Westboro Baptist Church To Protest Taylor Swift Concert

Members of the controversial Westboro Baptist Church are planning to protest Taylor Swift's upcoming concert in Kansas after branding her a "dirty, pirate hooker" because of her busy dating life.

The Love Story hitmaker's personal life has come under much media scrutiny after a string of failed romances with the likes of John Mayer, Jake Gyllenhaal, Joe Jonas and Harry Styles, and now religious conservatives are taking a stand against the 23 year old's "sin-coddling songs" by vowing to disrupt her Kansas City show on 3 August (13).

In a series of posts on Twitter.com, a group representative writes, "Westboro to picket the whorish face of america: Taylor Swift...

"(Swift) works her 'girl next door' country-singer shtick, while hopping from one young man to the next and strutting across the world stage like a proud whore... Taylor Swift in three words: lascivious, foolish, proud, dirty, pirate hooker!"

Swift has yet to respond to the outrageous tweets, but the extremists are well-known for their controversial protests - in 2011 followers picketed a Foo Fighters concert in Missouri in response to the band's lyrics, which contained homosexual references, and they staged a demonstration outside a Radiohead gig in Kansas City last year (12).

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Tina Fey warns her children against acting careers

Tina Fey has warned her daughters to avoid acting careers, instead urging them to consider becoming writers instead.

Tina Fey has urged her daughters to become writers, not actresses.

The '30 Rock' creator has revealed that she will encourage her two girls - Alice, seven, and 22-month-old Penelope - to pursue a behind the scenes career if they want to follow in her footsteps in TV because she thinks writing is just as important as acting.

Speaking to HELLO! magazine, she said: ''I once showed Alice a clip from the Broadway production of a 'Little Mermaid'. About five seconds in, she pointed to one of the actresses saying, 'I want to be her!'

''I was saying, 'Oh no honey, you don't want to be her, you want to be the person who writes the lines she says!' ''

When asked what she tells her girls about her professional life, Tina said: ''That it's at least as interesting to be working behind the scenes as it is in front of them.''

The 'Mean Girls' writer and star believes she has former United States governor Sarah Palin - who became a notorious figure in the 2008 presidential election - to thank for her success in Hollywood because they look so much alike.

Tina decided to perform skits as Palin on sketch show 'Saturday Night Live', which made her a household name.

She reminisced: ''I happened to be in the right place at the right time to progress in 'Saturday Night Live', then a giant piece of luck came along in that I happen to look like Sarah Palin. There's no way you could have predicted that something like that could've happened to me.''

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Lindsay Lohan Won't Be Served Lawsuit Papers Until After Rehab

Recovering actress Lindsay Lohan will not be served papers in her ongoing legal battle with her former fashion collaborators until she completes her court-ordered rehab treatment.

The Mean Girls star is locked in a bitter dispute with bosses at D.N.A.M. Apparel Industries after she filed a $1.1 million (£709,678) lawsuit against the clothing manufacturers earlier this year (13), claiming she was cheated out of her share of profits when a 2009 business deal fell apart.

They countersued for breach of contract and fraud, blaming Lohan's "drug-addled image" and legal problems for making it impossible to sell her 6126 Collection to retailers.

The actress has yet to be served papers alerting her to the court challenge, but in a twist of irony, D.N.A.M. bosses have since agreed to wait until she is out of rehab in mid-August (13) "in a gesture of good faith and so as not to disturb her healing process", reports Tmz.com.

Lohan checked into California's Betty Ford clinic on 3 May (13) to begin a three-month rehab stint, but she transferred to the Cliffside clinic in Malibu less than six weeks later.

The move was reportedly approved by a judge overseeing Lohan's case as the new venue is more suited to a 90-day course of treatment, which she was sentenced to in lieu of jail time after pleading no contest to charges relating to a car crash in California last summer (12).

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All Hail Queen Blue Ivy: Jay & Beyonce's Kid Wears Crown In Mum's Tumblr Pic

Beyonce Knowles and Jay-Z are making sure their kid gets everything it could possibly want, even though little Blue Ivy Carter is way too young to know what she could possibly want right now. Hey, don't judge loved-up, young, incredibly rich parents. Their latest splurge; a bejewelled crown for the just-turned one-year-old, which just about completes the set considering they've already got her a crown and (we assume) a sceptre (she is celebrity royalty after all).

Beyonce uploaded the picture to her Tumblr

Bey uploaded the snapshot of her first child on her Tumblr page, featuring the left hand side of Blue's face with the crown petering off on an angle . Even though you can hardly see her, Blue Ivy looks absolutely adorable. There's also another new picture on her Tumblr, of a jubilant Beyonce as she is touched on the nose by her daughter, who is laying in her stroller. Like we said, adorable. Queen Bey has used her Tumblr page to give us our only glimpses of Blue Ivy Carter so far, uploading a picture of her daughter sat in a custom-made directors chair/mimi-throne earlier this year.

Jay isn't as photo happy as his wife

The singer was dogged by rumours that she may be pregnant again after she cancelled a show in Belgium and was reportedly seen with what looked like a baby bump, however she and Jay-Z have both vehemently denied this numerous times and that bump hasn't gotten any bigger, so it looks like that one is pretty much dead in the water.

One of the photos that somehow started the rumours

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The New Yorker Celebrates Historic Moment For Marriage Equality By Outing Bert And Ernie On The Cover

Bert and Ernie celebrate LGBT pride in the New Yorker's poignant front cover for their latest edition.

DOMA is dead, America is cheering and Bert and Ernie are celebrating with a quiet night at home – at least this is how The New Yorker envisions the new face of the US. After the Defense of Marriage act was shot down by the Supreme Court yesterday, the magazine released its aptly themed July cover – just on time to catch the end of LGBT Pride month as well. The cover shows Bert and Ernie, the infamous Sesame Street roommates, cuddling in front of a TV with the image of the Supreme Court. While Sesame Workshop has repeatedly stated that Bert and Ernie are just living together platonically, The New Yorker isn’t buying it, and neither is anybody else and what's wrong with being the face of a major social movement anyway?

Obama supports equal marriage rights and now, so does the Supreme Court.

DOMA, the act in question, would have outlawed marriage for same sex couples on the federal level, making it impossible for said couples to marry, even in states, where they were previously allowed to. While the Supreme Court’s ruling against the federal ban on same sex marriage is a new development, the cover itself has been floating around the internet for a while now. First posted by artist Jack Hunter to the tumblr page Blown Covers, the image, entitled “Moment of Joy” originally featured Barack Obama onscreen. This happened right after the president voiced his support for marriage equality, breaking The White House’s long-standing silence on the matter.

The Sesame Street gang has a lot to celebrate this month.

The New Yorker has been in support of marriage equality for a long time. Through the years, the magazine has featured a host of interesting, poignant and evocative equality-themed images on the cover. A number of these can currently be seen in a slideshow on the publication’s website.

Although, of course, puppets "don't have a sexuality." *wink wink*

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Melissa Etheridge's friendship with Brad Pitt is over

Melissa Etheridge says she and Brad Pitt have not spoken since he got together with Angelina Jolie.

Melissa Etheridge and Brad Pitt are no longer friends.

While the singer performed at Brad's wedding to Jennifer Aniston in 2000, she says they have not communicated since he started dating Angelina Jolie although Melissa did backtrack on comments she made blasting Angelina for undergoing a double mastectomy.

Melissa, 52, who battled breast cancer in 2004, recently called Angelina's decision ''the most fearful choice you can make when confronting anything with cancer,'' but now insists she didn't mean to hurt Brad or his fiancee Angelina.

She told Us Weekly: ''I in no way meant for that statement to reach [Brad Pitt] in that way. It was not meant for him ... or his wife.

''Everyone's personal health is their own personal choice,''

Speaking about her former friendship with Brad, 47, she added: ''I haven't spoken to him ... since he 'married' Angelina.

''But we were very close before that. I don't know ... I have reached out.

''I haven't heard from [Jennifer] either. We all kinda got our own families and went our own way.

''It's funny we all were together and then it all went POOF.''

When told of Melissa's comments about Angelina, who underwent the drastic procedure after discovering she carried the BRCA1 mutated gene which causes cancer, Brad admitted he was surprised.

He said: ''I don't know. Somebody just said that.

''Melissa's an old friend of mine. I'm sure we'll talk on the phone. I don't know what it is.''

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Nick Stahl arrested

'Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines' actor Nick Stahl has been arrested, along with three other people, for alleged possession of crystal meth.

Nick Stahl has been arrested for alleged possession of crystal meth.

The troubled 'Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines' actor was arrested along with three other people by the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) in a Hollywood motel at 5am on Friday morning (28.06.13), according to TMZ.

The police went to the motel to conduct a parole compliance check one of the other people and Nick was simply in the wrong place at the wrong time.

This is the latest blow for the star who was arrested for allegedly committing a ''lewd act'' at a porn shop in Los Angeles in December, an incident he claimed was a ''misunderstanding''.

Nick was arrested by undercover vice officers for the LAPD at the store after they allegedly discovered him ''touching himself'' in a private booth

He was also reported missing in May 2012 and again the following month.

After his fist disappearance he re-emerged and was admitted to a rehabilitation clinic.

However, he walked out of the facility and went to stay with a pal but was again reported missing when he failed to return to the friend's home.

A source said at the time: ''Now he's disappeared. We can't find him anywhere. He has not made contact with anyone. We are all just desperately looking for him.

''Everyone just wants him to come home. It's a terrible situation. We are searching, but we've had no solid leads.''

He is estranged from wife Rose Murphy Stahl with whom he has daughter Marlo.

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