“Your mom teaches you when you’re a child not to play in the street,” Cyrus Tweeted about the incident, adding that it’s “unfair” to blame Bieber. Why? Because Miley said this sort of incident was “bound to happen.” “It is unfair for anyone to put this on to Justin’s conscious as well! This was bound to happen!” Continue reading →
We have some new information about the paparazzi who was killed trailing Justin Bieber‘s car in Los Angeles last night.
The photographer was identified as Chris Guerra –a man in his 20’s assigned by his photo agency to exclusively trail the pop star on his daily routines. Continue reading →
Anne Hathaway sports a ‘One Billion Rising’ white Monrow tank, Clover Canyon briefs, an Agent Provocateur bra, Kismet earrings, Delfina Delettrez ring, and Skullcandy headphones as she graces the January 2013 issue of Glamour.
Ryan Gosling (30) and Eva Mendes (37) were spotted at Disneyland Saturday, kissing, holding hands and having a great time together. Click here to check out the Paparazzi photos from their date!
“They were very playful. Eva was skipping around like a little girl…She would lean into him and she held his arm the entire time,” a source tells US mag.
Eva and Ryan are filming The Place Beyond the Pinestogether and have been friends for a long time. “There’s always been this strong chemistry between them…this was just a matter of time!”
That’s really cute and all…but, wait, let me get this straight. There are Paparazzi at the happiest place on earth too?!
The beautiful Emily Maynard sat down for an emotional interview with Chris Harrison after Monday’s The Bachelorette and opened up about her relationship breakup with Brad Womack.
Right off the bat, Emily said about her ex-fiance that “Beyond his good looks, he’s just such a gentleman. He is so different than any guy I have ever met.” With those words, we knew that the breakup was not over some scandalous affair or betrayal, but the more complicated irreconcilable matters of the heart.
Apparently, the two broke up a while ago as the tabloids screamed. Using an infamous line of Bentley Williams, Maynard said, “For so long, I think we left the ‘dot dot dot,’ and I feel bad it’s taken us this long to let everyone know.”
It wasn’t shocking that we heard Maynard say, “We’re not engaged anymore,” but it was surprising to hear her say, “He’s always going to be a huge part of my life.” She even added, “I will always be in love with Brad. No one will ever hear me say a bad word about him nor will I tolerate anybody else saying anything bad about him.” So, then, the question we all wanted answered is, ‘why break up?’
There seems to be no good answer expect perhaps the pressures of a new romance, developing in the long lens of the paparazzi spotlight, added in to a mother of a young child wanting and needing promises and assurances of a life forever together from her new beau just proved to much to handle all at once.
Emily said after The Bachelor wrapped up, she was cleaning out her house and planning on renting an apartment for her and her daughter Ricky where Brad lives but “little red flags were coming up.” She slowly realized that her wants for a relationship and marriage with Womack overshadowed the realities of the relationship. She wasn’t particular other than say that each of the duo “are used to being single,” and that “As a single mom, [she does not] have the luxury of saying [she] will figure things out when [she] gets there.” Maynard continued, “I didn’t have that reassurance “that he will be there six years down the road.”
Sadly, Maynard says, “Not a day goes by that I don’t regret how things have turned out and wish things were different.”
Emily said she does not know how the turn in the relationship happened and that no one is more disappointed than she is. “I felt like a fairy tale going through it. This is my worst nightmare.”
Womack was not present at the interview, but had given his blessings for Maynard to speak out.
Maynard said she last talked to Womack a couple of days ago over text and knows the two will remain in contact. “He’s changed me as a person and taught me a lot,” she said. “We love each other a lot and we could make it work if it was based on that, but it’s not. I want to focus on being a mom and not worry about the [paparazzi] in the bushes.”
Speaking of paparazzi, she said her five year old daughter was just as affected with the alienation such a focus on the couple had brought on and would no longer believe the photographers were not after them but after everyone in general. Maynard had even told Ricky that the paparazzi thought she was Taylor Swift, but her daughter would not believe her.
Motherhood suits Pink well. She posted a heartfelt letter on her website Thursday telling the world that she’s already fallen deep in love with her new baby girl, Willow. In the letter, she also asks her fans to not look at magazines or websites with unauthorized pics of her baby.
Here is some excerpts from her love letter (written with hubbie Carey Hart):
“We are absolutely blissed out in love over here! To our fans and friends all over the world, thank you for all of the prayers and well wishes through this time in our life! I finally found out what love really means.”
But don’t expect all this gushing to change her music. “Don’t worry, I’m not writing an album full of sappy lullabies,” she wrote. “Not yet, anyways?”
Below are excerpts of her letter about paparazzi pics of celeb babies, including Pink’s. I must say I 100% agree with Pink and have written several articles about the privacy rights of children. That is why you will not find a single unauthorized paparazzi picture of a celebrity baby on CelebMagnet.
Here are excerpts of what Pink has to say:
“Due to the unsettling, surprisingly aggressive and unsafe measures that the paparazzi seem to be willing to go to in order to secure that ‘first shot’ of our daughter–stalking us, chasing us in cars and sitting outside of our home all day and all night, as new parents Carey and I decided that we would release personal photos of our Willow, and donate all of the money to charity…
Like any parents, we believe our little girl deserves the right to have privacy and be protected, but unfortunately, this media climate doesn’t seem to provide for that… It’s one thing to harass and stalk us, the adults, the celebrity that signed up for this life, but children should be protected and safe. There should be a clear distinction between us. In EVERY other country that I recall, children’s faces are blurred out in magazine photos. Why is USA the only country that continues to financially incentivize intrusive paparazzi behavior to capitalize on photos of babies, infants and children? Why are celebrities/public figures having to seek restraining orders to keep strange grown men with still and video cameras from sitting perched outside of their children’s pre-schools and elementary schools, preying on little innocent kids?
…To anyone out there that buys a magazine, or goes onto a website to look at pictures of other people’s children, may you at least think for a second about what you may inadvertently be supporting… So when you see our middle fingers up in all of our pictures, now you know the motivation. It’s all we can do to stop images of a newborn baby from being printed without our consent. Can you imagine a world where they would blur out our middle finger to protect a “consumer” over blurring out an innocent child to protect their integrity and privacy?”
The letter ends with a little bit of new parent humor: “Baby poop really isn’t as bad as all the guys out there think. Careys’ already been pooed on, and he’s still breathing. Ahhhhh, ain’t love grand?”
Not sure what is going on here or whom Nicolas Cage is bashing, but he sure is not happy and everything he says is caught on tape sadly for him.
According to the the Daily Mail, Cage, is filming the sequel to Ghost Rider in Bucharest, Romania, and lost his cool over the weekend at around 5AM outside of a nightclub. Watch the video:
So, the entire clan ventured out to The Grove in Los Angeles Saturday night December 4 and in addition to Santa, were met with a mob of Paparazzi mixed in with crazy fans and other gawkers.
Paris may be used to these kinds of crowds and not phased by them. So she Tweeted the family picture to the left today, having loved her night out with her family!
But Paris’ aunt Kyle was a bit jolted by the night and Tweeted these:
Below is a video of Paris’ shopping excursion as captured by x17online.com:
Like I have said many times: The paparazzi disturb me me a bit. I absolutely think that they can go way beyond the bounds of decency to get that one “money shot.” And it doesn’t seem to matter to some of them who they hurt or literally step on or over to get their picture.
Now, I am not talking about just any photographer who likes to or who does take photos of celebrities highlighting the work and art of the celeb. Celebs want the publicity and we the fans crave the news. So, photographers definitely serve a desired purpose.
But I am specifically talking about those professional photographers who get paid top dollars for lying in wait for their celebrity victims to take shots of the celebs’ most private moments. The moments which for whatever reason, we, as a society salivate but have no right to see. So, I am not just blaming the paparazzi, we all share the blame in this game.
I really wanted to learn first hand what the life of a paparazzi is really like. So, I decided to live as paparazzi for one day to see what it is like doing what they do and to interact with them on their playing grounds. I needed a celebrity target. And just then, one of the most prized paparazzi targets just happened to fall into my lap: Brad Pitt. Well, Brad Pitt and his daughter, Zahara, which means an even bigger prize in the murky world of the paparazzi.
When I found out where Brad Pitt was on that particular day, I packed two cameras and headed to the shopping mall where I knew Brad was. Once there, I learned that Brad and Zahara were inside the American Girl shop, attending the private birthday party of rocker Chris Cornell’s daughter.
Obviously, I could not just walk into the store and snap my pictures, so, I had to find some paparazzi and learn from them. I walked around and saw a handful of men with cameras larger than anything I have ever seen standing by a white SUV parked outside of the back private entrance to American Girl. I knew I had hit jackpot. So, I found my spot–the spot I thought would best serve for my photo and video footage once Brad came out of the large gated door and I stood there, holding my ground. Waiting. And waiting. Minutes went by and then hours went by and more and more paparazzi showed up. A couple of them even had a young child with them each, with the child perilously sitting on each of their shoulders as they held cameras in their hands.
As more paparazzi came, more pedestrians stopped to ask who the paparazzi were waiting for. Some of the paps said nothing and just remained emotionless, ignoring the pesky questions directed to their faces. Others were very friendly and happily answered the inquisitors. And so the crowd grew. And grew.
As more time went by, the swelling crowd became more and more antsy. And louder and louder, annoying some of the paps who had been there for hours. And so, some of the paps turned on the non-professionals. If any non-professional dared to stand in front of the paps, the paps would push them away and say, “You have no right to stand in my way,” as if the paps held a legitimate claim to the private property owned by someone else. I found this particular exchange pretty disturbing:
Pap to fan: “Don’t get your damn cell phone camera in way of my camera.” Fan to pap: “I have to take my picture too.” Pap to fan: “Oh right, with your pathetic cell phone camera.” Fan to pap: “At least I am not a loser who wastes my life waiting to take pictures of people for a living.” Pap to fan: “Right, you are just a loser waiting here to take a picture for free with your useless cell phone.”
Even though most of the paps thought of me as a fellow pap since we had time to discuss why I was there with the ones who were actually either friendly enough to talk to me or who were hitting on me (more on that later) I myself was not immune and was shoved, poked, and pushed by pap men twice my size; a behavior which would or should never be allowed in any other setting; yet, as a so-called paparazzi, it was OK to push and be pushed. My gender or size or the fact that this behavior is unacceptable anywhere else was of no importance.
If I wasn’t being pushed around, I was incessantly being hit on by a couple of extremely crude men who I assume are used to mostly seeing only their gender in this field. As part of their charm, they were trying to impress me by telling me things such as: “I got paid $200K for the video of Lindsey Lohan doing blah blah blah.” The monetary figures boasted for various “money shots” were shocking.
Now, let me say, the paps were not the only ones there who were being a bit unreasonable. There were fans there with very young crying children who were begging their parents to leave after a while on that particularly hot day, but the parents refused to leave for hours for the chance of taking one picture of Brad with their phones. Guess that is why there is a need for the paparazzi: We the fans feed the machine.
After all was said and done, four hours had gone by. It was extremely hot, it was boring, it was hellish. I had sweat of unfamiliar people all over me since we were all packed like sardines to get as close to Brad’s car as possible. Throughout the ordeal, the security guards and Brad’s bodyguard kept moving Brad’s car around and to different places, in the hopes of dispersing and confusing the crowd, but it never worked. The crowd always returned, and in larger numbers. There were many false alarms as the gated door was opened at least 50 times by people who were not Brad, each time almost inciting a frenzied riot of camera flashes, followed by a series of, “Ah’s,” or “No’s.”
Finally, when I thought I was gonna give up my experiment and leave because the tension in the crowd was palpable and quite frankly grown a bit scary, Brad Pitt and Zahara came out. Hand in hand. And the paps went crazy. Brad took care to safely put Zahara in the child seat in the back and then proceeded to the driver’s seat. The paps shoved anyone in their way and rushed the car and surrounded it, without any care that a young child was inside or that Brad, the father and driver, was trying to safely get himself and his daughter out of what must have been a terrifying situation. Brad somehow kept his cool and calm. I know I would not have been able to if the tables were reversed.
Here is my video documenting the whole day. As it turned out, most of the people there, including myself, ended up with a bad angle once Brad came out. My video is a mess on purpose with no major edits so it can show the true frenzy of that day, especially for a non-professional paparazzi. I have cut out anything which would show Zahara out of respect for children’s privacy.
