Olivia Wilde plays a neurotic self-diagnosing doctor with a terminal brain tumor on Fox’s House who describes herself as a “sort-of vegetarian who eats fish.”
Not eating any other non-plant item but fish is better than downing Big Macs every day. But with the fish population dwindling and the impact that could have on ocean life, we’d like to see Wilde work harder to be a little more eco-friendly. And we think we have the answer: Eat Gwyneth Paltrow’s vegan pancakes.
No, this won’t restore the sardines she munches on while watching episodes of herself and Lisa Edelstein on widescreen, but at least she’d be reducing her dairy intake. And she can down a lot of pancakes to offset her “print.”
Wilde once won a contest for eating 33 pancakes in 20 minutes! She entered the contest just to prove she could eat as much as the macho men who doubted her gluttonous talents.
Maybe it’s the spirit of competition and a gauntlet thrown down that drives her into action.
Oh, Olivia, can you hear us? We don’t think you can stop eating fish. Not hardcore enough to do it…
It’s Poll Time! Vegetarian Star will be starting something very exciting in the next week. The elections are almost over, but the spirit of democracy can still remain. We’ll be featuring polls regularly, but like Heather Mills and her food line name, we’re keeping the content secret until it’s launched.
So be on the lookout in the next week to give us your lovely opinion. In the meantime, here’s a little warm up for your future patriotic duties:
What Do You Think The Vegetarian Star Polls Will Be About?
Celeb You Want To Promote A Vegetarian Product, Like Tofurky (29%, 2 Votes)
Whether Or Not You Would Like To Get Naked For Peta (29%, 2 Votes)
Veg Celebrity You’d Like To Meet In Person (29%, 2 Votes)
Next Celeb You’d Like To See Get Naked For Peta (14%, 1 Votes)
“Do the things you can do. Stop paying the slaughterman. Stop paying the factory farmers. Stop supporting the corporations that are destroying everything. And everyone can do that.”
—-Chrissie Hynde, in an interview with the Los Angeles Times, on how anyone can take actions that preserve the planet, including reducing the consumption of meat.
The election countdown has begun. Okay, so maybe, depending on how fanatical you are, you may have been counting weeks ago, but with less than a week remaining until a new Pres is named to take the helm in D.C., everybody’s getting their 2 cents in, including celebrities, during these last days.
Henry Rollins, who’s resume includes singer and songwriter, stand-up comedian, spoken word master, book author, band founder, and publisher put more than a few cents in to Time Out Mag on his political views, including the Republican “wealth trickles down,” theory:
“[Republicans]They like big business, they believe in the trickle-down theory, that we are supposedly going to eat the crumbs that fall from Caesar’s mouth at the big feast. I would argue that they have very good crumb catchers to make sure you get less and less. And so, I think the good sense falls with the Democrats.”
Instead of feasting on crumbs, Rollins stay healthy by juicing and eating a lot of soy protein. “I don’t eat red meat. I don’t eat pork, lamb or chicken,” he said.
Russell Brand isn’t known for his saintly behavior or tact. Some might find it funny, but many find his antics and comments offensive. So when people found out he was on the cover of Peta’s Vegetarian Starter Kit, a flood of phone calls and email were sent to the organization by some who didn’t want him associated with the introduction to a meat-free life.
As if Peta wasn’t contraversial enough already.
The latest offensive act, which is the reason people are protesting his appearance on the kit, involved making an on air prank phone call to the home of actor Andrew Sachs. The call involved leaving an answering machine message stating he, in words we’ll rephrase to keep us from getting blocked from “safe search,” had sexual relations with Sachs granddaughter. Go here to get the uncut version.
Brand was forced to resign from the BBC “Radio 2” show and issued an apology, but in a sarcastic way:
“I would like to take this opportunity to issue a personal Russell Brand apology to Andrew Sachs, the great comic actor who played Manuel, for a message Jonathan and I left on his answerphone, but it was quite funny.”
But hey, it was a joke right? Besides, they belong to the same club.
“The cover will have him on it because Mr. Sachs, who is also a Peta supporter, has accepted Mr. Brand’s apology, and that’s good enough for us,” said Robbie LeBlanc, Peta’s director.
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Something stinks. We think it’s Lauren Conrad. She doesn’t actually smell of real fish (depending on if she’s eaten recently), but her actions do.
The FORMER vegetarian appears in an interview in the November issue of Cosmopolitan and says that although she used to be a strict vegetarian, she now eats fish.
MTV’s “The Hills” actress also reports craving salts instead of sweets, calling it a “salt tooth.”
You can pick up a copy of Cosmopolitan, which has been on the stands since October 14th and learn how Lauren deals with trying to be a normal 22-year old living in a fish (he, he, have to get that pun in) bowl as a Hollywood star.
Comments Off on Joss Stone Imagines There’s No Hunger With Meatless Canapes
Joss Stone requested meat-free canapés at the launch of the “Imagine There’s No Hunger” campaign yesterday at Hard Rock Cafe.
“Imagine There’s No Hunger” is sponsored by Hard Rock International, which is the big daddy of Hard Rock Cafes and their casinos and hotels. The campaign benefits WHY (World Hunger Year), a non-profit organization that works to fight hunger and poverty both in the United States and around the world.
Starting November 4th, you can stop by a Hard Rock Cafe and buy items whose proceeds go toward the campaign such as ornaments, bracelets, pins, and ONE LIMITED EDITION ROCKING CD! which features several artists, including Stone. The track list for the CD, Serve3, is as follows:
Bruce Springsteen “Remember When The Music” Joss Stone “Love Has Made You Beautiful” My Morning Jacket “Look At You” Avril Lavigne “When You’re Gone” Robert Randolph & The Family Band“Diane” (Live from Bonnaroo 2006) The Charlatans “Complete Control” Ryan Shaw “People Get Ready” Marc Broussard “Keep Coming Back” Starsailor “Military Madness” Micki Free“Mother Earth” DMC “I Be Rockin’ It” The Chapin Sisters “I Know It’s Over” John Lennon “Give Peace A Chance”
The CD will also be available on iTunes.com. Or, you can go online completely for your Hard Rock Charitable shopping and purchase any of the other items as well.
Comments Off on 3rd Rock’s Nerd Consultant Brian Greene Searches For Perfect Vegan Pizza
Brian Greene is a physicist and professor who was educated at Harvard and currently teaches at Columbia University where he studies how the universe works. The discipline he thinks rocks the most is “string theory,” also known as unified field theory. Don’t ask us how to explain it.
So why is he here on a celebrity site? Well, he’s become a celebrity in in own nerdy way, appearing on The David Letterman Show, Conan O’Brian, and has authored several books. He also kept the writers at 3rd Rock From The Sun from looking stupid when they incorporated science facts into episodes for the show.
Shortly after telling his mom he was going vegetarian, he went to the fridge to make a salami sandwich. Does this prove that science geniuses aren’t always that smart, ha, ha? Well, he was only nine years old, so give him a break. He chalks it up to his “city kid” awareness of things. (We think this means if it no longer looks like meat, it fools ya.)
“I became vegetarian when I was nine because my mother cooked spare ribs in a manner that made the connection to meat from an animal particularly clear. So at that point I said I’m never eating meat again and proceeded to go to the refrigerator and make a salami sandwich, because, a city kid, you know, what is meat? You don’t know what meat is, really. And my parents said, “Well, that salami is meat.”… But I did eat dairy for a while until I went to an animal sanctuary in Upstate New York and learned all sorts of things about the dairy industry, which, frankly, I was happy not to know. But once I did, I couldn’t go back. I’m still searching for the ultimate vegan pizza.”
If you’re interested in reading therest of the interview, we can make that happen. If you’re interested in learning more about string theory-you’re on your own.
