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Lindsay Lohan Wreaks Havoc Wherever She Goes - Socialite Life
Jennifer Love Hewitt Wants To Get Married! - Hollywood Dame
Katie Couric Mocks Sarah Palin - Celebitchy
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Paris Hilton Was Sacha Baron Cohen’s First Choice - Anything Hollywood
Photos Surface Of Chris Brown & Rihanna In Bed - Allie Is Wired
Kim Kardashian’s Crotch Block - City Rag
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Shia LaBeouf With A Bag On His Head - Holy Moly
Gemma Atkinson Hides Her Breasts - F-Listed
The Barack Obama Action Figure - Celebrity Smack
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Life According To Your Lady Parts - College Candy
Kim Kardashian Is Happy About Her Razzie Nomination - Celeb News Wire
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Amy Winehouse Is A Super Hero - Fatback Media
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Fiery Gossip Girl Divorce Cools Down - Popeater
Lily Allen Has An Exciting Life - Celeb Warship
Brad & Angelina Are Better Than You - Celebslam
Page Six Won’t Let Jeremy Piven Be Great! - DListed
Whitney Port Was On Tyra Banks’ Show - Just Jared
McSteamy Breaks His Penis - Best Week Ever
Alessandra Ambrosio In St. Barts - The Bastardly
Lady Gaga Is Keeping Things Interesting - Drunken Stepfather
Verne Troyer & The Real Baby - Defamer
Cameron Diaz Puts The ‘Skinny’ Back In Jeans! - Pacific Coast News
Natali Thanou In Max Magazine - Derek Hail
Aretha Franklin’s Inauguration Hat Is Flying Off The Shelves - Celebitchy
Katie Couric To Be The First Interviewer For Captain Sullenberger - Hollyscoop
Katie Price Is A Beat Up School Slut - Hollywood Tuna
Wentworth Miller Looks Like A Dork - Gabby Babble
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Paris Hilton’s BFF About To Get The Ax - Yeeeah!
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Cheerleaders Turned Musical Mavens
Paula Abdul was a dance squad queen before she became the drunk we all know and love today. Rock on with your Sharpie sniffing margarita filled rump.
Madonna was the top of the pyramid before utilizing lesbionic tactics to score press.
Cheerleaders Walking the Red Carpets
Cameron Diaz wore the oversized sweater and pleated skirt to show her school spirit.
Sandra Bullock was riding in the cheer-mobile before she set foot on a doomed bus and rescued by Keanu Reeves.
Lindsay Lohan first used her cheerleading uniform to root for the home team before using it to lure greasy socialites to her bed. I am sure it will be great for her future street corner tricks.
Cheerleaders Who Would Later Fall in Love With Botox and Paxil
Katie Couric practiced her scissor kicks before joining the D-list celeb news anchors. Oh how the mighty fall.
Cheerleaders Who Are Outwitted by Woodland Creatures and Small Children
Need I say more?
Source: Celeb Cheerleaders [All Balls]
Kim Kardashian’s Ass Goes Grocery Shopping - Ninja Dude
Hayden and Milo Deny Doing It - Fatback and Collards
John Travolta Makes Out with Kirk Douglas - Celebslam
They Smell, Bite, and Crawl Where They Shouldn’t - Seriously? OMG! WTF?
Tom Cruise to be Cast as Hugh Hefner - Celeb News Wire
Paris Hilton is Enjoying the Fiji Water a Tad Too Much - Popbytes
Real Life Beauty and the Beast - Dlisted
Vanessa Minnillo in Talks with Playboy - Egotastic
Zac Efron Gets Flowers from the Paparazzi - Just Jared
Richard Simmons Gives Good Pose - A Socialites Life
Celebrity Plastic Surgery Makeovers - City Rag
What Happened to Tom Cruise’s Other Kids? - Celebitchy
Rihanna In FHM Mexico - Pop On The Pop
Adriana Lima is Santa’s Helper - The Bastardly
Dallas Cowboy Cheerleaders Getting Dirty - TMZ
Kat Von D at the Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show - Splash News Online
Katie Couric Hates Dan Rather - Gawker
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Remember Miss USA Rachel Smith, the contestant who fell on her ass during the pageant? Well, she’s back making news again, this time for talking smack on Katie Couric. Rachel says she’s hoping to launch a career in journalism.
 “I always wanted to be a reporter — maybe some TV. Who knows? Some serious news — but some modeling, too,” Smith said at the Women in Entertainment Empowerment Network event last week, reports the New York Daily News. “I just don’t want to end up like Katie Couric. I want people to take me seriously.”
Katie’s rep responded, “If she continues to offer such profound insight, she will not have to worry about anyone taking her seriously.” That quote’s better than Rachel’s. Smooth, Rachel, smooth.
Source: “Miss USA Disses Katie Couric” [Star]
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Everyone knows Oprah Winfrey is the highest paid television talent by far. But the rest of the list may surprise you.
Oprah makes an astonishing $260 Million a year to host her talk show.
Coming in second is the infamous Simon Cowell. He has made ‘American Idol’ what it is, but still only makes %17 percent of what Oprah does. Don’t get me wrong, I think anyone would take $45 million a year, even if they had to sit by Paula Abdul all the time.
The AARP of America must be giving this lady some ratings love, because Judge Judy Sheindlin is third making $30 million a year.
Rounding out the top 5 are Katie Couric (for now) with $15 million a year and Zach Braff. Can you believe this douche bag makes $6.3 million a year starring in ‘Scrubs.’ No wonder half of hollywood will humor him with one date.
Source: contactmusic
 New York Magazine, in an article headlined “I have days when I’m like, ‘Oh my God, What did I do?’ KATIE COURIC’S IMPOSSIBLE YEAR”, reports that Katie Couric slapped an editor after he added the word ’sputum’ to the script.
“The stress has caused her to blow up at her staff for small infractions on the set,” charges NEW YORK magazine reporter Joe Hagan, in a story set for publication on Monday.
“During the tuberculosis story in June, Couric got angry with news editor Jerry Cipriano for using a word she detested— ’sputum’ —and the staff grew tense when she began slapping him ‘over and over and over again’ on the arm, according to a source familiar with the scene. It had seemed like a joke at first, but it quickly became clear that she wasn’t kidding.”
Apparently Couric even admits this to the magazine, saying “I sort of slapped him around” after she got aggravated. But she says she has a good relationship with Cipriano. “We did ban the word sputum from all future broadcasts. It became kind of a joke.”
A CBS insider says Couric slapped the staffer in a playful manner: “Look, it wasn’t serious, whatsoever.”
Katie Couric has had a rough year, struggling with ratings after her switch to the CBS Evening News. I bet there was no slapping going on at the Today Show.
Source: Drudge Report, Photo: The Bushido Way
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Hollywood Reporter’s Paul J. Gough (no relation, presumably, to WSJ’s Paul Gigot) notes that some people are none to happy with Fox making hot model Lauren Jones a TV anchorwoman as part of a reality show.
 An upcoming Fox reality series about a model-turned-TV journalist is causing a stir in the East Texas city where “Anchorwoman” is being produced.
Model Lauren Jones arrived last week in Tyler, Texas, for a 30-day stint at KYTX-TV, a CBS affiliate, that will include co-anchoring the 5 p.m. newscast today. Jones, who was cast for the show by Fox 21 and the G Group, has been undergoing behind-the-scenes preparation as a reporter and anchor, her every move taped by a 40-member crew. “Anchorwoman” will run on Fox beginning in late August.
 Jones is a swimsuit model and actress whose credits include WWE’s “SmackDown!” and “The Guiding Light.” She has no journalism experience; the show will be about whether Jones can hack it in TV news. She arrived in Tyler a week ago and has been put through what a station official calls intensive training in how to read a TelePrompTer and report stories on her own.
TV newsrooms have been a staple of TV shows for years, perhaps most successfully with “The Mary Tyler Moore Show.” Upcoming Fox sitcom “Back to You,” starring Kelsey Grammer and Patricia Heaton, will keep the genre alive. But this is the first time that a reality series will feature someone with no journalism experience who will be thrust into a job surrounded by real journalists. It has raised concerns inside and outside KYTX. “One of the last sacred grounds of integrity in local television is the local newsroom, so I guess I would say I’m disappointed to see a station, much less one in our own community, that has evidently sold its integrity,” said Brad Streit, vp and GM for KLTV-TV, the ABC affiliate in Tyler.
Yes, because, Lord knows, local TV affiliates never use hot babes with less journalistic experience to boost ratings of the newscasts. And, certainly, CBS would never hire a perky woman known more for her great legs than her reporting chops to anchor a newscast!
Newsbusters‘ Noel Sheppard suspects that what these people are “most concerned about is the likelihood that Jones will be able to read those teleprompters and smile for the cameras with equal aplomb as those making millions doing the very same thing.” Quite likely.
Certainly, France’s Melissa Theuriau has been able to juggle reading the news with a “modeling” career.
Katie Couric hates the words “panties” and “celebrity.” She tells Esquire what she’s learned in a special feature in the current issue:
I didn’t dress up in a blazer and sit at a desk when I was a little girl and read the news, so my life has unfolded in a way that I haven’t really had that much control over. I never went searching for the Today-show opportunity—I never saw myself in that role. I never really saw myself in this role. Timing has been everything for me in my life. It’s been interesting so far. It’s been challenging.
Being the youngest of four, I developed a certain amount of wily charm that got me through when maybe my brains weren’t sufficient.
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Celebrity. I hate that word.
I hate the word panties. It’s a cheesy word for underpants.
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Oh, my God, I’m so boring.
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I’m in a bit of a box.
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My younger daughter read something on some AOL blog, and it really bothered her. I said, “When people say something like that, they’re not talking about me as a person, they’re talking about me as a commodity.” I said, “Please, don’t take it personally for me.”
You guys even take a shot at me. You have something in the November issue, something about how since I’ve become an anchor, you don’t know me anymore. You don’t know me anymore? Bite me.
Those aren’t the most poignant things she said–she lost her 42-year-old husband to cancer a few years back–but certainly the most Google worthy. Jossip’s David asks, “Let This Post Be the First Google Listing for Searches on ‘Katie Couric Panties.’”
We’ll settle for second here. After all, I read that Esquire story a couple days ago and never once thought about a blog entry aiming at the “Katie Couric Panties” search audience. Damn that Jossip!
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Katie Couric is suffering the worst week yet as determined by the Nielsen Ratings. Was the switch from NBC to CBS a good move?
The fifth week was the toughest for Katie Couric, whose viewership on the “CBS Evening News” has dropped each week since her debut the day after Labor Day.
Her broadcast averaged 7.04 million viewers last week, third to NBC’s “Nightly News” (8.56 million) and ABC’s “World News” (7.97 million), according to Nielsen Media Research.
CBS points out that the “CBS Evening News” is the only one of the three network newscasts with more viewers last week than the same week a year earlier. NBC’s margin of victory last year was 2.2 million.
“Where we were last week or even in the weeks to come is not as important as where we are next year and even the year after that,” said CBS News President Sean McManus. “As we have said from the very beginning, we are focused on the long term and on making slow and steady progress, which we are doing.”
But the steady erosion is a discouraging sign, especially after 13.6 million people tuned in for Couric’s first broadcast.
Last week was a strong one for ABC’s “World News,” which sent anchor Charles Gibson to Amish country to follow up the school shooting story; neither Couric nor Brian Williams traveled for that story. ABC News may also have benefited from Brian Ross leading the way on the scandal involving congressional pages.
Asked whether he believed the decision to keep Couric in New York hurt CBS, Hartman said: “You can overthink things, and I’m trying not to, because it’s such a long-haul deal.” source
The third cycle of ABC’s Dancing With the Stars had its biggest start yet as 20.2 million viewers tuned in Tuesday. I’ll have to admit, I haven’t been able to catch it on TV yet… but I’m dying to watch Jerry Springer cut a rug! He just looks so out of place to me.
•Dance fever. That’s up from 17.5 million for January’s opener and 13.5 million for its start as a regular series in summer 2005, and trails only the two previous finales. Wednesday’s first results show averaged 16.3 million.
•Survivor race. Despite massive publicity from its controversial sorting of teams by race, the Survivor: Cook Islands premiere averaged 18 million viewers Thursday, down from 18.4 million last fall to the smallest opening audience since the series’ first season. The Amazing Race 10 opener averaged 10.1 million viewers Sunday, also down slightly. Tuesday’s Big Brother finale averaged 8.4 million, up from 8.1 million last September. And Wednesday’s Rock Star: Supernova capper (7 million) was down from 7.8 million.
•Gridiron. ESPN’s Monday Night Football debut (12.6 million) set a channel record; a late second game was solid at 10.5 million. NBC’s Sunday game drew 18.4 million, vs. last week’s 22.6 million.
•Trees fall. A special preview of ABC dramedy Men in Trees averaged 11.7 million viewers following Dancing on Tuesday, then withered to a still-first-place 8.1 million in Friday’s regular time slot premiere.
•House divided.Dancing also proved potent against Fox’s Tuesday dramas: House fell to 15.2 million, down 23% from last week’s season opener, while Standoff (9 million) dropped a steep 34%.
•Katie comedown. The CBS Evening News With Katie Couric clung to a razor-thin lead last week, averaging 7.9 million viewers, down from 10.2 million for Couric’s much-hyped debut a week earlier. NBC finished second with 7.83 million, up from 7.1 million; ABC had 7.53 million, up from 6.9 million. (Night by night at right.)
•Whose network? The debut week was weak for MyNetwork TV, which replaced WB or UPN programming with telenovelas on many stations. Desire averaged 1.2 million for its Sept. 5-8 premiere week, and Fashion House claimed 1.3 million, little more than half the audience for UPN summer repeats.source
Well she’s finally surfaced! Here’s the first pic of Suri Cruise, along with Tom & Katie, on the cover of Vanity Fair. Katie Couric first showed the picture on the CBS Evening News. It’s either their baby… or it’s some doll with a bad toupee slapped on it!
Anna Quindlen argues that it’s long past time to let the Miss America pageant die with dignity.
Feminism killed off Miss America, but not in the way originally intended or predicted. It didn’t manage to overthrow unrealistic and bizarre standards of female beauty; if it had, Hollywood wouldn’t be chockablock with bobblehead starlets who think an oyster cracker is an entree. And it didn’t succeed in liberating women from being seen as sex objects, not when porn star Jenna Jameson can natter away on television about her career as though she were a bank manager.
But the revolution offered women many more outlets for the pursuit of power and prominence, outlets in which they didn’t have to walk around in the truly strange combo of swimsuit and stiletto heels. And make no mistake: the pageant was about the single-minded pursuit of power and prominence at a time when women had to pretend little interest in either. (Apparently the pageant folks ditched the Miss Congeniality title because all the contestants voted for themselves.) When I was a kid, Miss America had clout. Schools and hospitals and rubber-chicken dinners jockeyed to get her to come and say a few words. Incredible as it seems today, everyone knew her face. Like Paris Hilton, but with white gloves. And clothes.
A good line although, technically, Paris Hilton pretty much always has clothes on, except in her infamous sex video.
There are better contests today, with much better prizes. Katherine Anne Couric, from the great state of Virginia, wins the anchor seat at CBS and a reported annual salary equal to the gross national product of an emerging nation. Hillary Rodham Clinton, resident of New York, waits in the wings (or at least the Senate) for a possible stint as the leader of the free world. Granted, both require tap dancing and fixed smiles. But the white gloves are off and there are no dummies involved.
Some institutions simply run their course, falling beneath the wheels of progress. It happened to Schrafft’s, and John Wanamaker’s. But at least they died with dignity and aren’t hanging around, trying to remake themselves as McDonald’s with mac and cheese, or Old Navy with a tearoom. The people who run the pageant are embarrassing themselves and all the Miss Americas who were Miss America when Miss America meant something, although no one was entirely clear what it was. Kids get to stay up until midnight all the time now. Jiffy Pop goes in the microwave. And Miss America is cooked. Let it go. Just let it go.
While it doubtless true that winning the Miss America pageant is no longer the pinnacle of achievement for women, Quindlen undermines her argument throughout the piece, with its references to porn stars, reality television, and other cultural competitors. The pageant died, not because young girls aspired to anchor the network news or be president but because it has been rendered incredibly lame by the passage of time.
By trying to be all things to all people–a “scholarship pageant,” a talent show, a platform for cultural awareness, and a beauty contest–it wound up being amateur hour. Other television venues do all of those things better. Want smart people demonstrating knowledge of trivia? Try “Jeopardy” or “Who Wants to Be a Millionaire.” Amateur talent shows? The old “Star Search” and now “American Idol” don’t have baton twirling. Want to see some skin? There’s Cinemax and pay-per-view and the Internet.
Frankly, a girl would be better off trying to be the next Miss America than the next Katie Couric. The skill set is about the same–cute, perky, nice legs, and poise under pressure–and the odds much better. And winning a beauty contest is probably a more promising route to being a television news reader or morning chat babe than J-school. Not that the two are mutually exclusive, anyway.
And Hillary Clinton? Please. The woman is incredibly bright, to be sure, having graduated at the top of her class at Yale Law. But almost everything she has accomplished has been by virtue of having hitched herself to Bill Clinton’s wagon. You can’t get much more 1950s than that.
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