Travis Barker
The funeral for Travis Barker's assistant Chris Baker started today at 2 PM at Forest Lawn. 2000 people, including hopefully Travis himself, are expected. Everyone invited was asked to wear Chris's favorite color green. A friend said "Chris dealt with all kinds of powerful people in the music business. Lil Jon, Jermaine Dupri, and others are expected to fly in from New York. It's going to be a star studded event."
Travis's bodyguard Charles Still's funeral was Saturday and DJ AM was a surprise but secretive guest. As we told you, he DOESN'T want to be seen in public until he's had plastic surgery, So Adam sat in a truck with tinted windows. He invited his friends and Still's family over to speak to him, but he never got out of the truck.
THIS JUST IN: Travis didn't make it to the funeral but he had someone read a statement from him. DJ AM showed up looking better - he has patches of white on his face and a cast on his hand but he doesn't look bad at all, said a witness. Game was in tears, as were many in the crowd.
Plane crash update: From what we're hearing, Travis Barker is a hero. When the doomed plane started hurtling about, Travis and DJ AM were sitting in the front seats. They turned around and saw a ball of fire roaring in the back of the plane and watched in horror as it engulfed their friends seated in the back. Travis realized what was coming and he pushed the door open and grabbed DJ AM and pulled him out of the moving plane. They were both on fire and ran screaming as fast and as far from the fiery plane as they could. DJ AM can't sleep and somehow is able to text friends in spite of his hand burns. He's worried about his scalp being burned off. Travis is quiet - he's on more painkillers.
The South Carolina private plane crash Friday night is the talk of Hollywood. Everyone wants to know how DJ AM and Travis Barker are REALLY doing. There probably won't be any updates on their conditions until tomorrow. When we heard that the two guys leaped out of the fiery plane while it was still rolling we figured they might have been luckily sitting by the exit. Their clothes were on fire and they pulled them off each other as they ran away from the plane. Their escape was even more incredible because the four other people on the plane perished. Both guys are in critical condition at a S.C. burn center - DJ AM who was scheduled to spin at an Emmy party Sunday, has a burned face and Travis has burned legs. We're thinking they'll be put into a medical "coma" because the pain from burns is so intense and long lasting. It might be awhile before we get their side of the story. Still, it's a miracle they survived.
Photo Credit: Splash NewsImagine observing this scenario in a mall parking lot in the midwest. Travis Barker looks like he could be a sinister character in the act of kidnapping an angelic little girl. THAT'S how much this daddy and his little daughter do NOT look alike. Worried midwestern matrons would certainly call for security to investigate a possible crime in progress if they saw this odd pair.
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Travis Barker looks pensive in this shot at Villa the other night. Is his t-shirt a message to his estranged wife Shanna Moakler? Anyone out there wanting a shirt like his might check out Travis's clothing line "Famous Stars and Straps."
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Now here's a classic Hollywood moment. Why would ANYONE take their TODDLERS to lunch at the paparazzi laden Ivy on Robertson? Travis Barker hardly seems like The Ivy type to begin with, but he thinks it's a great idea. We can only assume he, like Melanie Brown, is using the paparazzi to send a message to someone - namely his on-again off-again estranged wife Shanna Moakler. We just can't figure out what the message is.
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You'd never know it by the look on her face, but Shanna Moakler got her wish - she and her estranged husband Travis Barker are back together for the umpteenth time, and presumably divorce proceedings are on hold again. Travis is all cleaned up for a night at Opera and Shanna looks like she's going to a toga party.
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Behold the man that Shanna Moakler calls "the love of her life." (Would she still love him if he didn't have those tattoos?) Travis Barker was playing around in the surf in Malibu but he must have been told about his estranged wife Shanna's yearning for him because they were together -AGAIN- last night at the Roxy.
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Days after Lindsay Lohan claims she had an "appendectomy," she was out until 5 AM dancing with Travis Barker.
So Lindsay's turned over a new leaf, eh? She forgot all about her good-girl vows Saturday night when she bumped into the tattoomeister Travis Barker at Xenii. Lindsay always did love Paris Hilton's leftovers. Travis and Lindsay burned up the dancefloor most of the night. (Funny, most musicians don't dance. Even funnier - Lindsay's "appendectomy" last week didn't slow her down in the slightest!) When they weren't dancing they were "smoking" and with every swig out of her naughty water bottle, Lindsay got a little giddier and noisier. The pair hung out until 5 AM and left separately. But an observer noted that when Lindsay made her exit, she looked "wasted."
We think we know what provoked Shanna Moakler to punch Paris Hilton in the face at Hyde last night. It's common knowledge that Paris and Travis were caught smooching In New York - Paris seems to delight in tormenting other women by luring their men. But this was more than a one night stand. Earlier last night Travis took Paris out on a DATE to Matsuhisa for dinner. Just the two of them - very private. It was a real date because he drove her in his Escalade. How Paris ended up at Hyde later we don't know, but apparently Shanna found out about the DATE and that's what set her off.
Travis Barker has become a hot commodity in Hollywood. Now that he and his wife Shanna Moakler have split up, Travis has been living it up at the W Hotel in Westwood and partying around the clock. His Meet the Barkers reality show put the tattooed Blink 182 musician on he map, and there's much speculation about his finances. Some insiders calculate he's worth millions now and his divorce could net him another thirty million or more if he gets half his wife's fortune. He's become a regular at the after hours club Xenii and when he was there Friday he wasted no time. He picked up a willing girl and left within fifteen minutes - he dumped his friends and was seen hopping into the girl's car. Tuesday night he and Jermaine Dupri (no Janet Jackson in sight) - held court at Holly's in Hollywood. The guys ordered at least TEN bottles of expensive champagne and entertained girls at their table all night. It's fun to be rich and single in Hollywood.
It looks like The Barkers are still on the rocks. Rumors have been circulating for weeks that the stars of the MTV reality show Meet the Barkers - Travis Barker and Shanna Moakler - are having a hard time staying married. They haven't been seen together for awhile and Travis was on the town solo Saturday night. He showed up at the after hours club Xenii with a festive group that included Janet Jackson, Jermaine Dupri, and Jamie Foxx. Girls paid the tattooed Blink-182 drummer plenty of attention and he happily chatted them up.Travis told friends he was staying at a hotel, and implied that his wife had "kicked him out." He socialized until 4:30 AM and -significantly- left alone.
