Selena Gomez confirmed her relationship with Justin Bieber. Selena Gomez finally confirmed her relationship with Justin Bieber earlier this week. Of course, after the pair were spotted nuzzling on a yacht together after New Year's and then arm-in-arm at the Vanity Fair Oscars party, this admission is somewhat anticlimactic.
Now that she has something to promote (a new single and music video), Gomez seems to be cool with discussing what it's like to date the world's (arguably) most famous teenager.
Gomez told New York City radio station Z100 Monday that she sometimes takes personally the vitriol directed at her on the internet from Bieber Nation.
"It's hard," Gomez said. "It hurts, it really does. I don't feel like I'm doing anything wrong. I've been best friends with him for a very long time. It does hurt my feelings a lot but I try not to focus on it. I have a strong family and great fans.
Gomez who has received death threats since she started dating Bieber exhibited a surprisingly level head about the verbal attacks, though, as she explained she can relate to the tweenage obsession with a male pop idol... which can lead to irrational hatred for any woman he dares to date.
"... I have to agree with them sometimes," she admitted. "I loved Jesse McCartney. I was obsessed with him. He dated Katie Cassidy when he was 16 or 17. I hated her, absolutely hated her. I was mortified that he was with Katie and I wanted to be with him. He was my screen-saver! I just did a movie ["Monte Carlo"] with Katie Cassidy and she was the nicest person ever."
Meanwhile, while Bieber tours Europe and causes riots, Gomez has been breaking up her promotional duties with apparent fried pickles binges and "Law & Order" marathons.
Michael Gough Passes Away Batman Actor. Michael Gough, who is best known for playing trustworthy butler Alfred Pennyworth in Tim Burton's "Batman" films as well as "Batman Forever" and "Batman and Robin," has died. He was 94.
Kicking off his career in 1946, Gough starred in over 150 movies and TV shows throughout his time as an actor. He was a staple of the Hammer Films from the 1950s and 1960s and was loved as The Celestial Toymaker in the first run of "Doctor Who." His last major film role was supplying the Dodo Bird's voice in Burton's "Alice in Wonderland."
After the jump, take a look at Gough's five most memorable roles.
Alfred Pennyworth
In the public sphere, the role Gough will be best known for is as Bruce Wayne's trusty butler Alfred Pennyworth in the "Batman" series. He was originally cast by Tim Burton in 1989, and continued the role up until Michael Caine replaced him in Christopher Nolan's 2005 reboot "Batman Begins."
The Celestial Toymaker
But for "Doctor Who" fans, Gough is best-loved as The Celestial Toymaker, who appeared alongside the first Doctor, William Hartnell, in 1966. He later returned in 1983 to play the old friend of the fifth Doctor, Peter Davison.
Arthur Holmwood
Gough became a cult favorite in the 1950s and 1960s thanks to his repeated roles in the horror movies made by Hammer Films. He played the honorable Arthur Holmwood in the 1958 version of "Dracula" where Christopher Lee starred as the title character.
Lord Ambrose D'Arcy
He also starred as Lord Ambrose D'Arcy in the 1962 version of "The Phantom of the Opera." Gough played the wealthy, pompous man who tries to seduce leading lady Christine and who ends up being harassed by the titular Phantom.
Tim Burton's films
After his roles in "Batman" in 1989 and "Batman Returns" in 1992, Gough returned several times for roles in Burton's films. He played Notary Hardenbrook in the 1999 adaptation of "Sleepy Hollow," the voice of Elder Gutknecht in 2005's "The Corpse Bride" and then came out of retirement to record a voice in 2010's "Alice in Wonderland."
Debby Ryan Next Miley Cyrus. Miley Cyrus has shed the wig, Demi Lovato's gotten real and Selena Gomez has come down with Bieber Fever. With its stars graduating, Disney needs a new leading lady.
Debby Ryan may be that new star.
Ryan has taken center stage on the hit show "The Suite Life on Deck," as country girl Bailey Pickett, and has brought the show, which stars twins Dylan and Cole Sprouse, to the top of the Disney Channel a spinoff of the Emmy-nominated "Suite Life of Zack and Cody," it beat both Cyrus' "Hannah Montana" and Gomez's "Wizards of Waverly Place" in the relevant ratings in both 2008 and 2009.
With that success, as well as the high ratings for her Disney Channel film "16 Wishes," Ryan is getting her own show on the channel. The Hollywood Reporter relays that Ryan will star in "Jessie," another show about a country fish out of water -- Ryan will be the titular character who moves from the country to be an au pair in New York City.
It's a case of life imitating art for Ryan, a Texas native who moved to California for the big time. As she's traveled the world on "Suite Life," Ryan will feature more and more prominently for the worldwide entertainment brand. Ryan was the face of Disney's upfront presentations earlier this week; in addition to "Jessie," Disney will premiere a "Suite Life" movie worldwide on March 25th.
It's a big, important gambit for Disney, and big opportunity for Ryan. Cyrus' run as Hannah Montana has ended for good, while Gomez will soon finish "Wizards of Waverly Place." While it hasn't always been an easy ride for Disney starlets post-Mouse House (see: Lohan, Lindsay), the exposure offered by the studio is an unparalleled career boost. Both sides hope Ryan can wrangle the stardom.
Rihanna In Vogue Hot and Sexy Photos. Rihanna, it seems, has woken up. She now realizes that she is an attractive woman.
The Barbados-born singer, whose futuristic fashion and unique sexiness have sent her music videos to the top and helped make her perhaps the biggest pop star in the world, spoke with Vogue in a cover story about her career, development and body. And it's her latest career move that has helped her recognize how much she appreciates her own body.
Over the holidays, and even during filming, I realized that I actually like my body, even if it’s not perfect according to the book," she told the magazine. "I just feel sexy. For the first time, I don’t want to get rid of the curves. I just want to tone it up. My body is comfortable, and it’s not unhealthy, so I’m going to rock with it.
And rock it she has -- especially while filming her upcoming movie, "Battleship." She plays an ass-kicking Navy officer that helps fight back an alien invasion, a role which required her to learn how to use a gun and, more prominently, train hardcore to fit the role and the stunts involved.
The training, which involved an altered spinning bike, hand weights and more, was right up her alley. “I hate going to the gym and doing it the old-fashioned way. I hate anything that’s too straightforward, too routine, too familiar. I get bored really, really quickly.”
That much is clear: nothing about Rihanna is too familiar. Except, now, perhaps her body something she's totally cool.
Rebecca Black Friday. The internet is now so excited about a new singer called Rebecca Black that it might actually be sick. With Rebecca’s first video clocking over 11million views on YouTube in the last week alone (leading to 'Rebecca Black' being a top Twitter trending topic for several days straight), it’s got to be either phenomenal or a double-penetration eye and ear rape.
Friday’ is almost an unremarkable, cheap, flash-in-the-pan pop song for kids who take High School Musical at face value, with a standard, substandard chorus about it being Friday, getting down, partying and fun. But there are several highlights that make it extra special. Firstly, the whole thing looks like it’s been made using You’re In The Movies on the Xbox.
But mainly, it’s the lyrics. Rebecca herself is 13 years old, so if she wrote her own lyrics then it’s not remotely surprising that they are what they are, especially if English isn’t her first language and she’s had a bang on the head.
However, if anyone was paid to write this then I sincerely hope they threw in oral service for everyone at the record label.
“7am, waking up in the morning… gotta go downstairs, gotta have my bowl, gotta have cereal… gotta get down to the bus stop, gotta catch my bus”.
And do you manage to catch your bus, Rebecca? Don’t leave us hanging. No, she doesn’t catch it. Oh no! But it’s ok, because what happens instead is that a convertible full of foetuses pull up to give her lift.
Although, in this rollercoaster of her daily trials, this in itself presents a dilemma.
“Can get in the back seat, can get in the front seat, gotta make my mind up, which seat can I take?”
Surely the obvious solution - as there are already two people in the front, and only two seats in the front, whereas in the back there are three seats and only two people - is to sack your maths teacher. Whereas whoever taught you the days of the week needs a promotion.
“Yesterday was Thursday, today is Friday, tomorrow is Saturday, and Sunday comes afterwards.” That’s right, Rebecca! Have a biscuit.
This immediately springs to mind.
She’s not the only one at it though. Inexplicably, not to mention inappropriately, a rapper who looks about 35 appears, driving through someone’s dream about New York city.
“I’m driving cruising, fast lane, switching lanes, with car by my side, passing by is a school bus, in front of me.” It’s at this point in the video that I like to imagine that this man has been hired to kill her.
But whatever this mystery man’s intention, he’s driving to meet Rebecca in the woods, where she has lured a herd of children by dancing under a tree like a mum at a wedding.
The whole thing is so inadvisable, so horrible and so weird that Rebecca’s teenage dreams of stardom have come true. Let this be shown in schools after that cautionary dramatisation of a kid getting hit by a train after trespassing on the tracks.
