Michael Lohan Turned Down “Celebrity Apprentice”

Lindsay Lohan’s estranged father is a man of many opinions — thankfully for the rest of us, he won’t be sharing any of them on the next installment of The Celebrity Apprentice.

Michael Lohan had been in negotiations to be part of the cast of Donald Trump’s hit NBC show, but ultimately turned down an apppearance on the show because he’s “too busy.”
“Although the meeting went well, I was too busy with other things to be on the show,” says the former Wall Street trader.
Rapper Lil Jon, baseball star Jose Canseco, former Sugar Ray frontman Mark McGrath, R&B legend Dionne Warwick, pseudo-singer Latoya Jackson, and the always opinionated Star Jones have reportedly signed up for the third season of The Apprentice’s C-list celebrity spinoff, which goes into production in New York next week.

Lamar Odom Hires Kris Jenner As Manager

The toughest Hollywood family to keep up with is keeping it in the family in a whole new way. We hear that Calabasas socialite and star of television’s Keeping Up With The Kardashian Kris Jenner has agreed to represent her son-in-law — NBA ace Lamar Odom — as one of the hoopster’s new managers.
Lamar married Kris’ daughter Khloe, 26, following a whirlwind romance last September.
Word is Kris will handle all of Lamar’s “non-basketball” stuff, including endorsement deals for the standard fee of 25% of all proceeds. Kris’ duties will also include setting up paid appearances for Lamar and we’d presume, filming a sex tape between him and Khloe.

VH1 Divas 2010 — Katy Perry, Keri Hilson, Nicki Minaj — Will Honor America’s Troops

This year’s VH1′s Divas will not only pay tribute to the talent of singers like Katy Perry, Sugarland, Keri Hilson, and Paramore, but also to the brave men and women who risk their lives our country.
This year’s “Divas” are taking some of the focus off themselves by singing for the military through a partnership with the USO, VH1 said in a press statement on Thursday.

This December, Perry, Sugarland, Hilson, and femcee Nicki Minaj will perform for thousands of troops at Marine Corps Air Station Miramar in San Diego for the VH1 special Divas Salute The Troops. Paramore will visit Marines, soldiers, airmen, sailors, coastguardsmen and reservists at a military base in the Middle East, organizers say.
USO was launched in 1941 to build morale among troops. The program was instrumental in bringing some of the most iconic stars of all time — including Frank Sinatra, Judy Garland, Sammy Davis, Jr. and Marilyn Monroe — to the warfield. Today, those shows are still vital to boosting troop morale and VH1 is dedicated to working with the USO to continue this tradition in new and innovative ways.
“The USO is thrilled to be partnering with VH1 and honored to be a part of delivering such an uplifting event to our nation’s troops,” said Sloan Gibson, USO President. “The holidays are especially tough for our men and women in uniform and their families, and having the opportunity to touch so many troops stationed around the world at a time of year that matters most lets them know that America still cares about their welfare. There is no better time to celebrate our armed forces and support their efforts than now.”
Hilson called it an incredible opportunity.
“I get to be among so many other influential women, groundbreaking women, strong, powerful, confident women, not only on that day, but just to be a part of the legacy of ‘VH1 Divas,’” she said. “Strong woman, yes I am. Leader, yes I am. Innovative, creative, all those things, yes, I am that.”
Jennifer Nettles of Sugarland also chimed in with her excitement over being selected for this year’s Divas lineup.
“All of these women definitely have a larger than life persona, be it on stage or who they are or what they wear,” she said. “I think there’s something to be said for celebrating that.”
Since its premiere on VH1 in 1998, a host of entertainers have been honored as part of the annual Divas Special — they include Kelly Clarkson, Miley Cyrus, Jennifer Hudson, Leona Lewis, Diana Ross, Tina Turner, Mariah Carey, Celine Dion, Aretha Franklin, Mary J. Blige, Shania Twain, Faith Hill, Whitney Houston, and Beyonce.
VH1 Divas Salute The Troops premieres Dec. 5 on VH1. The special will be broadcast internationally by The Armed Forces Network.

Kanye West Naked? Kanye West Nude Pictures For Sale!

Let’s have a toast for the douchebags…Let’s have a toast for the penis! Enter Your Bids, Ladies & Lady Boys: Pictures of Kanye West’s pecker are now available and up for grabs on the Interwebs, celebrity informants squealed to RadarOnline.com Thursday.

Never one to mince words, Yeezy is remaining uncharacteristically quiet about reports that a self-snapped photo of his penis — which the rapper/producer reportedly emailed to a number of online friends prior to the success of his debut album The College Dropout — are now for sale and being shopped to various media outlets.
“These pics have been floating around since he hit so many girls up on MySpace. He probably sent them to many, many women,” one insider whispers.
And get this, ‘Crunchers: RadarOnline claims to have seen the two images in question. One of the naked snaps allegedly shows a nude Kanye from the chest up, wearing sunglasses and a gold chain, while the second photo features the 33-year-old’s genitals exposed from his boxer briefs.
In a recent magazine interview, Kanye admitted he had contemplated posing naked as part of his desire to “break every rule of hip-hop.”
“It’s like Björk. If she wanted to pose naked, you’d be like, ‘Oh, that’s Björk.’ But if I wanted to pose naked, people would draw all type of things into it. I definitely feel like, in the next however many years, if I work out for two months, that I’ll pose naked.”

Christina Aguilera Divorce: Did Aguilera Cheat On Husband Jordan Bratman?

Divorce is in the air! Hot on the heels of the Courteney Cox/David Arquette split (and the Laura Dern/Ben Harper split, while we’re at it) comes the news that after a son and five years of marriage, pint-sized powerhouse Christina Aguilera has filed for divorce from her husband, producer Jordan Bratman.
Aw shucks, now we feel bad for putting them in our “Hot Girl, Fug Dude” Gallery!

Christina, 29, and Jordan, 33, began dating in 2002, before announcing their engagement in February 2005. They tied the knot in a wedding ceremony in the Napa Valley that November. It was the first marriage for both.
The date of separation is listed as Sept. 11, 2010, although celebrity snoops maintain that Jordan and Christina have been leading separate lives for several months. According to the rumor mill, Aguilera may have had an extramarital affair, but that has yet to be confirmed and Aguilera’s people have not commented.
“They were very much in love, but over the last six months, it became clear they were more like friends than husband and wife,” tipster tell Us Weekly.

The “Fighter” hitmaker cites the ever-popular “irreconciliable differences” as the reason for the split. Since there is a prenup in place, Christina wants to stop Jordan’s ability to get spousal support. According to the divorce petition, filed in Los Angeles Thursday, Christina asks that “Earnings and accumulations of [Aguilera] before marriage, during marriage and from and after the date of separation” be considered separate property.
The two will share custody of their 2-year-old son, Max.
On Tuesday, a rep for the multiplatinum-selling Grammy winner confirmed the couple had split, with the singer issuing a statement.
“Although Jordan and I are separated, our commitment to our son Max remains as strong as ever,” Christina said at the time.

Spike TV Mining Reality Show, “Coal,” Series Premiere April 2011

In what some industry observers are calling a stroke of television casting magic, the producers of TLC’s Deadliest Catch are working on a 10-episode Spike TV docu-series on mining in West Virginia, The Hollywood Reporter dished on Thursday.
News of the upcoming series premiere of Coal comes as TV viewers around the world remain captivated by the rescue of 33 trapped Chilean miners this week. More than 1 billion people worldwide tuned in to watch the harrowing saga unfold via live stream this week.

Spike TV executives, however, say the show has been in development for about a year.
“It didn’t take a tragedy, and then a miracle, to get us excited about this,” says Sharon Levy, executive vice president of original programming at Spike, told The Hollywood Reporter. “Obviously, we’re humongous fans of the kind of shows Thom does that celebrate the everyday man. He said, ‘We’re working on this project called Coal. And we said we’d take it.”
The network postponed formally announcing the premiere of the new show until the Chilean miners — who spent two months trapped nearly a mile underground in a collapsed mine — were safely rescued.
“We’ve tapped into something that people are passionate about; this is a topic the world is interested in,” Levy says. “Everybody is afraid of being buried alive. These people risk their lives every day to make the world move, yet most of us never really think about how we get [our energy].”
Spike believes a closer look at the harsh realities of mining is long overdue.
“It’s incredibly difficult to shoot,” Levy adds. “What happened in Chile makes safety precautions even more important.”
Coal will focus on Mike Crowder and Tom Roberts, co-owners of Cobalt Mine in Westchester, West Virginia, and their mining team of more than 40 employees. The series is executive produced by Thom Beers and his Original Productions company, which also produces Ice Road Truckers and Ax Men.
The series premiere of Coal will debut in April 2011.

Amy Winehouse Talks Love, Fashion, And “Old Jewish Black Men” With Harper’s Bazaar

In the November issue of Harper’s Bazaar Magazine, pop/jazz star Amy Winehouse chats about her new fashion line with designer Fred Perry, love with beau Reg Traviss — and dressing like “an old Jewish Black Man.”

Amy On Working With Designer Fred Perry On Her New Fashion Line: “I knew exactly what I wanted. And I love Fred Perry so much. I was honored that they would even, like, ‘Do you want to come and do a line?’ Me? Like, me? Yeah!”
On Her Love Life: “I’ve got a ve’y nice boyfriend. He’s ve’y good to me.”
Is Amy In Love? “I hardly know … yet. We’ve only been together three and a half months.”
On Style: “I just dress like… I’m an old Jewish black man. I just dress like it’s still the ’50s.”