Seriously? OMG! WTF?

THE tension between "The View" creator Barbara Walters and co-host Rosie O’Donnell, sparked by O’Donnell’s feud with Donald Trump, boiled over yesterday morning when the portly comic called Walters "a [bleeping] liar." The fight started around 8:30 a.m. when Walters, back from a two-week vacation, walked into the hair and makeup room at ABC studios and tried to hug O’Donnell, whom she hired onto the popular show. According to spies, O’Donnell recoiled from Walters’ touch and yelled, "You kept me in the newspapers this whole time!" Both "View" producer Bill Geddie and Walters tried to calm O’Donnell. Walters told her, "I did everything I could to squash the story" – prompting Rosie to scream, "You didn’t call me for 10 goddamn days, and you didn’t tell me what you were going to say on television!" O’Donnell is fuming because Trump went on Larry King two weeks ago – after she had called Trump a "snake-oil salesman" – and said Walters told him she regretted hiring O’Donnell. Trump also blasted the comic as "a horrible human being and a loser." During her vacation, Walters issued a carefully worded statement saying, "I’m sorry there is friction between Donald and Rosie. That said, I do not regret for one moment my choice to hire Rosie O’Donnell as the moderator of ‘The View.’ " After O’Donnell’s outburst at Walters yesterday, Geddie jumped in and told her, "You’ve crossed the line." O’Donnell retorted, "Cameras are now outside of my house where my wife and kids are." She turned to Walters and said, "You went all around this and never called [Trump] a liar. You never said, ‘Donald is lying.’ You never called him a liar." When Walters tried to defend herself, O’Donnell erupted, "Are you looking me in the face and denying you didn’t tell him you didn’t say this? You’re a [bleeping] liar." Cindi Berger, a rep for both Walters and O’Donnell said, "Whatever happened in the hair and makeup room was hardly a squabble. It’s business as usual, everyone has moved on."

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This feud is so last year, can’t all the parties leave it there.

Aerosmith frontman Steven Tyler will never forget his first meeting with Sir Paul McCartney because the former Beatle gave him his famous thumbs-up greeting in a men’s toilet. Tyler and McCartney first met in the late 1970s when Aerosmith covered The Beatles’ Come Together for the movie Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band. Tyler remembers, "I was in a backstage urinal at the Hammersmith Odeon (in London). McCartney walked in, started doing what people do in urinals. "For the record, I did not check his size out! But I’m taking this p**s that seems to be taking forever, and Paul says, ‘Hey! Steven Tyler, I f**king love your music.’ And he gives me the famous thumbs-up with his one free hand. Well, that snapped my stream, right there. "It turned out to be quite a night, that one. I recall fat ones being smoked and a lot of wrestling on the floor."

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I once saw Steven Tyler coming out of a bathroom! Sorry just had to share! 

Paris Hilton is to be arraigned in Los Angeles today on drunk driving charges. She is not required to appear in court because the charges are misdemeanors. Hilton was pulled over last September seventh for driving erratically. She reportedly told officers that she had had one drink on an empty stomach. She was on her way to get a burger when she was stopped. Hilton said she hadn’t eaten all day because she was filming a music video. The hotel heiress and socialite has no prior DUI arrests. If convicted, she could be sentenced to six months in jail and fined one-thousand dollars. The minimum penalty for a first-time offender is a fine, probation and rehab.

Access Hollywood (story) and TMZ (photo)

I bet she gets off with doing some lame version of community service.

Australia’s fascination with blonde American starlets continues on Wednesday when party girl Tara Reid arrives to add some glitz to the Gold Coast’s Magic Millions carnival. The 31-year-old actress, most noted for her roles in the American Pie movies and a botched breast augmentation, flies in to attend the Magic Millions yearling sales and racing carnival. She follows hot on the stilettos of socialite Paris Hilton, who was brought to Australia last week by advertising guru John Singleton to promote the Sydney launch of his Bondi Blonde beer venture. Reid will land in Brisbane on Wednesday morning after travelling from South America, and she’ll be flown to her Gold Coast hotel by former world motorcycle champion Mick Doohan. She’s scheduled to attend a Magic Millions function at the Conrad Jupiters Hotel and Casino on Wednesday night. She’ll be escorted at times by rugby league players, including Brisbane Broncos internationals Karmichael Hunt and Justin Hodges. There’s also a customary celebrity splash with dolphins scheduled at Gold Coast theme park Sea World. Magic Millions chairman and high profile businessman Gerry Harvey said Reid would help make the event a world hotspot, even though her star had dimmed in recent years. But he’s aiming for bigger fish next year, hoping to entice Cameron Diaz – a higher profile blonde Hollywood star – to the Magic Millions. After attending Saturday’s Magic Millions raceday, Reid flies out of Brisbane the following day.

AAP (story) and TMZ (photo)

First Paris Hilton, now Tara Reid Australia is going down under real fast 

The Off-Broadway revival of Jacques Brel Is Alive and Well and Living in Paris at the Zipper Theatre welcomes two new actors Jan. 9: former "American Idol" contestant — and recent Wedding Singer star — Constantine Maroulis and Les Misérables’ Jayne Paterson. Maroulis and Paterson join Gay Marshall and Robert Cuccioli, who opened the production. A Brooklyn native, Constantine Maroulis is a graduate of both the Boston Conservatory and the Berklee College of Music. He trained as an apprentice at the Williamstown Theatre Festival and appeared as Roger in a tour of Rent. In addition to his performances on "American Idol," he has also been seen on "Law & Order: SVU" and in several independent films. Maroulis also played a recent engagement at the Public Theater’s Joe’s Pub as well as a stint in The Wedding Singer. The Zipper Theater is located in Manhattan at 336 West 37th Street. For more information visit www.jacquesbrelreturns.com.

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I always thought he was sexy on American Idol, but I think that pciture solidifies it!

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