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For those of you who didn’t manage to stay up until 12:50am last night to witness Ashlee Simpson’s second performance on Saturday Night Live, you missed one of the major meltdowns of the year. 

After playing her pop hit "Pieces of Me" as her first song of the show (which was ably hosted by Jude Law), in customary SNL style, she came back out for a second performance around 12:45am.  Law introduces, Ashlee, her band starts playing, and….they were playing the same song.

Ashlee, the calm, cool performer she is, danced around like a drooling moron for about a minute, before fleeing the stage in a hurry.  Meanwhile, her band, in a tremendously apropos statement about pop music, continued to play the same song they played in their first performance of the night. 

You can watch the video and try to determine what happened for yourself, but in our mind, the real story is all too obvious–the tracking beacon in Ashlee’s hand started beeping, her time was up, and she ran like Logan.

Ashlee Simpson stinks it up on SNL [via CollegeHumor.com]

UPDATE: Now her dad blames it on her acid reflux. 

Disgusting?  Definitely.  Adding embarrassment to his daughter’s already embarrassing experience, and trying to quell the one undeniable element of the story–his daughter lip syncs.  DUH! 

But Joe’s just angling for those Prevacid commercials for his baby girl.  Isn’t he a super dad?

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Both stars are Russian, and both have been described as "incredibly beautiful." This Soviet era duo has made the World Tennis association stand up and take notice, not only for their amazing looks but also for their incredible tennis abilities. So, who really is the hottest babe on the courts?

There has been much debate over who should be compared to who; but bottom line is – who’s hotter? Can you fairly compare 17 year Maria to 23 year old Anna Kournikova, they both are at different stages in their respective careers. Yet, the newbie Maria has been identified by some Tennis industry insiders as not only be arguably better looking than Anna, she also just might be the better tennis player.

We’ll be waiting anxiously for the Kournikova vs. Sharapova Tennis Match coming hopefully to your local PLayboy channel! For now let the debate rage on: WHO IS HOTTER- Anna or Maria?

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Look out Orlando , the 2005 New Year’s Eve Party to attend is the grand opening of "Club Paris," the first of a handful of clubs worldwide to be named after socialite Paris Hilton.

Seems like Paris Hilton knows something about nightclubs, so it makes sense the hotel heiress is the latest inspiration for a series of clubs that will bear her signature name.

Club Paris, named after "The Simple Life" star, plans to open on New Year’s Eve in Orlando. Local businessman Fereidoun "Fred" Khalilian hopes to open other Club Paris nightclubs locations include Las Vegas, New York City, Miami Beach, London and Paris.

Rumors leaked stated that Hilton will earn a "seven-figure" signing bonus for lending her name to the club. In return, she is contractually obligated to appear at the club at least twice a month. Hilton also helped select the interior design and is scheduled to attend the opening.

via [NBC]

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Hold the Presses…Looks like our favorite billionaire sister socialite Nicky Hilton; heiress to the Hilton hotel fortune is seeking to annul her 2-month-old marriage to her 33 year old money manager Todd Meister. According to Us Weekly, Hilton was seen at a political fund-raiser and a nightclub earlier this month without her wedding band and that the couple actually split several weeks ago!

Sources reported that “They’re working on an annulment,” “Nicky and Todd remain the best of friends, but she is 21, and it’s just not the right time in her life for her to be married. He lives in New York; she’s in L.A.”

Other friends told the magazine that “the relationship between the two, who have known each other since she was a teenager, had been essentially platonic,” “When they got married, they were a great couple,” “But it was more like they were best friends. It wasn’t like a tear-each-other’s-clothes-off kind of thing.”

All Single Men take note, Miss Hilton is back on the scene, and in desperate need of a little special treatment – if ya know what we mean.

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Calling all geeks and nerds! The soon-to-hit-newstands November 2004 issue of FHM magazine has a special treat, just for you.

It’s none other than the darling of the G4 TechTV network–XPlay’s Morgan Webb. And not only does Ms. Webb give a great interview, she looks twice as sexy as she did during our private holodeck rendezvous (yeah, we’re TNG fans–so what?).

Now I know all of you men out there are drooling at the bit just to get a glimpse at the five pages of revealing pictures of Morgan in assorted miniskirts and swimwear (in other words "nearly naked"), but like we said, the issue won’t hit newsstands for a couple more days. So…if you can’t wait another second to glimpse at a heaping helping of skin from the beloved Morgan, you can see scans of entire article and photo shoot right here.

And of course, be sure to head over to FHM’s website later this month, where you’ll find more video and images of sexy Morgan.

Morgan Webb in FHM [I Heart Morgan Webb]

Previously:
Girls of Maxim: Morgan Webb [Maxim]

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The World better lookout for Lindsay, sources say Lohan was never meant to appear on the cover of this month’s GQ – supposedly that spot was reserved for Cavs’ messiah LeBron James.

Rumor is that the editor(s) saw the photos of Lohan "pulling her pants down" (can you say – airbrushed?), and then rushed to pin-up the teen diva on their cover. Talk about persuasive looking pictures.

Fallout from this cover switch is already being heard and some GQers aren’t happy with the editor(s) final decision: "Between Justin Timberlake last month and Lindsay Lohan this month, what does that say about our magazine?” heard from one GQ staffer. LeBron don;t hold your breath, I think Wilmer V. could bump your spot next…

[via NYP]

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From the “Who in Hell Needs This?” file, comes Kimora Lee Simmons’ new personally-branded pink cell phone. We’d love to tell you about it, but there’s no way we can top this hilarious summary from Jess over at Gawker:

For a mere $699, your cell phone too can be a part of the class—nay, the glamour—that is designer and professional pot-smoker Kimora Lee Simmons. Meet her new Baby Phat Motorola, a quilted pink piece of hideousness so gauche you can barely look away. Just a hunch: we’re betting Kimora designed this one all by herself.

[from Gizmodo via Gawker]

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Britney Spears is now a legally married woman–this according to recent reports that the pop-tartlet had “officially” signed the papers to legalize her marriage vows with street dancer Kevin Federline.

The pop star diva made her union with Federline legal on Thursday, Oct. 7th when the pair filed the necessary documents with the State to formalize their staged marriage. According to Reuters: Spears’ publicist Leslie Sloane stated, “It’s all legal….All the proper paperwork was dealt with today, filed, done.”

And if that’s not enough, things could really get disasterous now that she’s ditched her longtime manager. Apparently she decided to kick her accomplished manager and PR clean-up crew to the curb Monday–perhaps they weren’t doing a good enough job promoting her balcony-bound sexcapades.

Whatever the case, if you think Britney has been making poor, or downright ludicrous decisions lately, don’t expect things to improve anytime soon. Without those pesky managerial and publicist-types, the white-trash skies have really opened up for young Brit to “find herself”. In other words, now she can buy a trailer, a lifetime’s supply of Red Bull, and the Cheeto-orange Peterbilt that she’s always wanted.

[via VH1]

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Anna Kournikova brightened up Donald Trump’s The Apprentice this evening, as the reward for the men’s Mosaic team winning the QVC selling challenge with nothing more than a hot-press panini grill.

And we love Trump’s introduction of Anna as "one of his friends".  I can just picture Anna and the Donald kicking it at Trump Manor.  I’m sure….maybe combs his onion loaf for a quarter mil an hour.

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Ladies and gentlemen, we have ourselves a new creepy, cradle-robbing pair making the rounds. If you haven’t heard, pop star and Michael Jackson wannabe Usher is romantically intwined with once-supermodel Naomi Campbell, and they’re out and about spreading their weirdness all over the land.

Campbell, 34, and Usher, 25, celebrated the latter’s birthday together in NYC at the “legendary” Rainbow Room. No word yet on when their alien spaceships dropped down to pick them up and take them back to their home planet, but we’ll keep you posted as details on that, and their undoubted Kaballah wedding, materialize.

[from People]

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