He’s spent nearly a year in the wilderness after his MTV Music Awards rant, but it appears Kanye West is getting ready to return to the spotlight.
The Stronger rapper has given a bizarre impromptu concert at Facebook headquarters, previewing new material from his forthcoming album, rumoured for release on September 14 – a year to the day since his televised outburst.
Footage posted on You Tube shows the 33-year-old dressed in a business suit and rapping acappella while standing on a conference room table.
In between songs, reportedly titled Chain Heavy, Mama’s Boyfriend, and Good Ass Job, he is also heard cracking jokes to the small crowd of employees.
The Facebook visit would suggest social networking is going to be part of West’s new publicity strategy. He yesterday set up a Twitter account, using it to announce he had changed his mind about the album’s title. READ THE REST OF THIS ARTICLE
The wrestling legend says he is “ecstatic” 50-year-old Linda Hogan – with who he has two children, Brooke, 22, and Nick, 20 – is to wed Charlie Hill next summer after two years of dating.
The 56-year-old grappler – who divorced Linda in 2007 after 24 years of marriage – told RadarOnline.com: “I’m ecstatic for her, I’m very happy for them. I think they’re perfect for each other. I wish them the best.”
It is believed Hulk will act as a witness for the couple when they tie the knot on Linda’s yacht Alimoney next summer.
However, it is unlikely the impending nuptials will have the blessing of Brooke who blasted Charlie – who was previously a friend of Nick – in an interview last year.
Brooke said “He is a loser. I don’t have a problem with age – it’s more about character. Her love is not real and not right.”
Hulk – whose real name is Terry Bollea – got engaged to his girlfriend, 36-year-old Jennifer McDaniel, last year.
Despite his words of support for the couple, the wrestler has previously spoken of his outrage at Linda embarking on a relationship with a much younger man, admitting it sent him into a rage.
He said: “I could have turned everything into a crime scene. You live half a mile from the 20,000 sq-ft home you can’t go to anymore, you’re driving through downtown Clearwater and see a 19-year-old boy driving your Escalade, and you know that a 19-year-old boy is sleeping in your bed, with your wife.”
Lindsay Lohan is getting through her jail time by feasting on candy and “creating art”.
The actress is currently serving 90 days behind bars after she was found to have breached the terms of her probation in relation to her 2007 conviction for Driving Under the Influence (DUI).
When her sentence was delivered earlier this month, Lindsay – who must check into rehab after she leaves jail – burst into tears, and there have been repeated reports she is not coping well.
Her lawyer Shawn Chapman Holley insists the claims are wide of the mark, saying Lindsay is using her time in prison to her advantage. “She’s good. She’s eating some Twizzlers,” the attorney said.
“She looks gorgeous. She’s writing a lot. She’s creating art. She’s a beautiful, talented, creative woman, and she’s going to come out and surprise you all!”
Lindsay was imprisoned on July 20, but is not expected to serve her full sentence.
She is serving time at the Century Regional Detention Facility in Lynwood, California, and overcrowding is such an issue she is expected to be released on Sunday or Monday.
Lindsay’s friends are convinced her sentence is unfair, and are reportedly planning to stage a protest asking for her release later today.
The star will have to check into rehab within two days of leaving jail, and her friends are campaigning for her to be allowed to take longer to start treatment. According to TMZ, a rally will be staged outside the prison in Lynwood.
It has been claimed Lindsay’s presence at the jail has caused unrest, as some inmates think she is receiving preferential treatment.
She has reportedly asked for Ben and Jerry’s ice cream, with her requests making after prisoners furious.
“Wardens are being easy on Lindsay. She has her own cell and doesn’t have to mix with other inmates,” a source at the jail said.
“She is crying and talking to wardens and keeping others awake. Her preferential treatment is causing a lot of resentment.”
Dina Nicole joins Jersey Shore. There’s no word on what her real name is, but she goes by “Dina Nicole” on her Facebook page.
“All I need is beats, my broads, and booze… Let’s drink to us,” Dina posted on her Facebook page just days before she began filming with her new GTL buddies. Dina is a friend of Snooki’s. “The new girl hung out with Snooki and J-Woww most of the day. She seemed shy at first.”
Dina’s Snooki’s friend which is strange, cause I think she looks like Snooki, only taller. “She was really touchy with Snooki… All the girls hung out all day except for Sammi…she stuck with the boys.”
Jersey Shore season 2 premieres this Thursday at 10pm on MTV.
This week’s episode of The Real Housewives of New Jersey started off on a rare positive note, but, like Kim G, made a 180-degree turnaround and ended with tears being shed.
The episode started with Teresa Giudice and Joe playing Monopoly with their daughters and discussing what Joe is going to buy her for their tenth anniversary. After talk of romance and diamonds, Teresa bluntly stated that if the gift is not good enough, there would be “no hanky-panky for a month.” Shifting gears, we get a glimpse of Danielle in party planning mode with her daughter Christine. After saying that she wanted to donate money to charity at her Sweet Sixteen, Danielle made it very clear that Christine was, in fact, her daughter and that Danielle did, in fact, give birth to her. READ THE REST OF THIS ARTICLE
You may or may not want to see Ugly Face Kate Major’s nude photos, but Michael Lohan is trying to sell them cause he’s classy like that.
Michael reportedly took pictures of his naked ex-fiance in April 2010 when she was sleeping in bed. Kate’s breasts are exposed, her eyes are closed, and “several” of her nude photos have been taken, all of which Papa Lohan is trying to sell.
When Kate found out about the pics, she said: “Michael Lohan is a disgusting human being and father. He took these pictures of me when I was asleep and without my knowledge. At the time he was my fiancé. I have just found out about these images today and moving forward my lawyer, William O’Conner, will be handing the legalities of anyone that reproduces them.”
Kate, 27, alleges that she and Michael, 50, had an argument over a missed cell phone call when Papa Lohan kicked and threatened her. Michael is due in a Southampton courtroom on Aug 18. He was charged with 2nd degree harassment last week.
Eeeewww! Most of the celebrity naked pics and sex tapes that we’ve seen featured willing participants. I hope no one out there is getting any shady ideas. I also dunno how hot Kate Major lying down and sleeping while nude photos could possibly be? Mikey will be lucky if he gets $2k for ‘em.
Eminem has revealed Sir Elton John calls him every week to make sure he is off drugs.
The We Made You rapper – who was forced to cancel the European leg of his 2005 tour so he could be admitted into rehab after becoming hooked on prescription drugs – is grateful for the Rocket Man singer’s support and insists Elton understands the pressures of the music industry.
Eminem said: “Elton calls me once a week. He’s somebody who is in the business and can identify and relate to the lifestyle and how hectic things can be for artists. He understands the pressure.”
The 37-year-old hip-hop star befriended the 63-year-old musician – who beat an addiction to cocaine and alcoholism – after they performed together at the 2001 Grammy Awards and Elton helped him through his stint in rehab in 2005.
Eminem – real name Marshall Mathers – said: “I reached out to him and told him, ‘Look, I’m going through a problem and I need your advice.’
“He used to tell me stuff like, ‘You’re going to start seeing certain things you’ve been overlooking.’ And it came true.
“I’d walk around like, ‘Damn, that tree does look crazy, look at all those leaves!’ Things I didn’t notice when I was f***ed up.”
The Detroit-born star documents his battle with drug addiction on new LP Recovery.
NBC may wish Steve Carell was just joking, but a network executive said The Office star has consistently told NBC he’s leaving after this coming season.
In the network’s first acknowledgment of Carell’s plans, NBC Primetime Entertainment President Angela Bromstad said Monday the actor’s seven-year run as erratic Dunder Mifflin boss Michael Scott will end when his contract expires in 2011.
But Bromstad said the show will go on.
“We’ve been lucky to have had him as long as we’ve had. These things happen when you have such a major movie star in a show,” she said.
In an affirmation of NBC’s faith in a post-Carell The Office, Bromstad said the sitcom will remain in its 9pm EDT Thursday time slot. It’s the linchpin of NBC’s schedule on a key TV night of advertising revenue.
“Not to diminish the departure of Steve, because that will impact the show, but we have tremendous faith in the writers and actors to keep it alive,” Bromstad said.
Carell, 46, who’s become a busy big-screen actor during his Office tenure, has said in interviews he plans to leave the series to better balance his work and family life. He’s married with two children.
Carell voices the lead character in the new animated comedy Despicable Me and stars with Paul Rudd in Dinner for Schmucks, out this week. His other film credits include Date Night and The 40-Year-Old Virgin.
The door is open if he wants to make return visits to the show, Bromstad said. He remains in business with NBC: Carell’s company, Carousel Productions, has a TV production deal with Universal Media Studios.
Carell was on vacation and unavailable for comment, his publicist, Matt Labov, said.
Whether Michael Scott’s job will be filled by a promotion from within or an outside hire is under discussion. Bringing in a big-name star is an option, but “it’s not the front-running idea,” said Paul Lieberstein, a cast member and executive producer.
“Right now, we’re still talking about a lot of scenarios. We’re trying to get a sense of what the office is like without Steve. We want to be real: What would this office really do (if Michael Scott left)? We want to pursue this as honestly as Dunder Mifflin would,” he said.
Nobody wants to see Carell leave, said Lieberstein, who plays Toby, the embattled voice of human-resources reason.
“But what we’ll get creatively is actually very exciting. We don’t have to do auto reset at the end of the season, but we get to move on,” he said.
It may go down as one of the shortest Hollywood retirements in history.
Just a month after using Twitter to announce she had quit show business because she’d lost her passion, former child star Amanda Bynes has tweeted again.
“I’ve unretired,” she wrote on her Twitter page at the weekend.
The 24-year-old Hairspray starlet has so far offered no explanation for her apparent change of heart, but later followed up the tweet with a YouTube link to her forthcoming movie Easy A.
On June 19, Bynes surprised fans by announcing she was calling time on her 17-year acting career.
“If I don’t love something any more I stop doing it,” she told her 300,000-plus Twitter followers.
“I don’t love acting any more so I’ve stopped doing it.
“I know 24 is a young age to retire, but you heard it here first – I’ve retired.”
Online speculation has put Bynes’ retirement down to a run of bad luck and rumours of “erratic behaviour” by the star, who got her break as a seven-year-old cast in a lolly advertisement.
She was reportedly dumped as the female lead in 2009 comedy Post Grad and filmed an ABC pilot, the prophetically-titled Canned, which was later cancelled.
The former Forbes young rich-lister also signed a fashion deal but the label folded as a result of the US financial crisis.
He’s spent nearly a year in the wilderness after his MTV Music Awards rant, but it appears Kanye West is getting ready to return to the spotlight.
Lindsay Lohan is getting through her jail time by feasting on candy and “creating art”.
Dina Nicole joins Jersey Shore. There’s no word on what her real name is, but she goes by “Dina Nicole” on her Facebook page.
Amy Winehouse and her major upgrade from Blake Fielder-Civil were spotted having dinner a few nights ago.
This week’s episode of The Real Housewives of New Jersey started off on a rare positive note, but, like Kim G, made a 180-degree turnaround and ended with tears being shed.
You may or may not want to see Ugly Face Kate Major’s nude photos, but Michael Lohan is trying to sell them cause he’s classy like that.
Eminem has revealed Sir Elton John calls him every week to make sure he is off drugs. 
Whether Michael Scott’s job will be filled by a promotion from within or an outside hire is under discussion. Bringing in a big-name star is an option, but “it’s not the front-running idea,” said Paul Lieberstein, a cast member and executive producer.
It may go down as one of the shortest Hollywood retirements in history. 
