Shining Star -- Sandra Bullock
Saint Sandra to the rescue! Sandra Bullock is becoming the fairy godmother of natural disaster relief efforts.
According to The Blind Side star's rep, this week Bullock donated $1 million to the American Red Cross to help victims of the earthquake and tsunami in Japan. The non-profit issued a statement calling Bullock's bucks, "vitally important as the Red Cross works to provide critical assistance and essential relief items in this time of urgent need for so many people in Japan."
And while many celebs step up and donate massive amounts of cash to charity, Bullock does it time and time again. Last year, the 46-year-old Oscar winner gave a cool million to Doctors Without Borders following the earthquake that hit Haiti. And she's given tons of dough to help rebuild New Orleans since Hurricane Katrina wreaked havoc in 2005.
Nice to see a Hollywood heavyweight donate some major moolah when it really counts.
Falling Star -- Vanessa Hudgens
If Vanessa Hudgens was taking a class in online privacy, the High School Musical star would surely be failing. Looks like someone needs to get her apparently vast collection of personal photos, -- OK, make that VERY personal photos -- in check.
The actress, 22, had a third set of naked pics leaked to the web this week. Other naughty photos of Hudgens surfaced in 2007 and 2009. Some of the latest batch of XXX-shots include someone (who appears to be Hudgens) smooching another woman and exposing some super private areas to the camera.
Here's the kicker: all the revealing images just happen to be timed to the release of Hudgens' projects. Her latest movie, Beastly, was released earlier this month and another film, Sucker Punch, lands in theaters next week. But the baby-faced brunette's lawyer has an explanation! Christopher Wong said in a statement, "whoever got hold of these private photos seems to be intent on illegally leaking them out over a long period of time." Got that?
The FBI is reportedly investigating the latest round of sexy snapshots. TMZ writes that a hacker may be responsible for cracking into Hudgens' email account, along with the accounts of several other starlets. But why would Hudgens, after facing this X-rated dilemma twice before, even have such pics on her computer in the first place?
Now, no one likes blaming a potential victim, but it might be wise for a celeb such as Hudgens to try locking up ALL her intimate photos and throwing away the key. Or better yet, maybe quit exposing her lady parts on-camera all together.
Originally appeared on Starpulse.
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Apparently, getting naked and snapping fotos of yoruself makes you deserving of public ridicule even when you do it without any intention of showing it to the world.
This would make thousands (perhaps millions) of couples who have taken photos of themselves having sex deserving of having their computers hacked and their bodies exposed for having the nerve to think they had the right to feel free and uninhibited in the privacy of their rooms and their relationships.
The two stories will totally set each other off! Or something.
It stuns me that it escapes both you and the writer of this post that these women were violated. This isn't some pr move, this is an open FBI case.
It's one thing when young men who don't know any better violate women "for fun" as this article points out: http://www.sheknows.com/entertainment/articles/826619/the-phones-of-over-50-female-celebs-hacked-by-web-ring
...and it's another when adults like the writer of this post -and a woman nontheless- take the men's side by adding fuel to the woman's shaming. Despicable.
You're right - I suppose I come from a time (the '80s) before such things were common. I don't really care what Hudgens or Favre or anyone does in the privacy of their own bedrooms. But don't condemn everyone who thinks that maybe a lot of these "leaks" were very obviously and cynically done by the subjects in order to titillate the public and attract attention. For some people negative attention is better than no attention.
$20 million a movie. Her net worth is probably $250 million.
actually, people like yourself love "blaming" and shaming victims it seems. There's no way to "throw away the key" of computer privacy when someone hacks your computer. If that's what happened then that's a crime that all of us should be weary of. And regardless, why should she not "expose her lady parts on-camera all together?" Who are you to tell her what to expose and what not to expose in her privacy of her room?
This post is shameful. In your effort to come up with a "falling star" every week to justify your presence on this site, you are attacking someone who did nothing wrong.
As for Miss Hudgens, she only has herself to blame.