celebrities

Is 50 Cent the Next Angelina Jolie/Sean Penn?

Danny Gold · 02/09/12 11:27PM

Rapper/actor/business mogul Curtis "50 Cent" Jackson visited war-torn Somalia this past Wednesday, eerily enough on the same day as Somalia's homegrown al Shabab terrorists joined forces with Al Qaeda. 50 was there on a World Food Program humanitarian trip and spent time visiting camps for internally displaced people that have suffered through 2 decades of anarchic war and famine in the East African nation. Unfortunately, it's a war that is heating up once again.

Pippa Middleton Sees Your Buckingham Palace, Raises You Hogwarts

Molly Fitzpatrick · 02/04/12 02:02AM

As Gawker's self-styled Foreign Correspondent—I'm expecting an engraved ivory deskplate via International FedEx any minute now—I'll start you off with news from Great Britain, a country so great it tells you so right in its name. (I'm all for taking a red pen to the Constitution and refashioning ourselves as the Awesome United States.)

Meet Scarlett Johansson's Boob-Obsessed, Non-Celebrity Boyfriend

Maureen O'Connor · 02/02/12 04:58PM

Meet Nate Naylor. He's a New York ad executive, and for the last five months he has been dating Scarlett Johansson. How did this mere mortal manage to capture a celebrity in the finely knit butterfly net of his love? Come, let us obsessively scrutinize everything about this man's life, because he is dating someone famous.

Congratulations to David James Glendon, Irish George Clooney Lookalike

Max Read · 02/02/12 03:10PM

A hearty official Gawker congratulations to David James Glendon, Irish actor and winner of the first annual George Clooney lookalike contest, held at Dylan's Whiskey Bar in Kilkenny last week. (David's the one in the photo who looks like George Clooney.)

Is Kristen Bell's Sloth Freak Out Adorable or Annoying?

Brian Moylan · 01/31/12 06:39PM

Veronica Mars survivor Kristen Bell was on Dancing with the Degeneres this afternoon and shared a videotape of her first meeting with a sloth. She freaked the fuck out. Apparently she has loved sloths her whole life, and when her fiance, comedian Dax Shepard, went to introduce her to the hairy couch potato, she absolutely lost her shit.

Grammy Awards Continues Quest to be Irrelevant, LL Cool J to Host

Danny Gold · 01/18/12 08:53PM

The Grammy Awards hasn't had a host in seven years, so it only makes sense that when they decided to choose a host this year they get someone who was last relevant in the music industry seven years ago. LL Cool J, star of seminal UPN comedy In the House has been chosen to host. The last host was Queen Latifah, so I guess the trend is once great rappers who now do crappy TV shows and movies? LL is expected to stand on stage for four hours repeatedly licking his lips and occasionally lifting his shirt to show off his abs. Why not just let Billy Crystal host every award ceremony ever, including the AVN?

Guy From How I Met Your Mother To Release Memoir About Doing Drugs in the Amazon

Danny Gold · 01/17/12 07:00PM

Carlos Castaneda. Timothy Leary. Daniel Pinchbeck…mopey Ted Mosby? Josh Radnor, he of How I Met Your Mother and that movie no one saw that kind of looked like Garden State, looks to join the literary titans of tripping with a memoir slated for an April release. One Big Blissful Thing details his journey from a suburban Ohio upbringing to ayahuasca ceremonies in the Amazon. Ayahuasca is a hallucinogenic plant that many Amazon tribes use for ritualistic practices. Maybe all that drug use is why he keeps rambling on and digressing with how he actually met his wife?

Lindsay Lohan Owes $94,000 in Back Taxes

Brian Moylan · 01/12/12 03:35PM

Life is never easy for Herbie Fully Loaded star Lindsay Lohan. After her countless trips to court and rehab and the Chateau Marmont, now she owes the government $94,000 because she didn't pay taxes in 2009. Oh, bother.