So, Arie Luyendyk Jr. and Courtney Robertson hooked up the other night. Here’s The Bachelor runner-up and just-separated Bachelorette winner: TMZ’s pics of Court sucking face with Arie Luyendyk Jr. were taken Thursday at the fancy Quiessence Restaurant in Phoenix. Both are from the area. They were reportedly ” all over each other ” the whole time. Not sure how we feel about them as a couple, but they certainly make an attractive one, and both were single at the time, so good for them … right? Arie was the runner-up on The Bachelorette this summer, losing out to Jef Holm, who reportedly parted ways with Emily Maynard within the last week. He was rumored to The Bachelor in 2013 but lost out to Sean Lowe . As for Arie’s make-out partner, she’s newly-single too. Very newly. Courtney Robertson and Ben Flajnik definitely split earlier this month after getting engaged on The Bachelor earlier this year, saying it just didn’t work out. The Black Widow moves on quickly apparently. No word if she did any #modeling of swimswear or went bikini-less during a late night skinny-dipping sesh. #winning
Emily Maynard was sexting none other than NFL quarterback Matt Leinart while on vacation with Jef Holm, according to the magazine who will simply not let go of this story. Last month, The Bachelorette winner was accused by Us Weekly of sexting with another man , leading to an explosive fight with fiance Jef that his own brother “confirmed.” The tabloid now claims it was Oakland Raiders quarterback Matt Leinart on the other end. Despite his earlier denials, Us claims Holm had a heart-to-heart with ex Kaylee Shepherd about the incident, and she says “He said the story was 100 percent accurate.” “When she put her phone down, [Jef] picked it up and read everything. Jef said, ‘It was that pro football guy … She strung me along and was talking to another guy the whole time!'” [SIDE NOTE: Matt Leinart is still in the NFL? Who knew!] Of course, Bachelorette fans are likely aware that Emily Maynard and Jef Holm have not only stayed together, but seemed happier than ever since the alleged incident. And he met her late fiance’s parents. And moved to North Carolina. Still, “Jef said their relationship isn’t what it seems,” Shepherd says. Us claims in its new issue that the reason they’re still together is simple: Emily’s paying him . The couple also shot this report down immediately, so you be the judge. Will Emily Maynard and Jef Holm last? Yes! Jef’s the one! Emily made a great choice! No. She should’ve picked Arie. Or Sean. View Poll »
Emily Maynard and Jef Holm can’t catch a break from the tabloids. Last month, it was Emily supposedly cheating and getting caught sexting another man. This time, The Bachelorette winner is accused of paying him to stay engaged to her. A source close to the couple denies those claims, of course. “Everything is fine between them. They are a great couple and the wedding is definitely on,” the insider says, laughing off reports that the engagement is now a “business deal.” “He has moved to Charlotte and is living in an apartment and they are really making a go of things. They are being sensible about their relationship … there is only so much you can learn about someone over the course of the show, so they are getting to know one another better.” “They are being smart about everything. He adores Emily, and is very involved in Ricki’s life. They are happy. There are no problems between them.” The source also adds that Jef Holm would never take money from Emily Maynard ; not only is that patently false, he has far more than she does anyway. “His family has so much money. It’s beyond ludicrous to suggest that he would be making some sort of financial deal with Emily.” So, there you go. Holm beat out Arie Luyendyk, Jr., and Sean Lowe this summer to win Emily’s final rose on The Bachelorette. ABC named Sean Lowe The Bachelor this week. Emily Maynard and Jef Holm: Will it last? Yes! Jef’s the one! Emily made a great choice! No. She should’ve picked Arie. Or Sean. View Poll »
NBC has a (rare) hit on its hands and it knows a good thing when it sees it. Well, except when picking 95 percent of its non-comedy or reality pilots. Anyway: The Voice has been renewed for two more seasons ! NBC said in a statement: “This pickup will assure the many dedicated Voice fans that this innovative show will continue to bring some of the most talented new voices to the world’s attention through all of next year.” “With the recently announced addition of Usher and Shakira as rotating coaches to join Christina, Cee Lo, Adam and Blake in the next cycle, we know that this incredibly addictive program will remain even more relevant as we move forward through this exciting season.” “My hat is off to John de Mol, Mark Burnett, and everyone who produces this classy and highly entertaining show for us.” The decision keeps the reality hit running through the fall of 2013. The Voice has been winning its time slot against some stiff competition, beating out ABC’s Dancing With the Stars premiere as well as The X Factor on Fox. Blind auditions continue this evening on NBC.
Madonna certainly keeps things lively. At her concert in D.C. this week, she discussed how amazing it is that we have a “black Muslim in the White House” who’s for gay rights. This is a supporter of the President who rocks an Obama tattoo . Madonna Calls Obama a Muslim It’s possible, even likely, that Madonna was mocking those who actually think Barack Obama is a Muslim born in Kenya. Then again, birthers aren’t known to appreciate irony. Better (or worse) yet? Madonna promised to get nude if Obama wins in November! Somewhere, Mitt Romney is getting ready to send out a fundraising appeal with this clip. (To the 53 percent.)
Sean Lowe, the newest star of ABC’s The Bachelor, believes in the process. He may be going on faith rather than raw stats there, but whatever works! After he made it to the final three during The Bachelorette, the 28-year-old won over much of American and ABC named Sean Lowe The Bachelor for the new season premiering in January. How does he like his chances of finding love after Emily Maynard ? Calling it “a difficult decision” to come back to reality TV in search of a wife, he admitted “it was so emotionally taxing, and you know, I don’t know if I could go through that again.” “But on the flip side of the coin, I understand that the process works – I believe in the process. And ultimately if I were to find my wife, it would certainly all be worth it.” We certainly hope he finds her, and that it is. Needless to say, we’ll be watching in January as 25 single women shamelessly vie for the affections of the Texas hunk. Sean Lowe as The Bachelor: Good choice? Yes! He’s perfect! Love Sean! No, should’ve been Arie! No, should’ve been someone new! View Poll »
Despite what some celebrity gossip sources (cough, Us Weekly ) would like you to believe, Emily Maynard and Jef Holm are so totally not on the rocks. On Good Morning America today, The Bachelorette couple put on a united front … which is probably just their actual front. They’re totes in love. “It’s crazy,” Jef said of reports that Emily Maynard was sexting some other man. “That’s just tabloid stuff … rumors written about us and it’s not true.” “Emily and I are so happy. We’re great, we’re in love and we’re happy.”
When we first heard that former Disney Channel celebs Vanessa Hudgens and Selena Gomez were cast as girls gone wild for Spring Breakers , we knew better than to get our hopes up. But Mr. Skin’s Skin Skout caught a screening of the hard-partying drama at the Toronto Film Festival, and we’re slappy to say the prognosis is pink. The early report confirms that baby-faced babe Vanessa Hudgens flashes her co-ed cans and caboose in a skinny-dipping pool scene. Plus indie nudity auteur Harmony Korine directs his own 26-year old wife, Rachel Korine, to bare her boobs twice and her buns once. Sadly nothing but bikini on Selena Gomez , who is only in the first half of the movie. It’s all a little hard to believe, but after all Harmony Korine is the guy who brought you Chloe Sevigny ripping tape off her nipples in Gummo (1998). Spring Breakers doesn’t have a theatrical release date scheduled yet, but you can see Vanessa Hudgens slipping lower lippage playing a stripper in The Frozen Ground (2012), right here at MrSkin.com!
This weekend the non-nude Bachelorette (2012) opens in theaters starring Nudity Hall-of-Famers Lizzy Caplan and Kirsten Dunst , but if you want some actual skin, there’s only one option this weekend: Heavenly Creatures ‘ Melanie Lynskey (seen above in 2006’s Park ) in the indie comedy Hello I Must Be Going (2012) (limited). And if busty brunettes aren’t your bag, you could always go see Lawless (2012) again… More after the jump!
The course of equal opportunity raunchy comedy never did run smooth. Like Bridesmaids , Bachelorette is a foray into proving that ladies are capable of wielding gross-out humor just as ably as the gentlemen, with the obvious comparison piece being Todd Phillips’ The Hangover . Written and directed by first-timer Leslye Headland (who previously worked as a writer on Terriers ) and produced by Will Ferrell and Adam McKay, Bachelorette sends its trio of dysfunctional bridesmaids into all kinds of night-before-the-wedding misbehavior, including cocaine use, falling-down drunkenness, physical altercations, promiscuity, theft and general nastiness. But then, as if afraid that all of this misdeeds will drive the audience away, the film tries to add a last minute portion of heart, explaining away the actions of its three main characters as the result of damage and pairing them all up with guys to get them through to an at least temporary happy ending. Sometimes funny, sometimes shrill and wildly uneven, Bachelorette demonstrates film and television’s continuing struggle to provide a platform for funny women in the realms of R-rated comedy and the tug-of-war between the desire to push boundaries and fears about likability, about female characters still needing to be warm and pretty and matched up with someone romantically. Interestingly enough, the plot is based around the nuptials of a side character who doesn’t fit in any typical category — Becky (Australian actress Rebel Wilson) was the chubby sidekick of the “B-Faces” in high school, the one the other three held in mild, veiled contempt. Now happy, settled and about to marry a good-looking, stable guy, Becky’s unknowingly twisting the knife by asking her shocked friends (not one of whom is doing as well as she’d like in her early 30s) to be in her wedding party. Bachelorette feels at the start like it’s a version of Muriel’s Wedding that sides with the main characters mean frenemies instead of its unlikely heroine. Becky isn’t a major source of mockery, but she’s blissfully oblivious to how queen bee Regan (Kirsten Dunst), trampy Gene (Lizzy Caplan) and ditzy Katie (Isla Fisher) actually feel about the event in which they’ve promised to participate. The tightly wound Regan has a boyfriend in med school who won’t commit and a volunteer job she likes to talk about in which she reads to kids with cancer. Gene downs whatever drugs she can find and regularly wakes up in bed with strangers, while Katie can barely hold down her job in retail. The three seemed a little stunned that life has not delivered on the promise and popularity they showed in high school, and that happiness has eluded them while finding the one in their group they’ve deemed least worthy. Bachelorette seems uncertain as to what we’re supposed to think of Regan, Gene and Katie. The way they act in the outset, with Regan calling the other two to bitch about how she was obviously the one who was supposed to get married first, Gene monologuing about her blowjob technique to taunt a stranger on the plane and Katie failing to recognize Joe (Kyle Bornheimer), the guy who used to let her copy his homework (“I took French?” she exclaims in shock when he tells her) marks them as fairly awful. But the film seems exhilarated by their disastrousness, eager to shoo Becky out of the room after Gene makes a failed joke about the bride’s eating disorder and Katie orders a stripper who calls her by her old nickname of “Pig Face,” so that the three can get down to some serious drug use and then tear her wedding dress trying to fit two people inside it. These are inarguably mean girls, to the point where it’s difficult to invest their attempts to try to fix the gown in an all-night odyssey that takes them around the city and into an intersecting path with the groomsmen (led by a smarmy James Marsden as Trevor). But the film’s need to then turn around and soften them feels disappointingly like an excuse — see, they also hate themselves and think about suicide and are mournful over past abortions! These developments don’t humanize the characters, they apologize for them. Gene’s storyline in particular, in which she reunites with the high school boyfriend (Adam Scott, Caplan’s old “Party Down” romantic interest) who broke her heart, feels lurching and abrupt considering the depth of emotion it suddenly reaches for, a pity considering how smart and appealing the two actors are, both together and apart. There’s something to admire in Bachelorette ‘s initial flag-planting outrageousness, even if it goes too far and then sheepishly pulls back to a more conventional conclusion. Its contentment with acting out as a joke unto itself means it’s not often as funny as it needs to be, though it sets up and lands a few vicious punchlines — Regan’s triumphantly saving the day late in the film with her bulimia-perfected vomit-inducing technique is a dark joke indeed. But the film would be far more provocative if it let go of the need to always try to shock with content and tried to do so with form instead, and rather than solving its characters just let them be unabashedly imperfect. Follow Alison Willmore on Twitter . Follow Movieline on Twitter .
