Author: B-Side

We received an odd little email last night. Someone claiming to be Michael Donnellan from the upcoming Big Brother 6 cast wrote: “We’ll swear we have nothing to do with this until the mystery is solved. Watch your live feeds and learn the Secret.” He then provided a link to “The Official Big Brother 6 [...]

“You wouldn’t happen to have any crack, would you?” Okay, so I woke up this morning and realized something dreadful. I had completely forgotten to watch Being Bobby Brown last night. Don’t worry though. I did Tivo it. But in the interest of saving time, I’m just going to sit down right now with the [...]

She may have only lasted about four weeks in the reality television universe, but Lauren from Beauty and the Geek is determined to make her impression. Not only did we spot her with The Miz a few weeks ago, but now she’s popping up in other reality shows as an extra. TVgasm reader Burka gave [...]

With all this Big Brother hoopla taking over TVgasm, I nearly forgot about our wee cooking show, Hell’s Kitchen. Kind of surprising since this rookie series (in the U.S.) owes much of its grainy and stagnant camera work to that reality behemoth. Nevertheless, there was plenty of drama this week in G-Ram’s restaurant, and while [...]

I love fortuitous encounters. Just twenty minutes ago, I was talking to my friend about having to write my Beauty and the Geek recap when who should come strolling by? I’ll give you a hint: hips. Give up? Well, it was none other than Richard, hyperactive geek extraordinaire. Walking down Sunset Boulevard with wide pants [...]

As many of you may know by now, Bo Bice — American Idol’s favorite loser — got hitched recently to his longtime girlfriend, Caroline. I won’t go into the details (for that, see E! Online’s alliteration-fest, “Bo Bice Bags Bride“), but we do have access to the happy couple’s marriage certificate, for all of you [...]

Click on the dancers to play! We’re a little backlogged here at TVgasm, but our recaps of Hell’s Kitchen, Beauty & The Geek, and Dancing with the Stars will be up soon. In the meantime, check out how awesome it is to watch John and Charlotte in fast-forward!

It’s Big Brother time! In case you haven’t heard the latest, this season will feature fourteen houseguests, and each contestant will have a pre-existing relationship with one other roommate. However, they will be instructed to keep their alliance secret because they’ll be under the assumption that everyone else in the house doesn’t know each other. [...]

Football and country fans take note. After sixteen years of crooning on ABC’s Monday Night Football, Hank Williams Jr. will be closing up shop after this season. The announcement was unofficially made yesterday during production of the opening credits. I was lucky enough to be on set during the shoot, and while nothing exceptional happened, [...]

They’ve only had ninety minutes of airtime, but the cast of Real World: Austin continues to dazzle with their potent brew of stupidity and horniness. This week, we learned the vicious truths about the fighting culture as Danny suffered in the aftermath of his highly painful skull fracture. The Boston native embarked on a highly [...]

Click on Tom to play… Since nothing has apparently happened on the Tom Cruise front in, oh, seventy-two hours, I decided to dwindle down the Tom Cruise/Matt Lauer showdown from The Today Show into a convenient, thirty second package. And because no day is complete without a little passive-aggression, I even included Katie Couric’s snippy [...]

The fun times keep rollin’ on Beauty and the Geek where this week, the guys faced that most daunting of challenges: getting women’s phone numbers. Oh, but that’s not all. They also had to ask their female roommates out on dates AND endure head-to-toe makeovers. Yes, it was all about the geeks this week (the [...]

It’s not nearly as exciting as our run-in with half the reality universe a few weeks ago, but last night J-Unit, Madeyoulaugh, and I happened upon Project Greenlight scribe Marcus Dunstan at a party. We were very happy to hear that he and his writing partner Patrick Melton — as well as soft-spoken bathtub fiend [...]

As people living in Los Angeles will tell you, spotting a celebrity is an everyday occurance (J-Unit sat next to Mark Wahlberg in traffic today), but on TVgasm we like to only share the most enjoyable television star sightings. Well, tonight I was at a nifty party at the Avalon Hotel (don’t get too impressed. [...]

Most people by now have heard about Oprah’s silly run-in with Hermès in Paris, but for those in the dark, here what happened: the talk show diva was basically denied entrance to the hoity designer boutique. Up until about ten minutes ago, I didn’t really know the details of this non-incident, but finally, I checked [...]

So I was all excited for tonight’s Real World: Austin premiere because earlier today, I thought of such a cool title: “The Texas Strangers.” Get it? Sounds like the “Texas Rangers” but… well, okay, point is, I really liked the pun. But then after watching this action-packed episode, I felt like keeping that title would [...]

It was an uplifting night on Hell’s Kitchen. The teams seemed to get their acts together, and Gordon only yelled 88% of the time, not the usual 90%. Yeah, we’ll miss the kidney stones of Jeff, the dopey mistakes of Wendy, the portly frustration of Dewberry, and…uh…whatever it was that Carol Ann did, but at [...]

For the past few days, we’ve been teasing all you loyal readers with the promise of some wonderful, scandalous story. Well, the story isn’t so scandalous, and it might not even be so wonderful, but for us here in the TVgasm offices, it was awesome. At the very least, it provides the much-needed bridge from [...]

Click on Tom’s facial to play. Left is the normal version. Right is TVgasm’s erotic interpretation… Well, it was bound to happen sometime. Yesterday, Tom Cruise got squirted in the face. It all happened at the London premiere of War of the Worlds where an intrepid prankster dressed like a reporter soused Tom with a [...]

The ratings are in, and I’m happy to report that Beauty and the Geek has been steadily improving with viewers week after week. This is great for me because it fills my head with quiet delusions that maybe, just maybe, with my little corner of the internet, I’ve possibly helped this show gain the popularity [...]

Lots of fun stuff on this week’s Hell’s Kitchen. Gordon was not only bitter, abusive, and surly, but he actually smiled and cracked a few jokes too. Aww. It was like that time in Home Alone when the crazy man with the beard turned out to be A-OK. Well, maybe I’m getting ahead of myself. [...]

Well, the Jackson verdict finally came out earlier today, and for those of you living under a rock (seriously, who lives under rocks?), he was found not guilty. Stealing the show, however, was one loony lady at the courthouse who released a dove every time the jury foreman said “Not Guilty.” Didn’t she realize that [...]

Madeyoulaugh and Michael Tarshi: building bridges, TVgasm style. A few months ago, TVgasm was brave enough to sample the notorious Tarshi Bar, a confection whose dubious roots stemmed from Apprentice 3 reject, Michael Tarshi. The experience was memorable, to say the least, and brave readers might remember the images of Madeyoulaugh spewing out the chocolate [...]

Anyone who’s even been a casual TVgasm reader for the past six months knows that we have spent countless hours railing against Amazing Race villains, Jonathan Baker and Victoria Fuller. So it should probably come as a great surprise to you that J-Unit and I had dinner with this infamous couple recently. Yes, we dined [...]

With Big Brother nearing in just a few weeks, CBS was kind enough to give us this warm and fuzzy look into Julie Chen’s less robotized life. Yes, in this clip, our hostess with the mostest forages into her photo album (ChenPhoto) and proudly displays an archival image of her two nephews (Chenbot Gemini v.2.0.3) [...]

From left to right: Girl, Girl, Olivia Wilde, young Cruella DeVille, Lauren. Ever wonder where your aspiring television personalities got their start? Well, if you said “working as an extra on The Girl Next Door,” you might be on the right track. The teen comedy was playing on my TV when I turned it on [...]

Love was in the air on tonight’s episode of Beauty and the Geek as “life-sized Barbie model” Erika (provided Barbie had snacked on a few ring-dings) and “life-sized Tom Cruise model” Brad (provided Tom Cruise had snacked on a few reality checks) engaged in that oh-so-taboo activity: inter-species romance! Yes, the Beauty and the Geek [...]

Summer can be slow for TV, but thankfully, we’re always seeking out televised bits of goodness to share. Today, trusty (and occasionally spicy) TVgasm writer Youcantmakeitup details a bizarre weather report she found on her local news (broadcasted exclusively in her delightfully twisted head). Check it out here (Yes, she has her own autonomous blog. [...]

Last week, American audiences — for the most part — were introduced to hot-tempered kitchen Nazi Gordon Ramsey and his unique brand of culinary abusiveness on Hell’s Kitchen. His foul mouth and penchant for hurling plates of spaghetti into underlings’ tummies took center stage as we learned just how evil (but inspiring!) this man could [...]

A lot of my friends love Entourage. In fact, they swear by it. I personally hate it. Okay, maybe I don’t hate it (I reserve that honor for Yes, Dear), but I certainly have great disdain for the show. With the exception of Jeremy Piven and occasionally Debi Mazar and Jerry Ferrara, the series is [...]

The school year may be wrapping up, but for ABC, this summer is all about the academics (and the fey ballroom dancing, but that’s another issue). That’s because tomorrow night marks the premiere episode of The Scholar, the network’s latest feel-good reality offering. On the show, ten high school students move into a house on [...]

I love Quizno’s. I mean, I love Quiznos. But there is one thing that I despise more than just about anything on TV right now: Quizno’s commercials. You know what I’m talking about: stupid talking baby. Yes, for those of you unfamiliar with this ill-advised marketing choice, Quizno’s has elected to hawk their tasty sandwiches [...]

There’s no other way to say this: I loved Beauty & The Geek. Yeah, I know that I called Hell’s Kitchen my summer guilty pleasure just yesterday, but I had no idea that The WB — let alone exec producer Ashton Kutcher — would win me over with this feel-good “social experiment.” Honestly, the only [...]

In case you haven’t heard by now, American Idol reject and chronic pouter Constantine Maroulis became the talk of the internet yet again when last week during a live interview he fell on his ass. Of course, hearing this mortifying news brought nothing but sheer delight to my heart, but sadly, my computer lacked the [...]

Click to see the full-sized image. For all you dedicated Bunim/Murray fans that somehow stuck it out through Real World: Philadelphia, you may remember that despite all of Landon’s libidinous actions towards Shavonda, there always seemed to be something sort of curious about him. Make that bi-curious. Well, further perpetuating this image is Landon himself [...]

Ladies and gentlemen, I have a new guilty pleasure: Hell’s Kitchen. Granted, I’m a bit biased towards the show, if only because I had been looking forward to its airing since I first caught wind of it back in October of last year. As last night’s premiere episode loomed closer, I did have a few [...]

When our friend at Access Hollywood told us to Tivo tonight’s special half-hour dedicated to Tom Cruise, we knew something had to be up. After all, we were still reeling from his loopy, “I swear I’m in love!” performance on Oprah where he became daytime television’s reigning couch-surfer. Well, we weren’t disappointed. The Billy Bush [...]

While Youcantmakeitup toils away at her recap of tonight’s American Idol finale, we just had to whet your appetite with a few choice sights and sounds. More fun after the jump…

Seriously, what’s the deal with Lost? DISCUSS.