Pippa Middleton and her “Sport and Social” column have been axed from her post at Britain’s respected Daily Telegraph after just six months on the job. Kate Middleton ‘s little sister confirms that her contract is not being renewed by the publication, which brought her on board to great fanfare late last year. The younger Middleton’s column with the Telegraph began with a piece on her new athletic passion, boxing, which she calls “a pure but pleasing agony.” Her columns went on to depict a string of exciting antics, from flipping pancakes to cycling underwater. However, a source at the newspaper says that: “The readers just weren’t into it. There was a lot of negative mail coming in after each column and there were too many off-limit subjects for her. They ran out of ideas.” It’s a second literary disappointment for Pippa Middleton , who was criticized for cashing in on connections, not talent, to secure a publishing deal. Future book plans were shelved by Viking after her Celebration debut tanked, although she continues to write for both Waitrose Kitchen and Vanity Fair . She also remains Lord of the Arsetocracy … so there’s that. Whether there was a false bottom or not, she’s got one of the best on the entire planet. Plus she’s still rich. Could be worse off. 27 Best Celebrity Butts: Badonkadonk Bonanza! 1. Kesha Hey, it’s Ke$ha! And there is Ke$ha’s butt! The singer is anything but shy in this Twit pic.
The rumor that America’s Sweetheart lost her v-card to one of her famous exes – who then dumped her via text after no-showing her birthday party – shocked us last week. Taylor Swift isn’t the only star to famously give her virginity to another famous person, however. Far from it. One of her BFFs, in fact, is on this very list. In Hollywood, it’s almost inevitable that young, attractive stars will exchange bodily fluids. So did it actually happen as reported between Taylor and … that guy?! We’ll never know for certain, but this story did get THG thinking about other celebrities who reportedly gave up their virginity to fellow stars we know and love. There are certainly countless others, but these examples happened to get the tabloid attention. Here are seven celebs whose first times have played out in the press … 7 Celebrities Who Lost Their Virginity to Other Celebrities Open Slideshow 1. Selena Gomez Selena Gomez famously lost her virginity to a guy who all know (and some of us used to love), and this we know after he bragged about it. He being …. View As List 1. Selena Gomez Selena Gomez famously lost her virginity to a guy who all know (and some of us used to love), and this we know after he bragged about it. He being …. 2. Justin Bieber! Yup. Justin Bieber took her v-card. Then he broke her heart. 3. Taylor Swift One of Taylor Swift’s many famous boyfriends got her to go all the way, then dumped her via text after no-showing at her 21st birthday party! He is … 4. Jake Gyllenhaal! Yes. That brief relationship with Taylor Swift really rocked the singer to the core after he deflowered her, then bailed. It allegedly inspired much of her album Red. 5. Joe Jonas Joe Jonas once wore a purity ring and vowed he wouldn’t have sex until he was married. So much for that. The lucky (?) famous girl? 6. Ashley Greene! Yes, the Twilight actress was the first one to get a Jonas Brother into bed. 7. Jessica Simpson Jessica Simpson also vowed to wait until marriage before having sex. She may or may not have done that, but her first time was with her husband … 8. Nick Lachey! Nick and Jessica were married from 2002-05. Then he went on to marry Vanessa Minnillo and she started cranking out kids with Eric Johnson, who she has yet to marry. 9. Kim Kardashian Before Ray J, Damon Thomas, Reggie Bush, Kris Humphries and Kanye West, Kim Kardashian gave it up to … 10. TJ Jackson! Yes, T.J. Jackson, son of Tito Jackson and Michael Jackson’s nephew, was part of a “serious” couple with Kim K. when she lost virginity to him. 11. Mandy Moore Mandy Moore lost her virginity to a man who likely took more than a few v-cards in his day. You know him as … 12. Wilmer Valderrama! How does he do it? 13. Jessica Alba Now married to Cash Warren, Jessica Alba says that she remained a virgin until age 18, when she started dating … 14. Michael Weatherly! The NCIS star was her first love. Seriously.
Kendall Jenner is officially free to focus on her burgeoning modeling career . And Harry Styles is officially free to focus on One Direction not breaking up . Following three months of dating, these celebrities have ended the relationship they never actually acknowledged in the first place. “Kendall has been focusing on her modeling and Harry is preparing for work on the band’s fourth album, as well as their stadium tour,” a source tells The Daily Mail, citing busy schedules as the basis for this split. While neither side confirmed the romance, Jenner and Styles were first spotted together in November, while they also went skiing together a month later and spent some time together in Harry’s native London. Styles purposely stayed away from Kendall during her latest trip to England for London Fashion Week, however, in order to not serve as a distraction. “There’s been no major fallout,” the newspaper adds. “They’re definitely still friends ad haven’t ruled anything out in the future.” Styles, of course, is used to famous break-ups at this point. He has dated Caroline Flack, Taylor Swift and Cara Delevingne, all within the last couple years. 7 Selfies of Kendall Jenner Acting Like a Model Open Slideshow 1. Kendall Jenner Bugs Out Kendall Jenner says we “bug” her in this outfit. Well, she bugs us, too! View As List 1. Kendall Jenner Bugs Out Kendall Jenner says we “bug” her in this outfit. Well, she bugs us, too! 2. Kendall Jenner Snaps Selfie Kendall Jenner tries on an outfit here straight off the New York Fashion Week rack. It looks good on her. 3. Kendall Jenner with Pink Hair Whoa there! This is a very different look for Kendall Jenner. She can actually pull off pink hair. 4. Kendall Jenner Models for Vogue Kendall Jenner snaps a selfie in a New York City hotel room here. She is modeling a New York Fashion design. 5. Kendall Jenner: A Fashionable Selfie Kendall Jenner snapped this selfie inside a hotel room. The dress she is wearing comes straight from New York Fashion Week. 6. Kendall Jenner Fashion Week Outfit Kendall Jenner tries on an outfit here from New York Fashion week. Hey, at least her boobs are covered!
Kendall Jenner is officially free to focus on her burgeoning modeling career . And Harry Styles is officially free to focus on One Direction not breaking up . Following three months of dating, these celebrities have ended the relationship they never actually acknowledged in the first place. “Kendall has been focusing on her modeling and Harry is preparing for work on the band’s fourth album, as well as their stadium tour,” a source tells The Daily Mail, citing busy schedules as the basis for this split. While neither side confirmed the romance, Jenner and Styles were first spotted together in November, while they also went skiing together a month later and spent some time together in Harry’s native London. Styles purposely stayed away from Kendall during her latest trip to England for London Fashion Week, however, in order to not serve as a distraction. “There’s been no major fallout,” the newspaper adds. “They’re definitely still friends ad haven’t ruled anything out in the future.” Styles, of course, is used to famous break-ups at this point. He has dated Caroline Flack, Taylor Swift and Cara Delevingne, all within the last couple years. 7 Selfies of Kendall Jenner Acting Like a Model Open Slideshow 1. Kendall Jenner Bugs Out Kendall Jenner says we “bug” her in this outfit. Well, she bugs us, too! View As List 1. Kendall Jenner Bugs Out Kendall Jenner says we “bug” her in this outfit. Well, she bugs us, too! 2. Kendall Jenner Snaps Selfie Kendall Jenner tries on an outfit here straight off the New York Fashion Week rack. It looks good on her. 3. Kendall Jenner with Pink Hair Whoa there! This is a very different look for Kendall Jenner. She can actually pull off pink hair. 4. Kendall Jenner Models for Vogue Kendall Jenner snaps a selfie in a New York City hotel room here. She is modeling a New York Fashion design. 5. Kendall Jenner: A Fashionable Selfie Kendall Jenner snapped this selfie inside a hotel room. The dress she is wearing comes straight from New York Fashion Week. 6. Kendall Jenner Fashion Week Outfit Kendall Jenner tries on an outfit here from New York Fashion week. Hey, at least her boobs are covered!
New details have emerged about the violent crime charges fake deaf interpreter Thamsanqa Jantjie faced a decade ago. According to NYPost reports : The bogus sign language interpreter at last week’s Nelson Mandela memorial service was among a group of people who accosted two men found with a stolen television and burned them to death by setting fire to tires placed around their necks, one of the interpreter’s cousins and three of his friends told The Associated Press Monday. But Thamsanqa Jantjie never went to trial for the 2003 killings when other suspects did in 2006 because authorities determined he was not mentally fit to stand trial, said the four. They insisted on speaking anonymously because of the sensitivity of the fake signing fiasco, which has deeply embarrassed South Africa’s government and prompted a high-level investigation into how it happened. Their account of the killings matched a description of the crime and the outcome for Jantjie that he himself described in an interview published on Sunday by the Sunday Times newspaper of Johannesburg. “It was a community thing, what you call mob justice, and I was also there,” Jantjie told the newspaper. Instead of standing trial, Jantjie was institutionalized for a period of longer than a year, the four said, and then returned to live in his poor township neighborhood on the outskirts of Soweto. At some point after that, they said, he started getting jobs doing sign language interpretation at events for the governing African National Congress Party. Jantjie told the AP last week he has schizophrenia and hallucinated, seeing angels while gesturing incoherently just 3 feet away from President Barack Obama and other world leaders during the Tuesday ceremony at a Soweto stadium. Signing experts said his arm and hand movements were mere gibberish. In the interview last Thursday, Jantjie said he had been violent in the past “a lot” but declined to provide more details and blamed his violence on his schizophrenia, for which he said he was institutionalized for 19 months in a period that included time during 2006. The cousin and the three friends said the “necklacing” killing of the suspected thieves occurred within a few hundred meters (yards) from Jantjie’s tidy concrete home near ramshackle dwellings. The four spoke to the AP on Monday in Jantjie’s neighborhood, and one of the friends described himself as Jantjie’s best friend. Necklacing was a method of killing that was fairly common during the struggle against apartheid by blacks on blacks suspected of aiding the white government or belonging to opposing factions. The method was also used in tribal disputes in the 1980s and 1990s. While people who encounter suspect thieves in South Africa have been known to beat or kill them to mete out punishment, necklacing them has been rare. SMH… This guy is going to disappear before they find something else to charge him with. Meanwhile investigators are still looking for the person responsible for him getting the Mandela funderal gig: An investigation is under way by South African officials to determine who hired Jantjie as the onstage interpreter at the Mandela memorial service and if and how he received security clearance. The officials have not said how long their investigation will take place, and reaching them for updates was difficult Monday, a public holiday in South Africa. Four government departments involved in organizing the historic memorial service have distanced themselves from the hiring of Jantjie, telling the AP they had no contact with him. A fifth government agency, the Department of Public Works, declined to comment and referred all inquiries about Jantjie to the office of South Africa’s top government spokeswoman, who has only said a “comprehensive report” will eventually be released. Jantjie told the AP he was hired for the event by an interpretation company that has used him on a freelance basis for years, but government officials have said the owners of the company have disappeared. The address that Jantjie provided for the company was occupied by a different company that is not involved in interpreting for the deaf. The AP was unable to verify the existence of the school where Jantjie said he studied signing for a year. An online search for the school, which Jantjie said was called Komani and located in Eastern Cape Province, turned up nothing. Advocates for the deaf said they have never heard of the school and said there are no known sign language institutes in the province. The Star newspaper of Johannesburg reported Friday that Jantjie said he studied sign language interpretation in Britain at the “University of Tecturers.” A British charity that awards qualifications for deaf and deaf-blind communications techniques said it had never heard of the university. Sounds like NOBODY did their research. Whole lotta folks getting fired over this! WENN
Ian Somerhalder is asking for a lot this year. The Vampire Diaries hunk turns 35 today, but he doesn’t want an expensive gift. Heck, he doesn’t want a gift of any kind, not for himself at least. He simply wants as many fans as possible to donate to his foundation in the same amount as the number of year he’s been on Earth. “I have a goal this year… we can get 1 million people of the 7 billion on the planet to donate $35 dollars,” Ian writes on the official Ian Somerhalder Foundation site, adding: “I know it sounds simple, but all donations big and small fuel our resources to continue expanding and making change for the voiceless of this planet: our skies, seas, energy, habitats and of course our furry friends. So if you can donate now, two months from now or at my birthday thank you. Or maybe you can donate less than six dollars a month over the next six months. If you can’t donate then you can spread the word about this year’s birthday wish.” Consider it done, Ian. So please join us in both wishing Somerhalder a very happy 35th and, if you wish, donate whatever you can afford/see fit by following this link to ISF .
The Sound of Music on NBC is over. But the sounds of critics across the online universe continue to grow louder. Following a live stage performance of this iconic musical Thursday night, Carrie Underwood took Twitter on Friday and responded to those who have lashed out over her portrayal of Maria. “Plain and simple: Mean people need Jesus,” the former American Idol champ wrote. “They will be in my prayers tonight…1 Peter 2:1-25.” This Bible scripture states to “rid yourselves of all malice and all deceit, hypocrisy, envy, and slander of every kind.” Kym Karath, who played Greti von Trapp in the 1965 film, was one of many who slammed the show, Tweeting during its airing: “Mystified & disappointed so far by SOM special. So far only happy with Stephen Moyer. Must admit some scenes are actually painful to watch…. “Love Carrie Underwood but this role is just not right for her. She is lovely her voice is beautiful but acting is wrong.” Many agreed. No one can question Underwood’s voice, but she isn’t a seasoned actress and it showed at times. Did you tune in for the Sound of Musical special? What did you think? Loved it!! Liked it enough. Not a huge fan … Hated it! That sucked! View Poll »
Susan Boyle, the sensational singer who rose to fame in 2009 on Britain’s Got Talent, has admitted in a new interview that she has Asperger’s Syndrome. Speaking to The Observer, Boyle – who suffered from learning disabilities as a child due to oxygen deprivation at birth – said she was diagnosed last year by a specialist. “I have always known that I have had an unfair label put upon me,” Boyle told the publication. “Now I have a clearer understanding of what’s wrong and I feel relieved and a bit more relaxed about myself.” The 52-year old struggled with the pressure of fame soon after striking it big. In May of 2009, police actually intervened when she lost it on a couple of fans outside a hotel in London. But she has managed to sell over 14 million albums in just a few years and recently released her fourth studio album, “Home for Christmas,” in time for the holidays. She told the British newspaper that is grateful to now have a better understanding of her social difficulties. “I would say I have relationship difficulties, communicative difficulties, which lead to a lot of frustration. If people were a bit more patient, that would help,” Boyle said, adding: “Asperger’s doesn’t define me. It’s a condition that I have to live with and work through, but I feel more relaxed about myself. People will have a much greater understanding of who I am and why I do the things I do.”
Britain’s best booty shakers have gathered to decide who’s the top twerker Britain’s Twerking Championship Rewards Winner With $324 Top Prize Via DailyMail From American popstar Miley Cyrus to an Australian vying to become Prime Minister, the global phenomenon of twerking has gone mainstream. And now the UK’s first ever twerking championships has taken place in London’s King’s Cross. Ten of the best twerkers in Britain lined up at Scala nightclub to prove their jiggle and jerking credentials to a sold-out crowd. Is the apocalypse upon us yet? The dance craze, started in the New Orleans ‘bounce’ music scene of the early 90s and has now become so mainstream it was even honoured with an official entry in the Oxford Dictionaries Online. The top spot on Thursday night – worth £200 – was awarded to a 19-year-old from Tottenham, East London who goes by the stage name of Mizz Versatile. She told MailOnline: ‘I’ve been dancing for years. Twerking recently came up and I decided to learn. ‘I tried different ways of moving my bum and practice whenever I have time.’ At least she’s dedicated to mastering her craft… Mizz Versatile, who has a daughter aged two-and-a-half, said the venue was packed and the crowd were extremely loud as they cheered on the competitors, who were selected from regional heats. The full-time dancer, who is a size 8 and 4ft 9in, said her success was down to her technique during the 30-second rounds which include freestyle and splits. ‘It’s not about the size of your bum. People with large bums can not move to save their life,’ she said. She said her friends and family were proud of her twerking success and dismissed people that criticise the raunchy dance move saying ‘to be honest they probably just can’t dance.’ Maybe her daughter’s apple-bottom won’t fall far from her twerk tree. Flip it over to see more pics from the jiggly event Images via JumpOffTV/Helen Boast/Amari-Jade Robinson
If anyone needed more proof that the British are kicking our asses when it comes to reality TV, just check out Luisa Zissman here at the Pride of Britain Awards. Apparently she was a runner-up on the UK version of The Apprentice . So not only is Luisa a busty hottie who knows how to properly dress (not to mention pose) on the red carpet, she’s also a successful businesswoman? No wonder the British are so proud. » view all 27 photos Photos: PacificCoastNews , WENN.com
