April 2009
This is too much. Before Carrie Prejean, Miss California, competed in the Miss USA pageant, the Miss California Organization bought breast implants for her.
"It was an option and she wanted it. And we supported that decision," co-executive director of the Miss California Organization, Shanna Moakler, told "Access Hollywood's" Billy Bush.
Moakler downplayed the purchase, telling Bush that breast implants are no biggie these days, especially in the pageant world -- though "I don't personally have them," the 1995 Miss USA was quick to point out.
So, why is Moakler confirming this story now? Well, it seems she has been dissed by Prejean. Since the pageant, during which Prejean came out against gay marriage, Moakler says, "We've tried really hard [to get in contact], and she keeps referring us to her mother and her PR person...That's also sad for me... because, you know, there's no hate here... I supported her and I still stand behind her."
But as much as Moakler stands behind Prejean, she's not ruling out the possibility of firing the current Miss California if Prejean doesn't get back on track.
"I guess we're all going to have to wait and see how that plays out," Moakler said.
Should Miss California lose her crown? At least the Miss California people can't take back her, ahem ...
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-- Stephanie Lysaght
Photo: Miss California USA pageant
Paul Morrison, the director of "Little Ashes," a film about the strange, complex and forbidden love between Spanish poet Federico Garcia Lorca and surrealist painter Salvador Dali, talks exclusively with The Dish Rag about casting "Twilight" hero Robert Pattinson in the period piece.
At the time, Pattinson was just another undiscovered young British actor (he'd done "Harry Potter"), and little did Morrison know that this young man would draw unparalleled attention to his small film, which opens May 8, without a US premiere.
Paul Morrison: I love the fact that an audience is going to be drawn to the film, partly through Rob, that wouldn't otherwise get to this kind of movie. We played the Belfast Film Festival last week and there were quite a few of Rob's fans there, not the majority by any means, and they loved it and they really took to it, so it's great that kids will be reached by the movie.
Dish Rag: Playing Salvador Dali is a daunting role for a young actor.
PM: Yeah, I don't think Rob realized what he was getting into when he agreed to do it, but he really worked hard at it, he really grappled with it, and I think he's done something very extraordinary. It's so difficult to do, because you have to tread light all the time between playing Dali as a young lovable young man, which he was, and suggesting the kind of pastiche of himself that he became in later life, that he presented to the public in later life, and that's a very tall order, and I think Rob pulled it off.
DR: The resemblance is actually quite amazing.
PM: The intensity was important, but I wasn't really looking for resemblance. And in the performance, I wasn't looking for mimicry either.
DR: How did you find Robert Pattinson?
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Kim Kardashian has been the "butt" of quite a few jokes over the years, almost all of them centered on her plentiful "assets." But the 28-year-old reality starlet wasn't laughing when a bunch of un-Photoshopped pics from a Complex magazine photo shoot leaked onto the Internet recently, spurring haters to pick apart her imperfections.
So, in response to the drama, Kim decided to pose on the cover of Life & Style this week, sans retouching. Her goal? To communicate to the world that she isn't perfect and that she's OK with that. Kim agreed to pose for the mag in a bathing suit the very day they asked her, meaning there was no weeklong, pre-bikini juice cleanse.
"I just put on my mom's bikini, and we did the shoot in the backyard. It made sense to just go out and take the photos," Kim told Life & Style.
In the article, Kim also states her measurements, for the record. At 5-foot-3, Kim says, "I'm 35-26-40. My dress size is a 4 or a 2/4. I wear a size 4 skirt and size 27 jeans." Just in case you were wondering.
In the interview, Kim is more than willing to answer almost any question about her body. Just don't ask to grab her butt.
"Girls come up to me and grab my butt, or if I'm doing a TV interview, people ask on camera to squeeze my butt. It's uncomfortable. I'm like, 'Let's move on. Everyone's got a butt, why do you care about mine?'"
Maybe it's time for Chris Crocker to release a new video: "Leave Kim Kardashian's butt alone!"
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-- Stephanie Lysaght
Photo: Kim Kardashian Credit: Wireimage
No offense, but Miss California Carrie Prejean has released the following PSA in a partnership with the anti-gay group National Organization for Marriage.
Are you offended? By whom? Carrie or Perez Hilton?
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The La Habra Police Department and Social Services of Orange County paid a surprise visit to Nadya Suleman's
home Wednesday.
They were investigating a claim of neglect.
According to Radaronline's chat with Nadya, detectives and child welfare officials conducted a 45 minute interview with her on Wednesday afternoon. No children were removed from the home.
Suleman says she thinks her son Aidan's teacher made the call to authorities about a black eye and a bite mark on his back he got from one of his siblings.
Apparently, the kids all bite. Something she also used to do as a child.
OMG, she's raising a pack of wolves!
Octo-Mom said the teacher probably put a note in her son's backpack, but she didn't see it until Tuesday -- what with getting tattoos and all, she's pretty darn busy -- and she assumes the teacher alerted authorities when she didn't respond.
Suleman doesn't expect a follow-up call and that she isn't upset that the officials investigated the claims. She said they asked her how many nannies were in the home at one time and what kind of disciplinary action she took with the kids, and before leaving, commented on how tidy and well-organized her home was.
Well, that's what she says but we don't always believe what Nadya says. Do you?
Suleman also said that because Aidan is autistic, he often bumps into things, and that she believes he actually got the black eye at school. Of course he did.
When he got into a fight after kids called his mother the Octo-Pig.
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Nadya Suleman gets a tattoo symbolizing her 14 kids. Remind you of someone?
Photo credits: FilmMagic.
Kelly McGillis, best known for playing the hot teacher to Tom Cruise in "Top Gun," has confirmed all those rumors that she's a lesbian, according to an interview done in Key West, Fla., on the Internet show "Girl Rock."
Click here to watch the video interview on shewired.com.
She talks about plastic surgery, her Hollywood career and the fact that she's done with men.
She's known she was a lesbian from an early age. But it took a long time to accept.
"I think that was an ongoing process from the time I was probably 12. It was a long arduous journey for me," she told the publication. "I had a lot of bad things happen to me that made me think God was punishing me for being gay. Life is a freaking journey about coming to terms with who and what you are."
And her next partner will be a woman, if anyone's interested.
"I'm done with the man thing," says the actress, 51, who is twice divorced and has two teenage daughters.
"I did that, I need to move on in life. It's a part of being true to yourself. That's been a challenge for me."
Kelly stars in the upcoming "Little Foxes" at the Pasadena Playhouse, along with Julia Duffy.
The Daily Mail reports that McGillis' sexual orientation was Hollywood's worst-kept secret.
Yeah, along with Jodie Foster and a few others we could name but won't.
Photo: Kelly McGillis, at a recent art show. Credit: Paramount/WireImage
Samantha Ronson, Pamela Anderson and Shannen Doherty were horrified, simply horrified -- according to Us Weekly -- when they found out they'd been booked to open a New York strip club earlier this week.
They'd all signed on to attend the grand opening of Sapphire Gentleman's Club in NYC. But OMG, they didn't expect strippers.
Gosh, maybe they should have read The Dish Rag. Our item dated April 16 was headlined:
"Animal rights activist Pam Anderson to open NY strip club/steakhouse. Don't tell PETA!"
We wrote: "Now Pam reportedly has been booked to appear at the opening of a gentlemen's (read: strip) club-slash-steakhouse in NYC.
She and another apparently hard-up honey, "The Hills' " Audrina Patridge, will show up for the April 27 opening of a new gentlemen's club named Sapphire New York, which Fox News says is part of Prime 333 Steakhouse on the Upper East Side."
Don't say we didn't warn you.
But Audrina musta have read The Dish Rag. Or her publicist did and then reread the fine print on the contract. She mysteriously didn't show up.
But poor Ronson -- who has probably had enough of scrawny,hair-flipping, pole dancing psychos -- grumpily worked the DJ booth as Sapphire's exotic dancers bumped and grinded provocatively in front of her.
"I had no idea it was a strip club!" said Doherty, who left after 45 minutes, told Us. "They told me it was a restaurant or club, so I was kind of in shock."
Pamela Anderson kept to herself in a roped-off booth. Her security guard told reporters that the starlet wanted to be "left alone."
These girls are either full of it, can't read or they need to get better managers.
Wonder how much they got paid to appear? $10 grand? $25 grand? $40 grand?
What are the going rates for illiterate has-beens these days?
Photos: Sopranos stars will go anywhere to eat steak and watch naked girls. And so will Pam Anderson. WireImage
Will that leaked photo of a battered, bruised and swollen Rihanna -- which appeared on Harvey Levin's TMZ.com website -- cause the assault case against Chris Brown to be dismissed?
Possibly.
Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Patricia Schnegg set a preliminary hearing for May 28 on Brown's double felony case. Brown's attorney Mark Geragos wants as much time as possible to respond to the still-pending investigation into Rihanna's leaked police photo.
If it turns out that the leak was the fault of a police source, Geragos told E! news, he wants to get Brown's case dismissed.
"The leaks can form the basis for a motion to dismiss the case in regards to outrageous governmental misconduct," Geragos said.
At the request of Rihanna's attorney Donald Etra, the judge agreed to release the $1.4 million worth of jewels and a designer gown Rihanna was wearing the night of the alleged assault. The jewelry was taken into police custody as evidence, along with a bloodstained Gucci gown.
Included among the accessories to a crime: a pair of earrings and three rings worn to a pre-Grammy party. Etra said that the pricey pieces would be taken to Rihanna by an armed guard and then returned to the private companies who loaned her the sparkly items.
Whew!
Thank heavens for the speed at at which the designer gown and jewels were returned. Justice may be blind, but it's not dumb.
More Chris Brown and Rihanna dish:
Was Rihanna mad about Chris Brown's cougar booty call?
Oprah warns Rihanna: 'He will hit you again'
Rihanna can legally tape record Chris Brown's phone calls? This should be good
Chris Brown, Rihanna back together working it out at Diddy's Miami home
Harvey Levin defends TMZ's use of Rihanna assault photo
Rihanna's dad calls leaked police photo 'terrible and disturbing'
Photo: FilmMagic
Elizabeth Snead is the creator of the celebrity culture blog, The Dish Rag, and also pens the weekly "Red Carpet Rewind" fashion photo gallery.
She covered international fashion, entertainment and pop culture for USA Today for a decade and survived the film festival war zones from thermal undies Sundance to topless Cannes.






