Pop Culture
Brandeis pop culture enthusiasts, you may have missed all the breaking Tinseltown news while caught up in your Purim costume preparations last week. Here is a roundup of some of this (admittedly rather slow) past week's celebrity headlines:
This past week saw another Spears wedding take place. No, it wasn't Britney who walked down the aisle, but her younger sister, Jamie Lynn, 22. E! News confirms that on Friday, she wed 31-year-old businessman Jamie Watson in New Orleans. There were in fact not one, but three Jamies present at the wedding, as Spears' father, who is also named Jamie, walked her down the aisle. Spears and Watson dated on-and-off for three years before getting engaged last March. Reportedly, Britney attended the wedding with her boyfriend, David Lucado, who works at a Los Angeles legal firm.
The younger Spears sibling gained fame in her own right while starring on the hit Nickelodeon show Zoey 101 in the early 2000s. She announced to stunned fans back in December 2007, at the age of 16, that she was expecting a baby with then-boyfriend Casey Aldridge. Her daughter Maddie, now 5, was the flower girl at the wedding ceremony this past Friday. Now, Spears is focusing on pursuing a country music career, having released her debut single this past November.
People magazine reports that retired professional wrestler-turned-actress Stacy Keibler took the under-the-radar approach and wed tech entrepreneur Jared Pobre last Saturday in a quiet ceremony in Mexico. Keibler, 34, and Pobre, 39, had been friends for almost five years before they began dating this past fall. This is the first marriage for both of them. Keibler famously dated George Clooney, but she split with the actor last summer. Looks like it didn't take long for her to find her happily ever after!
In other news, it was a bad week for two different celebrities named Chris. First, reports surfaced on Wednesday that actor Chris Pine was charged with driving under the influence in New Zealand back at the beginning of March. Pine, 33, was reportedly pulled over shortly after leaving the Blue Pub bar in Methven, a small town in the South Island of New Zealand, around 2:30 a.m. The actor was in the area filming Z is for Zachariah. Pine, who has starred as Captain James T. Kirk in the last two Star Trek movies, now must make his first court appearance this week.
As for our second Chris, after allegedly getting kicked out of rehab, singer Chris Brown was arrested on Friday. The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department confirmed to People Magazine that the 24-year-old was taken into custody for a probation violation that stems from his infamous 2009 assault on Rihanna, his then-girlfriend.
Since being diagnosed with bipolar disorder as well as post-traumatic stress disorder back in February, Brown had been spending time in a Malibu rehab facility under court order before supposedly violating the program's rules and then getting the boot. The recording artist is now being held without bail at the Inmate Reception Center in the Los Angeles County jail.
All in all, Brandeis, it was a quiet week for the celebrity gossip mill. Perhaps this next week the headlines (and the weather-wishful thinking?) will heat up!
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