Monday, June 1, 2009

Angelina Jolie Injured On Film Set

Angelina Jolie was hospitalized Friday (May 29), after she knocked her head and suffered a small cut between her eyes on the set of her latest movie Salt, which is currently filming on Long Island, New York.

Columbia Pictures released the following statement about Jolie’s hospital visit:

“This morning, while filming an action sequence during production of her new movie Salt, Angelina Jolie sustained a minor injury. As a precautionary measure, Ms. Jolie was taken to a local hospital, examined and released.

She is now back on set and will resume with production this afternoon.”

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Monday, November 24, 2008

Ashlee Simpson Has a Boy

A rep for Ashlee Simpson and Pete Wentz has announced that the couple welcomed a baby boy on Thursday night (November 20).

"Proud new parents Pete Wentz and Ashlee Simpson-Wentz welcomed new son, Bronx Mowgli Wentz, late this evening," their rep said in a statement. “Ashlee, Pete and baby Bronx are all healthy and happy, and thank everyone for their well wishes!”

Bronx weighed 7 lbs, 11 oz and was 20.5 inches long, according to their rep, and is the couple’s first child.

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Tuesday, September 23, 2008

Mandy Moore Visits Ex in Hospital

Mandy Moore’s rep has confirmed that the singer has flown to Columbia, Sotuh Carolina, to visit her ex-boyfriend Adam ‘DJ-AM’ Goldstein following his miraculous escape from a plane crash on Friday (September 19).

The pair were reportedly romantically linked in December 2006, a short time after Goldstein split with Nicole Richie and called off their engagement.

Kelly Bush, Moore’s rep, confirmed to E! News that Moore had travelled to Columbia to visit the DJ, who is still listed as being in a critical but stable condition, with burns to his head and arms.

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Sunday, June 8, 2008

Rep Slams Ashley Tisdale HIV Rumor

A representative for 'High School Musical' star Ashley Tisdale has dismissed online reports that she has been diagnosed as HIV positive, saying the story is "completely untrue."

Rumors spread online on Thursday (June 5) following a posting on the website Digg, which was subsequently removed, claiming that, "An inside source stated that Ashley may have contracted the virus last year when she underwent a rhinoplasty procedure."

The article also quoted a spokesman for Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles saying, “Ashley and her family are trying to come to terms with this horrible development. They only ask that you pray for Ashley’s health and to please respect their privacy as the family decides on the next course of action.”

Tisdale's rep, Scott Appel, has angrily denied the report explaining, "The story is completely untrue."

Simi Singer from Cedars-Sinai adds that, "We did not release any statement regarding Ashley Tisdale."

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Sunday, June 1, 2008

Dina Lohan: Lindsay Hospitalized With Asthma

Despite her representative's claims that she was visiting a sick friend in hospital, Lindsay Lohan's mother has revealed her daughter visited the emergency room for trouble with asthma.

Lohan was spotted leaving Century City Hospital in Los Angeles with her gal-pal Samantha Ronson, with reports circulating that she was ill after she experienced complications to do with her asthma on board a flight from New York.

"There is no drama," her rep explained on Friday (May 30). "Lindsay and Samantha went to the hospital last night to visit a sick friend. Lindsay is fine. She is currently working and on set of her new film 'Labor Pains'."

However, Dina Lohan confirmed the earlier reports that her daughter wasn't well, telling People, "She was losing oxygen. She couldn't breathe."

She adds, "She was afraid to go the hospital because [the paparazzi] were gonna write about it. She was sick. If you were sick, and you're mother couldn't even take you to a hospital because paparazzi will fabricate some story, you know, it's sad. It's really sad."

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Monday, February 4, 2008

Britney Blows Her Top Again!

At a hearing concerning who has control over Britney Spears' medical, legal, and financial decisions, attorneys for her father, Jamie, argued that he should remain as her temporary conservator.

"Mr. Spears is here because his daughter is in great distress," attorney Jeryll Cohen told the court. "He's trying to get her better. In the meantime, while she is in great distress, she needs him to watch over her assets."
Cohen said that she has not been able to serve Britney's friend Sam Lutfi with a restraining order issued on Friday. "Late last night when we learned of his location, we sent out our process server, but Lutfi refused to answer the door," Cohen told the court.

Cohen said that Lutfi has spoken to Britney on the phone, a violation of the court's orders. Britney's attorney maintained that Jamie should be removed as co-conservator because his daughter does not trust him.

"She has expressed a very strong desire that her father not be appointed conservator," attorney Adam Streisand said. "He has been estranged from her and this is causing her even more stress." Streisand, who admitted he has been denied access" to Britney, would not say how he has been retained.

Streisand said Britney wants the Northern Bank Trust and Howard Grossman, her business manager, to act as conservators.

"Ms. Spears' estate consists of $40 million in assets and is currently undergoing a $17 million IRS audit," Streisand said. "It's a $17 million audit against Jive records," Streisand later told Usmagazine.com. Following his statement, the judge asked Streisand to leave the courtroom. "I think the law should presume she has capacity until proven otherwise," Streisand told Us. "Britney got in touch with me. I can't go into specifics."

"I was referred to her through the Trope and Trope firm," Streisand told Us. Sorrell Trope, of the firm Trope and Trope, is usually Britney's attorney but Streisand told the press that Jamie and attorney Andrew Wallet, the co-conservator, wanted Trope off of Britney's ongoing custody case.

The next step, Streisand said, would be a hearing on whether she lacks capacity to retain an attorney. On Friday, Jamie won temporary legal control over his daughter. He was also granted full control of her residence and can legally remove anyone who is staying there. Wallet was named co-conservator. A court creates a conservatorship when it concludes a person no longer can care for themselves or their personal and financial affairs. An insider told Usmagazine.com that it may be an uphill battle for Britney's attorney "because what child does get along with their parents when they are locked in the psych ward?"

Britney has been involuntarily hospitalized since early Thursday morning at the UCLA Medical Center. She is expected to be there for two more weeks while receiving treatment for severe bipolar disorder.

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Thursday, January 31, 2008

Britney Hospitalized Again, for "Mental Evaluation"

For the second time in a less than a month, police involuntary committed Britney Spears early Thursday morning, hours after blogs and media outlets began reporting that her psychiatrist determined she was a danger to herself and others.

At approximately 1a.m., dozens of Los Angeles Police officers along with an ambulance arrived at Spears' home in the Summit Circle gated community in the hills above Beverly Hills. Less than 20 minutes later, she was transported to UCLA Medical Center.

Citing unidentified authorities, The Los Angeles Times said Spears was placed on a "mental evaluation hold."

The ambulance was seen pulling out of the side entrance of Spears' gated Summit community at 1:20 a.m. Her mother, Lynne Spears, was seen riding in an SUV as part of the police escort caravan. Her father, Jamie, and her brother, Bryan, arrived at the hospital minutes after Britney was brought in. Sam Lutfi and Alli Sims also were seen entering.

Lutfi recently told Barbara Walters that Spears — whose behavior has become increasingly erratic — suffers from "mental issues which are treatable" and "that she has been to a psychiatrist."

On January 3, Spears was taken to L.A.'s Cedars-Sinai Medical Center after a three-hour stand-off with authorities, which began when she refused to hand over her two sons, Jayden James and Sean Preston, to her ex Kevin Federline as required by their custody decree. Spears was released less than 48 hours later

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Monday, August 27, 2007

Owen Wilson Is Pussy Wiped

"Owen Wilson was found bloodied and dazed after trying to commit suicide by overdosing on pills and slitting his wrist in the wake of a bitter blowup with a close pal", according to the New York Post. Now that's how you write an opening sentence! Bam bitches!

It's hard. He's such a wonderful person," one source said. "He's such a great guy and so smart and just... nice. We're just hoping he gets better."

The actor had been transferred to Cedars-Sinai from St. John's Hospital in Santa Monica after having undergone detox for the apparent pill overdose and surgery to his injured left wrist.

He will likely remain under the close watch of doctors for at least the next several days, one source said. There were no details as to what may have caused Wilson to go off the deep end, except that the incident occurred shortly after a vicious quarrel with an unidentified friend. But Wilson, 38 - who always appeared to be a happy slacker type - has a dark history of depression.

"It's very upsetting. People are complicated. It's not just one thing," said a friend of the actor.

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Tuesday, May 29, 2007

Mischa Barton Hospitalized

mischa barton hospitalizedFormer “O.C.” star Mischa Barton spent the weekend in an L.A. hospital after mixing booze with prescription antibiotics. TMZ reports:

[Barton] was at a friend’s Memorial Day BBQ enjoying a few holiday cocktails when she began to feel extremely ill.

Mischa, who has been quite sick with bronchitis since traveling to Cannes, London and Paris the past several weeks, apparently didn’t [know] that you can’t drink alcohol while taking antibiotics!

The 21-year-old celeb was rushed to an undisclosed medical facility in Los Angeles.

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Thursday, February 1, 2007

Delta Goodrem Rushed to Hospital

Australian pop sensation Delta Goodrem is in hospital in Ireland with a mystery illness, according to media reports.

Delta's partner, former Westlife singer Brian McFadden, rushed her to Beaumont Hospital in Dublin on Sunday night after she complained of stomach pains, the Irish Independent website reported.

Comment was being sought from Goodrem's family in Australia.

The reports quoted a friend of the singer saying Goodrem had undergone tests but that doctors were still unsure if her abdominal pain was caused by a ruptured appendix.

"They have not operated but are doing a lot of tests," she said.

"It looks like it is more serious than the stomach bug they thought she had on Sunday night."

McFadden cancelled his flight to London on Thursday as he maintained a vigil at Goodrem's bedside.

The 22-year-old former Neighbours star was diagnosed in 2003 with Hodgkin's Disease but later declared she had beaten the cancer.

Goodrem and McFadden spent Christmas with her family in Australia.

But the last two years have not always been easy for the couple, who had to weather criticism from the British press for their relationship, which began after the breakdown of McFadden's marriage to former pop star Kerry Katona.

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Monday, January 29, 2007

A Death in the Family for Jolie

Angelina Jolie's mother, Marcheline Bertrand, died Saturday afternoon at Cedars Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, the Associated Press reports.

Bertrand, who had endured a long-term battle with cancer, was 56. According to a family statement, Jolie, 31, her older brother, James Haven, and her boyfriend, Brad Pitt, were at the hospital when Bertrand passed away.

"Angelina came to visit her two weekends ago and spent the afternoon with her in her room," a source at Beverly Hills' Raffles L'Ermitage hotel, where Bertrand kept a residence, tells Usmagazine.com.

Bertrand, a former actress, raised Jolie and her brother as a single mother after she and Oscar-winning actor Jon Voight divorced in 1978. She appeared in the movies Lookin' to Get Out in 1982 and The Man Who Loved Women in 1983. A private funeral is planned. In lieu of flowers, the family is asking that donations be made to the Women's Cancer Research Institute at Cedars Sinai.

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