Posted Oct 6th 2009 9:49AM by TMZ Staff
Here’s former First Lady Laura Bush at an event in NYC on Monday (left), Jack Nicholson as The Joker in “Batman” (center), and Delta Burke at an awards show in L.A. this past weekend (right).
All three have got killer smiles.
We’re just sayin’.
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Former Late Show with David Letterman staffer Stephanie Birkitt said in her private diary that she continued having sex with Dave even after moving in with her CBS-producer boyfriend, Robert Halderman, who later allegedly tried to extort him.
According to the New York Post, Letterman and Birkitt enjoyed romantic hikes last fall at his ranch in Montana, where he married Regina Lasko in March.
All the while, Birkitt’s beau Halderman, a CBS News producer, was home in Norwalk, Conn. Birkitt told him she and Dave had “a platonic relationship.”
“I’m his best friend,” Stephanie Birkitt told a worried Robert “Joe” Halderman.
Stephanie Birkitt’s rumored cheating on Robert Halderman, her boyfriend of several years, may have driven him to blackmail David Letterman, according to reports.
Apparently, he was such a good friend that at least once a week, he drove Birkitt to the house she lived in with Halderman since he divorced his wife in 2004.
According to the diary, Birkitt, a recent graduate of Benjamin Cardozo Law School in New York, was offered a job by Letterman to be his personal attorney.
Birkitt later tried to use the generous offer to persuade Halderman to have children, saying she’d make good money and he could stay home with the kids.
Halderman reportedly went through the roof when he read Birkitt’s diary in December, after she moved out (and somehow inexplicably left her private diary).
It was then he learned she was still carrying on an affair with Letterman.
These details emerged as Letterman returned to the Late Show for the first time since Thursday, when he revealed he’d had sexual affairs with female staffers and became targeted in a $2 million extortion plot by Halderman as a result.
Last night, Letterman attempted to blend humor with earnest apologies as he made many jokes at his own expense, then turned serious as he addressed the affairs, apologizing to wife Regina and his staff for the pain he’s caused.
We don’t cover all that much TV news, but when reports begin circulating about threesomes on Gossip Girl, that crosses over into our kind of salacious gossip!
Yes, there’s going to be a real Gossip Girl threesome on the CW drama’s November 9 episode. Three of the major characters. In bed. Going at it. Together.
The only question is the obvious one: Who’s involved in this thing?!
We don’t have the answer to that, nor do we even know the male-female ratio of those involved – though we’re guessing FMF or MFM, not three of one gender.
Some of the scenarios we have to imagine are more likely than others:
There are plenty of other combinations. Who do you think it is?
It’s gotta be Chuck (Ed Westwick), Blair (Leighton Meester) and someone … right?
While the world awaits the Bethenny Frankel nude PETA campaign, the Real Housewives of New York City star assures fans they won’t need to wait much longer see her star in her very own program.
“The spinoff news is totally true,” Frankel told Us Weekly, while also shooting down talk that Sonja Morgan would replace her on the Bravo series:
“Me being replaced after five episodes is totally false. I haven’t started doing the spinoff show. I have started doing Housewives.”
But what about Morgan, who does look to be coming aboard the series?
“If you do the math, they replaced someone on Atlanta, and on Orange County, they only have two of the originals. But I don’t know anything that you don’t know. I would imagine that you don’t have to be Angela Lansbury to figure out that eventually they may replace one of us.”
To our readers under the age of 75: Angela Lansbury is best known for her role as an author/detective on the former drama Murder, She Wrote.
As for Frankel’s reality show, “it will be just about my entire life,” the socialite says, adding that boyfriend Jason Hoppy may be involved.
“If I know Bravo and if they know me, I just think it will be the truth, which is the balance between career and relationships and all things in between. If he is part of my life, he will be part of the show.”
In related news: anyone that watches this program is in serious, serious need of a life.
In Round #578 of the most ridiculous sleaze-said-she-said PR exchange THG can ever recall, Jon Gosselin is firing back at estranged wife Kate Gosselin.
Jon takes issue with Kate’s claim that he withdrew $230,000 from a joint account from August 10-present (how do you even do that, in $10s and $20s?).
Kate claims he took all their liquid assets and that their kids can’t eat.
According to The Insider, Jon Gosselin calls this story “a total fabrication … I withdrew $22,000 last Thursday, and I have the paper trail to prove it.”
Last week and again on various talk shows Monday, Kate tearfully said that Jon ganked their money and left her unable to pay bills for their children.
“If I have to work at McDonald’s, I’ll do what I have to,” Kate said by phone on The View, having filed court papers to force Jon to return the money.
These two really need to get in a cage and finish this for good.
Kate’s lawyer also wants Jon to be held in contempt for his actions, which team Kate says defy a court order. But Jon is blasting his estranged wife, who he says is lying about how much money he’s got and about being nearly destitute.
“I’ve never taken any money out because over 10 years, Kate handled all the banking,” he said. “Over the past four years of doing the show, we accrued $2,250,000.”
“She says in the past week I took $230,000. I have withdrawn $177,000 over the course of a year, less than 10 percent of what we made. That’s like my paycheck.”
Jon Gosselin says if you want fuzzy math, look at the reverse mullet.
“She’s hiding money,” he said. “We have 11 bank accounts. That was just our joint account. She had a best-selling book, remember? Where’s that million dollars?”
“I believe she’s incriminating herself and not thinking clearly. She wants me to look bad. I didn’t want these things to be public or for this to be embarrassing.”
Whose side are you on?
Alliston Iraheta’s debut single is “Friday I’ll Be Over You.” Allison made it to American Idol’s top 4 and her album will be released on Dec. 1.
When asked what fans will take away from ‘Friday I’ll Be Over You,’ Allison said, “It’s a song everyone can relate to. It’s a pretty simple song. It ain’t too hard to understand. I think people will really just be like ‘Yeah!’ … hopefully.”
And when it comes to Idol, Allison said that it was “pretty hard” for her to be herself, saying, You’re already portrayed as someone else. It’s kind of hard to come out as who you really are. But, now people get a chance to know who we are, going to see us on tour and stuff.
I love Allison, but this song is a horrible way for her to launch her solo career. She is much better than this absolute CRAP! Although I’m skurred of her debut album now, I still hope it will at least go gold.
Allison Iraheta Friday I’ll Be Over You
My reaction right after watching the video below: ‘Aaaaaaaahhhhhhh!’ Nancy Grace is THE pit bull of all talking head pit bulls and when she’s unleashed on Jon Gosselin, she does not hold back. If Jon thought that Kate Gosselin was bad and made him passive, he was in for one hell of a televised surprise. You’re gonna want an encore of this mess. I gotta search YouTube for more.
Unlike when David Letterman announced that he had affairs last week, on Monday’s Late Show, the late night host was pretty serious. He said it never occurred to him that his female staff would be harassed now for something he did in the past. Weird.
He also said that his wife Regina Lasko is “horribly hurt” by his actions. Dunno if it’s just me, but I think Dave gets choked up a bit when he says that he has his work cut out for him in order to repair his marriage.
Dave’s been cheating for a long time and we may never know how many co-workers or women in general he was with during his relationship with Regina. She must be wondering the same thing. As a Letterman fan, I believe that his grown folk’s business is his own damn business. But Regina? Damn, I wouldn’t wanna be her.
… Well Jon Gosselin is stealing money, so I guess they’re even then, right? Yesterday Jon told The Insider that he didn’t violate an arbitrator’s orders by withdrawing $230k from a joint account with Kate Gosselin. Jon says he withdrew $22k last Thursday and has “the paper trail to prove it.”
Kate Gosselin also lost some credibility in my book by saying the following: “If I have to work at McDonald’s, I will do what I have to for my kids,” That’s not true cause Kate’s a diva and the only way she could get by feeding her army on McDonald’s wages would be if she was banging all the managers in her Micky D’s regional district and they compensated her for private services.
Now that Jonny realizes that looking like a thief is a PR nightmare, the womanizer is trying to explain, saying:
“I’ve never taken any money out because over 10 years, Kate handled all the banking… She says in the past week I took $230,000. I have withdrawn roughly $177,000 over the course of a year, which is less than 10 percent of what we made. That’s like my paycheck.”
What a coward! He can’t discuss retrieving his “paycheck” with his wife first?
Jon goes on to say that Kate’s numbers don’t add up. Jon claims that Kate “had a best-selling book” that probably earned a “million dollars” that’s unaccounted for. Jealous?! He says that Kate’s “not thinking clearly” and he “didn’t want this to be embarrassing for her.”
This man is fluent in some Jedi mind tricks sh*t. Jonny, this is embarrassing for YOU and you know it. Get over yourself.
How’s that for an encore? Pete Wentz and Blink-182’s Mark Hoppus seem to think that flat ironed hair is so emo, and it’s time to change things up.
Before Mark shaves off Pete Wentz’s hair on stage, Pete declares that “jay-z had the death of autotune. this is the death of the emo swoosh.” Seriously, dude STFU.
I like Pete in guyliner with his greasy, long bangs handing over his forehead. He has a fat face. I dunno if a buzz cut is the way to go with this one, bro.
Since LeAnn is gonna be so bold as to steal Brandi’s husband, Brandi Glanville has every right to say whatever she wants about her, and that she does.
Brandi says that LeAnn has moved into a house that’s only a half a mile from Brandi’s and only one block away from her son’s school. Brandi also says that her run-ins with the LeAnn Homewrecker are “not pleasant.”
“There is a point where she needs to have a sensitive side and back the F up,” she says. Brandi has even watched LeAnn picking up her six year-old Mason from school.
LeAnn’s a taker! “Honestly, she wants my life. She wants my kids. She wants my husband. She can have most of everything but just not my children or my family.”
Brandi says that transition for the kids has been smooth since her husband Eddie Cibrian is usually away working anyway. Brandi and Eddie “save face” in front of their children and remain civil for them.
It sounds like Brandi has exchanged some choice words with LeAnn, though. I swear the last thing I would give LeAnn are some choice words, I would have effed up LeAnn’s world long ago if she waltzed in and stole my peen.
Nicole Richie was involved in a car accident in Beverly Hills today. Nicole was rear-ended by a car driven by a paparazzo.
She didn’t have her kids at the time of the crash, but she did have “an adult male passenger” in the car.
Richie is claiming she’s in pain, but will not go to the E.R. — instead she told authorities she will see her own private doctors.
The driver of the other car is being cited for being an unlicensed driver and his car is being impounded.
Considering how much Nicole Richie weighs, this could have been FATAL! No joke, just a lil lame sarcasm. Thank Gawd that she’s okay and I hope her “male passenger” is okay too. Nicole doesn’t need the extra drama, she’s got a newborn waiting for her at home.
Director Peter Kosminsky is considering casting Edward Cullen as Prince Harry in The Spare, a British royal family biopic. Twilight’s Robert Pattinson is being considered for the major role.
Harry Potter’s Rubert Grint and Pride and Prejudice’s Rupert Friend are also in the running to play the wealthy redhead. The script is in the works, and once a lead has been selected, shooting in the UK and the Middle East will begin. Peter said,
“I feel a sense of compassion for the guy. His parents break up in the most spectacularly public way, his mother dies in the most tragic and, again, public way and everything is picked over.”
If Peter has such compassion for the motherless eligible bachelor, then he should do him justice by not casting Patsy as Prince Harry. I’d love for some unknown breakout actor, who would be much more believable, to score the role. Choosing Robert is like casting Oprah Winfrey as Amber Rose. Not exactly very convincing.
When Vivienne and Knox were photographed in an airport in January, I said they were cute simply because of their DNA. I wasn’t sold, I was just being nice cause they did look odd and bloated in the face.
Over the weekend, Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie allowed their 14-month-old twins to see the light of day when they visited an ice cream store in Amman, Jordan. Knox Leon looks like Jayden James in the picture above and he already looks like he should be in a science laboratory conducting research. I think it’s how his hair is combed and the color of his shirt.
Vivienne and Knox are growing up so fast and they’re adorable now. I just wanna eat ‘em up. No seriously, Brangelina’s twins remind me of marshmallows. Which is a good thing cause they honestly looked like chickens before.
Kim Zolciak had luch at one of the paparazzi’s favorite West Hollywood spots, The Ivy. Although Kim Zolciak got engaged to Big Poppa on last week’s Real Housewives of Atlanta episode, the two have allegedly split.
Millionaire Matchmaker’s Patti Sanger may want to make Kim one of her new clients. Kim was complaining about missing Poppa’s money after they broke up the first time.
It’s just that Wiggy Kimmy needs to stop coming off as such a superficial, self-centered twat and then maybe she’ll land her very own white version of Lamar Odom. The next Big Poppa’s gotta have some Caucasian persuasion goin’ cause Kim already said that she doesn’t date black men.
I’ve always been a huge fan of the Tis, but after watching her on Extreme Makeover: Home Edition on Sunday night, I fell in love with her all over again.
Not only does she have a heart of gold when it comes to helping out less fortunate folks, but she’s just your average 24-year-old. Want proof? We snapped her shopping for bicycles with her mom in Hollywood yesterday, and she got super excited when she hopped on a girly pink cruiser. So cute!
Sienna Miller and Jonny Lee Miller look like your average hip New York couple out for a stroll around the neighborhood.
Only problem is, he’s another woman’s husband. But that hasn’t exactly stopped her before, right?
The Millers are currently starring on Broadway in After Miss Julie, but it looks like they’re also enjoying their time together before and after Miss Julie. Should Mrs. Miller be worried?
Yesterday Sophie Monk stopped by the Mac store at the Grove in Los Angeles, and we’re totally digging her fall fashion choices. Even though the temps in So Cal are still pretty balmy, it’s definitely boot and scarf season, and Sophie seems to be having much more success with this look than she had with her summer style.
Chinese fans will get to see the last footage of Michael Jackson at the same time as the rest of us now that Chinese censors have approved This Is It in time for it’s global release date of October 28th.
Sony Pictures execs told The AP that the film won one of the last slots that China awards to foreign releases, which is only 20 films annually.
Li Chow, Sony Pictures Releasing International’s general manager for China said that they intend on giving it as large a release as possible in the country, to account for Jackson’s overwhelming fan base there.
“We’ll do as many prints as possible. It depends on the labs,” Li said.
As of last year, China had about 4,100 screens. It’s likely that an enormous amount of those will be showing This Is It when the film’s released later this month.
Gen. David Petraeus, Commander of the U.S. Central Command, has been successfully treated for early stage prostate cancer.
Petraeus’ spokesman has issued a statement in response to inquiries from the New York Times, saying the general was diagnosed with the condition in February and subsequently underwent radiation treatment for two months at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in D.C.
The treatment was successful and did not interfere with Petraeus’ regular physical training. The general spent four or five days a week in Washington for policy reviews while undergoing radiation, and made at least one overseas trip.
President Barack Obama, Vice President Joseph Biden, Defense Sec. Robert Gates, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Adm. Mike Mullen were all informed, as were other top officials, about the diagnosis and treatment.
The 56-year-old Petraeus is credited with preventing a civil war in Iraq and rewriting U.S. counter-insurgency strategy. He assumed control of CentCom in October last year, relinquishing his post as commander of the Multi-National Force-Iraq to Gen. Ray Odierno as the final stages of an agreement with Baghdad about the drawdawn of U.S. troops was underway.
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