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Posted Nov 20th 2007 9:00PM by TMZ Staff
The "Dancing with the Stars" finale is only a week away -- and TMZ caught up with a few of the rejects last night, giving their picks. Check out who Jane Seymour, Mark Cuban and dancer Tony Dovolani chose as the winners.
Also out on the town: former Mess USA Tara Conner, sign-happy Jason Alexander, a solo Ron Jeremy, attention whore Michael Lohan and Hilary Duff, who was in NYC with boyfriend Mike Comrie.
All this and more in today's "Get ready to rumba!" edition of Star Catcher.
Filed under: TV, Star Catcher, Dancing with the Stars
Tags: hilary duff, HilaryDuff, jane seymour, JaneSeymour, marc cuban, MarcCuban, tara conner, TaraConner, tony dovolani, TonyDovolani
Posted Oct 17th 2007 8:04AM by TMZ Staff
Disgraced Miss USA Tara Conner landed herself a "Laguna Beach" bud -- and he's entertaining the rehabbed beauty queen at some risky places.
TMZ caught the recovering addict at Hyde last night with Talan Torriero, ex-boyfriend of Kimberly Stewart and Nicole Scherzinger.
The two went up to the front door briefly, but then walked away -- only to sneak in the back door! They left in the same car at the end of the night.
Filed under: Hook-Ups, Wacky & Weird
Tags: talan torriero, TalanTorriero, tara conner, TaraConner
Posted Sep 12th 2007 3:52PM by TMZ Staff
Demi Moore and Lucy Liu -- both Charlie girls in the film series -- could barely walk to the Zac Posen show in Bryant Park last night, after becoming engulfed by snapping paparazzi. Other celebs checking out some new designer duds were former Mess USA Tara Conner, a wildly buff Serena Williams, and Diddy, decked out in a flashy gold suit.
Earlier in the afternoon, TMZ also captured Lance Bass, who was rocking some dark locks for his role in the Broadway "Hairspray," plus a gum chewing Mya, plus teen singers JoJo and Lil' Mama.
All this and more in today's angelic edition of Star Catcher NY.
Filed under: Star Catcher
Tags: demi moore, DemiMoore, diddy, lance bass, LanceBass, lucy liu, LucyLiu, serena williams, SerenaWilliams, tara conner, TaraConner
Posted Jul 16th 2007 12:09PM by TMZ Staff
Former Miss USA Tara Conner's stint in rehab has left a permanent mark on the nearly dethroned beauty -- literally!
TMZ spies spotted the 21-year-old ex party girl Sunday brunching with five male pals at Quality on L.A.'s trendy West Third Street -- sporting an AA-inspired tat on each wrist. Guess rehab wasn't just a Trump PR stunt! Tara had the words "Let Go" inscribed on her left wrist and "Let God" on the right. Both terms are oft-recited mantras in 12-step recovery programs.
TMZ congratulates Tara for overcoming her demons -- partying and Donald Trump!
Filed under: Hot Bodies
Tags: Tara Conner, TaraConner
Posted Jun 11th 2007 12:10PM by TMZ Staff
Now that she's no longer under the watchful eye of Donald Trump and the Miss USA Organization, Tara Conner has started surrounding herself with a more adult crowd -- like adult film star Tera Patrick!
The former Mess USA turned it out on the red carpet at Spike TV's "Guy's Choice" Awards on Saturday, by posing with her new buxom porntress pal. Let's be friends!
Tara may have gone to rehab to save face, but, unfortunately, her pancake makeup leaves her sporting a porn face. Someone give these ladies a facial!
Filed under: Paparazzi Photo, Wacky & Weird, Hot Bodies
Tags: Tara Conner, TaraConner, TEra Patrick, TeraPatrick
Posted Mar 26th 2007 1:07PM by TMZ Staff
Could former Miss USA Shanna Moakler be picking a fight with Mess USA Tara Conner?
According to a blog posting on her MySpace page, Shanna -- or so it appears -- didn't take kindly to TMZ's recent comparison of her newly-coiffed 'do to that of recently-relieved-of-duty Mess USA Tara Conner: "I cut my hair but since I am being compared to the she-devil herself I will grow it out!" (For the record, Moakler never identifies Conner by name)
In fact, when our cameras caught Moakler out last Thursday, for a minute we actually thought the blonde in the bangs was Tara Conner. Can you imagine the blonde, sash-ripping bodaciousness of a Shanna-Tara claw-off? Vince McMahon, are you listening?
Shanna's reps weren't available for comment on the brewing b**chfest.
Filed under: Celebrity Feuds, MySpace, Pageantry, Shanna Moakler
Tags: feud, hair cut, HairCut, myspace, resemblance, shanna moakler, ShannaMoakler, tara conner, TaraConner
Posted Mar 19th 2007 1:18PM by TMZ Staff
Rosie O'Donnell and President Bush may have it in for Donald Trump, but there's one lady who actually credits him with saving her life -- the rehabbed Miss USA.
Formerly cokey Tara Conner stopped by "Last Call with Carson Daly" on Friday night -- yes, his show is still on the air -- where she admitted she'd still be a user (or worse) without The Donald's help. "I'd probably still be using," she said, "I could be dead or in jail, I'm grateful." The Combover saves a life!
Daly also asked the soon-to-be-unthroned Miss USA what she thought of Britney Spears' coming and goings from Promises rehab, and like a true beauty queen, Conner kept her answer diplomatic; "It's different strokes for different folks, I had to stay put because my disease was progressed way too far to be jumping in and out."
Filed under: Britney Spears
Tags: Tara Conner, TaraConner
Posted Mar 15th 2007 4:07PM by TMZ Staff
Mess USA Tara Conner isn't letting a little thing like 90 days of sobriety get in the way of her partying!
The rehabbed beauty queen celebrated her first three months of sobriety with a party at a Hollywood nightclub. Cheers! 51 of Tara's closest pageant contestant friends -- and the press -- came out to Social Hollywood to, er, toast Tara on her crowning achievement. Trump that!
Unfortunately, no beauty queen mouth-to-mouth was reported.
Filed under: Beauty
Tags: Tara Conner, TaraConner
Posted Mar 12th 2007 6:07PM by TMZ Staff
With only 11 days left in her tumultuous reign as Miss USA, Tara Conner's got a new strategy for staying relevant -- by donning a bikini for a sexy photo shoot. Wreckariffic!
"EXTRA" caught the rehabbed party girl, and 51 other swimsuit-clad beauties who will compete for Tara's tarnished crown to be the next Miss USA, posed for a group photo outside the of Universal Studios Hollywood earlier today.
Though the competition doesn't take place until March 23, a few of the ladies wanted the spotlight today, and jumped into a fountain to splash around for photogs.
Filed under: Hot Bodies
Tags: Tara Conner, TaraConner
Posted Mar 7th 2007 11:24AM by TMZ Staff
One lucky SOB is going to spend a day with Miss USA Tara Conner, and 51 of her hottest friends. Too bad she's cleaned up her act.
Up for grabs is a luncheon with the rehabbed beauty queen and 51 Miss USA 2007 contestants. The prize is being offered as a Universal Studios Hollywood promotion. It's a safe bet that booze will probably not be served. We all know what happens to Tara when she drinks...
To enter the contest, go to www.universalstudioshollywood.com, but you better hurry, the contest ends March 8.
Filed under: Wacky & Weird, Hot Bodies
Tags: contest, Miss USA, MissUsa, Tara Conner, TaraConner, universal studios, UniversalStudios
Posted Feb 6th 2007 10:29AM by TMZ Staff
Fresh from a post-rehab press tour, Mess USA Tara Conner hooked up with Miss Teen USA Katie Blair once again ... this time on a runway.
The two beauty queens, rumored to have been more than sashed bosom buddies, took part in the Tadashi Shoji runway show Sunday morning, doubling as pageant-level arm candy for the designer.
Conner continued her tour of contrition clad in a vampy black number as her "little sister" wore a short gold dress. This time, there was none of that impromptu girl-on-girl action that these two, and other pageant girls have become infamous for. Sorry.
Filed under: Wacky & Weird, Fashion Police, Fashion
Tags: Katie Blair, KatieBlair, Miss Teen USA, Miss USA, MissTeenUsa, MissUsa, Tara Conner, TaraConner
Posted Feb 3rd 2007 3:10AM by TMZ Staff
Coolio is one classy dude. After talking up a car full of ladies, he yelled to cameras, "I got some head!" I think we've found the next James Bond.
Miss USA Tara Conner sat down with Matt Lauer and came clean on abusing alcohol and cocaine. The former party girl dressed down for the interview in an attempt to leave her "manipulative, dishonest" life behind. But we won't forget.
Andy Dick must be a huge "24" fan, because he can't get enough of Kiefer Sutherland. Even renowned party man Kiefer can't handle the Dick ... and had him removed from his limo.
Click here... it's not over yet
Filed under: Celebs Caught on Tape
Tags: andy dick, AndyDick, ashton kutcher, AshtonKutcher, booze, collio, coolio, demi moore, DemiMoore, diddy, drugs, sienna miller, SiennaMiller, tara conner, TaraConner
Posted Feb 1st 2007 2:04PM by TMZ Staff
Tara Conner apologized to America on "Today," but not everyone's buying it.
Miss USA 2005 Chelsea Cooley, in an interview airing Monday on "The Dr. Keith Ablow Show," said the news of Tara's drug and alcohol use was "very disappointing" and "unfortunate," and left her wondering if Conner ever "looked at it (being Miss USA) as a job."
Tara's runner-up, Miss California Tamiko Nash, also appears on the show and says she hoped Donald Trump would give her Conner's crown, adding that she would have felt guilty if crowned at Conner's expense. Riiiiight.
The two also weigh-in on Miss Nevada Katie Rees and the girl-on-girl action shots that got her dethroned, saying that they thought it was "fair" and "justified."
Filed under: TV, Celebrity Feuds
Tags: Chelsea Cooley, ChelseaCooley, katie rees, KatieRees, Tamiko Nash, TamikoNash, tara conner, TaraConner
Posted Feb 1st 2007 9:21AM by TMZ Staff
In her first television interview since leaving rehab, Conner sat with "Today's" Matt Lauer and admitted to abusing alcohol and cocaine, as well as other drugs, and suggested that an abusive childhood may have contributed to her woes.
Tara also characterized the pre-rehab Tara as "manipulative" and "dishonest" and said that she would regularly sneak out of her Trump Plaza apartment to party all over Manhattan. She said she'd never had a legal drink, as all her boozing went down before her 21st birthday in December, and she fessed up to doing cocaine, but denied knowing whether she had tested positive for the drug.
Conner, dressed in a demure beige suit, then fidgeted awkwardly when asked by Lauer about being abused as a youth. Out of "respect" for her family, she wouldn't address specific questions about what kind of abuse Lauer meant, but admitted that it had happened. She also flatly rejected any possibility she would pose for Playboy and said that she had been sober for more than 50 days.
Lauer and Conner will continue their talk on "Dateline," which will include footage of her doling out meals at a soup kitchen in lower Manhattan.
Filed under: Train Wrecks
Tags: miss usa, MissUsa, Tara Conner, TaraConner
Posted Feb 1st 2007 8:45AM by TMZ Staff
Not everyone thinks Tara Conner should be getting a second chance – and one ex-Miss USA is slamming Tara for dragging the crown through the drug-and-alcohol-soaked mud.
Two former Miss USAs told TMZ back in December that Tara shouldn't be allowed to continue if the allegations against her were true, and now the 2003 champ, MTV's Susie Castillo, tells Complex magazine (via MSNBC) that Tara's escapades have "tarnished [the crown] for a very long time now" and that "it's not the job of Miss USA to be in rehab."
Conner admitted this morning on the "Today" show that she had a drug and alcohol problem and that she would routinely sneak out of her Trump Plaza apartment to party.
Courtney Punked by "Idol" Imposter
So that whole kerfuffle about Courtney Love replacing Paula Abdul? A lot of bunk. "Idol" producer Nigel Lythgoe says that he never called Courtney, and that he has "no plans to add to or replace" Paula, Randy, or Simon. Lythgoe says he's "afraid someone may have misrepresented me." Love, for her part, called the buzz about her being on "Idol" "nonsense" in a post on her website, and that she "woul dnever [sic] ever do that." Plus, says Courtney, in the spelling-challenged screed, "i couldnt even get ON that show nor would I wantt o." She says that Us, which had the original story, "misrepresented and misquoted" her.
Taco Bell to K-Fed: Think Outside the Bun
Looks like Kevin Federline is just piling up the job offers. The latest? Making a run for the border – as in Taco Bell. An open letter to the former Mr. Spears was posted on
PerezHilton.com, and, in it, Taco Bell's president invites K-Fed to work for the fast food chain "for an hour," and says that anyone who actually shows up to watch Kev scoop beef and fold tortillas will get free food. The exec also references Kev's proclamation last year that his kids would have to work for Taco Bell, regardless of how rich they are. Given their parents' respective paths, that might not be too far from reality.
Turner Toons Terrorize Beantown
A Cartoon Network marketing stunt
went horribly awry when light boards placed around Boston were confused for explosive devices, throwing the city and the cops into utter chaos. Up to nine magnetic light packages were found on bridges and roads in Boston, prompting the arrival of the bomb squad, which had to "detonate" the suspected "bomb." Traffic was snarled for hours, fears of a terrorist attack ran rampant, and two local men were arrested for placing a hoax device. Turner Broadcasting, Cartoon's parent, apologized for the disruption; the devices were placed in several other cities but didn't cause any trouble.
Party Favors: Baron Cohen Sued (Again) Over "Wa Wa Wee Wa" ... Mickey Rourke Sues Over Dead Puppy ... Crowe to Get $20 Million for New Robin Hood Flick
Just when he thought all the lawsuits were over, Sacha Baron Cohen is facing more legal trouble over "Borat," this time from an Israeli comic who says he came up with the catchphrase "Wa Wa Wee Wa." The catchphrase is apparently still heard on the streets of the Holy Land after it was popularized in the show "Zehu Zeh." ... Mickey Rourke tells
MSNBC he's going to sue a Miami pet store where he bought a puppy for a friend for Christmas – only to watch the puppy die two weeks later. Rourke says he'll never buy a pet from a store again. ... Russell Crowe is getting $20 million, reports
Variety, to play the Sheriff of Nottingham in a new version of Robin Hood, to start filming in about a year.
Filed under: Let's Get This Party Started
Tags: Let's Get This party started, Let'sGetThisPartyStarted, tara conner, TaraConner
