Blog Posts by Lizbeth Scordo

Paula Abdul turns 50. (Michael Tran/FilmMagic)Hard to believe, but pint-size pop star Paula Abdul — who rose to fame in the late '80s with a string of infectious #1 tunes like "Opposites Attract" and "Forever Your Girl" before making a career comeback in the new millennium as one of the first judges on "American Idol" — turns the big 5-0 on Tuesday. To celebrate, we bring you five facts you may not have known about the 5'2" dynamo who started out as a Laker girl and wound up a pop culture icon.

Mario Testino/VogueActress Emma Stone may have risen to fame playing spunky and gregarious characters like the feisty aspiring journalist in "The Help" or the freshman lawyer who makes a womanizer change his ways in "Crazy, Stupid, Love.," but, in the July issue of Vogue, she reveals she turned reclusive as a kid thanks to panic attacks, the first of which she suffered at the age of eight. "I was just kind of immobilized by it," she tells the magazine. "I didn't want to go to my friends' houses or hang out with anybody, and nobody really understood."

Miley Cyrus and friend/assistant Cheyne Thomas. (INFPhotos.com)

Can't a girl have a friend? Not if you're Miley Cyrus.

There are some old-fashioned people out there who think that once you get married — or even engaged — that being friends with the opposite sex is inappropriate and can only mean one thing: infidelity. Silly, right? The philosophy of simple fuddy-duddies, you'd think.

So it was surprising, and frankly, disappointing to see all the hullabaloo surrounding some photos that surfaced on Wednesday of Miley and a male pal in a pool during a visit to Miami this week. The 19-year-old former Disney star, who announced her engagement to fellow actor Liam Hemsworth, 22, just last week, quickly became the subject of plenty of cheating-focused stories. "Is Miley Cyrus cheating on her fiancé already?" one blog asked. "Miley Cyrus' Sexy Bikini Date With A Mystery Man — Not Liam Hemsworth" another celeb news site boasted.

Dwayne Johnson (Steve Granitz/WireImage)

Nothing will make you want to quit your job, become a professional wrestler, and then quit wrestling to becoming a major motion picture star more than seeing the 9,153-square-foot home Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson just sold for nearly $5 million. (Reports say he indeed got close to his $4.9 million asking price.) (more...)

Araya Diaz/Wireimage"Breaking Bad" actor Aaron Paul may be a prankster, but he never meant to end up with his own version of "Punk'd" on the local news, he swears!

On Monday night's episode of "Conan," Paul, who was there to promote the final season of his series, which premieres next month, shared a story which involved him pulling one over on his old roommate. (Yes, the star of one of the best shows on television had a roommate up until recently.) The roommate, named David, believed that the world was going to end in 2012, so, in order to "prove him right," Paul tried to convince him that meteorites were slamming into their backyard. The actor and another pal bought some real meteorites from a specialty shop in Santa Monica, California, dug a crater in the yard, filled it with dry ice, and then covered it up with the meteorites before using water to set off "a dry ice bomb."

Like George Clooney did in May, Sarah Jessica Parker will be hosting a fundraiser for President Obama. (Wireimage)

What do you need to do to win the presidential election a second time? Raise lots of money, tout everything you've gotten done the first time around, and get Carrie Bradshaw on your side.

Actress Sarah Jessica Parker is the latest celeb stumping for President Barack Obama as he prepares to seek re-election in November against the Republican party's likely candidate Mitt Romney. The "Sex and the City" star appeared in a commercial during Sunday night's MTV Movie Awards revealing that she'll not only be throwing a fundraiser dinner at her home for the president this month, but any average Joe can attend … well, sort of. As part of the event, the Obama-Biden camp will choose three winners to receive two tickets to "the dinner with President Obama," round-trip airfare, and hotel accommodations.

Matt Jones/RedbookKelly Clarkson may be an award-winning singer, not to mention "American Idol" winner, but her struggles with weight have been in the spotlight about as much as her music over the years. And frankly (despite the fact she's recently shed some pounds and debuted a newly fit figure) she's sick of talking about it.

Angelina Jolie at the 2012 Oscars. (Frazer Harrison/Getty Images)Angelina Jolie has gone through a lot of phases in her life — gothic teen, bride of Billy Bob Thornton, and today, mom of six, A-list actress and humanitarian, always stirring up buzz along the way. As one of America's most famous women turns 37 on June 4, omg! brings you five of the most honest, odd, and outrageous things she's ever uttered.