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Hilton's love letters to go public, Claims Jolie may lose daughter

By Myrddin Gwynedd
15 Nov, 2007 07:30 PM9 mins to read

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Paris Hilton at a news conference to promote sports brand Fila in Seoul. Photo / Reuters

Paris Hilton at a news conference to promote sports brand Fila in Seoul. Photo / Reuters

KEY POINTS:

Paris Hilton's past is coming back to haunt her - in the form of candid love letters she wrote as an infatuated teenager.
James McCauley claims he spent time with the socialite at the Provo Canyon School in Orem, Utah in 1998, and that Hilton sent him numerous saucy love letters.
McCauley, now 25, has reportedly offered the letters to American magazine Life & Style, saying, "I was stoked because she was attracted to me."
The letters allegedly contain Hilton's musings about her dysfunctional relationships with boys, and the fact she needed intense therapy as a child to overcome numerous childhood demons.
McCauley adds, "She reached out to me and asked my advice on how to cope with being in such a regimented place. There was a lot of attraction. We both felt it... She thought I was cute."
Erm, just what is it that this McCauley thinks there's left to reveal about Paris Hilton?
We've seen her cha-cha. I think we're a little past acting coy about a bunch of hormone-induced love letters.
Source: Contactmusic.com
In other Hilton news...
The waste of space has been having a quiet time of lately: staying indoors, baking muffins and working her way through a heap of Cosmoplitan she stockpiled while in prison.
Yeah, right.
The wonky-eyed one has actually been living it large and indulging in a spot of publicity-seeking pole dancing.
Nice to see she's shed her partying ways and opted for a quite life.
Watch Paris devour a pole here.
Just don't blame me for wasting a minute of your life afterwards.
Baby mama drama
Siamese couple Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt's plans to scoop more kiddies to add to their brood has been dealt a blow.
Word has it that the birth mother of their adopted daughter Zahara wants her back.
Jolie adopted Ethiopian AIDS orphan Zahara last year, but her adoption papers, which have found their way into the hands of In Touch magazine, signal there may be trouble ahead.
In Touch reveals that Zahara has a mother, grandmother and extended family who are infact alive and living in Africa.
The woman who claims to be Zahara's mother, Mentewab Dawit Lebiso, tells the magazine, "I want my daughter to come home to see where she is from.
"Her grandmother and I both tried very hard to raise her, and I want her to come home to regain her identity."
However, the adoption agency that organised Zahara's adoption is rejecting claims the child's relatives want her back.
Tsegaye Berhe, the head of Wide Horizons for Children, called the adoption "legal and irrevocable", claiming the grandmother of the child had three witnesses testify at the time that Zahara's mother was dead.
Showbizspy.com says that Mentewab, the woman who claims she is Zahara's mother, became "overwhelmed" when the baby was born on born on 7 January 2005.
"I thought the baby was going to die because there was no food, so I ran away," she said.
The baby was then handed over for adoption. They claim that a man then told the agency that the mother of the baby was dead.
"What he has done is equal to murder," Mentewab said.
"He took my daughter away and he just disappeared with her. He said I was dead, but I heard from my mother that she never said that."
The family hoped Angelina and Brad would be in touch and bring Zahara back for a visit to Ethiopia - but to no avail.
"After they took the baby, they didn't keep in contact. They didn't tell us anything about her," Zahara's aunt, Zinash Haile Yenero, 20, tells Showbizspy.com.
Oh dear, this doesn't sound good.
Could this be the Jolie 'baby collecting' backlash we've all been expecting?
West scandal intensifies
A relative of the cosmetic surgeon at the centre of the Donda West scandal has branded him as "arrogant" and publicity-seeking.
The uncle and former business partner of Dr. Jan Adams - who operated on Kanye West's mom Donda before her death - made the claims during an interview on celebrity news show Extra on Wednesday.
Dr. Pearlman D. Hicks said he worked with Adams ten years ago at their California Medical practice, adding "I got the feeling he wanted to be more of a celebrity kind of physician."
Although Hicks could not recall any particular complaints made against Adams, but he said the surgeon's gruff manner took some getting used to.
"His personality is to a point that it can be considered arrogant at times," he said.
That aside, Hicks said he was "very shocked" when he heard that Adams' actions may be responsible for Donda West's death.
In the meantime, Adams' former patient, Gina Cloud - who won a malpractice suit against him - told Extra she's still haunted by a botched operation Adams performed on her to remove loose skin after giving birth to her daughter.
"I had four procedures with him," she said. "I kept foolishly letting him try to correct it ... it was really traumatic.
"He always had an answer," she continued. "He would always say something that was reassuring made me feel like, okay, I'm going to give him one more try and I really shouldn't have.
"I absolutely wouldn't recommend him," Cloud said. "I think it's really tragic that he's actually still practicing medicine."
Source: USmagazine.com
Spice rant
Singer Sophie Ellis-Bextor has rekindled her war of words with Victoria Beckham.
The pair spectacularly fell out a few years ago when their respective singles were pitted against each other in the British charts. Bextor won the battle, and Posh well and truly threw her toys out of her Prada pram.
All has been quiet for years, until now...
Bextor has let loose again and spoken her mind about the Spice Girls' new video.
Sky Showbiz reports Bextor as saying: "I don't like the video (Headlines).
"I don't understand why they're singing in their underwear when they're talking about friendship.
"They are supposed to be singing about being friends - why do they have to be in their bra and pants to do that?"
Good question. But Bextor clearly needs to brush up on her marketing.
Words and lyrics are the last thing on people's minds when Posh displays her lady lumps.
But is it art? Certainly not.
Obligatory Britney news
I think I've managed to keep her out of this blog for a whole two days (a record if ever there was one), but the show's over - I need to purge:
Word has it that Brit was in Las Vegas last weekend. The Daily Mail is reporting that she had liposuction on her bottom and hips while in the gambling capital.
So there we have it, official confirmation that Britney sucks.
Britney's mother, Lynne, has reportedly hired two psychologists to help poor Britney sort her baggage out.
TMZ reports that Brit tried to explain why her last drug test cam back as positive for amphetamine - she claimed it was because she uses an asthma inhaler. However, TMZ conducted an investigation and revealed that the chemicals in her inhaler could not cause her test to be positive for amphetamine.
Watch Britney run over another pararazzo's foot.
Source: Daily Mail, TMZ.
Tortured tresses
Kelly Osbourne has been papped showcasing a brand new hairstyle.
Fellow celebrity blogger Perez Hilton is asking for your thoughts on her stark new look.
I think it looks like Lego hair. You know, the kind of hairstyle that looks like it's "snap on"? Click here to see what I mean.
Wino's walkout
The first night of Amy (yes, evidently I love her because I can't stop blogging about her) Winehouse's UK tour has gone down like a lead balloon.
The fading star infuriated fans at a gig on Wednesday when she turned her performance into a self-indulgent tribute to jailbird hubby Blake Fielder-Civil.
The Birmingham gig was her first public appearance since Fielder-Civil was locked up.
Disgruntled fans walked out of the gig when stumbled on stage half an hour late, crashed into a guitar stand, and sang incoherently.
Wino, however, was unfazed by the mass exit and chorus of boos from the angry crowd.
She told the audience, "Let me tell you something. First of all, if you're booing you're a mug for buying a ticket. Second, to all the people booing - just wait till my husband gets out."
Oooh, we're scared.
Click here to watch a clip of Amy's shambolic performance.
Contactmusic.com says: After singing hit Back To Black, she said, "Nothing's going to bring my husband back."
Winehouse then dedicated track Wake Up Alone to Fielder-Civil, announcing, "This is for my husband."
At the end of the gig, Winehouse stopped singing closing number Valerie mid-way through, before dropping the microphone and walking off stage. Oh, the consummate professional.
Maybe she bolted it to find some more Romanian orphans to donate strands of hair for her booming beehive?
That bouffant on her head is out of control.
It's so hideously big, and, well, hairy. I swear it's got its own personality - and I bet it too has been living a secret life, staying out late, getting high, breaking down, going to prison and being seriously rock 'n' roll.
Fast gossip
* Tiny Tom Cruise is a dancing machine: Cityrag
* Courtney Love bitches about Madonna...again: Popbytes
* Anna Nicole's 'lover' Howard K Stern is broke: US magazine
* Alec Baldwin's fat crusade: Dlisted
* Prince is out to destroy the internet: Hollywoodrag
* Mel B is loving her abs: Celebslam
* Jason Patric is cheap: Celebnewswire
* Jennifer Aniston close to pulling a Britney: Popbytes
* Diddy in fur drag: TMZ

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