While we have all been relaxing on break, the celebrities have been churning new stories out left and right. It seems the celebs had a lot more exciting of a holiday than I did, which is what makes them so much fun to keep up with.
A huge development over the break was the announcement of Kanye West and Kim Kardashian’s pregnancy. West, being the classy man that he is, shared this information with the public by making a shout out to his “baby mama” during one of his concerts. Really, though, if you know anything about the Kardashians, it just makes you feel sorry for Khloe because she and husband Lamar Odom have publicized on their reality show their struggle in not being able to have a child, while both Kourtney and now Kim Kardashian are just popping babies out with their boyfriends. Also, a little fun fact, Kim is still technically married to Kris Humphries, so that just makes everything even weirder.
An incredibly recent story has been the shocking news that the death of former Notre Dame linebacker Manti Te’o’s girlfriend of leukemia in September was a hoax. Te’o had never actually met his girlfriend, they were only dating online, and now he is saying that people put together a fake profile for this girl and then faked her death. There was speculation that Te’o may have known about and been involved in creating this story to gain publicity to help his case for the Heisman, but it was later confirmed by the mastermind of the hoax that Te’o was a victim and had no idea. This, my friends, is why we all need to watch the show “Catfish” on MTV, in which a man who was once tricked by a fake profile online helps others expose their online significant others. Then, you will learn this: If a super attractive person is talking to you online but won’t ever meet up with you in person, they are probably fake and often the opposite gender of what they say they are.
My main man Justin Bieber had an eventful holiday, as well. In addition to performing around the U.S. on his “Believe” tour, he was on and off again with girlfriend Selena Gomez multiple times and was caught smoking marijuana. Apparently Bieber was hanging out at a house, and someone snuck several pictures of him with weed and sent the pictures to TMZ. Bieber took this in stride by tweeting that he is “growing and learning,” and by learning he probably means learning not to hang out with random people who are going to take pictures of him and send them to TMZ. Following the scandal, it was announced that Bieber will be the host and performer on Saturday Night Live on Feb. 9 and that he granted SNL permission to write marijuana jokes into his sketches.
In short news, Taylor Swift and Harry Styles were officially together and then broke up in the time that we were gone. The day after the breakup, Swift tweeted that she was back in the studio, so we all know what that means. Lance Armstrong was interviewed by Oprah, and it finally came out that he did in fact use banned substances to help his performance, which was a complete shocker to all of us (I hope it actually wasn’t). “The Bachelor” started back up, featuring heart-throb Sean Lowe, who was rejected on the last season. If this man doesn’t find love on his own season, I’m going to Dallas and finding him. Potentially the best news of the break and ever, though, is that Justin Timberlake released a new single, titled “Suit and Tie,” and is making music again. The album is sure to be great, and if all else fails, you can see him on tour just to be in his presence, which I will be.
