Author: Castina

Hey Crunchers, I’ve tried to hang in there for as long as possible today, but there’s no denying it now: I’m sick! Damn sinus infection. I feel like I’ve been run over by bus, and simply must get some shut eye. I’ll be back tomorrow with some Good Friday updates and tabloid dish….provided I don’t cough up a lung before then.

Night All!

-Angelina Jolie vamps it up in the trailer for her new espionage thriller, Salt….

-Set your TiVo: Precious star Gabourey Sidibe will host Saturday Night Live on April 24…..

-Hey E!, we’ve got an idea for a new Keeping Up With The Kardashians spinoff: Kourtney & Khloe Flash Miami….

-Nicole Richie House of Harlow 1960 handbags are on the way….

–Take notes, Tiger! If you’re going to text your whores, at least keep the chatting about spanking and Golden Showers to a minimum…..

-Another day, another Lohan Family Saga: Lindsay and her “ex-father” Michael got into a nasty spat on Twitter this morning. I just can’t with these two!

-Weight Watchers spokesmodel Jennifer Hudson is teaming with 7-11 to help the Boys & Girls Club of America….

-Speaking of La Lohan, Complex.com is still holding out hope that the drugged-out hasbeen will one day look like this again….Yeah, good luck with that, guys.

-Faith Evans is in trouble with The Tax Man…

-According to Entertainment Weekly — Leonardo DiCaprio is in early negotiations to play J. Edgar Hoover in a new drama directed by Clint Eastwood…..

-A bit of good news for Sandra Bullock for a change: DVD sales and rentals for The Blind Side are through the roof….

-Alicia Keys, Carrie Underwood, The Black Eyed Peas, to perform on this year Idol Gives Back Special Wed., April 21…..

–Apple’s iPad hits stores Saturday. Here’s your first look at its applications!

-Here are three new promo pics from the highly-anticipated summer blockbuster Iron Man 2…

-Former Broadway baby Laura Bell Bundy (Legally Blonde, Wicked, Hairspray) is releasing her debut country album….

Controversial star Charlie Sheen wants out of his hit CBS comedy Two And A Half Men — and PEOPLE Magazine swears this is no April Fools joke.

The long trouble-prone actor will reportedly walk away from the award-winning series once filming on the current seventh season wraps on April 9. TV industry tattles insists the network and producers of the series have thrown pleas and everything except the kitchen sink at Sheen to get the star on board for an eighth season, but he’ll hear none of it.

“Charlie’s just done. And he’s quietly telling his friends he’s not coming back.”

According to NBC newsmagazine Access Hollywood, he was making $987,000 an episode, wanted $2 million, but was offered $1.2 million. He said, “No Deal.”

The star has been receiving out-patient treatment in a rehab program for more than a month following an alleged Christmas Day domestic asault on his crack-addicted wife Brooke Mueller in Colorado. Sheen faces felony assault charges in connection with the case.

When quizzed on the Men exit whispers, Sheen’s longtime rep, Stan Rosenfield, had only this to say: “Charlie’s deal is only through this current season.”

Men’s current season has averaged 15.2 million viewers for the network, making it television’s most popular sitcom.Thoughts on this?

Thousands of disgruntled foodies in the City that Never Sleeps have been left with watering mouths and sulken spirits after signs that went up all over NYC Thursday morning announcing In-N-Out Burgers’ long-awaited arrival in the Big Apple turned out to be a cruel April Fools’ Day joke.

The privately-owned In-N-Out Burger is one of the nation’s most popular fast food chains, despite the fact that all 250 of its outlets are located on the West Coast. The chain gained a particularly large following after it was featured prominently in hit films, such as The Big Lebowski and Swingers.

At the empty storefront recently vacated by Virgin Megastore, pranksters dressed up as In-N-Out Burger employees could be seen handing out flyers — prompting many burger-lovin’ passersby to believe that the tastiness of In-N-Out was on its way to town.

It was not to be.

Gothamist wrote: “A tipster tells Eater that ‘workers’—wearing In-N-Out caps and aprons—were outside 933 Broadway this morning, handing out fliers announcing that the stores will open on July 4th, 2010. (Burger Conquest has photos of the jokers.) Multiple conspirators? Convincing costumes? Fliers?! Who has the time for all this? Malicious, gold bricking blackguards, that’s who….”

By Thursday afternoon, In-N-Out bosses had released a statement debunking reports that the chain is NYC-bound and denying any role in the prank.

“You may be aware of a rumor or April Fool’s Day hoax about In-N-Out Burger coming to New York City the Summer of 2010. This is not true. We are very sorry for any confusion this may have caused and have no idea how it got started. We want to make sure everyone knows that it is false. We currently operate restaurants in California, Nevada, Arizona and Utah…..”

No one knows who perpetrated the elaborate hoax, but their getting a special “Up Yours” from some city residents, who reacted angrily on blog postings and social networking sites.

“Meanest prank ever. EVER,” wrote one on Gothamist commenter.

“That’s not just mean, it’s evil,” a Tweeter wrote.

Sorry New York, for White Castle will just have to do.

R&B singer/songbird Keri Hilson turned in a rousing rendition of our National Anthem this week…that is until she forgot the words! The “Knock You Down” star got a little creative with the lyrics to America’s most beloved song during a faceoff between the LA Lakers and the Atlanta Hawks at the Staples Center in Los Angeles Wednesday night.

While Keri’s eff-up was nowhere near the level of infamous epic fails portrayed by other Anthem Butchers, including Roseanne, Musiq Soulchild, and Kat De Luna, her flub was noticable enough to garner the leggy bombshell a few audience boos and plenty of chuckles on Twitter.

(Muttering to myself: I bet Beyonce knows all the words to “The Star-Spangled Banner.”)

Funnyman Steve Carell reprised his role as moronic weatherman Brick Tamland for England’s GMTV morning show on Thursday. The Office star is famed for his role as the dim-witted forecaster in the 2008 comedy Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy.

Later this month, Carell will appear alongside 30 Rock funnygal in the slapstick comedy Date Night.

A Middle Easten-infused track from Canadian star Alanis Morissette will serve as the theme song to Disney’s upcoming blockbuster Prince of Persia: Sands of Time, featuring Jake Gyllenhaal. Alanis will croon her single “I Remain” during the movie end credits, The New York Post’s PopWrap Column reports. Prince of Persia opens in theaters May 28. Take a listen to the track HERE:

You knew this was coming: Several Native American interest groups are riled-up over the latest publicity stunt from Heidi Montag and Spencer Pratt the D-list duo now known as “White Wolf” and “Running Bear.”

On Wednesday, The Hills’ Heidi and Spencer revealed their desire to now be referred to by their new “Indian tribal names,” much to the chagrin of many Native Americans, who — like the rest of us — want to keep the young lovers as far away from them and their heritage as possible.

Groups like The National Indian Education Association argue you that similar to the stars of MTV’s Jersey Shore or VH1’s now-defunct Flavor of Love, Heidi and Spencer are using stereotypical mistruths about a group of people — in this case the Native American community — to garner headlines and captalize off of ignorance.

“Continued stereotyping such as this by people ignorant of our traditional ways is very disrespectful and only hurts our efforts to curtail these stereotypes,” a rep from the Rosebud Sioux Tribe of South Dakota – just one of several groups peeved at the Terrible Twosome – told TMZ Thursday.

Aaron Carter is engaged.

The early 2000s answer to Justin Bieber has struggled with addiction, IRS tax drama, and even a collar on drug charges in recent years, but Aaron’s finally ready to become a one-woman man after proposing to girlfriend Maile Hochuli, 19, during a screening of Alice In Wonderland last week.

A friend of the bride-to-be tattled to Star Magazine this week: “Aaron took Maile to the movie Alice in Wonderland, which she has been dying to see. She didn’t get to see the end of the movie though because Aaron got down on a knee and proposed with a beautiful pear shaped diamond ring! Maile was completely overjoyed and said yes immediately!”

Maile, a student in Aaron’s native Orlando, has been friends with the 22-year-old celeb for years, and is hoping to move to Miami to be closer to her new fiance sometime in the near future.

The joyous announcement comes at the end of a tough week for Aaron. The crooner’s sexual prowess…or lack thereof…became tabloid fodder after Kat Stacks — a Tweeting trollop with limited education and questionable genitalia — “exposed” her disastrous one night stand with Aaron on her popular blog on “groupie tales.”

Aaron was previously romantically-linked to Lindsay Lohan, Hilary Duff, and Kari-Ann Peniche.

Two former American Idols are set to share the stage once more.

Ruben Studdard and Clay Aiken, winner and runner-up, respectively, on Season 2 of the FOX talent show, are teaming up for a summer tour of North America that will featured both vocalists putting their signature sounds on some of the best songs of the past half century.

The 16-city tour, dubbed “Timeless,” kicks off July 23 in Asheville, NC.

“I couldn’t ask for a better tour mate,” Aiken said of Ruben, the guy he sparred with for the Idol crown in 2003. “To be able to share the stage with him again is so exciting. He inspires me daily and I think that respect and admiration will truly be reflected in our show.”

Ruben also sounds relieved to be hitting the road with an old pal. “It is truly a blessing and an honor to be on the stage with my friend,” the “Velvet Teddy Bear” remarked in a press release issued Thursday. “The relationship that we have built over these past eight years will definitely translate into a great show for our fans. And, I’m really looking forward to singing the timeless classics every night.”

Ticket prices and an on-sale date have not yet been announced. We’ll keep you posted. For more information visit www.rubenstuddard.com or www.clayaiken.com.

Would you go see Clay and Ruben in concert?

Baby No. 5’s a’comin’ for the latest addition to ABC’s Dancing With The Stars. New DWTS co-host and model mom Brooke Burke (AKA “The Poster Child For Enviable Abs”) is reportedly expecting her fifth child with longtime partner David Charvet.

The self-professed “Mommy Correspondent” already has four daughters: Neriah Shae and Sierra Sky with ex-hubby Garth Fisher, and Heaven Rain and Shaya Braven with Charvet.

UPDATE: She got us right in the kisser! Brooke’s not pregnant after all! Despite leaking news that she is with child, the DWTS co-host says the report was all just one big Got’cha….

“April Fools Tweetie pies!!!!! But seriously!!!!! I am not preggers…. ” Burke, 38, wrote on Twitter on Thursday afternoon. “where is your sense of humor?!? I will not be Dancing With baby #5. lOL Got you!!!! April Fools!!!”

Biblically-Correct folks don’t always pay their bills. Just take Carrie Prejean for instance: The conservative Christian, anti-gay, premarital sex tape star, who lost her Miss California crown last June, is being hauled into court by a Christian PR firm who says Carrie (who we affectionately like to call “Bold, Blonde, and Surgically-Altered”) failed to pay them for their services.

Jesus would not approve.

According to TheFrisky.com. Larry Ross Productions claims Prejean hired the firm last April to help spread her “Biblically-Correct” message, but she never quite got around to forking over the $64,000 she owes them in fees.

Proving once again that originality in Hollywood is dead — along with chivarly and fidelity — Tinseltown producer Neal Moritz (the man behind the Prom Night reboot and Will Smith’s I Am Legend) is on the hunt for a writing team to pen a revival of the box office blockbuster Look Who’s Talking.

This has got to be the millionth plan this year for a remake of a dated TV show or movie. But hey, who’s counting?

Pajiba.com snoops dish that Moritz plans to commission a remake of Amy Heckerling’s 1989 comedy, which starred Kirstie Alley as a single mother and accountant who falls in love with a NYC cabbie played by John Travolta. Of course, the would-be lovers come together with a little help from Alley’s outspoken infant son, Mikey, voiced by Bruce Willis.

The hit film grossed approximately $300 million at the international box office and inspired two sequels (Look Who’s Talking Too, 1991 & Look Who’s Talking Now, 1993).

Bieber takes over Funny or Die just in time for April Fools!

Has years of yoyo dieting and fluctuating weight finally taken its toll on former Wilson-Phillips singer Carnie Wilson?

The daughter of Beach Boys founder Brian Wilson has battled with her weight for decades and even famously underwent gastric bypass surgery in 1999. However, after two pregnancies and more than a decade of unhealthy eating, Carnie is back to packing on the pounds and pals fear the extra weight could be harmful to the star’s health, The National Enquirer claims.

Wilson was treated by paramedics after becoming dizzy and losing her balance on the set of The Newlywed Game, which she hosts for the Game Show Network (GSN). She blamed the dizzy spell on medication she had been prescribed for a cyst doctors had found on her neck – but show producers think Carnie’s health is seriously at risk as a result of her weight struggles.

A source tells The Enquirer, “In the middle of the show, Carnie went white and began to sway. Her speech was garbed.”

Carnie documents her lifelong battle against the bulge on her GSN reality show Carnie Wilson: Unstapled.

A new trailer for the deliciously-terrible A-Team Movie rolled onto the Interwebs this morning….I’m not whether this is genuine trailer or if we’ve been Rickrolled! I’m going to assume this is not an April Fool’s joke. Oh Hollywood, when will you learn! This looks almost as bad 2006’s Miami Vice. Another classic franchise Tinseltown destroyed. At any rate, The A-Team — which intends to pay homage to one of TV’s most beloved ’80s series– arrives in theaters June 11.

The new trailer for Sylvester Stallone’s The Expendables is pretty much you’d expect from something spearheaded by an aging action star. We’ll leave it up to you to decide whether that’s a good thing or a bad thing.

In this saga, a cast of characters that includes Steve Austin, Bruce Willis, and Jet Li, head down to South America to overthrow a despot.

Synopsis: “Sylvester Stallone gears up for a men-on-a-mission film with the Nu Image/Millennium Films war picture, The Expendables. Jason Statham and Jet Li co-star alongside the brawny filmmaker as a group of mercenaries who undertake a near-impossible operation to overthrow a dictator in South America. Mickey Rourke, Forest Whitaker, and UFC star Randy Couture co-star in the action-packed production.”

The Expendables opens August 13.

Sore loser Shannen Doherty turned down an offer to appear on ABC’s flagship late night show Jimmy Kimmel Live on Tuesday after becoming the first celebrity voted off the 10th season of Dancing With The Stars.

It’s a bit of a Kimmel Live tradition that ousted DWTS contestants and their dance partners drop by the show right after they are voted off, but the former Beverly Hills, 90210 baddie was reportedly “too upset” to make an appearance.

Doherty is the first former Dancing star to refuse an interview with Kimmel after being sent packing.

“Never in the history of our show has a dancer declined our invitation to participate. Macy Gray was so upset she couldn’t come out of the bathroom, but at least she showed up and went to our bathroom. Shannen Doherty elected tonight not to come. Can you imagine that? Now I’m glad I kicked her off,” Kimmel joked during Tuesday’s monologue.

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A McDonald’s worker in South Brunswick, New Jersey was attacked this week after an irate customer didn’t want to wait three minutes for his Filet-O-Fish.

WTF?

Cops say the Looney Bird Johnson hoisted himself through the small drive-thru window and accosted an employer because the sandwich was taking too long. The suspect — who is still at large — will face up to five year behind bars for the assault. This isn’t the first time a McDonald’s customer has lost their damn mind over one of the fast food chain’s fat saturated snacks. Last year, a Kansas City woman was arrested after she attacked a Mickey D’s employee with a bucket of cleaning water, destroyed five register, and caused $5,000 in damages to a Missouri McDonalds after cooks prepared her Big Mac wrong.

The Whitaker Family of Atlanta, Georgia became a Youtube sensation after their toddler son was caught on camera dancing and crying to Beyonce’s smash song “Single Ladies.”

Lindsay Lohan made a surprise appearance in the American Idol audience on Wednesday night.

Flanked by a pair of burly security guards, the Mean Girls star arrived halfway through the show wearing a flowered top and black hat to see Diddy and his new group Dirty Money perform their single “Hello Good Morning.”

“Love American Idol! Such a fun show to come to! I wanna come more!” Lindsay Tweeted after the performance, later adding, “Diddy killed it!”

Lindsay reportedly signed autographs for some of the kids in the audience before jetting off at the end of the show, a spywitness says.