Burning Q’s: Jonas Bro Theft & Way Broke Stars
Did Selena Gomez steal Nick Jonas from Miley Cyrus?J.D.
Selena Gomez? The baby-faced 15-year-old? Oh, come on. How can a zygote steal a fetus from an embryo? Honestly, people. I step out for three seconds and the quality of your questions just plummets. Plummets! Let’s dispose of them quickly and neatly in a new round of Burning Q’s.
Why are there so many reports of broke celebrities? A lot of them earned millions during their careerswhere did all of this money go?M.M., Colorado
Actually, once A-listers pay off their “teams”agents, managers, business managers, attorneysand taxes, they’re left with only 10 to 15 percent of their paychecks, one manager tells me.
So if a movie star gets $15 million a film, that’s $1.5 million left over. You and I could live quite well on that. That is, unless you’re a twit who needsjust needsa compound in the Malibu Colony, a pied-à-terre in London and a place in the Bahamas. (Malibu Colony homes, popular with the Paris Hilton crowd, go for about $18.5 million, unless you rent.)
Don’t forget the household staff, which stars also feel they just need, need, need: assistants, nannies, security, trainer, nutritionist, butler. Throw in the flying monkeys at the high-powered publicity firm, which can set a star back maybe $55,000 a year. And then add a few shady so-called friends from back in the day who come strolling by with their hands out, andstarting to get the picture?
What is going on with R. Kelly? What is taking so long with this sex-tape case?Ann, Osceola, Kansas
Actually, despite what it may look like, this is not an episode of Law & Order: SVU. This is a real case, which means it takes time. The 2005 Michael Jackson child-molestation case took three and a half months. (He was acquitted.) Jury selection for this trial just started in May.
Hey! Am I hearing things, or did I read that that Gwyneth Paltrow works out for 40 hours a day?Alphea
Yes, absolutely. Forty hours a day. Because once you hit a certain level of stardom, the dweebs at the National Institute of Standards and Technology reach into a secret compartment, created by ancient astronauts and nestled deep within the atomic clock, and give you more hours. The rest of us drones have to get by with just 24 in a day. I hear Clooney gets like 1,500.
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Britney & K-Fed Set Child Custody Arrangements
Britney & K-Fed Set Child Custody Arrangements
With divorce attorneys working diligently, it appears Brit and K-Fed have come to an agreement on the custody of their two children, 16-month-old Sean Preston Federline and 4-month-old Jayden James Federline.
Britney filed for divorce from K-Fed on November 7, citing irreconcilable differences. In a sly maneuver, K-Fed counter-filed, seeking spousal support (otherwise he would need to undego debt consolidation to settle all of his credit card bills) and custody of the children.
K-Fed will be allowed to visit the little ones at Britney’s home from noon to 4 p.m. on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, according to reports. He also requested that only Britney, her assistant, the nanny, and other household staff be present in the house at the time of the visits. Who he did not want there is still a bit of a mystery, but it must have been someone, or why would he have made the request? If anyone has any ideas, grab your laptop and send us a message. Continuing on…..
Those close to Britney have come forward saying that the she could no longer carry her husband, whom she married in October 2004. Apparently, Fed’s taste was a little too much for Brit’s credit card.
“She tried to support him as much as she could, but at the end of the day she realized it wasn’t best for her and her children to stay,” a source close to Spears told People in its upcoming cover story. “She’s standing up for herself and making positive changes in her life.”
Um…that is a bit of a stretch. Did we not just have incidents in Arizona and Las Vegas to name a few.