Brittany Murphy and Joe Macaluso, engaged since last New Year’s Eve, have broken off their engagement, PEOPLE has learned exclusively.
The two “have amicably ended their engagement. They remain close friends and wish each other much happiness,” a rep for Murphy tells PEOPLE.
Last Sunday, Murphy showed up at the Teen Choice Awards without her engagement ring. Asked about her wedding plans in the press room, the actress became evasive before saying, “Everything is going wonderful, thank you. I’m just living every moment, you know, enjoying my day.”
Murphy, 28, who had met Macaluso – who is a best boy grip responsible for lighting and electricity on a movie set – while filming Little Black Book. After that film wrapped production, she asked him to the movies for their first date.
So maybe you got a chance to see K-Fed’s performance on the Teen Choice Awards. If not, David posted it below Frankly, it’s bad. Really bad. And somehow, he drags two other people down with him in the process.
Perez Hilton managed to cull some quotes from various sources about the K-Fed. The real choice one is from Elliot Wilson, editor in chief of XXL magazine. As he says, “I just think we ignore him [Federline]. He’s a joke, basically. I just don’t think he gets it. He doesn’t get that he’s Britney’s man and it’s hard to take him seriously.”
Nobody should take him seriously. If it crosses anyone’s mind, let this video be a little reminder of why this is a misguided idea at best.
What this all brings to mind, though, is Vanilla Ice. Now considered a punchline to a bad joke about the early nineties. Ice also dated Madonna, even appearing in her coffee-table book Sex. If Britney aspires to be Madonna, then is K-Fed really trying to be Vanilla Ice? If so, he’s already spot on with it. But he might even be down to the level of Snow.
“I, like, cry, when I listen to it, it’s so good.”
That’s what Paris Hilton has to say about her new album, Paris, which will be released this Tuesday. Paris talked about her music and the public’s reactions to it recently in Blender magazine (story via People.com).
Ok, Paris. Just to be fair and objective, I’ll also include a quote from Joerg Colberg’s review of Paris. “Listening to her sing Rod Stewart’s Do Ya Think I’m Sexy, you are gripped by the fear that civilization as we know it is doomed and that brimstone is going to start raining from the sky any minute. It doesn’t, but a sense of terrible foreboding is further stoked by the sleeve notes, which make reference to “all my albums to come”. You might call that another example of the sheer force of will that has got Hilton so far in so many improbable careers, but on the basis of the 11 tracks here, it sounds more like a threat.”
Geez. Now I think I might cry when I hear it too..
“I, like, cry, when I listen to it, it’s so good.”