David Hasselhoff Has His Parental Rights Restored

After agreeing to an alcohol test three times a week, David Hasselhoff has had his parental rights restored.

Both Hasselhoff and ex-wife Pamela Bach were present at the hearing. The pair have reverted to their original joint custody arrangement.

Hasselhoff was temporarily barred from seeing daughters Taylor-Ann, 17, and Hayley, 14 on May 7th after a drunken video of the actor appeared all over the internet.

"It went well today, and the truth was told." Hasselhoff said outside the courtroom.

The videotape was officially entered into evidence Monday. It will be the focus of the next hearing on June 1.


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Reese Witherspoon With Her Children

Reese is noticeably upset with the paparazzi following her every move.

Can you blame her? Maybe when you're out on the town, but with your children? Leave 'em be.

Hayden Panetierre and Her Mother Celebrate Mother's Day

Just what is the deal?

Do all Hollywood mothers look the same or what? Hayden's mother looks a bit like a Dina Lohan mixed with a Kathy Hilton..

Celebrity Quote of the Day - Bruce Willis

"I'm thrilled that Ashton turned out to be such a great guy. I love Demi, and I know she loves me. It's hard for people to understand, but we go on holidays together...We still raise our kids together - we still have that bond."

-Bruce Willis referring to his ex-wife Demi Moore and her husband Ashton Kutcher

Alexa Ray Joel Bashes Perez Hilton

Alexa Ray Joel, daughter of Billy Joel and Christie Brinkley, is fed up with gossip blogs and most particularly with Perez Hilton.

Alexa ranted on her MySpace about Perez and how he scoffed at her looks. She goes on to say that she is quite comfortable with her looks and is tired of being compared to her supermodel mother. And when it comes to her 8 year old sister - bloggers had better step off.


"Well, I'm rambling now (as always), so I'm going to go unpack (just flew back to NYC tonight!)--I've got to get away from this computer! I know it's ridiculous, and I should have a thicker skin by now and just plain NOT CARE, but I can't help but be a little bummed out because the incredibly cruel, bullying Perez Hilton (this tabloid guy who calls himself the "queen of media") just put up a horrible picture of me on his site and basically in so many words called me ugly, or rather, wrote that I'm "not that bad, actually, I'm just no supermodel"...

I just feel like saying: "YES, my mom and I look completely different, and I'm OK with that. I like that I look unique, or more "exotic"--I don't want to look like everybody else, and I also don't want to look like a supermodel--I just want to look like ME!" (sorry if this sounds like a repeat of my last blog, but I just have to VENT)...

Oh well, I guess that's a part of the crap that comes with the industry--those sites LOVE putting bad pictures up, and everybody has a few unflattering shots--especially on the red-carpet! I'm still not comfortable posing on it, and (who knows?) maybe I never will be, but I'm just so OVER being compared to my mom looks-wise! I'm happy to have a lot of my father's features (especially his eyes and lips)--I think he's very handsome, and I'm quite sick of hearing people call HIM ugly--I think he has a very soulful face--the face of someone with character and integrity--who has LIVED, and has something important to say.

I just can't help but wonder these days: why does the media's idea of beauty have to always fit inside such a conventional box? Why doesn't the media promote any sense of individuality and open-mindedness? My boyfriend always tells me how much he loves my dimples and how I have a "cute over-bite" when I smile, as well as this scar on my chest that I used to be self-conscious about-- he calls it my "sexy mark", (yes--he's a keeper!!)-- so if these imperfections are what our partners end up growing to love so much about us, why isn't this celebrated as a natural, human truth? Why is it hidden, and replaced with this false truth that everybody's supposed to aspire to look like a "supermodel" (whatever looking like a super-model entails--I have no clue). When my mom saw that Perez Hilton thing, she was like, "OK, what's his point?--I have hundreds of bad pictures taken of me, and I'm a supermodel! Should I release them to the media so everyone can see that NOBODY is perfect?" (I love her for that).

It's just rather depressing on a larger, societal level because apparently his tabloid site gets an average of 6 million hits a day (internationally), and I just feel like--WHAT IS HAPPENING TO THIS WORLD? Why would 6 MILLION PEOPLE be on a site that does nothing but exploit, objectify, ridicule, and degrade public figures for no reason? Oh well, I know I shouldn't care--I guess I'm just a bit of an idealist and I wish the media wasn't so shallow and affected. It's like, why do these people get such a high out of bringing others down for no real reason?

I must say, I think this Perez Hilton guy is quite dangerous because has actually made a BUSINESS out of calling people "fat, ugly whores!" Why is this? Is it because the general public has somehow become so obsessed with the media that it is entirely acceptable to trash public figures (and their children) and call them all sorts of names JUST FOR THE HECK OF IT? I mean, there was even some blogger on there picking a part the appearance of my 8 year-old sister--it made me sick to my stomach to see that. She's just a little girl--and she's my adorable, beautiful little sister! I cried my eyes out when I saw that, I was so disgusted.

Sorry, I don't mean to get preachy on you guys--I guess I'm just venting. I also wanted to get all of this out there because I don't think there's a lot of people inside of the media who talk openly about it's artificiality, and really question why this is happening, and I think it's about time we started. Because the media really is in a terrible place right now, and I truly feel like the more tabloid magazines we buy, and the more tabloid sites we blog on, the more we are feeding into this dangerous obsession with the media that is spiraling out of control."

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Britney Spears to Pen a Tell All?

Britney Spears is hurt and angry- and now that she’s out of rehab, she’s planning a tell-all book about all the people “who did me wrong,” according to Star Magazine.

Sources claim that Brit is determined to dish every last bit of dirt about her once closest confidants and that they’re going to be shattered by her revelations!

Britney has plenty to say about ex-lover Justin Timberlake, 26.

“Brit blames most of her problems with drugs and alcohol on the heartache she experienced years before, during her time with Justin; she couldn’t trust him,” says a second insider.

“I hear she’s going to say that she believes he constantly lied to her about other girls and that destroyed her self-esteem. She also felt he became mean toward the end of their [nearly three-year] relationship; she said he called her fat and told her she’d need to lose weight before he would have sex with her.

“When Justin learns about this book, he’s going to be pissed.”

Her two husbands, in particular, Kevin Federline, and source says Brit will reveal the terrible truth that she planned to kill herself after it finally sank in that Kevin had used her for his own selfish ends, according to the insider.

“His womanizing, his wild spending, the verbal abuse he hurled at her when he thought their marriage was coming to an end…
Brit will say he deliberately tried to drive her crazy. She feels Kevin just pretended to love her for the money and a music career. When that sunk in, she was so heartbroken that she wanted to kill herself.”

The final bombshell, the insider says, will involve Britney’s mother, Lynne, 51. “Britney will call her a stage mom from hell’ and blame her for almost every ill in her life. She’ll say Lynne’s money hungry and that she was just along for the free ride. Britney thinks of her as a meddling, smothering person and blames her for her messy marriages.”

When Britney recently told Lynne and her father, Jamie, 54, about the book, they were both devastated. “Lynne was totally crushed,” says an insider, “and her dad warned her that if she bad-mouthed any of the family, she would regret it for the rest of her life. He knows from experience that sometimes Britney’s honesty isn’t always based in fact.”


Article courtesy of Samantha for STAR Magazine
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New Indie Film on the Life of Alexis Arquette

You may remember Alexis Arquette, brother of Patricia, David and Rosanna, on VH1's, 'The Surreal Life', or maybe as the wedding singer who resembled Boy George in 'The Wedding Singer'.

Alexis, 38, is a transsexual and a feisty one at that. I love Alexis and was excited to hear that (s)he is the focus of 'Alexis Arquette: She's My Brother,' an A&E Indie Film which makes its world premiere Monday at the Tribeca Film Festival in New York.

At about the age of 30, Alexis (real name Robert) began living life as a female.

"I'm a man, but I'm also a transsexual, which means I am also part woman," says Alexis. "Got news for you -- it's not rocket science, people."

Alexis talked about his family and whether they accept him as a sister and a daughter. "I see them wanting to make it okay for me, but I don't know, will they ever see me as a sister? I hope so. I mean, I think it's difficult for them. I think they do see me as flawed; I do think they do think I'm damaged goods, in a way."


But she insists that she has the support of the entire Arquette family.

"We love our brother," says Rosanna. "If he wants to be our sister, we are happy for him. Whatever he wants."


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Britney Spears' Dad Blames Spears For Her Own Problems

Britney Spears' father has decided he has something to say about his daughter's wild antics a few months ago.

He blames Britney for her problems and rehab stint, and says that she blames everyone else including her family and her manager for her problems when she needs to step up and take responsibility for her own actions.

Right on dad. Sounds good to me. No one was twisting Britney's arm when she hung out with rat whore-Hilton and flashed her snatch to photogs, or when she shaved her head.

Jamie (Daddy) Spears defended Britney's former manager in an email written to PageSix.

"When Larry Rudolph talked Britney into going into rehab, he was doing what her mother, father and team of professionals with over 100 years of experience knew needed to be done," Spears writes. "She was out of control. Larry was the one chosen by the team to roll up his sleeves and deliver the message, to help save her life.

"The Spears family would like to publicly apologize to Larry for our daughter's statements about him over the past few weeks. Unfortunately, she blames him and her family for where she is at today with her kids and career. Larry has always been there for Britney. For this, we will forever be grateful to him."

Spears responded to PageSix about her father's remarks via her rep: "I am praying for my father. We have never had a good relationship. It's sad that all the men that have been in my life do not know how to accept a real woman's love. I am concentrating on my work and my life right now."

Britney obviously doesn't really respond to her dad's remarks, rather she flings mud back at him and plays the sympathy card. Face it Britney, daddy is right. You were a total mess and it was your own doing. Now you're burning bridges. Not a smart thing to do.

You should have just responded by admitting what a trainwreck you were and that you've gotten stronger than your problems. But you chose to pull a Lohan and shun your dad then tell everyone what a dick he is.

It's the cool thing to do. Everyone's doing it.

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Celebrity Quote of the Day - Ivanka Trump

"Nobody [in the family] is doing anything for the sake of being famous. It's all for the sake of raising the price per square foot we're able to get on saleable real estate."

- Ivanka Trump in response to accusations that her father is power hungry

Virgie Had a Son With Her Stepbrother

Ok. This is some weird shit.

And so confusing, that I am going to take this word for word from TMZ. See if you can keep up..

"Virgie's mom, Paralee, married a guy named Melvin and had Virgie.

In another part of Texas, a guy named George William Tacker got together with this chick named Betty Jo and had a son named David Luther Tacker.

Then Paralee and George got married, so Virgie and David became their stepkids. They were all one big happy family -- maybe too happy, because Virgie hooked up with her stepbrother to produce David Luther Tacker, Jr."

So, David Sr. is Virgie's stepbrother and her baby daddy. WTF! I can hear the banjos now..

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Brad and Angelina on the Verge of a Big Breakup?

That's the word on the street, but what truth is there to the rumor?


They say that every rumor has just a little bit of truth in it, so where's the kernel of truth in this story? Daily Mail finds out.

The following article is great, I had to publish it in it's entirety. Defintely worth a read...


By J. RANDY TARABORRELLI

She wants it all - babies, fame, and to save the world. But what she definitely doesn't want is marriage. So - could it be true? Is Angelina getting ready to dump Brad?

Sitting at a bar in the Roosevelt Hotel in Hollywood is a blond, good-looking man with well-chiselled features on an instantly recognizable face.

"You know what it's like to be on the cover of every magazine, having your personal life dissected with all the lies, all the rubbish?" he asks me. He takes a swig from a bottle of beer and says: "It's hell. Certainly, pick on me - but why pick on Angelina? That's so low. She's such an amazing woman - like Supergirl, in every way."

I had just happened upon Brad Pitt while walking through the hotel and went over to say hello. He was by himself, waiting for friends, and said: "I'm sorry if I seem to be taking my frustration out on you."

"So, how are things going with you and Angelina, anyway?" I ask. He smiles and replies: "Oh sure, like I'm going to talk to you about that."

His attitude isn't surprising in view of reports that Angelina Jolie is thinking about ending it with him after just a couple of years of unwedded bliss.


According to these stories, the actress recently left Brad to take care of their three adopted children, Maddox, five, Zahara, two, and Pax, three, and their own child, Shiloh, born barely a year ago, while she went to Chicago to work on a new movie called Wanted.

This was just a week after she had adopted Pax and told a newspaper in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, where he was adopted: "I will stay at home to help Pax adjust to his new life."

Next month, she's due in Prague for more filming and will then hit the road to promote another movie, A Mighty Heart. Meanwhile, Brad is supposedly at his wits' end as he tries to figure out how to handle the huge and sudden responsibility of parenthood (despite the typical Hollywood team of nannies and other functionaries).

Reports have it that the passion between Brad and Angelina has cooled in the past year and she's very close to breaking up with him. Considering these two have been generating news stories for more than two years - ever since meeting in 2004 on the set of Mr And Mrs Smith - their break-up would be the biggest showbiz story of the year.

To discover the truth, I have contacted some of her friends and associates. According to one of these reliable sources, Angelina, 31, is adamant she wants to return to work and doesn't appear too bothered about how she balances her career with motherhood.

"She took a couple of years off doing her work as a goodwill ambassador for the UN, spending time with Brad and the kids. Now she wants back into movies. If it were up to Brad, I think she would not work for a while, but it's not up to him.

"She believes she can have it all and, as she once told me: 'I will have it all. Just wait and see!' As for the headlines about her and Brad, she's used to controversy. It doesn't bother her much."

That is certainly true. The first time I met Jolie was in 2001 at a reception for her movie Lara Croft: Tomb Raider. She was wearing a flowing black gown with a plunging neckline which, along with her long, raven-coloured hair and heavy eye make-up, made her look more like a creature of the night than a movie star.

Seeming dark and enigmatic, she flirted openly with the male reporters. I couldn't help but wonder whether certain rumours about her were true. For instance, there was a lot of speculation at the time that she and her brother, James Haven, were in an incestuous relationship.

Why? Because when she won her Golden Globe in 2000 for Girl, Interrupted, she actually made out with him backstage, her arms around his neck, her lips all over his. It was pretty creepy. When I tackled her, she simply asked with an arched eyebrow: "Do I look like the kind of woman who would have sex with her own brother?"

I answered: "Well, I don't know what that kind of woman looks like."

"Exactly," she countered. Then, as she drifted off, she looked over her shoulder and winked at me. Confirmation or denial? I wasn't sure. One thing was certain, though: I'd never had a stranger moment with a celebrity.

It's interesting how her image has since changed. Today, Angelina Jolie is thought of as a philanthropic woman concerned about poverty-stricken countries and the adoption of disadvantaged children. As a UN ambassador, she is respected for donating money for hospitals and shelters.

Certainly, Pitt's status was elevated just by his association with her. "She's expanded his horizons," says a friend from his home state of Missouri. "He's a totally different man. It's like he's living with Mother Teresa now as she ministers to the poor, the sick, the orphaned."

Not long ago, it definitely wasn't Mother Teresa who sprang to mind when one thought of Angelina Jolie. In 1996, when marrying her first husband, British actor Jonny Lee Miller, she used her own blood to paint his name on the white shirt she wore at the ceremony.

Then, in keeping with her vampire image, she wore a vial full of the blood of her second husband, Billy Bob Thornton, around her neck.

She also admitted to being fascinated by knives, corpses and mortuary science (she took embalming classes in Los Angeles at the age of 15!) and said she was fascinated with sado-masochistic sex.

Talking of her first sexual relationship, she said: "I brought knives out and we had a night where we attacked each other. It was so primitive and it felt so honest. But then I had to deal with not telling my mother - and wearing bandages to high school."

She also said she was bisexual, admitting to an affair with actress Jenny Shimizu, who later observed Jolie "has a very dominant personality".

It's remarkable that Angelina has managed to reinvent herself, but what makes this process even more astonishing is that she achieved it at a time when many people blamed her for Brad ending his popular marriage to Jennifer Aniston.

There had been persistent rumors that Jolie and Pitt were romantically involved when the Friends actress announced her marriage to Brad was over. Less than a month later, Pitt and Jolie were photographed frolicking on the beach. But while the reputation of being "the other woman" might have destroyed the careers of some actresses, the scandal didn't even dent Jolie's image.

Remarkably, she has prospered using her own instinct and without a publicist. That is a rarity in Hollywood - a star who doesn't have at least one lackey to clean up private messes for public consumption.

Above all, she uses the media to her advantage. People close to her have revealed that she carefully orchestrates many of the photographs taken of her. She calls paparazzi and tells them where she'll be, and even asks for copies if she likes the photos.

Typical was when she collected her adopted son, Pax, from the Tam Binh Orphanage in Vietnam. A few days later, she staged photos of herself, Pitt and the kids and sold them to magazines for millions of dollars - then gave all proceeds to charities.

Her attitude was that the magazines would manage to get their own pictures in due course and she said privately: "I may as well control how they get them, make them pay and use the money for a good purpose."

Tellingly, an executive on the Hollywood magazine Variety said: "Nowadays, she is perceived as somewhat saint-like - a woman who only wants to do good in the world. When you're in her presence, she's so serene, you'd feel like an idiot asking a dumb question such as: 'So, did you break up Jennifer Aniston's home?'"

On the rare occasion when she has been forced to explain what happened with the Pitt-Aniston marriage, she has come across as most self-possessed. "To be intimate with a married man, when my own father cheated on my mother, is not something I could forgive. I could not look at myself in the morning if I did that. I wouldn't be attracted to a man who would cheat on his wife," she said.

Only in January 2006, when Angelina was clearly pregnant, did she confirm she was carrying Pitt's child.

But then came the problems. "It's been downhill from there for them," said one of the couple's intimates. "It was too much too soon, especially for Brad. They're bickering an awful lot these days. They're like an old married couple with kids - and they never even got married."

According to Jim Cruse, who has known the actor for many years: "Brad always said he wanted a family. But you should be careful what you ask for. He got four kids in two years, all under the age of six. It's no picnic.

"Angelina is great with the kids - she loves her children. But they both still want to make movies."

Cruse says the couple are helped by being able to take the children to a day-care center in nearby Burbank when they are working in Los Angeles.

Indeed, security at the popular Bright Horizons center is at an all-time high now that the Jolie-Pitt brood is enrolled. Other parents are asked not to use mobile phones to ensure they don't take pictures of Pitt, Jolie or their children. "So it's not as if either Brad or Angelina is chained to the house with a bunch of screaming kids all day," says Jim Cruse.

Still, a friend of Jolie's seemed to suggest that Angelina could get out of the relationship easily if she chose: "She's been married twice before. She knows she's not the marrying kind, which is why she hasn't married Brad.

"He's much more domesticated. He'd marry her in a second if that's what she wanted. She doesn't. So, if it ends, I think she could extricate herself without too much trouble."

Her friends well remember, of course, when Angelina and Billy Bob Thornton were so inseparable it seemed impossible she would ever leave him. Yet that marriage ended very suddenly. Angelina explained that she "woke up one day and felt differently, and that was the end of that".

Added Jim Cruse: "I don't think she's ever really been content. If you ask me, this thing about her 'wanting it all' is just another way of saying she's never happy. The truth is that she makes no excuses for who she is. She thinks of herself as a survivor."

Angelina Jolie is a survivor. Although she comes from a broken home, it made her more resilient. She's made a fortune in a tough, cut-throat business and with her professional reputation still intact: she's well-regarded among her peers.

Her manager, Geyer Kosinski, vehemently denies she is placing her career over her family. "Angelina worked a total of only 35 days last year and is currently scheduled to work 40 days this year."

However, others in her camp tell a different story. They say she's got four more movies on the horizon: two this year - Atlas Shrugged, an adaptation of the Ayn Rand novel, and The Changeling, a drama directed by Clint Eastwood - and two more next year. Will she be able to manage it all - busy career and hectic home life? Who knows.

"Brad would be devastated if the relationship ended," concludes Jim Cruse. "She's a lot tougher than he is. She would see to it that he gets to see the kids because they think of him as their father. Then she'd just get on with her life."

Such thoughts make her out to be rather cold. But maybe that's how it has to be when a woman who wants it all is faced with the possibility of not being able to have it that way.


In trying to balance everything - movie star career, "husband", family life - something might have to give and probably - hopefully, anyway - it won't be the kids.

"But what's going to happen when she's left alone with a whole bunch of children and no man?" asked one concerned friend of the actress. "Is she finally going to be happy then? She'll have her independence, sure. But then what?"

RADAR Interviews Jon Voight

Radar talks to Voight about the Patriot Act, his daughter Angelina Jolie, her children, and of course, the media.

RADAR: Was the Iraq war part of the war on terror before we got there?
JON VOIGHT: I'm interested in talking about this, but it's been so politicized, it's very disturbing, very dangerous. My view of it is this: they say our president lied to us. Well, he didn't lie to us, everybody else had the information he had, and they voted for that tactic.

So I imagine you're a supporter of the Patriot Act?
Yes, I'm a supporter of the Patriot Act. I support protecting us and investigating anyone who indicates they're going to be dangerous to our country. It's one of those things; it depends on which side you're on politically. If we had these things in place we could have anticipated 9/11. We're not interested in investigating someone who's doing something appropriate. We don't have time for that. That's nonsense. I certainly hope we're paying close attention to all those people crossing our borders who might be dangerous to us. We know for sure there are cells in the United States that are ready to erupt. We know that Hezbollah is here; we know there are cells from different terrorist organization that are here and operational and that there are others waiting too. So listen, it's a serious business. It's wartime, guys. Because we don't have a continuous attack on our shores, we can get complacent. We've got to all be alert now, we've got to be a part of it and be supportive of our troops for sure.

Even if you disapprove of the war, it seems pretty clear that simply pulling the troops out might not be the best option.
More than that, the war does not end. When we look around and see the evidence of what is being done and the preparations that are being made to disrupt our country and to destroy it. This growing cancer of fanaticism, it's like 1938­it's very, very similar.

To the Third Reich?
Yeah.

Islamic fundamentalism?
Whatever you call it, the things that are being said are very similar. It's a matter of whether we recognize that or go into a cocoon and make our own little drama. Do you know what I'm saying? We're debating things instead of recognizing that the real fundamental aspect is that we're at war with a very vicious, very clever enemy.

The press has been unkind about your relationship with Angelina Jolie over the last few years. One recent item had you flubbing the name of one of her daughters.
What! Flubbed the name?

Do you have any response?
No, listen, I haven't been in touch with the kids and I would love to be spending time with them, that's all. I have nothing to say, people want to make news out of everything. It's just a cruel slap at somebody and it becomes a part of our mythology, we can't correct it. I don't want to bring attention to it again. It always hurts me when things are brought back to the fore that are distorted. I send my love to Angie and her family.

Read the full interview here.