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  • Kendra Wilkinson on the ‘Hardest Four Months of My Life’

    It was just another relaxing evening at home with her husband, Hank Baskett, and five-month-old daughter, Alijah Mary, when Kendra Wilkinson received the phone call that would rock her world.

    “My agent calls, asking, ‘Is Hank around you right now?’” Wilkinson told People in a recent interview. “I was playing around and said, ‘No.’ Hank leaned in and I said, ‘Why? What’s going on?’”

    Her agent then told her the unfathomable story being rumored that her 32-year-old husband of five years had cheated on her with a transsexual model.

    “I just asked, ‘Hank, did anything happen?’” said the 29-year-old reality star. “He said, ‘No, are you kidding me? This is insane!’ So I believed him.”

    Once the story was reported by the media 24 hours later, Wilkinson’s home was broken. She kicked her husband out and remained in their Los Angeles home with their daughter, while Baskett moved into his parents’ New Mexico home with his four-year-old son, Hank IV.

    During these difficult days, the cameras for her reality show, Kendra on Top, kept rolling. All the uncomfortable details, including a huge fight between them, was recorded and will soon air on WE.

    “I agreed to shoot the show because being alone at the moment was the hardest thing I have ever done in my life,” Wilkinson said. “The producers came to me, and were hugging and holding me. They asked, ‘Do you want to film this?’ I said, ‘Bring the cameras to me … I can’t be alone right now.’”

    Wilkinson has kept a relatively low profile over the past few months, keeping off social media and giving few interviews. The new season of Kendra on Top premieres on Oct. 3, and things are likely to get ugly as the world becomes privy to all the dirt, the heartbreak and especially the uncertainty plaguing the reality star.

    Baskett continues to maintain that he did not have a tryst with a transsexual model. Instead, he insists he was propositioned by the woman in question, but did not have the alleged affair. His insistence that he felt “violated” by the “unwanted” advances has left Wilkinson questioning where things stand between the couple.

    “I really don’t know what to believe,” Wilkinson admits. “But this is real life. This is really what’s happening. It’s been the hardest four months of my life.”

  • Julianna Margulies Dishes on Her Emmy Award, Josh Charles, and Vices

    Julianna Margulies Dishes on Her Emmy Award, Josh Charles, and Vices

    Julianna Margulies, who stars as lawyer Alicia Florrick on CBS’s The Good Wife, spoke with People recently and shared “one last thing.”

    The 48-year-old Emmy-winner said she’s not someone who spends a lot of time resting on her laurels. In fact, Margulies said the attention makes her a little too uncomfortable.

    She told People the last time she looked at her Emmy Award was “when I was doing the press rounds after I won.

    “I haven’t really seen it much since then,” she admitted. “I was embarrassed by the attention. I wanted to deflect it. It was too much!”

    It was quite the shocker for The Good Wife fans when Josh Charles‘ character, Will, was killed off last season. Margulies said the last time she told her former co-star she missed him was just before Labor Day weekend.

    “I was sitting in court, and one of our recurring judges, Brooks, makes me laugh so hard. I’ll never say his last name [Ashmanskas] right; he’s a friend of Josh’s. I was texting Josh saying, ‘I miss you so much, I can’t believe you’re not here laughing with me right now,’” she recalled.

    Margulies said that last advice she was given came from her parents, who told her, “Honey, you must rest.”

    It seems the actress does try to take some time for some rest and relaxation and enjoys indulging with family and friends.

    “This past weekend we had some friends up at our house [with husband Keith Lieberthal] in the country,” she said. “I cooked a huge steak dinner, and we had the best red wine. I don’t regret it.’

    Meanwhile, Margulies made an appearance on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon and performed a hilarious skit with the late night host. The duo channeled their best high school administrator personas and presented “Monday Morning Announcements.”

  • Sherri Shepherd Says She Would Give ‘The View’ Cast a Grade of B

    Former The View co-host Sherri Shepherd has been keeping her eye on her former show to determine how the show is faring after her departure.

    Shepherd said the show is still working out some kinks after undergoing some major changes this season.

    “They’re working some things out,” Sherri said during an interview Monday in New York with Billy Bush and Kit Hoover for Access Hollywood Live.

    Shepherd told Bush and Hoover if she were to give new cast Rosie O’Donnell, Rosie Perez, Whoopi Goldberg and Nicolle Wallace a grade, it wouldn’t yet be an A.

    “I would give them a B,” she said. “Because you have to be able to go somewhere [from there].”

    Even though her departure from the show was wrought with emotion, Shephard said she still tunes in and becomes very engaged with the topics.

    “I’ve been watching The View every day. I love Hot Topics. I love Rosie Perez,” said Shepherd. “I think everybody has got to figure out what they’re doing and they’ve got to jive. It took me three years to get it together!”

    Shepherd, who currently stars as the Wicked Stepmother in Cinderella on Broadway, said she still feels like she is sitting on the panel, even if it’s from her own living room couch.

    “You were live Tweeting during the second episode,” Bush said.

    “I know,” she said. “I’m looking at the Hot Topics and I’m throwing out jokes [at home] and I’m like, ‘Nobody hears me!’ But that’s how much I love it. And that’s the thing – it gets so heated and you feel like you want to be a part of it.

    “But I did it for seven years and it was wonderful. Now it’s on to bigger and better things,” Shepherd said.

  • Amber Heard’s Topless Pic to Johnny Depp Among Second Wave of Nude Photos Leak

    A topless picture Amber Heard sent to Johnny Depp was leaked online in a second wave of celebrity nude photos leaked yesterday, which include A-list celebrities Gabrielle Union, Kim Kardashian West, Rihanna, Kate Bosworth, Hayden Panetierre, Lake Bell, Avril Lavigne and Vanessa Hudgens.

    Heard had over 50 nude or semi-nude photographs posted onto websites 4chan and Reddit yesterday, including the private topless message to her 51-year-old fiancé.

    According to TMZ, Heard is shown topless holding up a sign directed at the Lone Ranger star, referring to him as “Tonto.”

    Meanwhile, Being Mary Jane star Union has lashed out after a private, topless photo she sent to her new husband, Dwyane Wade, was leaked online, comparing the publication of private pictures to “hate crimes.”

    The leak led the couple to contact the FBI and release a pointed statement.

    “It has come to our attention that our private moments, that were shared and deleted solely between my husband and myself, have been leaked by some vultures.

    “I can’t help but to be reminded that since the dawn of time women and children, specifically women of color, have been victimised, and the power over their own bodies taken from them. These atrocities against women and children continue worldwide.

    “For anyone out there also being affected by these and other hacking and hate crimes – we send our love, support and prayers. We have done nothing wrong.”

    This new wave of photos comes three weeks after another group of stars, including Jennifer Lawrence, Kaley Cuoco and Kate Upton, had photographs leaked online.

    More than 100 celebrities were affected by the scandal last month after an unidentified hacker stole private nude images and videos from Apple’s iCloud.

    Apple denies a security breach and said it was “outraged” by the attack. The tech megalith encourages users to update their accounts with a “strong” password and enable two-step verification.

  • Sadie Robertson Has What it Takes to Win ‘DWTS,’ Says Partner Mark Ballas

    Sadie Robertson, of Duck Dynasty fame, made her mark on the Season 19 premiere of Dancing With the Stars last week and is looking forward to continuing to wow on tonight’s episode.

    Despite having no dancing experience, the adorable 17-year-old came out strong with professional partner Mark Ballas last week, performing a cha cha that prompted judge Bruno Tonioli to call her, “a bird of paradise,” and helped her lock in a second place finish for the week.

    Ballas told Access Hollywood‘s Liz Hernandez that the young Duck Dynasty heiress has what it takes to be the next Mirrorball Trophy winner.

    “I definitely feel like we have potential for sure, yeah,” said Ballas. “It’s only Week 2 coming up, but you can keep taking it day by day, week by week, but I definitely feel like she has potential, yes.”




    Julianne Hough, former dance pro and new judge on the show, gushed over Robertson’s performance, calling Robertson “the total package.”

    “It was the best feeling ever. I was so excited,” Robertson told Access Hollywood. “I was like, trying to like keep my cool. … And then, when we got back there I was like, ‘Yeah!’”

    You would think the inexperienced high school student would be most nervous about the dance routine each week, but Robertson said it is facing the judges after the routine that has her most on edge.

    “I think the hardest part is just listening to what the judges have to say because I’m so sensitive, so I know the day I mess up and it’s like, they’re just killing me, I know I’m gonna get emotional,” she said.

    “She warned me, she was just like, ‘I’m just warning you now. … I’m really sensitive,’” said Ballas. “I was like, ‘What do you mean?’ She’s like, ‘Well, when the judges, if the judges say something tough on me I’m probably gonna cry.’ And I was just like, ‘It’s okay.’”

  • Kaley Cuoco Photo Leak: ‘Big Bang Theory’ Star Dishes on Hacking Scandal With Jimmy Kimmel

    Kaley Cuoco learns about most news or updates written about her in a unique way — via Google alerts.

    On a recent visit to Jimmy Kimmel Live, Cuoco talked about the recent nude photo scandal that affected stars like Jennifer Lawrence, Kate Upton and the Big Bang Theory star, calling the invasion of privacy “disturbing.”

    Cuoco, 28, told Kimmel she found out about the nude pics via a Google alert.

    “Okay, I’m not going to lie — I totally have Google alerts that come to my phone, so anything that pops up with my name comes to my phone because I’m like obsessed, I need to know what’s going on. So every day there’s like 30 ‘Kaley Cuoco Nude Photos,’ it’s been going on for years but it’s all these fake ones,” said Cuoco.

    “So then this one came up and I was like, ‘Oh, it’s another fake one.’ And then I started getting emails about real ones going around and I looked at it and I was like, ‘Oh my god, there are some real ones.’”

    Cuoco said she immediately “sent an email out to my family.”

    “I said, ‘Just so you know, this happened, blah, blah, blah. P.S. I’m not pregnant, I’m not getting a divorce — I was able to get everything out in the email,” she joked.

    “It was a really bad situation,” but Cuoco said she decided to “take it into my own hands and made a joke about it, because what else are you going to do?”

    “You have to make fun of yourself,” Cuoco told Kimmel.

    “So I took a picture with my favorite app, it’s called Nudify, it’s hilarious you can blur things out.”

    “I was shooting a scene on Big Bang Theory and I was with all the guys, and it was the day after this whole nude leak happened. So I’m sitting there with them, and in between takes they all helped me pick out the picture and what I should nudify so I could, like, get them [the hackers] back. It was a team effort.”

    Hackers first released a slew of nude celebrity photos on Sept 1, after hacking them from Apple’s iCloud in what the tech giant has called a “targeted attack.”

    Apple has denied its cloud storage system was breached, suggesting that each celebrity’s personal account was hacked by using easy-to-guess passwords, or by giving up their personal data to hackers posing as Apple, a technique known as “phishing.”

  • Lindsay Price and Celebrity Chef Curtis Stone Welcome Second Son

    Lindsay Price and celebrity chef Curtis Stone welcomed their second child to the world on Tuesday, his rep confirmed to Us Weekly.

    The celebrity couple’s new son, Emerson Spencer, was born in L.A. and weighed in at 7 lbs, 11 oz.

    “Both Lindsay and Emerson are doing well,” the rep told Us in a statement. “Curtis is officially the happiest man in the world!”

    Emerson is little brother to the couple’s two-year-old son, Hudson, who was born in November 2011.

    The announcement that Curtis, 38, and his wife were expecting their second child came on an appearance on The Queen Latifah Show.

    “My beautiful wife is pregnant again with my second baby!” he exclaimed to the cheering audience on May 7.

    The announcement wasn’t a huge surprise, however, since the Lipstick Jungle actress had already been the recipient of speculation after being photographed with a visible baby bump at a gas station in Studio City, California before the big revelation.

    In August, the Australian author told E! News that his favorite part about being a dad is “watching Lindsay with him. She’s such a beautiful mom, but to watch him with her—to watch them interacting, it’s so special.”

    Stone and the Beverly Hills, 90210 alum dated for three years before becoming engaged in July 2012. The couple married in Majorca, Spain, in June 2013.

  • Kendra Wilkinson Confronts Hank Baskett About Cheating Scandal

    Kendra Wilkinson doesn’t hide her pain over rumors that her husband, Hank Baskett, is a lying cheat in a new preview for her reality show, Kendra on Top.

    In the preview, the former playboy bunny appears sobbing in her friend’s arms and confronting her husband, Hank Baskett, about the cheating allegations.

    “I didn’t do anything,” he tells his crying wife.

    “No one believes you,” she replies, before asking, “Did you think about your family when you did what you did?”

    Later on in the emotionally-charged clip, Wilkinson admits the painful truth, “My whole life just flipped upside down.”

    The confrontation comes after Wilkinson-Baskett learns of rumors that Hank had a tryst with a transsexual model.

    According to Life & Style Magazine, Hank made up some sob story that he went to help a female friend who just happened to live in the same complex as his alleged mistress, Ava Sabrina London. Hank apparently told his wife that London made “unwanted advances” toward him while he was there and he felt “violated” afterwards.

    This isn’t the first clip we’ve seen teasing season three, which looks to be the most dramatic season yet.

    In the first teaser, Wilkinson is seen addressing the scandal and losing it at she tries to keep her family together.

    “To her credit, Kendra’s not trying to hide any of this from the cameras,” a source told E! News. “Literally in one scene, viewers will see her break down and fall on the floor collapsing in tears. It’s raw and it’s real. She knows her fans expect honesty from her and she’s delivering it.”

    Through it all, Wilkinson’s two children “are definitely Kendra’s No. 1 priority.”

    Sources say the 29-year-old ends up believing Hank’s story about the encounter with the model, and she allows him back in their home.

    “The story is totally absurd. Something isn’t right with her, it’s really worrisome,” said a source close to Wilkinson.

    The couple are said to be “100 percent back together.”

  • Lesley Ann Warren to Join Curtain Call Performance With Broadway’s ‘Cinderella’ Cast

    Lesley Ann Warren, who starred in the 1965 television version of Cinderella, will once again take to the stage to sing an encore performance of a song from the classic musical.

    The Victor/Victoria star will attend the Sept. 23 production of Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Cinderella and join the cast on stage during the curtain call to sing Ten Minutes Ago.

    “I’m really looking forward to it,” Warren said. The actress has yet to see the Broadway production but saw a performance on the Tony Award telecast and called it “scrumptious.”

    Julie Andrews originated the part on Broadway eight years before Warren’s beloved television performance, which also starred Walter Pidgeon, Stuart Damon, Ginger Rogers and Celeste Holm.

    A special DVD of the 1965 television performance was released last year in anticipation of the television broadcast’s 50th anniversary next year.

    Warren, 68, said the reality that nearly 50 years have passed since she starred as Cinderella on television “makes me sick. It is crazy because it truly doesn’t feel that way to me. I can’t even wrap my head around it.”

    Warren was nominated for an Academy Award for her role in Blake Edwards’ Victor/Victoria and had recurring television roles on Desperate Housewives and In Plain Sight.

    When Warren began rehearsals for next week’s performance of Ten Minutes Ago, she became very emotional as treasured memories resurfaced.

    “It brought me back to that 18-year-old girl that I was creating that role,” she said. “It was such a momentous experience for me.”

    Warren said the beloved television version had a great impact on performers and fans of the production.

    “It changed my life,” she said. “It became a classic so quickly. It affected not only me but it affected so many people who were kind enough to let me know how it impacted their life.”

    Keke Palmer currently plays Cinderella at the Broadway Theatre, alongside Sherri Shepherd, who plays the evil stepmother.

  • Liam Hemsworth and Miley Cyrus Reconciliation? Not Likely

    Liam Hemsworth and Miley Cyrus have been spending some time together and it has “Miam” fans going wild with happy speculation that a reconciliation may be the works.

    Sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but it looks like the once-engaged couple will not be getting back together.

    After a recent report that the pair have been meeting in secret in Los Angeles, fans started to wonder if they were reconciling. However, E! News reports that the two remain good friends, but that’s as far as it goes.

    “They’ve always stayed in touch,” an insider told E! News.

    “They are not likely to reconcile,” said a second source. “They have moved on but are still friends. They still care about each other, but it’s not romantic.”

    Cyrus confirmed that they still care for each other. In fact, in an interview with Australia’s Sunday Night, Cyrus said “I love Liam … Liam loves me.”

    Bangerz is a very personal album and gives some insight into her feelings following the end to their engagement on Sept. 16, 2013.

    “It’s about finding yourself, and sometimes you have to separate yourself from everyone,” Cyrus said of the song Wrecking Ball. “I just had to become this person who is sitting in this chair right now. If I didn’t, I just felt like there was something that was going to explode and I had to set myself free.”

    According to E! News, the breakup was “Miley’s decision, after coming to grips with Liam being what she believed was less than faithful to her.”

  • Kristy Kelley: Family of Missing Indiana Woman Offer $2,000 Reward

    The family of Kristy Kelley, the 27-year-old Indiana woman who has been missing for more than 30 days, is offering a $2,000 reward for her return.

    Evansville news station 14news.com said the donation came from an anonymous source.

    Meanwhile, the community-wide search continues for the woman who was last seen leaving the VFW, in the southwestern town of Boonville, Indiana, on Aug. 15.

    One of the organizers of the search, Randy Beard, told the news station that he has been involved in the search for the woman from the very beginning. Acting as spokesman for the family, Beard said Kelley’s parents are hopeful the reward will lead to the return of their daughter.

    “They’re just very very happy and appreciative if you will that there are those who still care about finding their little girl, Kristy, a mother of two, and anything and everything is important here in the way of others contributing,” said Beard, adding that the community will not give up the search until Kelley is located.

    According to Warrick County Sheriff Brett Kruse, the FBI has been involved in the investigation for the past month.

    Kelley apparently left her cell phone behind when she left the VFW, but Kruse said it has provided few clues about her disappearance.

    “Not a lot, nothing that we really know,” said Kruse. “We pretty much knew who she was communicating with that night and the day before new information anyway.”

    Kelley was reported missing when she didn’t show up for work on Aug. 15.

    “What we know is that Kristy Kelley was at the VFW (in Boonville) at 1:30 Friday morning,” Kruse said as volunteers prepared to search for the missing woman in August. “We have video of what we think is her vehicle going past the Tastee-Freez out here at about 1:50 a.m. The rest of it is speculation.”

    The Vanderburgh County Prosecutor’s Office has opened up a ‘We Tip’ Hot Line for any information regarding Kelley’s disappearance. All calls will be kept anonymous. Call 1-800-78-CRIME with any information.

  • Tina Fey Owes Alec Baldwin For Some Parenting Skills She Learned While Working With the Actor on ’30 Rock’

    Tina Fey owes Alec Baldwin.

    The This Is Where I Leave You actress told David Letterman Friday that working with Baldwin really prepared her for the challenges of motherhood.

    “I feel like I try to use some techniques I learned working with Alec,” Fey said on her appearance on Late Night With David Letterman.

    Fey said what she learned from Baldwin is particularly handy in dealing with her three-year-old daughter, Penelope. The 30 Rock alum and husband Jeff Richmond also have an older, nine-year-old daughter, Alice.

    “She starts preschool in a couple weeks, which I think is gonna be real interesting,” Fey said of Penelope. “Once I finally got her into preschool, and it was a done deal, I was like, ‘Hey, let me tell you some stuff about her. She is not potty-trained, she’s allergic to nuts, and she bites. So, I gotta go!’ It’s the preschool hat trick! She thinks she’s [potty-trained] so that’s good. She likes to wear underpants, and then it all goes wrong.”

    Penelope may need to work on her potty-training skills, but Fey says her little one has other talents.

    “I feel like she’s a very smart little one,” the SNL alum told Letterman. “She just is very willful. We have this little library that we go to in our neighborhood and on Sundays they have a thing where they put out toys. They put out like, a dollhouse, and all these little cars and toys, and she loves it. But, it only goes until like 11 a.m. I see the clock ticking and I go, ‘Alright, I gotta start planning how we’re gonna get outta here… how we’re gonna get out of here alive.’”

    Fey said she uses the same psychology she used on her 56-year-old 30 Rock co-star.

    “I feel like I try to use some techniques I learned working with Alec,” she admitted. “It’s like, I’m gonna present the idea that we might leave now, but make [her] think it’s her idea. It would work better with Alec than with the baby.”

    In the end, Fey just picked up the stubborn little girl and carried her out of the library, kicking and screaming all the way.

  • Cheryl Burke Hanging Up Her DWTS Dancing Shoes?

    Dancing With the Stars dance pro Cheryl Burke dropped a bombshell Monday on Good Morning America when she announced that this will be her last season on the popular ABC dancing competition.

    Say it isn’t so!

    “As of now, this is probably going to be my last season,” the two-time champion said on the day of the first live performance with her season 19 star partner, Antonio Sebato Jr.

    For a decade, the dancing star has been a fixture on the hit ABC series for 18 out of the show’s 19 seasons.

    “I started when was 20. I’m 30. I want to try new things and just see what’s out there,” she explained.

    The two-time mirror ball winner has appeared in the finals seven times and the semi-finals 10 times.

    The complete Dancing With The Stars celebrity roster for tonight’s premiere looks like this:

    Olympian Lolo Jones; partnered with Keo Motsepe
    Tommy Chong of Cheech and Chong; partnered with Peta Murgatroyd
    Duck Dynasty star Sadie Robertson; partnered with Mark Ballas
    Actor Antonio Sabato Jr.; partnered with Cheryl Burke
    YouTube star Bethany Mota; partnered with Derek hugh
    Actor Jonathan Bennett; partnered with Allison Holker
    MMA Champion Randy Couture; partnered with Karina Smirnoff
    Pretty Little Liars star Janel Parrish; partnered with Val Chmerkoskiy
    Fresh prince of Bel-Air star Alfonso Ribiero; partnered with Witney Carson
    Designer Betsey Johnson; partnered with Tony Dovolani
    Race car driver Michael Waltrip; partnered with Emma Slater
    Actress Lea Thompson; partnered with Artem Chigvintsev

    One of these teams will be eliminated tonight. Who do you think will have to turn in their dancing shoes?

    Dancing With the Stars airs 8 p.m. every Monday on ABC.

  • Hannah Storm on Domestic Violence: ‘What Does the NFL Stand For?’

    ESPN’s Hannah Storm challenged the NFL to make changes in how it deals with accusations of violence in the wake of the Ray Rice scandal.

    Storm joined other football analysts in expressing dismay in how the NFL handled the incident from the get-go. When Rice knocked out his then fiancée, Janay Rice, in the elevator in March, Rice was only given a two-game suspension.

    Following the release of a graphic surveillance video by TMZ last week showing the incident in graphic detail, Rice’s contract with the Baltimore Ravens was terminated and the NFL suspended the player indefinitely.

    Since then, NFL executives have maintained that they never saw the video footage, despite reports by CNN and ESPN to the contrary.

    The 52-year-old mother of three daughters gave an emotional speech, saying she was a “lifelong” NFL fan and described how she discussed the news with her daughters.

    “On Monday, I was genuinely excited to come to work and break down what I thought was a fascinating first weekend in the NFL,” Storm said. “Instead I kicked off ESPN’s coverage of the horrific Ray Rice elevator video.”

    Storm said one of her daughters is participating in her first fantasy football league this season.

    “At breakfast this week, instead of discussing how her team was doing, we watched the Ray Rice video play out again in all of its ugliness,” Storm said, holding back tears. “I spent this week answering seemingly impossible questions about the league’s biggest stars. ‘Mom, why did he do that? Why isn’t he in jail? Why didn’t he get fired?’ And yesterday, ‘Why don’t they even have control of their own players?’

    “So here’s a question,” she continued. “What does all of this mean for the future? What does it mean for female fans, whose dollars are so coveted by the NFL, who make up an estimated 45 percent of the NFL’s fanbase? Are fans and are families, are we as parents supposed to compartmentalize everything that’s happening? Are we supposed to simply separate a violent game on the field from violent acts off the field? And if we do, what message does that send?”

    Storm then asked why more wasn’t done initially and challenged the NFL to step it up when handling future cases of domestic abuse within the league.

    “In the NFL, apparently seeing is believing,” Storm said. “If the NFL and the Ravens had to see that video to be moved to significant action, then shouldn’t those who support the league demand the same? To see action? To see change before believing, as we all wait on the answer to the central question: What exactly does the NFL stand for?”

  • ‘Django Unchained’ Actress Daniele Watts Handcuffed After 911 Call About ‘Public Sexual Act’

    “Django Unchained” actress Daniele Watts is accusing police of racism after she was handcuffed last week when she refused to show her ID to Los Angeles police.

    The African-American actress and her white boyfriend were livid when police questioned them in what they said was only a public display of affection in their car.

    “I believe in America and what it stands for,” Watts said Monday in an interview on CNN’s New Day.

    According to a spokeswoman for the Los Angeles Police Department, officers responded to a 911 call, which claimed “a male white and female black were involved in a sexual act inside a Mercedes” outside the gate of CBS Studio Center on Thursday.

    “There was an indication on the radio call that a male white and female black were involved in a sexual act inside a Mercedes with the vehicle door open,” Officer Sally Madera said. “Two people were briefly detained, but it was revealed no crime had been committed.”

    The officer had the right to request identification if he suspected illegal behavior, legal experts told CNN. However TMZ published part of the audio encounter with police, and it’s apparent that Watts did not believe they had the right to ask for her ID.

    “Somebody called, which gives me the right to be here,” the unidentified Los Angeles police officer says to Watts in the audio recording. “So It gives me the right to identify you by law.”

    “Do you know how many times the cops have been called just for being black?” she responded.

    “Who brought up the race card?” the officer asked.

    “I’m bringing it up because I have every right to be here,” Watts answered.

    The actress responded to the officers second request for ID with, “You can take me down to the court office, and I can make a scene about it. And you know what? I have a publicist, and I work as an actor in this studio.”

    The officer, who is well-acqainted with similar responses since he patrols a neighborhood with many A-list celebrities that include George Clooney and Miley Cyrus, didn’t waver. “I’m mildly interested you have a publicist, but I’m going to get your ID,” he insisted.

    “No, I’m going to say no, and if you’d like my ID you can say that I’m resisting arrest,” she said.

    “There’s no resisting, you’re just interfering,” he said. “I have probable cause; we received a radio call.”

    Post by Cheffy BeLive.

    Watts then made a call to her father, comedian Martin Lawrence.

    “I can’t make out with my boyfriend in front of my f–king studio?” she screams to her father. “I don’t have to give him my ID because it’s my right to sit on the f–king street corner and make out with my boyfriend. That’s my right.”

    “Keep yelling, it really helps,” the officer then said.

    Watts was eventually handcuffed and placed in a patrol car until her boyfriend, Brian James Lucas, better known as celebrity chef Cheffy Be*Live, gave the officer her ID.

    Lucas posted on Facebook following the incident, eluding that it was a racist encounter.

    Post by BeLive Brian.

  • Gabrielle Union and New Husband Dwyane Wade Return From ‘Epic’ Tropical Honeymoon [Pics]

    Gabrielle Union and Dwyane Wade returned from their tropical honeymoon recently and couldn’t wait to share pics of the honeymoon they labeled “epic.”

    The couple shared pictures from their tropical paradise via Instagram on Thursday, a week after returning home.

    According to the bride — who used the hashtag #irefusedtowearclothes on her posted pics — the couple spent a good deal of their time clad in little more than bathing suits.

    The couple married on Aug. 30 in a very private ceremony, a few months after the basketball great asked Union to be his wife in a very cute family-affair proposal.

    Us Weekly confirmed that Union and Wade’s nuptials were held at the Chateau Artisan castle in Miami. The Bring It On actress reportedly wore two custom Dennis Basso gowns as Wade matched in a white tux.

    According to Union‘s Instagram posts, there were three legs to their honeymoon adventure — the Maldives, Tanzania and the Seychelles.

    “About last week… Maldives on our deserted island ish… Great start to an epic adventure #irefusedtowearclothes #NebraskaCapAdventures #ChevalBlanc #OurLifeOurWay,” Union, 41, captioned a photo posted on her Instagram page.

    “When the Indian Ocean is ya swimming pool…You dive in!” Union added. “But first… Play that @beyonce baby #nebraskacapadventures #chevalblanc #Maldives #1stLeg.”

    “Pure joy! Life on the Serengeti… #Tanzania #Masai #2ndLeg…I [love] the photographer #BrianFellows,” Union wrote on another post on the second leg of their honeymoon adventure in Tanzania.

    “My current situation… Beach Bum …. Spinning the globe… The latest stop on our honeymoon adventure… Cheers to the weekend folks! Let’s make it a good one!,” wrote Union from the Seychelles.

    “So long Seychelles!!! The last and final leg of our honeymoon adventure… #NorthIsland #Villa1,” Union captioned a photo from the Seychelles.

    And the final shot was captioned, “Last night in Seychelles … Dinner in the wine cellar #northisland #TheWades”

  • Elisabetta Canalis, George Clooney’s Ex, Marries Fiancé Brian Perri in Italy

    Elisabetta Canalis, who famously dated George Clooney, married her fiancé, Brian Perri, in Italy on Sunday.

    The 36-year-old beauty tied the knot with the orthopaedic surgeon, 46, at the Cathedral of Santa Maria in Alghero, Sardinia, just days (or perhaps weeks) before her famous ex marries Amal Alamuddin.

    The couple, who became engaged earlier this year, exchanged vows in front of 150 guests in the resort town.

    Before Canalis dated Clooney for 18 months, she was engaged to soccer star Christian Vieri and film director Gabriele Muccino.

    Canalis has finally found her man and she looked beautiful for her wedding in a white bridal gown with layers of lace embellishments and a 12-foot-long train.

    Before the wedding, the bride-to-be dished on her plans for the big day.

    “For our wedding I chose a place where no one has ever got married,” the Italian star told Chi magazine. A historic estate in the Sardinian countryside, a huge vineyard that we are setting up for the occasion. There is no hotel or restaurant, we will do everything ourselves. Seventy guests will come from the United States and I want them to be amazed. The function will be in the church, I love the tradition and I’m getting married in a white dress.”

    Following the wedding, Canalis tweeted her thanks to the town where the ceremony was held and the guests that attended.

    “Thanks for making this dream possible. Thanks to all the people for the affection you have shown me!,” she wrote in Italian.

    Clooney, 53, is also expected to walk down the aisle in Italy very soon and professed his love for Alamuddin, 36, in a touching speech at Celebrity Fight Night in Italy.

    “I met my bride-to-be here in Italy, whom I will be marrying in a couple of weeks, in Venice, of all places,” said Clooney. “I guess in closing that I would just like to say to my bride-to-be Amal that I love you very much, and I can’t wait to be your husband.

  • Mary Landrieu Blames ‘Sloppy Bookkeeping’ for Misuse of Taxpayer Dollars for Campaign Travel

    Louisiana Sen. Mary Landrieu blames sloppy bookkeeping for the misuse of nearly $34,000 in taxpayer dollars used to fund more than 12 years of campaign travel, her office announced on Friday.

    Landrieu’s campaign reimbursed the $33,727 charged to her Senate office and used to charter flights for campaign travel.

    The reimbursement comes a month after Landrieu ordered an audit of her office’s travel spending to identify incorrectly-billed campaign travel, following CNN‘s report in August that a chartered flight Landrieu took for a campaign fundraiser last November was paid for with tax dollars.

    Her office ordered a review of all her flights and found that 163 campaign events over the course of 43 trips were paid for using Senate office money.

    The three-term senator the said the “mistakes” may go all the way back to 2002 and stem from “sloppy bookkeeping.” Apparently, the flights were charged to her Senate office rather than her campaign.

    “I take full responsibility. They should have never happened, and I apologize for this,” Landrieu said in the Friday statement.

    “No matter how Senator Landrieu spins it, she billed taxpayers for dozens and dozens of private jet flights since the turn of this century,” said spokesman John Cummins for Republican Bill Cassidy, Landrieu’s closest challenger in the heated race. “Even more problematic is the fact that she did not release any flight records from 1997-2002 … Given Sen. Landrieu’s own admission of faulty oversight, how do taxpayers know that problems did not exist prior to 2002?”

    The Republican campaign also accuses Landrieu of not having a permanent address in the state she serves.

  • Cris Carter’s Emotional Stand on Domestic Abuse: ‘This Goes Across All Racial Lines, Ethnicities, Religious Backgrounds’

    ESPN’s Cris Carter took an emotional stand Sunday against domestic abuse of any sort and said the NFL needs to take greater responsibility in ending the culture of domestic abuse in the NFL, thereby setting an example for the rest of the country.

    “This goes across all racial lines, ethnicities, religious backgrounds,” Carter said Sunday on NFL Countdown, at times coming close to tears.

    “People believe in disciplining their children. People with any type of Christian background, they really believe in disciplining their children.

    “My mom did the best job she could do. Raising seven kids by herself. But there are thousands of things that I have learned since then that my mom was wrong. It’s the 21st century. My mom was wrong. She did the best she could, but she was wrong about some of that stuff she taught me. And I promise my kids I won’t teach that mess to them. You can’t beat a kid to make them do what you want them to do.”

    Carter didn’t elaborate on how he was raised, but suggests that his single mother used some form of corporal punishment as a method of discipline.

    Fellow panelist Mike Ditka took a different stand on disciplining children, saying physical abuse as a child made him a better man.

    Carter said the Vikings’ suspension of Adrian Peterson — following his indictment on one count of injury to a child after striking his four-year-old son with a switch in May — was one of the first positive steps taken during one of the darkest weeks in NFL history.

    “Thousands of things we have learned since then. And now we’re to the point, the only thing I am proud about is the team that I played for, they did the right thing. Take him off the field,” said the former Vikings’ wide receiver.

    “As a man, that’s the only thing we respect. We don’t respect no dang women. We don’t respect no kids. The only thing Roger [Goodell] and them can do … take them off the dang field.”

  • Iggy Azalea Lashes Out at Sex Tape Rumors in Twitter Rant

    Iggy Azalea is now having to deal with rumors of an alleged sex tape ready to be leaked, and the Aussie is lashing out at the rumors.

    The rapper took to Twitter on Thursday to debunk claims made by porn mogul Steven Hirsch that he and his team at Vivid Entertainment were reviewing a sex tape of the 24-year-old star and an ex-boyfriend.

    Hirsch told TMZ earlier this week that he’d seen some of the footage and said he believes the tapes could make more than the seven-figure sum amassed in sales from Kim Kardashian’s legendary sex tape with Ray J.

    Hirsch told TMZ he reached out to the Booty singer to begin negotiations on a multi-million dollar deal.

    Iggy‘s camp, on the other hand, is saying there are no sex tapes of the singer and are allegedly ready to file suit if any footage is released.

    In her own words posted on Twitter, Iggy says there are no sex tapes of her in existence.

  • Ashley Judd, Demian Bichir Set to Star in Coming-of-Age Comedy ‘Good Kids’

    Ashley Judd and Demian Bichir are set to star in Nicolas Chartier’s coming-of-age comedy, Good Kids.

    Filming began Sunday in Massachusetts on the film that also stars Nicholas Braun, Zoey Deutch, Israel Broussard and Mateo Arias.

    The Divergent actress will play a beautiful Cape Cod tennis wife alongside Oscar-nominated A Better Life star Bichir, who will play the senior tennis coach at the club where she plays.

    The plot follows four “good kids,” who live on Cape Cod. Once the wholesome group graduates, they realize they’ve missed out on the fun less-studious high school kids enjoy. They decide to reinvent themselves and hang out with the wild summer kids, who debark on the island for the summer.

    Other cast members joining Judd and Bichir include Terminator: Genisys actor Dayo Okeniyi, The Perks Of Being A Wallflower actress Julia Garner, and Ginny Gardner from Paramount’s upcoming film, Project Almanac.

    The film is being directed by Chris McCoy, who wrote the 2011 Black List script, and is being produced by Depth of Field’s Chris Weitz, Paul Weitz and Andrew Miano, alongside Voltage’s Dominic Rustam. Executive producer is Justin Bursch; WME Global is representing domestic rights for the film; and Voltage Pictures is handling international sales.