March 2008 News Archive (Page 5)

On the second episode of The Bachelor, the first group of women receive their intriguing "date box" and find out that they'll be heading to a runway show.

When Ashlee, Kristine, Marshana, Noelle, Michelle, Amanda, Erin H, and Holly arrive at their destination, they find out they'll be the ones modeling clothing.

You know this is gonna be good from the get-go - and the drama only continued from there. Ultimately, it ended with many roses given out to the lucky ones, whereas several Bachelorettes received only tickets punched for home!

How did Matt Grant make his decision and whittle down the field?

Did Shayne Lamas make it? Who was this week's Stacey Elza?

Find out in our episode guide to The Bachelor!

With no eliminations in week one, that meant 12 hot performances in a jam-packed two-hour show last night on Dancing With the Stars.

As is usually the case, now is when Dancing With the Stars fans start to get a feel for who the real contenders - and the pretenders - might be.

Are you surprised that Kristi Yamaguchi and Mark Ballas again appeared to be the cream of this Dancing crop? Or that Mario and Karina are close behind?

Kristi Yamaguchi and Mark Ballas received 9s across the board.

Jason Taylor and Shannon Elizabeth also did well, while Monica Seles and Steve Guttenberg struggled a bit in week two. Not even the incredible Julianne Hough could salvage a rough second outing for Adam Carolla, either.

For the full 12-team rundown and all the scores and critiques, check out our thorough Dancing With the Stars recap and get up to date!

Dancing With the Stars favorite Maksim Chmerkovskiy claims a woman won't win the hit series because, frankly, women don't vote for other women.

Maksim may have a point there, but still, don't you think Kristi Yamaguchi has a decent shot this season? Have you seen a girl spin like she did last week?

Read Maksim's interview with Entertainment Weekly for more insight on Dancing With the Stars from a man who knows the ins and outs of the show like no other.

Tonight, Dancing With the Stars returns with a new episode at 8 p.m. on ABC. Who will deliver the night's top performances? We'll be watching for sure!

If Ellen DeGeneres is a fan, good things will come. American Idol 7 hopeful and darling of the audition rounds Josiah Leming has reportedly inked a record deal with Warner Brothers, according to Reality TV Magazine.

You may remember Josiah as the sad-looking teenager who had been homeless for the better part of a year, traveling the country and sleeping in his car.

Josiah Leming was one of the final cuts before American Idol's Top 24, and after his elimination there was an unexpected outcry among fans.

Leming was one of the more unique singers American Idol has ever seen. He didn't have a technically sound voice (he sang out of tune a great deal of the time) but the distinctiveness was both undeniable and almost haunting.

It appears that Josiah Leming made a big enough impression on the industry, and now owns a record deal thanks to the exposure of American Idol.

Last week, Amanda Overmyer got the boot from the reality show, leaving just 10 finalists remaining out of tens of thousands who have tried out.

Finally, Lauren Conrad and The Hills return with new episodes at 10 p.m. on MTV.

Below you will find another look at the trailer for The Hills' new season. This is the same preview we've posted in the past but it's the best - there's no telling what to expect Lauren and Whitney make it to Paris, Brody Jenner informs Lauren that he started dating someone else, or Justin-Bobby returns to Audrina's life.

That and so much Heidi and Spencer drama. Can you handle it?

On a drama-filled and, as always, skank-filled evening of reality TV, here's a look at what went down on a bunch of your favorite shows. Follow the links for more!

Rock of Love: Ambre gets the pass for being awesome. Destiney gets the pass in spite of being a groupie. Daisy gets the third pass, if there's no more lies. She says there's still more stuff she needs to tell Bret. Despite still reeking of puke, Jessica gets the last pass because she's there for the right reasons.

Big Brother: Adam may be smarter than he looks, or acts. Upon winning Head of Household last Wednesday, Adam immediately expressed his dissatisfaction with doing so. He wanted nothing to do with all the expectations and pressure. In the end, he put Chelsia and James on the block to break up that alliance.

That's Amore: Ashley and Domenico have a meeting of the minds, concluding that all the women are hot. It's a fair point. Kim gets the first flag. Talor gets the second one, crying the whole time. The final two girls step up, and Domenico calls Ashley in to give him an extra flag. All four are going to Italy!

Keeping Up with the Kardashians: Khloe pursues an acting career much to the dismay of Kim. Bruce gets a major style makeover. Kim and Kourtney Kardashian act like the spoiled, airheaded brats we have come to know... and love.

You gotta love when random, quasi-celebrity reality TV stars get together to go clubbing and give you an excuse to talk about them.

Former Laguna Beach star Kristin Cavallari hit the streets of Beverly Hills with pal Kourtney Kardashian Thursday, as they made their way to Foxtail nightclub.

Kourtney Kardashian, along with her fellow socialite sisters with misspelled names beginning with K, stars on Keeping Up with the Kardashians. 

Kristin is perhaps best known as the high school rival of Lauren Conrad, while Kourtney is the sister of Hollywood gossip mainstay Kim Kardashian.

Lauren Conrad is famous for being on reality TV.

But what The Hills star and so many other quasi-celebrities of her ilk really want is to run her very own merchandising empire.

The Hills' cameras have captured LC as a fashion intern and club-goer. Now, in an effort to translate her fame into a real fashion career, she and her father have assembled a team of Hollywood-industry advisers and signed several deals.

The process isn't always smooth, though, as MTV won't promote her enterprises on air, and Lauren Conrad, herself determined to assert her fashion vision, sometimes ignores the suggestions of her more seasoned advisers.

"I'm sure a lot of people don't take me seriously," she says.

Lauren Conrad at her recent L.A. Fashion Week show.

Many celebrities are trying to emulate the success of Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen, who parlayed roles on a TV sitcom into a multimillion-dollar conglomerate.

Lauren Conrad represents the next generation of branding - reality TV stars famous only for their willingness to let cameras into their private lives.

Last week, Ms. Conrad's nemesis on The Hills, Heidi Montag, announced her own plans to launch a clothing line opposite Lauren's.

And from E! reality show Sunset Tan, tanning-salon owners Devin Haman and Jeff Bozz recently came out with a line of tanning moisturizers.

Continue reading in the Wall Street Journal ...

Marvita was eliminated from America's Next Top Model this week. Below, she speaks with the Los Angeles Times about the experience:

What are you doing now, post-America's Next Top Model?
I'm just practicing posing. I'm back at home, back to working my normal retail job: I'm a cashier. But I love New York. I plan on moving there and looking for work.

How do you feel about the way you've come off on the show: Do you think it's an accurate portrayal of what you're like in real life?
To tell you the truth, the way I am in real life is just the same way I am on TV. Except that this last episode, I really didn't like it that much. I'm not like that, like when I was saying that I'm too ghetto for this. No.

Did Tyra give you any advice?
Last cycle she told me not to give up and I didn't; I came back. This cycle she said: "Your pictures are beautiful. You should go and do what you want to do."

Are you friends with any of the girls from the show?
I keep in touch with Amis; she's my best friend. I love Amis. We're so tight. In the bonus clips, we're in the house talking about moving in together. She's so cool.

Read the full interview now.

It's good to see Audrina Patridge has her peers' support.

Former Laguna Beach babe Kristin Cavallari is quite confident that the nude photos of Audrina released this week won't bring The Hills star down.

"She can move on from it," Kristin Cavallari told Us Weekly Thursday. She's young, she did her thing, whatever. She looks good. Her body is bangin'!"

The naked photos of Audrina Patridge - which Kristin Cavallari is apparently quite a big fan of - hit the web on Wednesday and became a hot (and sexy) topic.

"They were taken when I was just out of high school and beginning to model," Audrina Patridge, who's roommates with Lauren Conrad, said.

"I was naive, overly trusting of people and inexperienced," said Audrina Patridge, who later blogged that the photos were meant to be "artistic."