Joan Rivers has passed away at the age of 81. Joan's daughter Melissa Rivers reportedly took the iconic funny lady off of life support and she died peacefully in a private room earlier today.

Last Thursday, the vocal proponent of plastic surgery was admitted into the hospital after she stopped breathing during a routine procedure on her vocal cords.

Melissa Rivers just issued a statement after her mother's passing:

"It is with great sadness that I announce the death of my mother, Joan Rivers. She passed peacefully at 1:17 PM surrounded by family and close friends. My son and I would like to thank the doctors, nurses and staff of Mount Sinai hospital for the amazing care they provided for my mother. Cooper and I have found ourselves humbled by the outpouring of love, support and prayers we have received from around the world. They have been heard and appreciated. My mother's greatest joy in life was to make people laugh. Although that is difficult to do right now, I know her final wish would be that we return to laughing soon."

Yesterday, daughter Melissa issued a statement, alerting people to the dire situation, "My mother has been moved out of intensive care and into a private room where she is being kept comfortable. Thank you for your continued support." The Fashion Police host stopped breathing from complications during an outpatient procedure on her vocal cords last week and was rushed to Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City, where she was placed on life support.

Rivers first came to prominence in 1965 as a guest on The Tonight Show, and then on The Ed Sullivan Show. The funny lady also hosted the several talk shows. During the 1970s, the comic was regularly seen appearing on various television comedy and variety shows, including The Carol Burnett Show and the Hollywood Squares. In the 1980s she became Carson's regular guest host for The Tonight Show whenever her mentor could not host. In 1986, Joan was set to host a new late night show, The Late Show Starring Joan Rivers, on FOX. Allegedly, the comedienne never spoke to Carson about leaving her gig at the Tonight Show to helm her own show, and the jump ended their close relationship. Unfortunately Joan's foray into late night hosting tanked and the show soon went off the air after debuting. The career move all but tanked her career and Carson never forgave his comedy pupil for going behind his back. Joan had her fair share of struggles during this time -- her husband, Edgar Rosenberg, committed suicide in 1987, shortly after the show was cancelled.

In 1989, Joan moved into hosting daytime TV, hosting her own show, The Joan Rivers Show, which ran for five years and won her a Daytime Emmy. In 1994, Joan and and daughter Melissa began hosting red-carpet awards shows for E! Entertainment Television. Viewers took to Rivers as a fashion critic and host and so began two decades of hosting red carpet events. In 2009, Joan and Melissa took their skills to the boardroom, competing on the second Celebrity Apprentice. The spitfire was eventually the last one standing, winning Donald Trump's reality show. In 2012, Joan and Melissa teamed up again for their own reality show, Joan & Melissa: Joan Knows Best? on WE tv.

In 2010, the silver-tongued diva began hosting the still popular E! show, Fashion Police. On the show, Joan uses her quick wit to skewer Hollywood's hottest ladies on their fashion flubs.

Joan will be remembered for her wit, humor, bold personality, being a trail blazer for strong women -- and of course, her keen fashion sense.

RIP Joan -- you were a true comedy warrior.

We just don't think Gwen Stefani is capable of looking bad. The mom of three showed off her arms in a sleeveless top while greeting fans at the Associated Press building in New York City on Thursday.

For the afternoon event, the 44-year-old donned a silken black shirt, gray pants and black heels. The dazzling dame also wore her signature red lip and opted to go for an old Hollywood hairstyle of voluminous curls.

The platinum rocker has been making the rounds in NYC recently, talking about her new gig on NBC's The Voice. Just last night she appeared on Late Night and sat down with host Seth Meyers and talked about getting the job offer to host the hit singing competition.

Stefani, who was pregnant at the time, said, "I got this call out of nowhere ...My parents were over...I just put the phone down and I was like, 'My life is so weird. They just asked me to do The Voice." The No Doubt sonstress said of giving birth to son Apollo earlier this year, "I feel like I've been in a cocoon having a baby and now I'm like a butterfly."

Here's yet another peek at the music video for Jennifer Lopez's new track "Booty" featuring Iggy Azalea, and from the oil (or is that clear soap?) to the shaking buns, there's a whole lotta sexy going on here!

J. Lo chatted with Kathie Lee Gifford and Hoda Kotb on The Today Show on Thursday and debuted the teaser, and she later tweeted a clip as well.

It kinda blows our mind that J. lo is 21 years older than Iggy, and we'll get to see even more of their hot bods when the full-length video, directed by Hype Williams, is released on September 9. Can't WAIT for that!

We love Nicki Minaj's new bootylicious single "Anaconda" -- but it looks like we aren't the only ones. Funny lady Ellen DeGeneres used the powers of modern technology (aka Photoshop) to super impose an image of her twerking in the saucy rapper's new racy music video as a way to tease the upcoming season of her hit talk show The Ellen DeGeneres Show.

Along with the hilarious image of a bent over Ellen, who is clad in booty shorts, the 56-year-old captioned the image, "This is happening. Five more days until the season premiere. #Anaconda"

Season 12 of the hit talk show premieres next Monday. And judging from this pic, we can't wait for what else Ellen has in store for us!

We are absolutely NUTS about The Leftovers on HBO, and while Justin Theroux's stellar acting is one of the reasons why we're hooked, we're not gonna lie -- his handsome face and hot bod are definite bonuses! And then there's the whole issue of his bulging junk, which is on full display in a pair of grey sweatpants in two different jogging scenes.

Jennifer Aniston's leading man appeared on Conan O'Brien last night to chat about his latest gig, and while the guys did talk about the show itself, even Conan couldn't resist asking Justin about the infamous peen shot.

Conan said, "This is embarrassing ... many women today on my staff came up to me and they said, 'You have to ask Justin', there's a scene where you're jogging and they say that your package is quite apparent when you're in these sweatpants. All the women here are like, 'Ask him about it, ask him about it,' I was like, 'How can I address that!'"

Sneaky! After breaking the ice with that comment, Conan and Justin then joked about the actor's "flopping shlong," and JT said he didn't realize it was "a thing" until someone in wardrobe kindly left him two pairs of undies to help contain his bulge. "There's two jogging scenes in the show, one in the pilot and one later … when I went to get my wardrobe for the second jogging scene way later, there was my jogging pants and two pairs of underwear in the dressing room. I was like 'Oh I can choose,' they were like, 'No, they want you to wear both.'"

Watch the interview above!

Vanessa and Stella Hudgens attended Flaunt Magazine's Distress Issue Launch at Gilded Lily in New York City on Wednesday night, and both of the ladies wowed in all-black ensembles. The party was hosted by Siwy Denim and BLTEE by Brian Lichtenberg, and while we like Vanessa's outfit better than her little sister's, we totally want to steal Stella's Valentino Rockstud pumps!

From shopping to trips to the gym, Stella, 18, and Vanessa, 25, have been hanging out a lot lately, and late last night Stella tweeted, "I just wana go to Italy with someone sexy." Maybe she should take her big sis?

Nothing but love for his ex!

Pete Wentz made his way through LAX last night, and the rocker took the high road when asked about his ex-wife Ashlee Simpson's wedding to Evan Ross. In fact, he sounded genuinely happy for her! The mother of his child got hitched in an intimate ceremony in Connecticut this past Saturday, while the musician and girlfriend Megan Camper welcomed son Saint on August 20, so it sounds like they've both moved on with their lives.

Asked if he had well wishes for his former spouse, the Fall Out Boy crooner responded, "Yeah, of course". He sounded genuine and that makes us love him even more!

Hair today, gone tomorrow!

James Franco took the plunge and shaved his head to prepare for his latest role in the upcoming film Zeroville, and we can't say this is his best look!

The actor is gearing up to turn the acclaimed 2007 novel into a movie, after buying the rights with the intent to direct. The premise is a 24-year-old student named Vikar who shows up in Hollywood in 1969 with aspirations of making it in the movie business, but he "embarks on a Hollywood journey that ends in both tragedy and discovery."

We can't wait to see how this flick turns out!