Ugly Betty News

August 28, 2007

Ugly Betty: Foreheads and Fatsuits

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This next season of Ugly Betty will be big, how big??? As big as James Van Der Beek's forehead! Good ol' Dawson himself will be starring this upcoming season in Ugly Betty. Other people that will be making cameos will be Gina Gershon, Salma Hayek, and Posh Spice in....are you ready for this???? A fat suit! I would love to see Fat Spice. Fat and Fabulous is how she should roll (no put intended).

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July 17, 2007

Jaime Pressly attacks Ugly Betty

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Picture-perfect pretty Jaime Pressly has slammed poor Ugly Betty for sending the wrong message about plastic surgery.

"They're purposefully big-upping the ugly fat girl to make everybody feel great, but it also glamorises the fact that people are getting plastic surgery because they can. It's really bizarre."

And, she adds of the series that will go up against her own acquired taste, My Name Is Earl, in the fall: "It bores the hell out of me."

Jaime better watch who she's slamming...

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February 1, 2007

Will Tim Gunn's move free him for 'Runway'?

Has TV stardom finally gone to the head of "the sanest man in reality television"?

On the day he makes a cameo on Ugly Betty (above), Tim Gunn announces that he's quitting the Parsons The New School for Design after 25 years-- for a job in the corporate fashion world.

But does the move mean that the Project Runway mentor will be returning for the next season or not?

All we know is that it doesn't mean he's not returning.

Word came today that Tim is leaving his job as chair of the fashion design program for the role of chief creative officer at Liz Claiborne. He'll start his new job on March 5. On the surface, that's a good thing. Tim is the only Runway star not yet signed to the fourth season of the series, and his obligations at the school were said to be a major issue.

But there's still a big "but."

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January 9, 2007

The pretty ugly truth about Ugly Betty's ugly campaign

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So what are we missing here? A mere ten days ago, ABC launched its "pro-social" "public service" Be Ugly 07 campaign to promote its chickhit Ugly Betty. Be Ugly 07, they claimed, "challenges conventional perceptions and stereotypes of real beauty and promotes self esteem and empowerment," and urged Americans "to resolve to be real, be smart, be passionate, be true to yourself and be ugly, just like Ugly Betty in 2007."

So there's America Ferrera, the chubby cutie who plays Betty Suarez, running around this week, sporting a sexy Andersonesque tight t-shirt on TRL (above left), and on the cover of Cosmopolitan magazine, photoshopped, airbrushed and nipped and tucked to stereotypically beautiful perfection. Is it us?

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December 23, 2006

ABC wishes us an Ugly New Year!

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It's not quite as pretty as a Dick Clark-Ryan Seacrest cage fight (will the young twink ever wrestle away the mic from the stubborn old man?) on a rockin' New Year's Eve, but ABC is giving us another reason to stay in bed on December 31st-- and getting a head start on its 2007 promotions-- with an Ugly Betty marathon on its Family Channel. Eleven hours of the dramedy begin at 9 am and carry on through the day. Not a bad way for the network to get some more mileage out of the chickhit they ripped from a Colombian telenovela.

It's just too bad they're trying to fit the dog with a socially-conscious collar. ABC's using the "Family" side of its operations to launch a "be glad you're ugly" campaign that reminds us of those bizarre and cynical J Lo-narrated "self esteem" public service ads that Fox ran on The Swan-- during breaks between disfiguring surgeries on ordinary-looking women.

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August 28, 2007:Ugly Betty: Foreheads and Fatsuits
July 17, 2007:Jaime Pressly attacks Ugly Betty
February 1, 2007:Will Tim Gunn's move free him for 'Runway'?
January 9, 2007:The pretty ugly truth about Ugly Betty's ugly campaign
December 23, 2006:ABC wishes us an Ugly New Year!
December 7, 2006:Rebecca Romijn completes "Ugly" triangle