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Tuesday's Gossip
Britney Spears managed a smile after her abysmal performance at MTV's Video Music Awards. Too bad that smile wasn't on her face.
As if we hadn't seen enough of the plump tartlet onstage in her spangly two-piece, Miss Brit again forgot to wear underwear when she hit the Vegas Strip Sunday night.
Spears showed lensmen her best angle as she shimmied out of a limo at the Luxor Hotel. Even though it was the middle of the night, she wore the darkest of sunglasses. But whose eyes wouldn't be bleary after several days of partying?
"She showed up at rehearsal 3½ hours late," says someone who was there. "And she walks in with a frozen margarita! It was so disrespectful. The network took a big gamble having her open the show."
Spears didn't let her looming "comeback" appearance ruin the party. After the rehearsal, she rolled into Jet around 1 a.m. Inside of a half-hour, she downed two vodka-sodas and a kamikaze or two (courtesy of Sean Combs ), according to spies. "She just kept saying, 'Y'all, this is so much fun!'"
Good thing for Brit there were other train wrecks to watch.
Vegas cops slapped Kid Rock with misdemeanor battery after he allegedly slapped Tommy Lee. "When Kid found Tommy sitting in his seat at the theater, Kid told him, 'Get up, mother[bleeper]!'" a source says. "Tommy said, '[Bleep] you!'" Rock, who faces up to six months in jail, may have been irked by the attention their mutual ex-wife, Pam Anderson, was showing Lee. Later, at club LAX, wobbly Tommy told friends, "If I wasn't so wasted, I would have gotten a punch in." (See the Now section to learn why some girls love men fighting over them.)
Kanye West looked like he wanted to punch everybody at MTV after he lost in all five of his categories. "That's two years in a row, man," the tantrum-prone rapper fumed backstage. "Give a black man a chance."
Greed threatened to kill 50 Cent and his fans at his pre-awards Pontiac Garage show. Performing poolside at the Hard Rock, he threw a fistful of dollars into the air. So many in the audience dove for the cash that the stage, loaded with electrical equipment, teetered over the water. "Back up," he told fans. "You're going to get electrocuted." What a pity that would've been for Fitty, especially since the money was fake.
Eve wasted no time celebrating the end of the 45-day alcohol-monitoring penance stemming from her summer DUI arrest. Shortly after snipping her SCRAM alcohol bracelet on Saturday, she was sipping Champagne at the Xbox Oasis at Tao Beach. Later, at the Bocaj party, Jermaine Dupri asked her to perform. Said Eve: "Jermaine, I can't believe you made me sing before I had a drink!"
"Why are you leaving?" Rihanna pleaded as Shia LeBeouf ducked out of the Samsung Gleam dinner for Pharrell at Tao. "I need to keep partying," he explained. Not to worry — they met up later. "They're dating," a good friend confirms. "They're just trying to keep it under wraps."
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Heath Ledger is enjoying his daddy-time while he can. The same day it came out that he's splitting with "Brokeback Mountain" co-star Michelle Williams, our spies spotted him with their daughter, Matilda, who turns 2 next month, at the Children's Museum of Manhattan. "They were there for a few hours in the PlayWorks area and at the sand table," says our source. "Heath is a very interactive father."
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Hugh Hefner ex Carrie Leigh must believe having your own magazine is the best revenge. When she left the Playboy magnate after five years as his girlfriend (that's when he needed only one at a time), she walked out of the mansion with nothing — but her dignity. Now a professional photographer, Leigh this week launches her own glossy, titled Nude. It's filled with pictures of women like this never-before-seen Stan Malinowski shot of tragic model Gia Carangi — but "all the pictures are tasteful, artistic images," editor Gary Frischer tells us.
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Lauren Conrad might not want to take her eye off her new boyfriend, "Desperate Housewives'" Josh Henderson.
The couple arrived hand in hand at the Belvedere Sky Villa Suite after the MTV Video Music Awards in Las Vegas Sunday night.
Unfortunately, the free vodka may have taken its toll, and our girl "appeared to be nodding off," according to a witness.
"Around 3:30 a.m. [Monday], she literally fell over in her chair backwards with her legs up," laughs the witness. "I've never seen that happen before."
But while Conrad drowsed, Henderson played. He seemed particularly taken by a bikini-clad model called Taylor who was working in the suite.
"He had his hands all over her," says the spy. "At one point, he picked her up and was bouncing her."
Surely there must be an easier way to mix a cocktail?
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Larry King and his seventh wife, Shawn, celebrated their 10th wedding anniversary over the weekend at the Toronto International Film Festival. At an event for his eponymous Cardiac Foundation, she joked to the crowd: "I'm the only wife to make it into double digits, and I'll be the last wife!"
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Britney Spears has no one to blame but herself for her disastrous performance at the MTV Video Music Awards Sunday night. The lip-synching pop tart showed up for her big comeback late, unprepared and with a drink in her hand.
On Saturday, the day before the VMAs, Spears was scheduled to arrive at rehearsal at around 1 p.m. Our spy said, "She didn't even get to Las Vegas until 4:30 p.m. It was ridiculous . . . The production people at MTV were freaking out . . . Nobody can tell Britney what to do anymore. No one can control her. She is a mess."
To make matters worse, when she arrived in Vegas, Spears didn't go straight to rehearsals.
"She went to her hotel room and ordered a bunch of food and some frozen margaritas," the spy said. "She came down, like, an hour later with a frozen margarita in her hand."
When Spears preformed on Sunday, she stumbled a couple times and couldn't remember the words she was lip-syncing. She covered her mouth at one point but by the end of the song had simply given up any pretense of singing.
"The dance number was spectacular - without her," said our spy at rehearsal. "When the stand-in was rehearsing with the dancers, in the hours they were all waiting for her, it was amazing. Then Britney showed up and refused to do anything. The dancers were supposed to lift and twirl her in the air a few times, and that just wasn't going to happen. The more complicated dance moves had to be erased because she couldn't do them."
Meanwhile, Spears was agitated because she didn't like the outfit MTV had selected for her.
"MTV wanted her to wear a corset outfit. It would have looked great and covered a lot of things up, but she hated it and didn't think it was sexy enough."
Instead, Spears changed into a spangly bra-and-underwear outfit she'd brought with her that emphasized her weight gain over the last year.
MTV execs weren't the only ones worried about Spears' impending debacle. Another spy said, "The dancers were texting pals, asking them to pray for them. They were worried."
After Spears performed at the VMAs, she allegedly broke down in tears but then partied until 3 a.m. She changed outfits several times and again was photographed by paparazzi wearing no underwear.
A rep for Spears didn't return e-mails.
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HERE'S a secret detail about Details editor Dan Peres - he and his stunning Aussie actress-wife, Sarah Wynter , who played Kate Warner on "24," are expecting their first child. "The baby is due after the first of the year, and they're very excited. They don't know whether it's a girl or a boy," said our source. "Dan hopes it will be the beginning of a big Peres dynasty." We couldn't reach the dad-to-be for comment.
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