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It's hard for journalists to reach the roving band of Somali pirates that's been capturing booty on the high seas, even though they have a PR person. A frustrated BBC journalist who couldn't get through to them via telephone ("They usually picked up the phone but put it down again when I said I was from the BBC") gave in to her kid's nagging and let her call the pirates. The number was "under P for pirates" in her phone, naturally. The kid got through, and the conversation went well:
"Hello. Please can I talk to the pirates," said my daughter in her obviously childish voice.
I could hear someone replying and a bizarre conversation ensued which eventually ended when my daughter collapsed in giggles.
This was a breakthrough. Dialogue had been established.
[BBC]
The Wind in the Willows —featuring the adventures of Mr. Frog and Mole, among others—has been entertaining kids since 1908. Its cover has gone through countless iterations, none of them quite as irksome as the cover of the 100th anniversary Vintage Classics edition, which they allowed a kid to draw. He was the winner of the cover contest! "It took me about an hour and a half to paint, quite a long time," young Harry Jones told London's Times. But it's all scribbly. Here, compare to Wind in the Willows covers from over the years:
At left is a picture the Times is running on A1 this morning, the day before Thanksgiving. It depicts a Florida mom showing off all the useless crap she was able to scrounge for daughter McKenna (!), like a fake plastic kitchen, thanks to a "noble sacrifice" this year: The mom will bravely go without this season's new designer jeans, according to the accompanying story. Notice that she seems to be nicely up-to-date with last season's pricey denim; that she is standing in a garage larger than many apartments; that it seems to be furnished with an operative extra refrigerator; and that discarded toys (from prior Christmases?) are plainly visible in plastic boxes in the background. This typifies sacrifice in America today? The coming depression is so going to eat the nation alive, and the world will laugh, because we deserve it.
In America, reports the Times, mothers (JUST like this one!) are cutting back on their all-important clothes-shopping trips (down a whopping 18 percent, jeepers!) and using "online tools to organize meetings with other mothers to swap clothing, toys, video games and books. Others are buying DVDs and video games in bulk from warehouse stores like BJ’s Wholesale Club, then taking the sets apart to create multiple gifts."
Sounds intense. What do mothers spend their time frantically worrying about elsewhere? Buying that Doodle Pro or Mortal Kombat disk in time for Ramadan or whatever? Not quite:
Her friend rushed over to help her, struggling to wipe the liquid away, when she too was showered with acid. She covered her face, crying out for help as they sprayed her again, trying to aim the acid into her face. The weapon was a water bottle containing battery acid; the result was at least one girl blinded and two others permanently disfigured. Their only crime was attending school.
It was not an isolated incident. For women and girls across Afghanistan, conditions are worsening — and those women who dare to publicly oppose the traditional order now live in fear for their lives.
Well, we can't save the whole world, and we'll probably have that whole Afghanistan situation fixed up in another decade or two. What about closer to home? Let's check in with South Carolina:
Capers searches for jobs and money while she endures living apart from her children. Her children call crying and asking to come home, and they sleep on the floor because her grandmother doesn't have enough beds. Last week, her youngest son told her he missed her so much that she managed to scrounge enough bus money so he could spend a night with her at home.
Oh, that sounds bad. Wonder why that wasn't the Times' cover story of sacrifice. Must be one of those clichéd "topics or angles the Times has already addressed" about the South. Even closer to home?Say, in New England?
Sarah Gloudemans rarely has a slow day. In a typical eight-hour shift as a supervisor at Wendy's, she'll take customer orders, wrap sandwiches, make change and generally fix whatever needs fixing. After work, Sarah might do some grocery shopping or laundry before picking up her 2-year-old daughter, Alizah, at day care and driving to their home in downtown Concord.
Home, in their case, is a shelter.
And it just gets even more horribly depressing from there. Really not the sort of thing to pump you up to stimulate our wretchedly dysfunctional economy this Black Friday by buying a bunch of useless junk with money you didn't save from sacrifices that don't hurt on credit cards you shouldn't have. So, really: Good call, Times.
(We are doomed, forever.)
(Thanks to tipster Megan for the pointers!)
(Photo: Charity Beck/Times)
Updated! So last weekend some rich kids went down in Cancun for something called the Summit Series (formerly known by the more assholeish moniker "the Young World Leaders Summit"). These entrepreneurs and executives networked or something, but clubbing and drinking aside they were obviously concerned about the dire state of the world. Specifically, they were concerned that clubbing and drinking in Cancun despite the dire state of the world might look bad! So they banned photographs during the "partying" bits of the event. A prankster told everyone he leaked a poolside photo to this very website and everyone got scared! But that turned out to be a joke. A happy ending! And so they all went cave-diving. The end. (Confidential to Caroline McCarthy and CNET editors: Gladwell's new self-help treatise is called Outliers. The Outsiders is an awesome S.E. Hinton book.) [CNET] Update: Hah, someone didn't like our use of that revealing boring photo!
We grabbed that picture of a Summit Series participant engaging in tug-o-war while the world burned from the personal blog of Summit Series organizer Elliot Bisnow. It is so explosive and revealing that we promptly received a takedown notice from the photographer, James "L." Duggan. Sorry, James!
(photo from WireImage)
Joe Jonas really cares about the way that he looks, that he dresses a mannequin in the clothes he plans on wearing the night beforehand according to Star Magazine.
An insider says Joe "is absolutely obsessed about what he wears and how it looks." So, every night he does a trial run with the next day's outfit, from head to toe.
"He even goes as far as putting his Ray-Bans on the fake Joe," says the source. "Joe's brothers think he's crazy, but planning his outfits on a mannequin saves him time in the morning!"
He needs a new mannequin because it really isn't helping his style. It might be better than his brothers, but that isn't saying much.
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Your Gmail sponsored link that will make you hate Democrats of the day: "Mama Voted For Obama." It's precisely the idiotic indoctrinating garbage you think it is, except for this awesome scene of cartoon Obama reenacting the My Pet Goat incident as, presumably, the nation burns. Good work, Mama. The terrorists won. [Little Democrats]

Being grown in Pamela Anderson’s womb has got to be a challenging thing. I don’t even want to know what’s going on in there. And then after what I’m guessing is a crazy nine months, you come out into the world and the first thing you see is Tommy Lee’s face. And then Pam’s. This is just in the first few minutes of your life, and you realize this shit is real and these are your parents. It’s going to be a bumpy ride.
If any two kids are going to have it rough, it’s Pam and Tommy’s two sons. And unfortunately the obvious has happened – they’re getting teased at school for their parents’ legendary sex tape.
Pamela Anderson says her wild past is starting to come back to haunt her and her children. The former Baywatch babe - who has two sons with ex-husband Tommy Lee - says her boys are being teased by their classmates over her colorful past and her sex tape shame with their father.
She says, “They’re starting to get to that age where they are defending mommy.
“Brandon was upset yesterday because some kids said some things at school. Kids can be so mean but I knew this would come.
“I just explained that we are good people and we’ve never done anything to hurt anyone. I just want them to enjoy school and enjoy life.
“They’ve seen a lot in their little lives but they’re great kids.”
[From Showbizspy via GossipRocks]
As easy as it is to make fun of Pam and Tommy, I feel really badly for their sons. Those kids haven’t done a thing wrong, but the teasing about the sex tape is just going to get worse the older they get. I’m sure there are perks to having rich and famous parents, but frankly I can’t imagine that any of those things would make up for the feelings I imagine a child would naturally have if they were mocked about their parents’ sex lives. I mean think of the shudders that overcome you when you imagine your own parents having sex. I had to stop and recover for a good five minutes after nearly falling ill just writing that sentence. But most of the time we can push those thoughts out of our minds – unless it’s on videotape for the whole school to see.
There’s certainly nothing Pam can do about the tape except make to have an open dialogue with her sons and be respectful and responsible towards their feelings. And never, ever keep a video camera in the house.
Here’ s Pamela with her unusual date while at London Fashion Week on September 18, 2008. I don’t get why her kids would be embarrassed by her. Images thanks to Bauer-Griffin.
Two whole years have hurried their way by since last we saw "scandalous" images of Rose Kennedy Schlossberg, daughter of Caroline Kennedy and granddaughter of John Fitzgerald. Back in 2006, our former sister site Wonkette posted wine 'n hookah partaking photos of the then-18, Obama-supporting Harvard student (hello, past Pareene!) Now, in the still of the afternoon, someone has sent us more photos, from sources unknown! In which the heiress to the great mantle of the American Democratic Party gets jiggy in various poses! Some are dated from two years ago, others are not dated at all. Cobble together your own timeline, as we've gone against Luke Russert's wishes and posted a gallery after the jump.
Oh, good: at the same time that parents nationwide find that their savings have evaporated, their children are becoming increasingly strident about harassing them to buy solar panels, hybrid cars, and organic produce. Not only that, but apparently our tax dollars are funding public schools that turn out an army of little Green giants ready to scream over watered lawns and plastic bags. You can almost see their parents smiling tightly through gritted teeth: "That's...good, very good." But as soon as a reporter calls, the adults are ready with an entire litany of annoying complaints:
“They’re on my case about getting a hybrid car. They want me to replace all the light bulbs in the house with energy-saving bulbs.”
Do they have jobs?
In Clinton Hill, Brooklyn, Jan Schmidt, a stay-at-home mother, and Mark Goetz, a professor of furniture design, have watched, amazed, as their 4-year-old son chastises them for letting the water run while they brush their teeth. “He’ll come over and turn it off and say, ‘Every day is Earth Day,’ ” Ms. Schmidt said. “He learned it at school.”
Ha, I bet she said that happily.
“They’ll say, ‘Mom, I thought we weren’t supposed to use plastic bags,’ ” she said.
Douglas and Alison Distefano, of Rumson, N.J., who have two children, dubbed their fifth grader, Olivia, “the recycling militant general.”
That's nice, sweetie.
Paul Wyckoff, a writer in Hunterdon County, N.J., said his 15-year-old son, Will, yells at him for “leaving the car idling for a few seconds in the driveway.” He has even taken to turning off nightlights to save energy.
“My philosophy is get the big stuff,” Mr. Wyckoff said. “I think he takes it too far. But I’m proud of him. I think he’ll moderate with age.”
Kids: shut up. You're turning your parents into Republicans. [NYT]

While their famous Moms were nowhere to be seen, we found Kingston Rossdale and Cruz Beckham hanging out at the Park in Beverly Hills. That's Cruz with the red helmet on, and that's Kingston-- without his shirt again. You probably already know that Kingston's Mom and Dad are Gwen Stefani and Gavin Rossdale. Cruz is David and Victoria Beckham's youngest son.
These guys are sure going to be a couple of heartbreakers in a few years!
I imagine that some unacknowledged rivalry exists between all the celebrity moms. There are competitions like, “who can wear the skankiest cougar heels to Whole Foods?” and “Who can look sexiest at the pumpkin patch?” And if any version of these competitions really does exist, then Victoria Beckham definitely won this weekend’s showdown, titled, “Who can look trampiest at the Build-A-Bear Workshop?”
The fashionista has once again defied gravity, this time on a shopping trip with her sons. The metallic platforms seemed innocent enough, but on closer inspection, Victoria made making her way through the shopping mall in a pair of dangerously thread-thin stilettos.
Unsurprisingly though, the ultra-skinny Spice Girl, who claims to be unable to concentrate in flat shoes, kept her balance. Perhaps it was the oversized handbag - and holding Cruz’s hand - that helped keep her steady.
And whereas most mums would be content to enter a toy store in a pair of jeans and trainers, the 34-year-old opted for a thigh-skimming bright orange shift dress and sunglasses for the Build-A-Bear workshop with sons Brooklyn, 9, Romeo, 6, Cruz, 3.
Clearly unable to walk up any stairs, the fashion designer wisely chose to use the lift instead but appeared to have some trouble fitting in with her large entourage and shopping bags.
[From the Daily Mail]
I’m genuinely surprised she didn’t topple over and smush Cruz in those shoes. Not that having 60 pounds of Spice Girl fall on you would probably hurt a kid much, even from the magnificent height those shoes provide.
I checked on Build-A-Bear’s website to see if they have any Spice Girls bears, and sadly they do not. The closest thing they have is a Hannah Montana bear – which is almost as awesome. In fact I started writing this article thinking I’d somehow mildly tease Posh for being dressed so… well however you want to put it – yet going to Build-A-Bear with her kids. But I got so distracted by the awesomeness of the Pumpkin Fun Kitty that I don’t even care in anymore.
Clearly Posh was on her way to do something else (strip club maybe?) and was lured in by the intriguing idea of stuffing her own Trekkin Turtle and all other plans for the day came to a screeching halt. Or the Pawsome Panda. I don’t care what kind of whorish outfit you’re wearing, if you’re smart and you’ve got cash, you drop everything for a panda.
Here’s the Beckham family at Westwood Pavilion yesterday. Images thanks to Fame.
Peaches Honeyblossom Michelle Charlotte Angel Vanessa Gedolf (her real name), NYC's latest teen-celebrity cokehead, is not doing so well in her glamorous media job. Imported from Britain, she's attending NYU (Olsen-twin style), and living in Williamsburg with her new musician husband. She "works" for It mag Nylon sometimes, but right now she's annoying MTV. She's Just Like Us: she's a pain in the ass at work and her bosses dislike her:
"MTV bosses have slammed the 19-year-old after collaborating with her on a new documentary in which she attempts to edit a magazine.
A senior executive was forced to heavily-edit the one-off programme after running the content by the production company’s co-founder - Bob Geldof... Heather Jones, MTV’s UK managing director for content and creativity, said no amount of editing could portray Peaches in a positive light."
Geldof's a bit like Helen of Troy: when she was, like, sixteen, Brit heroin-rocker Pete Doherty said that due to her pinching his ass before going on stage, he performed rather poorly at the Live 8 concert. With that in mind, who knows how much havoc she'll wreak in media. She must be fired before it's too late.

Jools Oliver on 9/22/08 with her daughters. Credit: WENN
British television chef Jamie Oliver and his wife, Jools, happily announced recently that they were expecting their third child. Jamie and Jools have two daughters, Poppy Honey, 6, and Daisy Boo, 5, and have been trying for a few years to have a third. Jools suffers from polycystic ovary syndrome and had to use IVF to conceive the couple’s first child. Daisy was conceived naturally, but Jools used fertility drug Clomid to conceive the newest one. And Jamie has made no secret that deep down, he wants a boy and will evidently go to great lengths to have one.
Jamie confessed that he wore a frozen nappy (diaper) to boost their chances of having a boy. Jamie said he’d heard that temperature could improve his and Jools’ chances of conceiving a boy.
He said: “I don’t know what sex it is yet. I know a lot of people say I keep talking about having a boy.
“And, well if I had a choice then it would be a boy - but I want to just make it clear that I’m happy whatever the big man gives me, as long as it’s healthy.”
He added: “I’ve tried quite a few things, I found out from a specialist that it’s about temperature, temperature of the balls.
“So what I did is I bought an adult nappy, soaked it in water, froze it, cut a hole for the c**k and we made love.”
It seems that Jamie probably didn’t intend to make this confession as he added on TV show Friday Night with Jonathan Ross: “I actually didn’t plan on having this conversation Jonathan.”
[From Babyrazzi]
Jamie Oliver speaking with Jonathan Ross… that would be an interesting interview.
Jamie was said to be looking into adoption if they didn’t have a boy this time, but Jamie says that while he doesn’t rule it out, there are no immediate plans. But the couple does admire the Jolie-Pitts and their family.
He said: ‘I did say I think it’s an incredible thing for people to do. I wouldn’t rule it out but I am not in talks or anything.’
The British kitchen guru started the rumour mill running this week by admiring Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie’s brood of adopted children.
Jamie, who has cooked for Jolie and Pitt, said: ‘If I can’t produce a boy I will have to adopt one. I would consider it.
‘Adoption is such a selfless act and they have a lovely family environment. It’s humbling and beautiful to see.
‘Jools would like to have another child but there are so many vulnerable orphans out there. Jools and I need to sit down and have a very serious conversation about it.’
[From Daily Mail]
Jamie and Jools have been together a long time, they met when they were 15 and have been married for eight years, and they want a big family. I wouldn’t be surprised, with the fertility issues they have, if we don’t hear about them adopting in the next couple years. Rumors fly about the state of their