If any celebrity’s home seems ripe to be turned into a post-mortem tourist attraction, it’s Michael Jackson’s Neverland Ranch. With the roller coasters, chimpanzees, and all the rest of the circus-y stuff, Neverland has drawn gawking onlookers for years, even though the notoriously reclusive MJ never let many past the gates.

The future of the 2,500-acre property has actually been in question since the financially ailing Jackson parted with it last fall. The owners, real estate firm Capital Colony, have stayed mum on what they plan to do with the estate, but have fueled speculation that it will become some kind of tourist trap by hosting 150 prominent residents for dinners at the ranch and handing out caps that say "Neverland 2009." ]]> BS 2009-07-22T11:04:22-05:00 http://www.jaunted.com/story/2009/6/9/95026/16655

Well we're in to week two of the Speidi quit-a-thon, and Spencer and Heidi have said goodbye to "I'm a Celebrity…Get Me Out of Here" for the third, and apparently final time. Last night we got an inside peak at the couples' alleged torture session in the Costa Rican jungle; they spent a night in the spider-infested "lost chamber" as punishment for their first attempt to quit the show, but Heidi couldn't take it and had to be flown to San Jose to seek medical treatment.

Although don't let it be said their trip was all for naught—Spencer admitted Costa Rica was worth the trek because he did get baptized in the river by Stephen Baldwin—they did get the exposure they wanted. Spencer even admitted, "I guess this is what we deserve for being little crybabies." And for the first time, America agreed with Spencer Pratt. ]]> BS 2009-06-09T10:11:29-05:00 http://www.jaunted.com/story/2009/6/1/221111/0099

The D-Listers (and let's be honest, a few sub-D-listers) parachuted into the Costa Rican Jungle last night for the debut episode of "I'm Spencer Pratt, Make Me Stop Talking." Errr, "I'm a Celebrity…Get Me Out of Here."

While we're in it mostly for the glamour shots of volcanoes and iguanas, we have to admit it's hard not to enjoy watching Patti Blagojevich getting whisked away by a rapid river and Janice Dickinson doused with unidentified "jungle slime." But a few distractions aside, the first episode was, unsurprisingly, all about our old friends Heidi and Spencer. ]]> BS 2009-06-02T09:02:04-05:00 http://www.jaunted.com/story/2009/5/31/211927/747

Is Jaunted's 2008 Celebrity Traveler of the Year getting ready to settle down?

The New York Post reports that our favorite globetrotting pop diva, Rihanna, is forgoing the yachts and jetskis this summer in favor of a Manhattan apartment. The Post says Rihanna is set to rent a luxurious 3-bedroom apartment in Soho, where she'll chill out for a few months. Supposedly, Rihanna bargained down from the asking price of $22,000 a month to the still-pricey $18,000, so she should still have enough cash leftover for a few weekend getaways.

We haven't spotted Riri out and about around Soho yet, but let us know if you see her cruising for new gloves on Canal Street or adding to her body art collection at Sacred Tattoo.

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[Photo: Bob Xu] ]]> BS 2009-06-01T11:32:04-05:00 http://www.jaunted.com/story/2009/5/28/131110/889

Sick and tired of recessionomics and staycations, America is in dire need of distraction by a good D-Listy celebrity travel show, and boy is NBC coming through for us.

Starting next week, the new season of I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here will air live from the Costa Rican jungle, with viewers getting to choose which harrowing challenges to dump on what looks like the most villainous reality show cast yet.

Heidi and Spencer from The Hills will be conniving against American Idol's Sanjaya, Stephen Baldwin, Lou Diamond Phillips, wrestler Torrie Wilson, retired basketball star John Salley and Janice "I'll go on any reality show" Dickinson. The last addition to the cast is Patti Blagojevich, the former first lady of Illinois, who filled in for her disgraced husband Rod when a judge ruled he couldn’t leave the country, even for as important a matter as this. ]]> BS 2009-05-29T10:12:02-05:00 http://www.jaunted.com/story/2008/7/8/43455/86928

The newest version of Madame Tussaud's wax museums opened up in Berlin over the weekend, but just seconds in to the new museum's life, a vandal struck: A Berlin man leaped right into the exhibits and tore off Adolf Hitler's head.

The wax figure of Hitler is now being repaired and the management of Madame Tussaud's is adamant that they'll return him to the exhibition. (The museum says market research they carried out before opening revealed that a majority of Germans wanted to have him on display.)

Ripping heads of wax dolls does sound like a nice way to get revenge over people, though. Only we mightn't target Hitler straight out: there's this rather enticing version of Britney Spears to be dealt with first.

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· Madame Tussauds Berlin [Official Site]
· Hitler Will Return [Spiegel]
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[Photo from Prague Wax Museum: Curious Expeditions]]]> amandak 2008-07-08T09:30:12-05:00 http://www.jaunted.com/story/2006/11/17/9598/6676 Not everything that a celebrity touches should become famous. But tell that to the owners of a small café in Kingsand, Cornwall, who decided to start what they like to describe as the "smallest museum in Cornwall": the Museum of Celebrity Leftovers.

We're almost a bit ashamed to say that it is exactly as it sounds. Celebrities (minor ones, mostly) who happen to drop by the Old Boatstore Café and don't quite finish off their meal get the leftovers stored in a specially designed cabinet. If you want to see singer Pete Doherty's leftover crust, or croissant crumbs and butter wrappers left by other even less famous British celebs, then Kingsand is the place for you. If you're something special and leave a slurp in your café latte, that might get put up on the special shelf for the world to see, too.

[Photo: BBC]

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· Crumby Tribute Famous Patrons [BBC]
· Nights in a Tree in Cornwall [Jaunted]
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