<![CDATA[Gawker: defamer, celeb marriage]]> http://tags.gawker.com/assets/base/img/thumbs140x140/gawker.com.png <![CDATA[Gawker: defamer, celeb marriage]]> http://gawker.com/tag/defamer/celebmarriage http://gawker.com/tag/defamer/celebmarriage <![CDATA[Even the stripper-obsessed can find love!...]]> carey-marriage.jpgEven the stripper-obsessed can find love! "[Drew] Carey, the new host of The Price Is Right, got engaged to Nicole Jaracz, a recent graduate of culinary school, on Tuesday, said his spokeswoman, Christina Papadopoulos." We wish the couple a strong marriage, and an even stronger prenup—otherwise Carey's looking at paying out in powers of ten for every year they manage to make it last. [cnn.com]

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<![CDATA[Ethan Hawke On The Difficulty Of Loving A More Successful Actress]]> fef91511e87503826c00270c0ec0740c.jpgAs much as we'd like to see our favorite celebrity marriages succeed, the sad truth is that the majority of romantic unions featuring one or more paparazzi-targets will end in crushing disappointment, as the two slowly come to realize that the disparity in their per-picture asking prices has wedged a permanent rift between them. Still, like so many other blatantly obvious yet unspoken Hollywood truths, that fact is never actually addressed. Instead, we get familiar clichés like "irreconcilable differences," and publicist mainstay, "the two remain great friends"—all of which makes the former Mr. Uma Thurman's candidness on the subject at a recently taped episode of Shootout all the more refreshing:

"It's unfair when one person's career is taking off and the other is really suffering," the 36-year-old actor tells AMC's "Shootout" in an interview slated to air Sunday.
"What happens it's not that they're jealous of each other; it's that the person you share your life with isn't in the mood to support," Hawke says. "You want to have a pity party for yourself, but they're off to the Golden Globes and you don't want to go because everyone is going to think you are jealous."

While Hawke will undoubtedly weather some harsh critiques for copping to a stinginess of awards-show spirit, we again must applaud the rare glimpse inside the mind of a deeply insecure—i.e. perfectly normal—movie star. It's not, as it turns out, a matter of being jealous of a more lauded spouse, but rather of being perceived as jealous—a fine, but crucial, distinction. If only more celebrities were this forthcoming with their feelings, perhaps we could avoid further tragedies like the overcompensating smothering of Reese Witherspoon by then-husband Ryan Phillippe at the 2006 Golden Globes.

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<![CDATA[Anna Nicole Smith Bombshell: Pretty Much Everything You Suspected Is True]]> anna-dannielynn-larry - DefamerTMZ.com has scored a major find in the Anna Nicole Smith three-ring tragedy circus: A sworn declaration by a woman named Laurie Payne, who befriended Smith in 2005 in the Florida Keys when they were introduced through a common acquaintance, Smith's friend-with-benefits G. Ben Thompson, a real estate developer from South Carolina. The declaration contains several bombshell revelations, among them that Larry Birkhead is indeed the father of Dannielynn, and that Payne had witnessed Smith take "a rather high dose" of Xanax, in addition to having herself "personally administered" Anna Nicole pills from a bottle unsubtly marked "Methadone" during the pregnancy. An e-mail allegedly sent from Smith to Payne also came attached to the declaration:

In an e-mail Smith sent to Payne, which is attached to Payne's declaration, Anna Nicole seems to say she had sex a total of three times with only two people during the time of conception: "well one of two people once in dec and twice in jan............you do the math but I hear someone cant do what has been done." TMZ has confirmed Thompson told Anna Nicole last May that he couldn't be the father because he had a vasectomy, thus the comment, "someone cant do what has been done."
As for Howard K. Stern, Smith's lawyer who is listed as the baby's father on her birth certificate, Payne says Anna Nicole Smith herself said he wasn't the father. Payne says in her declaration: "I asked her why she did not just go into a relationship with Stern, to which (Anna Nicole) responded, 'EWWW...GROSS!!! No way!! I would never!'"

According to the declaration, during Christmas, 2005, Stern began to tease Anna Nicole's son Daniel "about being a 19-year-old virgin." Payne says, "....Daniel looked at Stern and stated, 'I don't know why you're worried about me, you've been around my mother for 12 years and haven't had any p*ssy either."

Still with us? Then you might also be interested in knowing that Stern—whom we can only assume still isn't getting any, no matter what his fake marriage certificate says—sent an e-mail to Entertainment Tonight explaining that Smith was rushed to the hospital Monday for a partially collapsed lung due to pneumonia, that G. Ben "Tubes-Tied" Thompson is attempting to evict her from the Bahamian "prison" he helped her buy, and that Cyril Wecht, the private pathologist hired to do a second autopsy on Daniel, has confirmed that three more drugs were actually found in his system when he died—the antidepressant Amitriptyline, and two non-prescription cold medicines—though he maintains that it was still the cocktail of methadone, Lexapro, and Zoloft that ultimately did him in. We'll give you a moment to let all that sink in, along with your encroaching intuition that that whole baby-hair-dyeing scenario probably unfolded exactly as Birkhead described it.


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<![CDATA[OK, Now We're Really Creeped Out: An Anna Nicole Update]]> nicole-birkhead-suit - DefamerThe Us Weeky blog has further details regarding Larry Birkhead's lawsuit against Anna Nicole. Birkhead isn't just claiming paternity—he wants full legal custody of the child, as he alleges that Howard K. Stern is enabling Smith's methadone addiction (the fatal key ingredient in her son's death), and that the reason she delivered in the Bahamas was to avoid tests that would reveal the baby had methadone in her system as well:

Smith's ex accused the TrimSpa spokeswoman of fleeing to the Bahamas to keep her baby from being tested for drugs. Birkhead also alleged that Stern is claiming to be Dannielynn's father for his own financial gain, and claims that Smith had asked a third unidentified man to say that he was the father of her child — a plan which didn't work out because the man had already had a vasectomy.

Birkhead requested in his petition that Smith and her daughter undergo drug testing. According to Birkhead's attorney, Debra Opri, Birkhead is seeking legal and physical custody of the child.

It would be easier to disregard the sensational claims if the mitigating circumstances—Daniel's fatal overdose, the lucrative photo sales, the quickie, fake nuptials and Stern's catatonic Larry King Live appearance—didn't corroborate Birkhead's story. It's a protracted and thoroughly disturbing mess, albeit one that has impressively managed to hit the holy milestone quartet of celebrity glossy talking points—death, birth, marriage and substance abuse—making it only a matter of time before that single, lagging cover story angle works its way in, with Life & Style's exclusive, "Anna Nicole's stunning weight loss: Buh-bye TrimSpa! How she shed 40 pregnancy lbs. using nothing but grief, methadone and self-control!"

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<![CDATA[Vaughn And Aniston Really Committed To Making This Thing Look Real]]>

Call them Vaughniffer, call them Vaughniston, call them Brangelina, But Not Nearly As Hot And Without All The Charity Crap, call them Hey, Brad, I Can Fuck My Co-Star Too! Brad? Brad?!, call them whatever. Us Weekly is reporting that Vince Vaughn and Jennifer Aniston are engaged (shouldn't the Jen Says Yes line go below the VINCE PROPOSES! line? Where's our spoiler alert?) after a year of conveniently timed courtship occasionally marked by the suspiciously public performance of pantomime of sex airplanes and sessions of man-on-man cardio work. The Us blog mentions that Vaughn proposed on the private jet ride on the way back from Joe Francis' Mexican resort—nothing solidifies a relationship like nine glorious days at the Compound That Drunken, Jailbait Titties Built—and that "Vince almost cries whenever he tells the story of the proposal," an egregiously emasculating statement for which his publicist should immediately be fired.

We now return you to all of your long-held doubts about the authenticity of the couple's relationship.

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<![CDATA[Renee Zellweger Suspects Nicole Kidman's Fiance May Have Workaholic Tendencies]]> zellweger-kidman - DefamerAs Nicole Kidman's attends to the final cloak-and-dagger preparations for her quickly approaching wedding day, her Cold Mountain co-star and confidante Renee Zellweger has been doing everything she can to dissuade Kidman from making the same, pretty-boy-in-a-cowboy-hat-espousing mistakes she made, says website FemaleFirst.

The 'Bridget Jones' Diary' star has reportedly begged her actress friend not to wed fiance Keith Urban on June 25 because he is a workaholic just like her ex-husband, country music star Kenny Chesney.

A friend of Renee's told Britain's Grazia magazine: "She's been saying to Nicole, 'You won't know till your married and it's too late'.

"She says Keith has all the signs of being a workaholic and that is dangerous for Nicole and her family."

Zellweger appears to have dropped the term "fraud" as her spousal-deficiency euphemism of choice. We trust Kidman can read between the lines, however, and will at least consider her once-burned friend's advice. The last thing Zellweger wants to see is for Kidman to have to face the shame and self-doubt that follows a husband's admission that he is a workaholic, who has spent the better part of a marriage cavorting off to workaholic bars and hanging out in online workaholic chatrooms.

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