Country music legend and sitcom star Reba McEntire apparently turned down Jessica Simpson when she was approached about doing a duet with her on her now #1 album Duets.

“Jess thought she had been passed over because Reba would be singing with older, more established artists,” a source close to Jessica tells OK. “She was devastated when she found out that Kelly Clarkson was invited to be part of the project.”

Ouch. That’s gotta hurt, Jess. Part of me feels sorry for this girl. Her life has been in a downward spiral ever since she broke up with Nick Lachey. She even tried clinging to Christina Aguilera for help. Didn’t work. Just give up and do porn, baby.

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Best friends and A-list hottie Oscar winners Matt Damon and Ben Affleck enjoyed Father’s day weekend in Hawaii with their respective families. They even found enough time to dust off their surf boards–Matthew McConaughey style.

Perez Hilton’s troubles continue to snowball, as his server host has dropped him and his famous website, causing the site to be down for many hours, and is now back up with limited access. I have trouble having sympathy for this man. At all.

Isaiah Washington’s ego refuses to deflate, and his mouth refuses to stay shut. Now that he’s been permanently ousted from Grey’s Anatomy, he plans on suing ABC and is now trying to blame T.R. Knight for the entire ordeal.

Remember Alfonso Ribeiro, the cutie who played geeky Carlton Banks back on the Fresh Prince of Bel-Air with Will Smith? Well prepare yourself kiddies because your jaw will drop to the floor when you see what he looks like these days.

Christina Aguilera recently kicked off the third leg of her Back to Basics tour in Tokyo, Japan, and it’s fueled the pregnancy rumors even more because of her change of outfit (it’s now a looser fit costume) and a heart rate monitor watch (I suppose to make sure the baby is okay and she’s not overexerting herself) that she’s now wearing on stage. In other Aguilera news, she just owned Kelly Osbourne and bought up her old house. Revenge is sweet……bitch.

Apparently Kelly Clarkson, whose album My December is unfortunately most likely going to flop like her tour did, battled bulimia in high school. Ew, way to steal attention-getting sympathy stories from Katharine McPhee. What’s next? Letting Ellen DeGeneres squeeze your boobs?

Kate Hudson takes another swing at romantic comedies with a new film called Bachelor No. 2 in which Dane Cook will also be starring. Considering his track record with movies (okay, he’s only been in one, but it was bad enough) and his terrible jokes that he steals from Louis C.K., and Kate’s recent flops, I think it’s safe to say this movie will royally suck. Oh well.

Some photos have surfaced from the set of The Dark Knight, featuring Maggie Gyllenhaal and Aaron Eckhart. I seriously cannot imagine how this movie could go wrong. Christian Bale, Heath Ledger, Maggie Gyllenhaal (a big upgrade from Katie Holmes), Aaron Eckhart and Morgan Freeman? I need to see this yesterday.

It looks like everything that can go wrong with this era, has. Though, I’m grateful the tour is being canceled, honestly–because her voice is in such bad shape right now, she needs a long vocal rest.

Ladies and gays, I have Kelly Clarkson’s as yet released new album My December here for your downloading pleasure. This album surely is less commercial than both of her previous albums, and I don’t forsee it having many radio hits. I’d liken the success of this album to Pink’s Try This.

Either way, I’m enjoying a lot of the tracks, and it’s surely better than I expected based on Never Again.

Never Again

One Minute

Hole

Sober

Don’t Waste Your Time

Judas

Haunted

Be Still

Maybe

Yeah

Can I Have A Kiss

How I Feel

Irvine/Chivas (Hidden Track)

I still really don’t like the song. One, because it sounds like something from Breakaway 2.0, and two, because she’s screaming throughout the entire song. The video’s cool, though. This album better be good.

Page Six of the NY Post is reporting that Roseanne Barr along with Whoopi Goldberg and Kathie Lee Gifford, is in the running to replace Rosie O’Donnell once she leaves The View. I think she’d work, I’d like Whoopi on there as well. Kathie however, just needs to fall off of the face of the Earth and never find her way home.

Desperate Housewives led ABC to a ratings sweeps victory last night as Mrs. McClusky was arrested after her husband’s (or so we assume) body was found in her basement freezer. With 17 million viewers, the show garnered it’s best average since March, and led in the key ratings demographic. Meanwhile Polly Bergen is joining the show as Felicity Huffman’s mother.

Kelly Clarkson has announced her summer tour dates, and unfortunately there aren’t any in the city. I will once again have to travel to Long Island. At any rate, I’m afraid for her voice because her upper range seems to be shredded–judging from her recent American Idol performance and her Daytona performances. She needs vocal rest. Oh well.

One of my favorite comedians, Sarah Silverman, will be hosting this year’s MTV Movie Awards. Sadly enough, in recent years these awards have been more entertaining than the VMAs. Has MTV forgotten they’re a music channel? It would seem so. Eh, who cares. VH1 for the win!

Sarah Michelle Gellar and Freddie Prinze Jr. have returned, and I’m excited. I fell in love with Sarah back in her Buffy days, even more when she was in I Know What You Did Last Summer. I fell in love with Freddie in that movie Down To You with Julia Stiles. They’re such an adorable couple. Please come back to me.

The creators of Sex and the City, Candace Bushnell and Darren Star, have gotten themselves into a bit of a predicament. Each of them has developed an adaptation of the show for two different networks, one called Lipstick Jungle, and the other called Cashmere Mafia, and both are looking to get picked up for this fall’s schedule. I think they’ll both end up being fucked.

TMZ has a video of Tobey Maguire slapping a fan’s camera away when he tries to nab a picture of Maguire as he’s entering his hotel. The absolute best part of the video is the guy laughing at the end. Some people think Tobey was rude, but honestly I would’ve done the same thing. The guy walks right next to him and puts the camera directly in Tobey’s face. Ever heard of personal space?

Take a look at some recent pictures of Jake and Maggie Gyllenhaal taking Maggie’s daughter Ramona out for a walk in the city. I think I’ve outgrown my attraction to Jake completely. First there was the whole beard thing, and now I hear he’s dating Reese Witherspoon which is just a big no-no. Though considering he used to date Kirsten Dunst, he may have a thing for women who can’t act.

Jessica Simpson is in talks to star in a film called The Kentucky Fried Horror Show. Please read that sentence again because it was not a joke. Apparently it’s about college kids on Spring Break getting involved with a religious cult, and I hear Hilary Duff may be getting into the movie as well. Jesus Christ, they just greenlight anything these days, don’t they?

Kelly Clarkson’s back again, and after selling 8 million copies worldwide, she’s coming out with a new album entitled My December hoping she’ll dominate the music scene yet again. The album will include One Minute, a track she performed (or butchered, whichever you prefer) at the Daytona 500, Sober, a song she discusses in a video available to those that belong to her fan club, and the debut single Never Again.

Lyrically, I suppose the song is more mature, but as far as overall quality, the song is lacking. Maybe it’ll grow on me like Since U Been Gone did, because I hated that song at first, but right now I’m not really feeling this song much. Regardless, I’m sure the album tracks will be great, as Since U Been Gone ended up being the worst track on Breakaway, and that’s a compliment.

It’ll be interesting to see if this song and album duplicate the success of her sophomore record. Listen to the song, tell me what you think.

Justin Timberlake and his horrible remake of Cry Me A River have broken iTunes records. Please dear God, let another male pop singer come along so I won’t have to be inundated with Justin’s high pitched off-key shrills for much longer.
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Details Magazine wrote an interesting piece about how recent studies have shown that gay male managers are more effective than straight ones.
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Katherine Heigl establishes herself as a leading lady in the hilarious new comedy Knocked Up. Anne Hathaway was supposed to play the role, but had to pull out due to other film obligations. I’m kinda glad it turned out this way because by the looks of the trailer, the role seems perfect for Heigl. Get ‘em gerl!
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Kelly Clarkson says Britney Spears still looks hot, even with her bald ass Mr. Clean head. Then again, the way Kelly’s sounding these days, who knows if her judgment’s still in tact. After that horrid Nascar performance, I’m rallying to re-release her latest album, and instead title it “Breakavoice”.

Here’s video of Kelly’s reaction:

Ten points to Kelly Clarkson who joined a porno director and former Evanescence member Ben Moody in vandalizing horrid human being starved for attention whose voice makes me want to slit my throat talented singer Ame Lee’s house with toilet paper.

I guess there’s a tiny bit of evil behind those hazel eyes.

A multitude of celebrities including Kelly Clarkson, the always sexy George Clooney, fugly as always Marc Anthony, Billy Crystal, Stevie Wonder, Bruce Willis, and more celebrated music legend Tony Bennett’s 80th birthday last night in Hollywood. I must say, Tony looks damn good to be almost a century old!

Miss Kelly sang two of Tony’s songs, Because of You and Its Alright With Me, as well as Happy Birthday.

I’m glad SOMEBODY’S saying something about how fucked up the music business is these days. These rich record execs are screwing over the artists. Tony had this to say on the state of the music industry:

“I’m a little disturbed that the businessmen are making a fortune, but after the first record, they drop the artist and go with the next. It’s not fair because the artists all have such good potential. They all have the possibility of really becoming good performers if they just had the place they could break into and learn how to do it properly.”

Happy Birthday

Because of You

It’s Alright With Me