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| Exclusive: Heidi And Spencer's Wedding And Honeymoon To Be Featured On 'The Hills' Posted: 26 Nov 2008 07:51 AM PST Show's exec producer says cameras followed the couple to Mexico for their 'vacation.'
After all the moving in and the fallings out, the first proposal and the post-engagement lull, Spencer Pratt and Heidi Montag eloped last Thursday in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico. Now that they've made it official, what will their marriage mean for the show that has chronicled their relationship over the past four seasons? Will the next season of "The Hills" feature footage captured during Speidi's wedding ceremony? What have Heidi and Spencer been up to since they tied the knot? To find out, we reached out to executive producer Liz Gateley. While she couldn't tell us everything, she did say that the couple's married life will figure prominently on the series' upcoming fifth season, and that cameras are still down in Mexico, documenting the couple's honeymoon. There's still no word on when new episodes of "The Hills" will be ready for air, however. "MTV is currently filming Heidi and Spencer in Mexico, as we were expecting to capture them on vacation," Gateley told MTV News. "Fans will be able to see the exclusive footage from the ceremony in an upcoming episode, and we will continue to follow the newlyweds' relationship as it plays out in real life." While most fans of the show seemed to question the wisdom of the marriage, and their family appeared shocked by the elopement, some celebrities and fellow "Hills" stars congratulated the couple on Tuesday. "They obviously adore each other and are very committed to one another," Audrina Patridge told People. "I do think it's very romantic that they eloped." Related Photos |
| Did Ex-Danity Kane Member Aubrey O'Day Pose For <i>Playboy</i>? Posted: 26 Nov 2008 07:01 AM PST TMZ reports that celeb photographer Markus Klinko shot the singer for a spread in the magazine on Tuesday.
It's not as if you didn't see this coming, what with her recent eye-popping photo spread in Complex magazine and her very public ousting from Danity Kane last month. It appears that Aubrey O'Day has posed for Playboy. Citing its "spies," TMZ reported that O'Day spent Tuesday in a Manhattan photo studio shooting a spread for the magazine with celebrity photographer Markus Klinko, who has snapped portraits of Mariah Carey and Pamela Anderson, and shot the cover of Beyoncé's 2003 album Dangerously in Love. According to TMZ, O'Day's Playboy shoot may feature several lion cubs. A spokesperson for Playboy told MTV News that the magazine could not confirm or comment on the photo shoot. Attempts to contact a rep for O'Day were unsuccessful by press time. Danity Kane fans were torn when O'Day and D. Woods were booted from the group by mastermind Sean "Diddy" Combs during the live season-three finale of "Making the Band 4." Some agreed with Diddy that O'Day's self-promotion was distracting from the group, while others declared her their favorite member. In the days following O'Day's dismissal, remaining DK members Dawn Richard and Shannon Bex both gave interviews. While Bex played nice, Richard didn't, singling out O'Day's Complex shoot and her risque image as the reasons she was kicked out of the group. "We had just did a signing with Dollhouse Teen, which is for 13-, 14-year-old young girls," Richard told UsMagazine.com. "So, we can't do that one day and then the next day do an obnoxious cover. ... [Diddy] wants the fans, and he says he can't do that if we continue to go in the direction that we were going." Related Artists |
| Spencer Pratt Breaks Silence About Wedding To Heidi Montag Posted: 25 Nov 2008 11:13 PM PST Pratt also says marriage legalities will be taken care of when couple returns to the U.S.
Spencer Pratt is opening up about his wedding to longtime gal pal and fellow Hills star Heidi Montag. "We had a beautiful ceremony here at One & Only Palmilla officiated by a minister and photographed by the hotel photographer," he told UsMagazine.com and The Associated Press in a statement. "We've never been happier." The wedding, which took place in Mexico, has had some in the media questioning the legality of their nuptials. But the groom insisted those will be taken care of in time: "Like other elopements that happen outside the country, we'll take care of the legal details when we get home." Meanwhile, Neal Hersh, a Beverly Hills attorney, said that the marriage is legitimate if the couple took the necessary steps. "People can get married anywhere," he told the AP. The reporter, Peter Grossman, who interviewed the Us Weekly, told the AP, "Heidi and Spencer are two people in love who had a beautiful wedding ceremony to celebrate that. The pictures and words in our issue this week bear that out." Of course, MTV News announced exclusively earlier on Wednesday that the couple's wedding will be featured in the next season of "The Hills." Montag's family and fans have been quite vocal about their wedding, addressing their concerns for not being a part of the ceremony. Her sister, Holly, told MTV, "[Our mom] didn't know, either, what was going on, and we were frantically calling [Heidi]. Everybody's pretty upset." Meanwhile their dad told People.com, "I would be upset if she got married and didn't invite me! Then we just have to have another wedding here!" The couple's friends — and even reality-TV alum Shanna Moakler — are also opening up about the wedding. Whitney Port, whose "Hills" spin-off "The City" is set to premiere next year, told "Extra," "I just heard it like everyone else yesterday. Congratulations to them. I think it's great if that's what they're ready to do. Good for them." |
| Alfamega Gives His Side Of The Scuffle Between T.I.'s And Shawty Lo's Camps At Dirty Awards Posted: 25 Nov 2008 10:49 PM PST 'We came in there feeling good," MC says about his camp's behavior.
The Alfamega talking to MTV News early Wednesday morning (November 26) sounded a lot different from the Alfamega that looked wild-eyed and crazed in the pictures of the fracas that took place Monday night at the 2008 Dirty Awards. In the pictures, Mega was not backing down from police even after being hit with pepper spray. The only way to subdue the hulking MC from Bankhead, Georgia, was for a group of authorities to lay him face-down on the ground and put him in handcuffs. Mega woke up Tuesday in his own bed, thankful not to be in jail. Hours after his altercation with Shawty Lo's D4L camp, the artist from T.I.'s Grand Hustle label was remorseful about the situation. "First, I would like to give an apology to Steve Hazelwood and the whole Radio One [crew] and all the fans that came to see a good show," he said. "That's my part: I can only apologize for me and Grand Hustle." Alfa said he read Shawty Lo's account of the incident on MTVNews.com and — to put it mildly — disagreed. "God's honest truth, for real, we came in there feeling good," Mega said about his camp's demeanor at the Dirty Awards. "If you [look] at the beginning of the videotapes, it will show we didn't come on no hostility. When the disrespect started coming, we was eating it, then it got blatantly out of hand. That's when it all happened." Shawty Lo claims while he was performing his set, Alfa, Big Kuntry and some other of T.I.'s clique came near to the front of the stage and started staring him down. Lo said he had no choice but to perform his T.I. dis record, "Don't I." Mega disagreed: He said he and the crew were near the front of the stage all night. "When anybody was performing, we was up, moving around," Alfa insisted. "We was rocking to Lo. He was doing his thing. Now when the dis song happened, I was like, 'What is dude doing?' " Shortly after "Don't I" started, somebody from the crowd threw a chair at Lo and company. Mega said it wasn't him and he actually didn't see the chair being thrown. "When I looked up, I seen the dude onstage with a chair in his hand," Alfa remembered. "Then I noticed it, somebody with us, a female, she was holding her face. Then I ran towards them. My attempt was to not fight, but to go up there and say, 'Somebody with you hit this girl.' By that time they had my man Kuntry in cuffs." The melee that ensued briefly ended the show, and members of the Grand Hustle clique and Shawty Lo's D4L factions were escorted outside to cool down. Strangely enough, both parties were let back in and told to go back to their corners. Later in the show, T.I. took the stage to accept an award and began performing "Ain't I" with Yung L.A. The record didn't last too long because Mega and D4L got into it again. "It escalated, dawg," Alfa said, then implied that Lo is envious of T.I.'s success. "I think [Lo] feels like he ain't getting his just due. I can understand, but God will give you blessings, and your blessings might not as be as big as the next man. Be thankful for what you got. "What happened with me — Tip had nothing to do with that," Alfa added, now going into what led to the night's second incident. "It just happened. They was performing the song, I was like, 'Let's have fun.' I start dancing. I'm feeling good. That's my boy, Yung L.A., he made it. I get on top of the table, Shawty gets on the table. Shawty fakes like he's gonna throw a drink on me. By then I stepped down." Now this is where the show's organizers may have wished they'd come up with a different seating plan: Mega's and Lo's tables were just a few feet away from each other, so close that Mega said his feet didn't have to touch the ground to reach his foe. "I could have made a move. I could have jumped from one table to the next," Mega recalled. "It really wasn't that far apart, probably about four or five feet. It was close enough that the drink in his hand could have splashed on me. I stepped down from the table, somebody said to something to me. I seen three or four more dudes like they gonna do me bodily harm. My first reaction — me being who I am, I am a funny dude, but hey, I can wake up — was to smack the dude. I didn't punch him, I smacked him. I swung on the other dudes, they started swinging. Grand Hustle didn't have nothing to do with that situation. It was on Alfamega." From the looks of the pictures and video footage circulating on the Net, it was on and poppin' after that. The awards ended and Mega found himself being pepper-sprayed and in handcuffs. "I saw the pictures," he said. "People think I was bleeding from the head, but that was the pepper spray. I have no bruises on me. I'm good." Good, not great. Before hanging up, Mega once again apologized for his actions. "I embarrassed, y'all," he said. "Certain people were subjected to the pepper spray. By them trying to spray me, that lingering fumes got other people. I'm embarrassed by the whole situation." Fittingly enough, Mega's new single is going to be called "Warrior." His album, I Am Alfamega, comes out on January 13. Related Photos Related Artists |
| Lori Drew Convicted Of Misdemeanor Charges In MySpace Suicide Case Posted: 26 Nov 2008 12:17 AM PST Drew had faced felony charges.
Lori Drew, the mother at the center of a cyberbullying case linked to the suicide of a 13-year-old girl, was convicted in Los Angeles of three misdemeanor counts of accessing a computer without authorization on Wednesday (November 26). The jury in Los Angeles federal court declined to convict Drew on more serious felony charges of accessing a computer without authorization to inflict emotional distress, according to an Associated Press report. Prosecutors said Drew, 49, violated the terms of service of MySpace by working with her daughter and a business assistant to create a fictitious profile of a teenage boy on the site, which they then were alleged to have used to harass 13-year-old Megan Meier. The young girl, a former friend of Drew's daughter, hanged herself in 2006 after behind rejected by the fictitious boy, "Josh Evans," who wrote that the world would be better without her. The Missouri mother was originally charged with one count of conspiracy in addition to the three computer-related counts, but the AP reported that the jurors — after deliberating for just over one day — could not reach a verdict on the conspiracy matter. Wired reported that the Drew case was the first federal cyberbullying case to be brought to trial under the federal Computer Fraud and Abuse Act. The magazine's Web site reported that Meier's mother shook her head silently from the gallery as the verdict was read. The case was based on the novel argument that violating MySpace's terms of service agreement to harm someone else was the legal equivalent of computer hacking; Drew faced a maximum of five years in prison for each charge. Drew faces up to a year in prison for the misdemeanor convictions, but will most likely not serve jail time. |
| Jury Convicts Hosea Thomas Of Murdering T.I.'s Friend Philant Johnson Posted: 26 Nov 2008 01:35 AM PST Testimony from Thomas' brother helped convict him.
It took a Cincinnati jury less than a day to render a guilty verdict on Wednesday (November 26) in the murder trial of Hosea Thomas. According to the Cincinnati Enquirer, the jury convicted Thomas on all 11 counts he faced in the 2006 shooting death of rapper T.I.'s boyhood friend and assistant, Philant Johnson, 26, including murder, five counts of felonious assault and illegally having a gun after a felony conviction. Thomas will be sentenced on December 23 and faces a minimum of 20 years in the case, which hinged on the devastating testimony of the defendant's brother, who was driving the car Thomas was traveling in on the night prosecutors said he opened fire on T.I.'s entourage. Assistant Hamilton County Prosecutor Seth Tieger told the jury in closing arguments on Tuesday that Thomas became irate when he was denied access to the VIP room at the Club Ritz in Cincinnati on a night T.I. and Yung Joc were appearing at an afterparty there following a performance across town. Tieger said Thomas was angered that the area he was used to hanging out in was roped off for the rapper and that his anger was further fueled by a scuffle that broke out and resulted in Thomas, 35, being hit in the head with a liquor bottle. Tieger said those incidents were Thomas' motive for opening fire on the van carrying T.I. and his entourage, resulting in Johnson's death and injuries to three others. Though Thomas' lawyer, Charles Isaly, asked jurors to scrutinize some of the witnesses who testified against his client, saying that they were promised more lenient sentences in exchange for their testimony in the absence of DNA or physical evidence, ultimately the eyewitness testimony proved damaging to Isaly's case. T.I. testified on Friday, calmly relaying the events that transpired the night of the shooting and telling jurors that he was sure the shots fired were intended for him, not his friends and entourage. Isaly produced a surprise witness on the final day of the trial: Thomas' girlfriend, Kim Sweeten, came forward to say she was with Thomas when he left the club, so he couldn't have been the shooter. But according to the newspaper, Tieger poked holes in her story. "So you just happened to be the one who can exonerate him? Lucky for him you are here," Tieger said. Sweeten replied, "No, it's not lucky for him because he didn't do it. God works in mysterious ways." But Tieger then countered with a tape of Thomas' statement to police in which he never mentioned leaving the club with Sweeten on the night of May 3, 2006. Prosecutors said that after the incident at the club, T.I.'s entourage left, and Thomas and his older brother, Padron Thomas, jumped into their Jeep Grand Cherokee and gave chase, with Padron at the wheel and the brothers' friend, 17-year-old Mose Patrick Brown, in the backseat. The Jeep pulled alongside T.I.'s van at one point, and Hosea began firing, Tieger said. Brown testified last week that he saw Hosea Thomas fire the shots and that he was scared, but that the Thomas brothers paid him $800 to stay quiet about the incident. He eventually broke that promise and went to police with his story after becoming so distraught that he considered committing suicide. Padron Thomas also agreed to testify against his brother in exchange for a more lenient sentence. Related Artists |
| Mariah, Madonna And Me: The Top 10 Turkeys Of 2008, In <i>Bigger Than The Sound</i> Posted: 25 Nov 2008 11:16 PM PST In celebration of Thanksgiving, we reflect on the biggest disappointments of the year.
If there's been one unifying theme to 2008, it's that there really are no sure things. No one — not even his label — expected to sell a million copies of Tha Carter III in a week. Everyone suspected Usher's Here I Stand would be a massive blockbuster. As you probably know by now, only one of those statements actually proved to be true. So, in celebration of Thanksgiving, and to the year that was (or, more specifically, wasn't), I've written a list of the year's 10 biggest turkeys. These are albums and artists that disappointed commercially, critically or — more often than not — both. Misfires. Miscalculations. Missteps from the usually surefooted. In the following weeks, I'll also be writing my annual Best Songs and Albums of 2008 lists, but I figured I'd get the ugly stuff out of the way first. Oh, and a special note — this isn't a list of actual turkeys. Because then this one would totally come in at #1. Anyway, if you're angered by what's below, feel free to drop me a line at BTTS@MTVStaff.com ... and now, let's talk turkey (wow, sorry). 10. Simple Plan 9. The Pussycat Dolls 8. Weezer 7. Jessica Simpson 6. Usher 5. Danity Kane 4. Panic at the Disco 3. Madonna 2. Mariah Carey 1. Me Questions? Concerns? Hit me up at BTTS@MTVStaff.com. Related Artists |
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