Dancing With the Stars is set to kick off its 13th season in a matter of hours, and ABC is on high alert for “crazies” who have a thing against Chaz Bono. Given the surprising backlash against the transgendered star’s casting, network execs and producers are taking no chances for Monday night’s premiere. There have not been any credible, specific threats against Chaz Bono , TMZ reports, but the unprecedented level of hatred and controversy he’s generated are no joke. Until further notice, Chaz will be given extra security while he’s on the CBS Television City lot, where the show is filmed, and off the premises as well. This isn’t the first time DWTS has had to deal with security issues – there were several incidents with Bristol Palin – but it may be the most serious. It’s good to hear ABC will do whatever it takes to keep Chaz safe. Shielding the public from his bad dance moves, however, is a whole ‘nother story. What are your thoughts on Chaz going Dancing With the Stars? [Photo: WENN.com]
Josh Hutcherson who?!? Following rumors that said the former High School Musical star was dating The Hunger Games hunk, Vanessa Hudgens has now been spotted getting close to 20-year old actor Austin Butler. Butler and Hudgens were spotted Saturday night at Hollywood club Lexington Social House, where they celebrated the birthday of Jennifer Tisdale, Ashley’s sister. “They were together but in a large group,” a source tells People . “They were not doing anything to show that they were really together romantically but they were definitely hanging out and having fun.” Butler is best known for starring alongside Ashley Tisdale in Sharpay’s Fabulous Adventure . He and Vanessa headed to Bob’s Big Boy for a late-night snack after the aforementioned party concluded. [Photos: WENN.com]
Bethenny Frankel is okay, folks. The reality star had a memorable weekend for all the wrong reasons, she admitted today, opening up about a sailing trip gone horribly wrong. Bethenny and husband Jason Hoppy took off on a sailboat between Block Island and Nantucket on Saturday. It was meant to be a simple eight-hour adventure… but the GPS malfunctioned and “the captain had to call the Coast Guard and we were hit by a big wave,” Frankel explained to E!.” It was very scary. It was traumatic. Absolutely traumatic.” A Coast Guard spokesperson confirmed the experience and says the group of 10 was guided back to shore around 4 a.m. “It was so scary. I was thinking, Oh, my God, Bryn! I’m not going to be there at six o’clock in the morning when she wakes up and she’s going to wonder where Mommy is and gosh, if something were to happen to me, what would happen to her. I was having horrendous thoughts.” Fortunately, all returned home safe and sound – and in time for Frankel’s E! True Hollywood Story to air on Wednesday night. [Photo: WENN.com]
No wonder Charlie Sheen wanted to make nice with Warner Bros. at the Emmy Awards last night. The actor is about to settle with the company for a mammoth amount of money. Charlie Sheen can afford to laugh over his numerous personal problems. Literally! Sources tell TMZ that Sheen will receive $25 million in two weeks due to work he’s already put in on Two and a Half Men and the profit that work has earned. Moreover, having already filmed 180 episodes of the sitcom, Sheen will end up with about $100 million over the next decade or so because of syndication deals in place. No wonder the guy has thought he’s been “winning” this whole time.
‘Make us proud!’ actor tweets to his ‘Two and a Half Men’ replacement after backstage meeting. By Eric Ditzian Charlie Sheen and Ashton Kutcher backstage at the Emmy Awards Photo: Charlie Sheen The Charlie Sheen image-rehabilitation tour continues. Days after the former “Two and a Half Men” star began making the media rounds, confessing on the “Tonight Show” that he should have been fired and on the “Today” show that maybe pretending tiger blood coursed through his veins wasn’t such a good idea, Sheen popped over to the Emmy Awards on Sunday. Before presenting the lead actor award, Sheen, a four-time Emmy nominee during his run on “Men,” sauntered out onto the stage and told everyone at his old show, “From the bottom of my heart, I wish nothing but the best for this upcoming season. We spent eight wonderful years together, and I know you will continue to make great television.” As if this latest version of Charlie Sheen couldn’t get any stranger (or warm-and-fuzzier), the actor then tweeted a series of backstage pics with his “Two and a Half Men” replacement, Ashton Kutcher. “Giving the new kid a little advice!” Sheen tweeted , attempting a bit of elder statesman bonhomie, before adding some straightforward sincerity. “[G]reat talking to you! We’ll all be watching! Make us proud!” The flurry of apologies and normal-guy behavior comes ahead of the Monday-night premieres of Sheen’s Comedy Central Roast and the new “Two and a Half Men.” On Sunday night at the Emmys, Kutcher shared the stage with his new co-star, Jon Cryer, to whom he confessed, “I am not Charlie Sheen. Jon, I want to tell you something. I do not think that you are a troll.” Perhaps somewhere backstage, if not on Twitter, Sheen was able to apologize to Cryer for that troll comment a few months back. And if it didn’t happen on Sunday, it probably will in the future, for the Charlie Sheen rehabilitation tour shows no sign of slowing down, despite the lack of Adonis DNA onboard. Related Videos Emmy Awards 2011 Red Carpet Interviews 2011 Emmys Highlights Related Photos Stars Light Up The Emmy Awards Red Carpet
This is all your fault, America. For reasons as confounding as the fame of Kim Kardashian, millions of people actually purchased “Sliding Into Home,” making that memoir by Kendra Wilkinson a New York Times Bestseller … and prompting the former Girl Next Door to write another book. It’s titled “Cribs, Cocktails and Getting My Sexy Back” and it chronicles the sex life of Kendra and husband Hank Baskett. “As parents, now we have to try to fit in sex whenever we can,” Kendra writes, adding that she “wouldn’t trade” her life as a mother “for anything in the world” and that she refuses to “buy into that whole belief that married couples don’t have sex.” Incredibly, Kendra debuts season number-four on September 25. Watch a sex-free preview for it NOW .
Chaz Bono stopped by the Ellen DeGeneres Show today to chat about competing on the new season of Dancing With the Stars, and the hurdles he’s faced. While he knew that, as the show’s first transgendered star, some people would have a problem with him, he never expected the backlash to be this bad. After he explained what it felt like to be in his shoes, Ellen was less diplomatic in pointing out the ridiculousness of those (cough, Dr. Keith Ablow ) who are anti-Chaz: Chaz Bono on Ellen Later in the interview, they received a phone call from his biggest fan – mother Cher, who didn’t hesitate to lash out, like she has before , at the haters. “If you got that excess time and that amount of hostility, I’m not sure I can say anything to you that would make you change your feelings,” she said. “I don’t know that I would have any magic words to soothe you, to comfort you into not being terrified of my child on Dancing With the F–cking Stars.” How awesome is Cher? She did admit that she’s worried about one thing: Chaz’s dance moves . “You doing this dance is about as scary as you making ‘the change,'” she says.
Charlie Sheen knows it will take a lot more than a few words to make up for his dangerous, nutty behavior from the first half of this year. But the actor swears he’s sober these days, telling Matt Lauer in an interview (which will air on The Today Show tomorrow) that he has to “lead by example” going forward and “it’s the actions and the behavior that matter” when it comes to proving himself to others. And the star has taken a couple actual steps in that direction, recently mending fences with ex-wife Brooke Mueller and even paying for her rehab . But, seriously, what the heck happened during the time that led to his firing from Two and a Half Men ? “It was like being shot out of a cannon into another cannon and then being just shot out of that one,” Sheen says. “It was like from one moment to the next I didn’t know what was going to happen. It was pretty exciting… I don’t believe in fear and defeat is not an option and I had to live by those mottos. Regardless of how I felt.” Is he sorry in any way? Yes. Sort of. Kind of. “Looking back on it, I don’t think I would trade it, but there are portions of it I would have amended a little bit.” And what is his state these days? A lot calmer, Sheen says, “a lot mellow.” He concludes: “I’m seeing my kids a lot more… just trying to move forward and prioritize what matters. You know, just really get back in touch with some more reality and some more. It’s what I call the moments inside the moments. I think that’s where the life is, you know, it’s in those quiet moments. It’s not the giant TV deal or the big party or the award or whatever, it’s the memory of your child’s smile at the end of the day that sort of brings that one lonesome tear.” Man, this Sheen is a lot less boring to write about than the other Sheen.
Oh Maria Menounos , what have you done to me? I don’t know why, but I’ve had a thing for this Greek goddess ever since I first laid eyes on her. She’s mesmerizing. Here she is at the Charlie Sheen Roast I think, looking as beautiful as ever. She’s almost too perfect, if she had a couple of drinks in her hands and was laying across my bed she’d be perfect, but until we can make that happen this will have to do. We’ll work out the logistics later. Call me.
I don’t know why the paparazzi would take pictures of Bree Olson at her Playboy launch party….you know because she’s not actually a celebrity and her doing Playboy is pretty uneventful considering you can find her in some of the dirtiest porn out there….cuz she not only looks like a pig, but she is a fucking pig….one who I don’t think should get the attention she’s getting for being a fucking whore hired by Charlie Sheen…It’s pretty fucking pathetic…..but here are the pics anyway…. I’m just posting them cuz it is an excuse to post my original Bree Olson content I got being best friends with her for a couple hours…I didn’t fuck her…but probably should have even though we can watch her fuck thanks to Google, the biggest publicly traded porn peddler ….
