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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.

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Madonna was the top of the pyramid before utilizing lesbionic tactics to score press.

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Cheerleaders Walking the Red Carpets

Cameron Diaz wore the oversized sweater and pleated skirt to show her school spirit.

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Sandra Bullock was riding in the cheer-mobile before she set foot on a doomed bus and rescued by Keanu Reeves.

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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.

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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.

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Cheerleaders Who Are Outwitted by Woodland Creatures and Small Children

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Need I say more?

Source: Celeb Cheerleaders [All Balls]

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Links To Hollywood - #79

Kim Kardashian’s Ass Goes Grocery Shopping - PIC

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 - PIC

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

Angelina Jolie’s Breasts Dipped in Gold - Allie is Wired

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Miss USA Slams Katie Couric

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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.

quote-pic“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]
Image courtesy of Picture Perfect, for use on Gone Hollywood

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Highest Paid Perfomers on Television

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.

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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.

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The AARP of America must be giving this lady some ratings love, because Judge Judy Sheindlin is third making $30 million a year.

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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

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Katie Couric Slapped a Staffer

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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.

quote-pic“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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Links To Hollywood - #55

Rehab Kicks Ass!  - PIC

Rehab kicks ass! - Celebslam

The evolution of Lil’ Kim - Celebrity Smack

Britney Spears‘ Publicist puts her on Hiatus - Seriously? OMG! WTF?

Tricia Helfer makes it cool to like Sci-fi - Fatback and Collards

Things just got REAL UGLY for Perez Hilton - Variety

Pete Doherty And Kate Moss Back On Crack - Ninja Dude

Jerry Seinfeld tells a Rape Joke - Nobody Laughs - Dlisted

Katie Couric: ‘I Want Out‘ - Popbytes

Riverdance Rap‘ - Bumpshack

Kate Hudson Gets Ready For Bachelor #2 - Popsugar

Justin Timberlake and Jessica Biel do Europe - Celebrity Warship

Britney Spears to Put a Restraining Order on Her Mother - X17

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Swimsuit Model Lauren Jones Becomes ‘Anchorwoman’

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.

quote-picLauren Jones Anchorwoman Swimsuit Photo 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.

Lauren Jones Anchorwoman WWE Cleavage Photo 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!

NewsbustersNoel 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.

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Katie Couric Panties

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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Celebrities: Why Make-Up Matters

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picture source: popbytes

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Network Switching May Not Have Been Good

Katie Couric is suffering the worst week yet as determined by the Nielsen Ratings. Was the switch from NBC to CBS a good move?

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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

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