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Celebrating Mother’s Day 2011 with The Real Housewives

Today is a day set aside especially for mothers. A day that particularly the greeting card and flower companies enjoy, but most mothers have a pretty good time of it too. We cover a lot of mothers on this blog (most are also involved in reality television, and some degree of scandal) but past all…

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16 & Pregnant’s Jamie McKay mug shot: arrested for punching a girl twice

16 & Pregnant‘s latest episode featured Jamie KcKay, whose baby daddy Ryan McElrah was a stand-out d-bag of the series (and that’s hard to do.) Jamie is seeking sole custody of their daughter Miah because Ryan McElrath is a hard parties on cocaine and booze, and has multiples arrest under his belt. Unfortunately, Jamie has…

Socialite Nancy Shevell to be Paul McCartney’s third wife

Sir Paul McCartney (of a little band called The Beatles) is soon to get hitched for the third time! Both Paul McCartney’s camp and his now fiancee Nancy Shevell have confirmed to news sources that they are engaged. They fessed up about their upcoming nuptials after a friend spilled the news to People. The insider…

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Jesse James continues to overshare and compare Sandra Bullock and Kat von D

Jesse James, who last year was hiding under a rock when his tattooed mistress Bombshell McGee (who may, or may not have been a white supremist) outed their relationship immediately after Jesse’s then-wife Sandra Bullock won an Oscar for The Blind Side and they adopted a black baby together (who is The Cutest! BTW). Sometimes…

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Pregnant in Heels’ Rosie Pope got pregnant naturally with son Wellington after devastating fertility issues

Former Baroness Rosie Pope details her life as a maternity concierge to rich Manhattan women on Bravo’s Pregnant in Heels, but while filming the show, she suffered from devastating feritility issues while trying to conceive her second child with husband Darron Pope.

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Phaedra Parks’ funeral home details: bejeweled programs, scouting out places “where people are dying,”

Say what you will about Real Housewives of Atlanta’s Pheadra Parks, but she is a godsend to the show. I honestly believe that she’s probably really fun and down-to-earth to talk to (as everyone who knows her in real life reports,) but let’s just say she gives good television (or good interviews, in this case.)…

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Renee Graziano’s dad Anthony not speaking to her and sister producer Jenn Graziano over Mob Wives

VH1’s Mob Wives is shaping up to be pretty interesting. This Sunday in particular we watched Renee Graziano fall into histrionic pieces when she found out her ex-husband and the father of her son A.J. Junior (Hector Pagan Jr.) get rounded up in a huge FBI bust last year. (More on that in a future…

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Is Southern Food Queen Paula Deen secretly diabetic?

The average person risks their health by just watching an episode of one of Paula Deen’s butter and sugar laden episodes featuring southern cooking, but Paula (who has a mini-orgasm every time she tastes one of her delicious-but-deadly concoctions) is always adamant that her health is doing quite well-thank-you-very-much. Is there something she’s not telling us?

Biggest Loser: Kaylee Kinikini dating Vance Jackson, gets first kiss

Love is in the air on Season 11 of NBC’s The Biggest Loser, and the producers are working overtime to keep us confused! On the April 26th episode, after Kaylee was eliminated, she announced that she was dating someone that we might “recognize”. With the edit she was getting, the viewers were waiting with bated…

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Will Drita D’Avanzo leave her husband Lee D’Avanzo?

Mob Wives‘ Drita D’Avanzo has stuck with her incarcerated husband Lee D’Avanzo through thick and thin for 14 years. In fact, for most of their marriage Lee has been behind bars for bank robbery charges. (CLICK HERE to read more about that.) Lee being in prison has been hard for Drita, and unstable. She’s had…

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Meet Claudia Sampedro: Reggie Bush’s look-a-like replacement for Kim Kardashian

Kim Kardashian’s former boyfriend Reggie Bush is moving on from Kim – – to a Kim look-a-like. Reggie is reportedly flying in to Miami to spend a week with his new girlfriend, Cuban model Claudia Sampedro. She’s got curves to rival Kim’s, and her face has similar features. At certain angles, and with the right…

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Gretchen Rossi before and after plastic surgery photos

Gretchen Rossi has before denied having plastic surgery (though she is open about getting regular Botox injections to stave off wrinkles,) but some new photos have surfaced of Gretchen in high school (when she was Gretchen Forward), and it just doesn’t look like the same face. First of all her nose is bit thinner now,…

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PHOTOS – Who designed Princess Kate’s wedding dress?

Finally! After months and months of desperate speculation, and even sketches aiming to read Kate’s mind and predict the future, we finally know The Dress that Kate Middleton wore when she officially became Princess Kate! She made a good choice. It’s a beautiful silhouette with a cinched waist and lots of delicate lace. It just…

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Royal Wedding madness: British plumber gets William and Kate’s faces tattooed on his teeth

Granted, the Royal Wedding nonsense is a fun escape from the everyday drudgery, and an excuse for The News to report on something fluffy, frilly, and light instead of war, radiation poisoning, how our kids’ futures are doomed (a staple topic of the news since The News was invented) and the most depressing of all:…

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Three-year-old bridesmaid Grace van Cutsem photobombs the Royal Wedding first kiss

More like Grace van Cute-sem! The Royal Wedding is a real life fairytale. Or, at least a real life production of pomp and circumstance that can no doubt be uncomfortable, boring, and noisy! Almost every news photographer in the world was at Westminster Abbey this morning to catch every nanosecond of the Royal Wedding between…

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PHOTOS Bob Dylan at Byron Bay Bluesfest in New South Wales Australia

The most influential musician of the last 100 years was on hand to help close out the Byron Bay Bluesfest in New South Wales, Australia as 69-year-old legend Bob Dylan rocked the Mojo stage Monday and Tuesday. See photos of Bob down under, set lists from both shows and a dream Australian-themed set list of slightly altered Dylan tunes!

What is Bethenny Frankel’s net worth?

Some love her, some hate her, but for whatever it’s worth Bethenny Frankel transformed herself from a broke unknown natural foods chef to a Reality Star, best-selling author, and low-calorie margarita bottler worth (a reported) $120 million. She got her start on the Real Housewives of New York as Jill Zarin’s broke, wise-cracking friend. By…

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PHOTOS Is LeAnn Rimes copying Brandi Glanville?

The Brandi Glanville-LeAnn Rimes-Eddie Cibrian live soap opera might might be enough to fill the void left by One Life to Live and All My Children. At the very least it’s a Lifetime movie that can’t end well. In fact, Eddie and LeAnn met on the set of a Lifetime movie, Nora Roberts’ Northern Lights! Keep reading for a little background on trist and see LeAnn’s Single-White-Femalish Twitpic imitation of Brandi Glanville in a bikini!

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Mob Wives’ Drita D’Avanzo’s f-bombs get radio host fired

Radio host John Tabacco got whacked from his job at 970 AM after only two episodes of his family business show thanks to some on-air F-bombs from guest Drita D’avanzo from VH1’s controversial new reality series Mob Wives. Listen to the complete radio show and read D’Avanzo and Tabacco’s shocked reactions to the news!

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PHOTO – Did Corey Simms cheat on Leah with Jordan Humble?

Here’s what we know. Teen Mom 2’s Leah Messer filed for divorce from Corey Simms about a week ago after 6 months of marriage, and was later filmed by MTV crying over Facebook messages. The messages were from someone named Jordan, and said things like “You are very attractive.” US Weekly has sources who say…

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PHOTOS – RHNJ new castmate Kathy Wakile, Teresa Giudice’s cousin

Just because Danielle Staub got booted from Real Housewives of New Jersey doesn’t mean the series won’t still bring the table flipping. In fact, things might be more interesting now with two members of Teresa Giudice’s family added to the cast. We already know Teresa’s family is a sore point for her because of the…

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Drita D’Avanzo’s husband Lee Avanzo is in jail for bank robbery; has mob connection

Drita D’Avanzo is a firecracker of a girl who brags about being able to put people in the hospital, may be the most likable lady on VH1’s Mob Wives (although they’re all pretty fascinating.) Drita comes from a straight (no crime) Albanian family, but married Lee D’Avanzo, who is considered by the feds to be…

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16 & Pregnant’s Valerie Fairman arrested for punching and pushing her mother

We’ve seen quite a bit of violence come from the participants of 16 & Pregnant and Teen Mom, most notably Amber (multiple times) assaulting her baby’s father Gary on camera, Farrah Abraham’s mother Debra getting arrested for busting Farrah’s lip, and Jenelle Evans caught on tape beating another girl. Now we have news that Valerie…

Lindsay Lohan sentenced to four months in jail, community service at morgue and women’s center

On the heels of losing her role as Victoria Gotti, Lindsay Lohan has been sentenced to about four months in jail (120 days) by Judge Stephanie Sautner for parole violation because of stolen necklace charge. She also has been ordered to complete 480 hours of community service: 360 at a women’s center, and 120 at…

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PHOTOS: How did Snooki lose weight?

Just a few pounds make a big difference on pint-sized Jersey Shore caricature Snooki Polizzi. During her wildly popular run on the first three seasons of MTV’s Jersey Shore, Snooki, who struggled with an eating disorder in high school, carried a few extra pounds. The lifestyle featured on the show, boozing and lounging,didn’t exactly help…

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Man gets murder scene tattoo

There is hard core gangsta and then there is hard core stupid. One Anthony Garcia thought he was the former but because of his Jailbreak impersonation he falls squarely in the latter. Garcia is a gang-banger from Los Angeles who has been busted for murder 7-years-after the crime was committed because…

He tattooed the entire murder scene on his freaking body! See multiple shots of the violent and detailed tattoo and get all the back story from this life is way stranger than fiction story.

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Did JWoww try to murder her ex-boyfriend, attempt suicide?

JWoww has a Klingon on Uranus in the form of ex-boyfriend Thomas Lippolis. Dude will not go away and as desperate people do he’s upped the ante by claiming he was stabbed by the reality star and that she attempted suicide by swallowing a bottle of pills. Read on for some quotes from Lippolis’ desperate cry for attention, and MONEY.

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Mob Wives’ Karen Gravano was in Arizona Ecstasy ring with her dad in 2000

VH1’s Mob Wives leaves a few facts out about Karen Gravano’s past. They focus on the fact that some of the other wives, Renee Graziano in particular, are unhappy about the fact that Karen’s dad “Sammy the Bull” Gravano was a mob turncoat, but that’s not where his (and Karen’s) criminal past stops! After Gravano…

HBO’s Cinema Verite retells the making of the first reality show: An American Family

Many of us associate the dawn of reality television at MTV’s The Real World, which debuted in 1992, but the true pioneer of candid reality programming came two decades before. This Saturday (April 23, 2011) HBO will air Cinema Verite, a fictional account of the very first reality show. An American Family was a 12-hour…

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“I’m Gangster, and I’m Comin’ Home” Mob Wives Season One, Episode One recap

Mob Wives  Season One, Episode One recap: First of all, the art and photography is engaging, beautiful, and borrows heavily from the cinematography of America’s rich history of mob films and FBI-surveillance style footage. Renee Graziano – is seen wearing furs, buying furs, riding in cars, and enjoying a luxurious life. “My father didn’t work…

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Naomi Judd was sexually abused as a child by a family member

On the heels of daughter Ashley Judd’s memoir that revealed sexual molestation as a child, mother Naomi Judd revealed that she was also sexually molested as a kid. While filming her OWN reality show with daughter Wynonna, Naomi delves into the memories of her sexual abuse, and tries to come to terms with it in…

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Karen Gravano’s father Salvatore ‘Sammy the Bull’ Gravano former underboss of the Gambino crime family, brought down John Gotti

VH1’s series Mob Wives features real women who are connected to the mob, and the results promise to be fascinating. One of the women, Renee Graziano, is the daughter of consigliere of the Bonanno crime family Anthony Graziano (who is currently incarcerated;) but another, Karen Gravano, is the daughter of the former underboss who took…

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VIDEO – Gretchen Rossi doesn’t like “Tubba Wubba” Slade Smiley

The rest of the world gets annoyed at Slade for just being Slade, but his girlfriend/business partner Gretchen Rossi also has her limits. Gretchen’s tolerance for Slade is negatively correlated with his waistline. In an earlier episode this season, Gretchen got annoyed when Slade ordered pasta at dinner, calling him “Tubba Wubba,” and complaining that…

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Renee Graziano’s father Anthony Graziano’s is consigliere the Bonanno crime family

Bravo flirted with reality mafia television with Real Housewives of New Jersey, including the tough-talkin’ family-oriented Caroline Manzo, and Danielle Staub, who had a dubious past and a BFF with racketeering charges, but VH1 is going for the real thing with Mob Wives. The “queen bee” of this Real Housewives-style show is former wardrobe stylist…

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Is Teen Mom’s Maci Bookout engaged to Kyle King?

The tabloids are full of (potentially true?) Teen Mom news this week. They reported that Leah and Corey are getting a divorce, something neither camp has yet denied, but they’re also saying that Maci Bookout is engaged to her boyfriend Kyle King! A friend reportedly told OK! “Maci and Kyle are engaged!” Leah was reportedly…

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VIDEO: Neil Young discusses upcoming live release A Treasure

Legendary artist Neil Young has dug into his seemingly bottomless vaults once again, this time he’s set to release A Treasure a live album from his 1984 America tour with The International Harvesters. See the great track list including previously unreleased songs as well as a quirky and enjoyable intro video from Neil himself.

Bonus If you’ve got an hour to kill I’ve got Neil’s full Austin City Limits performance from that tour!

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Lady Gaga thinks Alexander McQueen’s spirit wrote “Born This Way”

Lady Gaga’s Harper’s Bazaar interview is, well, a little bizare. For one thing, she thinks fashion designer Alexander McQueen (who committed suicide last year) is controlling her creative processes now, and possibly even wrote “Born This Way,” “I think he planned the whole thing: Right after he died, I wrote ‘Born This Way.’ I think…

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VIDEO Real Housewives of New Jersey Season 3 trailer

I was really curious what The Real Housewives of New Jersey would be like without “prostitution whore” Danielle Staub, the central figure in most all of the drama in the show’s first two seasons. Now, thanks to a Season 3 preview trailer released today by Bravo, I have a pretty good idea. Actually, the word “pretty” should be nowhere near this post because it looks ugly, ugly, ugly for the Garden State mavens – and I mean that in a good way! Keep reading to watch the trailer but make sure you’re close to an eyewash station because it is tuh-rashy!

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PHOTOS – Why does Shenae Grimes look like she’s crying valentines?

91201 starlet Shenae Grimes has been promoting Scream 4 with a little work done on her face. It’s not plastic surgery, it’s a tiny black heart tattooed below her right eye! It kind of looks like she cries valentines. Why did she opt for this odd tat? It turns out that it’s not about a…

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PHOTOS – Divorcing spouses David Arquette and Courteney Cox at Scream 4 premiere

The Scream 4 movie premiere was held last night Grauman’s Chinese Theatre in Hollywood, California, and it brought estranged spouses Courteney Cox and David Arquette together in the same room. Our photo agencies didn’t have any pics of the pair together, but we they were photographed together smiling. Arquette told Radar Online: “We’re best friends,…

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PHOTOS Christina Hendricks ‘busts’ out in underwear for Company

It was beyond my realm of imagination to conceive the possibility that Mad Men star Christina Hendricks could up the sexy meter anymore than she already has. I also didn’t believe a photo could make me painfully regret not catching a musical that also starred Neil Patrick Harris. Much like Christina’s bust line, however, my horizons have been broadened! Like me, you too will wish you had toed the “company” line after seeing Hendricks during her closing night performance of the musical Company!

The Judds revealed: Ashley Judd writes painful physical abuse, drug and alcohol abuse, cheating, and emotional neglect

The Judds are going through an unprecedented amount of exposure right now. Youngest daughter Ashley Judd just published a memoir (All That Is Bitter & Sweet) that reveals some of the abuse and chaotic times in her childhood, and Wynonna and Naomi’s new reality show premieres tonight (9 pm EST on OWN) where they publicly and candidly deal with the toxic relationship between the two of them.

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Sister Wives’ Robyn is pregnant! Expecting The Brown Family’s 17th child!

In inevitable news, Robyn Brown, Kody Brown’s newest and fourth wife is expecting Kody’s 17th child (including her three from a previous marriage to David Preston Jessup.) 31-year-old Robyn and 43-year-old Kody confirmed the news to People, and are overjoyed. Robyn told People: “You should have seen the look on his face when we found…

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What does Angelina Jolie’s mysterious 7th tattoo mean?

Angelina Jolie has some very meaningful tattoos on her left arm: a list of the coordinates of the birthplaces of her six children. Oddly enough, she was recently spotted with a seventh coordinate even though she has not, and claims she doesn’t plan to have another child. What does the seven coordinate represent? Is she secretly adopting another child?

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VIDEO – Will Ferrell’s new role on The Office: will DeAngelo Vickers fill Micheal Scott’s shoes?

Steve Carell’s Michael Scott is leaving the office to be with his true love Holly, but he’s leaving behind a major gap in comedy that will never be truly filled. For a while, though, Will Ferrell is gonna try to take just a bit of the sting away with his textbook middle manager character DeAngelo…

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VIDEO – Ramona Singer smacks down her job interview candidates

Tonight’s ride on the Ramonacoaster was a doozie if you were interviewing to be her assistant. Ramona told the cameras that her assistant Melissa had outgrown her job and really had bigger role in Ramona’s various projects, so she needed a new regular assistant. Ramona wasn’t really impressed with the parade of young women she…

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PHOTO Jill Zarin in corset outfit and Madonna ponytail on Watch What Happens Live’s 100th episode

  Jill Zarin showed up for the 100th Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen episode with a strikingly different style. The “queen bee” was sporting a sexy black-and-white corset (probably wearing underneath her new shapewear Skweez Couture) and a tight, high, and long ponytail a la Madonna! She also had Ginger with her dressed…

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Tina Fey is five months pregnant; second baby with husband Jeff Richmond

According to People, funny lady Tina Fey (40) announced (via a pre-taped Oprah show that will appear Tues, April 12, and confirmed by her rep) that she’s expecting her second baby with husband Jeff Richmond (51) . Their first child, Alice Zenobia Richmond, is six years old. Tina’s husband Jeff is far less talked about…

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VIDEO – Snooki is a cartwheelin’ Wrestlingmaniac!

Being shameless has helped our favorite Jersey Shore personality Snooki achieve dizzying levels of fame and success for doing little else but being shameless. Even after the Jersey Shore glittery spray tan fades (and the zeitgeist seems to suggest it already has,) Snooki will find a way to survive in luxury with nothing but her…

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Katie Couric to leave CBS Evening News

Katie Couric became the first woman to anchor a network news broadcast by herself, fulfilling the dreams of 70’s trailblazer Veronica Corningstone, but less than five short years later she will be leaving her post at CBS Evening News according to an anonymous source with the AP. Read on for additional info including what Couric’s next move professionally will be.

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How does the Sister Wives’ Brown family make money?

Aside from the fact that they’re now getting money from TLC for their popular reality show that’s now into the second season and their fame no doubt has also given them other opportunities to make money via endorsements and such, one of the biggest questions about The Brown Family from Sister Wives is how they were able to feed and house a family of 21 people up until this point? Of course, rumors flew about abusing the welfare system, but there seems to be no real evidence of that.

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Bachelorette Ashley Hebert’s sister Chrystie Hebert Corns to be on Extreme Couponing reality show

It looks like reality television runs in the Hebert family. Bachelorette Ashley Hebert‘s sister Chrystie Hebert Corns will be featured on an upcoming TLC reality series about couponing, Extreme Couponing. That’s right, this is EXTREME, not your run-of-the-mill everyday lazy couponer who has a stash of expired coupons in an overstuffed drawer. Chrystie, who will…