- Josh Brolin and Jeffrey Wright were clearly abused by police in Shreveport, LA [Huffington Post]
- Sanjaya is back. The rest of us are pissed [Dlisted]
- Hugh Jackman looks amazing in his leather jacket [Lainey Gossip]
- Alyssa Milano is engaged to her agent [PopEater]
- Rihanna’s going to have a tough time performing in Malaysia [Bossip]
- Madonna’s crotch wants to sell you a purse [Fafarazzi]
- Rosario Dawson and Will Smith in Berlin [I’m Not Obsessed]
- Amy Winehouse’s new man is a rugby player, and may actually be normal [Celebslam]
- Surprise surprise, Courtney Love is an idiot! [Websters is my Bitch]
- Tim Allen and his wife Janie are expecting their first baby [In Case You Didn’t Know]
- Christopher Ciccone is still trying to milk Madonna’s fame [Crazy Days and Nights]
- Jake Gyllenhaal even gets followed around by the paps on his way to Petco [PopSugar]
- Kelly Brook takes some unfortunate pictures [I Don’t Like You In That Way]
- Kate Hudson swears she’s happy about Lance Amrstrong’s baby [Socialite’s Life]
- Michelle Rodriguez actually does some community service! Yay! Surprisingly she didn’t try to trade it in for jail this time [Just Jared]
- Jenny McCarthy bikini pictures. I still think she and Jim Carrey are super cute together [Egotastic]
- Adrian Grenier and women in bikinis. That’s all that’s going on here [The Superficial]
- Cameron Diaz, Hilary Duff and Christina Aguilera all look like crap [Hollywood Tuna]

19 year-old ex-felon twins Karissa and Kristina Shannon were the first of Hugh Hefner’s replacement girlfriends to step in when the Girls Next Door trio fell apart. While dark-haired January 2009 Playboy cover mode Dasha Astafieva was thought to be joining Hugh Hefner’s team of post-Girls Next Door replacement girlfriends, she has yet to officially join the crew. Ukranian-born Astafieva may have hurt her chances at a spot on the reality dream team by wearing a see-through knit dress with only a pair of thong underwear to a Playboy event and proceeding to remove the thong on the red carpet. Instead of Astafieva, who seems to have pissed off the competition, Hugh has a more typical third girlfriend. 22 year-old San Diego State coed Crystal Harris has announced that she’s officially in the mansion along with the Shannon Twins. From the way Harris words her introduction, she’s in on the decision making process as to who is allowed in the mansion and Astafieva may have stripped her way out of the blond clique:

Hugh Hefner has quietly added a new girlfriend to his posse. And she’s a “good girl.”

“I’m a good girl, for the most part,” new Hef gal pal Crystal Harris writes on her MySpace page.

The 22-year-old lesser-known girlfriend has frequently been photographed by the 82-year-old Playboy founder’s side, but never got a proper public introduction after former girlfriends Holly Madison, Bridget Marquardt and Kendra Wilkinson exited the Playboy Mansion.
Instead, fellow girlfriends - and 19-year-old twins - Karissa and Kristina Shannon nabbed headlines with their arrest records and, well, twindom, in the aftermath of the shake-up.

Harris introduced herself on an E! online message board over the holidays, telling fans that “Hef gave me permission to fill people in on the new updates as a voice from the mansion.”

No other girlfriends are in the mix at this time, she says, but “there are a couple that we have interest in. … As for now, it is just us three.”

Despite her low-key status, Harris already has a fan site, but seems to focus most of her attention on her MySpace page.

“I believe in opening your heart and letting your walls down, it is better to have loved and lost, than to never have loved at all,” Harris says on her site, which is peppered with Disney characters, cute animals, inspirational quotes and plenty of pink.

[From The NY Daily News]

According to the Daily News, Harris hasn’t yet appeared in the print version of Playboy. She was an online Co-Ed of the week under the name “Crystal Carter.” It’s unknown whether the series will continue on E! but you can bet they’re trying to plan for it with this latest girlfriend. You kind of hope there is a follow-up season in the works and that these super young girls aren’t just hanging around a guy old enough to be their great grandfather for the free publicity and perks that go along with “dating” him. They should at least get a show out of it.

I can’t help but wonder if any of these women actually do some kind of, you know, service for Hefner. You would hope they draw the line at heavy petting, but it’s doubtful. Maybe he just likes the company.

Pictures via Fox News and College OTR

There’s this pop-culture theory called “The Best Actress Curse” - it’s about how every winner of the Best Actress Oscar will break up with her husband, boyfriend, or significant other, usually within a year of winning her Oscar. It’s held true for Gwyneth “GOOP” Paltrow, Reese Witherspoon, and Hillary Swank (the second time she won). But Charlize was always one of the exceptions. She and her long-time boyfriend, hottie Suart Townsend, have always seemed to have a solid relationship with very little drama. Unfortunately, the honeymoon might be over.

A secret romantic holiday for Hollywood star Charlize Theron to see in the New Year in luxury with her British boyfriend did not go according to plan.

Monster star Charlize, 33, fell into a foul mood after a fall-out with Stuart Townsend, 36, at the exclusive Casa de Miel hotel in Tulum, Mexico. The glum actress was spotted ranting at hotel staff. She kicked off a few times and Stuart took the brunt of it all and didn’t look very happy,’ says a poolside spy.

‘She began shouting about the lights not coming on in her room and was heard complaining about the water not being hot enough.’

It seems the couple were apart for most of the trip, with Charlize attending power yoga classes and playing golf while Stuart relaxed alone at the beach. They returned to Los Angeles on New Year’s Day.

[From the Daily Mail]

Was she just in a bad mood? PMS maybe? Because it doesn’t sound like they’re breaking up, they’re probably just having one of those nit-picky fights that all couples have. Or maybe I’m wrong. Because I’ve never heard of even a whiff of pissy behavior between the two, but maybe they really have hit a bad patch.

Charlize famously said that she doesn’t want to get married, and like Brad Pitt, tied her un-married status to the gay-marriage issue. She and Stuart have been together forever, in Hollywood terms… something like seven or eight years now. Oh, well. I guess we’ll have to pin all of our hopes onto Helen Mirren’s marriage now.

Picture note by JayBird: Here’s Charlize Theron and Stuart Townsend at a special screening of ‘Battle in Seattle’ in Beverly Hills on September 22nd. Images thanks to WENN.

Josh Brolin is quite the mouthy fellow. The “Milk” star won best supporting actor at the New York Film Critics Awards dinner last night. Instead of giving a simple, gracious acceptance speech, Brolin seized the opportunity to call out one of his former costars for being an asshole. And not just any costar – Russell Crowe. Apparently Brolin forgot Crowe’s reputation for throwing phones and beating the crap out of people.

Josh Brolin is one of my favorite actors because he speaks his mind. Last night at the New York Film Critics Awards dinner, at which Brolin won Best Supporting Actor for his work in the drama, “Milk,” Brolin stole the show with his candor.

For one thing, he called Russell Crowe, his co-star in last year’s “American Gangster,” an “a-hole.” Oh yes, he did. He said, after Sean Penn introduced him, “Quite an actor, Sean Penn. And not an a-hole like Russell Crowe.” He then repeated: “Like Russell Crowe.”

Brolin also gave some insight into how movie stars do interviews.

“I said I studied rats,” he told the rapt audience of actors and movie critics at Strata, formerly Metronome, on lower Broadway. “I said that on the Actors Studio about how I prepared for ‘W.’ It was a lie.”

Brolin told me later that he didn’t really mean Russell Crowe was an a-hole. “He’s a great guy,” he said. “It’s all good. He has his thing.”

[From Fox News]

Great cover. Sounds like quite the sincere apology. Is it possible that Josh Brolin is a giant douche bag? He’s got a ton of talent, and aside from getting into that big “W” cast fight last year, he struck me as a reasonably normal guy. Generally the kind of actor that isn’t D list, but not someone I’m constantly aware of either. There was an accusation in Star awhile ago that he got too touchy feely with Sean Penn’s wife Robin Wright-Penn, but nothing really came of it. And he appears to be on better terms with Penn than with Russell Crowe. I hate to say it but it seems likely that Crowe might come out of fighting retirement soon. Though at least we know Brolin can defend himself better than that telephone.

Update: The Huffington Post has video showing that Josh Brolin and Jeffrey Wright were abused by police in Shreveport, L.A. during the bar fight ordeal.

Here’s Josh Brolin at the New York Film Critics Circle Awards in New York City last night. Images thanks to WENN and Fame.

Simon Cowell’s general appeal is often up for debate on this site. Some of us (I think it’s just me and Syko) find something attractive in Cowell. Something about his accent, his tight t-shirts, his aggressive manner, or maybe his slightly jaded sense of humor, but there’s something there. Now one of Cowell’s ex-girlfriends, singer Sinitta, is telling all about her one-time love, and now friend. Apparently, if you’re an exotic-looking girl (I take that to mean “dark”) with a good figure (boobs), Simon Cowell will probably try to have sex with you, because sex is “really important” to him.

Sinitta wants to find the perfect partner for her ex Simon Cowell. The music mogul, 49, split from TV presenter Terri Seymour, 34, last year.

‘Sex is so important to Simon – that’s his trouble,’ she explains. ‘It clouds his judgement. But I know what he really wants…someone to be his companion, his buddy, his mentor, someone who can put up with his work ethic. He does have this problem, though. It’s called a roving eye. And he would always want a get-out card so he could still play with his mates and not mess up his relationship.’

Sinitta, 40, says she can easily spot the kind of women Simon likes.

‘I could walk into a room and immediately spot the type of girl he’d go for,’ she tells the Sunday Mirror. ‘It would be the exotic-looking one with the curly hair and great figure.
‘He loves bright women with something to say for themselves who are also strong and creative in their own right.’

[From Now Magazine]

The whole “roving eye” doesn’t come as a galloping shock to me. Cowell has the look of a womanizer, and a man isn’t single at the age of 49 for no reason. But at least he takes care of his ex-girlfriends, and stays friends with them. His last girlfriend, Terry Seymour, even got a multi-million dollar house out of the break-up, so it’s not all bad news. The only bad news (for me) is that I don’t have curly hair. Do you think he would go for an exotic-looking girl with straight hair?

Simon Cowell is shown with Sinitta on the left and an unidentified exotic-looking woman in the Caribbean on 1/2/09. He is also shown on vacation in the Caribbean on his jet ski on 12/22/08. Credit: Bauergriffinonline