PHOTOS, VIDEO – 3-D covergirl Hope Dworaczyk is Playboy’s 2010 Playmate of the Year

25-year-old Hope Dworaczyk was named Playboy’s 2010 Playmate of the Year. Sorry Kelly Bensimon. Dworaczyk, a native Texan, was the Playmate of the Month April 2009, when she posed on the cover with Seth Rogen. (photographed by Stephen Wayda). This sizzling beauty, who in 2007 was erroneously rumored to be pregnant with Jason Kidd’s child,…

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Real Housewives of New York beefs explained: What did Bethenny Frankel do to Kelly Bensimon and why is Alex McCord so angry at Jill Zarin

If you’re watching Season Three of The Real Housewives of New York, you know all is not well in Housewives Land. Except for Ramona, Ramona is currently riding on some sort of peaceful cloud (sometimes enhanced by Pino Grigio). The newest “wife”, Sonja Morgan, also possesses a strange serenity not often found in Housewives. She’s…

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Young starlets vie to be The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo

The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo U.S. movie adaptation is currently in the works and slated for a 2012 release, and Hollywood’s hottest starlets are reportedly scampering to secure the title role (a.k.a. Lisbeth Salander), including Kristen Stewart, Ellen Page, Carey Mulligan, Keira Knightly, Natalie Portman, and Mia Wasikowska. A source told Entertainment Weekly that…

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Is Queen Latifah gay? She buys $1.4 million house with Hollywood trainer Jeanette Jenkins

Queen Latifah (real name Dana Owens) gay rumors have circulated for years, fueled by her choice of housemate:  female trainer Jeanette Jenkins, and her evasive answers when asked about her personal life. Now, she’s purchased a cush $1.4 million home for her trainer friend, and the speculation engine is revving again. In 2007 the Queen…

Beauty pageants becoming self-aware with sexy ‘Waking Up in Vegas’ 2010 Miss USA Pageant photoshoot

Some people are outraged at the  Miss USA Pageant’s sexy promotional photos, especially after last years controversy about Carrie Prejean’s topless photos. This year the ladies aren’t topless, but all 51 contestants dolled up in fishnets and bustiers to stretch and pose seductively in during a photo shoot with Fadil Berisha entitled “Waking up in…

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VIDEO – Real Housewives of New York, Bethenny Frankel opens up about her father on Ramona Singer’s yacht trip

On tonight’s episode of Real Housewives of New York, Ramona Singer takes a few of the wives (minus Jill, Luann and Jennifer Gilbert) on a yacht trip to St. John’s. Minus a few minor snafus between Bethenny and Kelly, they seem to have a low-key good time. Bethenny, who has just learned that she’s pregnant,…

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Full Interview VIDEO – Betty White discusses SNL appearance on Jay Leno

Betty White hosted SNL last Saturday and she literally killed. SNL hasn’t been that funny since . . . ever! Not one to rest on her laurels and take a vacay, Betty is back was back to work tonight when she sat down with Jay Leno to discuss her experience. As always with Ms. White,…

VIDEO – VH1 Basketball Wives Royce Reed’s scandalous twerkin’ booty dance
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VIDEO – VH1 Basketball Wives Royce Reed’s scandalous twerkin’ booty dance

In case you’ve missed this wonderful show, VH1’s Basketball Wives (Sundays, 10 pm EST) is a delicious Real Housewives-type adventure of the bloodthirsty girlfriends, wives, and ex-wives of famous basketball stars. Shaunie O’Neal, Shaq’s estranged wife, is the fabulous method behind this madness. She produces and offers dead-on narration, commentary, and advice during each show….

The meaning of ‘9 by Design’ Robert and Cortney Novogratz’s children’s funny names

Bravo’s 9 by Design stars Cortney and Robert Novogratz are an achingly hipsterish couple who transform run-down spaces into magazine-ready bohemian design marvels. All they need is a at least $100,000 and a trip to the flea market, and they’re good to go. Not only is their design style deliciously quirky, but the names of…

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The Hills clip: Just as we suspected, Spencer Pratt hates making children happy

Spencer Pratt needs a refund for hiscrystals, because they’re not working. He’s still a 3-year-old child play-acting his tantrums for tv drama. On tonight’s episode he blows up when he finds out his plastic Barbie has hired party planner for the neighbor’s child’s birthday party. When the two women tell him it’ll be good for…

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The City preview video clip: Kelly Cutrone will effing attack Olivia Palermo like a shark!

Kelly Cutrone saves another episode of MTV’s The City tonight by going nuts on Olivia Palermo. Olivia’s “character” is a cold-blooded, entitled socialite b!tch who tries to use her minimal powers at a fashion magazine to squash the cherub-faced Whiteny Port and her apple-pie dreams of being a fashion designer in The City.  Of course,…

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VIDEO – Danielle Staub’s daughter Christine Staub is a cover girl

On tonight’s Real Housewives of New Jersey, Danielle Staub throws a luncheon to celebrate her daughter Christine being on the cover of the fashion magazine The Daily Front Row, a gig she got after signing a contract with IMG Models. Christine’s pretty mug was featured on the mag last August, but so far her modeling…

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Are The White Stripes are getting back together?

Just as his current wife, flame-haired model Karen Elson, is taking her own stab at music Jack White may be reuniting with his ex-wife Meg White. The pair haven’t been together as the musical duo The White Stripes since 2007, when they had to stop performing because of Meg’s anxiety. Jack White recently told Contact…

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VIDEO – Betty White’s Saturday Night Live NPR ‘Delicious Dish’ lesbian Dusty Muffin sketch

Betty White’s Mother’s Day SNL episode was hilarious! Her salty tongue and timing made even the most tired sketches entertaining. She was in good company too as many of the former SNL ladies returned for this special show, including Ana Gasteyer and Molly Shannon who revived their double-entendre riddled “Delicious Dish” sketch. The master of…

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Bethenny Frankel gives birth to 4lb 12oz Bryn Hoppy; Jill Zarin makes Facebook blunder

Real Housewives of New York star Bethenny Frankel gave birth to a 4lb 12oz baby girl, Bryn Hoppy, this morning at 8 a.m, a month early. Jill Zarin, Bethenny’s frenemy from the show,was the first to break the news Friday night, but Bethenny was still in labor and she got  the sex of the baby…

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Chastity Bono now officially a male: before and after sex change

It’s official! Cher and the late Sonny Bono’s daughter is now their son. Chastity Bono has now physically and legally turned into a male: Chaz Bono. Thursday a Santa Monica judge granted Chaz’s legal right to be considered a male. The 41-year-old has lived most of his life as a lesbian female, and has been…

VIDEO – Watch full episodes of Betty White’s 1950s series “Life With Elizabeth”

The outrageously fabulous Betty White will be hosting SNL May 8, but she got her start in television over 60 years ago, she even sang on one of the first experimental television broadcasts. Betty hosted an LA variety show called Hollywood on Television that ran for several hours every day, five days a week from…

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PHOTOS – Jersey Shore’s Snooki and Jwoww pretend to make out

Jersey Shore‘s cuties tried to ramp up their ratings with a little Cinco De Mayo lime-swapping action. Snooki and Jwoww took some time off from bustin’ a$$ and shopping at Ed Hardy to guzzle margaritas the size of their heads (or in Snooki’s case, body) and then pretend to make out. We can all thank…

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Kendra Wilkinson created Home Run Productions LLC to sell her multiple sex tapes in 2008

Here’s another shocker: Kendra Wilkinson-Baskett has more than one sex tape! A few days ago the scandal dropped that Kendra! has a sex tape. Now we know that the former Hugh Hefner concubine wasn’t really that upset about the tape existing, in fact she set up a company back in November 2008, Home Run Productions…

VIDEO – Spencer Elden, the Nirvana baby, is an artist now

19-year-old Spencer Elden started life as the Nirvana baby, when he appeared naked in the water grasping for a dollar on the cover of the group’s Nevermind album. His parents only received $200 for the now iconic photoshoot, but Elden has been benefiting from his Nirvana connection ever since. In 2007 he recreated his famous…

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The King of Rock and Roll died from constipation!

Embed from Getty Images Up until now everyone thought the King Of Rock and Roll died on the toilet because his love for fried peanutbutter banana baconsandwiches and other sinful goodies clogged up his arteries and caused cardiac arrhythmia. Now his friend of twelve years and physician Dr. George “Nick” Nichopoulos claims that Elvis Presley…

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Bethenny’s father dies on tonight’s Real Housewives of New York, will Jill call?

Tonight’s Real Housewives of New York will be filled with real, actual, non-manufactured, heart-breaking drama. Bring your tissues, a stressball and your personal masseuse because shiz is about to get emotional. To start, Bethenny Frankel’s estranged father dies of leukemia. She’s had a strained relationship with him all her life, and when she went to…

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VIDEO Meet Dr. Drew’s new patient Warren the Ape Demontague: a celebrity puppet with reality problems

While Dr. Drew is currently busy trying to score high-profile alleged celebrity addicts to rehab on his VH1 show, and building his very own media empire, he’s managed to squeeze in a little comedy into the mix. His newest patient isn’t Lindsay Lohan (unfortunately for him), it’s an alcoholic, out-of-work, celebrity fictional ape named Warren….

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Bret Michaels released from hospital; 100% recovery expected

Bret Michaels’ doctor, Joseph Zabaramski MD, gave a press conference this afternoon about Bret’s condition. There’s been a lot of speculation in the press about Bret’s condition, if diabetes played a role, if Bret was working/partying too hard, etc, and this press conference will help calm down a few rumors and myths. The Poison rocker…

RHNJ Theresa Giudice explains why Italian women can’t make red sauce while on their period
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RHNJ Theresa Giudice explains why Italian women can’t make red sauce while on their period

Teresa Guidice’s segment on making traditional Italian red sauce (marinara) included a little tidbit that makes women roll their eyes. Basically, women are forbidden from making delicious red sauce while on their periods. Teresa’s reason? “It spoils the sauce.” It only spoils the sauce if you straddle the boiling vat naked, but that’s beside the…

VIDEO – True Life’s “I Have a Traumatic Brain Injury” features emerging band Theft

Tonight MTV’s True Life features young people dealing with Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI), a condition that can range from mild to severe after a person experiences a sudden trauma to the head. TBI affects a younger population, who are less risk-adverse. Men in general are also less likely to avoid danger, and make up nearly…

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David Boreanaz extorted after affair with Tiger Woods’ mistress Rachel Uchitel?

David Boreanaz has admitted to People magazine that he has been unfaithful to his of nearly nine years, Jaime Bergman. The admission comes after a mistress of his got herself a lawyer and threatened taking the story to the media if he didn’t pay up.

Boreanaz has yet to identify the woman in question, merely stating, “I was associated with a woman who I was involved with and had a relationship with,” Boreanaz tells People. “She asked for money. I felt as though I was being blackmailed or there was some sort of extortion.” But, Star Magazine claimed back in October of 2009 that Boreanaz was having an affair with Rachel Uchitel, who nobody knew at the time because The National Enquirer wouldn’t reveal her affair with Tiger Woods until nearly a month later.

Keep reading to find out all the details and get a leg up in your next game of “Six Degrees of Tiger Woods!”

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From Jersey Shore to Miami Beach: Nicole “Snooki” Polizzi swimsuit pics

The Jersey Shore kids are still heating up Miami Beach while they film the second season of their explosive MTV hit, and we’ve got some pics of Snooki (Nicole Polizzi) enjoying the sun in something that very closely resembles a bikini! Sure, it’s a one-piece but it’s a cut-out, and it looks like Snooks may…

Real Housewives Weave-pulling 2.0: New Jersey Style
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Real Housewives Weave-pulling 2.0: New Jersey Style

Bravo’s Real Housewives of New Jersey (a.k.a. the Sopranos and the prostitution-wh0re-turned-born-again-virgin), debuts tonight, and so far the biggest drama they’ve been advertising is a weave-pulling incident. Yawn. If you’re a Bravo fanatic, you know that  Real Housewives of Atlanta already pulled this mess when Sheree Whitfield tugged Kim Zolciak’s weave. Kim’s weave should’ve gotten…

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Sexy cougar Betty White’s anti-aging secrets

Cancel your plans to go out Saturday, May 8 because the hottest party in the world is gonna be on your television when Betty White hosts SNL! Here’s the promo clip, which dispels all those rumors about Betty Swirling on the internet: Transcript: “Thanks to the internet I’m hosting Saturday Night Live! But don’t believe…

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Book Review: RHNY Alex McCord and Simon Van Kempen’s Little Kids, Big City

On the first season of Real Housewives of New York Alex McCord and her hip-attached Simon van Kempen acted like ridiculous social climbers. They spoke in haughty tones about getting in the social papers after visiting the Met’s Grand Opening, avoiding nonexistent paparazzi, grotesque sneers about “living in the suburbs,” and conspicuously blowing tens of…

Real Housewives of New York newest housewife Jennifer Gilbert

The newest New York Real Housewife on the scene, Jennifer Gilbert, has been described as “easygoing” and “the nice one.” She’s a businesswoman, like Ramona, and is president of the event-planning organization “Save The Date.” She’s introduced on the show planning a skating party for Jill Zarin. She also owns PortaMee, a baby sling company….

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Autopsy links drug use to designer Alexander McQueen’s suicide, which was not his first attempt

“He’s wearing your clothes head down to toes, a reaction to you.” – Elliot Smith “Need in the Hay” According to WWD (via Vanity Fair) Paul Knapman, M.D., the physician who performed avant-garde designer Alexander McQueen’s autopsy found “’a significant level of cocaine,’ sleeping pills, and tranquilizers,” in his system, and concluded that the designer…

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Forget Haiti or starving children, give all your money to Stephen Baldwin!

Most people,  when they can afford to, like to give a little some of the wealth they’ve gained back to the world, back to the universe, as a :thank you” of sorts. Sometimes it’s texting the Red Cross to send aid to Haiti, making a donation to a cancer research fund, or donating your time…

Alexis Neiers Arlington talks with attorney Jeffery K. Rubenstein, Esq.
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Alexis Neiers strikes back at the Vanity Fair Nancy Jo Sales article by talking to a group of five school children

Sunday’s episode of E!’s controversial reality frolic Pretty Wild, showed Alexis Neiers’ bittersweet dance with fame and publicity. She was excited about getting a “spread” in the respected magazine: Alexis: “I got an offer to do a spread in Vanity Fair just about me to explain my side of the story.”   Tess: “And there’s…

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Michael Scott to leave ‘The Office’ after one more year?

The folks over at Office Tally noticed with their diligent ears a heartbreaking little statement from Steve Carell during an interview with BBCRadio:  he probably won’t stay on The Office after he contract runs through next season! Without Mike Scott, there is no office. Unless, of course, Ricky Gervais shows up as David Brent to…

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VIDEO – Heidi Montag’s plastic surgeries leave her unable to chew a hamburger

Tonight on the season premiere of the final run of The Hills, Heidi Montag takes her newly altered body and face (thanks to 10 plastic surgery procedures) and her giant void of self-esteem to visit her family. In the clip (via US Weekly) below she’s seen trying to explain to her mother (who comes off…

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The City’s Kelly Cutrone was once a rock star, had a record deal with Atlantic

In PR girl Kelly Cutrone’s memoir/power girl guide, If You Have To Cry, Go Outside, we learn a bit about what it’s like to follow your dreams, or our own sense of what feels right against the giant sea tide of parental and societal pressures, but we also learn a great deal about Kelly Cutrone’s…

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Listen to Countess Luann De Lesseps new single “Money Can’t Buy You Class”

Real Housewives of New York’s resident Playgirl Countess LuAnn De Lesseps’ wobbly dance (Auto)tune “Money Can’t Buy You Class”  is finally out! A couple of weeks ago on Watch What Happens Live Andy Cohen cheekily stated that the best $.99 of his life will be spent downloading this sucker. He probably washed that statement down…

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Kim Kardashian’s ex-husband Damon Thomas physically abused her, ordered her to get liposuction

Years before Kim Kardashian was the headliner of her family’s reality-lifestyle brand, she was a relatively unknown socialite who eloped with a kind-of big-time music producer named Damon Thomas, pictured left in the pic above. Kim doesn’t talk about this time in her life often (they were married from 2000-2004), and The Daily Mail (via…

ABC’s ‘Wife Swap’: Watch Joey Fulco and The Fulco Family Band music videos

An aspiring music star family from Las Vegas, the Fulcos, are featured on the ABC show Wife Swap tonight, with the mother Vanessa trading her life for time with the Samel-Garloff, who value the earth and laid-back living about all else. During the swap the father Joey Fulco exhibits some anger and control issues as…

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RHNY Ramona Singer and Mario Singer renew their vows; better than the first time

Ramona Singer is quickly turning into my favorite New York Housewife. Maybe her Tru Renewal™ process is actually working, but her on-camera persona has shifted from close to bat-sh!t to maybe the sanest person in the room (if not a little quirky, tipsy, and shamelessly outspoken). It’s Ramona’s relentless honesty that reels me in. Who…

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Megan Hauserman on jail: It was disgusting, horrible and traumatizing

Reality love competition show veteran (her last one ended in tragedy) Megan Hauserman is speaking out about her DUI arrest and time in jail April 16, 2010. She says it was “disgusting, and horrible, and traumatizing.” Early int he morning Megan was pulled over in a black BMW after she was weaving between car lanes…

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16 & Pregnant Kailyn Lowry: Season 2, Episode 10 recap and review

When we meet Kailyn Lowry, an 18-year-old from Easton, Pennsylvania, she’s in a predicament much bigger than just being pregnant. She’s never met her father, but is interested in finding him after his sister finds her on Facebook, her mom is living in a hotel with her boyfriend, and Kail is living with her boyfriend…

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True Life “I Hate My Face:” Inside the myths and reality of body dsymorphic disorder (BDD)

Many people completely misunderstand body dysmorphic disorder, the condition featured in tonight’s True Life “I Hate My Face” (MTV, 11 pm EST). It’s not a condition of vanity, a character flaw or something that people can simply snap out of. There are two causes of body dysmorphic disorder (BDD), which may be interlinked: neurological and…

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Reality star Shayne Lamas elopes with Thedirty.com’s Nik Richie in Vegas

Holy reality blogger balls! Shayne Lamas (credits: being Lorenzo Lamas’ daughter, winner of Season 12 of The Bachelor, and star of reality show Leave it to Lamas), has eloped with Nik Richie (real name Hooman Karamian), founder of the skin blog thedirty.com which was made famous by posting pictures of RHOC star Gretchen Rossi doing…

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Did Edwin Valero try to kill his wife Jennifer Viera before?

When Venezuelan boxing champion Edwin Valero slayed his wife Jennifer Viera Sunday morning before killing himself the next day, it wasn’t the first time he attacked his wife. He was arrested on assault charges just a few weeks ago on March 25, 2010, after his wife had to be hospitalized for a collapsed lung, scratches…

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Boxer Edwin Valero hangs himself after murdering Jennifer Viera in Venezuela

Edwin Valero, a lightweight Venezuelan boxing champion, with was found dead in his jail cell this morning (Monday, April 19), hanging from his own clothes. Sunday (April 18) 28-year-old Edwin Valero was arrested and held in Caracas, Venezuela after his wife was found stabbed three times in a Valencia hotel room. He checked into the…

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Sonja Tremont Morgan says Ramona Singer used to be “crazier” 20 years ago

Sonja Tremont Morgan is a new “Real Housewives of New York” but she’s not really new to the girls; she’s pretty well acquainted with everyone except Alex, who she had only met briefly before. In particular, she lunches with LuAnn regularly, and used to party at Studio 54 with Ramona 20 years ago. Sonja has…

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Who is Sonja Morgan’s ex-husband John Adams Morgan?

The newest Real Housewife of New York Sonja Tremont Morgan has a direct style and a posh background: she was once married to John Adams Morgan, a great-great grandson of the American Gilded Age financier John Pierpont Morgan (aka J.P. on the street). Sonja’s ex is also a great-great-great grandson of John Adams on his…

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Steven Seagal scandal history: Nine women claimed sexual harassment in 1998, including Jenny McCarthy!

Kayden Nguyen’s recent allegations of sexual misconduct by Steven Seagal are not the first – Jenny McCarthy and at least 9 other women described similar encounters with “Lawman” Seagal back in 1998! Keep reading for the details!

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Jane Lynch and Glee cast recreates Madonna’s Vogue

Newly engaged funny-lady Jane Lynch’s Glee character Sue Sylvestor took on Madonna in a big way in a promo for the show’s Madonna-extravaganza next week. This is pretty much almost a frame-by-frame recreation of the video, with Lynch trading in her no-nonsense short hair and tracksuit for full-on G-L-A-M-O-U-R. Madonna’s version (the sound quality is…

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Bruce Beresford-Redman’s possible motive for murdering his wife: $5 million life insurance policy?

“Survivor” and “Pimp My Ride” producer Bruce Beresford-Redman is still being held in Cancun as a suspect of his wife Monica Beresford-Redman’s murder. There are reports that Monica recently found out Bruce was cheating on her with casting director Joy Pierce and the couple had retreated to the Moon Palace resort in Cancun, Mexico to…