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why did she wear THAT wednesday

oh. em. gee.
or at least why did she that without a brassiere...

Brit Brit + Madge reunion!

and the crowd goes wild!!

Britney Spears joined Madonna on stage for "Human Nature" at Dodger Stadium last night.

they seem to love it. just like they loved this all those years ago...

Define IRONY

oh, Britney...this picture speaks 1,000 words...

Britney in the white bikini part 2.

remember earlier in the week when i went on and on about Britney in the white bikini??

well...i now know how she got this way...

according to Daily Mail:

"The star signed up to a $22,000-a-month diet and exercise regime, [including] $10,000-a-month on a nutritionist and diet supplements,$8,000 on a personal trainer and $4,000 on a private dance choreographer."

Britney and the white bikini

say what you will about Britney Spears...but holyheck...she is looking great!

she really is the queen of the yoyo-ing body...because check these out...they are from A FEW DAYS AGO.

Britney and K-Fed reach custody settlement...

i guess the fact that Britney's been looking pretty, well, bathed and clean lately...

(picture taken at a fundraiser for Generation Rescue, an organization dedicated to researching autism)

...didn't come into play as she and her ex, Kevin Federline, finally, after two years came to a divorce settlement.

Federline will continue to retain sole custody of their two children, Sean Preston and Jayden James. According to People, Britney's lawyer, Laura Wasser, said that "Britney's doing great. She's very pleased [with the settlement]." According to sources, Britney did get some more time with the boys, and if she cleans up her act and stays healthy, she may be able to get some more time in the future.

Why i love Britney Spears today...

here is a picture of Britney Spears getting on a jet from Kentwood to Los Angeles...

and look at how she's traveling! flip flops. Abercrombie shorts. t-shirt. coffee. wal-mart bag. hair unbrushed and twisted up in a clip.
this, folks, is EXACTLY how i travel (well, minus the private jet and alll...)

Britney Spears...

...looking surprisingly pretty great!

Friday Smackdown - Britney Spears committed edition

Well, there's no question that this week is about Britney. it's all Britney. yes, of course, i'm not breaking the news to you. You have been following the downfall of BritBrit over the last little while. She's not new to being in the spotlight...the hair incident, the umbrella incident, the losing-of-the-babies incident, the being committed incident...and now here we have the committed incident part deux.

yes, as you know, Britney Spears has been hospitalized on what's called a 5150 hold. According to TMZ, Britney has been classified as "G.D." which to the lay man means gravely disabled. what this means, essentially, is that they don't feel she is able to take care of her essential, basic needs - food, clothes, shelter.

According to some UCLA medical staff, Britney has been quite the handful at the hospital, causing a scene and yelling about her mother that "the only reason she's admitting me is because she wants to be alone with her boyfriend! She wants to sleep with my boyfriend!!"

my heart aches for Britney's two children, Sean Preston and Jayden James Federline. my heart aches for Britney. I hope she is involuntary committed. i hope she is forced to stay and get the help she needs. because, dear god, this girl needs help.

who watched:

anyone smell a scripted episode? biggest waste of two hours. i'm on Piers' side. i thought his original idea was comedy gold, and Vinnie got all pussy and couldn't do the rat role. hello...captain obvious...of course Vinnie goes home. boo. Luca Brassi DOES sleep with the fishes. sopranos ending? lame. can we stop using Lennox Lewis is every. single. campaign. 

my Lost is back...and instead of answers, i have 100 more questions.  i'm totally on team Locke. just fyi. Hurley sees Jacob in the rocking chair (ali has a heart attack). "I'm listening to my friend" who are the Oceanic 6? why did he say he shouldn't have gone with Locke? Is it wrong that i absolutely LOVED Ben tonight? and Hurley's co-mental patient saw Charlie too. what's up with that? Is Hurley dead? are the Oceanic Six really dead?

okay...so help me out...apparently, Hurley saw Jack's dad in the rocking chair. what? why? explain! is Jack's dad Jacob?

PLEASE let this be for publicity...

A Winner...and some losers too ;)

We have a winner for the 27 Dresses contest! Her story was chosen as the favorite by several members of the urbanmoms.ca team. We are loved it...and were mortified for her. I'm just waiting to hear back from her before we make the big announcement. I want to thank all of your for laying your cards out on the table and bearing your ugly dresses for me. We got a great turnout of responses - both in the comments and through email. THANKS. big kisses to you all!

because my head has been so wrapped around this contest, i haven't been bringing the normal celeb to you. it may also have something to do with this:

girl. is. everywhere.

fortunately for me...i was able to round up some other good stuff for you...

the only funny thing to come out of the People's Choice Awards...they were on last night, unlike a certain other awards show...but Joaquin Phoenix graciously accepted an award and in a trying-to-be-funny way used cue cards to give his speech to respect the writer's strike (?). unfortunately, dude needs to learn to spell his own name...maybe he needs to switch back to Leaf...(she says as she makes the 'drinky, drinky' motion...)

I heart Hayden P. Mostly because she is exactly like me, using her mouth to carry her starbucks...only i cannot, for the life of me, figure out how a person of her size can consume a venti of anything...

and heck, if this isn't an ad for 'Abstinence & The City' i don't know what is...

Inevitable...

...we ALL knew it was coming...

Britney is on 72-hour mental lockdown. According to People.com, Britney Spears was placed on lockdown for a mental evaluation Friday after the pop star locked herself in a room with one of her children at her L.A. home and refused to hand him over to ex-husband Kevin Federline.

A source told US Weekly that “they had to strap her down like a mental patient and she was going between laughing and hysterics… [it was] a total psychotic breakdown. She just went crazy.”

wow. just wow. i don't even have the words.

A Very Spears-y Christmas...

so, once again, Britney learns how to make something all. about. her. She's upset that she was the last to know about her sister Jamie Lynn's pregnancy.

Page Six says that Jamie Lynn was afraid of her sister: (aren't we all, JL, aren't we all?)

“Jamie Lynn has a very soft personality,” says the family insider, who added that Jamie Lynn often had to suffer her sister’s tantrums when they were growing up. “She loves Britney, not Britney's temper.”

Though Britney, 26, and Jamie Lynn, 16, have since spoken about the pregnancy, their conversations have been “clinical” and awkward.

“Their relationship is estranged,” says the source. “Jamie Lynn does not recognize Britney as the sister she grew up with, so she has gone to her friends, her boyfriend and her mom when she needs someone.”

Though Britney and her mother have been on the outs since the Spears family forced the singer into rehab last February, her relationship with Jamie Lynn has only become strained over the past few months.

“It is mostly by Britney's choice,” says the insider. “She is so self-absorbed in her own life that she has forgotten what is important in life, like her family."

Friday Smackdown

~~Golden Globe nominees were announced and here's a handy dandy list for you to see who made the cut and sadly, among the 12 movies that were nominated for best drama or best comedy/musical, i've seen only three. i best be getting on that...

~~Tara Reid's stomach is still as scary as ever...anyone want to take a stab as to what the heck is going on here???

are those scars? beads? what? what? what? explain please!

~~be sure to watch 20/20 friday night at 10pm on ABC. They will be debuting Britney Spears' new video for "Piece of Me" personally, i can't wait to see what our favorite clepto who fails to show up at her depositions will come up with next.

~~These might just be the funniest things i've ever seen! (thanks, Ninjadude!)

It was a slow week in tv watching world...due to a certain unnamed writer's strike. boo!

but, who watched:

I'm on Team Amanda. i hope she wins (and we know she'll have PG's vote, at the very least :) ). PG had me until the backstabbing and cheating rant at tribal council. she never knows when to shut. it. does she? oh, baluts are my favorite survivor food. i'm glad they came out for a repeat performance. Can someone lend some clothing to Amanda so they don't have to cloud out her behind in every single challenge?? PS - Eric was way hotter before he showered and shaved.

Jack did a fabulous job finishing his muffin. love. anyone catch the 'it isn't a lemon party without old dick' line? anyone? (if you aren't laughing as much as i am that this got past the censors, you may want to google it...but don't say i didn't warn you!!) L. Lohan on the ankle bracelet map! and C. Bacca! merry christmas, merry jewish. addicted to coke back in my wall street days! hahahaha.

vomit. zero surprise here. of course Jenah is sent home first. and of course, Saleisha wins. i smell a fix. previous model experience + personal relationship with Tyra = DUH. (i do, however, appreciate the fact that she doesn't have a jaslene-like speech impediment) tyra looks BEAUTIFUL without those stupid-ass bangs. someone should let her know. also...Chantal was totally robbed on the runway. did anyone notice that her dress was TIGHT and Saleisha's was surprisingly...giant?!?! ho hum...color me underwhelmed.

best line? "Catamaran? we know what that is!" i love the cabbie who rejected nate and jen because they were "wet" (if wet, in croatian, means whiny bee-otches)...and passed by Kynt and Vyxsin for taking illegal transportation. love it! her hissy fits may be the best in TAR history. "I'm so never being with you again!" Phil, sweet Phil of the open shirt at the detour, did you really just say "make haste"? i heart Vyxsin when she said "it's okay. i have a dad too" at the airport. Not sure what to make of TK and Rachel with her Croatia sounds like a place gymnasts come from...bwah...

the news on the nose (and some housekeeping)

(welcome to the first week of Juice, your home for all things entertainment. we are still working out the kinks a little bit, but i wanted to let you know of some of the features you should expect to see around here.

look for tuesday teases, where we profile someone you are dying to see and something celebrities didn't want YOU to see. this one's worth coming back for, i promise!!

look for hump day wednesdays, where we dish about the rumors, the romances and the heart-breaks.

look for date night thursdays, where i give you the what, where, when, why of going out. the who is up to you, of course. we'll be talking about restaurants, cities you should visit, romantic destinations, movies you should see, movies you should rent. the works. it's going to be GOOD.

look for recap fridays...where your tivo and i have given you the whole week to watch all your favorite tv shows...and on friday we are going to snark, snark, snark away!!

look for monday afternoon mommies and thursday morning daddies.

and of course, i'll be mixing in my movie prescreening and premiere reviews, my celebrity interviews, my celebrity sightings and all that jazz into the mix!

*names are subject, of course, to chance without notice. we are still very new, folks!

there are some more features in the mix, but i can see you are itching to get to some MEAT...so, without further ado, i give you the news...)

So, apparently, Ashley Tisdale, of High School Musical fame, went under the knife last week to fix a deviated septum.

“I didn’t do this because I believe in plastic surgery. I did this to help my health. I literally almost could not breathe out of the right side of my nose,” Ashley told People Magazine. “I want my fans to know the truth. I’m not someone who is going to act like I had nothing done. I just want to be honest because my fans are everything to me.”

good for her for being up front about it. There's nothing worse than someone pulling a Scarlett Johansson. relax, i kid, mostly. the truth is, i'm not entirely sure on this one. i'm inclined to say yes, definitely a nose job. a good one, though. a smart one.

what do you think? nose job? yes? no?

before

after

this, folks, is GOOD plastic surgery:

and THIS is very, very, very bad plastic surgery:

yikes.

How's This For Extra Pulp?

Welcome to Juice, urbanmoms.ca's newest home for entertainment news. I'm Ali and I'll be your host for this exciting new ride. come on in, pull up a chair, and put on your fun hats, because we are going to be dishing the juice on celebrities, movies, tv shows, fashion, and everything else entertainment. You may even see some fancy little extras like interviews with celebrities and other hob-knobbables. If it all seems a little Gossip Girl to you, that's because IT IS!!!!

some of you may already know me from my other urbanmoms blog, Fabulous. and some of you may already know me from my personal site, Cheaper Than Therapy. Whether you know me or not, we should probably begin with the basics.

The essential Ali rap sheet:

celebrity boyfriend: as of this minute, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, but i have been known to swoon for many a Hollywood hottie...Josh Duhamel, Jude Law, Ewan McGregor, Ryan Gosling...Damien Rice...perhaps i better stop...it's getting hot in here, and i've still got ground to cover.

(anyone else wondering why the nipple was necessary in this shot??)

celebrity girl-crush: as of this minute, Jessica Biel. duh. but i'm also a big fan of Rachel Bilson's. love her. i also really am loving Hayden Panettiere these days.

I'm currently listening to many an indie-rock band. Damien Rice. Pedro the Lion. Emily Haines. Menomena. Get Cape Wear Cape Fly. Band of Horses. Andrew Bird. Akron/Family. (there are more, but i'm seeing y'all getting all glassy-eyed.)

I'm on Team Aniston

I'm on Team Suri; not Team Shiloh

I watch too much TV for my own good. I'm currently digging 30 Rock, even more than i love the Office. and i love me some office. (jim and pam. *squee*) yes, i still watch survivor. i'm one of the only three left on the planet, i'm sure. I take guilty pleasure in watching Gossip Girl.

I am a McSteamy over McDreamy (i know, i'm surprised by this as well!)

I am a Sawyer, not a Jack

I'd watch Ellen over Oprah, unless it's one of her "favorite thing" episodes..because HELLO, free things!

i'm on facebook. but not on myspace. come and find me!!

Jordana Spiro is my celebrity look-a-like

i have been known to smack down the celebs on fridays.  and there's usually something about Britney Spears. poor girl can't seem to stay out of the news.

i. don't. even. have. the. words.

maybe her $81,000 in plastic surgery will keep her out of the news for a bit. bwah.

i think red lipstick can be sexy. on the right face, at the right moment.

My favorite movie is Almost Famous. but i am a sucker for 80's teen angst movies. Dirty Dancing. Sixteen Candles. The Breakfast Club. Pretty in Pink. Ferris Bueller's Day Off.

My favorite book is Franny and Zooey by JD Salinger. It's hands-down better than Catcher in the Rye. Just sayin' I'm currently reading The Other Boleyn Girl. I bought it when i was off on maternity leave with my 2-year-old, but i figure i should read it before i see the movie. because i like to do that.

Starting Monday, I'll be back with some all sorts of exciting entertainment news. I hope you're as excited as I am about this new adventure.