Sideshow: Another pretend designer
Another pretend designer Rachel Bilson, star of the smash-hit sci-fi movie Jumper, is the latest celeb to pretend she's a fashion designer. The lovely, full-lipped, 27-year-old thesp has signed a deal with DKNY Jeans to develop a line of duds for juniors.
Rachel Bilson
, star of the smash-hit sci-fi movie
Jumper
, is the latest celeb to pretend she's a fashion designer. The lovely, full-lipped, 27-year-old thesp has signed a deal with DKNY Jeans to develop a line of duds for juniors. According to DKNY's news release, the Edie Rose collection will feature "sophisticated, sleek and timeless items that let the individuality of the wearer shine through." (They're made from this special fabric which is
spiritually see-through
).
First Bjork, now Connick
Chinese authorities, who were peeved early this month when
Bjork
showed support for Tibetan independence, last weekend forced
Harry Connick Jr.
to change his show because his song list did not perfectly match the list he had initially sent to China when he requested a performance permit.
Because his band did not have the music for many of the songs on the older list, Connick spent much of the evening performing solo at the piano.
Gunning for 'Loser'
Project Runway
style guru
Tim Gunn
will be featured on Tuesday's edition of
The Biggest Loser: Couples!
He'll help make over the contestants.
Gunn says he has been sartorially inclined since, like, birth.
When his dad gave him "a put-together castle" when he was little, he says, he started "designing clothes for the soldier."
'Gilligan' star: False rumors!
Dawn Wells
, best known as goodie-two-shoes Mary Ann on the classic post-
Sam-Beckett
ian sitcom
Gilligan's Island
, says she needs to "put the kibosh on rumors" circulating last week that she was busted for drugs in October in Teton County, Idaho.
"The marijuana found in the car was not mine," she tells Entertainment Tonight.
Asked why she failed a sobriety field test that night, Wells says the police administered the test incorrectly.
Wells acknowledges she was driving erratically and was going 7 m.p.h. over the speed limit.
Madonna hawks product
In a sublime bit of self-advertising, consummate artist and leading spiritualist
Madonna
will debut her single "4 Minutes" tomorrow in a commercial for Sunsilk, which shills hair-styling product.
According to a Sunsilk news release, "The spot will trace Madonna's ever-evolving look throughout the years as a means to inspire girls to play around with their current styles - with the help of the new Sunsilk styling aids."
Driver's pile-driver baby
Minnie Driver
, 38, who is nothing short of brilliant on FX's cable show
The Riches
, told
Jay Leno
on Thursday's
The Tonight Show
that she's pregnant with her first child.
She said she didn't really have morning sickness. "I am sick morning, noon and night," she said.
On Friday, she told Ellen DeGeneres on Ellen's chat show that she had "a pretty silly name" picked out for the baby.
"Minnie Driver is kind of a hard name," Driver said. "My friend . . . sent me an e-mail saying I should call the baby Duncan Driver. Then I can call it Dunk Driver, Pile Driver, Rally Driver."
Divorce for C.C.
The N.Y. Post says
Clarence Clemons
,
Bruce Springsteen
's 66-year-old sax man, has divorced his doctor wife,
Yanhong Meng
, 35, after four years.