Celebrity Gossip and Photos

Looks like THG staff members weren’t the only ones to attend a showing of New Moon this weekend.

Following our positive review of the Twilight sequel, final weekend numbers have come in for the film – and they’re more impressive that Robert Pattinson’s hair!

New Moon grossed $140.7 million during its first two days in release, the third best opening weekend in movie history. Only The Dark Knight and Spider-Man 3 fared better.

Thanks to Bella, Jacob and Edward, New Moon is setting box office records.

Twilight took home $69.6 million over its opening weekend. The third film in the franchise, Eclipse, will try to out-earn both these installments in June 2010.

Did you like New Moon?

Rivalry, schmivalry.

Kris Allen’s debut album is currently on sale, and Adam Lambert releases his first-ever CD next week, but the former American Idol finalists are more friendly than feuding.

The singers cover the latest issue of Billboard, as Allen talks in the magazine about the process of recording songs for his album:

“When you’re going to write and be in the studio, it’s like, ‘Now I have to think about me.’ That’s the mind-set you have to work with. I keep a journal, and maybe I’ll take something from that – but when I’m writing a song I’ll usually just be playing around on my guitar. More than anything, I just try to capture a moment.”

Lambert, meanwhile is currently embroiled in a public fight with the editor of Out. He told the publication above:

“I consider myself part artist, part businessperson. I find marketing interesting, I find publicity interesting. I find the whole process interesting. I think there’s some artists that are really focused on the music and the artistry, but I also think being a showman and being an entertainer is more than just being a musician. It’s everything.”

TO WATCH LAMBERT’S INTERVIEW, FOLLOW THIS ARTICLE’S JUMP.

Bollywood actress Shilpa Shetty and Raj Kundra, a London-based businessman, got married in a “fairy-tale wedding” Sunday afternoon in Khandala, India.

Shilpa Shetty, clad in a red-and-gold saree, walked around a holy fire with Kundra in a traditional Hindu ritual that signifies the sacred bond of marriage.

“She was surrounded by her closest friends and family and the wedding was conducted in traditional south Indian rituals,” Shetty’s spokeswoman said.

“This is it!” Shetty wrote on her official blog just a few hours before the ceremony took place in the town about 200 kilometers from the city of Mumbai.

Raj Kundra and Shilpa Shetty are now husband and wife!

Shetty and Kundra met in London after she shot to fame as the winner of the British reality show Celebrity Big Brother in a controversial 2007 season.

She was also controversially smooched by Richard Gere that year.

The actress went on to host Bigg Boss, the Indian version of Big Brother, and launch several business ventures, including a yoga video and health spas.

On Tuesday, Shilpa Shetty and Raj Kundra will host a wedding reception in Mumbai, with the who’s who of Bollywood expected to be in attendance.

Congratulations to the happy couple!

Having had two weddings already, and having been married an entire year, or half that if you only count their legal nuptials, Spencer Pratt and Heidi Montag naturally need to renew their wedding vows to reaffirm their love for attention each other.

Think we’re kidding? Then you don’t know Speidi. On a recent visit to Jimmy Kimmel Live, Heidi said she can’t wait to walk down the aisle again … and again, and …

“I could do five or six,” she said. “I just want the dresses.”

As for their first non-anniversary, how will they celebrate?

“My spirit will be with my wife, but my body will be ringside at my business partner’s [boxing match],” Spencer said, and it appears that Heidi is cool with that.

“I’ll take his credit card, be in Beverly Hills shopping, and not looking back,” she said. “I have puppies, so I’ll take them. I like cooking more for them anyway.”

It was a fairy tale wedding made for reality TV. It was also almost seven months ago. At a certain point any couple needs to renew their vows to affirm their commitment to marriage.

The Hills stars and How to Be Famous authors shocked fans and families by eloping to Cabo San Lucas to exchange vows in a sham staged secret wedding.

That was last November. Their second wedding, held April 25 in Pasadena, was filmed for The Hills season finale and was the final episode for Lauren Conrad.

Spencer says that’s the reason he wants another ceremony.

“We got robbed at our second wedding. We lost all the good energy of our first by having LC in the building,” Spencer says of his wife’s former BFF turned foe.

As you may know, Megan Fox was featured in the New York Times last week.

She was described as “a student of stardom, past and present, who knows how to provide her own commentary, a narrative to go with the underwear.”

Now, the nation’s preeminent newspaper is focusing more on the underwear part, releasing outtakes from its photo shoot with the mouthy movie star.

Hey, you might as well maximize the mileage you get out of this …

The New York Times may be on to something here.

As the worldwide decline of print journalism continues to take its toll on this and numerous other venerable publications, perhaps a paradigm shift is in order.

After all, what better way to sell newspapers than photos of Megan Fox, artistically featured in black and white of course, lifting her legs over her head. Gulp.

Click to enlarge more Megan Fox pictures from the Times …