May 2009 News Archive

Holly Montag isn't shedding any tears over Lauren Conrad's decision to leave The Hills.

While Heidi's sister told E! News she has "no doubt [Lauren will] be a successful designer," she also didn't hesitate to sing the praises of LC's replacement on the show, Kristin Cavallari.

"I think Kristin's openness is going to be far more entertaining than anything Lauren had to offer," Holly told E!, adding:

"Lauren's always been very conservative, which is good for her values, but Kristin just wants to put everything on the line because she thinks reality is real. Kristin doesn't hide anything. She's seriously the most real girl you'll meet in reality television."

Isn't that like being the best player on the Washington Nationals?

What have Tameka “Tiny” Cottle Antonia “Toya” Carter done to deserve their own reality show?

They've taken part in a relatively obscure hip hop ground named Xscape and given birth to two babies sired by rapper T.I. (Cottle); and gotten divorced from Lil’ Wayne (Carter).

According to BET, Tiny and Toya will be based in Atlanta. It will follow the lives of these BFFs, as they strive “to find inner-strength, peace and purpose."

Tameka “Tiny” Cottle, seen here being licked by T.I., is coming to reality TV.

Thank you, Bravo!

Earlier this week, the network aired a Real Housewives of New York City special, taking viewers behind the scenes of its hit series.

Here are a handful of unforgettable quotes from the installment and its handful of unforgettable Housewives:

“What is this McCord-VanKempen? What is that? She’s so close to him that they practically walk together as one unit, and yet she retained her name? If they were born as Siamese twins they would look exactly the same way.”
– Gloria, Jill Zarin’s mom, on Silex

“Wouldn’t it be funny if I just took my top off?”
– Bethenny Frankel, hanging with her topless gay friends on Fire Island

“You may look at me and say, ‘Oh yeah, she’s pretty, she has a good body,’ but guess what? My business head? Ten times better than my beauty.”
– Ramona Singer, on her business acumen

“In these times when banks are closing and people are freaking out and nobody has any money and people are putting money underneath their mattresses, maybe I can lean down a little bit and donate clothes to people who really need it.”
– Kelly Bensimon, on charitable endeavors

“I’ve never worn anything ugly.”
– Kelly, on her wardrobe

“It’s not that I’m not comfortable with my body. I walk around my house naked all the time.”
– Bethenny, on a second date with a photographer

“If Simon were gay, he would be out and proud and marching and he would have a rainbow flag tattooed on his forehead!”
–Alex McCord, answering viewer questions about her husband

Do you have penetration with these guys on the show?
- Chelsea Handler to Daisy De La Hoya

We can't figure out if the booking agents for Chelsea Lately are desperate or awesome.

All we know is that this talk show host spoke to Real and Chance earlier in the week, and then followed that up by interviewing Ms. Daisy of Love herself.

Sadly, De La Hoya won't identify the contestants that have been penetrating her, though she does describe herself as a "new-aged kind of nun." Very, very new-aged, we guess.

Enjoy the clip now:

Adam Lambert finished second on American Idol.

But does that mean the popular runner-up has any regrets about his experience on the show? Nope, he tells OK! in a new interview. Here are a couple excerpts from it:

On regrets from the show: I really don’t have any regrets. I think everything went really well. Clearly, I mean I got to the end, which is all I wanted out of  it. It wasn’t about the title. It wasn’t about the judge’s approval. It was about staying on the program as long as possible and getting to utilize it as a platform.

On comparisons to Kris Allen: Kris and I are definitely very different as artists, and it's up to the viewers at home or the listeners at home. It’s what they like, and some people want the mellower, earthy, human, boy-next-door kind of thing. And some people want escape and party and over-the-top. It depends on what you like.

Click on these Adam Lambert photos to enlarge images of the star from his time at the OK! stuido.

On behalf of every man in America, we hope the answer to our headline-imposed question is: YES!!!

Earlier this week, Erin Andrews, a reporter for ESPN, said she wants to compete on Dancing with the Stars.

"I want to do it, because I think I'd be good at it," Andrews told The Sporting News. "I love the show, and I've grown up around dancing... I think I'd be in the top, unless I fall. I'm a big faller. If you fall, that's a hard fall, which I'm sure would make the Internet very happy."

Fellow ESPN personality Kenny Mayne put on Dancing shoes a couple seasons ago, but...

"I love Kenny Mayne very much, he's a friend of mine," Andrews said. "But I need to help ESPN's name on Dancing With the Stars. He did nothing for us on that show."

Big Brother simply won't die.

CBS has announced the premiere date for the 11th installment of this mind-numbing TV show; look for it to debut on on Thursday, July 9.

Following its opening episode, Big Brother will move into its regular thrice-weekly broadcast schedule, with Sunday night episodes beginning July 12 and Tuesday night episodes starting on July 14.

Similar to previous Big Brother seasons, the Thursday episodes will serve as the eleventh season's live eviction installment, beginning with the July 16 broadcast. That's a whole lot of Big Brother!

On the recent Real Housewives of New York reunion, Jill Zarin suggested that Kelly Bensimon not to do another season of the Bravo series because it was hurting her family's image.

But family, schmamly! Bensimon says she's excited to return.

"I think it would be really fun to come back for another season," she told Us Weekly. "I really enjoyed all the women - I think they're all so unique. I really enjoyed spending time with them and getting to know them."

Kelly even shrugged off her feud with Bethenny Frankel - saying "a fight is a fight, who cares?" - and expounded on her profound life views.

"I had a really great time doing it, and it's just another adventure," Bensimon said of her time on the show. "Life is an adventure. You have two choices - you can sit or you can be in it. I like to be in it."

And staying at home with one's family? Come on.That doesn't count as being in life at all!

Earlier this week, Real and Chance appeared on E!'s Chelsea Lately.

We learned a few important facts about the upcoming second season of Real Chance of Love. For example:

• The names of contestants include Blonde Baller, Freckles and Hot Wings.
• Real and Chance don't have sex with the same women.
• Real refers to the suitors as his "herd."

We really can't speak for these brothers. Watch the clip for yourself:

At the conclusion of this week's Real Housewives of New Jersey episode, Bravo teased its next installment of the franchise. And the preview was a doozy!

Viewers were told that Danielle Staub may have been arrested years ago. Moreover, her mug shot allegedly appears in “Cop Without a Badge,” a biography penned by former FBI and Secret Service employee Kevin Maher.

Now, according to photos dug up by The Newark Star-Ledger, it appears as though the network isn't lying.

In "Cop Without a Badge," Maher details his life as a con man that becomes an informant for the New York Police Department and the FBI. Along the way, leaves his wife and stepson for a stripper named Beverly Merrill. He writes:

"She was brunette. Long, perfectly shaped legs poked out of her leather hot pants just as provocatively as her braless breasts strained against her low-cut blouse."

After Merrill and Maher have "explosive sex," he thinks to himself: "This is a good person. She has no morals, but she's a good person."

Does this sound like Danielle Staub? More important, do the following mug shots - which are printed in the book and attributed to Beverly Merrill - look like Staub?

It doesn't take a conspiracy theorist (just someone with decent eyesight) to believe that these are mug shots of Danielle Staub.