Look what we found! A picture of Madonna and Guy Ritchie appearing like they actually like each other. Enjoy it while you can, because the divorce proceedings are already starting to get nasty. A look at what each divorcée is saying about the other, after the jump.
The Hills frenemies Lauren Conrad and Heidi Montag were spotted hugging last night at a Los Angeles restaurant, sending the staffers at Us Weekly into an "OMG they're totally friends again!" frenzy.
Conrad was in the restaurant celebrating her runway show at Los Angeles fashion week with family and close friends. Meanwhile Montag and beau Spencer Pratt were at the bar eating dinner.
After spotting Conrad, Montag was seen asking if she could congratulate Conrad on her clothing line. And after a brief heart to heart, the two girls were seen hugging. They were both smiling and seemed happy to be talking.
Wait, that was it? There was no big public declaration of friendship? No tears? No press releases? We'd call what just happened maturity. Not the same as a reconciliation.
Side note: Remember when Heidi used to look like that?
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It's not as if this hasn't been made clear in the past, but Star Jones reiterates in a new Essence interview that there is no love lost between her and her former co-hosts on The View. At least she left before Elisabeth Hasselbeck fell in love with Sarah Palin and Bill Ayers.
Jones also talked about her divorce from Al Reynolds, whom she admits she no longer loves.
Tobey Maguire's innocent day of family fun at the pumpkin patch quickly went downhill when one of his friends punched out a paparazzo, causing a blood-filled scene in LA over the weekend. This is on the heels of Tobey's other paparazzi hatefest, which occurred a mere three months ago. Evidently someone doesn't like having his picture taken.
Tyra Banks wouldn't be Tyra if she didn't have former ANTM contestant Bianca Golden on her show to talk about that crazy, highly publicized brawl between her family and the family of Nikki Blonsky, who starred in the latest Hairspray movie, at the Turks & Caicos airport.
Here's the thing about The View that really annoys me (and no, it's not the ladies' constant competition to see who can squawk the loudest): Just when the show is getting good, the producers put the kibosh on it. After yesterday's fight heard 'round the Internet, the ladies came back from commercial break with a completely different topic. Look, Whoopi, we don't care how much you hate going to the dentist — we want to hear more of Elisabeth's inane tirades.
So it should come as no surprise that today's Hot Topics never once mentioned the controversy from the day before, despite the fact that it's being talked about just as much as any other big news scandal. Instead, Barbara was absent and Elisabeth tried her darnedest to be on good behavior — even coming close to admitting that Sarah Palin is not always right (re: her Supreme Court blunder). Looks like someone's struggling to keep her job. How disappointing.
Can you believe we actually suffered through Paris Hilton's My New BFF last night? And — even crazier than that — we didn't feel the urge to stab ourselves in the eyes? We realized that once you sit through A Shot at Love with Tila Tequila, you can sit through anything.
Anyway, the contestant who makes this show bearable is Onch, a jewelry designer from Hacienda Heights, Calif. Onch's favorite color is rainbow (seriously) and prefers the term "pomp" over "fabulous." Also? Onch is a male. Some of the contestants confused him for a girl at first, which was kind of awesome, but we don't even look at Onch as any specific gender. He's just kind of … there. It's weird. Onch wore a beautiful necklace last night made out of rainbow pretzels and was just magnificently entertaining throughout the entire hour of horrible television. We did some research, and it turns out this lovely being has already been in a feud with Chris Crocker, so you know he's just a tiny train wreck waiting to crash.
Onch, 1; the rest of those losers, 0.
• Aubrey O'Day's dog was probably better off at the shelter. [DListed]
• Good news! Hollywood has come up with yet another unhealthy way to lose weight. [INO]
• Photos of Heather Locklear's arrest. She still looks crazy. [CityRag]
• Amy Winehouse went crazy and attacked some people. So basically, a typical weekend. [Yeeeah]
• Dennis Quaid is disgusted with Meg Ryan and her need for attention. [ICYDK]
• Katie Holmes has lost all of her attractiveness — now she's just plan scary. How sad. [PS]
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This whole feud between David Letterman and John McCain remained entertaining for the second day in a row after Dave found out even more damning evidence: Upon canceling his Late Show appearance Wednesday to rush to the aid of the dying economy, Johnny boy not only stopped off to visit with Katie Couric — he stayed in New York City until Thursday morning. Now there's a man in a hurry.
Letterman summed it up by admitting he felt like an ugly date: "I feel used. I feel cheap. I feel sullied. I feel cratered." John McCain has that effect on us, too, Dave.
You have to hand it to Lindsay Lohan: The girl is persistent. After sending a text to Debbie Phelps in which she claimed Michael was "f–king amazing," LiLo attempted to appear with him onstage at the MTV VMAs. (Um, hello? Samantha Ronson?) There was one small problem: Disney brat Miley Cyrus also wanted in on the Phelps love, according to a source who introduced a new vocabulary word.
It was nightmate. Both Lindsay and Miley were wildly excited at the prospect of waltzing on-stage with Michael, so producers proposed draping one on each arm — but the girls did not want to be with each other and neither would back down!
It was nightmate?! Wow, this is worse than we thought. Of course, as we all saw, Michael did his bit alone, sans any annoying starlets. Nightmate averted.
So this little story about how Barack Obama's camp didn't want to be associated with Lindsay Lohan (and for good reason) has turned into yet another elementary school battle between the two presidential nominees.
If you'll recall, LiLo offered to host an Obama event, but was rejected because she "is not exactly the kind of high-profile star who would be a positive for [Barack]."
Naturally, John McCain's camp weighed in. CONTINUED »
Good news for Kanye West: Looks like he's going to get off without a felony charge after getting into a scuffle with the paparazzi at Los Angeles International Airport last week. According to a law enforcement source, "The thing Kanye had was a detachable flash. It's not of felony value. It wasn't worth $400."
His road manager, Don Crowley, won't get off that easily, because he smashed the body of the photographer's expensive camera on the ground and went on to swipe at the TMZ camera.
That's all good and well, but we want to hear what Kanye has to say about this whole situation. Lord help that MacBook Air.
All those rumors about Lynne Spears' parenting book, Through the Storm, detailing Britney's sex life and drug use turned out to be false. Obviously. Lynne knows not to bite the hand that feeds her. But Britney, in a rare moment of wisdom, has still cut off contact with her mother:
While the book doesn't dish on Britney's sex life or drug use, it blames all of Britney's problems on her daughter's former managers. Spears — who already considered her mother a siphon on her purse — is 'upset' about the book, spies said, especially when she feels Lynne herself caused so many of her problems and issues.
We'd have to agree with Brit on this one; while we'd normally get onto her for not accepting part of the blame, it's not really a 14-year-old girl's responsibility to make sure her mother isn't whoring her out. And we applaud her for recognizing that Lynne is still doing just that.
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Kirsten Dunst could really afford to improve her reputation in Hollywood for being an insufferable twit, especially amid recent reports that she had someone banned from the set of her latest movie after offering a small critique.
How to Lose Friends and Alienate People author Toby Young dropped by filming to see how the movie was coming along when he says he gave the director "a 'note' on [Kirsten's] performance in a particular scene." Evidently Kiki didn't take it too well and asked that he be kept off the set for the duration of filming.
Well, at least we know she gets the concept of the movie.
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Kanye West decided to lay off the MacBook Air just in time for the MTV VMAs, despite the fact that he promised last year he would never be returning to the show. If you forgot his glorious meltdown, we brought back the YouTube video, at left. Anyway, after screaming "F–k MTV!" and vowing never to return, Kanye announced that he would be performing at the end of Sunday night's show. Wow, Kanye. You really showed them.
Good news, everyone: Michael Lohan ran to E! News to announce that he and the rest of his obnoxious family have called a truce just in time for his father's burial. Mike went on to confirm that all of his children will be in attendance, despite Lindsay's publicized absence at the funeral earlier this week.
But here's where things get weird: Michael actually goes on to say nice things about Dina!
'And I can't believe how great Dina has been,' he said of his ex-wife. 'She has been wonderful. She has been the woman I married. She has been great.'
Time to go stock up on bottled water and flashlights.
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• The littlest Palin lady is the only one we can stomach. [DListed]
• Eva Longoria denies the pregnancy rumors: "I’m just fat. I gained 5lb over the summer so instead of a size zero, I’m a size one." [INO]
• Jennifer Aniston stays relevant by playing in the sprinklers. [HT]
• Kid Rock vs. Oprah … We have a feeling this isn't going to go well for the Kid. [ICYDK]
• Forget those new 90210 twerps; we'll take Adam Brody any day. [PS]
• Keira Knightley was verbally attacked by a someone, but she surprisingly survived without collapsing into a pile of malnourished bones. [Yeeeah]
Solange Knowles made an embarrassing on-air mistake last week during an interview for the Las Vegas Fox station, but she didn't apologize. Instead, she took to YouTube to defend herself, critique the "level of journalism right now" and instruct the folks at the Fox station to stop "jockin' Jay-Z." They didn't like that too much.
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