Lady Gaga Drops Pants, Album Release Date

If you love Lady Gaga and hate pants, and frankly those two things are fairly universal at THG world headquarters, you'll enjoy this brief article.
The singer Tweeted the photo of herself taken from the rear. Promoting her upcoming album, she dons a jacket emblazoned with Born This Way.
She is, naturally, wearing no pants OR underwear ...

BARE ESSENTIALS: Lady Gaga shows off her assets as she announces when Little Monsters around the world can expect another album full of hit songs.

"The Song 2 13 11. The Record 5 23 11," she Tweeted. "Born This Way" is set to be the first song to be released on the album of the same name.
"I'm beautiful in my way. God makes no mistakes, I'm on the right track baby. I was Born This Way," Gaga wrote, echoing her record's theme.
We were born to get in line 2/13. With no pants. Man those things suck.

Val Kilmer Makes Like Wesley Snipes

Val Kilmer is apparently not a fan of paying taxes.
Not that anyone is, but most of us still actually do it.
The actor owes nearly $500,000 in federal taxes, according to reports. A lien has been placed on his property, including a New Mexico ranch he's trying to sell.

The IRS filed the lien in Santa Fe for an assessment balance of $498,165 for 2008 income taxes. Val is currently asking $18.5 million for the property.
Wesley Snipes was recently sent to prison for tax evasion. Val Kilmer isn't headed down that road yet, but liens on one's property are a nice first step.
How hard is it to pay taxes, seriously. Don't studios withhold a portion of his income? It's not like he's broke. Dude's clearly eating well. Just saying.

Katy Perry With No Makeup: Revealed on Twitter!

Katy Perry's a cute girl any way you look at it, but she apparently wasn't a huge fan of this Twitter photo posted by husband Russell Brand.
An image of Mrs. Brand that's not altogether flattering appeared online (and appears below) this weekend. It has since been taken down.
Not a bad way to get on your wife's bad side, fellas ...

The greatness that is Twitter personified in one photo.

He may be in the doghouse, but props to Russell Brand. Like an album announcement courtesy of Lady Gaga with no pants, this was quite entertaining and gave us genuine insight into their lives, not just what some publicist tells us.

That said, we hope the couch is comfortable tonight.

Kathy Griffin to Willow Palin: You're Goin' Down!

Leave it to Kathy Griffin to offer up a preview of one of 2011's potential celebrity feuds in the opening moments of the new year ... live on CNN.
Her New Year's resolution, she told Anderson Cooper, is to take down 16-year-old Willow Palin because of her homophobic Facebook slurs in 2010.
"She's called people a fa***t on Facebook a couple of times. You don't throw around the f-word without hearing from me," she said.

We think Kathy Griffin is mostly kidding. Okay, we hope she is.

"I've already gone for Sarah, Todd and Bristol obviously, but I think it's Willow's year to go down. In 2011 I want to offend a new Palin," she said.
That shouldn't be  hard. Those people will fire off Facebook rants and hastily-written statements if they don't like the direction the wind blows.
Still, is calling out Willow Palin really the way to go?
We know you're a D-lister, Kath, but can't you find a better target than a dumbass with the maturity of a 16-year-old? Or her daughter Willow for that matter?

Kim Kardashian Music Video: First, Terrible Look

Kim Kardashian cannot sing and she cannot pull off cornrows.
Despite these undeniable facts, the busty reality star is going through with her music career, debuting the single "Turn It Up" on New Year's Eve and also giving fans an early look at her upcoming music video.

Over the weekend, the woman who makes Ke$ha sound like Celine Dion posted two images on her blog: one features her in "Bo Derek braids," the other in oversized sunglasses, as Kim Tweeted along with the pics:
2011 is all about trying new things and going for it! I'm starting mine with something fun and crazy!
She forgot to add and ridiculous looking and awful sounding and, seriously, anyone who spends a penny on my singing voice needs immediate psychological help.

I'm 6 months pregnant!

Britain's Got Talent judge Amanda Holden is having another baby

Amanda Holden is expecting a baby

Amanda Holden is pregnant with a son.
The Britain's Got Talent judge, 39, who is married to Chris Hughes, has only 3 months to go before her new baby arrives.
'Just to let you know. I am 6 months pregnant with a baby boy!! Have had to keep it quiet until now! I'm still doing BGT and Shrek The Musical!!!' she announced on Twitter.
Amanda and Chris are already mum and dad to 4-year-old daughter Lexi.
They have kept their good news quiet for so long because Amanda sadly lost a baby last year.
'Their delight is increased by the fact that last year [Amanda] tragically lost a baby,' says a statement on her official website.
'As they are sure everyone will understand they needed to get the all clear from the doctor before they shared their very happy news.'

Hotmail users complain of deleted emails: Live@edu unaffected

Some Hotmail users are complaining on Microsoft feedback forums that some of their content is missing or has been deleted. Over 470 people have complained on Windows Live forums, saying that the majority of their email has been moved into their deleted folders, according to AP.
Microsoft has acknowledged that a problem exists, though no timeline has been given on how long it will take for the solution to be rolled out. It does not appear that many of the 360 million global users are affected.

Microsoft spokeswoman, Catherine Brooker said “At this point it appears to be a limited issue, and Microsoft is working with individual users who are impacted. We apologize for any inconvenience to our customers”, but declined to comment on what has caused the problem.
While Live@edu’s Outlook Live, an email service provided by Microsoft for students at school, college and universities are hosted in the same datacenters, it appears that data loss is limited only to Hotmail at this time.