Forbes has named Eddie Murphy the most overpaid actor in Hollywood.
Forbes pulled the list together by looking at the past three films each actor starred in over the past three years, calculating the return on investment for the studios who pay his (or her) salary.
Murphy returned an average of $2.30 at the box office for every dollar he was paid.
Katherine Heigl came in second with an average of $3.40.
Reese Witherspoon was third, Sandra Bullock fourth and Jack Black was fifth.
Frankie Muniz recently suffered from a mini stroke.
The “Malcolm in the Middle” actor tweeted: "I was in the hospital last Friday. I suffered a "mini stroke, which was not fun at all."
He added, "Have to start taking care of my body! Getting old!"
Muniz turns 27 today (Wednesday).
Sources say Muniz was taken to an emergency room in Arizona after friends noticed he was having trouble speaking.
During a recent interview, Angelina Jolie hinted that she may be considering retirement.
When asked about her plans for the future, the 37-year-old actress said she would likely put the brakes on her movie career in the near future to focus on taking care of her family.
She has six children with her fiancé, Brad Pitt, and they range in age from 4 to 11 years old.
Angelina said, "I think I'm going to have to give up acting as the kids hit the teenage years. There would be too much to manage at home."
She added, "I've enjoyed being an actress, and I am so grateful to the job. I've had great experiences, and I have even be able to tell stories and be a part of stories that mattered...It's a really lucky profession to be a part of. But if it went away tomorrow, I would be very happy to be home with my children."
Brad Pitt also hinted at early retirement last year, saying that he may want to stop acting within three years so that he could pursue “other interests.”
Michael Bublé recently told a U.K. TV show ("Daybreak") that he will be working with Reese Witherspoon on a duet for his upcoming album, expected to release next year.
He said, "By all accounts it would be true. I just really am a big fan, and so myself and my camp, we wanted to do this with her, and we were thrilled that she was excited about it too."
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Barbara Walters added Alana Thompson, the 7-year-old star of TLC's "Here Comes Honey Boo Boo", to her annual list of the 10 Most Fascinating People of the Year.
Walters defends her deicision saying: "A lot of people will say, 'For heaven's sake, this is ridiculous, this is a child at 5 or 6 years old entering beauty contests'.
"But the relationship between Alana and her mother -- that's the story, the two of them. It's very touching."
She adds: "Honey Boo Boo is not an obnoxious little girl. She's sweet and loving with her mother and loving with her sisters [Jessica, Lauryn and Anna]. And now Anna has a new baby, and the baby has [three] thumbs -- but so what? It'll make you smile."
Other names on Walter's 2012 list include Ben Affleck, "Family Guy"’s Seth MacFarlane; British boy band One Direction; Olympic gold medal gymnast Gabby Douglas; New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie; Secretary of State Hillary Clinton; and EL James, the author behind the erotic mega-hit "Fifty Shades of Grey".
As is tradition, Walters will announce the No. 1 most fascinating person of 2012 during the ABC broadcast, set to air at 9:30 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 12.
Rob Kardashian was still slamming ex-girlfriend Rita Ora on Twitter, claiming she let him get her pregnant.
It all started when fake Rita Ora account tweeted “Rob's d**k was wack, I had to go get it somewhere else.”
The reality star responded by tweeting, “So you let me get you pregnant and you let others hit raw?” He then deleted the tweet.
The tweets come a day after Kardashian tweeted that the pop star cheated on him with 20 dudes.
“Teen Mom” star, Jenelle Evan married Courtland Rogers in a surprise "shotgun wedding"-- moments after he was charged with a felony in the exact same courthouse.
An insider said that he was charged with “obtaining property by false pretenses.”
As soon as the felony hearing was over, the couple got married at the magistrate's office."
Meanwhile, Jenelle’s friends and family members are concerned about her possibly using drugs again, and her drastic weight loss.
Anderson Cooper was blinded for 36 hours due to a bad sunburn he got while on assignment for “60 Minutes.”
Cooper was in Portugal on the water for two hours on an overcast day and was blinded by UV light bouncing off water.
He said he woke up in the middle of the night and felt like his eyes were on fire.
He was treated at a hospital in the country and was blind for 36 hours.
Katt Williams announced that he is retiring from stand-up comedy.
The 39-year-old funnyman went public with the unexpected news after he was arrested Sunday in Seattle following a bar fight.
He said, "I'm just gonna go ahead and announce my retirement from stand-up. I'm kinda done. I've discussed it with my kids, I wasn't gonna do in the middle of a Seattle street, I was going to go to Los Angeles and do it in the offices of ICM or LiveNation."
Williams has had several run-ins with the law over the past six years, as well as several botched performances.
Three of his fans also claimed that he attacked them after they tried to take a picture with him.
RELATED: Katt Williams’ Slap Victim Was Fired From Target
A Target employee in California says he was fired from his job after Katt Williams slapped him in the store, for no apparent reason.
The employee (Forrest Liebenberg) says that the store wasn’t “very clear” about why they were firing him, but he believes they may mistakenly believe that he leaked the security footage to TMZ. He denies it.
A Target spokesperson confirms that they fired an employee from the store, but say his firing was not related to the video footage that showed up online of the incident.
~~Comedian/actress, Margaret Cho is 44 (All American Girl's Margaret Kim)
~~Actor Frankie Muniz ("Malcolm in the Middle") is 27. (My Dog Skip)
~~Actor, Nick Stahl (Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines) is 33 (The Thin Red Line; Sin City)
~~Actress Lauren London (I Love You, Beth Cooper) is 28 (Madea's Big Happy Family)
~~Actress Morgan Brittany ("Dallas") is 61.
~~Actress Amy Acker ("Angel") is 36. (Alias; Dollhouse)
~~Actress Alex Kapp Horner ("The New Adventures of Old Christine") is 43
~~Actress, Paula Patton ("Dejua Vu"; "Precious") is 37 (married to singer Robin Thicke)
~~Actress, Connie Newton-Needham is 53 (Eight is Enough's Elizabeth Bradford)
~~Actor Ross Bagley ("Fresh Prince of Bel-Air") is 24. (Will Smith's son in Independence Day)
~~NFL great, Jim Plunkett is 65
~~NBA star, Eddy Curry is 30
MUSICALLY:
~~Singer-guitarist John Rzeznik (of The Goo Goo Dolls) is 47
~~Singer, Keri Hilson is 30
~~Singer Jim Messina (Loggins and Messina, Poco) is 65.
~~Singer, Jack Russell (Great White) is 52
~~Country singer Gary Allan is 45
~~Country Singer, Tyler England is 49
~~Singer, Little Richard is 80
~~Bassist Regina Zernay (of Cowboy Mouth) is 40
~~Bassist, Les Nemes (Haircut One Hundred) is 52
Backstage before the show, Jimmy Fallon, Mariah Carey, and The Roots grabbed some instruments you'd find in an elementary school classroom and stopped by the Late Night "Music Room" to sing Mariah's holiday classic, "All I Want For Christmas Is You."
Reality star Kristin Cavallari admitted the MTV reality show, “The Hills" was "pretty fake," full of "fake relationships" and "fake fights."
While Kristin says "it was fun because you're acting," there was one aspect of the show that wasn't made up: Her bitter relationship with Lauren Conrad.
When asked if her "distaste" for Conrad was fake, she replied "No!"
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno Show— Don Johnson, Julie Scardina, Darius Rucker
Late Show with David Letterman— Albert Brooks, Diana Krall
Late Night with Jimmy Fallon—Tracy Morgan, Richard Lewis, Tyler Florence, Robert Cray
Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson—Cheryl Hines, Richie Sambora
Last Call with Carson Daly--Danny Way, Corey May, Blitzen Trapper
ABC's 'Jimmy Kimmel Live'— (re-run 11/1/12) Jon Stewart, Stephen Colbert, the Avett Brothers featuring the Brooklyn Philharmonic
Today Show— Elijah Wood; Paula Deen; eliminated contestants from ``The Voice.''
Good Morning America—Mia Hamm; Gerard Butler; Tyler Florence.
CBS This Morning— TBA.
Live With Kelly and Michael— Elijah Wood, Katherine Jenkins
The View— Jane Seymour, Bonnie Raitt, guest co-host Jenny McCarthy
The Talk— Fran Drescher, Brian Weiss, guest co-host Lisa Vanderpump
The Ellen DeGeneres Show— John Travolta, Olivia Newton-John, Mario Lopez
THE DAILY SHOW WITH JON STEWART, Comedy Central—Alan Simpson
THE COLBERT REPORT, Comedy Central—Peter Jackson
Chelsea Lately —Adam Pally, John Caparulo, Loni Love, Bobby Lee, guest host Casey Wilson
CONAN, TBS — Jim Parsons, Jennifer Carpenter, Delta Spirit
According to producer The-Dream, Beyoncé will have new music out before she hits the stage for the Super Bowl halftime show in February.
The-Dream said: "Definitely. She's got her stuff going. She took the summer to start recording, and now she's in a place where she's ready to start gearing up to reveal her plan."
"I'm involved in every part of the process for her next album. She's already gearing up to get ready to put stuff out. I'm sure there will probably be a couple records you hear before the Super Bowl gets here."
No comment from Beyonce or her camp.
Howie Dorough on how far they are into their new album, "This Is Us": "We're about 75 percent through. We're trying to have a single released hopefully in the spring, and an album summer or third or fourth quarter."
Howie Dorough on the subject matter: "It's just a natural evolution. We're all older, a lot of us are fathers. We're wanting to make this record a lot more personal. We're not trying to recreate the wheel."
More details about the album will be announced soon.
Taylor Swift and Harry Styles are an item now, but there's a special One Direction fan who isn't taking the news very well: It's Hailie Scott Mathers, (rapper) Eminem's teenage daughter.
Hailie Tweeted: "If @taylorswift13 is really dating the love of my life @Harry_Styles I will not be happy. Dear @taylorswift13, please stop whoring around with every guy you see. We all know you're only doing it so you can make another album."
Taylor Swift actually responded to Hailie and wrote: "y u jelly tho."
Taylor Swift & Harry Styles May Have Bumped Uglies
Taylor Swift was holding hands with One Direction singer Harry Styles as they arrived to her NYC hotel early Tuesday morning.
At 10:00 AM, Harry and Taylor left the same hotel, just minutes apart from each other.
The London home where Amy Winehouse died sold for $3.2 million at an auction. It sold after it failed to attract serious buyers on the real estate market.
The Camden Square house where Amy died last year had stayed empty since it was put up for sale in May, but the house did attract flocks of fans who wanted to pay tribute to Winehouse.
In November, her family decided to put the house up for auction after "the estate agency route didn't work". Media reports claimed the family had been overwhelmed with viewing requests from fans, but not real buyers.
The 2,500-square feet property features three bedrooms, a large dressing room, two bathrooms and a sound-proof music room and gym.
Katy Perry is creating her own flavor of Popchips.
She is the snack food brand's latest face, and is in the process of making her own specially created flavor in their test food kitchens.
Look for the Perry-perfected flavor will be revealed in mid-January.
Randy Jackson has a busy 2013 ahead. He's returning for an eleventh season as the longest continuous judge of "American Idol". He's also helping new "Idol" judge Mariah Carey drop a new album, since he's her manager. But before 2012 is up, Jackson is heading to HSN on December 16th to debut the Randy Jackson Diamond Edition Guitar Collection.
The instruments feature designs by Jackson himself. Packages will include the choice of a solid body electric or acoustic electric guitar to be paired with an instructional DVD featuring Jackson, a 15W amp, a custom case and guitar strap and other features—all for less than $300.
He will also be pitching designs from his Timepieces by Randy Jackson, a watch collection that incorporates diamonds, Swarovski crystals and colored dials. They will sell from $95 to $395. And there will be limited-edition pieces as high as $3,500.
As for Mariah's new album, Jackson said: "We've got some hot new music, and there's gonna be a single some time soon. There'll be an album as well. We're talking about a world tour. There's a lot of stuff going on."
