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Guess The Upskirt - City Rag
Megan Fox Will Be Single For A Week - Ninja Dude
Lindsay Lohan Needs More McDonald’s - Celeb Warship
Marisa Miller: Hot Or Not? - F-Listed
Heather Mills Has Awful Hair - Celebrity Smack
Rosie O’Donnell No Longer Riding The Crimson Wave - Celeb News Wire
Was Rihanna Pregnant? - Popbytes
Paris Hilton Has A New Boy Toy - Fatback Media
Pete Doherty Voted The Sexiest Male? - Holy Moly
Kevin Federline Is Trying To Sell Kids’ Clothes? - Websters Is My Bitch
Jennifer Love Hewitt Says Size Doesn’t Matter - ICYDK
Hilary Duff Gets Attacked & Rescued - Pacific Coast News
Lindsay Lohan Looks Like A Duck - Celebslam
The Dame Talks To Dr. Drew Pinsky! - Hollywood Dame
Holly Madison & Criss Angel Have Called It Quits - Allie Is Wired
The network’s attempt to revive the primetime variety show failed to draw an audience Wednesday night, tying for the evening’s lowest-rated program.
A mere 5 million viewers tuned in for the 8 p.m. premiere of “Rosie Live,” with the program earning a 1.2 preliminary adults 18-49 rating. The telecast matched ABC’s recently canceled “Pushing Daisies” as the night’s lowest-rated program on a major broadcast network.
NBC had high hopes for the special and planned to expand the program into a series should viewers re-embrace the decades-old variety format. Other networks, too, were watching closely since several are developing variety shows of their own.
“There’s a notion that the climate is right for the genre to make a comeback,” emailed one executive at a rival network. “I guess we now know what not to do, thanks to Rosie.”
Segments included Kathy Griffin impersonating Nancy Grace, Alec Baldwin hitting Conan O’Brian with a pie, O’Donnell singing “City Lights” with Liza Minnelli and Jane Krakowski doing a product-placement-themed striptease for White Castle burgers and Crest Whitestrips.
Critics were not kind. The NY Times described it as “hokey comedy with an enemies list.” TV Guide called it a “ghastly ego trip.” And the LA Times asked, “Rosie, what on earth were you thinking?”
In a year filled with comebacks, is it time for Rosie O’Donnell to stage her return to TV?
“Multiple sources” have told Entertainment Weekly that the moody media mogul might soon return to television with her own weekly NBC primetime variety show.
The news comes just as the Peacock is said to be courting exiting Tonight Show host Jay Leno for a similar gig.
It’s possible O’Donnell’s series would be a fallback in case Leno defects to ABC after his late-night reign ends next year (as many expect he will).
NBC was unavailable for comment.
I wonder what Elisabeth will think of Rosie’s grand return?
Donald Trump’s reaction in 3… 2… 1…
source: NBC Primetime Looking Rosie (O’Donnell) [entertainment weekly]
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Donald Trump likes sticking his mouth in other people’s business.
The ‘Apprentice’ boss, who famously feuded with Rosie O’Donnell, is taking on another Hollywood woman. This time it’s ‘Get Smart’ star Anne Hathaway, MSNBC reports.
Trump thinks it was wrong of Hathaway to leave her boyfriend Rafaello Follieri just days before he was arrested for fraud.
“She hasn’t remained very loyal to him, has she?” Trump tells Access Hollywood.
“So when he had plenty of money, she liked him, but then after that, not as good, right?” he added.
Trump adds his thoughts on the disgraced businessman, who lived in one of Trump’s buildings.
“I’ve heard he’s very nice,” Trump said. “According to the help, no problems. But he’s got himself in a jam.”
Follieri, an Italian businessman who dated Hathaway for over 4 years, was arrested in June on charges he posed as a representative of the Vatican to fleece wealthy investors in a real estate company that sought to buy and redevelop Roman Catholic Church property.
Bail was set at $21 million. Federal prosecutors said they have “overwhelming” evidence that he improperly spent up to $6 million from investors, much of it on a lavish lifestyle, including privately chartered jet travel with his girlfriend and others, expensive meals and clothing and that apartment in one of Trump’s buildings.
source: Trump lashes out at Anne Hathaway [msnbc]
When Celebrities Whore Out Their Children - Dlisted
Jessica Biel Gets a Fat Lip - Ninja Dude
Album Faces - City Rag
Donda West Most Likely Died from Heart Disease - Mollygood
Tila Tequila Buys Clothes from a Hooker Store - Derek Hail
Got Milk Ad - Gone Wrong - Popbytes
Simon Cowell Talks the Idol’s Lost Record Deals - Celebrity Smack
Jessica Alba Pregnancy Bonus - Bigger Breasts - Egotastic
Erin McNaught in Australian FHM - Hollywood Tuna
Tyra Banks is Empty Inside - A Socialites Life
Madonna Spends 10K a Month on Kabbalah Water - Hollywood Rag
Marc Jacobs’s REALLY STRANGE Ad Campaign - Seriously? OMG! WTF?
We Love Celebrities Without Make-up - The Bastardly
Pete Wentz is Rather Strange - Flisted
Skating Champion Christopher Bowman Overdose Death - Bumpshack
Heidi Montag is Obsessed - Fatback and Collards
Ashlee Simpson Looks Hot in a Bikini - Celeb News Wire
Rosie O’Donnell and Elisabeth Hasselbeck Call a Truce - Gawker
Celebrity Look-alike Contest #2 is Underway - Allie is Wired
Rumor has it that Rosie O’Donnell is in talks with MSNBC to host her own prime time show, according the New York Times.
NBC execs would not confirm a timeslot or any other details because negotiations are still in progress. It’s possible she’d be up against “Larry King Live” on CNN and “Hannity and Colmes” on Fox News at 9 pm.
The girl brings ratings - you can’t argue with that.
Source: “Rosie O’Donnell to Host New Show on MSNBC?” [ET Online]
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Rosie O’Donnell joined the stage at Roseanne Barr’s during her late-night set at Comix.
Rosie started off by saying,
“When I was fired by Barbara Walters”
This is the first time she didn’t stick to “The View’s” spin that her departure from the show was by mutual agreement.
Daily Mail reports,
 Rosie claimed onstage that Walters and other “View” couch mates wear earpieces through which producers tell them what to say, which she refused to do.
Rosie also confided that she and the veteran newswoman were actually so close early on in her tenure as moderator that Walters recommended Rosie use Astroglide, which, she added, took her by surprise.
“But she paved the way for women,” Rosie allowed. “She interviewed Presidents … ”
“Like Abraham Lincoln,” snapped Barr.
What other’s said:
- Dlisted says, “We all knew about the earpiece thing, but ASTROGLIDE?! I totally figured Barbara for an old fashioned Vaseline kind of gal.”
- Jossip says, “And while we’re not particularly shocked by O’Donnell’s admission that Walters showed her the door, we are slightly traumatized by the fact that we’re now privy to Barb’s preferred brand of lubrication.”
source: Rosie O’Donnell: Barbara Walters Fired Me From ‘The View’ [daily mail]
Rosie O’Donnell infamously urged Americans not to fear the terrorists on “The View“. Now they want to return the favor by inviting Rosie to the Middle East, to um…hang out with them.
 “We welcome Rosie O’Donnell to stay among us and to get to know the truth from being here,” says one Ala Senakreh, the West Bank Chief of the Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades terrorist organization, to journalist Aaron Klein, author of “Schmoozing with Terrorists.” Aqsa is a Palestinian wackjob outfit that claims to have killed hundreds of Israelis in multiple suicide bombings since 2000.
Ro, of course, made serious waves when she told Elisabeth Hasselbeck and the “View” audience that people shouldn’t “fear the terrorists” because they’re “mothers and fathers,” and has pushed the conspiracy theory that the collapse of WTC 7 was engineered by the government. “When it comes from persons like Rosie, who you say is respected, it takes a more serious significance. I guess she knows what she is saying,” says Senakreh.
Yes, we asked Donald Trump for comment, but so far, he hasn’t taken this live grenade. And Rosie’s rep had a terse response: “Absurd.”
Jumpin’ Jihadi, that’s nuts!
source: Terrorists to O’Donnell — Hang with Us! [tmz]
Angelina Jolie has been modeling for St. John since September of 2005, but OK! magazine is reporting the relationship is over and Angie is being replaced.
 “Putting celebrities in campaigns is the biggest trend right now, everyone is doing it, but it didn’t work for St. John with Angelina,” a fashion industry insider explains to OK!. “The people that wear St. John just didn’t relate to her.”
Maybe that’s because the people who wear St. John are women like Condoleeza Rice and Hillary Clinton. That’s like putting Rosie O’Donnell in a Frederick’s of Hollywood campaign. Brilliant.
Source: “OK! Exclusive: Angelina Fired” [OK!]
Despite reports that Rosie O’Donnell turned down an interview about her new book ‘Celebrity Detox‘ with Oprah Winfrey, she has not opted to chat with Diane Sawyer instead.
Rosie simply says that she’s not ready to discuss or defend anything that she’s shared on the pages within.
Rosie clarified the situation via her blog:
ms winfrey
the book
was hard 2 write
things i could barely say aloud
alone in a room
made their way to the comp
thru the key board
or tape recorder
writing is
4 me
by far
the most revealing medium
2 work in
i do not feel ready
to discuss or defend
the things i shared
on those 209 pages
read it urself
take away what u need
leave the rest
it is what it is
the goal always is peace
self revelation
sharing - learning - teaching
balance
wax on wax off
for now
i decided no interviews
about celebrity detox
it is too raw
my no
has nothing 2 do with anything
but me
my need 2 find my place
within
oprah is a force of nature
her invitation made me cry
her kind words about the book
reinforces what we all know
2 b true about her
although fueds seems 2 b all the rage
there isnt one
regardless of what u read
or see on fast food tv
with pure intent
comes pure result
we pray
off 2 b dawn budge
in the other holy land
peace out peeps
What other’s said:
- Dlisted says, “Oprah is seriously like the Empress of Books! She’s probably calling every book store in the world demanding them to rip every page out of Rosie’s book.”
- Seriously? OMG! WTF? says, “OMG! We finally found something that silenced Rosie O’Donnell, here’s to hoping she spends a lot of more time writing and publicizing books about her life!”
source: No to Oprah! [page six]; Ro to O: No, No, No [tmz]
Donald Trump wants to save the ladies of Hollywood, and the best way he can think of is reality TV. Page Six reports that Donald is in talks with Britney Spears about appearing on his upcoming “Celebrity Apprentice”, and Paris Hilton has also expressed an interest in the show. Now Donald plans to call Lindsay Lohan to join in the fun.
 “We’re negotiating with Britney right now. Can you imagine her doing it?” Trump told Page Six. “We’re not sure what will happen. She’s a [bleep]ing mess. And that little reality show she had did nothing. But she likes the idea of being on television and I think she’d be great.” Hilton, he adds, “wants to be on, and we’re thinking about it, but I don’t know if we’re going to do it.”
And Lohan? “Another [bleep]ing mess. We haven’t asked her yet, but I’m going to call her this week. It would a positive thing for her to do . . . for all of them,” he says.
Other celebs already signed on for these Trump shinanigans include: Jim Cramer, Carmen Electra, Joan Rivers, Naomi Judd, George Foreman, original “Apprentice” villain Amorosa, Kimora Lee Simmons, Pete Rose, Dana Patrick, Tony Hawk and Jeff Gordon.
“There are more than a hundred others who want to be on the show,” Trump said.
One big name who definitely won’t appear is Rosie O’Donnell, who slung mud with Trump when she was on “The View.” After Trump recently said he’d consider having her on, her rep shot back, “It will not happen in this lifetime or beyond.”
In the celebrity version of “The Apprentice,” the stars will raise money for various charities during the competition in which they vie to work for Trump.
I like that Donald thinks calling these girls f–king messes is going to make them come a runnin’. The best part of the show would be watching these girls who hate each other try to get along while Jeff Gordon sits in the background so confused as to why he signed up for the crappy show.
Source: “TRUMP BID TO SAVE BIMBO TRIO” [Page Six]; Photo: Lindsay, Paris & Britney News
What Other’s Said:
- A Socialites Life says, I don’t see this happening, unless he’s having a free cocaine giveaway at every taping.
- Dlisted says, Trump needs to wake up and smell the Rogaine!
- The Evil Beet says, Donald Trump is making all of this up in order to get us talking about his show, which no one is going to watch because, come on, people, VH1 already has the monopoly on D-list trainwreck voyeurism. But, Donald, you have my word: if you can get Britney Spears on this thing, I will watch it. I will write about. So make it happen, buddy.
Rosie O’Donnell is vacationing in Miami, Florida and has apparently met with some hostility from a local. A biker accused Rosie of driving at him. She described the incident on her blog:
She claims she was driving out of a parking lot after dinner on Saturday when, “Along came a bald screaming infuriated man, it’s always a man I tell ya… As I buckled my belt he ran towards (our) car angry, ‘My motorcycle blah blah’. (I said) ‘chill dude - we didn’t touch it.’ This apparently did not calm him down, however, and soon there was name-calling. He got madder, pupils big - snorting like a dragon: ‘f—ing lesbians’. He screamed the trump card.”
Someone verbally attacked her in a car, and no one said anything while she was out on her boat looking, um, healthy and relaxed? Weird.
Source: “Biker Freaks Out on Rosie O’Donnell” [starpulse] Photo: tmz
The View made the official announcement today that Whoopi Goldberg is the new host to replace Rosie O’Donnell. However, Sherri Shepherd did not make the cut. Apparently the negotiations went awry when Sherri tried to get the same pay Whoopi was promised: $2 million. “They just couldn’t work out the money part of it,” an insider tells In Touch. “They weren’t willing to pay Sherri what she was asking for.”
Although the negotiations with Sherri aren’t necessarily over, In Touch reports that The View has also resumed its conversation with former CNN news anchor and syndicated radio host Jacque Reid, who has guest-hosted more than six times. Barbara and the other producers are committed to adding a fifth host to The View before the new season begins on September 4.
The saga continues… Now will Barbara just get it over with and call Kathy Griffin already?
Source: In Touch; Photo: Instapunk
MSNBC reports that The View is about announce the replacements for Rosie O’Donnell, and the winners are Whoopi Goldberg and Sherri Shepherd. Even though ABC would not comment on the news, saying “We have nothing to announce right now,” an executive of The View, who spoke on condition of anonymity because negotiations were ongoing, wouldn’t deny they were the top candidates.
What? No Kathy Griffin? She’s been my vote all along. And I’m not sure returning the show to a 5-member panel format is the way to go - it’s already chaotic with 4, and they’re going to add another voice to the mix? I just think it works better with four. But at least this way there’s a better chance of drowning out Elisabeth Hasselbeck.
Source: Right Celebrity
It’s official: Drew Carey will replace Bob Barker as the host of “The Price is Right.”
Genial comic Drew Carey was tapped Monday to replace silver-haired legend Bob Barker on the CBS daytime game show “The Price is Right.” The deal was set Monday afternoon shortly before a taping of CBS’ “Late Show” with David Letterman, where he confirmed it.
“I realize what a big responsibility this is,” he said. “It’s only a game show, but it’s the longest-running game show in American television and I plan to keep it that way.”
The selection attracted more attention than usual for a daytime show because of the prospect of replacing Barker, 83. Barker retired after 35 years in the job last month following taping of his 6,586th episode. The opening attracted widespread interest, including from comic Rosie O’Donnell after she left “The View.”
Carey, 49, spent a decade on his own ABC sitcom and also was host of the improvisational game show “Whose Line is It Anyway?” He will also be host of a new CBS prime-time game show, “The Power of 10,” that will air first next month. He told The Associated Press on Monday that CBS officials first contacted him about “The Price is Right” immediately after he completed a pilot of the other game show this spring. “My agent called me and said `I was talking to CBS casting today’ and in my head I was thinking, `Oh, `CSI’ guest star?’ And he said what would you think about replacing Bob Barker on `The Price is Right?’”
Asked if he found the prospect of replacing such a TV legend daunting, Carey recalled talking to a friend who knows the game show business who told him, “as long as Bob Barker is cool with it, the fans will be cool with it.” While he doesn’t know Barker, Carey said he’s comfortable that his predecessor will be accepting.
The negotiation process was nerve-racking. While he was talking with CBS about the job, Carey said he got a call from another lawyer in Hollywood who told him one of his clients was offered “The Price is Right” job. He figured CBS had lined up back-ups if the first choice did not come through. “If I was going after a second baseman, I wouldn’t just talk to one second baseman,” the Cleveland Indians fan said. “If I were the general manager, I would be talking to a few second basemen.”
Carey is a great choice. I must admit, it’s surprising that he’s 49, since I still think of him from the early days of his sitcom. Certainly, he’s a much safer choice than the obnoxious O’Donnell.
UPDATE: CBS just sent a press release touting the fact that Carey made the announcement on the Letterman show:
Drew Carey announced that he will become the new host of the Emmy Award-winning CBS game show “The Price is Right” during tonight’s taping of the LATE SHOW with DAVID LETTERMAN. Carey’s LATE SHOW interview will be broadcast tonight, Monday, July 23 (11:35 PM-12:37 AM, ET/PT) on the CBS Television Network.
“I actually had lunch with an AP reporter today, we had a big, long lunch,” Carey said. “I couldn’t tell him anything because we were negotiating the deal. And they approached me right after the pilot for ‘Power of 10,’ and they called me, I said, ‘No.’ Then they called me a month later, they said, ‘What if we really’ — they called my agent: ‘What if we really go after Drew.’ This is like a month later after I did the pilot for ‘Power of 10’ and I said, ‘Well, what does that mean?’ and he said, ‘Well, you know, I mean, maybe this kind of money.’ I go, ‘What kind of schedule?’ He said, ‘I don’t know,’ so I met with them and stuff and we’ve been negotiating ever since. Couldn’t say anything, but during your ‘Harry Potter’ bit — honestly it was like 15 minutes ago — they called me. It’s a done deal. I’m the new host of ‘The Price Is Right.’”
With the audience wildly applauding, Paul Shaffer and the CBS Orchestra played the theme to “The Price Is Right” in honor of Carey’s announcement. Letterman offered Carey his congratulations. Carey said that he’s not sure when he’s going to start working on “The Price Is Right,” but did say that already “my girlfriend was on the phone with a personal shopper from Bergdorf’s.”
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- DREW CAREY ANNOUNCES THAT HE WILL BE THE NEW HOST OF CBS’S ‘THE PRICE IS RIGHT’ DURING HIS APPEARANCE ON THE “LATE SHOW with DAVID LETTERMAN,” MONDAY, JULY 23 (emailed press release)
Photo courtesy “Late Show with David Letterman.”
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