Pamela Anderson has been looking pretty damn beat lately. And not “beat” as in tired, “beat” as in… looking like shit. Sure, I could put it more kindly, but frankly to phrase it any other way would be dishonest. Look at these pictures and tell me she doesn’t look like shit. Alright, so there we go.

Well Pammie finally got a bit of a makeover. Now keep in mind this is all relative, so don’t be expecting anything drastic. There’s only so much you can do without taking an industrial sander to her face.

AU NATUREL is not a word I’d usually associate with PAMELA ANDERSON.

But in reality it’s one that the outrageous Playboy bunny should take note of.

The actress and model looked as fresh as a daisy in barely-there make-up, bouncy hair and plain white tee as she joined forces with designer pal RICHIE RICH to announce their new clothing range Muse at a lunctime press conference in Miami.

It’s just a shame that a few hours later the star felt the need to pile the war paint back on.

The ex Baywatch star looked more drag queen than beach babe as she shone from the front row of Richie’s fashion show in heavy make-up, a tie-dye revealing dress and unsavoury black heels.

The event - which later saw Pammi grace the catwalk - was part of Miami Rock’s Fashion week held at the beach resort’s famous Fontainebleu Hotel.

[From the Sun]

So I guess it was more of a make-under than over. The Sun is right, she really does look better in the photos for the press conference than she does at the fashion show. Though I’m not sure I’d go so far to call her black heels “unsavory” but they weren’t doing her any favors. And she still looks a hell of a lot better in her worst photo here than she did in her best a few months ago.

Pam needs to chill on the eyeliner and lay off the tweezers. And the lip liner. Really, she needs to stay away from makeup on the whole. It couldn’t possibly make her look any worse, so she’s got nothing to lose. She appears so much prettier here with light makeup. If she weren’t posing in such a slutty manner, she’d even look cute at her press conference. And she needs to stop wearing so much white. That’s all I’ve seen her photographed in for months, and now I’m starting to associate it with crusty orange women instead of its original sweetness. And pants would be nice.

Images thanks to WENN .

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Despite all her problems - and never has the word “all” carried so much weight – I really do like Amy Winehouse. I can’t even explain why, but I am always rooting for her. Nonetheless, I’m well-aware that Amy’s still got a long way to go in terms of getting her life back on track. More worrisome, she’s apt to follow her crazy whims. Like why not play Scrabble naked with the elderly when the paparazzi are nearby? Why not punch your own bodyguard? Things like that. So it’s worrisome when Amy says she’s nearly ready to start a family.

Amy Winehouse wants to start a family - but not just yet.

The Rehab singer, 25, says she’d love to settle down have kids - but wants to release another album first.

She explains, “I’ll always have music in my life, but I don’t always have to sell it to people. While I love music, I’d really love to have a family and that’s the most important thing to me. That doesn’t mean I’m ready to start one right now because I think I’ve got another album in me.”

Asked what she’d do for a living if she gave up making music, Winehouse said, “I’d love to have a beauty salon. My nan, God rest her sole, pretty much trained up me and my brother Alex to be her beauty therapists when we were young - it was pretty clever of her, actually.

“I must have only been about four years old and my brother was about eight. He’d give her a full pedicure and then I’d have to paint her nails and do her hair.”

[From Showbiz Spy via Gossip Rocks]

It’s like cascading dominos of bad ideas. One just crashes into the other. “Oh, I’ve got an insane drug addiction that I definitely haven’t beaten, my husband is divorcing me, and my label rejected my latest album, but I think I’d like to add babies to the mix!” As crazy as she is, I’ll take Amy Winehouse over Paris Hilton any day. That said, at this point I’d honestly be more comfortable with Paris raising a child. Paris would at least toss the kid to a nanny, whereas Amy would probably toss it in the laundry hamper. I kid, I kid. Amy Winehouse doesn’t have a laundry hamper.

But at least she’s got a good backup plan, career-wise. Now we know why Winehouse hasn’t been focusing on her music much lately. She’s been focusing on her looks. I can just see her in a beauty salon. Drooling, scabs falling off. You know how hairstylists always keep their little black combs in that jar of what looks to be L.A. Style blue hair gel? Amy could just keep them in her hive. Easier to get to.

And who wouldn’t trust their hair, skin, and nails to Winehouse? Sure there was that long bout with impetigo, and the 11 months she went without showering. But hey, that’s still less than a year, so it’s not gross. It’s so sad she’s been wasting all her time singing and getting Grammys when she could have been teaching women how to be beautiful.

Here’s Amy leaving the Clinic – where she’s getting help for her drug addiction – on Thursday. Images thanks to INF News and Features.

Vice President Joe Biden’s daughter Ashley has plunged herself into some seriously hot water. The 27-year-old social worker has a “friend” (and I use that word loosely, because he’s one hell of a friend) who’s shopping around a video of Ashley snorting cocaine at a party. The video appears to be legal as the friend claims Ashley knew she was being taped.

He contacted two lawyers who are helping him sell the footage – originally demanding a whopping $2 million from the New York Post, which refused. They lowered the price to $400,000, but the Post still said no (no word on if that’s due to ethics or cost). They did, however, view the 90 seconds that appears to show Ashley snorting coke.

A “friend” of Vice President Joseph Biden’s daughter, Ashley, is attempting to hawk a videotape that he claims shows her snorting cocaine at a house party this month in Delaware. The anonymous male acquaintance of Ashley took the video, said Thomas Dunlap, a lawyer representing the seller. Dunlap and a man claiming to be a lawyer showed The Post about 90 seconds of 43-minute tape, saying it was legally obtained and that Ashley was aware she was being filmed. The Post refused to pay for the video.

The video, which the shooter initially hoped to sell for $2 million before scaling back his price to $400,000, shows a 20-something woman with light skin and long brown hair taking a red straw from her mouth, bending over a desk, inserting the straw into her nostril and snorting lines of white powder. She then stands up and begins talking with other people in the room. A young man looks on from behind her, facing the camera. The lawyers said he was Ashley’s boyfriend of a few years.

The camera follows the woman from a few feet away, focusing on her as she moves around the room. It appears not to be concealed. At one point she shouts, “Shut the f— up!” The woman appears to resemble Ashley Biden, 27, a social worker for a Delaware child-welfare agency and a visible presence during her father’s campaign for the White House. The dialogue is difficult to discern, but the woman makes repeated references to the drugs, said the lawyers, who said they viewed the tape about 15 times.

“At one point she pretty much complains that the line isn’t big enough,” said the second lawyer, who declined to identify himself. “And she talks about her dad.” Biden has been an outspoken crusader against drugs, coining the term “drug czar” in 1982 while campaigning for a more forceful “war on drugs.” The lawyers declined to name the person who shot the video, but said he knew Ashley well and had attended other parties with her at which there were illegal drugs.

[From the New York Post]

The lawyers say the woman talks about her dad, but from their phrasing it sounds like the Post didn’t see that part. So there’s no way to know what she says, and if it’s anything that identifies him as Joe Biden. Obviously the Post wasn’t able to verify for sure that the woman on the video is Ashley Biden, though they said she looks the same. It seems like they’re trying to put the story out there before someone else beats them to it, while still being cautious about saying it’s clearly Ashley.

If it is her, it’ll probably be a medium-level scandal. The adult daughter of the Vice President isn’t quite as salacious as the guy who took the video probably hoped. Given the nature of her job, she would probably be fired though. More than chastising her it makes me hope she gets some help.

Here’s Ashley embracing her dad on the campaign trail in St. Louis on October 3rd. Header at the DNC convention on August 29th. Images thanks to Newscom.

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Rihanna definitely appears to be moving on from Chris Brown. And it seems like she’s not letting that whole tragic debacle mess with her social life. She’s been out on the town a lot lately, and was spotted flirting with Wilmer Valderrama last Wednesday. This past Wednesday she hit up Nobu in New York City, where she flirted with Brody Jenner.

RIHANNA is on the rebound after her alleged beating at Chris Brown’s hands. The songstress was spotted at Nobu Wednesday night “smiling and flirting” with a group of guys, including Brody Jenner. “She was there having dinner. Her blond, female security guard was there the whole time,” said our spy. “Every time RIHANNA would go to the bathroom, the guard would go with her. Every time someone came to the table, the bodyguard would stand up. She was like a female James Bond.” After the meal, Rihanna joined Jenner’s group. “She looked relaxed and happy, like Chris Brown was totally in the past.”

[From Page Six]

Good for Rihanna. I think part of her is just enjoying being single again – she’s definitely socializing and flirting a lot. Yesterday she was in L.A., where she had a private table at Delux (and two bodyguards). She spent the evening flirting with Frankie Delgado, and even gave him a “type” of lap dance.

“Snuggling” and “Nuzzling”, Rihanna was getting close and flirty with Bromance star Frankie Delgado at a private table at Delux Thursday night. The Umbrella star’s table was flanked by two big burley bodyguards, keeping other party goers at bay. A source on the scene tells RadarOnline.com, “Rihanna was all over Frankie Delgado!”

“She was snuggling with him on her couch and the two were all about each other,” the source explains, “Rihanna gave Frankie a lap type dance when Destiny’s Child’s song ‘Bug-A-Boo’ started playing.” No chance for a Chris Brown / Frankie D. bromance anymore! Frankie went right for the skirt, “he kept pulling at Rihanna’s white dress and she giggled, playfully pushing him away and then hugging him!”

Apparantly [sic], Rihanna was downing Belvedere vodka screwdrivers and Redbull and vodka, and “looked like she was having a blast.”

[From Radar]

It’s nice to hear that Rihanna’s having a good time and not letting all the terrible Chris Brown stuff ruin what should be a fun time in her life. I can’t say much for her taste in men. There’s Brown (evil), Wilmer Valderrama (disgusting), Brody Jenner (The Hills skeeze), and Frankie Delgado (Jenner’s supposed BFF – and they’re both co-producers of Bromance). She certainly could be choosing better. But it’s good to see her out and about, and hopefully she’ll let herself enjoy being single for a while before she gets into another relationship.

Here’s Rihanna at Delux in Hollywood last night. Images thanks to Fame Pictures and Pacific Coast News.

Wu Tang Clan’s Method Man recently got his Lincoln Navigator repossessed by the government. He’s owed $52,500 in back taxes to the state since 2002. Method admits he knew about the issue – and assures us he has plenty of money. He just neglected to pay the bill. How is that? Well, he says he’s been high. A lot. And he just plum forgot.

Method Man was going to pay his bills … but then he got high. Despite recent reports that the rapper is so broke that his 2008 Lincoln Navigator was repossessed to pay back taxes, Method Man — whose real name is Clifford Smith — insists his cash flow is just fine. In fact, he says, his penchant for marijuana is to blame for the mishap.

Citing the Wu Tang member for being $52,503 in arrears on his personal income taxes, the state Department of Taxation showed up at the Staten Island native’s home at 6 a.m. March 19 with “four NYPD cops and the repo team,” Meth told us. “I knew why they were there. It wasn’t like ‘Oh my God! Noo!! Don’t take it!’ like it is on that TV show [“Operation Repo”]. I was half-dressed, and it was so early that I just said, ‘Okay, you’re taking the truck. … Aight.’”

The back story, according to the rapper, is simple. “Myself, I’m a pothead,” he said on the set of a video shoot for his new album, “Blackout 2,” with Redman. “It’s no secret. Everyone knows that. I go on the road and forget everything else. Sure, [the tax department] sent letters to my house saying, ‘We need this money.’ They started sending them in 2002. Here it is, 2009, and I never paid this s— because I don’t think like that!”

“I could have easily just written them a check for whatever amount, but no — I waited until they knocked on this door and were like, ‘We got your truck and we outta here,’ ” he laughed. “Now I’m thinking we’ve gotta get our truck back, which means I have to get all my paperwork together,” the rapper continued. “That means days of going through mail, ’cause I got mail like woah.

I’ve found checks from 2005 that have never been opened yet. And we’re talking a significant amount of money! But I never opened [the tax department’s] letters … so this is how the tax man came to Meth’s house and took his truck. Not because I was broke! I got plenty of money!” When we referenced the famous Afroman song “Because I Got High,” Method Man just laughed. “Exactly!” he said. “Because I got high, I forgot to pay. It was stupid. I’m an idiot for that.”

[From the NY Daily News]

Well if nothing else, it sounds like Method Man is pretty relaxed about the situation. That thing about finding checks from 2005 is sorta insane though. Maybe he’ll find enough old checks in his mail to cover his tax debt. That’d work out nicely.

I’m a little surprised that Method Man doesn’t have a professional who looks out for his finances. It seems like if you’ve got money and call yourself a pothead, it’s probably a good idea to make sure someone responsible keeps an eye on your cash. Not only do taxes not get paid, but dollars have a way of going missing when you’ve got enough of them that you might not notice. Just a little suggestion as to Method’s next step. After he gets done opening up all that mail of course.

Here’s Method Man performing at the Rock the Bells festival at the First Midwest Bank Ampitheatre in Chicago in July. Images thanks to WENN .

Paris Hilton and her most recent boyfriend, Doug Reinhardt, got into a physical altercation with a bodyguard at a club last night. Now most people, even celebrities, would call the police, a lawyer, or their PR rep (to make sure they come off looking good). What do Paris and Doug do? They call Radar to tell them all about it. Any website devoted to such thorough documenting of Octomom’s every moment has got to be the logical first stop, right?

Paris Hilton and boyfriend Doug Reinhardt were involved in a brawl with a bodyguard in Miami early Friday. In a RadarOnline.com exclusive, Paris told us that she and boyfriend Doug Reinhardt were attacked at the DJ booth at the recently re-opened posh Fontainebleau hotel in Miami Beach.

Paris approached the DJ in the nightclub at approximately 3am and requested a song by Madonna or Black Eyed Peas, something she could dance to. The DJ was spinning techno music. Suddenly a bodyguard near the DJ pushed Paris, she told RadarOnline.com. Doug then told the man not to touch his girlfriend.

Reinhardt tells RadarOnline.com, “I came to Paris’ aid,” and all hell broke loose! The bodyguard and Doug then began to brawl. “I can’t believe someone would do this to us, it’s really scary,” Paris told RadarOnline.com. Hotel security intervened and the fight was broken up.

The cops were called to the scene, but no charges were filed. Paris was not injured, but Doug had a bloody lip. Paris and Doug left the club and planned to bolt from Miami as soon as possible.

[From Radar]

Honestly, I don’t blame the body guard. If Paris Hilton got within three feet of me, I’d push her too. It’s just a natural reflex that can’t be helped; same as when the doctor hits your knee with that rubber triangle dealie during a checkup. Actually, if I had a rubber triangle dealie I’d hit Paris with that. Double reflex. She should just be glad the guy wasn’t a doctor moonlighting as a bodyguard (as they’re known to do).

What a crap-ass bodyguard though. Isn’t their purpose to avoid physical harm? Shouldn’t that be the last resort? Clearly that’s not the case. I understand the urge to physically attack Paris Hilton, but come on. Obviously we only know Paris and Doug’s side, but it sounds like the guy was clearly out of line. And I should never – ever - have to be on Paris Hilton’s side. This guy’s a douchebag just for making me do that.

In other Paris news, German newspaper The Bild claims that Doug proposed to her on Tuesday. But Paris wasn’t exactly feeling it. They weren’t clear if the issue was the proposal itself or the ring, but either way her response was that she’d think it over.

Paris Hilton is said to be considering Doug Reinhardt’s marriage proposal - but has so far refused to give a definitive answer. The 28-year-old hotel heiress was reportedly unimpressed when her boyfriend got down on one knee during dinner with her parents Kathy and Rick at The Ivy restaurant in Los Angeles on Tuesday. Doug (23) presented Paris with a Lorraine Schwartz engagement ring but instead of jumping for joy, the socialite snapped the ring box shut and said she would need time to consider his marriage offer. The couple were photographed leaving the eatery together some time later, but Doug seemed devastated and refused to look at the blonde beauty.

[From Bild]

The pictures from that night do show Doug looking rather upset, but that could be for any reason. Though he seems to love all the attention he’s getting, so I doubt he’s distraught due to the paparazzi. Paris doesn’t seem the type to say no to a proposal. But Doug also made it clear he wants to have babies with her (gross), and something tells me Paris is the sort who wants a guy that’s unavailable. So maybe she really is passing on this one.

Update: Kathy Hilton just told Us Weekly “I’m not planning any weddings anytime soon for either of them!” Which doesn’t mean Doug didn’t propose, but if he did, Paris didn’t accept.

Here’s Paris and Doug spending an afternoon shopping in Miami Beach yesterday. There does seem to be some distance between them in these pictures. Images thanks to BauerGriffinOnline.

John Mayer’s got to be about the biggest hypocrite I can think of. The man is easily the most famous Twitter addicts out there. Yet he just told E! that he thinks it’s “silly” and “dumb.” This is the same guy who was actually broken up with because of his obsession. John claims he just uses Twitter because everyone else does. Smart.

The way John Mayer uses Twitter, you’d think he would have nothing but high praise for the social networking phenomenon.

But no, the singer actually has some harsh words for the latest in social messaging.

“It’s inherently silly and it’s inherently dumb,” the singer told me last night at the One Splendid Evening benefit for the VH1 Save the Music Foundation aboard the Carnival Splendor cruise ship in San Pedro, Calif. “If you really think that Twitter is the pathway to spiritual enlightenment, well…It’s one step away from sending pictures of your poop.”

So why does the Grammy-winner twitter all the time?

“I’ve always communicated at a high level as best I can whether it’s Twitter, Napster or message boards or wherever,” Mayer said. “I don’t have a devotion to Twitter. I didn’t sell out to Twitter. You do Twitter until everybody gets off of Twitter and it’s something else you go and try out.”

[From E! News]

“‘It’s one step away from sending pictures of your poop.’” So I’m assuming it’s safe to say John’s sent a lot of pictures of his bathroom accomplishments. Good to know. Now if I could only stick his head in the toilet bowl and give him a swirly, I could accurately demonstrate exactly how I feel about the guy.

So John’s claiming he doesn’t actually like Twitter. But he only uses it because that’s what’s popular right now. I have easily gone off on ten Twitter rants in the last three days. I don’t like it. Yet all of my friends are using it. But I manage to actually have my own – albeit minority – opinion, and my actions fall in line with it. Meaning I dislike Twitter and think it’s stupid and dumb, thus I don’t use it. Seems rational, right? You don’t have to agree with me that it’s stupid and dumb, but it makes sense that if I think so, I wouldn’t tweet. Or whatever the jargon is. Yet here’s John Mayer saying the same damn thing, yet he’s still on there fifteen times a day. I’ll resist making a bunch of sheep noises.

Here’s John Mayer at ‘One Splendid Evening’ sponsored by Carnival Cruise Lines and benefiting VH1 Save The Music Foundation held at Port Of Los Angeles last night. Images thanks to WENN .

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