Bodyguard Sues Brit

Former runner-up trashes Idol , contestants in blog

(NEWSER) - Former American Idol runner-up Clay Aiken finds this year’s runner-up, Adam Lambert, “slightly frightening.” Aiken trashed Idol in a post on his blog yesterday, Gawker reports, and Lambert did not escape unscathed. Aiken says he watches Idol only once a season, and “this year, I happened to turn it during the minute Adam Lambert was singing ‘Ring of Fire’ and, at that moment, thought my ears would bleed.” More»

(NEWSER) - Last night’s American Idol was more than just a reality-show finale: It was a symbolic victory of the religious right over the liberal left; red states over blue states. At least according to two bloggers. “For a theory about how Kris Allen pulled an upset over the wildly popular Adam Lambert, the Christian vote is a pretty good one,” argues Michael Giltz in the Huffington Post. More»

You can't make this stuff up...or maybe you can

(NEWSER) - Britney Spears’ redemption must not be quite complete, because the singer apparently still enjoys running “round the house naked and yelling at staff,” as one source puts it. A former bodyguard claims Brit sexually harassed him, saying she came onto him multiple times…while nude…and that he, and other security staffers, often had to instruct her to put on underwear. Sounds like a fun job, no? More»

We're looking at you, Miley Cyrus

(NEWSER) - Now that Brooke Mueller and Charlie Sheen are hitting “ prehab ”—rehab for people (supposedly) without any actual addiction issues—it’s time for other celebrities to follow suit. Ami Angelowicz lists her top 10 candidates, on The Frisky :

• Britney Spears: Sure, she seems OK now. But you never know when she’ll “flip out on Jason Trawick, shave off her extensions again, and break out the pink wig.”
• Amy Winehouse: “Should be in prehab for the rest of her life. End of discussion.”
• Joaquin Phoenix: “Prehab or mental institution? You choose.”

After cosmetic surgery, Amy Winehouse finds herself back in the hospital

(NEWSER) - Amy Winehouse might be regretting the boob job she got last week—she was hospitalized over the weekend after being “in such pain she could hardly lift her arms,” a source tells the Mirror. After a performance on a British reality show, “Amy started shouting, ‘My boobs are fucking killing me,’” the source says, adding that—despite Winehouse’s fear that her breasts might explode—she stopped on her way to the hospital for some chicken. More»