Celebrity Gossip

News You Cannot Possibly Use - 3/23/07

The week’s TV gossip and news – combed out of Sanjaya’s hair just for you!

It’s getting serious! An American Idol viewer goes on hunger strike until Sanjaya Malakar is kicked off.  The viewer, only identified as “J,” posted a YouTube video and set up a MySpace page announcing her intentions to abstain from eating until “American Idol voters wise up, and stop voting Sanjya through each week.”  Somehow I don’t think this is going to discourage Howard Stern or “Vote for the Worst” folks in the slightest.  (Reality TV Magazine)

All the rumors about Heather Mills and Paul McCartney’s bitter and rancorous divorce might not be entirely true. She reports that he sent her flowers to wish her luck with “Dancing with the Stars.” (Access Hollywood)

News You Cannot Possibly Use - 3/15/07

The week’s TV gossip and news – stolen from our mom’s purse just for you!

Sarah Jessica Parker is coming out with a clothing line, which the New York Post sniffs is going to be rather “down market” (read: not expensive).  Once again, the folks from “Sex and the City” are successfully riding the wave of a show at the peak of its popularity, right? (NY Post)

More movie stars are making the choice for a new generation: the smaller screen. American Pie alum Chris Klein and Jason Biggs will each be starring in a television series.  Biggs will be appearing in a single-camera comedy on CBS called “I’m in Hell,” and Klein will also be appearing on CBS on a comedy pilot titled “The Captain.” (Hollywood Reporter)

News You Cannot Possibly Use - 3/13/07

The week’s TV gossip and news – found under the car seat just for you!

Larry David risks damaging his thoroughly-dislikeable public persona by accidentally being associated with not one, but two major good deeds.  A Los Angeles man, Juan Catalan, first used footage taped for an episode of HBO’s Curb Your Enthusiasm to prove his innocence of a murder charge.  Now, he’s been able to use that footage to land a $320,000 settlement from his lawsuit against the City of Los Angeles.  (The Hollywood Reporter)

Does anyone ever think that we might have an obesity epidemic in this country because something like “Rock Paper Scissors” is considered a “sport?”  ESPN jumps on the bandwagon of burgeoning interest by signing on to air the national championships.  I suppose the game does have more fitness potential than the Nathan’s hot dog eating competition that ESPN has also televised.  (Variety)

News You Cannot Possibly Use - 3/6/07

The week’s TV gossip and news – fished out of Perez Hilton’s garbage just for you!

No worries: Nicole Richie has been rehydrated.  I always used to think that hospitalization for dehydration was completely fake, just a cover for hospitalization for less PR-friendly activities.  Then Danielle Evans on Cycle Six of ANTM WAS hospitalized for ACTUAL dehydration.  Tyra Banks teaches me a valuable life lesson nearly every day. (US)

I don’t mean to disorient anyone, but I am just going to be sincere and not snarky about this item because I think it is a good idea: Shaquille O’Neal is going to have a short reality series on ABC about kids and fitness.  Shaq has already created a program about childhood obesity in Florida. Says the big guy: "Many of our kids are living in dangerous conditions…I felt that I had to get involved." (Variety)

News You Cannot Possibly Use - 3/1/07

This week’s TV gossip and news –snatched to safety from an ANTM catfight just for you!

Dancing with the Stars celeb Shanna Moakler and Travis Barker?  Not back together despite recent reports.  Rumors about her pregnancy are also false. (E!Online)

In happier marriage-related news, are Nicole Richie and Joel Madden taking the next step? She’s been seen wearing a ring on her wedding finger while running around town, which has led to lots of speculation on the gossip blogs. (PerezHilton)

MTV - Is Reality Better Than Fiction? And Music?

I have already complained about Music Television’s lack of actual music, and at this point I am resigned to never again seeing a video on the pioneer video channel.

And it would seem that MTV is possibly hitching its wagon even more firmly to the reality television trend by recently promoting a reality show maven, Lois Curren, to head its programming department.  She has been responsible for developing shows like Pimp My Ride, Punk’d and The Osbornes.  So reality fans: it would seem safe to expect more of the same!

News You Cannot Possibly Use - 2/27/07

The week’s TV gossip and news – brazenly stolen from award show gift rooms just for you!

Ryan Seacrest, not content to only be overexposed in the media in a metaphoric sense, takes things to the next level by showing his underwear on red carpet.  Even his own network gives him a hard time about it. (EOnline)

In more mildly-interesting, tangentially-American-Idol-related news, oily heir Brandon Davis verbal molests Paula Abdul at Paris Hilton’s birthday party. (TMZ)

News You Cannot Possibly Use - 2/22/07

This week’s TV gossip and news – baked from scratch just for you!

If it is an odd-numbered hour when you are reading this, Britney Spears is out of rehab.  If it is an even-numbered hour, she is back in.  PLEASE STAY IN BRIT BRIT.  Take a nap.  Drink some smoothies.  Chill out.  (Star)

Universal is suing PerezHilton over the topless photos of Jennifer Aniston that appeared on his website.  No monetary damages, though, so his odd career continues.  (The Smoking Gun)

I have seen about two minutes of some episode of CSI Miami, but that is enough to understand why this two minute compilation of David Caruso putting on his sunglasses is brilliant. (YouTube via Defamer)