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Pink Thinks Kanye Is ‘A Toolbox’

3:26PM Jess McGuire | Here’s a clip of pop star Pink talking to Matt Lauer about what happened at the MTV Video Music Awards. She says that she kinda wishes she’d won the award because her amazing handbag had brass knuckles (now I kinda wish she’d won, too!), and then calls Kanye a few safe-for-work names. More »
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Kelly Clarkson’s Open Letter To Kanye West

12:03PM Jess McGuire | I realise most newspapers have reported Kelly Clarkson’s “What happened to you as a child? Did you not get hugged enough?” query of Kanye West in their wrap ups of celebrity reactions to Kanye’s bad behaviour at the VMAs, but I think it’s probably worth reading the entire open letter she directed toward the hip hop star. More »

Courtney Love Has the Last, Incoherent Word on the VMAs Purity Ring Controversy

8:35AM Defamer Hollywood | Though it’s been a long while since Courtney Love caused controversy at the VMAs, the singer wasn’t about to let last night’s purity ring flap pass by without giving that virginal young upstart Jordin Sparks the what-for. Yes, even though Love claims not to have watched last night’s ceremony (though she adores host Russell Brand), she took to her blog to denounce the latest crop of chaste young performers, giving them the sort of X-rated advice that would make a Jonas Brother blush (not that Miley, though — she’s heard it all). We’ve excerpted the best bits below, though we warn you that they’re hard to read — not because of their shock value, but because their author is the garrulous misspeller Courtney Love: More »

Is Britney Spears Plotting A Comeback In The Perilous Land Of The All-You-Can-Eat $4.99 Buffet?

2:29AM Molly Friedman | According to reports in everyone’s favourite trusted supermarket tabloid, Britney Spears is allegedly deep in planning mode for Comeback #487. Sources tell the National Enquirer that Spears is shelling out up to $10 million on what sounds like a very tasteful, classy-by-way-of-Louisiana string of song-and-dance shows at The Palms, one of K. Fed’s favourite places to sink into debt play the big baller. Where Spears is coming up with all this cash, considering most of her dough is currently going towards her father’s daily rate for babysitting, is still a mystery. But based on the description of her latest plan to “jump-start her career,” we’re not so sure these shows will do much aside from force us to remember Britney Spears Comebacks number 1 through 486: