She may claim to be humiliated by the ordeal, but Kendra Wilkinson is a sex-tape superstar — her XXX debut, Kendra Exposed, is selling like hotcakes! “It surpassed our expectations. It’s our best-selling tape so far this year and could be one of our biggest-selling celebrity sex tapes of all time,” Steven Hirsch, founder/co-chairman of the company that released Kendra’s video, Vivid Entertainment, tells In Touch. So what’s the secret to Kendra’s success? “Kendra has millions of fans that love her. There's no question that the real popularity of a star helps to sell a movie and, of course, it helps that she's only 24 years old and beautiful," Steven adds. While the bodacious blonde has become an adult film favorite, another reality TV star, The Real Housewives of New Jersey’s Danielle Staub, has not quite achieved the same level of fame in the industry. "Kendra's sex tape has easily sold four times that of Danielle's sex tape. It performed poorly, mostly due to the fact that she is not very likable," an insider tells In Touch. Though she took legal action to stop its release, Kendra’s tape hit the web in May, while Danielle’s video was released in June through Hustler Inc.
More than two months after her bitter split from fiancé Jake Pavelka, Vienna Girardi is having trouble reentering the singles scene. The blond reality starlet, who fell into an ill-fated love affair on the last season of The Bachelor, has found that her new fame is interfering with her dating game. “It's intimidating for me; I'm really scared, to be honest. I just want to go on a normal date,” she lamented to In Touch at the Reality Cares pre-Emmy party in LA. Since her June breakup from Jake, Vienna has been linked to Greek actor Gregory Michael and college student John Sala.
— Ali Fedotowsky and Roberto Martinez lingered at the Sophia Fiori jewelry booth in the HBO Luxury Lounge, featuring L’Oreal Paris Beauty Suite in LA.
She may have conquered her lifelong weight battle, but Sara Rue isn’t so fearless in all aspects of her life. The actress, who lost 50 pounds in less than a year with Jenny Craig, is terrified of planning her wedding to fiancé Kevin Price. “It’s not going so well, to be perfectly honest with you. It is a lot of work, and I’m scared!” the svelte star said at the Entertainment Tonight Emmy party in LA. Though Sara, who became engaged to her teacher beau last summer, has only recently started seeing a wedding planner, she has a few fun ideas for the post-nuptial bash. “I know that there will be beer pong at the after-party!” she laughed.
You may not recognize Shayne Lamas these days. Best known for winning Season 12 of The Bachelor, Shayne, 24, looks fitter and sexier than ever, and says she’s happy she chose not to go down the same surgical path as fellow blond bombshell Heidi Montag. “Dr. Ryan was a family friend of ours,” Shayne tells In Touch of the late Dr. Frank Ryan, the Beverly Hills plastic surgeon who famously performed 10 surgeries on Heidi in one day. “I went to see him because I wanted a boob job, but he ended up telling me that I needed about $70,000 worth of work — thigh lipo, a butt lift, basically a whole body makeover — to turn me into the perfect Barbie doll. But I didn’t want to be a Barbie doll.”
For Teresa Giudice, it was like living a nightmare. After ten years as the big-spending wife of a successful real estate developer, the Real Housewives of New Jersey star was being told by a lawyer that she and her husband, Joe, were $11 million in debt — and needed to file for bankruptcy as soon as possible. “I was humiliated,” she tells In Touch in an exclusive interview.
How does True Blood star Joe Manganiello's girlfriend of one year deal with his sexy shirtless scenes and fans lusting after her man? Retail therapy helps! "She handles it amazingly well," Joe told In Touch at HBO's Emmy Awards after-party at The Pacific Design Center in Los Angeles. "And, of course, I throw in the occasional pair of shoes to make things go down a little easier. I had to learn who Christian Louboutin was - and now I regret that I know!"


