Looks like Amanda Bynes may be without a home. TMZ reports that on Friday she was forced to move out of her New York pad after her landlord threatened her with eviction. The management sent her a letter informing her that her lease would be terminated because they had received several complaints about marijuana smoking coming from her apartment, “morning, noon and night.” She was also reportedly seen smoking weed in the hallways of the non-smoking building. Insiders say instead of challenging the management, Amanda just decided to find a new place to live.
American Idol has been on barely three weeks and already we have our first contestant scandal. Matt Farmer auditioned on Wednesday’s show and recounted his emotional story about being hit by an IED while serving in Iraq. He claimed he suffered a brain injury and the medications he was taking was supposed to cause sterility, but six months later he found out he was going to be a daddy. Well, turns out the whole thing was a lie. After the segment aired, soldiers who served with Farmer claimed he wasn’t injured, and was actually kicked out of the army because of his problems with alcohol. After being confronted by the website Guardians of Valor, Farmer admitted he made the whole thing up. Farmer did receive a ticket to Hollywood although sources say he did not move on from there. It’s not known whether it was his lack of talent or his lies that got him kicked off the show.
KIM DEBUTS BUMP
Kim Kardashian is finally showing off her baby bump. Kim posted a new photo on Instagram with the caption, “Well hello there! #PoppedOuttaNowhere!!!,” with sister Khloe Kardashian pointing out the baby on board.
KENDALL AND KYLIE GET FAT
Meanwhile, Kim’s sisters Kylie and Kendall Jenner are thin models, but they just found out what they’d look like if they ever let themselves go. The two sisters, Kylie who’s 15 and Kendall who’s 17, shared photos of themselves made using the Fat Booth phone ap, which allows you to alter your image to make it appear as though you put on some pounds.
AUSTRALIAN DJS WON’T BE CHARGED IN NURSE’S DEATH
The two Australian DJs at the center of the Kate Middleton phone call hoax will not face charges in the death of nurse Jacintha Saldanha, who committed suicide following the prank. Investigators Friday announced they found no evidence to support a potential manslaughter charge against Michael Christian and Mel Greig, who called up the hospital where Kate was being treated for severe morning sickness and posed as Queen Elizabeth to get private information about the Duchess’ condition. Saldanha, who forwarded the call to a nurse tending to Kate, committed suicide two days later.
PENELOPE CRUZ PREGNANT
Penelope Cruz is going to be a mom again. Sources tell the New York Post the 38-year-old actress and husband Javier Bardem are expecting their second child later this year. The couple welcomed their first, Leonardo, in January 2011, six months after they tied the knot. Just last week, the actress’ younger sister Monica announced that she was expecting her first child thanks to an anonymous sperm donor.
Q-Penelope and Javier began dating after starring together in what flick, which earned Penelope her Best Supporting Actress Oscar? Vicky Cristina Barcelona
Christina Ricci is engaged. The actress is set to marry boyfriend James Heerdegen, who she met on the set of the now-cancelled ABC show Pan-Am, where he was working as a camera technician.
Chalk up another win for Argo. Ben Affleck, who was snubbed by the Academy Awards in the Best Director category, won that exact award over the weekend from the Directors Guild of America. The win for Affleck means that it will only be the seventh time since the DGA started handing out awards that the Oscars and the DGAs didn’t go to the same person.
HOFFMAN BLAMES TMZ AND PETA FOR LUCK'S CANCELLATION
During an interview with Fox 411 last week, Dustin Hoffman blamed the cancellation of his HBO series Luck on “a collaboration between PETA and TMZ,” which brought to light the deaths of several horses on the show. “Anyone who raises horses knows they break their legs,” Hoffman said. “The accusations they made were distorted. Every time we’d race the horses we’d rest them…I think they (PETA) were looking to get contributions. Somebody ought to do a movie about them.” Well, it didn’t take long for PETA to fight back. “Dustin Hoffman must have a really cold streak running through his heart, as he isn’t hesitant to disrespect whistleblowers and animals to advance his agenda,” the group told EW in a statement. “PETA wrote to him on two separate occasions urging him to use his position to help improve welfare conditions for the horses on the set of Luck after we were contacted by a dozen whistleblowers who were part of his production. Had he taken PETA’s warnings seriously instead of ignoring them, the life of the third horse could have been spared, the show might still be on the air, and his crew might still have their jobs.”
Q-In Hoffman’s 1979 film Kramer vs. Kramer, who played his estranged wife, a role that earned the actress her first Oscar? Meryl Streep
GIRLS CREATOR TO DEVELOP NEW SERIES
Lena Dunham is apparently not busy enough with her HBO show Girls. Dunham, who is the creator, star and executive producer of the series, is developing a new show for the cable network, which like Girls is set in New York. The series will be based on All Dressed Up and Everywhere to Go, an upcoming memoir by NY institution Betty Halbreich, who spent decades working with the rich and famous as a Bergdorf Goodman personal shopper.
BASKETBALL GREAT IS NOT A GIRLS FAN
And speaking of Girls, one person who isn’t a fan is basketball legend Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. In an editorial on the Huffington Post titled “Girls Just Wants to Have (White) Fun,” Kareem derides the series for its lack of diversity, writing “last season the show was criticized for being too white. Watching a full season could leave a viewer snow blind.” He adds that this season Donald Glover may have been added to the cast but he had “just enough screen time to have sex and mutter a couple of lines about wanting more of a relationship. A black dildo would have sufficed and cost less.” Kareem also doesn’t think the girls of the show are all that funny. “We're supposed to find these girls somehow charming because of their flawed characters,” he writes. “Their intense self-involvement is meant to be cute and it can be... at times. But not enough to overcome our impatience with their inability to have any personal insight. They're all educated but fatally ignorant.”
Q- Kareem Abdul-Jabbar played co-pilot Roger Murdock in what 80s comedy? Airplane!
LIBERTY ROSS POSES NAKED FOR MAG
One week after she filed for divorce from her cheating husband, Snow White and the Huntsman director Rupert Sanders, actress/model Liberty Ross is showing everyone what he’ll be missing. The 34-year-old mother-of-two was photographed topless for the UK magazine Love, striking a seductive pose in a black and white shot.
BEN AND JERRY’S ANNOUNCES 30 ROCK INSPIRED FLAVOR
Ben & Jerry’s announced last week they have created a new frozen yogurt to honor NBC’s 30 Rock, which aired its season finale last Thursday. Liz Lemon Greek Frozen Yogurt, which features a blueberry-lavender swirl, will hit stores this spring. Proceeds from yogurt sales will go to the Jumpstart charity, a Tina Fey-supported education organization that serves children in low-income neighborhoods.
DONALD FAISON AND WIFE EXPECTING
Scrubs star Donald Faison and wife Cacee Cobb (Jessica Simpson’s best friend) announced last week they are expecting their first child together later this year. "Looks like @donald_faison and I are going to have a little stormtrooper of our own!" Cobb, 31 wrote alongside a photo of a T-shirt with a baby-sized Star Wars stormtrooper. This will be Cobb’s first child, but Faison’s fifth. He has three children with ex-wife Lisa Askey and a son from a previous relationship.
Q-Before Scrubs, Faison was best known for playing Murray, alongside Alicia Silverstone and Paul Rudd, in what film? Clueless
KARA DIOGUARDI WELCOMES SON
Former American Idol judge Kara DioGuardi is a new mom. Kara and husband Mike McCuddy welcomed son Greyson James Carroll McCuddy via gestational surrogate on Thursday.
JEREMY LONDON OFF THE HOOK FOR DOMESTIC ABUSE
Party of Five star Jeremy London (not to be confused with Jason, who was beaten to a pulp last week by bouncers) has struck a plea deal in his domestic violence case. Jeremy was arrested in January, 2012 after getting into a fight with his baby mama, in which he allegedly hit her on the side of the head and pulled her hair. Prosecutors agreed to dismiss the two charges against him – domestic violence and disturbing the peace – if he completed 20 hours of anger management classes, which he did last week.
TV TIDBITS
Mark Wahlberg and his CGI bear co-star Ted will be presenters at this year’s Academy Awards. Of course, that won’t be too tough, considering Ted is voiced by Seth MacFarlane, who is also hosting the show. “I'm excited to present an Oscar with Mark Wahlberg," said Ted in a statement. "I'm spending the next month learning to pronounce 'Quvenzhané.'" [qwa-VAHN-zhe-ne] The 85th Annual Academy Awards airs Sunday, February 24th.
13-year-old Sabrina Carpenter is the latest actress to be cast in Girl Meets World, Disney’s spin-off of the 90s ABC series Boy Meets World. Sabrina will play Maya Fox, the best friend of the show’s lead Riley Matthews (played by Rowan Blanchard).
Six Million Dollar Man star Lee Majors has booked a two-episode arc on TNT’s Dallas. He’ll play Ken Richards, an old flame of Sue Ellen’s (Linda Gray).
John Goodman will star in Amazon Studios’ comedy pilot Alpha House. The series follows four senators who live together in a rented house in Washington, DC. Goodman, currently on the big screen in Argo, will play North Carolina Senator Gil John Biggs, who finds his Senate seat in jeopardy when the Duke basketball coach decides to run against him.
Lily Rabe is returning to American Horror Story. Rabe, who played a ghost in season one and Sister Mary Eunice in season two, has signed on to return for the FX show’s third installment. Jessica Lange, Sarah Paulson and Evan Peters are all returning for season three as well.
CBS has renewed NCIS for an 11th season, with star and executive producer Mark Harmon signing a new deal to continue with the show.
MISCELLANEOUS MOVIE NEWS
Julia Stiles will star in The First, based on Eileen Whitfield’s biography of Mary Pickford, Pickford: The Woman Who Made Hollywood. Stiles will play groundbreaking screenwriter Frances Marion, who was the first woman to win the Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay in 1930 for The Big House. American Horror Story’s Lily Rabe is playing Pickford, who worked with Marion on her signature films, Rebecca From Sunnybook Farm and The Poor Little Rich Girl.
