Picts From the Tonys


Bret Lockett Admits He Never Met Kim Kardashian in Person
New England Patriot player Bret Lockett tried to get Kim in the middle of some image-crushing rumor. He accused the socialite of cheating on her then-boyfriend, now fiance, Kris Humphries, with him. But he came to his knees in a strange way, admitting that he never met Kim, but their text messages were somehow physical. Lockett explained that the five month affair was only about exchanging sexy texts and phone conversations. “I’ve said before that it was a physical relationship, but I say that meaning there was a physical aspect in the relationship,” he told CNN. “She did tell me that she was touching herself in a physical way over the phone, towards me. So when I say physical, that’s what I mean.” Lockett (below) broke down after Kim threatened to sue the football player if he continued on with the claim. He said, however, he doesn’t plan to apologize for anything. “I do not plan on apologizing or retracting anything,” he said. “What I’ve said is the complete, honest truth and you can’t fault someone for telling the truth. That’s just plain and simple.”

Tori Spelling Crashes Into School

Tori Spelling got into a big fender bender on Monday and Tweeted about it right afterward. “Paparazzi chased me w/the kids 2school. I was trying to get away from him and had a pretty big accident. Took down whole wall of school. He thn STILL got out to try to get pics. 10 school moms chased him away. Wht will it take? Someone dying for paparazzi to stop? Going to dr now to check on baby. I think its just shock. Spelling tweeted. Spelling and husband Dean McDermott are pregnant with their third child, which is due in October. 

Selena Gomez: I Was 'Malnourished' and 'Exhausted'

Selena Gomez appears to be on the mend, taking the stage for a Santa Monica Place show that had to be rescheduled from Friday due to her hospitalization. "I want to thank you so much for coming," Gomez, 18, told more than 500 young fans at the outdoor mall. "If you guys came on Friday, I'm so sorry that I couldn't be here. ... I love you guys very much." Asked by reporters for the cause of her hospitalization, she said, "I was just very malnourished, so I was low on iron and exhausted."
 British musician and talk show host Lily Allen married her boyfriend Sam Cooper in England on Saturday.  Cooper, 32, is a building company owner. The lovebirds announced that they are also expecting their first child together. He and Allen have been together for two years.

30 Rock's Tracy Morgan Declares, 'If I Had a Gay Son I Would Love Him'

Four days after the 30 Rock star apologized for unleashing an anti-gay rant during a comedy act, Morgan once again expressed deep regret for his choice of words in an interview with hip-hop mogul Russell Simmons. “I guess the reason I am successful is because I am so unfiltered,” he said. “And sometimes as a result I say really stupid s–t. The truth is if I had a gay son, I would love him just as much as if he was straight … I might have to try to love even more because I know of the difficulty that he would have in society.”

 

Ricki Lake Sued for Fire that Destroyed House

After a fire destroyed her $20,000-a-month Malibu rental house last fall, Ricki Lake felt "gratitude and blessings" nobody was hurt. Now she's feeling the heat from a lawsuit filed by her landlord alleging that the talk show host negligently set the fire by improperly refilling oil into a portable space heater. "[Lake] caused the oil to spill which was ignited by the hot heating coils which [Lake] had not allowed to cool," says lawsuit. "The flaming oil quickly caught hold and began to burn items inside the property. [Lake] failed or did not attempt to extinguish the fire." The lawsuit was filed in Los Angeles Superior Court and seeks unspecified damages.

'Super 8' reels in No. 1 weekend with $37M

J.J. Abrams and Steven Spielberg's sci-fi tale "Super 8" debuted as the weekend's No. 1 movie with $37 million, bumping "X-Men: First Class" to No. 2 with $24.1 million in its second weekend.
1    Super 8           $37 mil
2   X-Men: First Class     $25 mil    
3   The Hangover Part II    $18.5 mil
4   Kung Fu Panda 2     $16.6 mil
5   Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides $10.8 mil
6   Bridesmaids              $10.1 mil
7   Judy Moody and the NOT Bummer Summer   $6.3 mil
8   Midnight in Paris        $6.2 mil
9   Thor                          $2.4 mil
10  Fast Five                  $1.7 mil



 

Demi Lovato & Wilmer Valderrama Break Up

Demi Lovato, 18 and Wilmer Valderrama, 31, have officially split. Lovato apparently ended things because the couple was “in completely different places.”

Singer-songwriter Carole King writing memoir

Rock `n' roll songwriter Carole King has a book deal. The 69-year-old King has signed with Grand Central Publishing for a memoir named after one of her most famous songs, "Natural Woman." The publisher announced Monday that the book will come out in April 2012. King wrote or co-wrote such hits as "Up on the Roof" and "You've Got a Friend." Besides writing hits for the Drifters, the Shirelles and other performers, King sang her own material on the classic "Tapestry" album. That album has sold more than 10 million copies in the U.S. alone. Other rock stars working on memoirs include The Who's Pete Townshend and Gregg Allman of the Allman Brothers Band.

Facebook Planning $100 Billion IPO: Report

Though there are signs that Facebook's momentum may finally be slowing down, weep not for Mark Zuckerberg and the rest of his Silicon Valley posse. The privately held social networking site will go public in 2012. The initial public offering is expected to be pegged to an $100 billion valuation, probably setting a new high watermark for technology companies. That's an eye-popping number, to be sure, but while Facebook is moving relentlessly toward hitting 700 million users worldwide, much of that growth is being driven by new international members. Facebook's domestic numbers, however, are softer. In the United States, the company lost nearly 6 million users, dropping from 155.2 million to 149.4 million by the end of last month.
A spokesperson for Facebook declined to comment, but the IPO is likely being triggered by the 1934 Securities and Exchange Act known as “the 500 rule,” which requires private companies to begin releasing financial information to the SEC after they attract more than 500 investors.





TV NEWS
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation has been named the world's best show. The program was presented with the International Television Audience Award for a Drama TV Series at the 51st Monte Carlo TV Festival. The title was given by Eurodata TV Worldwide for the highest ratings worldwide in 2010 across five continents.


Watch your backs, people of Seattle. There's likely another mysterious murder in your city's fictional future. With a week to go before the Season 1 finale -- and presumed reveal of Rosie Larson's murderer -- AMC has given the green light to another season of "The Killing."



Showbiz multi-hyphenate Jessica Simpson has landed herself another cushy reality gig on NBC’s upcoming competition series, Fashion Star. Simpson will channel her inner-Tim Gunn on Star, NBC’s answer to Project Runway, serving as a “celebrity mentor” to a group of 14 designers competing to both create and successfully launch their own fashion lines.



Revenge of the Nerds’ Booger may be the one to hand The Closer‘s Brenda her “comeuppance.” In a multi-episode gig during the final season of  the TNT drama, Curtis Armstrong will play a “resourceful” attorney suing the Major Crimes division on behalf of the mother of a slain gang member. As such, he’ll face off against Mark Pellegrino’s legal eagle.



The fine folks of Salt Lake City, Utah will have a tough time finding The Playboy Club on their TV this fall, now that local NBC affiliate KSL has announced its decision to not carry the sexy crime drama. “Everyone is clear what [the Playboy brand] stands for,” KSL network president Mark Willes said in a statement. “We want to be sure everyone is clear what the KSL brand stands for, which is completely inconsistent with the Playboy brand.”

Suit against Kardashians over card struck down

A judge has thrown out a $75 million lawsuit filed against the Kardashian sisters after they yanked their endorsement of a prepaid debit card that was criticized for its high fees, saying the reality show stars had no duty to promote a product that might be considered unlawful. The ruling issued by Fresno Superior Court Judge Jeff Hamilton states attorneys for Revenue Resource Group LLC hadn't sufficiently shown they could win their breach of contract case. The ruling also states the sisters could not sued for voicing concerns about the debit card because the claims would violate their First Amendment rights. The Fresno-based company sued sisters Kim, Khloe and Kourtney in January, blaming them for heavy losses after the "Keeping Up With the Kardashians" stars publicly severed ties with the company. A phone message for the company's attorney Nathan Miller was not immediately returned. The sisters withdrew their support for the debit card three weeks after the product launched following a warning from Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal that the card's fees were "predatory." According to Hamilton's ruling, Revenue Resource Group  argued that they lost other celebrity endorsements because the Kardashians pulled out of their deal. The company "has not met its burden to show that it is likely to prevail, because it has not addressed the claim the contract involved an unlawful/fraudulent product or how damages could be proven even had the defendants remained silent, given the record before the Court of apparently universal condemnation of the product's profit making features," the judge wrote.