We didn’t have a John Travolta/Masseur-Gate story yesterday! Did you miss the Masseur-Gate scandal? I didn’t. Although I find the daily revelations interesting, there’s a weird vibe to everything. People are comparing it to the Tiger Woods Mistress Spectacular, but really, Masseur-Gate is just creepy and sad and there’s an element of danger too. Like, I’m worried about all of the dudes coming out to claim Travolta groped them. I’m worried about the Church of Scientology’s repercussions. Not just for the accusers, but for Travolta as well. For now, Travolta’s lawyer seems to have finally found a way to discredit John Doe #2. Remember, Travolta’s lawyer went after everybody else’s claims specifically and Doe #2 (the Georgia masseur) was left relatively unscathed (which made me think his claims were true). Well, I’m still not going to print Doe #2’s full name (he can go by “Casey” for now), but enjoy this hit piece about Doe #2 being a skeeve. John Travolta sexual battery accuser John Doe #2 (Casey) once held the position of a spa massage manager and lost his job after he was fired for inappropriate conduct, RadarOnline.com has exclusively learned. Before filing a lawsuit against the Hairspray actor for an alleged incident he claims occurred in Atlanta, Casey worked at the Ballantyne Day Spa and Resort in Charlotte, North Carolina — until nearly eight years ago. “Casey was the massage manager at the spa and he was fired for being sexually inappropriate with clients and coworkers,” an insider exclusively revealed. “Ironic, since he’s now accusing John Travolta of the doing the same thing. As far as I know Casey was only inappropriate with women, but he definitely crossed the line!” According to the source, Casey would remove the sheet placed over women when it wasn’t necessary and would wrongfully touch their breasts. “Complaints were made. He was a total creeper and it didn’t surprise anyone when he was let go,” the source said. “His reputation was ruined in North Carolina so he left the state for the sake of his career, but I don’t think it’s something he can ever escape.” As RadarOnline.com first reported, Casey filed a $2 million sexual battery lawsuit under the anonymity of John Doe #2, alleging that Travolta solicited him for sexual favors while giving him a massage in his Atlanta resort hotel room in January, 2012. Travolta’s attorney, Marty Singer, has vehemently denied all allegations. Casey dropped his original attorney Okorie Okorocha and is now represented by Hollywood hotshot Gloria Allred who told us, “The numerous attempts by supporters of Mr. Travolta to discredit John Doe #2 will ultimately be unsuccessful.” Ballantyne Day Spa and Resort declined to comment. [ From Radar ] “IRONY!!” screams Marty Singer. “We’ll win this case because of IRONY!” So, I don’t know if Doe #2 is really a “creeper” but it could be. I do think it’s sketchy that Travolta’s legal team and his church and his supporters have been investigating the accusers and all they could come up with are eight-year-old claims of improper sheet draping. But here’s the real question – why does everyone assume these two claims are mutually exclusive? Can’t an improper sheet draper be a victim of John Travolta’s groping hands just the same as anyone else? Meanwhile, Doe #Gym Employee has now gotten a lawyer too. The gym employee who accused John Travolta of groping him against his will has hired a lawyer to explore possible legal action against the actor, RadarOnline.com is exclusively reporting. As we previously reported, the fourth man identified in the John Travolta sex scandal alleges he would open the gym for Travolta after hours when he was on location for a film shoot. “The gym was opened as a courtesy to John Travolta so that he could avoid the public yet maintain his fitness in this physically challenging role that he was doing at the time. The gym employee says that Travolta groped and fondled him against his will,” a source close to the situation previously told RadarOnline.com. Travolta’s lawyer, Marty Singer has vehemently denied the allegations. The personal trainer/gym employee “has formally hired a lawyer to explore possible legal action against Travolta. There could very possibly be a lawsuit filed, and there are certainly going to be more cases that the lawyer is going to be taking on in regards to sexual misconduct accusations against John Travolta. These potential cases are well within the statue of limitations, and the men are extremely credible,” an insider tells RadarOnline.com. So far, seven men have been identified in the John Travolta sex scandal, which includes three masseurs. Singer, previously told RadarOnline.com, “As a result of the published lies about my client we expect some ‘John Does’ to come out of the woodwork and assert false claims.” [From Radar ] I’m kind of hoping that all of Travolta’s victims end up represented by Gloria Allred and this becomes the biggest class-action lawsuit of its kind in the history of American jurisprudence. But it looks like various dudes are seeking out various lawyers and Travolta’s legal team is probably going to fight the charges on many different fronts. Photos courtesy of WENN.
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Sporting a new mustache, Zac Efron was spotted making his way through LAX airport in Los Angeles, CA this afternoon (May 22). Hurrying to catch his flight, the 24-year-old actor looked extremely buff as he carried a large bag wearing a black knit beanie and jeans. According to a recent report by The Hollywood Reporter, the “High School Musical” hottie is set to star in Universal Studio’s new comedy “Townies” alongside funny-man Seth Rogen . It is set to be directed by “Forgetting Sarah Marshall’s” Nicholas Stoller and currently has no official release date.
A glowing Hilary Duff was spotted making her way into the Art Institute of California in Hollywood this afternoon (May 22). The brand-new mother let her beautiful blonde waves flow in the wind while wearing a low-cut button down blouse with a pair of skinny jeans that showed off her post-baby curves. In personal news, the 24-year-old’s sister Haylie recently gushed about the “Lizzie McGuire” stars parenting skills saying, “She’s a great mom!” Later adding, “Amazing, she’s doing so well. The baby’s…beautiful. He’s perfect.” Miss Duff posted a picture of he and baby Luca on her Twitter page last week.
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This is for Kaiser, whose Internet went down. Tom Hardy reads the stories about himself online and actually comments on them! I’m going to look up some IP addresses now. [ Jezebel ] Man goes over Niagara Falls alone. Lives . [ Gawker ] The women of color on Maxim’s Hot 100 List are few and far between [ Bossip ] These “Call Me Maybe” cards are so lame [ The Frisky ] Miley needs to put it away. Again. [ Radar ] Goop’s kids make the Illuminati sign for Uncle Jay-Z [ Amy Grindhouse ] Paula Deen lost weight, looks great [ INFDaily ] Kate Gosselin is practically begging for another reality show. haha. [ Videogum ] Anchorman II teaser trailer. I agree, I didn’t love the first one. [ Seriously? OMG! WTF? ] Kim Kardashian is in Cannes. Hide yo swag. [ I’m Not Obsessed ] Facebook caused a third of all divorces in 2011 [ LimeLife ] Nick at Celebslam thinks Lea Michele got implants too [ Celebslam ] Chris Hemsworth is waiting for an apology from Kristen Stewart for breaking his nose. [ Hollywood Rag ] Yet another celebrity writes a children’s book. There was a joke about this on The Simpsons recently. [ Celebs ] Cats in baskets! This made me smile. [ CityRag ] “Dancing with The Stars” finals recap [ Bitten and Bound ] Willow Smith’s crazy backpack [ Starpulse ]
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Last year, Angelina Jolie debuted her new jewelry line in association/partnership with jewelry designer Robert Procop. The profits from the “Style of Jolie” line go to charity – we covered a preview of some of the pieces here . While I don’t think the “Style of Jolie” line is full-on awful, I do see Angelina’s 1970s-style-influences all over these pieces. She loves a smoky topaz. She loves emeralds. She loves yellow gold, and she likes jewelry that I would call “chunky”. Best case scenario: I like some of earrings and I would probably wear some of the rings. But in general, this is not my aesthetic, although I should note that “The Style of Jolie” is getting some love from Hollywood. Anyway, Procop and Jolie have designed even more pieces for 2012, and Procop gave an interview to People Magazine to talk up the line: Her engagement ring caused quite a stir, but Angelina Jolie is hoping the latest gems from her jewelry line, Style of Jolie, attract even more attention. “It’s a labor of love,” Jolie’s co-designer, Robert Procop, tells PEOPLE. That’s in part because 100 percent of profits benefit the actress’s charity, the Education Partnership for Children of Conflict. In fact, she’s planning to break ground on a school for girls in Qala Gadu, Afghanistan, using funds from jewelry sales. “Our commitment is always supporting the children’s charity, which remains the overall intention and purpose of the collection,” Procop adds. But there’s fun involved, too; Procop says the pair “strive for nothing less than artistic innovation with every jewel,” like the newest offering, a sleek emerald bracelet. “She is very classically chic,” he says of Jolie. “We cultivated this style, which echoes a woman’s timeless allure. When you see the collection, it has a distinction. When you look at it, you recognize that it’s the Style of Jolie.” Last year, Procop told PEOPLE that Jolie was involved “every step of the way” in the design process. “[The collection] is what she enjoys wearing on the red carpet, but also what she enjoys when she’s at home,” he added. She enjoys wearing it on her ring finger, too; Procop created her engagement ring with input from her longtime partner, Brad Pitt. According to a rep for the jeweler, “the feedback [on the ring] has been wonderful. It’s all about love.” [ From People ] We can’t use the image of the new emerald bracelet (it’s just an emerald tennis bracelet set in yellow gold – it’s pretty but kind of dated), but you can see it at People online. I also looked around and Procop does have a site and there are lots of photos of The Style of Jolie line, which you can see here (I’m including some images below). I could totally see my mom wearing this stuff – back in 1979, while wearing a fashion-forward muumuu. Photos courtesy of Fame/Flynet, Robert Procop online .
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These are some new photos of Kristen Stewart at LAX yesterday. We had a nice story about Kristen yesterday too – I really liked the way she talked about her cat “roommate” and her co-parenting relationship with her “child” – a mutt named Bear that she and Robert Pattinson (mostly him) adopted in Louisiana. K-Stew is cute when she talks about animals, and I had the realization that she’s probably more of an animal person than a people-person, which makes me like her a little bit more. But I’ve also come to this conclusion: Kristen is so much more likeable in small doses. When she does a major magazine or newspaper interview, her personality starts to grate – at least on me. Kristen has a new interview with The Guardian , which… is not very good. It’s not bad, it’s just a whole lot of Kristen. The Guardian’s intensive interviews are notoriously difficult, so I wonder what idiot publicist let Kristen speak to this outlet. The full piece is here , and here are some highlights: How Kristen decided to become an actor: Her parents were crew members, and she had spent time on film sets where there was a feeling that: “we were all in this together, and we were making something worthwhile”. She takes one of many deep, meaningful breaths. “And then I would see a kid walk around and people would be like: ‘Shhh, that’s the actor, don’t talk to him.’ And I was like, I want a job, I want you guys to talk to me like I matter!” Feeling trapped in hotel rooms: “I mean, if I walked out of this hotel” – Claridge’s – “obviously I’d be screwed. But in London, I am perfectly fine, unless I have a trail of parasites behind me.” The paparazzi are at the hotel entrance when I leave. “But I’m good at evading those little twits. Once I lose them, once no one’s trying to make a buck off you, you know, I’m fine – I know at this point that there’s a buck to be made, which is weird considering I’m just walking down the street with dirty hair.” The original Disney Snow White: “In the original she totally represents what a woman wanted to be back then: the ultimate maternal figure. She cleans house really well. It’s just that [women] do more than that now.” Instead they created a “bad-ass, girl power movie”, she says, in which the character’s strength is represented in a realistic way. “We’re not built to take out big guys in armour. So it was really more about being faster and smarter.” On beauty: She starts talking about how beauty is ruined “if you’re not cool as well. If you don’t have the heart to back up your looks, you are ugly. I’ve met so many people that I thought were so gorgeous and talented and amazing. And then you meet them for one second and you’re like,” she heaves another breath, and spits out emphatically, “‘you are wearing a costume, you are a fake, you are so unattractive’. And it doesn’t always come across in a picture, but you can be really beautiful in a still frame, and then, in life, moving around, you’re ugly. And that’s kind of what the movie’s about.” Comparing Twilight and SWATH: There’s a big similarity between Snow White and Twilight, she says, in that, “there’s a stage of life represented in both movies that is so impassioned, and it doesn’t know why yet. Do you know what I mean? That was what I really liked about Bella. The fact that she trusted that at some point these feelings are going to make sense, and that she’s not going to let everyone tell her she’s f–king crazy. Also, it was just so,” she takes a big breath, “it was so intense,” she laughs. She’s intense too: “Yeah, I’m still a very intense person.” She’s 22 now. “I’m chilled out about some things. I’m cool. But definitely, I take things far too seriously … I am just a serious person. I love joking around, and it’s obviously about mood, because sometimes I can definitely be a silly idiot. But most of the time I am like this.” She makes a sound as if her mouth has been suctioned shut. Quite private? “Yeah,” she says. “And I’m overtly aware of f–king everything. I’m always like,” she mimes picking things out of the air, “details, little things. Just obsessive, analytical.” On Twilight and whether Bella is weak: “I always just very honestly said that that’s not why I did the movie, and it’s not why the book was written,” she says, adding that she finds it frustrating when people read the characters differently to her. “Mostly in this idea that Bella is a weak girl who is just obsessed with these two boys, and doesn’t really think beyond her own needs, and is selfish. And she is, completely, but that’s like the way to live, man! You’ve got to follow your heart. That is actually a really bold way to live, not making concessions, or giving things up … I don’t know why people ignore the sacrifices that Edward makes. I don’t know why the power thing has been viewed the way it’s been viewed, because I just view it so differently.” Seriously, she always goes off script: “I think in order to do [On the Road] right, in order to make everyone happy – because there’s a lot of people sitting around going: ‘OK, let’s have it’ – it had to be spontaneous, it had to have that feeling of never quite knowing where someone’s going to jump or scream,” she says. “So sometimes it was a truer reading of the line to just forget it, and say it your own way.” On being a commodity: “When you make moving pictures, it’s so easy to become disingenuous,” she says. “It’s so easy to just become a commodity, and I think that’s so embarrassing.” And with that, she finishes her milk. [From The Guardian ] The Guardian also notes how twitchy Kristen is, and how she’s not the most eloquent young woman, but they also say that it seems like Kristen tries very, very hard to come across as genuine and honest, and that quality is endearing. Still, I have to think The Guardian would have been better off interviewing Charlize Theron or Chris Hemsworth. Poor Kristen – some of this stuff isn’t her fault. She gets bad advice from publicists. Photos courtesy of Fame/Flynet.
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Before we start in on The Cracken’s latest, you definitely need to go check out THESE PHOTOS at The Mail . Lindsay Lohan has already begun fittings for Liz & Dick, and The Mail does a side-by-side comparison of Elizabeth Taylor’s magnificence next to The Cracken’s busted hooker face. It’s pretty rough. Anyway, Lifetime’s Liz & Dick begins production in a few weeks (or sooner). And they still don’t have a Dick. That’s right, Richard Burton has not been cast, despite all of our quality casting suggestions , ranging from Eddie Cibrian to Wilmer Valderrama to Charlie Sheen. But Lindsay is still playing the diva, demanding that they need to find her a better Dick. Lindsay Lohan is extremely unhappy with the casting choices of the male actors who have auditioned for the role of Richard Burton in the Elizabeth Taylor Lifetime biopic, and filming is scheduled to begin in just a few weeks, RadarOnline.com is exclusively reporting. As we previously reported, the decision to cast Lohan as the screen icon has drawn criticism from Rosie O’Donnell who recently said, “I feel very sorry for her. I think she needs a lot of time away. … She’s had a lot of trouble doing every single movie, including SNL. She was out and not in rehearsal. I think she’s not in a place to work.” Choices to play the role of Richard Burton have come down to Gossip Girl star Matthew Settle, Sean Maguire, and CSI hunk Craig Robert Young, but after watching the audition tapes last weekend, “Lindsay declared that none of the actors were the right fit and that she wanted to go to London to look for a possible Burton actor there,” a production insider tells RadarOnline.com. “Lindsay is being an absolute nightmare about who should play Burton. She believes Matthew Settle is too old to play the role, and she wants a major A-list star to be her co-star. However, her salary for the role took up a major portion of the budget, and the Burton gig will likely only pay $200k, max. The producers don’t need to get Lindsay’s approval of who will play Richard Burton, but they want to keep her happy.” Making matters worse, is that filming is slated to begin in just a few short weeks, and they are no closer to signing an actor to play Burton. “They are already in pre-production and it’s very hard to conduct any rehearsals without the pivotal role of Richard Burton,” the source says. “There is also cause for concern because Lindsay partied all night last week with Paris Hilton, Barron Hilton and Brandon Davis. All three, including Lindsay, have been arrested for DUI and/or drug charges previously. Lindsay shouldn’t be out partying all night long, no good can come of that.” So will Lohan get her wish to jet across the pond to find her ideal Richard Burton? “Hell no!” The source says. “There just isn’t any money in the budget, or time, to do so. The producers will try to land someone that Lindsay likes, but, if push comes to shove, they will just cast the role without her approval.” [ From Radar ] “Matthew Settle, Sean Maguire, and CSI hunk Craig Robert Young” ???? OK, I only know one of those dudes, I had to look the other two up. I mostly know Matthew Settle because of Band of Brothers (he was so awesome in that), but he’s on Gossip Girl now. He’s really hot – very sexy, in my opinion, and an underrated actor. So, obviously, he should stay FAR AWAY. Sean Maguire is the Meet the Spartans guy. He’s a comedic actor for the most part. Which kind of fits, because Liz & Dick will end up being a cracked-out comedy classic. At least this guy is English (although Burton was Welsh, which is not the same difference). Craig Robert Young is…zzz…. Um, he looks nothing like Richard Burton! WTF? So, basically, Lindsay is treating this Lifetime project as yet another platform to act like a crackhead diva, and she can’t get it through her crack skull that any actor of any kind of quality wouldn’t want to touch this project with a ten-foot pole. Photos courtesy of WENN.
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Kelly Brook's Indecent Proposal: Tycoon offers her €1million to spend a night with her in Cannes as she wows in silver dress | UPDATED: 07:21 GMT, 22 May 2012 She may only be starring in Keith Lemon's film, but Kelly Brook is already being thought of as a Hollywood star. The 32-year-old model was recently approached by a French businessman who wanted her to re-enact a moment from hit film Indecent Proposal where Demi Moore spends the night with a stranger in return for $1million. Following the bizarre request, Brook put the incident behind her and wowed onlookers at the annual event wearing a stunning silver dress. Continue reading
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'She's a bit of a maneater' says TOWIE's Ricky Rayment as he tells all about Gemma Collins' saucy Twitter messages | UPDATED: 08:18 GMT, 22 May 2012 It's safe to say that all fans of The Only Way Is Essex were shocked when it was revealed that the mystery person who had been sending flirty messages to Ricky Rayment was Gemma Collins. In an exclusive interview the Essex playboy has spoken out about what led to Collins' messages and why he didn't allow things to escalate further between them. Continue reading
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What are you doing here Lady Victoria Hervey tries too hard to stand out at Cannes as she shows off chest and underwear in sheer dress | UPDATED: 09:22 GMT, 22 May 2012 She's hardly Hollywood royalty. So Lady Victoria Hervey is obviously trying to pull out all the stops as she attempts to make an impact at the Cannes Film festival Continue reading
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