Taylor Lautner Snarls When Asked About Tay-Squared
If you think Kristen Stewart is protective of her private life, you ain’t seen Taylor Lautner. The most famous member of the New Moon wolf pack got his hackles up Friday afternoon at a press conference for the film (though he cooled out later in the vid above), when a reporter asked him about rumors that he’s dating Taylor Swift.
"What about us?” Lautner shot back. “The very funny thing is that all of you have seen every single move I have made so I guess I can leave that up to you to decide.”
Well, OK then. Just don’t bite anyone.
Susan Boyle Set to Serenade Dancing with the Stars
Susan Boyle may not have dreamed the dream of being a dancing queen, but that's not stopping her from performing alongside a few of them.
The Britain's Got Talent phenom is making her way back to the States to perform on next week's Dancing with the Stars. No word on what the Scottish songstress will sing, but we're willing to bet she'll grace the stage in her glamorous new get-up.
And Boyle's brother says the reality show runner-up is just as excited as we are. "She loves America and loves the people," says John Boyle. "She appreciates their honesty."
Boyle's debut album I Dreamed a Dream hits stores Monday, Nov. 23.
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It's down to the final five on DWTS this week. Take a peek at some of their rehearsals.
Kris Allen's Time Is Running Out
It's no fancy-schmancy album cover art, but it sure is pretty.
American Idol champ Kris Allen has unveiled the music video for his first single, "Live Like We're Dying," and overall, it's pretty standard. A guitar-wielding Allen performs his song in the middle of the desert on a larger-than-life-size digital clock, while countless unexplained tattered and torn curtains blow in the wind around him.
You know, that old chestnut.
The former Idoler does what he can to turn up the heat on the small screen, at one point literally throwing what looks to be a gigantic fire ball.
On the other had, as videos of the coffeehouse varitey go, it's not too shabby.
You decide: does this debut make a big splash or is it just another drop in the bucket?
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Week in Review: Rob, Kristen & Taylor Go Global; Rihanna, Kate Gosselin & Stripper Talk It Out
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It was ladies' week in Hollywood (and related environs) as real stars like Rihanna and Mariah Carey opened up on TV about serious, emotional issues; celebish types like Kate Gosselin rehashed stories we already know, but with more tears; and nonentity (in Hollywood and related environs) Nicole Forrester talked about having a one-night stand with Fergie's man.
Hey, to each her own.
Read on for your complete week in review...
'N Sync's Joey Fatone Admits He's a Has-Been
If what you wear says a lot about who you are, someone might want to get Joey Fatone to therapy, stat!
The former member of 'N Sync donned a rather pessimistic—although arguably valid—shirt that read, "Has Been."
Of course, it probably didn't make him feel any better when former bandmate J.C. Chasez told MTV the group would never get back together.
Or maybe all of Justin Timberlake's success has him down in the dumps. Still, we can't help but feel a little bad for Fatone. Anyone got a smiley face T-shirt we can borrow?
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Mark Twain famously said, "Clothes make the man." See what other potentially self-fulfilling prophesies stars are wearing these days in our new Fashion Statements gallery!
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K.Stew's So Over Gossip: "It Doesn't Bother Me"
Attention all Robsten tongue-waggers: Gossip away! Kristen Stewart is over it! Totally and completely over it!
Much hay has been made in recent days about K.Stew's tumultuous relationship with the tabloids and her fierce words for gossips.
But at a press conference today in Los Angeles promoting The Twilight Saga: New Moon, Stewart indicated she'd finally found a way to cope.
"The whole rumor, tabloid stuff, it's so obviously false," she said, holding forth solo before a press mob, enthused and energetic and seemingly very happy about the whole thing.
"I became a part of a show, a ridiculous show, with false realism, like a soap opera, but it doesn't bother me. I don't take it personally, because I have gotten so much experience with this, it's gotten easier."
In fact, K.Stew now insists she gets it, how fans can get carried away, too.
"I totally understand that people have a hard time seeing us outside of our characters," she said, admitting she's very also very attached to hers, the lovestruck Bella Swan.
"I'm very protective of her. I feel a shared ownership, its weird," she said. "Maybe I am an immature girl as well; I really feel like if you think you need to do it, you need to do it, and 'it' can be anything. Be extreme. Go for it. I know this is a movie about immortality and mortality, but you only live once."
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K.Stew gets around! See where she's been lately in the New Moon: World Tour Madness! gallery
Bethenny Frankel Blogs About Real Housewives of Atlanta: "Please Don't Say 'Boo' Ever Again!"
Sorry for the delay in this blog. I was still sleeping from Thursday night's reunion show.
I love that the girls took the debutante approach again, as if they're not on a reality show—one whose ratings soar when weaves are ripped off. Andy Cohen was so frustrated, you could see it on his face. And Andy, please don't say "boo" ever again. Thank you.
So, I'm gathering that the lack of drama and honesty on this reunion was replaced with a series of montages. This was when we got to watch footage that we've already seen. I can never get enough of the "Sheree-down," but seriously, we needed some meat to this matter.
Instead we got ladies with lockjaw.
Rihanna: I Told Myself I'd Never Date Anyone Like My Father
Even if she had never met Chris Brown, Rihanna knew how domestic abuse could turn into a vicious cycle.
"I always anticipated it happening. At night I wouldn't want to sleep, because I was too afraid it would happen," the singer said in the portion of her ABC News interview that aired on 20/20 tonight, referring to her father hitting her mother when she was a child growing up in Barbados.
"She never went to the hospital, but he broke her nose.," Rihanna continued. "She would never go to the hospital...Domestic violence is not somebody that people want anbody to know, so she would just hide it in the house. I always said to myself, 'I'm never going to date somebody like my dad, never.'
"I always said that."
And yet she not only dated someone who hit her, she went back to him after the fact.
Who's Haute Stuff? Birds of Paradise Edition
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Who else hit the red carpet in style this week? Find out in the Fashion Police gallery!
New Moon McNuggets: Rock Hard Nipples, Wolf-Pack Tats & Strange Superpowers
Dakota Fanning loves being evil! The New Moon wolf pack tattoos might turn into the real thing for some of the actors! And the leader of the Volturi wishes he had a very...unusual...supernatural ability.
If you haven't already, check out full pieces on that romantic devil, RPattz, and his tabloid (at least) sweetheart, KStew. And then move on to a roundup of all the stuff you should know about today's day-long press conference promoting New Moon.
So just what does Michael Sheen wish he could do? Well…
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New Moon Shockers: R.Pattz Isn't Romantic + More!
Edward Cullen? All kinds of melodramatic romantic. Robert Pattinson? Not so much, at least, according to Robert Pattinson.
"I really haven't done that many romantic things in my life...I mean, I've watched Titanic," he said today at a press conference promoting New Moon, the second part in, like, only the most important movie series like ever. Another shocking reveal: The actor-musician, who even had a song on the Twilight soundtrack, has never serenaded anyone.
"Oh no. You need to have so much balls to do that, Jesus Christ," he said. "I put a flower on someone's locker when I was 15."
What else did Pattz reveal? Oh, so much...
Chris Brown: I Accept Accountability...But Some Things Are Just Private
ABC snagged Rihanna, leaving MTV... with Chris Brown.
But the network and the fallen R&B star made the most of the opportunity tonight with a half-hour special that gave Brown a chance to reflect even more upon his endlessly reflected-upon crime.
So did he have anything new to say this time?
Well, Brown's position has been to not discuss what exactly happened the night he assaulted his then-girlfriend, turning him into a celeb-gossip pariah before the sun had risen the next day.
But Rihanna did go into detail about the attack, however, and MTV gave Brown the opportunity to respond to what Rihanna was dishing out to Diane Sawyer.
"While I respect Rihanna's right to discuss the specific events of February 8th, I maintain my position that all of the details should remain a private matter between us," he said in a statement to MTV today.








