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  • Kim Kardashian And Kanye West Not Deeply Tasteful Says Vogue Editor

    While Kim Kardashian’s Paper magazine shoot made the news, the celebrity was also featured on another controversial cover a while back. Kardashian and her then-fiancé Kanye West appeared on the April cover of Vogue magazine. And while the photos were actually quite tame, the inclusion of West and Kardashian in the prestigious magazine was not deemed tasteful by some readers. Anna Wintour, the editor-in-chief of Vogue, recently gave a talk at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. During the talk, she candidly discussed the reasons why she chose West and Kardashian for the cover.

    “I think if we just remain deeply tasteful and just put deeply tasteful people on the cover, it would be a rather boring magazine,” Wintour, who has been Vogue’s EIC since 1988, explained. “Nobody would talk about us. It’s very important that people do talk about us.” And to her credit, people did talk about them. Some even claimed that West begged for the couple to be included on the cover, however, Wintour denied these claims. “He did nothing of the sort. The gossip might make better reading, but the simple fact of the matter is that it isn’t true,” she said in an interview with US Weekly back in March.

    While Wintour may have implied that West and Kardashian are not “deeply tasteful”, she also delivered another subtle backhanded compliment during her talk. “I hope another Kim Kardashian comes along this year!”

    Wintour also compared the controversy behind the West-Kardashian shoot to the time when she chose Madonna to appear on the cover of the magazine. She said, “The first celebrity that I put on the cover of Vogue was Madonna, and that was considered completely controversial at the time too. It’s such a long time ago probably no one remembers, but she was a very controversial figure. Now she’s part of the establishment.”

  • Jennifer Lawrence Pranked On Set By The Hunger Games Castmates

    On the set of The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1, Jennifer Lawrence and her castmates often pulled pranks on each other to keep spirits up. Lawrence revealed that she had once been the target of a particularly disgusting prank that haunted her especially during naptime.

    At the Los Angeles premiere of The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1, which was held at the Nokia Theater LA Live, Lawrence told Entertainment Tonight’s Kevin Frazier about what went down behind the scenes. “We all mess with each other to make sure all of us have a conflicted experience. I got a Tiffany’s box filled with crickets!” Lawrence said.

    The trick was apparently spearheaded by Jeffrey Wright, who plays Beetee in the movie. He reportedly gave Lawrence a jewelry box that was full of crickets, which later infested her trailer. “It was the most awful combination of feelings in the world. It was like, Tiffany’s!? Jeffrey! You didn’t have to do that! And then I opened it… it was awful. And they were in my trailer for months, I couldn’t get them out,” continued Lawrence.

    The 24-year-old actress also said that she would sometimes hear the crickets when trying to take naps in her trailer. Lawrence’s co-stars reportedly loved the prank.

    Jennifer Lawrence talks about crickets

    “That was like the best prank ever pulled on anyone. She’s just fun to mess with,” said Josh Hutcherson, who plays Peeta, the love interest of Lawrence’s character.

    Hutcherson added that he thought pranking Lawrence was “fun”. “We just love giving her crap all the time, and whether it’s a prank or just, you know, giving her a hard time, it’s the best,” said the 22-year-old Hutcherson.

    The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1 will be in theaters in the US on November 21. Fans of the highly successful movie franchise, however, will reportedly have to wait another year to see Part 2, which is slated to show on November 20, 2015.

    The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1 (Full Trailer)

  • Hayden Panettiere Rocks A Skimpy Bikini While 8 Months Pregnant

    Over the weekend, Hayden Panettiere and her fiancé Wladimir Klitschko flew to Hawaii, where the expectant mother rocked a skimpy bikini that flaunted her baby bump at eight months. Panettiere and Klitschko vacationed in Hawaii starting on November 15 to relax, and the 25-year-old Nashville star took the opportunity to put her changing body in sexy swimwear.

    Panettiere was seen in photos taken on November 18 wearing a ruffled coral top paired with multicolored bikini bottoms. She still looked beautiful without any makeup and wore her hair up in a bun. The skimpy ensemble highlighted Panettiere’s baby bump, making her look ready to pop in a few weeks.

    This wasn’t the first time Panettiere wore a bikini with her baby bump. Last Halloween, Panettiere shared a pic of herself online with the caption, “Happy Halloweeeeen!!!!” In the pic, Panettiere was wearing animal face paint and clad in an animal-print bikini, with her pregnant belly calling for attention.

    Panettiere is reportedly raring to begin motherhood. “I’m so ready to hold my baby girl—I’m going to be a very hands-on mom. I’m thrilled that I am having a girl first because I feel like I know a lot about raising a strong woman. I feel very empowered myself and I think my daughter will, too,” she said.

    The Nashville star is still finding the physical changes of pregnancy challenging, even if she doesn’t care about baring her belly in public. “I’m 5 feet, 2 inches and I started out at 106 pounds and guess how much I weight now? Around 145 pounds. And the worst part is that my feet are still size five and they’re going, ‘What’s going on with all this weight?’ They’re about to snap from underneath me with the strain,” she said. Since Panettiere is eight months into her pregnancy, relief in the form of her child’s birth will probably be coming to her very soon.

  • Demi Moore Inspired Daughter Tallulah Willis To Shave Her Head

    Tallulah Willis is sporting a new ‘do—and it’s inspired by one of her mother Demi Moore’s most iconic film roles. Tallulah recently shaved her head in tribute to her mother’s character in GI Jane, a movie in which Demi stars as the first woman to be trained in the US Navy Special Warfare Group.

    Her older sister, Rumer Willis, revealed that Tallulah had shaven her own head, taking their mother Demi’s GI Jane look a step further. Rumer documented her 20-year-old sister’s process of shaving her own head in an Instagram video with the caption, “@buuski is a bad ass bitch #GIjane #rawbeauty,” immediately referencing Demi’s iconic movie role. In the video, Tallulah is laughing as she uses an electric razor to shave off what was previously a pixie cut.

    @buuski is a bad ass bitch #GIjane #rawbeauty

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    Tallulah also took to her own Instagram account to showcase her new look. She posted a photo with the caption, “November 18th. remember it.” Demi’s daughter also attributed the inspiration for her shaven head to her mom, posting a photo of Demi in 1997 when she shaved her head for GI Jane. “mawms is bae. #thankgodgoodheadshapesruninthefamily,” reads Tallulah’s caption.

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    Tallulah then took her new look to Sayer’s Club in Los Angeles to support Rumer’s music. She posted a photo of herself and her 26-year-old sister, with the caption, “Luv u proud of u can’t wait to hear you sing my precious songbird @ruelarue.” Tallulah also played up her bald-headed look on social media with the help of her other sister Scout, who posted a Vine video of her singing Sinead O’Connor’s “Nothing Compares 2 U” in the car. Demi’s daughters are apparently supportive of each other throughout all their endeavors.

     

    luv u proud of u cant wait to hear you sing my precious songbird @ruelarue

     

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    Tallulah reportedly made the news last summer when she checked herself into rehab to fight body dysmorphia. However, Rumer supposedly told Us Weekly that her sister was back and better than ever.

  • Dan Blocker Beach Is Opened To Public After 35 Years

    For the first time after decades of not being used, Dan Blocker Beach in Malibu has been opened to the public. The beach, which was named after actor Dan Blocker, star of Bonanza, also has a Dan Blocker Beach scenic viewpoint that overlooks it and was unveiled on Friday, November 14.

    LA County Supervisor Zev Yaroslavsky reportedly rushed to finish the project before the end of his term after decades of being on the backburner. Dan Blocker Beach scenic viewpoint was completed just 17 days before Yaroslavsky was set to leave office.

    “Public access to our coastline is about making sure that our beaches and our coastline are for everybody, and so this is a great day,” said Yaroslavsky at the dedication ceremony for Blocker.

    Actors Michael Landon and Lorne Grenne reportedly bought the beach and named it after their co-star Blocker, who played the character of Hoss on Bonanza. Landon and Greene donated the beach, which runs one mile from Latigo Shore Drive east to Corral Canyon Road along Pacific Coast Highway, to the state in 1979. After purchasing adjacent pieces of land, the state apparently donated Dan Blocker Beach to the county in 1995.

    Dan Blocker Beach remained an eyesore, however, as time passed without development. Tattered fencing reportedly kept out the public yet did not deter passersby from littering Dan Blocker Beach with trash. Yaroslavsky reportedly spearheaded the beach’s development in 2011 after receiving pressure from city officials.

    “As a family, as a whole, we’re very honored,” said Blocker’s son, Dan Blocker. “We are so happy to have it for our kids, to say, ‘This is for your grandpa,’ instead of just a fence.” He also thanked fans from around the world who dedicated funds for a plaque for his father.

    “It’s been a really long time coming. I think it’s just a wonderful place to stop, it’s a great view point,” said Carol Baker, spokesperson for Beaches and Harbors.

  • Raven Symone Vehemently Denies Allegations That Bill Cosby Molested Her

    The actor who played Bill Cosby’s granddaughter in The Cosby Show has come forward to deny allegations that she was molested by the comedian. Raven Symone used Instagram to post a denial of circulating rumors that she had been molested by Cosby, who is currently facing multiple accusations of rape.

    Symone posted a photo of herself from the show on Instagram, along with the caption, “I was NOT taking advantage of by Mr. Cosby when I was on the Cosby Show! I was practically a baby on that show and this is truly a disgusting rumor that I want no part of! Everyone on that show treated me with nothing but kindness. Now keep me out of this!”

    The rumors that angered Symone originated from a questionable report on HipHipHangover.com, which calls itself “a gossip parody and satirical publication” on its website. The report alleged that Symone filed molestation charges against Cosby and even reported that the assault took place after the series finale in 1992 when Symone was six years old.

    Symone is reportedly the first of Cosby’s co-stars to speak out about the comedian’s rape controversy, although she didn’t necessarily defend him. Several women have come forward to accuse Cosby of drugging and then raping them, the latest of whom is former supermodel Janice Dickinson.

    Dickinson alleged that Cosby had raped her in 1982, which Cosby’s lawyer, Marty Singer, said was a lie. Concerning Dickinson saying she had been pressured to hide her sexual assault in her autobiography, No Lifeguard on Duty: The Accidental Life of the World’s First Supermodel, Singer said in a statement, “You can confirm with Harper Collins that she never claimed that Mr. Cosby raped her, that no attorney representing Bill Cosby tried to kill the story…and no one tried to prevent anything she wanted to say about Bill Cosby in her book. There is documentary proof that Janice Dickinson is fabricating and lying about Bill Cosby.”

  • Maggie Carey, Bill Hader Welcome A Third Baby Girl To The Family

    Comedian Bill Hader and his director wife Maggie Carey have welcomed a new baby girl into their lives. Carey gave birth to the couple’s third child—and third girl—Hayley on Saturday, November 15. Carey and Hader are reportedly continuing their tradition of naming their children with names that start with “H,” already having Hannah, 5, and Harper, 2.

    Carey is the writer and director of The To Do List, which came out in 2013 and starred Aubrey Plaza in the lead role. Hader, meanwhile, is a Saturday Night Live alumnus who is famous for his role as Weekend Update’s gay club reviewer Stefon.

    Before Carey gave birth to Hayley, her husband made a guest appearance on Conan recently and opened up about how challenging being a parent was. “It’s hard, it’s great, it’s beautiful. I don’t sleep,” said the 36-year-old SNL alum to Conan O’Brien.

    Hader also told the late-night talk show host how his daughters with Carey can’t grasp how their father is sometimes in the movies they watch. “They’re very young. We’ll be watching and she’s really into the movie and stuff, and I’ll go, you know, that’s daddy and she kind of looks at me and she’s like, ‘That’s a cartoon,’” he said.

    Hader also spoke of Carey as a mother, and how she reacted during the birth of their first child together. Apparently, Carey may be open to having more children, judging by what Hader said she said.

    “She was awesome, amazing, but she was like Gene Hackman in Hoosiers,” joked Hader about what Carey was like during the birth of their eldest daughter, Hannah. “She was just like, ‘We can do this! I love you!’”

    Hader is reportedly doesn’t mind being surrounded with females in his home. “I grew up with my two sisters and my mom, so it’s my lot in life to be surrounded by women,” he told People in September.

  • Amy Adams Dazzles In Fairy Tale Photoshoot For Vogue Cover

    Gracing the cover of the latest issue of Vogue, Golden Globe winner Amy Adams took part in an eccentric photoshoot that had her dressed up as characters in fairy tales. On the cover, Adams wore a sheer black dress with leaf-patterned detail and her red hair swept to the side, but the American Hustle star also donned costumes for her fantasy-inspired fashion spread within the magazine’s pages.

    One photo portrays Adams as an ice princess on top of a snowy mountain, while another photo shows her as a ballerina puppet being manipulated by director Tim Burton. Her latest film project, Big Eyes, was directed by Burton, who raved in the Vogue interview about what a nuanced actor Adams was. “She brought something so subtle to this; I am not used to dealing in subtlety. It almost felt like a silent movie sometimes,” said Burton.

    Adams also revealed in the interview that she didn’t always find it easy to be an actor. She said that she was a “mess” during the first few years she tried to make it in Los Angeles. “I was able to do everything from day player to guest star to small parts in movies,” she said. “I felt a lot of pressure, but I just wasn’t able to get there in the audition room. Or even in meetings. My squirreliness would come out, and people wouldn’t feel confident. I’ve always been someone who had, like, a spirit of perseverance, but I actually almost quit because I was starting not to like who I was.”

    Although Adams has had a prolific and successful career since her early days, she confessed that it didn’t prevent her from having a meltdown when she turned 40 in August of this year. “I was like, ‘I’m 40 and I still care what people think of me; I still don’t do laundry so I’m always out of things; I’m just not a grown-up at all,’ and I had this expectation that I would be by this age,” Adams said.

  • Brittany Maynard Fights For Death With Dignity Beyond Her Own Passing

    The woman who chose to end her life after being diagnosed with a rare and debilitating form of brain cancer is still fighting for the right to death with dignity after her own passing on November 1. Brittany Maynard chose the date to end her suffering by ingesting prescribed barbiturates and would have turned 30 on November 19, but a video released by aid-in-dying advocates is helping her keep up the fight.

    In the video, recorded on August 2 and released on her birthday, Maynard urges others to campaign for death with dignity laws for the entire country. “I hope for the sake of other American citizens — all these people I’m speaking to that I’ve never met, that I’ll never meet — that this choice be extended to you… That we mobilize. That we vocalize. That we start to talk about it,” said Maynard in the video.

    Maynard’s choice to end her life in the face of a painful terminal illness has prompted responses from the Vatican. Pope Francis reportedly called assisted suicide “a false sense of compassion” in a recent meeting with the Association of Italian Catholic Doctors. Meanwhile, Monsignor Ignacio Carrasco de Paula, the head of the Pontifical Academy for Life, said on November 3, just days after Maynard’s death that her choice to end her life was “reprehensible.” De Paula reportedly said, “We don’t judge people, but the gesture in itself is to be condemned. Assisted suicide is an absurdity. Dignity is something different than putting an end to your own life.”

    Maynard’s mother, Debbi Ziegler, responded to the monsignor’s words with her own statement, believed to be the first from her family since her daughter passed away. “This word was used publicly at a time when my family was tender and freshly wounded. Grieving,” Ziegler wrote. “Such strong public criticism from people we do not know, have never met, is more than a slap in the face. It is like kicking us as we struggle to draw a breath.”

  • Dave Chappelle Sticks Up For Donald Sterling

    Just this year, comedian Dave Chappelle made his triumphant return to the world of stand-up comedy. The comedian, who’s known for his observations and routines regarding race, couldn’t have made his comeback at a better time. Chappelle returned to the stage right at the peak of the scandal involving Donald Sterling and his racist tirade. Despite the fact that Chappelle thinks what Sterling said is outrageous, he believes Sterling should have been allowed to keep the LA Clippers.

    “Ultimately, I don’t think he should have lost his team,” Chappelle said in an interview with GQ. “I don’t like the idea that someone could record a secret conversation and that a person could lose their assets from that, even though I think what he said was awful. When you think about the intimacy of a situation, like, can a man just chill with his mistress in peace?”

    For Chappelle this is an issue about freedom of speech. He said in the same interview, “I just don’t like when things like that happen, because if they take s–t away for things that people say that are objectionable, I may not have anything in a few years. Granted, I don’t think I say s–t like ‘Stop bringing white people to my game.’”

    Chappelle famously walked out of the production of his successful TV show because he was unhappy with the direction the show was taking. He said in the interview about this particular point in his career, “I would go to work on the show and I felt awful every day, that’s not the way it was. I felt like some kind of prostitute or something. If I feel so bad, why keep on showing up to this place? I’m going to Africa. The hardest thing to do is to be true to yourself, especially when everybody is watching.”

    Dave Chappelle on Donald Sterling (explicit content)

  • Ray J Still Making Bank Off Kim Kardashian’s Booty

    Kim Kardashian’s nude photo spread for Paper magazine has made Ray J a rich man. The nude photos of Kardashian have caused the sales of Kim and Ray J’s sex tape, Kim K Superstar, to skyrocket. The tape was filmed in 2003 and was released back in 2007. According to TMZ, Ray J will earn $50,000 just from the past week when the photo spread was released. Ray J reportedly earns $90,000 every three months from sales of the sex tape.

    Steve Hirsch, president of Vivid Entertainment, revealed that Kim K Superstar is now the biggest-selling celebrity sex tape of all time. Until last week, the Pamela Anderson and Tommy Lee sex tape held the title. When Ray J and Kim’s sex tape was released in 2007, Kim sued Vivid Entertainment for ownership of the tape. Kim dropped the suit and settled with Vivid for $5 million.

    Ray J’s sex tape with Kardashian wasn’t the only controversial thing about the former couple. In 2013, Ray J released the song “I Hit It First”, a song that reportedly took aim at Kim and Kanye West. There were rumors that when Kim and Kanye got married, Ray J supposedly sent a check that totaled the profits from the sex tape as a wedding gift. However, Ray J has since denied these rumors.

    Ray J, whose real name is William Ray Norwood Jr., is an RnB singer and rapper. He is the brother of singer Brandy Norwood. In 2009, he starred in the reality show For the Love of Ray J and in 2010 he expanded his TV airtime with the show Brandy and Ray J: A Family Business.

    Earlier this year, Ray J was charged with sexual battery, vandalism on a police car, battery on a police officer, and resisting arrest. He plead not guilty to the charges.

  • Vanessa Lachey Shares Parenting Advice

    Vanessa Lachey Shares Parenting Advice

    Vanessa Lachey, who’s expecting her second baby soon, was recently interviewed by American Baby magazine for their upcoming issue. The star did not just share pregnancy and parenting tips, but she also talked candidly about her experience when she was pregnant with her first child, Camden. She admitted that she didn’t form an instant bond when she got her first baby bump. “While pregnant with my son, Camden, I felt guilty because everyone told me about this love I’d feel, and I wasn’t there yet,” she said in the interview.

    Vanessa added, “I remember asking [husband] Nick [Lachey], ‘Is something wrong with me? I’ve wanted this my whole life, and I’m forcing myself to have those feelings.’ For me, the love really flowed when I found out the baby was a boy. That’s when I could finally bond, once I knew ‘it’ was a ‘him’.” She also advised moms against comparing themselves to what they see on social media. “With social media, people share mostly their best moments,” Vanessa pointed out. “Don’t feel like you’re not doing enough when you see a mom posting about making applesauce after you bought it. Ha ha! It’s fine! Just for raising a little human being you should be commended.”

    The 34-year-old was recently spotted in LAX with a very visible baby bump, but she didn’t let her pregnancy ruin her sense of style. Vanessa was seen wearing a stylish all-black ensemble that revealed her still-growing baby bump. Vanessa is married to Nick Lachey and the couple are expecting a daughter. They broke the news back in July.

    Nick was also interviewed recently about parenting as well as his ex-wife Jessica Simpson, and he revealed that he’s happy they never had any kids. “She’s obviously happily married with two and I’m happily married and about to have two so it all worked out the way it was kind of meant to work out,” Lachey said.

  • Erika Christensen Of ‘Parenthood’ And Cyclist Cole Maness Are Engaged!

    It has been confirmed that Cole Maness has proposed to 32-year-old actress Erika Christensen, and that Christensen said yes. The couple have yet to reveal the wedding date, but it seems that congratulations are already in order. According to sources, Christensen was overheard at Yellowtail Sunset in West Hollywood gushing about her engagement.

    While the couple have managed to keep things relatively private about their relationship, Maness and Christensen are both active on social media and are known to share snippets of their adventures together on their respective Instagram accounts. Just recently, Maness shared pictures of Christensen trying on outfits for her TV show Parenthood as well as her appearances on the red carpet. Christensen, meanwhile, has posted pictures of the couple’s biking trips together.

     

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    Christensen is a devout Scientologist, which stems from her upbringing as a child with Scientologist parents. In a 2013 interview, she talked at length about her religion. “If I had to sum it up, the goal of Scientology is giving the person back to themselves. Like, your own power of choice,” she said. She also discussed the misconceptions about Scientology in the interview, saying, “One, that we are some kind of closed group. Two, that we are the Hollywood religion and three, that we worship rabbits!”

    The actress also said that she will expose her children to what Scientology is all about. “I would expose to them, like, this is what I do, which is how my parents did it, because my parents are Scientologists,” Christensen began. “When I was like seven, they did like this demonstration. There is this thing in Scientology, it’s a study method to demonstrate things out. I would give them the option, of like, these are our study tools. You can use them in school, get good grades, and learn.”

    Christensen is current busy filming the final season of Parenthood.

  • Jerry Seinfeld Schools Rapper Wale On Whining

    It’s the unlikeliest of friendships, but it seems that comedian Jerry Seinfeld and Wale are really hitting it off. In 2008, Wale released The Mixtape about Nothing, a mixtape that was inspired by Seinfeld’s eponymous TV show. The mixtape also featured samples from Seinfeld as well as a shout-out from actress Julia Louis-Dreyfuss who plays Elaine on the show. The comedian became aware of the record and he arranged to meet with Wale backstage at a show in Baltimore. The two discussed working together, with Seinfeld appearing on The Gifted’s “Outro about Nothing”.

    This friendship has now turned into a full blown collaboration. Seinfeld appears all over Wale’s new album called The Album about Nothing. Seinfeld serves as a sort of narrator for the record, providing spoken-word segments between the songs. While the two have little in common on the surface, it’s clear that Seinfeld is a calming influence on the rapper. They have become a real-life version of The Odd Couple.

    Seinfeld and Wale recently appeared in a cover story for Complex. The two recorded a skit poking fun at Wale’s tirade against the magazine when he didn’t make it to their list of 50 Best Albums of 2013. In the skit, they joke that Seinfeld was actually the one behind Wale’s threatening phone call to the Complex offices. In the article however, Wale was more serious about the incident. “I learned from it. Although I wasn’t happy with certain things in my career, I checked some things in myself,” the rapper said during the interview.

    The friends also talked about their views on celebrity in the interview. “There’s a fame need. We need people to look at or talk about to just to fill the time. They say life is too short. It is way too long! And we’re filling it in with a lot of fake stuff. Like wrestling. Like stars who have no talent,” Seinfeld said about the nature of fame nowadays.

    Wale and Jerry Seinfeld’s The Album about Nothing is slated to be released this fall.

  • David Letterman Invites Ladder-Climbing Dog To ‘The Late Show’

    A rescue dog from Calgary named Lexi has been making a name for herself on social media quite recently because of her amazing skills. The Labrador-Border collie cross is known for her stunts, including balancing on top of a basketball rim, leaping between concrete posts, and climbing ladders. Now Lexi has caught the attention of mainstream media. Lexi and her owner, Chris Jansen, were in New York on Tuesday, November 18, to tape a “Stupid Pet Tricks” segment for The Late Show with David Letterman.

    According to Jansen, Letterman was impressed by Lexi. “The taping went great. Lexi climbed to the top of the ladder while David Letterman held the ladder steady,” Jansen said of the stunt that showcased one of Lexi’s signature tricks. “Her mind is just amazing. She never stops learning, she’s willing to try anything and she really hasn’t said no yet, so the sky’s the limit.” Jansen and Lexi were invited by The Late Show staff after they saw Lexi’s videos online.

    Jansen adopted Lexi from the Humane Society back in 2009 when she was still a few months old. He said that they formed a special bond right from the get-go. “She finally realized that she is in a very solid foundation home and she trusts me,” Jansen said in an interview with CTV News Calgary. “I bet you she could walk through fire for me … she’s just everything to (me).”

    Chris told reporters that when Lexi was asked to audition for Letterman, the producers couldn’t stop talking about the ladder trick. They told Jansen that in their 30 years of working in the industry, they haven’t seen a dog climb a ladder. “All they could talk about was the ladder,” he said. “’We’ve got to get her on, we’ve got to see the ladder – we’ve never seen it before.’”

    A rescue dog from Calgary named Lexi performs amazing tricks. Watch her in action.

  • Lauren Hill’s Cancer Is Starting To Take Its Toll

    Lauren Hill’s cancer is taking its toll on her body. Just two weeks after the Mount St. Joseph freshman made the first score for her team’s basketball season, it has been revealed that Hill has gotten significantly weaker. On Tuesday, November 18, Hill spoke at a ceremony in her school’s gym. She opened up about how her sickness has affected her since the inspiring match between Mount St. Joseph and Hiram. “The game is sort of out of sight, out of mind,” Lauren said. “You know how I say, ‘Live in the moment?’ That game was two weeks ago, and I’m not worried about the future, either. I’m just worried about spending time with my family right now and the holidays and trying to get to Thanksgiving and just living in the moment.”

    With her condition worsening, doctors have said that they don’t expect Hill to make it until Christmas. However, Hill and her family are facing it head on. “You’re surrounded by death. There’s no other way to say it,” said Lauren’s mom, Lisa Hill. “You can’t let your head move forward and think of the end or what’s coming next because it will take you to dark places. So you really do have to stay in the moment or it will eat you up, you won’t get out of bed, and that’s not a choice right now.”

    The inoperable tumor plaguing Hill has left the right side of her body weak and she has resorted to using a wheelchair to move around. “Toward the latter part of the day, you’ll see her more in her wheelchair because her legs are weaker so she has a hard time moving,” Lisa said.

    When asked about whether her daughter will play again, Lisa answered, “I don’t know. I would probably say it’s maybe not realistic, but you never know on the day. So if she’s got really high spirits and her body’s doing what it’s supposed to be doing, who knows?”

  • Michael Brown Verdict: Will The Outcome Lead To Violent Protests In Ferguson?

    It seems the state of Missouri is bracing for the possibility that a grand jury might acquit Darren Wilson, the police officer who shot 18-year-old Michael Brown. The governor of Missouri declared a state of emergency ahead of a grand jury’s decision on whether or not to prosecute Wilson. Days after the shooting, the suburb of Ferguson in Missouri caught the world’s attention because of violent clashes between police and protesters. According to Governor Jay Nixon, the National Guard will be deployed to assist police officers in case there’s unrest following the grand jury’s decision.

    It is still unclear when the grand jury will make their decision, but prosecutors expect the deliberations to be done before the end of November. The state of emergency will last for 30 days and will only be extended as soon as another order is filed. St. Louis Mayor Francis Slay discussed the role that the National Guard will play during the state of emergency. According to Slay, the role of the National Guard will only be secondary to that of the local police force.

    An FBI bulletin issued last Friday warned nationwide law enforcement agencies that the upcoming grand jury on the Michael Brown case may lead to attacks by protesters. “The announcement of the grand jury’s decision will likely be exploited by some individuals to justify threats and attacks against law enforcement and critical infrastructure,” the FBI said in the bulletin. “This also poses a threat to those civilians engaged in lawful or otherwise constitutionally protected activities.”

    The controversy surrounding Brown’s death, as well as the violent protests that followed, prompted some organizations to move their conventions elsewhere. One such organization is the Church of God In Christ, who used to hold their annual convention in Missouri. The church’s bishop sent a letter to Nixon expressing concerns about the shooting, and that they’re considering relocating their conference somewhere else.

    The grand jury’s decision will ultimately seal Darren Wilson’s fate and the verdict will determine whether or not he will go to trial for shooting Michael Brown. According to Wilson, he shot Brown in self-defense after the teen supposedly attacked him. Witnesses have come forward saying otherwise, and that Wilson reportedly shot Brown while the African-American teen had his hands up. An autopsy conducted by Dr. Michael Baden at the request of Brown’s family, concluded that Brown was shot at least six times, with the final bullet striking Brown in the top of the head.

  • Ellen DeGeneres And Portia De Rossi Channel Kim Kardashian For New Christmas Card

    Ellen DeGeneres recently unveiled a prototype for her and wife Portia de Rossi’s Christmas card this holiday season. “This is the time of year where you have to order your holiday cards,” DeGeneres revealed on Monday’s episode of her talk show. “As you know, Portia and I started working on our holiday cards… and here’s the second one we came up with.” The front reads “Happy Holidays” while the photo inside shows Ellen and Portia’s heads photoshopped on Kim Kardashian’s controversial Paper magazine cover with the caption “And a Shiny New Year”.

    The card elicited laughter from Ellen’s audience. Last week, Ellen revealed the other card that they were thinking of using. The card had another simple cover that says “Silent Night” while inside there’s a photo of Ellen and Portia sipping wine with the phrase “because we don’t have any kids” written above the photo. Based on the crowd’s reaction, there’s no doubt that the Kim Kardashian-inspired photo will be the one Ellen and Portia will be going for this year.

    Last year, Kim also served as the couple’s inspiration for their Christmas card. The card read “Bound for Christmas” and poked fun at Kanye West’s “Bound 2” music video which starred Kanye and Kim. The card shows the scene with a naked Kim Kardashian sitting in front of Kanye as they ride a motorcycle… only this time Ellen and Portia’s heads were photoshopped on the couple’s bodies.

    Kim recently expressed her dismay after several photoshopped images of her Paper photoshoot leaked online. “Kim is furious over the fake photoshopped pics of her butt that’s going around,” said a source from Hollywood Life. “She oversees everything and would never allow pics of herself to be manipulated drastically.”

    Hopefully, Kim won’t have any problem with Ellen and Portia’s Christmas cards considering that they’re pretty funny and were done in good fun.

  • Bill Cosby Accused Of Being A Serial Rapist, Remains Silent

    Bill Cosby is now in the center of a media firestorm after allegations of him committing rape have resurfaced. Recently, Cosby’s attorneys released a blanket statement on their website saying that, “decade-old, discredited allegations against Mr. Cosby have resurfaced. The fact that they are being repeated does not make them true. Mr. Cosby doesn’t not intend to dignify these allegations with any comment.” On Monday, November 17, Cosby’s representatives released another statement clarifying that this does not pertain to the allegations of Andrea Constand. Constand’s civil lawsuit against Cosby was settled back in 2006.

    The statement was released jointly with Constand’s lawyer and says, “The statement released by Mr. Cosby’s attorney over the weekend was not intended to refer in any way to Andrea Constand. As previously reported, differences between Mr. Cosby and Ms. Constand were resolved to the mutual satisfaction of Mr. Cosby and Ms. Constand years ago.”

    In 2005 Constand filed a lawsuit against Cosby and she claimed that other women would be willing to testify. Those named in the filing were Tamara Green and Barbara Bowman, two women who also accused Cosby of raping them. The latest woman to come forward is a publicist named Joan Tarshis who claims that Cosby drugged and raped her when she was 19 years old.

    Cosby has remained silent about the recent allegations. It’s been reported that these incidents go as far back as the 1960s. In a recent interview with NPR’s Scott Simon, Cosby only shook his head and kept quiet when asked about the scandal. Eric B. Denzenhall, a Washington-based crisis consultant, discussed Cosby’s strategy in dealing with the matter.

    Denzenhall said, “In the current culture, no matter what you do to defend yourself in one of these high-profile media vortexes, it generates multiple waves of new and negative coverage. Cosby has got to be thinking, ‘is the better of my very bad options to remain silent?’”

    Recent TV show appearances by Cosby have been canceled since the news broke out about the new allegations. Cosby canceled his appearance on the Queen Latifah Show, an interview with Alternative Press, and a guest spot in The Late Show with David Letterman. The comedian was supposed to do a promotional tour for his new Netflix comedy special. Netflix executives are still quiet about whether or not the release of the special will push through on its intended date.

    A new NBC show is being developed that stars Bill Cosby as a patriarch of a multi-generational family. There is no news yet on how the scandal will affect the show’s development.

  • Is Kendra Wilkinson Starting A Rivalry With Nadia Forde?

    Kendra Wilkinson and Irish model Nadia Forde are co-stars in the reality TV show I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here! However, it seems that a little rivalry is brewing between the two. Wilkinson couldn’t be happier that actress Vicki Michelle was freed from the Celebrity Slammer instead of Forde. Vicki joined Croc Creek after Jimmy Bullard opted to save a celebrity during a Tunnel of Terror task. Vicki gushed about the 25-year-old Forde, saying, “Nadia’s drop dead gorgeous!” Kendra on the other hand, revealed a jealous streak. “I’m glad we voted in Vicki because to me she’s beautiful but a little less threatening than Nadia,” Wilkinson said.

    Kendra added, “I’m not ready to compete in bodies right now. I already have Mel [Sykes]. Stop throwing these models in my face. God, it’s not fair. If that Nadia comes walking in with a grass skirt and little fruit top … I’m going to start doing my sit ups before she comes.”


    In the show, she told her camp mates about her time in the Playboy Mansion as one of Hugh Hefner’s girlfriends. “I was a little different,” she revealed. “I was more of a friend than the other two. Everybody kind of [had sex with him]. The other two wanted to be dating him.”

    Kendra Wilkinson was in headlines again recently after a sex tape of her resurfaced. The tape was made back in 2005 with her ex-boyfriend Justin Frye and it leaked in 2010. The rights to the video were by Vivid Entertainment, who released the video with the title Kendra Exposed. In an interview about the tape, Kendra said, “It’s extremely embarrassing. I am a very open person, I am very honest about my life, but a sex tape was definitely not what I wanted in my life. It wasn’t for anybody else’s eyes to see except for ours.”

  • Christy Mack Testifies In Court Against War Machine In Preliminary Hearing

    On November 14, porn star Christy Mack appeared in court to face her attacker, ex-boyfriend Jonathan Paul Koppenhaver aka War Machine. The MMA fighter reportedly sexually assaulted Mack and brutally beat her within inches of her life. War Machine allegedly smirked during Mack’s testimony, which prompted the judge to berate him. Mack was describing the incident which left her with 18 broken bones including a fractured rib, missing teeth, a broken nose, and a ruptured liver. When Mack said yes after she was asked by the prosecutor if there was sexual violence, War Machine started laughing.

    The prosecution asked War Machine’s reaction to be put on record, and despite the fact that the defense objected to the request, Judge Melanie Andress-Tobiasson overruled and simply said, “I watched him laugh.” Mack also testified as to how War Machine had strangled her before and forced her to have sex. She also talked about how he threatened her and her family several times.

    War Machine is currently battling 34 charges including attempted murder and kidnapping. “Throughout the entire thing, he had a knife. It was one of my kitchen steak knives…and, um, he cut my hair off with it,” Mack said in her testimony. A tape of Mack’s 911 call was also played during the trial. She was reportedly fighting through tears as she listened to her screams in the recording.

    Mack was with her friend and former reality star, Corey Thomas, when the incident took place. Thomas also suffered a beating at the MMA fighter’s hands. “I was looking up at the ceiling, in Christy’s bathroom, thinking to myself: ‘Oh my God. I can’t believe I’m gonna die in Christy’s bathroom,’” Thomas said in his testimony.

    The next hearing will be on Thursday, November 20. War Machine has pleaded not guilty to all charges.