Included in the revealing pictures is a shot of her Snooki and cohost Jenni “JWOWW” Farleypreparing to ring in the New Year, in Manhattan’s Times Square.
Move over Ryan Seacrest!
The reality stars are hosting MTV’s live festivities, which featuring performances from Ke$ha, Ne-Yo, Rita Ora, Conor Maynard and Sean Kingston.
One person who won’t be there is Snooki’s baby boy, Lorenzo, however.
Zac Efronwas all sorts of dapper on a New York City movie set on Thursday. The 25-year-old is currently in town working on the romantic comedy Are We Officially Dating?, which centers around three Manhattan bachelors and the single life.
The film also stars Parenthood’s Michael B. Jordan and Efron’s Me and Orson Welles co-star Imogen Poots.
On the West Coast, mama-to-be Jenna Dewan was spotted leaving a hair salon in Beverly Hills. The actress, who is expecting her first child with husband Channing Tatum, covered her baby bump in an oversized sweater as she made her way to her car.
The couple made their baby announcement earlier this week, days after Dewan hit the VH1 Divas red carpet with a noticeable bump.
Elsewhere in Beverly Hills,Reese Witherspoon looked cute and trendy in a blue lace dress and black tights as she finished an appointment at a skin-care center.
It was recently revealed that Witherspoon, who welcomed her third child Tennesse James in September, was one of the reasons fellow Hollywood mom Megan Fox was able to conceal the birth of her son Noah for some time.
“[Reese] went into labor the day before I did, and all of the paparazzi followed her to Santa Monica,” Fox told Ellen DeGeneres in an interview.
“So when I went into labor, I went to Cedars [medical center] and nobody cared or knew I was there, and so I got in and out. I left the next day and nobody knew and it was a big secret for three weeks.”
Staying on the Hollywood moms topic, Busy Phillips, who recently announced that she’s pregnant with her second child, was spotted hard at work on the set of Cougar Town. Malin Akerman, who is expecting her first child, flaunted her growing baby bump in West Hollywood, where she finished up some last-minute Christmas shopping.
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Miley Cyrus’ Philly week continued with a visit to the Sigma Sound Studios on Tuesday night. The 20-year-old actress and singer stayed warm in a black-and-white turtleneck weather while flashing the peace sign.
“Studio with @Flippa123 @PopWansel @Oakwud,” Cyrus wrote on Twitter, referring to the producers she was hanging out with.
Over in St. Barts, France, Kate Moss flaunted her bikini body in an olive green two-piece while taking a dip in the pristine water.
The 38-year-old model is currently on holiday with her rocker husband Jamie Hince and daughter Lila Grace.
In Los Angeles, Jenni “JWoww” Farley was spotted in a pair of hot pink pumps while out for dinner at Katsuya restaurant. The reality TV star is gearing up for the series finale of Jersey Shore, scheduled to air Thursday on MTV.
Earlier this week, Farley and her cast mates held their last press event for the show.
“Thursday it’ll hit us when we watch the last episode together and do the reunion live,” she told Access Hollywood.
“[We’ll] probably all cry for good and bad reasons.”
Elsewhere, Glee co-stars and real life lovebirds Lea Micheleand Cory Monteith caught a screening of Argo for date night in Hollywood while Kim Kardashianwas spotted arriving at LAX with a gorgeous new hairdo.
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Turkey Day is upon us — and Hollywood is oh-so-ready to gobble it down.
While Thanksgiving is, above all, a time to give thanks, the centuries-old tradition is often celebrated with family, football and, of course, food. And before Tinseltown got to stuffing the turkeys, mashing the potatoes and breaking out the cranberry sauce, Celebuzz caught up with the stars to find out which dish is their favorite on the Turkey Day dinner table.
“I love stuffing,” said reality star Nicole “Snooki” Polizzi, who is ringing in her first Thanksgiving with nearly 4-month-old son, Lorenzo Dominic. “It’s my guilty pleasure.”
And that drool-worthy delight seems to be a Jersey Shore favorite. “I love stuffing. I love stuffing,” gushed Jenni “JWOWW” Farley. “I thought you were going to say pumpkin pie,” chimed in her fiancé Roger Mathews, who favors turkey on his holiday plate. “No,” Farley retorts, “stuffing.”
Others opted for the one of the classic sugary side dishes. “I probably like sweet potatoes the best, when they’re down really well — marshmallows and stuff on top,” said Seth Green.
But Real Housewife of New Jersey Melissa Gorga skips the fluffy treat on top. “Oh my god,” she exclaimed of her sister’s sweet potato recipe. “We put them in the oven and smush them with cinnamon and brown sugar on top, with some caramelized nuts.” The result? Simply “breathtaking,” Gorga said.
Even Victoria’s Secret models will be scarfing down the carb-heavy fare this Thurday. “My favorite Thanksgiving dish is the sweet potatoes with marshmallows,” said Lily Aldridge. “It’s delicious.”
Still, some simply can’t choose a single stand-out from the festive feast. “Oh, I suppose turkey and mash potatoes,” said Sam Rockwellof his go-to Thanksgiving grub, adding “then yam mash potatoes and then pumpkin pie.” I do love turkey. And I do love pumpkin pie.”
And comedian Charlie Murphy — brother to the one-and-only Eddie Murphy — puts his own twist on the classic Turkey Day meal. “I can take the stuffing, and the cranberry sauce, and the turkey, and the macaroni and cheese and put it on the sandwich,” he said. “I love that combo. I will eat it on Thanksgiving. For sure.”
But for Murphy, like for so many turkey-, stuffing- and cranberry-loving Americans, the holiday grub isn’t just a November indulgence. Said the funnyman: “Guess what? I don’t want till Thanksgiving to eat it — I eat it year round.”
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Seaside Heights was left in ruins after Superstorm Sandy ravaged the East Coast — and MTV’s Jersey Shore star Jenni “JWoww” Farley and her fiance Roger Mathews were devastated when they recently returned to their old haunt for a visit.
“It’s so sad,” JWoww, 26, told Celebuzz at a televised fundraiser — titled Restore the Shore – for the victims of the hurricane. “People who grew up there put their blood, sweat and tears into that town.”
“It’s like a war zone,” added Mathews, 37.
Despite the millions worth of damage done to JWoww’s favorite attractions, including the Shore Store that the Jersey cast worked at throughout the series, the reality TV starlet has hope that residents will be able to rebuild and regain what was lost in the storm.
“The best thing is that we’re ready to restore it and rebuild it and come back stronger,” she said. “And next year, [hopefully] have everyone there like it never happened.”
On Thursday night, JWoww and her Jersey castmates — along with famous faces like One Direction and Taylor Swift — joined forces with MTV to support those who were severely affected by the hurricane.
“We want everyone to get their jobs back. We want everyone to get their homes back. We want them to have food, shelter and clothing — so that’s why we’re here.”
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From the red carpet in London to a food drive for Hurricane Sandy in New York City, the last 24 hours have been filled with plenty of celebrity sightings.
Cameron Diaz showed off her fit figure in a Stella McCartney ensemble for the London premiere of Gambit, held at the historic Leicester Square on Wednesday.
Diaz, who was joined by co-star Colin Firth, finished off her look with black stilettos and a matching clutch.
Earlier in the day, Taylor Swift was spotted out and about in London wearing a polka-dot sweater and red pants. The country superstar made her way to the BBC Radio 2 studios to promote her latest album, Red.
Back in New York City, Jersey Shore’s very own Jenni “JWoww” Farleyhosted a special canned food drive for victims of Hurricane Sandy. While the reality TV star’s home with fiancé Roger Mathews in Toms River, N.J. is still standing, the property suffered extensive damage during last week’s superstorm.
In other star sightings of the day, Justin Bieberwas spotted with his entourage in New York City. The “Boyfriend” singer is in town to perform at the annual Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show, scheduled for Wednesday night. The event will broadcast on CBS Dec. 4.
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And while one has a new baby – the other is definitely planning on it. “Hopefully in two years,” JWoww told Celebuzz’sThe Daily Buzz about her baby plans this week.
“As long as I’m married for a year and get my bucket list out of the way, I’m good,” she continued.
JWoww and boyfriend Roger Matthewswere engaged in late-September when he encouraged her to skydive with him. As the frightened (and unsuspecting) reality star was landing, Matthews was there to meet her on bended knee with a sign that read, “Jenny, Will you marry me?”
“But, I didn’t notice the sign,” JWoww recalled. “Because I had my eyes closed during the whole [fall]. Oh, my God, I was so petrified.”
The star says she’s planning on a spring-summer wedding, which means she’ll marry before Snooki, who’s planning a fall wedding. As JWoww and Roger told Celebuzz before the engagement, she’s planning a huge affair in Las Vegas for 500 of their closest friends and family.
“[I want] to take over a whole hotel, like the shows, the parties, the after-parties, the clubs,” she said of the epic four-day nuptials.
While the final season of Jersey Shore is airing now, Snooki and JWoww’s spin off series returns on Jan. 8.
“You’re going to see [Snooki’s son] Lorenzo and you’re going to see my engagement,” she teases of Season 2. “So, I think everything leading up to and after those two big things.”
And, what can fans expect to see of Snooki’s mothering skills? “She’s perfect!” JWoww exclaimed.
“All those women who say it’s something you have to experience, you really do,” JWoww says of her co-star’s maternal skills. “Because looking at Nicole, known to everyone as Snooki, and then to see her as a mom, it’s day and night.”
Jenni “JWoww” Farley and her fiance, Roger Mathews, got in touch with their inner-geek Saturday night when they showed up to a Las Vegas Halloween party as matching nerds.
Dressed in suspenders, bow-ties and taped-up glasses, the future man and wife truly got into character at the event — especially JWoww, who was photographed crossing her eyes and sticking her tongue out on the red carpet.
The event was held at the Chateau Nightclub & Gardens at the the Paris Las Vegas.
Last week, Celebuzzspoke to JWoww — who got engaged to Mathews in September — during which she admitted she hasn’t even started planning her wedding yet.
“I’d like to say next year, around summertime,” the 26-year-old Jersey Shorestar said. “But every time I keep looking into that, I’m hearing like, ‘You have to plan, like, a year in advance for a venue and blah, blah, blah, and it takes this month for this invitation’ … And I’m like, ‘Oh my God … My goal is next summer, but I haven’t even picked the venue yet. [Laughs]”
She also admitted she isn’t worried about squeezing into her wedding dress.
“My big thing from here until whenever my wedding day is just to live healthy — exercise 30 minutes a day, [do] some cardio, weight training, substitute some of my carbs that I love for some natural carbs like vegetables, take your supplements,” she said. “Just live your life so on your wedding day you feel healthy and you’re not starving in your wedding dress and ready to wolf down the whole cake.”
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Although Jenni “JWoww” Farley is focused on living a healthy lifestyle these days, the Jersey Shore star and bride-to-be told Celebuzz she isn’t worried about squeezing into her wedding dress.
“Everybody always looks at their wedding pictures [and says], ‘Ugh! I wish I was that skinny,’” said Farley, who confirmed her engagement to longtime boyfriend Roger Mathews in September. “They put themselves through hell to get that skinny — and it never lasts. That’s one of those things, like crash-course dieting and crash-course working out.”
“So, I always say, Be yourself on your wedding day,” she continued. “Don’t go to that extent of ridiculousness, because you’re only going to look back a couple months later and then years later and be like, ‘Oh I wish I could do that,” or ‘I wish I looked like that.’”
“People forget what they did to look like that,” said Farley, 26. “So my big thing from here until whenever my wedding day is just to live healthy — exercise 30 minutes a day, [do] some cardio, weight training, substitute some of my carbs that I love for some natural carbs like vegetables, take your supplements … and just live your life so on your wedding day you feel healthy and you’re not starving in your wedding dress and ready to wolf down the whole cake.”
Speaking of supplements, Farley recently teamed up with Ab Cuts, an all-natural dietary supplement.
“I like to think of it as the ultimate vitamin, in a sense,” she said of the product. “It’s just such a good supplement to have … [It] gives you the essential oils and the essential fatty acids that people really don’t get throughout the day, especially if you have a hectic lifestyle.”
“The biggest thing for me is that it’s all-natural,” she continued, “With my crazy lifestyle, I have enough unnatural things going on. [Laughs] As long as I can take one thing a day that is ‘good,’ that’s all-natural and healthy — it’s not coffee; it’s not caffeine; it’s nothing crazy — that benefits me alone, just by doing that.”
By focusing on staying healthy, Farley said she feels more perfect than she’s ever felt before.
“[During season 1 of Jersey Shore], I was binge drinking and going out and getting pizza at 4AM and cheese balls. In Italy, I got really skinny, but I was running myself ragged. Now, I’m kind of more muscular, but I can get up after six hours of sleep and be wide awake for the day. Whereas two years ago, you’d have to drag me by my hair, because I was still digesting the grossness from the day of.”
“The overall lifestyle changes that I’ve made have made me such a better person,” she added.
With wedding bells on the horizon, Farley said she wants to maintain what she’s doing, especially as she starts to think about having children.
“I do want to set goals for myself,” she said. “Obviously, I want to have kids one day; but I really want to have a healthy lifestyle prior to having kids, so that when I do ever decide to get pregnant it’s not such a shock.”
“I want to be able to run a marathon prior,” she added. “I want to set up small goals so by the time I do decided to have kids and a family, I’m the healthiest I will be in all my years of living.”
As for the wedding itself, Farley says she isn’t quite sure yet when it will happen.
“I’d like to say next year, around summertime,” she said, “But every time I keep looking into that, I’m hearing like, You have to plan, like, a year in advance for a venue and blah, blah, blah, and it takes this month for this invitation … And I’m like, ‘Oh my God.’”
“My goal is next summer, but I haven’t even picked the venue yet. [Laughs]”
Just three years ago, MTV brought together eight unknown twentysomethings, shacked them up in the summer-getaway spot of Seaside Heights, N.J., and let the cameras roll.
Now after record-setting success as the network’s most-viewed series ever, The Jersey Shore is in its sixth and final season. With this end of an era, what will happen to the show’s fist-pumping, club-hopping cast when the small screen goes to black?
“The future for the Jersey Shore stars, just like for most reality stars, is fairly dim,” says Stacy Jones, CEO of Hollywood Branded Inc. “Their appeal and overall public interest will fizzle unless each cast member can manage to keep themselves relevant. Let’s face it, reality TV shows and stars come and go, and the Jersey Shore stars have had more than their share of 15 minutes of fame. Their time of partying must come to an end.”
Is there a chance the castmates can extend that quarter hour in the limelight?
Perhaps. But not all of the Jersey Shore stars are made equal — Nicole “Snooki” Polizzi and Mike “The Situation” Sorrentino stand out amongst the rest. “Snooki and The Situation are the big personalities within the group, and the others are very much so in the background,” explains Jones. “[They] have the ability to make a splash or a scene wherever they go.”
Snooki has already catapulted her small-screen fame into a successful brand: The reality star published three books (including New York Times bestseller, A Shore Thing), landed a spinoff series with BFFJenni “JWoww” Farley, appeared in 2012’s The Three Stooges, threw punches on WWE Raw, and has been parodied throughout pop culture, on shows such as South Park and Saturday Night Live. And just seven weeks ago, the former party girl became a mom when she welcomed her first child with fiancé Jionni LaValle, son Lorenzo Dominic LaValle. And motherhood opens up a world of opportunity for the MTV star.
“I think Snooki will ultimately do a lot better than The Situation because she had a baby,” reveals pop culture expert Jo Piazza. “Because she had a baby, she can completely re-brand herself and push herself into this different tier of lasting reality stars.” Now, “she is going to do a book about the baby, do a show about the baby, and do all the endorsements around the baby. I think Snooki will ultimately get another series on Lifetime or Oxygen about her being a new mom.”
But will a polished-up Snooki still pull in viewers? “As a mother, she cannot get away with the antics that made her who she is,” says Jones. “This new Snooki could be boring, or she could be the nextJessica Simpson, who made a likeable name for herself with a string of ditzy quotes like, ‘is Chicken of the Sea chicken or tuna?’, or Nicole Richie who founded a fashion line, or Bethenny Frankel, queen of SkinnyGirl.”
“For the Situation to stay relevant, he has to do something major in his personal life,” Piazza explains. “Reality stars have to keep inventing new news because they’re not starring in movies and they’re not releasing CDs. That’s not how the news cycle is built around them. Their personal lives have to become the news, and the things that drive news cycles for reality stars are babies, marriages, divorces and rehab.”
The Situation has already hit headlines for rehab, after the beefed-up star sought treatment for prescription-medication addiction earlier this year. So what move might keep The Sitch in the public eye? “I think the next step for him — the only step for him — is getting married,” Piazza says. “He’s going to have to get engaged and get married and he can capitalize on that wedding and it will keep him relevant.” But has The Situation been pigeonholed into his Jersey Shore out-of-control party persona? “It’s still unclear how this new Michael Sorrentino will live up to the expectations of his followers,” Jones acknowledges. “In his case, his popularity is more so based on his crash and burn – and the more he rights himself, the less he may appeal.”
But Snooki and The Situation are not the only Shore stars branching out. After MTV thrust him into the American consciousness,Paul “Pauly D” DelVecchio maximized on his moment in the spotlight to propel his blossoming DJ career. “Pauly D has gotten himself well established within the Vegas party and touring DJ community – one that is chock full of the younger generation that will help him continue to be popular,” says Jones. “While he might have the most legitimate career of all of the cast members,” she adds, his spinoff, The Pauly D Project, may struggles in the reality-show ratings race. “Is he a strong enough character to support a spinoff? He’s going to need some support casting help as he might be the Joey Tribbiani (of Friends) of this cast.”
As for the other members of the Seaside Heights house — Vinny Guadagnino, Jenni “JWoww” Farley, Deena Nicole Cortese, Sammi “Sweetheart” Giancola and Ronnie Ortiz-Magro — fame may be fleeting. “I’m a little worried that [they] are in for a wave of pain,” reveals Piazza. “I think they will just disappear. That’s what we’ve seen with each reality cycle.” While a few break-out personalities manage, the “second tier of people keep trying really hard…and then they kind of fizzle into obscurity.”
Despite the odds stacked so heavily against them, the Jersey Shore stars are staying full-speed ahead with their careers. “I want to continue with my DJ career,” DelVecchio told Celebuzzat the show’s season six premiere party in New York City. “I got some headphones that came out, my cocktail came out, REMIX, and I’m working on an album right now with 50 Cent and we have an energy shot, Street Kings.”
A few even would like to forgo reality television for scripted shows. “I would like to do acting,” Ortiz-Magro gushed. “Reality TV is something that I’m never going to shut down, but I feel like on Jersey Shore I showed so much of Ronnie that I would like to act…. I think that’s something I would enjoy a lot more.” It’s an aspiration that Guadagnino shares. “I see myself on some really successful TV show somewhere,” he said, adding that he even envisions “winning an Oscar.” And Cortese is angling to do “voice-overs for cartoons,” she revealed. “I’ve been doing voice lessons. I see myself as like a cute little character…on Nickelodeon or Disney.”
Not all of the cast is clinging to fame, though. “As long as I’m happy, successful, and doing what I love to do, that’s really all that matters to me,” said Giancola. For newly-engaged Farley, the future is about family with fiancé Roger Mathews, revealing her hopes to be “married with two kids” in five years. That might be the more ideal path, given that “the shelf life for fame has just gotten so truncated with the 24-hour news cycle,” explains Piazza.
But there may still be a chance for the career-minded Jersey Shore stars to preserve their spotlight. “Reality stars who have TV series end need a team of supporters to help them stay [relevant],” explains Jones. ”This means ensuring their publicists and managers continue to help them find ways to be in the public eye. [And] if they wish to leave the TV world and re-brand themselves, they will need a make-under.” Her advice? “Tone down the big attitudes, fall off the map a bit, stop tanning, and redirect their lives with some real ambition. It won’t be easy, but it can be done.”
No matter what’s on the horizon for the MTV stars, one this is for sure: Jersey Shore is going to its grave. “They have had a place in all of our hearts for years now,” admits Piazza, “but America’s attention span is really short. So America will replace the Jersey Shore stars very quickly. We’re waiting to see what is the next big reality hit. And those people are going to come in and swoop in on the Jersey Shore cast’s fame just as quickly as Kim Kardashian swooped in on Paris Hilton.”
Well, there you have it — Jersey Shore is the new Paris Hilton.
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Willow Smithhas always showed her true colors — with her hair tresses.
After whipping her hair back and forth, the starlet shaved her head and bleached her crop-cut bleach blonde in February. Then Smith took a cue from Kermit the Frog with a green ‘do in early March, before ditching the muted hue for bold, bright neon yellow hair.
Now the 11-year-old’s color craze has shown up on her pet pooch.
It seems Smith has hopped on the dyed doggie bandwagon.
The starlet raised eyebrows by stepping out with her pink-hued pooch in Calabasas, Calif., on Monday afternoon. While the pup’s body was au naturel, her ears and four paws were cotton-candy colored — a look that has People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) up in arms.
“Most people who dye their dog’s fur aren’t aware that doing so can cause the animal stress and can lead to complications or allergic reactions that endanger the animal’s health,” PETA said in a statement to Celebuzz. “Our dogs and cats love us regardless of how we look. Why not extend the same kindness to them?”
Smith is certainly not the first celebrity to tint their canine — nor is she the first to land in hot water for it. She follows in the heavily criticized footsteps of stars like Aubrey O’Day, Nicole “Snooki” Polizzi and Alessandra Ambrosio, who also came under fire from animal rights organizations like PETA.
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