With Kim Kardashian having already perfected the sex factor, sister Khloe is now officially in for The X Factor . TMZ reports that this Kardashian sibling will co-host Season 2 of Simon Cowell’s creation alongside former Saved by the Bell and current ab-tastic TV personality Mario Lopez. No word yet on the salaries for either star, but look for Khloe and Mario to debut next month when The X Factor goes live. Compared to expectations set by Cowell last year, the competition has been a major dud for Fox. It fails to break 10 million viewers on a weekly basis, while American Idol – even during a down season – typically doubles that number. Will Kardashian and Lopez help the series to a marked improvement? Are you excited for them as hosts? Yes, they’re perfect! No, are you kidding?!? Whatever View Poll »
LeAnn Rimes is out of rehab and ready to turn over a new leaf. Late last month, the country singer wrapped up a 30-day stint at a rehab facility to deal with stress and anxiety issues brought on by relentless cyber-bullying . She says she enjoyed her time away, but is glad to be back. “I’ve been in therapy my whole life,” she said. “I like going. I like being able to have that third-party input and someone to listen that has nothing to do with your life.” The wife of Eddie Cibrian added, “Everyone has an opinion of how I am and how I should be, and now I’m focusing on how I want to be.” “I think it’s really hard to deal with [social media]. And it’s hard to take it day after day of reading and seeing things that someone you don’t even know says about you.” “As much as you said you don’t want it to penetrate, it does, because you’re human.” Hopefully, she’s a happier and healthier human now than 30 days ago. [Photo: WENN.com]
When it rains, it pours for Kristen Stewart. The Breaking Dawn star’s parents, Jules and John Stewart, are calling it quits. The former filed for divorce on August 17, ending their 27-year marriage. Jules cited irreconcilable differences for the split. As for the date of separation, she says they have been estranged since back in June of 2010. They have two sons, Taylor and Cameron, in addition to Kristen. K-Stew’s parents both work in film production Jules as a writer/director and John as a producer and stage manager. She has not commented on the split. The news comes just weeks after an affair between married director Rupert Sanders and Kristen Stewart rocked the celebrity gossip world. Kristen’s straying likely marked the end of a storybook romance with Robert Pattinson , though both have been tight-lipped since her public mea culpa. [Photo: Fame/Flynet]
LeAnn Rimes’ prolific Tweeting is apparently something her husband, Eddie Cibrian, took issue with long before she sought treatment for stress issues . The 30-year-old singer announced she has entered facility to treat “stress and anxiety,” having endured a relentless, vitriolic campaign of cyber-bullying. But could LeAnn Rimes’ emotional breakdown have been prevented? Even though he’s been nothing but supportive of his wife through this bullying ordeal, for Eddie Cibrian, this may be an I-told-you-so-moment of sorts. From her over-sharing about Eddie’s kids to posting countless bikini pics and chatting with fans for hours on end, the actor has long been concerned. “Eddie hates Twitter and doesn’t want LeAnn to be on there so much,” a source close to the couple said, and this was before the star’s breakdown. “He would ask her to not meet people through Twitter and wanted her to get off of there … he thought she was out of control and not able to handle it.” Eddie was worried about his wife’s interaction on the Internet with fans and detractors, and for good reason, as it looks to have taken a severe toll . Two people LeAnn claims to have extended an olive branch to recorded her illegally and posted excerpts of their conversation online. She’s suing. Bottom line … Rimes’ haters need to chill out and take it down a notch or 20, but LeAnn may want to follow Eddie’s advice on this one as well. [Photo: WENN.com]
Bravo was set to make Brandi Glanville a regular on The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills before she revealed her kids could not appear, reports say. Her ex, Eddie Cibrian, and his new wife LeAnn Rimes put the kibosh on that. Brandi was to graduate from ‘friend’ to full-fledged cast member on The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills in Season 3, but Bravo yanked the offer. “Bravo wanted her to have her kids on the show in order to expand story lines,” a source says of Glanville. “But Leann and Eddie wouldn’t allow it.” Eddie and LeAnn, who just marked their one-year anniversary by renewing their vows , started an affair while married to their respective spouses. They filed for divorce and married each other not long afterward. Despite the multiple photo-ops where the exes are seen smiling at the kids’ events together, there’s still plenty of tension between Eddie’s women. “Brandi didn’t expect that LeAnn and Eddie would have objections since the kids have been on the show before, but they did,” the source says. “Eddie said they did not want the children on camera. So Bravo said that Brandi would have to stay ‘friend’ and not become an official ‘housewife.’” Brandi will still be seen along with Taylor Armstrong, Lisa Vanderpump, Adrienne Maloof, Kim and Kyle Richards, Yolanda Hadid and Camille Grammer.
Let’s give Amanda Bynes credit: the actress didn’t merely get arrested for DUI early this morning. She made her arrest count!* As first reported by TMZ, Bynes was busted around 3 a.m. in West Hollywood after she attempted to pass a police car in hew BMW… and ended up side-swiping the vehicle! Following this incident cops pulled the 26-year old over, determined she was not fit to be driving and hauled her into the station. She was released hours later on $5,000 bond. * We are just kidding. No DUI arrest ever “counts” for anything positive. Stay alive, readers. Don’t drink and drive.
LeAnn Rimes, country star and wife of Eddie Cibrian, is reportedly mulling a tell-all book in which she speaks candidly about romance, marriage and divorce. The 29-year-old has been a celebrity gossip staple since her affair with now-husband Eddie Cibrian – a tryst that broke up both of their marriages at the time. Rimes and Cibrian first fell in love in 2009 on the set of the Lifetime’s Northern Lights . After a scrutinized courtship, LeAnn and Eddie married last April. Rimes’ rep is ” putting out feelers ” to find the right person to help write her autobiography and “tell LeAnn’s side of the story in her own voice.” How juicy will it be? A publishing source says she “wants it to be a very honest book so she can speak directly to her fans and tell her side of the story.” “She’s been through a lot of changes over the past few years,” the insider adds, “and this is LeAnn’s chance to speak candidly to her fans.” Also planning to write a book? Cibrian’s ex-wife Brandi Glanville . The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills star tweeted last month that her story “has been a long time coming [and it’s] about surviving divorce.” Will both ladies take the literary high road? Or would this reignite what has been an ongoing, intermittent feud for years? We’ll have to stay tuned. [Photo: WENN.com]
Brandi Glanville’s 2012 started off on an interesting note when she married Darin Harvey , her friend and a Mixed Martial Arts manager, in Las Vegas. “[We’re] married!” Eddie Cibrian’s ex-wife confirmed to Us Weekly . Hold off on sending wedding gifts, though: “To make it legal, I have to go to the courthouse today and I don’t think we’re gonna. Super fun though!” “I’m married again- suuuuuuck it!” she wrote Sunday, later clarifying: “We’re not gonna stay married. But it was a fun way to start out the new year!” A source said that The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills star, who shares two sons with Cibrian, has been friends with Harvey for almost 20 years. The duo are “like brother and sister” and “they’ve never hooked up,” said the source. “He came with her to Vegas and they both got really drunk.” “They just thought it was a good idea at the time to get married. They kissed for the cameras and that was it. There’s nothing romantically there.” Happy New Year and annulment, you guys!
LeAnn Rimes says she feels bullied by weight critics . At the same time, she gets an awful lot of press because of said critics and by going back and forth on Twitter with them and speaking out on television. Just saying. Eddie Cibrian’s wife says, in an interview with the AP, that her weight has definitely gone up and down, but doesn’t see this as a reason to be concerned. One of many slender LeAnn Rimes bikini photos from this year. “[When I] was going through a divorce, I couldn’t get out of bed… I gained 10 pounds, then I lost 10 pounds because I’m moving around and working,” she said . “I don’t stop, and no one sees that [a woman’s weight loss] actually can happen like naturally. It’s a natural progression of life.” “It has to be some big deal and some issue,” the country star added. “I’m glad there are people out there that are smarter than that and they don’t buy into it.” “I was told when I was little I couldn’t have an opinion because you want everyone to buy your record and like you,” she said. “I’m not gonna apologize.” No one asked her to, but good to know. In an interview with The Ellen DeGeneres Show last month, Rimes addressed the rumors, once again, that she was struggling with an eating disorder. “[The press has] been very irresponsible [about] calling a lot of people fat or anorexic or bulimic or whatever it may be,” she said. “It seems like bullying now … instead of really taking these diseases seriously that a lot of people are going through.” We can’t argue with her on that point.
It’s really time for this skinny broad to sit the hell down and eat a pork chop sammich!! “No, I am not [anorexic or bulimic],” the country star said. “[The press has] been very irresponsible [about] calling a lot of people fat or anorexic or bulimic or whatever it may be. It seems like bullying now instead of really taking these diseases seriously that a lot of people are going through.” Eddie Cibrian’s wife said she’s “kind of gotten over” the speculation over whether she’s too thin. “[But anorexia and bulimia] are diseases, and using them as name calling [is] almost like bullying.” Cry us a freakin’ river LeAnn. Source
