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Rihanna Stopped The Music In Jakarta

November 14, 2008 at 9:20 AM | 0 Comments

What, Chris Brown can't watch her back? Mere days after running off the stage during a concert in Sydney, Rihanna is canceling a show in Indonesia over "security concerns."

After delivering an underwhelming set in Singapore last night, plagued by sound problems and marked by truncated versions of her hits instead of bonus concert cuts, the R&B princess is now backing away from tonight's sold-out show because, according to her reps, of recently updated Australian security warnings. Apparently Indonesia's neighbor to the south is concerned that the execution of three Islamic militants this week could cause reprisals, and Rihanna just didn't want to take her chances on the 6,000-strong crowd.

The prevailing theory is that Rihanna is pulling an M.I.A. and hiding a baby bump, potentially related to the aforementioned Brown. Gossip blog Bossip has already named the baby Chrianna, which gave us a little chuckle.

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· Rihanna @ Singapore Indoor Stadium -- Major Letdown [Emerican Life]
· Rihanna Drops Indonesia Show over Security [Reuters via Yahoo!]
· Celeb Travel coverage [Jaunted]

[Photo: Ultimate Rihanna]

Rachel McAdams For America's Sweetheart (Even Though She's Canadian)

November 14, 2008 at 8:45 AM | 0 Comments

See that? She's pushing her own cart! Like a real person! No amount of magazine fluff pieces have the power like this photo to convince us Rachel McAdams is just a regular girl who occasionally gets discombobulated from hauling around things like her laptop sleeve.

Of course, regular girls don't get to trot off to London and co-star in the new Sherlock Holmes movie with Robert Downey Jr., directed by Guy Ritchie, but that's beside the point.

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· Celeb Travel coverage [Jaunted]

[Photo: Just Jared]

Adrien Brody's Fairy-tale Castle

November 13, 2008 at 10:30 AM | 0 Comments

If you’ve been following our Chasing Michigan series, you know that right now Adrien Brody is in Howell, Michigan filming the movie "High School." But what you may not know, is that when Brody isn’t jet-setting to movie locations, he's relaxing in the 19th century castle he recently bought as a birthday gift for his girlfriend, actress Elsa Pataky.

In 2007 Brody bought the Stone Barn Castle in Cleveland, New York, located about 30 miles northeast of Syracuse on the north shore of Oneida Lake. According to the Daily Mail, the actor said he completely surprised his girlfriend with the extravagant gift:

I blindfolded her. Right at the castle there's a giant, beautiful church bell. And I said "When you hear the sound of the bell, you can open your eyes and you'll see your surprise." And then I rang the bell.

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The Gator Farm Britney Spears Took Her Kids To?

November 12, 2008 at 9:15 AM | 0 Comments

Britney Spears, son Jayden James and sister Jamie Lynn Spears visited Kliebert's Turtle & Alligator Tours yesterday. Hey, Jayden James has already had one brush with danger this week, how about another?

The singer, who also brought her mom, her assistants and older son Sean Preston with her, was on duty this weekend when Jayden was hospitalized for an allergic reaction to some shellfish he ate at a family barbecue. (It was the first time Spears was allowed to take her children out of California per her custody agreement with Kevin Federline. Rough break!)

The kid's fine, clearly, but why tempt fate again by showing him the "literally thousands of alligators" at Kliebert's in Hammond, just south of Britney's hometown of Kentwood? We're just no fun and we don't like giant-jawed animals. But Jamie Lynn would probably prefer to be around gators than the paparazzi, who has been ribbing her over a perceived baby bump which suggests daughter Maddie may be a big sister.

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· The Truth About Jayden's Health Scare [OK! Magazine]
· K-Fed Won't Use Jayden's Allergy Against Britney [iVillage Daily Blabber]
· Celeb Travel coverage [Jaunted]

[Photo: Britneypictures.org]

The Journey Never Ends

November 12, 2008 at 8:50 AM | 1 Comment

"High School Musical 3: Senior Year" has already been out for a few weeks here in the US (including two weeks at the top of the box office), but that doesn't mean Zac Efron and Vanessa Hudgens get a break. Their international fans calling, the once-lightfooted couple trudges through security at LAX this weekend en route to Australia, where the movie is scheduled to open December 4.

Playing travel agent for a second, it's likely the kids are skipping Russia, Romania and Turkey where the movie opens this Friday. We're thinking they're headed to South America next since the flick opens in Chile next week and Argentina and Venezuela the week after. If they go back to Europe at all, it'll be the Netherlands, where fans wait for their filmed revelations on December 10. And don't forget about Japan! Maybe that trip can be like a "High School Reunion" in February.

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· "High School Musical 3: Senior Year" Release Dates [IMDb.com]
· Vanessa Hudgens Doesn't Need Your SmarteCarte [Jaunted]
· Celeb Travel coverage [Jaunted]

[Photo: Celebrity-Gossip.net]

Romantic Vacations, Madonna-Style

November 11, 2008 at 9:15 AM | 0 Comments

Nothing bonds a new couple like travel! That must be why Madonna (above left, with Britney) is planning to drag her new paramour on tour in South America with her.

The New York Daily News reports that the recently separated Material Girl, who decamps to Mexico for a concert on the 29th before playing a string of dates in the Southern Hemisphere, is adding Alex Rodriguez to her entourage. After she wraps up her "Sticky & Sweet" world tour, it's time for a romantic vacation--to Malawi, where Madge adopted son David Banda in 2006 and where she's building an orphanage.

Think it stuns ex Guy Ritchie that he's not getting a free trip to Chile, Brazil and Argentina? He's probably relishing the alone time in his native London, where he's shooting his next feature, a big-screen adaptation of Sherlock Holmes. Besides, he's taking care of sons Rocco and David.

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· Madonna and A-Rod Plan Malawi Retreat [NYDN]
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· Celeb Travel coverage [Jaunted]

[Photo: Britneyzone.com]

Christmas Coming To Disneyland Early

November 10, 2008 at 9:15 AM | 0 Comments

Fear not, Tiny Tim: Christmas is coming to Disneyland even if the bank repossesses all of Disney's coal on Christmas Eve. The Jonas Brothers--aka What The Kids Are Listening To These Days--get caught taping the Disneyland Christmas Day Parade

Christmas will continue for Disney, but will anyone be there to see it? Stock plummeted Friday after CEO Robert Iger announced that earnings were down at the American entertainment juggernaut. Maybe the company's hoping that "staycating" families will chip in and subscribe to Disney on cable once they've seen the JoBro and Miley Cyrus gallivanting about for an early Christmas.

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· The Jonas Brothers Hit Up The Bryant Park Hotel [HC]
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· As Disney Goes, So Goes The Nation [Jaunted]
· Celeb Travel coverage [Jaunted]

[Photo: Just Jared]

What's Wrong With Rihanna?

November 10, 2008 at 8:45 AM | 0 Comments

When a pop star rushes offstage, there's usually a costume change at hand. But pop star Rihanna never returned to do the second half of "Umbrella" at a concert in Sydney over the weekend. Thank goodness boyfriend Chris Brown was there to cover for her.

Thanks to the magic of cameraphones, we can see Rihanna's run off the stage, for which her rep blamed a combination of overheating, dehydration and the smoke effects used in the show. Another doctor criticized her skintight suits in which she classically performs for not letting the singer breathe. So if you're holding tickets for a forthcoming Rihanna concert, you may want to have a plan B.

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· Rihanna "Perfectly Healthy" After Running Offstage At Concert [ICYDK]
· PG-rated Mass Seduction [SMH.com.au]
· Rihanna collapses [iAfrica.com]
· Rihanna Did Not Faint Onstage [MSNBC]
· Celeb Travel coverage [Jaunted]

Political Rally Becomes Movie Set

November 6, 2008 at 8:45 AM | 0 Comments

He's baaaaack! Sacha Baron Cohen's character Bruno took advantage of pre-election frenzy this weekend in California and attempted to crash a "Yes on Prop 8" rally in Los Angeles. The actor, who notably played a Kazakh the last time he was ambushing Americans, was in deep cover as gay Austrian fashionista Bruno until, when recognized, he and his camera crew tried to sneak away without being caught.

Bruno's exploits aren't quite as funny in light of the results in from the Proposition 8 vote, which according to current returns demonstrates that the electorate has passed the ban. This would mean that celebs like Ellen DeGeneras and Portia de Rossi, who married in May after the California Supreme Court struck down an earlier marriage-related proposition, would see their new unions invalidated--possibly within the year.

But with some 4 million provisional and absentee ballots yet to be counted, opponents of Prop 8 are still holding out hope.

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[Photo: Faded Youth Blog]

Zac Efron Can Write His Name

November 5, 2008 at 9:15 AM | 0 Comments

"High School Musical 3" star Zac Efron is forced to confront his legacy as a teen heartthrob at Pearson International Airport in Toronto.

"HSM3" topped the box office last weekend for the second week in a row, besting a host of Halloween offerings from "The Haunting of Molly Hartley" to "Saw V." Youth, hope and optimism beats grim determination and appeals to fear? We've never seen that before.

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[Photo: JustJared]

Run, Ryan, Run!

November 3, 2008 at 9:20 AM | 0 Comments

Last year it was Katie Holmes. This year Ryan Reynolds was the star to beat at the ING New York City Marathon. And hey, he didn't do so badly either!

Reynolds, who ran with Team Fox in support of his father who has Parkinson's disease, ran a 3:50:22 race, about an hour and a half ahead of Holmes' 2007 time. Other celebrity runners included Howard Stern's wife Beth Ostrosky and Olympic gymnast Kerri Strug. Victoria Beckham was rumored to run but appears to have dropped out. Reynolds' new wife Scarlett Johansson was somewhere out on the course, but with all the spectators no one seems to have spotted her.

But the race was not run without a tragedy: A Brazilian runner collapsed at the finish line and later died at a nearby hospital. Two other runners who had heart attacks on the course were rushed to the hospital and are believed to be in critical condition. And a group of New York Road Runners completed the course in memory of Ryan Shay, who died last year during Olympic trials the day before the marathon.

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[Photo: NY Daily News]

All The Dressed-Up Fun

November 3, 2008 at 8:45 AM | 0 Comments

Back to being yourselves! Heidi Klum enjoys the one day a year she has license to be ugly as the goddess Kali at her 9th annual Halloween bash, held at NYC nightclub 1Oak. "Project Runway" winner Christian Siriano was there dressed as Cruella De Vil, Pink was a clown, and Heidi's husband Seal went as some kind of Fu Manchu overlord... we can't figure it out.

Cute couples made sure their costumes were a matched pair: Mariah Carey and husband Nick Cannon went to the party they hosted their party on Thursday night dressed as milk and cookies, and Hilary Duff somehow got boyfriend Mike Comrie to dress up like Brangelina with her. (Complete with American Girl brood!) And the "Today" show hosts mostly got together on a fairy tale theme, incorporating Pinocchio (Meredith), the Gingerbread Man (Al), Humpty Dumpty (Matt) and Cinderella (Ann).

And just like in the larger world, the default for Hollywood starlets was anything sexy: Lauren Conrad was a flapper at a party in Vegas (though we loved Lo's Little Red Riding Hood better!), former Danity Kane singer Aubrey O'Day was the Little Mermaid and Kim Kardashian dressed as Wonder Woman. But the costume that garnered the biggest "awww"s? Britney Spears' boys, who trick-or-treated with dad Kevin Federline as a pair of wee bumblebees.

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· Heidi Klum brings her annual Halloween party back to New York [Monstersandcritics.com]
· Kevin Federline: Happy Halloween! [Just Jared]
· Celeb Travel coverage [Jaunted]

[Photo: ICYDK]

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