Looks like Snooki’s infamous hair poof has disappeared. The ‘Jersey Shore’ star looked stunning with straight, fire-red hair at Tuesday’s ‘Jersey Shore’ soundtrack release party at New York City nightclub Marquee. “I haven’t worn the poof in awhile,” Nicole “Snooki” Polizzi told E! Online. “To be honest with you, I’m getting tired of it.”
Apparently, she’s been rocking her signature style for a long time and decided it was time to retire it.

“I’ve been wearing it since I was 16, and now everyone expects me to wear the poof,” she said.

“I just don’t want to be predictable with my hair and the poof. I want to be different. That’s why I’ve started to do the tease, do the curl and pretty much just a different look.”

(SOURCE:  PopEater.com)

Vince Vaughn and wife Kyla Weber are expecting their first child, a source tells UsMagazine.com.

The actor, 40, wed Weber, a Canadian real estate agent, this past January outside his hometown of Chicago. They got engaged last Valentine’s Day.

Vaughn previously told Ellen DeGeneres that Weber makes him “laugh … she is wonderful. I’m just thrilled.”

Last year, while promoting his comedy Couples Retreat, he told reporters, “It’s the first time that I really want to have kids. I’ve been very fortunate in my career, and my life has been about that for so long that you get bored of it. You’re ready for your life to be about other people and other things.”

Wonder if his ex, Jennifer Aniston, is a wee bit jealous?  Maybe?

[SOURCE: US Magazine]

Grammy-winning musician Carlos Santana proposed to his girlfriend, acclaimed drummer Cindy Blackman, during a concert stop on his Universal Tone Tour this past weekend in Tinley Park, Ill.

The 62-year-old guitarist popped the question to the 50-year-old drummer onstage after the fourth song in his concert set, ‘Corazon Espindo.’

Blackman had just performed a drum solo on Santana’s song before the Arista Records artist asked her to be his wife. After she accepted, the couple locked lips, and the audience broke out into cheers.

“Cindy and I are blessed to have found each other. Being in love is a gift from the universe, and the spirit and vibrations that come with it are infinitely powerful. I look forward to expressinCarlos Santanag that incredible energy through my music, and in helping to tip the balance toward more love in the world with what Cindy and I share,” said Santana said in a statement to BV Buzz.

Santana, who is best known for hits like ‘Smooth,’ ‘Maria Maria,’ ‘Nothing at All,’ ‘Oye Como Va’ and ‘Black Magic Woman,’ will play a string of late August/early September performances of ‘Supernatural Santana: A Trip Through the Hits’ at the Joint at the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Las Vegas.

Blackman is a jazz and rock drummer who has recorded and toured extensively with Lenny Kravitz and played with a wide range of artists, including Pharoah Sanders, Cassandra Wilson, Angela Bofill and Bill Laswell.

Santana was previously married to Deborah King, the daughter of the late blues singer and guitarist Saunders King. The couple, who divorced after 34 years in 2007, have three children: Salvador, Stella and Angelica.

[Source: BV Buzz]

I happen to enjoy this parody…lol

The clip features six soldiers on patrol in Hebron, an ancient city on the West Bank, which is home to many sites that Jews, Muslims and Christians consider holy. Some 600 Israeli settlers live in the city among roughly 160,000 Palestinians — which means it has also been the site of tension over the Israeli occupation.

As the soldiers canvass the street with weapons in hand, a muezzin can be heard leading a call for Muslim prayers. Suddenly, Ke$ha’s “Tik Tok” abruptly comes on and the six soldiers break out into a dance routine. After a few seconds of hearty gyrating, the soldiers promptly return to their patrol duty and to appropriate military postures.

The Israeli Defense Forces brass is not amused, AFP reports: In a statement, the IDF leadership called the performance a “joke by the soldiers” that amounts to “inappropriate conduct during a military operation” and will be “investigated by battalion commanders.” The video, first posted to YouTube on Friday by the user “cleangrunge,” has since disappeared from its original account — but several  other users have reposted it.

Since women also serve in the Israeli army, it bears noting that they, too, have lately succumbed to a bit of dance fever. A video uploaded to YouTube on Monday allegedly features female Israeli soldiers shaking it to Avril Lavigne’s “Girlfriend.”

[SOURCE: Yahoo!]

Former world competitive-eating record holder Takeru Kobayashi, who was barred from participating in Nathan’s International Fourth of July Hot Dog Eating Contest on Sunday, was arrested for rushing the stage — and demanding some boiled meat slurry, stat.

The event was mired in controversy and sticky ketchup before it even began, thanks to Kobayashi’s ban following a contract dispute. He showed up anyway, and when fans began chanting for him to be allowed to participate, he leaped over a barrier and tried to grab a hot dog before getting dragged away by the NYPD.

Joey “Jaws” Chestnut, who this year won his fourth consecutive Nathan’s title, was unfazed by Kobayashi’s bum rush, putting away 54 frankfurters in 10 minutes.

But, Kobayashi’s antics, both during and after the contest, stole the spotlight from the winner. The Daily News overheard the former champion saying, “I’m really hungry. I wanted to eat hot dogs.” A translator told NPR that Kobayashi had explained, “I was there as a spectator, just to cheer on my buddies … In the heat of it, I jumped on the stage, hoping they would let me eat.”

His explanation stinks more than Chestnut’s breath after more than four dozen of Nathan’s Famous dogs. Keep reading for an even more unconvincing video of his bust.

[SOURCE: TMZ]

Vienna Girardi says she is happy with how her July 5 reunion segment with ex Jake Pavelka  went because it gave fans a glimpse of what he is really like: Volatile.

During the ugly sit-down, Girardi, 24, and Pavelka, 32, pretty much argued about everything. “I’m disgusted with you,” he told her at one point. At the end of the interview, he shouted at her — “Please, stop interrupting me!” — forcing her to storm off in tears. (Later, he insisted to host Chris Harrison that he’s never screamed at a woman like that.)

“Thank you for all your support,” Girardi Twittered after the show. “The truth will always prevail. I’m so glad people see what I have been going through. Love you all.”

Pavelka simply Twittered, “Thanks everybody! I really appreciate the ongoing support.”

During their interview, Girardi said their relationship began to sour after just one month. She said she thought that they would be moving to Pavelka’s hometown of Dallas to live “a normal life.” Instead, they headed to Los Angeles so Pavelka, whom Girardi called a “fame whore,” could pursue an acting career. There, she claimed he put their relationship on the back-burner because he was too consumed with the spotlight.

Pavelka said Girardi was too “mean” to him, criticizing everything he did, and that’s why he began drawing back. He even admitted to withholding sex from her.

“What guy in America would ever want to be intimate with someone who undermines him, emasculates and doesn’t respect him?” he asked.

[SOURCE - US Magazine]

Earlier this evening, TV broadcasting legend Larry King dropped a bombshell: after 25 years of hosting the ‘Larry King Live’ show on CNN, his nightly show will end this fall. King made the surprising announcement via his Twitter account right before he taped this evening’s show. “Announcing tonight: I’m ending my nightly show this fall but continuing at CNN,” King wrote.

In a full statement on CNN.com, the TV icon said, “Before I start the show tonight, I want to share some personal news with you. 25 years ago, I sat across this table from New York Governor Mario Cuomo for the first broadcast of Larry King Live. Now, decades later, I talked to the guys here at CNN and I told them I would like to end Larry King Live, the nightly show, this fall and CNN has graciously accepted, giving me more time for my wife and I to get to the kids’ little league games.

“I’m incredibly proud that we recently made the Guinness Book of World Records for having the longest running show with the same host in the same time slot. With this chapter closing I’m looking forward to the future and what my next chapter will bring, but for now it’s time to hang up my nightly suspenders.”

The journalist will still appear on CNN frequently, hosting topic-related specials. “I’ll still be a part of the CNN family, hosting several Larry King specials on major national and international subjects,” King confirmed in the statement.

The decision to leave the show comes after months of declining ratings and media speculation about the future of King’s career. The NY Times reported in March that the program was down about 50 percent in v