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Calvin Klein warned us that Eva Mendes' new "Body" jeans ads would be coming out in the fall and guess what? The leaves, they are a-changin'. The actress, whose advertisements for Obsession were restricted because she was naked in them, showed up in a Calvin Klein boutique in Milan, Italy, on Thursday to help sell the dungarees and show off her new campaign. She's really selling it, isn't she?
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John McKay, the Anchorage lawyer who negotiated the settlement for the Fairbanks paper and six other media outlets, said the fake online stories undermined the credibility of the news organizations. Universal created a series of fabricated online news articles to publicize the movie about a purported plague of alien abductions in Nome a decade ago (and yet nothing about the deadly vampire attacks from 30 Days of Night). The articles posted appeared to be from real Alaska publications.
The articles included a fake obituary and news story about the death of a character in the movie, Dr. William Tyler, that supposedly were from the News-Miner. The settlement also requires Universal to remove the fake news articles from the Internet. And that, ladies and gentlemen, explains the asterisk in The Juice* -- by now you've got to realize half of what we write can't possibly be true!
A contestant on ABC's hit reality/game show series Wipeout died last week after having a stroke while performing a stunt, TheWrap.com reports.
Tom Sparks, a 33-year-old former DJ and production team member on Jimmy Kimmel Live, complained about knee pain during an obstacle two weeks ago and was sent off when producers noticed he was short of breath. He was taken to an L.A. hospital and later Cedars Sinai, where he required several brain surgeries before doctors determined so much brain damage had occurred and he couldn't be saved. He died Nov. 5.
Sparks was competing on the show with his wife of two months, Kate. His father, Bill Sparks, said that his son suffered from antiphospholipid antibody syndrome (APS), a disease that causes unnatural clotting of the blood, TheWrap says. Although Sparks was in good health and passed a physical for the show, such a disease would not be detected by normal tests.
“We offer our heartfelt condolences to the family,” a joint statement from ABC and production company Endemol read. “This is a tragic loss and our thoughts are with them at this time.”
You knew it wouldn't take long for the Taylor Swift critics to come out of the woodwork after the 19-year-old won the CMA Awards' Entertainer of the Year prize Wednesday. Chief among the Taylor haters: Wynonna Judd, who thinks Swift didn't deserve the award.
"You want my honest comment? It’s too much too soon," the singer told USA Today before the show. "Time is God’s way of keeping everything from happening at once. It’s just too much of a good thing too soon."
But before you think the 45-year-old has just been eating sour grapes, she has a reason: "My thing is, being a home-school mom, I want kids to earn it, and I think some time ... 'cause mom and I rode in a car for the first year of our career to visit radio stations. There was a making of the star, there was a rising up, and the fans went with us. Now it’s over coffee breaks, the success, almost. You have to play catch up ... It's like the girl who wins an Oscar and she's under 20. What do you do from here?"
That makes some sense, but really, Taylor Swift is the only country artist with a song 95 percent of people who don't listen to country music can name, so yeah, that qualifies her right there.
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The strange saga of former Miss California Carrie Prejean took a turn for the surreal on Wednesday night's Larry King Live, with Prejean threatening to walk off the show because Larry dared to ask her about her settlement with the Miss California USA pageant. Even stranger, it turns out people really care what she says -- she was in Twitter's trending topics all day as the video clip of the interview (watch it above) went viral.
After a lengthy diatribe about how the "liberal media" unfairly attacks conservative women (Hillary Clinton, Michelle Obama and Nancy Pelosi probably have a response to that), King asked Prejean about why she dropped claims of libel, slander and religious discrimination in her suit against the pageant. Carrie said she couldn't say, thanks to a confidentiality agreement.
"Why settle when you had a fight to carry on? You can't even say why you settled?" King pressed.
"Larry, it's completely confidential and you're being inappropriate," Prejean answered.
In the ensuing argument, it becomes vaguely apparent that Carrie may not even understand what her confidentiality agreement entails, although smart Juice*heads know that the answer may be that the pageant's attorney revealed a solo sex tape Prejean made when she was only 17 years old -- although that, too, may be untrue, since she may have been 20 but wanted people to think she was 17 so it wouldn't get out. That's the rumor, anyway.
King gets passive aggressice, saying "Okay, Inappropriate King Live continues," and going to a caller who asks about gay marriage, during which Prejean removes her microphone and chats with someone offstage, sitting at her desk like a spoiled brat instead of getting up and walking out like a truly indignant person would.
"I think you are being extremely inappropriate right now, and I'm about to leave your show," Prejean tells King, later saying it was wrong of Larry to take phone calls. Has she never watched the show? And this begs the question, if she doesn't want to talk about the stuff that's making her famous, why exactly does she think she deserves to be on Larry King Live?
We'd also like to note when Larry came back from commercial, she hadn't gone anywhere. She has a book to promote, you know.
Leave it to those Swedish to make a commercial goofy enough for The Juice* to run it. This one is for ISP ComHem, which is usually represented by the characters Judit and Judit, the two women you see here recreating viral videos to celebrate the company's 10 years of providing Internet service. Just think of the videos the next 10 years will bring.
Thanks, Sirkel.
While celebrity medium Derek Acorah was busy pretending to contact Michael Jackson in a seance late last week -- the King of Pop was singing Heal the World when he started complaining that he wasn't buried near Marilyn Monroe -- the L.A. Times was busy parsing out the fact that MJ's funeral cost more than $1 million. So much for feeding starving orphans.
Records show Jackson's crypt at Forest Lawn cost his estate $590,000, the Times says. Security for the September event, including the luxury cars to ferry his family around, ran $30,000. Flowers cost $16,000 and the funeral planner earned a cool $15,000. The "funeral repast" at an Italian restaurant in Pasadena was so good, it fetched a $21,455 bill.
Jackson was well dressed, with funerary attire ringing in at $35,000. Invitations for "guests" like Elizabeth Taylor, Macaulay Culkin and Quincy Jones totaled a mind-boggling $11,716.
The records were released by a probate judge who appointed entertainment attorney John Branca and music exec John McClain as executors of MJ's estate. We're assuming that's because the family made such horrible financial decisions at the funeral.
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Let's steer away from tales that Josh Duhamel was cheating on wife Fergie, since we've found out that the Duchess is also one to enjoy a roll in the hay with another woman. We woulda never guessed it.
"I've had a lot of fun with women, and I'm not ashamed of it," she tells the Advocate. "But just because I enjoy women doesn't mean I'm allowed to have affairs in my relationship."
And what brought on this confessions? Professional help, of course.
"I learned through talking with my therapist that it is still cheating even if it's with girls, so there is a rule there," she says, noting that there's another thing keeping her from walking away: "The problem is that I also love a well-endowed man."
She doesn't understand why this confession on bisexuality is such a big deal, though. She says she's been honest with Josh "from the get-go" and it has been brought up before.
"Go back four or five years, people, and you'll see the same answer," she says.
But even with such a sordid past, don't plan on seeing a sex tape of Fergie with Josh or anyone else.
"No, that's not happening. We're too smart for that," she says. "We've done some filming but with no tape in the camera." Yeah, that's what Josh told her, anyway.
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Sad news for Celine Dion: Her husband, Rene Angelil, tells Canadian newspaper Journal de Montreal that her latest in vitro fertilization to have a second child is unsuccessful. She had announced the pregnancy back in August.
"We're living the reality of the majority of couples who face these procreation techniques," Angelil said, noting that she had undergone another treatment in October and is planning a third.
"The road can be long and difficult. It doesn't always work as was the case the first time with Rene-Charles," meaning their 8-year-old son, who was conceived via in vitro fertilization.
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Juice*heads know we're big fans of America's Next Top Model, so we were really surprised to hear that judge and runway diva Miss J Alexander (a.k.a. Alexander Jenkins) is a daddy. At least that boy will really know how to work it in heels.
Alexander explained on The Tyra Banks Show that he and his ex-boyfriend, whom he only identifies as Alex, were asked to help a woman get pregnant. The result is a 7-year-old boy named Boris.
"A French lesbian had asked if we would be sperm donors," Miss J said on the show (watch the clip above). "So we thought, 'Okay, you want me to do you?' And she was like, 'Oh, I'm not that talented.' So I said, 'Okay fine.' So we did a little test tube."
It took three tries, and the big mystery was whose sperm the woman actually used the third time (it's a charm, you know). Since the kid was light-skinned, Miss J knew he wasn't the dad.
"I said, 'Oh, Lord. Thank God. No child custody hearings — he's yours," he said. The model trainer said he is still active in the child's life, even though he and the biological father have broken up -- who else would he watch the CW with?
It must almost be time for the holidays, because what else could explain the heartwarming tale that Jon Voight has reconciled with freaky daughter Angelina Jolie? Well, besides peace on Earth and the end of world hunger, we mean.
"We're in touch, but not regularly," Voight told Us. "We love each other and that's the most important thing."
Okay, so it's not quite the breakthrough Hallmark reunion we had not cared about, but it's something. The 70-year-old hadn't spoken to his daughter since he went on Access Hollywood in 2001 and told her to get help for "serious mental problems" (that was around her brother-kissing, Billy Bob Thornton blood-wearing phase).
A family friend says "they met face-to-face back in February, and are again on speaking terms:"Angie made the initial contact," the source says. "Brad (Pitt) has been supportive -- a key factor in her reaching out."
Of course Brad pushed her to be nice -- they need all the babysitters they can get!
[Photo: Jon and Angie back in 2000. You forgot she was that weird, didn't you? Getty Images]
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This Teen Wolf spoof is about twice as long as it should be, but like life, you need to wait for the end.File this under freaky: Us is reporting today that Lindsay Lohan was dating actor Heath Ledger back in January 2008 at the time of his death.
The romance was a closely held secret, but was somehow discovered through a recorded phone call between her mother, Dina, and father/ex-husband Michael Lohan.
News of Ledger's death was devastating to Lindsay, her mom says."When she's drunk or takes an Adderall with it she will do something like Heath Ledger did in a second without thinking," she tells Michael Johan on the tape, according to Us.
It's not immediately known who released the tape of the phone conversation. Lindsay had recently criticized her father for leaking other tapes. "He's disgusting to do this," she wrote on Twitter. "It really hurts my mom for me and my siblings."
Jon Gosselin and the TLC have some major league issues. Already being sued by the cable network for breach of contract over his publicity stunts in the wake of the demise of his TV show, now the reality dad is counter-suing TLC for $5 million.
Gosselin "is likely to argue that TLC is preventing him from earning a living with a contract that is too restrictive," says Radar. TLC had originally been arguing that the father of eight violated his contract by taking money for unauthorized interviews and business deals. Rihanna has had her say on national TV for the last week or so. So now it's poor Chris Brown who gets his turn to spout off. And his message?
His former girlfriend just needs to clam up.
Way to show remorse, Chris.
According to the Sun in the UK, Brown has released a statement through his record company that reads:"While I respect Rihanna's right to discuss the specific events of February 8, I maintain my position that all of the details should remain a private matter between us."
By "events of February 8," we guess he means beating Rihanna until her face was swollen and bleeding. And by "a private matter," we suppose he's referring to himself, Rihanna and the criminal justice system that sentenced him to six months of community service, a year of counseling and another five years probation.
Stay classy, Chris.
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Robert Pattinson says fans -- and potential "lady friends" -- wanting to get a whiff of the Twlight and New Moon star might be in for a surprise.
He smells.
A biological disorder? No. An allergy to deodorant or cologne? Try again. It's because he rarely changes his clothes.
"These jeans are a few days old," Pattinson told UK's New! magazine during an interview, according to a report on Us. "But the top is probably fresh because it gets to the point where even I can't stand the air around me. I don't know, my personal hygiene – it's so disgusting!"
Uh, yeah. We're in consensus on that verdict, Edward! Just because your character is "undead" doesn't get you out of knowing how to work a washer and dryer.
Also, he blames his dysfunctional love life on his movie career.
"Acting ruined my seduction techniques because you start to think everything is a 'method,' " he says.
Personally, we think the stench is what ruins his seduction techniques.
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James Cameron's upcoming sci-fi epic Avatar has a pricetag of about $500 million, according to pieces in the L.A. Times and New York Times. Needless to say -- but that's what we do here -- that makes it the most expensive film ever made.
But it's not like the studio -- 20th Century Fox -- is footing the whole bill. (Because that would make them certifiably crazy and stupid.) Luckily, Cameron got some help along the way:
All for a movie that frankly doesn't have half the buzz of New Moon or even 2012. That's the real sign of the apocalypse.
Avatar is set for release on Dec. 18.
Want some happy celeb news? (Wrong blog then! Just kidding.) Actress Tiffani Theissen and hubby Brady Smith are expecting their first baby next May, People reports.
“We are over the moon!” the drama-free couple said in a statement. “It’s something we’ve wanted for a long time and we are thrilled that it’s actually happening.”
Theissen's best known for Saved By the Bell and the original Beverly Hills 90210. These days, she can be seen on USA’s drama White Collar. Theissen, 35, and Smith have been married since 2005.
Researchers at Duke University have allegedly captured images of former Beatles drummer Ringo Starr -- in a droplet of water on a lotus leaf. Click here to see this possible planet-changing phenomenon.
“Bizarrely, everybody’s favourite mop-topped Liverpudlian seems to reveal himself in the high-speed photo images of water-droplets being ejected from the leaf surface,” Dacey writes in his publication.
Of course, his discovery is not without the skepticism of some nay-sayers."There is some argument over whether the image is actually of George Harrison, rather than Ringo," the Telegraph reports.
The lesson to be learned in all this: Stay away from moonshine in North Carolina ... and the tea in London.
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