February 1st, 2008 / Author: cwillett
It’s just two days until New England Patriots QB cutie Tom Brady plays the biggest game of his career, but his girlfriend, supermodel Gisele Bündchen, is nearly 2,500 miles away in Manhattan.
On Friday, OK! caught up with the Brazilian beauty at the Rag and Bone fashion show inside NYC’s Cipriani restaurant. Perhaps Gisele was just being superstitious — or maybe she’s taken a hint from Jessica Simpson — but the former Victoria’s Secret model wasn’t saying a word to anyone about her predictions for this Sunday’s Super Bowl in Glendale, Ariz., where the New York Giants are set to square off with Brady’s unbeaten Patriots.
When asked by reporters if she was excited for her boyfriend’s big game, Gisele merely laughed and quickly ran off — possibly to avoid any more "Super Bowl sized" questions!
By Jocelyn Vena
January 31st, 2008 / Author: cwillett
OK! met up with Carmen Electra at the premiere of her Superbowl commercial for Ice Breakers Ice Cubes Chewing Gum in Times Square, where we learned that Carmen is too worried to pick a team to root for or, for that matter, a place to root for them at.
"I don’t know what my plans are. I’m going to be so nervous. I was invited to go to the Playboy Mansion so I might go and watch the Superbowl there."
Meanwhile, and more importantly, since Fashion Week starts bright and early tomorrow morning, we wanted to know what shows this Fashion Week staple plans to attend. She revealed, "I’m flying back to New York for a photo shoot. I always love to go to Rebecca Taylor. Hopefully I’ll be able to come for it. I’m shooting the cover of Cosmo."
She added, "I always love fashion week." Don’t we all, Carmen!
For everything Fashion Week, check out OK! online daily starting Friday, Feb. 1.
By Jocelyn Vena
January 30th, 2008
So much to say, so little time to write…
Tuesdays I generally write about shopping, but after Sundance swagging I was a bit shopped out this week – although that didn’t keep me from wandering aimlessly around Bergdorf’s for two hours Saturday and trying on $1200 shoes, just because. But, anyway, it’s now Wednesday and I just landed in Phoenix, AZ to jump into pre-Superbowl festivities. After a nearly five-hour flight where thankfully I slept most of the time - despite being grilled about celebrities by the guy sitting next to me reading OK! Magazine (it’s okay), I was greeted at the airport and drove to my hotel in a new Audi by a lovely woman named Trish. Now I have just enough time to blog and change before heading to Audi’s Hole-in-One Golf Challenge. The winner receives an Audi, the car I hope to possibly/maybe lease or purchase next week in LA (oh, don’t know if I mentioned yet that I’m moving there, more on that later), but, unfortunately I’m no good on the green. So, I’ll just watch, relax and prep for the long week ahead of nearly 50 events in four and a half days!!! Everyone from Superbowl staple Nick Lachey to possibly Brad Pitt and Ashton Kutcher are expected to be here!
This is in stark contrast to my last Superbowl experience in Phoenix when the stadium was still in Tempe. I was in college at ASU, working at a bar near the stadium, which at the time was on our college campus, and aspiring to one day be an editor at a big national magazine. Now things have come more or less full-circle and I’m back at a Superbowl in Phoenix, doing exactly what I wanted to do. Just got Journey’s ‘Don’t stop believin’ lyrics in my head. That’s cheesy, I’m aware, but it is inspiration Wednesday ' class='wp-smiley' /> xo</p>
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January 30th, 2008
During the pre-game broadcast of Super Bowl XLII this coming Sunday, American Idol judge Paula Abdul will take the stage for the first time in years to perform her new single, “Dance Like There’s No Tomorrow.” But what you’ll actually be seeing on TV will not be a live concert, but a segment taped before a studio audience on Jan. 27.
While David Hill, executive producer of Fox Sports, tells OK! that the last-minute decision to add the performance to the show made it impossible to have enough time to set up a live concert, an insider reveals to OK! that Paula is simply too nervous to perform live on TV.
“She is fragile emotionally and too much of a perfectionist to handle a live show,” the friend of Paula tells OK!. Another source close to the star says that Paula admits there is no way her nerves could handle a live performance.
Even with the safety net of a pre-taped piece, Paula is feverishly working to make sure the clip is solid. Her Idol co-star Ryan Seacrest, who will be hosting the pre-game show, has faith that Paula will come through in the end.
“I know she’s been working very hard on it,” he tells OK!. “I know she was rehearsing.” Ryan has chosen not to get a sneak peek at the video — he’ll watch it for the first time when it airs during the preshow. “I want to be surprised,” he says. “I’m going to experience it for the first time with everybody else. Therefore, I’ll have a genuine reaction on live TV.”
