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Why do people still get Catfished even though it’s so easy to avoid?

ByStarcasm Staff

With his documentary film and MTV television show Nev Schulman and his production teams have shone a light on a new problem for our technologically advanced age: “Catfishing,” or entering into a romantic relationship with someone online while pretending to be someone that you’re not. If you’re chatting with someone online, there’s a simple solution to see if they’re who they say they are. If you absolutely cannot meet up with them, you can video chat. This capability wasn’t as widely available a few years ago, but now that webcams and cellphone cams are so prevalent, it’s no longer an excuse. If your online professional crush says they can’t afford any sort of camera on their model salary, they probably know someone who does and would let them use it for a few minutes. Getting Catfished is so easy to avoid, and even more so now that the TV show Catfish is so popular, probably making many people face the truths of their online relationships that they’ve been trying to avoid. So why does Catfishing still happen?

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Farrah Abraham asks fans to buy her expensive gifts from her Amazon Wish List

ByStarcasm Staff

I know what you are thinking: “How can I be Farrah Abraham’s Sugar Daddy/Mama?” Because that’s what everyone in America (and probably beyond) is thinking right now, and thankfully Farrah has provided an easy way for us all to shower her with gifts.

Breaking Amish’s Betsy practices witchcraft, sex with Satan
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Breaking Amish’s Betsy practices witchcraft, sex with Satan

ByStarcasm Staff

Breaking Amish L.A.’s Betsy freaked out her castmates when she started doing stuff with candles. Unlike the first Breaking Amish, which had unfounded accusations of witchcraft, Betsy openly admits that she’s been practicing witchcraft for years, and that she’s even had sex with Satan.

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Lindsay Lohan admits she’s an addict, reveals drug of choice, and explains why rehab worked this time

ByStarcasm Staff

Lindsay Lohan sat down with Oprah four days after he latest, and longest, rehab stint. She was first at Betty Ford, and then transferred to Cliffside Malibu, staying a total of three months. The starlet has been to rehab six times in her life, starting in 2007, but she says this time worked.

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Showrunner and creator Vince Gilligan talks the ending of Breaking Bad

ByStarcasm Staff

Vince Gilligan is the man behind one of the greatest shows in history that’s about to come to a close. The show owes a good deal to a great idea, but more of that to a commitment to follow that idea through with the help of a great cast, great writers, and AMC, the cable network who decided to take risks on great stories. Find out a little more about how Breaking Bad came to be.

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Drake and Big Sean performed at Kylie Jenner’s Sweet 16 birthday party

ByStarcasm Staff

Kylie Jenner celebrated her Sweet Sixteen this weekend in style. Drake and Big Sean performed at the batch held at the AT&T Center in Los Angeles on Saturday. Sisters Kendall, Kourtney (with beau Scott Disick,) and Khloe (sans Lamar) showed up, but Kim Karashian and Kanye West failed to make an appearance, (maybe because Kim was hanging out with Instagram’s founder?) Kim did record a “Happy Birthday” video message.

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How a makeup artist turned Ashton Kutcher into Steve Jobs

ByStarcasm Staff

Ashton Kutcher kind of looks similar to Steve Jobs, but it’s obvious that a little movie magic was required to turn him into a doppelgänger for the Apple innovator in the biopic film Jobs out in theaters this weekend. Makeup artist Louis Lazzara explains how the transformation was made.

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Andy Cohen names Jillian Michaels his “worst guest ever” and doesn’t want her back on WWHL

ByStarcasm Staff

Andy Cohen was not coy when revealing the worst guest he’s ever had on his late night talk show Watch What Happens Live: it was The Biggest Loser trainer Jillian Michaels, and he doesn’t ever want her back as a guest. Find out what she did to get such a strong reaction from the usually accepting talk show host.

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What’s the dark meaning behind Nickelodeon’s gooey toy Gak’s name?

ByStarcasm Staff

The squishy, gooey, bright-colored mid-90s Nickelodeon toy Gak (which has recently been revived) wasn’t just a silly word the toy developers made up. Mark Summers, the host of Nickelodeon show Double Dare where the concept of Gak was first created, reveals its gritty meaning in a new interview.

Lake Bell is fighting the fight against sexy baby vocal fry virus

ByStarcasm Staff

Actress Lake Bell, who was the girlfriend on the short-lived HBO series How to Make It in America, and Children’s Hospital is breaking into new territory. Two new territories at once! Her directorial debut In a World . . . is also an audition to get voice-over work, another part of the entertainment industry that still has a glass ceiling for women.

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Justin Bieber sets Make-A-Wish record by granting 200 wishes to sick kids

ByStarcasm Staff

Justin Bieber may be up to crazy antics lately, but he’s doing some good in this world too. This weekend he set the record for the most wishes granted by a recording artist for the Make-a-Wish Foundation when he made a sick little girl’s dream come true by talking with her, and even asking her…

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Former American Idol runner-up Justin Guarini says he “skips meals” so his family can eat

ByStarcasm Staff

American Idol alum Justin Guarini, who was runner up to Kelly Clarkson in the first season of the hit competition singing show, is going through a rough time. Just last Sunday he appeared on Oprah’s Where Are They Now Show describing how hard it was to experience failure after achieving pretty massive success in the world of pop music. He also took to his website this week to vent about his family not always having enough food to eat, and being terrified of his financial situation. After People magazine and other sites picked up his blog posting, he deleted it and complained on Twitter. “Obviously you completely missed the point of my letter @peoplemag,” he tweeted. “News isn’t news anymore, and I’m nowhere near poverty. #twistedmytruth’.”

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Mila Kunis was a Jewish Ukranian immigrant who initially didn’t speak English

ByStarcasm Staff

Mila Kunis turned 30 today, and in honor of her birthday we’re delving into her fascinating past. Mila’s now a well-respected and prolific U.S. actress, but when Mila’s parents immigrated from the Ukraine when she was seven-years-old, Mila didn’t know a word of English.

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Jon and Kate Gosselin have money issues, want to be back on television

ByStarcasm Staff

Kate Gosselin once was so hounded by fame and the paparazzi that she poked fun of it during her run on Dancing With The Stars, and hired a full-time bodyguard to accompany herself and her eight children everywhere. Now, the fame has subsided, and so have the financial opportunities. Kate covers this week’s People magazine with a look at their lives now, and what they plan to do with the future.

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Former madam Heidi Fleiss charged in Nevada for growing 400 marijuana plants, but not arrested

ByStarcasm Staff

In “at least it’s not meth” news, former madam Heidi Fleiss was charged in Nevada for growing over 400 marijuana plants with the “intent to sell.” Fleiss was cooperative with police, so she was not arrested, according to Fox5Vegas.

“Lady Gaga is over!” Lady Gaga says in a new reverse psychology video

ByStarcasm Staff

Lady Gaga is answering her critics of “Applause” with a little reverse psychology. In a new teaser video called Lady Gaga Is Over: A Film by Haus of Gaga she appears with her face covered in plastic glaring at the camera while a light flickers on-and-off and jeers play in the background.

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Crystal myth? ‘Mythbusters’ tested the science of Breaking Bad

ByStarcasm Staff

Mythbusters did a special episode testing out some of the science used on the AMC masterpiece Breaking Bad to see if it holds up in the real world. If you’re a Breaking Bad fan it’s hard to forget two key scenes from Season 1: when Walt melts a body with hydrofluoric acid and it ends up dissolving the tub and the floor, and when Walt uses mercury fulminate to walk away unscathed while he dramatically blows up everything in drug dealer Tuco’s office. The windows even blew out! This is the kind of stuff that makes you feel awestruck with the power of science, but is any of it really possible?

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Jimmy Fallon and wife Nancy had a five-year fertility struggle before using a surrogate

ByStarcasm Staff

Jimmy Fallon and his wife Nancy surprised fans when they announced their baby girl Winnie Rose was born July 23. Now Jimmy is opening up about their longterm fertility struggle that ended when they decided to use a surrogate to start their family. “We’ve tried a bunch of things,” Fallon told Samantha Guthrie on The…

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Lady Gaga wears rainbow makeup all over her face: releases “Applause”

ByStarcasm Staff

Lady Gaga showed up at the E! News building today looking like she fell asleep on her watercolors. She also sported dark hair pulled back, black boots, and a black outfit with a pleated skirt. A couple of the comments on our Facebook page noted that she resembles Marilyn Manson here, which is kind of…

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Albuquerque candy store selling fake meth in honor of Breaking Bad

ByStarcasm Staff

Breaking Bad fans are going through both a glorious and traumatic time right now as the series starts to wrap up, and Albuquerque, the town the series is set in, is looking for ways to cash in on the show’s popularity with everything from Breaking Bad tours to fake meth candy. It kinds of makes me want to get on the next plane to Albuquerque.

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Julia Roberts’ sister Nancy Motes says she had weight loss surgery because Julia made fun of her

ByStarcasm Staff

It’s got to be tough having a famous actress sister who’s known for beauty, and even stared in an iconic movie called Pretty Woman, but Julia Roberts’ sister Nancy Motes says she was bullied by her half-sister for being obese, and those comments led her to get gastric band surgery to lose weight.

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Jacqueline Laurita before and after neck lift and tummy tuck

ByStarcasm Staff

Jacqueline Laurita’s recent plastic surgery is offering a welcomed subplot to The Real Housewives of New Jersey (the sibling rivalry thing is so crazy now, and even harder to watch with Teresa’s latest problems.) Jacqueline has been very open about the procedures she had done, and she talks about her plastic surgery plans on tonight’s episode.

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Angelina Jolie terrified the children on the set of Maleficent

ByStarcasm Staff

Maleficent, Disney’s live-action retelling of the classic Sleeping Beauty from the viewpoint of the villianess, is set to be out July 2014. The film stars Angelina Jolie as the terrifying title role, and her costume and makeup was so convincing she would scare away all the children who visited the set.

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Weight Loss News: People are sewing plastic patches on their tongues to make it painful to eat

ByStarcasm Staff

People are always hoping there is a miracle “cure” to weight loss, and the latest solution to conquer willpower is forced suffering. It’s possible now to get a doctor to sew a patch onto your tongue that makes it too painful to eat solid food.

Was Linda Lovelace forced to make Deep Throat by abusive husband Chuck Traynor?

ByStarcasm Staff

Amanda Seyfried stars in Lovelace out Friday August 9, a movie that chronicles the complicated story of one of the most famous porn stars ever: Linda Lovelace. Her 1972 movie Deep Throat somehow edged into mainstream distribution and was able to earn over $600 million, according to the documentary Inside Deep Throat, although an LA Times article debunks that number. Even if it didn’t gross that much, it no doubt made a huge amount of money, and Linda’s paycheck (which went to her husband and manager Chuck Traynor,) was reportedly only about $1,000. Although there was major backlash against the film at the time, it was also seen as sexual empowerment by some, and Linda’s public persona seemed to back that up. A few years later, however, Linda revealed to the public some very painful and dark secrets about the movie.

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Sharon Osbourne locked Kelly Osbourne in a padded room to help her kick drug addiction

ByStarcasm Staff

It’s no secret that 28-year-old Kelly Osbourne struggled with a deep addiction to prescription pills that started when she was a young teen while her family was participating in the MTV reality show The Osbournes. In the latest issue of UK’s Cosmopolitan Kelly revisits her addiction nightmare, and the lengths her mother went to to save her.

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What are The Hills’ Spencer Pratt and Heidi Montag doing now?

ByStarcasm Staff

In a buildup to The Hills‘ alternate ending set to air Aug. 9 on MTV, the channel is running marathons of the now-retro show. It takes us back to LC, Kristin Cavallari, Audrina, Lo Bosworth, the whole bunch!

One pair, however, really knew how to dominate the headlines while they were on top: Speidi! They were so good at it they wrote a book about it. Maybe they should have read their book more thoroughly because they essentially dropped off the face of the earth. How are they? What are they doing now?

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Zumba prostitute Alexis Wright told husband she was working undercover for the government

ByStarcasm Staff

Tonight TLC airs a documentary called Sex, Lies, and Zumba about the Zumba prostitution scandal that rocked a Maine town. This May Alexis Wright was sentenced to 10 months in jail for running a prostitution business out of her Zumba fitness studio with partner Mark Strong. The story was discovered on Valentine’s Day 2012 when Kennebunk, Maine police found video footage and extremely detailed records inside Alexis’ studio.

Zooey Deschanel is overwhelmed by all the mean haters on the internet

ByStarcasm Staff

Zooey Deschanel has a thing or two to say about internet haters. “Even I get slammed and overwhelmed by how negative the Internet can get, and I’m an adult. I don’t pay any mind to it,” she says in an interview with Marie Claire, “but it’s pretty shocking how when you give people anonymity – it’s like the worst of human nature.”

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PHOTO: Bethenny Frankel and ex Jason Hoppy’s baby Bryn is really growing up!

ByStarcasm Staff

Bethenny Frankel stepped out with daughter Bryn Hoppy in NYC today, and she looks so grown up! She’s so adorable, and she’s definitely starting to look a lot like her dad. Bethenny’s talk show is really happening now after over a year of prep. She’s scheduled to begin syndicating 95% of national markets starting September…