Boy George hired a Norwegian male “model” to come to his house at midnight Saturday to pose for photos, janetcharltonshollywood.com reports. George allegedly saw the model’s ad on the British website Gaydar. The model, who denies he is an escort, said George and another man handcuffed him to a hook on the wall. George pulled out some leather whips and sex toys and said, “Now you’ll get what you deserve!” The model escaped at 6:30 a.m. and called police. George was charged with false imprisonment and common assault and released on bail.
Jessica Simpson accidentally ran over her boyfriend John Mayer’s video game while backing out of their Santa Barbara, Calif., driveway. According to the National Enquirer, Mayer dropped his duffel bag in the driveway and went back in the house to retrieve something. Simpson, unaware of the bag, backed over it, destroying the limited-edition video game console he had received as a gift during his Japan tour. Simpson will be able to buy Mayer another console when it gets on the market. She agreed to host a Pussycat Dolls event at Pure nightclub Thursday in Las Vegas and will pocket $250,000 for the gig, janetcharltonshollywood.com reported.
Britney Spears performed a 14-minute set late Tuesday night in San Diego. Donning a black wig and and white pleated miniskirt, Spears took the House of Blues stage and lip-synced her hits “… Baby One More Time,” “Do Somethin’,” “I’m a Slave 4 U,” “Breathe on Me” and “Toxic,” People magazine’s website reported. TMZ.com also posted a video of the performance. Spears’ last major performance came in June 2004 in Dublin, Ireland. Her Onyx Hotel Tour was cut short when she injured her knee. Spears planned other shows this week at House of Blues in Anaheim, Calif., Los Angeles and Las Vegas.
Prince William dumped longtime girlfriend Kate Middleton because her friends photocopied her face onto a pound note over the queen’s face, OK! magazine claimed.
Neve Campbellis slated to marry British actor John Light of the Royal Shakespeare Company at a secret Malibu, Calif., location Saturday. The New York Post reported the wedding’s site was chosen because Campbell is shooting episodes of “Medium” in Los Angeles. The “Party of Five” actress moved to London two years ago to live with Light.
Harry Connick Jr., a New Orleans native, on the performance of the Big Easy’s Mayor Ray Nagin: “(New Orleans) has a very long way to go. Sometimes I wish we could borrow (New York’s) Mayor Bloomberg,” Connick told the New York Post.
So much for that marriage split between author Salman Rushdie and “Top Chef” host Padma Lakshmi. The couple were arm in arm at Monday’s PEN Awards, the New York Daily News reported. Lakshmi, 36, turned heads in a revealing gown and stuck to her 59-year-old hubby’s side most of the night.
Orlando Bloom told Gotham magazine about a scary encounter in a hotel with an angry fan: “She got kind of aggressive with me and was really angry. She (said), ‘I’ve been at every premiere and you never say hello.’ I felt bad for her. So I turned around and went over to her and just gave her a hug and said, ‘It’s cool. I’m sorry you feel let down or disappointed.’ I think she felt a little better afterward, and so did I.”
