January 10, 2006

Her celebrity status apparently brings Britney Spears not only good things, but also the bad ones. Despite her popularity worldwide, the pop superstar has been chosen as the Worst-Dressed Woman of 2005 according to Mr. Blackwell's 46th annual "Worst Dressed" list. "When it comes to Couture Chaos, this Tacky Terror should take a bow - looks like an over-the-hill Lolita," Mr. Blackwell said about the singer.

On the second place is Mary-Kate Olsen, whose clothes called "bag lady rags" and "depressingly decayed." Jessica Simpson is said "resembles a cut-rate Rapunzel - slingin' hash in a Vegas diner" and is placed at 3rd. The rest of Blackwell's Worst-Dressed Women of 2005 in succession are Eva Longoria, Mariah Carey, Paris Hilton, Anna Nicole Smith, Shakira, Lindsay Lohan, and Renee Zellweger.

While "Brokeback Mountain" is a big winner at the 11th annual Critics' Choice Awards, "Capote" on the other hand is the Best Film of 2005 according to the National Society of Film Critics. The event held at Manhattan eatery Sardi's on Saturday Jan 7th named "A History of Violence" as its 2nd Best Movie and "2046" the 3rd.

Bringing home the Best Actor prize is Philip Seymour Hoffman, with Jeff Daniels of "The Squid and the Whale" as the 2nd and Heath Ledger of "Brokeback Mountain" as the 3rd. For more look on the complete list of the 2005 NSFC winners visit http://news.yahoo.com/s/eo/20060110/en_movies_eo/18110.

The house of former Newlyweds couple, Jessica Simpson and Nick Lachey, is put on sale. The twosome reportedly listed their plush Californian mansion for $3.75million.

To note, the house includes five bedrooms, a music studio and a stunning infinity pool. And there comes "Malcolm in the Middle" teen actor Justin Berfield to buy the property. Hope Diamond, Berfield's publicist, confirmed the sale Tuesday, but wouldn't disclose the price.

Two-time Oscar winning actress Hilary Swank and husband Chad Lowe go separate ways. The couple who has been together for eight years decided to end their marriage, released a statement through Swank's manager announcing "Hilary and Chad have decided to separate, but they are hopeful they'll be able to get through this tough time."

Swank and Lowe tied the knot in 1997, after meeting at a Hollywood party in 1992. That was the first marriage for both, who as yet have any children. There was no elaboration on the reason for the split.

Maybe envying the success of the just comeback Take That, teen pop phenomenon Boyzone reportedly is planning a comeback to the music scene. Stephen Gateley, in fact, has confirmed the report saying that his band does planning to reunite but without frontman Ronan Keating.

"I don't know whether there will be another record. Probably, I'd like there to be. Probably Ronan won't be involved. But the other four of us had dinner and discussions about what we could do in the future," Stephen said, while explaining "There's still a huge fan base and we just had a re-released album out and it went to number six in the UK, even without any promotion."

Grammy-nominated rock group Fall Out Boy is planning to headline its first arena tour ever. About which the band's bassist Pete Wentz says "We've gradually played in front of 50 to 8,000 people due to demand. We wanted to play arenas at this point to give everybody a chance to see us, but our next U.S. tour after this will probably be a small club tour."

The arena tour reportedly will begin March 15 at the Pepsi Arena in Albany, N.Y., and will hit at least 40 markets. For more dates, it will be announced soon on http://www.falloutboyrock.com.