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If you’ve watched the Lakers in the playoffs, you’ve noticed a kissing bandit that confronts L.A.’s star guard Kobe Bryant as he makes his way through the tunnel to the team locker room at halftime and after the game.
The culprit is his wife, Vanessa. She kissed him during and after the Lakers’ 105-103 victory against Denver Tuesday night to open the Western Conference Finals. Bryant’s wife has made a halftime and postgame ritual of planting a smooch on his lips for years.
In 2000, the former Vanessa Laine kissed her husband-to-be in the Lakers’ locker room after L.A. beat Indianapolis in Game 6 to win the first of the Lakers’ three consecutive NBA championships. Last summer, she kissed her husband of seven years at midcourt in the midst of a hoard of photographers following the USA’s gold medal victory over Spain in at the 2008 Olympics in Beijing. Sometimes, she gets daddy’s girls, 5-year-old Natalia and 2-year-old Gianna, involved in the action, and they greeted their dad on the court in Laker gold dresses moments after he wrapped up his fourth NBA title on June 14.


Bryant got engaged to Vanessa during the Lakers’ 1999-2000 NBA championship season. They met during a music video shoot while Bryant was in the building to record his first music album, which was never released. At the time, Vanessa was a senior at a California high school, and Bryant was a 21-year-old rising star for the Lakers after jumping from high school to the NBA three years earlier. They married in April 2001, a couple months before L.A. won its second consecutive championship. Bryant’s parents, two sisters, agent and Lakers teammates skipped the wedding because his parents didn’t approve of him getting married so young and to someone who is not black.
Bryant’s marriage experienced a rough patch, like most relationships, when Bryant was charged with sexual assault on an employee at a Colorado resort in the summer of 2003. Bryant admitted to consensual intercourse, and thus adultery, but the charges were dropped after the employee refused to testify and Bryant settled a civil suit with the alleged victim. His wife stuck by him throughout the one-year media circus, including Bryant’s tearful press conference to offer a public apology for his actions.

Of course, it didn’t hurt that Kobe bought his wife an 8-carat purple diamond ring worth $4 million to show remorse. And judging by all of the midgame and postgame kisses, Vanessa Bryant has forgiven her husband.

By Teneshia LaFaye
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If I asked you who Lisa Rinna is, you’d probably respond, “Who?” like everyone else I’ve asked today.
But if I add, “You know, the actress with the real puffy lips that you often see in the tabloids and you may have seen her on Dancing with the Stars.”
And then you’d respond, “Oh yeah” like everyone else I asked earlier today.
Yes, her. Mrs. Harry “Puffy Lips” Hamlin.
So considering people instantly identify the former Melrose Place and Days of Our Lives star by her obviously enhanced pucker, I can’t believe Rinna denied having any lip enhancement procedures during her appearance on The Today Show on Monday to promote her new book. Soap fans and tabloids buzzed about her enlarged lips long before Angelina Jolie rose to Hollywood’s A-list.
Rinna disclosed another zinger when she told Today Show hosts Kathie Lee Gifford and Hoda Kotb that she “was concerned about f—ing up her kids” by living in Hollywood, mentioning that the paparazzi often tail her and her actor husband, former Clash of the Titans heartthrob Harry Hamlin. Well, I think the puffy-lipped mother of two girls only has herself to blame if her 11- and 8-year-old daughters turn out like Paris Hilton.
Rinna is opening her home to film a reality TV series, and she is Playboy magazine’s latest cover girl with several nude poses inside because the 45-year-old said she wants to look back in her even older age to admire her younger body. She already posed nude for Playboy while pregnant with her oldest in 1998.
Her new book, Rinnavation, describes several positions for sexual intercourse in addition to losing weight and balancing family life, and she has dedicated the book to her daughters.
“Let’s face it my girls are going to be having sex,” Rinna said.
And if her girls do get into sex and plastic surgery, it will be because of mom’s influence not Hollywood.

By Teneshia LaFaye
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