Out to prove that there's no major drama brewing backstage, Hugh Hefner and his three girlfriends, Holly Madison, Bridget Marquardt, and Kendra Wilkinson, return tonight for yet another season of The Girls Next Door. Tonight's season 5 opener sheds light on none other than the Playboy mogul's 82nd birthday.
Read on for a preview of tonight's Girls Next Door episode.
Holly Madison, Bridget Marquardt, and Kendra Wilkinson head out to Las Vegas for the very special celebration of Hefner's 82nd birthday at the Playboy Club in the Palms Casino Hotel. Among fans and guests present at the bash was former Baywatch star Pamela Anderson, who surprised Hefner with a cake that features his three girlfriends and a lap dance, which she performed in nothing but a pair of high heels.
Of course, the stars of The Girls Next Door also have something up their sleeves. In fact, their birthday gift comes in the form of chocolate-dipped body parts, which they designed themselves.
"We gave him chocolate body parts," Kendra said at the time. "We molded our body parts and gave it to him, and he ate them all."
"I molded my ass, so I could call it 'chocolate starfish.' It was white chocolate, and I put a dark chocolate little thing in the middle. You'll see it on the show coming up," she added.
In addition to Hefner's birthday, the new season will reportedly feature trips to New York, Mardi Gras at New Orleans and snowboarding with Barbi Benton in Aspen, the search for the 55th anniversary Playmate, and Bridget Marquardt's adventures in making a horror movie. On top of that, fans can expect Hugh Hefner's girlfriends to engage in some under the water activities.
Don't forget to catch the fifth season premiere of The Girls Next Door tonight at 10pm on E!
KIM Kardashian says people are surprised by how skinny she is in real life.
The Dancing With the Stars competitor -- who is currently dating American football player Reggie Bush -- insists her famously large behind makes fans think she is curvy all over.
She said, "I look a lot bigger on TV. When I meet people, the first thing they say is, 'Wow, you're so much smaller than I thought'. I look about 15 lbs heavier. I'm only 115 lbs, and everyone thinks I'm like 130 or 140. It's bizarre. I'm a US size 2!"
Kim, 27, also said she hopes appearing on DWTS will help her tone up.
She added, "I'm going to probably have kids soon, so I want to have the perfect body before then.
"I've lost a few pounds - nothing too crazy yet, but I heard you really start to lose weight when the show starts."
However, the former Keeping Up with the Kardashians star admits she is not expecting to lose a drastic amount of weight, because she could never entirely curb her junk food cravings.
She said, "I know that I'm not a stick-skinny girl, and I don't want to be or try to be. And I love to eat. Cooking is a big part of my life. "When you're putting that much time into perfecting something, you don't want to just eat a cheeseburger. I've been eating better."
It looks like Lindsay Lohan might be about to become the lastest celebrity to lose everything.
The actress has allegedly been caught snorting cocaine, drinking heavily and with suspect cuts on her arms.
A source told Star magazine: "Lindsay has a very addictive personality, and her drugs of choice are cocaine and prescription pills.
"She has different dealers in LA and New York. Half the problem is that nobody says no to Lindsay."
It is not known what her girlfriend Samantha Ronson thinks about the situation. It is thought she is trying to support the actress and rumour has it she puts Lindsay to bed when she gets too drunk to walk.
The source believes that Lindsay might have harmed herself shortly before the MTV VMA Awards because she saw Samantha talking to another girl.
They explained: "Lindsay threw a tantrum and wanted to fight a girl who was talking to Sam.
"Lindsay has locked herself in the bathroom and cut herself in the past. Sam is aware of this and has hidden razors from Lindsay."
Should we believe the rumours? Only time will tell...
One of the first responders to a fiery South Carolina plane crash said Wednesday that a pair of musicians escaped the flaming wreckage by sliding down the wing.
"They said the plane went down. They didn't say how or if they knew," said Lt. Jason Shumpert of the South Congaree Police Department. "Once it went down, they were able to slide down the wing of the plane, and they jumped on each other to put fires on each other out and rolled around on the ground."
Shumpert said he didn't know until later that the two badly burned men were former Blink-182 drummer Travis Barker and celebrity disc jockey DJ AM, whose real name is Adam Goldstein. One of their doctors at a Georgia burn hospital said he expects them to fully recover from their second- and third-degree burns.
A video of the Friday night crash scene shot from Shumpert's police car shows an inferno next to the road, with screams ringing out above the din of sirens of ambulances and fire trucks. Shumpert said the screaming voice belonged to Barker, who was trembling and seemed to be in intense pain as he sat on the sidewalk, waiting for medical help to arrive.
"Travis, you could tell he was in pain," Shumpert said. "He just kept saying: 'That's my friends in the plane, that's my friends in the plane.'"
Pilot Sarah Lemmon, 31, of Anaheim Hills, Calif., and co-pilot James Bland, 52, of Carlsbad, Calif., died of smoke inhalation and burns within minutes of the crash. A South Carolina coroner has said Chris Baker, 29, of Studio City, Calif., and Charles Still, 25, of Los Angeles, close friends of the musicians, died on impact.
Barker, 32, was one of the more colorful members of the multiplatinum-selling punk rock band Blink-182. DJ AM is a popular DJ who was also a tabloid favorite for some celebrity romances.
Officials with the National Transportation Safety Board have not said what caused the crash. A cockpit voice recorder revealed that crew members thought a tire blew and tried to abort the takeoff. The Learjet shot off the end of the runway, ripped through a fence and crossed a highway before coming to rest, engulfed in flames.
NTSB officials, who have recovered pieces of tire from the runway, planned to return to Washington on Thursday. Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co., which made the tires, has said it is cooperating with the investigation.
A spokesman for a clothing company Barker owns said Tuesday the drummer had been through several surgeries and was trying to keep an upbeat attitude. Regardless of what caused the crash, Shumpert said both men are lucky to be alive.
"It was divine intervention that they got out," he said. "They should be commended for being able to get out and keep their heads together."
Charlize Theron has confessed that she had a drink backstage before appearing on NBC's "Tonight Show with Jay Leno".
n fact, Leno, even arranged for a fresh margarita on stage for the stunning star when she sat down.
In a bid to promote her new film, " The Battle in Seattle ", the actress looked stunning on the show.
Leno and Charlize have had some good-natured fun experiences in the past. "You should be loose when you come out here," the New York Daily News quoted Leno, as saying.
On this, Charlize giggled and said that she and Leno had a tradition. "We're very original - we just get drunk," she said and offered him a sip of her margarita. I had some Ecstasy a minute ago. What do you like to do when you get a little loopie," he said.
"Apparently, I like to come on your show," said Charlize.
Later, Leno coaxed her into performing karaoke and then after a break, the duo finally got on to talking about the ‘ The Battle in Seattle’ , which she made with her long-time boyfriend Stuart Townsend.
"I'm here to tell you that the casting couch is alive and well," she joked of the struggle to get in the film.
Statement to the New York Post's Page Six, Lindsay Lohan excoriates her father.
"My father obviously needs to be on medication to control his moods. He is out of line...It's dangerous and scary as it reminds me of how he treated my mother and I my whole childhood. He needs to be stopped. This is yet another reason why we aren't speaking.
"I am in a great place in life. I have overcome a lot and have been able to learn how to enjoy and appreciate my life in every way possible...
"Samantha is not evil, I care for her very much and she's a wonderful girl. She loves me, as I do her."
The former teenage drama queen seemed to announce earlier this week that she and perpetual sidekick Samantha Ronson are dating and have been for "a very long time"—comments that produced a collective shrug from the tabloid-reading masses, who've suspected as much, and a big thumbs-down from her daddy dearest, Michael.
In an impromptu call to Dr. Drew's syndicated radio chat show, Loveline, on Monday, the 22-year-old actress was interrogated by cohost Ted Stryker.
"You guys, you and Samantha, have been going out for how long now?" asked Stryker. "Like two years, one year, five months, two months?"
"For a very long time," Lohan replied with a laugh.
The supposed confirmation occurred after Ronson talked to the Loveline crew during a brief break from spinning at TV Guide's Emmy afterparty. Ronson was offering her sympathies to pals DJ AM and Travis Barker, who were severely injured in a horrific plane crash on Saturday in South Carolina.
Ronson then handed the phone to Lohan.
Lohan's publicist, Leslie Sloane Zelnik, says that despite reports to the contrary, the Mean Girls star and the DJ are not engaged and had no plans to tie the knot.
But Michael Lohan didn't seem ready to accept any kind of relationship. Phoning the Yo on E! radio show, the elder Lohan offered his own spin. He said he didn't believe Lindsay actually fessed up to being romantically involved with Ronson during the call.
"They kind of asked her if she was dating [Samantha], and Lindsay eluded that question. Then [Stryker] led into another one and kind of tricked her into saying 'a long time,' " Michael said.
"Lindsay didn't call in, Samantha called in. She put her up to it, as far as I'm concerned," he added.
Ouch.
Admitting his open hostility toward Ronson, Michael said he wished for five minutes alone with the DJ to give her a piece of his mind.
"Samantha, if you really love her, love her like a friend and let her get back on her feet, and let her pursue the things in life that are really heartfelt," he mused. "And don't keep her from her family."
Michael Lohan said he feels Ronson has a dangerous hold on his daughter and tries to keep him at bay because he can "see right through her."
"You don't hear about the phone calls I get at four o'clock in the morning where [Lindsay is] crying to me on the phone, and Samantha in the background saying 'Get off the phone with your father,' " he said.
Lindsay Lohan's newly confirmed girlfriend is to blame for her personal and professional problems, her father Michael Lohan says.
Michael, in an e-mail to Pop Tarts, wrote that he has reason to believe that recent blog posts condemning him on his daughter's Web site were actually written by celeb DJ Samantha Ronson, even though they were said to have been written by Lindsay.
Michael also said he was in deep conversation on the phone with his daughter recently and heard Sam in the background enticing her to hang up.
Last week, Lindsay hit back at "Girls Gone Wild" founder Joe Francis over his comment that Ronson was "controlling" Lohan. Michael Lohan and Francis both have said that they don't believe Lindsay is gay.
Michael says Joe is a "good person" who cares deeply about Lindsay.
"He wasn't a bad guy when he flew Lindsay around on his jet, opened the doors to his home or tried to help, was he?" Michael said. "Of course not, because SaMANtha wasn't around."
Lohan said his baby girl could do much better when it comes to finding a lover.
"There is a lot more to Samantha then meets the eyes, not that what we see is too pleasing anyway! I mean, what's with this ... "person"??? Look at the way she "dresses"? Once more, she uses her middle finger more than she uses words! Personally, I think she is dark, hideous and a disgusting representation of humanity," Lohan wrote.
"God will weed her out of Lindsay's life and at that time, you will finally see Lindsay back in the place where she belongs," he continued. "Not doing independent films, guest starring on [a] TV show, being a guest judge on a reality TV show or making appearances at Samantha's DJ gigs. Is this the Lindsay we all knew and loved before Samantha came into her life? No!!! When she got out of Cirque Lodge everything looked good until Samantha came on the 'scene.'"
Although Dina Lohan, Lindsay's mother, publicly praises Samantha, Michael said that privately, his ex-wife certainly does not. He said Dina called him two weeks ago to say Lindsay was very upset as Ronson was threatening to write a tell-all book about their private life. (Michael claims to have the conversation on tape.) Dina could not be reached for comment.
But the one thing everyone wants to know is why Michael continues to talk about Lindsay's personal business.
"Lindsay is my daughter. I am her father first and not a friend or an enabler," he responded. "After the death of my dad, (her grandfather) and all the things I continue to hear and see, I am compelled to speak out. The Lindsay I knew never would have missed his wake or funeral. But since being around Samantha, she has become a different person.
"If Samantha or 'anyone' wants to blog me or has anything to say, let them, to my face. Otherwise, if they want to be the sneaky, lying, parasites they are, I am ready to really spill the beans, and I won't stop until this dark, evil nemesis is out of Lindsay's life."
Reps for Ronson and Lindsay did not respond for comment.
Meanwhile, on Monday night, the duo offered what seemed to be the first public confession that they are lovers. Loveline radio host Ted Stryker asked how long they've been together, and Lindsay responded, "A long, long time."
The team behind David Blaine’s 60-hour upside-down stunt at Wollman Rink this week is the same team that helped Spider-Man soar through New York City in the recent movies.
Randy Beckman, an 18-year veteran of film stunts, runs a 40-person company based in Valencia, Calif., and is part of David Blaine’s “flying team.” (Mr. Blaine started hanging upside down on Monday morning at 8 a.m. in Central Park’s Wollman Rink, and he will end it with a “dive of death” at 10:45 p.m. on Wednesday on a live ABC television show that starts at 9 p.m.)
Among the stunts Mr. Beckman has coordinated is a 250-plunge from a building in SoHo for “Spider-Man 2,” during which the superhero reclaims his powers. For the plunge, the camera and the stunt man were mounted on separate rigs that were computerized to move in sync.
“Before we would go 10 feet a second, and now with the computer, we can go 43 feet a second,” Mr. Beckman said.
When they did everything by hand, they had to slow down the filming speed so it would be real time when it was shown on the screen. They are suspended using tech-12 cord, a Kevlar-based fiber commonly used for stunts.
Mr. Beckman’s projects, which generally have six-figure price tags, often take a day to set up. To help promote the “Spider-Man 2″ DVD in November 2004, Mr. Beckman was called upon to help the “Spider-Man” stunt man Chris Daniels ring the opening bell of the New York Stock Exchange.
“We had to rig up in the attic of the New York Stock Exchange,” Mr. Beckman said. “Before the bell, we took him up, clipped him upside down.”
They then had Spider-Man swoop down to ring the bell, flanked by Sony executives. Mr. Beckman said, “They rung it as he was upside down, coming down.”
It was, he believes, the first time in the 212-year history of the stock exchange that anyone had rung the bell upside down.
A South Carolina coroner investigating the weekend jet crash that took the lives of four and left Travis Barker and DJ AM in critical condition cites smoke inhalation and burns as the causes of death for the pilot and co-pilot, and impact-related injuries for the two other passengers.
"All we need now are results of the toxicology reports from the pilots," Lexington County Deputy Coroner Brian Setree, tells PEOPLE. "I don't anticipate anything there, but we will know for sure in about a week."
Killed as the Learjet 60 took off from Columbia, S.C., around midnight Friday were pilot Sarah Lemmon and co-pilot James Bland, along with passengers Chris Baker and Charles Still, who worked for the musicians. Memorial funds to assist family survivors have been established for Chris Baker and Charles Still. Contributions may be sent to the respective funds at the following address:
Jennifer Garner is taking a break from Hollywood this weekend with a trip home to Charleston, West Virginia — and taking time to remember her childhood dreams.
“This is about as far from Hollywood as any place on Earth. I wanted to be a children’s book author and a librarian,” she told People of her youthful aspirations.
“My mom took my sisters and me to the library once a week when we were kids,” she continued. “And it’s such a huge community center, especially in a town that has very few resources — to have a place with 100 computers and Internet access to everyone for free, that’s really important in a town like this.”
Former Blink-182 drummer Travis Barker and Adam Goldstein, known as celebrity DJ AM, were critically injured in a fiery Learjet crash in South Carolina that killed four Southern Californians, including Barker's bodyguard and his personal assistant, authorities said.
The pilot, Sarah Lemmon of Anaheim Hills, and copilot, James Bland of Carlsbad, were also killed, according to the Lexington County coroner.
The Learjet was taking off shortly before midnight Friday with six people aboard, when air traffic controllers saw sparks. The plane, which was en route to Van Nuys Airport, veered off the end of the runway, rolled through a fence and crashed on a nearby road, said Federal Aviation Administration spokeswoman Kathleen Bergen. Barker and Goldstein were in critical condition at a burn center in Augusta, Ga., about 75 miles southwest of Columbia, hospital spokeswoman Beth Frits said.
Chris Baker, 29, of Studio City, and Charles Still, 25, of Los Angeles -- both members of Baker's entourage -- were among the dead.
According to music industry sources, Charles "Shea" Still was a longtime friend of Barker's and would sometimes work as a bodyguard when the star drummer performed in small shows. Barker and Goldstein had performed together under the name TRVSDJ-AM at a free concert in Columbia on Friday night.
Baker, nicknamed "Little Chris," worked as a personal assistant to Barker and had appeared sometimes on the MTV show "Meet the Barkers" the MTV domestic-life reality show that aired in 2005 and 2006.
Michael Creger, a friend of Still, said the bodyguard's family was reeling from the news. They were upset, too, that early media reports of the accident focused on the injured Barker instead of the dead passengers.
Creger said that Still's family had thought the group in South Carolina would be returning home on a commercial flight, but that travel plans changed. Creger said the brawny, athletic Still was "a gentle giant" who had aspired to a pro baseball career before finding a different career path with his backstage work. He was "huge music fan" who, with his tattoos and stature, was an imposing figure to strangers. His friends, however, knew him to be more like the tattoo across his torso: "Mama's Boy," Creger said.
"His mother in Riverside is just devastated by this because Shea's dad died not long ago also," Creger said.
At the crash site today, the air was still heavy with the odor of jet fuel. A trail of black soot led off a runway, across a five-lane road next to the airport and up an embankment. The nose of the aircraft was gone and the roof was missing from two-thirds of the charred plane.
An investigative team from the National Transportation Safety Board has been dispatched to South Carolina.
"It's absolutely terrible and tragic," Columbia Mayor Bob Coble said.
Got confirmation on Global Executive Aviation as the aircraft operator. Based out of Long Beach.
The plane is owned by Global Exec Aviation, a Long Beach-based charter company, and was certified to operate last year, an NTSB official said.
Mark Shater, spokesman for the charter company, declined to comment on the crash or the pilots. He said Global is sending a management team to South Carolina to cooperate with the FAA and the NTSB.
Barker and Goldstein's Friday show, which included performances by former Jane's Addiction singer Perry Ferrell and singer Gavin DeGraw, drew 10,000 people into the streets of Five Points, the neighborhood near the University of South Carolina, Coble said.
Neither Ferrell nor DeGraw was on the plane, their representatives told AP on Saturday.
Barker is one of the more famous faces to rise up in the Southern California pop-punk scene and, unlike many drummers who are fairly anonymous figures at the rear of the stage, he parlayed his popularity into television roles, advertising appearances and varied business ventures.
The 33-year-old Fontana native came to fame as the drummer in the platinum-selling San Diego County band Blink-182, one of the top U.S. bands at the beginning of this decade.
After Blink broke up, Barker went on to play with other rock bands such as +44, the Transplants and Box Car Racer, but he also established himself a musical chameleon, working with hip-hop acts such as Busta Rhymes, the Game, the Black Eyed Peas and the Oscar-winning group Three 6 Mafia.
Barker and then-wife Shanna Moakler, a former Miss USA, were in front of the cameras along with their three children for "Meet the Barkers," the MTV domestic-life reality show that aired in 2005 and part of 2006. The rock star also appeared in the 1999 hit film "American Pie, and his television appearances include "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation," "The Simpsons," "MAD TV" and "MTV Cribs."
The tattoo-covered Barker, who often pops up in the gossip pages for his liaisons with celebrities, among them Paris Hilton, was also the subject of a popular 2006 Boost Mobile television commercial that has been viewed more than 800,000 times on YouTube.
Nine years ago, he launched a clothing line called Famous Stars and Straps, which opened a flagship store called the Fast Life near the intersection of 3rd and Crescent Heights. Some fans were stopping by Saturday to ask about the condition of the star, his associates and the crew.
Barker performed at the 2008 MTV Video Music Awards with Goldstein, who goes by the stage moniker DJ AM. Goldstein was formerly in the band "Crazy Town" but today may be best known for his romances -- he was engaged for a time to "The Simple Life" star Nicole Richie and also had relationships with singer Mandy Moore and Canadian model Jessica Stam.
He is also the owner of popular Hollywood nightclub LAX, which has been a major spot in the celebrity circuit since its opening in 2005.
Things have been going really well for Katie Holmes since Thursday night’s opening preview performance of her Broadway show “All My Sons.” And after last night’s show, she and husband Tom Cruise celebrated with a dinner date.
The “Top Gun” stud and his “Mad Money” wife enjoyed a delicious meal at the celebrity-popular Nobu restaurant in Manhattan, holding hands and smiling the whole time.
And Katie looked ‘80s chic in a navy blue top with matching navy blue high-waisted pants and shoes while Tom rocked a blazer/oxford shirt combo with jeans.
Holmes’ performance in “All My Sons” is getting rather good reviews, despite the messy Anti-Scientology protests that have been going on outside the Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre.
Battle in Seattle is the story of the 1999 WTO Protest that took place on the streets of Seattle. The movie was written and directed by Stuart Townsend. The official Battle in Seattle movie premiere date is September 19, 2008. This is the official movie trailer for Battle in Seattle. Battle in Seattle stars: Charlize Theron, Woody Harrelson, Andre Benjamin, Ray Liotta, Michelle Rodriguez, Jennifer Carpenter, Martin Henderson, and Channing Tatum.
Charlize Theron says it was great to be directed by boyfriend Stuart Townsend in their new film Battle in Seattle – except when it wasn't.
"No matter what I say, people think I am biased because I sleep with him," Theron joked with reporters in New York City Sept. 17. "It was great. He loved directing and I've never seen him so happy – which hurts my feelings as his girlfriend!"
Townsend, 35, Theron's boyfriend of seven years, makes his writing and directorial debut with the drama about the 1999 World Trade Organization meeting in Seattle and protesters who brought the city's streets to a standstill.
Theron, 33, says Townsend spent five years writing and preparing for his labor of love. "We would go on vacation to Fiji," she says, "and I would be like, 'Romance time!' But he would have a pile of research and I would be like, 'Oh my God, this is so not sexy!' But that passion paid off."
For the Irish actor turned director, working with his real-life leading lady was fun, and occasionally embarrassing. "She called me by my pet name a couple of times," Townsend says. "The crew then started to call me by my pet name and I said to them, 'That's not cool. I'm trying to be a serious director here.'" And what exactly is that pet name? "I can't tell you," says Townsend.
There were about 30 protesters shouting outside the Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre on Broadway at this week's preview of Arthur Miller's play, “All My Sons,” starring Tom Cruise's wife, Katie Holmes.
But no, they weren’t protesting her acting.
It was anti-Scientology demonstration, and the demonstrators shouted "Free Katie!" and carried banners that said, "Free Katie, Keep Tom.”
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One protester, who wouldn't give his name, told the New York Daily News: "We aren't protesting Katie. But Scientology is a cult and once you become a member you can't leave, and we've heard that Katie isn't able to leave because of Tom Cruise."
Wow. Poor Katie. Just what the girl needs on her big night on Broadway. Bet she’s thinking, "Darn you and your controversial religion. Spoil my night!"
Thankfully, the audience reaction to her performance seemed fairly positive.
Naturally, Tom Cruise called her performance, "extraordinary."
Andrew Morton, the author of that very controversial book, "Tom Cruise: An Unauthorized Biography," was in the audience.
He told InTouch, "'She handled the stage and moved very well. She was a little stiff at times, but she was up against some big Broadway stars.'
Good thing Tom didn't know Andrew was in the audience.
Will you go see Katie on Broadway? Or was "Mad Money" enough for you?
Photo: Katie Holmes and Suri Cruise in New York. WireImage
Trend-setting British actress Keira Knightley talks about playing the real-life 18th century trendsetter Georgiana Cavendish, the Duchess of Devonshire, in the stunning new period romance, "The Duchess."
The film, which opens today, also stars Charlotte Rampling as her mother and Ralph Fiennes as the philandering, controlling duke. Dominic Cooper, also in the video, portrays her lover, Charles Grey.
All this time, we thought the cult of celebrity was a modern invention. But the duchess' gowns, hair, accessories and jewels were all emulated by the ladies of her day, rather like Keira's are today.
The costumes, by MIchael O'Connor, are guaranteed to be Oscar-worthy.
So are those towering wigs! Turns out the wigs she had to wear in the film were so heavy that Keira had to have a board against which she could rest her head between takes.