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George Clooney looks drunk already. [CoverAwards]
Lady Gaga & Perez Hilton go on a dinner date. [Lightly Salted]
Eric Dane & Rebecca Gayheart are probably expecting a girl. [Evil Beet]
Bradley Cooper? No, it‘s some mystery plumber’s butt with Bai Ling. [Agent Bedhead]
Remember Rihanna‘s naked pictures? Yeah, I had forgotten too. [The Superficial]
AT&T is totally over Tiger Woods. [Bossip]
Simon Cowell has a perky, furry B-cup in Barbados. [Pop Sugar]
They say it‘s Jenne Tripplehorn, but I think it‘s Sela Ward. [ICYDK]
Trailer for Shrek Forever After. Donkey! [Moviefone]
Nine is officially bombing at the box office. [Crazy Days and Nights]
Bennifer was the worst couple of the decade. [Seriously? OMG! WTF?]
Tracy Morgan needs lube, it’s an emergency! [Celebnewswire]
David Beckham in Milan. [PopBytes]

Much like the poll that came out of Britain several days ago that named Angelina Jolie as “the beauty icon of the decade”, this “most desired body” poll seems obscure and unscientific. Still, it’s interesting. Of the couple thousand British women polled, Kate Winslet has the most desired body by women. In addition to Winslet, Halle Berry, Beyonce, and Megan Fox made the list. So… eh. I love me some Winslet, and I would give her an award for “most attainable body”. You can tell she struggles with her weight and really works to maintain her figure, and she looks beautiful. But I’d rather have Halle Berry’s body. Or, if we’re naming our pie-in-the-sky ideal figure, I would love to have Blake Lively’s perky, trim (probably enhanced) figure.

It will bring comfort to millions of women who are feeling guilty after eating too much turkey and Christmas pudding over the past few days – and resolving to start a punishing gym routine in the New Year.

A survey has found that a fuller, curvy figures such as those belonging to Kate Winslet or Kelly Brook are back in fashion among women. Meanwhile, skeletal stars such as Victoria Beckham and Kate Moss have fallen out of favour, along with the surgically enhanced figure of Katie Price, aka glamour model Jordan.

Oscar winner Miss Winslet, 34 – who served sausages and mash at her first wedding and has spoken openly of the effects of motherhood on her body – topped the poll of 2,000 woman aged 18 or over, with 16 per cent of the votes.

Miss Brook received 15 per cent, while actress Halle Berry, who has an hour-glass figure, was third with 12 per cent. Beckham, Moss and Price were in equal last place, having received just one per cent of the votes. Other women included in the list of ten celebrity figures included X Factor judge Cheryl Cole, actress Megan Fox and singer Lily Allen.

Dr Jacquie Lavin, head of nutrition at Slimming World, which commissioned the YouGov poll, said: ‘It shows a positive shift that women are more likely to see Kate Winslet and Kelly Brook as the ideal body shape rather than Kate Moss or Victoria Beckham. It perhaps suggests that it is not being “skinny” that is most important to them anymore, it is being healthy. However, there still remains a great deal of pressure on women to conform to an unrealistic ideal and our survey showed that a massive 85 per cent of women are at least occasionally unhappy with their weight.’

The Top Ten “Desired” Bodies:
1. Kate Winslet – 16 per cent
2. Kelly Brook – 15 per cent
3. Halle Berry – 12 per cent
4. Cheryl Cole – 10 per cent
5. Beyonce – six per cent
6. Megan Fox – Five per cent
7. Lily Allen – Four per cent
8. Keeley Hazell – Two per cent
9. Kate Moss – One per cent
9. Katie Price – One per cent
9. Victoria Beckham – One per cent

[From The Daily Mail]

Who names Victoria Beckham as their ideal? She got a solid 1% of the vote – which is like 20 people in this poll. Who wants to look like an orange stick figure? Probably women who think that looking like an orange stick figure will get them David Beckham. Something tells me Becks gets turned on by some curves, though. And Lily Allen? For real? Is it because she can’t go a week without being photographed topless? For goodness sake. British women are insane.

Even though Katherine Heigl is far from my favorite person, she keeps doing things that make me like her. She seems to adore her special-needs adopted daughter, which is really amazing, and becoming a mother seems to taken Heigl’s edge off. Add to that the activity surrounding Heigl’s charitable foundation, The Jason Heigl Foundation (named after Katherine’s brother who died many years ago), and I have admit that Katherine might be growing on me. That is, until she farts out something insane and narcissistic again, which should be any minute. So let’s just enjoy this moment of Heigl love: The JH Foundation is funding a new project in Hollywood – it seems that there’s an epidemic of Chihuahuas being abandoned or rescued by shelters in LA, and now those rescued puppies are being sent all over the country to find homes. As in, boxes (or crates) of Chihuahuas are being flown around the country at great cost, just so they don’t have to be euthanized, and Heigl’s picking up the tab.

A local organization plans to transport 35 Chihuahuas to new adoptive homes in Colorado this week. It’s an increasingly popular solution to the overabundance of Chihuahuas in California animal shelters.

SpcaLA, a private rescue organization that operates adoption centers in Long Beach and Hawthorne, is the latest group to move adoptable Chihuahuas to other parts of the country where there are fewer small dogs to be found in animal shelters.

Actress Katharine Heigl’s foundation recently arranged the transport of nearly 70 Chihuahuas to a New Hampshire humane society, which found new homes for each of them almost immediately.

SpcaLA was able to afford to move the dogs thanks to a private donor, Leslie Capin, who recently won $1 million in Paw Nation’s Cutest Dog Competition and decided to use the money to help pets in need. Pet Airways, the animals-only airline that launched earlier this year, offered a discounted fare. Their flight is scheduled to depart Thursday morning from Hawthorne Municipal Airport. A Denver-based rescue organization will arrange for them to be adopted in Colorado, where shelters are crammed with larger dogs but few small ones are available for adoption.

Proponents of the plan to transport Chihuahuas to other states argue that doing so is a way of killing two birds with one stone. “By moving the supply to the demand, we are negating the need for purchasing from an unscrupulous backyard breeder or puppy mill and reducing the current population of Chihuahuas” in California shelters, spcaLA President Madeline Bernstein explained.

But some fear that dogs adopted in far-off states will not have a similar safety net to those adopted from local rescue organizations — which typically provide ongoing support to new pet owners and will take back a previously adopted animal if things don’t work out. But Chihuahua-transport supporters believe that, by working with reputable rescue groups in the states to which the dogs are sent, they can ensure that adopters have knowledgeable local advisers to turn to if they need help with their new pets.

According to Kathy Davis, interim general manager of Los Angeles Animal Services, the city’s municipal animal shelters take in more than 300 Chihuahuas each month. Shelters in the San Francisco Bay Area report similar numbers, with many in the rescue community placing at least part of the blame for the number of owner-surrendered Chihuahuas on pop culture. “We call it the Paris Hilton syndrome,” Deb Campbell, a spokeswoman for the San Francisco animal care and control department, said in an interview with The Times’ Maria L. La Ganga.

[From The Los Angeles Times]

See, I don’t even like Chihuahuas, but I think this nice. Of course, my neighbor with the yappy Chihuahua will probably end up rescuing a half a dozen more, just to spite me. But still, saving puppy lives is great, and it’s a non-traditional solution to save lives. I have to think that it’s very, very expensive to send all of those dogs around the country, but maybe it is the best solution. If Katherine doesn’t mind paying the tab, God bless.

Okay, these photos broke my heart. F-ck! These poor babies:

We haven’t had a good Sparkles Pattinson post in a while, so it’s nice to end the year with a funny little story about sparkly hygiene. NY Magazine’s Vulture columnist ran into Bryce Dallas Howard and instead of asking her about her new film, they asked about Robert Pattinson’s hygiene, which she witnessed first-hand on the set of Eclipse. Bryce described an incident in which Sparkles admitted he needed to see a dentist because he chipped a tooth while flossing. She describes him as “hygienic” which runs contrary to mountains of evidence that he probably smells bad.

Sure, he looks foul-smelling, but would you believe Twilight star Robert Pattinson is really “incredibly hygienic”? So hygienic, in fact, that he’s a threat to himself and his teeth? It’s true, claims his Eclipse co-star Bryce Dallas Howard!

When we ran into her at the recent New York premiere of her new movie, the Tennessee Williams–scripted The Loss of a Teardrop Diamond (out today), she told us about her first brush with Rob: “I actually came out to him that I was totally nervous about [meeting him],” said Howard, who will replace Rachelle Lafevre as evil vampire Victoria in next year’s Twilight 3.

“He’s such a sweet young man, and there’s such a distinctive difference between him and Edward Cullen. He does such a wonderful job embodying that character, and bringing that character to life. But when you meet him, he’s such a down-to-earth, humble person, you feel bad freaking out around him.”

“But what does he smell like?” we inquired. “Actually, he’s incredibly hygienic,” Howard insisted. “He told me this story that made me crack up. He was like, ‘Oh, I have to go to the dentist.’ And I was like, ‘Oh no, what happened? Just a check-up?’ And he was like, ‘No, I chipped a tooth.’ And I was like, ‘How?’ And he was like, ‘Flossing.’ Who does that? I don’t even floss. So he’s hygienic. Trust me.”

[From NY Magazine]

I floss. I’ve never chipped a tooth while flossing, and I can’t imagine flossing so hard that happens. Personally, I find Bryce’s comment about how she doesn’t floss grosser than her story about Pattinson. In any case, it’s not Pattinson’s teeth that I have a problem with. It’s his gross hair and his dirty clothes. That boy needs some mothering, and I’m not sure Kristen Stewart is up for it. But I am!

In other Pattinson news, he was spotted out and about in London with his sister, and now all the Twihards are all “Bella and Edward didn’t spend Christmas together, SOB!” Photos of the family outing are here, but be forewarned: Sparkles looks like a sketchy kidnapper, and his sister did not get the sparkly genes. And one more thing: in that Moviefone poll (the one that determined that Megan Fox was the worst actress of the year), Robert was voted “the sexiest actor of the year.” Which is sad, really. Because kids today think Sparkles is sexier than Clive Owen. Sob!

Oh, and in case no one has caught this yet, here’s Sparkles in the trailer for his new film Remember Me. It doesn’t look horrible, it just looks pretty cheesy:

Robert Pattinson in New York on November 19, November 18 and in Los Angeles on November 16. Credit for all: WENN.

While Angelina Jolie was working her ass off doing reshoots on Salt yesterday (and in her downtime reading a book about Afghan girls’ schools), Brad Pitt took their two oldest boys out for some play time. Brad brought Pax and Maddox to Dave and Busters, which was the second time (we know of) that Maddox got to go. There are actually photos of Pax smiling as they leave! I’m sure Pax smiles all the time, but he’s the Jolie-Pitt child who looks most terrified of the paparazzi, so it’s nice to see him enjoying himself out in public. Oh, and Brad’s brother Doug and Doug’s son joined them too! There’s more from Us Weekly (including someone shouting “I love Jennifer Aniston” like a 12 year old) and, by the way, this story was filed in the “Moms and Babies” section of Us Weekly’s site:

It’s a boys’ day out for Brad Pitt and sons Maddox and Pax!

The star, 46, and his younger brother Doug took the two boys to Dave & Buster’s in New York City’s Times Square Wednesday afternoon, UsMagazine.com confirms. (Pitt took Maddox to the same Dave & Busters back in September.)

While at the arcade restaurant, Pitt helped Pax, 6, with the controls on “The Big One,” an oversized crane used to grab stuffed animals. After several attempts, they won a giant stuffed animal.

The group — surrounded by four security guards — then moved on to war game “Razing Storm.” Pax and Maddox, 8, took hold of the life-size guns and shot at the arcade screen for a few minutes before moving on.

While the bearded Pitt watched them play, an eyewitness tells Us he handed out extra Dave & Buster’s game cards to a few children. One boy jumped up and down in excitement when the star gave him the card and patted him on the back, the source says.

When a crowd began gathering, Pitt, Doug and the kids got in an elevator to leave. As the doors closed, one onlooker yelled out, “I love Jennifer Aniston!”

Although Pitt didn’t look amused, his brother Doug laughed out loud, an eyewitness says.

Their afternoon out came one day after Pitt was photographed greeting Angelina Jolie with their two daughters, Shiloh, 3, and Zahara, 5. The clan has been braving the 30-degree temperatures in NYC as Jolie finishes several re-shoots of her action flick Salt.

[From Us Weekly]

I’ve always liked Brad’s relationship to his brother Doug. They seem genuinely tight, and it’s cool that Doug and at least part of his family are in New York to spend time with Brad, Angelina and the clan. Oh, and I love the boys’ style. Maddox especially looks so hardcore. Take note, Taylor Momsen.

Brad Pitt takes Maddox and Pax to ‘Dave & Busters’ arcade with his brother Doug and nephew, in the times square section of New York City. Credit: INF and Fame.

Before I leave you staring at Lady GaGa’s vagina until Monday (You’re welcome, by the way.), let’s take a look back at the celebrity moments that defined 2009 and weren’t just naked pictures. Even though those are the real… …read full story

There’s a lot of information online about Rosie O’Donnells’ new girlfriend, a self-described “artist, doula, and director of Open Arms Campaign, a non-profit to recruit foster and adoptive families” named Tracy Kachtick-Anders from Galveston, Texas. After reading a long interview and Tracy’s brief autobiography, I have to say she sounds like a genuinely great person. Some of her stories really moved me. Tracy has six children, several with special needs, and five that are adopted. She invented a sleeping aid for babies with acid reflux and special needs called The Sleep Tight Wedge. She also paints and she’s very matter-of-fact about her art and says she doesn’t “take it seriously.” Oh and she helps advocate for LGBT rights locally and blogs about it.

Rosie’s rep has acknowledged that she’s in a relationship with Tracy, with whom she was first photographed on a jet ski in Miami in mid November. After the two were seen out holding hands on Miami beach, Rosie admitted it was serious. The two met online through Rosie’s blog. A commenter writes “I know who that is it is the lovely lesbian artist with many children who asked you if you would like to trade art.” Rosie responded “smart girl.” That’s really sweet! Rosie needed some happiness after all the drama over her breakup with Kelli:

Rosie O’Donnell no longer has to remain sad about being single.

She’s now dating dating Tracy Kachtick-Anders, a Texas-based artist who has six children, her rep confirmed to People. The happy couple was spotted strolling hand-in-hand on Miami Beach Tuesday.

Rosie announced in November that her longtime partner, Kelli Carpenter, moved out of their home two years ago.

Tracy is an activist for LBGT adoptive rights, and she founded the non-profit Open Arms Campaign, which helps recruit foster and adoptive families. Five of her six children (ages 5 to 17) are adopted and several are special needs, she told the Examiner.

In her free time she paints and serves as a doula.

[From The Huffington Post]

This woman seems really perfect for Rosie, who also has three adopted children and one biological child with Kelli. Rosie also advocates for adoption rights for same-sex couples and they probably have a lot in common.

In her biography on TheRainbowBabies.com, Tracy mentions how difficult it is to find a long term relationship when she has a houseful of special needs kids:

Parenting is the hardest job you will ever love. It is challenging and tiring and isolating. There aren’t a lot of women (that I am interested in) out there who can look past my five special needs kids to see a potential date or who want to sometimes share the bed with a sick or scared child. There are not a lot of sitters who want to take them on either. There is not a lot of time for myself after diapers, laundry, meals, and doctor appointments.

BUT, there is also nothing like waking up to a smiling little face, getting a hug and hearing, “I love you, Mom.”

Aww, I really like her! She may have found a real life partner in Rosie. Stay positive, Rosie, and treat her right!

Here are some photos of Tracy and her family. One is from Examiner.com, one is from Tracy’s website for her art, and two are from Rosie’s website. I think the photo with Rosie is of her hugging Tracy’s 15 year-old daughter.