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  • Teresa Giudice Feels “Numb” About Possible Jail Time

    Last Sunday’s episode of the Real Housewives of New Jersey was a heartbreaking peek into how the Giudice family is handling possible jail time for both Teresa Giudice and her husband, Joe Guidice.

    The reality TV star was in tears as she talked about her decision to plead guilty to fraud and conspiracy in her bankruptcy case. “I’m feeling numb,” Giudice said “I can’t believe this is my life.”

    “Today I took responsibility for a series of mistakes I made several years ago … I express remorse … I am heartbroken this is affecting my family, especially my four young daughters who mean more to me than anything in this world,” said Giudice in a statement as read by her lawyer.

    The Giudice’s 13-year-old daughter, Gia was also in tears, saying she knows what her parents were going through. “I obviously know what’s going on,” she said. “I’m old enough to understand.”

    Their sentencing was initially scheduled on September 23 but their lawyers requested for a postponement to October 2 to allow them more time to prepare their briefs.

    An insider said that their lawyers hope to reduce the couple’s jail time, if not avoid time completely.  “There was nothing unusual in Teresa’s lawyers asking for the sentencing date to be pushed back two weeks. The lawyers are in the final stages of preparing their sentencing brief, and just needed some additional time to gather more facts. It’s about giving Joe and Teresa the chance of getting no jail time, and probation in the case,” said the source.

    Radar Online reported that the source further said: “Teresa has been telling friends she doesn’t think there is any way the judge will send her to prison because she is a mother of four girls. Teresa is planning on saying she just went along with whatever her husband Joe gave her to sign, and never paid attention to the details.”

    Meanwhile, TMZ reported that the couple has listed their New Jersey mansion for sale for $3.99M. Purchased in 2002, the property was expanded and extensively renovated by the couple and was reportedly worth $1.2M in 2012.

  • Kate Gosselin Will Continue Reality Show; Reports Say Jon Gosselin Wants A Percentage

    Kate Gosselin and her brood of eight are returning to TV in TLC’s unofficial third season of Kate Plus 8. The new specials will air in December and will focus on the family’s vacation to New England and their preparations for a new school year.

    According to recent reports, the children’s father Jon Gosselin is looking to get a percentage of their earnings from this new show. The new Kate Plus 8 specials will apparently pay $40,000 per episode and Jon Gosselin wants to get a cut from it, although he is not scheduled to appear in any of the shows.

    The 36-year-old father of eight, whose recent jobs included waiting tables and doing I.T. work, is apparently considering blackmailing his former wife of ten years into paying up.

    “Jon’s trying to get a percentage of Kate’s TLC salary for the new Kate Plus 8 specials,” according to a source. “He has no stable job, no steady income, and now he’s trying to tell Kate that if she doesn’t give him a cut of the money, he will claim the kids hate filming and they are being forced to do it.”

    The reality TV mom is not going to let him have his way. “Kate has absolutely no intentions whatsoever of giving him any money. He doesn’t have any right to it anyways!” the source added.

    In another interview earlier this year, her ex-husband claimed that Kate is exploiting her eight children to maintain an old lifestyle she can’t afford anymore.

    Jon Gosselin reportedly said: “I don’t think being on TV is good for kids. A lot of them do not want to film and they come to me and tell me that. It’s upsetting and I think it’s embarrassing for them. They are enjoying having an ordinary childhood.”  Apparently, he thinks the exposure caused long term damage on the kids. “They shy away from cameras and I don’t think that is normal.”

    His ex-wife however, maintains that the children are looking forward to being on TV again. She insists the exposure has not harmed them in anyway.

  • Brittany Murphy’s Father Is Crying Foul Over Lifetime Biopic

    Angelo Bertolotti, father of the late actor Brittany Murphy, is reportedly furious about the biopic about his daughter that aired on Saturday, September 6 on Lifetime. He is apparently upset that no one from the production of The Brittany Murphy Story had approached him or her family for their input when they made the movie.

    “I am disgusted and outraged that Lifetime decided to produce such a trashy project, defiling the memory of my beautiful, talented daughter, Brittany Murphy,” said Bertolotti to the Examiner.

    Bertolotti previously told RadarOnline.com that he intended to sue Lifetime. “Frankly, I am amazed at their audacity of calling it ‘a true story’ without conducting any research. The Brittany Murphy Story is an affront to everything my daughter was in real life. It’s hideous, unauthorized and completely untrue,” said Murphy’s father.

    He also criticized the movie for its casting choices, calling them “atrocious” and saying actor Amanda Fuller “looks absolutely nothing like [Murphy]”. Bertolotti is reportedly cyberbullying Fuller by tweeting and retweeting many comments about the actor being too fat to play his daughter.

    “He can say what he wants,” Fuller said in an interview with The TVPage.com. “He has already gone and attacked me on Twitter and I have had to block him and that is fine. He can do what he wants. But I just think it is interesting that the minute she is back in the press he is all about, ‘I am going to sue’ and all that stuff. If he really respected his daughter’s memory then I don’t know if he would be trying to make all this controversy about it. Let her rest in peace.”

    The Brittany Murphy Story explores the life of the actress who died in 2009 at the age of 32 due to what the coroner ruled was a combination of pneumonia, an iron deficiency and “multiple drug intoxication.” It details the rise of Murphy’s career, the circumstances of her death and explores Bertolotti’s claims that his daughter had been poisoned.

  • Glazer Plane Crash: US Coast Guard Cease Rescue Operation

    Following a search that covered roughly 3,750 square miles off the coast of Jamaica, the US Coast Guard has ceased rescue operations for the crashed plane of Laurence and Jane Glazer. The couple’s single-engine turboprop plane crashed into the sea off Jamaica’s northeast coast on Friday, September 5. The US Coast Guard and Jamaica Defense Force commenced search operations on Friday but have since encountered bad weather that reportedly caused spotted crash debris to sink over the weekend.

    “I must admit it looks very discouraging. We haven’t recovered anything as yet,” said Maj. Basil Jarrett early Sunday.

    Laurence Glazer and his wife Jane are mourned by the community of Rochester in New York, which was revitalized by innovative real estate developments spearheaded by Glazer that turned it from an abandoned industrial center into a trendy area that attracted young professionals. Glazer founded Buckingham Properties, Rochester’s largest real estate development firm. He was also part of several charity and civic organizations. Meanwhile, Jane Glazer founded a successful home goods catalog called QCI Direct and also served on numerous community boards.

    “It deeply saddens me that Rochester has now lost two of its most indomitable, industrious visionaries,” said Sen. Charles Schumer, D-NY. “The Glazers were innovative and generous people who were committed to revitalizing downtown Rochester and making the city they loved a better place for all,” said New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo. The couple boarded their plane intending to fly to Naples, Florida, where they had real estate projects underway. However, the plane mysteriously flew past its destination. Air traffic controllers reportedly last spoke to Glazer 75 minutes after the plane took off from Greater Rochester National Airport, when he twice asked to descend to a lower altitude due to a problem. After Glazer became unresponsive, US fighter pilots shadowed the plane and observed the pilot slumped over with the windows frosted. The plane crashed off Jamaica after reportedly flying on its own for 1,700 miles and running out of fuel.

  • Antonio Banderas Steps Out With Dutch Investment Banker Nicole Kempel

    The mystery date of Antonio Banderas at a club in Saint Tropez has finally been revealed. The 54-year-old Spanish actor is dating Dutch investment consultant Nicole Kempel, also known as the leggy blonde he went home with after dancing at the L’Opera restaurant on August 16.

    Banderas was also spotted with Kempel at various events during the Cannes Film Festival in May. The couple has been discreetly dating, but Kempel is not the reason behind the split between Banderas and actor Melanie Griffith, according to Spanish magazine Hola!

    Sources told the magazine, “Nicole has in no way fuelled or been the cause of the split between the actor and Melanie Griffith.” Kempel and Banderas reportedly met after the separation.

    Banderas and Griffith called it quits recently after 19 years of marriage, with Griffith filing for divorce on June 6. The couple reportedly made much effort to handle the split carefully for the sake of their daughter Stella, who turns 18 on September 24.

    “They have not been happy for a long time and they have taken a lot of breaks already so their estrangement is nothing new. They wanted to wait till the timing was right to announce their divorce. It’s not a rash decision,” a source told MailOnline.

    Griffith is apparently happy about moving on as she was spotted in Hollywood Hills on Thursday viewing a five-bedroom house worth $5.6 million. The 57-year-old actress has also been hitting the gym recently, looking slim in a gray short-sleeved T-shirt and cropped gray and white yoga pants.

    Banderas and Griffith are expected to set their differences aside soon to work together despite the divorce in order to promote their upcoming film, Automata. The film is a sci-fi thriller about robots that Banderas produced and will be released on October 10.

  • Kris Jenner Hands Hefty Paycheck To French Montana For Reality TV Show Appearances

    As executive producer of Keeping Up With The Kardashians, Kris Jenner calls the shots, but a recent decision she made is reportedly causing network executives at E! to scratch their heads. Jenner has allegedly agreed with rapper French Montana on an amount for his appearances in the show and its spin-off, Kourtney & Khloe Take The Hamptons. The rapper is currently dating Jenner’s daughter, Khloe Kardashian.

    The deal between Jenner and Montana was reportedly made without the blessing of E! executives. A source from the network revealed that the normal process for a guest appearance on the show involves asking other guests to leave it before hiring new ones and working within a certain budget. However, Jenner reportedly worked on the deal with Montana and simply informed the channel of his expected paycheck after the fact.

    “He’s expensive, and some people at E! just don’t think he’s worth the money. I’ve heard execs moaning about it, saying, ‘We’re just paying so much for him!’,” said the source.

     

    Montana explained to Confidenti@l that he was made part of the show purely for the reason that he was dating Kardashian. “Me just being a part of her life, they recorded me and asked me for my permission to air my footage out, and they wanted to give me a check to do it, give me a contract, make me a part of it,” he said.

    The rapper and Jenner’s daughter began dating in May after they were introduced by rapper P. Diddy during a session in the studio. “That’s where we met. I was like, ‘Yo, let me get her number,’ and Puff gave it to me,” Montana said.

    His relationship with Kardashian is reportedly going well, though Montana only replied, “All good,” when asked how serious it was. On meeting the family, he said, “It’s awesome. I love all of them, from Kim, to Kris [Jenner], to everybody. I have more love for them after I met them. I thought they were more down-to-earth.”

  • Miss Haiti 2014 Crown Goes To Haitian Businesswoman And Philanthropist

    Among 21 competitors vying for the title of Miss Haiti 2014, the crown was placed on the head of a young Haitian businesswoman named Carolyn Desert. The 25-year-old Desert donned the Miss Haiti crown on Sunday, September 6 to a standing ovation given by the crowd at the Karibe Convention Center in Haiti. “I’m going to support the youth. I’m going to support women. I’m going to support the poor,” she reportedly promised to the audience.

    Desert is a freelance writer and owns a Mexican restaurant in the Petionville district of Port-au-Prince, but is well-known for her philanthropic interests. She has helped support many artists in Haiti as well as helped poor children. Some of those cheering for Desert at the event reportedly included volunteers from the Restavek Freedom Foundation, which helps rescue child slaves in Haiti.

    Desert survived the first round of the competition, which narrowed the candidates down to 15 according to points accumulated over eight weeks of training. After parading in a bathing suit and being judged on physical appearance and allure, Desert was included in the final 10 who were chosen by judges. She then participated in the final round of judging in formal wear, where judges chose the final five women who would be representing Haiti in various beauty pageants. As Miss Haiti 2014, Desert will be representing the country at the Miss Universe pageant to be held in December in London.

    The new Miss Haiti was reportedly an early favorite in the competition, having won the “most photogenic” award because of her wide smile. Her answer during the question and answer segment caused the audience to erupt in applause when she said that Haitian women had more to offer than their looks in the form of “perseverance, courage, resilience.” She was also one of two contestants who competed with closely cropped hair, which apparently sparked debates about whether competitors should change their natural hair for the beauty pageant.

  • Mariah Carey Dives Into Work To Dodge Divorce Rumors

    Two photos posted on Instagram by singing sensation Mariah Carey are showing that the diva is getting back to work to avoid the recent storm of rumors surrounding her marriage. The photos Carey posted show her rehearsing for her upcoming tour The Elusive Chanteuse Show, which kicks off on October 4 in Tokyo, Japan.

    Carey posted the photos on Saturday, on her Instagram account, which has 1.83 million followers. The first photo was captioned, “Last night’s rehearsal for #TheElusiveChanteuseShow,” and showed her standing by a grand piano in a black sleeveless mini-dress.

    In the second photo, she was joined by one of her five Jack Russell terriers, Jill E. Beans, who looked as if she was barking along with the music. Mariah hid her eyes with sunglasses but was smiling in the photo.

    “I want to experience the spontaneity and emotion that I put into this album on stage with my fans. I can’t stop writing songs so don’t be surprised if you hear a brand new song that I just wrote the night before the show in your city!” Carey said in a statement about the tour. The Elusive Chanteuse Show is staged to support Carey’s latest album, Me. I Am Mariah … The Elusive Chanteuse. The album debuted at No. 3 with 58,000 units sold after it was released on May 27 of this year.

    The Elusive Chanteuse Show will see Carey touring all throughout Asia in October, which will keep her busy as rumors about her divorce with America’s Got Talent host Nick Cannon are reaching their peak. E! recently reported that “Mariah has started the divorce process.” Cannon, however, is reportedly denying on Twitter that he ever hinted that the marriage was troubled before.

    Claims that he said there was “trouble in paradise” when asked about the marriage last month were untrue, he said. “’Trouble in Paradise’ is the dumbest phrase I’ve ever heard! I would never say that s***,” he recently tweeted.

  • Jennifer Lawrence Nude Photos Leaked Online, Celeb Friends Empathize

    The most recent leak of celebrity nude photos on the Internet has involved some of the biggest names in entertainment, including Academy Award winner Jennifer Lawrence. On Sunday, August 31, hundreds of stolen nude photos of female actors, models, singers and athletes went viral, causing their friends and colleagues to rally for them on social media.

    Lena Dunham of the HBO TV show Girls was vocal on Twitter about showing support for Lawrence and the other female stars by not clicking on the supposed nude photos of them. “Remember, when you look at these pictures you are violating these women again and again. It’s not okay,” was part of a series of tweets she posted on the matter. She called the perpetrator of the leaks a “sex offender” and bashed the argument that the women shouldn’t have taken the photos in the first place.

    Is Apple’s iCloud safe after leak of Jennifer Lawrence and other celebrities’ nude photos? http://t.co/kV1aei7J5o pic.twitter.com/AdURIiR7U4

    — The Independent (@Independent) September 1, 2014

    “The ‘don’t take naked pics if you don’t want them online’ argument is the ‘she was wearing a short skirt’ of the web. Ugh,” Dunham tweeted.

    The way in which you share your body must be a CHOICE. Support these women and do not look at these pictures.

    — Lena Dunham (@lenadunham) September 1, 2014

    Remember, when you look at these pictures you are violating these women again and again. It’s not okay.

    — Lena Dunham (@lenadunham) September 1, 2014

    Seriously, do not forget that the person who stole these pictures and leaked them is not a hacker: they’re a sex offender.

    — Lena Dunham (@lenadunham) September 1, 2014

    The “don’t take naked pics if you don’t want them online” argument is the “she was wearing a short skirt” of the web. Ugh.

    — Lena Dunham (@lenadunham) September 1, 2014

    Meanwhile, Harry Potter star Emma Watson also expressed sympathy for her friend Lawrence’s plight, posting a comment on Twitter on September 1. “Even worse than seeing women’s privacy violated on social media is reading the accompanying comments that show such a lack of empathy,” she tweeted.

    Even worse than seeing women’s privacy violated on social media is reading the accompanying comments that show such a lack of empathy.

    — Emma Watson (@EmWatson) September 1, 2014

    The incident has sparked discussion on whether it’s possible for people not to click on the sensitive material that abounds on the Internet. Similar calls not to click were made by relatives of James Foley, the American journalist whose beheading by extremist group ISIS was filmed and posted online. Supposedly, clicking on these types of sensitive content violates the privacy or dignity of the people they are about.

    One person who is apparently not fazed by the issue is singer Ariana Grande, who simply denied that the nude photos of her were real and even tried to promote her tour in a single tweet. She tweeted on Monday, “to every1 going on about my ‘nudes’ & my ‘m&g prices’ neither are real! my lil ass is a lot cuter than that lmao & tour details r comin soon.”

    to every1 going on about my “nudes” & my “m&g prices” neither are real! my lil ass is a lot cuter than that lmao & tour details r comin soon

    — Ariana Grande (@ArianaGrande) September 2, 2014

  • Pamela Anderson As Never Seen Before, Graces No ToFu Cover

    Iconic Baywatch babe Pamela Anderson has donned a new look for the cover of the Fall 2014 issue of No Tofu magazine. Instead of highlighting Anderson’s sexy curves and glamorous makeup, the magazine has toned down her hues and covered her in vintage-inspired clothing to make her every inch the high-fashion model on their cover.

    A departure from her usually sexy magazine covers, the one for No Tofu has Anderson looking sweet wearing a velvet bow to top off her conservative bob. She usually favors revealing, low-cut dresses, but Anderson sported a prim Peter Pan-collar dress and traded in her dark eyeliner and bold lip color for fluttery eyelashes and subdued hues closer to her skin color. Her new makeup accentuated her blue eyes and cheekbones.

    The 47-year-old looked great in her “makeunder,” which was shot by photographer Zoey Grossman and styled by JAK. According to Cosmopolitan Australia, Anderson wore vintage-inspired dresses from brands such as Miu Miu, Saint Laurent and Dolce and Gabbana.

    Her high-fashion look reportedly got the fashion world’s attention. Fashionista.com tweeted on August 28, “Has @PamelaDAnderson become a high fashion icon?” along with a link to their blog entry on the No Tofu cover.

    However, the fashion spread showed Anderson not wearing her wedding ring, a fact that piqued the media’s interest after she was seen wearing it again recently. The ring on sighted on her finger suggested that the actor was back with her husband Rick Salomon.

    According to Daily Mail, an insider claimed that Anderson had filed divorce from Salomon in July because he was partying too much and it was the only thing she could do at that point in her marriage.

    “They love each other, but it’s always a roller coaster with Pam and Rick. No one should be shocked if they reconcile. Since she filed for divorce, Rick has been begging Pam to halt the proceedings,” said the insider. Anderson has reportedly filed a petition asking the court to dismiss her divorce filing.

  • Cee Lo Green Infuriates Fans With Rape Tweets; His Reality Show Gets Canceled

    Singer Cee Lo Green faced the anger of fans recently over tweets he allegedly posted on Sunday about rape. The singer has since deleted the reportedly inflammatory tweets, but not before some screen captures were made by Twitter users.

    Green apologized for the deleted tweets on Tuesday, posting, “I truly and deeply apologize for the comments attributed to me on Twitter. Those comments were idiotic, untrue and not what I believe.”

    According to screen captures made of Green’s Twitter page, the singer posted the following: “People who have really been raped REMEMBER!!!”

    He further tweeted, “If someone is passed out they’re not even WITH you consciously! so WITH Implies consent.”

    Green’s tweets were believed to be referencing a recent felony court case to which he pleaded no contest on Friday. Green allegedly spiked his female date’s drink with MDMA in 2012, after which she supposedly woke up naked in his hotel room with no memory of the night before.

    Fans reportedly attacked Green online after he posted his tweets that were apparently commenting on the case. He also deleted his Twitter account temporarily, but supposedly revived it again to issue the apology.

    Meanwhile, Green’s reality TV series The Good Life was also recently canceled by TBS. The show documents the singer’s reunion with former group Goodie Mob and their collaboration on a new album. It completed the run of its first season with six episodes, but was canceled due to low ratings, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

    The cancelation of the show coincided with a petition started by the anti-sexism group Ultraviolet to get the series canceled. However, it isn’t clear whether TBS was influenced by the petition or the controversy surrounding Green when they made the decision to cut The Good Life.

  • Blue Ivy: BET Ridicules Jay Z And Beyonce’s Baby, Karrueche Tran Takes Heat From Twitter

    TV network BET got itself and guest host, model Karrueche Tran, into hot water recently when it made a joke on air about the hair of Blue Ivy, the daughter of Beyonce and Jay Z. Fans of the musical power couple lashed out on social media after Tran read a joke on the BET show 106 & Park at Blue Ivy’s expense.

    Tran was a guest on the show on Monday, a day after the MTV Video Music Awards, where Blue Ivy joined her mother and father onstage after Beyonce finished her musical performance. During a segment on 106 & Park titled “Top Six Things Blue Ivy Thought at the VMAs,” Tran read off a list given to her by the show’s producers and reportedly realized she had gone too far when she recited No. 6 on the list: “I really did wake up like this — because my parents never comb my hair.”

    Despite the model blurting out, “Sorry, Blue. I love you,” off-script, fans of Beyonce dubbed The Beyhive attacked Tran on social media. She tried apologizing the next day, posting on Twitter, “Now y’all know I LOVE me some Beyoncé and Blue Ivy! I didn’t write this script y’all lol,” on August 25.

    The social media onslaught on Tran prompted BET Networks’ president of music programming, Stephen G. Hill, to issue an apology on behalf of his company to the public and to Tran. He wrote a series of tweets on August 26 saying, “Last night on 106 & Park there was a stupid, unthoughtful joke made about a young child. We apologize publically to the child’s parents (and have done so privately) and we have taken punitive actions with those responsible. It was very bad judgment and we will serve you much better in the future. Oh, and please don’t hate on Karrueche; it was NOT her fault. We also apologize to her for putting her in that position.”

    106 & Park has gone on hiatus, but supposedly not because of the incident. Instead, one of the show’s producers who was responsible for the joke was reportedly suspended.

  • Elton John Reportedly Rescues Child From Ukrainian City Under Threat By Russian Troops

    In 2009, when legendary singer Elton John met Lev Ageyevya for the first time at an orphanage, the six-year-old boy was just a baby. John said at the time, “I would love to adopt him… he has stolen my heart.” However, Ukrainian laws stating that gay parents were not allowed to adopt prevented John and partner David Furnish from pushing through with this intention. Today, John is rumored to be behind the rescue of Ageyevya, his brother and grandmother from Mariupol, a city threatened to be overrun with Russian tanks.

    Even after John was denied adoption rights to the boy in 2009 due to Ukrainian Laws and his advanced age, the musician never lost touch with Ageyevya and his grandmother, Yulia. Having two sons with Furnish, John declared back then that he would never give up on Ageyevya, and he has now made true on that promise.

    Over the weekend, Ageyevya, his seven-year-old brother Artyom and 61-year-old grandmother Yulia were whisked away to Kiev with the help of Ukrainian socialite Olena Franchuk. A close friend of John’s, Franchuk took charge of sending a bus more than 460 miles to Mariupol to bring the family to the safety of the capital before Russian forces were slated to take over their home city.

    “People say Russian tanks will attack soon. I thank God for whoever helped us. We’ve been told we will be moved to a flat and there’s a school not far away,” said Yulia.

    Franchuk reportedly told media outlets that John was behind the dramatic rescue, but a representative of the musician declined to comment on the matter.

    John’s AIDS Foundation has collaborated with Franchuk’s Ukrainian Anti-AIDS Foundation, and he once gave a free concert in Kiev in 2012 to raise HIV and AIDS awareness.

  • Westboro Baptist Church Targets Openly Gay NFL Player Michael Sam

    Michael Sam, the first openly gay player to be drafted into the National Football League (NFL), is now the target of the Westboro Baptist Church’s ridicule after he was cut from the St. Louis Rams. The notorious hate group announced that they had made and posted a Beatles song parody directed at Sam.

    Westboro Baptist Church recently announced the re-emergence of the parody, sung to the tune of The Beatles’ “Get Back,” on the church’s blog. They wrote, “Now that the fag-dust settled and the Rams had to face a season with filthy fag Michael Sam and his ineptitude, they cut him.”

    The group of religious extremists also blamed Sam for the controversy surrounding the town of Ferguson in Missouri, which is experiencing unrest due to racial tensions sparked by the shooting of African-American teen Michael Brown. Westboro Baptist Church issued a release on August 20 stating that one of the reasons the town is undergoing the upheaval is because of God’s wrath surrounding the drafting of Sam to the NFL.

    “Missouri has made itself known worldwide for three things: Fags (e.g. Michael Sam); bestiality; and shredding the constitution in order to remove the Word of God from their streets,” wrote the Westboro Baptist Church in the release.

    The group reportedly planned to picket the funeral of Brown on account of the openly gay NFL player. “Westboro to Michael Brown’s family >> No dead body worship! No lies! No human agenda! Invite us to preach! @donlemon,” they tweeted on August 21.

    Sam was drafted in the seventh round by the St. Louis Rams in May after he came out in his senior year at the University of Missouri. At the time, Rams coach Jeff Fisher reportedly made it clear that he had picked Sam for his talent and not because of his sexual orientation. However, Sam was one of the players that was cut as the Rams trimmed down to 53 players before the start of the 2014 NFL season.

    Reports previously circulated that Sam might be enlisted for the Rams’ practice team, but the team has confirmed that the player would not be part of it, since defense is one of its strengths and doesn’t need boosting.

    Sam is reportedly taking the news in stride. He tweeted on Sunday, “The most worthwhile things in life rarely come easy, this is a lesson I’ve always known. The journey continues.”

  • Casey Anthony Lawyer, Judge Make Headlines Three Years After Acquittal

    Three years after the acquittal of Casey Anthony in her trial for the murder of daughter Caylee, her lawyer and the judge who presided over the case are making headlines. Anthony’s lawyer, Jose Baez, recently gave an interview where he spoke about Anthony’s controversial case. Meanwhile, former judge Belvin Perry is stepping down from the bench to join a Florida law firm.

    Baez sat down with WFTV’s Greg Warmoth to discuss his thoughts about the trial that put Casey in the international spotlight in 2011. He defended his opening statement in the trial, where he accused Anthony’s father George of sexually abusing her and of being part of a plan to cover up the alleged drowning of Caylee in a pool.

    “There’s more evidence that she drowned in the pool, in my opinion, than there is that of chloroform or duct tape,” said Baez. He also addressed rumors of having an affair with Anthony by denying that she was doing legal research for him and saying he no longer is in contact with her.

    “So many people think she got away with murder. I think not,” Baez said.

    The lawyer, who recently opened an office in downtown Orlando, claimed that he felt Judge Belvin Perry talked down to him during the trial. Perry has officially resigned his post as chief judge of Florida’s Ninth Judicial Circuit. After serving 25 years as a judge there, he announced on September 1 that he was going back into private practice with the law firm of Morgan and Morgan.

    Perry is reportedly looking forward to returning to the courtroom trying cases, having served as a prosecutor for several years before becoming a judge. “I have a golden opportunity to do something that I’ve always wanted to do, and that’s to practice personal injury law,” he said of the new development in his career.

  • Angelina Jolie: Her Kids Helped Design Her Versace Wedding Dress

    The Hollywood power couple of Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt truly made their recent secret wedding a family affair by getting their six children to play important roles. The inclusion of the Jolie-Pitt children in wedding preparations seemed perfect, since they were reportedly part of the reason why the long-time partners finally wed on August 23 in France.

    Far from being the cliché “bridezilla,” Jolie allowed her kids to have a hand in one important decision: the design of her wedding gown. According to People, the actor-director asked Atelier Versace’s master tailor Luigi Massi to design her white gown. Her children’s artworks were then emblazoned on the bride’s veil and the back of her dress.

    “Luigi is like family to me and I couldn’t imagine anyone else making this dress. He knows and cares for the children and it was great fun putting it together,” said Jolie.

    Pitt, meanwhile, wore a dark suit from his own closet and borrowed a tie from one of his sons because he had reportedly forgotten his own.

    At the ceremony, each child also played a special role. Maddox and Pax both walked their mother down the aisle after flower girls Zahara and Vivienne scattered petals gathered from flowers in the garden of Jolie and Pitt’s chateau Miraval estate in Correns. Shiloh and Knox served as ring bearers, while older brother Pax had also baked the wedding cake.

    “It was such a special day to share with our children and a very happy time for our family,” the couple said to People.

    Jolie also took the time to honor her mother, Marcheline Bertrand, at her wedding. Bertrand had passed away in 2007 due to ovarian cancer. Jolie told People that her husband had engraved a dedication to her mother in the chapel where they held their ceremony and that they both stood on a stone with a tribute etched onto it when they said, “I do.”

    Jolie added that she and her brother James Haven honored their mother further by wearing pieces of her jewelry at the wedding.

  • Woman Impaled Texting: Guard Rail Pierces Her Butt And Almost Kills Her

    A woman in Colorado was impaled by a guard rail after texting while she was driving away from her daughter’s school.

    Christina Jahnz from Elizabeth, Colorado, had reportedly gone to her daughter’s school on Wednesday to drop off her saxophone. As she drove out of Elizabeth Middle School, she decided to text her friend. “I was running late for a business meeting, so I did a voice text. I looked down to make sure it was all right. The next thing I knew, I was looking up, there was white powder from the air bags deployed,” she told 9News.

    Jahnz had only been driving at 20 miles per hour, but her collision had caused the guard rail to go through her truck’s headlight, through her but and thigh. The metal pole reportedly even pierced the seat behind her. Elizabeth firefighters rushed to the scene of the accident and were only able to take her out after they sawed off the front and back ends of the pole, Jahnz said.

    Jahnza was then rushed to Parker Adventist Hospital, where surgeons immediately worked on her to remove the metal pole from her body. “I went into surgery and I lost count of the stitches after 40. They stitched me up inside, too. I’m truly a miracle. They said if it [had] gone just a little bit the other way I would have bled out,” said Jahnz.

    There was apparently no permanent damage made to her body, and Jahnz was able to leave the hospital four days after the incident using a temporary walker. She is expected to make a full recovery.

    Jahnz admitted that her rescue and recovery was ‘a miracle.’ She added, “It’s devastating knowing that I could have prevented it to begin with. I just hope my story helps to save the lives of others. Don’t text and drive.”

  • Jenny McCarthy Marries Donnie Wahlberg, Brother Mark Wahlberg Absent From Wedding

    On Sunday, former The View host Jenny McCarthy tied the knot with actor-singer Donnie Wahlberg in an intimate ceremony outside of Chicago. The couple was surrounded by their closest friends and members of their families, including The View co-host Sherri Shepherd and New Kids On The Block members Jordan Knight, Jonathan Knight and Danny Wood.

    McCarthy looked radiant in a white strapless gown she reportedly bought at Berdof Goodman, which she paired with a white see-through veil. The wedding was held in her hometown of St. Charles, Illinois at the Hotel Baker.

    The couple started dating last year and became engaged when Wahlberg proposed to McCarthy in April of this year. He reportedly enlisted the help of McCarthy’s son Evan when he popped the question and gave McCarthy a 10-carat sapphire ring.

    Some family members of Wahlberg’s could not make it to the ceremony, including his brother, actor Mark Wahlberg. The latter was in Los Angeles on the same weekend, celebrating his daughter Ella’s 11th birthday. However, Mark Wahlberg tweeted on Sunday, “Congratulations @DonnieWahlberg and @JennyMcCarthy, so happy for you both today,” as well as posted an Instagram video of him, his wife and their children sending their love and congratulations to the happy couple.

    TMZ reported that Mark Wahlberg and his wife are not close to his brother and McCarthy, implying that this was the reason behind their absence. The site also reported that brother Bobby and Mother Wahlberg would not be in attendance, although brother Paul was. However, the groom responded warmly to his brother’s greetings on social media, tweeting, “Thank you @mark_wahlberg. Thanks to you & @rheadur for the adorable video for me & Jenny! Please wish a Happy B-Day to my god daughter Ella!”

    This is the second marriage for both McCarthy and Wahlberg. McCarthy had previously been married to director John Asher before dating comedian Jim Carrey, while Wahlberg was married to Kim Fey from 1999 to 2008.

  • Danica Patrick Sets Record At Atlanta Motor Speedway

    Seemingly coming from nowhere, Danica Patrick of Stewart-Haas Racing (SHR) finished in sixth place at the Oral-B USA 500 leg of the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series over the Labor Day Weekend. The race was held at the Atlanta Motor Speedway, and Patrick now holds the record for a woman at the track, since Janet Guthrie had finished 10th on it in 1978.

    The race has been Patrick’s best finish for the season as well as a career-best, toppling her seventh-place finish at Kansas Speedway earlier this year. This finish also comes after six consecutive races for Patrick where she couldn’t break into the top 15, making her an unexpected force to be reckoned with on the track.

    Patrick started the race in 27th place out of 43, but methodically made her way closer to the front, fighting her way back up twice from a lap down. She credited her progress to key adjustments that SHR crew chief Tony Gibson made that improved her car’s performance and made her more comfortable in the driver’s seat. “The car was really good. I had one lap where I felt like I was playing a video game out there. I was just driving around the top side of everybody. It was a little more human-like after that. Gibson and everybody did a good job,” she said.

    What gave her the final edge was a great last pit stop that set her up on the preferred line at the track for restarts, seventh on the inside. “Obviously the pit stop at the end that was 11 seconds was so good. There were a couple of rough ones in the beginning but that one made up for it because it put us seventh on that restart, and we had a good line on the inside and didn’t get caught up on the outside,” said Patrick.

    Although she wasn’t able to hold her lead in the last two laps, Patrick is still high on the result of the race, as she’d only been hoping to get into the top 15. “I am just so happy for the team,” she said.

    Despite it not being her favorite track, she is reportedly ready and looking forward to racing in the regular-season finale at Richmond International Raceway on September 6.

  • Kristin Cavallari Is A Proud Momma, Shares Photo On Instagram

    Former star of the hit reality TV series The Hills and Laguna Beach Kristin Cavallari is now proud of her role as the mother of two sons. Cavallari posted a photo of herself on Instagram on Friday, showing that she adores her two-year-old son Camden. The sweet black-and-white photo shows Cavallari carrying and kissing her son, with the caption, “Kisses from my little man before date night with the big one.”

    Cavallari posted the photo right before going out with her husband—and father to her sons—Jay Cutler, quarterback for the Chicago Bears. Since she recently had her second child, Jaxon, with Cutler in May, the couple are ensuring that they spend quality time together and stepped out Friday night for a romantic evening.

    The couple had an on-and-off relationship after they started dating in 2010. They had their first son Camden in August 2012 before getting married on June 8, 2013, when Camden was 10 months old.


    Despite it being only four months since she gave birth to baby Jaxon, Cavallari recently showed off her amazing post-pregnancy body when she made a guest appearance on Good Morning, America on August 25 to discuss fashion at the MTV Video Music Awards. She stopped by the show’s studios in New York’s Times Square looking sexy while wearing a light-blue skin-tight dress with long sleeves, paired with leopard-print stilettos.

    The 27-year-old mother now calls Chicago her home, but she often goes to Los Angeles for work and shopping. Since leaving her role as a troublemaker in The Hills and Laguna Beach, Cavallari has found her calling in motherhood, trading in partying for playdates. However, she is proving to be working hard since her stint in reality TV, having also designed several shoe lines for the brand Chinese Laundry and hosting the E! show The Fabulist.

  • Mariah Carey: No. 1 On Time’s Ultimate Pop Stardom List

    Singing legend Mariah Carey may be having a tough year in her personal life, but her pop star status in 2014 is cemented and secure. Time has given the multi-awarded singer the top spot on “The Ultimate Ranking of Pop Stardom,” which they compiled by examining the top 10 hits on the Billboard charts from 1960 to the present. For each week that a song was on the charts, points were assigned to the artists.

    Carey landed No. 1 on Time’s list because of the longevity of her career and for having major years of success. Over 19 years, Carey scored several top 10 records, and had two years when she scored more than 300 points: in 1995 and 2005. Only 19 times in Time’s analysis did artists score over 300 points in one year, and the fact that Carey’s years were a decade apart speaks volumes about her ability to connect with new generations of music fans.

    The artist in second place on the list was Rihanna, who also bagged two years with over 300 points, in 2008 and 2010. She is followed by Usher, The Beatles and Madonna in third, fourth and fifth places, respectively.

    Usher was found to have had the best performing year in 2004 with the songs “Burn,” “Confessions Part II,” “My Boo” and “Yeah!” spending a total of 26 weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard charts. Musical supergroup The Beatles came in second for the year 1964, when they had 11 top 10 singles and six songs at the No. 1 spot.

    Other musical legends that made it to the list of top 50 pop stars include Michael Jackson (No. 8), Elton John (No. 11), Whitney Houston (No. 7) and Stevie Wonder (No. 12). However, many relatively new artists also made the list, such as Katy Perry (No. 9), Beyonce (No. 15) and Bruno Mars (No. 17). Ingénue Miley Cyrus impressively landed on the list with a relatively young career at No. 50.