After Ichiro was traded, die-hard Seattle Mariners fan (and Death Cab for Cutie frontman) Gibbard posts tribute song to beloved player. By James Montgomery Death Cab for Cutie’s Ben Gibbard Photo: Jeremiah Garcia
23-year-old ‘Harry Potter’ actor talks to MTV News about why he ‘always’ wanted to carry the torch. By Cory Midgarden Rupert Grint Photo: Ferdaus Shamim/ WireImage
Kate Upton who?!? In a clear challenge to that swimsuit model for the title of Sexiest Summer Starlet, Ashley Greene has posed for the August issue of Esquire and, by doing so, has issued a warning to men around the world: Forget Breaking Dawn . You’ll soon be breaking a sweat all over your keyboard… In an interview with the magazine, Greene talks about landing the role of Alice Cullen in The Twilight Saga and how she wasn’t prepared for it when she first started her acting career. “In my second year in Los Angeles, when I was eighteen, I wasn’t getting any bookings so I stopped going out, stopped partying,” she says. “It was a matter of getting to the work. I had to focus.” We understand. If you’ll now excuse us, we need to focus intently on this spread of Ashley Greene photos .
Kate Middleton, the People’s Princess, is a down-to-earth girl by all accounts … except in this taxi commercial from China that parodies her as the opposite. In the clip, a Kate lookalike stands outside with a fax Prince William and Queen Elizabeth II, complaining, “I didn’t marry royalty to schlep around in a taxi.” They do look a bit like Will and Kate, too. The Queen impostor? Not so much. Panda Cabs Commercial Spoofs Kate Middleton William attempts to reason with his beautiful wife, “But darling, Granny is right. The commoners want to see us tightening our belts and all that.” “Rubbish, people want to see that they can be like us if they just work hard,” Kate responds. The Queen then mockingly asks, “Like you did?” Ohhh! “Now, now, Granny,” William says. “We all know that it’s I who fell for Kate.” “That’s right, I didn’t even fancy him at first,” the faux Kate Middleton says. “Don’t you remember? You had to practically beg me for my phone number.” Fortunately, of course, Wills had Panda Cab on speed-dial. Within seconds, a car appears, whisking the trio away to the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee.
Pregnant Snooki is preparing hardcore for her impending arrival. She’s quit drinking, she’s cut back on partying and she’s no longer tanning. She’s even getting practice with a stroller … transporting a 30-pack of Coors Light. If there were ever a picture worth 1,000 words … Sporting hot pink shades, a big brown shirt reading BOSS and her growing baby bump, Snooki looked more or less like her usual strollin’ in Seaside Heights, N.J. The beer was (hopefully) just a joke, or for one of her Jersey Shore cohorts. “It’s different because now I’m not drinking,” said the star recently. “Pregnancy made me grow up a lot.” Just wait until that little horny baby is born … Got a great caption for this amazing Snooki pic? Leave it as a comment below! We’ll post our favorite one with the photo tomorrow!
J.K. Rowling will officially leave the world of Harry Potter behind on September 27. That’s when the world famous author will release “The Casual Vacancy,” her much anticipated follow-up to the most popular book franchise in history. Peep the official cover – released this week by publisher Little, Brown – now: Will you pick up a copy of the new novel? Read the synopsis below and decide now: When Barry Fairbrother dies in his early forties, the town of Pagford is left in shock. Pagford is, seemingly, an English idyll, with a cobbled market square and an ancient abbey, but what lies behind the pretty fa
Ann Curry will be fired from The Today Show any moment now. So reports TMZ, which claims the anchor and the NBC morning program are simply haggling over contract details . Curry is owed $20 million over the next two years and reportedly wants to pocket that dough and take her walking papers, while the network wants to give her half that amount and stick her as a foreign correspondent. Either way, Savannah Guthrie has already struck a deal with Today and will take over for Curry as soon as she leaves, which prompts the obvious question: Which reporter would you rather… watch?
Less than a week after saying she was still together with John Edwards , Rielle Hunter now says she and the disgraced politician are no longer a couple. Apparently they broke up within the last few days. “We are a family, but as of the end of last week, John Edwards and I are no longer a couple,” she said on today’s Good Morning America . “Not at all.” Rielle Hunter , who has a daughter, Quinn, 4, with John, said she still loves the two-time presidential candidate, who was seen at her beach house last week. As for whether that feeling is mutual, “You have to ask him,” said Hunter, whose covert relationship with Edwards was exposed and led to his political downfall. “I really think he does.” “I fell in love with a married man and became something I wasn’t in order to be with him,” Hunter gushed last week, while promoting her new book. Rielle would not reveal who initiated the split with the former U.S. Senator from North Carolina, only, “We decided to end it. It’s hard. It’s painful.”
A serious car wreck left 50 Cent hospitalized with possible injuries to his neck and back, according to a website affiliated with the rapper, This is 50. The crash involved his SUV and a mack truck, apparently. It happened early this morning on the Long Island Expressway just outside N.Y. City. The truck rear-ended 50’s SUV, which “almost flipped over.” The star was taken a nearby hospital, where, according to the site, doctors ran tests on his neck and back. Fortunately, he checked out fine. A rep for Curtis Jackson (50’s real name) confirms: “He was taken to New York Hospital Queens where he was treated for minor neck and back injuries. He was released this morning and is doing fine.” Good to hear. Hopefully he recovers quickly and fully from the scary incident. In other 50 news, the rapper recently quashed his beef with Oprah .
A serious car wreck left 50 Cent hospitalized with possible injuries to his neck and back, according to a website affiliated with the rapper, This is 50. The crash involved his SUV and a mack truck, apparently. It happened early this morning on the Long Island Expressway just outside N.Y. City. The truck rear-ended 50’s SUV, which “almost flipped over.” The star was taken a nearby hospital, where, according to the site, doctors ran tests on his neck and back. Fortunately, he checked out fine. A rep for Curtis Jackson (50’s real name) confirms: “He was taken to New York Hospital Queens where he was treated for minor neck and back injuries. He was released this morning and is doing fine.” Good to hear. Hopefully he recovers quickly and fully from the scary incident. In other 50 news, the rapper recently quashed his beef with Oprah .