It seems that Jessica Simpson is no longer being controlled like a busty marionette by her father. Joe Simpson, known for his heavy involvement in his daughter’s careers and inappropriate comments about Jessica’s D-cup boobs, supposedly wants her to break up with Cowboys quarterback Tony Romo.

“Joe now feels that Tony has become too much of a distraction for Jessica. Any free time she has, Jess wants to spend with Tony. But rather than blaming his daughter’s work ethic, Joe points the finger at Tony. He wants Tony out of her life, but Jessica loves him and won’t even consider leaving him at this point,” claims an insider.

The source adds that Jessica is not listening to her father, and instead is trying to get Romo to settle down with her. “Her main concern is getting Tony to settle down and commit,” says the source, who adds that Simpson was to get married and start a family soon.

National Enquirer via TransWorldNews

It’s not surprising that Jessica wants to get married and have babies with Tony Romo. However, I can see how Joe Simpson might be concerned about his meal ticket. Jess isn’t exactly packing in the crowds, and her country music has generated an underwhelming response. The most press she’s had lately is for her unfortunate taste in mom jeans, but that isn’t likely to sell many records. Maybe Joe should push Jess to spend lots of time with Tony. A marriage and a baby can generate interest in her and could help sell some products, whether that be in the form of music, shoes, or tabloid covers.

Jess is reportedly taking on golf lessons in order to spend even more time with Tony Romo. She’s just finished her tour in support of her country music album, but while she’s back in the Daisy Duke pants (is this look tired yet?) she didn’t know all the words to her songs at a recent concert. Perhaps a refreshing break is in order.

Jessica Simpson is shown performing at the Florida Strawberry Festival on 3/8/09. Credit:
WENN.com

One of Pete Doherty’s long suffering cats died after being hit by a car and he decided to give it a burial at sea. Except he put it in his pond and the poor thing floated to the top and froze there. I’m not sure if this was the same cat he made a little kitty crack pipe for, but how he kept a cat after that video got out is beyond my comprehension. Where is PETA when you need them?

Pete Doherty has revealed that he buried one of his cats in his pond - but to the Babyshambles man’s horror, the animal remained on the water’s surface until it froze. “The cat got run over so I thought I’d give it a burial at sea - well, the pond,” he said. “But it didn’t sink, it floated and then froze over. So there was this dead cat under the ice looking up at me. It was terrible”

NME

PETA, it’s time to stage a protest at Pete Doherty’s place. In the past he’s housed himself in a coffin for Halloween with rats, wanted to turn his dead cat into a diamond for Kate Moss (no word on how that kitty died), played with day old baby mice with Amy Winehouse and a cat while filming it for YouTube prosperity, and made his cat smoke crack. Forget trying to convert us all to vegetarians, you need to convert Pete Doherty into a sane person.

Last question: how the hell can Pete Doherty afford to even rent a house with a pond? Because I honestly thought every dollar he’s ever made went straight into crack. Perhaps his ‘pond’ is really a ‘puddle’ and Pete is confused. It does rain lots in London.

Pete Doherty is shown performing at the Brighton Centre in Brighton, England on 3/19/09. Credit: Alex Broadway/WENN.com. He is also shown at the NME Awards on 2/25/09. Credit: Daniel Deme/WENN.com

Sean Stewart, son of Rod Stewart and Alana Hamilton, is proving again that money can’t buy you class. Sean appeared on a reality television court show, a low end version of Judge Judy, defending himself against his former personal trainer Francois Xavier who was claiming $5,000 in unpaid training fees. Sean appeared on the show claiming that his dad is ‘cheap’ and he’s had a hard life.

Judge Jeanine Pirro heard he owed Francois Xavier Declie $5,000.

Stewart, 28, told the court his father had paid the bill with a cheque eventually - but forced him to pay him back in full.

Recovering alcoholic Sean, who has appeared in several US reality TV shows, said: ‘Actually, the money he gave, the cheque he sent to Xavier, I had to pay back.

‘My dad’s very cheap.’

The stunned judge asked: ‘Your dad has a lot of money, why is he cheap?’

Sean, 28, replied: ‘I don’t know.’

Declie, who trained Sean for over a year, was suing for $5,000 for unpaid sessions, an unpaid loan and lost wages.

He told how he continued to train Sean four times a week as the debt continued to mount because Rod had paid off a previous debt.

He said Sean had told him not to worry because Scottish singer Rod would pay him again.

Declie told the court: ‘He used to say, ‘Don’t worry, my dad will pay you.’

Daily Mail

Judge Pirro awarded trainer Francois $3,500, saying he contributed to the situation by continuing to train Sean despite the growing debt.

Sean has in the past traded on his family name, he appeared in the reality TV series Sons of Hollywood and obviously used his family connections (and money) to secure unpaid personal training for at least a time. I think it is extremely unfair to brand Rod Stewart ‘cheap’ though. I know it’s only $5,000, but Sean is 29 years old and living on a separate continent from his father, he should be paying his own bills. Rod Stewart has three ex-wives and seven children. He’s got enough people to support without having to send his son money and worry about whether he’s wasting it on drugs.

Sean claimed on the show that he’d had a hard life, presumably referring to the pressures of being a rock star son and his previous stints in rehab. The Judge, not unreasonably, said that it was “nothing compared to the struggles [I hear] all day in this courtroom”.

Sean was in legal trouble previously for beating people up outside a Los Angeles nightclub.

Sean Stewart is shown on 3/4/09. Credit: WENN.com

How much do you think Britney’s life story is worth? Lindsay Lohan is rumored to have been paid $2million for her 22 year old story, Miley Cyrus got paid $4million for her tale of 16 years. Britney, at 27, has arguably had a much more interesting life, although perhaps her biography would be worth less since her mother sold a reasonable portion of the tale in her book Through the Storm. However, for Britney, $3million isn’t enough.

The singer summoned publishing bosses to her California home shortly before she embarked on her Circus tour, to discuss a big money memoirs deal to share her life with fans, reports Us Weekly magazine.

But Spears rejected multi-million dollar offers from executives at publishing houses HarperCollins, Random House and Little Brown, because they were a lot less than she expected.

According to insiders, Spears is seeking a figure closer to $8 million.

A source tells Us Weekly, “She was hoping for much more money.”

San Francisco Chronicle

I understand that she wants more money - this is the biggest exclusive ever, telling the whole, unadulterated truth about her teenage sex life (Justin Timberlake watch out!), her rise to fame, her pushy parents, her marriage, her teenage sister’s pregnancy, her mental breakdown and her comeback. Frankly, she could probably make $3million from selling just a portion of that story to People. If Miley Cyrus can get paid $4mil to whinge about how the public perceive her relationship with her father, surely Britney should get more than that, even if she isn’t technically writing it and is working with a ghost author.

I’d buy the Britney authorized biography - I want to know, if nothing else, what possessed her to wear that tunic top with no pants.

Photos are of Britney poolside in Miami on 3/10/09. Header photo credit: Mavrixonline.com. Photo below credit: Bauergriffinonline.com

Yesterday, following Julia Robert’s rude red carpet behavior, Kaiser commented that she thinks Julia has gone a little off her game. Julia certainly seems to be full of opinions, and here’s a few of her views on paparazzi (she has a lot to say about them) and child stars from an interview she did with Moviefone.

She’s not exactly Paparazzi Superfan No. 1.

Sorry, paps, but Julia just doesn’t find those sneaky snapshots of celebs taking their kids to school or picking up their dog’s poo all that fascinating. “It’s so insidious and pointless,” she says of the paparazzi’s relentless pursuit to capture the excruciating minutiae of stars’ lives. “I think that takes away from getting to have this special moment where you go and see someone in a movie. That magic gets diluted because you see these people every hour, every day in something that’s bound together and called a publication … If I could avoid it altogether I would, but I also love my job. And [in] a situation like this where there’s a movie I really enjoyed making, I am happy to talk about it. I just think it’d be nice if there were some clearer divisions of what people think is interesting.”

Julia Roberts does not get to decide what is interesting. The people buying and selling the pictures do. I do get what she’s saying about how the magic is being lost, I’ll never go see another Tom Cruise Film because all I can think is ‘Xenu!’ But with her next comment, she lost me completely.

She refuses to read the gossip rags.

Julia may be a fixture on the pages of the tabloids, but they’re certainly not bathroom reading material in the Roberts-Moder household. “I’m not a consumer. I used to be. It got kind of so sickening.” How sickening? “It’s like eating a giant cheeseburger, and halfway through you’re like: ‘What the f*** am I doing?! This is gonna make me sick.’” That said, she’s all for a classy photo shoot in a respectable magazine. “I, like anyone, like to see a nice picture of Clive in a magazine, but I don’t need to see a picture of Clive in his boxer shorts taking out his garbage. I think that’s where people think they want so much coverage. They think they want those private moments stolen away. But they don’t really because it does make you sick and you do end up looking at it and thinking: ‘I really shouldn’t be seeing this. I really shouldn’t be voting on the popularity of who has the cutest baby. Doesn’t that make me kind of a small person?’ So, I think that we just need some relief and some re-programming.” And some pants to wear while taking out the garbage.

We really, really need to see Clive taking out his garbage in his boxer shorts and no shirt. These pictures as yet do not exist, but if this could be made to happen I’ll appreciate it enough to cover myself and Julia. Julia is wrong - seeing Clive in his boxer shorts would only add to his magic.

I also suspect Julia’s babies regularly lose to Suri and Shiloh in the cutest baby stakes. All babies are cute though, and Julia’s are no exception.

Julia also says that she doesn’t give her niece Emma Roberts career advice:

Julia and niece Emma Roberts never talk shop.

Eighteen-year-old Emma Roberts is quickly climbing the Hollywood ranks, thanks to starring roles in ‘Aquamarine,’ ‘Nancy Drew’ and ‘Hotel for Dogs,’ but it doesn’t sound like she’s being coached by her Aunt Julia. “I don’t really give Emma any advice about show business,” Roberts confesses. “You know, our conversations tend to be on a more personal family level.” As for her own kids, Julia’s in no rush to have them join the family biz.: “My first instinct is that I would prefer if my children wanted to be artists that they wait, you know, that they just wait — as long as they can.”

Is Julia making a catty comment directed at her niece’s parents? Emma Roberts began her acting career in an R-rated film called Blow, and she’s been a less successful version of Miley Cyrus, appearing on a Nickelodeon TV show and releasing an album. Is she suggesting they should have held her back like she’ll do for her kids? Because if you hold back your children they can’t always compete. A world class athlete or dancer, for example, needs to start young to be competitive. This applies in pop music and acting too, although they could begin out of the public eye with lessons.

Julia’s recent videos of her taking the paparazzi to task and general unpleasant attitude have really begun to affect her image as America’s Sweetheart. Perhaps she’s just lost her touch in dealing with the media, but while promoting this comeback film she’s bagged mother/actresses for being nude in films, plastic surgery and her marriage. I suspect Julia dislikes the paparazzi and more intrusive media not so much because they follow her around, but more because many of the stories about her over the years are less than flattering to her happy go lucky, nice southern girl image. Her husband was married to someone else when they started dating, she’s often reported as being a diva on set, and no where near as nice as she appears in interviews. She says she hates the tabloid interest in her family, but still showed pictures of her children on Oprah, and her twins were featured on the cover of People (I’m unsure if she was paid for this). Julia is obviously trying hard to find a balance between public and private in a career where the role of the media has changed dramatically in her time.

Julia Roberts is shown outside the Late Show on 3/17/09, where she accepted flowers from RadioMan. Credit: WENN.com

Christina Ricci and her co-star Owen Benjamin have announced their engagement. The pair met in mid-2008 while filming the romantic comedy All’s Faire in Love and confirmed their relationship in October. Christina’s rep confirmed the report to People magazine. In their archives they have this comment from Christina in 2007.

“I’m definitely more at a time in my life where I want to settle down,” Ricci, 27, who dates actor-director Adam Goldberg, tells the UK’s Tatler in its June issue.

When it comes to walking down the aisle, “I think about that a lot,” she says. “Sometimes it sounds really good, but then I’m not actually sure I’d want to go through with the wedding. Although I feel like if we didn’t have a wedding, my family would be mad at me, and Adam’s family would be mad at him.”

She adds, laughing: “That’s just a whole thing – I don’t want to deal with it because you know you’re going to get in trouble. I just want to be married, or just engaged. Basically, I just want a ring. And the tax break.”

From People

Awww, how romantic.

All’s Faire in Love, the film where Christina met her fiance, is described as being a camp romantic comedy, “falling somewhere between Shakespeare in Love and Meatballs” on IMBD. No, I’m not making this up. It’s about a theater troupe competing for the best place at a Renaissance Faire.

Owen Benjamin is a reasonably unknown actor, who was in the The House Bunny film and Gaytown television series. I’ve loved Christina ever since she was in Casper when I was a kid, and it’s nice to hear she’s found love. Congratulations!

All’s Faire in Love is in cinemas sometime in 2009, a release date has not been confirmed.

Kendra Wilkinson say that she’s an old fashioned kind of gal, despite the fact that she’s a nude model and used to share her senior ex-boyfriend with two other girls. Unfortunately not everyone can see her old fashioned values, because she’s having a hard time finding a minister willing to come to the Playboy mansion and marry her.

“I’m getting stressed since I’m trying to find a minister to perform the ceremony at the Playboy Mansion,” Wilkinson, 23, tells CeleBuzz. “It might be the most stressful detail.”

Man of the manor Hugh Hefner could take on yet another job, but Wilkinson is thinking a little more traditional.

“We’re trying our hardest,” she says. “But it is the Playboy Mansion.”

People

Putting out the call through People is probably going to help Kendra find someone willing to perform the ceremony, because while the mansion might be the site of infamous debauchery, it’s also a beautiful old building and if the guests dress appropriately for a wedding it’s going to be the lovely traditional wedding that Kendra is looking for.

People often strive for tradition in their weddings, even if they aren’t traditional in their everyday lives. Mena Suvari is having issues around her wedding - trying to find a dress that hides her tattoos from her conservative future mother-in-law.

Mena Suvari’s wedding dress has one main requirement: cover the “American Beauty” actress’ tattoos. “I think it would be considerate to [fiance Simone Sistito's] family to have my tattoos covered, since there are two nuns on his mother’s side of the family,” Suvari told us at the Vanity Fair and USA Networks Character Project bash last week. Sporting an 8.6-carat, custom-designed engagement ring, Suvari constantly wanted to be around her beau, overheard saying, “Where’s my man? Where’s my man? Did he split?” before finding him texting alone in the corner.

New York Daily News

Mena has actually been married before, which is a big no-no in the catholic church. Perhaps her conservative mother-in-law isn’t happy about her son marrying a divorcee and Mena is trying to avoid giving her something else to dislike. Her fiance, concert promoter Simone Sistito, has at least two tattoos, on his arm and chest, which will presumably be covered on their wedding day, while Mena has a small sun at the bottom of her breast bone and another large tattoo on the back of her neck and shoulders of a lion. The latter could be a little difficult to hide, but perhaps Mena could consider Hollywood make up. Often tattoos are covered on screen by make up for stars.

Mena has not revealed the date for her nuptials, Kendra will marry her fiance Hank Baskett in early June.

Photo of Kendra Wilkinson is from 12/20/08, credit: PRPhotos. Photo of Mena Suvari from 3/12/09. Her back tattoo says “Word Sound Power.” credit: WENN.com

Last week Kelly Clarkson confessed that she likes to pee in the shower, and said that ‘anybody who says they don’t is lying’. This sparked intense debate amongst commenters, who had opinions rating from agreeing with Kelly, to saying it was gross, to saying it’s fine because it’s sterile and you can drink it.

Pete Wentz apparently agrees with the people who claim urine is sterile and drinkable. Pete made a video he posted on YouTube in which he’s seen drinking his own pee.

In the video, Pete says that the band are playing ‘pee roulette’, a game developed out of boredom, where they have ten bottles of juice (I think it’s juice) on stage, and one of pee. Pete will drink from all the randomly ordered bottles until he gets to the pee.

The video then shows Pete filling the bottle (from behind) and trying to get the other members of Fall Out Boy to smell it. Unsurprisingly they resist.

Lead Singer Patrick Stump then overshares a story about Pete peeing in the bathtub when they shared a house together. Then the act of diluting the pee and making it yellow like the juice is filmed for prosperity.

Pete plans to drink from the bottles between songs because ‘last time I did that I barfed’.

Pete is shown drinking the juice bottles during the performance, throwing the half empty containers to the audience. It’s a little unclear what happens but I think he drinks all of the pee.

View the video below if you want to.

Pete has seemed like less of a douchebag recently, talking lovingly about his new son, relationship with Ashlee Simpson and his battles with mental illness. Clearly when on tour without the civilizing influence of Ashlee he lets himself go. Into a bottle.

Note by Celebitchy: I really, truly believed I was reading about Pete Doherty until I got to the part about “Fall Out Boy” and had to change the picture in my mind to Pete Wentz.

Here’s the video. Helen described it well and if you’re eating, trying to drink a coffee, or considering eating or drinking anything in the next few hours, don’t bother watching it. It does have a few swear words and is NSFW without headphones.

Fall Out Boy is shown in concert in London on 3/6/09. Credit: Solarpix/PRPhotos

Steve Martin feels so strongly about a play he penned in 1993, about Pablo Picasso and Albert Einstien meeting in a bar, that he is willing to fund a high school production of the play after it was nearly banned.

“Rent” isn’t the only show proving to be too provocative for some parents of high school students. A month after controversy over a production of “Rent” at a high school in Newport Beach, Calif., the comedian Steve Martin, left, has offered to pay for an off-campus production of one of his plays because its performance was banned by an Oregon school, The Associated Press reported. Parents at La Grande High School objected to what they called adult content in Mr. Martin’s 1993 play, “Picasso at the Lapin Agile,” about an imagined meeting between Albert Einstein and Pablo Picasso in a Paris bar. The school board halted rehearsals after receiving a petition signed by 137 people. In a letter published on Friday in The La Grande Observer, Mr. Martin offered to pay for the production because, he wrote, he wanted to keep the play “from acquiring a reputation it does not deserve.”

New York Times

Wiki says the play features Picasso and Einstien meeting in 1904, before their achievements of painting Les Demoiselles d’Avignon and publishing the theory of relativity. They are joined by various characters and discuss the shaping of the 20th century through art, science and commercialism. It also has an un-named but obvious Elvis coming in and explaining that genius isn’t just academic or the result of ‘brains’.

This seems a lighthearted, fun way of discussing the 20th century and giving students at the school, as well as the actors in the school production, a way to be introduced to historical characters outside of a textbook. The school has around 700 students, so 135 signatures in protest against the play is not a very broad representation of the school, if there was outrage I’m guessing numbers would be higher. This is not the first time a high school has taken on this production, but the newly funded production will be held off campus.

Steve Martin addressed the play and the school in The Observer.

Focusing on Einstein’s Special Theory of Relativity and Picasso’s master painting, “Les Demoiselles d’Avignon,” the play attempts to explain, in a light-hearted way, the similarity of the creative process involved in great leaps of imagination in art and science. Pablo Picasso, as a historical figure, does not come gift-wrapped for the sensitive. He lived as he painted, fully sexual and fully daring, and in the play he is chastised by a sage bartendress for his cavalier behavior toward women.

Because of the controversy, I recently reread the play, and, frankly, I could understand how some parents might object to certain lines if they were to be delivered by a 16- or 17-year-old. Yet I do believe that the spirit of the play and its endorsement of the arts and sciences are appropriate for young eyes and minds.

So while the question of whether students should perform the play at their high school remains something to be determined by the community, I firmly believe that seeing the play will bring no harm to them and might well uplift them — and acting in the play, if they are permitted by their parents, would also bring them no harm, and may help them to understand the potency, power and beauty of the arts and sciences.

I suspect that the signers of the petition against the production read excerpts only, and were not shown the more delicate and inspirational parts of the script.

To prevent the play from acquiring a reputation it does not deserve, I would like to offer this proposal: I will finance a non-profit, off-high school campus production (low-budget, I hope!), supervised and/or directed by Mr. Cahill and cast at his discretion, so that individuals, outside the jurisdiction of the school board but within the guarantees of freedom of expression provided by the Constitution of the United States, can determine whether they will or will not see the play, even if they are under 18.

I predict that the experience will not be damaging, but meaningful.

The Observer of La Grande- read the full statement here

It shows a real passion to put yourself on the firing line in this way, particularly for a play that was written 16 years ago. I think the part of the play parents might object to is the character of Gaston who has no interest beyond sex and drinking.

Unused funds from Steve Martin’s donation will go to acting scholarships for students.

Steve Martin is shown at a photocall for The Pink Panther 2 in Spain on 2/11/09. Credit: PRPhotos

Heather Mills is converting a fish restaurant near her home into a vegan eatery, and rumor has it that she intends to start a global chain of vegan restaurants:

She has never been one to shy away from controversy.

So when Heather Mills decided to buy a popular fish restaurant near her home, her first move was obvious: take fish off the menu.

Miss Mills plans to turn the seaside eaterie into a vegan restaurant, believed to be the first in a planned worldwide chain.

And there was bad news for staff as well as seafood-loving clientele: the current owner has laid them off and told them they will not be re-employed when the renovated cafe re-opens.

Miss Mills, 41, signed the deal to take over the Big Fish Cafe near her home in Hove, East Sussex, on Friday.

Daily Mail

As far as Heather Mills ‘great’ ideas go, this might be one of the better ones. Certainly it ranks higher than her plan to represent herself in divorce court. There are a lot of vegans who would love to be able to go to a restaurant and have a large choice of food instead of just one or two dishes that a non-vegan restaurant might offer, and many people would love to try quality vegan food.

If Heather chooses to go fast food style with this, are we going to see her face in cartoon form, promoting kiddie tofu on television? Because as much as I think this is a good idea, and I’d love to have good choice of healthy food via a drive-thru, Heather Mills is hardly the lovable character that Colonel Sanders is. Besides, Heather has a hard time keeping publicists, mostly because she doesn’t like to pay them and has an inability to self censor or take advice.

Heather is attracting some negative publicity for the planned venture. While it’s unfortunate she sacked staff, she wasn’t obliged to keep them on. But the previous owner says she stiffed him out of money and paid him £115,000 ($160,000 USD) less than she originally agreed on.

‘Last July I decided to sell so I got in touch. I went to see her at her home and we made a verbal agreement for £255,000. That was later agreed in writing.

‘The arrangement changed in November,’ Mr Short told the Sunday Mirror. ‘I got a letter from her lawyer saying the price had dropped to £140,000. It blamed the credit crunch and the “current economic climate”.

‘Her lawyer said there were other issues such as the cost of the ground rent going up and the need to renovate the windows. I was shocked, absolutely gutted.’

And he claimed: ‘I’d put off other buyers who were offering the full price thinking I had a deal with Heather. There was nowhere else I could go.’

Daily Mail

If you have an agreement in writing, can you just decide to knock £115,000 off the price and the seller has to accept it? If there was some urgency to sell perhaps he had to accept Heather’s offer, but if he had other interested offers why didn’t he tell Heather to forget it and re-list the property? Something in Mr Short’s story smells fishy, pun intended.

Heather Mills is shown hosting a healthy cooking day for families in the Bronx on 1/10/09. Credit: WENN.com