Police chief says he didn't try to sell Parker-Broderick stuff

From the AP: An eastern Ohio police chief accused of breaking into the home of the surrogate mom for Sarah Jessica Parker's and Matthew Broderick's twins says he never discussed selling items from the home.

Suspended Martins Ferry Police Chief Barry Carpenter testified Friday at his trial on burglary and other charges, saying he went into the woman's home after he saw a basement door open while on routine patrol.

He says he took a photo of a surrogacy file that contained two ultrasound pictures and of a plaster cast of a pregnant stomach. He says he showed the photo of the cast to paparazzi and to several other people; The police chief of a neighboring town allegedly called the photogs.

How is that a defense of showing private property to paparazzi? Convicted or not, he should get a sentence of having people come to his house and rummage through his things.

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Carrie Prejean calls Larry King 'inappropriate' for asking her about why she's on his show

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.

U2's free Berlin concert blocked by a wall

U2 may be giving a free concert in Berlin to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall on Thursday, but that didn't keep them from putting up their own wall to keep out people who didn't score tickets. Hey, freedom isn't free, right?

MTV organized the concert in front of the Brandenburg Gate and issued about 10,000 tickets online for the show, but after those were snapped up in three hours they apparently hatched a plan to block everyone else's view, the AP says. 

"I thought it's a free show, but MTV probably wants people to watch it on TV to get their ratings up," said Louis-Pierre Boily, a native of Quebec City who was among the several hundred fans that crowded around the 12-foot metal fence. All they needed was some sledghammers and a misunderstood press release, and that fence would have come down.

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Alleged Ryan Seacrest Stalker arrested at E! office

A convicted criminal was arrested outside E! offices in L.A. after showing up with a knife and asking for Ryan Seacrest, TMZ reports. Was wanting to see Seacrest the first thing that tipped authorities off to the fact something was wrong?

Ryan was in the building when Chidi Uzomah was arrested Friday, but it's not the first time there's been a run-in with the alleged stalker. He was convicted of battery last month after assaulting a Seacrest security guard at a hospital in Orange County. He got three years probation and an order to stay away from Seacrest.

The site says the same guy showed up at the offices of KIIS FM in Burbank, trying to find Ryan as he was doing his nationally syndicated radio show. Fortunately, Seacrest does the show from his E! office. The media maven's attorneys are asking for Uzoman to be locked up because he poses a danger to the Seacrest. We think that's what they call escalating psychosis, so we'd have to agree.

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What's with Taylor Swift and that guy with the swastika?

While most of you are getting all moony eyed about Taylor Swift and Taylor Lautner, the less-than-happy gossip swirling around everyone's new favorite 19-year-old obsession is that she was hanging out with some knucklehead with a swastika painted on his shirt at Katy Perry's birthday party over the weekend. Gee, who could get upset about that?

The suddenly much-more-famous Swift and pal Julianne Hough joined Perry for Katy's 25th birthday bash, where Katy asked all her guests to smear themselves with fluorescent paint. One dandy young lad obliged by putting this symbol on his shirt. The alleged anti-Semite then posted the pic on b9board.com, playfully saying he was Taylor's new boyfriend.

The joke's on her, however, as the pic has now stampeded all over the INtArWEbz, with rumors flying that the "JH" on Swift's dress stands for "Jew Hater" and worse (never mind that Hough is the one who painted her, and had a "TS" on her own outfit). We're thinking this is more a case of stupidity on Taylor's part, who may simply not have noticed.

"Taylor took pictures with about 100 people that night," her rep tells TMZ. "She doesn't know who this guy is and she didn't realize what was on his shirt."

The original poster claims that he is Hindu, and that this is the version that is a good luck symbol in India. But really, this smacks of that Prince Harry fiasco a few years back, don't it?

[Photo: via b9board.com]

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Jon Gosselin wanted $12,000 to be on the MJ Morning Show

We know, we keep saying no more Jon Gosselin, but this one has a Tampa angle: Apparently 93.3 WFLZ's MJ Morning Show tried to get the Gozz on the air, but the deadbeat dad balked unless he got $12,000 for an hour of their time. Hey buddy, you need to pay us to listen to that crap.

MJ host Todd Schnitt and TMZ said Wednesday morning that Gosselin was offered two first-class round-trip plane tickets, limo service and decent hotel room, but Jon asked for an "appearance fee ... in the 10-12k range." Gosselin's talent rep, Matt Kirschner, defended the request by saying his "name and appearance on your show will instantly draw press ... and will be a high point for the show." Well, his not appearing has drawn the press, if only to ridicule the reality show staple.

On his show, Schnitt proffered that perhaps Gosselin needed the fee to help pay back the $180,000 he owes Kate. We say it's so he can buy more Ed Hardy t-shirts. Either way, it's certainly not to buy his kids ice cream. Can he even name all of them?

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'Big Brother' winner Adam Jasinski is a drug dealer

From the AP: Authorities say last year's winner of Big Brother has confessed to using his $500,000 prize to buy thousands of oxycodone pills and resell them. Not only that, but Adam Jasinski, of Delray Beach, has been charged with attempting to sell 2,000 pills in Massachusetts to a government witness.

Federal prosecutors said the 31-year-old was arrested Saturday after he flew to Boston and showed the witness two plastic bags filled with oxycodone pills. He apparently told a DEA agent that he has been reselling the pills along the East Coast for the past several months. He hasn't been anywhere near Rush Limbaugh, has he?

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Joe Francis swears the Jayde Nicole thing was self-defense

You knew Joe Francis was so classy that he'd have to respond to surveillance video of him apparently manhandling former Playboy Playmate of the Year Jayde Nicole at L.A. nightclub Guys and Dolls. And his response? Hey, I had to do that.

“The footage clearly shows Nicole instigating the incident, waiting to hit Francis in the back of the head and then pour her drink down his back, thereby committing two counts of battery on Francis,” Joe's lawyer Cyrus Nownejad said in a press release on RadarOnline. Cy also says that with no audio, you can't hear her say "I'm going to kill you." Like you can hear anything in a noisy club (watch it above).

“My client grabbed Nicole’s hair in self-defense to restrain her from further assaults against him and to protect himself against her horrendous threat," Francis' lawyer said. Horrendous threats? Like getting a shot glass of vodka poured on him? Does that really require grabbing a 117-pound model from behind and dragging her to the floor by her hair? We think not.

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Tina Fey's Palin to return; New 'Pirates' you should spurn; MJ's doc has no money to burn; Nick Nolte's son Brawley needs to learn

• Tina Fey told Harper’s Bazaar that it’s likely her Sarah Palin wig will have to “come out of the closet,” since the divisive former veep candidate has published an autobiography, Going Rogue. We can only hope a future Saturday Night Live skit will include a reference to Levi Johnston posing nude for Playgirl.

• The next Pirates of the Caribbean movie will be titled On Stranger Tides and will be adapted from an unrelated Tim Powers book about a pirate named Jack searching for the fountain of youth, Cinematical.com says. They should have Johnny Depp search for ways to make the movie less than four hours long.

• Michael Jackson’s beleaguered doctor, Conrad Murray, faces a possible arrest warrant for not paying $13,000 in child support to a California woman, the AP says. In this case, we can almost understand if it slipped his mind.

• Nick Nolte’s son Brawley King Nolte was arrested for DUI and possession in Santa Monica after hitting another vehicle during a lane change, TMZ reports. With Nick as a dad and a name like Brawley, that’s already two strikes against him.

Video shows Jayde Nicole was right about Joe Francis

Back on Aug. 28, Girls Gone Wild sleaze merchant Joe Francis was accused of grabbing former Playboy Playmate of the Year Jayde Nicole by her hair at a an L.A. bar and dragging her to the floor. He said it was in self-defense, she said it was because she poured a drink on him because he was trying to kiss her friend. Guess who the video says was right?

RadarOnline has video of the incident at Guys and Dolls, showing Dirtbag Joe responding to a nudge to the head and wet t-shirt by yanking Nicole down to the floor in a fit of rage, and you can watch it above. UPDATE: Radar told YouTube to take it down, so watch the video over here.

"It makes me absolutely cringe," Nicole told Radar about watching the video. Joe had previously said he was defending himself from an onslaught by Nicole and her boyfriend, Brody Jenner, and that hey, he was Mr. Innocent.

"This was not self defense by Mr. Francis," said Ronald Richards, Jayde's lawyer. But really, how much would a jackass like Francis need to do to defend himself against 5-foot-9, 117-pound Nicole? Clutch a fistful of hair and slam her to the ground like a true Hulkamaniac, apparently.

Gee, isn't it a good thing Joe threatened to sue Jayde for defamation? Otherwise we'd think this video showed a dangerously unbalanced rageaholic (and pathological liar) viciously abusing a woman in a public place.

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