Tirdad Derakhshani, Inquirer Sideshow Columnist
Movie star Mark Wahlberg, who was in town for a red carpet screening of his new film, Broken City, stopped by the Fox 29 studio this morning for a chat on on Good Day Philadelphia with Mike & Sheinelle. He stuck around to deliver the weather report. (The start of a beautiful second career?)
Broken City stars Wahlberg, 41, as a former cop who uncovers a scandal involving New York City's mayor.
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Tirdad Derakhshani, Inquirer Sideshow Columnist
Brighton-born English singer Conor Maynard, whose good-boy-next-door looks get seriously sexed-up in his debut album, Contrast.
He gave us all goosebumps last spring with the single, “Can't Say No.” (16,897,350 views on YouTube alone!)
Here, sing along, baby!
Tirdad Derakhshani, Inquirer Sideshow Columnist
It seemed inevitable, what with his turn in the G.I. Joe franchise as all-American soldier Duke and his topless performance on Steven Soderbergh’s true-life male stripper tale,Magic Mike.
Yes, People mag has crowned Channing Tatum the Sexiest Man Alive 2012, affirming what we all have known for some time: The dude is the hunkiest of all male beings in the entire known – and unknown – galaxy.
Tatum's triumph is Philadelphia's loss: He supplants Bradley Cooper, who was anointed Sexiest Man Alive in 2011.
Tirdad Derakhshani, Inquirer Sideshow Columnist
Catherine Zeta-Jones has never been one to use the media as a therapy session and, as so many celebs do, air her deepest, darkest secrets, desires and afflictions for all to see.
After all, she’s a proper Welsh country girl – she deals with things privately. But as everyone knows, in Tinseltown, the private never stays private and last year, news broke that the Rock of Ages star had checked into a clinic for treatment of bipolar disorder.
So Jones, 43, began speaking about the condition, which was once known as manic depression and which mood disorder expert Kay Redfield Jamison posited in her acclaimed book, Touched with Fire: Manic-Depressive Illness and the Artistic Temperament, has afflicted – and perhaps inspired – many a creative soul including Vincent van Gogh and Kurt Cobain, both of whom committed suicide.
Tirdad Derakhshani, Inquirer Sideshow Columnist
There’s been a knot in our stomach ever since KStewGate, that shocking scandal that had Kristen Stewart, 22, forsake Robert Pattinson, 26, for some cheap thrills with her Snow White and the Huntsman director Rupert Sanders.
A question haunts us: Will KStew and RoPat have a real future together?
There is one consolation: Their Twilight characters, it seems, will have a beautiful life together.
Tirdad Derakhshani, Inquirer Sideshow Columnist
Is there really a Kanye West sex tape making the rounds at porno DVD distributors?
Nope.
There isn’t a sex tape – but two!
So claims TMZ, in a report which celebrates Kanye’s prowess as “a sex tape master” who displays remarkable sexual skills and stamina in the lengthy vids which feature two of the Trapped in the Closet Hip-hopera composer and videomaker’s ex-girlfriends.
Tirdad Derakhshani, Inquirer Sideshow Columnist
UPDATE: No jail for LiLo ...
A most trying day it's been for LiLo. But it's finally over: TMZ says the D.A.'s office in Los Angeles has decided not to prosecute the actor for the jewelry theft, citing lack of evidence. First, Magid staunchly refuses to finger LiLo, a prosecution report states, and eyewitnesses refuse to cooperate.
Of course, TMZ' report implies LiLo was the prime suspect all along, something the LAPD never confirmed.
The day included various fantastical details. TMZ reported that Magid told police that a young man claiming to be Suge Knight's son returned some of the swag, claiming LiLo have him the stuff to take back (?!).
In the police interview, Magid reportedly also said LiLo told him she hid some of his goodies around the mansion to safeguard them from thieves, but that she had forgotten where, since she was on the popular sleeping pill Ambien (Zolpidem) at the time.
UPDATE: Magid to LiLo: I’ll fight for you!
Superluxe millionaire dude Sam Magid, whose superluxe bejeweled watches, sunglasses and Tifanny silverwear was allegedly stolen last week during a party at his megaluxe Hollywood Hills mansion doesn’t want cops to investigate or arrest Lindsay Lohan.
In text messages obtained by TMZ, Sam tells LiLo, “I officially told Detective Rodriguez you can't take anything from me cause what's mine is yours.” (Ain’t that sweet?)
Tirdad Derakhshani, Inquirer Sideshow Columnist
Good news on the cultural front: Political scientist JWoww and novelist Snooki have found a home for season two of their Jersey Shore spinoff show, Snooki & JWoww.
It'll will be filmed in Manchester Township in Ocean County, located northwest of Toms River, says the Asbury Park Press.
Manchester Twp. isn't exactly known as Party Central. The Press says half the township's 43,000 residents are 65 and older.
Tirdad Derakhshani, Inquirer Sideshow Columnist
Barely a month after his Independence Day wedding to Evelyn Lozada, NFL player Chad Johnson (the receiver formerly known as Ochocinco) this weekend was:
- Accused by his wife of cheating on her.
- Allegedly assaulted her during the heated argument.
- Was arrested and charged for domestic battery.
- Was fired by the Miami Dolphins.
- And his reality show was yanked by VH1.
And all that in just two days.
The six-time Pro Bowl player, who shared his romance with Lozada with the world on their VH1 reality show, Ev and Ocho, got into an argument with Lozada after she found a receipt in his car for condoms. According to a report by police in Broward County, Fla., obtained by TMZ, Lozada was so frightened of Johnson’s rage, she ran out of her house and sought refuge with a neighbor.
But not before she sustained what police describe as a three-inch laceration on her forehead, caused, according to Lozada when Johnson head-butted her. Her husband says it was the other way round: She head-butted him.
Tirdad Derakhshani, Inquirer Sideshow Columnist
Madonna’s concert Saturday in Paris contained two bits of naughtiness, one of which may get the Bay City, Mich., Native sued.
The Mystical Mom played a video which showed French politico Marine Le Pen, head of the right wing party, the National Front, with a swastika on her face which moments later was replaced by an image of Adolf Hitler and then of Madonna herself with Hitler’s mustache.
It doesn’t take a semiotics professor to decode the message.
He hopes SideShow will help citizens better understand the vicissitudes of the Consumerist-Military-Industrial-Infotainment Complex, or, in other words, why Britney Spears has a tendency to shave her head, Brangelina to adopt children, and Lindsay Lohan to crave imprisonment. Read SideShow every morning.
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