TBS have decided they’ve had enough of George Lopez because they have cancelled his late night talk show, ‘Lopez Tonight’, and it’s all over poor ratings.
It looks like history is repeating itself because Conan O’Brien might be to blame for Lopez’s show failing. You might remember when Jay Leno took the 10 pm slot on NBC he killed Conan’s ratings and now that Conan took the slot before Lopez the ratings have declined.
The first season of ‘Lopez Tonight’ averaged at around 911,000 viewers during the 11pm slot but he then he was bumped to the midnight slot, while Conan took the 11pm slot, for his second season and ratings fell to 543,000. Now he won’t be given a chance to redeem himself for a third season.
In a statement the network says “TBS has reached the difficult decision not to order a third season of Lopez Tonight. Thursday will be the final episode of the show. We are proud to have partnered with George Lopez, who is an immensely talented comedian and entertainer. TBS has valued its partnership with George and appreciates all of his work on behalf of the network, both on and off the air.”
Lopez spoke to People yesterday and instead of talking about the canceling he decided to speak about close friend Sandra Bullock and how she has had an impact on his career.
“If it wasn’t for her involvement in me, or her belief in me, I would have had a very different last 10 years. She invested in me, and she wouldn’t take no for an answer. And with that, and just who she is, she has my undying love, and my undying loyalty, every day I thank her for believing in me. I can only say that I did not have a mother, and I would have very much liked that one to be mine! She’s already my fairy godmother, but any child that gets to be in Sandra Bullock’s arms is going to be a great person.” He said about the actress.
As for his outlook on life he said “I live every day like an 11th grader, not a senior, because then you have to worry about college, but when you’re in 11th grade, you know you’re coming back to the same school with the same friends. So, I try to enjoy myself and live life every day.”
Well if he lives like that then he probably won’t mind the fact that his show has been cancelled. What do you think of this news? Were you a fan of his talk show?
Conan O’Brien certainly knows how to set the mood for Valentine’s Day on ‘Conan.’
In a contest, appropriately called ‘Conan’s V-D Explosion,’ the talk show host had viewers submit videos of them eating a romantic meal. The winners, DJ and Sabrina from Melbourne, Fla., shared Valentine’s Day dinner — straight from Taco Bell — on stage throughout the show.
And the surprise guest?
None other than William Shatner, who delivered a dramatic reading of Rihanna’s ‘Umbrella,’ to the delight of the winners and the audience.
“Now that it’s raining more than ever, know that we still have each other,” he solemnly recited. “You can stand under my umbrella-ella-ella.”
’30 Rock’ star Jack McBrayer also showed up later in the show to reveal how people celebrate Valentine’s Day in Georgia, which involved sending your Valentine “a real, live cow’s heart.”
It’s still only November so there is plenty of time for better celebrity quotes to come out but here is People’s top 20 celebrity quotes of the year so far.
“That girl is like crack cocaine to me…Sexually it was crazy. That’s all I’ll say. It was like napalm, sexual napalm.”
- John Mayer, oversharing on his former girlfriend, to Playboy
“He’ll never have this napalm again.”
– Jessica Simpson, firing back on The View
“I will never have surgery again.”
– Self-proclaimed plastic surgery addict Heidi Montag, to PEOPLE
“The only ‘bookings’ that i’m familiar with are Disney Films, never thought that i’d be ‘booking’ into Jail… eeeks.”
– Lindsay Lohan, before spending less than a day in jail, on Twitter
“When I first heard about the campaign to get me to host Saturday Night Live, I didn’t know what Facebook was. And now that I do know what it is, I have to say it sounds like a huge waste of time.”
– 88-year-old It girl Betty White, giving a shout-out to the social network during her SNL monologue
“I’m getting death threats. This is unBeliebable!!!”
– Kim Kardashian, who became a target of Justin Bieber fans after the tween heartthrob jokingly referred to her as his girlfriend in a Twitter pic
“When I wake up in the morning, I feel just like any other insecure 24-year-old girl. Then I say, ‘Bitch, you’re Lady Gaga, you get up and walk the walk today.’”
– Lady Gaga, to Rolling Stone
“Kristen’s pregnant.”
– Robert Pattinson, still dodging questions about his relationship with Kristen Stewart by starting a rumor, on Oprah
“You are a fame whore is what you are.”
– The Bachelor’s Vienna Girardi, responding to her ex Jake Pavelka‘s disgust with her, on a Bachelor special following their split
“I had a show. Then I had a different show. Now I have a Twitter account.”
– Conan O’Brien‘s bio description on his Twitter account after NBC gave The Tonight Show back to Jay Leno
“I know he knows who I am… He has to stop lying.”
– Jersey Shore’s Nicole “Snooki” Polizzi, calling out President Barack Obama on his claim that he isn’t familiar with the pint-size reality star, to E! online
“I wasn’t a druggie stripper. I was a very good person doing it.”
– Playboy Playmate-turned-author Kendra Wilkinson, sharing details from her memoir Sliding into Home, on the Today show
“It’s the performance of his career.”
– Director Casey Affleck, admitting that his “documentary” featuring a wacked-out Joaquin Phoenix was really a mockumentary, to the New York Times
“I’ll burn the g—–n house down!”
– Mel Gibson, during one of his angry phone rants recorded by ex-girlfriend Oksana Grigorieva
“Katy is sexy, which is good because if I don’t have an orgasm every 15 or 16 minutes, I can become very difficult.”
– Russell Brand, before saying “I do” to new wife Katy Perry, to Parade magazine
“If my sons [Sean and Jayden] told me they wanted to be in the entertainment business, I’d lock them in their rooms until they turned 30.”
– Britney Spears, to Cosmopolitan
“We’re going to Australia!”
– Oprah Winfrey, kicking off the final season of her talk show with her biggest audience giveaway yet
“I’ve heard a lot about these places, mostly from rap music. They’re supposed to be pretty reputable, right? So I envisioned myself on a nice couch in stunna shades with T-Pain and Usher making it rain money. And it just wasn’t like that.”
– Zac Efron, ‘fessing up to a strip club visit with HSM costar Corbin Bleu, on Jimmy Kimmel Live!
“I was acting my way through the whole thing.”
– Jeremy London, recalling how he survived his alleged abduction, to PEOPLE
“Wasn’t painful, not even a little bit.”
– Gisele Bündchen, on how easy childbirth was for her, to the Brazilian TV show Fantastico
“I’m so not winning an Oscar.”
– Sandra Bullock, a month before her Academy Award victory for The Blind Side, to reporters at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival
source: They Said What? 20 Best Celeb Quotes This Year [People]
Conan O’Brien is going to run his TBS show ‘Conan’ the way he wants to, and if that includes a masturbating bear, he will get his masturbating bear.
In an interview with Rolling Stone, O’Brien drew a line in the sand, daring NBC to try and sue him for using old ‘Tonight Show‘ and ‘Late Night‘ gags on his new show.
“If there’s something we did for a long time that we’ve established as ours, we’ll figure out a way to do it,” O’Brien says in RS’s Nov. 11 issue. “I won’t be denied my Masturbating Bear!”
If Conan wants to use some of the old gags from his days at ‘The Tonight Show,’ then he may face serious legal issues from NBC, but he’s not going to back down.
“What I really wanna do is be sued over the bear and then appear in court with the Masturbating Bear,” O’Brien says. “Your honor, this bear can’t help himself!”
Now that the dust has settled from the controversial spat between Conan, Leno and NBC, the new TBS late night honcho isn’t as bitter as he was before.
“Knowing what I know, I’m quite confident that what really happened really didn’t have much at all to do with what I was doing,” O’Brien says.
Knowing that the stakes of starting fresh at TBS are high, O’Brien knows he needs to go all out.
“I feel like, ‘OK, I’m going to go for broke,’ I have nothing to lose,” O’Brien says. “Let’s face it: I’m not going to do another television show after this one.”
Go behind the scenes of Conan’s RS photo shoot here.
J&D Foods, a US company specializing in bacon products, has commissioned an artist to create a life-sized bust of actor Kevin Bacon out of bacon.
The piece — which took three months to make — is called “Bacon Kevin Bacon” and comprises of a Styrofoam core covered in dried “bacon bits” a bacon-based crunchy salad topping.
“It should be in art gallery somewhere, but it would also look nice on a coffee table. I think it’ll tie together any room nicely. Bacon makes everything better, including art.”
Artist Mike Lahue created the artwork, which is due to be auctioned on eBay this week for the charity Ashley’s Team, a non-profit organization that helps children with cancer and their families. (Already 22 bids, $305.00)
The eBay ad advises that Bacon Kevin Bacon is not edible. The sculpture has been lacquered to ensure that the buyer doesn’t have a revolting piece of rotting meat on their hands.
For today’s top ten celebrity quotes, we’ve got January Jones talking about Jason Sudeikis seeing her naked, David Hasselhoff talking about his abs and Jane Lynch’s proud jealousy over her “Glee” castmates. Enjoy!!
“I had 20 years to show off my abs. Those days are over.”
– Dancing with the Stars’ season 11 contestant David Hasselhoff, on his plan to keep his shirt on in the ballroom, to People
“He’s never seen me naked, nor will he after those comments.”
– January Jones, shutting down her rumored boyfriend Jason Sudeikis after he revealed a little too much about their relationship, to People
“I’m just using ‘Conan’ and dropping the ‘O’Brien’ because I want to get away from the whole Irish thing.”
– Conan O’Brien, after revealing the eponymous title of his new TBS show via YouTube, in a press release
“She had not seen it but now thought it was gum.”
– Paris Hilton’s alleged explanation for the cocaine found in her purse, from an officer’s report of the drug bust
“Excited, uptight, supportive and horny – kind of.”
– Due Date’s Robert Downey Jr., recalling his anticipation before the birth of his son 17 years ago, to People
“He’s a little Cajun cookie.”
– Sandra Bullock, fondly referring to her New Orleans-born 7-month-old son Louis, on the Today show
“Listen, I’m not afraid of anything. I’m Colombian.”
– Modern Family’sSofia Vergara, showing no fear in fulfilling a pledge to streak down Sunset Boulevard if her show won the Emmy for outstanding comedy (which it did!), to Access Hollywood
“No one else can compare to him…besides maybe Matt Lauer.”
– Katy Perry, giving fiancé Russell Brand a little competition, on the Today show
“In my fantasy world…I would wear just headdresses and run around in body paint and a glitter diaper.”
– Ke$ha, sharing her dream wardrobe, to MTV
“I love you. You’re young and you’re wonderful. You’re fresh-faced, and when I’m not seething with jealousy, I’m so proud of you.”
– Jane Lynch, thanking her Glee castmates while accepting her best supporting actress Emmy for her role as the scheming Sue Sylvester
My thoughts on the above quotes? Jane Lynch is hilarious. Paris Hilton is a special kind of stupid. So is Ke$ha, just plain dumb. And The Hoff is overrated.
Legend has it that Orville Redenbacher paid an advertising agency a pretty penny for advice on what to name his popcorn company and they came back with “Orville Redenbacher.” It worked out pretty well for him but, in hindsight, he could have come up with that name on his own.
It seems the folks at TBS went through a similar process for naming Conan O’Brien’s new show.
There’s been much speculation about whether Team Coco would keep things simple, by using some variation of O’Brien’s name (The Coco Show!). Or maybe they’d go crazy and riff on the after-hours time slot (Up Late with Conan) or O’Brien’s new status as an Internet icon (Conan 3.0). In the end, simplicity won out — although, sadly, Conan’s first choice for a name wasn’t available. “I wanted one word that captured my essence, and ‘Oprah’ was already taken,” O’Brien tells Vulture. So enough Ryan Seacrest–esque stalling: Just what is the title? We’ll let the redheaded one tell you himself, via video.
Yup, the name of O’Brien’s third late-night show is … Conan. Show insiders tell Vulture that O’Brien and team pretty much settled on this name weeks ago, but like so many things in Hollywood, choosing a name isn’t always simple. You have to clear the title legally, to make sure nobody else has the rights to it, and that’s even true when the name is your own. For the last few weeks, O’Brien’s army of lawyers and TBS have been doing their due diligence making sure it’s okay to use “Conan” as the show’s title. One stumbling block could have been the Conan the Barbarian franchise, which has included comics, books, films, and, in 1997, a short-lived TV series called Conan. But now, it’s clear that all issues have been worked out.
The suspense was killing me.
Source: NY Mag – “Conan O’Brien Announces the Name of His New TV Show on Vulture!“
Good afternoon and happy Friday! Today for our best celebrity quotes of the week, we’ve got Kim Kardashian talking about her hairless body, Alexander Skarsgard talking about not wearing a modesty cloth and Taylor Momsen bashing Rihanna. Enjoy!
“People think pop is rock, and the lines are getting blurred. Now Rihanna’s wearing f– leather jackets, and it’s really annoying.”
– Taylor Momsen, dissing the pop star and her style, to Spin magazine
“That song is so annoying.”
– Katy Perry, joking about her summer pop anthem “California Gurls,” to People
“Of course, many women dream of finding Prince Charming (with fatherly instincts), but for those who’ve not yet found their Bill O’Reilly, I’m just glad science has provided a few other options.”
– Jennifer Aniston, responding to the Fox News host’s criticism of her support of single motherhood, to People
“I am Armenian, so of course I am obsessed with laser hair removal! Arms, bikini, legs, underarms…my entire body is hairless.”
– Kim Kardashian, revealing her beauty secrets, to Allure magazine
“Today’s NY Post says I was spotted in NYC dining with Maury Povich and Connie Chung. Whoever’s impersonating me–aim higher.”
– Conan O’Brien, setting the record straight on Twitter
“It’s obvious that whenever anybody ever thinks of hip-hop or rap, they think of ‘Chelsea Lately.’”
– Chelsea Handler, on hosting MTV’s Video Music Awards, to The New York Times
“I need to talk to that guy from Men’s Warehouse. He guarantees I’ll look good, right? And get a low price?”
– Modern Family’sEric Stonestreet, on his Emmys wardrobe, to People
“One second ago I was the youngest person on the set, and now I’m the oldest. I don’t know how that happened. I’m so old, my joints hurt when I keep my legs crossed a certain way for too long…I can’t see far. I can’t see close.”
– Courteney Cox, on what happened in the 15 years from Friends to Cougar Town, to Emmy magazine
“I don’t want a sock around it, that feels ridiculous. If we’re naked in the scene, then I’m naked.”
– Alexander Skarsgard, on preferring to go commando in True Blood, to Rolling Stone
“When I enter the Emmys as host, I will be on a chariot pulled by Mr. T and Sylvester Stallone together. Then I will sing a song I wrote that I asked Paul McCartney to cowrite with me. Except when he heard it, he said, ‘You can’t improve on perfection.’”
– This year’s Emmy Awards host Jimmy Fallon, in an essay he “wrote” at age 11, to People
What was your favorite quote this week? I’d be lying if I said that Alexander Skarsgard’s hatred of the cock sock didn’t get me all giggly. You?
Is it just me or does there seem to be an award show or nominations list announced at least once a month? Today is no different because the 2010 Emmy nominations have been announced.
HBO’s miniseries, The Pacific, leads the pack with a total of 24 nominations and Glee comes in second with 19 followed by Mad Men with 17 nominations. Conan O’Brien scored a nomination for his now axed Tonight show on NBC while Jay Leno wasn’t even mentioned.
Jimmy Fallon takes on hosting duties for the 62nd annual Primetime Emmys which take place on Sunday, August 29, at 8 p.m. ET and will are on NBC.
BEST COMEDY SERIES
Curb Your Enthuasiasm
Glee
The Office
Modern Family
30 Rock
Nurse Jackie
BEST ACTOR IN A COMEDY SERIES
Jim Parsons, The Big Bang Theory
Larry David, Curb Your Enthusiasm
Matthew Morrison, Glee
Tony Shaloub, Monk
Steve Carell, The Office
Alec Baldwin, 30 Rock
BEST ACTRESS IN A COMEDY SERIES
Lea Michele, Glee
Julia Louis-Dreyfus, The New Adventures of Old Christine
Edie Falco, Nurse Jackie
Amy Poehler, Parks and Recreation
Tina Fey, 30 Rock
Toni Collette, United States of Tara
SUPPORTING ACTOR IN A COMEDY SERIES
Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Modern Family
Chris Colfer, Glee
Jon Cryer, Two and a Half Men
Ty Burrell, Modern Family
Eric Stonestreet, Modern Family
Neil Patrick Harris, How I Met Your Mother
SUPPORTING ACTRESS IN A COMEDY SERIES
Jane Lynch, Glee
Jane Krakowski, 30 Rock
Kristen Wiig, Saturday Night Live
Sofia Vergara, Modern Family
Julie Bowen, Modern Family
Holland Taylor, Two and a Half Men
GUEST ACTOR IN A COMEDY SERIES
Mike O’Malley, Glee
Fred Willard, Modern Family
Eli Wallach, Nurse Jackie
Jon Hamm, 30 Rock
Neil Patrick Harris, Glee
Will Arnett, 30 Rock
GUEST ACTRESS IN A COMEDY SERIES
Kristin Chenoweth, Glee
Tina Fey, Saturday Night Live
Jane Lynch, Two And A Half Men
Kathryn Joosten, Desperate Housewives
Christine Baranski, The Big Bang Theory
Betty White, Saturday Night Live
Elaine Stritch, 30 Rock
BEST DRAMA SERIES
True Blood
Dexter
Mad Men
The Good Wife
Breaking Bad
Lost
BEST ACTOR IN A DRAMA SERIES
Jon Hamm, Mad Men
Kyle Chandler, Friday Night Lights
Hugh Laurie, House
Michael C. Hall, Dexter
Bryan Cranston, Breaking Bad
Matthew Fox, Lost
BEST ACTRESS IN A DRAMA SERIES
Glenn Close, Damages
January Jones, Mad Men
Kyra Sedgwick, The Closer
Mariska Hargitay, Law & Order: SVU
Julianna Margulies, The Good Wife
Connie Britton, Friday Night Lights
SUPPORTING ACTOR IN A DRAMA SERIES
John Slattery, Mad Men
Aaron Paul, Breaking Bad
Martin Short, Damages
Terry O’Quinn, Lost
Andre Braugher, Men of a Certain Age
Michael Emerson, Lost
SUPPORTING ACTRESS IN A DRAMA SERIES
Rose Byrne, Damages
Christina Hendricks, Mad Men
Archie Panjabi, The Good Wife
Sharon Gless, Burn Notice
Elisabeth Moss, Mad Men
Christine Baranski, The Good Wife
GUEST ACTOR IN A DRAMA SERIES
Robert Morse, Mad Men
Alan Cumming, The Good Wife
John Lithgow, Dexter
Ted Danson, Damages
Gregory Itzin, 24
Dylan Baker, The Good Wife
Beau Bridges, The Closer
GUEST ACTRESS IN A DRAMA SERIES
Mary Kay Place, Big Love
Lily Tomlin, Damages
Sissy Spacek, Big Love
Elizabeth Mitchell, Lost
Ann-Margret, Law & Order: SVU
Shirley Jones, The Cleaner
REALITY COMPETITION PROGRAM
American Idol
Dancing with the Stars
The Amazing Race
Project Runway
Top Chef
HOST FOR A REALITY OR REALITY-COMPETITION PROGRAM
Tom Bergeron, Dancing With the Stars
Phil Keoghan, The Amazing Race
Jeff Probst, Survivor
Ryan Seacrest, American Idol
Heidi Klum
REALITY SERIES
Antiques Roadshow
MythBusters
Undercover Boss
Kathy Griffin: My Life on the D-List
Dirty Jobs
Jamie Oliver’s Food Revolution
source: Emmy Nominations for 2010 Announced! [Just Jared]
Friday has rolled around once again, and here at Gone Hollywood, we’ve got the best of the best in celebrity quotes this week! Without further ado, I present the best, which includes Miley Cyrus’ infatuation with Zac Efron, Megan Fox stating the obvious about Justin Bieber — and more!
Enjoy!
“I am obsessed with Zac Efron. If it wouldn’t be creepy, because he’s a friend, I would have posters on my wall.”
– Miley Cyrus, to Access Hollywood
“He’s got more talent in those bangs than I’ve got in my whole body.”
– Megan Fox, the latest casualty of Bieber fever, to E! Online
“I remember thinking at one point, ‘I know: I’ll get my hips lipo-ed off!’ You can’t – it’s bone.”
– One of People’s Amazing Bodies of 2010 Jennifer Love Hewitt, on previously contemplating plastic surgery
“I’m sure I probably bought weed from him.”
– Cameron Diaz, on former high school classmate Snoop Dogg, to Playboy
“Originally I was supposed to take off my shirt. The script said we were walking into school and Willy takes off his shirt. I said, ‘Whoa, whoa, whoa. Time out. He’s gonna take off his shirt in the middle of school? No, no, no.”
– Taylor Lautner, on preventing the exploitation of his ab-tastic physique, to GQ magazine
“I asked [the director], ‘Why me? You could’ve had anyone you wanted.’ And he said, ‘You have period teeth.’”
– Jewel, on being cast in the Civil War drama Ride with the Devil because “I was the only actress in Hollywood who hadn’t gotten her teeth fixed,” to Shape magazine
“I may have conceived a baby in that crowd.”
– Conan O’Brien, on performing for the scantily dressed crowd at the Bonnaroo Music Festival, to Rolling Stone
“Robert Redford.”
- Hollywood veteran Betty White, deadpanning on what she would still like do, on The Early Show
“Anything else you would like to say, Elisabeth, because this is just getting good?”
– Kathy Griffin, sparring with Elisabeth Hasselbeck on The View
“Even I’d take a crack at that.”
– Sean Hayes, on Scarlett Johansson’s universal appeal, at the Tony Awards
The Huffington Post have put together a list of the 4 biggest winners and losers in the celebrity and media world for this week, first up is the winners:
Oprah: Kitty who? It was the week Oprah took New York by storm: starting with the Costume Institute Gala on Monday, where she walked the red carpet with Oscar de la Renta and partied down with Diddy and Pharrell right through Oprah’s Best Life Weekend, celebrating ten years of O Magazine with a live show from Radio City Music Hall and a New York charity walk on Sunday.
Brian Williams: The “NBC Nightly News” anchor broadcast from oil spill-ravaged gulf region Monday night, while his competitors Katie Couric and Diane Sawyer were dolled up at the Costume Institute Gala. He then rushed back to New York to cover the Times Square bomber arrest. Bonus: he turned 51 on Wednesday.
Rick Stengel: It would have been enough for the TIME Managing Editor to simply have hosted the TIME 100 gala Tuesday, featuring Bill Clinton, Sarah Palin and Taylor Swift. But then the announcement that his main rival, Newsweek, was going up for sale allowed him to brag about his magazine’s sustained profitability.
Conan O’Brien: Finally able to make his case, Conan broke his silence on “60 Minutes” — and delivered ratings to boot. And he effectively got his message across: he’s a good Catholic boy who would never have done that to Leno.
Now let’s take a look at the ones we really care about, the losers:
Jon Meacham: It was supposed to be a good week for the Newsweek editor, who’s launching a new show with Allison Stewart on PBS called “Need To Know.” But then the Washington Post announced it would be selling his magazine, leading the history buff to go on a sad-sack media tour explaining why the world needs Newsweek. Unfortunately, many of his staffers are now saying that Newsweek needs a new editor.
Elisabeth Hasselbeck: The conservative “View” co-host brought ESPN anchor and “Dancing with the Stars” contestant Erin Andrews to tears this week by lashing out over Andrews’ skimpy dancewear and seeming to side with the stalker who peeped into her hotel room to see her naked. She cried the next day, offering up a tearful public apology for her comments.
American Idol: It’s still the #1 show in the country, but there were big and dangerous warning signs for “Idol” this week: on both Tuesday and Wednesday, it hit ratings lows it hasn’t seen since 2002, the year it launched (in the summer, no less). It may have just been a boring Frank Sinatra theme week, With Simon Cowell gearing up to leave at the end of this season already, it doesn’t bode well for the show’s future.
Conan O’Brien: Yes, he made his case on “60 Minutes” — but it may have backfired. The more time he spends complaining about how Big Bad Leno stole the “Tonight Show” from him, the less America remembers why they loved him on it…and the less they look forward to his launch this fall on TBS. Plus, NBC made a splash by saying that he lied during the “60 Minutes” interview.
I guess Conan O’Brien should pat himself on the back, he made both the winners and the losers list, like they say in Hollywood – any press is good press.
