I Ain't One To Gossip, But ....

This is crazy, but then it’s Taylor Swift so … Swifty hates the paparazzi—or so she says—and so a story emerged a couple of years ago that Taylor was being carted around New York in a suitcase carried around by minions, so she could travel incog-Samsonite. But quicker than you could say Ego Gone Overboard, Swifty’s team made SPIN—authors of the original story—retract it.

Funny though, that now, boy bander Zayn Malik is saying the story as true. While talking about their collaboration on a song for one of those Fifty Shades movies, Zayn admitted that, ahem, “she was travelling around in a suitcase” as a way of avoiding paparazzi.

Cue diss track from Taylor about mean boy banders with big mouths in 5 … 4 … 3 … 2 … 1 …

And couldn’t someone just look a key to the luggage? Asking for a country.

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Is former Nashville star Hayden Panettiere being led astray by boyfriend Brian Hickerson?

Her friends think so, saying the actress is partying harder than Lindsay Lohan on a Tuesday afternoon and wondering about the time the police were called to a domestic disturbance involving Hayden, Brian, and Brian’s dad in South Carolina where an ALLEGEDLY Lohan-style liquored up Hayden let the cops in to find Brian ALLEGEDLY beating his dad with a Gatorade bottle. With David bleeding and bruised, police put the cuffs on Brain until Daddy said he’d just fallen down.

In addition, friends say that since Hayden and Brian became the new budget Sid and Nancy, that Hayden’s ex-fiancé Wladimir Klitschko  ALLEGEDLY took their three-year-old daughter to his home in the Ukraine; they also ALLEGE that Brian steals Hayden’s credit card when she’s sleeping and goes on a spending spree.

Still, Brian Hickerson—who sounds like a daddy-beating-credit-card-stealing dreamboat—wants y’all to know:

“Just to be clear, Hayden’s friends and family are not worried about her at all. Hayden is happy and healthy and so is our relationship. That is all I will comment on so please respect my privacy. Have a great day.”

Sounds nice, until you realize that Brian Hickerson is being sued by his credit card company because he owes them $13,000.

The question is, though, how much does he owe on Hayden’s?

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Snoop Dogg wrote a play! Who knew? But this isn’t about Snoop and his play, Redemption of a Dogg, it’s about one of his co-stars, the diva known as Tamar Braxton, who plays his guiding angel in the piece.

At a recent performance in Washington, DC, Tamar disappeared halfway through the show and another actress took her place for the second half.  After the show, the audience was told she left due to “an emergency” but apparently is was because Tamar got hungry during the play and no one had food for her.

The first sign that Tamar was going to be a no-show was the extra-long intermission and the fact that the comedian who opened the show  took to the stage to entertain the crowd during the nearly one-hour intermission. And then, when the show resumed, another actress was playing Braxton’s role.

The fact is that Tamar left because she had asked a friend to bring her a plate of food but didn’t tell security, so the friend was denied; and that’s when Tamar went off … literally … screaming about herself in the third person:

“She’s not here for this … You can do this damn show without her.”

Eventually Snoop tried to calm down the hongray Braxton but she ended up storming out of the building.

Clearly, hell hath no fury like Tamar Braxton being kept from a meal.

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Last year rumors swirled that the least talented Baldwin brother, Stephen, was having an affair with one Ruth Perez Anselmi.

Now, Baldwin denied the affair, but when he was confronted leaving Ruth’s LA apartment, he ALLEGEDLY “recoiled in horror and tried to escape” while shouting at the paparazzi:

“You’re out of your mind, brother.”

And the story might have died down, but then Ruth took her tale of tail to the Daily Mail, claiming she met Stephen two years ago when he came to get a “massage” at the school where she was in “training”. Ruth claims she didn’t know Baldwin—is that a such a stretch?—nor did she know he was married, and claims that during the, ahem, rub-down, he asked:

“Do you know who I am?”

And she said:

“I said, ‘No sir, I don’t care, remove your clothes and get on the table.’ I was thinking, who is this person? He is thinking he’s God.”

Stephen Baldwin? Oh, for the love of the Baby Jeebus. Then, Ruth says, Stephen repeatedly asked for her number and kept coming back until she finally gave it to him. Ruth says she and Stephen hooked up about once a month for a year-and-a-half; they texted … they FaceTimed … she sent him sexy pictures.

And Ruth was only too happy to share it all with the Daily Mail, even posing on the very bed where she and Stephen did the nasty. She says she really liked his anatomy and he was … and this is priceless … the second-best lover she’s ever had. But the thing that threatened their continued trysts? Donald ______. Baldwin is a MAGA man and Ruth was less than thrilled:

“I said, ‘If you like so much Donald _____, call Donald ______ and he can do massage for you.’”

While Stephen was photographed several times coming out of her apartment building, once Ruth appeared at the door in one of Stephen’s t-shirts, to announce that she had had a “Monika Lewinsky moment’ during sex”.

Dear Jeebus. This woman loves to talk, which is good, because rumor has it that Baldwin, a born-again Christian, might be in hiding for a while.

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Last week we learned that Lisa Vanderpump, my favorite Real Housewife of Beverly Hills, was leaving the show.

Now it appears, fingers crossed, that I misspoke because Lisa herself is talking—at her Vanderpump Dog Foundation Gala—and saying not to count her out:

“I haven’t said anything for two months. Now, everybody’s been talking about this. I’ve just been going about my business and doing my things. I am in the show. I have not quit, and if I did quit, it wouldn’t just be a leaked story. I would be upfront, and I have a lot of loyalty to the production company and the network.”

Lisa did admit it’s been a rough year; among the real, or imagined fights with her co-stars, her brother also passed away:

“[It] has been a difficult season … But it’s been a difficult year for me personally, and the season was very challenging. So I’m in a lot of it, but there are some parts I skip, and I think people have seen that.”

But, Lisa says, people need to pay less attention to those “housewives” and more attention to wildfire rescue and puppies.

All much more important, eh? And I am beyond Vanderpumped that she might be staying.

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Paris Hilton is giving her latest ex-fiancé–she’s a perpetual bride-in-waiting—some serious grief … or she’s playing the media for a little fame once more.

Paris and Chris Zylka broke up about a minute ago, and she is ALLEGEDLY keeping the $2 million engagement ring. And maybe she should keep it, because, by all appearances, she paid for it herself to make her boyfriend look good when he slipped it on one of her claws.

See, how does Chris Zylka, who is ALLEGEDLY worth $4 million plunk down exactly half his net worth on a ring for a nearly forty-year-old serial dating ingenue?

Right? Paris.Bought.The.Ring.And they’re still trying to sell it that he did.

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Martha Stewart took an Uber … and, oy, what a time she had!

Stewart took her first Uber ride last weekend after, she says, she ordered “the most expensive version” and it was clearly not Stewart worthy; she says:

“I ordered the most expensive version to pick me up on Fifth Avenue and 57th street in front of Tiffany’s. The first Uber did not show up. The second Uber came ten minutes later and parked halfway down 57th street where I could not see the license plate. Then we were facing east when I had to go west and south. Took twenty minutes to face southwest. It only took a bit more than one hour. On top of it all the car was a mess inside and out!!!!!!!! And I want Uber to succeed!”

And then she posted pictures of her filthy, expensive ride on Instagram.

I’ll give her two things, she’s got nice shoes and she loves to throw internet shade.

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I Ain't One To Gossip But ...

Johnny Weir and his husband Victor Voronov are back on … again.

Let's recap: they were together until February when they had a nasty split, and then they got back together in March, only to break up again in April and then find their way back to love again in May. Wonder what next month holds? 

Anyway, Johnny posted this to Twitter:

"My husband and I have reconciled. Please respect our privacy and integrity at this time.”

Integrity? Now that’s funny.

Stephen Baldwin, the craziest Baldwin brother, which is quite a feat unto itself, was arrested in Manhattan last week for driving with a suspended license and having an expired temporary registration sticker.

Baldwin was stopped last Friday morning by a cop who noticed the expired Texas registration on his vehicle; Texas registration on a car owned by a man who does not live in Texas? That's so Baldwin. But, when the police officer asked to see his license, he handed over the exact same suspended license that got him arrested two years ago!

Did I say he was the craziest Baldwin? I meant the dumbest, and again that’s saying something.

Last summer, Dawn Noel was hired as a dancer for Britney Spears. “Work Bitch” video which could have been a big deal had Britney not broken Dawn's nose. So, now she’s suing Brit and throwing shade, as well.

Noel is saying that when Spears arrived at rehearsal she was in a “disheveled and confused state” which I would think meant she was Britney looking like your regular every day Pork Rind Eatin’ Britney, but I digress; Noel also says Spears had “difficulty executing even basic moves” and that when they were dancing side-by-side, Britney twirled, tipped over and snacked Dawn in the face. Dawn says it was the Nose Crack Heard ‘Round the World but Britney only muttered an “I’m sorry” and went back to dancing.

Dawn, though, left rehearsal and went to the doctor who told her that Britney’s slap had fractured her nasal bone and she would need surgery, so, naturally, Dawn is now suing Spears because the Brit Team promised to pay for the nasal reconstruction but never did.

It all seems kinda weird, because everyone knows that since Britney’s meltdown, her dancing has mostly consisted of her gyrating in one place, moving to another place and gyrating some more. And, everyone knows Britney doesn’t talk unless one of her handlers tells her what to say, so that whole “I’m sorry” thing was probably from an assistant.

I wouldn’t know Avril Lavigne if she walked into my home right now, and I wouldn’t know her music  if someone popped in an 8-track of hers in my car, so I don’t get this story.

See, I just learned that this Avril person, when on tour with her ‘music’, charges her fans — and that part makes me giggle because, well, fans — some $400 for a meet-and-greet; now that 400 doesn’t include the price of the concert ticket, though I think the concert ticket is included with your Happy Meal so, yeah.

At any rate, the meet-and-greet comes with a stipulation: do not touch Avril Lavigne EVER! And those up there are pictures to prove it; the fans look thrilled to meet Avril who looks like a wax figure of Avril Lavigne.

Now, contrast this with a Kelly Clarkson post-concert meet-and-greet. Kelly loves to let her fans touch her and, in fact, it’s usually Kelly doing all the touching and having fun.

And you don’t shell out four C-notes for the privilege, either.

I was gonna post something about the latest Willow Smith controversy. You know, the one where the thirteen-year-old girl was photographed lying on a bed next to a shirtless twenty-year-old Moises Arias.

Now, it wasn't a promo for a TV show, or movie, or album; it was just this little girl lying on a bed with a grown-assed man while her parents were anywhere but where they might supervise her.

But that's the M.O. for her, for lack of a better word, ‘parents,’ Will and Jada Closeted Gays Pinkett Smith. They have made it clear that they have a hands-off parenting style that basically means their children get to do whatever they want whenever they want—which is similar to what they teach at the Church of Scientology of which Will swears he is not a member.

Arias, who posted the photo to Twitter and then instantly deleted it, says he thinks of Willow as his “little sister” and considers The Smiths his “second family.” And Willow isn’t talking, though her mother, who was nowhere near that, um photo shoot, Jada, is speaking:

“Here’s the deal. There was nothing sexual about that picture or that situation. You guys are projecting your trash onto it. And you’re acting like covert pedophiles and that’s not cool.”

In Jada’s mind, letting a thirteen-year-old girl lie in bed with a grown man is our problem, not hers, but then she was out of town while this was going on..

That Madonna, still begging for attention on Instagram.

You know, she flashed her hairy pits once, showed herself cleaning her bathroom with her tongue, calling vegetables gay or calling her son the n-word because, oh hell, because she’s desperate for attention.

But this week, when she was a no-show at the Met Ball, tongues began wagging as to why Madge didn’t show. I mean, no one loves being the center of attention more than an aging diva, so Madonna posted a kinda NSFW picture to her Instagram account showing her bare breasts all wrapped up in straps, with the caption:

“What i wanted to wear to Met Ball but Anna said Not this year! So I’m gonna work on music instead?#artforfreedom.”

That photo there is the censored version Madge also provided for the millions of people around the world have no interest in her nipples.

So, did Anna tell Madonna, who wiggled her bare ass at last year’s ball to tone it down and did Madonna retaliate by posting that picture or, as I said, is it just a case of Desperately Seeking Attention, Part 17?

More Brit? Well, actually Daddy Brit.

See, Britney’s daddy, Jamie Spears, had a real job before Britney became famous and he kept at it, even when his wife went all Hollywood as Brit’s momager. But Jamie stepped forward when Britney went crazy in 2007 and was named her conservator and that’s how it’s been for the last six years.

Rumor has it that Jamie is the one making all the decisions, and finagling ways to make her lifer seem normal. Apparently, the only reason Brit’s allowed to be alone with her children is because Jamie Spears and Kevin Federline have come to an agreement about custody, and the whole time Britney was engaged, well, both times, Jamie was running the show.

And now, after six years on the job Jamie wants a raise and has taken his case to court.

He has petitioned for more money as compensation for serving as his daughter’s conservator and the co-conservator of her estate. Right now he gets a $16,000 per month “allowance” plus an additional $2,000 a month to pay for an office space.

Now he wants money from Atara Tours, Inc. for the services he provides Britney during her stint at Planet Hollywood because he believes doing that work is above and beyond his 16k monthly allowance. And so he wants 1.5% of the gross revenues — tickets and merchandise — from each and every show because, yeah, Crazy Daughter said I could.

Boy, he kinda makes Will and Jada look like model parents.

Rumor has it that Mariah Carey is ready to pull the plug on her marriage to perennial joke Nick Cannon.

Things ALLEGEDLY went south after Nick released his controversial new “comedy” album White People Party Music and then talked about banging Kim Kardastrophe while promoting it; he also let slip some details of his — wait, I need to stop gagging — sex life with Mariah.

Still, the only thing holding Mariah back are her worries that Nick, who is best known as some second-rate Ryan Seacrest on a third-rate talent show, might want a hefty portion of Mariah’s $515 million dollar fortune as a payout for staying married to her for six years.

Yeah, I’d say $250 million is compensation enough for being Carey’s lackey.

Katherine Heigl hasn’t had a job in years, unless you count going on Kickstarter to ask people to donate to her new movie because she doesn’t make any money, or suing Duane Reade because they Tweeted a picture of her coming out of a Duane Reade.

But now, inexplicably, NBC has decided Heigl should return to television — the medium she left years ago because she was a star and TV was for losers.

NBC announced Tuesday that Heigl will star and executive produce a new CIA drama called State of Affairs which Heigl describes as Scandal meets The West Wing.

Funny, I thought Scandal was Scandal meets The West Wing.

Howsabout a little Miley?

It seems that little Miss Cyrus, still recovering from her allergic reaction to antibiotics and not a drug overdose, is refusing to go on The Voice because she hates Christina Aguilera. Hmm, I guess no one told Miley that Christina isn’t on the show this year, or, maybe, Miley had an allergic reaction to brain function.

Still, Miley says she will never do the show because, even with Christina away while she’s pregnant, the show is still Christina’s and Miley wants no part of it because, ALLEGEDLY, Miley didn’t like that Christina tweeted a shout-out about something she wore during a concert in January:

“Cheers from one dirrty girl to the next @MileyCyrus…wear em’ loud & proud, girl-yes!” with a picture of Cyrus wearing chaps.

Cyrus believes Aguilera really wanted to point out that SHE wore chaps to perform in first!

Oh, brother.

Star Magazine’s newest headline is “Ben Caught Cheating.”

Oh no, is this the end of Bennifer-Lite … Bennifer 2.0? No, it’s an article about how Affleck was kicked out of a Las Vegas casino for counting cards at a blackjack table. But, this latest mini-scandal has caused a rift in the Affleck-Garner merger, er, marriage because Jennifer was apparently humiliated at being asked to leave the casino with her gambling-addicted husband.

See, Jen demanded to go to Vegas with Ben because she doesn’t trust him, and he felt like he had no choice but to take her. But she mostly stayed in the room while he spent his nights in the casino winning and losing thousands of dollars and she’s annoyed because she’s Mommy all the time while he is Card Shark every night.

After he was caught cheating, and asked to leave the casino, apparently Jennifer threw the book at him, crying about how embarrassed she is by his antics.

I, however, look on the bright side. After Affleck gets done playing Batman, maybe he can do another film called Bet Man.

Just saying.

The world was all abuzz last weekend at the thought of the unholy matrimony that was supposed to go down between Giant Ego, AKA Kanye West, and Giant Ass, AKA Kim Kardastrophe. And we all waited breathlessly as the pair attended the Met Ball in hopes of hearing them talk about their pact with The Devil, AKA That Woman.

But … the wedding never happened. Famewhore say what?

See, even though Ego and Ass — sounds like a new cop comedy on Fox — got a wedding license last week they have yet to seal the deal because they are still hammering out the details of their prenup. And it won’t be signed — hopefully in That Woman’s blood — until sometime this week, and so there will be no tasteful and dignified wedding until the bloodstains are dry.

It totally makes sense, because he’s a Giant Ego who loves all things Italian, and she is a Giant Ass who loves the limelight, and since they both know this marriage won’t last, they want to protect the most important thing in their lives: the bank accounts.

Ah love … for money and a TV show.

I Didn't Say It....

.....or at least Blogger wouldn't let me.......until now! 

Actor, or wacktor, Stephen Baldwin, on LGBT rights....or religion....or marriage equality.....or the constitution....or something:

"For society, and a majority of our society, to be asked by a very small minority to change its ways — and everybody can interpret that for themselves; that can be constitutional, that can be by law, that can be by faith — the homosexual community wants to go and start its own churches and get married, they’re free to do that. And I don’t see that being unreasonable to say, why should people who believe this in a big way that’s been around for a long time turn around and alter what they feel is their sensibility just because those folks feel like, ‘We’re not being treated equal.'"

Apparently, unless Stephen Baldwin has a script to read, everything he says is gibberish.

Barney Frank, on Uganda's 'Kill The Gays' bill:

“I’m disturbed by the news that Uganda is considering going ahead with a measure that denies the humanity of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people....I was pleased when the Financial Services Committee overwhelmingly, in a bipartisan way, voted in favor of my amendment urging the Secretary of the Treasury to oppose any financial assistance from multilateral development institutions to countries that persecute people on the basis of their sexual orientation, gender identity or religious beliefs. In the discussion of the amendment I offered, I specifically mentioned the deeply troubling case of Uganda, which is now considering legislation to legally deprive people of these basic human rights....If the bill before the Ugandan parliament becomes law, it must be the policy of the United States government to oppose any aid to Uganda from the World Bank, the African Development Bank, or any other international financial institution of which we are a member.”

Bravo, Barney.
For us, or any nation, to lend money or support to a country that legislates, legalizes, or justifies murder, for any reason, much less based on someones supposed sexual orientation, is in defensible.
If Uganda wants to go ahead with this criminal action, then they should go ahead alone.

Chaz Bono, on acceptance of being transgender:

“Until I really accepted this about myself and got over any of my own transphobia that I had, I really felt like I wouldn’t be accepted. I thought I would ruin my life. I thought it was, ‘Be yourself but become a pariah and put your family through hell,’ or, ‘Don’t be yourself and live a horribly uncomfortable existence where everybody relates to you in a way that’s not you.’"

I am fascinated by transgendered people, and how they struggle for acceptance from the world, their families, and even themselves.
So many people, and I include some gay folks, too, believe that being a gay man means that you want to be a woman. We don't don't. And lesbians don't wish to be men.
But then you read parts of Chaz Bono's story, about growing up attracted to women, believing 'she' was a lesbian, until 'she' recognized that 'she' was actually a 'he'.
And he was a straight man attracted to women.
Chaz Bono was never a lesbian. He was always a straight man trapped in the wrong gender. How wonderful for him that he can now be truly himself.

Alice Hoagland, mother of openly gay rugby player and 9/11 hero Mark Bingham, on the death of Osama bin Laden:

"I am going to miss my son every day of my life but this, the death of Osama bin Laden, seems to be perfect closure for the foul and evil deeds that that man has committed. Bill Clinton made a real effort to root out Osama bin Laden. George W. Bush promised the American public that we will not rest until we have Osama bin Laden in our control, and then Barack Obama was able to make good the promises and efforts of his two predecessors. I'm very grateful to all three men for their strength and their persistence in this project."

As I have said for the past week or so, the death of bin Laden has given closure to those people most personally affected by 9/11. And Alice Hoagland is right to thank Clinton, Bush, and Obama. All three worked to get bin Laden, and all three deserve a piece of the credit.

Exodus International's head homo Alan Chambers, on Google's airing of an It Gets Better ad during Glee:

"Children all over the world, including my two children are fans of Toy Story and to see a character like that [Woody] endorsing something that at this point children have no need to know about, it’s disappointing. For organizations like Exodus International, which has thousands of men and women like me who have lived a gay life, it obviously didn’t get better living a gay life for them."

It didn't get better for you, Alan, because you chose to go back in the closet and denounce who you are; these ads tell children, and adults, that it's okay to be gay, and to be open and honest, and expect openness and honesty in return.

Former President Bill Clinton, on marriage equality in New York:

"Our nation's permanent mission is to form a ‘more perfect union’ - deepening the meaning of freedom, broadening the reach of opportunity, strengthening the bonds of community. That mission has inspired and empowered us to extend rights to people previously denied them. Every time we have done that, it has strengthened our nation. Now we should do it again, in New York, with marriage equality. For more than a century, our Statue of Liberty has welcomed all kinds of people from all over the world yearning to be free. In the 21st century, I believe New York's welcome must include marriage equality."

It's long past time when all Americans are treated equally under the law.
Long.Past.Time.


Representative Michele "Crazy Eyes" Bachmann, on how the Holocaust is just like raising taxes on the rich:

"Expecting me to bear a fair share of my civic responsibility is like gassing me to death. We are seeing eclipsed in front of our eyes a similar death and a similar taking away. It is this disenfranchisement that I think we have to answer to. The question comes down to this: what will you say to that next generation about what you did to make sure that wouldn't be their fate?"

We might say that we turned things around so that taxation is fair and equitable.
The more you make, the more you pay. We might also say, You're welcome. we were happy to take that burden off of you.
But we would never compare the rich being taxed to six million people being put to death.
That would be stupid.

Chelsea Clinton, on marriage equality:

"As a New Yorker who not that long ago got married to her best friend, I certainly believe that all my friends should have the right to marry their best friends. And I certainly believe that those of us who are straight cannot expect our gay friends to do this on our own. And I certainly expect my straight friends to help us achieve that for all New Yorkers, for all Americans, and for the children that Mark and I expect to have one day..."

Like father, like daughter,
The LGBT cannot move forward without the help and support of the straight community, and it's nice to see Chelsea Clinton ask that of her straight friends.
No one is equal until we are all equal.


Judith Light, longtime advocate for the LGBT community, and the HIV/AIDS community, on LGBT youth:

"It's very important to me that young people, who are struggling with their sexuality, and trying to understand what it's like to live in a world that can be, at it's worst, cruel, and at best, dismissive, that they know and they understand that they are appreciated and loved and valued and respected and honored."

Judith Light has long bee n a supporter of all things LGBT.
To paraphrase an old Barbara Mandrell tune, 'She was gay friendly when gay friendly wasn't cool'.