Entertainment on Parade

Ugh, that media whore Kevin Federline is once again feeding off Britney as he appears on next week’s cover of PEOPLE magazine.  Honestly, is there NO other news going on in the world?  Anyhow, Kevin will talk about life with Britney, including the first time they met, and the big break up.  He tells PEOPLE about the custody battles, Britney’s breakdowns, how life is getting better, how he still loves Britney, blah, blah, blah. 

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No doubt he will toot his own horn as the World’s Greatest Father (he has enough kids – he should be!).  Almost makes me wish I hadn’t just renewed my subscription to PEOPLE – I think I can do without this issue.

If you are hoping for a Michael Phelp’s hookup, you may be out of luck.  Phelps took his girlfriend of two months, Las Vegas cocktail waitress Caroline “Caz” Pal, to his family home in Baltimore for Thanksgiving.  The two met after his incredible Beijing Olympic run.

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Phelps seems to have turned his interests from swimming to poker.  He made the final table at the Caesars Palace Poker Classic and hopes to participate in next year’s World Series of Poker.  Since Pal is a waitress at Palm’s Casino Resort’s Moon Nightclub, it looks like Phelps will have plenty of opportunity to hone his poker skills in Vegas.

“Last Call” host Carson Daly is going to become a daddy.  He announced that he and girlfriend Siri Pinter are expecting a bundle of joy next spring.  Daly, 35, and Pinter, a NBC producer who has worked on Last Call, have been dating for a little over a year.  This will be the first child for the couple.

A rep for Daly said, “Carson is thrilled to be a father and they are looking forward to an extra-special Thanksgiving this year with family and friends.”  In the past, Daly has been linked to actresses Tara Reid and Jennifer Love Hewitt.

Samantha Ronson is NOT happy about girlfriend Lindsay Lohan being pelted with flour by a People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) member.  In her MySpace blog, Ronson said, “The girl who threw [the flour] acted like an animal herself.  I take that back, it’s an insult to animals to group her in with them, my dog is FAR more civilized than that person.  I think there are plenty of families that could have used that flour for a meal. Nice job, lady.”

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In case you missed is, Ms. Lohan was hit with flour as the couple arrived at the VIP Room Theater in Paris on Saturday.  Oh, by the way, Lohan was wearing a black fur stole, which must have set off the activist. 

It is curtains for the marriage between E! host Debbie Matenopoulos and music exec Jay Faires. Faires filed for divorce in a Los Angeles court yesterday, listing irreconcilable differences as the reason. In the papers, Faires requested that Matenopoulos not be granted spousal support. The couple married in July 2003, but separated in March 2008. The couple has no children together.

Matenopoulos, who hosts E!’s The Daily 10, released a statement saying she was “deeply saddened” by the divorce. She went on to say that Faires was “a man I truly believed I would be with forever” and that she does not “take marriage or family lightly.”

Rumor has it that Justin Timberlake has purchased a New York City condo for $5.25 million.  His reps won’t confirm it, but Timberlake has called NYC the “realest city in America.”  The New York Post is saying he purchased a three bedroom, 3,000 square foot loft in TriBeCa, with Us Weekly saying it is in the Pearline Soap Factory building.

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Timberlake was in NYC last night for the Keep A Child Alive’s 5th Annual Black Ball, which was also attended by Jessica Alba and John Mayer.  While Timberlake and girlfriend Jessica Biel are still on, she may not want to hear what he had to say last night at the ball.  When asked by an interviewer if he would like to have children, Timberlake replied “I’m not sure.” 

Evan Rachel Wood is a beautiful 21 year old actress, but she must have the worst taste in men…ever.  She hooked up with goth rocker Marilyn Manson in 2006 after he kicked Dita Von Teese to the curb.  This creepy dude had also dated Rose McGowan – how is he getting all these hot chicks? 

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Anyhow, back to the story.  So, Wood and Manson decided to go the proverbial “we are going to take some time off from our relationship to concentrate on work” route.  Honestly, does any couple who says this EVER go back to the relationship later?

And now, after the Manson split, rumors are that she is dating Mickey Rourke, who may have been sexy in say, 1981, but now it is 2008 and Mickey has not aged well.  Wood told PEOPLE magazine to spread the word – she was not dating Rourke.  She said the two bonded while filming the movie “The Wrestler” and while they are friends, they are not dating.  Rourke also denied any romance.

Good grief, can none of the made for television romances survive?  Jesse Csincsak revealed on the couple’s web site today that he and “The Bachelorette” DeAnna Pappas have split.  He said that DeAnna broke up with him two days ago.  He said he did everything he could to try to make it work and although she is a great person, DeAnna just wasn’t willing to try anymore.

The two pledged their love for each other after she accepted his proposal back in July, with DeAnna gushing that her connection to Jesse was “so strong.”  Apparently not strong enough!  The two had planned to wed on May 9, 2009.

Con man Raffaello Follieri is asking for less…jail time that is.  Although he agreed to a plea deal of four plus years in prison, he apparently has now changed his mind.  His lawyer, Flora Edwards, is asking that Follieri be sentenced to only three years.  Is that how it works?  You just ask for the amount of prison time you want?

Edwards says Follieri started out with good intentions, but go ‘intoxicated” with the money when he started running in the A-list circles.  Oh yeah, I am sure the judge is going to buy that!  Follieri will find out on October 23 when he is scheduled to be sentenced.

I also hate the way the tabloids keep running photos of Anne Hathaway and Follieri together.  She is obviously trying to distance herself from him (understandably so!) and while the tabloids seem to take up for her, they keep running photos of the two together.  Are there no pictures of this man alone?

After weeks of rumors, it seems the news is true – octogenarian Hugh Hefner is down a girlfriend.  Holly Madison, whose mom had said she hoped to have a baby with the founder of Playboy, has told Hef it is over.  She is still living in the house, but the two no longer sharea bed. 

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Hef knew it was inevitable when because he told Holly he wouldn’t marry her or father a baby with her.  But, don’t count Hef completely down and out.  There are girlfriends Kendra and Bridget and Hef promises new faces in his personal life on “The Girls Next Door.”