iTrashTV.com - ET. -Gossip, Entertainment News & Videos: January 2007
Sunday, January 21, 2007
Dethroned Miss Nevada USA Katie Rees Speaks Out About Racy Photos
Newly Dethroned Miss Nevada USA Katie Rees says she was devastated when provocative photos of her partying and posing in various stages of undress emerged on the Internet.
Miss USA officials, including Donald Trump, last month stripped Rees of her tiara and the chance to compete in the national pageant after the photos appeared.
"When I saw them I was just devastated," the 22-year-old aspiring actress tells the TV show "Inside Edition" in an interview to air Monday. "I was shocked. I'm not proud at all, but what is done is done, and all I can do is move forward."
"We were just out being goofy girls and celebrating," she says. "We had a few drinks, which I don't condone, but we were just having a good time."
Rees, who claims she didn't remember taking the photos, says they predated her reign as Miss Nevada. She won the crown at the pageant last April.
While Miss USA Tara Conner was given a second chance by Trump, Rees says she was treated unfairly.
"These are things that I didn't do during my reign as Miss Nevada," she claims. "These are things that were done three years prior to knowing that I would be a public figure."
"I deserved that title," she continues. "I deserved everything that it embodies and I worked hard for it. I don't see why these pictures change the person that I was when I won it."
So what became of her crown and banner, which Rees says she was asked to send back.
"They got lost," she says.
More Photos in iTrashTV STUFF Find In The Video Section "To Kiss And Tell" Night Club
Grey's Anatomy Star Apologizes To Gay Co-Star T.R. Knight
American network ABC has rebuked Grey's Anatomy star Isaiah Washington over an anti-gay comment he made backstage at the Golden Globe Awards.
Washington also responded to the growing controversy over his remark, issuing a public apology on Thursday to co-star T.R. Knight, and to the gay and lesbian community.
Washington used the word "faggot" in a press conference at the Golden Globes. He was denying using the term in a conflict with Knight that dated back to October.
Washington was criticized by the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation, which wants a meeting to discuss "the destructive impact of these kinds of anti-gay slurs."
In his apology, Washington acknowledged using the term Monday night.
"I apologize to T.R., my colleagues, the fans of the show, and especially the lesbian and gay community for using a word that is unacceptable in any context or circumstance," he said.
BEST MOTION PICTURE — COMEDY OR MUSICAL Dreamgirls - Winner
BEST DIRECTOR — MOTION PICTURE Martin Scorsese (The Departed) - Winner
BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS IN A MOTION PICTURE — DRAMA Helen Mirren (The Queen) - Winner
BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS IN A MOTION PICTURE — COMEDY OR MUSICAL Meryl Streep (The Devil Wears Prada) - Winner
BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR IN A MOTION PICTURE — DRAMA Forest Whitaker (The Last King of Scotland) - Winner
BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR IN A MOTION PICTURE — COMEDY OR MUSICAL Sacha Baron Cohen (Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan) - Winner
BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE IN A MOTION PICTURE Jennifer Hudson (Dreamgirls) - Winner
BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE IN A MOTION PICTURE Eddie Murphy (Dreamgirls) - Winner
Video Of Steve Irwin's Encounter With Stringray Will Not Go Viral
No viral video for YouTube and a host of other share sites, the only video of Australian "Crocodile Hunter" Steve Irwin's fatal encounter with a stingray has been destroyed, according to his widow.
Irwin, 44, died on September 4 last year after a stingray's serrated barb pierced his heart while he was filming under water off Australia's coast.
Australian authorities last week said that they had completed an investigation into Irwin's death and, to ensure it is never made public, destroyed all but one copy of a tape showing Irwin's death.
The incident was captured by the documentary crew of "Ocean's Deadliest," the Discovery wildlife special Irwin was filming at the time of his death.
This video was handed to his widow, Terri Irwin, who told TV's "Access Hollywood" in an interview being aired on Thursday and Friday this week that she had now destroyed this footage.
"There's standard protocols for examining certain evidence and that's no longer necessary," she told "Access Hollywood."
Asked whether she kept the video returned to her, she said, "Oh no, all footage has been destroyed."
But while the video of his death has been destroyed, footage from the rest of the shoot will make its debut in a one-off special on The Discovery Channel and Animal Planet on January 21 with a two-hour showing of "Ocean's Deadliest."
"We're very proud that Steve's last documentary is going to air and that's his last footage with wildlife," said his widow.
Terri Irwin and the couple's eight-year-old daughter Bindi will be in the United States when the show is broadcast, where the youngster is kicking off her U.S show business career and promoting her own upcoming Discovery kids wildlife series, "Bindi, The Jungle Girl."
In a series of U.S. television interviews this week, Bindi spoke about the sadness of losing her father and her determination to pursue a career in show business, despite criticisms that her advisers were rushing her into the limelight.
"I want to make him the proudest dad to have me and I want to show everybody, and nearly be as good as him because he was the best," Bindi told CNN host Larry King.
It's true Steve Irwin was the best at whatever he did, family man, entertainer, conservationist and just being Steve Irwin.
Legal papers will be served against Mel Gibson this week by a woman claiming she is his daughter.
Mel may be forced to have a DNA test to prove he is or is not the father of 29 year old Carmel Sloane.
Carmel's mother Marilyn claims to have been hitchhiking in Sydney, Australia in 1976 when she caught a ride with then-unknown actor Mel and got pregnant after the two spent the night togther. She told the News of the World: "It crossed my mind to try to get in touch, but I didn't know his address."
Marilyn didn't realise Mel had become famous until she saw a poster for Mad Max 3 eight years later but didn't try to get back in touch with Mel until he bought a house in Australia in 1995 and than again in 1996 when Carmel's son Jordan was born.
Marilyn told the newspaper: "I didn't want to cause trouble but I wanted him to know about Carmel. I thought he might want to know her.
Carmel added that getting to know Mel is her only motivation starting the legal proceedings, "I'm not doing it for his money. I just want to meet the man I've always known was my dad, and for him to get to know his grandson."
"I have grown up being told Mel Gibson is my father. I've been told it for 20 years. I would like some kind of closure either way. I don¡¯t want it to go on for another 20 years."
"I would love to meet him but I wouldn't expect to be part of his life. I'm not looking for a piece of the pie or that lifestyle. I would like him to know he has a grandson who is a great kid. He is very bright and creative. He would be proud of him."
"We have no choice but to go legal so that we can get to the bottom of this once and for all. A simple DNA test will sort it out."
Britney, Paris And Lindsay Top Blackwells' List Worst Dressed
Paris Hilton and Britney Spears have been named the world's worst-dressed women in an annual US list of celebrity fashion disasters.
Fashion critic Mr Blackwell put the "style-free and fashion deprived" showbiz friends top of his list, which he has published every year since 1960.
The pair, who have often been pictured out on the town together, were "two peas in an overexposed pod", he added.
Meanwhile, Hilton has pleaded not guilty to drink driving in Los Angeles.
The heiress was arrested in Hollywood in September. She did not appear in court on Tuesday but her lawyer entered the not guilty plea.
Next on the Blackwell list was Camilla Parker Bowles, the Duchess of Cornwall, who was described as "the Duchess of Dowdy".
Actress Lindsay Lohan had gone from "adorable to deplorable", he said, while Christina Aguilera was "all crass and no class".
Mariah Carey was "Mariah the fashion pariah", American Idol judge Paula Abdul was "a fallen fashion idol" and Sharon Stone was "an over-the-hill Cruella DeVille", he declared.
But the former designer had kind words for Kate Winslet, Dame Helen Mirren, Angelina Jolie, Beyonce and Katie Holmes.
Russell Crowe has plane rage at a flight attendant after finding his wife had eaten his favourite chicken satay.
"If I tell you I want something, you put it aside for me. Or wake me up. Is there some kind of language barrier here?" the actor reportedly told the flight attendant on a chartered private jet during a publicity tour for his latest film, A Good Year.
According to the New York Daily News, the New Zealand-born actor has a long list of food demands in-flight, including red curry beef, chicken and cashews, white-flesh fish, passionfruit, yoghurt and dandelion tea.
And according to the flight attendant, she was told by someone who has flown with the Oscar-winning actor: "If one item is missing from this, you're going to have a very long and difficult flight."
No punches were thrown, but difficult the flight was.
When Crowe woke from a sleep and asked for the chicken satay, only to be told his wife, Danielle Spencer, had eaten the lot, he took it out on the attendant who told the News: "I've flown actors, singers, boxers, princes. He treated us like peons."
Scarlett Johansson the new upcoming diva, it becoming known as "Hard to work with."
She's denied reports that she threw some serious strops on the set of Justin Timberlake's new music video.
She teamed up with Justin but the event has been dogged by speculation that the actress threw the odd tantrum.
Scarlett was said to have got a little stroppy when she wasn't allowed to smoke on set, and allegedly said: "How come we have fire dancers, but I can't smoke?"
Eating in front of her was also reportedly banned, with her bodyguard telling crew members to go somewhere else if they were going to eat.
Her publicist Marcel Pariseau has blasted the claims, according to the New York Daily News.
A man has been charged with trying to extort $1.5 million from Oprah Winfrey by threatening to release recorded telephone conversations he claimed would hurt her reputation, according to the FBI and published reports.
Keifer Bonvillain, 36, targeted a person identified only as "a public figure and the owner of a Chicago-based company," according to a criminal complaint filed in U.S. District Court. The Chicago Tribune and the Chicago Sun-Times, citing unnamed sources, reported Saturday that Bonvillain's target was Winfrey.
Bonvillain, of Atlanta, was arrested Dec. 15 in the parking lot of an Atlanta hotel and released on $20,000 bail. He was scheduled for a preliminary hearing in Chicago on Monday.
According to the complaint, Bonvillain met a California-based employee of the Chicago company at a party more than two years ago, then recorded conversations with the employee about the owner and her business.
In mid-October he sent the owner an e-mail, telling her an employee said awful things about her, the complaint states.
A month later, Bonvillain sent a letter saying he had tapes of the conversations, an FBI agent alleges in the complaint. In response, another associate of the company called Bonvillain and learned he had taped 12 hours of those discussions.
Over the next few weeks, Bonvillain told the associate he wanted to publish a book based on the tapes and claimed he had received offers of $500,000 to $3 million from tabloids and book publishers, the complaint said.
"There are a lot of people who would want these," Bonvillain said, according to the complaint.
The associate, who was working with the FBI, agreed to a $1.5 million price, wired Bonvillain $3,000 in earnest money and arranged to meet him in the parking lot, the complaint said. Bonvillain was arrested the next day.
Bonvillain told the Sun-Times the charges were a misunderstanding.
"There is nothing to it," he said. "It's nothing. It was a big mix-up."
"Paris Hilton You're Fired" ClubParis Gives Her The Boot
Paris Hilton will no longer be associated with the nightclubs called Club Paris, because the socialite's failure to attend scheduled appearances has angered the clubs owner.
Fred Khalilian refuses to change the name of his flagship club in Orlando, Florida, or that of its sister club in nearby Jacksonville.
He has now "fired" Hilton, who even arrived six hours late for the Orlando club's opening two years ago, and wants the two Club Paris Night Clubs to refer to the French capital instead.
As reported by via hollywood.com, Khalilian says, "She's created a circus for herself. It's all about, How has she screwed up now?"
Hilton's spokesman Elliot Mintz, who claims neither Hilton nor himself have been contacted by Khalilian, says, "I'm certainly disappointed to learn of Fred's unfortunate comments. We shall address his statements at the appropriate time."
Kid Rock Wants To Fight Tommy Lee Over Pamela Anderson
Kid Rock wanted to beat up Tommy Lee on New Year's Eve, but broke into the wrong hotel room.
Kid Rock who is currently divorcing Pamela Anderson, who was previously married to Tommy was left fuming after hearing the former Motley Crue drummer and the Baywatch actress had hooked up again.
Overtaken by rage, Kid allegedly stormed over to the Hard Rock Hotel in Las Vegas, where Tommy was staying at the time, and started breaking down what he thought was the drummer's door.
However, once Kid gained entry he realised he had smashed into the wrong room, as Tommy was staying on a different floor.
So he went over at 6am with two bodyguards, and began kicking down what he thought was Tommy's door. Only it wasn't, and Kid found himself staring at some poor, startled family.
He signed an autograph for them as security arrived, then bolted over to the Paradise strip club."
Even though a brawl was avoided, Tommy - who is in Vegas performing with his new band Rock Star: Supernova is expecting more trouble from Kid.
The baby is due this summer, Roberts' publicist, Marcy Engelman, said in a story posted on the magazine's Web site. News of the pregnancy first appeared in the New York Post's.
Roberts, 39, and Moder, 37, have 2-year-old twins, Hazel and Phinnaeus, who were born in November 2004. The couple were married in July 2002 at Roberts' home in Taos, N.M.
Roberts is the voice of the wise spider in the film adaptation of "Charlotte's Web." She'll next be seen in the drama "Charlie Wilson's War," directed by Mike Nichols and also starring Tom Hanks, scheduled for release next year.
Newly Dethroned Miss Nevada USA Katie Rees says she was devastated when provocative photos of her partying and posing in various stages of undress emerged on the Internet.
