The most talked-about tresses on television are getting another makeover.
That’s right, Kate Gosselin’s extensions are coming out.
But that doesn’t quite mean the former reality star will go back to the trademark backwards mullet that she has become best known for.
Celebrity hairstylist Ted Gibson told RadarOnline.com that he’s taking Gosselin’s $7,000 extensions out on Wednesday, and though she’ll have her short hair back for the day, he’s giving her a new ‘do on Thursday.
“We’ll be doing color, we’ll be doing extensions, we’ll be getting her ready for her premiere on ‘Dancing With the Stars!’” Gibson said, adding that the 34-year-old mother of eight’s new locks will include a few different shades of blond. “The extensions will last through the whole time she’s on the show.”
Gosselin has already begun rehearsing for the hit ABC show, which premieres March 22nd.
According to Gibson, she’s got a shot at winning the competition.
“I think she has a good chance, I think people love to watch her, I think she’s interesting,” he told Radar. “When she was here last week she said she been trying really, really hard at dancing and she doesn’t feel like she’s necessarily a dancer but I think she’s having a good time and that’s going to show, that she’s having a good time.”
Actor Corey Feldman has been left devastated by the death of his friend, namesake and co-star Corey Haim, revealing he was woken with the terrible news today.
Haim reportedly suffered a drug overdose at his home in Oakwood, California in the early hours of Wednesday morning and was pronounced dead upon arrival at St. Joseph’s hospital in Burbank.
Feldman, the 38 year old’s co-star in The Lost Boys, License To Drive, Last Resort and reality TV show The Two Coreys, reveals he learned of his pal’s death as he woke up.
He says, “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.”
Meanwhile, the tragic actor’s ex-girlfriend Nicole Eggert has opened up about her feelings, telling TV news show Entertainment Tonight she’s “very saddened” about the news and the fact that her former lover and co-star was “unable to overcome the demons he so deeply struggled with”.
Madonna has teamed up with her teenage daughter to create a fashion line for young women.
The pop superstar is launching her own style empire, called MG Icon, and she is making her first venture, a juniors line, a family affair by inviting 13-year-old Lourdes to help her create the designs.
The Material Girl brand will hit shelves at U.S. department store chain Macy’s in August 2010 and will include clothing, footwear and accessories.
Madonna will add beauty and fragrance products to the Material Girl range next year.
A statement from Madonna reads, “Joining forces with (clothing makers) Iconix to bring my fashion ideas to consumers is very exciting for me. I look forward to working… to create and translate my vision and ideas for MG Icon.”
Madonna has previously designed a 2007 fashion line for high street retailer H&M. She was due to team up with Los Angeles-based fashion mogul Christian Audigier last year but pulled out of plans at the last minute.
Actress Reese Witherspoon says her “Legally Blonde” character Elle Woods has been ousted as the most stylish woman to come to the nation’s capital by first lady Michelle Obama.
Speaking Wednesday at a ceremony where Mrs. Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton presented the annual International Women of Courage awards, Witherspoon jokingly complained that Woods, the bubbly blonde from Los Angeles who discovers her inner strength at Harvard Law School and then takes on Washington politics, no longer held that title.
“As an actress, I have always sought out roles that portrayed women as strong and powerful, such as Elle Woods, who was in the ‘Legally Blonde’ movies,” she said to laughter from the audience in an ornate State Department reception room.
Woods, she said, “happened to be the biggest fashionista who ever came to Washington until Michelle Obama. Thanks a lot.”
Clinton then introduced Mrs. Obama as “stylish,” and the first lady returned the compliment to the entire crowd, saying: “You all look fabulous.”
Witherspoon was at the ceremony as a global ambassador for the Avon Foundation, which supports breast cancer research, anti-domestic violence programs and women’s empowerment projects. On Wednesday the group announced a $500,000 contribution to the State Department’s Fund for Global Women’s Leadership.
Last week, Sarah Killen had three Twitter followers.
This week, she has 20,000 – as well as a new iMac computer and offers to help pay for a dress and drinks for her wedding.
The unsuspecting rural Michigan woman has one out-of-work late-night talk show host to thank for her newfound online popularity – Conan O’Brien.
O’Brien decided last week to pick Killen as the only person he would follow on Twitter, turning the 19-year-old’s life upside down.
The deposed “Tonight Show” star whose exit deal with NBC barred him from TV appearances for several months, has taken to Twitter to reach the masses during his exile and has amassed more than a half-million followers.
But up until Friday, O’Brien had steadily increased his number of Twitter devotees without following the feeds of anybody else.
Enter Killen, who is finishing up her high school requirements, preparing to make the jump to college and getting married in September.
“I’ve decided to follow someone at random,” O’Brien’s posting read at 3:55 p.m. on Friday. “She likes peanut butter and gummy dinosaurs. Sarah Killen, your life is about to change.”
Boy, did it ever.
Immediately after O’Brien started following her, Killen – whose Twitter handle is “LovelyButton” – picked up followers at a rate of 150 per minute.
Then came the calls: Family, friends (actual and long-lost) and interview requests from Web sites, TV shows and radio stations.
She sleeps a few hours each night, has fallen woefully behind on her schoolwork and day-to-day activities such as laundry and rarely leaves the house.
“It’s totally nuts,” she said.
Until O’Brien plucked Killen from obscurity and turned her into an overnight Web celeb, she and fiance John Slowik Jr. lived a normal life, residing in the basement of a house in Conway Township, more than an hour’s drive west from Detroit.
It’s hard to say exactly what O’Brien’s motivation was – O’Brien spokesman Beau Benton had no comment on Wednesday – but it’s had a profound effect on Killen and her 21-year-old fiance.
The exposure has resulted in a brand-new iMac, which was bought for them by a Florida businessman.
A New York designer is donating a wedding dress, and someone else is sending wine for the nuptials.
Not bad for a couple who saved $30 for the wedding, hadn’t reserved a location and faced the prospect of not being able to afford a wedding dress.
“People are saying that I’m asking for gifts and stuff, and I’m not,” Killen said.
What she is asking of her newfound army of Twitter followers is to contribute to charity, including the Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure.
Still, Slowik says he’d love one more thing from the man who used to make them laugh nightly during his abbreviated “Tonight Show” run.
Slowik wants O’Brien to be his best man at the wedding.
Will he do it?
“I would hope so,” Killen said.
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Corey Haim’s story is sadly familiar in Hollywood: A teen talent who discovered drugs as he tasted his first success and whose personal problems increased as his star-power faded.
Haim died Wednesday at 38, another chapter in Hollywood’s tragic history of careers ravaged by drugs.
Brittany Murphy’s career was rebounding when she died at 31 in December from pneumonia and prescription drugs.
River Phoenix was 16 when he starred in “Stand By Me” and 23 when he died of a drug overdose outside a Hollywood nightclub.
Haim died at Providence St. Joseph Medical Center in Burbank, His mother called paramedics after he collapsed while getting out of bed at his apartment.
Haim started working in TV commercials at 10 and was a big-screen heartthrob at 15. The star of 1987’s “The Lost Boys” discovered drugs while making that movie.
“I was working on ‘Lost Boys’ when I smoked my first joint,” he told the British tabloid The Sun in 1994. “I did cocaine for about a year and a half, then it led to crack.”
Haim said he went into rehab and was put on prescription drugs. In 2007, he told ABC’s “Nightline” that drugs hurt his career.
“I wasn’t functional enough to work for anybody, even myself,” he said. “I wasn’t working.”
Haim had returned to the spotlight in recent years, appearing in the A&E reality TV show “The Two Coreys” with “Lost Boys” co-star Corey Feldman. The show was canceled in 2008 after two seasons. Feldman later said Haim’s drug abuse strained their working and personal relationships.
Haim was ill with flulike symptoms before his death, and police said he was taking over-the-counter and prescription medications.
An autopsy will determine his cause of death. There was no evidence of foul play.
“He could have succumbed to whatever (illness) he had or it could have been drugs,” police Sgt. William Mann said. “He has had a drug problem in the past.”
Feldman said he wept when he learned Haim had died.
“This is a tragic loss of a wonderful, beautiful, tormented soul, who will always be my brother, family, and best friend,” Feldman said in a statement.
Troy Searer, an executive producer of “The Two Coreys,” said Haim’s “heart and his potential were only outmatched by his demons.”
Dr. Drew Pinsky, an addiction-medicine specialist and star of VH1’s drug-treatment reality programs “Celebrity Rehab” and “Sober House,” said the lure of Hollywood attracts many potential addicts.
“There’s a higher incidence of addiction among celebrities,” he said. “It’s not the Hollywood-ness. It’s the fact that addicts show up in Hollywood and addicts are likely to die.”
Pinsky added: “Young Hollywood only reflects what’s going on in the culture at large.”
Jennifer Gimenez, an actress and recovering drug addict and alcoholic who appears on “Sober House,” said Hollywood’s ultra-competitive environment can lead some people to seek escape in substances.
“I don’t feel like Hollywood takes you down,” she said. “I just feel like it co-signs it a lot.”
Gimenez found success at 14 as a model and suddenly had to shoulder adult-sized responsibilities. Add the pressure of working in a competitive industry, and a person predisposed to addiction succumbs, she said.
Successful actors are not immune to the dangers of addiction. Heath Ledger was poised for superstardom when he overdosed in 2008 at age 28. He posthumously won the Oscar the following year for his work as the Joker in “The Dark Knight.”
Haim’s career outlook had been improving in recent months, and his neighbors told reporters the actor was looking healthier and getting stronger.
He had a role in the 2009 Jason Statham action flick “Crank 2: High Voltage” and was making appearances to support his new film “American Sunset,” billed on his Web site as the first film he had starred in “since he left the business on a sabbatical.”
Haim’s agent Mark Sterling and producers of “American Sunset” did not immediately respond to calls for comment.
Searer said he last spoke to Haim about six months ago, when the actor “seemed incredibly positive.”
“He had done a few smaller films and things seemed to be on the upswing for him,” Searer said.
Haim, however, seemed sadly prophetic when he was interviewed by CNN’s Larry King in 2007, calling himself “a chronic relapser for the rest of my life.”
They play lovers in the upcoming film The Bounty Hunter and rumour has it their onscreen chemistry spilled over into real life.
But whatever the case, Jennifer Aniston and Gerard Butler sure make a red hot pair on the cover of American style bible W magazine.
The sizzling image shows the heavily airbrushed former Friends actress leaning against her co-star in the desert as he wraps his arms around her waist.
The 41-year-old wears an Alberta Ferretti silk chiffon dress in the image, along with thigh-baring sheer hold-up stockings and cream heels with a leather ankle strap.
The look was inspired by Kim Basinger in the famously sexually charged 1986 film, Nine 1/2 Weeks, according to her hair stylist Chris McMillan.
Inside the magazine, the strapping Scottish actor, 40, is seen wearing a police uniform while putting the actress under arrest.
Another image shows Jennifer counting a wad of money in the front seat of a car.
The spread was shot at a ranch outside LA in January and is titled: ‘Speed Trap: Jennifer and Gerard do a little role playing in the searing heat of the California desert where damsels aren’t always in distress and lawmen sometimes break the rules.’
The photos were taken by famed photographer Steven Klein, who shot Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie as a 1960s married couple for the same publication in July 2005.
The spread, titled ‘Domestic Bliss’, was released just as their affair became public and Jennifer was left fuming, later saying her ex was missing ‘a sensitivity chip.’
Meanwhile, Jennifer and Gerard are expected to reunite tomorrow for the London premiere of The Bounty Hunter.
She flew into London’s Heathrow today ahead of the screening.
The pair persistently laughed off rumours of a relationship earlier this year, despite openly flirting at the Golden Globes in January and holidaying together in Mexico in February.
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