Posted on Wed Apr 23rd, 2014 9:30am PDT By
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Oops!
Justin Bieber visited Yasukuni Shrine in Japan yesterday, and the singer had no idea the landmark honored those who lost their lives during World War II, including war criminals!
Once he realized his faux pas, he took a snapshot of a
Time article slamming him for the visit and posted an apology on Instagram.
"While in Japan I asked my driver to pull over for which I saw a beautiful shrine. I was mislead to think the Shrines were only a place of prayer. To anyone I have offended I am extremely sorry. I love you China and I love you Japan," he captioned the photo.
This isn't quite as bad as when the Biebs declared that Anne Frank would have been a "Belieber", but it's pretty close!
Posted on Wed Apr 23rd, 2014 9:00am PDT By
X17 Staff
People magazine has just announced Oscar winner Lupita Nyong'o as its most beautiful person -- and we love it!
Winning both critical acclaim and a slew of awards, including the Academy Award for her performance in
12 Years a Salve, the Mexican-born Kenyan has gone on quite the ride in 2014.
People's nod is just some icing on the cake.
Lupita said she never dreamed she'd be the one to be People's 25th anniversary issue. "It was exciting and just a major, major compliment," the 31-year-old star said. "And especially, I was happy for all the girls who would see me on [it] and feel a little more seen."
When it comes to beauty, Lupita says, "Happiness is the most important thing." So true!
Editorial director Jess Cagle explained on the
Today show the mag's reasoning behind the choice, "She is fantastic. Obviously, she is the Oscar winner for
12 Years a Slave, raised in Kenya. She is the new celebrity ambassador for Lancome Paris, along with Julia Roberts and Penelope Cruz. She's kind of all the rage."
Posted on Wed Apr 23rd, 2014 8:30am PDT By
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She may not be as pregnant as say, Kendra Wilkinson, but Stacy Keibler went for a rather daring ensemble last night when she attended Elle's 5th Annual Women in Music event in Los Angeles!
George Clooney's ex wore a sexy black cut-out BCBGMAXAZRIA dress, and she posted a pic of herself en route to the bash and wrote, "Getting glammed w @missjobaker and @enzoangileri for an @elleusa magazine event tonight."
This marks her first red carpet appearance since announcing that she and husband Jared Pobre were expecting their first child together. Stacy and Jared tied the knot in March, and two weeks later they revealed they were going to be parents.
E! News reports that the couple are expecting a daughter.
Posted on Wed Apr 23rd, 2014 7:59am PDT By
X17 Staff
Red hot RiRi!
On Tuesday night Rihanna got all dolled up for dinner at Giorgio Baldi, and she had everyone's attention with these thigh-high boots! The R&B superstar seems to eat at this restaurant every other night when she's here in Los Angeles -- wonder if she orders the same thing every time too? Oh how we'd love to sit across the table from Ri...
In other news, the Bajan beauty will be lending her million-dollar voice to the new animated movie by DreamWorks,
Home, in which she plays a girl named Tip who survives an alien attack and ends up befriending one of the creatures.
According to a plot synopsis, "when Earth is taken over by the overly confident Boov, an alien race in search of a new place to call home, all humans are promptly relocated, while the Boov get busy efficiently reorganizing the planet. But when one resourceful girl, Tip, manages to avoid capture, she finds herself the accidental accomplice of a banished Boov by the name of Oh. Equally stubborn and set in their ways, these two fugitives realize there’s a lot more at stake than intergalactic relations as they embark on the road trip of a lifetime. Good thing they have a flying car."
Jennifer Lopez and
The Big Bang Theory's Jim Parsons will also star. This has to be better than
Battleship, right?
Posted on Wed Apr 23rd, 2014 7:30am PDT By
X17 Staff

Even super skinny supermodels indulge in high-calorie foods every now and then!
On Tuesday afternoon Alessandra Ambrosio took her darling son Noah to Brentwood Country Mart, and she devoured a two-scoop cone while her little boy munched on a delicious-looking ice cream sandwich.
Over the weekend the Victoria's Secret model took her daughter Anja to Coachella, and while she received some flack for it, the five-year-old looked like she had the time of her life:
Posted on Wed Apr 23rd, 2014 7:00am PDT By
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Little Eric may not have been having it, but his parents were able to laugh off his mini temper tantrum!
Yesterday Simon Cowell and Lauren Silverman took their adorable little boy to the doctor in Beverly Hills, and though he was crying after his checkup, his parents were able to calm him down before they hopped in the car together. It kinda makes us melt when we see how much fatherhood has mellowed out the tough-as-nails
X Factor judge!
"I was born to be a dad," Simon told his ex-girlfriend/pal Terri Seymour on
Extra last month. "I actually said to Lauren beforehand, 'What if I like the dogs more than him?' and she said, 'You're gonna be absolutely fine,' and then literally within seconds of him being born, I got it!"
Posted on Wed Apr 23rd, 2014 6:30am PDT By
X17 Staff
Love her or hate her, but you gotta admit, Olivia Munn does look incredible!
On Tuesday afternoon
The Newsroom starlet went shopping in Beverly Hills, and she had not one but two ladies lug a few armfuls of bags to her car. Now that she's on a premium cable TV show, I guess she's too good to carry her own retail purchases?
Olivia may have a reputation for being a bit of a diva, but she insists in the new issue of
Allure magazine that she's not too high and mighty for her fans. "I think it's strange when people don't sign autographs for people," she tells the mag. "Fans are just people who are helping you make your dreams come true."
"I try to be personal without being private," she added when asked about social media. "You can't post pictures of you and your boyfriend cuddling up and then get pissed when somebody asks you about it on the red carpet. That's ridiculous."
"People will take the picture and go out with it because they'll get the press," she continued. "But if it's not the image that I want out there, then we shut it down." Guess that explains why she was dressed to the nines yesterday!
She did wow in the
Allure shoot though:
Posted on Tue Apr 22nd, 2014 3:30pm PDT By
X17 Staff
She
really loves herself, but we already knew that!
Kim Kardashian and sister Kendall stopped by the newsstand in Studio City today, and the purpose of the trip was so the engaged reality star could pick up more than a dozen copies of her own
Vogue cover!
The narcissistic brunette beauty tried to hide the magazines beneath copies of
Sports Illustrated and
Bazaar, but if you look closely it's obvious she stocked up on her own issues of the fashion bible!
Couldn't Anna Wintour have sent her some in the mail?
Cameras were rolling during the whole excursion, so maybe Kimmy K was pretending her wedding spread was just released today for editing purposes?
The only person who is more obsessed with themselves is Kanye!