Celebrity Vivids

This time, no one’s playing the Trump card.

Pageant officials said Friday that former Miss Nevada USA Katie Rees, who was dethroned last week after some pre-title racy photos surfaced on the Internet, will not have a second shot at the crown.

“The Miss Universe Organization has thoroughly considered the request of Ms. Katie Rees to be reinstated as Miss Nevada USA 2007,” organization president Paula Shugart said in a statement, a day after co-owner and Rosie O’Donnell nemesis Donald Trump told Extra that he was taking another look at his colleagues’ decision.

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No second chance for Katie Rees! I suppose it’s understandable on the Miss Universe Organization’s part, if they were to reinstate Katie Rees that would mean they have to go back in time and reinstate all the other Miss USA or Miss Universe that were stripped off their titles for raunchy pictures, some of which pale in comparison to Katie Rees’. Case in point, Vanessa Williams.

Trump, of course, was instrumental in the choice to give Miss USA 2006 Tara Conner another go-round after the then-20-year-old was spotted drinking—and reportedly smooching Miss Teen USA Katie Blair—at a New York nightspot. The duo were also accused of sneaking men into their Trump Place apartment.

Both Conner and Blair, who was dropped by the advocacy group Mothers Against Drunk Driving as a spokesperson after it was reported she was out drinking with Miss USA, are safe for the time being, however, so long as they behave like perfect angels for the rest of their reign.

Two days after Conner’s teary mea culpa and her pledge to enter rehab, Rees, who was set to compete in the 2007 Miss USA pageant in March, was booted after officials caught a glimpse of pictures taken when the 22-year-old was partying in Tampa, Florida. The offending shots showed Rees kissing another girl, flashing one of her breasts and giving the camera a glimpse of her thong underwear.

At a news conference last Saturday, Rees apologized, pointing out how one night of poor judgment “can affect the rest of our lives.” She then asked for another chance to prove herself.

Katie Rees was caught in a much more undesirable situation. There are photo evidence, that’s the thing. And they are circulated widely! She was most searched at one time and even my site’s bandwidth was knocked out for a while due to the immense traffic, all hungry for her pictures.

Miss Nevada Katie Rees

“Our number one goal is to have her reinstated,” Rees’ attorney, Mario Torres III said. “Ms. Rees did not even recollect these photos were taken…The person who posted these pictures should, in some way, be held accountable.”

But apparently the Miss Universe Organization felt it had doled out enough second chances for one year.

“In light of the serious nature of the circumstances, there is no recourse but to stand by our decision,” Shugart said.

Miss Nevada first runner-up Helen Salas has assumed the title and will be the one who competes Mar. 23 in Los Angeles for the Miss USA 2007 crown.

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So it’s official. Katie Rees will not be given a second chance and her successor will be Miss Nevada first runner-up Helen Salas.

To see why Katie Rees deserved to be stripped off her title, check out the pictures HERE.

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Michael Jordan and Juanita Jordan

Michael Jordan, the retired basketball superstar, and his wife of 17 years announced their divorce in a statement issued by their lawyers on Friday.

Jordan, 43, part-owner of the Charlotte Bobcats NBA team, and his wife, Juanita, 47, married in 1989. They have three teenage children and have lived in the Chicago suburb of Highland Park, Illinois.

Juanita Jordan withdrew a divorce petition in 2002 and the couple said at the time they would attempt to mend their marriage.

The divorce is not the best news but it’s good to know that Michael Jordan and Juanita Jordan have tried to amend their marriage before taking the last resort. Every celebrity couple should try to work on their marriage before calling it quits.

Local media reported the divorce was amicable, based on divorce papers filed in Lake County, Illinois. The two were pictured together attending their two sons’ Chicago-area high school basketball game on Friday.

The statement from their lawyers said the divorce judgment was granted on Friday.

Jordan is one of the world’s wealthiest former athletes, with extensive endorsement contracts and business interests.

He retired as a player after the 2003 season with a lifetime 30-point-a-game average. He led the Chicago Bulls to six NBA championships in the 1990s and captured five league Most Valuable Player awards.

The couple may no longer be husband and wife, but good friends doesn’t sound so bad too.

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Former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein has been executed by hanging at a secure facility in northern Baghdad for crimes against humanity.

The news was confirmed to the BBC by the Iraqi deputy foreign minister.

Iraqi TV said the execution took place just before 0600 local time (0300GMT). A representative of the prime minister and a Sunni Muslim cleric were present.

Two co-defendants, Saddam Hussein’s half-brother and a former chief judge, are to be executed at a later date.

Congratulations to the world. The tyrant has kicked the bucket. Hrmm, more like the bucket has been kicked from under the tyrant’s feet. Next tyrant……….Dubya!

All three were sentenced to death by an Iraqi court on 5 November after a year-long trial over the 1982 killings of 148 Shias in the town of Dujail.

A small group of Iraqis witnessed the execution at an Iraqi compound known by the Americans as Camp Justice, a secure facility in the northern Baghdad suburb of Khadimeya.

They watched as a judge read out the sentence to Saddam Hussein. The former Iraqi leader was carrying a copy of the Koran and asked for it to be given to a friend.

Saddam Hussein When He Was Captured

It’s beyond me how religions can cause so many innocent lives. Bunch of bleedin’ extremists. Die!

The noose was then placed around his neck. When the hangman stepped forward to put the hood over his head, Saddam Hussein made it clear he wanted to die without it.

The execution took just a few minutes.

Video footage of the execution is expected to be released as final proof of Saddam Hussein’s demise although it is expected to stop short of showing the actual death.

US troops and Iraqi security forces are on high alert for any violent backlash. The US State Department has urged all its embassies to increase security.

Not so smug now, are you?

I wonder how he looked like when he croaked. Did his eyes pop out and his tongue hang over his lips frozen? They shouldn’t stop the video short of his death though, everyone has a right to see that he’s “actually” dead.

US President George W Bush hailed the execution as “an important milestone” on the road to building an Iraqi democracy, but warned it would not end the deadly violence there.

He said: “It is a testament to the Iraqi people’s resolve to move forward after decades of oppression that, despite his terrible crimes against his own people, Saddam Hussein received a fair trial.

Of course it will not end violence, Dubya. In fact more people will die and most of them shall be Americans. Thanks Mr. President!

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*UPDATE*The full-length video of Saddam Hussein’s video has been found! Click here to watch. Click here to see for yourself, to confirm that he’s really dead!!

It’d be ages before the world can see the video of Saddam Hussein’s Execution. But here are some of the screen captures!

Saddam Hussein Moments Before He Died

Saddam Hussein In A Body Bag

Yipee!

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*UPDATE* Britney Spears threw up again but this time it’s in a car and she purged all over poor Isaac Cohen!

Britney Spears went a bit overboard last week. On December 20, she tested her drinking limits (and the DJ’s patience) at Hollywood lounge Les Deux. An inebriated Spears “kept requesting her own songs,a club source says.

Resident DJ Stone Rokk finally played one, but followed it with ex-boyfriend Justin Timberlake’s “Cry Me a River.Soon the partying caught up with the 25-year-old pop princess.

“She went to the bathroom and threw up all over,an eyewitness says. But, adds the source, “she didn’t need to be carried out.

I think Britney Spears needs to get help. Everyday the public is bombarded with news of her partying and embarrassing antics. What has happened to her two kids, Sean Preston and Jayden James?

Britney Spears Is Now A Vomitting Skank

Has she even seen the poor kids lately?

Meanwhile, Spears’ soon-to-be ex, Kevin Federline, 28, has been keeping a low profile.

On December 21, he stopped at Target in L.A.’s Woodland Hills area. “He was trying to be cool, dressed in a puffy white jacket and cargo pants,says a witness. “He looked like he was waiting to be noticed.

And he got his wish. Says the source, “Someone said loudly, ˜My, how the mighty have fallen “ shopping at Target these days?’

Spears’ rep couldn’t be reached for comment.

Kevin Federline may be lame, but at least he’s sober most of the time. I seriously do think that he’d make a better father than Britney Spears. Money ain’t everything!

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Former Us Weekly gossip columnist Timothy McDarrah, arrested in New York last year by undercover federal agents, has been found guilty of charges related to soliciting sex with a minor.

McDarrah, a former reporter at the Las Vegas Sun, was arrested after being charged with trying to seduce an undercover federal agent posing on the Internet as a 13-year-old girl.

Bravo to federal agents for busting the paedophiliac ass of Timothy McDarrah’s. Fooker ought to be castrated, as a matter of fact..all paedophiles ought to be castrated and gassed.

He was charged with one count of using a computer and the Internet “to attempt to entice, induce, coerce and persuade a minor to engage in sexual activity,” according to an indictment handed up in November 2005. He was convicted Dec. 20 after an eight-day jury trial in New York, and faces a mandatory minimum of five years in prison, according to court documents.

It’s comforting to know the power that be recognises that with the advent of Internet, cases of sex crimes against children would skyrocket and they’re doing something about it. Mandatory minimum of 5 years is too damn little though.

McDarrah, 44, responded in June 2005 to a posting on the craigslist.com Web site offering introductions to the “freshest, youngest” girls in New York, an FBI affidavit said. The gossip writer told an undercover FBI agent, who had posted the advertisement to lure pedophiles, that he would pay $200 for sex with a 13-year-old girl, the affidavit said.

After his arrest, McDarrah was suspended without pay from his post as the editor of Us Weekly’s “Hot Stuff” column. From 2002 to 2004, he worked as a gossip columnist at the Las Vegas Sun.

I hope Timothy McDarrah will get what he deserves. I doubt so, but I hope that Timothy McDarrah has not victimised any young child yet.

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Julia Roberts and Danny Moder

Julia Roberts is expecting her third child with her husband, cinematographer Danny Moder, her spokeswoman confirmed to People magazine Friday.

The baby is due this summer, Roberts’ publicist, Marcy Engelman, said in a story posted on the magazine’s Web site. News of the pregnancy first appeared in the New York Post’s Page Six column.

A call to Engelman by The Associated Press wasn’t immediately returned.

Roberts, 39, and Moder, 37, have 2-year-old twins, Hazel and Phinnaeus, who were born in November 2004. The couple were married in July 2002 at Roberts’ home in Taos, N.M.

Congratulations to Julia Roberts! She is sperminated again. I guess motherhood is agreeing with the former America’s sweetheart.

She won the best actress Oscar in 2001 for “Erin Brockovich.” Her screen hits also include “Steel Magnolias” and “Pretty Woman.”

Roberts is the voice of the wise spider in the film adaptation of “Charlotte’s Web.” She’ll next be seen in the drama “Charlie Wilson’s War,” directed by Mike Nichols and also starring Tom Hanks, scheduled for release next year.

She made her Broadway debut this spring in a revival of Richard Greenberg’s “Three Days of Rain.”

I can’t wait for Julia Roberts to undertake a major blockbuster. It’s been ages since that wonderful Brockovich movie. Did I hear whisper of “Ocean’s 12″? That was some big shit..

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