The airline employee who forced JOEL MADDEN to cover up his tattoos has been disciplined by his bosses, who are furious about the bad publicity the stunt has caused.

Madden was outraged when a British Airways employee refused to allow him to board a flight from Chicago to London on Monday (27Apr09), until he hid his body art from other passengers.

The Good Charlotte rocker posted a message online from the plane, expressing his outrage. He wrote on Twitter.com, “Was just told by a british air (sic) person I can’t get on the plane till I cover my tatts.

“I really actually am in shock.”

And BA bosses are equally baffled - because there’s nothing in the rulebook about tattoos.

Confirming the unnamed employee is being reprimanded, a spokesperson tells TMZ.com, “We don’t understand why the employee took it upon himself to enforce regulations that don’t exist.”

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Snoop Dogg says he didn’t hit a man with his microphone during a 2005 concert melee.

The rapper, whose real name is Calvin Broadus, took the stand Monday afternoon in a civil trial. He is being sued by Richard Monroe Jr., who claims he was seriously hurt by Broadus and his security guards after he came onstage during a show near Seattle.

Broadus told jurors he didn’t hit Monroe with a brass knuckle microphone as the man contends.

He said Monroe had only himself to blame for his injuries and shouldn’t have come onstage.

Monroe testified Friday he thought he had been invited onstage. He sued the “Gin and Juice” rapper in 2006, seeking millions.

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Hugh Jackman may play a tough mutant superhero on Wolverine — but he’s still not safe from the swine flu virus.

A rep for Twentieth Century Fox confirms to Usmagazine.com the studio is postponing the X-Men Origins: Wolverine premiere — set for Wednesday in Mexico City — as the city deals with rapidly spreading swine flu.

The potentially deadly disease — which has killed nearly 150 people so far in Mexico — has slowly started appearing in the U.S. Schools, museums and movie theaters across Mexico City are closed to keep the flu from spreading.

“We were not only concerned about Hugh’s welfare – and we would never send anyone into harm’s way – but we also have an enormous office filled with people we care about,” a studio rep tells Us. “There was no point in proceeding under the current conditions.”

“There is a possibility it could be rescheduled,” the rep tells Us of the premiere. “Hugh is obviously beloved [there] so we’ll see what happens. We’ll monitor the situation.”

Jackman was the only cast member scheduled to attend.

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Josh Randor was spotted with his girlfriend Lindsey Price and sporting a new look…a beard. Hopefully How I Met Your Mother will go back in production soon because that thing needs to go. Do you like Ted with a beard?
BTW don’t forget to watch a new episode of How I Met Your Mother on CBS tonight at 8:30p!

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Tori Spelling and Dean McDermott were promoting the fourth season of their show on Oxygen and what Zap2It says that Dean told the poor press that were there will make you want to hurl.

“I happen to be a Scorpio and I happen to be robust,” says McDermott. “Can you blame me? Look at my wife. She’s the most beautiful girl in the world and has the hottest body — I’d be lying if i didn’t want to have sex with her six times a day…I was toasting that the sex was down from six times a day to three and a half.”

I am assuming the half is oral. OK! On that note I am off to pray to the porcelain G-d and pray I can get that image out of my head.

Sneaky, sneaky!

Lindsay Lohan and Samantha Ronson have been meeting up on the sly - and it looks like things may not be over for the twosome.
Shutterbugs caught Ronson, 31, leaving Lohan’s pad at 6 a.m. Friday after spending the entire night with her ex.

Lohan, 22, was spotted heading into Ronson’s home later that night and didn’t leave until the next morning.

Coincidentally - or not - Ronson changed her Facebook relationship status from “single” to “it’s complicated” around the same time.

A source close to Lohan tells People magazine that the “Mean Girls” star’s alarming recent weight loss is an attempt to get attention from Ronson.
“She is a self-destructive person,” Lohan’s “friend” says. “It’s all part of her cry for attention. She wants Sam to see how bad she’s hurting and she wants Hollywood to see her as a ‘tortured artist’ who is wasting away … This is a symptom of something much bigger – a desperate need to be noticed.”

Lohan told Ellen DeGeneres last week that she doesn’t think this is the end for the couple.

“I really care about Samantha and we’ll see what happens,” she said. “Maybe when we’re fully in the right place … I love her.”

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Burly bodyguard Mickey Brett has tangled with some tough customers, but none so tough as his former clients Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie.

Once they entrusted their lives, and those of their children, to Brett. But now that they’ve learned he’s been thinking about revealing their intimacies in a book, the star couple has come down on him with the fury of “Mr. and Mrs. Smith.”

Pitt and Jolie, who played married assassins in that movie, have recruited some of the most fearsome libel attorneys in the U.S. and the U.K. to
make sure Brett’s lips stay zipped.

Recently we obtained a proposal for a memoir and a TV show, both offering Brett’s first-person account of his years guarding the likes of Sandra Bullock, Tom Cruise, Nicole Kidman, Sly Stallone and Richard Gere.

The main focus of the pitches, though, was Brangelina. Suffice it to say that Brett had fond memories of Jolie, whom he had been protecting since 2001, and less fond recollections of Pitt.

Seeking comment from them, we received a bracing phone call from Marty Singer, the couple’s American litigator.

Singer alleged that Brett wasn’t a reliable source. In fact, he was a “pathological liar.” He said Brett’s lies to U.S. Immigration officials here had led to his being barred from entering this country. Singer said that only recently did Pitt and Jolie discover that Brett, who’d claimed he was a British SAS commando, never even served in the military.

Singer noted that in 1993 Brett was questioned in the murder of British tycoon Donald Urquhart, though he was later released. In 2006, Brett was arrested for assaulting a restaurant owner in Namibia. The same year, in India, he was accused of choking a photographer and arrested for roughing up and making racial insults against some parents who were trying to pick up their kids.

All told, Singer said, Brett had been convicted 11 times of various crimes.

Pitt and Jolie had repeatedly come to Brett’s defense. But they apparently came to have doubts about his style of problem-solving.

As for his book and TV proposals, Singer said Brett was bound by a confidentiality agreement. According to Singer, Brett has now stated that he’d never signed off on the pitches and that many of the yarns attributed to him were fabricated by his ghost writer.

Brett’s attorneys told us: “Our client disputes what has apparently been said by Mr. Singer, but is not in a position to comment further at this stage.”
Brett’s ghost writer, Robin McGibbon, insists that he did not embellish the bodyguard’s stories.

“Mickey was definitely going to consider a book or TV deal if the offer was good enough,” says McGibbon. But at this point, he said, “there’s not going to be any book.”

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JULIA Allison should watch her back getting into the el evator in her building. The self-promoting Internet fame ball twittered that Upper West Side neighbor Rosie O’Donnell and her wife, Kelly, were having a “knock- down, drag-out screaming match . . . so sad.” In re sponse, O’Donnell’s rep said, “Yes, they fought — like most couples do. Give me a break — they’re fine! They’re happy [but] they have four kids. Whatever busybody neighbor spread this [news] around probably shouldn’t knock on their door to bor row a cup of sugar — ever.” Not that Allison minds. The curvy brunette loves attention and would probably welcome a tussle with O’Don nell. Then she’d blog about it, as she did of an encounter she had with Chicago Bears quarter back Jay Cutler a few weeks ago. We’re sure she’s heard from him since.

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