Naomi Campbell stepped out with her manfriend Vladimir Doronin and friends to do a bit of partying at Acqua Pazza in Ponza, Italy this week. Clearly the supermodel felt it was a fine occasion to get all dressed up … so, natch, she decided to dress like Native American princess Pocahontas:

As a world famous supermodel, Naomi Campbell has access to an amazing closet of clothes and the vaults of many fashion houses. But last night the model opted for a down to earth fancy dress look as she stepped out with boyfriend, Russian boyfriend Vladimir Doronin. But thankfully she didn’t go for complete authenticity, as the mobile phone throwing model opted not to accessorise the outfit with a tomahawk. Naomi and Doronin headed out with a group of friends all in fancy dress, for dinner at restaurant Acqua Pazza in Ponza, Italy. And with her hair in plaits and a headdress, Naomi made sure to look the part of the famous squaw. Her boyfriend went for a similarly striking look – as a naval officer. The 39-year-old model has been enjoying her holidays in Italy for the last few weeks.

I didn’t get the impression from this report that the event was a costume party but it had to have been … right? Sane people don’t just dress up in costume to dine out at fancy restaurants, do they? Whatever the hell was goin’ on, at least Naomi looked good as Pocahontas. I’m gonna assume the event was costume only and not jump the conclusion that Naomi done lost her mind. After all, we know that Naomi Campbell is a bastion of sanity, right?

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Mariah Carey features in a new promo photo on the Livenation website to promote her upcoming string of shows at The Pearl concert venue inside the Palms Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas, NV in September … and I couldn’t help but notice that the new photo looks a lot like an old photo of Mimi from back in the day:

The microphone, the backdrop, the dress … clearly, MC is hearkening back to the days of yore when she was a new chanteuse on the scene … but doesn’t it kinda look more like she has run out of “looks” that she needs to recycle one of her earliest looks?

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Kelly Clarkson, who just released the music video for her new single Already Gone, is spitting mad that folks think that she ripped off the music of her newest single from Beyoncé’s hit single Halo … particularly because she is among the folks who can hear the striking similarity. In a new interview with CBC Radio, Kelly fumes about the fact that co-writer Ryan Tedder (from the band One Republic who penned Already Gone AND Halo) appears to have sold both ladies the same song with different lyrics … and she is pissed!

If you’ve noticed similarities between Kelly Clarkson’s new single “Already Gone” and Beyoncé’s hit “Halo,” well, you’re not the only one. Turns out Clarkson has also noticed, and she’s not too happy about it. In an interview with Canada’s CBC radio network, the former “American Idol” champ said she was unaware of any similarities between her song and Beyoncé’s “Halo” until she heard the two songs side by side (according to Clarkson, her All I Ever Wanted album was finished before Beyoncé’s I Am … Sasha Fierce was released). And she’s not mincing words about who she blames for the similarities: OneRepublic frontman Ryan Tedder, who co-wrote both songs. “Ryan and I met each other at the record label, before he was working with anyone else. He’s from Oklahoma, I’m from Texas; we got along really well and had some of the same influences,” Clarkson said. “We wrote about six songs together, four or five of them made the album. It was all fine and dandy. I’d never heard of a song called ‘Halo’ … [Beyoncé's] album came out when my album was already being printed. “No one’s gonna be sittin’ at home, thinkin’ ‘Man, Ryan Tedder gave Beyoncé and Kelly the same track to write to,’ ” she continued. “No, they’re just gonna be sayin’ I ripped someone off. I called Ryan and said, ‘I don’t understand. Why would you do that?’ ” “Gone” and “Halo” do share some striking similarities, most notably in the backing track, which features somber piano, crashing drums and hand-claps. Clarkson — who clashed with her label in the past — said that she’s upset that “Already Gone” was released as a single without her blessing, but that, at this point, there’s really nothing to do about the situation. “It sucks, but it’s one of those things I have no control over,” she told the CBC. “I already made my album. At this point, the record company can do whatever they want with it. It’s kind of a shitty situation, but … you know, you learn.” At press time, a spokesperson for Tedder had not responded to MTV News’ request for comment on the situation.

To be honest, I didn’t immediately notice the similarity between the songs when I heard them both separately … at different times. But since the release of Kelly’s new single, I thought it sounded very familiar … and then the handclaps cued me in to the Halo recognition. Shoot, if I were her … I’d be pissed, too … especially since despite the fact that Kelly’s album was finished first, Halo was released months ago well ahead of the release of Already Gone. Methinks Mr. Ryan Tedder has got some ’splainin’ to do. After the jump, check out the music videos for both Kelly Clarkson’s Already Gone and Beyoncé’s Halo for a side-by-side comparison …

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Lily Allen has been tapped as the new celebrity spokesmodel for the Chanel fashion house. As an ardent fan of their handbags, Lily seems the perfect person to promote the new line of Chanel Coco Cocoon purses … tho, ripping off the Audrey Hepburn look for the campaign seems a bit too obvious to me:

She’s rarely seen out without one of her coveted collection of Chanel handbags. So perhaps it is no surprise that when Lily Allen branched out into modelling she chose the label. Newly released photos from an upcoming campaign show her cuddling bags from the Chanel Coco Cocoon range in undisguised delight. The photos were taken by Chanel designer Karl Lagerfield himself and show a playful Lily, unashamedly acting up for the camera. In other shots the 24-year-old wears a huge tiara and black catsuit as she pulls her sunglasses off her nose. Recently she revealed: ‘I don’t feel comfortable modelling – it’s not something that comes naturally to me, especially when I’m working with fashion photographers because they’re used to working with really tall, skinny and beautiful models and I’m very aware that I’m 5ft 2in and a size 12.’ But her worries were unfounded, as the petite singer looks her best in the photos.

Clearly Lily is interested in endeavors other than those that involve music … I understand she is also launching her own line of jewelry as well. These promo photos are very lovely but I still think they’re too obvious. Hopefully the next time she does a bit of modeling she’ll do so as herself rather than in the guise of someone else.

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Candy Spelling, that lovable matriarch that seemingly puts Joan Crawford to shame as Mommie Dearest, has penned another open letter (or Letter of Truth, if you will) to her only daughter Tori Spelling and sent it off to TMZ so that it can be read by the entire world wide web. As you may recall, Candy reached out to Tori with an open letter earlier this year in the hopes that mother and daughter could bury the hatchet and end their feud … an offer that Tori brutally (and publicly) rebuffed. In retaliation, Candy gave a very public interview that blamed Tori for her father Aaron Spelling’s death (which, IMHO, is the lowest of the low). It seems that Candy was inspired to pen another letter after learning that Tori’s reality TV series Tori & Dean: Home, Sweet, Hollywood will feature a season finale that attempts to show the world how daughter reached out to mother to attend granddaughter’s first birthday and, after initially agreeing to attend, grandmother eventually refused (you may recall, the party took place last month and we learned then that Candy refused to attend, presumably because she didn’t want to appear on the TV show). Before that episode airs on Tuesday, Candy felt it necessary to make the preemptive strike. Here is the full text of Candy’s latest open letter to Tori:

TO: MIDDLE-AGED REALITY SHOW STARS (LIKE MY DAUGHTER)
FROM: CANDY SPELLING

For all the reality show personalities, please remember that real life doesn’t get edited to make things better or worse or get better ratings. You’re responsible for what you do. Life isn’t just a show. And your families can’t just be props. Make your own season finale without creating conflicts you will regret later.

Um … Cue music. Cue sideways glaces. Clue Lights. Candy Spelling is a heinous beyotch. Don’t get me wrong, I think it’s idiotic for Tori Spelling to try and still exploit her public feud with her mother in order to get higher ratings for her TV show (because, honestly, that’s exactly that she’s doing) but for a mother to continue to publicly abuse her child (both mentally and emotionally) that has to be the most disgusting thing ever. Clearly Tori is trying to embarrass her mother by showing how cold-hearted she is (by not attending her only granddaughter’s first birthday) but Candy is going out of the way to show EXACTLY what a cold-hearted beyotch she really is by not only attending but making such a public spectacle of the whole situation. This has to be the saddest thing ever. Some fault does lie with Tori Spelling but, in the end, Candy Spelling — in her old, wizened age — should be the grown-up here. After all, Tori is the product of Candy’s parenting … a job that Candy clearly was never, ever qualified for. At least poor Aaron Spelling isn’t alive to bear witness to these sad and seemingly on-going events.

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The newly married Fergie Ferg (also known as Mrs. Josh Duhamel) was spotted making her way out of a studio here in LA yesterday afternoon in a very … interesting … outfit. At first, I couldn’t figure out who she reminded me of in this get-up … and then it hit me. Fergie was deffo lookin’ very owlish in her colorful garb:

LOL!!!! I can see Nite Owl’s point, Fergie deffo does look like she stole his look. Mebbe Ferg was confused and mistook the studio she was at for San Diego Comic-Con? She would deffo fit in there lookin’ like this :)

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In today’s newslinks, I mentioned that Rihanna got herself a new hair’do and after thinking about it for 0.00000003 seconds, I realized that her new ‘do looks a lot like someone else’s old ‘do (well, older ‘do). Here are a few pics of Rihanna showing off her new shaved look … which looks awfully similar to the shaved look that Cassie has been trying to make happen for the past few months:

Now … see … I’m all for adventures in hair styling but I dunno how I feel about the scalped look. I think women shaving their heads is supposed to look edgy … but to me it just looks like they got ambushed by a hair stylist who hates them. The look really looks terrible on Cassie … but at least she can cover up her shaved parts with her longer hair. Rihanna’s scalp is just out there. I’m not sure how I feel about it … what do y’all think? Like? Love? Hate? Puke?

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