Tragicomical

Travis Barker is thankful to have been alive for yesterday’s Thanksgiving festivities.

Considering that him and DJ AM were almost killed when their jet crashed in September, I’d say they should feel very lucky and thankful to still be with us.

Yesterday, he took the time to express his feelings on the subject. 

On his blog, he says, “I wanted to say thanks….and share my gratitude for everything I’ve been blessed with.  Family, friends, and continued support from everyone.  Thank you for life, and all the little ups and downs that make it worth living.  My best to everyone.”

I’m glad for him and Adam (DJ AM) that they’re both still with us.  But still sad for the lives that the crash claimed.  It was a sad tragedy.

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In her Risky Business looking ad for Guitar Hero, Heidi Klum said that she had fun, but it also left her injured.

She said that she suffered from whiplash after flailing her head from side to side and rug burn after jumping off of the coffee table and onto her knees.

She says, “I head banged for five hours straight.  There was a lot of jumping and running around.  I jumped off the table onto my knees and took a layer of skin off.”

Ahhh….the price to pay for looking sexy to sell the stuff you’re pimping out.  I liked the commercial with the men in it better.  At last Michael Phelps didn’t look like a total butterface in it.

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When he was younger, Hugh Jackman was glad that women assumed he was gay so that he could “act like a vulture” and pick up girls.

After starring as gay performer Peter Allen in the Broadway production of The Boy From Oz, he was surrounded by rumors that he was also gay.

It didn’t help that he was hanging out in gay clubs, either.  Think he dipped his wand into a little gay magic?

He says no.  He said that he went to the clubs where the population was 80 percent gay men along with 18 percent straight women and him and his friend.  After the girls would get drunk, the two of them would prey on the women, who no longer wished to be in the company of gay men. 

Of those situations, he says, “We would go there until two in the morning, when the girls were really drunk and wishing they weren’t with 80 per cent gay guys. (I was) The worst! The leech! The vulture!”

Suuuuuuure.  Methinks doth protest too much?

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I guess that’s what best friends are for.  Paris Hilton and Benji Madden broke it off on November 21st and said that they were “just taking a break”. 

Nicole Richie has stepped in while out with Benji and Joel and has stopped Benji from talking to other women at clubs. 

A source at the launch party for Good Charlotte’s new Greatest Remixes album, says, “Nicole has been really possessive and stops him from talking to other girls.  Benji was approached by dozens of ladies.  Girls were trying to flirt wth him…but Nicole kept getting in the way.  She stopped every girl trying to take a photo of him (and) dragged him by the arm.”

Maybe she has the inside information that Paris might just be testing Benji or something?

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Miley Cyrus is saving her pennies, or millions, I should say.  She says the reason is that she wants to be able to support her parents when they retire.

And why not?  She sure is managing to support them now.  Her dad sure is leeching off of her fame.  He was nobody after his achy breaky career went south.  Then Miley grew up and she’s now this big Disney “teen queen”.  And he’s milking it.

Miley says that she won’t be spending money like water because she wants to save enough to help her parents later in their lives. 

When she was asked about splurging on shopping sprees, she said, “Certainly not.  I wouldn’t have anything left to support my family, because that is what I do.  When I get older, and maybe my parents want to settle down, I want to be able to take care of them.”

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Happy Thanksgiving to everyone!

Hope all of you are enjoying the day off and/or the turkey.  I swore off turkey this year, thanks to Sarah Palin’s video grossing me out.  Jeez, I knew it had to come from somewhere and that it doesn’t just magically appear on my plate, but that was gross.

I have plenty to be thankful for this holiday season.  I have two wonderful sons, a great boyfriend, our health, and all my readers. 

It is to all of you, I give thanks. Normal writing will resume tomorrow.  I’ll not be venturing out for that Black Friday nonsense, either.

What are you thankful for?

Despite what you may have read or heard, Angelina Jolie is not carrying her and Brad Pitt’s seventh baby (ie: the saintly messiah).

InTouchWeekly shows it’s newest cover featuring “Angelina’s pregnancy joy”, but her rep says that’s not the case and the rumors are “not true.”

Take that InTouch! 

It was said that Angelina announced she was pregnant in a restaurant in London when a waiter tried to pour her a drink.  The fuss annoyed Brad Pitt because he wasn’t ready to go public with the news yet.

They have hinted that they’re planning on expanding their brood, but they just had the twins in July.  Can we give her time to recover already?

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According to Page Six, someone is going to get the axe at OK! Magazine right around Thanksgiving.  How’s that for a happy holiday?

Apparently, the bungle came from someone who misspelled Ashlee Simpson’s name on the cover as “Ashley”. 

It’s an honest enough mistake, besides is she really that important that someone gets fired for a spelling error?

A rep for the rag says, “It is highly embarrassing and sadly, someone will probably be fired.”

The jerks.  Makes you want to stop reading the magazine if they’re going to fire someone right before the holidays.

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Just weeks after Susan Toepfer was installed as the new editor-in-chief, the glossy had its first big bungle. It somehow managed to misspell Ashlee Simpson’s name as “Ashley” – on the cover, no less. A rep for the magazine told Page Six, “It is highly embarrassing and, sadly, someone will probably be fired.”

Mariah Carey was on the Ellen DeGeneres show where Ellen asked the singer to toast “not being pregnant” with champagne.

Mariah dodged the champagne by pretending to sip it and saying that she doesn’t drink before 3pm.  Suuuuuure.  I’ve seen pictures of Mariah sipping on champagne a lot and it wouldn’t appear that she had a care for whatever time it was.

I’ve even heard that Mariah has someone she pays to be a holder for her champagne glass.  Talk about a diva.

After Mariah faked drinking the champagne, Ellen declared, “You’re pregnant!”

Mariah replied, “No, no, no.  We will let you know when we’re going to have a family.”

Think she’s knocked up?

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Congratulations to Carson Daly! 

The former host of TRL is going to be a first time dad with girlfriend Siri Pinter in the spring of 2009. 

His representative says, “Carson is thrilled to be a father and they are looking forward to an extra special Thanksgiving this year with family and friends.”

It’s loads better than knocking up Tara Reid, right?

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Britney Spears’ son, Sean Preston Federline, has picked up a rather nasty habit from his dad, dropping the F-bomb.  Nice. 

Britney says of her children, “They’re so smart, yet so innocent.  It’s weird ’cause they’re starting to learn words like ’stupid’, and Preston says the F-word sometimes.  He doesn’t get it from us.  He must get it from his daddy.  I say it, but not around my kids.”

So instead of telling us anything she does to discourage or punish that behavior, her ADD kicks in and she’s talking about something else.

She says, “I think they look like me.  They don’t look like their father at all.”

She also talked about the boys going to preschool, saying, “Like they’re going to preschool now!  I went there to pick them up on Friday, and seeing them in their little classroom and seeing Jayden being bad or not listening?  It’s like, those are mine, and it’s just crazy, you know what I mean?”

Nope, we like, don’t know, like anything about it.  Like.

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For those of us who speculated that Lindsay Lohan and Samantha Ronson were a couple, here’s the proof. 

The two of them were caught sucking face in this black and white clip taken from video.  This video is unrefutable.  The rest of the video leaves a lot to be wondered.  It showed some mashed together clips of Lindsay reportedly falling off of the wagon and having a drink or two of some Grey Goose Vodka.

I could care less if Lindsay has falled off of the wagon, it’s her right to drink if she wants, she’s old enough.  The juicy gossip is that her and Sam were making out even though neither of them have really confirmed that they’re a couple.

What do you think?  Is it more of a big deal that she’s drinking or that she’s actually a lesbian?  I don’t care either way, she’s old enough to do whatever she wants.  I think the bigger story isn’t that she’s gay, but why is she going out of her way to hide it?

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If you’re a fan of Lady GaGa’s music, then please head on over to my website, Earsucker.com and check out my exclusive interview with Lady GaGa herself.

She was very nice and polite.  She dished the details on her name, her album, and the word that Christina Aguilera has stolen her look!

Her music makes me wanna get up and dance!

And I was very excited to talk to her one on one.  She’s awesome. 

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This year, instead of spending time with his children for Thanksgiving, Alex Rodriguez has opted to host a dinner at his Manhattan apartment for Madonna, her kids, and her manager. 

The estranged wife. Cynthia wrote an email to a friend of hers saying, “My 6-foot-3, 220-pound soul-less, soon-to-be ex-husband is abandoning his kids on Thanksgiving to be with Madonna…She called and he ran on her command back to New York City…Gross!”

SNAP!  You’re up Madge, better make your comeback more rotten!

And while he dashed off to NYC to be with Madge, his attorney called Cynthia to have her sign the couple’s divorce settlement.

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Breaking news, Carrie Bradshaw is not going to be a mother in the Sex & the City sequel!

Did anyone out there think that the movie may be going that direction? 

In the series, when Carrie was dating Aleksandr Petrovsky, she hinted at wanting a baby, but he said that wasn’t an option and she knew that going to Paris with him.

Now that Big and Carrie are married, it didn’t even occur to me that they would get her knocked up.  I’d rather see them do that to Samantha before they do it to Carrie.

Sarah Jessica Parker says, “It doesn’t seem as if that’s going to be a choice she’ll make. I don’t know. Michael and I never talk about it. That doesn’t mean that won’t be part of the story. We just haven’t figured it out,” Parker said. “It feels a little bit manipulative to toss that into the mix, because she seems so pointed in a different direction.”

I don’t forsee them doing that to her.  Do you?

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In case you care or haven’t heard, Heidi Montag and Spencer Pratt have tied the knot in a secret ceremony in Cabos San Lucas on November 19th.

You know they pimped out the story, the interviews, the pictures, and the whole enchilada to Us Weekly for an undisclosed sum of cash.  So if you buy that issue, you’re financing these idiots on their shopping spree and when they go looking at $12 million homes.

Spencer had a few minutes to write his own vows and here’s what he came up with:

“Heidi, from the moment you came into my life, I knew my life would never be the same without you. You are the light in my life like the sun to the earth! Your loving warmth makes me want to be a better person. Being with you, I feel complete. I’m honored to even be able to call you my wife. You are the most amazing, loving and caring woman on this planet. I will love you forever and always.”

How sweet.  So let me ask you this, If two douchebags get married in secret and nobody gives a crap, why is this news?

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