Although she is grieving the horrific murders of her family this holiday season, Jennifer Hudson has decided to go forward with a new GAP holiday campaign.
Jennifer is featured on one of the companies many holidays ads, sporting a cheerful bright red sweater with a big smile on her face. The tagline reads, Shine Your Own Star.
Gap spokesperson Olive Doyne says the company gave the singer/actress the option of backing out.
“She said she wanted to be a part of it and that we should move forward,” Doyne says. The photo shoot took place last July in New York City, months before the murders took place.
The ad will be featured in magazines, newspapers and on billboards.
Although she is grieving the horrific murders of her family this holiday season, Jennifer Hudson has decided to go forward with a new GAP holiday campaign.
Jennifer is featured on one of the companies many holidays ads, sporting a cheerful bright red sweater with a big smile on her face. The tagline reads, Shine Your Own Star.
Gap spokesperson Olive Doyne says the company gave the singer/actress the option of backing out.
“She said she wanted to be a part of it and that we should move forward,” Doyne says. The photo shoot took place last July in New York City, months before the murders took place.
The ad will be featured in magazines, newspapers and on billboards.
Paula Goodspeed, the woman who tragically took her life in front of the home of Paula Abdul earlier this week, had reportedly contacted Paula Abdul more than 100 times in the past three years.
(Above: Goodspeed’s American Idol Audition)
Goodspeed, whose birth name was Sandra, changed her name 16 years ago to that of her ‘idol’. Since being ridiculed on American Idol, Goodspeed, 30, has sent Abdul numerous letters, has made dozens of phone calls and has visited her home on multiple occasions.
Along with the arrangement, Goodspeed sent the following message,
“Love, J.T. Hope you’re doing great. Here’s my new cell number.”
J.T. Torregiani is Paula’s ex-boyfriend, the young restaurateur.
Paula called her ex-flame to ask why he had changed his number and that’s when she found out the flowers were not from him. They say she knew immediately who they were from.
On the other hand, Goodspeed’s family members are having a hard time believing the vibrant young woman killed herself. They say she was not a stalker, but a true fan.
Her niece, Sonja McIntyre, 20, says, “She was a good person. She’d give the shirt off her back for anyone who needed it. She was not suicidal. She was cheery. She was excited. She was coming back to Maine.”
Goodspeed is originally from Maine.
McIntyre adds that when she visited California her aunt took her to see Paula’s home. But she says there was nothing creepy about it. “Me and her went by Paula’s house a couple of times. That’s about it. She was showing me where she lived. We liked looking at the huge condos out there. Why they found her dead in her car near Paula Abdul’s house, I do not know. But I don’t believe my aunt killed herself.”
While in Los Angeles Goodspeed had worked with producer/songwriter Ed Faris in 2005 or 2006, who says she was “a bit off the wall.”
“I was hired by her singing coach to help Paula record some songs. She wore the craziest outfits. She’d show up to my home studio wearing fluorescent pants and skirts, with trinkets hanging off her jacket. She was a sweet person, very nice, but a little insecure.”
“She was a bit delusional thinking she could make a career out of this, but she was so incredibly determined, so [the singing coach] and I tried to encourage her. Paula did make a couple references to Paula Abdul, but nothing really out of the ordinary.”
He adds that while working with her she “broke down and cried several times…that was the last time I worked with Paula. I was shocked to hear about her death, I never thought it would come to that. It’s just a sad situation all around.”
Looking at these photos of Alessandra Ambrosio, Adriana Lima, Karolina Kurkova, and Marisa Miller makes me feel like a teenager again. Those days of holes in the girl’s locker room, only those lanky, braces wearing, pimpled faced bird brains have been replaced with beautiful, statuesque goddesses. The only thing that seems to missing out of all of this seems to be me. I’m going to have to complain about this later.
The thing that I was afraid of happening has begun. Angelina Jolie is telling press that she’s planning on backing out of the spotlight for a while.
With six kids to watch over, “Changeling” star Angelina Jolie told the BBC she plans to fade away from acting to spend more time raising her family, but she stopped short of pledging to quit her craft for good.
“I don’t plan to keep acting very long, I’m ready to do a few things now and fade away and get ready to be a grandma one day,” Jolie told the British broadcaster in an interview posted on the BBC website on Thursday.
This sounds like a serious case of a hot chick turning into a domestic broad, but I don’t blame her with all the kids that she has. I just hope she’s not going to end up doing a lot more dramas with her crying and being fully clothed… she can at least jog around Europe in a wet t-shirt every now and then.
You can always leave it to whiney Kanye West’s ego to voice what he believes to be on everyone’s minds: he is made of epic awesome and win.
“I realize that my place and position in history is that I will go down as the voice of this generation, of this decade, I will be the loudest voice,” he said in an interview on Wednesday. “It’s me settling into that position of just really accepting that it’s one thing to say you want to do it and it’s another thing to really end up being like Michael Jordan.”
The Grammy-winning rapper-producer said Justin Timberlake had a chance to be music’s MVP, but hasn’t put out enough material.
Oh, how modest of you. I think I’m the last person in the world that will ever want to imagine Kanye as being the voice of this generation. The 90s are already screwed up with gay boy bands, the last thing is for this era to be remembered as a bunch of people that worshiped a fruitcake dressing rapper.
Lindsay Loham and girlfriend Samantha Ronson hit the London club, Chinawhite, last night. Samantha was guest DJ for the evening.
But lo and behold, who would show up at the club that same night, but Lindsay’s ex, Calum Best.
According to reports, Lindsay did her best to avoid Calum, knowing that Sam gets a little jealous of her former male companions.
Recently Lindsay was asked by Harper’s Bazaar if she was bisexual. She answered, “Maybe. Yeah.” But she refused to say she was a lesbian. ‘I don’t want to classify myself. First of all, you never know what’s going to happen - tomorrow, in a month, a year from now, five years from now.”
“I appreciate people, and it doesn’t matter who they are, and I feel blessed to be able to feel comfortable enough with myself that I can say that.’
The world’s first pregnant man is pregnant once again! Thomas Beatie, a transgender, gave birth to a healthy baby girl last June and now he and wife Nancy are doing it again.
Beatie is currently in his first trimester and says he did not go back on male hormones after the birth of his daughter so that he and his wife might have another child.
“I feel good,” he said. “I had my checkups with my hormone level, as far as the HCG. And everything is right on track.”
Baby #2 is due June 12th.
Watch “What Is a Man, What Is a Woman? Journey of a Pregnant Man” Friday at 10 p.m.
Oprah Winfrey interviewed Jennifer Aniston Wednesday, giving the actress an opportunity to explain the context of what she said about Angelina Jolie in Vogue.
Not only that, but Aniston opens up to Oprah about her love life, both past and present. They probably didn’t bring the wine back this time though..
Regarding the “What Angelina did was really uncool” statement, Jen tells Oprah that she was asked a question during the interview and just replied truthfully.
“I basically just answered it as honestly as I could,” she says.
She never bashes Angelina - or her ex for that matter. She prefers to take the high road.
In fact, she has nothing but nice things to say. Of Brad she says, “He’s done some amazing things in the last couple of years. So I just think he’s doing great.”
As for Angie, both she and Jen have movies opening on Christmas Day. Will there be any competition? Jen doesn’t think so. “We all want our movie to do well. Can we have a tie?”
Despite people thinking Jen is lost in her love life, she assures, it’s quite the opposite.
“I’ve been unbelievably lucky in love. It just might not look the way it’s supposed to look at this point.”
