Jessica Simpson versus John Mayer Showdown; The Johnny Depp Ultimatum
HAMMER: Now, on SHOWBIZ TONIGHT, the stunning new Johnny Depp-Angelina Jolie drama. Reports out just today Johnny`s long-time girlfriend demands Johnny quit his movie with Angelina or else. She`s afraid Jolie might steal her man.</s>SIMPSON: I just did my interview with the wonderful and lovely Oprah and I`ve already gone through two snot rags. She`s definitely - I kind of lost it when I got back into the dressing room.</s>HAMMER: The Jessica Simpson-John Mayer showdown. The fury and fallout today after Jessica gets emotional on Oprah over John`s sex-and-tell. The brand-new video. Plus, team Jessica, team John. Whose side are you on? And Simon the softy? The remarkable new interview out today with the "American Idol" judge. Why Simon now says he`s been too mean. Plus, more stories breaking from the "SHOWBIZ News Ticker."</s>ANNOUNCER: TV`s most provocative entertainment news show continues right now.</s>HAMMER: Welcome back to SHOWBIZ TONIGHT. It is 30 minutes past the hour. I`m A.J. Hammer, broadcasting tonight and every night from New York City.</s>ANDERSON: I`m Brooke Anderson coming to you tonight from Hollywood. And tonight, the Jessica versus John showdown.</s>HAMMER: Yes, Brooke, a brand-new battle exploded today after Jessica Simpson`s extraordinary tell-all on "Oprah" about everything, including, of course, John Mayer`s totally out-of-line revelations about what he claimed was a wild sex life with Jessica. A lot of people actually took Mayer`s side today. And wait until you see the new backstage video of Jessica after her "Oprah" interview.</s>SIMPSON: I had to cry out a lot of stuff that I`ve been holding in. But Oprah is a very empowering person so I feel inspired.</s>HAMMER: Also breaking today, new reports that Depp is in too deep. Johnny Depp`s long-time girlfriend and the mother of his two children is reportedly demanding he walk away from the movie he`s now shooting with Angelina Jolie. And the remarkable Simon Cowell confession today. Wait until you hear this. Simon is now saying, he`s appalled by how mean he is to "Idol" contestants. Say what? Joining me right now in New York is Carolina Bermudez who is a senior editor for "In Touch Weekly" and a co-host of the "Elvis Duran and the Morning Show." And from Hollywood, it`s Hyla who is an entertainment journalist for "5DollarPrep.com." Well, I must begin with the brand-new showdown over Jessica and John Mayer. It`s all over the Internet today after Jessica appeared on "Oprah" saying she was disappointed in John spilling the beans about their sex life in that "Playboy" magazine interview. Well, Jessica was clearly shaken up by doing this interview. Take a look at this brand-new video of her backstage after the Oprah show.</s>SIMPSON: I just did my interview with the wonderful and lovely Oprah and I`ve already gone through two snot rags. She definitely - I kind of lost it when I got back into the dressing room. I had to cry out a lot of stuff I`ve been holding in. But Oprah is a very empowering person so I feel inspired. Let`s go change the world.</s>HAMMER: I mean, obviously, she was working out a lot of stuff, Carolina, by being on "The Oprah Show." Are you feeling sympathy for Jessica?</s>BERMUDEZ: Definitely. I think this was the best thing for Jessica to do, not only for her career but our thoughts of her as a person. She`s been in the tabloid since she came out. I mean, basically, for the past 10 years, she`s been a tabloid queen. And so this showed us a real side of her. She showed us how vulnerable she was after those comments came out about John Mayer. So I think she painted herself in a really good light.</s>HAMMER: A lot of us born-again Jessica Simpson fans today.</s>BERMUDEZ: Yes.</s>HAMMER: But not everybody, Carolina. Some people not so much on our side. SHOWBIZ TONIGHT producers were scouring the Internet today. It really is incredible how divided people are and how many people are actually supporting John Mayer. Let me read to you something I found on "ABC.com." Somebody said, "I don`t blame anyone for being annoyed with someone who breaks trust. But I do think Jessica is overreacting just a bit there. He said she was hot in bed. Basically, wow, what an insult? Grow up, Jess. Stop your whining." Hyla, that is the sentiment on a great deal of what I saw on the Internet today. Do you agree?</s>HYLA: I agree 100 percent. It was a compliment. If someone says, "Hey, you`re a good basketball player" - thank you. If someone says, "You`re good in bed," thank you very much. If that`s not the ultimate compliment -</s>HAMMER: A real man doesn`t talk up like that, Hyla. Come on.</s>HYLA: He was fine. He did nothing wrong. It was a compliment. And you know what? Jessica is loving this. Let`s be real here. This is the Simpson family. They are all about publicity. Oprah fueled this entire episode based on promos from this conversation about John Mayer. She loved it. John loved it. It was good in bed - it was good for everybody.</s>HAMMER: Hyla, I`ve got to say when I saw her crying backstage and we`re seeing her holding up the tissues from her crying, I think it was genuine emotion. I think she was actually pretty shook up and not loving it so much. But let me get to this because the debate raged on our Facebook wall as well. Here`s what Liz P. wrote, "John Mayer is a creep for talking publicly about private situations. He has no respect and needs to grow up and find a brain." And I`m seeing as much as that on the Internet as the people who are now siding with John. No surprise.</s>BERMUDEZ: Absolutely. And I do have to disagree with Hyla. I mean, it may be a compliment to some people. But when you`re a professional and you`re out in the limelight, you don`t want people talking about your most intimate moments. He opened up a whole other area for people to think of.</s>HYLA: Carolina, you`re talking like people don`t have sex or something. They were in a relationship. Of course, they had sex. And he didn`t give any details.</s>BERMUDEZ: Of course, they did. And we don`t need those details, Hyla. We don`t need the details.</s>HYLA: He didn`t give details. All he said is that she was good. He didn`t say, "Oh, she has a birthmark in a special place." Or she has this move with the banana -</s>BERMUDEZ: He called her sexual napalm. I mean, come on.</s>HAMMER: All right. Hold on. Can we please bring in the voice of reason? Bring in Brooke Anderson for me? I`ve got to get you to weigh in on this, Brooke.</s>ANDERSON: Well, I think there is an unwritten rule, there is an unwritten code. You just don`t talk about such intimacy between two people. It is disrespectful. I think that Jessica was very gracious, very tasteful in what she said to Oprah. And I think that John could learn a thing or two about that from Jessica and how she reacted. I do not think she was whining. I think she had every right to complain even more than she did. But she took the high road and she didn`t do that. And we want to know what you at home think about this. We are asking in our SHOWBIZ TONIGHT question of the day, "Whose side are you on, team Jessica Simpson or team John Mayer? Please vote, CNN.com/ShowbizTonight. E-mail us, showbiztonight@cnn.com.</s>HAMMER: Yes. People are sounding off, Brooke. All right. I`ve got to move on to the brand-new report today that Johnny Depp`s long-time girlfriend and the mother of his two children, Vanessa Paradis ordered Depp to find a new gig after she learned that he would be sharing a very passionate love scene with Angelina Jolie. Now, Depp and Jolie are currently shooting a movie in romantic Venice. Well, today on "The View," Sherri Shepherd really laid out what probably got Vanessa thinking. You`ve got to watch this.</s>SHERRI SHEPHERD, CO-HOST, "THE VIEW": Laura Dern was engaged to Billy Bob Thornton. And then, he left Laura Dern for Angelina Jolie. And Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt did "Mr. and Mrs. Smith" and that was credited, kind of, with breaking up Aniston and Brad Pitt.</s>BARBARA WALTERS, EXECUTIVE PRODUCER AND CO-HOST, "THE VIEW": So you think that perhaps -</s>SHEPHERD: I think to let your man around Angelina is like giving Naomi Campbell a cell phone.</s>HAMMER: All right. Very funny, Sherri. But Carolina, do you really think that Johnny`s girlfriend has anything to worry about here?</s>BERMUDEZ: Oh, absolutely. Come on. I don`t care if you`re the most secure woman in the world. Angelina Jolie - she`s got something there. We don`t know what it is. But I would be a little bit nervous and I`m going to make a prediction. Maybe he`s going to get hurt. Or there is going to be a reason why he can`t finish it off. But you`ll never know. Women are crazy.</s>HAMMER: You think she`ll get her way in this?</s>BERMUDEZ: Oh, yes.</s>HYLA: Wow.</s>HAMMER: All right. Well, I`ve got to say we did reach out to Johnny Depp`s reps today for comment. As of show time, we had not heard back. But we do have more big news breaking today. A brand-new interview that Simon Cowell did with "America`s Got Talent" judge, Piers Morgan for Morgan`s "British Chat Show." I actually couldn`t believe this. Simon sorry for being mean on "American Idol." Brooke, tell us what he said.</s>ANDERSON: I`ve always thought Simon was a big old teddy bear. But you know, I actually could not believe this was Simon talking. Here`s what he said, A.J, "There`s many, many times where I`ve watched the show back and I`m absolutely appalled. You do the show. You`re not aware of what`s happening in the room outside. You know, somebody just said, `My dog Lassie died yesterday.` I`m in a bad mood and, you know, awful. And you see it in that context. It`s very, very difficult to watch." So Carolina, I think Simon has a heart after all. What do you think?</s>BERMUDEZ: There is some emotion in that cold black heart of his. But I think that Simon needs to stay the way that he is. Those are natural reactions and we do appreciate them because he is the most logical judge on the whole panel. Let`s</s>HAMMER: All right. Well, you know. I don`t know. Love softens people, doesn`t it? Carolina, Hyla, thanks, guys. We appreciate it.</s>ANDERSON: Tonight, the bone chilling Dr. Drew death threat drama. It`s hard to even wrap my head around this story. Tonight, the horrifying details about a man who reportedly threatened to kill the "Celebrity Rehab" doctor`s entire family. We`ve got those disturbing details. And big news today about Marie Osmond as the beloved star struggles to deal with the apparent suicide of her son. Marie makes a big announcement about her future. And now, moving on to something I am thrilled to share. A.J. and I are going to be showing you the biggest, wildest, most provocative SHOWBIZ TONIGHT moments that you will ever see in one place at one time. We`re popping a bottle for five years of</s>SHOWBIZ TONIGHT.  HAMMER: And we are psyched. It is a blockbuster for sure. But first, more stories from the SHOWBIZ TONIGHT newsroom making news today.</s>TEXT: Kardashian sisters slam tabloids for slamming their men. New comer Ke$ha slams Britney Spears for lip synching during concerts.