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Amy Winehouse’s Family: "Bereft By the Loss"

Posted: 24 Jul 2011 11:49 AM PDT

Making their first comments since the tragic revelation of their daughter's passing, the family of Amy Winehouse released a statement on Sunday (July 24) addressing their loss.

The Winehouse's, which include Amy's mother Janis, her father Mitch and her brother Alex, said in their press release, "Our family has been left bereft by the loss of Amy, a wonderful daughter, sister, niece. She leaves a gaping hole in our lives."

The Winehouse family statement continued, "We are coming together to remember her and we would appreciate some privacy and space at this terrible time."

As previously reported by GossipCenter, the "Rehab" singer was found at her London home on Saturday (July 23) - with reports telling that she had "signs of life" at the time but passed away before medical personnel were able to transport her to the hospital.

While early speculation points to the unfortunate case of an overdose, the cause of death is still pending an autopsy scheduled to take place tomorrow, July 25th.

Denise Richards’ Baby Shower Celebration

Posted: 24 Jul 2011 11:34 AM PDT

Receiving a proper celebration in honor of her newly adopted daughter, Denise Richards was doted with a baby shower at the Montage Hotel in Beverly Hills over the weekend (July 23).

Dressed in red, the 40-year-old actress had a big smile on her face as she arrived with her family - with her father Irv helping out by carrying little Eloise Joni into the venue while snug in a car seat.

Tweeting prior to the event, Miss Richards happily wrote, "So excited for Eloise's shower today. Gonna be amazing!"

On hand for the celebratory affair were ladies including Tori Spelling, Ali Landry, Melanie Brown and Janie Dickinson.

After sipping on a little bubbly while opening a stack of presents, the shower slowly drew to an end, with a source telling People magazine, "She's [Denise] so excited. She's so in love with her new daughter. This is a really special time for her. She can't wait to introduce her to her friends."

Russell Brand Remembers Amy Winehouse

Posted: 24 Jul 2011 11:22 AM PDT

Pouring his heart out after losing a dear friend, Russell Brand has penned an emotional farewell message while remembering recently departed singer Amy Winehouse.

The post comes after Miss Winehouse was found dead at her London home on Saturday (July 23), with cause of death still to be determined pending an official autopsy.

With Brand titling the post "Dear Amy," the comedic actor's statement is as follows:

"When you love someone who suffers from the disease of addiction you await the phone call. There will be a phone call. The sincere hope is that the call will be from the addict themselves, telling you they've had enough, that they're ready to stop, ready to try something new. Of course though, you fear the other call, the sad nocturnal chime from a friend or relative telling you it's too late, she's gone.

Frustratingly it's not a call you can ever make it must be received. It is impossible to intervene.

I've known Amy Winehouse for years. When I first met her around Camden she was just some twit in a pink satin jacket shuffling round bars with mutual friends, most of whom were in cool Indie bands or peripheral Camden figures Withnail-ing their way through life on impotent charisma. Carl Barrat told me that "Winehouse" (which I usually called her and got a kick out of cos it's kind of funny to call a girl by her surname) was a jazz singer, which struck me as a bizarrely anomalous in that crowd. To me with my limited musical knowledge this information placed Amy beyond an invisible boundary of relevance; "Jazz singer? She must be some kind of eccentric" I thought. I chatted to her anyway though, she was after all, a girl, and she was sweet and peculiar but most of all vulnerable.

I was myself at that time barely out of rehab and was thirstily seeking less complicated women so I barely reflected on the now glaringly obvious fact that Winehouse and I shared an affliction, the disease of addiction. All addicts, regardless of the substance or their social status share a consistent and obvious symptom; they're not quite present when you talk to them. They communicate to you through a barely discernible but un-ignorable veil. Whether a homeless smack head troubling you for 50p for a cup of tea or a coked-up, pinstriped exec foaming off about his "speedboat" there is a toxic aura that prevents connection. They have about them the air of elsewhere, that they're looking through you to somewhere else they'd rather be. And of course they are. The priority of any addict is to anaesthetise the pain of living to ease the passage of the day with some purchased relief.

From time to time I'd bump into Amy she had good banter so we could chat a bit and have a laugh, she was "a character" but that world was riddled with half cut, doped up chancers, I was one of them, even in early recovery I was kept afloat only by clinging to the bodies of strangers so Winehouse, but for her gentle quirks didn't especially register.

Then she became massively famous and I was pleased to see her acknowledged but mostly baffled because I'd not experienced her work and this not being the 1950's I wondered how a "jazz singer" had achieved such cultural prominence. I wasn't curious enough to do anything so extreme as listen to her music or go to one of her gigs, I was becoming famous myself at the time and that was an all consuming experience. It was only by chance that I attended a Paul Weller gig at the Roundhouse that I ever saw her live.

I arrived late and as I made my way to the audience through the plastic smiles and plastic cups I heard the rolling, wondrous resonance of a female vocal. Entering the space I saw Amy on stage with Weller and his band; and then the awe. The awe that envelops when witnessing a genius. From her oddly dainty presence that voice, a voice that seemed not to come from her but from somewhere beyond even Billie and Ella, from the font of all greatness. A voice that was filled with such power and pain that it was at once entirely human yet laced with the divine. My ears, my mouth, my heart and mind all instantly opened. Winehouse. Winehouse? Winehouse! That twerp, all eyeliner and lager dithering up Chalk Farm Road under a back-combed barnet, the lips that I'd only seen clenching a fishwife fag and dribbling curses now a portal for this holy sound. So now I knew. She wasn't just some hapless wannabe, yet another pissed up nit who was never gonna make it, nor was she even a ten-a-penny-chanteuse enjoying her fifteen minutes. She was a fucking genius.

Shallow fool that I am I now regarded her in a different light, the light that blazed down from heaven when she sang. That lit her up now and a new phase in our friendship began. She came on a few of my TV and radio shows, I still saw her about but now attended to her with a little more interest. Publicly though, Amy increasingly became defined by her addiction. Our media though is more interested in tragedy than talent, so the ink began to defect from praising her gift to chronicling her downfall. The destructive personal relationships, the blood soaked ballet slippers, the aborted shows, that youtube madness with the baby mice. In the public perception this ephemeral tittle-tattle replaced her timeless talent. This and her manner in our occasional meetings brought home to me the severity of her condition. Addiction is a serious disease; it will end with jail, mental institutions or death. I was 27 years old when through the friendship and help of Chip Somers of the treatment centre, Focus12 I found recovery, through Focus I was introduced to support fellowships for alcoholics and drug addicts which are very easy to find and open to anybody with a desire to stop drinking and without which I would not be alive.

Now Amy Winehouse is dead, like many others whose unnecessary deaths have been retrospectively romanticised, at 27 years old. Whether this tragedy was preventable or not is now irrelevant. It is not preventable today. We have lost a beautiful and talented woman to this disease. Not all addicts have Amy's incredible talent. Or Kurt's or Jimi's or Janis's, some people just get the affliction. All we can do is adapt the way we view this condition, not as a crime or a romantic affectation but as a disease that will kill. We need to review the way society treats addicts, not as criminals but as sick people in need of care. We need to look at the way our government funds rehabilitation. It is cheaper to rehabilitate an addict than to send them to prison, so criminalisation doesn't even make economic sense. Not all of us know someone with the incredible talent that Amy had but we all know drunks and junkies and they all need help and the help is out there. All they have to do is pick up the phone and make the call. Or not. Either way, there will be a phone call."

Kim Kardashian’s Bachelorette Bash: An Inside Look

Posted: 24 Jul 2011 10:29 AM PDT

With her walk down the aisle rapidly nearing, Kim Kardashian celebrated her upcoming nuptials with a bachelorette party in Las Vegas, Nevada on Saturday night (July 23).

To kick things off, the E! reality star was joined by family sisters Kourtney and Khloe, mom Kris Jenner, and a group of close friends for a bachelorette dinner at TAO Bistro at the Venetian.

Sticking to her word, Khloe did all in her power to embarrass her big sister, as a miniature male chippendale hopped on the table to offer up a not-so-sexy strip tease during the chow-down session.

Handling it all in good fun, Kim, who was decked out in a tiara and "Tao Bachelorette" sash, proceeded forth with her party guests to head to the Sin City resort's TAO Nightclub for a night-closing soiree,

Meanwhile, Kim's fiance, Kris Humphries, was also being thrown a bachelor bash at the nearby Lavo - with Kim crashing the men's affair around 2AM.

Stealing a kiss from her NBA beau while male party guests including Lamar Odom and Rob Kardashian watched on, Kim stayed at Lavo for a brief 10 minutes before letting the guys get back to business.

All-in-all happy with the way things turned out, Kim tweeted at night's end, "Amazing nite! DJVice killed it! The ladies shut down Tao @lala @simoneharouche @KourtneyKardash @KhloeKardashian @jOYCEBONELLi @larsapippen"

Bar Refaeli: More Bikini Hotness

Posted: 24 Jul 2011 10:05 AM PDT

Continuing forth with her blissful break, Bar Refaeli was the picture of perfection as she flaunted her too-hot bikini body in Porto Cervo, Italy earlier today (July 24).

The Israeli supermodel leisurely sprawled on a lounge chair as she soaked up the sun in a purple and black two-piece swimsuit alongside a gal pal and her new boyfriend David Fisher.

Having went on a yachting excursion the previous day, Miss Refaeli took to Twitter to voice her joy over the extended holiday travels.

Bar posted, "And.. another week passed… Time flies! Hope u really lived it to the fullest! Shabat Is coming in, rest, smile and do something good"

“The Vampire Diaries” Cast’s Weekend at Comic-Con

Posted: 23 Jul 2011 11:35 PM PDT

They have one of the hottest shows on the CW, and earlier today the cast of "The Vampire Diaries" was in full effect at the 2011 San Diego Comic-Con.

Media darlings Nina Dobrev, Ian Somerhalder and Paul Wesley kicked things off on Friday night by attending a Maxim soiree and the Camp Playboy Party - where they played Raving Rabbids: Alive & Kicking on the XBox Kinect.

On Saturday (July 23), the trio joined costars Candice Accola and Joseph Morgan to greet fans and partake in a panel forum before Miss Dobrev shuffled off to attend the Comic-Con premiere of "Cowboys & Aliens".

Also included during the course of the event was a highlight reel of memorable moments from Season Two, and a look ahead to the next year - as Season Three gets started on September 15th at 8:00pm ET on the CW network.

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"Charlie’s Angels" Stars Spice Up Comic-Con 2011

Posted: 23 Jul 2011 11:07 PM PDT

Hoping that their new spin on the classic show is well-received, the stars of ABC's "Charlie's Angels" took their turn in the Comic-Con spotlight on Saturday (July 23).

The reboot of the hit 70's series and two movies stars a trifecta of lovely ladies - with Minka Kelly, Rachael Taylor and Annie Ilonzeh gracing the panel alongside co-star Ramon Rodriguez and executive producers Alfred Gough and Miles Millar.

During the Q&A session, co-producer Gough took time to explain what viewers can expect to see as far as changes from the past "Charlie's Angels" efforts are concerned

Alfred dished, "One is a dirty cop, the other a car thief and another cat burglar. It gave them a skill set in the show and it gave them something to overcome. And we made Bosley young and hot. In the TV show and movies, he was like the weird pervy uncle. And we wanted Bosley to be the fourth angel."

Gough added, "And the final piece was moving the show from L.A. to Miami. L.A. — probably because we live there– didn't seem exciting or fun … [reboots] have a big target on their backs which we're acutely aware of."

"Cowboys & Aliens" Premieres at Comic-Con

Posted: 23 Jul 2011 10:08 PM PDT

Taking to sunny San Diego to debut their new movie, the stars of "Cowboys & Aliens" gathered together at the San Diego Civic Theatre for their red carpet duties on Saturday evening (July 23).

Held as part of the annual Comic-Con festivities, Olivia Wilde brought her elegance to the forefront while joined by director Jon Favreau, as well as co-stars Daniel Craig and Harrison Ford (who was accompanied by his lovely wife Calista Flockhart).

Due in theaters on July 29th, "Cowboys & Aliens" tells the tale of "a spaceship arriving in Arizona, 1873, to take over the Earth, starting with the Wild West region where a posse of cowboys are all that stand in their way."

Adding a little extra incentive to go check out the movie, Miss Wilde recently spoke with Access Hollywood's Maria Menounos about herself showing a little more skin than usual.

"There's a little nudity in this one," Olivia said.

Maria asked, "A little butt action?"

Offering up a laugh, Wilde replied, "There is! Yes. I feel like if I feel really safe and if I feel like the story calls for it then I'm not so shy."

Cameron Diaz & A-Rod: Domesticated Duo

Posted: 23 Jul 2011 08:06 PM PDT

Taking a respite from their always-busy career efforts, Cameron Diaz and Alex Rodriguez looked ever the domesticated couple in Miami, FL on Saturday night (July 23).

The "Bad Teacher" actress joined her Yankees slugger beau on a trip to the local Whole Foods, as the superstar pair loaded up on household needs before emerging with bagfuls of purchases at separate times.

The sunshine state weekend of togetherness comes as Miss Diaz is on break from shooting her new movie "What to Expect When You're Expecting" in nearby Atlanta, Georgia.

Meanwhile, A-Rod is still on the 15-day DL for the New York Yankees as he recovers from a minor knee surgery - from which he's making progress, as the stitches were removed a few days ago.

"Snow White and the Huntsmen" Comic-Con Panel!

Posted: 23 Jul 2011 07:19 PM PDT

Making her second appearance at the annual moviegoers' extravaganza, Kristen Stewart was back on center stage at the 2011 Comic-Con convention in San Diego on Saturday (July 23).

The "Twilight" actress joined alongside a star-studded "Snow White and the Huntsmen" panel including fellow co-stars Charlize Theron, Chris Hemsworth and Sam Claflin.

During the Q&A session, Miss Stewart told the sizable audience gathered in Hall H of her Snow White role, "I'm most excited about the obvious thing... this girl has this amazing ability to channel fear into this really focused, charged, driving energy. She's also the people's lead and doesn't let her heart cloud her mind.... Also I get to have a sword and really cool weapons."

Revealing the shooting will begin in London in just a few days, Miss Theron said of working alongside Miss Stewart, "We've only met each other briefly and in just that small amount of time, I think she's going to give me a run for the money. And I'm ready b*tch, so let's go!!"

As an added bonus, debut character shots of the four main stars were released to coincide with Comic-Con with the first looks available below!
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