pretty women the sorority hoped could attract new recruits. Six of the 12 were so infuriated they quit.

"Virtually everyone who didn't fit a certain sorority member archetype was told to leave," said Kate Holloway, a senior who withdrew from the chapter during its reorganization.

Anyone care to weigh in? Pun intended. Gawd, I hate puns.

Katie Holmes raised some eyebrows got shit talkers talkin' with her impeccable doormat/robot/stupid bitch behavior on the red carpet at the Vanity Fair Oscar party.

When TomKat arrived at the afterparty, Tom told his bitch to pose for a picture alone.

"Take a shot of her," he told photographers.But according to an onlooker, the 28-year-old actress refused to take a picture without him.

Tom Cruise then led his robot around by hand, pulling her back and forth while she remained silent and stupid.

Tom, being the gentleman that he is, greeted photographers but didn't introduce his mute ho, who said nothing and stood next to her master, waiting on him to finish his conversations.

He later asked her again to pose for a picture alone, and she finally agreed.

"She looks at him for direction," the witness tells Us.

This might sound dysfunctional to you, but I want me a Katie. No visible wires, please. Manual programming preferred.

So cute!

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