HouseGoesHollywood: Tom confesses he was blindsided by divorce to Katie

Reasons why I’m glad I’m not famous numbers 5678, 5679, 5680 and …

Rihanna & Chris are over

E! reports: “We can finally close the cluttered chapter of our Rihanna and Chris Brown scrapbooks, because it’s officially over … for now.

“A source exclusive to E! News has confirmed the couple’s split after a tireless frenzy of are-they-or-aren’t-they tailchasing. Per the insider, RiRi will always love Chris but has moved on and is reshifting her focus to her career and business ventures.”

Rihanna hinted there was trouble in paradise on Monday night at her concert in Los Angeles. She announced to the audience: “How many of you are in love? How many of you hate love? How many of you don’t f––ing understand it? I’m in that group,” Rihanna said on stage, before singing “What Now,” from her most recent album.

The lyrics to that song begin: “I’ve been ignoring this big lump in my throat/I shouldn’t be crying, tears were for the weaker days/I’m stronger, now what, so I say/But something’s missing.”

When Gwyneth met Demi

From the celebs they’re just like us files … Gwyneth Paltrow and Demi Lovato met for the first time on a plane flight this week, and Gwyneth begged for a photo together so she could show off to her daughter Apple, age 8.

Both later gushed on Twitter about their encounters …

Gwyneth wrote: “Apple! Check out who was on my flight!”

Demi wrote: “Gwyneth P. is SO nice!!! 😍😊😄 she wanted a picture with ME?!!! #COOL”

However, Dlisted notes: “I’m sure that sometime during their conversation, Goopy said to her, “I am so jealous of your homely, mousy, undetectable poop-colored hair. You get to have so much more fun than me!” 

Because Goopy Paltrow told the UK’s Stylist Magazine (via Yahoo viaCelebitchy) that the saying “blondes have more fun” must’ve come from a book of lies and fairytales. Goop says that brown-headed girls have way more fun, because nobody cares about them and everybody is too busy staring at stunning angels with golden hair: “I don’t understand the whole idea of blondes having more fun. I’d say brunettes have more fun as they can go under the radar a little bit more. People are just waiting for blondes to get drunk and fall down, because we’re so visible.”

Tom admits he was blindsided by divorce

Tom Cruise has opened up about his break-up with Kate Holmes to the German TV network ProSieben (via Buntemagazine).

“”I didn’t expect it,” he said in an interview to promote his new film, Oblivion.

Turning 50 the day after the break-up was challenging too: “To be 50 and to have experiences and to think you have a grip on everything, and then it hits you — this is it, what life can do to you. Life is a tragicomedy. You need to have a sense of humor.”

Dax & Kristen joke about parenthood

Dax Shepard has joked about leaving home for the first time since his daughter Lincoln Bell Shepard was born on March 28.

He joked on Twitter:  “After 8 days at home with LBS, my afternoon trip to Costco felt like [a] late night rager at a strip club #buyinbulkparty.”

Fiance Kristen Bell has been making her own jokes about parenthood on Twitter: “My new roommate poops her pants and doesn’t pay rent . . . basically Dax Shepard pre-sobriety. Welcome baby Lincoln.”

Cher is not dead

An unfortunate side-effect of the passing of British PM Margaret Thatcher was the trending Twitter hash tag #nowthatchersdead which was meant to read, “Now Thatcher’s Dead” not “Now that Cher is dead”.

A flurry of panicked tweets followed, until comedian Ricky Gervais set the record straight, writing: “Some people are in a frenzy over the hashtag #nowthatchersdead.

“It’s ‘Now Thatcher’s dead’.

“Not, ‘Now that Cher’s dead'”.

Another Twitter user wrote: “It’s OK people, @cher is still very much alive”.

But so far Cher has ignored the mix-up on her Twitter account.

Kim’s been on a diet since 1974

“I take care of myself, which includes dieting, exercising and minimising stress. I joke that I’ve been on a diet since 1974, which is basically true,” Kim Cattrall, 56, has told Woman & Home magazine. “I like to eat, and my body type is not naturally this thin, especially at this age. So I do watch what I eat and drink but I’m not obsessive – it’s just a way of life.”

Yet another reason why I’m glad to be a no-famous middle-aged woman. As The Huffington Post noted “well this is just depressing”
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