Johnny Depp, King of Sexual Ambiguity

Actor reveals inspiration to Ellen DeGeneres

(NEWSER) - We all know Keith Richards inspired Johnny Depp’s Pirates of the Caribbean character, and yesterday on the Ellen DeGeneres Show, Depp revealed the inspiration behind his version of Willy Wonka. “I imagined what George Bush would be like incredibly stoned,” he said. “And thus was born my version of Willy Wonka." He also noted that Edward Scissorhands was inspired in part by a dog he once owned. See the video at the Huffington Post . More»

'It's so sad,' says one source

(NEWSER) - Good news for aspirant single men and ladies everywhere, bad news for Johnny Depp and long-time girlfriend Vanessa Paradis: After 13 years and two children together, they are basically living separate lives. It's been more than a year since they've been spotted together on the red carpet, and sources tell People their relationship is pretty much done. And they've uprooted their life from an idyllic French town to Los Angeles, to boot. "It's so sad," says one source. Perhaps neither of them could stand the stench any longer... More»

Some Christians angry Jesus is blitzed in lyrics

(NEWSER) - Having Jesus turn up for a bachelor night is bad enough. But when Johnny Depp sang about him drinking then passing out on the floor in a new song, it was more than some Christians could bear. The Christian Coalition says Depp and members of the indie band Babybird "will burn in hell for this filth." It's a "slap in the face to Christians all over the world," says a statement from Focus on the Family. The song, "Jesus Stag Night Club," is about men who hire a Christ look-alike for a stag party, then realize he's the real thing, reports ABC News . More»

Plus: six other stars who have used the word insensitively

(NEWSER) - Johnny Depp really stepped in it in a recent Vanity Fair interview, when he compared photo shoots to rape. "Well, you just feel like you’re being raped somehow," he said. "Raped … It feels like a kind of weird—just weird, man." Anti-rape activists, of course, were not amused. "While photos may feel at times intrusive, being photographed in no way compares to rape," a spokesperson for the Rape Abuse and Incest National Network tells Radar . Depp also got called out on blogs . But he was quick to apologize in a statement today, admitting to his "poor choice of words." More»

Apparently, a lot of people live streamed the royal wedding

(NEWSER) - The Guinness Book of World Records is not just for regular joes who go on epic bar crawls or paddleboard rides . No, it's also for celebrities—and according to Perez Hilton , Gossip Cop , and MTV , a whole slew of them made their way in to the 2012 edition:

• Lady Gaga: Most Followers on Twitter and Most Weeks on the US Hot Digital Songs Chart
• Taylor Swift: Fastest Selling Digital Album (Female) and Most Simultaneous US Hot 100 Hits (Female)
• Justin Bieber: Most Popular Video of Any Kind Online