Sideshow: Miley and her salvia, stimulating everybody

December 14, 2010|By Tirdad Derakhshani, Inquirer Staff Writer
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  • Miley Cyrus at the American Music Awards in L.A. last month.
  • Miley Cyrus at the American Music Awards in L.A. last month.
  • Paltrow with Tim McGraw at Monday's dedication of the actress' star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Both star in "Country Strong," due out in January.

"I want what Miley's smoking!" So chant the nation's youth, gripped by a new, intoxicating fever spread by that - very cute - corrupter of the young, Miley Cyrus.

It's called salvia. It's a drug. And Miley totally digs it.

In a video that went viral late last week, the 18-year-old Hannah Montana alum is shown smoking a bong at a party, whereupon she's seized by a storm of cackling, giggling, grimacing, and grinning.

TMZ says Miley fans have been rushing to their local head shops following reports that the substance she was smoking was not pot but the psychoactive plant salvia divinorum, which is legal in 35 states. (That includes New Jersey and Pennsylvania, but attempts continue here and in other states to ban it.)

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Miley's pop, Billy Ray Cyrus, wrote on Twitter unhappily: "I had no idea. Just saw this stuff for the first time myself," he says of the video. "I'm so sad. There is much beyond my control right now."

Next time, how about a pony?

To the best of our knowledge, Nicole Richie and Joel Madden remain married - more than 48 hours after their Saturday nuptials.

Meanwhile, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) notes that Have Trunk Will Travel, the company that provided wedding entertainer Tai the Elephant, "trains its elephants with bullhooks and electric shock prods." PETA asks Nicole not to use exotic animals as party treats in the future.

All they need is space

"It's nothing dramatic," an anon source tells E! about a most awful, tragic event: Zac Efron and Vanessa Hudgens, whose combined cutie-pie-ness would shame Bambi, have broken up.

All you need is . . . pancakes

They may have glanced into each other's eyes, for a sec, while munching on pancakes at IHOP on Walnut Street last week, but teenlings Justin Bieber and Selena Gomez are, like, totally not dating.

Selena, 18, insists she and the 16-year-old Canadian singer just happened to happen upon each other in Center City before their guest appearances at the Q102 Jingle Ball on Wednesday night.

"It was pancakes. Who doesn't like pancakes?" she tells MTV News. "We were both performing in the same place so we went and had pancakes together. That's all it is. All innocent."

Love is a (luxurious) battlefield

London's Daily Mail says Simon Cowell, 51, is whisking his Afghani fiancee Mezhgan Hussainy, 37, to "Sandy Lane in Barbados - the exclusive hotel resort where he has spent the past five Christmases."

But Cowell is also being pursued by two other ardent lovers: Coca-Cola and Pepsi.

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