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  • Kris Jenner Opens Up About Her Previous Marriages In Startling Interview

    On Sunday, the original “momager” Kris Jenner appeared on the E! interview special Beyond Candid With Giuliana. On the show, Kris laid bare her secrets to Giuliana Rancic, including what it was like to be married to defense lawyer Robert Kardashian and Olympian Bruce Jenner.

    Kris revealed that she still has regrets about the end of her marriage to the late Kardashian. The 50-year-old admitted to Giuliana that she had a torrid love affair while she was married to her lawyer husband.

    “I wasn’t mature enough to know that marriage has its ups and downs,” Kris said. She claimed that they drifted apart from each other after 10 years of marriage.

    Despite the end of their relationship, Kris said that she took Robert’s cancer diagnosis hard. “It was so surreal, the knowledge he had cancer was one thing, but to think it would actually take his life, I never in a million years thought that would happen to him,” said Kris.

    Robert and Kris were married from 1978 to 1991. Kris revealed that she went on her first date with Bruce a few weeks after her divorce from Robert, having been set up by the wife of former baseball star Steve Garvey. They married just five months later.

    Robert and Bruce apparently had “a united front” about the Kardashian kids, putting their needs first. Kris said that the fact that Robert would have his children over every other weekend helped her marriage with Bruce because it gave them some time alone.

    It was managing Bruce’s speaking engagements that reportedly gave her the skills to manage her children’s careers today. Kris revealed that she still feels sad about ending their marriage of 25 years.

    “I feel like I failed at something because I wanted it to be that relationship for the rest of my life. When I realized that it wasn’t then you want the next best thing and that’s an amazing friendship,” she said.

  • Rick Ross Drops New Single Featuring R. Kelly For ‘Hood Billionaire’ Album

    On Friday, rapper Rick Ross dropped a new single from his upcoming album called Hood Billionaire. The song is called “Keep Doin’ That (Rich B—tch)” and features none other than the legendary R&B singer R. Kelly.

    According to Music Times, the single is about finding a rich woman, dating her and “doin’ that.” It features Kelly’s melodic vocals in the chorus to complement Ross’s gangster-style raps. A few piano chords decorate this melodic rap song that was posted on SoundCloud. The single is out of Ross’s album Hood Billionaire, which is set to be released on November 24 in time for Thanksgiving.

    In an interview with The Breakfast Club, Ross described “Keep Doin’ That (Rich B—tch)” as a record that “the chicks gon’ be able to turn up to,” while “the bosses [can] lean on the wall a little bit.”

    Hood Billionaire will be the second album to come from Ross this year. His first album in 2014, Mastermind, was released in the spring and featured Jay Z in the song “The Devil Is A Lie”. Ross claims that Jay Z will also be in his upcoming album.

    Ross reportedly chose to release two albums this year because they expressed different feelings. “Mastermind was the type of album that I wanted to have a rich feel to it, I wanted it to have…. nostalgia at the beginning, that throwback Puff feel midway through it… just certain energies,” he said.

    “This right here—this is my Geechi Liberace, this a gold ring on every finger, we’re holding the bottles in the sky letting the champagne run down our arm,” he said of Hood Billionaire. “It’s just that feel-good record, a lot of 808s, real bass heavy and its gon’ feel different to you, so it’s gon’ feel like a full year from the Bawse.”

    Keep Doin’ That (Rich B–ch): Rick Ross featuring R. Kelly (explicit content)

     

  • Kendra Wilkinson Tearfully Deals With Rumors Hank Baskett Cheated On Her

    Hugh Hefner’s ex-girlfriend, Kendra Wilkinson, is reportedly worried that she hasn’t heard the last of cheating rumors about her husband, ex-NFL player Hank Baskett. Wilkinson recently spoke about the controversy surrounding her husband while promoting her reality TV series Kendra On Top.

    Four months ago, a tabloid reported that Baskett had an affair with a transsexual woman while Wilkinson was 8 months pregnant with their second child, Alijah. The couple also have a four-year-old son named Hank IV.

    “What if there is more that comes out? I can’t sit here and say I’m going to stay with him and then tomorrow another story comes out. What if this is another Tiger Woods situation?” she asked in an interview with E! Online. “This has come out of nowhere. It’s like I’m living a nightmare. It’s so unreal… I can’t even wake up from it. Is this really Hank? Is this situation really about Hank?”

    Wilkinson also revealed that Hank IV witnessed the initial fight between her and her husband about the rumor. “He was old enough to understand that mama and papa did have a big blowout fight and I had to explain what that meant. I didn’t explain what it was about, but I explained that papa had to go on grown-up time-out and it was really sad,” she said. However, Wilkinson said that she comforts her son every time he brings up the fight and tells him that all grown-ups do it.

    In an interview with Access Hollywood Live last Thursday, Wilkinson said that she was willing to give Baskett a second chance. “This man who I loved for six years deserves… and everyone around us—we are respected people around our community—everyone knows that this man deserves a second chance if he did make a mistake… and I’m starting to believe it was,” she said. “But if I believed that Hank had an affair on me, the divorce would have gone through already. I’m holding on to any hope I have.”

  • Prince George Reportedly Being Stalked By Photographer

    According to a statement issued by Kensington Palace, Prince William and the Duchess of Cambridge have pursued legal action against a photographer for allegedly bothering their son, Prince George. The photographer had reportedly been trying to take pictures of Prince George at a central London park while he was out walking with his nanny, which was the last straw for the royal couple.

    According to BBC royal editor Nicholas Witchell, palace officials believe that the behavior of the photographer concerning Prince George was tantamount to “stalking.”

    “There is reason to suspect that the individual may have been placing Prince George under surveillance and monitoring his daily routines for a period of time. The Duke and Duchess understand the particular public role that Prince George will one day inherit but while he is young, he must be permitted to lead as ordinary a life as possible,” said Kensington Palace officials.

    The freelance photographer had supposedly been told off by royal protection officers for his behavior on previous occasions over the last five years, said a source close to the royals to the Evening Standard. “Just like any parent, the Duke and Duchess want Prince George to have the freedom to safely experience normal childhood activities, like going to the park and playing with other children, without the threat of harassment or being placed under surveillance,” said the source.

    In the United Kingdom, only sanctioned photos of Prince George have been printed in newspapers, but unauthorized pictures of the royal toddler have appeared abroad, reported the Evening Standard.

    Prince William could be taking steps to protect Prince George from being hounded by paparazzi in the same way his mother, Princess Diana, was pursued. Prince George’s grandmother died in a car crash in 1997 after she sped away from paparazzi who were pursuing her.

  • X-Men: Apocalypse Will Reveal More About Jennifer Lawrence’s Mystique Character

    One of the most anticipated films of 2015 is X-Men Apocalypse, which is reportedly focusing on the character of Mystique, played by actress Jennifer Lawrence. The character saw major screen time in the previous installment of the series, X-Men: Days of Future Past, and is apparently going to be explored further in the new film, according to co-writer Simon Kinberg.

    Kinberg, who is also co-producer of the film, said that X-Men: Apocalypse will be featuring in more detail the relationship between Mystique and the character of Beast, played by actor Nicholas Hoult. “The relationship between Beast and Mystique is a really interesting one that we didn’t have a lot of time to explore in ‘Days of Future Past’ so we’ll have an opportunity to do more of that in ‘Apocalypse,’” said Kinberg.

    X-Men: Apocalypse will also reportedly show how Mystique was shaped by her two mentors, Michael Fassbender’s Magneto, AKA Erik Lensherr, and James McAvoy’s Charles Xavier. “Part of what’s really interesting about Mystique’s character is that she is, in some ways, the child of both Erik and Charles. She grew up with Charles and then sort of became a woman with Erik, so her being the cross-pollination, if you will, of those two philosophies and those two men is something we can explore in the movie too,” Kinberg said.

    Kinberg also revealed that X-Men: Apocalypse will be set in the 1980s. “We’re having a lot of fun with the idea of the ‘80s. It’s a decade that [director Bryan Singer] and I both grew up in, and so the music, the style, the aesthetic [and] the legacy of ‘80s movies is something we’re really having fun with,” he said.

    X-Men Apocalypse will also be the third and final part of the trilogy featuring characters from X-Men: First Class, Kinberg said, although he didn’t rule out their appearances in future X-Men films.

  • Teresa Giudice Is Going To Jail, Now Facing Aftermath Of Sentencing

    After sentencing on October 2, for several counts of loan and bankruptcy fraud, Teresa Giudice and her husband Joe are facing the aftermath of their legal battle. Giudice was sentenced to 15 months in prison, while her husband was sentenced to 41 months when they appeared at a courthouse in Newark, New Jersey.

    Giudice said that she was “humbled” by the experience. “I’m so scared. I need to learn to do things for myself… I need to wake up,” she said. In addition to jail time, Giudice is required to pay $414,000 in restitution and serve two years of supervised release.

    US District Court Judge Esther Salas reportedly said at the sentencing that although she had considered probation for Giudice, she felt that the case “merits incarceration” due to the fact that Giudice had failed to come clean about their assets before sentencing. “It feels like things have been hidden,” she said.

    According to prosecutors, Giudice did not include in a pre-sentencing list of assets several cars, ATVs and other items. She also reportedly claimed no jewelry and that her $3 million home only contained $25,000 of assets. Giudice’s legal troubles have also affected her work, with reports that she infuriated castmates by showing up late for a taping session for The Real Housewives of New Jersey. According to TMZ, Giudice showed up four hours late for a reunion taping on the afternoon of Sunday, October 5. She also reportedly disrupted taping by asking the crew to stop filming every now and then so she could take breaks, since she was “going through a lot.” Not only did she piss off castmates with her behavior, but she also annoyed Bravo executive Andy Cohen.

    On the personal front, Giudice is faced with the problem of helping her children deal with their parents’ troubles. Giudice’s 13-year-old daughter Gia recently vented her feelings on Twitter. On the day of the sentencing, Gia tweeted, “Family forever,” in support of her parents. On Friday, she also tweeted, “Such an amazing support system it’s unreal.”

    However, the family ordeal has also apparently been taking its toll on the teenager, despite her efforts to stay positive. “The little things matter to me but the big things matter to you,” she tweeted on October 4.

    Giudice and her husband will reportedly be serving their jail time separately in order to ensure that their children will be cared for. According to Us Weekly, their lawyer Miles Feinstein told the judge during their trial that Giudice’s husband tried his best to exonerate her. “He wanted his wife to get the best deal she could get. He is a real man,” said Feinstein on Thursday.

  • Rupert Grint: So Well Paid, It Was “Kind Of Ridiculous”

    Harry Potter changed the lives of the children who starred in the film series, and star Rupert Grint revealed how in a recent interview. Grint played the character of Ron Weasley, one of the title character’s best friends in the movie series that spanned more than 10 years.

    Grint claimed that the amount he and his co-stars were paid was “kind of ridiculous” and that to this day he is not exactly sure how much it was. “I’ve always known it was kinda ‘there,’ and I’ve got quite an active involvement in stuff like that now, but I don’t really know the exact figures. And I’ve never really wanted to. I’m quite a laid-back person and not overly ambitious, really,” he said.

    The 26-year-old actor began starring in the films when he was 11 and shot the last installment, Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows, when he was 22 years old. As a result, his formative years were spent revolving around making the films. This, plus the fact that Grint had made a lot of money, reportedly affected the way he built relationships.

    “It took me a while to figure out whether someone was genuine or they had ulterior motives,” Grint said. “I’ve had a few bad experiences and it was tricky because I left school at quite a pivotal time, in year seven, when you’re just making friends and stuff. So whenever I came back, bonds I had made before had all got a little bit weird. I did lose a few friends but on the whole it’s all been pretty good.”

    According to The Mirror, Grint is looking forward to his stint in the Broadway play It’s Only A Play, starring alongside Matthew Broderick and Nathan Lane. “During the first few days in rehearsals I was really intimidated because it’s quite a group of people. But there are no big egos. Being on stage is a real team thing, and everyone has been great, really cool. I just feel really lucky to be a part of it,” he said.

  • Amber Rose May Already Have A New Boyfriend, Rumored To Be Dating Nick Simmons

    Banishing rumors that she and her manager Nick Cannon are dating, model Amber Rose has been seen hanging out with another Nick lately. Rose is now rumored to be dating Nick Simmons, son of rocker Gene Simmons of KISS, after they were seen together several times in recent weeks.

    On Thursday, October 2, Rose and Simmons were seen entering Playhouse nightclub in Hollywood together, in order to attend Cannon’s 34th birthday party. The pair reportedly danced together, sparking rumors that they were dating.

    Simmons tweeted the next day, saying, “Apparently dancing in a club+helping some1 to their car = dating. People r funny.” Rose replied with the tweet that said, “Lol It just comes with this life kiddo.” In addition, Rose retweeted a post of Simmons that said, “@DaRealAmberRose the part I can’t stand? These people down here making judgment calls about you, never having met you. F–k that noise.”

    TMZ posted a video of Rose and Simmons dancing together at the club, to which Simmons responded by tweeting, “Oh for f–ks sake. No I did not put @DaRealAmberRose’s fingers in my mouth. Jesus, guys. This would happen right when i make a twitter.”

    TMZ also posted a video of Rose and Simmons entering the Roxy Theater on Saturday, October 4. When asked about their rumored “relationship,” Simmons responded with, “No relationship, just friends.” TMZ also asked the pair about the video of them from Playhouse. “That video was grainy as f–k!” Simmons said.

    Nick Simmons responds to TMZ

    Apparently, Rose and Simmons had also previously been seen grabbing dinner with friends at Bossa Nova, a Brazilian Restaurant in West Hollywood, on September 25.

    Here’s the video that according to Nick Simmons, was “grainy as f–k”.

    Rose filed from divorce from rapper Wiz Khalifa after she reportedly found him in bed with twin sisters. Rose’s close friend, DJ Peter Rosenberg, claims that she found Khalifa in bed with fashion designers Jas and Ness Rose in their family home.

  • Amanda Bynes Spotted In NYC Sporting A Bandage And Talking To Herself

    On Friday, Amanda Bynes landed in New York City and was spotted wearing a bandage on her face at the airport. According to TMZ, Bynes was spotted in LAX the night before, behaving strangely. The news follows her arrest for driving while under the influence last Sunday, September 28 in Los Angeles, for which she made bail at $15,000.

    A source told E! Online that Bynes was seen on Thursday at LAX at Gladstone’s Restaurant around 11 PM alone. She reportedly sat in a booth that was meant for groups, but was allowed by the restaurant to continue sitting there because of her celebrity status. According to the source, Bynes asked for napkins before she even placed an order.

    “Amanda was at the table by herself with all her makeup spread out across the table. She was talking to herself and putting on a ton of makeup. She would apply some, look in her compact and make weird pouty faces and they say to herself, ‘OK, that looks fine,’” said the source.

    The witness added that Bynes had ordered a Shirley Temple and coconut shrimp, but left the restaurant after only 20 minutes. “She had a really weird gait to her, she was power-walking with posture like a pregnant woman. It was bizarre,” the source said.

    Daily Mail also reported that eyewitnesses saw Bynes walking around LA on Thursday, talking to herself. She reportedly went to LA Buns & Co. and ordered food and a drink, but confessed to not having money to pay for it. An employee at the restaurant reportedly let Bynes take the drink without paying, and Bynes left the restaurant with it before walking up and down Santa Monica Blvd. The employee claimed that Bynes had “a strange black thing around her head” and “looked really confused.”

    People close to Bynes have reportedly said that the 28-year-old actress will have to pose a danger to herself or to others before they can take action to get her help.

  • Kim Kardashian Attacked By Serial Celebrity Prankster

    Kim Kardashian was at Paris Fashion Week to watch her sister Kendall walk the runways but got more than she bargained for as she stepped out of her vehicle before the Balmain show. A serial celebrity prankster named Vitalii Sediuk reportedly targeted Kardashian on the red carpet and almost knocked her down.

    Video footage of the incident showed the moments after Kardashian arrived at the event with her husband Kanye West and mother Kris Jenner. Sediuk allegedly lunged at Kardashian, who called out to her husband. The prankster reached Kardashian’s legs and was reportedly told by Jenner, “Stop it!” before security pried him away and escorted Kardashian into the venue.

    Apparently, Sediuk, formerly a Ukrainian journalist, had done similar pranks on other celebrities before, including Brad Pitt, Will Smith and Leonardo Dicaprio. In a statement sent to E! News, Sediuk explained, “The prank with Kim was my protest that US banned me from entering the country. I hope Kim is ok and won’t be mad at me as I didn’t mean any harm. Kanye is one lucky man as Kim is a Goddess!”

    Sediuk’s claims that he didn’t mean Kardashian any harm seem watered down by the fact that he tried to get close to the 33-year-old reality TV star a second time. He showed up again at the Hotel Costes in Paris, where Kardashian and West were dining. However, since Kardashian and her husband reportedly beefed up their security after their first fiasco with Sediuk, the prankster was immediately surrounded by bodyguards and tightly supervised until the couple left the venue.

    According to Celebuzz, Paris officials said they would not be investigating the incident, so Kardashian and Kanye took it into their own hands to increase their security force. This reportedly posed problems at Paris Fashion Week, however, where witnesses claimed the couple’s security was too aggressive in their treatment of other fashion professionals attending the event.

  • 50 Cent’s Son Posts Picture With Mayweather, Apparently To Annoy His Father

    Marquise Jackson, son of rapper 50 Cent, recently posted a picture of himself with boxing champion Floyd Mayweather on Facebook. The teen and 50 Cent are supposedly not on the best of terms, so a picture with someone his dad has had a social media feud with probably isn’t a peace offering in any way.

    Over the summer, 50 Cent and Mayweather have been taunting each other back and forth on their social media accounts. Jackson’s motives for posting a photo that shows him hanging out with the boxer aren’t clear. However, in light of Jackson posting photos of himself with Slowbucks, the photo with Mayweather seems part of a plan of rebellion against 50 Cent. Jackson’s father has also been in a public feud with Slowbucks, and the teen had also previously posted several pictures together with the street brand entrepreneur.

    Post by Marquise Jackson.
    50 Cent and his son are apparently not on good terms, which the rapper has reportedly blamed on Jackson’s mother. 50 Cent was criticized earlier this year for not making it to Jackson’s high-school graduation, which reportedly upset his son. “My son—I haven’t received an invitation. When he graduated I was in Budapest on a movie with Melissa McCarthy, Jude Law, and Jason Statham. I think at some points the reason why it actually comes out is because his mom is going to TMZ. I wish she’d find someone so she could leave me alone,” the rapper said. Despite seeming unaware about his son’s education, 50 Cent is excited about his show Dream School: NYC, which takes 15 underprivileged students in New York City and gives them celebrity teachers who try to help them graduate. “These kids are smart; they're just taking on bad habits. This is probably the last opportunity for them. When I met them, they all seemed to understand how lucky they were to be in the program and have this opportunity,” he said in an interview with Rolling Stone.

  • Tori Spelling May Be Pregnant, Again; ‘True Tori’ Season Two Promises More Drama

    With the end of the first season of reality series True Tori, star Tori Spelling seemed to be on the mend with her husband Dean McDermott. However, the sneak peek trailer for True Tori’s second season is promising more drama for Spelling and her husband, especially with the news that she may be pregnant.

    The video starts off with Spelling saying that McDermott came back from Canada to start anew, which is followed by footage of the couple arguing again, with McDermott asking, “Why are you with me?” Another highlight of the reel is when Spelling tells her therapist that she is ready to see a picture of the woman with whom her husband cheated, a revelation that shocks her all the same. Finally, Spelling ends the video by dropping a bombshell: she may be pregnant.

    All this drama is a tantalizing lure for people who want to witness the reconciliation process of Spelling and McDermott when True Tori returns on October 21. However, interviews with the couple are indicating that they are doing better together than what the cameras have caught.

    The couple’s commitment and hard work seem to have paid off as Spelling wrote a blog entry in August that was a glowing report of her relationship with McDermott. “I’m happy and proud to say that we are doing really well, and that Dean and I are working very hard to make our relationship and our family better than ever. I’m proud of Dean for all of the hard work he’s been doing on himself, and I’m excited that he is back to blogging over on The Gourmet Dad!”

    According to RadarOnline.com, Spelling had to take a pay cut just to get Lifetime to go with another season of True Tori. She reportedly only received $50,000 to do the entire second season. Despite the pay cut, Spelling seems truly happy that her marriage to McDermott has worked out through the course of the show.

  • Catherine Zeta Jones Will Play Fearsome Female Drug Kingpin In ‘The Godmother’

    Catherine Zeta Jones Will Play Fearsome Female Drug Kingpin In ‘The Godmother’

    An upcoming film about a real-life female drug kingpin will be starring Catherine Zeta-Jones in the title role of The Godmother. In it, she will be playing the role of Griselda Blanco, a fearsome figure in the Colombian drug cartel who was active during the Miami drug wars of the 1970s and 1980s.

    Zeta-Jones previously played a drug-related role in 2000’s Traffic, where she fleshed out the character of the wife of a drug lord. However, in The Godmother, Zeta-Jones tackles the drug world head on, portraying a female drug lord known for carrying out executions and violent attacks on her enemies in order to maintain her grip on the drug trade. This reputation for violence and death earned the character of Zeta-Jones her nicknames – Black Widow, La Madrina and the Cocaine Godmother.

    The film starring Zeta-Jones will be based on the real-life subject of two classic documentaries, Cocaine Cowboys and Cocaine Cowboys 2: Hustlin’ With The Godmother. These two documentaries outline the life of Blanco and how she established a distribution network for cocaine that connected Colombia and the cities of Miami, New York and Los Angeles.

    The Godmother will be directed by Norwegian filmmaker Eva Sørhaug, who directed films such as 90 Minutes and Cold Lunch. Its screenplay is written by Frank Baldwin, although no production schedule has been determined thus far.

    Zeta-Jones faces the challenge of portraying a woman with a colorful and dangerous life. Blanco grew up to be a teenage runaway and prostitute in Cartagena, Colombia before migrating to the US and starting a cocaine business with her husband in New York City. After fleeing back to Colombia to escape federal charges, Blanco reestablished herself in Miami, where her cocaine business flourished due to her connections to the Medellin Cartel. She served 18 years of prison starting in 1985, after which she was deported to Colombia. Back in her home country, Blanco was gunned down in 2012 in a motorcycle drive-by shooting at the age of 69.

  • Bra Camera: How Often Do You Ogle At Breasts?

    To celebrate Breast Cancer Awareness Month in October, Nestle Fitness launched a campaign that involved attaching a camera to a bra. The campaign is called #CheckYourSelfie and aims to remind women to examine their breasts often in order to ensure their health.

    Worn by an actress in London, the bra camera recorded each time her breasts were looked at as she went about her day. In the video, Eloise Oliver wore the hidden camera in a bright pink bra that was only slightly covered by a gray hoodie. Her colorful ensemble attracted the eyes of over 30 strangers in the 1 minute and 18 seconds of footage captured by the bra camera. Stares from men and women, even babies and puppies, each made a tick on a bra counter in the lower-right corner of the screen as Oliver did common activities in her routine such as getting coffee and sitting through meetings.

    Bra cam captures many glances

    At the end of the video, the message of the exercise is spelled out: “Your breasts are checked out every day. So, when was the last time you checked your own?”

    It’s hilarious to see how some people couldn’t help looking at Oliver’s breasts, but it’s also an eye-opener for women who don’t really think much about breast cancer and whether they are susceptible to it. Oliver signed up for the experiment because she thought it was “an engaging idea.”

    “A really approachable way and fun way of making sure that women check themselves, whether it be yourself, your partner. It was an interesting experience walking around with a hidden camera. It took me a little while to get used to it, but after a while I think I mastered angling slightly my boobs towards people,” she said.

    Nestle Fitness has had experience before in launching quirky campaigns to get women to remember to check their breasts regularly. In 2013, they launched a campaign involving a bra that tweeted a reminder for a breast exam every time it was unhooked.

  • Gwen Stefani’s Third Solo Album Is Almost Done, Teams Up With Pharrell

    There’s great news to be had for all fans of Gwen Stefani because the No Doubt singer is about to finish her new solo album. Stefani has been working on her third solo album—the first since 2006’s The Sweet Escape—with singer, rapper and producer Pharrell Williams, who is also her co-judge on The Voice this season.

    In a panel discussion at New York’s Advertising Week on Monday, Stefani’s manager, Irving Azoff, revealed to Billboard that the singer was recording new tracks in Miami with Williams. Azoff also said that Stefani would be choosing a track next week to be her next single, which she will be performing on The Voice this season as well. According to Idolator.com, the news contradicts previous reports that a single called “Baby Don’t Lie” by Stefani would be seeing an October release.

    Previously, Interscope chairman John Janick also told Billboard that Stefani would be releasing her solo album in December, after her reality TV series wraps for the season. “Benny Blanco will executive produce, and it will come out in partnership with his label [Mad Love Records] as part of our overall deal with him,” Janick said.

    More great news for Stefani fans comes with reports that the singer is also working on an album with her band No Doubt. Billboard’s sources also say this is true. The rumored album will be the band’s first since Push and Shove from 2012.

    Stefani recently performed with No Doubt at the Global Citizen Festival on Saturday. The band teamed up with Sting to reprise the “Message In A Bottle” cover they last performed together at the 2002 Super Bowl.

    Besides her music and TV careers, Stefani has also been busy with her role as mother to her children with rockstar husband Gavin Rossdale. She gave birth in March to their third child, Apollo Bowie Flynn Rossdale.

    Hollaback Girl: Gwen Stefani produced by Pharrell Williams

  • Pharrell Williams Drops New Anime-Inspired Music Video For ‘It Girl’

    Singer, rapper and producer Pharrell Williams has released a new music video for his latest single “It Girl,” which premiered on the Today show on Tuesday morning. In it, Williams takes a different approach form his usual live-action videos featuring models and instead uses colorful animated characters to bring the song to life.

    The music video draws inspiration from Japanese anime and video game art. Although there doesn’t seem to be a clear narrative, some parts of the video feature Williams guiding anime-drawn girls through an RPG-inspired format of purchasing accessories and riding a whale spaceship that shoots lasers. Williams appears in different ways throughout the video: as a hand drawing in the sky or as a super-deformed video game character interacting with the girls.

    Williams teamed up with Takashi Murakami and his production company Kaikai Kiki, which also tasked the artist Mr. to do the visuals of the video. One cool Easter egg in the video is Williams’ oversized hat, which he wore to the Grammy Awards and can be seen throughout the video as a visual cue for Williams’ character.

    The video for “It Girl” also premiered on a Times Square billboard in New York. The song is Williams’ fourth single from his album G I R L, after “Happy,” “Marilyn Monroe” and “Come Get It Bae”.

    Williams is also currently collaborating with his co-judge on The Voice, Gwen Stefani, on her third solo album. They are reportedly holed up in a Miami recording studio working on the project, and according to Stefani’s manager, Irving Azoff, she is going to premiere her first lead single in a performance on The Voice this season.

    Williams is reportedly praising Stefani’s new work. “You gotta hear this new Gwen record. When I tell you she’s killing it, it’s another level. Gwen is somewhere else,” he said.

  • Elizabeth McGovern Sheds Downton Abbey Persona To Tour As Folk-Rock Musician

    In December, US fans of hit BBC series Downton Abbey will have the chance to see another side of Elizabeth McGovern, who plays the character of Cora Crawley. McGovern is actually the vocalist of her band, Sadie and the Hotheads, which is embarking on a 10-day US tour on December 4.

    Although the timing of her tour seems perfect for promoting the January 4 US premiere of Downton Abbey’s fifth season, McGovern told The Associated Press that it was purely coincidental.

    “It’s a slightly funny experience for fans of the show to come hear the music because it’s such a different world to the show itself. When we first started touring there would be a lot of people carrying ‘Downtown Abbey’ books … and I could see a look of surprise on their faces because it isn’t what you expect. I mean it’s not a classical quartet of violins,” said McGovern.

    Her character on the series is Cora Crawley, an American heiress who marries into a British aristocratic family. McGovern’s portrayal has earned her several Golden Globe and Emmy nominations.

    Sadie and the Hotheads released their debut album in 2007 and their third album, Still Waiting, this year. Although the group has performed before in Europe, McGovern said that she was more confident about performing in America now than in the past. “I think it’s coming at the right time since we slowly built experience with each other,” she said. “I feel like we’re more ready than we’ve ever been.”

    McGovern’s group will be performing in Washington on December 4 and visiting New York City, Newark in New Jersey and Annapolis in Maryland before concluding the tour on December 14 in Hartford, Connecticut.

    According to the band’s website, Sadie and the Hotheads’ music draws from an eclectic mix of musical genres, including ‘60s pop, country, esoteric folk, jazz, Celtic and torch songs.

  • Amanda Bynes Reportedly Behaving Badly Again, Arrested For DUI

    After months of being quiet, Amanda Bynes has made it back to the headlines with her DUI arrest last Sunday. Besides the arrest, Bynes has reportedly been engaging in erratic behavior, ditching classes at fashion school as well as taking Adderall and smoking weed.

    Bynes was released from her court-ordered parental conservatorship in June and allegedly started missing classes at the Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandising in Southern California, where she had been enrolled. A source told RadarOnline that Bynes’s instructors tried to reach her but got no response, so she consequently flunked out of the school. The source also said that Bynes has stopped taking her psychiatric medication and resorted to drinking alcohol and smoking pot.

    While Bynes was still living with her parents, other sources claim that she had already been behaving strangely. A source told People that the actress’ behavior at the Thousand Oaks gym she had been going to over the summer showed how she was not “100 percent well.”

    “She is still obsessed with her body and spends more time in front of the mirror than she actually works out. She doesn’t like when people look at her and has even confronted a few other members,” said the source. Her parents also reportedly monitored her closely during activities such as driving, and the source said that Bynes would sometimes argue with her father in the car.

    Bynes reportedly made bail after her arrest on Sunday, but according to New York Daily News, her parents have not seen her since she left their watch. “We know nothing about this. We were called by the press. I’m getting calls all day long. That’s all I know,” Rick Bynes told camera crew of X17 at his home. “She’s 28, she does what she wants. We don’t know a thing.”

    The social media accounts of Bynes have been relatively quiet since May, when she last posted a picture of her and her sister looking happy and healthy.

  • Three Breasted Woman Costume Should Be A Hit This Halloween

    With Halloween just a few weeks away, it’s time to start planning your Halloween costume for this year. If you have a taste for the outlandish, you may consider dressing up as the three-breasted woman.

    Since her coming out last week, 21-year-old Jasmine Tridevil quickly rose to infamy after posting claims that she had undergone a $20,000 surgery to add a third breast.

    HalloweenCostumes.com spokesman Marlon Heimerl wrote an email to HuffPost predicting that the Tridevil-inspired costume has the essential quirks to be a popular Halloween costume.

    “The more timely — and often bizarre, awkward or generally shocking — the better virility of the costume. The idea is to create a costume that is right on the top of everyone’s mind, and get a few disapproving head shakes in the process” wrote Heimerl.

    HalloweenCostumes.com stated they immediately thought “winner outfit” when they first saw Tridevil showing off her three-pack: “That level of digital fame this close to Halloween is precisely what makes her the perfect idea for your 2014 costume.”

    To get the look, the costume site suggests overlapping and hot gluing two pairs of their $9.99 “super drooper boobs” together to make the chest piece which can then be covered by a DIY custom bikini using shiny pink fabric. For a more realistic effect, use a little bronzer on the breasts to match the wearer’s skin tone. A jet black wig will complete the look.

    Since she came out, Tridevil has insisted that her surgery and her breasts are real and is not a hoax. She said she wanted to make herself “unattractive to men” and hopes to become a reality TV star. She has hired a camera crew to document her “struggles” as a three-breasted woman.

    “My whole dream is to get this show on MTV,” she said in a Florida radio interview. “I’m dumping every penny I have into this. If this doesn’t work, I’m through.”

    Tridevil hopes to pitch her show to MTV. She already has a name for her potential reality series — “Jasmine’s Jugs.”

  • Clemson Student Death: Kendall Wernet Falls Off Platform On Cruise Ship

    A second Clemson University student has died in the past week, after 19-year-old Tucker Hipps’s body was found in Lake Hartwell near the institution on September 22. A week later, on September 29, 20-year-old Kendall Wernet fell off a platform on the cruise ship Carnival Ecstasy as it pulled into port at the end of a three-day-cruise. Wernet died at around 8:30 AM that morning from his injuries.

    The Clemson university student had reportedly climbed onto the platform, which Carnival said was a restricted area at the time, to catch a view of the sunrise with his friends. “They had seen a group up there the night before and thought it would be a good idea to go there at about 5 AM to see the sun rise over Miami,” said Steve Acorn, owner of Student Painters, the organization for which Wernet worked. The student was on the cruise as a reward for being a top performer in Student Painters.

    “They were up there talking … and the radar system went on. Based on where you were standing, it caught Kendall and threw him down,” said Acorn.

    Miami-Dade County Police said that Wernet had fallen about 20 feet before the cruise ship’s medical crew could attend to him. Wernet was then reportedly transferred to a South Florida hospital where he died from blunt-trauma head injury. Police said that there was no foul play suspected in Wernet’s death.

    The death of Wernet is a huge blow to Clemson University, which has been mourning the death of student Tucker Hipps since his body was discovered in Lake Hartwell. Hipps had supposedly been out for a morning run with his fraternity brothers from Sigma Phi Epsilon, but disappeared and was found on September 22.

    On Sunday, September 29, over 1,000 friends and family of Hipps gathered at the Clemson University student’s memorial services in Rock Springs Baptist Church to pay tribute to him. Local police are still investigating the circumstances of Hipps’ death but Sheriff Mike Crenshaw said that there has been no indication of foul play.

  • Christina Milian Throws Surprise Birthday Bash For Lil Wayne, Fuels Dating Rumors

    Lil Wayne’s birthday was on September 27, but singer Christina Milian surprised him with a fun birthday party on September 24 to celebrate his turning 32. Milian is rumored to be dating the superstar rapper, who is also her boss at Young Money Records. The private bash she threw for him adds fuel to rumors of a romance, especially since sources claim that Milian and Wayne flirted and danced with each other all night.

    Milian reportedly organized the party at Malibu Rocky Oaks Estate Vineyards with a Louisiana theme. At the party, shrimp and crawfish from Hot N Juicy Crawfish was served and guests wore Mardi Gras-style headdresses and masks. Milian also made sure that Wayne was feasting on his favorite dishes, including Lousiana-style potatoes prepared by his personal chef. One highlight of the party was a skateboard cake she had made for Wayne, a photo of which she posted on Instagram with the caption, “Cake Fights Allllll Night.. Too much fun.. Happy Early Bday Boss 🙂 @LilTunechi #CakeDay Part 2 Best Time Ever.”

    Wayne’s close friends and associates attended Milian’s party, including Lil Twist and Mack Maine, Wayne’s partner at Young Money. The celebration continued when guests went to Lure Nightclub in Hollywood where a party hosted by MADE and D’USSÉ awaited them. Stars of hip hop such as Jeezy, Matt Barnes and Yung Berg were also spotted at the nightclub, partying with Milian and Wayne.

    However, Wayne reportedly spent most of his time at the party paying attention to Milian. The two were said to be dancing and flirting with each other the whole night, according to people at the club.

    Wayne has more reasons to celebrate than just turning 32 as he is about to release his new album The Carter V on October 28. Milian has collaborated with him on the project, along with artists such as Drake, Kendrick Lamar, Nicki Minaj and Mannie Fresh.