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Underage Patrick Schwarzenegger makes many enemies at L.A. club

Patrick Schwarzenegger
Patrick Schwarzenegger took out a fatwa on a DJ on Saturday night, saying he would “beat the f*** out of” him after he was tossed from L.A.’s Sayers Club. Read More

Chris Brown ready for ‘a lot of women’ after split with Rihanna

Chris Brown
By the time the ink dries on this they will probably be back together, but Chris Brown has confirmed his split with Rihanna, aka “Shawty.” “I’m gonna do it solo,” he told an Australian radio station. “At the end of the day, Shawty doing her own thing.” In a story in The Sun, Brown alternated between sounding mature and sounding like his old, feckless self. Read More

Jack Dorsey’s Vine videos prove value of the selfie

jack Dorsey
Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey is so excited about his new Vine app for video sharing that he has selflessly used his own face as a model. To pimp out Vine’s new front-facing capability, the young upstart has been broadcasting his own visage—well, half of it--as he just sort of stands at various San Francisco locations and stares at the camera. He’s always in sunglasses and sometimes has a toothpick hanging out of his mouth, which is the maverick, Silicon Valley metrosexual equivalent of a pinkie ring. Read More

Dr. Drew quitting ‘Celebrity Rehab’ over criticisms

drew pinsky
“Celebrity Rehab” star Dr. Drew Pinsky says he’s throwing in the towel on the controversial show. There’s no doubt that it was exploitative, despite his best intentions, but Pinsky says he’s tired of taking all the heat” for every death, especially when loss of life unfortunately goes with the territory. CBS News reports that after Mindy McCready died by suicide in February — the fifth person on the show to die — Pinksy said he’d had enough of the attacks. Read More

Robert Plant files restraining order against deranged stalker

Robert Plant
Former Led Zeppelin frontman Robert Plant is the latest celeb to file a restraining order against a nutty fan. TMZ reports that a woman who claims to have been in a relationship with the dude for more than three years has not taken the news that he’s dating singer Patty Griffin very well. “Your betrayal with another woman still stabs my mind,” she allegedly said in a message to him. “I’m telling you that rotten crotch is ruining you.” Read More

Latest Twitter account hack targets Justin Bieber, Angelina Jolie

Justin Bieber
A group calling itself The Syrian Electronic Army hacked into the Twitter account of E! Online and confirmed what we have always known: Justin Bieber is gay (OK, just kidding). Read More

Katy Perry’s father ashamed of daughter

Katy Perry
Katy Perry is the daughter of a fiery preacher, and he’s none too pleased that his little girl is a prancing, demonic Jezebel that exalts Satan’s wares.  “They ask, ‘how can I preach if I produce a girl who sings about kissing another girl?’” Keith Perry asked a congregation in Santa Fe Springs. Read More

Nicotine fiend Lindsay Lohan reportedly splits N.Y. for L.A. rehab

Lindsay Lohan
Lindsay Lohan still just does not get it. Wow. TMZ is reporting that she is refusing to enter rehab in New York at the court-approved spot and has instead boarded a jet to L.A. so that she can go to a place of her own choosing that will allow her to smoke cigarettes. Lohan’s dad told The Sun that she had been crying hysterically about having to go cold-turkey. Read More

Mariah Carey shuts down Disneyland to renew her vows

Mariah Carey, Nick Cannon
Mariah Carey shut down the entire Disneyland park so she could renew her wedding vows with Nick Cannon in the low-key, understated style she is known for. “Entertainment Tonight” reports that 250 guests watched the Cinderella-themed couple clop up in a carriage to Main Street where they then headed over to Sleeping Beauty’s Castle for the ceremony. Read More

Brad Pitt’s zombie flick “World War Z” was a nightmare to make

Brad Pitt
Vanity Fair magazine is running a June cover story on Brad Pitt and his disastrous moviemaking experience creating “World War Z.” The zombie apocalypse film was “plagued with on-set drama, budget issues, and a weak ending that had to be entirely reshot,” says the New York Post. At one point, the story alleges, Pitt stopped speaking to the film’s director, Marc Forster, over issues like more violence (Pitt wanted it, Forster did not). Read More
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