October 2008 News Archive

David Cook can't complain about life after American Idol.

But he can talk about how the show has changed his surrounding world.

"I think in one sense everything's changed, but in another sense nothing has," the reigning champion said recently. "There's all these different things around me that I didn't have a year ago. I was able to furnish a home and get a nice car and be able to treat my family to some of the things that I otherwise wouldn't have been able to do."

Other than that, though, the singer says everything is pretty much the same.

"I'm still a goober from the Midwest. Now I've just got a few more resources. I don't feel like the show changed me at all."

Cook will release his self-titled debut album on November 18. He describes his music as "eclectic rock" with some songs featuring lots of riffs and others that are "very piano driven and delicate."

We can't wait to hear it.

Sharon Osbourne has gotten to know the women on Rock of Love Girls: Charm School quite well.

And while she had some nice things to say about Angelique - ”she’s done porn, stripping, she just f***ing loves it and owns it and she’s just fantastic...” - the show's host doesn't possess the same sort of affection for Megan Hauserman.

“She said her ambition was to be a trophy wife. Oh God. Well she has got the f***ing brain of a peanut. She does have a pretty damn good body, but no f***ing brain. Her brain is between her legs. She told me she was an accountant and an estate agent.”

Considering Stylista, and the ongoing success of America's Next Top Model and Project Runway, reality TV is focusing more and more on the fashion world.

With that in mind, Bravo has announced it's picked up a new competition series called The Fashion Show.

The winner will be e chosen by viewers and will have his/her designs sold by a retailer.

"Bravo celebrates the very best in food, fashion, design, beauty and pop culture, and The Fashion Show is the next step in expanding our fashion affinity group, and the perfect complement to our successful fashion series Tim Gunn's Guide to Style and The Rachel Zoe Project," executive vice president and general manager of Bravo Media, Frances Berwick, said.

Please say this is merely a rumor, Dancing With the Stars. We know it's been a rough season, but one thing is certain:

Dina Lohan won't make anything better in the future.

The attention-starved mother of Lindsay and Ali recently hinted that she'll be a contestant on the next season of this reality competition.

"I'm not allowed to say," Lohan told New York Magazine of her upcoming plans. "But I will say that I am a fan of Dancing With the Stars.

Daughter Ali Lohan is supportive of her terrible mother.

"I mean, I've seen her dance on the show and everything, and me and my brother were really surprised she did it," Ali said. "I think she'd do really good."

Dancing with the Stars' seventh season is currently underway. Its next volume will premiere in early 2009.

This Sunday, on Rock of Love Girls: Charm School, Sharon asks the ladies to manage a rock band.

We're sure that goes over well...

This is getting creepy.

Lacey Schwimmer says she has been diagnosed with the same ailment, endometriosis, that has put Julianne Hough on the Dancing with the Stars shelf for a couple weeks.

“A few days ago, I started feeling very shaky, very weak, and I had awful cramps … I didn’t really know what was going on,” Lance Bass' partner told The Insider. “I went to go get checked out today and I
actually have the beginning onset of what Julianne has.”

For all non-doctors out there: endometriosis is a medical condition found in 5 percent to 10 percent of females; it ss the development of uterine-lining tissue outside the uterus on the
surfaces of organs, such as the appendix, in the pelvis or abdomen.

“It hurts very bad,” she said. “Right now I’m insanely weak, and the room is spinning.”

But, for now, Schwimmer won’t require surgery. Look for her to be getting down with Bass on next week's show.

“I have medication that is taking care of it,” she said. “We caught it at a very good time.”

On last night's episode of America's Next Top Model, Halloween came early.

Forget ghosts and goblins, when one of the girls needed to be rescued from her awful "suburban mom" wardrobe choice, Miss J. Alexander provided viewers with the scariest thing they'll see this week: Her with no pants on!

We haven't seen much of her on The Hills in recent weeks - maybe that's due to the fact that she's filming her own spin-off, The City, 3,000 miles away!

Below, Whitney Port and her musician-model beau, Jay Lyon, share an embrace at a photo shoot for The City - where else - in NYC on Wednesday ...

"CITY" GIRL AND GUY: Australia native Jay Lyon and The Hills' Whitney Port are supposedly dating. We will find out in her spin-off series come 2009.

Screaming contestants and screeching ambulance sirens highlighted the second-ever episode of Stylista.

While Megan and Kate continued with one of the fastest-growing feuds on reality TV, poor Jason was taken to the hospital with a case of the hives. Read all about it now with this complete Stylista recap.

A Stylista team navigates the streets of Chinatown.

Joe Zee is the Creative Director of Elle.

In the interview below, Zee talks about his position, along with The CW's new reality show on which he stars, Stylista.