Jenna Ushkowitz is the latest Glee cast member to address the death of Cory Monteith. Over the weekend, Chord Overstreet dedicated a song to his late colleague, while Dianna Agron has expressed her remorse over the passing and Ryan Murphy has given us an idea of how his show will handle such a tragedy. Now, Ushkowitz has published an Instagram photo of the tight-knit group along with a message to Monteith: “I am so grateful that Glee brought this group of extraordinary individuals together to form a family,” Ushkowitz wrote on the social network, adding: “I was lucky enough to closely experience the love and light that Cory shared with the world, as well as having the privilege of traveling down the road together on a once in a lifetime journey. Cory always reminded me to be gracious, kind and open, and he will leave a mark in my heart forever. Thank you everyone for your constant support and love while we mourn the loss of our dear friend, and continued support to Cory’s family, and to Lea.” Glee will start production in August on season 5 and premiere new episodes on September 26.
A 911 call placed after Amanda Bynes lit a fire in a stranger’s driveway indicates that the situation may have been even crazier than initially reported. She’s now hospitalized on a 5150 hold , which means officials felt she was enough of a danger to herself and others to keep her against her will. That alone tells you how bad things have gotten, and it remains to be seen if she will seek additional care voluntarily after the 72-hour hold is up. In any case, here’s how we got to this point … Monday night, Amanda Bynes put a flaming cloth on top of a gas tank and set it on fire outside a residence in her hometown in Thousand Oaks, Calif. A passerby noticed and called 911. Listen: Amanda Bynes 911 Call The 911 caller couldn’t tell if the gas tank was full or not, but called the cops because of the possibility of an explosion … and because of how he saw Bynes. She was lying down near the driveway with her left pant leg on fire, he says, adding that she quickly put out the flames and didn’t appear injured. Amanda Bynes said her dog had been burned, however. After the eyewitness confronted her about all this, she hailed a cab and peaced out of there. That’s when he called 911. The sheriff’s department was subsequently called to the scene and Amanda was found standing near the campfire. It’s not clear where she went briefly, but she must have come back quickly. They took her into custody and had her placed under psychiatric hold, something many might say was a long time coming giving her recent antics. When police arrived, they asked the owner, “Do you know anyone by the name of Amanda Bynes, or why she would have some vendetta against you?” The woman had no idea who that was or that this had even happened. To state the obvious, it is totally unclear why Amanda started the fire.
Following last week’s hometown visits and elimination of Zak Waddell , it’s time for The Bachelorette season 9 men to tell all before the season’s shocking finale! Do James and Ben have unfinished business? Will Zak get the closure he wants? Will we get any hints as to which gentleman Desiree chose, if she chose one at all? The Bachelorette spoilers are abuzz with rumors of both heartbreak and engagement and we’ve got only two weeks to go before we reach the end (or the beginning) of Desiree Hartsock’s fairy tale. Let’s hear what the men had to say now! Chris Harrison introduces the special and only drops 1 “for the right reasons” and none “fairy tales.” Plus 3. Des and Chris crashed some at-home Bachelorette viewing parties. It’s…kind of weird. Des drops the words “fairy tale” and isn’t at all worried or shocked or scared at how well the women at the girl’s nights know her. Not freaked out at all. She teams up with J.P. and Ashley to crash some parties in New York. And then the Mesnicks show up. Trista’s looking…older. There have been 26 seasons of this franchise. Twenty. Six. That’s some dedication to ratings love. Plus 8 . Before the men get to tell their stories, Desiree sits down with Emily, Ashley, and Ali to get advice on how to handle the bad boys. Should she play it nice, or let them have it? I vote let them have it. The other bachelorettes do, too. Let’s do this. Now please. James and Ben get boos as the guys are introduced. Juan Pablo gets allllllll the cheers. Plus 10 . Chris starts the night by talking to Zak W., who says he had no expectations before signing up and that’s what made falling in love so easy. Plus 3. In order to tease the ladies with that awesome accent, Chris asks Juan Pablo about the camaraderie and drama among the men this season. Can we just hand him a phonebook or a dictionary or something and ask him to start reading? Michael, who cannot ever seem to shut up, chimes in with something about all the men and only one woman and he’s surprised there wasn’t more drama. Since it was his life’s work to expose some of it, that’s just funny. Minus 8 Jonathan, who was eliminated prior to the first rose ceremony for continually asking Desiree to go to the Fantasy Suite with him, looks on the verge of vomiting while watching the playback of his limited time on the show. And then he apologizes to all of America for having to watch that. After being busted as a cheater, Brian opted not to come to the men tell-all. So the guys are opting to talk about him. Plus 9 . Kasey seems like he’s going to cry every time he speaks. Minus 3 . Juan Pablo speaking! I’m not even sure exactly what he says because I’m temporarily deafened by his hotness and who really cares anyway!! If only I could hear with my eyes! Plus 10 The first man in the hot seat? Ben. He’s wearing quite the grin during the playback of his montage and blames his reaction in the limo on the fact that he’d been battered for 8 hours. He says he’s different around girls than he is around guys and Mikey T. calls him out on that. Juan Pablo says he knew Ben would be trouble from the minute Ben said “I’m not here to make friends.” Ben doesn’t think he was ever a different guy on camera than he was off. Every guy calls that a lie. And then a guy I don’t even remember says he had a conversation with Ben’s Baby Mama in Vegas where she said he only wanted custody of Brody after he was done with the show. And then there’s more stuff. Like the fact that he got his baby mama pregnant while he was dating someone else. Yikes! Minus 20 . More cheers for Juan Pablo! Plus 8 . Ben says none of the guys know anything about him as a father and asserts that he’s a very good father. Next up in the hot seat next to Chris Harrison? James. He puts the blame for any and all comments about him becoming the next bachelor on Mikey. And then says that Mikey said stuff about introducing him to other girls. It was all Mikey. Minus 10. He doesn’t understand why the guys waited 6 days to confront him about what they overheard and thinks some of the guys there owe him an apology. But not Kasey. Or Drew. He doesn’t care what they have to say. Minus 12. Mikey finally gets a chance to speak and says that their conversation came about because Brooks kept getting roses and he was so different from the two of them. What did he have that they didn’t? He conveniently doesn’t remember who said what about becoming the next bachelor. Minus 14 . Mikey maintains that in life people have to have back-up plans. That doesn’t sit well with Kasey at all. Kasey doesn’t feel the same about Mikey as he feels about James because Mikey never professed his love for Desiree and James did. Kasey’s really, really still worked up about this and it makes me forget all about his early-season hashtagging of everything. Yay, more Juan Pablo speaking! Juan Pablo likes James but wouldn’t want his daughter or his sister to date James. Plus 10 . No one in the audience wants James to be the next bachelor. But who DO we want to be the next bachelor? Juan Pablo. He didn’t get much screen time but he definitely stole the hearts and minds of everyone who watched. The audience is crying watching him cry while talking about his daughter. Plus 20 . Chris asks him to talk about himself and his first answer is about his daughter. He doesn’t date much because he’s with his daughter on the weekends and that’s when people are free to date. He wants to settle down and have two more kids. Plus 15 . There’s an audience full of women who volunteer as tribute. And now it’s Zak’s turn to talk about his journey. I think he’s been hanging out with Ryan Seacrest’s spray-tanner since his departure. Minus 3 . I really do like him, though. Can he be the next bachelor? He doesn’t know when things changed in his relationship with Des but suspects it was because he often comes off as too bold. He doesn’t meet a lot of women where he lives and with his job, so he’s really bummed this didn’t work out. So are we, Zak! Minus 9. In addition to being bold, he’s also incredibly romantic. In the back of the journal he gave Desiree, he wrote a poem in disappearing ink and he doesn’t even know if she read it. It’s way better than anything Chris wrote. Way. Plus 20. He’s still in love with Desiree and this will be his first time seeing her since she loaded him into a limo. Desiree’s in the hot seat now and she says sending people home was tough. Jonathan apologizes for being a douche on night one and manages to drop a “for the right reasons” into it. Minus 9 for that phrase. Next she gets to confront Ben. He says he’s aggressive in going after a girl and he was no different in going after Des. She changes her tune a bit and says that early on she questioned his sincerity because she couldn’t see emotion in his eyes. That’s not exactly how she played it prior to kicking him to the curb. Minus 17 James is up next and Des says that he manipulated her on the steps before she sent him home. He doesn’t believe he did manipulate her but apologizes to her anyway and wishes her the best. Desiree got hate mail for sending Juan Pablo home. Which makes sense because hello, he’s hot. The hottest one there. Zak’s goodbye was the toughest and Desiree said she was afraid that he wouldn’t lean on her during the less happy times of their relationship together because he was always so positive. She wondered if he was using his smile as a mask. He couldn’t think of what to say when he was eliminated, so he wrote her a song. The audience is crying. But the song is kind of odd. She wishes him peace and happiness. He nods. Plus 10. And now it’s time for bloopers. These should be aired during the actual show because they’re funny and they make the guys seem human. There’s a shocking 2-part finale this season that Chris says has an ending we won’t see coming! It’s the “most emotionally intense” finale ever. We’ll find out next week when the first part airs. EPISODE TOTAL: +21 SEASON TOTAL: +410
Kelly Osbourne is engaged, excited and probably having trouble picking her left hand up right about now. That’s because the TV personality and self-proclaimed celebrity fashion expert has posted a photo of her engagement ring online… and it’s certainly not small! “Loving my new manicure,” Osbourne wrote as a caption to the following photo yesterday, although we somehow doubt her nails are the first thing people will notice here, as unique as they look: Osbourne has been engaged to 29-year-old vegan baker Matthew Mosshart for six months, but didn’t go public with the news until mid-July. He bought her a custom-made Tiffany’s ring and proposed in Anguilla. “I designed [the ring] to look like an earring that my father wore when I was little,” the daughter of Black Sabbath rocker Ozzy Osbourne told Us Weekly . “I used to hold my finger up to his ear when I was little and say, ‘I want a ring like that.’ Now I have one!” And a very nice one at that.
Worst Subway “sandwich artist” ever. By a landslide. An employee of the restaurant chain admitted Monday to putting his penis on the store’s sandwich bread, then posting the photo on Instagram to prove it. Also, his co-worker froze his urine at work: The Columbus, Ohio, duo’s Twitter and Instagram pages are chock full of photos of their exploits, including bread baked into the shape of genitals. That is sandwich art, in an X-rated way. One of the men, Cameron Boggs, has no qualms about going public with this information, boasting “today at work I froze my pee” in a water bottle. Boggs posted (and later deleted) the most incriminating photo, which depicts his partner in revolting crime rubbing his junk on a foot-long sub . It was posted on Instagram by username “weedpriest” with a caption that reads, “My name is @ianjett and I will be your sandwich artist today.” Delish. Later, Ian Jett copped to defiling the footlong, but said it was at home, and a joke: “I would never do that at work – that was at my home,” he said. “This isn’t something I’d ever do at Subway. It was totally a joke.” Quite the sense of humor. Boggs’ other photo shows a water bottle full of a yellow substance he swears is his urine, and says was taken at Subway. Store employees confirmed that Boggs and Jett work at the Subway location at Tuttle Crossing Boulevard in Columbus … at least for the next half hour. The anonymous tipster who sent in the photos was horrified: “I saw the frozen piss picture and thought, ‘What is this guy doing?’ Then came the penis picture. They’re stupid enough for doing this in the first place.” “But then to post it to the world? It was a dumb move. I didn’t send these to be vindictive,” he added, “But something needs to be done. It’s disgusting.” He said he turned in the pics after reading about the alleged masturbating pizza shop owner in San Diego, who was said to be outed by users on 4Chan. There was also Wendy’s Frosty Guy … and Taco Bell Shell Licking Guy . Seriously, fast food employees. We know you’re bored. But quit defiling the food.
At a Comic-Con panel discussion for Catching Fire this weekend, Jennifer Lawrence talked about snot and slobber . In a discussion with fellow young star Shailene Woodley, meanwhile, the actress talked drugs and sex tapes. With Woodley about to embark on a Young Adult franchise of her own, Divergent , the rising star tells Vanity Fair that she hasn’t actually ever met Lawrence. But the two have exchanged messages and Lawrence has offered Woodley what sounds like winning advice. J. Law apparently told the ex-ABC Family actress that starring in Divergent “will be the best thing that ever happened,” but then she warned: “Don’t be an idiot, do a sex tape, [or] do drugs. And go to Whole Foods when your movie opens.” Somewhere, Kim Kardashian is wondering what the heck Lawrence means. And someplace else, the THG staff is once again shaking our heads over how awesome Jennifer Lawrence is.
Forget Florence + The Machine for a moment. Lead singer Florence Welch proves in the following video that Florence + A Few Tequila Shots is even more entertaining. The artist crashed the sound check of a British cover band Friday in London – while tossing back drinks! – and performed covers of Daft Punk’s “Get Lucky” and The Gossip’s “The Way of Control.” Watch her handle both her liquor and her high notes now, while totally, awesomely losing it during the second rendition: Florence Welch Drunk Sings Daft Punk
Ryan Braun, the 2011 MVP of the National League, has been suspended without pay for the duration of the 2013 season as a result of failing the sport’s Joint Drug Prevention and Treatment Program. Braun did not contest the suspension and admitted to taking performance enhancing drugs in a statement. “As I have acknowledged in the past, I am not perfect,” Braun said in the statement. “I realize now that I have made some mistakes. I am willing to accept the consequences of those actions. This situation has taken a toll on me and my entire family, and it is has been a distraction to my teammates and the Brewers organization.” He continued: “I am very grateful for the support I have received from players, ownership and the fans in Milwaukee and around the country. “Finally, I wish to apologize to anyone I may have disappointed — all of the baseball fans especially those in Milwaukee, the great Brewers organization, and my teammates. I am glad to have this matter behind me once and for all, and I cannot wait to get back to the game I love.” Braun – along with Alex Rodriguez and about a dozen other players – has been linked to Biogenesis, an anti-aging clinic in Florida with ties to PEDs. He also tested positive for elevated testosterone levels in 2012, but successfully got his suspension overturned at that time due to a “chain of command issue.” “I am deeply gratified to see Ryan taking this bold step,” MLBPA association executive director Michael Weiner said in a statement. “It vindicates the rights of all players under the Joint Drug Program. It is good for the game that Ryan will return soon to continue his great work both on and off the field.”
Chord Overstreet let his music do the emotional talking over the weekend. The Glee star, who is yet to comment publicly on the death of Cory Monteith , played an unknown and unnamed acoustic song at The Roxy in Los Angeles, simply telling fans “This one is for you, Cory.” Listen now: Chord Overstreet Plays Song for Cory Monteith Late last week, Ryan Murphy revealed his show’s plans to honor Monteith and the character of Finn on Glee Season 5 , while Fox pushed the September premiere back a week. Monteith’s body, meanwhile, has been cremated and the official autopsy lists his cause of death as a mixture of heroin and alcohol. We continue to send our best wishes to Cory’s loved ones.
Chord Overstreet let his music do the emotional talking over the weekend. The Glee star, who is yet to comment publicly on the death of Cory Monteith , played an unknown and unnamed acoustic song at The Roxy in Los Angeles, simply telling fans “This one is for you, Cory.” Listen now: Chord Overstreet Plays Song for Cory Monteith Late last week, Ryan Murphy revealed his show’s plans to honor Monteith and the character of Finn on Glee Season 5 , while Fox pushed the September premiere back a week. Monteith’s body, meanwhile, has been cremated and the official autopsy lists his cause of death as a mixture of heroin and alcohol. We continue to send our best wishes to Cory’s loved ones.
