Scarlett Johansson and Russell Brand will present at the 83rd Academy Awards. Their names are the latest to be announced today and will join other presenters like Annette Bening, Cate Blanchett, Robert Downey Jr., Tom Hanks, Nicole Kidman, Hugh Jackman, Jude Law and Reese Witherspoon.
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It’s a holiday and so the celebrity news is slow!
OOOh, here’s something. Justin Bieber got a haircut. Well, first, he announced via Twitter: “thinking about getting a haircut….hmmmmmm”
Then, he must have gotten a haircut because Rascal Flatts’ Jay DeMarcus tweeted the above photo posing with Justin and his new haircut. DeMarcus deleted the photo later and added, “Ooooops! Sorry Bieber!!!!” Bieber himself has yet to confirm. But it sure looks different than we last saw him on camera last night at the All-Stars game.
So, there you have it.
Happy President’s Day.
Update: Biebs confirmed the haircut Monday via Twitter, “Yeah so it’s true, I got a lil haircut. I like it and we are giving all the hair cut to charity to auction. Details coming soon.”
Check your mail. You may be one of the lucky 1,900 people invited to the April 29, 2011 marriage of Kate Middleton to England’s Prince William, second-in-line to the UK throne.
The Royal Palace has announced that exclusive gold-bevelled, die-stamped, heavyweight invitations, bearing Queen Elizabeth’s emblem in gold on top, were mailed this week and are now making their way to their intended guests.
The invitations, sent in the Queen’s name, read, “The Lord Chamberlain has been commanded by the Queen to invite” the guest to the marriage at Westminster Abbey at 11 a.m. on April 29.
Real Housewives of Beverly Hills‘ star Camille Donatacci Grammer has been hired by CNN as a fashion commentator to cover the Academy Awards’ red carpet for CNN’s live Oscar arrivals special, Showbiz Tonight: Road Gold.
A CNN exec producer said: “We can’t wait to get Camille’s unabashed take on Hollywood’s biggest night.”
Selena Gomez wasn’t in Japan long before her fans showered her with presents!
Selena sent this Twitpic / photo today, along with caption: “Hi japan 🙂 your amazing”
Poor Archie! The 20-year-old David Archuleta, the cutie-pie runner-up from season 7 of American Idol, has been dropped by his record label after just two studio album releases.
Oscar-winning Reese Witherspoon may be engaged to Jim Toth, but she still fell under the ever-oh-so-charming spell of her upcoming Water for Elephants‘ co-star, Robert Pattinson. I’d say, Reese, woah, control yourself. But then, seriously, who can blame her?
Entertainment Tonight reports that while shooting the film last summer, Witherspoon considered herself “so lucky” to be able to shoot love scenes with Pattinson.
“He’s so amazing and wonderful and sweet,” Witherspoon told ET. “And just the nicest guy too, so you can just add that to the soup. I mean, he’s just so good looking, and he’s a really nice person.”
And Pattinson tells ET: “Even then, I realized on the set….I look too old to be playing her son. I mean, that’s probably why I was cut.”
I am seriously starting to think Justin Bieber is a twin. Or a triplet. Because the kid is everywhere at the same time and doing a little bit of everything.
This week alone, he’s been spotted at the Grammies in Los Angeles, surprised fans at multiple movie locations showing his Never Say Never, done several talk shows, attended the premiere of his movie in Paris, and now, he was found playing basketball at NBA’s sold-out All-Star Celebrity Game back in Los Angeles.
Not only is he everywhere, he can do anything. He contributed eight points, two rebounds and four assists to his team and even though his team lost, somehow this kid ended up being named the Most Valuable Player of the game. Come again?
How did he get the title despite his team losing 54-49? Voting by his army of 7.4 million Twitter followers, that’s how! NBA star Rick Fox nailed it on the head. He said of his teen sensation teammate: “Justin has the softest hair.”
Bieber was on the Western Conference Team with Zach Levi, Trey Songz, Romeo Miller and Lamar Odom’s brother-in-law, Rob Kardashian. They were coached by Magic Johnson, with official assistance from Jimmy Kimmel and Modern Family‘s star Ty Burrell.
Bieber’s team lost to a Scottie Pippen led-team, coached by Hall of Famer Bill Walton with players such as Common, Jason Sudeikis, Nick Cannon and Michael Rapaport.
Watch highlight of Bieber mania on the court below:
The newer, kinder, softer American Idol leaves me weeping every night I watch the revamped show. And in case you were wondering, no, you’re not mistaken: Newcomers Steven Tyler, Jennifer Lopez and old dawg Randy Jackson sent a record 300+ Idol hopefuls through to the second round in Hollywood.
That number is so astoundingly large for this stage in the contest that it would leave Simon Cowell rolling over in his grave if he were dead.
Executive producer Nigel Lythgoe admits that due to changed economic and social times since Idol‘s inception 10 years ago, Idol needed to put on a cheerier face this year. He told reporters on a conference call Thursday: “I believe these are times when we need to be warmer, brighter, and we need to think we have a future. If we can translate that into kids coming on this show from flipping burgers one day to ending up as the star of a television series, then we are showing everyone there is a way out of our lives.”
Lythgoe continued: “The judges this year have been particularly finicky and careful about giving people a second opportunity because they know everyone screws up with nerves.”
Some 22.8 million viewers tuned in to Wednesday’s episode, down from 24.1 million a week earlier, but the show is holding onto its status as the most-watched show on U.S. television.
“We have held up brilliantly considering we are in the 10th season and we have lost two stars in Paula [Abdul] and Simon. We are in a very good place,” Lythgoe said.
We now have a medical explanation as to why Los Angeles CBS reporter Serene Branson garbled her speech on air Sunday night after the Grammys: A “complex migraine,” and not a stroke.
Branson’s doctor, Neil Martin, chief of neurosurgery at the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center, told Los Angeles Times that a complex migraine can mimic the symptoms of a stroke, including headache, weakness, loss of vision and difficulty speaking.
Martin received permission from Branson to discuss her condition publicly.
One of the causal theories of complex migraines is that blood vessels in the brain suddenly narrow, or spasm, and then dilate again. That re-dilation causes a headache but during the spasm phase, certain parts of the brain receive too little blood, causing the temporary stroke-like symptoms.
