Kobe Bryant and David Copperfield mixed it up backstage at the World Music Awards, says a spy.
“Bryant was being super-friendly and sort of flirty with the young women in those slinky outfits who carry around the awards,” says a source.
“But after he got booed off stage, he came back in a bad mood. Usher started performing and Kobe said, ‘I’ve got to see this’ but David Copperfield and some friends were watching and he couldn’t see so he very rudely pushed David Copperfield aside. Afterwards, David said something like, ‘Maybe I should just snap his neck or something.’”
Bryant couldn’t be reached for comment, but through a spokeswoman, Copperfield quipped, “[Kobe] didn’t push me. I pushed him and I have the DNA to prove it.”
Backstage happenings
In other tidbits from backstage at the WMAs, a source says Jennifer Lopez and hubby Marc Anthony seemed to be keeping their distance from one another. “I don’t know if they were mad at each other or just didn’t want to create a scene by being photographed together, but they definitely did not look like a couple when I saw them,” says a source. “They stayed at least six feet apart.” The same insider adds that Lopez “didn’t make eye contact” or even acknowledge people who were handing out freebies backstage.
Meanwhile, Heidi Klum and Copperfield looked very much like a couple and were dancing with each other backstage. Courtney Love was chain-smoking, says a source, and Pamela Anderson was chugging what appeared to be champagne, but didn’t want photographers to take pictures of her drinking. Could have been ginger ale for all we know. Whitney Houston kept holed up to herself until it was time to go on stage, and Alicia Keys seemed never to be ready for her close-up. “She was really avoiding the cameras,” says a source. “She’s quite beautiful, but her face was all broken out. She looked like a teenager going through a rough adolescence and whenever the cameras approached her she’d drop her head or look away.”
Notes from all over
Madonna was getting massages during on her Kabbalah pilgrimage to Israel, says a source. “There was a lot of praying, and you’re not always seated, so a woman was giving Madonna massages on her lower back to relieve the tension.” Meanwhile, her hubby Guy Ritchie got a warm reception from female fans. “He got up to speak and the women went crazy applauding before the first words got out of his mouth,” says a source. “He only said a sentence or two. It was about how you should question everything in your life.” . . . Reese Witherspoon has dyed her hair so many times she says she can’t remember what color it is, reports the World Entertainment News Network. She thinks it’s blond, but her hubby says she’s a brunette. The smart money’s on the hubby. . . . John Travolta says he doesn’t get jealous when he sees his actress wife Kelly Preston smooching another man in a movie. “I’ve never been jealous, but I’ve been curious about things,” Travolta said, reports the Scottish Daily Record. “When I saw her in ‘Jerry Maguire,’ [Preston had a wild, if somewhat hilarious, sex scene with Tom Cruise] I would be like, ‘Okay, wait a minute, let’s talk about that day,’ Do you know what I mean? It’s not jealous like, ‘Oh, Tom Cruise is going to take her away from me or something,’ but more like, ‘Wait a minute, what’s going on there? Was there pleasure? Did he see anything? Did he touch anything?’”
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