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.)
Following the sad news of a miscarriage for their expected 20th baby Jim Bob and Michelle Duggar are having a memorial for Jubilee Shalom on Wednesday. Read Jim Bob’s comments and why the sad news was made more bearable by the very special celebration of child 19’s 2nd birthday.
Tommaso is a former stray alley cat who now has swagger AND cash. He became the richest cat in the world when his owner Maria Assunta left him $13.3 million when she died. Assunta was the widow of a wealthy Italian property magnate. Under Italian law Assunta couldn’t leave the money directly to the cat (cat’s aren’t very good at writing checks and using credit cards anyway,) so she left it to her nurse Stefania, as the cat’s trustee.
See photos of actors Daniel Craig and Rooney Mara from the red carpet at the world premiere of David Fincher’s film adaptation of The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo. Rooney leaves her iconic character, the planet’s favorite tech-savvy petite Goth badass, Lisbeth Salander, far behind as she looks nothing short of elegant (although still with a splash of badassness!) alongside her Mikael Blomkvist incarnate co-star.
(Who else can’t wait for this film?!?)
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.”
Coming on the heels of the insane story of fake Dr. Oneal Morris and the transgender’s fix-a-flat butt enhancements we have fake Dr. Kasia Rivera. Rivera was having a “pumping party” and injected silicone into 22-year-old Justin Street’s penis which caused him to die the next day from a silicone embolism.
Forget Mariah Carey, The Band Perry and Usher, Justin Bieber went next level on Sunday by doing a holiday duet with none other than President Obama. That’s right all you Beliebers out there, The Biebs is taking on all comers this holiday season following the release of Under the Mistletoe. This latest gig was part of the annual Christmas in Washington performance as Bieber appeared along with other celebrities including host Conan O’Brien and Jennifer Hudson. See the performance and let us hope that Malia wasn’t under the mistletoe when Justin was around – talk about your national scandals!
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!
Demi Lovato got some new ink! The kick-ass star who used her personal demons to inspire others and turn her life around tweeted a pic of the new ink “Sometimes you just gotta have a little bit of ….”
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!
In a move that even Breaking Bad’s Jessie Pinkman wouldn’t try, Alisha Halfmoon of Tulsa, Oklahoma got her cook on at a local Walmart. Get all the details on this insane story that includes Alisha’s full mug, the mixing of starter fluid and sulfuric acid and a police officer who suffered chemical burns from her concoction.
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.”
If you’ve been searching for the right life coach to help guide you let me suggest Octomom! Someone has stepped up, or down according to your vantage point, and signed Nadya Suleman to a 6-figure deal to star in a weekly internet show to be called OctoTV. This show will air each Sunday via Ustream and it will center around Octomom giving out advice and discussing such topic as, “Parenting, fitness, diet, nutrition, shopping on a budget and all those crazy rumors.” See a bried preview video posted by OctoTV for a taste of what to expect from her latest venture.
K-Fed has apparently been well fed lately as he’s appearing in a weight loss show in the land down under. The show is called Excess Baggage and it’s very much like Celebrity Fit Club which Federline participated in state side last year. Find out why Federline had to be hospitalized and how he’s doing now with his apparently new career of losing weight.
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.
Meet Casey Shteamer, a 26-year-old trading clerk and part-time model from Leawood, Kansas and one of 25 eligible young ladies competing for the heart of The Bachelor Ben Flajnik on Season 16 of the popular romance reality series set to premiere January 2 on ABC. (You had me at “Shteamer.”)
Meet Brittney, a 26-year-old medical sales rep competing for the heart of Ben Flajnik on Season 16 of The Bachelor, set to premiere January 2, 2012 on ABC. There’s not too much info on Brittney out there (like a last name) but we do have a brief Q&A and photos! (That would be enough for a dating site, right?)
Meet Blakeley Shea, a 34-year-old VIP cocktail waitress from North Carolina with one of the most impressive “hottie” resumes in the history of The Bachelor. In addition to being a former Hooters calendar girl, Blakeley was also included in Maxim’s “Hot 100” in 2006! But will “dayumm sexy” be enough to win the heart of The Bachelor Ben Flajnik? Keep reading, scroll through the photos and video, and see what you think!
Real Housewives of Beverly Hills star Kim Richards is currently undergoing a 30-day rehab treatment at Betty Ford. She’s been accused of being an alcoholic on camera by her sister Kyle, and also listed on camera three prescription drugs she was on.
A source tells People that before entering rehab she was no longer staying with boyfriend Ken Blumenfeld, they may have broken up, and Kim was essentially homeless.
Michelle and Jim Bob Duggar, who were expecting their 20th child together, told People Magazine that 45-year-old Michelle suffered a miscarriage during the second trimester. They couple went in for a routine check-up, and to discover the sex of their baby, but instead got heartbreaking news that there was no longer a heartbeat.
Khloe Kardashian Odom, the hands-down favorite Kardashian/Jenner according to starcasm.net followers on Twitter and Facebook, is undergoing IVF treatments to help her conceive with husband Lamar Odom.
Older sis Kourtney Kardashian is having her second baby with long-time boyfriend Scott Disick, and Khloe can’t wait to give Mason and his-sibling-on-the-way a cousin!
Thanks to MTV’s popular docu-series Teen Mom 2 the world has gotten to know Elkview, West Virginia’s Leah Messer and her twin daughters Aliannah and Aleeah. Now get to know Leah’s famous mother “Momma Dawn” Spears, who also found herself “16 and pregnant,” although under completely different circumstances. Keep reading for her story as well as numerous photos including Leah on the day she was born!
MTV has ordered 12 episodes of a docu-series that will follow the lives of recent high school graduates from West Virginia to be called Buck Wild. While you may think that folks would get excited to hear that MTV would be featuring their state you’d be wrong on this one. Read on for the premise of the show and find out why residents and the state itself ain’t so wild about Buck Wild.
In a horribly sad situation 12-year-old Ramie Marie Grimmer Facebook posted “may die 2day” hours before her mother fatally shot her. She and her younger brother were being held hostage at a Laredo, TX social service office after their mother became upset that they were denied food stamps. While being held hostage young Ramie made updates to her Facebook page including the tragically prophetic one.
Teen Mom Amber Portwood talks about her fight at IHOP, her new man Mike who’s “the one,” as well as being diagnosed with bipolar and dissociative disorders.
Jerry Sandusky was arrested on Wednesday following new sexual abuse charges involving two additional accusers.
These new accusers testified before a grand jury that Sandusky molested or raped them over a period of years. When taken into custody at his home Sandusky was wearing a Penn State windbreaker. His mug shot was captured at the Centre County Correctional Facility in Bellefonte, Pa., after his arraignment, because he was unable to fork over the $250,000 bail.
Meet Anna Snowball, a 25-year-old student from Canada who will be one of 25 eligible ladies trying to win the heart of The Bachelor Ben Flajnik in the 16th season of the popular romantic reality series on ABC set to premiere on January 2.
Meet Amber Tierney, a 28-year-old critical care nurse from Waverly, Nebraska who is one of 25 eligible bachelorettes who will be competing for the heart of The Bachelor Ben Flajnik in the sixteenth season of ABC’s popular romantic reality series.
Meet Amber Bacon, one of twenty-five eligible bachelorettes competing for the heart of hunky wine maker Ben Flajnik on Season 16 of The Bachelor set to premiere January 2, 2012 on ABC. Amber is a 23-year-old nurse from British Columbia, Canada with no tattoos and fond memories of hunting witches as a kid.
This will shake some things up on VH1’s Mob Wives. Mob Wives‘ Renee Grazian’s dad Anthony Graziano is a consigliere in the Bonanno crime family, so that makes things awkward now that her ex-husband, and the father of her 17-year-old son Hector Pagan Jr. is an FBI informant who was wired for a year! On…
Teen Mom and The Kardashians ambassadors Chelsea Houska and Rob Kardashian met in New York City this evening to see if they couldn’t iron out the animosity between the two reality show families after Farrah Abraham recently stoked the flames with some disparaging remarks about Rob’s sister Kourtney and her boyfriend Scott Disick, who had just announced they are expecting their second child.
Or was it that Rod Kardashian just happened to be DJing at Chelsea’s hotel? Either way, they posed for a momentous reality show crossover photo together!
It seems the gals of Teen Mom 2 are breaking out of their older sisters’ shadows! Last night’s Season 2 premiere registered 4.154 total viewers, which is the highest number for any premiere in the history of either of the Teen Mom franchises! The show helped propel MTV to its highest rated Tuesday night ever and their all-important adults 18-49 number was tied for the number one show on cable last night! Keep reading for more amazing numbers and more exclamation points!
My mercurial Real Housewives of Orange County fandom finds me with a new favorite cast member each week, but there are a few of my favorite things that remain constant – Gretchen Rossi in a bikini, Tamra Barney in a bubble bath, Vicki Gunvalson in a catfight, and Alexis Bellino in a pair of high heels and tight pants! (I’m reluctant to say her husband Jim Bellino probably agrees.)
Is it possible that The Avett Brothers have become the reason why Dexter will quit killing? Read on to find out why having their name dropped in the latest episode allowed me to think it’s at least possible.
Attention All Internet Eyeballs! This is the “leaked” cover of Linday Lohan’s 2012 January/February Playboy cover. The troubled starlet got a $1 million payday out of this nude shoot (that some reports say shows full-frontal. Hugh Hefner himself said she was nude but “classy” in the photos.) The inspiration? Marilyn Monroe. (This is only the…
I guess in Anderson, Indiana IHOP stands for “International House of Pummeling” as troubled Teen Mom Amber Portwood has been caught on video in a fist fight at the chain restaurant. Read on for the details of this pancake pugilism from an eyewitness on hand.
Even experts like MythBusters’ Jamie Hydeman and Adam Savage make mistakes from time to time. The only difference for these dudes is that their accident sent a cannonball hurtling at 1,000ft/s through a concrete wall, over a hill, into and out of a house, across a street, off of a roof, and eventually ending up in a minivan that was parked only minutes previously! See a great local news report about what will have to be the most watched episode in MythBusters’ storied history.
Last night our girls from Teen Mom 2 got things started for another season on the roller coaster ride of being a young mother. Each Wednesday following the show we like to do a quick break down of the After Show and include the bonus footage that MTV provides. Leah, Jenelle, Kailyn and Chelsea filmed the interviews after the season was over and they usually provides some interesting bonus insights on what they think of what happened during each episode. For the premiere Jenelle talks about her anger issues and Delp, Chelsea talks about her love for Adam, Kailyn drops a hint that maybe she and Joe could one day be a family again with Isaac and Leah talks about why she wanted to get out and get to work.
Check out the best of the best of the things you may have missed from last night’s Teen Mom 2 Season 2 premiere! How high did Kieffer Delp’s amazing poker shorts rank? You’ll have ot keep reading to find out!
I’m sure the Steampunk subculture has been waiting for this forever!
Justin Bieber’s music video for “Santa Clause is Comin’ to Town” is knee-deep in steampunk style! Bieber has jangly thangs all over his old-timey vest, he’s got a wind-up mechanical girl wearing a metal hoop skirt, there are gears EVERYWHERE and Biebs and his back-up dancers get to spice up their choreography with a some janky mechanical moves.
Billy Bob Thornton and Hulk Hogan’s ex wife 51-year-old actor Doug Hutchinson and his 17-year-old bride Courtney Stodden were spotted visiting The Grove in West Hollywood today and appeared as though they were somehow narrowing their infamous age gap – perhaps even passing each other in the process! Plus, raunchy Santa tweets from everyone’s favorite inappropriate teen Twitter tart!
Real Housewives of Beverly Hills star Taylor Armstrong has been through the ringer this year, when she separated from her husband Russell Armstrong, spoke out about him abusing her, and then dealt with his suicide this August. Since that tragedy, Taylor has been picking up the pieces from the settling dust, and trying to help…
Teen Mom 2 star Leah Messer and her new boyfriend Jeremy Calvert address the rumors that she cheated on former husband Corey Simms as implied in the Season 2 trailer video. And perhaps even more newsworthy, she actually gets a Twitter hater to apologize!
Can’t wait for tonight’s Season 2 premiere of Teen Mom 2?!? Then here’s a two-minute-plus preview clip from the episode to help tide you over featuring a rather heated spat between Jenelle Evans and her mom Barbara after Jenelle gets dropped off by supposedly former boyfriend Kieffer Delp.
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