WEDNESDAY, MARCH 9, 2022

Celebrities are able to go just a LITTLE bit more over the top than us when giving gifts.  Here are 10 times they’ve given extravagant gifts to a significant other:

1.  Jay-Z bought a private island in the Florida Keys for Beyonce’s birthday in 2010.

2.  Courteney Cox gave her then-husband David Arquette a $45,000 antique carousel horse one year for Valentine’s Day.

3.  Justin Bieber bought an entire flower shop’s stock for his then-girlfriend Selena Gomez in 2011.

4.  Angelina Jolie gave Brad Pitt a $20,000 200-year-old olive tree in 2010.

5.  Blake Lively commissioned a painting from artist Danny Galieote for Ryan Reynolds.  It was a portrait of Ryan when he was a young paperboy in Vancouver.

6.  David Beckham gave his wife Victoria an $8 million Bulgari necklace.

7.  Cardi B surprised Offset with a Rolls Royce for his 26th birthday.

8.  Rob Kardashian gave his then-fiancee Blac Chyna a $200,000 purple Lamborghini.

9.  Ben Affleck gave Jennifer Lopez a Phantom Rolls Royce back in 2002 . . . it was worth over $400,000.

10.  Seahawks quarterback Russell Wilson rented out the Seattle Art Museum for a date night with Ciara in 2017.

HARDY did gambling in Vegas and boasted about it during an interview. “I’m a tables man, and I won more money than I ever have in my entire life.  [It] was on Roulette, actually.  It was pretty badass.  I’m not going to lie.”  Somebody asked for a number, and he answered, “20 grand.  I put it on Black.”

THOMAS RHETT was getting ready for interviews at Monday’s ACMs when he suffered a wardrobe malfunction.  Somehow, his ZIPPER fell OFF.  After a quick repair job, he went out and faced the media.  It was the first thing he brought up. “We were just talking [that] my zipper fell off right before, so I’m taped-up.  At the very beginning they had safety pins and all kinda stuff that you need.” He added, quote, “So, I’m trying to stand really still right now, so make sure the camera’s just like right here.” 

KELLY CLARKSON’s divorce from BRANDON BLACKSTOCK is finalized.  She has to make him a one-time payment of $1.3 million and $45,000 a month in child support.  They get joint custody of their two kids.

TONY HAWK severely broke his leg in a skating accident.  The trailer for his documentary was also released, it’s called “Tony Hawk: Until the Wheels Fall Off” and it comes out April 5th on HBO Max.

TIGER WOODS’ daughter is going to introduce him tonight at the World Golf Hall of Fame.

MIRANDA LAMBERT’s Entertainer of the Year award made her a member of the ACM Triple Crown.  That’s when you’ve won New Artist of the Year, Female or Male Artist of the Year, and, of course, Entertainer of the Year.

HANK WILLIAMS JR. will be back on the road this year.  The “Hank Williams Jr. Live In Concert” tour kicks off April 1st in Southaven, Mississippi . . . and wraps August 13th in North Lawrence, Ohio.  Dates and details are at HankJr.com.   July 30 Delaware State Fair

Pamela Anderson will make her Broadway Debut as Roxie Hart in “Chicago”.  She hits the great white way on April 12

A spokesperson for Bill Cosby says the 84 year od is considering a final standup tour after the US Supreme Court said it wouldn’t revive the sexual assault case against him

Some of the largest LED billboards around the world including Picadilly Lights in London and Times Square in NY will be interrupted at 8:22pm to broadcast the phrase “Imagine Peace” in bold black text every night for the rest of March.  All paid for by Yoko Ono

Scottish actor John Stahl has died at the age of 68.  He was Rickard Karstar in “Game of Thrones”

Emmanuel Lewis is 51.  “Webster”.

Kato Kaelin is 63.

BARBIE is 63

Mickey Gilley is 86.

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