Uh oh! Will.I.am, he of crap.py quartet the Black Eyed Peas, got a big head in light of the success of his "Yes We Can" video. Prepare to be positive video-ed to death.
On Thursday in New York City, Will, his band mate apl.de.ap, musician Angelique Kidjo, actress Kristin Davis and model Elle Macpherson all helped launch a "new" campaign to halve global poverty by 2015. Neat, if not really new.
In fact, this campaign is an initiative to help revitalize a plan originally put into motion eight years ago by the United Nations. Many of the countries the UN had hoped would be well on their way to destroying poverty by now are nowhere near achieving their goals. Clearly, this is a job for apl.de.ap.
THURMAN ENGAGED TO MAN WHO SHOWS AFFECTION WITH THINGS "Uma Thurman … is ready to walk down the aisle again with financier Arpad (Arki) Busson … Busson, who has two children with supermodel Elle Macpherson, just presented Thurman with a engagement ring so big 'she can't fit it through the sleeve of her coat' …" Oh, wonderful: a diamond so huge it's inconvenient! How do people this crazy get so much money into their nutty bank accounts?
A few weeks ago, Page Six warned sashaying fashionistas everywhere that the tents canopying Bryant Park during New York Fashion Week would play host to fewer fabulous guests this year. While the news certainly came too late for flustered, coked-up event planners to pare champagne orders, it gave us an ample amount of time to fix a cheese plate, pour a glass of red and prepare to ogle the wreckage of the most poorly attended Fashion Week ever. That said, where is everyone?
Last night, everyone was at the GQ Men of the Year Awards in London. After the jump, many pictures of them wisely not caring about Fashion Week.
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• If Jennifer Garner falls, Ben Affleck will catch her, he'll be waiting, time after time. [Celebrity Nation]
• Baby Love the Kinkajou hates Paris Hilton even more than your average human. [Celebitchy]
• Silly Victoria Beckham, does she not understand that the sperm of David Beckham only creates virile young boys. [A Socialite's Life]
• Completely coincidentally, I'm sure, the day this controversy comes out, Elle Macpherson shows off her kick-ass bikini 'Body.' [SplashNewsOnline]
• Paris Hilton takes your amateur hour notion of what is ridiculous and throws it out the window. [Junkiness]
Yesterday, attentive MollyGood commenters called bullshit on Heidi Klum's recent Victoria's Secret ads where she claims to own the title 'The Body' in the modeling industry, as that nickname was first given to Elle MacPherson. Today, the Lowdown tackles this thrilling controversy:
"We saw that and were like, Oh my god!" Elle Macpherson Intimates spokeswoman Melissa Edwards told Lowdown yesterday. "We were initially flabbergasted."
Now it's a battle of the supermodel moguls — Macpherson, the 42-year-old, 6-foot Aussie mother of two, against Klum, the 33-year-old, 5-foot-9 mother of two (with one on the way).
Elle's flack, Edwards, invoked the 1986 Time cover and added: "We have numerous press clippings in the office referring to her as 'The Body.' Everything from Harper's Bazaar to Vogue to the recent Sports Illustrated calls her that. In terms of public record, that name belongs to Elle."
Macpherson markets her own skin-care line, "Elle Macpherson The Body," along with a lingerie brand and a fitness video titled "The Body Workout." Klum — who was once called "The Body Two," in deference to Elle — is a relative Heidi-come-lately, and didn't hit the United States until the late 1990s. Both Klum and Macpherson have been favorites of the Sports Illustrated annual swimsuit issue, and both appeared in the mag's latest.
Again, as a commenter pointed out, if you throw the most politically influential 'Body,' former Minnesota Governor and professional wrestler, Jesse 'The Body' Ventura, into this debate, well, you've got a regular clusterfuck of 'Bodies.' At least I don't think he'll be coming out with a line of products named in his honor anytime soon. He might, however, be the definitive winner if this argument was decided in a mud wrestling match.
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