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While Red Hot Chili Peppers bassist Flea still has another home to sleep in, the person living in the Malibu house he owned that burned down can’t say the same. The said man happens to be musician/producer Butch Walker.

A source close to the rock star reveals that “Butch lost everything. He had been renting Flea’s house for a while and was in the process of buying it. The house completely burned down.” What’s especially crippling to Butch, who had a home studio, lost the masters to every song her ever recorded – computers, equipment, instruments, song lyrics, everything.

Friends of his are now rallying together to help get Butch the essentials like clothes for him and his baby and are hoping that someone in the position to help will.

It’s only been three years since rapper 50 Cent bought a 48,000 square foot mansion belong to Mike Tyson. Back then, the place was decorated in turquoise and purple and, in 50’s own words, “It kind of had a ‘Miami Vice’ feel.”It didn’t take long, though, for 50 to put his mark on the home. The enormous 19-bedroom home, located in Farmington, Connecticut, has a nightclub complete with a swing hanging from the ceiling.

On Thursday, 50 will invite viewers to tour his home on a special edition of MTV’s “Cribs”. This invitation comes just before he moves out of the home, which he’s selling for $18.5 Million.

50 originally bought the home because of the space it would provide. He and his G-Unit cronies could record there. Some of the other rappers he works with, such as Tony Yayo, have their own rooms, and 50 himself records in his basement.

So, why’s he selling? He says he is tired of the more than two hour commute to New York City, and he’s in the market to downsize. When asked about a future home purchase, he said, “It might be a lot smaller. The basics - maybe four or five bedrooms.”

Better get your look on while you have the chance - the next owner might not invite us in.

Take it for what it’s worth but Britain’s News of the World is reporting that Britney Spears is getting ready to adopt Chinese twins. She can’t even take care of her own two sons, what makes her think she can take care of two more? According to the paper, the pop wreck is telling her friends that “she’s in the final stages of talks with an adoption agency.” I’m actually surprised that she can find China on a map.

Brit and KFed recently had another round of custody talks about who gets the kids for Christmas and other holidays. Maybe that’s why Brit’s getting Chinese twins – to replace the boys that KFed’s getting.

Somebody’s been chugging down the egg nog way too early. A fan ran into the lead Pussycat Doll and hot mess known as Nicole Scherzinger on the night before Thanksgiving and she reported just how their meeting went.

“So I saw Nicole Scherzinger in her hometown of Louisville, KY last night at Felt. She was completely wasted, kept singing a terrible version of that overplayed ‘Buttons’ song and acted kind of put out that I wanted a pic.” And judging by the picture, yeah, I think she’s completely out of it.

Perhaps Nicole was drowning her sorrows away over her solo album being pushed back several times.

Well, if you were just dying to see a rerun of that 1992 episode of “The Tonight Show with Jay Leno” - you know, the one with Tom Hanks - you’re in luck.

It seems as if NBC has dug into the vault and is going to run “vintage” episodes of the show for at least another week. This is the result of the still unsettled writers’ strike. The Writers Guild of America and studio negotiators are continuing to try and work out a deal.

NBC’s plan is to show the the initial “Tonight Show” appearances for some of Hollywood’s biggest stars. In addition to the Hanks episode, we can also see Julia Roberts’ 1993 appearance, Jennifer Anniston and Johnny Depp from 1995, and Matt Damon’s 2000 show.

It appears that they are running out of recent episodes to replay because the strike is continuing on. Producers of the show have been trying to find a creative way of maintaining the show and decided to make use of their archives.

Hopefully enough readers will get this memo and realize these are repeats. If not, and if the big hair doesn’t give it away, Julia Roberts fans may be headed to the local theaters for the opening night of Mystic Pizza.

Pre-teen fans are anxiously awaiting Billy Ray Cyrus’ upcoming film with daughter Miley. The Disney Channel stars are working out the details for the filming of their Hannah Montana movie. Cyrus is hoping filming will take place in their home state of Tennessee.

The movie is based on the duos popular Disney Channel series where Miley plays Miley Stewart, a young girl who moves from Tennessee to Malibu to live out the dream as a pop star. By day, she is simply Miley, a high school student who gets in her share of normal teenage scrapes. In the evening hours, she secretly performs as Hannah Montana, a popular musical performer.

In the proposed movie version, the Stewarts make a return visit to Tennessee. Billy Ray feels strongly that it should be filmed there as well.

Billy Ray reportedly told the Associated Press, “The thing of it is, Walt Disney really wants to film this movie in Tennessee.” The problem is that there may not be enough financial backing coming from state officials. It isn’t that officials don’t want the film, though. The executive director of the Tennessee Film, Entertainment, and Music Commission is quoted as saying, “It would mean a real impact on tourism and it would be a family friendly film that would come to the state.”

Louisiana is competing for the filming privileges. Tennessee officials are anxious to make their offer and see how it compares to that of Louisiana.

The Cyrus’ spent Thanksgiving in Tennessee with family and celebrated Miley’s 15th birthday with a sold-out concert show in Nashville. They are looking forward to the possibility of returning in April to shoot the film.

Can you blame the guy? I mean, after all, who doesn’t want to work from home?

Lord knows why, but Amy Winehouse is completely lovesick despite having not much reason to be. The singer’s husband Blake Fielder-Civil is currently in jail for attempting to tamper with a case but Amy can’t get her mind off him even as she’s on a tour of the UK.

At a concert in Glasgow this past weekend, the troubled singer revealed how she plans to commemorate their upcoming six month anniversary. “I’m going to send him a bouquet of flowers. And I want everyone here to send Blake a red rose.”

If you’re one of the few who care, work in the flower business or you just want a good laugh, do send a rose to the Pentonville Prison in London.

The drug tests and court dates apparently have not kept Britney Spears from finding a new man. It was love from the moment he asked for her order.

Reports are that the former (current?) pop diva has been secretly dating Michael Marchand for about two weeks. She met him when he was her waiter at Mirabelle, a Los Angeles bistro.

Inside sources say the pair has been texting each other quite frequently and Britney has been seen having dinner with him several times. On Tuesday, the pair was caught leaving a restaurant together and photographers snapped the pic.

Those close to Britney say, “Their chemistry was immediate. He’s very turned on by her.” Umm, hello? He’s a warm blooded male and is breathing, right?

He’s not commenting right now, although we can bet he’s dying to spread the news that he’s the latest of Britney’s rash decisions. His only remark so far is to smile and say, “I can’t talk about that right now.”

As for Britney, she’s picking out wedding rings and looking for a justice of the peace in Vegas. Gotta snag him before he realizes what he’s gotten himself into!

Mentwabe Dawit is the biological mother of the two year old little girl, Zatara, Angelina Jolie adopted. Recently she came forward to the press with a surprising story.
It seems that her daughter has been conceived during a creepy night, down on an alley, where she had been raped by a villain.
Unable to make an abortion in her country, scared and not ready for motherhood, Mentwabe Dawit had the child but soon became unable to feed her. Ravished, she seeks refuge away from the baby, and so Zatata got to be adopted by Angelina.
I know Joile has a big heart and all, but I’m starting to wonder if she adopted the little girl just because she felt connected to her or the tragic story behind her birth had something to do with her decision…we all know how she loves good publicity.

Amy Winehouse was in between concert stops come Friday. You would think that she would take the time to rest up and gather some energy, but not our little Wino. The ‘Rehab’ singer was spotted leaving her London apartment at 3:45 AM early Friday morning. While most people are asleep at that time, Amy is up like the bat that got splatted on her eyes.

Maybe she couldn’t catch a wink because apart from the drama that has recently gone on in the past two weeks, Wino’s manager Thom Stone quit on Thursday because he was reportedly fed up with Amy’s continued use of heroin.

A few weeks after seeing some little kids doing ballet to the song, we can now see the usually prim and proper Natalie Portman get her groove on all because of Soulja Boy. The movie star dropped by TRL to promote her latest film Mr. Magorium’s Wonder Emporium when she got an impromptu dance lesson from the hip hop singer.

26-year old Natalie picked up the latest hip hop-flavored move sweeping the nation, the Soulja Boy Dance. It’s an enjoyable watch as Natalie jumps, hops and cranks it in her red heels. Maybe she could even teach the dance to her model boyfriend.

It’s Friday which means Kevin Federline’s gangster lawyer is at court ripping Britney Spears’ camp a new one. In this week’s edition, K-Fed’s people finally got the judge to agree that Britney should not be allowed to drive with the kids in the car. what I find interesting is that she obviously puts the kids in the car to get them to go to sleep… now she’s gonna be FORCED to act like a real mother and cope with her kids being kids. She uses that vehicle as an escape mechanism, because she knows the kid’s will keep it down while they’re in the car. Let’s see what happens now that she HAS to stay home with them. Chances are this unstable streak she has, is gonna worsen and she’s gonna lose it even more. I worry more than ever about those boys right now. Thank GOD there’s a monitor w/ her at all times.

Let’s forget for a moment what a trainwreck Pamela Anderson has been lately and focus on her work with PETA. Pammy will be serving vegetarian dishes all night on Thanksgiving at an unnamed homeless centre in Las Vegas. If you want to eat turkey, then eat a turkey but don’t make out that what you have in front of you tastes or looks like turkey. Mixed feelings about this. It’s nice that she’s feeding homeless people, but it’s annoying that she exploits the opportunity for more PETA propaganda. Besides, after marrying sleazeball Rick Salomon and jerk Kid Rock, she has cashed in her moral certificate. Well you know what there are two sides to a coin and there are two or at times or more sides to a human being, some are like a chameleon changing color at every instance and others are open, they show off they are like this love them or hate them. Pamela is one such she has much diversity to her personality and PETA is one of them.

Mexican actress Salma Hayek was so upset by childhood jokes about her flat-chest, she would pray to God for larger breasts. The Ugly Betty star reveals she was bullied for having small breasts as a youngster - and decided to turn to her Catholic religion for help. By praying to God she means praying to plastic surgeons, right? Umm isn’t she naturally “thick” which means she’ll have bigger boobs anyways? Duh. You gain weight your boobs grow. Good thing she wasted a prayer on bigger boobs, what an idiot. Should’ve prayed for brains! lol. What a lire, I have seen her pictures from years ago and they were size be if I have figured it out well. I am quite sure that she has had a boob job done on her breast though I am not sure when. But I certainly can recall her saying that she at some point in time she did a few years ago and probably 3 years ago, right. That’s at some point of time when she broke up with Edward Nothon. SHE THINKS WE ARE STUPID OR SOMTHING AND WON’T REMMBER, EVEN THAT YOU CAN TELL THEY ARE NOT REAL.

All you die-hard Britney Spears listen up! Don’t miss out on your chance to get a one of a kind autographed copy of her album ‘Blackout.’ Britney is auctioning off the album on EBay and 100% of the proceeds go to UNICEF. There are many other artists out there who have sold more than Britney such as Michael Jackson, Stevie Wonder-who both sold over 100 million records. Elvis is another. Tons and tons more. People who are in her same age group-Beyonce for one has sold over 100 Million records and she’s the same age as Britney, and they started out around the same time. Christina Aguilera has sold over 30 million records and to be “less famous” as Britney, that says a lot. SO you bragging that Brit has sold over 50 Million records aren’t as big of a brag as you claim it to be.

The Spice Girls are off to do their Christmas shopping early. At least, in a commercial they are. The group full of girl power recently released a commercial for UK-based grocery chain Tesco which shows them holiday shopping.

Geri Halliwell aka Ginger Spice does the narration for the commercial which not only promotes the store but the Spice Girls’ ‘Greatest Hits’ album as well. The commercial is basically old footage from all of their old music videos mixed in with their new album cover and a couple of other things.

And remember… Ginger does the voice over. I guess that’s enough.

Amy Winehouse’s husband Blake Fielder-Civil was officially charged with attempting to pervert the course of justice. Well things just went from bad to worse for Blake because the judge refused him bail. Winehouse was said to be sobbing uncontrollably and yelling ‘I love you’, as her husband was led away in handcuffs. He was remanded at London’s Thames Magistrates Court on Saturday until 23 November. Yeah sobbing that this idiot has been caught while trying to commit such a petty offense despite being a non celebrity he is hitting the headlines just because he has a celebrity wife. Look at him just look at him, he knows he has committed a crime and yet he thinks he will be able to get a bail for himself, that’s what I can call an over expectant person who ever thinks practically just imaginary. His advocate and his legal counsel would have suggested this to him and they just would have told him that we are taking a chance in case the judge turns out to be a jerk ass. As it happens to be the judge is not a jerk ass and Blake can spend the next two weeks in jail.

Since Christina Aguilera finally announced her pregnancy despite the obvious, I’ve been waiting on when Jennifer Lopez would come clean about hers. And she finally did so on Wednesday.

Unlike Christina who talked about it in a magazine, JLo went a more personal route by announcing it to the crowd in Miami on the last stop of her US tour. The audience at the American Airlines Arena went wild at the news.

She told the crowd “Marc and I are expecting” which prompted her husband and tour partner to kiss her belly. Marc said that he didn’t even know that she was going to talk about it then. It’s still unknown when she’s due and what they’re having though.

Didn’t she say she wanted a quiet divorce but she is raising hell on both sides of the Atlantic? I totally forgot about them until she started talking again. And she was putting him down. The reason for that rant was to try to pressure him into a settlement. And she has admitted taping their marital counseling session and threatening to release the tape. I’m sorry but you’re supposed to go to marital counseling to try to put your marriage back together. She had a devious ulterior motive. She was trying to get him to say something and use it against him. That’s sneaky as hell. And didn’t she call his other daughter evil? And why is she bringing his late wife into her shit? Like I said, Paul might be a total jackass, but he has not said one word about her. And that is driving her up a wall. She is a loon who needs to take it down a few notches. Especially talking about her suicidal thoughts. That’s gonna get her kid taken away. Then she won’t get any money.

The hot mess that is Amy Winehouse has canceled or screwed up more shows/gigs/shoots than I can keep count of. Adding to the list of ‘Winehouse Disappointments’ is her latest video shoot for “Love Is a Losing Game.” Staff and film crew waited over 15 hours for Winehouse to show up for the video shoot, but she was a no-show. The shoot eventually had to be canceled and cost the studio 70,000 pounds. Amy is one girl whose going down the drain everyday. She gets up in the morning and is quite like Britney Spears these days, there is always something weird brewing up in both their lives now days. Amy, when she is in Canada there she is caught carrying cocaine or heroin in her hand bag, she cancels video shoots and gigs very much like Britney who at times will forget to pay her dancers. And right now she in that phase of her life that if her manager or anyone tells her that it has cost the studio 70,000 pounds she won’t regret it she will simply pay the money and show off.

A Christian media watchdog group is calling for “satanic” rapper 50 Cent to retire. The Resistance objects to the hip-hop superstar’s lyrics and lifestyle, and want him to step down as he promised he would if Kanye West’s Graduation beat his Curtis disc to the top of the U.S. albums chart - which it did. if you wanna start making things with “filth” in it retire or stop, then i guess the whole world needs a bit of a make over, cuz their r much filthier things out there than 50’s music…jus saying. You his music will not heal the world of its sorrows nor will it provide cleaning drinking water or electricity to those who need it. Why not run a signature campaign to ask US President G.W. Bush to retire he nearing the end of his term with election approaching next year, so why not ask him to give up office an year earlier. That way the world be more secure and a better more peaceful place to live in. He has killed thousand of our soldiers and yet he cannot understand that war will not help safe guard this country. And he has plans to go on war with Iran, OMG.

Actress Kim Cattrall only agreed to reprise her role as sassy Samantha in the new Sex And The City Movie if she received a substantial wage - because she was desperate for the money. Wow, Hollywood is ready getting on my nerves. For heavens sake, she’s an actress and has a lot of publicity and promotions to associate her persona with. I hope the movie turns out really fun and exciting, and may she get the highest pay. Kim broke a lot of trends and rules on Mainstream TV. She’s a total risk taker, divine and unique. Plus, she’s done alot of modeling from time to time. Attention to all movie executives “STOP TAKING ADVANTAGE HER”. More over I am certainly one of those who thinks that women should receive equal pay as what their male counter parts receive as salary for doing big budget movies.

Keanu Reeves fights, and sometimes talks, in slow motion. It doesn’t look as if he drives that way, though. The paparazzo who was reportedly knocked down by The Matrix star’s Porsche in March, presumably while he was trying to get a shot of the actor as he pulled out of a parking space, sued Reeves for negligence on Monday. I second what all above said yes the actors/actresses know the business but we as a society have to realize they are human as well, make mistakes, if we would just all remember that the news of one of them messing up wouldn’t be such a big surprise …they are not held with higher esteem then us..geez people. The other thing is that why are we always targeting the celebrities, why does it always have to be a pap involved. They are the ones who are chasing the celebs and they more often than not over do their work. Instead of clicking their pics and making way from the celebs to go they wanna peep inside their cars and look what happening in there. There is bound to be some mishaps.

Actor Orlando Bloom feels “lucky” to be alive after escaping a car crash in Los Angeles unscathed. The Kingdom of Heaven star was driving through the city when he crashed into a stationary car during a chase with photographers last month. I think they were very lucky to escape without any serious injury. It could have been the second Lady Di accident and with more serious injury. You just wonder why they can’t be left alone. Why do everybody has to chase celebrities like they do. Orlando or any of the other celebrities are not leaving LA in a hurry anytime soon there are going to be many opportunities everyday to click a photo of these maniacs and so they should be patient and not risk theirs and other lives just to have a picture of their pursuant. Well hopefully no one gets hurt like this cause someday some of them could be in jail ruing the fact that the celebrity they were pursuing wasn’t worth the jail sentence they would be facing.

Paul McCartney has held crisis talks with estranged wife Heather Mills at his English home in an attempt to put an end to the drama surrounding their divorce. Has anyone even thought that just maybe Paul is seeing her taking a long walk off a short cliff and is trying to help her much the same way he tried to help Lennon in 1968, 1969? That he loves Beatrice more than he wants to see her mother continue down this path of self destruction? Yes, he has a good case for being the primary custodian but he also knows how much his grown children miss their mother and the loss of his own mother at 14. Heather may have gone off the deep end but he realizes she is STILL Beas’ mother and a 4 year old doesn’t know the difference between a mother who has lost it and one who is reasonable. She only knows that’s her mother.

Did we need court documents to tell us that Britney Spears made more money than Kevin Federline last year? Maybe not, but the papers that prove it were made public Thursday. For all those that rave on about how much child support Britney is paying: Keep in mind that if it weren’t for her former manager Larry Rudolph, she would also be paying alimony to two ex-husbands too! rudolph managed to get marriage #1 annuled, and managed to get Brit to sign a pre-nup at the last minute before marrying K-Fed. So she would be a lot worse off without Larry (whom she subsequently fired…). As for the child support payments — Yes, no one needs that kind of money for two kids. However, I think there is some wording along the lines of ‘living in the style to which they had become accustomed’ that usually comes into play in child support payments, and in alimony for that matter. In other words, if they live in luxury at Brit’s place, then they should at K-Fed’s too. That’s how the law works, folks. She was the dumbass that married him, so I don’t have an ounce of sympathy.

Hey guys who ever has been following them and peeping into their private lives is a jerk because most probably he would be the same person who has posted the story that Owen is also trying to get back with Kate Hudson. So like is he trying them both out and falls into that silky laps either of the two who ever gives him the much needed love he eagerly awaits or is this the complete fantasy of some jerk who is trying to make a nice gossip story for us to read. Just the other day I read that Kate and Owen have been hanging out and sending emails and texts to each other in what would be a attempt to rekindle their broken love saga that almost ended Owen life. And what ever he is up to what the hell do we derive from his meeting Jessica or Kate. Don’t you dare break his heart, Jessica? That man’s been through a lot. What he needs right now is someone to make him appreciate the good things in life. Why, yes, your breasts would be one of those good things. I mean, I wasn’t going to bring them up unless you did. Your dad does it all the time?

Kiely Williams of the Cheetah Girls took a short break from eating at Mr. Chow Saturday night to exchange digits with someone who may just be outside of her target demo. The former 3LW member was seen flirting with an older man who everyone first thought was trying to get some spare change but it looks like he wanted to get closer to the booty.

The singer actually exchanged phone numbers with him though and even gave him a kiss on the cheek. The old man then turned to the paparazzi who caught the whole incident on tape and said “How you like me now? Get some, gramps!”

Ewwww!

Two-time Grammy award winning singer Carrie Underwood sang the US National Anthem prior to the start of Game Three of the 2007 Major League Baseball’s World Series on Saturday. The game saw the Colorado Rockies get beat by the Boston Red Sox at Coors Field in Denver with a score of five to nine.

The 24-year old American Idol alum and World’s Sexiest Vegetarian may have been the lucky charm for the Red Sox when she belted out a powerful rendition of oh-say-can-you-sees. With her performance, anyone would have been inspired. The Rockies may have just turned deaf ears though.