I really want to be sympathetic here. I really do. I know several people who get panic attacks and obviously the site even has a sponsor who deals with panic attacks. That being said, I am wondering what kind of stress Brooke Hogan has which would cause her to pull out of a concert over the weekend and take her father too.

Fox is reporting that Brooke was scheduled to perform at a concert this weekend in New York. It was one of those radio station concerts where artists play for ten minutes or play their two hits whichever comes first. In Brooke’s case since she has no hits it probably would have been one song and a cover followed by a quick spin around the pole and a lap dance for Daddy.

Apparently Hulk was the scheduled host for this entire event. At the last second, Brooke pulled out because of anxiety attacks and other medical ailments. “Brooke is incredibly sensitive,” a source said. “She really cares about everyone around her and takes on a lot.”

Uh huh. Would someone please tell me what is stressful about her life? I understand about stage fright and if she has that I would understand. But anything other than that I think she has an easier life than 99% of the world and the only thing she should be panicking about is whether the Hulk is going to rub some more lotion on the inside of her thighs. Shudder. That has to be the most disturbing photo ever posted on the site. Even more so than Verne’s tongue.

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Grazia magazine is reporting that Cameron Diaz and Jason Lewis have been getting it on for the past month or so. Really? They make a decent looking couple, but Jason doesn’t really seem like Cameron’s type. Doesn’t Jason seem like the party every night, hey I wouldn’t mind a line kind of guy? Cameron doesn’t seem like she would be in to that type of situation.

The magazine says the pair were last spotted at the restaurant Shima. “Cameron and [Jason] were sitting in the corner of Shima totally wrapped up in one another. They couldn’t stop touching each other. And we couldn’t stop looking.”

Well, sure because I mean touching while eating seems to be bad table manners so of course you are going to keep looking. The only time you would turn away is if there was talking with the food in the mouth. That can be kind of hard to look at. Groping at a table? Keep looking. Elbows on the table? Not a problem. Chewing with the mouth open? Look away quickly.

A mutual friend of the couple said that in addition to bad table manners, “They’ve always got along, but now realize just how much they have in common. Jason is exactly Cameron’s type. She’s attracted to athletic types and they’re both passionate about the environment.”

I don’t think I’m buying it. Sorry. I am not even 100% sure Cameron is into guys, so this seems like something just to keep both their names out there.

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If you want to get a ticket to Hollywood this year on American Idol, then you might just have to have the approval of Joe Jonas. Yes, that vast musical talent known as a Jonas is going to decide whether or not contestants on this season of American Idol have talent. Is he really an arbiter of talent? This just makes me think that it is the producers who decides who moves on to the Hollywood round. They need some drama for those episodes of the show and my guess is that Joe Jonas and the other judges make very few decisions on their own in that round.

A decision I firmly stand behind is that Kelly Clarkson is getting a chance to judge as is Mary J Blige. I would love Mary J to be a judge all season long. You absolutely know she wouldn’t take any crap at all from Simon and would put him in his place in a second. She doesn’t need the job and so wouldn’t need to kiss his ass. I think all the other judges are scared of Simon and know that he can keep them or not and so show a deference to him he probably doesn’t deserve. Mary J is her own woman and knows what she is talking about and I bet Simon would never once correct her. That could make for a very good season.

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TMZ had a little blurb today about Paula Abdul telling them she has something in the works. Yeah, yeah, I am sure she does but guest appearances do not really qualify as “in the works.” At the end of the blurb they mentioned Dunkleman. I had totally forgotten about the guy and so decided to see what happened to him since he left American Idol.

Does anyone remember Brian Dunkleman? This is a guy who left American Idol voluntarily because he thought he would have a better career off the show rather than on it. Like the rest of us Paula obviously forgot about Dunkleman and what happened to his career after he decided to pull the plug on Idol. He told The Howard Stern show that he still holds a grudge against Ryan Seacrest and is jealous. You think so? You think it is any more so now that Ryan just signed a deal for $45M over three years? They were both unknown when American Idol started and now it seems like Ryan controls the world and Brian is out trying to peddle a show about his life called American Dunkleman.

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So for the past few hours I have been thinking about how I feel in regards to Nicole Kidman being on Project Runway. She is going to be on the All-Star Edition which airs prior to the season premiere. Both will be on Thursday so I guess I know how I will be spending my Thursday night. I don’t know if Nicole is going to be a judge. Access Hollywood said she is scheduled to be the one who presents the challenge or is a part of the challenge. Usually though when that happens the person who establishes the challenge also gets to be the judge. Whenever Nicole is involved in something that doesn’t require her to memorize lines she can be fairly funny and charming and so I think this will actually be kind of interesting to see.

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I love my dad. I really do, but I don’t have any desire to go to a strip club with him. I don’t want to watch him get lap dances or realize that he has been a hundred times before. That is just me though. I am sure there are lots of you who would enjoy going with one of your parents to a strip club. Apparently Demi decided that sharing lap dances with her daughter would be fun and so she arranged for the two men in the above picture to do just that.

Rumer seems to be enjoying herself so that is all that matters. I didn’t realize it was possible to see someone blushing in a photo from 20 feet away in the dark, but now that I look at Rumer I know it is possible. Although I wouldn’t want to share this kind of outing with my parent, maybe she is used to seeing Ashton perform for her mom and so it is ok with her. Maybe for her second party, her dad got her some strippers as well.

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The biggest topic around the office yesterday was not whether I would be drunk again by the end of the day but rather Jerry O’Connell enrolling in law school. Beginning this week Jerry started attending classes at Southwestern Law School. He will be attending part-time and at night.

The big question everyone asked here was why? Jerry is 35, which is probably close to the average age for night students at the school, but no one could figure out why he would subject himself to the torture of law school when he could make much more money doing a sequel of Kangaroo Jack than he could in several years of practicing law. Normally law school takes three years to complete but that is for a full-time student. A student going part time is probably going to finish in about 4 to 4.5 years. Also, just because you are going at night doesn’t mean the classes are going to change or that you get to study less. He has brand new twins and although he doesn’t currently have a day job this just seems like a really odd choice.

I know his last television series bombed but it isn’t like he hasn’t had success in the past. He could be attending because down the road he wants to help people with his degree and do good things and that would certainly be noble. He could be attending because acting is boring to him now and he wants more education. Again, that is very noble but I am not sure he quite understands just how hard law school is and how many hours he will have to study. There were some stories earlier in the week that said he was going to be staying at home with the kids while Rebecca Romijn went back to work. Umm, if he is going to try and study and take care of twins at the same time it won’t be long before they have a nanny or two.

I wish him well, I just don’t understand it.

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No matter what Jenny McCarthy says or does or claims I always find hard to stay angry at her for long. I like her a lot. She is fun and smart and sexy and refreshingly candid when most celebrities try and obfuscate while they decide what that word actually means. This month Jenny gave a very long interview to Cookie Magazine. No, I don’t actually read Cookie Magazine on a regular basis, but I do keep up with them. They are the magazine that interviewed Amanda Peet last year when she mad all the vaccine comments. The first thing Jenny said in this interview was that she thinks vaccines are safe, just not for everyone.

One of the reasons I always end up liking Jenny even when she signs on with Oprah is that she is passionate about her son. She loves that kid like all parents should love their kid and you can’t help but pull for someone who has done so much for a cause she believes in and became involved in because of her child.

I will let you read the whole article, but this is an example of why I like her. She talks about a time when her son was put on some anti-seizure medicine after he had suffered through a seven hour seizure. I can’t imagine what it must be like to see your child go through a 7 hour seizure and be helpless while you watched. Anyway, the hospital gave him some medicine.

“When he got home from the hospital, Evan was put on a heavy dose of anti seizure medication, which kept him awake for four days and induced hallucinations that made him not recognize his mom and bang his head against the wall until he bled. ‘I ran out of my house and into my driveway and screamed at the top of my lungs to God to just take him away, because I loved him so much and he was in so much pain,’ McCarthy says of the period she describes as her “second rock-bottom” (the first being the moment Evan’s heart stopped momentarily).”

With other celebrities you would think a statement like that would just be hyperbole if they could figure out what that word meant. With Jenny though you sense that it really happened and that she really had those emotions and then she is sharing all of that grief and pain and realization with the world. She never seems like she is doing it just for her own benefit or to make herself better known. I don’t always agree with Jenny, but I admire her and respect her and that is a lot more than I can say for 99% of the celebrities out there.

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