Perpetual party girl and socialite Paris Hilton has shot down claims that she flashed a Nazi salute while bopping on a luxury yacht.
The heirhead's been living it large and partying in true Hilton style in St Tropez over the past few weeks. She's been snapped on a series of champagne-fuelled nights, popping her Cristal corks and showing us 'less moneyed' people how to put the bitch in rich.
Cop an eyeful of these snaps here, here and here.
I particularly like this one where she's spraying the contents of Cristal into the air as if it were water. Suck it up, peasants. If you're lucky she might gargle some and spit it out for you later.
Word is Hilton spent an eye-popping US$450,000 (NZ$614,000) on ten six-litre bottles of the posh bubbly, treating her sister Nicky and her pals to a 24-hour bender while partying in the chic French resort of St. Tropez last week.
Witnessing the extravagant booze-fest at the exclusive annual La Voile Rouge party, a snitch says: "Paris turned up with her entourage and within minutes the champagne was flowing - mostly all over the floor. She was gargling with it and spitting mouthfuls over people while dancing on tables."
See, I told you.
She was also overheard at the party musing over her frenemy Lindsay Lohan, who's currently doing bird in the slammer in Los Angeles.
"I wonder what Lindsay [Lohan] is up to right now," Hilton said as she swigged back the champers, and her sycophantic mates guffawed at her catty humour.
I digress.
Hilton's no stranger to controversy, which makes her latest gaffe all the more unsurprising.
Britain's Daily Mail has published a series of snaps of Hilton flashing what appears to be a Jesse James-approved Nazi salute while on the deck of a yacht in St. Tropez.
One of the snaps clearly shows Hilton wearing a military-style hat, holding her finger under her nose and pointing her hand upward in a Heil Hitler-like salute.
See the offending article here
So was Hilton enacting a Nazi salute? Cobblers says her rep.
"This is totally false. The photos are misrepresented. Paris did not make a reference to Hitler. Much of her family is Jewish as are the majority of her friends and she is very upset and offended at the allegations.
The statement added: "She was wearing a captain's hat given to her in a club, it was not military - and that the photos show her with her arm up, she was dancing with both her arms up, scratched her face with one of her hands. That provided the basis for photographers to make these erroneous claims."
Salute stink or not, Hilton's over it. She tweeted today: "Just went scuba diving in the sea with my cousins. Loves it. :) Off to do some afternoon yoga with the girls."
I'll give Hilton the benefit of the doubt on this one. The vacuous creature probably has no control of her extremities, and probably thinks the salute is the new Macarena
Remember, this is the very same Hilton who famously said: "Wal-mart... do they like make walls there?"
And no, she wasn't joking.
Case dismissed.
And now for this...
Let's get Mel Gibson's latest audio rant out of the way because, quite frankly, the whole sorry saga's gone from shock to shlock in 60 seconds.
Yet another toxic tape of Gibson venting his spleen has surfaced, and this time he's taking aim at estranged girlfriend Oksana Grigorieva's ex, Timothy Dalton.
"Did you get my last message about me being a bad father, and Tim being a great dad now?" asks Gibson in the tape released by RadarOnline
Gibson continues, "You didn't hear that one? Well, you should go and f*** him.
"I despise you," he continues. "I don't want you back. You have proven yourself to me. You're not the f****** woman I want." Mel adds, "I'm so f****** sorry I had a child with you."
A**hat.
Asked for comment on the latest tape, Dalton himself is keeping tight-lipped.
Meanwhile, Grigorieva is said to be gearing up to release an album full of her music. But there's a slight glitch...she needs Gibson's sign-off before she can release any of it.
According to TMZ, Gibson served as executive producer on the album and has publishing rights to some of the tracks.
Good luck with that one, Grigorieva. Tell you what; your album will probably sell, but an album full of Gibson's repulsive rants? Triple platinum.
Sneak Peek: Tron: Legacy trailer 2
More juicy footage from the uber-fantastic looking sci-fi flick TRON: Legacy is released.
The long awaited sequel to Disney's 1982 sci-fi sees Jeff Bridges reprising his role as Kevin Flynn/Clu 2.0 in the flick, and looks set to kick some serious celluloid butt when it's released in December.
Watch the trailer below:
Surprise!
Amanda Bynes
appears to have had a change of heart and isn't ready to hang up her thespian tights just yet - she's no longer 'retired'.
Bynes boomed over Twitter last month that she'd had her fill of the acting lark, at the rip old age of 24.
"Being an actress isn't as fun as it may seem... If I don't love something anymore I stop doing it. I don't love acting anymore so I've stopped doing it," she said.
"I know 24 is a young age to retire but you heard it here first," she tweeted. "I've #retired."
Well she's back. She has just announced on her Twitter page: "I've unretired."
Hmmm, no prizes for guessing who's got a film out soon and needed a dose of cheap publicity...
The new Hulk
You will like him when he's angry.
Mark Ruffalo
, as he joins the stellar cast of
The Avengers
.
Good choice in my humble opinion. He'll bring a brooding, manly edge to the role that
Edward Norton
just couldn't muster.
Ring on it
Linda Hogan
, 50, has got engaged to her young buck,
Charlie Hill
, 21, according to tattler the
National Enquirer
.
Linda and Hulk Hogan were divorced in 2009, and she's been dating the whippersnapper for two years.
Speaking of his ex-wife's relationship with Hill, Hogan once famously said:
"You live half a mile from the 20,000-square-foot home you can't go to anymore, you're driving through downtown Clearwater and see a 19-year-old boy driving your Escalade," he said.
"And you know that a 19-year-old boy is sleeping in your bed, with your wife. I totally understand O.J. I could have turned everything into a crime scene like O.J., cutting everybody's throat."
The pair is reportedly planning to marry next summer aboard Linda's new yacht named..."Alimony."
Classic.
Blogger's Briefs
Fast gossip: I saw these and thought of you...
* Cast members on TV show
Emmerdale
get a little carried away and 'pile' on some
on set
*
Lindsay Lohan
is
, won't build a bridge and get over it
*
Michael Lohan
, shops several of LiLo's doctors for over-subscribing pills
* Bump-watch:
Christina Applegate
is bakin' a little
*
Angelina Jolie
on the red carpet at Moscow premiere of Salt
*
:
Madonna
, I wish you'd make a bit of an effort, love
* Plastic princess
Heidi Montag
working on new album,
. We expect epic things
* Meet the parents:
Britney Spears
meets her fella Jason Trawick's folks
. Feet well and truly under the table then. I just hope she got her hair did.
This does not a good impression make
.
* Glamour model
Katie Price
's mother
thinks her plastic surgery-loving daughter looks ridiculous
. Happy families here
*
Amy Winehouse
stands by her man, despite tabloid 'love rat'
claims that he's been cheating on her
with a burlesque dancer.
* Sneak peek:
Orlando Bloom
and
Miranda Kerr
show off their
. I mean the bling variety, you naughty people.
* Remember this?