On Bravo gave a series greenlight to a Beverly Hills edition of its wildly-popular Real Housewives franchise.
The Beverly Hills Housewives will join existing series in Orange County, California, New York City, Atlanta, New Jersey, and a rumored edition headed to Washington, DC. Brenda Harvey-Richie, mother of socialite Nicole Richie, and Paris and Nicky Hilton aunts, Kim and Kyle Richards, have been linked to the series. The network is also adding a fifth night of original programming to join its Monday-to-Thursday lineup — although they haven’t announced which day that will be.
The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills is expected to premiere next year.
Madge is adding a new stripe to her illustrious career profile: juniors’ clothing designer.
The trendsetting, pop-singing icon is launching MG Icon LLC — a fashion venture with Iconix that will introduce a series of Madonna-branded businesses, including Material Girl Clothing launching exclusively at Macy’s just in time for Back-to-School sales this August.
The Material Girl apparel collection will include clothing, shoes, accessories, and jewelry aimed at young women 13-25, and is set to retail between $12 and $40. The goal is fast-fashion for the chic fashionista, with Madonna’s 13-year-old daughter, Lourdes, serving as inspiration for the line.
This isn’t the first time Her Madgesty has taken a stab at designing duds; in 2007, Madonna created a seasonal line for Swedish retailer H&M.
The news of Corey Haim’s death shocked fans of the ’80s child star, as well as his celebrity friends who took to Twitter on Wednesday to express their condolences for the actor. One star left particularly grief-stricken by Haim’s passing is his best friend and frequent co-star, Corey Feldman, who woke up this morning to reports that his pal had died of a suspected overdose.
Feldman — already struggling through a bitter divorce with wife Susie Sprague — remembered Corey Haim in a heartfelt statement issued Wednesday afternoon:
“I was awakened at 8:30 this morning by my brother and sister knocking on my bedroom door. They informed me of the loss of my brother Corey Haim. My eyes weren’t even open all the way when the tears started streaming down my face. I am so sorry for Corey, his mother Judy, his family, my family, all of our fans, and of course my son who I will have to find a way to explain this to when he gets home from school. This is a tragic loss of a wonderful, beautiful, tormented soul, who will always be my brother, family, and best friend. We must all take this as a lesson in how we treat the people we share this world with while they are still here to make a difference. Please respect our families as we struggle and grieve through this difficult time. I hope the art Corey has left behind will be remembered as the passion of that for which he truly lived.”
Kourtney and Khloe Kardashian are about to get some very tanned neighbors: The second season of Jersey Shore is South Beach-bound.
On Wednesday, The Miami Herald reported what we’ve been hearing for weeks; the controversial cast of MTV’s Jersey Shore will take over The Sunshine State’s trendy South Beach community for its second season, premiering this summer.
Despite some protests from locals, Seaside Heights’ best GTLers are coming anyway! (Sticks Out Tongue!)
You mean people don’t want drunken, first-pumping twentysomethings mating all over the neighborhood? Imagine that!
The new season of Jersey Shore will begin production in the next two weeks.
Get ready for Anna Nicole: The Opera. Britain’s renowned Royal Opera will stage the world premiere the Anna Nicole Smith Opera, a work about the life of former Playboy model, actress and tabloid darling Anna Nicole Smith, next Feb. 17.
The production was co-written by British playwright Richard Thomas, one of the creators of Jerry Springer: The Opera . The Royal Opera says Covent Garden Music Director Antonio Pappano will conduct the production and Richard Jones will direct.
Anna Nicole died after an accidental overdose of prescription drugs in Feb. 2007.
Take that Brad & Angie! Gerry & Jen steam up the pages of the April issue of W Magazine. The stars will share the silver screen in the new comedy The Bounty Hunter, opening March 19. Do you think they are a couple or just cozy co-stars?
The spread was shot at a ranch outside Los Angeles by Steven Klein, who snapped Brad and Angelina’s infamous family-friendly pictorial for the magazine in 2005. Jennifer’s mane man, Chris McMillan, explains why he left her infamous tresses dirty for the shoot.
“It just created a nice chunky texture. The key to Jennifer’s hair is no matter what you do with it — straight, frizzy, dirty — it looks like it actually grows out of her head. She’s someone for whom her hair doesn’t wear her, she wears it.”
Generation Xers and Hollywood stars are mourning the death of Corey Haim. The ’80s teen idols died after collapsing in his suburban Los Angeles apartment early Wednesday.
An autopsy will determine the cause of death, but police and coroner’s officials tell Entertainment Tonight that Haim was violently ill with flu-like symptoms and taking prescription medications before his death.
“He could have succumbed to whatever (illness) he had or it could have been drugs. Who knows?” Los Angeles Police sergeant William Mann said. “He has had a drug problem in the past.”
Corey’s mom, Judy Haim, told RadarOnline.com in an interview this morning that she is battling cancer and “devastated” by the loss of her 38-year-old son: “I am a cancer victim and Corey was helping me at home. He was a good boy. I’m devastated by his death.”
Haim, 38, was made famous in a string of 1980s films including The Lost Boys, with Corey Feldman. Haim struggled with drug addiction for some time.
Lindsay Lohan — Or should we say “Milkaholic?” — has confirmed that she’s parted ways with Emanuel Ungaro. After one widey-panned collection of pasties, butt-bearing ensembles, and “Ho Stroll” club numbers as Artistic Advisor of Ungaro, Lindsay is no longer designing threads for the French fashion house.
Earlier this week, the brand’s owner Asim Abdullah revealed Lindsay was “not involved” with the latest collection.
When asked why she wasn’t at Ungaro’s Paris Fashion Week show this week, Lindsay told Women’s Wear Daily: “Because I don’t work for them anymore. There’s legal things going on; I can’t really discuss it.”
Who knows if we’ll ever see it come to fruition, but Jane Fonda, the original intergalactic nympho, wantsBlue Crush bombshell Kate Bosworth to star as screen vamp Barbarella in a proposed update of the ’60s flick.
TwiHards rejoice, shirtless Taylor Lautner Alert: The first teaser trailer for the eagerly-awaited third film in the Twilight series, Eclipse, just premiered — we will the full 90-second trailer tomorrow @ 9 AM!
