HISSIP’S LIST: Those Who Rocked in ‘07 and Will Rock it in ‘08

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Enrique Iglesias’s Lust Confessions

Enrique Iglesias told the New Zealand Herald that love and sex don’t come as a combo.

“Sex and love are so different that, of course, you don’t have to be in love with a woman to sleep with her but it’s amazing when you get them both together.”

Aw. At this point, he’s no doubt referring to Ms. Annie Kournikova, his querida of 5 years.
Enrique also dished out on his dad, telling the newspaper that his father’s promiscuity over the years (3,000 women bedded and counting) is just an “an act”.

Huh…so all those 75 kids he’s got with all these different women is just a cover-up for something “else”? Elaborate please Enrique…the suspense is unbearable.

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Putumayo Rocks Reggaeton

No one rocks world music like Putumayo. Their newest compilation entitled Putumayo Presents: Latin Reggae is an audio manual to the reggaeton genre, and is an additional level ambitious from its previous Latin-themed discs as Putumayo Presents: Latin Lounge and Putumayo Presents: Latin Groove. Your abuela probably makes good arroz and pollo, but I doubt she can work a stew like this. The disc features songs from Chilean group Libros Sagrados, and features a Ticklah and Mayra Vego collaboration, the slamming “Si Hecho Palante” as well as a bouncing jam “Reggae Rustico”  from the Puerto Rican reaggaetoners Cultura Profética and ends later with Desbaratado from the culture hybrid Sarazino. Putumayo Presents: Latin Reggae isn’t the first reggaeton compilation, but it sure made you wish that others to come could be as all-compassing.

Fantastic Four en Espanol

The Latino pull is just too strong for the mainstream to ignore. Now Marvel Comics is getting in the Hispanic game. The comic book giant will be issuing a special issue of the Fantastic Four entitled “Isla de la Muerte. ” Joe Quesada, the editor-in-chief of Marvel Comics told the New York Times:

“Hispanics don’t only mark the fastest-growing segment of the population but also one of our fastest-rising readership segments.”

For those who are still doubting the Latino community’s economic swagger…so there!

Jessica Alba…Engaged

It’s official: mother-to-be Jessica Alba and her boo are engaged. The confirmation came through Steve Carafelli, the future Mrs. Cash Warren’s publicist.  

[Source] pic: (Mark J. Terrill, File / AP Photo)

Don’t Call Javier Bardem a Superstar

People Magazine may have selected Javier Bardem as one of the sexiest men of the year, but he sure doesn’t see it that way, telling an interviewer that when he looks at himself in the mirror:

“I see a guy who looks like he’s been beaten with a baseball bat.”

The  SAG and Golden Globe-nominted actor, who’s Penelope Cruz’s boo is not only modest, but happens to hold fame into perspective:

“The most important thing is to do the job. I saw my mom a huge theatre actress, being unemployed for years and that’s why I don’t buy into the shiny stuff, the gold. If it happens, then it’s great but tomorrow somebody could say, ‘I’m tired of him, hire somebody else’.” [Source]

Penelope Cruz, a Bollywood Dream

 

Penelope Cruz will be acting in a Bollywood film if Indian film producer has his way. He imagines it this way:

Tales from Jessica Alba’s Crypt: Teen Date

If you envy Jessica Alba to death, you might want to hear this story. It may make you feel better. Not a whole lot though. Just a little bit. Her first date as a teenager with a male friend was a disaster.

“I picked this restaurant, I thought it was going to be an intimate, five-star place, where people wouldn’t recognize us. It turned out to be a theme restaurant – all the waiters were dressed as pirates and the customers were senior citizens. It was so embarrassing!”

As she grew older, it seems that her restaurant eating experience got better. After breaking up earlier this year, she and her man reconciled with the help of some serious restaurant therapy, dining out at her favorite restaurants. [Source]

Reporter: Tony Didn’t Cheat on Eva

…at least not with French model Alexandra Paressant.  According to a People reporter/investigator, evidence has exonerated Parker, as Paressant is pathological liar. She made up everything, including photos, and of course the story about her having a passionate fling with Eva Longoria’s husband Tony Parker. A childhood friend of Paressant’s interviewed told reporter Dana Kennedy: “She was never happy in her own skin. She never thought she was pretty enough. She was troubled. It was like she felt she didn’t really exist.”

She was so unhappy, it seems, that she resorted to fabricating fantasy stories? She suffers from some personality disorder? Any psychotherapists out there? Help me out.

Apparently, Ms. Paressant herself isn’t real. The U.S. modeling agency representing her, had never had a face-to-face with her. What’s more the pics that have been circulating of her, are not even of her. But Tony won’t be off the hook that easily. If he’s not cheating with Alexandra, he’ll be cheating with someone. Mark my words.

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Alicia Machado’s Sex Tape Scandal

What’s wrong with these beauty pageant queens? First, it was Ms. Ingrid Marie Rivera and her declared sabotaging/pepperspraying, then suspected, then suspicion-lifted  drama, and now it’s Miss Universe Alicia Machado. Ms. Machado, who up to this point had a demure media image, has a sex tape. And not just any sex tape. It’s of her and Mr. Spain boning it up live in the TV studios. And it’s being distributed all over the Internet. This scandal could be career-breaking. Men are always forgiven for their trespasses, but never women, in Latino culture. 

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Alejandro Sanz after the meltdown

Everything that could possibly go wrong with Alejandro Sanz’s life did. Take a look at this drama-filled timeline:

2005-father dies, gets separated from beautiful wife Jaydy Mitchel and their daughter Manuela

2006-Alejandra lets it known to the world that his jumpoff has a 3-year old son by him, ooh and also in that year there was all sorts of brouhaha when the househelp were trying to allegedly extort money out of him in exchange for not telling his sordid secrets  

No wonder the singer-songwriter had to go get some professional help. But now he’s back, with all the therapy healing that his money could get him.

“I spent a lot more time focused on simple things — and not so much on big things, or only thinking about my work. I made time for my children. Really, it helped me a lot.”

Look on the bright side, Alejandro. Now you’ve got so much more material for your future albums.

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Ugly Betty Season Premiere Pushed Back

If you love seeing America Ferrera, alias Betty Suarez  in “Ugly Betty”, take heart. You’ll  have to wait another week to see a new episode, as the season premiere has been postponed from January 3rd to January 10th.

Christina Milian Shops

Normally, I don’t like sweater or knitty looks, but Christina Milian sure looks fab in this getup. Here she is shopping on the streets of Beverly Hills.

Michelle Rodriguez Locked Up Again

The other day, it was Pitbull, now it’s Michelle Rodriguez. That’s right comadres, she’s at it again.
As of yesterday afternoon, Mayte Michelle Rodriguez started serving a 6-month jail term for violating her probation, stemming from her DUI case. She was supposed to have done community service; didn’t do that. She was supposed to refrain from drinking. She did that. I think that Girlfight role really got to  her. There’s no other explanation for this. She’s been given chances after chances after chances, but chose to let it come to this. Maybe those 150+ days at Lyndon’s  Century Regional Detention Facility will allow her some serious self-reflection.

Pitbull Arrested for DUI

  Want a pitbull to act crazier than normal?

Give him a drink or two. Heck, go crazy. Give him the whole barrel. Armando Chris Perez, aka Mr. 305, aka Lil’ Chico was stopped by police for doing 93 MPH in a 55 mile zone. The popo encounter went a little something like this, according to the police report:

[Miami-Dace police officer Marc] Slimak repeatedly asked Perez to step away from the Mercedes. Finally he [Pitbull] did, saying “Come on papo, what’s up?”Slimak tried explaining. Perez interrupted, ”Come on, This ain’t nuthin. You’re wasting your time.’

‘As he spoke, I could detect a strong breath odor of alcohol over the gum he was chewing,” Slimak wrote in the police report.

With bloodshot eyes and rapid, slurred speech, Perez said ”nope” when asked if he had been drinking. Then [rap star] laughed.

 ”Let’s not do this, yo,” [Pitbull] said when asked to undergo a field sobriety test. [Source]

Pitfull ended up failing the alcohol test and spent a few hours in jails, before posting $1,000 bail.  Was it the excitement from having his album The Boatlift released last month?

Eva Longoria’s Marido Sues X17

Dios Mio. Tony Parker is not satisfied with just verbally denying the rumor that he cheated on his wife Eva Longoria with French model Alexandra Paressant. He’s now suing X17, the online photo and news magazine website who originally broke the story. He’s of course doing what any lying, cheating husband would do, take the attention away from himself, and distracting his dissed wife. Parker is seeking $20 million. In the lawsuit, the NBA star’s lawyers state, “Tony Parker has never had sexual relations with a woman named Alexandra Paressant.”

 

Now doesn’t this line sound a little too verbatim from former President Clinton’s own denial about Monica Lewisnky a few years back?  

Jennifer Lopez’s Pregnancy Fat Phobia

                                                         

Guess Yeni thought that her bootilicious self would be exempt from pregnancy weight gain. That is so not the case. A source told an Indian newspaper that:

“She is huge and freaking out. She has already put on more than 42lbs and isn’t that far gone. Her face has become really puffy from retaining a lot of water. She plans to do a Victoria Beckham now and hibernate for the last few months. You won’t be seeing much of her in public from now on.”

Don’t worry Yeni. There’ll just be more of your for Marky to love, that’s all.
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Luis Miguel, the Narcissist

There’s been reports flying all over the place that Don Juan Luis Miguel has been seen around town quite a lot without being the company of his baby mother Aracely Arámbula. Supposedly the two have been at it because Aracely is insisting on picking up her career as a TV star. He doesn’t want her too. He’s, ahem, afraid of the effects that the celebrity and media exposure will  have on their nearly one-year old son Miguelito. Oh, please.  I think I see a machovisnistic maldito when I see one. I’m beginning to see a pattern here. Luis Miguel just can’t handle a famous wife. Remember when he and Mariah Carey were an item? That didn’t last. He always wants his girlfriend of the moment to drop everything for him. Jerk.

Karina Smirnoff Loves Mario Lopez’s Gluteus Maximus

Karina Sminoff has seen Mario Lopez’s butt, and it’s quite cute. She saw it on, er, that YouTube video from his shower scene in Nip/Tuck. She told Planet Gossip:

“I think he has an amazing body. I mean, he’s extremely fit, and he does have a pretty good-looking rear end.”

Karina, are you sure it’s on YouTube, and only on YouTube that you’ve seen it. You sure those recollections aren’t from live memory?

Face it Eva: Tony is a Cheater

Mark these words: in your mind, on the wall, on a post-it, text it to yourself and save it as a draft: Tony Parker and Eva Longoria will break up.

 

Remember the claims of the French model Alexandra Paressant that Hissip posted a few days ago in which the French model claimed that she had an affair with Eva’s boo Tony Parker that was consumated in Paris in September? Well, the plot thickens. Now that TonEva have both denied her claims, she’s bringing evidence to the forefront, including her creepin’ plane ticket.  Looks like Eva doesn’t only play a Desperate Housewife on TV. Tony is 25 and an NBA player, a bad combination. Pobre Eva.

Jessica Sierra and Ricco Rodriguez to be on Reality Show

Want to be grandly rewarded my litttle Latinos and Latinas?

  

Start engaging in bad behavior. It just might get you a reality show.  At least, such is the compensation of former “American Idol” contestant DUI’ed Jessica Sierra and the combattant boxer Ricco Rodriguez. Their lives in rehab will be the source of one of VH1’s newest reality shows “Celebrity Rehab with Dr. Drew”. It’s supposed to be quite educational for Jess and Ric, with host Dr. Drew Pinsky guiding them, and a host of other celebrities, through the detoxification process. The show airs January 10th on the network.

Mi TRL Awards Glam

          

MTV’s first edition of Mi TRL Awards went down last night. in New York City’s Time Square.  The evening was Mc’ed by Carlos Santos and Karli Henriquez and peformers for the night included RBD (Pepsi Viewer’s Choice winners), Paulina Rubio (Female Artist of the Year winner), Zuleyka Rivera, Menudo, and Juanes (won for Male Artist of the year). Adrienne Bailon’s outfit was bangin’. Oh, and the other winners of the Gallo awards were: George Lopez (Best Actor), Wisin y Yandel (Best Performance). 

           

[pics: Brian Appio/MTV]

Eva Longoria and Tony Parker Camp: Ain’t No Humpin’ Going Around

French model Alexandra Paressant is telling the media that she had an affair with Tony Parker, Eva Longoria’s husband right after their marriage. It started out with some text messaging sex and was finally consummated with a  full-blown sexual encounter in Paris.

Tony denies he’s cheated. Longoria for her part told OK:  “Tony has been nothing short of the perfect husband. And of course there was the actress’s publicist’s strategized statement:  “These allegations are completely 100% false and untrue. All high-profile couples fall victim to these sorts of things in the course of their relationships.” But is Alexandra Paressant a liar?

Pobre Eva. Those actress-singer athletes romances just don’t seem to last. Remember Mariah Carey and Derek Jeeter?

Golden Globe Noms for Shakira, Javier and America

Golden Globe nominations are in.

Alberto Iglesias was nominated for Best Original Score for the Marc Forster drama The Kite Runner. Shakira is up for a Best Original Song trophy for her work alongside Brazilian music composer Antonio Pinto for the haunting “Despedia” for the soundtrack of the film Love in the Time of Cholera . The film has of course opened to mixed (but mostly unfavorable) reviews, so so glad something great is coming out of this for the crew who put so much into the film. America Ferrera was also nominated for her work as the title character in “Ugly Betty” in the Best Actress in a Musical or Comedy category, and Javier Bardem as Best Supporting Actor for his role in No Country for Old Men. Congrats senores y mujeres.

Zulay Henao and Terrence Howard…a Couple

Terrence Howard and Zulay Henao…are definitely a couple. There’s no mistaking the love swagger in his demeanor in this pic of the enamorados in Cancun.

Jessica Alba…Preggers!

Hear ye, hear ye…check out this announcement from Jessica Alba’s publicist Steve Carafelli: “I can confirm that Jessica and Cash are expecting a baby in late spring, early summer.” Cash…as in Cash Warren, the director’s assistant she met on the set of the Transformers movie, that she’s been dating for quite a while in Hollywood minutes. For you men out there who think you’ll be missing those abs…don’t worry. Comadre ain’t your girlfriend, or your wife; she’s got a personal trainer. So, with ChrissyAgui, Yeni and now Jessica pregnant, wonder if they’ll form a Pregnant Latina Club?

Victoria Ruffo in Victoria

After triumphing in La Madrastra, Victoria Ruffo is finding herself back on my TV screen. She’s starring in a remake of Mirada de Mujer already in its first week on Telemundo.  You gotta hand it to Telemundo and Univision. They never dis the older actresses. They always find a way to give them some work to do. Bravo canales! Speaking of which…isn’t it funny how the

Don Omar el Perro

So, Don Omar told Puerto Rico’s El Nuevo Día  that the scandal in which an Argentinean prostitute claimed that she had sex with him while he engaged to his fiancé Jackie Guerrido, brought the two of them (him and his fiancee Jackie Guerrido) closer? Oh, por favor.  

Jackie, I know you’re 39 and you feel that Don Perro at his whopping 29 is a great catch. You probably don’t want to be single again. It’s too much work. Mami and papi are crying out for nietos already, but trust me, the other alternative is to be constantly be cheated on. So, he’s cheated on you and you’re  ironing it out. Probably you were making more excuses for him than he was. You probably feel that you’ve invested too much time already in  those Spring 2008 wedding preparations, but trust me girl…it ain’t worth it. Wait, okay? I swear you’ll find someone better. Don’t say I didn’t warn you.

Lymari Nadal at the Hollywood Life Mag Awards

Is it me, or is Lymari Nadal the Next Big Thing?

 

Let’s face it, the girl is gorgeous. She’s got Penelope Cruz’s charm, and is the perfect combination of beauty and brains. Querida is not your typical actress. She actually has a graduate degree in Chemistry from the University of Puerto Rico. Anyone who can actually pass a chemistry class, let alone get a degree in Chemistry, gets major props from me. That’s her making an entrance at last night’s Hollywood Life Magazine’s 7th Annual Breakthrough of the Year Awards. [Photo Credit: AP Photo/Gus Ruelas]

Christina Aguilera in Marie Claire mag

Christina Aguilera is expecting and wants the whole world to know that she’s proud of her new curves. You’re a liberated mujer ChrissyAgui. We know that from your Dirty video. But did you have to pose for those Playboy-like poses in the January issue of Marie Claire?

Jennifer Lopez’s Baby Bump

Look at that motherhood glow. That’s Yeni and Marco Antonio at the Kodak Theater over the weekend. What a cute couple they make. Looks like the twins are growing healthy. Wonder what J.Lo’s butt will look like post-partum?

Ms. Puerto Rico Universe is a mentidosa

The results from the investigation of the alleged pepper spraying of Puerto Rican Miss Universe pageant contestant and winner Ingrid Marie Rivera are in.Turns out that there were no signs of pepper spraying or irritation agents were found on her clothes, according to Puerto Rico’s Forensic Sciences Institute. And those claims made about her credit cards being stolen, and about that bomb threat are just as true and real as telenovela passion. Looks like Ms. Rivera is a major mentidosa. And looks like a one Magali Febles, the director of the beauty pageant, who had painted this torrid picture of pageantry jealousy and sabotage might be in for some felony charges.  In this very interesting case of conflicting interest, gross favortism, and fabrication, Ms. Rivera and her supporters and fellow scammers thought that they could actually outwit the press and Puerto Rican authorities.

Sebastián Rulli’s Comeback

Sebastian Rulli is coming back to telenovelas. Why am I writing ‘coming back’ anyway? Only a fortnight it seemed the Mexican-Argentinan actor was making Latina women, as well as their Russian, Nigerian, Cape Verdian, Brazilian hermanitas swoon in Mundo de Ferias.  The actor who’s been in more than a dozen telenovelas, including 2004’s megahit Rubi opposite Barbara Mori and Eduardo Santamarina, will be starring in Pasion opposite Fernando Colunga (La Usurpadora, Amor Real), and Susana Gonzalez (Entre el Amor y el Odio).