Zac Efron Tops Teen List of 50 Hottest Guys in Hollywood

For some eye candy to slip into your holiday stocking, Teen magazine has listed the 50 Hottest Guys in Hollywood for its winter issue.

Just so no one overindulges, here’s a sampling of the Top 10:

1. Zac Efron
2. Chris Brown
3. Corbin Bleu
4. Pete Wentz
5, 6 & 7. The Jonas Brothers
8. Cody Linley
9. Chace Crawford
10. Brody Jenner

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Britney Spears’ Birthday - America’s Pop Tart Turns 26!

It’s Britney’s birthday this Sunday, y’all, and America’s favorite pop tart has yet to reveal her plans for the big day. But what do you get for the girl who has everything?

In Britney’s case, a little privacy might be just what she’s looking for.

Brit-Brit has been working hard on her new music video for Piece of Me and might just be looking for a little peace and quiet this b-day.

Celebrating hasn’t been on the top of Britney’s list of things to do these past few months. When asked how she celebrated the release of her new album, Blackout, Spears told Ryan Seacrest that she watched movies and ate fried chicken.

But it’s not like Brit to lay low on her birthday. Every year she goes out and parties, ultimately making headlines with her chaotic behavior. But with the tragic year she’s had, calling it an early night may be in her best interest.

After all, things are looking up for Brit. She found out she gets to spend Christmas day with her sons, her first single topped the charts and a new video is in the works. Disregard the recent pregnancy rumors, reports that she’s a sex freak and news that she stole from a local shop and she’s not having a half bad week.

The poor girl just can’t catch a break.

If you were Britney, how would you spend your birthday?

Katie Holmes New Hair – Love It or Hate It?

Everyone’s talking about Katie Holmes’ new hair style and we’re wondering whether fans adore the new look or miss the old Katie.

Holmes donned the fresh new look on the red carpet of the 59^th annual Bambi Awards, along with a long black dress and super dark makeup.

And while most of the focus has been on Katie’s chic new bob (now referred to as the bobkat), it was her witch-like makeup that made us cringe.

In fact, there was very little change in her haircut itself, except that it was slightly shorter and she chopped her bangs.

It was her high heels (as you can see, she soared over hubby, Tom Cruise) and unladylike posture that made her look more like a man than a Hollywood hottie.

So we want to know what you think of Katie’s new look?

Do you prefer the posh-like Holmes or do you miss the Joey Potter-like style from the early 2000’s?

How Beatrice is turning into a most unusual young royal

(from the Daily Mail)

Stepping out into the night - and even brushing alongside the questionable company of party-queens like Kate Moss - she never varied.

The smile was attractively uncertain, the manner polite, the personal control absolute - not bad for a girl of 19.

Who would ever have imagined that out of the dysfunctional Royal Family, the parents who would produce-the most poised and promising-member of the new generation would be the divorced Duke and Duchess of York?

From clubland to dowagers’ drawing rooms there is no greater surprise in London society than the mark that Fergie and Andrew’s elder daughter Princess Beatrice has made.

Just a moment ago, or so it seems, she was dating the louche Paolo Liuzzo, a drug-taking Italian-American eight years her senior who once faced a lengthy prison sentence after being charged with manslaughter - later reduced to assault and battery.

Paolo lined his pockets with the money from a seedy kiss-and-tell about his months with the teenage Princess, who was only 17.

Today it’s as though that ghastly episode never happened. What has emerged is the brightest of the young royals - in her A-levels at St George’s, Ascot, where she was head girl, she got an A in drama and Bs in history and film studies - this despite having dyslexia.

And her boyfriend is the eminently clean-cut businessman’s son David Clark, 25, a St Andrews university friend of Prince William, who works for Richard Branson and whose American family live in Hampstead.

Clark, who works in marketing at Branson’s space tourism project Virgin Galactic, took her last weekend to former Hollyoaks actress Davinia Taylor’s 30th birthday party in the Colour Rooms in edgy Shoreditch, East London.

She found herself among an A-list of hard-partying creatures including Moss, Sienna Miller, Jade Jagger, Naomi Campbell, Kelly Osbourne and Meg Matthews, all part of the outrageous Primrose Hill mob.

She wasn’t even properly dressed - the party had an “Eighties rave” theme but Beatrice was, somewhat demurely, in a floral jacket, jeans and pashmina.

How did she cope with this fashion faux pas? “Without a care in the world,” says one of the partygoers. “She never lost her poise for a moment. And you could tell that in such company she was just a ‘tourist’, not one of the crowd.”

She looked equally out of place in Ugg boots at Soho House earlier this week when friends took her to the media watering hole, and she was seen alone on the stairs, taking a break from the crowd.

Such sang-froid and lack of interest in hard drinking - so unlike her much noisier cousins William and Harry - comes as a pleasant surprise from a girl whose parents split up when she was only four years old.

Her achievement in growing into a young lady of whom her grandmother the Queen is said to be “hugely proud” must be measured against the riotous background that has often been provided by both her mother and father.

Beatrice, who is fifth in line to the throne, spent much of her growing-up years with her high-octane, unpredictable mother.

It is, perhaps, understandable, that with Fergie interminably crisscrossing the globe, Beatrice was happiest at school when she became a boarder.

Even so, she could not have avoided learning of the crises that Fergie went through involving both men and money, nor the embarrassment of her father’s skirt-chasing.

And yet, as one of the Duke’s oldest friends says: “When you meet Bea these days you’d think she was the product of the most loving and stable of marriages, not from a broken home where her paternal grandfather (Prince Philip) refuses to have anything to do with her mother.”

Just for once, people they know actually find themselves praising Andrew and Fergie for the way they have maintained a sense of “family” even though divorced.

“What they’ve achieved - with Eugenie as well as Beatrice - is an object lesson for millions of divorced couples,” says one senior courtier.

The most obvious example of the togetherness that the Yorks have achieved was when Beatrice was given an 18th birthday ball at Windsor Castle.

The gold-embossed invitations sent out to more than 500 family and friends said that their hosts were “HRH The Duke of York and the Duchess of York” - only the missing HRH before Fergie’s title was the give-away that the parents were no longer together.

It explains a touching belief which, according to friends, has always sustained the two teenage princesses, that despite their divorce their parents have never stopped being in love.

Beatrice is sophisticated enough to be amused at how seriously some people took it when her mother proclaimed that she liked to go out “on the pull” with her elder daughter.

The remark emerged when Fergie was proudly explaining how close she and Beatrice were. And they are close - close enough for the young princess to return the compliment by declaring in an interview with a magazine that she so admired her mother that she wanted to be a “minimummy”.

Friends say her mother “remains her No. 1 role model” because whatever holes Fergie sank into in the past, she has dug herself out of, both with men and her £4million overdraft with Coutts.

“Bea admires the way her mother has beaten off her critics and taken control of her own life and wants to do the same,” says the family friend. “She and her sister both know that being HRHs no longer means that much and want to make their own way in the world, just like Mummy, as it were.”

The fact is, Beatrice’s recent London partying was just a short break from gap year travels in South America, which she embarked on to “get completely away”.

She came home from Brazil for her grandparents’ diamond wedding celebrations and cousin Peter Phillips’s 30th birthday.

She is, it must be said, strikingly like her mother, with the same sense of fun, a biggish personality, and just like the Weight Watchers ambassador, Beatrice’s weight, says a friend, “is an issue”.

Now she is flying out to Argentina where she will stay on the ranch that her mother inherited from her own mother Susan Barrantes.

She is with childhood friend Nikolai von Bismarck, also 19 - greatgreat grandson of Prince Otto von Bismarck, Prussia’s Iron Chancellor - with whom she has already trekked the Inca trail through the Andes.

Thank God my son’s in jail, says Amy Winehouse’s mum-in-law

From the Daily Mail–

Most parents would be horrified to see their child sent to prison but Georgette Civil says she’s “delighted” that her son, Blake Fielder-Civil is now on remand at Her Majesty’s Pleasure in Pentonville, North London.

Indeed, after the past six months, Georgette and her headmaster husband Giles both firmly believe prison is the best thing that could have happened to Blake.

Her son and his wife singer Amy Winehouse’s descent into drug addiction and squalid mayhem is well documented. Now Georgette believes her son’s detention on remand is his only chance of beating his heroin addiction.

Even Blake, it seems, has come to the same stark conclusion.

He has told his mother he is desperate to beat drugs and that, astonishingly, he doesn’t want bail for fear of returning to his old life.

In fact, says Georgette, prison seems to be suiting Blake. Contrary to reports, her son is neither suicidal nor struggling to cope without Amy by his side.

In his mother’s words, in just the fortnight since he was arrested on suspicion of perverting the course of justice, Blake has reverted to being “the boy we had before he left for London aged 17″.

“Blake’s more focused now than he has been in years,” Georgette says.

“He’s finally taking responsibility for his behaviour too and accepts that he and Amy are totally responsible for the mess they’re in. Now he’s using the time in prison to overcome his drug habit.

“He spends his days exercising and reading. He has always shared his father’s love of reading and to this day he is forever recommending literary works for him. People think he’s this monstrous junkie but, while he certainly has a drug problem, there is much more to Blake.

“Looking at him all dishevelled, gaunt and unkempt it’s hard to remember the bright teenager who won a place at a great local school; who had so much promise.”

Hard indeed. And, of course, Mrs Civil can be forgiven for taking a more rose-tinted view of her son than others. What is not in dispute is that Blake and Amy have shared a relentlessly depressing tale.

With Blake locked up, Amy’s troubles seem to have deepened. Slurring and sobbing, she gave an incoherent performance on the first night of her tour in Birmingham last week, leaving furious fans jeering and demanding their money back.

At least twice in the past few days she has been photographed with a white substance - presumably cocaine - clearly visible in her nostrils.

To understand the latest chapter in this wretched story, we go back to the morning of Thursday, November 8 when police smashed down the door of Amy’s Camden home and arrested Blake for allegedly perverting the course of justice. He had been due to go on trial four days later for allegedly inflicting GBH with intent on a pub landlord last summer.

The arrest came among accusations that he had offered a witness in the case £200,000 to change his statement.

He could face a maximum sentence of life imprisonment if found guilty.

Though Georgette is understandably distraught at this latest turn of events she can’t help but feel that currently it is absolutely the best place for him.

Certainly, since marrying on a whim with a £60 ceremony in Miami in May, Blake, 25, and Amy, 24, have cut pretty desperate figures.

The sordid chapters to their story are almost too numerous to mention but have included the award-winning singer being rushed to A&E after a three-day drugs binge and being pictured dazed and bloodied in Soho following a furious bust-up when Blake reportedly caught Amy about to take heroin with a prostitute.

Then, in August, the pair were packed off on a ‘clean up or clear off’ break to the Caribbean by her record company but again, failed to return clean.

Georgette, a 42-year-old hair salon owner, saw them when they returned: “They were both totally out of it on drugs.

“He was edgy and highly strung, she was docile and incoherent. As a mum I want to be able to make things right for my children, but I felt so utterly helpless.

“It was four years ago when we first suspected Blake of taking drugs.

“When he came home for a visit he was sniffing constantly and when we visited him in London he kept disappearing to the toilets in restaurants with his friends. We were horrified.

“As a head teacher, Giles is passionate in his condemnation of drugs.

“We were devastated at the thought he might be doing drugs and confronted him at once. He didn’t deny it.

“He told me: ‘It’s normal, mum, everyone takes a bit of cocaine.’

“I couldn’t believe what I was hearing from my own son, but he was quite nonchalant about it. And the evidence of what he was saying was staring us in the face - he was more verbally aggressive and tense.

“We offered to buy Blake a house close to us in Nottinghamshire in a bid to get him away from London and the music industry crowd he was mixing with but he declined.

“The circles he mixed in led him to Amy and inevitably their getting together was like an accident waiting to happen.

“They both had problems with drugs before they met but as a couple those problems have got dramatically worse as they seem to feed off one another’s increasingly bad behaviour. It’s been unbearable to watch Amy and Blake destroying each other but what more can we do?

“I can’t tell you how many times I’ve urged them to return to rehab.

“One minute Amy would think it a good idea and then Blake wouldn’t. The next minute it would be the opposite way round.

“The more drugs they took the worse their behaviour got and the more trouble they got into.

When I saw news reports that they’d been self-harming and then that Amy had been arrested for possession of drugs in Norway last month, I was devastated. I just thought: ‘Can this get any worse?’

“It was hugely upsetting to see my son portrayed as some sort of monster who was accused of supplying his wife with heroin and cocaine and I worried terribly that someone would harm Blake as a result.

“Then there are my two other sons, aged 14 and 15, whose hearts are breaking seeing their big brother being portrayed like this.”

The first that Georgette, who lives in a Nottinghamshire village with Giles, Blake’s stepfather, knew of his arrest this month was a call from Amy several hours after police officers had taken him away.

“Amy called on that day and told me: ‘Blake’s been arrested but don’t worry.’

“I was absolutely beside myself with worry. I said to her ‘Giles and I and the boys are on our way’ and the four of us got on the next train to London. It was the longest journey of my life but I had to be near my son.

“We arrived late that Thursday night and went straight to where Amy and her father Mitch were waiting. It was very tense, with Mitch shouting that it was all Blake’s fault.

“Things got very heated.

“My 15-year-old son got very upset at Mitch’s accusations about Blake. Giles had to step in between him and Mitch to calm things down.”

She denies accusations that she and Mitch came to blows, as has been reported. “It was a row and that’s all.”

The following Saturday a tearful Amy attended Blake’s brief appearance in court with fellow drug addict Pete Doherty. Georgette says she and Giles chose not to attend because Mitch had assured her that Blake would get bail and they would be able to see him immediately.

When he didn’t, Georgette sought a meeting with her son’s legal team. She was told by Blake’s solicitor that the £50,000 Amy had earmarked as Blake’s bail bond, should it be needed, had been withdrawn by Mitch.

“I rang Amy but she was too out of it to realise what was going on.

“She insisted she would pay but we didn’t want to rely on her so Giles and I frantically managed to raise £100,000 through our own savings and the generosity of family and friends. We just wanted to have money on standby in case Blake changed his mind and wanted to accept bail if it was an option.”

The first time Georgette saw Blake after his arrest was at his second court appearance the following Tuesday. There was no sign of Amy.

“Her manager later told me she didn’t come because she was in bed. I was angry, I thought she’d have given anything to catch a glimpse of Blake.”

Now though she is glad the couple have been forced apart.

“My Mum and I visited Blake in prison the next day and I have to say it was wonderful.

“I’d been terrified of what state he might be in emotionally so it was a relief to find him positive and focused.

“He isn’t on suicide watch as has been reported in some papers and he isn’t crying.

“In fact he’s going to the gym, he wants to study and he’s going to use this time to sort himself out.

“He’s already stopped taking drugs. He’s missing Amy desperately and he wants her to get help. He has told her she needs to go into rehab.”

The whole business, she admits, is one sorry mess and she clings to the hope that this will be the couple’s opportunity to sort themselves out

“This is Amy’s opportunity to sort herself out too and I’ve strongly suggested to her that rehab would be a very good idea because this continual bad behaviour has to stop.

“Just because she’s Amy Winehouse doesn’t mean I’m afraid to be angry with her.

“In fact I phoned and told her how cross I was at her foolish and unprofessional comments during her concert in Birmingham.

“Look at the state of her. How can she be held up as an example to other young people?

“This is a woman with enormous talent and a lovely personality underneath but she needs urgent help to deal with her problems.

“She’s emaciated, incoherent and frequently out of it on drugs when I see or speak to her. The same has been true of Blake until his arrest.

“Together they were killing themselves.

“Apart, I finally feel they may have a chance of getting clean. But once Blake is out of prison they will inevitably want to be together again and that frightens me to death.

“If one of them isn’t clean, what chance does the other stand?

“Unfortunately we don’t believe Amy is surrounded by the type of people who are conducive to her living a healthier, happier lifestyle.

“There are lots of hangers-on in the music industry and those who believe that any publicity is good publicity.

“But look at the lives they are destroying.

“Amy is this wonderful singer but she’s a mess. She’s got a drug problem, she should throw the towel in for a year and come out clean.

“The public don’t want to witness any more of her and Blake’s behaviour. It’s boring. It has to stop.”

Georgette says that Amy still rings her often at her salon but that for now her son must come first.

“My son is my priority. It’s early days with Blake.

“For now he thinks ‘good old mummy’ and I think both of us are just relieved to be close again.

“But in time we will talk about the past year. He’s been well brought up and at some point I’m sure he will feel grim about what he’s put us through.

“The last six months has been hell - I’ve barely eaten and I’ve barely slept.

“But he doesn’t need to apologise to me. I’m his mum, I love him unconditionally and the only thing I want is for him to be clean.”

Although she and her husband Giles forbade Amy and Blake from visiting them at home after they returned from the Caribbean three months ago - they will not tolerate drugs in their house - Georgette insists that wherever they are will always be Blake’s home.

“Giles and I absolutely won’t condone the use of any drugs, recreational or otherwise which is why they’re not allowed here.

“It’s not how we were brought up or how we’ve brought our three boys up.

“But in London and in the music industry drugs are glamorised and it sickens me.

“Why is it deemed clever that artists like Amy or Pete Doherty or Kate Moss take Class A drugs? Why do their careers seem only to thrive after scandalous tales of their drug taking?”

“The music industry and the whole cult of celebrity has a hell of a lot to answer for when it comes to drugs and I cannot understand how they get away with it.”

George Clooney, Girlfriend Hurt in Motorcycle Crash

George Clooney is doing well in the wake of the motorcycle accident in which he was injured on Friday.

According to Access Hollywood, Clooney e-mailed the show’s Nancy O’Dell and said, “All is fine.” The playful actor added, “Not like giving birth,” referring to O’Dell recently having her first child.

Clooney, 46, suffered a hairline fracture of a rib and road rash, and girlfriend Sarah Larson, 28, suffered a broken foot, his rep said, when they were struck by a turning car while riding through New Jersey. Both were released after receiving treatment.

Meanwhile, Access Hollywood’s Billy Bush interviewed Albert Sciancalepore, 27, who was involved in the accident with Clooney.

“My main concern was there’s two people on the ground, they just hit me and, you know, I’m concerned for them,” Sciancalepore, a chef, said.

“They’re both bleeding, it’s more of a shock than anything, not because he’s a celebrity, but more to the fact that there’s two people hurt on the ground that could have been severely hurt,” he said.

Source: People

Salma Hayek Welcomes Baby Girl

Actress Salma Hayek is celebrating becoming a mother for the first time, after she gave birth to a girl.

The star and fiance Francois-Henri Pinault welcomed Valentina Paloma Pinault at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles on Friday.

Cari Ross, a spokesperson for the couple, says, “Mother and child are doing well.”

Pinault, 45, also has two children from a previous relationship.

Source: Reuters

Posh Joins the Pussycat Dolls?

Victoria Beckham must have some very generous friends in the States. Despite her lack of talent, the star has somehow managed to convince The Pussycat Dolls to adopt her for a stage performance early next year.

A source said, “They’ve been blown away by Victoria since she arrived in LA. They love her style and think she has the perfect figure for the group. They are all huge Spice Girl fans and can’t wait to have her on stage with them.” Let’s just hope she doesn’t sing!

Britney faces hit-and-run charge

Britney Spears has been charged with hit and run causing property damage and driving without a valid license, both misdemeanors, media reports said Monday.

According to the Los Angeles City Attorney’s office, the singer hit a parked car on or about Aug. 6 in the San Fernando Valley without leaving a note for the driver of the other vehicle or filing a police report. The incident was caught on video widely available on the Internet.

If convicted, the singer could face up to six months in jail and a 1,000 U.S. dollar fine for each count, said Nick Velasquez, spokesman for the city attorney’s office.

The owner of the hitten vehicle, Kim Robard-Rifkin, filed a police report three days after the accident, and investigators later determined that Spears does not have a license, officials said.

Robard-Rifkin said she was “sort of amused and sort of shocked” when she learned Spears was the source of her car’s damage through a video posted on the Internet.

“I simply want my car fixed, the same as I would fix somebody’s car if I had done that,” Robard-Rifkin said in August.

A hearing, which Spears does not have to attend because the charges are misdemeanors, is set for Oct. 10.

The case comes days after a court commissioner ordered her to undergo random drug and alcohol testing twice a week in her child custody dispute with ex-husband Kevin Federline.

Her management firm also recently dropped her, and her performance at this year’s MTV Video Music Awards was widely panned.