Celebrities shock and amaze
in 2004 with exposed body
parts, high-profile
relationships and breakups
BY AMY LICHTY
PULSE REPORTER
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“Ashlee Simpson, you're a
phony. Acid reflux is bologna.’
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Elton John on “SNL"
“That's hot.”
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ast year was filled with hot
J—Jsies. Britney Spears got
married - twice. Mary Kate Olsen
withered away to next to nothing
before entering treatment for an
eating disorder. Nipplegate sur
faced. Babies were born and giv
en strange names. Yes, it was
quite the year to be a celebrity.
No one will forget Superbowl
XXXVIII, although many probably
won’t recall who won or who even
played. The main event was the
half-time show featuring a perform
ance by Justin Timberlake and
Janet Jackson. Then came the nip
ple seen ‘round the world. Quickly
dubbed the "Nipplegate scandal,"
the incident could be seen over
and over again for those in the au
dience with a TiVo or later during
around-thedock replays on ca
ble news channels. The whole
controversy surrounding the
broadcast made it one of the
hottest stories of 2004.
Janet’s big brother Michael
Jackson also had quite the year: A
child’s allegations of sexual
abuse surfaced in De
* cember and escalated
into a year-long trial. In
April 2004, Jackson was in
dicted by a grand jury and has
been fighting the allegations
since. Police have investigated
and ransacked Jackson’s Never
land Ranch more than a few
times, and have even found fin
gerprints on pornography maga
zines belonging to Jackson and
the young boy who accused him
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of sexual abuse. It doesn't look good
for Jackson and many lawyers pre
dict that he will serve time in jail.
Ashlee Simpson’s huge lip
synching mistake was seen by
millions of people on Oct. 23 and
thousands of others have seen it
replayed on shows like “Access
Hollywood” ever since. Her solu
tion to the problem was to do a
crazy jig. Then came a barrage of
excuses from every direction. She
blamed her band, more specifi
cally her drummer, who “pressed
the wrong button," exposing the
fact that Simpson was lip synch
ing. Then her father said it was
acid reflux and her mother said
that Simpson had laryngitis. Re
gardless of any excuses, the fact
remained that Simpson was in
deed lip synching, although fans
didn’t seem to mind too much, as
she won the award for “Best New
Female Artist" at the “Billboard
Music Awards" on Dec. 8.
Breakups of high profile relation
ships were a major event in 2004.
There was of course Ben Affleck
and Jennifer Lopez, perhaps the
most famous fiancees ever. Tom
Cruise and Penelope Cruz called it
quits after three years together and
Rebecca Romijn and John Stamos
ended their marriage after ten
years. The end of Nick Carter and
Paris Hilton’s relationship was much
less shocking, along with the de
mise of current “it" girl Lindsay Lo
han and her squeeze Wilmer Valder
rama’s relationship. Some famous
celebrity couples made their rela
tionships legal in 2004. Lopez said
"I do” for the third time with singer
Marc Anthony just five months after
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ending her relationship with
Affleck. Britney Spears and
Kevin Federline tied the knot
among a whirlwind of cease
less controversy. Nicholas
Cage had a spur-of-the-mo
ment wedding with sushi wait
ress Alice Kim. Star Jones and
Al Reynolds’ extravagant nup
tials were sponsored by differ
ent companies, giving the cou
ple a free wedding that would
have cost anyone else quite a
chunk of change.
2004 was also the year of
the celebrity baby with many
famous mamas and papas
picking unique names for their
bundles of joy. Gwenyth Pal
trow and Chris Martin, lead
singer for the band Coldplay,
welcomed daughter Apple in
May; Courteney Cox and David
Arquette brought Coco into the
world in June; and Debra Mess
ing and husband Daniel Zelman
had son Roman in April. Even
funnyman Will Ferrell jumped
aboard the baby band wagon
and welcomed son Magnus in
March. Julia Roberts, the high
est paid actress in 2004, gave
birth to fraternal twins Hazel and
Phinnaeus in November.
Along with births, there were
also deaths. Christopher Reeve
passed away due to complications
of his spinal chord injury. Comedi
an Rodney Dangerfield passed
away, along with screen legend
Marlon Brando. Music lost greats
such as Ray Charles, Johnny Ra
mone and 01’ Dirty Bastard.
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