Emily Maynard is going on the record to deny a tabloid report that she’s cheating on Jef Holm. The Bachelorette star says the rumors are 100% false . “It’s one hundred percent not true,” Maynard tells People exclusively of the allegations that she was caught cheating on Jef Holm while on vacation. According to Us , the couple had a blowout fight while vacationing with Holm’s family in Myrtle Beach, S.C., after he found her sexting some dude. Not the case, the lovebirds say. “It’s funny to me,” Jef says. “We were in a gated community in a private home with just my brothers and sisters. It’s just bogus a ‘source’ [saying] we were fighting.” “None of that is true.” The celebrity gossip magazine, which claims Holm asked Maynard to pack up and leave, made him scoff. “They must have packed me up, too,” says Jef. The couple, which left Myrtle Beach together, are now back in Charlotte, where Holm says he’s looking for his own place near Emily and Ricki. After dropping off Ricki (now in the first grade) at school, Emily Maynard says that she decided to respond to the rumors because she was stunned. “I have never been more in love or felt more confident about our relationship,” she says. “We’re so excited about the future. I’m happier than I’ve ever been.”
You can bet your Ben Wa balls E.L. James is going to cash in on her Fifty Shades of Grey merchandising empire once the steamy lit porn’s movie adaptation gets going. But while Christian Grey and Anastasia Steele have yet to be cast, you can start getting in the mood with the official 50 Shades of Grey Classical Album, featuring fifteen classical ditties referenced in the books that got James’ creative juices flowing — a preview of the eventual soundtrack to Christian Grey’s big screen S&M outing? Fifty Shades of Grey – The Classical Album will include such sensual classics as Thomas Tallis’s ‘Spem in Alium,’ a tune put to squirmy, orgasm-inducing use by Christian and Ana in the book. If you recall, Christian ties Ana up and plops a set of headphones on her and then THIS goes down: “The singing starts again … building and building, and he rains down blows on me … and I groan and writhe … Lost in him, lost in the astral, seraphic voices … I am completely at the mercy of his expert touch … Ahem. Not coincidentally, sales of ‘Spem in Alium’ have since skyrocketed in the UK. The album, released by EMI Records digitally in the U.S. and Canada on August 21, and on CD September 18, promises to “[set] a mysterious and alluring atmosphere with just the slightest hint of danger.” Mark your calendars (or pre-order now) and get ready for Fifty Shades to bring sexy back… way back. Like, from the 16th century. Full track listing: 1 Lakmé (Act I): Flower Duet (Mady Mesplé, Danielle Millet) 2 Bach: Adagio from Concerto #3 BWV 974 (Alexandre Tharaud) 3 Villa-Lobos: Bachianas Brasilerias #5 – Cantilena (Barbara Hendricks) 4 Verdi: La Traviata Prelude (Riccardo Muti / Philharmonia Orchestra) 5 Pachelbel: Canon in D (Sir Neville Marriner/ Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields) 6 Tallis: Spem in Alium (The Tallis Scholars) 7 Chopin: Prelude #4 in E minor, Largo (Samson François) 8 Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto #2 – Adagio Sostenuto (Cecile Ousset, Sir Simon Rattle / CBSO) 9 Vaughan Williams: Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis (Sir Adrian Boult / LPO) 10 Canteloube: Chants d’auvergne, Bailero (Arleen Auger) 11 Chopin: Nocturne #1 in B-flat minor (Samson François) 12 Faure: Requiem – In Paradisum (Choir of King’s College, Cambridge / Stephen Cleobury) 13 Bach: Goldberg Variation – Aria (Maria Tipo) 14 Debussy: La Fille Aux Cheveux de Lin (Moura Lympany) 15 Bach: Jesu Joy of Man’s Desiring (Alexis Weissenberg)
Bachelorette had my attention from the moment I saw that Lizzy Caplan is in it, but wait until you see the Red Band trailer. Caplan plays Gena, a secret romantic with a memorably filthy mouth — isn’t that always the case — who joins her longtime friends and fellow bridesmaids Katie (Isla Fisher), and Regan (Kirsten Dunst) for a wild night out in Manhattan after their bride-to-be bestie insists on a tame bachelorette party. Adam McKay and Will Ferrell are producing the picture, which writer-director Leslye Headland adapted from her own play of the same name. Headland used to be movie mogul Harvey Weinstein’s assistant, an experience which inspired her to write another critically acclaimed play called Assistance . Fetching Diet Cokes for Weinstein has paid off in at least one more way: Weinstein’s Radius-TWC is releasing Bachelorette on video-on-demand on Aug. 10 and theatrically on Sept. 7.
Former Bachelorette hopeful Kasey Kahl is back behind bars after police charged him with assault stemming from the guy (and girl) he beat up this year. While under the influence of PAINT THINNER, allegedly. More than half a year after the January 15 incident, TMZ says prosecutors finally decided there was evidence to charge Kasey Kahl with felony assault. Charges were filed and Kahl was arrested early Friday: Officials say Kahl was drunk and on drugs when he attacked a man, Richard Cheney, at a Fresno, Calif., club, after which Cheney says Kahl bashed his girlfriend’s face . Kahl, who also starred on 2011’s Bachelor Pad 2, has been charged with felony assault, battery with serious bodily injury, and drunken disorderliness . Police believe Kahl was under the influence of both alcohol and a drug called toluene – an inhalant associated with paint thinners – during the attack. Reps for the ex of Vienna Girardi have maintained he’s innocent and say the victims are “antagonizing” him in a bid to get “15 minutes of fame.”
A few days after making their engagement known, following a beautiful proposal on The Bachelorette finale Monday night, Emily Maynard and Jef Holm are defying the critics. They are still together and appear as content as ever, with Holm saying he plans to soon move to North Carolina to be closer to Maynard and her daughter Ricki. Now, Emily has blogged on People about her “amazing” fiance and how lucky she is to have found him. “Getting to share our love story with you all this season and reliving the proposal yesterday reminds me of how blessed I am to have found my best friend and partner in crime, Jef Holm,” Maynard writes . “I’ve always believed in great love and hoped I’d find it one day. However, I had no idea a love like this even existed!” Emily adds that she is grateful to viewers and simply excited to live her new life: I have more fun with Jef than I have with anyone and I can’t wait to have even more fun now that we can go out in public with my daughter Ricki. Being the Bachelorette has been an incredible experience and I couldn’t be more thankful for all the support. I learned so much about myself and so many lessons that I’ll implement into our relationship. There were many ups and downs, and at times things were very chaotic, but love is worth the chaos! Thanks again for the second chance and sticking with me until I got my fairy tale ending! Do you think these two will make it to a wedding?
Attention, Twihards: Robert Pattinson is not getting married or having a baby with Kristen Stewart any time soon, no matter what you may have read in recent supermarket tabloids. “There was a magazine, with these pictures, saying I was getting married,” the Cosmopolis tells the latest issue of BlackBook . “No one ever knows what is true or what isn’t. Even my own mum called to ask me if it was true.” So while Pattinson isn’t walking down any aisles any time soon, he is working his way into impressive shape… liquid diet style! “I was so impressed with myself yesterday,” the actor said of his lifestyle change, which he invoked for a shirtless photo shoot. “I took a pee that was four minutes long.” Man, Rob cracks us up. He’ll next be seen on the big screen in a certain final installment of a certain vampire-based franchise. We can’t wait.
Emily Maynard is more than just the new fiancee of Jef Holm, following her selection of this entrepreneur on The Bachelorette season finale . She’s also a record breaker! Sources confirm to that the rock Holm placed on this single mother’s finger Monday night is worth $150,000, “100 percent the biggest any woman has received on either The Bachelor or Bachelorette .” How did Holm afford such a diamond? He didn’t, of course. Jeweler Neil Lane provided it to ABC free of charge. The 3.5 carat ring is handmade and features 87 smaller diamonds around an emerald-cut 2.5 carat-sized main jewel. Take a look at it after the jump and react: Worth the price? Will Emily and Jef make it down the aisle?
The Man of Steel swoops into theaters next summer… with a great deal of pressure on his massive shoulders! In the first trailer for the upcoming blockbuster, which debuted in front of The Dark Knight Rises this summer, film goers listen in at Russell Crowe’s Jor-El imparts important words of wisdom to his son. You will help people accomplish wonders, the biological father of Clark Kent says in this preview. You must give them an idea to strive towards. But, seriously, no pressure!
Well… he didn’t refer to seven-year old Ricki as “baggage.” Jef Holm has that going for him. But the newly minted Bachelorette champion and fiance of Emily Maynard does have one going against him: history. Couples that get together on this reality show franchise rarely make it to the altar, despite the platitudes of love they deliver back and forth on all finales and subsequent After the Rose ceremonies.
It’s all come down to this Sunday – yes, Sunday , note the different day, viewers! – on The Bachelorette , as Emily Maynard must choose between Arie Luyendyk, Jr. and Jef Holm . Which suitor will she select? There are some theories out there, one of which states that Maynard will actually get rejected .
