Neil Patrick Harris Lands Another Hosting Job

Exciting news for Neil Patrick Harris.

The hottie will hosting CBS’s televised Fashion’s Night Out doc set to air on September 14th.

The hour one show will feature behind-the-scenes footage of Anna Wintour and her team getting ready for the event.

Also making an appearance on the special will be Diane Von Furstenberg, Oscar de la Renta, Tory Burch, and Justin Timberlake.

Somehow seeing Justin’s name next to Oscar de le Retna just cheapens it for us. Hah!

Will U be tuning in?

[Image via WENN.]

Blake Lively Graces The Pages Of Vogue. Again.

How much is her publicist paying Anna Wintour!?

For what feels like the 100th time, Vogue‘s “it girl” Blake Lively is featured in their oh so important September issue.

Instead of doing a fashion spread, the mag documents her trip to Paris where she got to meet the who’s who of the fashion world and attend some of the hottest fashion shows.

And Vogue thinks we care, why?

Gabby Sidibe Reportedly Too Big for Vogue

Filed under: Celebrity Weight, Gut Reactions, Movie News, Exclusives, Naughty But Nice

Even with all of the fame and Oscar buzz ‘Precious’ got this past year, that’s still not enough to land star Gabourey Sidibe on the pages of Vogue magazine. According to my sources, Miss Sidibe’s weight is what’s keeping her out of Anna Wintour’s … Read more

 

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Introducing: Whore! Magazine

This is HO-larious!

Starting in Spring 2010 a new magazine simply titled Whore! will be available for all the little slutlets out there.

We’re guessing this magazine is for those that are in the limbo stage of girly magazines. They’re tired of Teen Vogue, but yet they don’t want to commit to Anna Wintour.

So what’s the mag about? According to Whore‘s website:

Whore! magazine is dedicated to celebrating the current and historical qualities of women who have defined a role for themselves outside the status quo. Through written word, art, design, fashion, and music, Whore! magazine will create a dialogue about what women are as opposed to what traditional society has dictated they should be. Whore! will also explore issues largely untouched by mass media, while reclaiming a derogatory word that has long been used to censure those who would desire, express, resist, or simply take a different path. We intend to recognize those women, both modern and historical, who strive for experience rather than conventional “goodness,” and continue to fight an age-old battle against expectation.

Whore! magazine will be a quarterly print magazine investigating culture, ascendancy, shame, and the desire to be.

Well said.

We’re actually very intrigued by this magazine and applaud the them for launching a new magazine while print media is suffering big time.

And if they’re taking suggestions for cover girls we think Evan Rachel Whore would be a fantastic candidate! Her name says it all!

What do U think of Whore magazine???

England Starts Their Own Fashion Fund

The Brits are following in the States’ fashionable footsteps by creating a Designer Fashion Fund.

Similar to the Vogue/CFDA awards which was started by Miz Anna Wintour in 2003, the BFC Vogue Designer Fashion Fund will provide a British-based designer with £200,000 and high-level mentoring support to build their own business.

The British Fashion Council chairman, Harold Tillman says:

“Last September, at 10 Downing Street, I announced our vision for the Fund as a legacy of our 25th anniversary. Today, we are able to launch this landmark designer support scheme in partnership with British Vogue. We are delighted to have raised the financing for the first year of the Fund. However, more funding is required to establish it as a permanent support scheme. Designer talent is the lifeblood of the fashion industry. Now is the time for the industry to directly support this talent and sign up to the Fund.”

Hey, at least it’s a start.

The only requirements to enter is to be UK-based, have an established business, international stockists, a strong media profile and how the ca$$$h will help build their brand.

The winner will be announced in April of next year. If you’re interested in entering, applications are due December 2nd.

Can’t wait to see who the winner is!

[Image via WENN.]

What Does Arianna Huffington Really Look Like?

The Huffington Post has brought back its old trick of posting embarrassingly high-resolution photos of celebrities, Portfolio.com notes, to much controversy. HuffPo defends its pics as “playful spin on our… fascination with celebrity images.” OK, let’s “play.” With your founder.

Arianna Huffington has allowed her editors to run ultra-close ups of the aging body of Vogue‘s Anna Wintour (“what does she really look like?“) and now actresses Lindsay Lohan (“unedited” and splotchy) and Elizabeth Hurley (a bit sweaty). It’s a case of her unprofitable company’s need for monetizable, non-political Web traffic (read: cheap celebrity clicks) running headlong into Huffington’s need to suck up to celebs, who write for her site and come to her parties and help her seem very glamorous.

We won’t lecture Huffington on her company’s too-often-shoddy attempts to make money in the online publishing racket. At least, not in this post. But we will keep her honest: If Huffington is going to run unedited pictures of others, it’s only fair there should be some unedited pictures of her out there.

Click any of the images below to pop-up large, hi-res versions. (Warning, this may slow down your web browser and ruin your lunch.) We’ve played by HuffPo rules: Posed, red carpet pictures with no editing. We’ve also excerpted a highlight, as Huffington did with Wintour.

UPDATE: Jessica Wakeman at The Frisky notes that the first chapter of Huffington’s book On Becoming Fearless is about positive body image. Plastering someone’s picture on HuffPo is certainly one way to nudge that person toward becoming “fearless.”

Afternoon Crumbs

Adrianne Curry as Princess Lame-O. Yes, I’ll be here all week – Hollywood Tuna

Dear Hasselcrack, your baby didn’t see your nipple, because he’d be frowning instead of smiling if he did – Just Jared

Californication should just change its name to EvaAmurristittication already – Egotastic!

Gretchen and Slade take their pr stunt relationship to the pumpkin patch (site NSFW) – Drunken Stepfather

The noise isn’t from Vadge dancing, it’s from the nutsacks of her victims screaming and pounding for help – Popeater

James Franco wants to dick slap himself in the face. Sort of. – Towleroad

Please tell me Marisa Miller is butt burping – Popsugar

Elisabetta Canalis must have a strap-on permanently attached to her crotch – Lainey Gossip

Personally, I think Mutya should form a new trio called the Sugabrows – Holy Moly!

Nothing says “I love you” in Lohan-talk like a restraining order – Celebitchy

John Stamos was just fucking drunk in Australia – Hollywood Rag

JLove is a poet – I’m Not Obsessed

Anna Wintour has gone full CRAZY, because Ashlee Simpson is going to be in Vogue – Socialite Life

Sarah Michelle Gellar must have gotten the post-baby Posh special – SOW

Can Demi Moore and Ashton Kutcher join the Shrek 4 cast? – ICYDK

Xtina’s gayelle fantasies – Cityrag

Anarchy in the Machine: Welcome to Gawker’s Open Forums

As you admired Gawker’s shiny new look, you may have noticed that big “Share” box right up at the top of the page. It’s part of our new “open forums,” and we really have no idea what’s going to happen.

In the four years since comments were introduced on Gawker Media sites (yes, there was a time before comments), your tireless editors have always had a sort of love-hate relationship with the people who are kind enough to take the time to scrutinize our every move. As much as it can drive you batty to try and run an editorial operation in front of an audience of hecklers, our readers also supply the site with some of its best wit and tips. Traditionally the way we’ve heard from you is either through our tipline or in comments, and then one of your editors has decided whether something is worthy for the site.

Now there’s a third way: we’re throwing open the site to anyone who wants to publish anything.

The basic way this works is that you can type a comment, upload a photo, or embed a video into that box up top and it will be published on the site wherever you choose by giving it a Twitter-style hashtag. So, got a news tip or link? Tag it #tips and it will show up here. If you saw someone famous, use #stalker and it will go straight to the Gawker Stalker page. Or you can use your own tags. Got something to say about Anna Wintour, send it to the #annawintour page. Have an internal memo to post, tag it #internalmemos. Or make up your own. We’re trying to learn to stop worrying and love the chaos.

While this all sounds fairly anarchic (it is), the hierarchical commenting system still applies. If you’re not an approved commenter, your posting has to be approved by an editor, moderator, or star commenter and the two-tier system applies to these tag pages, too. And, as always, trouble-makers will be banned. There’s a revised Commenter FAQ if you want to brush up.

Oh! And I almost forgot to add: there’s now a very cool, long-requested new notification function. When someone responds to one of your comments, there will be a little box on the top of the home page that says “You have TK new replies” and will link you to them. One more: Also long-requested, under “Settings” in your profile, you can set your default comment view to see just the featured comments or all of them as well as whether you’d like to see them in newest first or oldest first. Just click your name at the top of the page to visit your profile.

If you notice bugs, please let us know in comments. Today should be fun.

Gossip Girl: A Fleur for the Dramatic

Having Tyra Banks try to act on your show is nuts. Almost as nuts as having an on-air threeway. Gossip Girl is crazy enough to do both, and it always throws the power dynamics into a tizzy. Thanks, TyTy!

However, in the high-stakes act-off between Tyra and Blake Lively, I think Tyra actually won. That’s kind of like being the world’s chastest hooker, but as long as you’re not in last place, you’re not fairing too shabby. Too bad there were plenty of people on the bottom last night as we saw everyone grabbing for a little bit of control. Except Dorota. She’s got everything in check.

Dorota:
Power Play: Tells Blair that it’s silly to mess with the Constance girls: +3, Can throw a hell of a slumber party: +2, Waters down the martinis: -1
Total: 4
Season to Date: 28
Power Position: Down

Georgina:
Power Play: Didn’t make one appearance all episode: -20, Still manages to loom over everything ominously like an evil specter in heels: +5
Total: -15
Season to Date: 8
Power Position: Down

Chuck:
Fashion Points: Only Chuck Bass could pull off a white tux: +3
Personality Flaw: Excessive reference to himself in the third person: -2
Power Play: Is concerning himself with high school politics: -1
Quip: “What do you espect from a place where men wear sandals”: +1
Sexual Intrigue: Let’s Blair know that the best thing about her is that she is dating him: +2
Social Schemes: Convinces Jenny to grab the power: +2, His “bring Jenny to the premiere” gambit totally works: +3, The “hire the paps to photo Blair” gambit is also a rousing success: +2
Total: 10
Season to Date: 7
Power Position: Up

Dan:
Personality Flaw: His pop cultural stupidity pays off for a change: +1
Power Play: Only gets invited to the premiere because of stupid Vanessa: -2
Sexual Intrigue: Picks up a hot girl on the street: +2, Is too stupid to know that she is a big Hollywood star. Put down the Milan Kundera and pick up an Us Weekly, Dan: -2, Gets dumped by the star for being just too damn awesome: -1, Has his second fancy girlfriend without even trying: +4
Total: 2
Season to Date: 4
Power Position: Down

Blair:
Personality Flaw: Excessive reference to herself in the third person: -2
Power Play: Wanders into a He-Man lover’s support group: -1, Won’t go to a movie premiere because she’s having a sleep over: -3, Still gets into the premiere when she deigns to go, and doesn’t even need an invite: +1, “They don’t care that I’m Blair Waldorf”: +1 (consolation point), Gets her picture taken by the paps: +1, Chuck set it up: -2, Her confidence is back so watch out, world: +1
Sexual Intrigue: Chuck cares enough to scheme against her: +1
Social Schemes: Has to go back to Constance to feel powerful. Sad: -4, Unseats Jenny Humphrey as Queen with the wave of a wand: Even, Finally gets herself some NYU minions: +4
Total: -3
Season to Date: -4
Power Position: Down

Olivia:
Fashion Points: Wears a fedora and a retro T-shirt in public during the day. She can afford a publicist, but doesn’t have a stylist?: -2, No, she must not, because someone let her wear that dress to the premiere: -3
Personality Flaw: Has landed face down in the Gossip Girl swamp. She bumps into Dan twice, rooms with Vanessa, and sits next to Serena at lunch all in the same afternoon. What are the odds?!: -3, Her trying to be Kate and Olivia reminds us of Jem and Jerrica: +2, It also reminds us of how much Dan looks like Jerrica’s boyfriend Rio, and that makes us laugh: +2
Power Play: The only friend she has to talk to is stupid Vanessa: -1
Sexual Intrigue: Let’s Dan woo her: -1, Dumps Dan: +2, Goes back to Dan because he thinks she’s “normal”: Even (Dan is looking pretty good these days)
WTF: How is this girl famous, she can’t even do a good German accent!: -2
Total: -4
Season to Date: -4
Power Position: Even

Nate:
Personality Flaw: He saw the fake Twilight movies Olivia starred in: -1
Sexual Intrigue: Where is his girlfriend?: -1
Social Schemes: Convinces Dan to go after famous Olivia, because he thinks it’s funny that Dan doesn’t know that she’s Hilary Duff and, like, super famous: +2, That “Oh, man” face he made after Dan walks away was the best bit of acting that Chace Crawford has ever done: +1
Total: 1
Season to Date: -19
Power Position: Up

Serena:
Family Secrets: Tells Lily she’s not going to Brown: +1 (for honesty), Tells Lily she’s not going to Brown: -2 (for stupidity), Lies to Ursula to save her job: +1
Personality Flaw: Is so stupid that she can’t even be a PR girl for a day. Isn’t their jobs to sit in packs of five while one does all the work and the other four furiously check their Blackberries?: -3, Believes she got the job because “someone believes in her.” Yeah right, someone believes in her like an amputee believes his arm is still there: -2
Power Play: Gets a glowing recommendation from Anna Wintour: +10, It still can’t get her a job with Tory Burch, Marchesa, or the APF: -5, Finally gets a job: +1, It’s in publicity. Ew: -4, Has a big movie star best friend: +2
Sexual Intrigue: What happened to Carter?: -1 (because we don’t like him that much)
Social Schemes: Finds Ursula’s ring: +1, Gets played by her new mean boss: -2, Somehow manages to know what she’s talking about when she advises Ursula: +5, Still gets fired—and from being a PR girl: -4,
Total: -2
Season to Date: -19
Power Position: Even

Scott:
Family Secrets: You only told your secret last week, and already nearly everyone has forgotten about you: -2, Georgina knows your secret and she is going to fuck you up: -4
Sexual Intrigue: Vanessa still wants it: +1
Total: -5
Season to Date: -26
Power Position: Even

Rufus:
Family Secrets: Is he going to bother to tell Lily that their spawn had a stalker adoptive brother?: -2
Personality Flaw: Has not only forgotten about his gothy daughter, but also his new fake son: -3, He and his billionaire wife only seem capable of attending social events that revolve around the lives of 18 year olds: -3, Lily blames Serena’s antics on Rufus’ horrible parenting skills: -2
Power Play: Makes fun of Lily with Serena: +2, Helps Serena make bad decisions: -1,
Total: -9
Season to Date: -29
Power Position: Up

Vanessa:
Fashion Points: Now that you have a famous roommate the paps will be watching you, so no more wearing horrible hanky top things: -3, Or that dress you wore to the premiere: -1
Power Play: Gets a famous roommate: +2, Gets to take Dan to a fancy event for a change: +2, Her new famous roommate only has her to confide in: +1
Sexual Intrigue: Forgives crazy psycho Scott: -2, Then he goes and disses her to take a call from Georgina: -3
Total: -4
Season to Date: -41
Power Position: Up

Jenny:
Fashion Points: Says no to the ugly mirror-encrusted Lady Gaga reject headband of power: +2, Spawned a million raccoon-eyed dopplegangers: -3, Cute shoes at the premiere: +1
Personality Flaw: Thinks she can change the world. Oh, poor naive Jenny: -3, Lets her mute gay sidekick actually speak: -1
Power Play: Finally accepts that she is the new mean girl and gets her minions to buy her free yogurt: +4
Social Schemes: Disbands the mean girls: +2, They get Blair to unseat her: -3, Teams up with Chuck to get Blair: +1, Chuck’s plot to get Blair wouldn’t work without her: +1
Total: 1
Season to Date: -53
Power Position: Up

Lily:
Family Secrets: No one bothers to tell her about her child’s fake evil brother that is really her devil spawn: -3
Fashion Points: She’s back, and you can’t even tell she had work done: +5, Is wearing a floral print metallic top just like Blair’s from last episode. No good being one step behind: -1
Personality Flaw: Can not get Serena to go to Brown no matter what she does: -4, Doesn’t even say hello to her mute gay son when she returns home from “visiting grandma”: -3
Total: -6
Season to Date: -73
Power Position: Up

Ursula:
Fashion Points: Other than that mascara on her face, she doesn’t look horrible crying in a bathroom and that is hard to pull off: +3
Personality Flaw: Trusts stupid Serena to do something other than pout, make bad decisions, and go to parties: -30, Goes through an entire episode of Gossip Girl without using the exposure to vainly attempted to make her neologism “smize” (you know, smile with your eyes) happen: -50
Power Play: Talks to Serena on the couch like she talks to the contestants on America’s Next Top Model: +2, Gets the best work she’s ever done cut from the movie: -4
Quip: “You know you have surrounded me with amateurs,” you mean like the producers of GG did by hiring you to act, Tyra?: -3
Social Schemes: Figures out that her mean publicist is lying to her: +2, Gets Serena her job back: +5, It’s still a PR job: -4
Bonus: Just for being crazy enough to try to act on Gossip Girl and letting everyone pick on you: +1
Total: -78
Season to Date: -78
Power Position: Down

Rihanna Changes It Up In Paris

Rihanna is being a little fashion diva during Paris fashion week!

On Friday she attended both the John Galliano for Dior and Vivienne Westwood fashion shows. But did she wear the same thing to both?

Oh hell nah!

RiRi was able to make an appearance to both shows in different outfits. She even changed up her make-up.

So fierce.

Take notes Anna Wintour!

[Image via Fame Pictures & Getty Images.]

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