Kendra Wilkinson announced her engagement this week to football player Hank Basket, after weeks of rumors that she had moved on from the Playboy Mansion.  But don’t feel bad for Hef, not only does he have new 19 year old twins as new girlfriends, but he issued a warm and caring statement about Kendra’s engagement.

“Kendra Wilkinson has met someone who she would like to spend the rest of her life with. His name is Hank Baskett, a wide receiver for the Philadelphia Eagles, and he popped the question last Saturday. I have given her my blessing and will be giving her away at a very special wedding ceremony at the Playboy Mansion this coming June.”

Way to be a sport Hef, and congrats to Kendra!!  I love to see a story end well…

…we just won’t talk about Holly and Chris Angel….

After 51% of California voters passed Proposition 8, re-banning same sex marriage in the state, the outcry was very visible from the celebrity and gay community.  Today, a very vocal Melissa Etheridge took to her blog to vent her feelings and plans given this decision.

Okay. So Prop 8 passed. Alright, I get it. 51% of you think that I am a second class citizen. Alright then. So my wife, uh I mean, roommate? Girlfriend? Special lady friend? You are gonna have to help me here because I am not sure what to call her now. Anyways, she and I are not allowed the same right under the state constitution as any other citizen. Okay, so I am taking that to mean I do not have to pay my state taxes because I am not a full citizen. I mean that would just be wrong, to make someone pay taxes and not give them the same rights, sounds sort of like that taxation without representation thing from the history books.
Okay, cool I don’t mean to get too personal here but there is a lot I can do with the extra half a million dollars that I will be keeping instead of handing it over to the state of California. Oh, and I am sure Ellen will be a little excited to keep her bazillion bucks that she pays in taxes too. Wow, come to think of it, there are quite a few of us fortunate gay folks that will be having some extra cash this year. What recession? We’re gay!
Oh and too bad California, I know you were looking forward to the revenue from all of those extra marriages. I guess you will have to find some other way to get out of the budget trouble you are in.

This seems pretty dang logical to me… if taxpaying American citizens are denied their basic rights, then why are we taxpaying citizens again?  I echo the outrage of the California gay community, and join in their sadness at the outcome of Prop 8. 

My only soapbox moment on this issue…. as a gay community, our challenge now is to not remain victims, and to take a proactive approach to gaining the rights and benefits deserved.  This sucks… to be plainly honest, but now is the time to move forward, open up to other people and allow them to see the complete lack of threat the gay community poses, and stop waiting to be attacked before we take a hard stance.  This served as a harsh reminder to me too…and my heart goes out to the 18,000 couples whos marriages are in jeopardy because of this decision.   

What do you think… should gay couples denied marriage rights pay taxes?

Rumors started swirling yesterday that 18 year old Taylor Swift was pregnant with the baby of ex-boyfriend Joe Jonas.  Considering that both of them have been very public about their virgin status, and commitment to stay that way, these rumors spread like wildfire.  An understandably upset Taylor Swift took to her blog yesterday to express her outrage…

“I read a very creative rumor this morning saying I’m pregnant, which is the most IMPOSSIBLE thing on the planet. Take my word for it. Impossible,”Taylor blogged on her Myspace Page Thursday, implying that she is still a virgin.

“I have devoted my entire life to not having something like that happen,” an upset Taylor continues. “It’s really, really scary that someone can just say something and it gets spread around the Internet and all of a sudden it’s a verified rumor, with no grounds.”

“I didn’t do anything to provoke that. Like I’m sitting there thinking, like what? Did I wear the wrong shirt?”

It’s pretty bad when an 18year old girl has to defend herself on her myspace from grown adults acting like school-yard bullies.

While Madonna’s “Sticky and Sweet” tour was in LA last night, Britney Spears and Justin Timberlake joined her onstage to perform “Human Nature” and “4 Minutes”.  While the ex’s didn’t perform together, it was the talk of the town that they were going to be performing at the same concert for the first time in YEARS! 

Sounds like a concert we shouldn’t have missed!

Lol, at this point nothing should surprise me about Angelina Jolie… but this one did come as a bit of a shocker.  I can see this as something she would definitely do… it’s part of why we love her… but I’m surprised that we haven’t heard about it before now!

Apparently Angelina’s old best friend, was roommates with a tattoo artist, and the three of them used to hang out regularly.  During those times, Angie would get tattoo’s… including one in an unseen area…well, unseen to anyone but her lovers… and now, the roommate is telling us all about it!

“I did the secret Billy Bob tattoo that you will never see,” Friday says. “She would come to the house all of the time, because my roommate was her best friend.”

“She was always like ‘Tattoo me! I’m jonesing for another one,’ or ‘I want Billy Bob’s name on me!’ So I put his name down there.”

Yes… that’s what she means by “down there”. 

Anyone surprised by this news?

During an interview in which Pink was promoting her new Album “Funhouse”, she told us what she thought of Katy Perry’s breakout single, “I Kissed a Girl”. 

While she was careful to clarify that she admires Katy as and artist, she did have this to say about the song…

“What did I think of Perry’s song?” “I thought ‘I Kissed a Girl’ was trivializing being gay. I’ve been speaking to my gay girlfriends about it, and they’re kinda put off by it. I’m not judging and comparing, though.”

I have to say, speaking to many of my own gay friends about this, the sentiment seems to hold pretty true in the gay community around here too.  Personally… I think that its a cute song, and a masterful PR move to thrust her into the limelight… and to be honest, with gay issues being such a hot topic right now, any public representation that leans towards good for the gay community, is a way of getting conversation started and positive results, in my opinion.  And even if it did nothing else… it gave the gay and straight community something in which to start a topic of conversation that was non-threatening because of its pop culture nature.

Even though this is VERY old news… some interviewers can’t seem to let go of the rumors that there has always been a competition between Britney Spears and Christina Aguilera.  In a recent sit down, Christina addressed the pesky gossip clearly, once and for all:

“When we both started releasing records, it was a funny time for me,” Christina tells the Daily Mail. she added.

“It must have seemed as if we were competing with each other, but, in reality, Britney is someone that I used to hold hands with,”

“We were silly little girls together on The Mickey Mouse Club. What a journey it has been for both of us!”

“There have been so many stories about the two of us not getting on. We don’t keep closely in touch with one another, and it’s obvious how our lives have taken on two different directions. I always wish her all the best.”

Lets hope that shuts people up finally! 

…by the Royal brothers!! Paris is in the U.K. filming her London leg of her new reality TV series, Paris Hilton’s My New BFF, and ended up at the London nightclub Wisky Mist.  While she was there, she ran into royal heirs William and Harry and tried to get their attention… Paris style. 

She did a dirty little bump and grind dance in front of Harry, only to be politely ignored… here’s what the reporter said about watching the encounter:

“It was quite funny to watch. Harry clearly didn’t want to speak to her but she did a sexy dance in front of him and he finally stood up to shake her hand. He then just wandered off, and Paris looked a bit annoyed,” a spy giggled in Thursday’s edition of the Daily Mail.

Paris later tried her luck with Prince William. She approached his table, and repeated her sexy dancing routine. Unfortunately for her, the attached William wasn’t anymore receptive to her advances than his kid brother.

All I can say is…. HELL FREAKIN YEAH!  That is EXACTLY what she deserves… if only the guys in the US would give her the same treatment, maybe she could grow a little class!

But what do YOU think!?

Sad sad say… last weekend Stevie Wonder’s home burned to the ground after being one of the many victims of the California Wildfires.  The New York Time’s had this information to add…

Everything was destroyed – all of Stevie’s memorabilia, photos, musical instruments, history, clothing, furniture, everything. It’s all gone. It was his main residence and he is utterly devastated. Stevie’s had to put his tour and appearances on hold while he deals with this.”

This just strikes me as very very sad… a lifetime of work and memories… all of his history and memorabilia, just gone. I can’t imagine how devastating that would be…

Rihanna has never made a secret of her propensity towards cheating… or hidden from her image as a quirky bad girl, and it looks like she might have fueled the fires again this week.

Everyone knows that Chris Brown and Rhianna have been together since way back in the 2006 VMA days, where they appeared for the first time together on the Red Carpet.  And although they haven’t ever publicly confirmed their relationship, we are CONSTANTLY seeing pictures of them on vacation together and cuddled up in various locations. 

But that all might be coming to an end… especially once Chris Brown reads the blogs today…

It seems that she and is getting a bit cozier with Kanye West than a locked down girl should be getting….. here’s the quote from a backstage worker at the latest T.I. concert that both Kanye and Rihanna attended:

Rihanna and Kanye hung out together after they performed their songs” a Star Magazine snitch blabs. “Rihanna was sitting on Kanye’s lap, singing along to the music. Before long, the two were full-on kissing each other.”

“People were shocked,”

the spy adds. “After a while, Rihanna must have realized people were watching, because she had her security escort her back to the dressing room.”

 

Oops…. you’d think they could find a more private place to do that sort of thing, especially knowing that everyone is always watching them!