The Famous: Watching the Watched
  • Paris stages an image makeover. - Getty Images  So Paris Hilton is making headlines (again) for the infamous sex tape that leaked 7 years ago, effectively making her a star -- for better or worse.

    "People assume, 'Oh she's a slut,' just because of one thng that happened to me," the celebutante told CNN's Piers Morgan in an emotional interview Tuesday night. "It's hard because I'll never ... I'll have to live with that for the rest of my life and explain it to my children, it's something that has changed my life forever and I'll never be able to erase it."

    She calls ex-boyfriend Rick Salomon, who released the tape, a "bad person" whom she was in love with at the time of filming (2001, when she was 20 years old). 

    "When I was little I looked up to people like Princess Diana, these women, and I feel like he took that away from me," she said, consoling her mother, Kathy Hilton, who was crying.

    Hilton's turnaround from brazen spoiled brat to misunderstood victim of fame marks an attempt to revamp her career a la Kim Kardashian, who

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  • In 2002. - L. Cohen/WireImageJustin Timberlake spilled on his previous girlfriends to Vanity Fair's Vanessa Grigoriadis in what he probably figured would be a cover story, considering his willingness to talk (to some extent) about his personal life. (In the end, the allure of Kate Middleton was apparently seen as more bankable by the magazine.)

    But while Timberlake talked about ex-girlfriend Jessica Biel ("She is the single-handedly most significant person in my life") and his thoughts on marriage ("I think the mistake is that people commit to who that person is right then and not the person they're going to become"), more interesting -- to us, at least -- was his discussion of Britney Spears.

    Timberlake spoke about his romance with Spears as though it happened in a completely different era, which, we suppose, it did.

    "I wish her the best -- that goes without saying. We haven't spoken in 9 or 10 years," he said. "We were two birds of the same feather -- small-town kids, doing the same thing. But then you become

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  • A work of art, a piece of work. - Life & StyleKim Zolciak has given birth! The "Real Housewives of Atlanta" star announced the news via Twitter, gushing that she and NFL player Kroy Biermann are new parents to a boy named .... Kroy Jagger Biermann. "We are so in love!" she declared. 

    Kroy Junior, born on Memorial Day, joins older sisters Brielle, 13, and Ariana, 9, Zolciak's daughters from a previous relationship. The be-wigged "Tardy For the Party" singer and nemesis of NeNe Leakes hooked up with Biermann last season on the Bravo's Hotlanta edition of "Housewives." It was lust at first sight, resulting in this priceless image of a pregnant Zolciak baring her soul -- and so much more -- for the camera.

    Also on camera: the baby's birth? We have a feeling Zolciak gave Bravo full access to film the footage for an "RHOA" episode called "The Miracle of Kim Zolciak Giving Birth" (or something), which we'll pretend we never want to watch.

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  • Seyfried and Philippe call it quits. - Getty ImagesYou're excused if you had no idea whether Amanda Seyfried and Ryan Phillippe were together or not these days.

    The couple -- who were reportedly "always on and off" -- met at Kate Hudson's Halloween party last October, broke up in February and then got back together a month later. Things were so good at this point that they even travelled to Paris as a couple and spent the day of Reese Witherspoon's wedding together.

    But now they have broken up yet again, according to Us Weekly.

    "It was mutual," the source says. "They were never fully committed."

    Of course, knowing their track record, they could be back together faster than you can say "Phillifried."

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  • The gods of social networking are shining down on her critics: Gwyneth Paltrow, everyone's favorite celebrity to mock, is now on Facebook and Twitter. Which means the blogosphere will have more material to work with (like a lot of people, we have a love/hate relationship with Paltrow: she's fearless and kind of adorable, but sometimes cringingly clueless and out of touch!).

    As an introduction, Gwynnie posted this video of her walking, talking and searching for a cab on the streets of New York:


    Gwyneth Paltrow on WhoSay

    Commenters on Facebook seem to like it, given all the "awesomes!" Someone named Jerry Winn posted a cutting observation: "Looking for a cab? Something about that strikes me as odd."

    You read our minds, Jerry, you read our minds.

    On that note, we'd love to see a clip of that.

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  • Canada-bound. - Getty ImagesKate Middleton and Prince William will soon be touring Canada in a packed eight-cities-in-nine-days tour at the beginning of July.

    Of course, the Royal newlyweds will be making a whole slew of appearances and, according to sources, Middleton will need some 40 outfits in total for the trip. (William will need some outfits, too, though no one would probably care if he wore the same thing every day.)

    Though we imagined there would be a band of fairies accompanying Middleton and handing her purses and shoes and dresses to wear each morning, it turns out Middleton is going to be picking out all of the outfits she wears herself and, somewhat surprisingly, will not be travelling with a stylist.

    So the chances of Middleton showing up at some state dinner in sweats and a scrunchie because she was feeling sort of tired and felt like it just went from 0 percent to .0001 percent.

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  • Unsolicited NKOTB offspring update: The ex boy bander has announced the arrival of his daughter. Let's let "Joey Mac" take it from here:

    Twitter/Joey McIntyre

    Awwww, that's a sweet tweet -- and Kira is a pretty name. She joins older brothers Griffin Thomas, 3 1/2, and Rhys Edward, who's 17 months.

    Before you try and mail an NKOTB onesie to McIntyre's fan mail address, be warned: you'll get a bounceback from MAILER-DAEMON@1989.com. Allegedly.


  • Yeah, maybe not the most flattering photo. - WireImageAlec Baldwin is one of those celebrities who people always say "should be on Twitter." By popular demand, Baldwin has finally joined the social-networking site with the username @Alec_Baldwin. The actor has amassed some 54,700-plus followers since his first tweet on May 27, so while that's nowhere near Charlie Sheen levels, the number is bound to grow as word gets out. Already, he's posted random musings about booze, spicy mayonnaise, various current events and anything else that crosses his mind.

    His MVP tweets: 

    *"My friend Steve M is an art lover, a thespian and plays music. Or, an arthritic."

    *"Friend told me today not to drink and tweet."

    *"Drunken HUNT FOR RED OCTOBER test ..... Say 'Magneto-hydrodynamic drive' three times fast. With a Scottish accent."

    There's more where that came from, plus a lot of links to New York Times stories.

    Read anything else, Alec?

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  • The Other Middleton Girl. - Getty ImagesPippa Middleton knows she's being watched, and she secretly likes it. Doesn't it seem that way? Since her breakout supporting role as Kate's maid of honor, the 27-year-old hottie has been endlessly photographed by a starstruck global press -- on the street, shopping, everywhere. Here she is yesterday taking in some tennis at the French Open, showing some cleavage (we're shameless) in a form-fitting black top. Her Royal Wedding tan appears intact. Her male fan base are no doubt drooling.

    Pippa fans, rejoice!

    Meanwhile, we can put the kibosh on reports that Oprah wants to create a Pippa reality show for OWN. A network spokesperson tells The Famous: "There's no truth to the rumor that OWN is developing a series with Pippa Middleton."


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  • Old Spice Guy Makes A Play for Luke Cage Role

    So we all remember Isaiah Mustafa, better known as Old Spice Guy? We haven't heard much from him as of late. (In fact, some new dude has been popping up in Old Spice commercials.)

    But Mustafa has returned, and he wants us to know he is ready to make the transition from brand pitchman to movie superhero. He has his sights on the role of Luke Cage, the Marvel superhero who is getting the blockbuster film treatment. And naturally, as all the well-pedigreed actors do, he made this little teaser trailer to show us what he'd look like in the role.

     

    Pretty much exactly what we would have imagined the Old Spice Guy pretending to be a superhero would look like!

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