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The Hollywood Chamber of Commerce recently announced the 2010 honorees. The film honorees are Russell Crowe, Adam Sandler, James Cameron, John Cusack, Colin Firth, Alan Menken, Randy Newman, Emma Thompson and Mark Wahlberg and producer Gale Anne Hurd. The TV honorees are Bill Maher, Chris Berman, Jon Cryer, Peter Graves, Jimmy Kimmel, Julia Louis-Dreyfus and Sam Waterston. The recording industry honorees are Ringo Starr, Bryan Adams, the Funk Brothers, Alan Jackson, Chaka Khan, Van Morrison, Marco Antonio Solis, ZZ Top and the late Roy Orbison. And the live performance honorees are Andrea Bocelli, Cirque du Soleil’s Guy Liberte. Congratulations!

Johnny Depp said he tries not to watch any of the films he has worked on.

Johnny, 46, is currently starring in the new flick Public Enemies alongside Christian Bale and Marion Cotillard. In the flick, he plays the gangster John Dillinger.

He said: “I prefer to walk away with the experience, as opposed to walking away with the product.”

Talking about the new film, he said: “I’ve not seen the film, so I don’t know what it looks like.

“I like to portray a character, inhabit a character and build character, but I don’t want to watch the end result necessarily, because it becomes about money then, and I’d rather not think about that.”

Johnny’s admitted his two children - Lily-Rose, 10, and Jack, seven - have seen more films that he has.

He said: “My children have seen more films of mine than I have. They’ve seen all of them within reason - many more than I have. I have no plans to see them - any of them.”

Source: Splash News

The couple who made money off of the footage of Amy Winehouse smoking crack back in 2008 have been ordered to donate the cash to a charity. John Blagrove, a drug dealer seen offering Wino ecstasy and coke in the video, and Cara Burton were paid over $80,000 by The Sun in January 2008 for selling the tabloid the video of Wino allegedly taking a hit off a crack pipe in her London flat. Blagrove and Burton were ordered by Judge Tudor Owen to pony up the cash to a charity, saying “If it goes to charity, that is the most just result in my opinion.” The money will now go to charities for children and anti-drug charities.

Michael Jackson was insistent about taking his personal doctor with him on his doomed London tour despite being advised against it, says promoter Randy Phillips.

Phillips, who is chief executive of AEG Live, the company behind the 50-concert series, was with Jackson when he was in a state of cardiac arrest.

He told Britain’s Sky News that he advised the singer against bringing Conrad Murray, a trained cardiologist, due to the cost. “Michael told me, ‘You don’t understand. My body is the machine that fuels this business and I need personal care and I want a doctor 24/7 like President Obama would have, and this is my doctor’.”

Phillips said Jackson told him Murray had been his doctor for three years. He said Jackson insisted on having him on staff throughout the rehearsals and the run of upcoming UK shows.

Phillips said he was outside the hospital room while Jackson was being worked on for an hour-and-a-half - and that it seemed an eternity.

“I was sitting in a chair right outside the … operating room, and there was tons of activity, and they were trying to resuscitate him and save him and working really hard, the doctors, nurses, everybody … I sat there … it seemed, honestly, it seemed like an eternity. But it took about an hour, an hour-and a-half before the nurse came out and told [manager] Frank [DiLeo] and I that there was no hope.”

He said it was Murray who broke the devastating news of Jackson’s death to the megastar’s three children.

“I stood at the doorway when they went in and they told them and just the look of fear in their faces … it was hard,” Phillips said. “I’ll think about that the rest of my life. But they seem to be doing really well now.”

Screen beauty Megan Fox joked all her boyfriends must get a tattoo with her name or her face.

In a new interview, the star repeatedly poked fun at herself, adding she still doesn’t “understand” what is going on in her latest film Transformers 2.

Looking stunning in a beige dress that showed off her legs, Fox was playful as she talked about her love of tattoos on CBS’ the Early Show.

“I have eight tattoos… [All my boyfriends] are required to have one and if they don’t have one yet, I make them get a tattoo of my name or my face,” she said.

She said for once she watched her latest film on the big screen – and then joked she still doesn’t get the action blockbuster.

“I usually don’t watch things that I do because I’m very neurotic about it and I can’t sit through it,” she said.

“But I had to watch this one because everyone was saying ‘Megan, it’s really good, you have to watch it’.”

Host Harry Smith told her he had seen the special effects-laden film on IMAX and that there is so much going on he did not understand everything that was happening.

Fox said: “It’s massive. I don’t know how you saw it on IMAX without having a brain aneurism or at least a migraine headache.”

The 23-year-old added: “I’m in the movie and I read the script and I still don’t know what’s happening so I think if you haven’t read the script and you see it and you understand it you are a genius.”

Lisa Marie Presley, who was shared a brief marriage with Michael Jackson back in the 90s, wrote in her blog recently that the singer once predicted that he was headed down the same path as her father, the King of Rock n Roll, Elvis. Elvis died at the age of 42 after battling his addiction to prescription drugs. On her blog, Lisa Marie wrote that Michael once told her “’ I am afraid that I’m going to end up like [Elvis], the way he did.’ I promptly tried to deter him from the idea, at which point he just shrugged his shoulders and nodded almost matter of fact as if to let me know, he knew what he knew and that was kind of that.”

Amy Winehouse has reportedly been banned from adopting any more stray dogs by management at the St Lucia resort where she is staying.

Amy, 25, has been living on the island for the past six months and it is claimed staff at the Cotton Bay resort are fed up with the star’s adoption of the animals she found on the beach.

However it is claimed Amy’s home-made kennels for the animals are not hygienic and bosses have been forced to fumigate the area.

A source said: “Management initially turned a blind eye to what Amy was doing. But she’s adopted about five or six dogs now. They’re all strays, without the proper vaccinations and they all have fleas.

“The management did not want the risk of any of the fleas infecting any of the other rooms.

“So they got a firm of fumigators in to blitz Amy’s quarters and told her not to bring any more animals on site.”

Michael Jackson did not father his two oldest children, says his former wife Debbie Rowe.

Just days after the singer’s death, Rowe has made the shocking admission that even though she offered him her womb to carry the children, his sperm was not used in the process.

In an astonishing interview, published in the UK’s News of the World, Rowe, mother of Prince, 12, and Paris, 11 - said she was artificially inseminated by an anonymous donor.

And she told how, despite Jackson’s death, she does not want custody of the children and never expects to see them again.

Speaking from her home, Rowe said: “Michael was divorced, lonely and wanted children. I was the one who said to him: ‘I will have your babies’. I offered him my womb - it was a gift. It was something I did to keep him happy … I was just the vessel. It wasn’t Michael’s sperm. I got paid for it, and I’ve moved on. I know I will never see my children again.”

No longer shackled by a legal agreement between the pair, Rowe says of her impregnation at a medical clinic: “Just like I stick the sperm up my horse, this is what they did to me. I was his thoroughbred.”

She said the birth of the second child, Paris, was difficult, and she ended up unable to have any more babies: “The delivery was so hard. My insides were all torn up and I was barren. When he knew I couldn’t have any more babies he [Jackson] didn’t want anything to do with me.”

She said: “I was never a good mother, I never felt any attachment to them. It was a better feeling giving them to him than it was keeping them as my own … I was never cut out to be a mother - I was no good. I don’t want these children in my life.”

Source: Splash News

Jon and Kate Gosselin may have filed their initial divorce papers in a Pennsylvania county to obtain a blanket on their contents.

The divorcing stars of the reality show about parenting and marriage don’t live in Montgomery County. But the county has an unusual rule that automatically puts divorce papers under seal.

Richard Hodgson, the county’s president judge, said, “I think it was a feeling that those kinds of allegations shouldn’t be available to the public just to trash somebody and put it all over the street.”

The Gosselins’ home, however, is in the state of Pennsylvania. They plan to spend alternating time there with their twins and sextuplets. The show, Jon & Kate Plus 8, was put on hiatus until August by the TLC network, which claimed it wanted to support the family through its transition.

In Los Angeles, celebrity divorces are usually a matter of public record. But couples can opt to have their case heard by a private arbitrator and public courts will enable partial blanketing. The Montgomery County rule is one that dates back to the time before no-fault divorce.

One of the late pop singer’s many brothers has recently requested that privacy be maintained regarding the death of his beloved brother, “the king of pop”, Michael Jackson. This is a part of a statement released to the press by Jermaine Jackson in regards to his brother’s death: “Our family requests that the media please respect our privacy during this tough time. May Allah be with you Michael, always.” Unfortunately, none of them is probably going to be getting their wish too soon as the media has been on top of this ever since the rumors of Michael Jackson’s death first appeared… and the situation will probably stay that way for good while now.

The 46-year-old actor stars alongside Batman star Christian Bale in the new true crime film Public Enemies.

Speaking from the red-carpet, Depp said he was a fan of Batman and would welcome the chance to work with Bale again.

“I’ve been asked about that, here and there,” Depp said.

“I’d love to do another film with Christian in any capacity, whether it’s a Batman thing or whatever it is. I certainly love the series.”

In Public Enemies, Depp plays notorious bank robber John Dillinger, and Bale plays Melvin Purvis, an FBI agent working to put Dillinger behind bars.

Oscar-winning actress Marion Cotillard plays Depp’s love interest in the film.

Michael Jackson reportedly received daily visits from doctors at his home before his death.

The King of Pop recently passed away aged 50 after reportedly suffering a heart attack.

However, sources claim that the star “had doctors visiting him daily”.

Jackson was due to perform 50 London shows later this year but it is claimed he spent most of his time with his three children - Prince, 12, Paris, 11, and Prince Michael II, six.

A source said to Hollyscoop: “The children are always home. They are home schooled. Michael is the only one that leaves the house when he needs to go somewhere.”

Source: Splash News

Ryan O’Neal has paid tribute to his long-time love Farrah Fawcett, the former pin-up who has passed away at 62 after a long battle with cancer.

Farrah succumbed to her fight with anal cancer on Thursday morning at St John’s Hospital in Santa Monica at 9:28am, announced O’Neal.

In a statement, O’Neal said: “After a long and brave battle with cancer, our beloved Farrah has passed away.

“Although this is an extremely difficult time for her family and friends, we take comfort in the beautiful times that we shared with Farrah over the years and the knowledge that her life brought joy to so many people around the world.”

Farrah Fawcett is survived by her son with O’Neal, Redmond, and her father James.

In lieu of flowers, the family has asked that donations to support cancer research be made to the Farrah Fawcett Foundation, c/o PO Box 6478, Beverly Hills, CA 90212.

Cameron Diaz shakes her booty in a US talk show ‘dance-off’.

The movie beauty gyrated while listening to headphones on MTV show, It’s On With Alexa Chung.

Audience members – unable to hear the music – had to try to guess which of three songs Cameron, 36, was dancing to by interpreting her moves.

Looking on, host Alexa Chung said: "There goes the ass!"

The Charlie’s Angels star was then revealed to have been dancing to Beyonce’s Freakum Dress.

Sofia Vassilieva, her co-star in upcoming flick, My Sister’s Keeper, also joined in the fun on the daytime talk show.

Alexa, 25, debuted her MTV show earlier this month, billed as a replacement for the network’s influential series TRL [Total Request Live], which went off air last year [2008].

Source: Splash News

It seems that Chris Brown’s fate has been decided a lot faster than expected and it is as follows: the singer will get five years of probation and one hundred and eighty days of community service after reaching a plea bargain in his recent hearing. His attorney stated: “He’s very thankful to all the people who’ve been very supportive. This is a kid who’s never been in trouble before, who wants to move past this and make sure that the message gets out that these kinds of things, of domestic violence, are not acceptable. And that he has accepted responsibility and continues to do so and embraces this as an opportunity for him to get his life back on track and his career back on track.” Chris Brown has not been in trouble before this? What kind of a rapper is he anyway? Still, I’m curious to see what community service he’ll be doing for that period because he has a lot of work on his hands.

Gisele’s husband had to be fished out of a river after his boat capsized, it hs been claimed.

US sports star Tom Brady took to the river with his model wife in Boston earlier this week.

But the kayak he was in flipped over – and he fell in.

An onlooker said: “They got wet.

“But they seemed to have a great time.”

The couple had rented boats at the city’s Community Boating, Inc, according to reports. And while the Brazilian-born beauty managed to stay upright, Brady, 31, was not so lucky.

“He had to be rescued,” the onlooker told a US newspaper.

“The launch guy went out and got him and got him back in the kayak. He’s been bragging about it ever since.

“He’s telling everyone he rescued Tom Brady.

“[But] it was more embarrassment than real danger.”

New England Patriots football player Brady wed Gisele, 28, in February.

A representative for the team said he had not heard about the river incident – and said he was OK by the time the team played at a charity golf tournament.

Stacey James told a US newspaper: “He looked fine at the golf.”

For Serena Williams cutting the ribbon on the school she founded in Kenya beat raising a silver salver high at Wimbledon.

In London for the superstar tennis meet, Williams spoke of the thrill of her great charity adventure to a Sunday Telegraph interviewer. “When we cut the tape, I had shivers up my spine, I got tears in my eyes, and I had never had such a great experience in my life, not holding up a Wimbledon trophy, not holding up any grand slam trophy.”

The Serena Williams Secondary School in Matooni, in the east of Kenya, is for village children in the region. “It was a great experience because, man, I’ve done a lot of things in this life for me, like working out and playing tennis and winning.

“All that has opened doors to allow me to do other things for other people … I’ve realised that if you get great opportunities yourself, then you should give back.

“I was thinking that these kids in Kenya – and there are kids in the same position in America – don’t have two parents, some don’t even have one parent. I’m blessed to have two parents. And I’m really blessed to have had these opportunities, so I should try to give back. So that is what I did in Kenya. I went there and opened the Serena Williams School.”

A baseball movie that was to star Brad Pitt and start filming in Phoenix this week has been put on hold.

Sources in Hollywood reportedly say that a dispute over the script is at the bottom of the “extremely rare” fate of Moneyball.

Moneyball tells the story of the Oakland Athletics team’s use of computer analysis to draft players. But it is reported that Columbia Pictures co-chairman Amy Pascal can’t agree on the script, which was penned by director of the movie, Steven Soderbergh.

Soderbergh, best known for Sex, Lies, And Videotape, adapted his story from a non-fiction book by Michael Lewis about the Oakland Athletics and their general manager Billy Beane.

Pitt was to star as Beane alongside comedian Demetri Martin, while other roles were believed to be created for real-life ball players.

Soderbergh reportedly included some interviews with players that it was reported Pascal had not seen. She reportedly liked the book and allowed Soderbergh to shop the project to Warner Bros over the weekend.

Chef Jamie Oliver reportedly spent $120,000 flying between London and the US to see his family while filming his TV show.

Oliver, 33, was making a six-part series in America called Jamie’s American Road Trip.

However, he reportedly promised wife Jools he would never spend more than six days away from her and their daughters Poppy Honey, seven, Daisy Boo, five, and Petal Blossom, two months.

The series took eight months to film, starting in November and ending in early June. He took 12 $10,000 flights between the US and the UK during the show, which will be screened next year.

A source said: “Jamie wants to raise his profile in the US in a similar way to Gordon Ramsay. He was a little torn, though, because he is such a devoted family man. He was hurt by the criticism that he was so hungry for success that he was prepared to risk his family life.”

Source: Splash News

Katie Price has reportedly visited a tattoo parlour to remove her husband’s name from her wrist.

The 31-year-old model has been spotted partying in Ibiza while estranged husband Peter Andre, 36, has been looking after their three children in Cyprus.

Price has been partying hard since the split and has been seen with ex-boyfriend Matt Peacock and another man called Anthony Lowther.

Lowther said: “We’re having a great time together. Jordan is a really nice girl and very sexy. We’re being called boyfriend and girlfriend and it’s a bit scary. We’re just having a bit of fun while we are on holiday out here together. I really enjoy her company and we get along brilliantly.”

However, when asked about their alleged night together in a hotel, he said: “Gentlemen don’t tell.”

Source: Splash News

Simon Cowell has admitted he “made mistakes” in the final of Britain’s Got Talent.

The 49-year-old music mogul was a judge on the talent show where finalist Susan Boyle later entered a private clinic after seeking treatment for exhaustion.

Susan, 48, became a worldwide hit after her first audition, and a YouTube video of her performance was watched by millions of people.

But the star’s reported breakdown led many to say she wasn’t prepared for the fame the show brought her.

Simon said: “I’m the first to hold my hands up and admit I’ve made mistakes. I didn’t get into showbusiness to make little children cry or upset a nice lady like Susan Boyle.”

He also said: “Looking back, it has become clear to me that we didn’t handle the situation as well as we could have.

“Yet to be honest, when I analyse exactly what happened, I don’t know that I could have done it any differently.”

Source: Splash News

The 2009 Teen Choice Awards just announced their full list of nominees, and Lady Gaga is up for FIVE! It looks like our girl may take home a few surfboards!

This year’s show will take place at The Gibson Amphitheatre on Sunday, August 9th. It will air on FOX the very next day – Monday, August 10th at 8pm (ET/PT). Mark your calenders and be sure to tune in for the 2009 Teen Choice Awards!

Be sure to visit TeenChoiceAwards.com and cast your vote for Lady Gaga! Plus, spread the word to all your friends with TC’s embeddable widget, compatible with Twitter, Facebook, MySpace, & YouTube! The widget is scheduled to go live today!

LADY GAGA NOMINATION CATEGORIES:
1. Choice Music: Single “Poker Face”
2. Choice Music: Female Artist
3. Choice Music: Breakout Artist
4. Choice Music: Hookup “Just Dance” featuring Colby O’Donis
5. Choice Music: Album (Female Artist) (The Fame)

“Paparazzi” Music Video:

Reese Witherspoon is set to delve into the drugs world by appearing in a comedy called Pharm Girl.

The 33-year-old actress has signed on to appear in the film about an upwardly mobile career girl in the pharmaceutical industry.

Witherspoon will not just act in the movie, she also plans to produce it through her production company Type A.

The mum-of-two recently lent her voice to the hit animated film Monsters vs. Aliens.

David Beckham is reportedly considering putting his villa in the south of France up for sale amid suggestions he and his wife Victoria are scouting for a London pad.

Becks and Posh are at present on holiday in France. The football star’s season with the LA Galaxy is set to wind up in November. The pair and their three sons have been based in Los Angeles for about two years.

The French villa is a stunning 19th-century property surrounded by woods in the department of Var near Toulon. The couple are said to have bought it for £1.5 million six years ago.

A source reportedly said: “They fell in love with the place when they first saw it but now Victoria thinks it’s a too far away from the action.

“They’re there now and will come to a decision when their holiday comes to an end.”

Source: Splash News

Director Woody Allen has his sights set on France’s First Lady Carla Bruni as his next muse, he has revealed.

The 73-year-old Annie Hall director is currently promoting his new film Whatever Works, starring Curb Your Enthusiasm actor comic Larry David.

Asked who he would like to work with in the future, Allen said: “Without question, Carla Bruno! I’m sure she would be wonderful.

“She has charisma, and she performs, so she’s not a stranger to an audience, and I would cast her in many different ways.

“I don’t have a story at the moment, but you know, maybe even I’ll ask her, if she’s interested.”

Source: Splash News

Actress Denise Richards has revealed she has spoken to a psychic since her mother passed away.

Denise, 38, lost her mother Joni to cancer in 2007 and she revealed she has has turned to mediums since her death.

She said: “I’ve just become friendly with a psychic medium my mother met shortly before she passed on. I wanted to believe Mom was still around. I wanted a reading.

“I wanted to believe in some form of reincarnation. I need to think in whatever way I can that my mother is still with us.

“Mother had had a reading with this Natalie, who, without knowing any of our family details, told my mother: ‘Your dad, your dog, your Aunt Birdie are waiting for you on the other side.’

“She had knowledge of these people without any of us mentioning them.”

Denise said she likes to believe that there is an afterlife after death and has recently had her two daughters Sam, five, and Lola, four.

She said: “I believe all of us on Earth eventually go somewhere and that guardian angels do exist. Raised Catholic, I’ve started church again and taken Lola and Sammy to be baptised.

“I desperately have wanted a message from my mother, and I want to hold onto anything which will make that happen. I’ve told her to stay in contact with me even if she has to talk to me only through Natalie.”

Source: Splash News

Actress Megan Fox has reportedly vowed not to add any more tattoos to her body.

“They’re definitely addictive,” the 23-year-old beauty said of the body art. “I don’t have any that I truly regret yet, but I’m sure I will at some point.

“I’m trying to refrain from going forward for that reason. I don’t want to be 40, looking at my arm in the mirror and going, ‘Oh my God - what did I do?’”

Fox, star of Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, has eight tattoos, including an inscription on her right shoulder blade. It reportedly is a reference to Shakespeare’s King Lear and reads: “We will all laugh at gilded butterflies.”

She also has a portrait of Marilyn Monroe on one arm.

The tattoos may have led to comparisons with megastar Angelina Jolie, who has least a dozen all over her body.

Fox has been wowing crowds around the world at premieres for Transformers.

Source: Splash News

Katie Price threatened to cut the face of a British journalist after thinking she was from the magazine Peter Andre works for.

Katie, 31, was pictured on a boozy night out in Ibiza and she reportedly made foul-mouthed threats at a journalist whom she thought worked for new! magazine, for which estranged hubby Peter, 36, writes a column.

Jessica Brown, who actually works for the Daily Star newspaper, said: “[Katie] thought I worked for new! magazine, which carried Peter’s weekly column. She flew at me with a manic look in her eyes and spat in my face: ‘I’m gonna cut your f***ing face. I swear to f***ing God, I’ll cut you.”

Katie was later seen pulling up her dress and dancing with men on the dancefloor of the Eden club in Ibiza.

A clubber said: “It was pretty steamy stuff. She kept hitching her dress up and didn’t seem to care that we could all see everything. She was grinding up against the lads and her girlfriends and their hands were all over her.”

Meanwhile, Peter has been looking after their children on holiday in Cyprus.

Caroline Flack, the Sky News presenter who recently dated Prince Harry, blasted his ex-girlfriend Chelsy Davy, it was reported in the UK.

“She’s not even pretty,” Flack, 29, was reported as saying to friends at a London pub on a night out.

The 24-year-old prince broke up with Davy, 23, in January after she reportedly grew tired of dating a royal and saw no future in the relationship. Last week he called it quits with Flack, saying they were friends.

A source said: “She [Flack] was dancing away and knocked back several glasses of red wine with pals. Then she picked up a copy of The Sun and started reading aloud the coverage about her and Harry splitting up. Caroline was clearly upset - and ranted to pals: ‘Chelsy Davy is a f****** irritating t***. In the flesh she is not even that pretty’.”

The source added: “When her group left at 11pm, after several hours inside, Caroline looked rather worse for wear. She was outside the pub, sitting on the floor and playing with a stray dog for half an hour, before her mates helped her up to go home.”

Portuguese soccer star Cristiano Ronaldo will not face charges after writing off his Ferrari.

The 24-year-old Manchester United player, who is the subject of an £80m bid from Real Madrid, hit a barrier inside a tunnel in January and wrote the vehicle off.

However, police say they will take no further action as no one was hurt and nobody else was involved.

A source at Manchester United said: “Ronaldo will be relieved. He was worried about this.”

Source: Splash News