Fans of ousted late-night host Conan O’Brien are hopping mad about the new “Get Back To Where I Once Belonged” promo toting Jay Leno’s return to The Tonight Show. In the ad, Hollywood’s biggest chin breezes down a winding road in one of his antique cars, smiling, in what seems to be a dig at the redhead comic affectionately known as Coco.
Team Conan promptly devised a defense to and ultimately struck back with a parody of the ad (Featured Above). Check out the original below:
Love is in the air for a pair of Olympians: Gold medal-winning figure skater Evan Lysacek and champion gymnast Nastia Liukin are dating, according to PEOPLE.com.
The couple – who met in October 2008 — sparked speculation that they were an item when they attended the ESPYs together in July. Evan the traveled to Dallas to support Nastia at the US Nationals last August. Nastia was on hand to watch Evan win gold in men’s figure skating during the Vancouver Games last week — becoming the first person to do so in 22 years.
Janet Jackson has reportedly agreed to stand in for her late brother Michael Jackson when the recently reunited Jackson 5 takes their new show on the road later this year. The singer has reportedly been persuaded by her older brother Jermaine to fill MJ’s shoes on the reunion world tour, which is one focus of the family’s new reality docusoap, The Jacksons: A Family Dynasty.
“We had a conference call and Janet has agreed to join us on tour,” Jermaine can be heard saying during promo for an upcoming episode of the A&E reality TV show.
Could Conan’s finest hour come on the live stage? Former Tonight Show host Conan O’Brien is working on a deal to hit the road in a series of live performances across America, new reports claim. Under an exit agreement Conan inked with NBC earlier this month, the comedian must wait until September before he can return television on new network.
Pearl Jam will rock 30 Rockefeller Place as the featured musical guests on Saturday Night Live March 13.
Congrats to Padma Lakshmi! The foodie’s eagerly-awaited bun has officially popped out of the oven. Lakshmi, 39, delivered a healthy baby girl named Krishna in a New York City hospital on Saturday, a rep for the Top Chef host tells Us Magazine.com.
“Model, author and Emmy-nominated host of Top Chef Padma Lakshmi gave birth to a baby girl named Krishna Thea Lakshmi on Saturday. Mother and baby are well and happy.”
Although Padma has never publicly identified the child’s father, last month, rumors swirled that Krishna’s dad is NYC university professor Adam Dell. Dell is the brother of Dell Computers founder Michael Dell.
Kaley Cuoco sets tongues wagging as sexy Girl Next Door Penny of CBS’ The Big Bang Theory, but did you know that the blonde bombshell made her sitcom debut on the now-defunct series 8 Simple Rules.
We’ve got a first look at her racy Maxim centerfold (on newsstands Feb. 23), which the mag is calling “the sexiest photos of her ever taken.”
Kaley opens up about her sometimes reckless driving and shares fond memories of TV dad John Ritter.
Kaley Remembers John Ritter: “Right before he passed away, he told me, ‘Never go on Howard Stern.’ When ‘8 Simple Rules’ came out, my character was this sexy 16-year-old vixen, and Howard used to talk about how my character was so hot. John would get so upset. I love that Howard was talking about me, and I have no problem with it, but if John Ritter had a problem, then I have to respect it.”
Kaley On Fender Benders: “I’ve had so many, I can’t even count. Just yesterday I was driving along and all of a sudden I hear this loud sound. I was like, ‘Oh my God! What was that?’ I totally knocked someone’s mirror off their van. … I did leave a note – I was very proud of myself.”
In an American Idol first, show producers announced last week that contestants are now allowed to post updates on their progress throughout the competition on Idol-approved pages on social networking sites — including MySpace, Facebook, and Twitter.
FOX has yanked critically-panned drama Past Life from its Thursday night lineup after three episodes.
The show featured Kelli Giddish as Dr. Kate McGinn, a physician at an institute that helped patients remember factoids from a past life.
The shows remaining episodes will air later this season.
Like Mother, Like Daughter: Aspiring singer Alexa Ray Joel has been tipped to star in the upcoming advertising campaign for shampoo brand Prell, nearly 25 years after her model mom Christie Brinkley showed off her luxurious locks in a 1986 commercial for the haircare giant.
“This is Alexa’s first ad campaign. It is for print and TV for spring and summer. We will also shoot a fall campaign,”
“>says the 24-year-old’s publicist.
The deal couldn’t come at a better time for Alexa Ray, who was hospitalized for a suicide after swallowing a handful of homeopathic pain pills in her Manhattan apartment on Dec. 5.
Ex-Wisteria Lane maneater Nicollette Sheridan has been cast as an over-the-top stagemom in a CBS dramedy, premiering this fall. Based on the New Zealand series Outrageous Fortune, the comedic drama Scoundrels centers on a British lowlife who moves to Los Angeles to reconnect with his teen pop star daughter and her fame-thirsty mother, played by Sheridan.
Ryan Phillippe and longtime galpal Abbie Cornish have pulled the plug on their three year romance.
A representative for the Australian actress confirmed the news in a statement issued Sunday: “Abbie ended the relationship with Ryan and she moved out of their home.”
While no reason has been given for the split, the Elizabeth: The Golden Age star, 27, has reportedly been unhappy with 35-year-old Ryan’s reluctance to commit as well as rumors that the actor had been unfaithful.
“The main thing is that Abbie wants to be married and start a family and she feels it’s beyond time for Ryan to make that happen. Ryan is spending more and more time partying,” tipsters told PEOPLE last month.
Abbie and Ryan first met on the set of their 2006 film Stop-Loss. The two began a couple a short time later.
Her days may be numbered on television’s Ugly Betty, but the curtain hasn’t closed just yet for Becki Newton. The actress has reportedly landed a starring role in a new NBC pilot. Newton, who previously appeared as receptionist Amanda on the recently cancelled Betty, has been cast as virgin and hopeless romantic “Annie” in the new hour-long comedy Love Bites, Entertainment Weekly said this week. The romantic comedy, executive produced by Sex And The City’s Cindy Chupack, is expected to premiere this fall.
When Johnny Met Stephen: Flamboyant figure skater Johnny Weir and Stephen Colbert — of Comedy Central’s The Colbert Report — in the wardrobe room of NBC Studios in Vancouver on Friday.
In Wall Street 2, Michael Douglas reprises his Oscar-winning role as greedy Wall Street hotshot Gordon Gekko in the sequel Oliver Stone’s classic. Shia LaBeouf and Carey Mulligan also star.
When Oprah steps down from her long-running daytime talk show in Sept. 2011, American Idol judge Ellen DeGeneres is likely to take over as Queen of the Airwaves, The New York Times reports.
According to The Times, recent media studies have found that Ellen is already as well-liked as daytime’s reigning queen, Oprah. One cited poll revealed that Ellen’s show is “upbeat and inspirational, two traits that appeal to daytime’s core female audience,” while the quirky comedienne “seen as relaxed and relatable.”
Earlier this month, Ellen signed a deal to keep her self-titled talk show, which premiered in 2003, on the airwaves until at least mid-2014.
Singing hip-shaker Beyonce Knowles-Carter is the celebrity with the best body, according to a new poll of British women, but men across the pond prefer the curves of sex symbol screen starlet Megan Fox.
The “Single Ladies” crooner topped a poll of the “Best Celebrity Bodies” among women with 24 % of the vote, but one in five men dubbed the Transformers star the entertainer with the most stunning figure. Men also named Megan woman they would most like to sleep with if given a pass by their partners.
The study, conducted by Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment to mark the DVD and Blu-ray release of Megan’s horror flop Jennifer’s Body, found that as well as being women’s overall body choice, Beyonce boasted the sexiest individual assets.
Pop sensation Lady Gaga is making headlines for a recent photoshoot with Q Magazine, which was allegedly thrown into chaos after the “Pokerface” singer broke down in tears and stormed off set, according to a new report.
Gaga — a former exotic dancer who stormed the pop charts with a parade of dance hits in 2009 — is accused of lashing out at a Q photographer during a shoot for the mag’s March issue at London’s Mayfair Hotel earlier this month.
Sources say Gaga told staff she hated the provocative photos, in which she posed topless, before sobbing and threatening to walk out unless her boyfriend was allowed to photograph her, set spies dish to London’s Daily Mirror.
“The magazine wasn’t going to stand for that so they told her people where to go. Her behavior was weird.”
The star reportedly told onlookers: “I’m just not in a good place right now.”
Rocker and former reality personality Travis Barker got into a heated exchange with paparazzi outside a Calabasas restaurant on Sunday.
According to TMZ.com, the former Blink-182 drummer, his two young children with former beauty queen Shanna Moakler, and a few family friends were their way into a restaurant when they had a “run-in” — which included cursing, spitting, and slashing tires — with two members of the paparazzi. Photo agency X17, which employs the photographers involved in the incident, insists their guys were the victims of an “unprovoked attack” — and even had their phone stolen — by Barker and his croonies.
Travis, on the other hand, tells a different story. The musician addressed the fracas in a series of spirited updates to his Twitter page late last night:
–When I’m out at breakfast at 8am in the morning the last thing i appreciate is some photographer threatening me 2 a fight while he’s 3 deep…..
–When i defend myself/my kids that don’t make me a tough guy .I was outnumbered and threatened so i did what any man would…..
–Paparazzi cried like young girls when it was no longer 3 of them against me and my kids. Didn’t they remember threatening me an hr ago??
–What happened to the tough guys with the cameras? It was gonna be a fair fight..3 against 3? I mean i weigh a buck 40, your 200lbs and 6′6……
–Bottom line I don’t . I’m not a socialite out begging for that kind of attention. I’m a family man out wit my kids. Don’t get the 2 twisted….
–Bottom line, take photos at red carpets. Take pics of hungry hollywood starlets and douche bags that are out at clubs and bars that like it…..
-Barker then posted a link to X17’s coverage of the melee, with the message: “Check this out. Even my son’s over it….”
The photographers told cops they did not want to press charges. No arrests were made, but a vandalism report was taken.
James Madison University can’t handle The Snookster!
Tanned-to-a-tangerine MTV docusoap star Nicole “Snooki” Polizzi is scheduled to appear at Virginia’s JAMU on March 3, but the latest in a series of promotional appearances for the self-appointed “Princess of Poughkeepsie” is creating a Facebook firestorm.
In what is being billed the Jersey Shore diva’s debut appearance at the popular public institution, Snooki is scheduled to be interviewed by a comedian and participate in a Q&A session. However, everyone won’t be welcoming the Mini-Sausage to the Commonwealth with open arms. The pint-sized reality personality’s scheduled appearance prompted a bevy of racist comments and threats of violence from members of the student body last week that forced the university’s student run organization overseeing the event to step in.
Steven Eure, director of public relations of the University Board which arranged the event, told RadarOnline.com Friday: “The Facebook page became a place where students wrote positive comments about the violent guy that punched Snooki and how she deserved it. Their comments were cruel not only about Snooki but also directed toward the students that were excited that Snooki was coming.”
Jersey Shore, which debuted its first episode in December, followed eight housemates as they spent their summer in a summer share in Seaside Heights. The controversial show went on to become the most successful in the network’s history. A second season of Jersey Shore is expected to debut this June.