Looking for a quick way to make a talk show audience fall into awkward silence? Joke about your Bipolar Disorder. Demi Lovato appeared today on Ellen and was asked about hew new blonde hair , the latest in a number of colors this singer has gone through. Why is she prone to so many revamped looks? “You’ve heard I’m Bipolar ,” Lovato said to utter silence. “So I change my hair a lot.” Watch the exchange now: Demi Lovato on Ellen
We already know that Miley Cyrus is #1. And Selena Gomez is #2, Kate Upton #8 and Manti Te’o’s pretend girlfriend #69. But what about the other beautiful women on Maxim ‘s Hot 100 of 2013? The magazine has released a slew of photos from the sizzling issue and we’ve selected the hottest of the Hot below, from a Vampire Diaries star to a naked UFC brawler to Jennifer Loew Hewitt in a very revealing bra. Does anything else need to be said? We didn’t think so. Scroll down and browse around now! NOTE : Visit our gallery of Maxim Hot 100 photos now!
Michelle Knight, one of the three Cleveland kidnapping victims found alive earlier this week, has reportedly shunned her family following her rescue. Knight had been missing for 11 years when she was found in a dungeon-like Cleveland house with Amanda Berry , 27, and Gina DeJesus, 23. Knight had been in the house the longest and suffered brutal injuries at the hands of her captor, Ariel Castro , who is charged with rape and kidnapping. But while the two other freed captives have returned home to cheering crowds and yards full of balloons, Knight did not enjoy a similar scenario. Instead, the Cleveland kidnap victim has, according to reports, shunned her family for thinking she had just run away and failing to look for her. Knight’s mother and grandmother have been to Cleveland this week since news of her rescue broke, but Michelle has kept both of them at bay. “No, we haven’t [seen her], on her request. She does not want to be seen by family,” said Deborah Knight, the victim’s grandmother, to ABC News. Knight has opted for seclusion since her astonishing rescue. The kidnap victim has not shunned her entire family. One of her two brothers, Freddie Knight, did have a chance to visit his sister in the hospital. “Her skin was white as a ghost,” said Freddie Knight. “She told me she was just excited to start a new life.” That may be a long and painful process. It appears Michelle suffered immensely in captivity. Starvation, beatings and forced miscarriages were common. Knight was a 20-year-old single mother when she went missing in 2002, having lost a custody battle and seen officials take away her toddler son. When she was abducted, her family filed a missing persons report. However, police apparently viewed her as a runaway, and her case did not garner the same media attention as the disappearances of DeJesus or Berry. The remarkable ending to the case has garnered huge attention this week, with the three women and neighbor Charles Ramsey being hailed as heroes.
The Dawg has left the building. Amidst historically low ratings and criticism that American Idol has grown stale, Randy Jackson resigned this afternoon from the Fox competition. “Yo! Yo! Yo! To put all of the speculation to the rest, after 12 years of judging on American Idol I have decided it is time to leave after this season,” Jackson told E! News. “I am very proud of how we forever changed television and the music industry.” Jackson went on to say he plans to focus on his company, Dream Merchant 21, as well as “other business ventures.” Ratings for Season 12 of Idol have been decreasing each week and there’s been talk that all four judges would have been replaced this summer even if Jackson did not leave on his own. Producers are reportedly hoping to assemble some kind of dream team that includes Justin Bieber and/or Selena Gomez .
Miley Cyrus is out to prove she belongs atop the Maxim Hot 100 . Following the (shocking!) announcement that this singer is apparently the sexiest female on the planet, Maxim has released a new, especially racy picture of Cyrus. She’s topless and spread against the wall in a pose that it seems like only Liam Hemsworth should witness: “It feels amazing to be No. 1,” Cyrus told the magazine of the honor. “Especially because it was voted on by the fans. I have the best fans in the world! It’s every woman’s fantasy to be told she’s No.1 on Maxim’s Hot 100! So crazy!” Elsewhere in the rankings, Selena Gomez is number-two, Rihanna is number-three… and Kate Upton is all the way down at number-eight. Clearly, something is amiss.
Charles Ramsey, the Cleveland man who helped rescue the kidnapped Amanda Berry, became an instant celebrity thanks to his amazing local news interview. Now, that interview has been given the amazing auto-tune treatment! Not unlike Antoine Dodson , who was memed all over the Internet following a local TV interview, Ramsey’s already epic words are now … even more epic. Take a look at Charles Ramsey – who was just eatin’ his McDonald’s when a pretty white girl ran into his arms – in all his spliced, diced and auto-tuned glory: IT’S A DEAD GIVEAWAY!! Charles Ramsey Auto-Tune
Ariel Castro has been charged with rape and kidnapping after three women missing for about a decade were found alive at his home on Monday. Castro appeared in court Thursday morning, handcuffed. He didn’t speak and looked down the entire time. Bond was set at $2 million on each case. Neighbor Charles Ramsey heard cries for help and aided their escape this week, leading to the stunning rescue of the girls who vanished from 2002-04. The women – Amanda Berry , Gina DeJesus and Michelle Knight – were found alive after a decade in captivity leading lonely, dark lives in a dingy home. They were routinely raped and allowed outside only a handful of times in disguises while walking to a garage steps away, investigators believe. Castro, a 52-year-old former school bus driver, has emerged as the lone suspect. His two brothers were also arrested; it is unclear what charges they face. Many questions remain about how Castro maintained such tight control over the women for so many years before one of them made a daring escape . The horrors they suffered are beginning to come to light, however. Police say the women were bound by ropes and chains at times and were kept in different rooms, subjected to prolonged sexual and psychological abuse. Castro is charged with four counts of kidnapping, covering the captives and a daughter born to Berry, and three counts of rape, against all three women. Cleveland 19 Action News reporter Scott Taylor says he received a copy of a letter from 2004 that was found in the home, presumably written by Castro. Says Taylor: “I just got a copy of a letter written by Ariel Castro in 2004. Cops found it in his house. He says ‘I am a sexual predator. I need help.'” “‘They are here against their will because they made a mistake of getting in a car with a stranger. I don’t know why I kept looking for another. I already had 2 in my possession.’” Castro writes about wanting to kill himself and “give all the money I saved to my victims,” as well as how he is surprised at how young DeJesus was.
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Jaycee Dugard and her mom both spoke of hope in the wake of the kidnapping drama in Ohio, in which Amanda Berry and two other missing women were found. Berry, Gina DeJesus and Michelle Knight were all abducted separately from 2002-04, only to be found alive and together Monday in a home in Cleveland. Terry Probyn, Jaycee’s mother, said of the truly remarkable story: “Another miracle happened yesterday and three girls are alive and I feel the same joy and relief I felt when Jaycee was returned to me after 18 hellish years.” “We must never lose hope. Keeping hope alive is what got me through 18 years,” she added in a speech at the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children. Jaycee Dugard, who herself was kidnapped from South Lake Tahoe, Calif., as a girl and held captive for 18 years, told an audience in Washington: “What an amazing time to be talking about hope.” Dugard said the trio of Ohio women found after apparently being held for a decade “need the opportunity to heal and connect back into the world.” Dugard said the tragic imprisonment of Amanda Berry, Gina DeJesus and Michelle Knight “isn’t who they are. It is only what happened to them.” “The human spirit is incredibly resilient,” Dugard, who was 11 when she was kidnapped in 1991, said. “More than ever this reaffirms we should never give up hope.” Convicted rapist Phillip Garrido and his wife, Nancy, shocked adolescent Jaycee with a stun gun, pulled her into their car and drove away with her. There, she was kept in a labyrinth of sheds, tents and tarps, and raped hundreds of times. She gave birth to two daughters; Berry has a six-year-old. After Dugard was found and they were arrested, the Garridos pleaded guilty to kidnapping and sexual assault and will never again leave prison. Monday’s discovery in Ohio recalled memories of the abduction of Dugard and Elizabeth Smart, a Salt Lake City teen kidnapped from her home in 2002. Smart, like Dugard, Berry, DeJesus and Knight, was found alive. In the case of the Ohio trio, neighbor Charles Ramsey heard Berry’s cry for help and aided her escape. Praised for his efforts, he says the girls are the true heroes. Three brothers have been arrested in connection with the case. Charles Ramsey Interview