Rebecca Flint — perhaps best known as Beckii Cruel — has become a YouTube sensation, thanks to her knack for dancing and love of Japanese animation. A crowned jewel among anime fans, Beckii parlayed her Net popularity into a recording contract. Now her debut album is tipped to top the Japanese charts. On Monday, the British high schooler chatted with MSNBC about becoming an international Web star at the ripe old age of 14.
Reality Octomom Kate Gosselin is scheduled to release her third book this Spring. Gosselin has penned a personal memoir, titled I Just Want You to Know: Letters to My Kids on Love, Faith and Family, that will feature excerpts from her journal and letters to her eight children. The newly-divorced Kate previously wrote two New York Times Best Sellers about life with the littlest Gosselins, Multiple Blessings and Eight Little Faces.
“Each day the thought crosses my mind that when they get older, my kids are going to look back and think about how they were raised,” Gosselin, who is currently filming a new series for TLC, said in a statement Monday. “I know they will have a lot of questions about things that may not make sense because they were raised so unconventionally. I don’t want them to grow up and wonder; I want them to know without a shadow of a doubt how much I love them and how much every sacrifice made was worth it for them.”
I Just Want You To Know is scheduled for released this May.
Anyone out there still watching Tool Academy? If you still can’t get enough of the reality dating bootcamp, VH1 will introduce a third class of sleazy partners — and the noodle noggins who love them — when Season 3 of Tool Academy kicks this Valentine’s Day Sunday, Feb. 14 @ 10/9c on VH1.
Kendra Wilkinson was photographed in tears shortly after husband Hank Baskett’s highly-favored Indianapolis Colts were defeated by the New Orleans Saints in Super Bowl XLIV on Sunday night. Hugh Hefner’s former “Girl Next Door” watched in horror as her husband fumbled away an on-side kick to begin the second half, swinging momentum to the Saints’ side and ultimately helping the underdogs taste victory.
But the reality mom says it was the snapping cameras of the paparazzi — not watching her man flex his “Loser Muscle” in front of the entire country — that left her with drained tear ducts and rainy mascara as she exited Miami’s Sun Life Stadium last night.
Kendra claims eager photographers were scrambling to get a shot of her newborn son, Hank IV, which left her frightened for the baby’s safety.
“I wasn’t cryin cuz of the damn game it’s cuz the paparazzi have no soul…they wouldn’t leave me n family alone!” Kendra fumed on her Twitter page on Monday. “People like to twist this stuff..we asked them to stop cuz of the baby n they were way too close n they didn’t care at all,” Kendra wrote in a further attempt to explain her emotional outburst. “Not sayin im tryin to be private but there should be some law on how close they get to your n your child.”
Alice Tan Ridley, mother of Academy Award-nominated Precious star Gabourey Sidibe, has been singing her heart out in subway stations around New York City three days a week for 18 years!
A R&B/Gospel fixture in the Big Apple, Ridley worked as a nursery-school teacher and a Department of Education teacher’s aide before relocating her act to Manhattan’s train stations — she also croons in Penn Station and 14th Street/Union Square. Although most people would see her daughter as the one with the more glamorous gig, Alice refuses to accept handouts from her kid.
While Gabourey, 26, could be well on her way to a life of a big spending in Hollywood, Ridley — a proud Harlem native — says she’s happy to continue hitting the high notes for straphangers.
“My name is not on Gabby’s paycheck,” Alice explained to The New York Post on Monday. “For a while, I was teaching and doing the singing, burning the candle at both ends to support my family…” Now the songstress says she makes enough money each day to “pay the bills and feed the kids.”
Break out your gas masks, Ashton Kutcher is taking social networking to the next level.
In this digital short from Ashton’s weekend stint as host of Saturday Night Live, the actor creates a Twitter-type initiative to give fans the sound and smell of his own gas. The skit also features rockers Them Crooked Vultures and a very disapproving Questlove from The Roots.
MTV is demanding that the cast of its smash series Jersey Shore put the kibosh on its bustling schedule of personal appearances. That means no more accepting money and/or hair gel and tanning lotion to show up at a clubs, parties, Bar Mitzvahs, or the local Tastee Freeze. Since finding fame on the trashy reality smash, series stars like The Situation, J-WOWW, Vinny, and Pauly D have been pulling in up to $7,500 a night making appearances at venues across the country. And they’re not just being asked to show up at clubs and parties, either. Last week, the gang’s manager, Michael Schweiger, revealed that one fan offered $50,000 to have Pauly D walk her down the aisle at her wedding.
Offers like that are bad for business, says MTV. And network execs are banging the gavel.
Under the terms of a new contract — which reportedly pays each cast member approximately $180,000 for Season 2 of Jersey Shore — cast members are now only permitted to make two appearances per week, or face fines from MTV, The New York Post’s Page Six Column said Tuesday. This could be prove a problem for Schweiger, who claims the cast is already booked through May!
FOX has released another promo clip of Ellen and The Gang during dream-crushing Hollywood Week, as anticipation builds for Ellen Degeneres’ big American Idol debut.
The daytime funny gal brings the laughs to Idol this Tuesday at 8/7c.
They don’t mind a little Bump & Grind — especially when its for a good cause.
A strip club in Toledo, Ohio has raised $1,000 for Haitian earthquake relief, thanks to its “Lap Dances for Haiti” Campaign.
The shake dancers of Marilyn’s on Monroe donated all proceeds from the $10 cover charges it collected last Saturday to ISOH/IMPACT, an Perrysburg, Ohio-based non-profit that has been providing food and clothing to the survivors of the devastating tremor that rattled the island nation last month.
Kenny Soprano is Marilyn’s Pimp General Manager. Soprano says his establishment had been looking for a reason to hold a charity fundraiser as a way to improve its image even before the quake. When the gang at Marilyn’s heard about the disaster in Haiti, they knew they’d found their cause.
ISOH/IMPACT CEO Linda Greene couldn’t care less with where the money came from. She says her group appreciates any donations to help Haiti….even those that come for those other ladies of night.
Nineteen-term Pennsylvania State Representative John Murtha, an influential critic of the Iraq War, died in Virginia on Monday following complications from gallbladder surgery. He was 77.
In 1974 Murtha, then an officer in the Marine Reserves, became the first Vietnam War combat veteran elected to Congress.
