August 2008 News Archive (Page 7)

Visitors to Times Square in New York City are likely familiar with The Naked Cowboy.

This is a man - dressed in his underwear and a cowboy hat - that sernades tourists on the sidewalks. And he's just landed his own reality show!

The series will be developed by the producers of the upcoming Hulk Hogan's Celebrity Championship Wrestling and is described as American Idol for street performers.

However, unlike the lesson Simon Cowell tries to hammer home every week - this is a singing competition! - the new show will be style over substance.

"I'm looking for character more than anything," said The Naked Cowboy. "You could be the greatest musician in the world, but if you stand in jeans and a T-shirt next to me, no one will notice you."

Polish up those vocal chords and get out those thongs, people!

On Monday, the official announcement of this season's Dancing with the Stars cast will be made. But we've stumbled upon the following list, courtesy of a fairly reliable celebrity gossip site, and wanted to share it with our readers now.

The following quasi celebrities are rumored to be taking the floor this fall...

* Kim Kardashian: Reality TV star, Reggie Bush's girlfriend
* Lance Bass: Former NSYNC member
* Toni Braxton: Grammy-Award winning
* Brooke Burke: Model and television host
* Maurice Greene: Track and field athlete
* Cody Linley: Young actor, has appeared on Hannah Montana
* Susan Lucci: Soap opera veteran of All My Children
* Warren Sapp: Retired NFL defensive lineman
* Misty May-Treanor: 2004 and 2008 Olympic champion volleyball player
* Ted McGinley: Actor, appeared on Married with Children
* Mark McGrath: Former lead singer of Sugar Ray, host of Extra
* Cloris Leachman: Actress, appeared in Spanglish
* Jeff Ross: Stand-up comic

What do you think of the cast? Any early favorites?

Look out Heidi Montag and Lauren Conrad! Rich girls from the nation's capital are about to steal your spotlight.

Lifetime has announced plans to air six episodes of Blonde Charity Mafia. Just think of it as The Hills in Washington, D.C.

The show will star Katherine Kennedy, Krista Johnson (pictured) and Sophie Pyle, young socialites that may not be known now... but give them a few months, a few sex tape rumors and a few scripted lines of dialogue!

Casting for the series was done completed earlier this year with help from Late Night Shots, an online forum for hard-partying preppies in Georgetown. No word yet on when the first episode will air.

Matt Hoover sure is The Biggest Loser.

The season two champion on that reality show is being sued by Clarissa Sanford. She claims she hired Hoover in 2006 to be her personal trainer at Vision Quest Sports and Fitness in King County, Washington.

According to celebrity gossip site TMZ, Sanford alleges Hoover was late and careless in that role. Moreover, he failed as a spotter! The moron walked away while she was bench pressing 40 pounds of weight. By the time he returned, the weight crashed down on Clarissa's neck.

Sanford says she suffered "serious neck injuries which ultimately required a five-level fusion surgery from the C3 through C7 levels of her cervical spine." She's suing Hoover and VQS for unspecified damages.

On last night's episode of Project Runway, the designers were surprised by Season 4 designer Chris March, dressed completely in drag.

The night's theme will be all about drag queens and the contestants will get to show off their outrageous, over-the-top designs.

The designers meet with Tim Gunn, who tells them that their outfits will be auctioned off for Broadway Cares: Equity Fights AIDS.

The drag queens visit the studio to meet with their designers and give their input before the materials are bought for the outfits.

Some of the ideas thrown out there are sexy, fiery, futuristic, bright, and retro. The clients come in for their fittings. 

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Some hectic $h!te has gone down in the Big Brother house since last week.

Libra Thompson has been evicted, as accurately predicted by Reality TV Scoop. And anyone who's even glanced at the show.

Also correctly noted by us? The rise of Dan Gheesling. The supposed weakest link appears to be gaining strength by the day.

Here are our updated Big Brother power rankings (due to the insane show and people involved, these are subject to change) ...

8. April Dowling. April has been the puppet-master of this house after Libra, but it looks like her run is nearing its end.

7. Jerry MacDonald. Gramps is in the #7 spot by default, as he's nominated for eviction tonight. But we think Jerry's got the votes to stay, and is not necessarily in a bad position going forward. Especially with the way he keeps winning PoV.

6. Bryan Ollie. Even though Dan didn't use the PoV on Jerry to try to get Ollie out, he's got a bulls-eye on his back.

5. Keesha Smith (below, right). For some reason, Keesha really gets on our nerves. Call us crazy, but we suspect this factor to eventually get her kicked out of a house full of people who actually have to live with her.

4. Memphis Garrett (above, left). Memphis' stock falls just a little because he seems to be emerging as a bit of a threat in the eyes of several houseguests. He's still got the smarts and the skills to last awhile, though.

3. Michelle Costa. Unpredictable outbursts and weird ties to Jessie Godderz notwithstanding, she seems to know what she's doing. Emphasis on seems to. Her success so far may be mere serendipity. Stay tuned.

2. Renny Martyn. Renny's looking good - far better than we expected - but the only question is whether her recent turn as HoH has stoked bad feelings among some of the people she's schemed against.

1. Dan Gheesling. Our #1 last week and our #1 again today. Despite being America's Player, he's kept the heat off his own a$$ remarkably well. Dan Gheesling is our tentative favorite to win this thing right now.

A tiny bit of faith in humanity has been restored.

It may have taken viewers a few weeks, but they finally stopped giving Denise Richards the attention she tried to garner via exploitation of her children and late mother. Her ridiculous reality show, Denise Richards: It's Complicated, has been canceled.

“The numbers started out pretty good - just over 1.5 million tuned into the premiere episode. But the audience has dropped off. Denise has turned into an unappealing reality star,” a source told TV show The Insider.

Smile for the camera, kida. Mommy paid the photographer to be here!

According to the same insider, people were turned off by the actress' constant use of bad language, as the source said “viewers were disgusted that a mother of two young girls would use such foul language.”

The fact that a mother of two young girls was even involved in a reality show ought to have been enough to turn everyone off, but we're not complaining. At least the horrific human being is off the airwaves now.

Count Janice Dickinson among those that support America's Next Top Model casting a transgender contestant.

"I see nothing wrong with transgender," Dickinson told Reality TV World about Isis King. "I think it's wonderful if the world would catch up to speed."

Janice Dickinson has huge lips, giant breasts and an unstable mind.

Isis hails from Prince George's County, Maryland and identifies herself as "a woman born physically male. She'll compete aginst 13 other aspiring models when the hit reality show premieres on Septemer 3.

Take that, Michael Phelps.

Proving that when life gives you lemons, one can make reality TV lemonade, rejected Bachelorette finalist Jason Mesnick has signed on to be the new Bachelor when the ABC series returns in January 2009.

The hunky single dad from Seattle had been all primed to propose to DeAnna Pappas, ring and everything, when she stopped him from getting down on one knee, leaving him — and millions of viewers — crushed.

Instead, she opted for 26-year-old snowboarder Jesse Csincsak.

Now Jason Mesnick gets another shot at making the perfect match.

The hunt is on for 25 women willing to bare their hearts, souls and claws.

Per ABC, the 32-year-old divorcé is now "looking for a woman who has a real curiosity about the world, who loves life and can find passion in life’s smallest moments." All on a reality TV show, of course.

Others rumored to be in consideration to star on The Bachelor included fellow DeAnna Pappas rejects Graham Bunn and Jeremy Anderson.

Yes, really.

Despite his reputation as ... well, the Devil, Spencer Pratt says he is finding faith thanks to girlfriend Heidi Montag.

"I’m a work in progress. I’d never been to church until I met Heidi," The Hills star said in a radio interview with E!

"She got me to go. It was a big step. The walls shook a little bit as I first cruised in, but Jesus and I are making the connection."

Spencer Pratt didn't stop there.

"I’m trying to live a more positive, holy life, but it takes work," the 25-year-old added. "It’s hard not sinning, you know?"

So when Mary-Kate Olsen said that Spencer had a bad temper, for example, "my natural Spencer Pratt had to attack," he admits.

So he fired off a statement calling her the "less cute" twin.

"Heidi is sitting there going, ‘What would Jesus do? What would Jesus do?’" Pratt recalls. "And I’m like, ‘Jesus gave me these great comebacks.' And she’s like, ‘No, that’s the devil.’"