Kid Rock and Tommy Lee added a show-stopping duet at the MTV Video Music Awards on Sunday night, and they weren’t even on the bill. The rock bad boys got into a fist-flinging brawl at the star-studded Las Vegas event that featured their ex-wife Pamela Anderson as a presenter. Witnesses claimed Lee, of Motley Crue, may have provoked Kid Rock. Rock decked him in front of Sean “Diddy” Combs. Security guards had to pry the two men apart. Rock was charged with misdemeanor battery but was not taken into custody. Lee was not charged.
Speaking of the awards, Kanye West says he’s had it with MTV after he got snubbed again at the VMAs, causing an outburst backstage after losing all five categories for which he was nominated. “That’s two years in a row, man … give a black man a chance,” he said.
It was a party fit for a princess, complete with a castle and white carriage. Hundreds of guests bearing gifts attended the first birthday party Saturday for Anna Nicole Smith’s daughter, Dannielynn. Pink balloons decorated the iron gates in front of socialite Tricia Barnstable Brown’s home, where Smith and Dannielynn’s father, Louisville native Larry Birkhead, met at a party on the eve of the 2003 Kentucky Derby.
Casey Affleck and his wife, actress Summer Phoenix, are expecting their second child, a spokeswoman for the actor said Saturday. Phoenix is due sometime this winter, Affleck spokeswoman Rebecca Feferman said. She declined to be more specific. “They’re very happy and excited about the new addition to their family.” Affleck, 32, and Phoenix, married in 2006 and have a 3-year-old son, Indiana August.
Rosie O’Donnell isn’t done with The Donald. The New York Daily News has obtained pages from her new book, “Celebrity Detox,” hitting shelves Oct. 2, in which she calls Donald Trump “a torn scarecrow” and “a slug.” Trump reminded O’Donnell of “garden slugs … I could write one small comment on my blog, and Donald would predictably distend, flowing forth with a torrent of insults … Then he’d appear on some talk show looking wrinkled, old and empty, with a Jell-O orange combover.”
