Author: Tabloid Baby

Well kids, get ready for The Hills and everything else. Word’s spreading today that a Lauren Conrad sex tape is about to be unleashed on the Internet. From her days on Laguna Beach to her home in The Hills, the MTV sexpot and fashion entrepreneur has been the subject of many an MTV viewer fantasy, [...]

American Idol executive producer Nigel Lythgoe says a win on his top-rated contest isn’t all that important– and with those words, he just might be preparing us all for a Sanjaya Malakar victory. “What do you mean by ‘winning?’” he posed to TV Week. “Taylor (Hicks) won the competition, but he isn’t the one selling [...]

Poor Dave Price. Back in December, the nerdy Milhouse Van Houten lookalike and CBS Early Show weathergeek was a lock to take over for old Bob Barker on The Price Is Right. Dave was all set to do Chenbot foil duty Monday through Thursday in New York, then fly to the coast for to tape [...]

When Saturday Night Live honcho Lorne Michaels threw a tantrum over NBC’s pickup of Aaron Sorkin’s high-priced, highly-anticipated Studio 60 On the Sunset Strip and forced the network to take 30 Rock, his own SNL-inspired behind-the-scenes-at-a-sketch-show-series-with-a-number-in-the-title– created by and starring his own not-ready-for-prime time player Tina Fey– there weren’t high expectations that the sop was [...]

It looks like tomorrow night’s premiere of the MTV comedy series ShortCircuitz will be short one Paris Hilton sketch. The celebutard and star of The Simple Life taped a mock infomercial for “What Would Paris Do” bracelets. The sketch shifts from Paris’ pitch to “real-life” people looking to their bracelets for advice. In one scene, [...]

The morning after Sanjaya Malakar turned in another memorable, winning performance on American Idol and inspired an audience member’s sign that read “Sanjaya is my Papaya,” one of the show’s executive producers says that we at Tabloid Baby were correct when we reported that Howard Stern listeners have nothing to do with his success in [...]

Now how would an anonymous woman claiming she’d gone on a hunger strike until Sanjaya Malakar was eliminated from American Idol become international news? The story seemed to be a fake from the start– more so when it was propped up and pimped by a sleazy corporate infotainment website– and now appears to have been [...]

Fox’s The Wedding Bells ABC’s Six Degrees The CW’s 7th Heaven NBC’s The Black Donnellys All cancelled yesterday. The good news?

The promotion for Dancing with The Stars makes it clear that one celebrity comes to the dance floor with a tremendous handicap. But three weeks into the competition, many are saying that the combination of judges’ sympathy and state-of-the-art bionic prosthetics are giving the one-legged, Beatle-fleecing, porn model-turned-”charity campaigner” Heather Mills an unfair leg up [...]

Comedy Central opened its stand-up comedy school today. Classes are free and it’s all online. Which makes it exactly like those online traffic school courses without the driving parts. Crash Course in Comedy, which you can find here, features ten video classes led by Ted Alexandro, a comedian who’s had a couple of specials on [...]

Tabloid Baby pal and contributor Dr. Franklin Ruehl is a guest tonight on The Tom Green Show, an oddball talk show that’s quietly creating the same kind of revolution– and grabbing the same young audience– as his old old MTV series. Green, the performance artist prankster who rocketed to fame on MTV before losing a [...]

Nickelodeon’s 20th Annual Kids’ Choice Awards moved just like a grown-up awards show last night with dead spots, corny stage patter, emotional speeches and mass burping. But at least it had lots of slime, oozing out of the walls, shooting out of hoses and bursting up from under the stage– an effect they should consider [...]

Ever since Howard Stern dropped off the pop culture radar screen when he took a huge lump of money and ran off to satellite radio, he’s relied on a powerful PR company to keep his name in the news. Whether it’s an engagement to his girlfriend (just in time, as her popularity is surpassing his), [...]

Is there a Family Ties curse? Michael J. Fox was stricken by Parkinson’s Disease; Tina Yothers wound up on Celebrity Fit Club; Justine Bateman, well, uh… she got older… and now this: Alex Keaton’s little brother is about to get full-fledged membership in the Danny Bonaduce Child Stars Club. Brian Bonsall, who spent a few [...]

See! Jeff promised the season would get better! Survivor‘s Michelle Yi got right up again. See a fan’s scarier video of Michelle… and because it’s Friday… the lower portion of the controversial Probst photo… after the jump…

Last month in this space, B-Side told us about the comedy troupe The Human Giant and the series they’d landed at MTV. After catching previews of the show at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre in LA, he was the first to announce, “The series should be premiering in early April, and based on what we’ve [...]

Did you catch The Great American Dream Vote on ABC? The one with Donny Osmond as host and people begging to have their pathetic wishes fulfilled? Neither did anyone else. The show’s been dumped after two airings, lost in the hoopla over Heather Mills’ Heather Mills’ wooden leg and Sanjaya Malakar’s hair. Dream Vote preimered [...]

Jesus Christ! Who’s to blame for Chris Sligh’s elimination from the American Idol Top Ten? That’s how the Jeopardy! question would read. The out-of-breath doughboy with the mop of curls had a built-in constituency that should have trounced Sanjaya’s Desi factor. But he never capitalized on or gave a signal to the widespread, Southern-based voting [...]

“You know, I never came into this wanting to win it. “I come from an indie, alternative-rock background, and I think winning American Idol would hurt what I was really going for. “And I think what kind of solidified it in my mind was when I was universally trashed for my arrangement of ‘Endless Love.’ [...]

We’d thought we’d seen the last of Studio 60 On The Sunset Strip, Aaron Sorkin’s low-rated, wrong-headed, self-indulgent, bloviating, stultifying, expensive– and eminently watchable– drama about a live network TV comedy show, after NBC unceremoniously yanked it from the schedule and replaced it with The Black Donnellys. But it lives! Our pal Ray Richmond, the [...]

When the JibJab brothers first made a splash with their “This Land Is Your Land” Bush-Kerry web cartoon back in 2004, they were fresh, different, unexpected and funny. And when Jay Leno ran their video on The Tonight Show, he seemed to be riding the curve. What a difference a few years makes.

Details are out about the Grey’s Anatomy spin-off that will be introduced and probably launched in a very special two-hour Grey’s episode in May. We’ve known the series is built around Kate Walsh’s Dr. Addison Forbes. But other than that and other casting announcements that include Taye Tiggs and Tim Daly, information have been kept [...]

Survivor host and keeper of the flame Jeff Probst is biting the hand that feeds him, coming out and admitting what viewers have known for weeks now: This season hasn’t been up to snuff. “I cannot argue with the audience. I can feel that it has not been as fulfilling because it has been unfair. [...]

Forget Heather Mills doing backflips on Dancing with The Stars with a bionic leg. There’s real outrage this afternoon over Sanjaya Malakar’s performance on American Idol last night (see it here). The Chicago Sun-Times writes of death threats against an ironic Sanjaya promoter, USA Today claims that Idol‘s “credibility” may be at stake, and the [...]

How does a teenage boy who’s made it into the Top 10 of American Idol respond to a barrage of criticism and ridicule about his talent and his changing hairstyles? Practice? Tone it down? Not our Sanjaya Malakar. He’s either having the time of his life or, more likely, he just doesn’t give a f—. [...]

Jessica Smith, a former star of Laguna Beach: The Real Orange County on MTV, is being held on suspicion of felony driving under the influence of alcohol or drugs after a crash on the San Diego Freeway. According to the California Highway Patrol, the 19-year-old crashed a 1999 Volkswagen Beetle into the back of a [...]

With Sanjaya Malakar‘s latest and much-anticipated American Idol performance only hours away, Idol executive producer Nigel Lythgoe has offered a stirring defense of the embattled hero. “Can’t you understand why little girls vote for Sanjaya? I can. “I don’t know what the controversy is, to be frank. He has guts, this kid, and you have [...]

MTV’s Punk’d is pulling the ultimate prank on prime time programming as it heads into what they swear is its final season. Three days before the season premiere, the network is showing all eight episodes back-to-back on a Saturday afternoon. MTV says the “Sneak Peak Marathon” on April 7th is a way of getting people [...]

Uh oh. It looks as if NBC has opened the floodgates with its bright idea of pouring millions into a reality show starring a pair of British tabloid celebrities no one in America gives a toss about. Months before the launch of the summer series starring Skinny Spice and David Beckham, E! Entertainment is throwing [...]

That’s what a lot of people are saying about the opening to last night’s episode…

Was the shot of old Dan Aykroyd really the best punchline for the bit?

You remember Jeffrey Sebelia. He was the winner of the last Project Runway, the spoiled ex-druggie punk villain with the neck tattoos who made people cry– until the end, when producers turned the tables and exposed him as a son-loving blubbering softie. Jeffrey already had a successful clothing line when he went into the series, [...]

Jenna Fischer, known to you as Pam Beesly from The Office, gets naked for the cover of the April issue of Wired magazine. Wait! You haven’t seen it all yet! This is the cover you’ll see on the newsstand– only Jenna’s suit is on a transparent cover that you can pull back– and reveal Jenna [...]

Maureen McCormick knows how to whip up some excitement for the fifth season of VH1′s Celebrity Fit Club. If the sight of the overweight 50-year-old former teen idol spinning around in her underwear before the weigh-ins doesn’t do it for you, then the fantasy of a coked-up, binging-and-purging, out-of-control Marcia Brady just might. Maureen goes [...]

Ten years ago, they were castmembers on Saturday Night Live, taking one of their sketches to the big screen. Chris Kattan and Will Ferrell starred in A Night At The Roxbury. The movie tanked. Ferrell recovered and went the Eddie Murphy route. Kattan’s Mango character was not deemed significant enough for another Lorne Michaels comedy. [...]

Strangled. Stabbed. Shot. Beaten. Bloodied. Brains splattered against a wall. Strike a pose! It was just another high-end fashion shoot featuring the Tyrawannabes on America’s Next Top Model. This week’s episode, lost in the hoopla over the weeping Idol girl and the violent billboards for the movie Captivity, forced the glam contestants to pose as [...]

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“I just think he’s so phenomenal. I just can’t believe I saw him live. It was like a dream come true.” –Ashley Ferl on Sanjaya Malakar Yes indeedy, just like The Hiccupping Girl, the 13-year-old who became a media sensation by guiding Sanjaya Malakar to American Idol‘s Top 10 on a trail of tears, has [...]

As NBC gears up for its remake of The Bionic Woman, Fox is giving Jamie Kennedy a pilot in which the acquired taste teams with TV’s original Bionic Man, Lee Majors. Kennedy stars in Me & Lee? (question mark included), as a guy with chronic back pain who undergoes “bionic” back surgery in a secret [...]