Friday, February 5th, 2010
Tiger Woods left the Gentle Path rehab clinic in Hattiesburg, Mississippi with wife Elin Nordegren today, according to Radar. While all we could see for ourselves was that Woods may not have been shaving, tabloids have claimed golf star’s weeks-long stint involved plenty of group and individual therapy, a polygraphed confession to his wife (who supposedly came down to the clinic earlier this week) and absolutely no video games whatsoever. Repeat: no video games.
Though Nordegren’s recent refusal to wear a wedding ring gave credence to rumors she’s was planning a divorce, she has since reportedly changed her mind, with the couple now trying to repair their relationship. But while some quality time with their children is next on their agenda, it might not be long before Tiger’s back on the golf course. Australia’s Herald-Sun said the athlete may even attend this month’s Accenture Match Play Championship in Arizona, with the event’s director saying Tiger’s participation “would be terrific” even if he couldn’t confirm nor deny. Don’t feel bad about that, dude—it’s not like anyone’s been able to officially confirm anything involving Tiger since this scandal broke.
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Tuesday, February 2nd, 2010
John Mayer knows about sex - after all he can’t play his guitar with having multiple orgasms (in the face, at least), and he’s scored with a lot of hot ladies - Jessica Simpson, Jennifer Aniston - and broken some hearts along the way. Thus we think his real talent lies not in guitar playing (though yeah, he’s good) but in offering up advice on all things fornication. John got particularly blabby about the subject in a recent interview with The Independent, rambling about Tiger Woods‘ marriage, dirty text messages, and wearing his future wife’s ass on his head like a hat. No, really.
“Tiger Woods’ problems come from him being married. The end. It has nothing to do with control. If Tiger Woods was a single guy, what sort of angle would there be to a text message? If Tiger Woods was single, and he texted a girl and said ‘I wanna wear your ass like a hat’, why would that ever hit the news? I can text whatever I want to anybody in the world; I’m not married. I write a lot of dirty text messages to girls, and you’ve never seen any of them. Why? Because if a girl brought a dirty text message from me to the newspapers, they’d say ‘I don’t have an angle here. Someone wants to wear your ass like a hat? Big deal. He’s 32 years old. He’s a single guy. If John Mayer has a wife and sends dirty texts, then we got a story.’ And that’s why I won’t do that. When I get married that’s gonna be my vows, ‘Do you, John Mayer, take this woman to have and to hold, to wear her ass like headgear?’ Yes, I do – you’re the one whose ass I wanna wear like a hat for the rest of my life.”
Se what we’re talking about? Mayer’s verbal diarrhea is more epic than his guitar solos. And now we finally know why he dumped Jennifer - he just didn’t want to wear her ass like headgear for the rest of his life. What a shame - it’s so toned! [Photo: GettyImages]
Thursday, January 28th, 2010
It’s kind of ironic that we’ve heard more from mistresses of Tiger Woods that deny being prostitutes than admitted escorts—you’d think the latter would be easier to buy. So, in a sad way, it’s overdue that a lady of the night like Loredana Jolie has stepped up to offer a seamier look at the golf star’s sex life. “He would engage in sex from 9 p.m. until the sun came up the next morning,” told Page Six, hoping to help sell a tell-all. “But he wasn’t a healthy guy. He couldn’t sleep and would stay up all night. I am not really sure rehab for sex addiction will help him.” Grossed out yet? Because it’s only getting grosser.
“Tiger’s sexual fantasies were not normal,” says the surprisingly judgmental would-be-author. “He likes role-playing, he likes to be the guy in control and wearing a suit while there are girls performing girl-on-girl and guys entertaining guys.” Ah yes, the guy in control and wearing a suit. That one. “By [guys entertaining guys], I mean they would dance for each other like girls would do for a man.” Got it. “”He’d have different girls all the time, entertaining, role play, fetishes, stuff like that…but he would only watch.” Lovely. Jolie, who worked for madam Michelle Braun, says she’ll describe more paid encounters with the rich and famous if the price is right. But how much would it take to shut her up?
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Tuesday, January 26th, 2010
Elin Nordegren has been without a wedding ring since confronting husband Tiger Woods about his infidelity last Thanksgiving, but new reports suggest she may have changed her mind about divorcing the golf star. Following their claim that Nordegren visited Woods at the Mississippi sex rehab clinic where he’s supposedly been hiding out, Radar now says the pair are planning to give their marriage another go. “She was happy when she came home,” says their source. “Things went well. He’s told her he’s serious about making it work and doing whatever he can.”
If Nordegren and Woods truly are patching things up, new details about the Thanksgiving fight that left him in the hospital couldn’t have come at a worse time. According to The Daily Beast, the battle started when Woods told his wife the National Enquirer was planning a (false) story about his cheating and put her on the phone with “pal” Rachel Uchitel to assuage her fears. Less than convinced, Nordegren began texting Uchitel from Woods’ phone, eventually learning their true relationship. Nordegren then woke her Ambien-addled husband—who contacted Uchitel to announce is impeding divorce—leading to the golf-club-swinging/car-crashing brouhaha we heard so much about. But that’s all in the past now, right? Right?
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Tuesday, January 19th, 2010
Last week, an unnamed sex therapist told People that Tiger Woods was putting his putter on ice at the Arizona sex rehabilition clinic The Meadows. Right facility, wrong location, says Benoit Denizet-Lewis, a New York Times journalist and fellow sex addict, who posted on his blog that a source puts Tiger at Pine Grove/Gentle Path in Hattiesburg, Mississippi. Radar has gone a step further, posting photos of on-site renovations possibly meant to keep paparazzi from spotting the superstar as he goes from the residental area to therapy sessions. “He’s not going to be allowed to go out and golf in the morning,” Denizet-Lewis told the Daily News. “It’s a really intense experience…You can put down a drink or a drug and not have to see it for a while. But you can’t go anywhere without your genitalia or your brain - those are attached to you.”
While Woods may be focusing on changing his lifestyle, Russell Simmons is doing his best to improve the athlete’s public image. Though his tweet late last week praising Woods for “sending a cargo plane with a mobile hospital” to Haiti turned out to be “premature,” Simmons was right that the golfer is planning a major contribution to the cause. “Our plan is to be part of the relief effort to help rebuild Haiti by supporting organizations that provide critical resources to young people,” Woods Foundation president Greg McLaughlin told E! News. Don’t joke about career rehab around Rush, though. “All those who think to judge Tiger’s gift should look in the mirror,” he tweeted yesterday, “and be so generous.”
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Thursday, January 14th, 2010
Details are trickling in as we type … But we’re hearing about a fundraiser for Haiti that is being masterminded by George Clooney. Allegedly MTV has agreed to air a bi-coastal happening on all of its channels (MTV, BET, CMT and our beloved VH1) in an attempt to provide much-needed support for the devasted victims of the earthquake.
According to Showbiz411, which broke the story today, Clooney was busy recruiting celebs at a party for Up in the Air last night — and Sting, after being approached, was overheard saying “Where do I go?” The timing for recruiting talent could not be better as nearly every A-list actor will be attending the Critics’ Choice Movie Awards on Friday and then the Golden Globes on Sunday. Expect to hear a lot about Haiti in upcoming acceptance speeches!
It’s hard to imagine this event going down without music. We can’t confirm anything at this time, but a straight talking-head telethon just isn’t how VH1 or MTV rolls. Plus, can you imagine Sting without his guitar? Exactly.
After the jump, we start the Official Haiti Fundraiser Celebrity Lineup Guessing Game, which includes Wyclef Jean, Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie, Matt Damon, Diddy, U2, Alicia Keys, Coldplay, Shakira, John Legend, Adam Lambert, Ryan Seacrest and the Dixie Chicks. (But first, find out how you can help at the White House’s website.)
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Wednesday, January 13th, 2010
Guess we know one of Tiger Woods‘ New Year’s resolutions. People is reporting that the philandering golfer is currently holed up in The Meadows, an exclusive Arizona rehabiliation clinic. Though X17 made the claim in late December, People’s unnamed sex therapist dates his time of entry just after New Year’s. Depending on who you believe, he may have wanted some holiday bro time—or one last tango with mistress Rachel Uchitel—before checking in.
Discussing the situation with People, Vh1’s Dr. Drew Pinsky was less than certain sex rehab would solve the problem.”The feature here that has caught everyone’s attention is that he seems to be maintaining relationships with all these people – not just have sex with them…We’re speculating sex and love are the primary issues. They may not be.” It sure doesn’t look like Woods’ recovery process involves wife Elin Nordegren, who’s still in suburban Orlando with the kids. According to X17’s source, the golfer’s clinic stay may have more to do with rehabilitating his career, anyway. “His handlers forced him to enter the program. They feel that if he blames his cheating on addiction, the public will forgive him.” How soon before the tearful Barbara Walters interview?
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Tuesday, January 5th, 2010
Those shirtless pics of Tiger Woods in Vanity Fair may not be the only revealing, years-old footage of the golfing star to come out soon. The president of Vivid Entertainment told TMZ that a woman tried to sell him a sex tape starring Tiger two weeks ago. “We saw thirty seconds of it, and we’re working to identify if it’s actually him,” said Steven Hirsch. “We’ll know soon.” When writer Ian Halperin told Life & Style a woman tried to sell him a tape of Tiger having phone sex last month, Hirsch noted, “A Tiger sex tape could be worth $5 million, possibly as high as $10 million.” That sounds more profitable than taking hush money!
But even if someone comes forward with footage, distributors would have to get Tiger to OK its release. And as Hirsch noted, “I don’t have high hopes of that.” With Tiger’s lawyers already threatening anyone who comes forward with one, it looks like the star has farther to sink before he’d consent. But it sure sounds like one’s out there, sports fans—if not more.
[Photo: Getty Images]
Monday, January 4th, 2010
Just when it looked like the drama around Tiger Woods and his veritable tsunami of alleged mistresses had passed, some cheap rag is hawking “raw, never-before-seen photos!” of the golfing star shirtless and lifting weights. Sorry, did we say “cheap rag”? We mean class act Vanity Fair, whose pocket must have burnt clean through holding onto these pre-scandal Annie Liebowitz photos while they waited for Friday Night Lights author Buzz Bissinger to write a reflection on Woods’ “downfall.” They couldn’t just publish the photos without a story, you know. It’d be gauche.
As for the beleaguered legend himself, no one seems quite sure on just where he’s hiding. TMZ says their sources point to Africa (he proposed to estranged wife Elin Lindegren in South Africa six years ago), but no one’s spotted him there or anywhere else. Hopefully his disguise wasn’t “shirtless dude with hat on, lifting weights.”
[Photo: Vanity Fair]