Chris Brown? Played volleyball with Rihanna’s face? Been around a few other scrapes? Also makes news for dating Rihanna anew? Also more news with dating other ladies? Now makes news again. Another assault. This time against gays.
A story’s around that, at the time of Rihanna’s punching, allegedly he’d been texting homosexuals. The story says this triggered their fight.
The story says that rather than expose that particular allegation, handlers thought it better to go with the tale of a lovers’ fight.
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Sour grapes
Humpty Dumpty got over his fall — Mitt Romney, not. Obsesses over saying he got done in because his staff believed he’d win. And of course hot dog Weiner? Who still thinks he’s got the mustard to be mayor? . . . Traveling alone, Harry Connick. Charging his iPad at La Guardia’s Empire Tavern while watching a video on the restaurant’s free public iPad.
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Monied Mark
Mr. Wahlberg’s come a long way since he was Marky Mark, showing his parts in Calvin undies. His new French manor Beverly Hills house, two years in building — wine cellar, movie theater, gym, waterfall, putting green, six acres — is 30,000 square feet . . . I know you also want to know that Ed Helms gets his hairs cut at a barbershop in Silver Lake. If you don’t know where’s Silver Lake, it’s Michigan. If you don’t know who’s Ed Helms, it’s “The Daily Show.”
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Lemon aided by good diet
CNN’s Don Lemon. You see him constantly. However, you don’t see him completely. You used to see approximately 200 pounds of him. You now see a lot less of him.
“I gained 25 pounds in four months. I grew up in the South. I worked in Atlanta. When Jeff Zucker moved me to New York, I lost my mind. Great time eating steaks, drinking cocktails, partying. I love food. I’m a foodie. I went crazy being in New York.
“Not only had my cheeks gotten fatter, but one morning I couldn’t button my expensive suit. A Sunday night I walked off the set, and Naomi Campbell had taken over my office for hair and makeup. James Hester, who wrote the book ‘l Pound a Day: The Martha’s Vineyard Diet Detox,’ was with her.
“We made an appointment. He took me to a vegetable store. Bought veggies for me. Helped me make soups. In seven days, I lost 11 pounds. No fried or processed foods. Lots of water. Walk to work, often from my home in Harlem to the studio downtown.
“I will have knocked off 27 pounds, although I won’t cut french fries, pasta or hamburger out of my life forever.
“But I have to go now. Bou , my crate-trained beagle-bulldog, who wakes me every day, whom I’m in love with, just threw up and I have to take her to the vet.”
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Coming of age at 51
Paula Abdul in Israel staging her own bat mitzvah at the Western Wall, meeting President Shimon Peres, then schmearing with mud to dunk in the Dead Sea . . . Yale University Press holiday gifts: “The 54th Massachusetts Regiment’s Memorial,” a volume on bonsai, spiritual bio of Gandhi, 288-pager titled “Christians, Muslims and Jesus,” and “Pre-Raphaelites: Victorian Design.” A jolly group. Santa will ho-ho his beard off.
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Going gaga 2 ways
Tasty note: Lady Gaga in London served up her nude bones at a gay club same time dad Joe in his West 68th eatery Joanne Trattoria served up John Catsimatidis’ pasta . . . Fashion note: Marion, 4, daughter of Sarah Jessica and Matthew Broderick, wearing a Theodora & Callum scarf as a skirt.
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Atlantic Avenue in Boerum Hill. A perfectly good bicycle parked against a tree. Its sign said: “Free.” For hours, young kids passed it by. None gave it a second glance. Finally, a very distinguished aged gentleman, white hair, suit and tie, looks it over — and leaves with it.
Only in New York, kids, only in New York.