Author: Tabloid Baby

Sanjaya Malakar‘s Second Act is well underway now that he’s been “voted off” American Idol (whether due to anti-Asian backlash or whatever strings the producers use to kick out the weak-singing but headline-making contestants at the moment they’re ready to switch publicity gears– see Antonella Barba– we’ll leave up to the Commenters). He appeared on [...]

This just in from NBC, regarding the season finale of My Name Is Earl: THURSDAY, MAY 3 MY NAME IS EARL (8-8:35 p.m.) “Get a Real Job” VIEWERS CAN LAUGH ‘N’ SNIFF THEIR WAY THROUGH THIS SUPER-SIZED EPISODE VIA UNIQUE INTERACTIVE EXPERIENCE — A special “scented” insert card will be available on newsstands and to [...]

So what’s the story with the Lauren Conrad sex tape? First there was word that MTV’s The Hills stars Lauren and Jason Wahler appeared in a steamy sex video (they’re all steamy, no?) that Wahler was trying to sell before he heads off to jail. Then Lauren denied that a tape exists, and blamed her [...]

We’d predicted he’d be sent home from American Idol the week before the Idol Gives Back charity event (to clear the stage for a new wave of publicity), but Sanjaya Malakar‘s elimination tonight still came as a shock– and we’re sad to see him go. And it appears that the Virginia Tech incident had at [...]

The TV Guide Channel has kicked Joan Rivers off the Red Carpet and is replacing her with Lisa Rinna. Rivers and daughter Melissa moved to TV Guide from E! Entertainment in 2005. Actress and nude model Rinna, who, like husband Harry Hamlin did duty on Dancing with The Stars, and whose plastic surgery results are [...]

Completely overshadowed by the storm– or drizzle– over Simon Cowell‘s behaviour on last night’s American Idol was the latest performance and hair display by favorite Sanjaya Malakar. While the theme was “country music” and we were hoping he’d turn in a stunning version of “He Stopped Loving Her Today,” Sanjaya was allowed to sing a [...]

The cat’s out of the bag about Pirate Master, Mark Burnett’s Survivor on A Pirate Ship. The 13-week CBS series premieres May 31st, hosted by Aussie actor and musician Cameron Daddo (above). Sixteen contestants will live on a 179-foot-square rigger off the Caribbean island of Dominica (where the Pirates of the Caribbean movies were filmed) [...]

Simon Cowell has gotten himself into an unwelcome flap over the Virginia Tech massacre after a surprising live scene on American Idol. The tragedy had been hanging uneasily over Idol from the time Ryan Seacrest offered a tribute in the show’s opening segment, but it was after Chris Richardson performed that the unscripted business began. [...]

The next season of Survivor will be filmed in China. The big journey following the fourteenth season will be the fifth move away from an island setting, and the first since Survivor: Guatemala in Season 11. It will also make Survivor: China the first entire series shot by an American network on the mainland. US [...]

Her artificial leg didn’t fly off, but Heather Mills fell on her arse and flashed not only her prosthesis but her knickers as she finished the samba last night on Dancing with The Stars. The tumble in the final moments served the dual purpose of stirring up audience sympathy and showing she’s just a down-to-Earth [...]

NBC News is patting itself on the back for pre-empting a pair of My Name Is Earl reruns for a 10 pm Dateline special on the Virginia Tech shootings (but they’d do the same for Anna Nicole– and who’d be watching after Thank God You’re Here, anyway?). But aside from that gesture, the worst mass [...]

Have you seen the Will Ferrell Internet clip that’s getting more laughs and attention than Alanis Morissette’s version of “My Humps”? Will and his partner Adam McKay say they put it together in 45 minutes (sort of the way they come up with their bigscreen movie plots). Which sounds like an afterthought, but it’s actually [...]

Who is oily enough to replace Bob Barker? The field’s been narrowed to three in the race to take over as host of The Price is Right. And there’s not a Mario Lopez among them. VOTE for your choice… after the jump…

“Not since the mid 1800s when Moby-Dick’s Captain Ahab hobbled his way into our hearts has there been such an outpouring of love for a one-legged go-getter as there has been for Dancing with the Stars’ contestant Heather Mills.” –Dose.ca Did you know that Dancing With the Stars and American Idol are broadcast from adjoining [...]

A gerbil is one thing, but Richard Gere should know better than to tangle with Shilpa Shetty. Mess with her and they’ll be hanging you in effigy and beating you with sticks, as right-wing Hindus and people who paid money to see Shall We Dance are doing today in cities across India. As you can [...]

You’d figure at 75 years old, after triple bypass heart surgery, an old guy would want to take it easy for awhile. But not Regis Philbin. In a move that surely made Jeff Probst, Mark Consuelos and Andy Cooper all say “Damn it!”, he phoned in to Live with Regis & Kelly this morning to [...]

What do you get when you cross the producers of Hairspray with the producers of Queer Eye for The Straight Guy? A CBS network prime time time game show, of course! We guess Les Moonves and the guys have a lot to sing about, laying out plans not only for Pirate Master, its Survivors-of-The-Caribbean reality [...]

Taking New Hampshire voters’ questions during a radio call-in show on country music station WOKQ-FM– “The Big 95″ in Portsmouth– Democratic presidential hopeful Sen. Hillary Clinton (the Melinda Doolittle of her party) was asked what the United States can do about Sanjaya Malakar. “That’s the best question I’ve been asked in a long time,” Hillary [...]

Hugh Hefner’s favorite galpal and The Girls Next Door star Holly Madison is the latest celebrity PETA pin-up. We hear that after the animals are taken care of, she’ll begin campaigning against the exploitation of women. As if! Anyway, our favorite PETA naked ad was released a couple of years back. Beware… it is definitely [...]

TV’s formerly bebowtied privileged punkdit Tucker Carlson is not hosting a pilot for a remake of Johnny Carson’s 1950s game show, Who Do You Trust? He is, however, hosting the pilot for a CBS game show. We, taking our cue from the Showbiz Bible, garbled the title this morning when we reported on the Dancing [...]

Simon Cowell admits that American Idol has a serious problem this season– and it’s not Sanjaya. ”I think that we suffer from Jennifer Hudson- and Chris Daughtry-itis, which is people who didn’t win getting great careers and now a lot of the contestants believing it absolutely doesn’t matter,” he says. ”Sometimes there’s part of me [...]

All this attention focused on American Idol fave Sanjaya Malakar has become a royal pain for another Indian-American reality series contestant. TVgasm pal Surya “Chili” Yalamanchili was fired by Donald Trump in Episode 8 of The Apprentice: LA (though he was our initial favorite to win). When we last checked in with the pride of [...]

More credibility embarrassment from MSNBC, fresh off its cancellation of Don Imus‘ radio show telecast. One of their “news anchors,” boyish conservative talking head Tucker Carlson, has signed on become a game show host. The elitist Carlson was once known for wearing bowties, is best known to his own generation for a spanking he received [...]

Leave it to Les Moonves to deliver the coup de gras. Hours after meeting with the reverends Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson, and as the Rutgers women’s basketball team appeared on Oprah, he fired old Don Imus from his radio show because of his racist one-line joke about the accomplished young women. Now, the Imus [...]

The London Sun has dug up footage of Simon Cowell’s TV debut. The man who last night on American Idol made his moobs an official part of his public persona, first appeared on the telly on what’s descrivbed as a “cheesy daytime quiz show.” Footage from 1990 shows 30-year-old Simon trying to win a Fiat [...]

So now there’s really a hardcore sex video starring an American Idol contestant. And she’s not Antonella Barba, Haley Scarnato, Kellie Pickler, Sanjaya’s sister or Frenchie. Bigtime porn studio Vivid (the ones who got their hands on the tape starring celebutard and OJ’s BFF‘s daughter Kim Kardashian tape) says it’s releasing Hardcore Idol May 3rd. [...]

Bravo continues to feed that upscale reality competition machine. Last night’s finale of Top Design was followed by the premiere of the top hairstylist series Shear Genius, with old Jaclyn Smith and the woman who created Meg Ryan’s messy hairdo– who for the first fifteen minutes of the show we thought was Steven Cojocaru– in [...]

The final four candidates in The Apprentice are bound to disagree, but Donald Trump has just been named the The Unsexiest Man in the World. The World! He’s one 99 men– and Anne Coulter– named to the Boston Phoenix’s annual 100 Unsexiest Men list. But Trump takes top prize, the Golden Gilbert award– named for [...]

Hey, if this American Idol thing doesn’t pan out, Sanjaya can always team up with his sister Shyamali and try out for Pop Dynasty, a new show CBS is producing with members of the Jackson family. No, Michael and Janet aren’t on board–not yet anyway. But who needs them when you’ve got Jermaine, Tito and [...]

If his fauxhawk version of “You Really Got Me” showed that young Sanjaya Malakar has got American Idol in the palm of his hand, last night’s revelatory performance of “Besame Mucho” revealed much more. And it wasn’t the fact that his controversial hairstyling has crept down to cover his upper lip and chin (sort of). [...]

When NBC announced that James Caan was leaving Las Vegas to return to movies, word was the network was actually trying to save a few dollars for the series’ next season. But apparently the remaining eye candy– including Josh Duhamel, Molly Sims and Vanessa Marcil– isn’t enough, because they’re now looking to replace the big [...]

Gravel-voiced, iron-pumping, edge-walking wing-nut and former child TV star Danny Bonaduce has livened up morning radio in LA since he was forced into the mix at the low-rated, monotonous and amateurish Adam Carolla show that replaced Howard Stern. While Carolla, whose job is protected by BFF Jimmy Kimmel’s contract as a “comedy consultant” to the [...]

File Andy Barker, PI under “cancelled,” along with Quintuplets, Andy Richter Controls The Universe and the next two sitcoms that are handed to former late night sidekick Andy Richter. Not even the support and involvement of NBC bigshot Conan O’Brien could help the genial tubby man’s quirky comedy last six short weeks in NBC’s Thursday [...]

There was a time when Jason Wahler was sort of entertaining. Then he got embarrassing. And now he’s just sad. The kid from The Hills is already headed to jail for a drunken, racist assault– and now he’s been arrested again in another trash-talking confrontation that adds homophobia to the mix. The 20-year-old MTV figure, [...]

Reality TV king Mark Burnett got a two-fer this season, using a “Haves and Have-Nots” twist on both Survivor: Fiji on CBS and NBC’s The Apprentice: LA. Apprentice already had the winning team living in a mansion and losers in backyard tents when Survivor broke the mold by giving the winning tribe comfy digs and [...]

K-Fed, Paris and Howard K. are all bound to find work when a US network gets around to copying the latest British reality TV series. ITV’s Deadline is an “I’m from Rolling Stone” for C-listers: Ten celebrities work as paparazzi, then put together a magazine featuring their photos. The celebs work for real tabloid bosses. [...]

Sunday newspapers around the world are picking up an Associated Press story claiming that support from India has nothing to do with Sanjaya Malakar‘s success on American Idol. The article also flips off the Indian phone center theories with “most workers have calls automatically dialed for them by computers. They couldn’t even call next door [...]

We shouldn’t go into the weekend without a reminder that The Sopranos returns Sunday night. The Easter Sunday resurrection is the first of the series’ final nine episodes. And judging by the promos, if Tony doesn’t get whacked by the final frame, it looks like he’ll be losing someone very close before he gets there. [...]