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Britney Spears and Russell Brand Go On First Date Sans ‘Third Wheel’ Elephant
3:55AM Defamer Hollywood | After a long history of exclusively dating poseurs and paparazzi, comeback-adjacent singer Britney Spears may be taking on her biggest romantic challenge yet: Russell Brand. Though their first meeting at a VMAs commercial went poorly, with Spears recoiling from the comedian and calling him “Russell Brown,” the Daily Mail reports that the two hooked up this week (noting, in their helpfully British way, that Brand is “an ex-drug and sex addict”):
VMA Killjoy Jordin Sparks Brings Less-Than-Helpful Chastity Tips to Talk-Show Circuit
7:33AM STV | Bravely taking her pro-abstinence, purity-ring-rocking message to the Fox News flock, Jordin Sparks spent a few minutes last night explaining her recent outburst against oversexed Video Music Awards host Russell Brand. The difference between a “non-virgin” and “slut” remains foggy, but, at the very least, Sparks’s convictions are burnished here to the fine Murdochian glow that so eluded the MTV class last weekend. The same cannot be said for her remarks on the subject of temptation (”I’m not saying I’m perfect by any means!”), from which conservative firebrand and noted hymen-defence expert Sean Hannity was later forced to rescue her with that metaphorical bucket of ice water known around the Fox offices as “a commercial break.” [Fox News] More »
Did MTV Censor Russell Brand’s Shocking Bristol Palin Joke?
6:20AM Defamer Hollywood | Mostly lost in the furor over the purity ring comments made by VMAs host Russell Brand were the even more scathing jabs he threw the Republicans’ way during the telecast. Never afraid to be politically controversial (a formerly crack-addled Brand was fired from British MTV for showing up to work on September 12, 2001 dressed as Osama Bin Laden), the comedian called President Bush a “retarded cowboy” who “wouldn’t be trusted with a pair of scissors,” then dismissed the teen pregnancy of Sarah Palin’s daughter as a “PR stunt.” Now, Brand is telling the UK’s Daily Telegraph that he had one even more outrageous Palin joke in that vein, but MTV wouldn’t let him tell it: More »
And Lo, The Jonas Brothers Did Absolve Russell Brand Of His Sins
5:15AM Defamer Hollywood | Heading into Sunday night’s VMAs, one could never have predicted that the Jonas Brothers would end up central to the ceremony’s only real controversy; and yet, thanks to Russell Brand’s purity-tweaking jokes and Jordin Sparks’s impassioned tirade against sluts, there they found themselves. Would the squeaky-clean trio retaliate by wagging their ringed fingers in Brand’s face, or would they take Courtney Love’s colorful advice to sample “some pussy and some cock and shut the hell up”? According to the BBC, they chose a different route, claiming to be fans of Brand (thanks to his last Conan O’Brien appearance) and giving him some pointers on pleasing the fickle American audience:
To Make the ‘Guitar Hero’ Movie, Brett Ratner Needs You To Stop Buying the Game
7:10AM Defamer Hollywood | While conducting interviews at the VMAs yesterday, the nearby booth advertising Rock Band 2 was the cacophonous bane of our existence — though no one was more unhappy to see it than director Brett Ratner. As you may recall, the Defamer-beloved auteur (and big penis enthusiast) aspires to direct a film adaptation based on Rock Band’s rival video game franchise, Guitar Hero. Since the idea continues to boggle our minds, we knew we had to venture a question, even if the resulting Defamer-on-Ratner interaction threatened to spin the world off its axis. Fortunately, the Rush Hour 3 helmer was every bit the gentleman. We blame the heatstroke. [MTV] (Video after the jump) More »
John Legend Wants None Of What God Warrior Jordin Sparks Is Selling
6:15AM Seth | While we enjoyed sharing with you the alternately entertaining, excruciating, and utterly discombobulating experience of attending the 2008 VMAs in person, there were moments completely lost on us from our extremely un-VIP vantage point. Take, for example, this off-prompter ad-lib from Jordin Sparks, in which the uncomfortable tension building steadily in Soundstage 16—Brandian anti-Republicanism and hypersexuality reacting against Jonas Brothers’s calculated chastity—burst like on overfilled water balloon. What we hadn’t noticed at the time was her co-presenter John Legend’s overt attempts at distancing himself from Sparks’s pro-abstinence sentiments, displaying his naked fingers to indicate the absence of any such sex-warding amulets from Zales. He’s good to go, groupies! More »
Brooke Hogan on Sarah Palin: ‘Who’s That?’
2:15AM Defamer Hollywood | Though it’s only been a scant ten days since John McCain announced Sarah Palin as his running mate, it’s hard to find anyone on earth immune to the media onslaught that followed. Oh, for the halcyon days of mid-August, when our nation was more consumed with the abdominals of Michael Phelps than the baby-making, celebrity-stifling, Liz Lemon-resembling Palin name! To meet the rare creature who still knows nothing about the controversial candidate would be like staring into the windows of our pre-RNC innocence, and reader, we found such a transcendent experience on the carpet of the VMAs last night: More »
