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Tinsley Mortimer, Reality Star?
8:00PM Andrew Belonsky | Tinsley Mortimer may taste reality television stardom. Tennis star Melanie Oudin tastes the sour side of fame. Jessica Seinfeld’s culinary tastes weren’t stolen. And Tila Tequila has no taste for foursomes. Happy Friday! Here’s your gossip roundup. More »
Hollywood Crime Update: Arrests and Indictments in Jennifer Hudson, Mark Ruffalo Cases
5:24AM Kyle Buchanan | Today brought news in two murder cases: the death of Jennifer Hudson’s mother, brother and nephew, and the mysterious shooting of Mark Ruffalo’s brother, Scott. More »
8:15AM Seth | Courting Controversy. When the question is, “How long is long enough before it isn’t considered too insensitive to present the side-by-side you’ve been dying to post since William Balfour was first identified as a person of interest in the nightmarish Jennifer Hudson family killings?” we’re afraid the answer is, “There exists no sufficient length of time.” With news that Hudson’s estranged brother-in-law was finally arrested today, however, we could resist no longer. [Yahoo/AP] More »
Family Tragedy Finally Allows Jennifer Hudson’s Sister To Claim ‘Prettiest’ Mantle
5:25AM Kyle Buchanan | Though the deaths of Jennifer Hudson’s mother, brother, and nephew spawned some iffy reactions from celebrity streetwalker New York and an enterprising maker of bedside shotgun racks, neither could have prepared us for the, uh, less-than-tactful way that Hudson’s sister Julia has been updating her Myspace. More »
Sensitive Company Exploits Jennifer Hudson’s Tragedy in 24 Hours Flat
7:00AM STV | The murders of Jennifer Hudson’s mother, brother and 7-year-old nephew last weekend may be almost incomprehensibly tragic to you, us and most anyone with a functioning conscience, but we can’t all sit around and just grieve over a trio of senseless deaths. There are products to sell and memories to exploit, as with this uniquely evil (and authentic) press release currently making the rounds — perhaps the single worst piece of PR ever to slither over the transom at Defamer HQ: More »
Celebrity Streetwalker New York Sends YouTube Condolences To Jennifer Hudson
4:47AM Seth | Hooker personality Tiffany “New York” Pollard (now there’s someone we have a feeling is already well acquainted with Dr. Manhattan’s cobalt nether regions) has addressed the media recently about Jennifer Hudson—whose skyrocketing career she doesn’t envy in the least—and her fiance, a former I Love New York contestant whom she had the gall to liken to a gold-digging Al Reynolds. Having learned with the rest of us of the horrifying Hudson family deaths in Chicago, however, Pollard was consumed by guilt over her tactless remarks, and instantly set about righting her wrongs by issuing her deepest condolences to Hudson in the best way she knew how: by recording a heartfelt video message outside LACMA’s streetlamp installation. She then went back about her regular routine of making kissy sounds at passing luxury vehicles in the hopes that one of them might contain the producer who will put her in his hip-hop movie musical, Dreamgrillz. [YouTube] More »
‘SNL’ Prepares For Future Sans Brand-New Baby Mama Amy Poehler
2:20AM Kyle Buchanan | While it is a joyous event that comedians Amy Poehler and Will Arnett delivered their first child, Archibald, over the weekend, we recognise that this development has some downsides, too (though perhaps not the ones implied by the above “circle of child life and death” feature that is currently gracing the front page of Yahoo!). For starters, this marks Poehler’s end on Saturday Night Live, as the new mother will be segueing to her still-untitled NBC sitcom after some well-deserved maternity leave. Just as devastating: Poehler’s unplanned absence from this week’s live taping of SNL forced the audience to sit through a third, hastily scheduled Coldplay performance. Still, at least Poehler ducked out before she had to take part in the painful Barack Obama skit that Lorne Michaels pointlessly lured Maya Rudolph back for. Take a look, after the jump: More »
Child’s Body Found as Jennifer Hudson’s Family Tragedy Takes Turn for Worst: UPDATE
12:21AM STV | Chicago police investigating the murders of Jennifer Hudson’s mother and brother and the disappearance of her 7-year-old nephew discovered a child’s body this morning on the city’s West Side. Julian King had been missing since Friday, when Hudson’s mother Darnell Donerson, 57, and brother Jason Hudson, 29, were found shot to death in Oscar-winner’s childhood home. The estranged husband of her sister Julia was arrested but has yet to be charged in connection to the deaths, and amid calls of support by everyone from Barack Obama to her fellow American Idol almuni, Hudson this weekend offered a $100,000 reward for information leading to the boy’s safe return. More after the jump. More »
8:11AM Seth | Tragedy In Chicago. Jennifer Hudson’s mother was found shot to death just hours ago in her Chicago home along with another man, which TMZ is identifying as her brother Jason, in what authorities are calling a “domestic” shooting. UPDATE: Now a 7-year-old nephew is reportedly missing, and police are searching for someone named William Balfour, who had lived in Hudson’s mother’s house in the past year. [CBS2Chicago] More »
