Troubled pop star Britney Spears is back to her wild partying ways - the Toxic singer was reportedly seen vomiting violently in the toilets of a Los Angeles hotel at the weekend (27May07).
The 25-year-old mother-of-two yesterday (29May07) posted a message on her official website insisting she had entered rehab earlier this year (07) because she had "hit rock bottom" and was "so lost", refuting reports her stay was the result of depression or alcohol abuse.
But the superstar has allegedly returned to her pre-rehab days, after she was found slumped over a toilet in Los Angeles' Sky Bar at the Mondrian Hotel on Sunday, crying as she threw up. She was later carried out of the club by hotel staff, according to British newspaper The Sun.
Spears was reportedly overheard telling hotel workers: "I'm sorry, I'm sorry.
Things aren't going well for me at the moment."
A source tells the tabloid, "She had make-up smeared over her face and her wig hanging off. She had a room booked at the hotel but was too ill to stay and was begging her bodyguard to take her home.
"She looked a real mess and was sitting on the floor with her head over the (toilet) bowl throwing up. There was vomit down the front of her black dress and around her mouth.".
Lily Allen Was Kicked Out Of School For Sexual Services.... Lily Allen was kicked out of school as a teenager when teachers caught her performing fellatio on her classmates.
The bawdy Brit hasn't been shy when it comes to talking about her troublesome schooldays, but in a new Rolling Stone interview she has revealed just how far she went.
She tells the magazine, "I was doing things with boys that I shouldn't have been doing at such a young age... I was doing blow-jobs... I don't want to go into it. It was not good."
But she insists that although the sexual servicing upset teachers at her school, her parents weren't bothered when the authorities alerted them to Allen's scandalous behaviour.
She adds, "They didn't care... They're products of the 60s, they're bang up for a bit of that."
A topless Britney Spears has posted a new message to her fans, thanking them for their prayers "during this trying time".
Next to a photo of herself topless with her gloved arms crossed over her naked chest, the fallen popstar posted a cryptic message that said she was "blessed" to have committed fans.
"The reason for this letter is to let everyone know that their prayers have helped me," Britney says.
"I am so blessed that you care enough about me to be concerned and will continue to live in this brighter state with all of you by my side during this trying time."
"We are all lights of the world and we all need to continuously inspire others and look to the higher power. You are all in my prayers. Godspeed. Love Britney.
Britney is rumoured to be performing twice in Florida this weekend under the stage name M+Ms as she continues an attempt to launch a musical comeback.
The star has hit the headlines over the past year over her divorce to Kevin Federline, for shaving her hair off and for entering and leaving rehab.
Madonna's new Live Earth song has been released as a download.
'Hey You' is available to fans for free for one week only and can be downloaded at www.liveearth.msn.com.
The track, which Madonna penned with super-producer Pharrell Williams, features the lyrics "Open your heart, it's not so strange, you've got to change this time. Poets and prophets will envy what you do, this could be good, hey you."
Madonna, 48, wrote the track especially for the July 7 global warming charity concerts taking place across the world.
The 'Hung Up' singer will perform the song at the London leg of the music extravaganza, which she is rumoured to be headlining.
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Other acts expected to play at the concert include the Red Hot Chili Peppers,
Keane, the Beastie Boys, Black Eyed Peas, James Blunt and the Foo Fighters.
Live Earth - which aims to raise awareness of environmental issues - is taking place in nine different cities.
The other host cities are Istanbul, New York, Sydney, Shanghai, Tokyo, Johannesburg, Rio de Janeiro and Hamburg.
Christina Aguilera is set to perform in China next month, despite concerns her act is too raunchy.
The 'Dirrty' singer has been given permission from the Chinese government to appear at Shanghai's Grand Stage for a June 26th concert.
A source told E! Online: "Not every foreign artist has the luck to win Beijing's approval and Christina's sexy performance had been a concern when applying for permission to perform."
It is not know whether Christina - whose Shanghai concert will be her only Chinese show during her 'Back to Basics' tour - will have to change aspects of her act to comply with China's strict decency laws.
Last year, rapper Jay-Z's Shanghai concert was cancelled after his lyrics were deemed too vulgar for Chinese audiences.
The Rolling Stones were given the go-ahead to perform after they agreed to omit certain songs deemed inappropriate by regulators, including 'Let's Spend the Night Together' and 'Beast of Burden'.
Britney Spears has thanked fans for their prayers and support.
The 'Toxic' singer, who entered rehab earlier this year for alleged alcohol addiction and post-natal depression, posted a new message and sexy photograph on her official website yesterday (16.05.07).
Britney, who is pictured wearing only a blonde wig and long white gloves, wrote: "I am so blessed that you care enough about me to be concerned and will continue to live in this brighter state with all of you by my side during this trying time."
The 25-year-old, who divorced Kevin Federline and shaved her head earlier this year, asked fans to continue to support and inspire her.
She added: "We are all the lights of the world and we all need to continually inspire others and look to the higher power. You are all in my prayers. Godspeed."
Britney is now working hard on her pop comeback.
She performed four surprise shows in House of Blues clubs across California earlier this month and has been perfecting dance routines at a North Hollywood studio.
Meanwhile, Britney has been seen partying in two Hollywood clubs in the past week, sparking concerns for her recovery.
Britney visited Teddy's nightclub last Thursday (10.05.07) where she and a big group of friends took over booths at the back of the club.
Security guards held up huge black curtains, allowing Britney to dance the night away in private, according to gossip website TMZ.com.
Last night (16.05.07), Britney partied in a VIP section at Les Deux nightclub until 2am.
American pop star Avril Lavigne showed a completely different side of her by posing topless on the cover of Blender magazine.
In this month’s issue, the Canadian born singer is shown topless covered by the quote “Hell Yeah! I’m Hot”.
The cover shows the 22-year-old wearing only an open leather jacket, short skirt and fishnet stockings.
The magazine also has shots of Lavigne in different poses while smoking her cigar and drinking her whisky.
The ‘Complicated’ singer has also criticized competitor Britney Spears for using her looks and sexuality to sell music.
"I'm more about a performance, she's more about entertainment and sex, being a sex symbol and trying to look like she's having sex,” The Sun quoted her, as saying.
“I could be better than Britney but I won’t wear skanky clothes that show my booty, my belly or my boobs,” she added.
Beyoncé Knowles ate pork scratchings when she was on a diet.
The singer-and-actress, who had to lose weight for her role in 'Dreamgirls', substituted her cravings for chocolate and chips with low-carb pig skins.
Beyoncé told Cosmopolitan magazine: "It is so tempting on film sets. They have these tables with every kind of chocolates, every type of bread - doughnuts, rolls and even cake.
"I'd just eat pork skins because that's the closest thing to chips that I could eat.
"I run and do press-ups to try and stay in shape, but I can't resist chocolate."
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The former Destiny's Child singer also admitted she finds her healthy diet boring.
She said: "I eat a lot of boring things like green vegetables. I don't eat red meat or bread and I don't drink alcohol - I just don't like the taste.
"I also do a lot of dancing which I think is the best exercise."
Britney Spears' friends and family are worried about her sudden weight loss.
The singer has stunned critics by flaunting a washboard stomach and toned legs just weeks after being photographed eating junk food and sporting a flabby waistline.
Her new figure has sparked concern she is losing weight too quickly.
A source told More magazine: "She loves her new shape. But no one wants to see her looking as thin as Nicole Richie. Her mum is worried she could be doing it too quickly."
Britney, 25, failed to shed the post-pregnancy weight after giving birth to her sons, Sean Preston, who turns two in September, and eight-month-old Jayden James.
Britney is now working out with a personal trainer and taking regular dance classes.
She has also ditched calorific treats for a low fat diet.
The source added: "She's eating lots of vegetables, fruits, grilled chicken for lunch and sushi for dinner. She does allow a cheat day once or twice a week."
Singer Britney Spears has topped the Forbes magazine’s list of the world's most overexposed celebrities.
The ‘Toxic’ star is joined by Paris Hilton, Lindsay Lohan and Howard Stern, whose claim to fame is his association with tragic model, Anna Nicole Smith.
E-poll conducted the survey on behalf of the magazine, and found that 72 pct of the US population considered Spears to be overexposed, and that the number has risen by 18pct in the past five years.
In 2002, 35 pct of respondents thought that the 25-year-old is talented and now only 25 pct think so.
E-Poll Chief Executive Gerry Philpott said that a celebrity is one, who epitomizes popular culture
"You're only a celebrity as long as you’re in the dialogue of popular culture," Sydney Morning Herald quoted Philpott, as telling Forbes.
He added that when celebrities don’t have work to speak for their popularity, they resort to exposure.
"And if you don't have your work, be it a movie or an album, to keep you in that dialogue, you are forced to rely on exposure," he added. (ANI)
Akon has issued an apology for dancing provocatively with a young girl at a concert last month.
The US rap artist was filmed dancing with the girl, who it later emerged was just 14, on stage at a concert on April 12th in Trinidad.
After the video appeared on the internet, telecommunications company Verizon pulled out as sponsor of his tour with Gwen Stefani, with whom he appears on The Sweet Escape.
In a statement, Akon said that he did not realise how young the girl was and apologised for any hurt caused.
"I want to sincerely apologise for the embarrassment and any pain I've caused to the young woman who joined me on stage, her family and the Trinidad community for the events at my concert," the 34-year-old said.
"It was never my intention to embarrass or take advantage of my fans in any way, especially those under the age of 18.
"That is why we tried to make sure that the club did not admit anyone under 18 in the audience. Somehow, that standard was not met."
Australian pop star, Kylie Mingoue, may have found love in director, Alexander Dahm, but her friends say that the singer is lonely and worryingly near burn-out.
A source close to the singer said that when Kylie is away from the crowd, she seems to be a person, who is alone and tired.
"In her quiet moments, when she is away from the crowds and the cameras which follow her everywhere, we're seeing an altogether different Kylie these days. She is rather tired and rather lonely," the Daily Mail quoted the friend, as saying.
The source added that the singer is just good friends with Dahm, who is a married man, and that their relationship would have been different if he was single.
"And while she is genuinely just good friends with Alexander, there is no denying that she would feel entirely different if he was a single man," the friend said.
The confidante also said that although the 38-year-old wants to share her life with someone, she can’t bring herself to trust anyone after the way her former beau, actor Olivier Martinez treated her.
"The fact is that Kylie's desperate to find someone to share her life with, but after the way Olivier treated her she just can't bring herself to trust anyone," the source added.
The friend also said that Kylie is now concentrating on looking good, and ensuring that the ageing process doesn’t show.
"She hasn't really got anything else in her life, so she's obsessing about her image and making sure the ageing process doesn't catch up with her," the source said.
In light of recent events, Paris Hilton, the world's most famous DUI offender, is the last person we expected to see at a party promoting sobriety.
Then again, as we learned in court last week, Hilton may not have had time to read the invite.
Hilton arrived Monday night at attorney Robert Shapiro's "Sober Day USA" event on the Paramount Studios lot in Los Angeles with sister Nicky and embattled publicist Elliot Mintz. The flack had resigned Sunday but at Monday night's event he told Us "the rumors of our professional separation were overexaggerated" and he was, at least for now, back on as Hilton's rep.
Bypassing the red carpet, Hilton kept a low-profile in a sleeveless silk dress and gold shoes. Later, she posed for pictures with Mintz and Robert Shapiro, who, in 2006, declared the first Monday in May "Sober Day" in memory of his drug-using late son, Brent.
Though Paris held it together, a witness tells Us her eyes were tearing.
Perhaps she remembered she has only 29 days left on the outside?
Regardless, Paris wasn't upset for long. She left Sober Day and headed to the Roxy, where she stood on top of her table and danced to the band Phantom Planet. Paris and Mintz were singing along to the group's hit "California." A source tells Us, "Paris looked happy to be out." She slipped out the back door as soon as the show ended at 12:50 AM.
The marriage of Madonna and film director Guy Ritchie is close to breakdown, the News of the World claims today.
Material Girl Madonna and the Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels director married six years ago and have two sons together – six-year-old Rocco and newly-adopted Malawian baby David.
Madonna, 48, also has a ten-year-old daughter, Lourdes, from a previous relationship.
However the pressures of a new baby plus the criticism the pair received due to the whirlwind adoption of David has reportedly strained their relationship.
Madonna's passion for the Jewish mystical tradition Kabbala and her reportedly controlling tendencies have also led to the breakdown of the couple.
"They're in total meltdown and row non-stop whenever they see each other," a source close to the couple tells the newspaper.
"They've been at loggerheads for a while and now hardly do anything together. They're even spending more and more nights in separate bedrooms."
However the final straw was said to be when Ritchie decided not to accompany Madonna on a return trip to Malawi.
"They're a united front when their children are involved. This was clearly visible when they were pictured this week out in the park as a family. But behind closed doors they barely speak," the friend warned.
MADONNA takes her family for a ride — as they enjoy a day out on mountain bikes.
The Queen of Pop, husband Guy Ritchie and two of their kids cycled among thousands of sun worshippers in the centre of London.
Madge and daughter Lourdes, ten, wore identical baseball caps while son Rocco, five, put on a safety helmet to pedal through Hyde Park — close to where they live.
At one point they got off their mountain bikes to sit on the grass.
Movie director Guy, 38, and the kids cooled down with ice creams. Singer Madge, 48 — whose hits include Holiday and Vogue — knocked back water.
An onlooker said: “They looked like any normal family soaking up the beautiful weather and seemed to have the time of their lives.”
The family’s latest addition — adopted son David Banda — was missing. At just 18 months, the Malawi-born tot will have to wait before joining in the pedal power.
Heiress Paris Hilton will spend 45 days in jail after a Los Angeles court found her guilty of driving with a suspended licence.
The 26-year-old socialite was stopped by a US policeman while driving without her headlights on in February.
Defending herself in court, the Simple Life star claimed she was not aware of the suspension despite the judge highlighting a document she had signed noting that she would not be able to drive.
"I would never drive just because I want to. I follow the law and I respect the law. From now on I want to pay complete attention to everything," she said.
"I just want to say I'm sorry."
However the judge could not be won over by her apology and sentenced the heiress to 45 days in jail, due to begin on June 5th. Yet if the reality television star, best known for her partying antics, fails to report to jail on the given day her sentence will double to 90 days.
"You're pathetic," Paris' mother, Kathy, shouted at the judge when the sentence was announced while her daughter began to cry.
Dressed in a sombre grey jacket, white shirt and her blonde hair tied back, Paris Hilton was late for the court hearing despite the calls throughout the media for a custodial sentence. It is thought that many in the US believe the heiress thought herself to be above the law.
Yet her lawyers believe she has been sentenced to a very different lifestyle due to her celebrity status.
"To sentence Paris Hilton to 45 days in jail to me was uncalled for, inappropriate and bordered on the ludicrous. I think she was singled out because she's who she is," Howard Weitzman, one of her solicitors, said.
The self-proclaimed mother of Michael Jackson's children is down, but not entirely out.
A Los Angeles judge Wednesday rejected Nona Paris Lola Jackson's latest bit to insert herself into the custody arrangement between Jackson and ex-wife Debbie Rowe.
But the judge did not dismiss the woman, giving her until Aug. 1 to get her legal act together, and letting her try again, per a local wire report.
Attorneys for Michael Jackson and Rowe did not return calls for comment. Michael Jackson's rep previously branded Nona Jackson's case "ludicrous."
The Jackson known as Nona is seeking...Well, she's seeking quite a bit, including Neverland Ranch, child support and shared custody of Michael Jackson's three children, Prince, 10, Paris, 9, and Prince II, better known as the balcony-dangled Blanket, 5.
Rowe, who was married to Michael Jackson from 1996-99, is regarded by the world, save Nona Jackson's corner of it, to be the birth mother of the two oldest children; the parentage of Blanket has never been precisely determined, or at least announced.
Nona Jackson, a "black Jew born in Britain," per her own court papers, launched her challenge last October. She claimed that she and Michael Jackson were a "sexually active couple," and that as a result of all that activity she had given birth to the singer's brood.
The woman's first bid to alter the Michael Jackson-Rowe custody deal was rejected last November, and for the same reason it was rejected Wednesday: Because she didn't follow the rules. Per the judge, Nona Jackson hasn't shown the court that she's properly notified Michael Jackson and Rowe of her filing. Also, there's the matter of her motherhood claim: She hasn't proved that, either.
Then as now, the London-based Nona Jackson attended the court hearing via speakerphone.
In court documents last month, Nona Jackson explained why she's had such trouble proceeding with her case.
Said the woman, in profound understatement: "I am not a qualified lawyer."
Paris Hilton has been warned by US prosecutors that she could face jail ahead of a hearing today for a violation of her probation on a drink driving charge, according to court documents.
Prosecutors have recommended a jail term of 45 days after Hilton was charged with failing to enrol on an alcohol education programme and driving with a suspended licence.
An original sentence was suspended in January when Hilton was put on probation after she was arrested last September on suspicion of driving while under the influence.
She pleaded no contest to the charge and was sentenced to 36 months probation, alcohol education and a fine.
Attorney Rocky Delgadillo told the Associated Press news agency that the millionaire heiress would be treated in the same way as anyone else.
"Anyone who would have conducted themselves in a way that resulted in this set of facts, we would have made the same recommendation of 45 days in county jail, regardless of whether they were a celebrity or not," he said.
Hilton became a US TV star for her part in the show The Simple Life and has since starred in a number of films, including House of Wax and Wonderland.
She also recorded an album, titled Paris, which was critically panned in the UK.
Kylie Minogue will reportedly appear at the Princess Diana memorial concert to take place this summer.
A host of acts have been added to the bill since princes William and Harry announced the event and the addition of Kylie will bring more pop glamour to the summer concert.
A source told the Sun: "We're just signing off some details, but it all looks good."
Kylie underwent treatment for breast cancer 18 months ago and has since performed a number of times to conclude her Showgirl tour, which was postponed on its Australian leg after she was diagnosed.
The pop princess has not yet decided whether she will perform or introduce acts at the Diana concert, which now also boasts the signings of Take That and Ricky Gervais, according to the paper.
The Concert for Diana will take place in July 1st, which would have been the princess's 46th birthday.
Prince William said of the concert's acts: "The idea is we wanted to get artists that our mother really loved, and then artists that both Harry and I enjoy, and in the middle with the ballet and Andrew Lloyd Webber - obviously she loved her dancing and her musicals.
"So with that you've got a sort of something different, it's not just any old concert. It's going to be different and it's going to be interesting. If it works it will be brilliant, if it doesn't then we won't be in the country."
Acts so far confirmed for the event include Elton John, Lily Allen, Rod Stewart, Bryan Ferry, Kanye West and the Feeling.
"It was really cool because I don't even know who is who sometimes - even I get confused!" Britney Spears Pulls Out Of Comeback Club Show.... Britney Spears has got fans guessing about when she'll make her big comeback performance after reportedly pulling the plug on a show in Los Angeles late on Wednesday night (25Apr07).
The Toxic singer was expected to take the stage with her band the M & Ms at hip Los Angeles club Forty Deuce, where she swapped costumes with dancers in December (06), but failed to show.
On the club's website, boss Ivan Kane says, "She came on stage during rehearsals, looking very hot, with four back-up dancers and sang three songs.
"They ran through the set several times, the choreography was smokin', and she sounded great."
But Spears decided that she needed more time to rehearse for her comeback performance, and left devotees disappointed.
A handful of semi-secret shows are lined up for Los Angeles next week (beg30Apr07).
