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Bijou Phillips Enjoys Cabo San Lucas – Alone

March 29th, 2009

Although Bijou Phillips recently announced her engagement to Danny Masterson after four years of dating, she says her best vacation was in Cabo San Lucas – alone.

“I went there by myself for three weeks,” the actress, 27, tells me. “It was amazing. I just drove. I had a stick-shift car and I raced it all over the place. I sang at this jazz club periodically while I was there, and made a bunch of friends. I swam in the ocean and read a ton of books. It was a good three weeks of just doing stuff for me and it was awesome.”

When she’s with Danny, 33, they enjoy seeing movies.

“We love each other,” Bijou says. “He’s great. He’s a good guy.”

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Horsing Around With Bijou Phillips

November 8th, 2008

Bijou Phillips finds respite from her glitzy showbiz lifestyle by hanging with her horses in California.

“I have Clover – her show name is Double Cream De Mint – and then I have Olive, and her show name is Sky Blue Indian — and I have Lexington, and his show name is the Devil Can Do,” Bijou tells me.

She spends her time horseback riding.

“I’m at the barn from 4 until about 9:00 at night – riding, turning out, graining,” the actress says. “It’s a lot of work. It’s awesome though. I wouldn’t want to do anything else.”

Bijou loves to give them watermelon.

“I’ll take a huge watermelon and I’ll chop it up,” she says. “I’ll give my horses watermelon, I’ll give them canteloupe, I’ll give them honeydew melon, I give them carrots, obviously, apples, celery, and I’ll make a huge salad bowl full of tons and tons of fruit. Almost every time I go to see my horses, I bring at least two watermelons. I carry half a watermelon in my hands, and they’re shoving their face in it. It takes all my strength to hold the watermelon up, and once they’re done with all the inside sweet part, they start eating the rinds. It’s a pretty fun, messy time, feeding horses watermelons, but I love it.”

In fact, her horses are show quality.

“They all compete,” she says. “Clover’s a three-day eventer, and Olive is a hunter, and Lexington is hunter-jumper. Jumps pretty good. Olive, she’s young, she does a lot of flat stuff. We haven’t really started jumping yet.”

Spotted!

September 8th, 2008 / Author: OK! Staff

Charlize Theron and Stuart Townsend stopping by the CNN Grill in Denver.

 

Entourage star and cardmember Jeremy Piven was spotted with an American Express Radio glued to his ear to catch all the play-by-play while at the US Open.

Eva Longoria at Noir Bar in Las Vegas.

 

Danny Masterson and Bijou Phillips sipping Inocente Tequila a top the Gansevoort Rooftop at the Rag & Bone Afterparty.

Ellen DeGeneres’ wedding crooner Joshua Radin performing at House of Blues in L.A. while Zach Braff cuddled with a mystery woman and sang along.

Star Jones lunching at the MySpace Café in Denver.

Chevy Chase at DoSomething.org’s Generation Action Party.

NASCAR driver Jeff Gordon and Pharrell Williams challenging each other to a remote control car race at the Pepsi 500 kickoff at Avalon Hollywood.

Tori Spelling and 10 of her closest friends had a drinks at blue on blue at Avalon Beverly Hills celebrating the success of her book sTORItelling and her 7-week run on the New York Times best seller list! The fete was complete with pink and white balloons, cake and confetti. They celebrated til the wee (ish) hours of the morning and had a blast.

Bijou Phillips Shares Diet, Exercise Tips

August 18th, 2008

Bijou Phillips is a former model. How does she stay slim?

“I’m vegan, so that’s the best secret,” she tells me. “It’s fine – you can eat as many animals – you can do whatever you want to do and be healthy. But at the end of the day, I think with the amount of antibiotics they put into the dairy and into the meat, when you start eating that, it’s killing all the good bacteria in your stomach that helps you digest the food anyway.”

Bijou continues, “I think that’s part of the reason people are so obese is because they’re not able to digest their food properly because there’s so many antibiotics in the animal products that you can’t really digest everything properly because there’s a large amount of bacteria in your stomach that does all the digestion for you. When you don’t have it because you’re eating tons of antibiotics constantly and not replenishing with probiotics, then that’s a problem.”

To help out with muscle tone, she jogs.

“I run three times a week for about five miles,” she says. “ I want to do a marathon.”

Stars Dish Out Beauty Tips

August 12th, 2008

Stars have access to the best in beauty, and are eager to share their tips for looking good.

“I always say natural’s the best way to go because when you go to a nice dinner and you darken your makeup up, they think ‘wow, that’s a difference’ rather than wearing the same thing every day and you just look normal every day,” Selena Gomez tells me.  “Natural’s always the best way to go.”

“Drink lots of water – that always helps – and I don’t really go out in the sun anymore, which is a good thing because I used to go out in the sun a lot ‘cause I’m from Florida,” Brittany Snow tells me. “My skin has changed drastically when I don’t. I’m kinda just trying to stay away. Bronzer. Bronzer’s my best friend.”

“If you want to look more awake, you can put white eyeliner in either side of your eye and it makes your eyes look like they pop,” Natasha Bedingfield says.

“I don’t take off my makeup, I eat fast food, I do everything bad,” Danity Kane’s Aubrey O’Day tells me. How does she get photo-ready? “My biggest thing about pictures is how you feel. The pictures where I don’t look as good, I’m not as happy, I think, so however you’re feeling inside as a person that day kind of comes out in photos.”

“Sleep!” Diane Kruger says.
 
“I wear a big smile,” Sara Bareilles tells me.

“Moisturize before you put your makeup on, always,” Emmy Rossum tells me. “It’ll make you extra-glowy in the summertime.”

Rihanna can’t get enough of Cover Girl makeup.

“I love their products, so I always use their products.”

Kelly Ripa tells me, “Hire a good makeup artist and hairstylist. That’s it. I mean, really. I’ve tried to do it myself and it never works out. I need experts. I need all the experts I can get.”

Bijou Phillips has odd advice.

“Go in the sun and don’t wear sunblock,” she tells me. “It’s true. Sunblock changes the molecular structure of UVA and UVB rays and turns it into something else that isn’t real molecules so they sort of become free radicals. The second the sun hits your skin, the UVA and UVB molecules turn into foreign molecules that our bodies don’t really know how to identify. So your face is covered in free radicals, which I think is the main reason people get skin cancer.”

Oh really?

“Yeah because it’s changing the molecular structure of these molecules and cancer is a large amount of free radicals. You’re putting this thing on to not get cancer but you’re actually putting the most horrible thing you can on your face, which is free radicals that your body doesn’t know how to identify. I think it’s increasing the chances of skin cancer. But there are natural sunblocks you can get, but if you get a good base tan and you don’t burn, you’re pretty much OK. Just wear hats and sunglasses. You don’t need to cover yourself in 45. It’s bad for you.”

Ashanti swears by her own OPC-3 Beauty Blend.

“It’s a powdered vitamin,” she tells me. “It’s really good for skin and nails and internally for your immune system. With me traveling so much and going in and out of airports, there’s a lot of germs. It helps build up your immune system and gives energy.”

 “Water,” Kim Raver says. “No, I’m joking, but there is some truth to that. I find that if I don’t drink enough water, it definitely shows in your skin. But then I would say mascara, eyelash curler, and Clarins makes this easy facial soap at night, which is the best thing ever.”

Bijou Phillips Rocks Out

August 9th, 2008

Bijou Phillips is waiting for me at Starbucks on 42nd Street in NYC in the wee hours of a humid morning when the streets are teeming with fans eager to catch the Jonas Brothers performance on Good Morning America.

The model/actress, 28, tells me she has been waiting for this day – the one that her film What We Do Is Secret – is released – for ten years. The beauty scored the role as bassist Lorna Doom in the biopic about Darby Crash and his seminal punk band The Germs when she was 18! (Talk about a juicy storyline — Darby Crash had a five-year-plan to become a legend, but the leader of L.A.’s first punk act died of a drug overdose the day before John Lennon was killed.)    

“It’s taken this long to finally get it made,” she tells me. “It’s been a crazy journey. We’ve been almost about to make the movie so many times. To have it be the day that it’s released is awesome.”

Surely her impressive pedigree – dad is John Phillips of The Mamas And The Papas fame, mom is model Genevieve Waite and half sister is Wilson Phillips singer Chynna Phillips – made her a natural for the role of a 1970s punk rocker.   

“I just think the band is so cool and the whole story,” she says as coffeehouse music blares in the background. “I love the idea of a female bass player. I love Los Angeles in this era and this kind of music. It’s such an honor to be involved in it for me, it was such a big deal.”

Bijou, who learned to play all the songs in the movie during a three-month time span, spent time with legendary Lorna to research her role. Turns out, Go-Go Belinda Carlisle nearly joined the band, and gets the biopic treatment. Alas, Bijou doesn’t know if Belinda has seen it, nor did she give input to the role.

The girl named after the Lambert, Hendricks and Ross song My Petite Bijou released her own alternative-pop album in 1999 called I’d Rather Eat Glass, and this flick helped her get back to the music – albeit jazz music.

“I just did a movie called Dark Streets that’s doing the festival circuit right now, and I wrote a lot of the music for that. That’s coming out, and I’m thinking about making another record. I’m putting a couple songs on iTunes. You can check a lot of it out on my MySpace page.”

All right, so what was her most rock ’n’ roll experience growing up?

“I spent a lot of time on tour with my parents,” Bij tells me. “The most odd thing that happened was Christmas on tour when I woke up, and my dad had taken wrapping paper while I was asleep – I don’t know how they did it – but they wrapped the entire room – all the walls – in wrapping paper. It was special because God knows where we were, I think it was Minneapolis, and I got presents of course. It was really cute because we didn’t have a tree or anything and they made it pretty. It was nice.”

That’s a wrap – catch What We Do Is Secret in theaters now.

Fashion Week Diary: Days Six and Seven

September 12th, 2007

Day 6: At the star studded Luca Luca show, whose ultra feminine and modern designs garnered a standing ovation from the crowd, OK! had two super quick chats. First, we caught up with How Do I Look? host Finola Hughes who confided that “This isn’t as edgy as I love but I think the clothes are so beautiful and wearable that I love to come to the show.”
Then, OK! quickly talked to JC Chasez, who’s been all over Fashion Week. “My last show will be Varvatos because you know I gotta know about the guy’s clothes.”

Day 7: Before the Heatherette show, OK! hung out backstage at the VIP Lounge fueled by Bustelo Cafe everyone from Lance Bass to Mya showed up to guzzle down the coffee drink and mingle with socialites like Tinsley Mortimer and socialite turned actress Bijou Phillips. The vibe was like a party where only the cool kids get invited.

Then up and coming rapper Lil Mama hit the stage to get the crowd going before the celeb studded show. Everyone from hip hop mogul Diddy to pop tart JoJo to model Tyrese showed up to check out the eccentric spring collection from Heatherette designers Richie Rich and Traver Rains. The theme: fabulous Americana drenched in glittery flamboyance with lots of toulle and lace thrown in.

OK! caught up with a few on the front row attendees. First JoJo, who aside from being a pop star has some other plans for fall, “I’m working on a movie in October in Toronto. And, I’m writing for other artists. And, I’m studying for my SAT’s.”

Then we caught up with Jake Shears from the Scissor Sisters who is ready to just chill. “I’m glad to be home in New York and actually come to a show. It’s the only show I come to. The Scissor Sisters are working on a vacation right now, which is awesome!”

Finally Lance Bass, who’s been too busy in his role in Hairspray to hit up too many shows assured OK! that his time on Broadway has been “Awesome!”

By Jocelyn Vena

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