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Lily Allen arrested for assault
British singer Lily Allen was arrested in London yesterday on charges of punching a paparazzo. The incident allegedly happened in March, when Allen is accused of punching the photographer as she left a London nightclub with her boyfriend. “At approximately 1:30 a.m. on the 13th March a woman allegedly punched a male photographer in his 40s, near the Wardour Club, W1,” a Metropolitan Police spokesperson said. “He suffered a cut to the nose, but didn’t require any hospital treatment. Officers attended but the woman had left.” Allen turned herself into the police yesterday, where she was photographed and had her fingerprints and a DNA sample taken. “At approximately 9:30 a.m. on the 28th June, a 21-year-old woman attended at London police station by appointment and was arrested in connection with the allegation of assault,” said the police rep. “She has been bailed to return in late July.”
Spice Girls announce tour
The Spice Girls have finally made their reunion plans official after months of speculation. Victoria Beckham, Geri Halliwell, Emma Bunton, Melanie Brown and Melanie Chisholm appeared at a press conference in London today to announce an 11-show world tour. Beginning Decembewr 7, the two-month tour will stop in LA, Las Vegas, NYC, London, Cologne, Madrid, Beijing, Hong Kong, Sydney, Capetown and Buenos Aires. “We’re celebrating the past!” Halliwell aka Ginger Spice said at the press conference. “I want to be a Spice Girl again,” added Bunton or Baby Spice. “We are like sisters and we have our arguments, but by the end of the day we get back together.”
Sting and wife found guilty of discrimination
Sting and his wife are in trouble for firing their chef for being pregnant. An employment tribunal ruled on Thursday that the woman had been unlawfully dismissed by Lake House Estate, Sting and Trudie Styler’s management company, and was a victim of sexual discrimination. The 41-year-old chef worked for Sting and Styler for eight years, but says Styler began treating her unfairly after she became pregnant in 2005, forcing her to work long hours and expressing anger when she took time off work due to illness. The woman described Sting as having a “grandiose ego” and eventually left her post in April 2006 in light of the working conditions. The tribunal found that although Styler “had tried to distance herself from various unlawful acts and then have them carried out by minions on her behalf, when the evidence is looked at holistically, her involvement is clear. She is without doubt the driving force manipulating others to perform her dirty work.” Styler announced that she and Sting planned to appeal the ruling.
Courtney to auction off Kurt’s stuff
Courtney Love plans to sell former husband Kurt Cobain’s belongings, twelve years after the Nirvana frontman committed suicide. “I’m going to have a Christie’s auction,” Love told spinner.com. “[My house] is like a mausoleum. My daughter doesn’t need to inherit a giant Hefty bag full of flannel f***ing shirts. A sweater, a guitar and the lyrics to Teen Spirit - that’s what my daughter gets. And the rest of it we’ll just f***ing sell… Everyone’s been positive and behind me on it. We’ll make a lot of money and give a bunch of it to charity.” An rep for AOL, which runs spinner.com, announced today that no date has been set for the auction. Although Love has had a few boyfriends since Cobain’s death, including actor Edward Norton, she says he’s still a big part of her life. “I still wear his pajamas to bed,” she says. “How am I ever going to go form another relationship in my lifetime wearing Kurt’s pajamas?”
Boy George arrested for assaulting gay escort
80s popstar Boy George (whose real name is George O’Dowd) has been arrested in charges of assault and false imprisonment in London after a male escort told police he was grabbed and chained to a wall in the singer’s apartment. The escort told a British newspaper he was invited to O’Dowd’s home after meeting on a gay website and agreed to pose for photos in kinky outfits for $890. O’Dowd and another man are accused of jumping the man and handcuffing him to a hook, and after the second man left, O’Dowd allegedly brought out sex toys and whips and told the escort, “Now you’ll get what you deserve.” The man said he was able to yank the hook out of the wall and ran to the nearest newsstand to call the cops dressed in underwear and a T-shirt. “I was convinced I was going to die,” the man told a British paper. O’Dowd has been released on bail.
Avril and Deryck buy $10 million home
Canadian music supercouple Avril Lavigne and Deryck Whibley have plunked down $9.5 million for Travis Barker and Shanna Moakler’s former Bel-Air home. The eight bedroom home was the set for MTV’s Meet the Barker reality show, and boasts ten and a half bathrooms, an elevator, a steam shower, sauna, pool, spa and ten-car garage. Lavigne is selling her Beverly Hills home for $6.2 million.
Whitney and Bobby’s divorce approved
Whitney Houston’s split from Bobby Brown will become official on April 24 after the former couple’s divorce was approved by an Orange County judge Wednesday. Houston was present at the hearing but declined to comment to reporters. Custody of the pair’s 14-year-old daughter Bobbi Christina was awarded to Houston. The powerhouse singer has been working on a new album with Clive Davis since her separation from Brown last September.
Britney’s comeback “really coming together”
Britney Spears’s comeback is on track, according to a producer who confirms he is working with the newly rehabbed singer. “I know she’ll do exceptionally well now that she’s out of rehab,” producer Sean Garrett says, and adds that her work is “really coming together right now.” Garrett is collaborating on five tracks with the popstar, and says the sound is like Toxic “times ten.” “It’s going to be a lot of fun and it’s really exciting,” says the producer. “We did a lot of great work before her break.”
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