November 17, 2024

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Wait, How Much Did This Woman Spend to Look Like Kim Kardashian?

by 28 mins ago

Meet Claire Leeson, a British woman who has dropped approximately £20,000 (just under $35,000) to look just like her idol, Kim Kardashian. Suddenly, I don’t feel so bad about blowing $24 on a veggie burger and fries from that pricey #artisanal place around the corner last night.

Related: This Guy Spent Over $100K To Look Justin Bieber

The U.K.’s Metro reports that the 24-year-old elected to undergo a series of surgical and non-surgical cosmetic enhancements — like breast implants, tooth whitening, hair extensions, spray tans, a new wardrobe, new nails, upscale makeup, and some very British-sounding “bum padding” — because bullying had damaged her self-esteem.

“I was told every day [at school] that I was the ‘ugliest thing alive’ and I should ‘kill myself,’” BuzzFeed quotes Leeson as saying.

How does Claire feel now? “When I get my Kimmy on I feel like I’m unstoppable and untouchable and I feel like no one can stop me,” she told ITV’s “This Morning” on July 14. “I feel that I have built enough confidence to love myself a little bit more.”

That’s obviously great that she feels she’s been able to build up her self-confidence, but I kinda wish she’d been able to do it in a way that didn’t leave her “up to [her] eyeballs” in credit card debt? Like, couldn’t she have just watched a bunch of contouring makeup tutorials on YouTube and changed her name from “Claire” to “Klaire”? Or maybe ...

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This Guy Spent Over $100K To Look Justin Bieber: Worth It?

by 1 min ago

There was quite the interesting patient recently on E!’s new show “Botched” — and no, I’m not talking about the woman with the “misplaced vagina.” One Toby Sheldon paid a visit to the plastic surgery-centric reality series on Sunday’s episode and he brought his obsession with looking just like Justin Bieber with him.

In case Toby sounds familiar, that’s because he made the digital rounds back in 2013. The aspiring singer/songwriter’s £18,000 (roughly $30,000) Bieber-inspired “smile surgery” (an operation that permanently raised the corners of his mouth) caught the attention of The Sun, and the story went full-on viral from there. Is all that old news to you? Congratulations, you win one Internet.

CLICK: Explore Justin Bieber’s Tattoos In This Interactive Tat Map

Here’s The Sun’s before and after comparison from last September. You know, in case the visual wasn’t permanently seared into your memory.

Justin BieberThe Sun

According to “Botched,” Toby has since spent over $100,000 to cosmetically enhance his facial swagginess. By his own admission, he’s had hair transplants, lip procedures, chin reductions, liposuction, and Botox injections, plus other work done on his cheeks and temples.

Toby was seeking a forehead and a jaw reduction on last night’s episode of the E! series, but the show’s resident plastic surgeons, Dr. Terry Dubrow and Dr. Paul Nassif, elected not to perform the surgeries after much deliberation.

Guess that means he’ll have tens of thousands of dollars lying around to invest in his burgeoning music ...

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NKOTB Do Vegas, Cover Backstreet Boys & Channel Britney Spears At Their ‘After Dark’ Kickoff

by 24 mins ago

LAS VEGAS, Nevada — Three decades into my hypothetical career as a recording artist, I’d probably be lucky to have a vanity label of designer crop tops for ferrets. And that’s where the New Kids On The Block and I differ — and I don’t just mean because their music careers are, like, actually real. It’s been 28 years since NKOTB released their self-titled debut album in 1986, and they’re still playing to packed venues.

On Thursday, July 10, the guys kicked off their four-night “New Kids On The Block: After Dark” run at The AXIS at Planet Hollywood. In case that place sounds familiar, that’s where Britney Spears’ “Britney: Piece Of Me” residency is hosted.

If the night was any indication, a full-on Vegas residency of their own wouldn’t be a bad idea for the all-man boy band — not that that’s any news to them. These four concerts are sort of a test run, a chance at “dipping our toe in,” as member Joey McIntyre put it in a pre-show interview. And as Donnie Wahlberg triumphantly announced midway through the performance, invoking 1989′s “Field Of Dreams”: “We f—ing built it, and you f—ing came!”

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The massive, 25-song set list included tracks from all six of the guys’ full-length, non-holiday LPs (sorry ’bout it, Merry, Merry Christmas). And from “Didn’t I (Blow Your Mind This ...

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Oh My God: This Video Shows What It’s Like To Be Cara Delevingne

by 27 mins ago

Have you ever gotten back to your house super-late at night after a long, hard, eyeball-crustifying day at school or work only to be confronted by a horde of photo-hungry paparazzi? No? Well, that’s exactly what awaited British supermodel and professional eyebrow-haver Cara Delevingne when she returned home early Tuesday morning (July 8), and she filmed the entire encounter and posted the video on Instagram.

“Watch out, someone’s gonna fall over,” Cara can be heard saying in the clip. Venting on Twitter, she added: “I got home last night after a 14 hour day at work to see around 12 paps waiting for me. I just wanted to see my bunny and go to bed.”

She later tweeted, “I need an underground batman tunnel!” Wait, does that mean that her bunny would be Robin? Please let that mean that her bunny would be Robin.

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Ciara And Future’s Baby: Still Adorable, Still Better Dressed Than You

by 1 min ago

Wow, it would be really embarrassing if a seven-week-old infant had better style than you, a fully (or at least mostly fully) grown human being. Good thing that’s not likely to happen, because — OH WAIT IT JUST DID.

Check out the latest photo of Ciara and Future’s baby that the “Body Party” singer shared on Instagram on Monday.

Ciara, FutureInstagram

In the picture, Future Zahir Wilburn is wearing a red and black Air Jordan onesie (prophetically emblazoned with the words “RISE ABOVE ALL”) while lying down on some kind of fluffy blanket with, wait… Does that blanket have bunny ears sewn onto it? THAT BLANKET HAS BUNNY EARS SEWN ONTO IT.

Get out of here, piglet eating ice cream — there’s a new cutest photo ever in town.

Last July, Ciara told MTV how obsessed with kids she is, saying: “I absolutely love kids. They are the sweetest creatures on earth… They’re just so fun and full of life.” This photo of lil bb Future is certainly giving me a whole lotta life right now, so I guess she was right.

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Crumbs Bake Shop Is Closing, So Let’s Weigh Our Cupcake Options

by 27 mins ago

And in cupcake-related travesties, Crumbs Bake Shop is closing up all of its stores. With locations in 12 states, the New York City-based company just wanted to spread peace, love, and diabetes-inducing, holiday-themed, ostrich egg-sized cupcakes across the country, but no more. This is why we can’t have nice things, America. This is why we can’t have nice things.

As a regular partaker in Crumbs cupcakes (shout-out to our monthly, cupcake-fueled birthday parties!), I feel very personally victimized by this loss. Who will I turn to next St. Patrick’s Day when all I crave is a double-fistful o’ green cupcake with an edible leprechaun hat? Where will I find a bakery that will serve me a cupcake topped with a full-size Cannoli and claim, in good conscience, that it’s still one dessert? Let’s survey the pros and cons of our remaining cupcake resources.

1.) Homemade cupcakes (if you are Ina Garten)

Pros: You are Ina Garten.

Cons: THERE ARE NO CONS.

2.) Homemade cupcakes (if you are not Ina Garten)

Pros: You don’t have to wear pants.

Cons: This is probably you in the kitchen.

3.) Georgetown Cupcakes

Pros: They’re so small that even those couple of stink-eyed, juice-cleansing husks of former coworkers in your office can’t judge you for eating one.

Cons: When you realize how many you’d have to eat in order to equal the frosting-slathered satisfaction of one Crumbs cupcake.

4.) Magnolia Bakery

Pros: There are approximately 7-million delicious units of butter ...

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Wrathschild’s ‘Angeles’ Video: L.A. Is One Unforgiving Mistress

by 12 mins ago

“Take my soul I want to let you/ Wish that I had never met you,” sing Simon Curtis and Ro “Wolfy” Danishei of Wrathschild in their new video for “Angeles.” And no, they’re not singing about some cruel, unforgiving mistress they just don’t know how to shake — well, at least not a human one.

The track, which begins all simple and percussive à la Lorde’s “Royals” only to transcend to a more ethereal sonic landscape, is all about loving the city of Los Angeles, even when it doesn’t love you back.

Did I say “loving”? I should probably say “worshiping,” as the follow-up to April’s “Fall Into Love” sees the electro-pop duo embarking on a legit pilgrimage for answers through the city’s streets. Like any good religious experience, the quest ends in a host of psychedelic visions.

“You could say the song is our diary, our experience. It’s an anthem dedicated to that feeling of loving and loathing Los Angeles,” Simon told The Advocate in a recent interview. “It’s bittersweet, but it’s still really hopeful,” Wolfy elaborated. As someone who’s been in approximately one healthy relationship that has lasted longer than three months, I can relate.

Look for Wrathschild’s debut EP, which Wolfy and Simon are reportedly putting the finishing touches on as we speak.

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Foxes’ ‘Glorious’ Video: For Those Who Like Their Creepy Candy-Coated

by 59 mins ago

What do you get when you cross the candy-coated, retro-pastel visuals of “The Stepford Wives” and “Edward Scissorhands” with a gently warbling electro-ballad? Foxes’ new video for “Glorious,” apparently.

Oh, and in case you’re drawing a blank on where you know her from, Foxes provided the vocals on that massively huge, entirely inescapable Zedd track, “Clarity.” Maybe you’ve heard it before? Trick question: EVERYONE HAS.

Released on July 6, the clip for the title track off of the British singer-songwriter’s debut album sees her lounging poolside in a repressed town called “Glorious.” To call this country-club setting unsettling and sterile is definitely an understatement. It’s simultaneously romantic and on the verge of social implosion. If you told me that zombie apocalypse struck this idyllic scene just moments after “Glorious” ends, I’d believe you. Anyway, check it out below.

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Harry Styles Covers His NSFW Twitter Tracks With These Cuddly Kitten Photos

by 16 mins ago

In case you missed it, some keen-eyed individuals discovered that Harry Styles of One Direction had favorited a massively NSFW photo on Twitter, captioned: “RETWEET if you’d lick me clean.” And yes, it’s exactly what it sounds like.

The hashtag “HarryDontLickAnything” is currently trending, but those Directioners are kinda stressing over nothing TBH. I mean, technically Harry didn’t retweet the photo as directed — he merely favorited it. But, I guess that’s neither here nor there…

Apparently alerted to the discovery, the “You & I” singer has since scrubbed his Favorites feed of the porn tweet in question. While he hasn’t addressed the situation directly, Harry has since favorited 12 ridiculously adorable pictures of kittens and puppies and oh my god look at this basket full of pitbull bbs.

Harry also appears to have tweeted a tongue-in-cheek reference to the NSFW photo earlier on Monday (July 7), asking his followers about the weather.

Today’s weather forecast? Cloudy with a chance of shrug emoticons, I’d say.

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Katy Perry’s Weird Weekend: Disney World Pizza Parties, ‘Seinfeld’ Roller Coasters & Off-Duty Santas

by 56 mins ago

How was your Fourth of July weekend? Did you catch the fireworks? Lounge poolside for 72 hours straight? Shove condiment-slathered hot dogs and red-white-and-blue Jell-O shots down your throat because ‘MURRICA? That’s cute and all, but I think Katy Perry still wins this one.

Following her Prismatic World Tour stop in Miami on Thursday, July 3, the “Birthday” singer spent Friday, Saturday, and Sunday at Walt Disney World Resort meeting Mickey and Minnie Mouse, riding roller coasters, playing it cool in front of a giraffe, possibly solving the mystery of where Santa Claus goes in the off-season, and eating pizza in Cinderella’s bed. These photos and videos should pretty much be titled “Life Goals Achieved.”

First, Katy Perry wished America a happy birthday.

And stocked up on some Astronaut ice cream.

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Because if there’s one thing you need in space, it’s the choice between Neapolitan and Mint Chocolate Chip.

Just before the clock struck midnight, Katy held a “Princess pizza party” at the Cinderella Castle Suite.

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Needless to say, I want to go to there.

Dressed in her best “GoTh MiCkEY” attire, Katy kicked off Saturday with a personal hangout with Mickey and Minnie Mouse.

And rode the Magic Kingdom’s Big Thunder Mountain Railroad to the tune of the “Seinfeld” theme song.

Or as Katy’s fellow rider, actress Shannon Woodward, called it: “The ride about nothing.”

After that, Katy ...

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