Bobby Brown and his wife, Whitney Houston, continue to deny their 14-year marriage is in trouble. Then why did Brown, 36, according to a People magazine report, flirt with young women at a concert, telling them: “We ain’t together no more. We’re getting a divorce.”
Brown told People that Houston was “definitely upset” and interrogated him over the news. “I joke a lot,” was Brown’s explanation for his comments.
Actress Tamala Jones was not joking when she told Smooth magazine that Brown crudely propositioned her during Nick Cannon’s birthday party in Los Angeles in October. Jones said a drunken Brown picked her up out of her seat, and said, “‘Don’t you know I always wanted to (have sex with you)?’ I’m like, ‘Boy you better put me down! … You know my (boyfriend) and I know your wife.’ … He said he wasn’t even with Whitney anymore.”
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Snoop Dogg will serve as the commissioner for the Hip-Hop Gaming League, MTV.com reported. Competitors – including Denver Nuggets star Carmelo Anthony, Cincinnati Bengals wide receiver Chad Johnson and rapper Method Man – will battle, playing Xbox 360 video games.
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Katie Holmes is devoting eight hours a day to visit a Scientology “church,” the Sun in London reported. Tom Cruise’s pregnant fianceé, who was raised a Catholic, has been visiting the Scientology center up to three times a day. And a friend told the Sun, “her family is becoming very worried. They don’t know what she is being taught.”
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Fellow Australians Nicole Kidman and Russell Crowe finally will appear on the big screen together. BBCnews.com reports the two Oscar winners will star in an untitled historical romance due to begin filming this year in Australia’s Outback.
Kidman and Crowe were scheduled to star in “Eucalyptus” last year, but the project collapsed because of script problems.
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Billionaire Ron Perelman and his fourth wife, actress Ellen Barkin, made their lightning-quick divorce official on Feb. 14, filing papers in a Manhattan court, the New York Daily News reported.
Barkin, 51, “got significantly more than was called for in the prenuptial agreement,” a Perelman friend said. The Revlon mogul, 62, sweetened their $20 million prenup deal, sources said.
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Nicolas Cage and his wife, Alice, have been house shopping in the United Kingdom countryside near Glastonbury, according to British reports. A real estate agent, quoted by ananova.com, said, “(Cage) was very polite. It was a pleasure helping him.”
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Tom Cavanagh’s wife, Maureen, gave birth to the couple’s first child, daughter Alice Ann, on Feb. 10 in New York City, People magazine reported. It was welcome news for Cavanagh after his CBS series “Love Monkey” was put on that ever popular “hiatus” (ie: it’s canceled and not coming back!).
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Blondie and the Doors?
A remix of Blondie’s “Rapture” and the Doors’ “Riders on the Storm” will be included in the retrospective CD “Blondie: Greatest Hits – Sound & Vision,” MTV.com reported.
“This is a tremendous honor for us,” lead singer Debbie Harry, left, said of the compilation that includes a music video.
“Ain’t technology great?” Doors keyboardist Ray Manzarek said. “I’ve always had salacious dreams about Debbie Harry, and now it’s a reality: the Doors and Blondie in a deep passionate embrace.”
Blondie will be inducted in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame on March 13.
