Tuesday, March 2, 2010

US “Dancing With the Stars” Pairings Set

Last night America was introduced to the new “Dancing With the Stars” cast. Today the celebs have been paired with dancers.

When the season kicks off on March 22, these will be the eleven pairs:
Aiden Turner and Edyta Sliwinska
Buzz Aldrin and Ashley Costa
Chad Ochocinco and Cheryl Burke
Erin Andrews and Maksim Chmerkovskiy
Evan Lysacek and Anna Trebunskaya
Jake Pavelka and Chelsie Hightower
Kate Gosselin and Tony Dovolani
Nicole Scherzinger and Derek Hough
Niecy Nash and Louis Van Amstel
Pamela Anderson and Damian Whitewood
Shannen Doherty and Mark Ballas

New Presenters Announced for Sunday’s Oscars Ceremony

Producers behind the 82nd Academy Awards just announced eight new male presenters to an already star-packed lineup at Sunday’s broadcast.

Bradley Cooper, Tom Ford, Jake Gyllenhaal, Chris Pine, Keanu Reeves, Sam Worthington, Ryan Reynolds, and Gerard Butler will present Oscars, according to producers Bill Mechanic and Adam Shankman.

The group joins previously announced presenters including Jason Bateman, Steve Carell, Tina Fey, Ben Stiller, Miley Cyrus, Zac Efron, Kristen Stewart, Taylor Lautner, Barbra Streisand, Kathy Bates, John Travolta, and Queen Latifah.

We’d say that lineup isn’t too shabby.

Cops pursuing Naomi Campbell

The police are in pursuit of Naomi Campbell after she slugged her driver in New York earlier this afternoon.

Campbell, according to the NYPD, allegedly assaulted the driver of her Cadillac Escalade on East 58th street and Second Avenue at approximately 3 p.m. today.
Gossip Cop is told the supermodel struck the driver from the back seat, causing him to hit his head against the steering wheel.

The driver has “bumps and bruises” under his right eye, says a police source.
After the police were called for help, Campbell fled the scene, and the cops are currently still looking for her.

“There shouldn’t be a rush to judgment,” a rep for Campbell tells Gossip Cop. “Naomi will co-operate voluntarily, and there is more to the story than meets the eye.”
Campbell has had several scrapes with the law over the years.
Among Campbell’s “greatest hits”?
In 2000, the model pleaded guilty to assault in Canada after whacking her assistant over the head with a telephone.

In 2007, the model was sentenced to five days of community service, and had to attend anger management classes, after pleading guilty to assaulting her housekeeper with a cell phone.
And in 2008, Campbell was sentenced to 200 hours of community service after pleading guilty to assaulting two British police officers.

Gossip Cop will update as more details emerge about this latest incident…

Jay Leno beats Letterman and others in first night ratings

The second time was a charm for Jay Leno, who handily beat rival David Letterman and the combo of “Nightline” and Jimmy Kimmel.

According to NBC’s early numbers, “The Tonight Show with Jay Leno” topped “Late Show with David Letterman” and the ABC lineup of “Nightline” and “Jimmy Kimmel Live” by an astounding 80 percent.

So do you think Leno is again the late night ratings king or was last night’s numbers just a curiosity? Let Gossip Cop know you thoughts in the comments section.

Paris Hilton beer ad pulled

Just days after Gossip Cop reported there was a brew ha ha over an ad Paris Hilton did for a Brazilian beer company comes word that the commercial has been pulled off the air.
In the spot for Devassa beer, Hilton was in a little black dress, rubbing a beer can across her body while standing in the window of an office building as people on the street and in another office gawked at her.

The ad was yanked after public complaints and objections from the Brazilian watchdog agency, Conar, which has been successful in banning beer ads that portray its subjects as “sex objects.”
As Gossip Cop noted a few days ago, while several Brazilian ads have featured women dressed in itsy bitsy bikinis while hawking beer on the beach, when it came to the Hilton ad, Conar said the problem “isn’t a lack of clothing, but its sensual nature… A woman in a bikini on a beach isn’t necessarily sensual; it depends on the context.”

Apparently, the context of rubbing a beer can all over one’s clothed body in an office building is more offensive than jiggling bikini-clad women trying to sell suds on a beach.

Who knew?

Abraham Lincoln Slated to Kill Vampires on Big Screen

Abraham Lincoln, sixteenth president of the United States, has been tapped by Tim Burton to kill vampires.

Kind of.

Burton plans to adapt a new book called “Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter” for the big screen.

The novel, written by “Pride and Prejudice and Zombies” author Seth Grahame-Smith, envisions Honest Abe as a “highly trained” vampire assassin.

According to Publishers Weekly, the story follows Lincoln after his other is killed by a supernatural predator, provoking in the future president a “bloody but curiously undocumented lifelong vendetta against vampires.”

Helping Burton produce “Lincoln” will be Timur Bekmambetov, director of Wanted.

Stupid Unhygienic People

So this morning....I was on the train getting to uni....just minding my own business and all of a sudden this old guy went on and the whole carriage was literally fulled smelled like urine! To make mattter worse, he has that sympathetic yet pathetic look about him....look the whole "Feel sorry for me even though I am doing a bad job at it" kind of look - he wore rags for clothigns and he has holes in his Vollies! YIKES!

LIke seriously? Since when did People stop taking care of their hygienes? I am not judging People in anyway but honestly.....we're living in the 21st century now....Look is everything....and even beside the point......think about your health for goodness sake....Can you imagine what kind of risks you could do to your health?