Five years after he was arrested for suspicion of murder in the disappearance of Alabama teen Natalee Holloway, authorities in Peru say 22-year-old Dutch playboy Joran van der Sloot has confessed to the brutal beating and stabbing of Stephany Flores, a Peruvian girl he met while on vacation in Lima last month.
We wonder if authorities in Aruba will use van der Sloot’s confession in the Flores slaying to reopen the investigation into Natalee’s demise.
Bourne Identity actress Julia Stiles has joined the cast of the fifth season of Showtime’s Emmy-winning drama Dexter. Stiles will play “a mysterious young woman who forms a unique relationship with Dexter (Michael C. Hall) in the wake of the death of his wife,” the cable network said Monday.
Production begins this month and also includes the return of Julie Benz, whose character, Rita, was killed off last season.
An avalanche of f-bombs, a Sandra-ScarJo liplock, and Tom Cruise bustin’ a move as Les Grossman couldn’t stop the MTV Movie Awards from suffering a 13 percent drop in viewership, according to Nielson data issued on Monday.
Sunday’s two-hour ceremony — hosted by Parks & Recreation star Aziz Ansari live from the Gibson Amphitheater in Los Angeles — averaged 4.6 million viewers, down from 5.3 million for last year’s Movie Awards, which was the show’s biggest audience since 2004.