Donald Trump announced Tuesday that Miss California, Carrie Prejean,
will be able to keep her crown. Trump, who co-owns the Miss Universe
Organization, compared Prejean’s stated views on gay marriage to being
the same as those of president Barak Obama. "She gave an honorable
answer. She gave an answer from her heart" he said. In the final round
of the Miss USA pageant, Prejean told judge Perez Hilton: "I think in
my country, in my family, I think that I believe that a marriage should
be between a man and a woman. No offense to anybody out there, but
that's how I was raised." While Miss California organizers said that
their anger with Prejean was about undeclared modeling photos and not
her controversial answer to gay marriage, Trump said the photos were a
"little risque," but at the same time, they were "very lovely and
beautiful."
Coolio claims the cocaine he was busted with at
LAX wasn't his because only an "idiot" would try to get coke past
airport security. The rapper says he wished the police had done a
little more "CSI"-style investigating when he got nailed by checking
for his DNA on the drugs they found in his bag. Coolio's already plead
not guilty in court.
"It’s great to have a private jet. Anyone that tells you that having your own private jet isn’t great is lying to you."
-Oprah, speaking at commencement ceremonies at Duke University last weekend.
Alanis
Morissette is joining the cast of Weeds. She has been cast as pregnant
Nancy's trusted baby doctor, Audra Kitson. Morissette will appear in a
minimum of seven episodes during the upcoming fifth season debuting
June 8th.
One Tree Hill newlyweds Peyton and Lucas are about to
embark on a permanent honeymoon. It is being reported that Chad Michael
Murray and Hilarie Burton, whose characters married in the last
episode, are expected to announce on Thursday, that they will not be
returning for the show's 7th season next fall. Murray and Burton have
been engaged in rather high-profile contract negotiations for the past
several months. Ultimately, a deal couldn't be worked out and both
actors will make their final appearances in next Monday's season
finale.
Eminem and Jimmy Kimmel will reportedly fly 200
laid-off auto workers to Los Angeles for Friday's taping of the
rapper's appearance on Kimmel's TV show. Eminem is promoting the May
19th release of "Relapse", his first studio album in four years. Eminem
says the news ignores people who have lost their jobs without getting
big payouts "after dedicating themselves to the auto industry." Eminem
says he and Kimmel "wanted to remind everyone that there are real
people affected by what's going on in Detroit."
Oprah Winfrey
poses with her new rescue puppy, Sadie and four other of her dogs for
the June cover of O, The Oprah Magazine that hits stands on May 19. The
shot was taken at the PAWS no-kill Chicago shelter, where Winfrey found
Sadie. Themed "The Animals Issue," the June magazine examines the bonds
owners share with their animals.
To honor her husband Spencer
Pratt, Heidi Montag has legally changed her name to Heidi Pratt. "Now
that we're legally married, I wanted to do the right thing," says The
Hills star. "I want us to be a family in every way. When we have kids,
I want us to all have the same last name." The couple tied the knot two
weeks ago.
"Titanic" stars Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet
and the film's director James Cameron have donated $30,000 to support
the last survivor of the Titanic in her final years. The now sole
survivor, 97-year-old Millvina Dean, has reportedly resorted to selling
her autograph to pay her nursing home bills in Southampton, the English
city from which "Titanic" began its fateful maiden voyage in 1912. Dean
was only 9 weeks old when her family traveled on Titanic in hopes of
beginning a new life in America. Her father perished in the sinking.
Former
Genesis singer, Peter Gabriel, has been awarded Sweden's prestigious
Polar Music Prize. The honor is handed out by the Royal Swedish Academy
of Music and was founded by former ABBA manager, Stig Anderson. The
prize is Sweden's biggest music award. Gabriel will receive one million
kroner and be presented with his trophy by King Carl XVI Gustaf at a
ceremony at the Stockholm Concert Hall on August 31st. Previous
recipients include Paul McCartney, Elton John, Joni Mitchell, Bruce
Springsteen, Pink Floyd and Led Zeppelin.
Kate Gosselin of TLC's
"Jon & Kate Plus Eight" is furious and horrified that anyone would
suggest that she's having an affair with her bodyguard. The story
emerged two weeks after the tabloids linked her husband, Jon Gosselin
to a 23 year old teacher. "These are people who absolutely love us and
want to see us through to the end," Kate says of the bodyguard Steve
Neild and his family. "Of course, both of them travel with us at times,
and we've spent holidays together, because, in this situation, your
circle grows smaller and smaller, and it's very natural to become
friends with your manager, your publicist, your security team ...
they're the only people you have left. And now they're coming under
fire."