If you’ve ever imagined what one of the gals from Jersey Shore would look like sans the orange glow and over-prepping then this is just for you. The folks with xoJane headed down to the shore and did a makeunder of Sammi Sweetheart Giancola and the results are awesome. Check out the Samformation and a eye-opening before and after.
Ben Flajnik has an army of beautiful, attractive women to choose from on the upcoming 16th season of The Bachelor, including two reigning beauty queens! We’ve already profiled Miss Chicago Elyse Myers and now we’d like to introduce you to Miss Pacific Palisades 2011 Samantha Levey. Keep reading for all sorts of background info and numerous photos of this 26-year-old advertising account rep originally from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Another week, another slew of overly dramatic tabloid headlines about Teen Mom 2 stars Leah Messer, Chelsea Houska, Jenelle Evans, and Kailyn Lowry Irwin. Keep reading to find out what the rags are claiming this week (including Leah being pregnant again) and how they match up with reality.
Southern blond sweetheart Emily Maynard won the hearts of millions of television viewers when she competed on the 15th season of ABC’s The Bachelor. (Unfortunately for her, she also won the heart of The Bachelor, buff scruffy doofus Brad Womack.) But that unfortunate romance is long over and now it appears that Emily is ready to start dating in front of millions once again – this time as The Bachelorette!
While the rumors of New Jersey’s own Jon Bon Jovi having died were proven untrue the story that Real Housewives of New Jersey’s Joe Giudice got thumped by a grand jury are very real. Get the deets behind the indictment and how Joe got busted trying to be his brother.
We’re just a few days from the holiday weekend and it’s a Wednesday so that means it’s time once again for our weekly break down of the Teen Mom 2 After Show and bonus footage. This week we have a tearful Leah trying to explain how she copes with Ali’s medical conditions, Kailyn stating that she’s learned how not to be a mom from her own mother, Jenelle and what made her press charges against Delp and Chelsea explaining why she chose to have surgery on a day when Adam and not her father could help. The bonus footage shows Leah and Corey as they wait eagerly for Ali’s MRI to finish.
It looks as though Discovery Channel has hit it rich with their reality series Gold Rush! The hour-long reality series came in as not only the highest rated show on cable Friday night, but on all of television! (Based on the industry’s all-important Adults 18-49 rating.) 5.38 million viewers tuned in to watch this crew of down-on-their-luck fortune seekers trying to score big in the g|ory hole! Keep reading for all the details and the official (and joyous!) press release from The Discovery Channel.
After his sister, Teen Mom star Amber Portwood, was arrested earlier today, Shawn Portwood talked with E! and explained the reason for her arrest. He then wrote a blog post expressing his disbelief at the hateful comments directed at Amber after the arrest.
Glee actors (and Real Housewives fanatics) Chris Colfer and Lea Michele appeared on the season finale of Andy Cohen’s Watch What Happens Live! and they had a very special announcement for fellow Glee and housewives fans: NeNe Leakes will be making an appearance on Glee! Can you say, “NeNe Gleeks?”
Meet Rache Truehart, a 27-year-old originally from Massachusetts currently working as a sales rep for Lucerne textiles in New York. Rachel will be hoping Ben Flajnik takes her surname literally as she tries to win his heart on the 16th season of The Bachelor premiering on ABC January 2. Keep reading for photos of Rachel as well as a brief Q&A from ABC.
Troubled Teen Mom star Amber Portwood was taken into custody earlier today after a Madison County judge issued a warrant for her arrest stemming from a number of probation violations cited in a report last month. The above mug shot photos of Amber were taken as she was booked into the Madison County Jail and feature the 21-year-old wearing her bold black eyelashes and a pink and black striped shirt.
MTV’s Beavis and Butt-head have picked right up where they left off 14 years ago by offering their adolescent insights on contemporary pop culture through their television viewing habits. Among the many MTV shows lambasted by the duo is 16 and Pregnant including an episode in November that goes after Megan McConnell and her baby daddy Nathan Stone and this week’s episode, which takes on infamous party gal (and gal smoocher) Aubrey Akerill. Keep reading to watch the full Megan McConnell clip and see a preview of Thursday’s episode with Aubrey. (Is it a coincidence that these are the two girls from 16 and Pregnant who have had the most negative things to say about MTV and how they were treated by the network?)
There are divas, there are soul divas and then there are Staten Island (and one bad girl Brooklynite) divas that will damage your face and look freakin’ hot while doing it! VH1’s own Mob Wives; Renee Graziano, Karen Gravano, Drita D’Avanzo, Carla Facciolo and new additions Ramona Rizzo and Angela Raiola were in attendance for their network’s DIVAS Celebrates Soul at the Hammerstein Ballroom yesterday in New York City. See photos of all 6 and get brief bio info for Angela “Big Ang” Raiola.
The original drama mamas of the OC are coming back for their seventh season on February 7! The announcement came via a Bravo press release earlier today that also touted brunette newbie Heather Dubrow as the newest cast member. Keep reading for the full press release and find out some of what to expect in the upcoming season!
There’s a tragedy in Teen Mom 2 land. Early last Wednesday Jeremy Smith (23,) the best friend of Jeremy Calvert, Leah Messer’s current boyfriend, and good friend of her ex-husband (and babies’ father) Corey Simms’ was fatally shot by Adam Lytle (19) at a party in Roane, West Virginia.
Real Housewives of Atlanta star and singer/songwriter/sex toy purveyor Kandi Burruss has conquered R&B, pop music, novelty dance songs by reality stars, and vibrators. Now, she’s got her eye on country music.
Controversial All-American Muslim star Nina Bazzy Aliahmad is raising eyebrows once again, this time by matching her hair to her eyebrows. Yep, Nina has abandoned her famous blond locks in favor of brown and something tells me she’s not going to have any less fun!
Sometimes it’s easy to forget that The Real Housewives of Atlanta star Phaedra Parks was a well-known celebrity defense attorney long before she began wooing Bravo audiences with her charismatic flair and “everybody knows” words of wisdom. Keep reading to watch a pre-Bravo Phaedra Parks: Super Lawyer video montage from various news stations in Atlanta from 2004-2008! It’s Law and Order ATL with Phaedra Parks y’all!
Tonight on Real Housewives of Atlanta Kim Zolciak moves her family (including new baby KJ) into her dream house! The Roswell, GA house is listed at $3.25 million, and while the listing was recorded as being removed from being on sale May 1, 2011 on Zillow.com, it looks like the last time it sold was 2007.
So, based on that, and the fact that Kim’s frenemy tweeted that Kim was renting the house from someone named Kendra, it looks like Kim is renting her dream home! Not that that’s a bad thing! In the words of Phaedra Parks, “Everybody knows” that you can’t get all your info from the tweet of a frenemy, so we checked the Fulton County property records and found . . . .
The entire Kardashian clan was on hand at The Mirage in Las Vegas yesterday for the grand opening of their “Kardashian Khaos” store, which features “a variety of items only available at Kardashian Khaos, including all the products that the Kardashian girls and Kris Jenner own, represent, market and endorse, coupled with exclusive Las Vegas souvenir items.” Keep reading for my list of the worst of the worst culled to together from the limited selection of photos available to us. (In other words, I’m sure there are more, even krappier items not on the list.)
The mystery surrounding how 20-year-old Teen Mom star Farrah Abraham found her new boyfriend, 34-year-old Marcel Kaminstein, is now solved! The two met through the Jewish dating site JDate.com! Keep reading for Farrah’s description of herself on the site as well as what she was looking for in a potential mate!
The explosive trailer for season 2 of Mob Wives featured quite a bit of the newest cast member Ramona Rizzo. From all indications she’s going to play a major role in this upcoming season so I thought I’d break it down with a little meet and greet for the Staten Island sister who’s definitely got the credentials to bring it. Come along as we find out about Ramona’s connections to “the life,” her relationship with Karen Gravano and very important photos of her dressed as a hot devil and a sexy policewoman!
28-year-old professional model Courtney Robertson will be one of 25 ladies looking for love on the 16th season of the The Bachelor, but scoring a one-on-one date with Bachelorette runner-up Ben Flajnik wouldn’t be her first time gettin’ intimate with a famous dude because Courtney once dated Desperate Housewives hottie Jesse Metcalfe! Keep reading for photos of the two looking young and sexy at the 2005 EMMY Awards as well as a preview clip for The Bachelor that seems to suggest the lovely Courtney will be playing the part of hen house villainesse this season!
Teen Mom Jenelle Evans has completed anger management courses but she displayed some of that ol’ Oak Island fire in a recent Facebook blast of her friend Amber Lane. Read some of the tabloid comments that Evans attributed to Lane that set her off and catch Evans’ no-holds-barred reply via her Official Facebook Fan Page.
The second season of Teen Mom 2 premiered last week to the highest premiere ratings of any premiere in either of the Teen Mom franchises with 4.15 million viewers. The high numbers didn’t go unnoticed by the tabloids, who have once again cranked up their coverage of the four young moms, including an In Touch cover story on Leah and Jenelle with the headline “Teen Mom Shockers: Shotgun Wedding & Prison Baby!”
As you might imagine, the story is purportedly full of inaccuracies and Leah Messer’s outspoken mother took to Facebook to lambaste the tabloid for it’s portrayal of Corey Simms as a bad dad after he was absent for his twin daughters’ second birthday party. Keep reading for the Momma Dawn smackdown as well as an explanation of the “prison baby” Jenelle story.
A&E promotes their Storage Wars superstar couple of Jarrod Schulz and Brandi Passante as a “husband and wife team of underdogs,” and just watching 30 seconds of the two bickering and fuming would seem to all but prove the two are stuck together until death does them part. But are they really married? The answer may surprise you!
(I’m not sure what kind of suspense I was going for there – it’s probably pretty obvious what the answer is. Or is it? Yes, it is.)
Even without the suspense, Brandi’s lockers beckon you in!
Teen Mom Amber Portwood has been hit with a laundry list of probation violations and could very well see jail time and lose renewed rights to see Leah. Read the list obtained from court records that paint a very gloomy future for Amber and her upcoming January date before the judge.
The Duggar family from the TLC reality series 19 Kids and Counting held a memorial service today for their 20th child, Jubilee Shalom Duggar, who passed away after Michelle Duggar suffered a miscarriage earlier this week. During the service the family passed out photos that included Jubilee’s hand and foot with inspirational quotes like “There is no foot too small that it cannot leave an imprint on this world.” Keep reading for the controversial censored pictures and a link to the originals.
Last night’s episode of Teen Mom 2 featured an emotional and violent scene between Jenelle Evans and her boyfriend Kieffer Delp after he refused to quit guzzling a bottle of booze in front of her on their way to the Planet Fun bowling alley. For those of you looking for an update on Jenelle’s rebel hobo beau, he is currently in jail in North Carolina serving time for a drug possession charge. Keep reading for his latest booking photo and links to his vast collection of prior mug shots.
We all watched Tyler Baltierra’s tearful proposal to Catelynn Lowell in the Teen Mom Season 1 finale, but since that time the two have been unwilling to set a date until they were more situated with their lives, including getting their high school diplomas. Apparently their lives are now situated (and they both graduated from high school some time ago) so Catelynn took to Twitter a little while ago and announced the exact date we will be seeing her and Tyler walk down the aisle!
The Bachelor 2012 Ben Flajnik made an appearance on Extra this week to promote the upcoming 16th season of the popular ABC romantic reality competition. The wine maker from California was all casual hunky in a gray zip-up sweater and jeans, but was a visual afterthought thanks to Extra host Maria Menounos and her black leather pants! Maria Menounomm nomm nommm!
It’s Wednesday which means it’s time once again for our weekly break down of the Teen Mom 2 After Show and bonus footage. This go around we have Kailyn and the subject of her untenable living conditions with her mom and boyfriend, Chelsea and her inability to say no to Adam Lind, Jenelle with the best quote about Kieffer Delp I’ve ever heard and Leah discussing the difficulty of going through Ali’s appointments without help from Corey.
Bonus: See Kailyn as she gets her back tattoo as a dedication to Isaac including a big ol’ image of the final work!
Meet Monica Spannbauer, a 33-year-old dental consultant from Salt Lake City, Utah competing for the heart of Ben Flajnik on Season 16 of The Bachelor. See photos and get a little background info on Monica, including some quotes from her sister-in-law and evidence that she was actually born Monica Ekberg. DUM-DUM-DUM! (I’m sure we’ll find out the story there when The Bachelor premieres January 2!)
You just can’t beat a healthy mixture of hate, ignorance, and irony! Check out a Westboro Baptist Church protester sporting a Glee shirt while in Madison, Wisconsin to protest the Presbyterian church there ordaining an openly gay minister. Includes an explanation from the Gleek thanks to the person who took the picture.
Is Leah Messer getting engaged to Jeremy Calvert? Why can’t Chelsea Houska let Adam Lind go? Why does Jenelle Evans still return to Kieffer Delp? Get the deets to these answers and more in the following interview video our gals did for Us.
The Real Housewives of Orange County‘s Vicki Gunvalson has just finished filming her seventh season on Bravo’s inaugural Housewives franchise and she took to Facebook to share photos of her revamped family on vacation including her new boyfriend Brooks Ayers, daughter Briana Wolfsmith, and Briana’s new husband Ryan Culberson. Judging from the photos there are four full love tanks on the beach somewhere!
It’s almost time for the 2nd episode for season 2 of Teen Mom 2 and I’ve got 2 sneak peek videos for you to enjoy too. That’s a bunch of deuces! Check out Leah as she visits the Dr. to get a check up on baby Ali’s eyes and see Kailyn as she finds a note from her mom’s boyfriend that sends her over the edge.
Among the 25 ladies pitching woo and whispering sweet nothings in the ear of Ben Flajnik will be one doing so with a British accent! Meet Lyndsie J, a 29-year-old internet personality who goes by the name “Lyndsie Lou” on the web site TheValleyCatch.com. Keep reading for lots of background info on Lyndsie as well as photos and numerous videos, including some very not politically correct jokes!
You never get a second chance to make a first impression, right? That seems to be the mantra of 27-year-old Lindzi Cox of Renton, Washington, who surprises The Bachelor Ben Flajnik in the premiere episode by arriving not in a limo, but riding a horse! Find out all about this bold (and of course mighty fine) equestrian who hopes she will leave the show just as she entered, only with Ben Flajnik riding with her into the sunset.
Meet Kacie Boguskie, a 24-year-old baton twirling administrative assistant from Knoxville, Tennessee who will be throwing her hat baton into the reality show dating ring as one of 25 eligible bachelorettes competing for the heart of The Bachelor Ben Flajnik when the 16th season of the show kicks off January 2! Find out more about Kacie and see some great photos, including a great one of her getting her baton twirling on as a teenager at Rossview High School in 2003!
Got an American Pickers fan on your Christmas list? Your problems are solved! Fresh on the heels of opening up her own store called 4 Miles 2 Memphis, burlesque dancing and roots music loving Antique Archaeology office manager Danielle Colby Cushman has begun selling her unique wares online! Choose from handmade fashion accessories, autographed burlesque posters, and numerous t-shirts! (Sorry, still no Mike Wolfe, Frank Fritz or Danielle bobblehead dolls.)
Home improvement mega-chain Lowe’s is receiving some serious backlash after caving to pressure from the Florida Family Association and removing ads from TLC’s All-American Muslim. Read Lowe’s explanation of their decision, find out why this group would want Lowe’s to pull advertising from the show, see a video of the FFA’s founder David Caton and read part of an angry letter written by a California state Senator in response to what he labeled, “Utter nonsense and religious bigotry.”
Meet Jamie Otis, a 25-year-old registered nurse from Cortland, New York who will be throwing her single lady hat in the Ben Flajnik ring on the 16th season of The Bachelor premiering January 2 on ABC. Includes photos, a brief Q&A, and the results form Jamie’s bid to become New York’s Perfect Miss!
Real Housewives of Atlanta‘s Nene Leakes was rumored to be dating her new business partner John Klolaj (who co-owns and runs Famous Famiglia Pizzeria with his family. Were they tossing around more than just pizza?
Meet Erika Uhlig, a 23-year-old beauty queen and student currently living in Chicago who will be one of the 25 single ladies competing for the heart of Ben Flajnik in Season 16 of The Bachelor set to premiere on ABC January 2. But, even if she doesn’t win the title of Mrs. Flajnik, Erika has another title to fall back on because she is the reigning Miss Chicago! Keep reading for the Rica 411 including the answer to those two all important beauty queen questions: What’s her talent and what does she look like in a swimsuit?
The Los Angeles Lakers have traded Khloe Kardashian’s husband Lamar Odom to the Dallas Mavericks ending weeks of speculation that once had Odom going to New Orleans for guard Chris Paul before the trade was nixed by the NBA. Keep reading for Khloe’s less than enthusiastic reactions to the announcement as we all prepare for the inevitable second season of Khloe & Lamar titled “Khloe & Lamar Take Texas.”
The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills star Brandi Glanville and her ex-husband’s mistress (now wife) LeAnn Rimes appeared to put their feuding aside and kept things civil as they ignored each other at Brandi and Eddie’s son Mason’s soccer game on Saturday. The day wasn’t completely without incident, though, as LeAnn used the opportunity to once again taunt Brandi, this time with some in-your-face PDA with Eddie. (I can’t believe somebody didn’t get their eyes scratched out tbh)
Jersey Shore‘s Pauly D was in Puerto Rico Saturday night to open for Britney Spears on the last date of her hugely successful Femme Fatal Tour, and just like she did in Montreal back in August, Britney treated Pauly to a seductive “lap dance” that included tying him to a pole and locking her legs around his beaming face.
Meet Emily O’Brien, who could very well be the most academically credentialed contestant in the history of The Bachelor! Emily received her pre-med undergraduate degree from Duke University and is currently in medical school at UNC on her way to becoming an epidemiologist! (Me neither – that’s what Google is for) Oh, and she’s also a gorgeous blond. I don’t know about Ben, but Emily is an automatic Top 4 choice in this tarheel lovin’, academic admirin’ blogger’s heart!
Meet 28-year-old professional model Courtney Robertson who will be one of 25 attractive bachelorettes competing for the heart of The Bachelor Ben Flajnik when the 16th season kicks off on ABC on January 2. Includes lots of modeling photos as well as a video clip of a commercial Courtney starred in for Caesars Palace! (I dunno – I think I like this gal’s chances!)
Teen Mom star Farrah Abraham sure is taking to The Sunshine State! The former Council Bluffs, Iowa reality star enjoyed the beautiful weather in Miami earlier today by wearing yet another revealing bikini top with a pair of hot fuchsia short shorts while going for a stroll with her new boyfriend, Marcel Kaminstein. (Farrah looks like she’s had a complete makeover!)
Meet Jennifer, a 28-year-old accountant from Cache, Oklahoma competing for the heart of Ben Flajnik on Season 16 of The Bachelor premiering January 2, 2012. Keep reading for Jennifer’s official ABC portrait, a brief Q&A and a photo of her meeting Ben for the first time from episode one!
Meet Jenna Burke, a 27-year-old blogger from Loveland, Ohio who will take a hiatus from blogging in order to compete for the heart of The Bachelor Ben Flajnik. Keep reading for photos, a brief Q&A, and a link to Jenna’s blog!
When Jersey Shore star Jenni “JWoww” Farley found out she was going to be on the cover of Maxim for their January 2012 issue she was overjoyed. “I cried when I found out,” she says in an interview. “I was jumping up and down and totally bugging out. This is probably my highest accomplishment.” But, that was before she actually saw the cover, which is drawing criticisms from JWoww detractors and fans alike, most of whom say the photo isn’t very flattering and doesn’t even really look like her. Keep reading for the cover shot and an interior photo that I have to agree seem a little less than flattering – and I’m a confessed JWoww fetishist!
Check out some randomly awesome candid photos of Katy Perry, a homeless looking Matt Damon, Val Kilmer and a bag of Depends filming a piece for Saturday Night Live. Katy has traded in her musical guest hat for the hostess with the mostess role. As for Damon with a scruff and long hair, Kilmer and the Depends… I have no idea!
Bonus I’ve got the full clip from Katy’s infamous earlier SNL skit where she wore an amazingly tight Elmo t-shirt poking fun of her Sesame Street cleavage ban.
For fans of the greatest post-Michael Scott sitcom on television, this image could be cause for great concern as it would seem to indicate our country’s most rugged lip-broomed Libertarian has once again succumbed to the devilish wiles of Tammy number 2. But, relax all ye fellow fans of Parks and Recreation, Ron Swanson is still the single boat-building, bureaucracy-hating stoic we have all grown to love and admire, this is merely his slightly less Swansontastic real life counterpart, actor Nick Offerman and his real life wife, actress Megan Mullally together at a charity event in Beverly Hills.
Keep reading for the photos as well as all sorts of videos and photos paying tribute to the guy so manly he believes fish meat is “practically a vegetable.”
Meet Holly, a 34-year-old pharmaceutical sales rep from Salyersville, Kentucky competing for the heart of Ben Flajnik on The Bachelor Season 16 premiering January 2, 2012. We don’t know too much about Holly, but keep reading for some photos and a brief Q&A from ABC.
Meet 27-year-old Jaclyn Swartz, an advertising account manager for CBSSports.com who will be competing for Ben Flajnik’s heart on The Bachelor 16 set to premiere January 2.
Meet Elyse Myers, a 24-year-old personal trainer originally from Chicago, Illinois who will be competing on Season 16 of The Bachelor with Ben Flajnik. (Ol’ Ben doesn’t seem like too much of a fitness fanatic so I wonder how he’ll handle a woman who is probably stronger than he is. Me? I’m in love!)
Our next contestant from Season 16 of The Bachelor with Ben Flajnik is Dianna, a 30-year-old non-profit director from California. Her favorite romantic present was an autographed NSYNC photo and she has admittedly started five kitchen fires. Ummmmm… I don’t think I like her chances this season.
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