Jake Gyllenhaal defends his sexuality in the Telegraph when asked about his comments in Out magazine where he implied he might be bisexual. Jesus, can’t someone play a gay role without getting hounded about their sexuality?

Is Ugly Betty star Vanessa Williams dating Vince Vaughn? Dear God, I hope not. After he stopped smoking he turned into a hot mess–fat, wrinkled, bald, with nasty nose hair. And Vanessa’s a Goddess.

After already gaining 20 pounds and growing a full beard for the role, Ryan Gosling has pulled out of Peter Jackson’s The Lovely Bones a day before the film starts shooting due to “creative differences”. He’s been replaced by Oscar nominee Mark Wahlberg.

The screenwriters who penned the Superman Returns film are not returning for the lowly anticipated sequel. That’s definitely good news for Bryan Singer, the studio, and anyone with any hopes of this film being any good. That first movie was awful.

While promoting The Bourne Ultimatum in Japan hottie Matt Damon said he is open to possibly doing another Bourne film. Aren’t there only three books, though? I’m afraid this could end up not being so great. I loved the first three movies.

Directed by Gavin Hood, X-Men prequel Wolverine is coming to the big screen in May of 2009. Here’s to hoping for many gratuitous Hugh Jackman nude scenes.

Debra Messing will reprise her Emmy-nominated role in her mini-series The Starter Wife. It’s coming back to USA as an actual series–they’ve so far ordered ten episodes.

Carrie Underwood who recently broke up with football star Tony Romo, is now dating Chase Crawford whom you might recognize from the CW’s moderate hit Gossip Girl. I can’t be the only one whose gaydar is pinging.

Another new one from Kellie Pickler. Looks like Miss Pickler made out better than both Taylor Hicks and Katharine McPhee when it comes to success. Now only if Kellie could beat Carrie Underwood everything would be dandy in Picklerland.

It may seem really soon, but if you think about it, it’s been almost two years since Carrie Underwood released her debut album Some Hearts, and apparently she’s been in the studio for a while now working on a follow up to her six times platinum effort. According to reports, Carrie’s second album is slated to come out on October 23, and some are hoping it’ll be more Shania and less Leann.

The album does not currently have a title, but Underwood will be working with Mark Knight who penned most of the tracks on Some Hearts. Knight says she’ll be staying with the country genre with this second CD, but something tells me the songs will be more in the vein of Before He Cheats to try to replicate the success of her top 10 hit, which was her first crossover pop radio hit ever.

I enjoyed some of the tracks on Some Hearts–specifically the aforementioned Before He Cheats, Jesus Take The Wheel, Wasted, and even We’re Young And Beautiful. But to be honest, I found the CD to be quite bland, especially for someone with such a great voice, an I’m hoping they spice up her songs a bit on this next album. I have no problem with her staying country, but I just want the songs to be a little less boring. It was a solid album for a debut, but she’s gonna have to up her game on this next record–especially if she wants to finally become a success somewhere else besides the U.S.

Carrie Underwood walked away a happy camper at this year’s CMT Awards with wins for Best Female Video, Video of the Year, and Roman White walked away with Video Director of the Year for his work on the Before He Cheats video. The video won in all three categories in which it was nominated.

And of course she gave one fierce ass performance.

In other Carrie news, Before He Cheats is taking the pop charts by storm. It’s #15 this week on Billboard, rapidly moving up on airplay and downloads, and it just recently passed the one million mark for amount of downloads sold. The album, Some Hearts, has sold 5.2 million copies to date–500,000 shy of Kelly Clarkson’s US numbers for Breakaway. But rest assured, Carrie won’t touch Kelly’s worldwide numbers–Breakaway has sold just shy of 8 million copies around the world.

Lmao. Carrie Underwood took a huge shit all over this year’s American Idol contestants. Made all of them look like jokes.

Christina Aguilera only won ONE Grammy on Sunday, her win wasn’t even television, and she didn’t even perform a song off her own record, yet she still managed to stay on everybody’s minds long after the ceremony was over.

Say hello to this week’s Entertainment Weekly

And then People magazine. Shawoosh. All the haters to the left.

Yup, that’s right. Christina Aguilera right next to the LEGENDS. Clive Davis and Whitney Houston. Hey Kat! You look damn good, girl.

Papa Knowles must be slippin’. I don’t see Miss Beyonce anywhere. Oops. She’s sitting at home twirling her weave, fawning over her boring ass Sports Illustrated cover while Jennifer Hudson is picking out what dress she’s going to wear when she goes up to accept her Academy Award.

The video is very cute and I’ve loved Wasted since I first heard it when I bought “Some Hearts” back in September of 2005. That song, and Before He Cheats are the best tracks on the album, and I predict this will be yet ANOTHER number one country hit for Carrie, and one of her few songs that could actually crossover and do well on pop radio.

I’m speechless right now. Absolutely speechless. The production on Back to Basics is stellar and it almost brings tears to my eyes that the work of DJ Premier, Linda Perry, Mark Ronson, and obviously Christina Aguilera is going to go unrecognized.

I highly doubt that Christina will win Best Pop Vocal Album, and she may win Female Pop Vocal but she’s won that before, and it makes me sick that she’s yet to be recognized for something other than her voice, when second rate artistry like Beyonce’s can win Grammys easier than Andy Dick could get into Lindsay Lohan’s panties.

The truly sad moment will be if Christina doesn’t even win either of the two awards that she’s nominated for.

This is just a very sad day.

I know people will say I’m being too dramatic, but I’m just having an emotional reaction right now to the feeling of snubbery.

Here are the two categories she was nominated in (which are the same ones she was nominated for with Stripped):

Best Pop Vocal Album
*Christina Aguilera - Back To Basics
*James Blunt - Back to Bedlam
*Elvis Costello & Allen Toussaint - The River In Reverse
*John Mayer - Continuum
*Justin Timberlake - FutureSex/LoveSounds

Best Female Pop Vocal Performance
*Christina Aguilera - Ain’t No Other Man
*Natasha Bedingfield - Unwritten
*Sheryl Crow - You Can Close Your Eyes
*Pink - Stupid Girls
*KT Tunstall - Black Horse And The Cherry Tree

With that said, I’m very happy for the other people who were generously nominated.

*The lovely Queen of Hip-Hop/Soul Mary J. Blige leads the nominations with a whopping 8 nods.

*Pink was nominated for Stupid Girls (a nomination that SHOULD’VE gone to Who Knew).

*Justin Timberlake received four nominations for his good album FutureSex/LoveSounds, even if it’s all attributed to ripping off Prince (5 noms) and the talents of Timbaland (who btw, is not nominated for his production work).

*The rebellious jezebels the Dixie Chicks received five nominations for some of their best work to date on Taking The Long Way.

*And best of all..congrats to first time nominee Carrie Underwood on her two nominations! Best New Artist and Best Female Country Vocal Performance!

Jesus Take The Wheel was also nominated for two awards for the songwriters.

You can view the entire list of nominees here.

The Grammys will air on CBS on February 11.

Good ole Carrie Underwood AKA the best selling female singer of the past YEAR walked away with two huge awards last night: the Horizon award and Best Female where she beat out Martina McBride, Gretchen Wilson, Sara Evans, and even an apparently bitter Faith Hill.

Here’s some pics of Carrie and 5th season contestant Kellie Pickler who was a presenter. Carrie, I love you girl–but that dress has got to go. Kellie’s on the other hand…tres jolie.

She also performed her current single Before He Cheats which is sitting nicely atop the Billboard Country chart just like her previous two singles.

Check out Carrie’s performance and her win for Best Female. Don’t forget to watch Faith Hill’s reaction to losing.

Carrie’s Performance [Before He Cheats]

Carrie’s Best Female Win [AKA Faith Hill Freak-Out]

Gotta love Faith Hill’s tribute to Kanye West.

Carrie Underwood is looking hotter and hotter by the day! She looked gorgeous and stylish on Ellen this past week. Two points to Carrie and whoever her stylist is.

And congrats on being number one on the radio yet again!

Ellen Interview

Performance [Before He Cheats]