Adam Lambert hasn't always been as comfortable in his skin as he appeared during his hypersexed AMA performance. Back in high school he was the fat kid--and now getting a reaction from his audiences helps him love what he sees in the mirror when he takes off all the makeup.
"I suffered from a little bit of an ugly duckling complex early in my twenties and definitely in my teens," he told Morning Jolt's Larry Flick on Sirius radio. "When I was in high school I was 250 pounds and that creates some stuff...some body image stuff, some confidence issues and I got a lot of my confidence from the validation I got as a performer."
In the second clip Lambert talks about the meaning behind the track "Soaked," which was written by Muse's Matt Bellamy, off his new album For Your Entertainment.
"I think the lyrics to me personally are about one night stands," he said. "Being soaked in booze...searching for something to fill that void... And you see that guy at the bar, or that girl, or that tranny, and they're just searching, and it's always the same thing and that's what the song says...it's not the first time, it's not the worst crime and your soul will be OK."
Tuesday, December 1, 2009
White House Crashers Speak!
They came, they saw, they outraged – by breaching White House security and attending the Obamas' Nov. 24 State Dinner, to which they had not been invited – and now Michaele and Tareq Salahi are telling their story. And they say it's about "to take a dramatic turn."
"We can tell you, we did not party-crash the White House," Tareq Salahi said at the top of Tuesday morning's Today show.
In response to host Matt Lauer's questions, Tareq repeatedly answered that he and Michaele are co-operating with the internal review being conducted by the Secret Service. "We're proud to be working with them," said Tareq, who also stated that he and his wife would be "completely exonerated. The truth will soon come out."
But there are those who think the truth will not work to the couple's advantage, and NBC News reports that the Salahis could be charged with misdemeanor trespassing to discourage others from following their example.
"This was not a misunderstanding. You don't show up uninvited to the White House," White House press secretary Robert Gibbs told Today. He further took issue with the Salahis' claim that their names appeared on the guest list for the dinner, which was in honor of the prime minister of India.
But Michaele took issue with what Gibbs – and others – had to say.
Insists They Were Invited
"We were invited. Not crashers. And there isn't anyone who would have the audacity or the poor behavior to do that," she said. "The White House is the house, and no one would do that."
"Who invited you?" asked Lauer, to which Tareq once more reiterated that the couple is cooperating with the Secret Service.
The Salahis, who said they were not paid for the Today interview, said that they have been mischaracterized in the press. "This has been the most devastating thing that's ever happened to us," he said. She said, "Our lives have been destroyed. Everything we worked for, Matt. For me, 44 years, just destroyed."
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According to reports, evidence exists that the couple – he a polo and wine enthusiast, and she an aspiring reality star – had been planning their stunt for months, and Michaele had boasted about trying to get close to the Obamas on her Facebook page.
At last week's event, the pair breezed through metal detectors without sounding an alarm. They then managed to slip past security officers armed with the list of the 320 invited guests.
While the Salahis mingled during the cocktail hour, and separately posed with the president and vice-president (with the photographic evidence later posted on their Facebook page), they did not stay for the sit-down dinner.
"We can tell you, we did not party-crash the White House," Tareq Salahi said at the top of Tuesday morning's Today show.
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In response to host Matt Lauer's questions, Tareq repeatedly answered that he and Michaele are co-operating with the internal review being conducted by the Secret Service. "We're proud to be working with them," said Tareq, who also stated that he and his wife would be "completely exonerated. The truth will soon come out."
But there are those who think the truth will not work to the couple's advantage, and NBC News reports that the Salahis could be charged with misdemeanor trespassing to discourage others from following their example.
"This was not a misunderstanding. You don't show up uninvited to the White House," White House press secretary Robert Gibbs told Today. He further took issue with the Salahis' claim that their names appeared on the guest list for the dinner, which was in honor of the prime minister of India.
But Michaele took issue with what Gibbs – and others – had to say.
Insists They Were Invited
"We were invited. Not crashers. And there isn't anyone who would have the audacity or the poor behavior to do that," she said. "The White House is the house, and no one would do that."
"Who invited you?" asked Lauer, to which Tareq once more reiterated that the couple is cooperating with the Secret Service.
The Salahis, who said they were not paid for the Today interview, said that they have been mischaracterized in the press. "This has been the most devastating thing that's ever happened to us," he said. She said, "Our lives have been destroyed. Everything we worked for, Matt. For me, 44 years, just destroyed."
For Facebook
According to reports, evidence exists that the couple – he a polo and wine enthusiast, and she an aspiring reality star – had been planning their stunt for months, and Michaele had boasted about trying to get close to the Obamas on her Facebook page.
At last week's event, the pair breezed through metal detectors without sounding an alarm. They then managed to slip past security officers armed with the list of the 320 invited guests.
While the Salahis mingled during the cocktail hour, and separately posed with the president and vice-president (with the photographic evidence later posted on their Facebook page), they did not stay for the sit-down dinner.
Lady Gaga Takes a Tumble on Stage
It's amazing that this is the first time that a piece of Lady Gaga's wardrobe has caused her to take a spill on stage, and strangely enough, it wasn't a metal head halo or massive shoulder pad that did it -- it was her high heels.
Watch the Video After the Jump!
Gaga's fall took place during her Montreal concert as she performed her song 'Teeth.' At the 20 second mark of the video, she can be seen falling over while performing a dance move, but quickly popping back up and getting right back into the routine.
That wasn't the end of her ground-kissing, though. She also hit the deck two more times during the show. She went on to joke: "I'm like a drunk supermodel - and I LOVE it!," blogger Perez Hilton reported.
Watch the Video After the Jump!
Gaga's fall took place during her Montreal concert as she performed her song 'Teeth.' At the 20 second mark of the video, she can be seen falling over while performing a dance move, but quickly popping back up and getting right back into the routine.
That wasn't the end of her ground-kissing, though. She also hit the deck two more times during the show. She went on to joke: "I'm like a drunk supermodel - and I LOVE it!," blogger Perez Hilton reported.
Annie Lennox Wears "HIV Positive" T-Shirt Onstage With Aretha (VIDEO)
On the second night of the 25th Anniversary Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Concert, which was taped in October at Madison Square Garden and aired yesterday on HBO, Annie Lennox joined Aretha Franklin onstage while wearing a t-shirt reading "HIV Positive." Lennox, who reportedly wore the shirt as a way to raise awareness of HIV and AIDS, joined the Queen of Soul for a rendition of her 1967 hit 'Chain of Fools.'
Lennox, who has never claimed to be HIV positive herself, says she was inspired to become an HIV/AIDS advocate after visiting South Africa in 2004 and hearing Nelson Mandela speak. She started the charity and website SING in 2004 and won the 2009 Woman of Peace Award for her work highlighting the impact of HIV and AIDS on women and children.
Lennox, who has never claimed to be HIV positive herself, says she was inspired to become an HIV/AIDS advocate after visiting South Africa in 2004 and hearing Nelson Mandela speak. She started the charity and website SING in 2004 and won the 2009 Woman of Peace Award for her work highlighting the impact of HIV and AIDS on women and children.
Alec Baldwin: I'm Quitting Acting in 2012
Hollywood: get ready to say "so long, farewell" to Alec Baldwin.
The Emmy-winning star of 30 Rock says that he plans to quit acting when his contract for the NBC show expires in 2012.
Says Baldwin in the December issue of Men's Journal: "I don't have any interest in acting anymore." At 51, he points out, "I'm not young, but I have time to do something else."
And while the actor has gotten the best reviews of his career playing Republican, bottom-line-obsessed Jack Donaghy on the hit comedy, he harshly dismisses all of his work on the big screen:
"I consider my entire movie career a complete failure," declares the star of The Hunt for Red October andGlengarry Glen Ross.
Huh? "The goal of moviemaking," he explains, "is to star in a film where your performance drives the film, and the film is either a soaring critical or commercial success, and I never had that."
And, yes, Baldwin still regrets the infamous, leaked voicemail in which he called daughter Ireland a "rude, thoughtless little pig." "I feel the consequences of that every day," he tells the magazine.
Baldwin's protracted custody fight with ex-wife Kim Basinger has affected his love life, too, leading to the recent dissolution of a seven-year relationship with another woman. Yet he claims that he doesn't mind. "I'd rather be lonely than wrong," he says.
Who Is Elin Nordegren, Otherwise Known as Mrs. Tiger Woods?
A beautiful blonde Swedish model named Elin Nordegren married Tiger Woods, stood quietly by his side at golf tournaments and gave birth to his two children, while trying to remain out of the spotlight.
Now Nordegren is being thrust into the public eye after her husband crashed his car in their front yard, as speculation runs rampant as to what happened in the early morning on Friday, Nov. 27.
But what do we know about Mrs. Woods? The Daily Beast looks into Elin.
Now Nordegren is being thrust into the public eye after her husband crashed his car in their front yard, as speculation runs rampant as to what happened in the early morning on Friday, Nov. 27.
But what do we know about Mrs. Woods? The Daily Beast looks into Elin.
Her parents divorced when she was 6: Thomas Nordegren and Barbro Holmberg split in 1986.
She modeled but didn't make a career out of it: In her native Sweden, Nordegren modeled some. "She wasn't a high-profile model," a source from a New York-based agency explained to the Daily Beast.
After college, she became a nanny: Elin worked for Swedish golfer Jesper Parnevik. It was through him she would meet her future husband.
Elin and Tiger met in 2001, at the British Open: He asked her out through a friend, which didn't sit well with Nordegren. "Her reaction was, 'What the hell was that?' She thought it was so weird and pathetic. Of course she said no," a friend of the Parneviks told Sports Illustrated.
Tiger persisted and would eventually win her over: Woods kept calling the Parneviks to convince Nordegren to go out with him and she finally said yes.
They found out they had a lot in common: She played sports and knew a lot about golf. "She was also conservative by nature, like him," a golf-industry source told the Daily Beast.
They married in a lavish 2004 ceremony: Their wedding and reception reportedly cost a cool $1.4 million.
She seemed like the perfect athlete's wife: "You could point to a thousand candidates for a professional athlete to choose from for a wife and she was maybe No. 1," the golf-industry source added.
They couple appeared to be fine: "I can only speak from their public appearances and very few private ones, but they seemed not to have any kind of conflict. What we think happened probably did, but there was no evidence of it. This wasn't like Dennis Rodman, who lived out his hostile relationships in the press," the golf-industry source said.
She doesn't speak to her father anymore: "I haven't spoken to her in the last few ... I don't want to go into that," Thomas Nordegren told the Associated Press in Sweden.
Her mother refuses to comment on the situation as well: "She doesn't want to comment on private issues like these," Barbro Holmberg's spokesperson said.
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