Britney Spears won’t be going to a fabulous European ball because her former best friend Paris Hilton will be there.
The partying heiress is attending the super-elegant Vienna Opera Ball — causing a stir in Austria because it’s the highlight of the country’s social season — but the “Toxic” singer was removed from the invite list because she and Hilton had a falling out.
The partying heiress is the guest of wealthy industrialist Richard Lugner and his socialite wife Christina who in the past have invited high profile celebs in the hopes of modernizing the very traditional dance. Originally, Hilton was going with Spears. There are rumors that Hilton is receiving $1 million for attending.
“She is a very good advertisement for the Opera Ball,” Richard Lugner explained. Regarding why Spears wouldn’t be there as well, Christina offered: “They unfortunately do not get along anymore.”
Sharon Stone delivers a basic beating
Sharon Stone whacked around her “Alpha Dog” co-star until she gave him a bloody nose.
In the flick, the “Basic Instinct” star plays a mother who has a son who was kidnapped and then beats up her other son, played by Ben Foster — and says that he egged on the on-set violence for a scene.
“I was trying to figure out how to hit him, because you have to hit a person when you’re doing that kind of a scene. You can’t do those stunt hits because it doesn’t really work in a scene like that. I was trying to hit him without hurting him but Ben just wouldn’t let me because he knew the scene really required this kind of violence and this kind of aggression,” Stone said, according the Times & Transcript of New Brunswick. “It required me to really go for him. He forced me to aggress [sic] him and he forced me to hit him. He just kept pushing me and pushing me and I just lost it. He made me hit him until it broke my heart. It was so awful and his nose started to bleed.”
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