Don’t go looking for Cameron Diaz on the internet unless you’re looking for trouble.
Searching the Web for the actress brings this year’s highest chance of encountering corrupt sites and malicious software, according to research.
Searching for “Cameron Diaz” brings something bad for your computer in one of every 10 search results, according to McAfee’s Most Dangerous Celebrities study. Make the search terms “Cameron Diaz” and “screensavers,” and the risk doubles. Diaz replaces last year’s No. 1, Jessica Biel.
“Cybercriminals follow the same hot topics as consumers and create traps based on the latest trends,” said McAfee security sleuth Dave Marcus. Viruses and malware, often designed to steal personal information, lie in wait for users who download photos, videos or screensavers from malicious sites.
The complete list after Diaz: Julia Roberts, Biel, Gisele Bundchen, Brad Pitt, model Adriana Lima, Jennifer Love Hewitt and Nicole Kidman in a tie, Tom Cruise, Heidi Klum and Penelope Cruz in a tie, and Anna Paquin.
McAfee says President Barack Obama and Sarah Palin are among the safest search names around.
Chelsea Handler hopes to reunite Kanye West and Taylor Swift after their flame-out last year at the VMA awards.
Speaking to Ryan Seacrest on his KISS-FM radio show, Handler previewed her emceeing technique and said she hoped to reunite the two at MTV’s Sept. 12 awards show.
Last year, West interrupted Swift’s big acceptance speech – in a moment that was buzzed about long after.
“I’d like to get them together,” Handler, 35, told Seacrest. “We’ve never really seen them together since then. They were supposed to be together on SNL, but then that didn’t end up happening.”
Last year, right after Swift won the best female video award she was cut off during her acceptance speech by the rapper, who grabbed her microphone and announced that fellow nominee Beyoncé had “one of the greatest videos of all time,” in for “Single Ladies (Put a Ring On It).” West later apologized profusely.
As Swift recalled after the big moment, “I was standing on stage and I was really excited because I’d just won the award and then I was really excited because Kanye West was on stage. And then I wasn’t excited anymore after that.”
Suggested Handler: “We’ll try to think of something clever to do with them, because that would be really fun.”
Sylvester Stallone is riding high after his movie “The Expendables” cleaned up at the box office.
One guy not totally thrilled with Sly’s success is Jean-Claude Van Damme.
Early on, Sly had invited Jean-Claude to join the cast but wouldn’t tell him much about the movie except it had lots of action, humor, and he thought it would be fun if Van Damme’s character would lose in a fight with Jet Li, according to the celebrity website Janetcharltonshollywood.com.
Van Damme reportedly didn’t see the humor in that, and passed on the movie.
After it opened, Sly called Jean-Claude and smirked “I told you so,” the website says.
Sly is already working on a sequal and plans on giving Van Damme another chance – if he loosens up.
A clothing company is taking legal action against Madonna, claiming the material girl has ripped off the “Material Girl” trademark.
L.A. Triumph, Inc. claims in a new lawsuit it’s been marketing “Material Girl” clothing since 1997, selling millions of bucks worth of threads under its trademark.
According to the documents, obtained by TMZ, Madonna, aka Madonna Louise Veronica Ciccone, has stolen the name “Material Girl” for her junior clothing line Material Girl Brand — which launched this year.
L.A. Triumph wants a declaration from a federal judge that Madonna’s use of “Material Girl” creates “deception” in the marketplace.
In addition to the declaration, L.A. Triumph wants the judge to order Madonna and her company to turn over all of the profits they’ve made from their clothing line.
— lsmith@denverpost.com
