American Royalty Honey Boo boo set to take over the world

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The TLC reality show Here Comes Honey Boo Boo is capturing the attention of audiences worldwide. The show recently premiered in Belgium, Netherlands, and Luxembourg in January. It also premiered across Asia-Pacific on Jan. 31 and in Poland on Feb. 13. Upcoming premieres are scheduled for Italy, Sweden and across Latin America in March. 

The star of the show, Alana Thompson, began her rocket ride to stardom when she appeared on the fifth season premiere of Toddlers & Tiaras. The network TLC decided to give Honey Boo Boo and her entire family their very own show. The show was so popular that about 2.2 million viewers tuned in for the series premiere on Aug. 8. 

The Thompson family lives in McIntyre, GA, which has a population of 650 people. Even with the fame, the family plans to live in the same house and Alana is still attending the same school. Mother June Shannon explained that it's important to keep the family grounded, even though they are getting recognized worldwide. 

According to Honey Boo Boo's Facebook fan page, her latest business venture has been supporting the sale of Girl Scout cookies in her community. According to a Facebook post on Tuesday, the cookies are $3.50 + shipping. All boxes are autographed by the family and include autograph family photo.

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Pregnant Kim Kardashian's Rep Breaks Silence on Baby's Gender

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There have been all kinds of rumors that Kim Kardashian is pregnant with a baby girl.

But on Wednesday E! News spoke with a rep for Kanye West's girlfriend, who would neither confirm nor deny the speculation surrounding Kimye's baby's gender. The rep did tell us, though: "When the time is right, she'll confirm it herself."

Kris Jenner's friend Kathie Lee Gifford had seemingly confirmed that Kim was pregnant with a girl on the Today show Tuesday, but on Wednesday the daytime host backtracked. She just "read it like everyone else did in the papers" and clarified that our favorite momager never told her the sex of the baby.
Kim misses Mason and Kanye, tweets sweet pics

Meaning? The magazines have a 50-50 chance at being right either way, but for 100 percent confirmation we'll have to wait until Kim is ready to tell us!

Somehow though, we don't think satisfying our kuriosity is Kim's top priority right now. She's been busy working on the Kardashian Kollection, glamming up Oscars parties, hitting the gym and, of kourse, spending time with her fam.

Speaking of which, the mom-to-be and her sister, Kourtney, spent some quality time together Wednesday in L.A. Kim looked kute and sexy, showing off her baby bump in a patterned dress. She also added some edge to her look with a hot leather jacket.

Now that is maternity fashion done right!

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Oscars 2013: Great Performances photographed by Paola Kudacki for Time Magazine, March 2013

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Christoph Waltz
Performance: Dr. King Schultz in Django Unchained (Oscar nomination, Best Supporting Actor) 
As a bounty hunter in Quentin Tarantino’s antebellum riff on the spaghetti western, Waltz reunites with his Inglourious Basterds director, “who knows genres 10 times better than any film professor,” Waltz says. “Quentin can take genres and play on them like an organ.”

Philip Seymour Hoffman

Performance: Lancaster Dodd in The Master (Oscar nomination, Best Supporting Actor)
“L. Ron Hubbard is the reference, but it isn’t L. Ron Hubbard,” says Hoffman, who portrays a 1950s cult leader. “There are things he does that are referenced in L. Ron Hubbard’s life, but ultimately there is no adherence to any fact. We took liberties because he is a fictional character.”


Sally Field
Performance: Mary Todd Lincoln in Lincoln (Oscar nomination, Best Supporting Actress) 
“Had there not been a Mary Todd, there wouldn’t have been an Abraham Lincoln,” Field says of the mercurial First Lady. “She was complicated and brilliant, and she had a keen sense of where she would be placed in history — she would not be looked at fondly.”


John Goodman
Performance: John Chambers in Argo 
Chambers created the makeup for Planet of the Apes, designed Spock’s ears and had a sideline working for the CIA. “He’s a man who serves his country,” Goodman says. “He has a double life, a secret life, and at the same time, he disguises people for a living.”

Naomi Watts
Performance: Maria Belon in The Impossible (Oscar nomination, Best Actress) 
“She was so expressive and so detailed in everything she went through,” says Watts of Maria Belon, a survivor of the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami. “And everything she did go through is, blow by blow, what’s up there on the screen.”

Amy Adams
Performance: Peggy Dodd in The Master (Oscar nomination, Best Supporting Actress) 
“We were a society in transition,” says Adams of The Master’s postwar setting. “Women were given responsibility in wartime, and then it was back to the kitchen and take care of your man. The perception of what was available to women in that era was so different.”

Hugh Jackman
Performance: Jean Valjean in Les Misérables (Oscar nomination, Best Actor)
“One of Victor Hugo’s main themes is how harsh and wasteful the jail system was,” says Jackman, whose Jean Valjean served 19 years for stealing a loaf of bread. “The goal wasn’t to turn you out rehabilitated. The goal was to turn you out as an animal.” 

Anne Hathaway
Performance: Fantine in Les Misérables (Oscar nomination, Best Supporting Actress) 
“As a woman born in 1982, I take for granted so many freedoms that Fantine wouldn’t even dream of,” says Hathaway, who did voluminous research on everything from 19th century French law to modern-day sex slavery to play a doomed prostitute.

John Hawkes
Performance: Mark O’Brien in The Sessions 
“Mark O’Brien used to say that disabled people are invisible to able-bodied people,” says Hawkes, who plays the writer and polio survivor in The Sessions. “In between takes, I’d stay on a gurney, and crew members would set sandwiches and wardrobe people would lay coats on me. I got some idea of what it’s like to be thought of as furniture.”

Quvenzhané Wallis
Performance: Hushpuppy in Beasts of the Southern Wild (Oscar nomination, Best Actress) 
Benh Zeitlin’s magical-realist take on Hurricane Katrina rests on the tiny shoulders of its charismatic star, who at 9 is the youngest Best Actress contender in Oscar history. “I wasn’t surprised on the outside,” Wallis says of the nomination, “but I was on the inside.”

Jessica Chastain
Performance: Maya in Zero Dark Thirty (Oscar nomination, Best Actress) 
“Because we’re playing characters that really exist, it was important to show the utmost respect when portraying them,” says Chastain, who has never met the real-life inspiration for Maya, the CIA tracker who hunts bin Laden.

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ORANGUTAN CASE-Donald Trump sues Bill Maher for 5 Million -Like it was just Maher that thought he was son of an orangutan

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Donald Trump's mother is no orangutan-banger ... so says the Donald himself in a new, actually-filed lawsuit obtained by TMZ. Seriously, Trump actually filed this 

The Donald just sue Bill Maher or $5 MILLION ... claiming the HBO talk show host is skipping out on his promise to donate $5 mil to charity if Trump could prove he isn't the spawn of his mother having sex with an orangutan 

According to Trump, Maher made the offer during an appearance on "Leno" ... after Trump had made a $5 million challenge to President Obama regarding POTUS' birth certificate 

In his suit, filed today in L.A. County Superior Court, Trump says he formally responded to Maher's challenge with a copy of his birth certificate, proving he is, in fact, the "son of Fred Trump" ... who is not a member of the Great Ape family 



Trump claims 5 "worthy charities" have now been deprived of millions of dollars in donations ... and it's all Maher's fault.

Anyone in the mood for a banana?


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Yoko Ono Honors Julian Assange With Special Annual Courage Award

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Yoko Ono honored Julian Assange at her Courage Awards for the Arts ceremony in New York on Sunday evening, calling the Wikileaks founder and political refugee "courageous" for his work.

Assange accepted in absentia, as he is currently in hiding in the Ecuadorian Embassy in London; he is in exile from Sweden, where he is facing allegations of rape and sexual assault.

"Our public officials have forgotten that they are ultimately accountable to the people who put them in office; that the information they keep in secrecy belongs to all of us," Ono said. "Julian Assange took a courageous step by rightfully returning what belongs to the public domain. For that reason, I believe we need to stand behind him."

Assange's Wikileaks has faced hostility from the United States government for its leak of sensitive documents. Assange, in a speech given by associates accepting the award on his behalf, dedicated the prize to the hackers working at the organization.

"Through their courage and wit they are revealing the true nature of our global human civilization," his statement said. "This is how we may reform it. Elevate it – and make it just, beyond its humble origins. Their courage in documenting war crimes, gross human rights violations, and the corruption of our societies is unequalled."

The evening also featured a tribute to Aaron Swartz, the co-founder of Reddit and Internet freedom activist who committed suicide in January as he faced federal charges for downloading documents from the MIT server.

A film about Assange called The Fifth Estate, which will star Benedict Cumberbatch, is currently in pre-production.

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NFL legend Dan Marino had a love child with a CBS Employee

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NFL legen Dan Marino - a pregame analyst for CBS -- just admitted he knocked up a CBS Sports production assistant in 2004 ... while he was still married to his wife 

The baby mama is Donna Savattere -- who was 35-years-old at the time of the affair.  Savattere gave birth to a daughter in 2005 .... Dan's 7th child. He has 6 with his current wife Claire ... to whom he's been married for the past 28 years.

Marino released a statement to the NY Post ... saying, "I take full responsibility both personally and financially for my actions now as I did then. We mutually agreed to keep our arrangement private to protect all parties involved.&rdquo 

He continues, "My wife and I have been married for almost 30 years and have six children together. And we continue to be a strong and loving family." (Yeah Okay... 


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Karl Lagerfeld: Michelle Obama's Bangs Were "Not a Good Idea," Make Her Look "Like a News Anchor"

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Karl Lagerfeld is not a fan of Michelle Obama's birthday bangs.

The French designer told host Yann Barthes on Canal Plus last week that the FLOTUS' new 'do was "not a good idea."

After being shown before-and-after pictures of the first lady's hair, Lagerfeld said, "I don't understand why she changed her hair."

"I love Michelle Obama," he said before insisting that her new 'do makes her look "like a news anchor." (Un peu sévère, non?! )

That said, our fashionista FLOTUS shouldn't feel too bad about Lagerfeld's cheveux critique. Pippa Middleton and Adele have also been targeted by the outspoken 79-year-old.

But at the end of the day, Barack Obama's opinion is the most important one. "I love her bangs," he said at an inaugural gala. "She looks good. She always looks good."

Agreed. Viva la bangs!

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Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands Announces Abdication

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Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands is retiring from her duties, the monarch – who will turn 75 on Thursday – announced in a pre-recored Dutch TV message Monday 

Her abdication will take place April 30, reports th BBC 

In delivering her message, she said it was time to step down in favor of "a new generation." Her son, Prince Willem-Alexander, 45, will take her place 

Married with three young children, he will become the Netherlands' first king since Willem III, who died in 1890 

Other family members have traditionally abdicated around the same time as Queen Beatrix. Her mother Juliana resigned on her 70th birthday. Her grandmother Wilhelmina abdicated when she was 68.

Still none for Prince Charles haha

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Tom Brady & Gisele Bündchen's New Home Has a Moat

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Home is where the heart is. Not to mention the moat!

It will soon be moving day for New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady and his supermodel wife Gisele Bündchen, whose new $20 million Los Angeles home is finally finished after three years of construction.

That's apparently how long it takes to build a home of 22,000 square feet, a resort-style swimming pool in the back yard, a castle-like custom play area for the kids, a moat that runs across the front of the house and a bridge over it.

The abode, which sits on an $11 million lot in the Brentwood area of L.A., also includes eight bedrooms, a six-car garage, a wine cellar and a state-of-the-art gym, according to the U.K.'s Daily Mail.

"We are excited to be using solar power as the main source of electricity in our home," Bündchen told PEOPLE of the home, which she says will also have eco-friendly water supply and heating and cooling systems. "And we are planting our own herbs, fruits and vegetables, which will be my favorite part of the house."

Brady, 35, and Bündchen, 32, purchased the property in 2008 before they married in February of 2009.

They have two kids together – Benjamin, 3, and baby Vivian, who was born Dec. 5 – plus Brady's son from a previous relationship, 5-year-old John.

Better get to baby-proofing that moat!





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Voice of Charlie Brown Arrested for Stalking

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Peter Robbins, who provided the voice of Charlie Brown on animated specials inspired by the "Peanuts" comic strip, was arrested Sunday on charges of stalking.

California authorities told TheWrap that the voice actor was detained at a border crossing between San Diego and Tijuana, Mexico on Sunday at about 8 p.m.

He was taken into custody after a border patrol officer discovered Robbins was wanted by the San Diego County Sheriff's on a felony warrant, Ralph DeSio, a public affairs officer with the U.S. Customs and Border Protection office, told TheWrap.

DeSio did not say what crimes Robbins allegedly committed, but the website for the San Diego County Jail, where he was transported and booked, says he faces five felony counts, including stalking and making a threat to cause death or bodily injury. Bail is set at $550,000.

Robbins is due in court on Wednesday morning.

The 56-year-old actor was the doleful voice behind Charlie Brown on several of iconic TV specials that aired in the 1960s. His "Peanuts" work includes "A Charlie Brown Christmas" and "It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown," and he also appeared on such shows as "My Three Sons" and "F Troop," according to IMDB.

Robbins remains active on Facebook, where he goes by Peter "Charlie Brown" Robbins and recently posted about Lance Armstrong's doping confession to Oprah Winfrey and solicited recipe ideas from fans.

U-T San Diego first reported Robbins' arrest.

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Anderson Cooper Defends Beyoncé’s Lip-Sync fiasco

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For “The Ridiculist” segment of his show tonight, Anderson Cooper turned to the post-inauguration scandal that rocked the country today. Beyoncé lip-synched the national anthem!

“I respond with a big star-spangled so what?” Cooper said. “As far as I’m concerned, it is Beyoncé’s world and we are just living in it.”

Clarifying that it was her pre-recorded voice, she just wasn’t actually singing live, Cooper continued, “I’m releasing a statement right now saying I just don’t care. We got to look at Beyoncé’s beautiful face and hear Beyoncé’s beautiful voice singing the national anthem. There is only one thing we should say today and that is thank you, Beyoncé. Francis Scott Key himself would send her a fruit basket.”

After playing clips of some of the more infamous lip-synching scandals in music history from Milli Vanilli and Ashlee Simpson, Cooper had one final message for anyone questioning Beyoncé’s decision. “Talk to me after you’ve gotten on the stage in front of the president of the United States and hundreds of thousands to sing the national anthem in 40-degree weather.”

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Chris Evans & Evan Rachel Wood GUCCI “GUILTY BLACK” FRAGRANCE AD CAMPAIGN

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Sundance 2013 :ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY Celebrity Portraits

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Jessica Biel, Francesca Gregorini (director), and Kaya Scodelario, Emanuel and the Truth About Fishes

Joseph Gordon-Leviitt and Tony Danza, Don Jon's Addiction


James Franco, Interior. Leather Bar


Christina Voros (director), James Franco, and Travis Mathews (director), Interior. Leather Bar


Robert Rodriguez (director), El Mariachi


Alison Brie, Toy's House


Gabriel Basso, Alison Brie, Nick Robinson, Erin Moriarty, and Moises Arias, Toy's House


Chris Galletta (writer) and Jordan Vogt-Roberts (director), Toy's House


Tequan Richmond, Alexandre Moors (director), Joey Lauren Adams, Tim Blake Nelson, Isaiah Washington, Blue Caprice


Ricky Whittle, Stephenie Meyer, Jerusha Hess, J.J. Fields, Jane Seymour, Keri Russell, Georgia Kin, Brett McKenzie, and James Callis, Austenland


Keri Russell, Austenland


Stephenie Meyer, Austenland


James Frecheville, Naomi Watts, and Xavier Samuel, Two Mothers


Allison Janney, Touchy Feely


Lynn Shelton, Allison Janney, Ellen Page, Rosemarie DeWitt, Touchy Feely


Ellen Page, Josh Pais, and Rosemarie DeWitt, Touchy Feely


Ron Livingston and Rosemarie DeWitt, Touchy Feely


Lucas Ochoa (producer), Marc Silver (director), Thomas Benski (producer), and Gael Garcia Bernal, Who is Dayani Crystal


Matthew McConaughey, Tye Sheridan, and Jeff Nichols, Mud


Matthew McConaughey, Mud and upcoming Dallas Buyers Club


Michael B. Jordan, Octavia Spencer, Melonie Diaz, and Ahna O'Reilly, Fruitvale


Michael B. Jordan and Ahna O'Reilly, Fruitvale


Michael B. Jordan and Octavia Spencer, Fruitvale


Elisabeth Moss and Holly Hunter, Top of the Lake


Holly Hunter, Top of the Lake


Guy Pearce, Breathe In


Felicity Jones, Drake Doremus (director), Mackenzie Davis, and Guy Pearce, Breathe In


Amy Ryan, Breathe In


Robert Reich, Inequality For All


Directors Maxim Pozdorovkin and Mike Lerner, Pussy Riot


Johnathan Tchaikovsky, Robin Weigert, Maggie Siff, and Julie Fain Lawrence, Concussion


Ayushita Nugraha, Nicholas Saputra, Karina Salim, and Lupita Jennifer, What They Don't Talk About When They Talk About Love


R.J. Cutler (director), World According to Dick Cheney

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