Kate Gosselin doesn’t blame reality TV for her marriage collapsing. The mother of eight told Katie Couric that she and Jon Gosselin would’ve split up eventually, regardless of whether they signed on for TLC’s Jon & Kate Plus 8. “A lot of people try to pin reality TV and say, ‘My gosh. It ended in divorce. Big surprise.’ We went through a lot. The signs were always there,” Kate said on Katie . “Obviously having eight kids in a short span of time didn’t help that.” “I’m not at all blaming my kids, I’m just saying. The red flags were there. So looking back, had you never heard of Jon and Kate Gosselin , I’m certain I would be in that spot now.” “It’s hard because like any mom I just want the best for my kids.” Kate, 37, and Jon Gosselin, 35, finalized their divorce in December 2009 after ten years of marriage. Things have been combative, off and on, ever since. Most recently, he has been accused of stealing her hard drive and giving it to the author of a new tell-all book slamming Kate (the author denies Jon was involved). Jon & Kate Plus 8 feels like an eternity ago, but Kate says she’s open to the idea of returning to reality TV and dating – ideally both at the same time! “After a few years in realizing my barriers to dating and all of that and loving TV and the experiences … I just feel like honestly, yes, that was my idea,” she says. “I would do it (so) it could be watched by families and my children. I think that it would be fun because that would allow me to sort of meet people, have fun, show my fun side .” “I do have one. I’m not always barking orders!” Kate Gosselin: Would you date her? Yes, look at that body! No, it’s Kate Gosselin! Maybe, if she never talks! View Poll »
Nicole Scherzinger is downright gorgeous. But the singer didn’t always believe that when she looked in the mirror, admitting in a new VH1 Behind the Music interview that she battled bulimia for many years. “I just hated myself,” Scherzinger says in the special. “I really was so disgusted with myself and so embarrassed. I felt so alone. I was in a group, and I never felt so alone in my life.” These days, the artist is anything but alone. Many stars, including Lady Gaga , have been calling attention to the plague of eating disorders across the country. The former X Factor judge says she struggled with her body image for eight years. She was especially affected by the skimpy outfits she donned as a member of The Pussycat Dolls. “Every time I had a second to be alone, I was doing something to myself,” she says in the following video. “You get, like, blisters on your hands or scars on your hands, and I’d try to hide those. I think the girls could tell.” Watch the interview here and send Nicole, who says she has recovered from the battle, your best wishes. Nicole Scherzinger Talks Eating Disorder
Christina Aguilera was honored this week for … hey, her eyes are up here, Hillary! Earlier this week, while President Barack Obama was getting drubbed in a debate with Mitt Romney , the U.S. Secretary of State was honoring The Voice judge. Not just for her curve-tastic body, either, despite the photo below suggests: Clinton was on hand for the 11th annual George McGovern Leadership Award ceremony, held at the U.S. Department of State, and Xtina was an honoree. Why? Aguilera, as an Ambassador Against Hunger for the United Nations World Food Program, has helped raise nearly $115 million (not a typo) for the organization. All under the radar, too. Way to go, Christina, that is truly an eye-popping feat. On a side note, Bill Clinton is insanely jealous of his wife right now.
From leading the free world at the United Nations General Assembly to leading a political discussion on The View, President Barack Obama had quite an eventful day. He and First Lady Michelle Obama sat down with the ABC show’s panel today and contrasted his and challenger Mitt Romney ‘s differing views on tax policy: Obamas on The View This is an election year? Who knew. The ladies of The View also asked he thinks the country would fare if Republican opponent Romney were actually elected. Obama diplomatically replied that America is strong enough to survive any leadership, but “the American people don’t want to just survive, we want to thrive.” Nicely played. As for her own aspirations, don’t expect Michelle Obama to attempt to follow in her husband’s footsteps, a la Hillary and Bill Clinton . She addressed that topic laughingly, saying, “It takes a lot of patience to be the president of the United States, and I’m not that patient!” Barbara Walters also asked Michelle to describe her husband’s personality, noting honestly that “we hear aloof, cold, unemotional.” “He’s very loving. He’s very giving. He’s very open,” the first lady gushed. “He’s funny. I’m funnier. But we understand that!” Point, Michelle! The couple recounted their first date back in 1989, eating ice cream outside a Baskin Robbins in Chicago. They shared their first kiss, a fact commemorated by a plaque (seriously). The president also described daughters Sasha, 11, and Malia, 14, “spinning around” backstage and reenacting Hannah Montana at the Democratic National Convention. He quipped that he walked out on stage before his DNC speech “thinking about Hannah Montana.” One can see how that would be a little awkward. Kids … Decision 2012: Obama-Biden Romney-Ryan View Poll »
Monica Lewinsky, whose affair with Bill Clinton nearly brought down his Presidency, is set to write a tell-all book about it for $12 million, according to reports. The former White House intern, 39, will share letters she wrote to Clinton, 66. “In them, she opened her heart about her love for Bill and how much happier she could make him than [Hillary Clinton],” an insider is quoted as saying. “Some of what she wrote was so raw that she never sent them.” Clinton has been so revered since he left the Oval Office that it’s almost easy to forget that he was only the second White House occupant ever to be impeached. He was accused of perjuring himself after his affair with Lewinsky was exposed in 1998; he was acquitted in 1999 and left office in 2001 with strong approval ratings. The 42nd President, whose DNC speech on behalf of President Obama this month was considered by many to be one of his all-time best, has rebuilt his image since. Sources say that Monica Lewinsky’s book will reveal that Bill Clinton derided wife Hillary as a “cold fish” and complained about their “non-existent sex life.” Lewinsky, whose post-scandal life has included work as a news correspondent and handbag designer, has had trouble earning a living, sources explained. “No one will hire her and she can’t get a job … She needs to make money,” says a friend of Monica, who is persona non grata pretty much everywhere. We can’t imagine why … [Photos: WENN.com]
Snoop Dogg / Snoop Lion has offered an official endorsement of President Barack Obama, laying out his arguments in concise, not entirely illogical fashion. At the Toronto International Film Festival, he made the case for giving Obama four more years in an expletive-filled, absurd, yet compelling manner. “We need to give Obama four more years,” he said. “Bush f*%ked up for eight years, so you gotta at least give him eight years. He cleaned half the $h!t up in four years.”
Also in Thursday morning’s round-up of news briefs, the U.K. readies for a tour of James Bond. A museum says it has found the earliest-made color film. And, Summit sets date for Divergent . Update on Anti-Muslim Filmmakers that Sparked Middle East Riots The supposed California-based writer, director and producer, Sam Bacile, has no credit with an industry database. Bacile said he raised $5 million from 100 Jewish donors to make the film. Steve Klein, a self-described militant Christian activist in Riverside, CA told CNN he worked with Bacile on the movie, but told The Atlantic Bacile is a pseudonym, Deadline gives more details . Dustin Hoffman and Led Zeppelin to Lead Kennedy Honors Dustin Hoffman, David Letterman and rock band Led Zeppelin will be feted by the Kennedy Center. The honorees will receive their Kennedy Center Honors medallions at a dinner hosted by Hillary Rodham Clinton and then they’ll join President Obama and the First Lady for the annual gala December 2, CNN reports . James Bond Anniversary Event 007 Days of Bond Tours U.K. Former Bond girls, including Eunice Gayson, Britt Ekland and Shirley Eaton, and villain Richard Kiel are also among the cast for the 007 Days of Bond tour. Roger Moore, 84, who starred in seven Bond films between 1973 and 1985, has officially launched 007 Days of Bond, BBC reports . Earliest Color Film Found The National Media Museum in Bradford, England said it had found what it contends are truly historic films from 1901/02, pre-dating what had been thought to be the first successful colour process – Kinemacolor – by eight years, The Guardian reports . Summit Sets Release Date for Divergent Summit has set March 21, 2014 for the release of their young adult novel, Divergent . Written by Veronica Roth, the story revolves around the future-set tale of a 16 year-old girl who must decide to join one of five ideological factions that control society, THR reports .
In an electrifying speech, former President Bill Clinton declared last night at the Democratic National Convention that President Barack Obama inherited a wreck of an…
Whether or not Robert Pattinson carries Cosmopolis to box-office glory this coming weekend, I hope he’s around the movie business for a long time. Unlike Kristen Stewart, who, I’m convinced, is Oscar material, Pattinson has yet to blow me away as an actor, but I do think he should win an award for the cheeky way in which he keeps showing us that contemporary celebrity journalism is a joke. Pattinson’s hysterical media tour for Cosmopolis has been underway since Monday when Jon Stewart — Mr. I-Schooled-Jim-Cramer-and-President-Obama-on-national-TV — served the actor melted ice cream and a bunch of runnier questions on The Daily Show . And then on Wednesday, things got even sillier. Pattinson appeared on Good Morning America, where host George Stephanopoulos informed the actor that the show’s staff had done some research and come up with Pattinson’s favorite breakfast food: Cinnamon Toast Crunch. (Good to see the ABC News budget going to good use.) The interview that followed was a lot like that cereal: sickly sweet and full of empty calories, although the winning and witty Pattinson never went soggy in the milk bath of Stephanopoulos’ aimless questioning. I couldn’t help but admire the actor’s response when Stephanopoulos, attempting to get the “elephant in the room out of the way” asked Pattinson “How are you doing? And what do you want your fans to know about what’s going on in your personal life?” Behind the two men, a small horde of those fans stared hungrily at their Twilight idol through the glass walls of GMA ‘s Times Square studio. If Pattinson, who we keep being told has no publicist, was going to play the game, that was the moment where he was supposed to drop some morsel about his supposed relationship drama with Kristen Stewart. Instead, he used GMA’ s cereal shtick to his advantage. “I’d like my fans to know that Cinnamon Toast Crunch has 30 calories per bowl,” Pattinson said with a vampy grin, reducing the idiocy of contemporary celebrity journalism to a single line. Make that two: “Pretty much everything that comes out of my mouth is irrelevant,” he added. Nice. “I take it that you don’t want to talk too much about it,” replied Stephanopoulos, which made me spit my breakfast back into my bowl. Really? “Is that the way you handle all of this craziness?” the former Clinton Administration adviser continued. “You get into to it to do movies,” said Pattinson. “I’ve never been interested in trying to sell my personal life. And that’s really the only reason people try to bring it up. The reason why you go on TV is to promote movies.” The thing is, even though GMA showed a clip and Pattinson talked about the role, I don’t think the TV audience left with a better idea of whether they would want to see Cosmopolis , or why Pattinson wanted to appear in it. If director David Cronenberg — whose films provoke and inspire even when they don’t work as conventional entertainment — was discussed at all during the interview, I don’t recall a single significant thing that was said. Instead the interview became more about Pattinson’s celebrity. Fortunately, he is capable of being introspective. “If you start getting used to it, it means you’re going crazy,” the actor told Stephanopoulos, adding: “It’s like being on the craziest theme-park ride. It’s exciting, but, eventually, at some point, you’ve got to have a break.” Pattinson, who plays an increasingly unhinged billionaire in Cosmopolis , even suggested a way that henpecked celebrities like him could get a break from the paparazzi: “If you put the lives of people who control billions on the front page of every single paper, the world would be a better place,” he said. (Except Rob, that many of those billionaires also control much of the media.) To those same ends, the actor without a publicist had a few choice words to say about “spin culture” that, I suspect, raised some hackles at the high-powered publicity firms that represent celebrity’s finest. “If you took away publicists” and those who relied on them “spoke for themselves, then they’d have to be responsible for their words.” the actor said. I think that’s what I like best about Pattinson. He knows he’s part of the problem, but he sounds like he’d prefer to be part of the solution. Follow Frank DiGiacomo on Twitter. Follow Movieline on Twitter.
Whether or not Robert Pattinson carries Cosmopolis to box-office glory this coming weekend, I hope he’s around the movie business for a long time. Unlike Kristen Stewart, who, I’m convinced, is Oscar material, Pattinson has yet to blow me away as an actor, but I do think he should win an award for the cheeky way in which he keeps showing us that contemporary celebrity journalism is a joke. Pattinson’s hysterical media tour for Cosmopolis has been underway since Monday when Jon Stewart — Mr. I-Schooled-Jim-Cramer-and-President-Obama-on-national-TV — served the actor melted ice cream and a bunch of runnier questions on The Daily Show . And then on Wednesday, things got even sillier. Pattinson appeared on Good Morning America, where host George Stephanopoulos informed the actor that the show’s staff had done some research and come up with Pattinson’s favorite breakfast food: Cinnamon Toast Crunch. (Good to see the ABC News budget going to good use.) The interview that followed was a lot like that cereal: sickly sweet and full of empty calories, although the winning and witty Pattinson never went soggy in the milk bath of Stephanopoulos’ aimless questioning. I couldn’t help but admire the actor’s response when Stephanopoulos, attempting to get the “elephant in the room out of the way” asked Pattinson “How are you doing? And what do you want your fans to know about what’s going on in your personal life?” Behind the two men, a small horde of those fans stared hungrily at their Twilight idol through the glass walls of GMA ‘s Times Square studio. If Pattinson, who we keep being told has no publicist, was going to play the game, that was the moment where he was supposed to drop some morsel about his supposed relationship drama with Kristen Stewart. Instead, he used GMA’ s cereal shtick to his advantage. “I’d like my fans to know that Cinnamon Toast Crunch has 30 calories per bowl,” Pattinson said with a vampy grin, reducing the idiocy of contemporary celebrity journalism to a single line. Make that two: “Pretty much everything that comes out of my mouth is irrelevant,” he added. Nice. “I take it that you don’t want to talk too much about it,” replied Stephanopoulos, which made me spit my breakfast back into my bowl. Really? “Is that the way you handle all of this craziness?” the former Clinton Administration adviser continued. “You get into to it to do movies,” said Pattinson. “I’ve never been interested in trying to sell my personal life. And that’s really the only reason people try to bring it up. The reason why you go on TV is to promote movies.” The thing is, even though GMA showed a clip and Pattinson talked about the role, I don’t think the TV audience left with a better idea of whether they would want to see Cosmopolis , or why Pattinson wanted to appear in it. If director David Cronenberg — whose films provoke and inspire even when they don’t work as conventional entertainment — was discussed at all during the interview, I don’t recall a single significant thing that was said. Instead the interview became more about Pattinson’s celebrity. Fortunately, he is capable of being introspective. “If you start getting used to it, it means you’re going crazy,” the actor told Stephanopoulos, adding: “It’s like being on the craziest theme-park ride. It’s exciting, but, eventually, at some point, you’ve got to have a break.” Pattinson, who plays an increasingly unhinged billionaire in Cosmopolis , even suggested a way that henpecked celebrities like him could get a break from the paparazzi: “If you put the lives of people who control billions on the front page of every single paper, the world would be a better place,” he said. (Except Rob, that many of those billionaires also control much of the media.) To those same ends, the actor without a publicist had a few choice words to say about “spin culture” that, I suspect, raised some hackles at the high-powered publicity firms that represent celebrity’s finest. “If you took away publicists” and those who relied on them “spoke for themselves, then they’d have to be responsible for their words.” the actor said. I think that’s what I like best about Pattinson. He knows he’s part of the problem, but he sounds like he’d prefer to be part of the solution. Follow Frank DiGiacomo on Twitter. Follow Movieline on Twitter.
