Cheryl Cole has had quite the interesting couple of weeks because first of all she was hired as a judge on the X-Factor USA, then she was fired and replaced by Nicole Scherzinger, then she was back as a judge but now she is officially out
When I found out that Cheryl was back on I thought all of this was a publicity stunt but now Fox, Fremantle and SYCO all released a joint statement to TVLine confirming that Cheryl is not going to be apart of the show, here is what they say:
“Nicole Scherzinger will be replacing Cheryl Cole on the judging panel of The X Factor. Nicole will join Simon Cowell, L.A. Reid and Paula Abdul on their search across America to find the next global superstar or group to win the life-changing $5 million dollar recording deal. Nicole has previously joined Simon Cowell as a guest judge on The X Factor for the UK version of the show in 2010. Steve Jones will act as sole host of The X Factor.”
I actually feel really bad for Cheryl but I’m hoping that she does an exclusive interview and says exactly what went on. The real winner in all of this is Steve Jones, he went from being a co-host to now hosting the whole show.
Cheryl Cole‘s attempt at making it big in the USA by being a judge on the X-Factor hasn’t lasted long at all because she is now no longer apart of the show and has been replaced by former Pussycat Doll, Nicole Scherzinger.
Nicole was originally just supposed to be a co-host on the talent show along with British newcomer Steve Jones, but now that Cheryl is off the judging panel she has been bumped up as a judge.
There is several reports as to why Cheryl is no longer a judge for the show but nothing has been confirmed yet. First of all TMZ are reporting that the producers for the show decided to drop Cheryl as a judge because her Geordie accent would be too difficult for American viewers to understand.
TMZ also report that chemistry between Cheryl and fellow judges Paula Abdul and L.A. Reid was pretty dire. On top of that they are saying producers want the British sweetheart to return to the UK version of The X-Factor but she is so pissed off she might ditch the show completely.
The Sun however are reporting that the reason Cheryl is no longer a judge is simply because she was homesick. A source says “it hasn’t worked out. She’s homesick and wants to return to the UK. She’s had enough. Whether she ends up back on UK X Factor is open to speculation.”
I guess time will tell, either Simon Cowell or Cheryl herself will end up talking about this within the coming weeks.
For some ungodly reason the CW renewed Gossip Girl for a fifth season which is good news for fans but not all of them because both Taylor Momsen and Jessica Szohr have been cut from the cast.
TV Guide confirmed the news yesterday that both actresses wont be returning to the show as regulars but they have been invited back to guest-star in a couple of episodes next season.
This shouldn’t come across as a big surprise for fans though, Taylor only appeared in 4 episodes this past season and has been rumored to be wanting to leave the show anyway. Jessica on the other hand has always been in the back of the show and this past season her character left town.
As for what’s up for both of them next it’s expected that Taylor will focus on her band The Pretty Reckless, who I actually love, and Jessica will focus on movie deals she has been offered.
After over 10 years of working together Beyonce and her father, Matthew Knowles, have decided to part ways as he will no longer be her manager it has been confirmed. There is no word on what led to them ending their business partnership but she did release a statement saying:
“I am grateful for everything he has taught me, I grew up watching both he and my mother manage and own their own businesses. They were hardworking entrepreneurs and I will continue to follow in their footsteps. He is my father for life and I love my dad dearly, I am grateful for everything he has taught me.”
Matthew has managed Beyonce since the late 1990s when she and Destiny’s Child exploded onto the music scene, then he took control of her solo career and helped turn her into the superstar she is today. He is also the one who helped banish the rest of the Destiny’s Child girls into oblivion.
In a separate statement he says “Business is business and family is family, I love my daughter and am very proud of who she is and all that she has achieved. I look forward to her continued great success.”
There is no word on who will act as her manager from now on but if I remember correctly there was a story going around sometime last year that hinted about her husband, Jay-Z, taking on the job should something like this happen.
Gilbert Gottfried made his return to Twitter last night for the first time after he got his ass fired by Aflac Inc over his ridiculous jokes about the Tsuanmi in Japan and he dished out an apology. Here is what he had to say for himself:
“I sincerely apologize to anyone who was offended by my attempt at humor regarding the tragedy in Japan. I meant no disrespect, and my thoughts are with the victims and their families.”
What do you think, is this apology acceptable or is he just trying to save his ass from even more backlash that he received on Twitter?
Gilbert Gottfried has joined 50 Cent by landing in hot water after making some sick jokes about the Tsuanmi in Japan, but Gilbert has gone one step further and not only received backlash but he has now been fired by Aflac Inc.
Gilbert has been the voice of Aflac Inc’s iconic duck since 2000 but yesterday they handed him his pink slip after he made a series of bad jokes about Japan, which is apparently Aflac’s most important market. Here is some of his Tweets:
“Japan is really advanced. They don’t go to the beach. The beach comes to them” and “I just split up with my girlfriend, but like the Japanese say, ‘they’ll be another one floating by any minute now’” and “I fucked a girl in japan. She screamed ‘I feel the earth move and I’m getting wet.’”
All of the Tweets have since been deleted and he hasn’t updated his account since Sunday but either way Aflac weren’t laughing at these jokes and fired his ass, announced they are holding a nationwide casting call to replace him and are also donating $100 million to disaster relief. They also released a statement saying:
“Gilbert’s recent comments about the crisis in Japan were lacking in humor and certainly do not represent the thoughts and feelings of anyone at Aflac. There is no place for anything but compassion and concern during these difficult times.”
Considering that 75% of Aflac’s business comes from Japan, this is really the only move that they could make isn’t it? What a dumb ass. Speaking of jokes, I’m sick of hearing them and none of them make me laugh.
Ok it’s that time of the day when I try my best to catch up with all the latest shenanigans out of Charlie Sheen and to be quite honest I don’t even know where to begin. I suppose I’ll start with after he got fired from Two and a Half Men yesterday he up on a roof waving around a machete and drinking tiger’s Blood.
Not long after it was announced that Charlie had been fired from the show he went on top of a building with the machete and tiger’s blood and started chanting that he is “free at last! free at last!” to a crowd of people that gathered below. After this he then went home and uploaded the latest episode of his UStream show, Sheen’s Korner, which you can watch now:
Next up… it’s been announced that Bree Olson, one of his “goddesses”, has been given a 2-day trial in her DUI case to prove that she wasn’t drink driving in Indiana last month. She was pulled over last month after she crashed her car and when cops gave her a breathalyzer she blew a .19. Her trial will start in June.
Lastly TMZ is reporting that Chuck Lorre, the creator of Two and a Half Men, is in meetings with hopes to continue the show without Sheen. And they are apparently looking at having Rob Lowe replace Sheen. But as TMZ points out, there is two problems with this – Lowe grew up with the Sheen family and he is currently attached to another show. But either way it seems like there still might be hope for Two and a Half Men to stay on air.
I’ll end this post by saying two things: 1. by the time I actually hit publish I’m sure there will be yet another news story about him and 2. if you’re sick of hearing about Charlie Sheen there is now an app for Firefox and Google Chrome that can block his image and name from popping up on your browser, if I didn’t have to write about him I would definitely be using this.
Okay I love a good train-wreck as much as the next person but I seriously can’t keep up with Charlie Sheen, anytime I read something there is a new development. The latest is he has just been fired from Two and a Half Men. Warner Bros released this statement:
“After careful consideration, Warner Bros. Television has terminated Charlie Sheen’s services on Two and a Half Men effective immediately.”
Since he is living in cuckoo land the fact that he has lost a job which pays him $2 million per episode doesn’t faze Sheen at all who spoke to TMZ and said this:
“This is very good news. They continue to be in breach, like so many whales. It is a big day of gladness at the Sober Valley Lodge because now I can take all of their bazillions, never have to look at whatshiscock again and I never have to put on those silly shirts for as long as this warlock exists in the terrestrial dimension.”
TMZ also got their hands on a letter that Warner Bros sent to Sheen’s lawyer which explains why they fired him, in it they said they had every right to fire him and there was a clause in his contract which says they can fire anybody that “commits a felony offense involving moral turpitude,” they also say he appears to be very ill. His lawyer is demanding that they pay him for the eight canceled episodes or else they will sue. Warner Bros say they will counter sue him if he tries.
It’s unclear if Two and a Half Men will be completely canceled or if they will continue on with Charlie Sheen. Either way this whole thing is a mess, I can’t see what happens next.
An NBC employee that posted vintage “Today” show clip from 1994 — in which then-anchor Katie Couric asks, “Can you explain what Internet is?” — to YouTube was apparently fired over it.
Rob Pegoraro, a Washington Post reporter Rob Pegoraro, wrote in a tweet that the unidentified staffer e-mailed him to say he had been let go:
The guy who posted the 1994 Today Show “what is Internet?” clip on YouTube e-mailed to say he got canned for that. Ugh.
A spokesperson for NBC Universal did not immediately return an e-mail seeking confirmation and comment.
The clip — featuring off-air footage of Couric, Bryant Gumbel and Elizabeth Vargas discussing what, exactly, this “World Wide Web” was — immediately went viral – and NBC has been asking YouTube to remove copies of the video.
Luckily, there are plenty of copies still out there on the Internet, like this one:
As the Live Feed noted, current “Today” host Matt Lauer even joked about the clip on the air:
“It’s easy to laugh now, but we all felt that way,” Lauer said. “It was a mystery to all of us.”
He added: “I talked to Bryant last night about that clip. He has become quite tech savvy — he just bought a Sony Walkman.”
Taylor Momsen might be out of a job if Dead Hollywood are to be believed because they are reporting that she has been been cut as a series regular from Gossip Girl.
The 17-year-old brat, has come under a lot of fire this year for her antics on stage when singing for the Pretty Reckless, has only been in one episode of Gossip Girl’s fourth season and she is only in one more on monday. After that she is apparently going on an “indefinite hiatus,” Tim Gunn who was in the episode with her didn’t have kind words about her, he said…
“What a diva. She was pathetic, she couldn’t remember her lines, and she didn’t even have that many. I thought to myself, ‘Why are we being held hostage by this brat?’”
But other sources tell E! Online that Taylor isn’t going anywhere and she, along with the rest of the cast, is signed up for seven seasons of the show. Apparently the reason she hasn’t been in it much is simply a creative decision and she is happy with it because it means she can focus on her music career.
I don’t watch the show so have no idea if she is any good on it, but I must admit I do like the Pretty Reckless album.
Jessica Simpson‘s team seem to finally realize that a big reason her career took a dive is because her father, Joe Simpson, is a terrible manager so they have advised her to hand him his pink slip.
This comes just days after Joe is rumored to have pissed off military veterans, because he deemed them “too scruffy” to sing on stage with Jessica in a Christmas special she is doing.
A source says, “Jess is really talented, it’s clear that what’s holding her career back is her father, Joe is impossible to work with and makes terrible decisions that poor Jessica has to put up with. Now, both music and movie people are telling her she needs to let him go.”
The source also says that Jessica is said to find it hard to let Joe, who has told her to dump boyfriends in the past, go because he loves being her manager, I say she stupid to keep him on.
source: Time for Jessica Simpson to Let Papa Joe Go? [Pop Eater]
It is from this jumping off point that he absolutely unleashed on Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert, and at times his own network, on Pete Dominick’s satellite radio show yesterday.
The big takeaway – Sanchez calls Stewart “a bigot,” then walks it back a bit, and he implies CNN is run by Jews.
Dominick was not just a radio show host – he is a CNN contributor who has a regular gig on John King, USA, and he formerly was the warm up comic at The Daily Show. Which is why when Sanchez says “I think Jon Stewart’s a bigot” early in the interview, Dominick pushed back:
Dominick: How is he a bigot?
Sanchez: I think he looks at the world through, his mom, who was a school teacher, and his dad, who was a physicist or something like that. Great, I’m so happy that he grew up in a suburban middle class New Jersey home with everything you could ever imagine.
Dominick: What group is he bigoted towards?
Sanchez: Everybody else who’s not like him. Look at his show, I mean, what does he surround himself with?
It’s still unknown if Heidi Montag and Spencer Pratt are actually still together or if they did indeed break up because with these two you just don’t know what publicity stunt they are going to pull. Well here’s some news that would make sense if they did break up, they completely ran out of money.
When the two of them were still on The Hills they were getting up to $90,000 per episode but as we all know Spencer got kicked off the show and which meant his paycheck was gone.
Apparently before the sixth season of The Hills started filming the pair were really counting their spare change because they spent nearly all their money but then they signed up for the sixth season of the show, then he got fired. A source says…
“They were definitely in the hole at the end of last season. Their business manager was calling the house every day. They were tripping over their funds. When they got paid, everything seemed to be ok, they started filming the new season of The Hills and then Spencer got kicked off the show. So now he is freaking out.â€
The two of them can drum up any publicity stunt and it usually works because they get a ton of publicity from it but they obviously can’t manager their money because he spent $500,000 on those crystals her keeps going on about. He even said that when he recently checked his bank account he had just $203 left.
I don’t even care about Heidi Montag or Spencer Pratt but I do think someone needs to step because they both seem legit crazy and just pretend crazy.
source: Lack Of Money Drove Heidi & Spencer To The Edge [Radar Online]
It’s been over a year since Nicollette Sheridan was fired from Desperate Housewives, most people assumed it was fighting between the girls that caused her to be written of the show. This is not the case because she says creator of the show, Marc Cherry, hit her across the face.
Apparently on September 24, 2008, she questioned something in the script but this didn’t go down well at all with Cherry who then took her aside and slapped her across the head and face. When she went to her trailer he apparently ran after her to “beg forgiveness.”
Nicollete has now filed a lawsuit against Cherry asking for more than $20 million, she says that when she complained to ABC about his behavior he unfairly fired her from the show.
The lawsuit also says that he created a hostile work environment by “behaving in an extremely abusive and aggressive manner.” She also claims that he yelled at crew and other cast members including Teri Hatcher, who allegedly complained to ABC about him but Cherry’s response was simply “I hope Teri Hatcher gets hit by a car and dies.” ABC say they have yet to see Hatcher’s complaint but they found Nicollette’s complaint to be without merit.
So this is why Desperate Housewives became so shitty, all the good stuff was going on behind the cameras and not in front of the camera.
source: Sheridan: ‘Housewives’ Creator Attacked Me [TMZ]
Peaches Geldof is no longer the “face and body” of Ultimo underwear.
After nude pictures were released last week on Reddit.com by a man claiming to have done a bunch of heroin and then done a bunch of Peaches, Ultimo has decided that maybe Miss Geldof isn’t Miss Ultimo material.
A spokesman for Miss Ultimo lingerie made the following statement:
“We have been in meetings all morning with regards to the stories that have surfaced over the weekend about Peaches and unfortunately we have no option but to terminate her contract.”
“Miss Ultimo is a brand geared towards a young female audience and as a company we have a social responsibility to ensure we are promoting only positive role models that young women can aspire to. We are thus in the process of removing Peaches from the website and we are working with Debenhams to remove her visuals from all Miss Ultimo shops and window displays throughout the UK.”
Peaches has not been available for comment yet, but no one really cares what she has to say anyway.
Take this as a lesson, aspiring models… you don’t necessarily have to be attractive to be a model. You can even have shitty tattoos all over your mediocre body and be a model. However, you must not… must not have heroin fueled sex with a Redditor and then allow him to take pictures.
But if you do, God bless you.
Source: Peaches Geldof dropped by Ultimo [mirror.co.uk]
