Josh Dum-Hell
June 29th, 2009Happy Monday Kiddies and away I go.
Reality television star Kendra Wilkinson was married during the weekend in a ceremony at the Playboy Mansion in Los Angeles, a bridesmaid says. Bridesmaid Holly Madison told People Magazine that Wilkinson and Hank Baskett were married Saturday at sunset before an altar decorated with white flowers in a ceremony attended by 300 guests, including Playboy Magazine founder Hugh Hefner. Wilkinson, whose life as one of Hefner’s girlfriends was chronicled in the reality television series “The Girls Next Door” on E! Television, wore a white dress with a “tight bodice and poofy skirt,” said Madison, a “Girls Next Door” co-star. ”She looked like a princess,” Madison told People. “It was a beautiful setting for a wedding. It was a princess dress, which was fitting. It was really pretty and she looked gorgeous.” Wilkinson and Baskett reportedly danced the first dance to George Strait’s “I Cross My Heart,” while the bride’s second dance was saved for Hefner. Ahhh, that is kind of cute. That is a really good choice of first dance songs.
Teen actress Abigail Breslin’s income has gone up from her estimated $2 million per movie - her parents have increased her allowance by $1 per week. The ‘My Sister’s Keeper’ star, who’s been acting since age five, ranked eighth in Forbes magazine’s Young Hollywood’s Top-Earning Stars list in 2007 after pulling in $1.5 million in 2006. And now the Oscar-nominated actress is earning her pay by working just as hard around the house as she does on the set. She tells People.com, “I get $13 (a week) now, because I’m 13. My chores have gotten a little heavier. My brother used to always feed the cat and now I feed the cat, which isn’t a big deal, but it kind of is, because my cat eats tons. It’s like an all-day long cycle.” Wait, that is not right. Can’t she hire a maid to do that stuff for her?
Pitchman extraordinaire Billy Mays died from a pulmonary embolism, according to the coroner in Tampa, Fla., who announced preliminary autopsy results at a press conference Monday. Evidence of heart disease was also found. According to Hillsborough County Medical Examiner Vernard Adams, Mays “had an enlarged heart, a thickening of the wall of the ventricle which takes blood to the heart.” Final results of the autopsy and cause of death will not be known for several weeks. Mays, 50, the bearded man with the booming voice best known for his ubiquitous OxiClean ads died in his sleep in his Florida home over the weekend. On Saturday, Mays was aboard a U.S. Airways flight that had a rough landing in Tampa. Mays told a TV crew that he bumped his head in the landing, fueling speculation that a possible injury could have lead to his untimely death. But the coroner says there was no evidence of head trauma. Internal and external injuries also did not exist. See it is reasons like this that I don’t like to fly.
Guitar virtuoso Eddie Van Halen is no longer a solo: Saturday night he married Janie Liszewski, his girlfriend of three years. The ceremony took place in the garden of his seven-acre estate in the hills above Studio City, Calif., starting at 7 p.m., when Liszewski walked down the aisle to Van Halen’s “When It’s Love,” performed by the Sonus Quartet. The 54-year-old groom’s 18-year-old son, Wolfgang, served as best man, while brother Alex Van Halen, an ordained minister, officiated at the 20-minute, nondenominational service. Among the 100 guests: Van Halen’s ex-wife, Valerie Bertinelli (they divorced in 2006, after 25 years of marriage.) The bride, 39, was given away by her mother under the watchful eye of Kano, the 15-year-old Pomeranian who walked Liszewski down the aisle. This was her first marriage and Van Halen’s second. Good for him. He is doing the divorce thing the right way, keeping it real with his ex.
After just five days, “Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen” is halfway to $400 million domestically, a box-office milestone only eight other movies have reached. If it climbs that high, the “Transformers” sequel would be by far the worst-reviewed movie ever to make the $400 million club. Critics and mainstream crowds often disagree, but “Revenge of the Fallen” sets a new standard for the gulf between what reviewers and mass audiences like. The movie pulled in $201.2 million since opening Wednesday, the second-best result for a movie in its first five days, just behind “The Dark Knight” with $203.8 million. Even after its whopping $60.6 million opening day, “Revenge of the Fallen” was packing theatres, a sign that unlike critics, who mostly hated the movie, audiences felt they were getting their money’s worth and were giving the flick good word of mouth. See, even if it gets hideous reviews, blockbusters still can make 200 plus million.
Transformers star Josh Duhamel has no regrets about posing nude for a series of photographs early on in his career, insisting the saucy snaps are “funny”. The actor stripped off for the images in 2000, and the photos of Fergie’s actor husband completely naked have since surfaced online. But Duhamel is laughing off the controversy - because it’s all in the past. He tells Men’s Health magazine, “To me, it’s funny at this point. Whatever. It’s done.” And he’s poking fun at the snaps by joking about the size of his manhood, adding, “It was very cold in the studio, by the way!” Oh, he is comfortable with his body and he is laughing it off. Gotcha.
And finally, Gwen Stefani has dismissed rumors No Doubt’s reunion has been marred by tension between band mates, insisting they’ve overcome that “air bubble”. The band recently embarked on a new tour, ending a five-year hiatus, during which Stefani released two platinum-selling solo albums, worked on her clothing line L.A.M.B. and welcomed two children - Kingston, three, and Zuma, 10 months - with husband Gavin Rossdale. Reports suggested Stefani struggled to fit back into the band, but she insists any tension has disappeared since a “heated conversation” with bassist and ex-boyfriend Tony Kanal over the band’s cover of Adam and the Ants’ Stand and Deliver. She tells America’s Elle magazine, “Everybody’s making it like there’s all this tension, you know, like I stepped away from the band and now they’re jealous of me, and look, maybe there is a little bit of that… but some fights aren’t really what they seem. I think it was a little about the song, and a little about our coming back together. There was this air bubble that needed to pop, you know?” Yeah, there is no tension there. They are besties from way back.
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