Somebody looks ready to make their way into the world! A Very Pregnant Kim Kardashian Takes Pictures In Greece The Kardashian crew is currently in Greece filming for the upcoming season of “Keeping Up With The Kardashians,” and while Kim K has repeatedly insisted that she’ll be more low-profile in light of her pregnancy , her growing gut full of Yeezy seems to be making that wish virtually impossible. After the cameras caught her kicking back in a ‘kini with her bare baby bump on blizzy blast during their first part of the trip, a very pregnant Kimmy Cakes was spotted out and about in Greece again with her sister Kourtney and lil’ nephew Mason doing a some sight seeing. There’s definitely no hiding that bump! More big booty/baby-in-waiting pics on the flip…
A word of advice: Don’t go to see Brandon Cronenberg’s unsettling Antiviral if you’re getting over a cold or have recently undergone a medical procedure that involved the withdrawal of blood or a skin biopsy. The 33-year-old filmmaker’s debut feature makes such effective use of hypodermic needles and flesh samples that I left the screening room on unsteady feet, feeling like I’d just donated a pint of my own plasma. But do go see the movie. In a world in which Jay-Z and Beyonce’s trip to Cuba can hijack a news cycle that should be focused on gun control, sequestration and the false positives of our current economy, Antiviral is a squirm-inducing corrective for our obsession with celebrity that resonates long after the closing credits. The premise alone is perversely brilliant: Cronenberg has brought to life a queasy world in which preoccupation with fame has metastasized to the point where civilians pay good money to be infected with the copyrighted STDs of their favorite celebrity and to dine on pale, gristly cuts of meat grown from their tissue cells. At the center of this story is Syd March, played by Caleb Landry Jones , a dour salesman of celebrity sickness who, behind his employer’s back, is infecting himself with his company’s offerings so that he can extract his own bootleg versions to sell on the black market. Phil’s extracurricular dealings leave him constantly sick, but when he becomes infected with the most sought-after celebrity virus of all, things get much, much worse. I sat down with the thoughtful, soft-spoken Cronenberg in New York on Tuesday to discuss Antiviral and his own encounters with celebrity as the son of Cosmopolis director David Cronenberg . He had some particularly interesting things to say about critics who contend that his film is too similar to his father’s early work in the horror/sci-fi genre. Movieline: One of the messages I took away from Antiviral was that the lure of celebrity is irresistible, no matter how horrific or deadly it becomes. Brandon Cronenberg: The character of Syd definitely sees himself as superior to that culture and removed from it, but it has actually totally defined him and he can’t escape from it. We’re all products of our environment, and it’s hard not to be affected by that stuff in a certain way. But I wouldn’t say it’s impossible to resist. I want the film to be partly an active resistance. It does work as a corrective, especially if you are celebrity obsessed and squeamish about hypodermic needles. I think we can change the part where we’re not complicit in creating that kind of culture and supporting that industry by engaging with it in a certain way. Antiviral also works as a metaphor for how celebrity has infected news reporting and even our government. Jay-Z and Beyonce are in the news today because of their trip to Cuba when there’s so much more important stuff that should be dominating the news cycle. In the film, no one’s famous for any reason. It’s purely the industry of celebrity going as far as possible — or almost as far as possible because there’s still some loose connection to real human beings. In Japan for instance, there are purely digital celebrities, and I think probably the most extreme level would be when human beings are abandoned altogether. Then it becomes an industry that fabricates digital celebrities and prints money because people are willing to do anything to feel somehow connected to these creations even if they’re not real. Celebrity dominates the news in a way that’s often fairly stupid because it’s not about anything really significant. At the same time, it’s what gets people’s attention, and as long as those are the news stories that are getting the most hits or the biggest ratings, they will continue to get big play because news is a business. Can you envision any kind of a turning point? I don’t see it changing anytime soon, but it could in theory, so it’s important to think about it. I noticed that the name of your protagonist is the same as the artist and sculptor Sydney March, who was involved in the creation of Canada’s National War Memorial. Was that intentional? What? The name is even spelled the same. That’s one of the most interesting things I’ve heard all day. I mean it’s probably embarrassing that I don’t know that, but that wasn’t intentional. I just liked the name and probably some combination of Syd Barrett and [Cid from] the Final Fantasy video games . I took the last name from the Saul Bellow novel The Adventures of Augie March . You grew up with a fairly famous father. What was the take on celebrity in the Cronenberg household? I think there were two aspects to it. One was that I saw people who were celebrities who had this media alter ego, or this persona that was so unrelated to who they were as human beings. And that’s definitely one of the themes in the film: celebrities as these media constructs or cultural constructs that exist purely in the public consciousness and are, in many ways, fictional and unrelated to the real human being. The human being as an animal, as a body, becomes totally eclipsed by this idea that runs rampant. The body eventually dies and the idea lives on, for however many decades, to appear in commercials, to perform on stage — it goes on endlessly. That sense of a runaway double that isn’t related to the person was interesting to me thematically. And then, on a personal level, I didn’t experience anything too extreme because my father’s a director and we’re still living in Toronto. So, it’s not like we were being hounded by TMZ or anything. But it still — I would go to a school and see someone I didn’t know and they’d come up to me and be like, “I heard you were coming and we have a lot to discuss.” And that was pretty weird. They behaved as if they knew you. Yeah, exactly. So, I did have a taste of that weirdness that is fame by proxy or fame by association. You’ve said that you immersed yourself in the tabloid world of TMZ and other celebrity media to research Antiviral . Did you, or do you find any celebrities genuinely fascinating? Not so much. I think there’s a line between taking an interest in someone because you respect their work versus obsessing over them. I went through a period of reading a lot of Hunter S. Thompson and he especially puts his life — or his version of his life — in his work. So, through an interest in his writing, you can’t help but be interested in what he’s done and, [wonder] how much of his writing is his own fantasy of himself and how much of that is real. But I don’t think anyone going to Cuba is that interesting. Most of it is an industry that thrives on hooking people with trivial but juicy details and playing to that gossipy society. So who are some of your other influences? There are a lot of writers I like, and a lot of filmmakers and musicians. I wouldn’t know how to begin listing them all, but I think [their influence] sort of comes to me subconsciously. I know some people usually have a particular influence that stands out and they emulate that person and learn from them. But for me it’s not really a conscious process. I felt like George Lucas’ THX 1138 was an inspiration. Only in that I’ve seen that film once. I’m not a huge THX fan and I wasn’t trying to deliberately emulate that movie. Others have been talking about my “Kubrick shot” or whatever, and, again, I like Kubrick, but I’m not a huge fan. I think it’s more that those films and filmmakers have an effect on the language of cinema in general. You told the New York Times that your father’s films have actually played a smale role in your work as a filmmaker, but a substantial part of the critical discussion of Antiviral is how much the film resembles some of his early efforts. I think you have a distinct style and vision as a filmmaker, but for those who don’t, what would you say they’re missing about your work? It’s not so much what they’re missing. I think there’s an assumption about my intent when it comes to that discussion. The assumption is that [ Antiviral ] is a deliberate emulation, that I must have been watching my father’s films since I was a kid and was brainwashed. It wasn’t really like that. As a father he had a huge influence on me obviously – genetically and because I grew up around him and we have a very good relationship. So, it’s not weird that there are overlaps when it comes to our interests and our esthetic sensibilities. Good point. And then when I got into film, I just knew that if I worried about that, that would become everything, you know? If I was just trying to avoid anything that could be associated with my father, that would be my entire career and that would define my work and that’s a really shitty place to be working from. So I just decided to do whatever I felt like doing and it became this. I can see the similarities – some of them are legitimate — but I also think some of them are very overstated because people like that narrative and they like to make that assumption. It’s an easy narrative. Yeah, exactly. In terms of the similarities, I’d say I come to them honestly. They’re honest to my own interests. For instance, some people talk about some of the hallucinatory, biomechanical stuff in Antiviral being related to his work. And I guess it is, but that scene in the closet… Where Syd merges with the machine that he’s using to make the bootleg viruses? Yeah. That was based on some old drawings that I had done. I wanted to see what they would look like as a film, and I knew as I was writing it that people would make that connection [to my father]. But I thought I just had to make sure that I didn’t avoid doing anything just to avoid that comparison. Your father is not the only filmmaker who has explored those man-meets-machine themes. Right, and my father has done a lot of other types of movies, too. He hasn’t really been making horror films for a while now. What’s the best piece of advice your father has given you about filmmaking? I don’t really have a good answer for that. He has given me some advice but there isn’t one thing that stands out. Did you show him the film early? Did he give you advice? Not really – he was pretty busy during the actual making of the film. I forget what he was doing: promoting A Dangerous Method or finishing Cosmopolis but he actually wasn’t really around during production. There’s that point where you feel the film is polished enough to show to your family and friends to get as much feedback as possible, and he saw it then. I got notes from everyone, but I don’t remember him having any dramatic advice. You don’t know what you’re doing next at this point? Not really. I mean, I am writing but it’s still in the early stages. Do you think your next picture will be in the horror-science fiction genre, or will you do something different? I don’t really like target a particular genre in advance. I wasn’t thinking horror-sci-fi when I started Antiviral , but it developed into that. And the next one probably will be, but I’m not specifically trying to do that. We’ll see where it ends up. 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Dennis Rodman’s trip to North Korea may have been worth something after all. In a Tuesday interview with The Sun , the retired NBA star revealed that Kim Jong Un is the father of a baby girl! If true, that is a major state secret. “[Ri Sol Ju] kept talking about their beautiful baby daughter,” Rodman said. There’s been speculation that the couple had a baby girl, but Pyongyang has yet to officially acknowledge any potential heirs to Kim Jong Un’s regime. While it is believed Ri Sol Ju gave birth recently, no one knows for sure. North Korea Leadership Watch editor Michael Madden said that the North Korean government “would have made an announcement” if the child was a boy. Rodman added, per The Sun, that Ri Sol Ju, Kim’s wife, was “very elegant and quite tall for a Korean – 5’5” … your chief intelligence officer, everyone. A recent United Nations report found that more than a quarter of North Korean children suffer stunted growth as a result of chronic malnutrition. Rodman visited the reclusive leader at the end of February. At the conclusion of the trip, the basketball star spoke glowingly of Kim to members of the media. “I love him,” Rodman said. “The guy’s really awesome.” Whatever Rodman’s perspectives may be, however, he doesn’t seem to have won much support for either side among their longtime adversaries. The regime recently posted on YouTube several crudely made propaganda videos, featuring dramatized depictions of military attacks on the U.S. Real normal.
Let me just start of by saying this was the craziest thing that has ever happened to me. I am not a lucky person what so ever and for me to be able to experience being in Justin’s presence is beyond words. My name is Jordyn and I was one of the winners of the Adidas NEO Label Gold Shoes Contest . Being the fan-girl that I am, I was on JustinBieberZone looking at the recent updates on the Biebs and saw that he was involved in a contest with the Adidas NEO Label. If you found the code within that week, you would be entered to win a trip to Miami to meet the one and only Justin Bieber. I figured, “Why not give it a try, it won’t hurt.” I entered the first two weeks and then forgot all about it. After the second week, I start getting tweets from random Bieber accounts saying “CONGRATS ON WINNING!” and I was so confused because I was literally getting so many congratulations about winning something. I scrolled down my mentions and saw that Adidas Neo had tweeted me saying “@jordlynnelias Congratulations! You will be going to Miami to meet Justin Bieber! #FindMyGoldShoes” I had to take a minute to process the fact that this tweet had my name associated with the words “winner”, “Miami” and “Justin Bieber” before I could really understand what I have just won. What was awkward was I was home alone so I had no one to celebrate with! As I was shaking, I called everyone I know and of course not one person believed me. I then got all the details on the trip from Adidas Neo. January 25-27 were the days that I thought couldn’t come soon enough! Finally the day came for my mom and I to leave for Miami. We arrived around 1:00 p.m. and have a private car waiting for us. It was seriously like a movie! At this point my mom and I were nervous thinking the worst possible thing, like they would take us to some torture chamber or something because this trip was still too good to be true. But no, we arrived at the resort with a greeting from two of the sweetest ladies that were hired by Adidas to plan everything out. We got our room keys and were told that there was a “surprise” waiting in my room. I’m thinking “Bieber?!” but I wasn’t that lucky. THE GOLD SHOES were sitting on my bed with a perfect signature that every girl dreams of having. Of course I took 295718357 pictures with them on, and couldn’t stop touching them. It was absolutely incredible. After being spoiled with that amazing gift, we met everyone else who won the contest. I was the ONLY American there! Girls from Germany, Indonesia, Ireland, Thailand, Uruguay, and just about any other country you can think of, it was crazy. It was amazing seeing just how this one boy has affected all of these different girls lives. He was the only thing that all of us had in common. After the first day of surprises were over, Saturday was the day everyone was holding their breath for. This was the day Adidas made 15 girls dreams come to life. We were treated with an Everglades tour and lunch before the concert. Stress came around 2:00 when we all departed from the group to get all pretty to meet what some of us might say, our “idol”. Around 3:45 was when it really hit everyone that we were on our way to meet Justin. As we arrive at the arena, we head straight to will call for our meet and greet bands. “I’m sorry, we do not have Adidas’ wristbands yet, you have to wait 30 minutes” is what 15 anxious beliebers were told by the ticket vendors. This is when full force stress kicked in for all of us. The meet and greet line was piling up fast and we were sitting there even wondering if this was even possible for this to be real. As we were waiting, there was a little perk when one of Justin’s dancers, Johnny came out to get tickets for his family. I was the only on who recognized him so I went up and quietly asked for a picture and he was so sweet about it and said, “Of course” so we took our picture and he proceeded to get his tickets. Finally, they gave us our wristbands and we headed to the end of the line. This was a line of 50 people when we got there but by the time we were done waiting, it was a line of 400 people. There was no way that Justin can meet every single one of these girls in an hour. The line is moving very slow for the first 45 minutes and then the pace starts getting quicker once 7:00 rolled around. I was thrown into a group of 6 people thinking they are going to let us get our own picture with Justin and get stuff signed and not be rushed. Boy was I wrong about that one. “If you want to meet Bieber, you need to pick up the pace, lets go lets go lets go!” The crew was making this wonderful experience seem like a nightmare. Once I got up to the black curtain, had my phone ready and my Twitter name written on a little piece of paper, “NO PHONES OR PERSONAL ITEMS ALLOWED!” was shouted in my ear. By this point I’m confused. People pay thousands of dollars just for a 5 second meet and greet and to be screamed at like your trying to kill him or something! I walk in the room where a porcelain perfect human was standing with open arms. I take advantage and run up to him wrapping my arms around him saying, “I’ve got to stand next to you!” and he replied “Hi Sweetie! How are you!” as I melted when he placed his arm around my waist for the picture while rubbing my back, “1,2,3 thanks guys”. Security took full force with pushing everyone out of the room but being the rebel that I am, I handed Justin the piece of paper with my Twitter name on it and said, “Please just take this” and so he did. Even though I was man handled by his security and treated like a terrorist, I was still in complete awe that I was in the presence of JUSTIN BIEBER! HE CALLED ME SWEETIE! Like that doesn’t happen everyday. All smiles, we were seated in the front row of the first level which gave us perfect seats. This was where all of his crew would walk by so I was lucky enough to touch Alfredo, Kenny, Scooter, and Jonathan’s (Kim Kardashian’s BFF) hands as they walked by. Justin’s Believe 3D was also being filmed at this concert to that was just another perk about the trip. Justin is probably one of the best performers this world will ever see. Entertainment should be his middle name because that is exactly what he is, an entertainer. Perfection is the only word I can use to describe this experience and I just want to thank you so much Adidas Neo Label, and Justin Bieber for allowing this to happen because it was only a dream, of not only mine but every single girl that had this opportunity. This was MBE and if you haven’t already gotten one, I hope you do because there are no words to describe the feeling of this. You’re a true inspiration to so many out there and I am glad to call you one of mine. Love you Justin! Thank you again! -Jordyn (@ jordlynnelias) Read this article: Let me just start of by saying this was the craziest thing that…
Guessing that Carnival will not be making #1 or #2 on the list of luxury cruise ships anytime soon after this fiasco. Via NYPost reports : A broken towline halted the disabled Carnival Triumph this afternoon, as it inched toward shore near Mobile, Ala. Frantic crew members on the lead tug boat replaced the broken line in about about an hour — before currents could push the ship back to sea. A voice over the ship’s public address system urged passengers to go back in their rooms. But most travelers outside on the decks, craving fresh air over the stink inside, didn’t budge. The cruise had been going 1 mph and set to dock tonight — in hopes to a mercifully ending this nightmarish journey for 4,000 people trapped on the floating bio-hazard. The line snap has pushed the ship’s scheduled arrival to no earlier than 10:30 p.m. CST. Once Triumph docks, passengers will still be far from home free. With just one elevator on board working, it’ll take more than four hours for all passengers to get off the boat, said Carnival senior VP Terry Thornton. The cruise line has assembled a small army of 200 employees help passengers get off the boat in Mobile. The company also plans in place in case another tow line snaps in the next several hours. “[But] were not anticipating any additional difficulties,” Thornton said. The cruise — which began a week ago today in Galveston — went horribly wrong on Sunday when flames erupted in the engine room. That blaze killed power and knocked out almost all the ship’s plumbing. “Pipes are busting, I know the sewer is backing up, and water is in the cabins, and it’s just a nightmare,” passenger Jamie Baker told NBC’s “Today” show this morning in a telephone interview from aboard the ship. “It’s just a nightmare.” She and other passengers described hours-long lines for food — meals that were often no more than slices of tomato or onion on bread — and putrid sanitary conditions. With so few toilets on board flushing, many passengers were forced to relieve themselves into plastic bags. Some travelers didn’t even bother using bags. “There’s poop and urine all along the floor,” said passenger and Houston resident Renee Shanar. “The floor is flooded with sewer water … and we had to poop in bags.” Passenger Julie Morgan described the smell on board: “It’s a mixture of sewage and rotting food.” “Let’s just say I have a pair of slippers I will not be bringing home with me,” Morgan told CNN. Baker compared her trip to a post-hurricane experience. “Like Katrina in the Dome, except it’s afloat,” Baker said. The passengers’ stay in Alabama will be short. They have the option of boarding buses directly to Galveston or Houston, or to New Orleans where they can rest in a hotel before taking a charter flight to Houston. Carnival is picking up all these travel costs. Carnival Cruise Lines yesterday canceled a dozen more planned voyages aboard the Triumph and acknowledged that the crippled ship had been plagued by other mechanical problems in the weeks before the engine-room blaze. The National Transportation Safety Board has opened an investigation into the cause. “We know it has been a longer journey back than we anticipated at the beginning of the week under very challenging circumstances,” Carnival President and CEO Gary Cahill said. “We are very sorry for what our guests have had to endure.” Carnival spokesman Vance Gulliksen acknowledged the Triumph’s recent mechanical woes, explaining that there was an electrical problem with the ship’s alternator on the previous voyage. Repairs were completed Feb. 2. Testing of the repaired part was successful and “there is no evidence at this time of any relationship between this previous issue and the fire that occurred on Feb. 10.” Communication with passengers on the Triumph has been limited to brief windows when other cruise ships with working cellular towers have rendezvoused to deliver supplies, but some relatives have reported being told of uncomfortable and unsanitary conditions. Robert Giordano, of the Oklahoma City suburb of Edmond, said he last spoke to his wife, Shannon, on Monday. She told him she waited in line for three hours to get a hot dog and that conditions on the ship were terrible. “They’re having to urinate in the shower. They’ve passed out plastic bags to go to the bathroom,” Giordano said. “There was fecal matter all over the floor.” Passengers are supposed to get a full refund and discounts on future cruises, and Carnival announced they would also each get an additional $500 in compensation. Sounds disgusting. Is $500 and a refund enough for being delayed all them days with no food or place to drop a deuce? Don’t know about y’all but we don’t even like to take a #2 in a strange place — much less a plastic bag! Shutterstock /Instagram.com/janetshamlian
I cannot believe I’m writing my second MBE in less than 3 months. A few months back, Fredo was supposed to meet me but couldn’t make it, so he tweeted me that we would meet in San Antonio, which is why I made a 5 hour trip there. When I walked in my hotel I saw Cody Simpson standing in the lobby. I gave my mom all my bags and walked slowly over to him. He was very polite and introduced himself to me, took pictures, asked how I was and wished me luck on getting tickets to the show. His dad told me not to tell anyone where they were staying, so I didn’t . I assumed that because Cody was here that Justin’s crew or hopefully Justin would be here too. My mom took our stuff to our room while I stayed in the lobby of the hotel. After waiting a while, I saw Nick Demoura, (who I have been trying to meet for years and happens to be my favorite dancer) go outside and wait for a taxi but I was too scared to go up to him. Throughout the night I met some of the crew and a few dancers including Nick. Most of the other girls there didn’t know who anyone was. When I went and asked them for a picture, as soon as my phone went up a crowd would already be over there. Eventually 100 girls had shown up and I knew if Justin showed we wouldn’t be meeting him. A van pulled up to the hotel and Kenny got out, got back in and left. Later a bus pulled up and girls were swarming around it taking pictures of the door (LOL). No one got out because of this, I assume. When Cody came back to the hotel, girls were screaming and running which is when the hotel started kicking people out who weren’t guests. Eventually we called it a night. I had a meet and greet with Cody but since I met him the night before I decided to try and see if I could get into Justin’s meet & greet which was at the same time . I met up with my friends outside of the arena. We met Cody’s dancers. I was given meet and greets and had extra’s so I gave them to people I met on Friday and Saturday. One of them was someone I’ve been friend’s with on Twitter for YEARS (@NutellasJustin), but I didn’t have enough for her best friend to also get to meet Justin. I have honestly never met anyone so selfless in my whole life. I wish you could’ve seen the look on her face. She refused to meet Justin if her best friend couldn’t either. Which to me, made her deserve it all the more. I tried so hard to force her to come with us because this was her one chance but she just couldn’t. And because of that I will not stop until she meets Justin. Anyways, she ended up giving it back and I gave it to another girl I met. We were in line to meet Justin for about a hour and a half, which was odd because the meet & greets usually end by 5. I saw someone carrying the drink that Justin said is like dinosaur pee towards where he was and the crew was saying he wasn’t feeling well. I saw Fredo in the hallway but he left too quick for me to say anything. My friends were freaking out and thanking me over and over which made me feel really good to know that I made someone’s dream come true in a way. The meet & greet started at 6 and we were told not to speak to Justin because he probably wouldn’t reply and not to be offended because he was on vocal rest . When it was our turn to meet him I walked in and got beside him and said hi. He turned to me and was like, “Hi! How are you?” This was my third time meeting him and I seriously always hate myself because I never say anything. I died right there. We took the picture and I told him I hope he felt better then left. We were all FREAKING OUT. My friends and I waited outside the arena until the end of the show but no one ever came out. Including Alfredo, but I know I will meet him someday and I wouldn’t change this experience for the world. You can read my other MBE here . -Amani (@amaniluvxo/@amanisahyounie) Read the original: I cannot believe I’m writing my second MBE in less than 3…
For most of today, fans have been wondering: was Selena Gomez drunk at a Golden Globes after-party? But now they have a new question to ponder: who the heck is this Luke Bracey fella?!? Witnesses tell Us Weekly that Gomez was acting all “super close” with the Australian actor on Sunday night, even holding hands with him at one point. She was also overheard confirming her break-up with Justin Bieber to a friend, telling the pal that the trip to Mexico in late December “was awful” and they “were fighting” the whole time. Bracey, meanwhile, has appeared in the film Monte Carlo and the Australian series Home and Away .
Jessica Simpson and Eric Johnson, her fiance and the father of her child(ren), are reportedly at odds, and the source of the friction may surprise you: Joe Simpson. It’s not anything that Joe’s done – at least to them – that has the couple arguing, but rather her treatment of the elder Simpson in the last six months. Jessica wants nothing to do with Joe, 54, after his marriage to her mom Tina fell apart and he was rumored to be involved in a series of gay trysts. Is Joe Simpson gay ? That has not been confirmed, but Eric feels that Jessica has treated her dad unfairly in any case, and that has caused a rift. Eric, 33, believes deep down that Joe is a good person, and he thinks he’s being unjustly shunned, resulting in considerable friction with Jessica, 32. “Jessica and Eric were constantly arguing about Joe while in Hawaii,” a source close to the couple, who recently confirmed her second pregnancy, says. “It’s something they can’t see eye-to-eye on, and it really spoiled the trip for a lot of family members who felt uncomfortable in their presence.” “Jessica is still keeping Joe at an arms-length following news of the scandal and she can’t manage to forgive him yet for what she did to Tina.” “She just doesn’t want anything to do with him right now.” Eric however, “really thinks she’s being too hard on Joe. In his eyes he’s a decent man who made a terrible mistake and should be given another chance.” However, “Jessica countered that Eric doesn’t know Joe the way she does, and if Joe continues to be in their life he will destroy what they have.” “In what was supposed to be a relaxing time for the pair of them actually turned out to be more stressful,” the source divulges of the pair’s vacation. It was, by any measure, a tumultuous 2012 for Joe. Jessica’s former manager was implicated in gay sex scandals and split from his wife of 34 years. He has been linked to aspiring model Bryce Chandler Hill and male escort Joey Anderson . Both alleged paramours are considerably younger than he. Joe Simpson: Gay? Yes No How would I know?!? View Poll »
The Real Housewives of Atlanta “Press Down and Strip Bare” but I think we were all begging that some of these ladies would put their clothes back on. We break down all of the husband chasing and divorce rumors in THG’s +/- recap! NeNe meets up with Kenya after their trip. She wants to figure out if Kenya’s for real. Minus 10 . Duh. She’s really nuts is what she is. You’d think NeNe would have figured that out. Has anyone else had enough of the Kenya and Walter show? Minus 15 . What part of, this guy’s just not that into you , is Kenya not getting? I almost felt sorry for the guy. Kenya calls him aggressive when he was finally being honest with her. She claims he yelled at her when all he did was tell her something she didn’t want to hear. Have you noticed that Walter’s in his work uniform with the logo clearly visible about 50% of the time he’s on camera? Minus 14. Maybe I’m paranoid but could he be hanging on to Kenya for the free publicity? When Kenya says she wants to be married in six months Walter practically laughed in her face. She claims she’s wife material, not just a girlfriend. Walter shoots back by asking if she’s really wife material, why is she still single at 40 something? Ouch! Minus 20 . How much more of a shove does Kenya need before she realizes that this just isn’t happening. If Kenya is serious about having a baby, she may need to talk to NeNe about that turkey baster. Across town, Peter gets a text about Phaedra and Apollo’s supposed divorce. Um…why is Peter getting gossip updates on his phone? So Peter and Cynthia come up with a grand scheme. She’s heard that Apollo frequents strip clubs like some people visit Starbucks. So let’s head to a strip club with Apollo and Phaedra and get all the dirt. Plus 22 . There must be a hundred strip clubs in Atlanta, yet somehow they manage to find the skeeviest hole in the wall place possible. The strippers are jiggling rolls of cellulite. I can’t imagine that there’s enough alcohol to make that look good. While Phaedra’s yelling take it off, Peter’s begging keep it on. LOL. Plus 9. I was actually relieved that they were drinking out of paper cups at the bar. Plus 11. I don’t think I’d want to drink out of a glass anyone else had touched in that establishment. Honestly, more dirt comes out days later when Apollo confides to Peter that, “I’m dealing with a God damn beast, man.” and claims it takes a lunatic to deal with Phaedra. Apollo’s only 32 and he’s spent six years in prison. He sounds bitter that Phaedra’s keeping him from having his fun. Minus 10. When Apollo and Phaedra invite Kenya over to talk about their workout video it’s obvious the two are on different wave lengths. He says Phaedra’s entire concept won’t work. Minus 13 . Perhaps they could have had this discussion before Kenya got there. On the opposite end of the spectrum is Porsha who might just be the dumbest housewife of the bunch but she’s also the happiest. She can’t even remember how many bedrooms her house has. It might be eight. No wonder she’s shooting for twins. That’s a lot of rooms to fill. Plus 20 to Kandi for shooting down Porsha’s yam theory. Watching Porsha try to wrap her mind around the concept of heredity and genetics was amusing. And finally there’s NeNe who is doing the money shot for Ebony magazine, literally. She’s covered in cash and diamonds and posing for the cover of their Power 100 issue. Plus 25. From stripper to Power 100 cover girl. No matter what you think of Ms. NeNe, you can’t say she hasn’t come far. EPISODE TOTAL: +5! SEASON TOTAL: -172!
Happy Birthday Denzel ! The Hollyweird actor was spotted Friday celebrating turning 48 with his wife of 29 years Pauletta and one of their sons on a yacht in Anguilla. We love seeing Denzel with his wife. More shots from their trip below: SplashNews
