22-year-old Chris Brown stepped out with his girlfriend Karrueche Tran on Sunday during a shopping trip in Los Angeles.

Chris just received three Grammy nominations, including Best R&B Album for F.A.M.E.

The 54th Annual Grammy Awards will air on February 12!

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Katherine Heigl graces the January cover of Elle Magazine. I suppose it’s to promote her new movie, ‘New Years Eve’. In the interview, Katherine talks about still suffering from the fallout of opening her big mouth after ‘Knocked Up’ came out.

It’s not that I don’t like Katherine as many of you constantly remind me…. it’s that she’s not really my favorite. I’ve seen more bad movies than good, and after she came out trashing ‘Knocked Up’ she left a very bad taste in my mouth.

And I’m not alone. After all that went down, her publicist fired her – and Katherine hired a speechwriter to help her stop putting her foot in her mouth.

Here’s more from the interview:

On chemical happiness: “I take a stress relief formula from Whole Foods. I call them my happy pills. Yeah, it helps me. In fact, I should’ve taken one today. I’ve done it to myself. I’ve created a chaotic life, and then I get on edge because of it… maybe I should take Xanax. My mother is so against pharaceuticals. Because of her wariness, it’s left wariness in me. Because, seriously, I have friends who’ll be like, ‘Oh, you have a Vicodin? Can I pop one?’ And I’m like, ‘What? You can’t just pop stuff like that! You need to talk to your doctor. What are you thinking?’”

Seth Rogen on Heigl: “I gotta say, it’s not like we’re the only people she said some bat-sh-t crazy things about. That’s kind of her bag now.”

The aftermath of Heigl’s bitching and moaning: Her longtime publicist told her to start thinking about interviews as other acting roles. A speechwriter was brought in to craft answers to questions she might be asked. She did chipper interviews, the aftermath of which was, she says, “months and months of self-hatred… I was trying to stop the snowball from gaining speed.”

Wanting to be liked again: “I think it’s a female thing. I’m just that a–hole who really wants everyone to like me and it’s a ridiculous goal and it’s an impossible goal. But I think if keep pushing forward and showing myself through and through, they will see me again for what I really am and not what has been sort of spun about me.”

Heigl’s publicist fired her: “I’ve never really been America’s sweetheart, but for a minute I think that’s what they wanted me to be. And I had ‘em for a second thinking maybe I was. And then I opened my mouth and it was clear I wasn’t. There’s so much of my mother’s caustic, sarcastic, irreverent take on things. But I also love and embrace it.” She’s still not sorry for anything she said – it’s her truth – but she is sorry she made the mistake of saying it aloud. “I look at some of what I had to say, and I’m like, Oh my God, I would tell myself to shut up too.”

On her electronic cigarettes: “I love it. I know I’m supposed to say I hate it, but I love it.”

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Scarlett Johansson, 27,  has nothing but nice things to say about her ex-husband Ryan Reynolds. In fact, the actress told Cosmopolitan that marrying Ryan was “the best thing I ever did.”

“I’m a big believer that when something feels right, you should do it,” she told the magazine. “I’m a big believer in instinct. Getting married was the right thing to do because it was natural. It grew out of a romance and love and a desire to have a future with somebody, and I was very fortunate that I married somebody who turned out to be the person I thought he would be.”

The Avengers star told the magazine she does miss “having a partner and a confidant.”

“Relationships are complicated,” she mused. “Being married is a living, breathing process. I think I was not fully aware of the peaks and the valleys. I wasn’t prepared to hunker down and do the work… Both of us were extremely busy. We spent so much time apart. It’s very difficult.”

Scarlett’s five-month romance with Sean Penn, 51, ended back in June, and she’s currently single. Her ex, however, has moved on – and is currently dating Blake Lively.

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This is certainly Angelina Jolie’s week! She’s everywhere right now! She’s out promoting her new movie, ‘In the Land of Blood and Honey’. She’s on the cover of Newsweek, she’s being interviewed by ABC News…you name it.

Here is part of her interview with ABC News. In the interview she opens up about her new movie (of course), adopting and home-schooling her children (amongst other things).

Why she wrote the script: “I was thinking and meditating on these international themes of violence against women, lack of intervention, and how human beings are changed and warped by war, and how some people come out stronger and some people are truly broken,” Jolie told “This Week” anchor Christiane Amanpour, who covered the Bosnian conflict in the 1990′s. “There’s no safe way to tackle these subject matters, but I think the important thing is to discuss them and tackle them. This is our generation’s war. … this was, you know, the worst genocide since World War II in Europe,” she said. “It was– ‘what were we all doing?’ And ‘did we do enough’ and ‘why do we not speak about this enough’ and ‘why I don’t know enough about this?’ And so I wanted to learn. I felt a responsibility to learn.”

How it felt to be behind the camera: The actress said it felt “bizarre” to play the role of the writer and the director, but added that it was “great not to be in front of the camera.” Jolie said “writing is the hardest because it feels the most exposed. When you’re an actress, you use somebody else’s words and you can always blame the director and the director can say the editor,” she said. “But the writer is the one that kind of sits alone in the room and writes what they think is important, funny, historical, topical.”

She doesn’t think the film will be a hit: “We did it because we felt this is a war that isn’t talked about enough,” Jolie said. “I know it’s a hard film to sit through, but it’s two hours to sit through something that’s very hard, and these people lived through it for many, many years, and it was many, many times worse than any reenactment could possibly be. And I feel like it’s a gift and a duty to sit through two hours of what they lived through.”

On home-schooling the kids: “I’m being very careful with their schooling, we’re home-schooling especially when it comes to history, to make sure it’s not one country’s point of view of their country,” Jolie said. “Because it has to be very balanced and they have to learn about their country so they can form their own conclusions.”

On adoptions: “I look at them and think what their birth parents must have gone through, what their birth grandparents would have done through, and so I feel connected to it,” Jolie said. “It’s a gift when you adopt a child from another country. This whole country enters your home.”

She and Brad disagree about the death penalty: “I won’t say whose side anyone is on, but it’s the one, the thing nobody brings up at dinner because nobody wants us to go off on each other,” she said. “But it’s fun. It’s a fun debate, you know? It’s a good– you want to be able to have — to respect each other’s views and to not be exactly– we’re not identical. We have– we have strong views.”

The future: “I don’t feel needed in a position of being an actor. I feel like I’m needed at home as a mom, and I’m hoping that I’ll find other things,” Jolie said. “I’d love to be able to write or direct or work on and produce more projects about issues dealing with situations that I feel passionate about.”

I was homeschooled for 5 years from third to eighth grade. I have nothing against homeschooling, and I completely respect my parent’s reasons for doing so, but in my opinion, textbooks are only half of the education process. I think it’s important for kids to develop healthy social skills, and it’s hard to get those when you’re homeschooled. Yes, you can keep your kids involved in groups – but I don’t think it’s the same.

And how about that death penalty topic. Who do you think is apposed to it – and who do you think is for it? I say Brad is pro-death penalty. Maybe it’s his super religious upbringing. I just see Angie being more laid back on this one.

Here are pictures of Angie out and about yesterday in NYC. She looks beautiful, in my opinion.

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Jesse James is still bringing up his marriage to Sandra Bullock. (Which was his third marriage, FYI.) The two were married for five years, and had a nasty public divorce in 2010.

Last night, he made his television return on his reality show American Chopper: The Build Off.

In an apparent apology to fans for losing touch with himself, James, 42, quipped, “I became a big shot and married some Hollywood actress and didn’t talk to anybody anymore, so I feel bad. . . I feel obligated to reconnect with all these people and show ‘em that I’m still the same fabricator motorcycle guy. I’m not what I became.”

Of course, James and Bullock, 47, called it quits largely due to his affair with Michelle “Bombshell” McGee and several other women. He rebounded in August 2010 with Kat von D — to whom he became engaged (twice!) before they broke up for good earlier this year.

Von D later revealed that James cheated on her with 19 women.

Except for close platonic pal Ryan Reynolds, Bullock hasn’t yet stepped out with a new guy — except for Louis Bardo, her adorable little boy, whom she adopted nearly two years ago.

I think Jesse is just so gross. I don’t even know how he gets as many women as he does with that pre-pubescent voice of his.

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Ashton Kutcher and Lea Michele hit the red carpet hard last night at the Hollywood premiere of their new movie, ‘New Years Eve’. Sidenote: anyone else find it strange that the movie premiered in Hollywood, when the movie is filmed in NYC? It’s one of those films where NYC is a big character in the movie! Why did it premiere in Cali? The city’s not big enough for Angelina Jolie and Katherine Heigl’s hair (okay, okay, I’ll stop)?

Anyway, back to Ashton and Lea. Ashton sure looked pretty happy, sans wedding ring and Kabbalah string bracelet. His hands were all over Lea, who plays his love interest in the film. Several sources who were at the premiere commented on the chemistry between the two on the red carpet, and from these pictures, you can see what they’re talking about!

I truly hope there’s nothing going on. I think they’d make an awful couple. PLUS – Lea’s about 5 years too old for Ashton.

PS: Lea’s dress is Valentino Resort 2012.

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