This week’s celebrity gossip starts out with some good news for Tiffani Thiessen and her husband. The actress recently announced she is pregnant with baby #2. In true Hollywood fashion the couple recently threw a party for their friends and family to reveal the gender of their baby, which will be a boy.
Marissa Miller just announced that she too is pregnant with baby #2. As the mom to a 2 year old son she is thrilled to become a mother again. She too is having another boy and she commented how she is so happy her 2 year old son will now have a friend to play with.
In some rather pathetic news from a band that used to have it all, R&B group TLC recently took to the fundraising website Kickstarter to fund their next album through fan donations. While I was a huge TLC fan in the day if you have fallen so far from grace you all of a sudden need a Kickstarter campaign to put your album out its time to find another line of work. It remains to be seen whether or not the group will make enough money from their Kickstarter campaign to produce what is supposed to be their final album. As much as I loved TLC, you won’t find me making a contribution in order to help them get that last album made and released.
At a recent appearance on the Ellen Degeneres show Gwyneth Paltrow and Johnny Depp told the host that they are members of the infamous “Mile High Club.” The two actors were on the show promoting a new movie they made.
In news that has NASCAR fans bummed out, superstar Jeff Gordon recently announced that he is giving up on his racing career after a 20 year run. At 43 years old, Gordon has announced that 2015 will be the last year he competes to win a NASCAR championship.
In other sports news with the upcoming Superbowl athletes Chris Evans and Chris Pratt have made themselves a friendly bet concerning the game. Since both athletes are competing they took to Twitter to challenge each other. This was brought by some lighthearted trash talking between the two athletes.
Former Boy Meets World actor Rider Strong and his wife Alex have recently become parents. The couple kept her pregnancy under wraps so much so that the public didn’t know she was pregnant until after she welcomed her first child, a baby boy. The baby was born days after Christmas.
Bumbling actor Will Ferrell recently made headlines for throwing a ball directly at a cheerleader at a recent basketball game between the Los Angeles Lakers and the New Orleans Pelicans. Following the incident, the arena’s security team drug him out of the gym. No one knows whether this legitimately happened or it was a publicity stunt set up by Will Ferrell’s camp.
Recently Kate Hudson took a trip to Mexico to help the Starkey Foundation, which is a non -profit organization that ensures children who are deaf can get hearing aids for themselves. Kate was photographed at the headquarters of the charity with her son in tow.
Johnny Depp recently said during an interview that he finds it difficult to take actors who try to have a music career seriously. Depp’s sense of humor allows him to make fun of actors turned musicians without fear of repercussion.
Lindsay Lohan was recently hospitalized for something other than a drug and alcohol addiction. After recently taking a vacation in Bora Bora Lindsay Lohan apparently contracted Chikungunya after a mosquito bit her.
Actress Zoey Deschanel recently became engaged to Jacob Pechenik, her longtime boyfriend. This will be her second marriage as she was previously married to Ben Gibbard of Death Cab For Cutie. Zoey and Jacob reportedly broke up and then got back together in August of 2014.
At a recent performance Justin Bieber did his best to give an acoustic performance. The actor arrived at the State Social House in L.A. simply to have dinner. However, when he saw a guitar on stage he couldn’t resist going up and performing. He then performed four sings for the people dining in the restaurant.
In more baby news Sarah Roemer and Chad Michael Murray are now expecting a special delivery of their own. The couple recently got married, secretly, and are now preparing to become first time parents.
Mel B, former Spice Girl member, was recently spotted taking her husband to the hospital after he began to suffer from extraordinary back pain. There has been no statement from Mel B about what is wrong with her husband.
Leann Rimes and husband Eddie Cibrian were sad to learn that their reality series, which aired on VH1 is not being renewed for another season due to low ratings from the first and only season. This is sad because these networks usually give reality shows and their other shows more of a chance.
Chrissy Teigen recently took to Twitter to argue with Katie Cassidy. This came about after Chrissy publically criticized Katie’s friend Erin Andrews, a female sports reporter for ESPN. Katie then stepped in to her defend her friend and had some harsh words for those who were bashing Erin.
A pregnant Shakira has recently been working with UNICEF by posing for pictures with her husband. The pictures are being used in an attempt to help the organization raise money for women and their babies who are living in poverty.
That’s it for this week’s celebrity gossip. So far the gossip for the year has been milder than it was last year, though that will likely change as we progress further into the year. Many celebrities are doing good things that put them in the gossip mill but others will always make it for their less than honorable actions and words. It will be interesting to see how this year’s celebrity gossip compares to that of the last year.