For those of you who are – as I am – counting the days, a new My Week With Marilyn poster has been revealed!
Michelle Williams plays Marilyn in the film, and she TOTALLY looks like her in this photograph here.
Who else is looking forward to checking this film out?
ABC kicked of their 13th season of Dancing with the Stars tonight and the controversy-laden hit series opened with a bang! After enduring rounds of punches for casting transgender celebrity Chaz Bono as a contestant, DWTS had the last laugh when Bono and pro partner Lacey Schwimmer cha cha’d to “Dancing In the Street” to great compliments from the judges and a standing ovation from the in-studio audience.
Chaz proved that his song-and-dance roots provided well for him — with the judges praising his performance. “You can dance!” Carrie Ann Inaba exclaimed after the performance. Even stickler Len Goodman complimented the activist and documentary star commending him for his attitude and heart.
All in all, Bono and Schwimmer landed in the middle of the pack as far as scoring with 17 out of 30 points.
Proud mama Cher tweeted her excitement sharing:
“WOW ! HOW GREAT WAS MY SON,” Cher wrote. “‘THE GREATEST,THING GREATEST THING,GREATESTTHING NO MATTER WHAT !WHAT! WHAT!’ HES A WINNER ! I Was So Nervous.”
Here’s to hoping that the public will vote on merit and put aside controversy. We want to see more from Chaz!
Child star of “Who’s the Boss?” and later “Charmed” Alyssa Milano and her husband David Bugliari welcomed a son — their first child — today in Los Angeles. Milano, now 38, and Bugliari welcomed Milo Thomas Bugliari early this morning. Milo weighed in at 7 lbs and was 19 inches long, according to reports.
Bugliari and Milano wed in 2009. The actress is one of the more active celebrities on Twitter — she announced her pregnancy via the social platform earlier this year. And shortly after giving birth around 9am this morning, Alyssa Milano tweeted: “Thank you for all the well wishes for my son Milo. My heart has tripled in size. I love him more than all the leaves on all the trees.”
Milano will be hitting the big screen later this year in the films “New Year’s Eve” and sequel “Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chip-Wrecked.”
In a candid conversation with Univision’s Teresa Rodriguez last night (see 5-minute clip below), boxing’s “Golden Boy” Oscar De La Hoya opened up about his addiction to cocaine and alcohol as well as thoughts of suicide. “I don’t have the strength…I don’t have the courage to take my own life, but I was thinking about it,” the 3-months sober De La Hoya said on the network’s “Aqui y Ahora.” Once the top professional boxes, De La Hoya beat 17 world champions and win 10 world titles during his career. Personally, De La Hoya has two children with his wife, Puerto Rican singer Millie Corretjer, and three other children from previous relationships. His relationships and struggles were widely covered in the media, culminating with photos of the boxer dressed in fishnet tights and high heels. When the photos surfaced, his reps claimed they were fake and photoshopped. In the hour-long interview, Oscar De La Hoya admitted to infidelity and came clean about the photos saying, “Let me tell you – yes, it was me. I’m tired of lying. Lying to people, lying to myself.”
During the riveting conversation, boxing world’s “Golden Boy”, Oscar de La Hoya reveals to “Aqui y Ahora’s” Teresa Rodriguez how his addictions led him to lose his luster and almost his life. De La Hoya will appear on CNN tonight with fellow boxer Victor Ortiz on Piers Morgan Tonight at 9pm ET.
Entertainment reporter Maria Menounos will be hitting the small screen again this Fall as the co-host of Extra with Mario Lopez and she’ll also be a part of Dr. Drew’s new talk show, Lifechangers. The author of the NY Times bestseller The EveryGirl’s Guide To Life is constantly on the go, but we had a chance to catch up with Maria last weekend at the Kyoto Grand Hotel in Los Angeles where she was working on the Mary Kay Inspiring Stories film project. It was the day after Maria attended Kim Kardashian’s big wedding, but she wasn’t dishing out any details — instead, we chatted about juggling her busy career, her must-have products and her involvement with the documentary project highlighting domestic violence victims.
Lolita Carrico: As a busy woman with a hectic career, how do you juggle it all — your work, your causes, friends and more? What’s your secret to finding the right balance?
Maria Menounos: My secret is all in my book, The EveryGirl’s Guide to Life which I carefully map out for you on how I organize my life so that I can do it all and do it all without going crazy. Now, are there moments when I get a little overwhelmed? Yes, and in those moments I have systems that I talk about in the book. I think the key is to do things that you love and then for the most part it doesn’t get overwhelming and it isn’t as hard to juggle because it’s things you want to squeeze into your life.
But, I keep lists, I have a blackberry with lists that I create to make sure I don’t forget anything. I am very organized, I have a very organized foundation so my home, my office, my car everything is neat and has its place so that I don’t feel like I have other things weighing me down and burdening me. And I think those are the most important parts and I think that’s something that people generally don’t pay attention to and they think it’s organized chaos like I used to. But once you get everything organized you can see you really can juggle a lot more and you can do the things you’ve always dreamed of doing it just takes a little time and investment. I tell people in the book that the key to happiness is organization and so if you are organized you’ll be happy because you’ll be able to tackle everything that you want to tackle in life and juggle all the things you want to juggle.
LC: What do you do to keep your stress level manageable?
MM: Whenever I get really stressed I’ll sit down and make a chart, and its everything that has to get done right now, and everything that can wait, and that generally will help put things in perspective for me. So, I’ll only focus on the things that absolutely have to get done and the other stuff is just not as important, and the sun will come up. And so I just kind of put it to the side and when I can get to it I’ll get to it, and I have to prioritize in that moment. I think the things that are kind of stress busters for me are my dogs, I love taking them for walks and I love going to the movies. That generally will kind of de-stress me, some yoga, or stretching I call it, because I don’t do all of those crazy poses but a little bit of “yoga stretching” always helps as well.
LC: What gadget can’t you live without?
MM: I can’t live without my blackberry, my Iphone or my Ipad. That’s three, I know you asked for one, but I can’t live without any of them!
LC: Name one of your favorite beauty product must-haves?
MM: The one beauty regimen I can’t live without is water and washing my face every day at night no matter how tired I am, no matter what time it is, I make sure I always wash my face and I always drink a lot of water. That’s helped me a lot with my skin because I definitely had skin problems at one point and those two things have really made a big difference.
LC: For The Mary Kay Inspiring Stories, you’re working with women who are filming documentaries about their stories with domestic violence. How has the experience been for you? Challenging? Emotional?
MM: I think as a film maker it was inspiring to work with the “Give Dreams” crew because they were really passionate about telling these people’s stories and for me that was inspiring. It was inspiring to see the interviews they did with these survivors of domestic violence and what they got out of them as an interviewer. To me, that was the first thing that I wanted to hear about was – how open were they? And how did that process go? And so it’s been a great day, it’s been inspiring, it’s been a learning experience and a lot of fun.
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America can view, vote and show their support for the three documentaries throughout the month of October, which is also National Domestic Violence Awareness Month at MaryKayInspiringStories.com. The women behind the film that captures the most views from America will have a $20,000 grant awarded in their name to a shelter providing women with support and resources.”
After years of enduring pregnancy rumors, Beyonce flaunted her adorable baby bump at the MTV Video Music Awards tonight in Los Angeles! The “Single Ladies” crooner and hubby Jay-Z have been married since April 2008 — and the pregnancy rumors started pretty much since they became a couple.
The super secretive couple kept the real pregnancy a secret for a while though — Beyonce performed at the televised MTV Video Music Awards tonight and at the end of the performance, unbuttoned her sequined purple jacket to reveal a significant baby bump. No word on when baby is due, but after Beyonce’s reveal, the cameras cut to an smiling Jay-Z who was cheering on his lady love.
In an interview earlier this summer, Beyonce shared with Piers Morgan that she was itching to become a mom: “I always said I’d have a baby at 30. But I also said I’m going to retire at 30. … Only God knows.” Beyonce turns 30 next month! The woman has a plan!
Oh, the web is buzzing this morning with news from In Touch Weekly that power couple Will Smith and Jada Pinkett-Smith have split. Citing an “insider,” the weekly rag says that after 13 years of marriage, the couple who have two children together, are separating. TMZ, however reached Jada’s publicist Karynne Tencer (apparently in the wee hours of the morning) who told them: “What? In Touch said that? I know nothing about this … Lord. I’m going back to bed.”
That’s confirmation enough that this is another rumor about the parents to now famous Jaden Smith and Willow Smith. The family recently appeared on the cover of Architectural Digestand opened their usually private doors to the magazine. The spread included photos of their massive yet intimate and personal Los Angeles home of which nearly every element made by hand. Will told the magazine that, “Everything needed to be done by hand. We wanted to feel the love that went into every piece of this place.”
So, we’re not buying an “insider’s” tale. Until the long-time and seemingly perfect and very much in love couple confirms the news, we’re not believing it.
Legendary crooner Rod Stewart’s daughter, actress and model Kimberly Stewart and her former flame Benicio del Toro welcomed a baby girl in Los Angeles over the weekend. Their daughter was born on mom Kimberly’s 32nd birthday and granddad Rod told People magazine that his “joy is indescribable.” Stewart and del Toro, 44, had a brief fling last year, when their daughter was conceived. A spokesperson for Benicio del Toro at the time said, “Benicio is the father and very supportive.”
Both Rod, his current wife Penny Lancaster and Kimberly’s mom Alana Stewart Collins were all by Kimberly’s side at the hospital.
The baby girl, as yet unnamed, weighed in at 8 pounds and 9 ounces and mom Kimberly is reported as doing fine and overjoyed.
The baby girl is Rod Stewart’s first grandchild. He has seven children — Kimberly and Sean, 30, from his marriage to Alana; Renee, 18 and Liam, 16 with Rachel Hunter, and two sons, Alistair, 5 and 6-month old Aiden with Lancaster.
Oscar-winner for Traffic Benicio del Toro was also present during the birth of his daughter — and reportedly told Us Weekly that he’s “thrilled that she is beautiful and healthy.”
