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There will soon be a new Hilton in Rwanda once Paris finds it on the map. Never mind, she doesn’t have to, someone will find it for her. In an exclusive, she has told E!Online that she plans to go to Rwanda in November when she completes filming her current movie and do good. She wants to help families and children in need there.

This is apparently as part of her going-to-jail-related commitment to change her ways and to use her celebrity to bring attention to, you know, poor people and stuff.

She is also aware that there are no spas or luxury hotels in Rwanda. Granddaddy is not even building a hotel there for her prior to her trip!! Not to worry, she’ll take her entourage and will look great in the outback! Oh! That’s not where the outback is. Well, she’ll look great where ever it is!

Here’s the scope:

On why she’s going:

“There’s so much need in that area, and I feel like if I go, it will bring more attention to what people can do to help.”

On why she cares:

“I want to visit more countries where poverty and children’s issues are a big concern. I know there’s a lot of good I can do just by getting involved and bringing attention to these issues.”

On why she said she was going to make her new how ‘green’:

“I just bought the house and haven’t been able to work on it yet,” Hilton said. “But I intend to.”

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hat-tip and photos: The Superficial

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OMG, Hazel, you won’t believe what my HMM* did last night! Do you remember a post I wrote a few weeks ago about how my HMM just LOVES to pee outside? We have plenty of toilets, but he prefers to pee off the side of the porch or ANYWHERE outside.

Yesterday we decided to take a walk. It was almost dusk, and we were walking in an area out in the country. We walked past a very dusty area, and my HMM decided he needed to pee. I continued walking a few steps and paused to wait for him. He took a L-O-N-G time. Finally the tinkling noise of the pee hitting the dust stopped.

“Hey! Come here and see what I did!” he said proudly. “I peed ‘I love you’ in the dirt!”

I looked, and yes, he did. I didn’t know whether to go “EWWWWW!” or acknowledge the obvious sincerity in his gesture. Men have given me many gifts over the years, and men have done some unusual things to please me. However, as I mentioned to my HMM, no man has EVER peed his love for me.

Should I be flattered or insulted? He was quite proud of himself.

(*high maintenance man)

Adeline, that’s hilarious. You have had a spew alert on that! I think he truly loves you to do such a thing!

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“The Apprentice” will happen again, but this time it will have a twist. This time celebrities will be the contestants. Here’s the story from AOL News:

Celebs to Compete on Revived ‘Apprentice’

BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (July 16) - Check your publicist at the boardroom door - NBC is inviting celebrities to try to wow Donald Trump in the next version of “The Apprentice.”

And while it would make for a marquee matchup, don’t expect Rosie O’Donnell to be among them

It will never happen in this lifetime or beyond,” said Cindi Berger, O’Donnell’s spokeswoman.

The network announced Monday that the game show will be back in the middle of next season with the celebrity twist, the winner donating proceeds to charity instead of going to work for The Donald.

NBC had canceled “The Apprentice” due to low ratings when it announced its next season schedule in May. But the network hired Ben Silverman as its new entertainment chief shortly thereafter, and he called on Trump and executive producer Mark Burnett to revive the show.

No contestants were named in NBC’s announcement. The network said it was looking for people with entreprenurial abilities in the areas of sports, entertainment and fashion.

Which, of course, raised the question of O’Donnell, Trump’s nemesis, maybe getting involved.

“It would be great to have Rosie on `The Apprentice,”‘ Silverman said at a morning Television Critics Association news conference. “Donald personally told me to extend an invitation to her.”

NBC entertainment co-chairman Marc Graboff echoed Silverman’s comment, saying “we’d love her” to be on the show.

O’Donnell’s spokeswoman, however, quickly put a freeze on the idea. She did confirm, though, that the former talk host and “The View” panelist was in talks with NBC about other projects.

What celebrities would add a little spice or interest to the show? Here’s my choice of a lineup:

Jessica Simpson - the Chicken of the Sea perspective
Nicole Richey - the anorexic look
George Clooney - the cool-for-the-cameras perspective
Chris Rock - some edginess
Elizabeth Hasselbeck - some common sense
Jack Nicholson - the “I-don’t-give-a-shit” perspective
Angelina Jolie - the ho/madonna perspective
Kim Cattrall - party girl view
Matthew McConaughey - gotta have one hunk in there
Sanjaya Malakar - comic relief - plus he’d be required to have a different hairdo every day

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According to People, Britney Spears went to a Bel Air pet store, spent less than 30 minutes and plunked down $3,000 for a Yorkie that she named London.

Here’s the story:

Britney Buys a New Dog
It really turned out to be a dog day afternoon for Britney Spears. The pop star and her bodyguard headed to Pets of Bel Air in the Glen Center in Bel Air on Friday – and left with a new puppy, a source tells PEOPLE.

An “excited” Spears walked into the store and right up to the dog section where she asked to see one dog in particular – a $3,000 Yorkie, says a fellow shopper. “She picked up the dog and loved it right away, she was incredibly nice and very pleasant.”

Pleasant and fast: The pop star gave the cashier her credit card and headed out with her new dog in hand after spending less than a half-hour in the store.

Click HERE for the rest of the story.

I don’t know. Brittney hasn’t shown the best of judgment as a mother to her two young sons. Does she really need yet another responsibility?

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Do you know who Mo’Nique is? Whether you do or don’t, you’re about to learn more about her than you might like.

TMZ.com has the whole story:

Mo’ Mo’Nique — A Whole Lot Mo!
Posted Jul 14th 2007 3:10AM by TMZ Staff
Filed under: TV, Hot Bodies

Mo’Nique is baring it all, or most of it anyway, in a racy photo shoot with the spraypainted, plus-sized contestants from her new show, “Mo’Nique’s F.A.T Chance” — that’s “Fabulous And Thick,” if you please! Big fun!

Read the rest of the story HERE.

Now there’s one chick who isn’t dieting. Is this pic art or is it . . . ?

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Two brothers from Ohio got up close and personal with the horns of a bull during the nine-day running of the bulls festival in Pamplona, Spain.

You can read the full story HERE. Okay, I feel sorry for the two brothers. That must be an awful experience. However, I have to say, that’s one hell of a funny photo!

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I saw this story, and there WAS NO PHOTO of the building! Or rather no photo of a drawing of what the building will look like after it’s built.

Architect: Building Is ‘Very Phallic’
AP
Posted: 2007-07-09 16:51:05
SAN DIEGO (AP) - The developer said his design for a 40-story resident tower proposed as a gateway to downtown San Diego looks like a flower. A city consultant said it looks like a giant phallus.

“With its rounded forms and swelling of the uppermost floors…this building structure is very phallic,” wrote Gwynne Pugh, a Santa Monica architect hired by the downtown redevelopment agency to review building designs.

San Diego-based Sandor Shapery’s proposal for a 160-unit hotel and condominium tower was expected to go before the redevelopment agency for initial feedback this month. Instead Shapery has asked for more time to “revisit” and perhaps “tone down” the design because he does not want to offend anyone.

“If it looks like a phallic symbol, someone has a strange perception,” said Shapery, who was trying to create an “organic form.” “You can find sex anywhere if you want to…There’s just some sick people out there.”

The building’s architect C.W. Kim of La Jolla said the goal was to create a unique building.

“You know, it’s the mediocre buildings that anyone can do,” he said. “Anyone can do a square building.”

I want to see the building, but then again - once you’ve seen one, you’ve seen them all. Or so they say.

Hazel, I’ll bet you could PhotoShop an interesting “phallic” building. Will you accept the challenge? It sounds possibly hilarious…

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Hey Hazel - remember the story of the astronaut, Lisa Nowak, who wore adult diapers so she wouldn’t have to stop for bathroom breaks while on her journey to stalk the woman she felt stole her boyfriend? The authorities found weapons and disguises in her car. She denied planning to kill the other woman, but the evidence sure suggests that she had something more than a harmless chat on her mind.

Just look at those two photos above - Crime sure doesn’t pay when it comes to someone’s looks, does it?

When I first heard that story about the diapers, all I could think of is that it doesn’t take THAT long to stop for a bathroom break. To wear diapers?! Yuk! Someone would HAVE to be a little mentally off to do that.

There’s a new transcript of an interview in which she tells her side. Here’s the story:

‘I Need to Know Where She Stands’
New Transcript Sheds Light on Ex-Astronaut’s Plan for Rival
By MIKE SCHNEIDER,AP
ORLANDO, Fla. (July 9) - Former astronaut Lisa Nowak told a detective she came to Orlando to meet her rival for the affections of a fellow astronaut because she wanted to know where she stood in the bizarre love triangle, according to a police interview made public Monday.

A 72-page transcript of the interview conducted after her February arrest, with portions redacted, was released by the State Attorney’s Office.

In it, Orlando Police Detective Chris Becton asks Nowak about why she wanted to meet Air Force Capt. Colleen Shipman in a parking lot at the Orlando International Airport.

“I need to know where she stands, if she even had any idea that I fit in or not,” Nowak said. When asked whether she intended to kill Shipman if she didn’t talk, Nowak said no.

Nowak, 44, is accused of attacking Shipman with pepper spray directed through the window of her car and trying to jump into the vehicle. In a duffel bag she was carrying, police officers found a steel mallet, a 4-inch knife and a BB gun. They also recovered a wig and a trench coat which they believe Nowak used as a disguise.

She has pleaded not guilty to charges of attempted kidnapping, battery and burglary with assault. She told the detective she only wanted to scare Shipman with the weapons.

During the interview, Nowak repeatedly asked to speak to Shipman and asked the detective whether Shipman, who was interviewed before Nowak, knew who she was.

Nowak told Becton she wanted to tell Shipman of her involvement with Bill Oefelein, a colleague who told detectives he had a two-year relationship with Nowak but ended it some time after he started a relationship with Shipman.

She acted surprised when the detective told her that Shipman knew her only as Oefelein’s colleague, not as someone with whom he had had a relationship.

Nowak suggested that her relationship with Oefelein was romantic but platonic since she “wouldn’t go beyond a certain point” while in the process of separating from her husband. She indicated that she was holding out for a possible future with Oefelein.

“I just needed to know if she was aware,” Nowak said. “He picked me up from the airport two weeks ago. I mean, I mean, you just don’t do that for anybody.”

At another point, Nowak was asked by the detective whether it would have been acceptable for Oefelein to date both of them. She responded, “as long as everybody knows that that’s the case.”

She also said it was her husband, not Oefelein, who hurt her.

“My husband is the only person who broke my heart … over the years, I guess,” she said. “It happened over time.”

An attorney for Nowak, Donald Lykkebak, asked a judge last month to seal the transcript, but the judge took no action. Lykkebak also asked that the interview not be introduced as evidence during Nowak’s trial, claiming she wasn’t properly advised of her constitutional rights.

A hearing on that motion and another to suppress evidence found in Nowak’s car is scheduled for the end of the month.

“The prosecution’s pattern of trickling out information in this case is nothing new,” Lykkebak said in a statement released by his spokeswoman, Marti Mackenzie. “The expected result has been to keep Lisa Nowak’s case in the headlines. We disapprove of this tactic.”

The transcript indicates that Becton told her she had the right to remain silent, the right to an attorney and that what she said could be used against her in court.

A lawyer for Shipman called Nowak’s claim that she didn’t intend to harm Shipman “laughable.”

“It shows her consciousness of guilt,” said attorney Kepler Funk. “It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to know what was in her head.”

Nowak was dismissed from the astronaut corps a month after her arrest. Her trial is set for September. Oefelein was dismissed from the corps at the beginning of June.

Here are some of the items found in her car:

Lisa in happier days with her husband and two children - Just look at her. She was pretty and vivacious. She didn’t need to stalk someone. She’s gotta be crazy:

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Krazy John Mark Karr (Krazy Karr for short) has been arrested for domestic violence. Krazy Karr is the guy that confessed to the 1996 murder of child beauty pageant princess JonBenet Ramsey. He was in Thailand at the time and extradited back to the United States with a great deal of brouhaha over his confession, which turned out to be false. He was cleared of the murder after DNA evidence proved he had not been at the crime scene.

Krazy Karr was arrested this morning at his Sandy Springs, Georgia home after his girlfriend called 911. When police arrived he complained of chest pains, was taken to the hospital and will be sent to the country jail on charges of battery and obstruction of a 911 call.

The part of this story that surprised me the most was that he has a girlfriend!!!!

TMZ

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