Papa Pitt Protects Pax from Paps
A protective Brad Pitt attempted to shield son Pax from swarming paparazzi as the two made their way from an SUV in New York on Thursday. Stand back, man with child!
While in New York, the adorable father and son maneuvered through flashbulbs and stopped into the medical offices of Dr. Jane Aronson, a pediatrician and renowned adoption medicine specialist. Catching a glimpse of the Brangelina matrix, Dr. Aronson can be heard shooing the photogs by repeatedly saying,"Go away." It didn't work.
Earlier this year, Pax won the maternal lotto, when Angelina Jolie adopted him from a Viet Nam orphanage. Last month, Pax's last name was legally changed to Jolie-Pitt. Lucky bastard!
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Does Britney Change Clothes for Cash?
Britney Spears sure loves to change her clothes -- the dethroned pop princess is often seen wearing a plethora of looks on the same day. For someone who doesn't have much going on, she sure has a whole lotta wardrobe changes! Why? Is Britney changing clothes to sell photos -- and profiting from it?
When a star is snapped on the same day wearing the same thing, chances are that media outlets (like TMZ) are less likely to purchase more than one photo. But when a gallivanting starlet wears one look during the day (like the Kritik outfit on the left) and then changes into another (ghetto housewife, right), the photos of both outfits will likely sell. Cha-ching!
So, if Britney's multiple looks are a calculated strategy to sell photos -- is she in on the deal?
Rumors are that Britney is working with a certain stalkerazzi agency. We contacted Brit's rep but didn't hear back by post time.
Granny Spears
Britney Spears may be ready to retire! She told cameras that she "feels like an old lady." Oy.
Photogs snapped the Britster in Studio City after getting her nails did yesterday, walking to her car very slowly due to the massive paparazzi crush.
She may move like a grandma, but Nana never did this.
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The Gummi Minute
Welcome to the Jason "Gummi Bear" Davis Show! *theme song* Today's big guest: Gummi! *sound of one person clapping*
Dangerously tottering on a sidewalk outside of a costume party at Area nightclub this weekend, the full-of-hot-air oil heir decided to unload on the subject of racism -- while embracing a none-too-pleased door guy at the club.
Sporting a diamond encrusted Gummi Bear around his neck, the wobbly windbag went on and on with a rant that has to be seen to be disbelieved. Must see TMZ!!
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Does Xtina Have a Genie in the Bottle?
With rumors swirling that she is pregnant, everyone's favorite dirrty girl, Christina Aguilera, made a visit to a maternity doctor on Thursday. Baby on board?!
Casually dressed and sporting dark sunglasses, Xtina and hubby Jordan Bratman had their driver drop them off at NY's Maternal Fetal Medicine Association -- a practice known for their expertise in high-risk pregnancies and state-of-the-art ultrasounds. Guess we know what this girl wants!
After leaving the doctor's office, the happy couple stopped for a bite at Capitale on the Lower East Side. You'd be hungry too if you were (possibly) eating for two!
A rep for Christina refused to comment. Inquiring minds want to know!
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Cox Dickers with Photogs
Courteney Cox Arquette tried to coax the paparazzi off her back yesterday -- too bad they weren't having it.
After dining at Ed's Coffee Shop in Beverly Hills, a patient Cox emerged to a wall of photogs, posed for a few pix, and then became increasingly frustrated after the paparazzi didn't let her shop in peace. Cox's voice could barely be heard telling the paps, "that's good ... there's nothing happening" over the heckling of the group. The unusually frumpy-looking "Friends" star then wandered into a baby boutique.
For someone who sends the paparazzi out to cover celebs in her FX show "Dirt," Cox definitely doesn't like it when the tables are turned!
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Nicole Richie's Stupid Disguise
Taking a cue from the Michael Jackson Creepy School for Shielding Your Children, Nicole Richie tried going incognito on Tuesday -- by wrapping a towel around her head. Genius would make a lousy spy!
A down-low Nicole, with a seeing-eye-friend in tow, made her covered way across the street to her black Mercedes SUV. Hey, who's that 82-pound blonde getting into that luxury vehicle?!?!
While it couldn't possibly make her driving any worse, Wrongway Richie did remove the towel before heading off into the sunset. Thank heaven for little things!
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Dave Chappelle: Still Paranoid
When Dave Chappelle spotted a couple of photogs waiting for him outside Swingers coffee shop in Los Angeles late last night, he asked if they were spies from Comedy Central. Sorry, Dave, that's the paparazzi.
Intrigued by photog's uncanny ability to sniff out a star from a mile away, the comedian asked, "How do you guys know people are going to be places?" Um, that's what they do for a living.
But what was most puzzling to Chappelle was the lack of demand over paparazzi photos of minority celebs. "How come paparazzi never takes pictures of black celebrities?" he asked. "Our pictures aren't as profitable are they?" Awfully deep conversation for that late at night, isn't it?
Hassled by the Hoff -- For Real!
Don't hassle the Hoff? TMZ found out what it's like to be hassled by the Hoff -- or his handlers, at least.
TMZ caught the David at a Fifth Avenue book signing of his new autobiography, "Don't Hassel the Hoff," (yes, that's how he's spelling it), and he seemed happy to see us -- until we started asking about the custody battle with his estranged wife, Pamela Bach. Still, he was all smiles inside, especially when signing a Barbie box.
But when he left the store, Hasselhoff sent out a phalanx of security to run interference, and when our cameraman simply tried to get a shot of the "Baywatch" star walking to his car, a particularly zealous publicist tried to block our lensman's view -- with a clear water bottle. Then, a security guard clapped his hand over the camera's lens, shoving our shooter toward the street.
C'mon people -- this is David Hasselhoff we're talking about, not Simon Cowell.
Madonna -- The Roof, The Roof, The Roof is on Fire
Firefighters in London yesterday got an eyeful of Madonna, when a blaze broke out in the building above her pilates studio. Talk about burning up!
Madge, who was rocking a Barney-inspired sweatsuit, was caught leaving her St. John's Wood gym -- as a fire burned in the building three floors up. Sweat it!
Firemen on scene did a double-take when the Material Mom breezily walked out of the studio -- not even noticing the smoke coming from the building -- and hopped into her waiting Audi.
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Damon Courts Death in Manhattan
Matt Damon, we know from "The Bourne Identity" and the like, has his daredevil side. What we didn't realize was that he has a full death wish -- which he revealed yesterday by traipsing through midtown Manhattan in a Boston Red Sox shirt.
The "Ocean's 13" star tempted fate -- and the murderous ire of Yankees fans -- by standing in full view of cameras and the public, brazenly signing autographs outside the Ed Sullivan Theater, where he was about to tape an appearance on "The Late Show with David Letterman."
And what was that? Oh, right -- Ashley Judd scampering into Dave's studio with a dog on a leash and her Indy 500-winning husband Dario Franchitti.
Flavor Flav -- Bangin' in the Hamptons
Flavor Flav + Hamptons = motherfu**in' drummer boy!
The Flav proved that that clock around his neck has been giving the man a wicked sense of time with a shocking display of percussive genius at Whitehouse in Hampton Bays, all for co-owner Vic Latino's birthday. After some very Hamptons-quality chillin', the rapmeister took to the skins and was caught by TMZ beating it like a madman -- and driving the crowd wild.
Meanwhile, over at Stereo by the Shore in Southampton, starlet-songstress Lily Allen got her Brit out on her first trip to the East End, and TMZ was there as Lily was properly introduced to the Hamptons by DJ Mark (brother of Samantha) Ronson, and then proceeded to give great mic, including a little a capella action just to prove that she ain't no Britney on stage.
Heidi's Army Takes Manhattan
One day after her celebrating her 34th birthday, supermodel Heidi Klum, leader of the Seal family army, led her baby brigade into Bar Pitti in Manhattan. Chow time kiddies.
After Klum's crew ate and ran, Sofia Coppola strolled past our camera pushing her enormous six-month-old in a stroller. Paging Maury Povich! Man, that's a big baby!
Also spotted in NYC: a hurried Christina Aguilera, "30 Rock's" Jane Krakowski, curly Kenny G and a squeezable Kelly Osbourne.
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Sienna and Keira: Girls Just Wanna Have Fun, F**kers!
Sienna Miller and Keira Knightley gave London paps quite the lesson on how to treat starlets. Sienna, apparently forgetting that she's a celebrity, cautioned paps, "We're not on the f**king red carpet, we're on the street!"
After a week's work on their upcoming Dylan Thomas movie, "An Edge of Love," the "ladies" demanded to be left alone. Sienna offered the trailing paparazzi a deal; a few shots in return for some privacy, saying, "You never f**king get it cause you're all c**ts and make our lives hell ... we'll walk down the street, but we're not going to stand here and pose ... if you get a photo that's fine but then its a deal that you go!"
Keira played good cop, adding, "It would be really great if you let us have a night off ... we're just trying to have a nice night." Then they stood there and posed for the paps.
Nicole Makes a Fast (Food) Getaway!
While there's no proof that she actually ate something, TMZ received confirmation on Thursday that bony former beauty Nicole Richie at least made contact with food. Baby steps, people, baby steps!
Following a shopping binge in West Hollywood, Nicole tried to purge the paparazzi while holding a McDonald's cup and a California Pizza Kitchen box. Make your own happy meal!
Afterward, wrong-way Richie and her rations rode off into the sunset together.
Girls Aloud, Fans Alouder
For those in the UK, this is a video of the mega-popular pop group Girls Aloud, leaving a London hotel and getting absolutely mobbed by paparazzi and fans. You can even see Nadine Coyle (famous for having dated "Desperate Housewives" hunk Jesse Metcalfe) getting knocked aside by one overzealous photog.
Here in the States, this is a video of five hot women in fluorescent mini dresses.
Wherever you are, enjoy!