Ashlee Simpson Slams Magazine Editor for Seeking Publicity

Ashlee simpson has hit back at the editor of Marie Claire magazine after a backlash by the publication's readers. Simpson upset readers when she enthused about accepting your body flaws only weeks before undergoing a rhinoplasty operation on her nose.
In the July issue of the mag, Simpson says, "Everyone is made differently, and that's what makes us beautiful and unique. I want girls to look in the mirror and feel confident."
Over 1,000 readers complained to the magazine, which has recently been taken over from the editor at the time of Simpson's interview, Lesley Jane Seymour, by Joanna Coles.
Coles writes in the September issue, "She was quoting chapter and verse about how crucial it is to love yourself as you are, etc. We're dazed and confused - and disappointed - by her choice too."
In response, Simpson's publicist Rob Shuter tells MTV News, "I'm sorry the new editor is using Ashlee to get publicity for her magazine."

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Scientology Helps Drug Addicts, Says Penelope Cruz

Panelope Cruz has praised her ex-boyfriend Tom Cruise's controversial Scientology religion for helping "thousands" of drug addicts find sobriety. Narconon, an in-patient rehabilitation program for drug abusers based on a doctrine by Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard, claim to have a success rate of 70 percent, although an independent Swedish research study found such rates as low as 6.6 percent.
During her two-and-a-half year relationship with her Vanilla Sky co-star, Cruz read many books on the religion, of which Cruise is a devout follower.
She explains, "I have read a lot of books about it and some of those things I have studied have helped me with things in my life. I would feel bad with myself if I didn't say that I was grateful to it because of what I learned about it.
"A lot of my friends have been helped by their program - they have the most successful anti-drug problem in the world and they deserve a lot of credit for it. They have places everywhere. It is amazing because it is about helping the person find the reason why they started in the beginning instead of creating guilt."
Cruise claims to have helped dozens of people conquer their drug addictions through Scientology programs, saying, "I think it's appalling that people have to live a life of drug addiction when I have personally helped people get off drugs... I have an easier time stepping people off heroin then I do these psychotropic drugs."

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Pamela Anderson still loves Tommy Lee

Despite being set to marry Kid Rock at the weekend, Pamela Anderson has confessed that she still love ex-husband Tommy Lee. She said recently: “If you loved somebody once, how could you not love them any more?”. Pamela and Tommy were married for three years and had two children together before divorcing in 1998.

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Katie Holmes plans return to acting

Katie Holmes is reportedly keen to get back to work after hiding away from the limelight since the birth of her daughter Suri Cruise in April.
According to Us Weekly, she met with her agents last week and asked them to start looking out for leading roles for her.
A friend told the magazine: “She’s still very much involved with Tom and the baby. But she does want to start working again soon.” Holmes plans return to acting “She knows it’s been too long. She doesn’t want to give up her career for her new life.”
Now a mum though, Katie is hoping for “older, more mature roles”.

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" I'll Never Stop Partying!"

Lindsay will NEVER stop! Give this girl a private jet to Vegas, a well-connected boyfriend, and a few drinks and she's happy. Lindsay and Harry partied at Beacher's Madhouse last night in Vegas sending a message yet again to Morgan's Creek CEO James Robinson, that Lindsay apparently values partying more than work.

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Nick: Brains Over Blonde?

Is nice guy Nick Lachey sweet-talking girlfriend Vanessa Minnillo by bad-mouthing ex-wife Jessica Simpson? That's the accusation being leveled by Us Weekly, which claims the "What's Left of Me" warbler is totally turned on by the novelty of his current squeeze's bodacious brain.
"Nick keeps telling Vanessa the difference between her and Jessica is that she is extremely intelligent," a "Minnillo pal" tartly informs the magazine.
Ouch.
(In Jessica's defense, her mom has claimed she actually has a genius-level 160 IQ, which adds a whole scientific level to that chicken-or-fish debate.)
According to the mag, the MTV talking head -- and sometime Lachey lapdancer -- has several other qualities that make her the Bizarro Jessica, including her enthusiasm for typically testosterone-fueled pursuits.
"She's a guys' girl," says another source. "Jessica was always about going somewhere that was a scene with a big entourage. Vanessa can play darts and chill."
Minnillo, who previously dated Derek Jeter, is also "an avid sports fan," enthuses another insider, with a Lachey confidante adding, "Nick commented on his love for [his hometown NFL team] the Cincinnati Bengals and Vanessa blew him away by running off the team's poor stats. He tells friends, 'It's like talking to your best guy friend, but she's a smoking-hot chick.'"
Not to be left out of the La-Nessa love parade, Life & Style ups the ante by positing that Lachey, who officially reclaimed his single status less than two months ago, is eager to reclaim his newlywed status.
"He told Vanessa that his goal was to get remarried and start a family," a mole alleges to the mag, adding that "he didn't want to continue seeing her unless she was serious about their relationship."
But the source says Vanessa "is all for it. She's eager to be married as well."
As for Jessica, she's opening up about the musical epiphany she experienced in the midst of their tabloid-dissected divorce, revealing to MTV News that last Christmas, she played sister Ashlee a ditty that held deep, personal meaning for her: Patty Griffin's "Let Him Fly," which, conveniently enough, closes out her upcoming release, "A Public Affair."
"We laid there listening to the song and just cried and cried like babies," Jess fesses up. "In a lot of ways, my sister really gave me the strength to pull through this really hard time. And it was just laying there and being with her that got me through it. I knew everything would be OK."
Simpson says "the song is about how sometimes you just have to know when to let something go. And that was that moment. And I had to sing it."
Meanwhile, is Jessica looking to prove she's "got a mind for business and a bod for sin," not to mention the acting chops and audience appeal to carry an entire movie?
The New York Daily News reports Simpson is mulling over whether to star in an update of 1988's "Working Girl," which earned Melanie Griffith an Oscar nod for playing a big-haired, baby-voiced secretary with executive-level dreams.
Confirms her flack to the paper, "It is one of the scripts Jessica is considering."

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