Things just keep getting worse for ex-Kardashian Kris Humphries: this week, he appeared with his
mom on GMA and deflected question after question about the divorce, clearly uncomfortable and vainly trying to bring the conversation back to the upcoming basketball season. Asked if he still loved Kim, Kris replied ambiguously “I’m trying to focus on things I can control”. In between questions, the gangly forward sat with his mouth hanging open, staring into space and looking like some weird basketball Frankenstein. His rep later told reporters that Kris had been under the impression that the questions would be directed only partially at his failed marriage and Kim, and that they would be general in nature, but really, why would GMA (or anyone who watches,) want to hear about Kris’ free agency or his mom’s Minnesota recipe for sugar cookies?? Yawn. Check out the video for the most awkward three minutes in talk show history.
There should really be a lead in for this, but BRITNEY’S GETTING MARRIED!!.. again. Two weeks after her thirtieth birthday, Britney Spears has accepted a GIGANTIC, three carat diamond ring from her manager-beau Jason Trawick. The two lovebirds had an elaborate Vegas
engagement party last night that travelled from the Planet Hollywood Resort and Casino to the Chocolate lounge at the ultra swanky Paris Hotel and, later, to Chateau nightclub. Let’s hope its happily ever after for Brit this time; but in case it isn’t, there’s a pre-nup. Hollywood is so romantic.
Kobe Bryant is on the unwilling end of divorce papers filed by his longtime wife Vanessa, who is telling friends she just can’t take the superstars infidelities any longer. She’s entitled under California property law to 50% of Kobe’s swag, and she’s keeping their gargantuan Newport mansion as part of her half. Oh, and anyone recall the three million dollar diamond ring he bought her after the 2003 rape charge? She gets that along with any other gifts given over the years, and in addition to her fifty percent cut of the couples’ community property.
Amber Portwood (for those of you who watched MTV’s teen mom,) is facing up to TWO YEARS in prison for violating basically every term of her probation, including not being drunk in public, not assaulting people, getting a GED, completing anger management courses and starting a college fund for her baby daughter. Convicted of assaulting her baby daddy Gary Shirely (yeah, that was an episode,) the court agreed to suspend Amber’s two year sentence if she could complete the above conditions in a timely manner, but her violations began with a drunken assault on a woman in a restaurant several weeks ago. We all know people don’t go to prison for misdemeanors in California due to incredibly overcrowded prison conditions, but Portwood may be in danger of losing her daughter if the court finds she’s unfit to parent Leah.