The third season of Fringe will be like watching two shows at once. Every other week will take place in our universe, and the episodes in between in the alternate universe where Olivia is now stuck. “This is a great experiment—it’s like two Fringes,” says John Noble, who next season will play both Walter and Walternate…
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Don’t count New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie among the fans of MTV’s Jersey Shore.
Jersey Shore cast signs on for Season 3
When asked whether the reality show was positive or negative on ABC’s This Week (a serious Sunday news show, mind you) he told Jake Tapper the show is negative and “takes a bunch of …
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Sitting in on an OK! Magazine staff meeting would be so awesome.
There’s an element to celebrity gossip that is always, well, gossip. You take what you read with a grain of salt. But there’s gossip, and there’s deliberately and wholly inventing stories, misleading us with vague text and exclamation points.
Either Jessica Simpson’s name came up in the lottery this week, or the darts all landed on her, because she is apparently having a baby! Would you believe that the same bombshell was dropped almost verbatim last week, only about Jennifer Aniston?
It’s true! Doubly joyful news!
CONFIRMED! REVEALED! What is? That OK! wrote a cover story? Consider it official!
According to this fine publication, as Jessica nears her 30th birthday this week, she has a new man (Eric Johnson) and a new plan - to become a mother!
The first part of that is true, at least. But then there’s this line:
“Enjoying an early birthday celebration at the Greenbrier Casino Club gala opening in West Virginia on July 4, Jess caused a stir with her visible bump!”
No word if they mean a visible bump on her head or knee.
Seriously, time to get a little more creative with your made-up nonsense, guys. You’re going to be labeled the magazine that cried fake-pregnant wolf.
Welcome to tabloid journalism 101, readers. Pay close attention to this lesson…
Earlier this week, Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson taped an appearance on the Oprah Winfrey Show that will air tomorrow afternoon.
As reported by THG, the pair met with the host beforehand and were warned that she’d ask about the status of their relationship. At this point, Rob and Kristen admitted they were dating - but said they didn’t wish to discuss it on-air.
Oprah said fine, they could shoot down the question however they wanted to when it came up.
So, when the cameras rolled and the inevitable was asked, Pattinson joked that Stewart was pregnant. That’s it. End of story. Oprah viewers will see these 10 seconds play out tomorrow, as part of an in-depth interview that reveals actual information.
Now, cut to this week’s OK! Weekly cover:
SIGH.
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Dancing With The Stars, Chelsie Hightower
After two weeks of tense video packages featuring her and partner Jake Pavelka, Chelsie Hightower wants to set the record straight. “We have a lot of fun together. We goof off, but they haven’t shown that yet in our packages,” the Dancing with the Stars pro tells TVGuide.com. “It’s not that dramatic. We have a few moments like every couple does, and that’s what they end up showing. What can you do? They want to show the stupid drama we have!” Their drama, she says, is partially rooted in the fact that the former Bachelor has never been coached before. So how are they doing this week? Find out below. Plus: Will Hightower return to So You Think You Can Dance as an All-Star?
TVGuide.com: You told Jake last week that you need willpower and focus from him. Has he shown that this week?
Chelsie Hightower: Yeah, definitely. He’s not used to being in a coaching atmosphere. It’s foreign to him. He’s not used to someone telling him what to do and correcting him, so it was time to set the ground rules. I told him if you’re working as intensely on something as we are on the show, it’s just how it is. You have to learn to accept it and just work harder. He totally got it. He’s doing a great job. We’re actually a bit ahead of the game as far as our tango goes.
Dancing’s Chelsie Hightower on getting paired with Jake Pavelka: “Huh?”
TVGuide.com: So could the tango be a breakthrough dance for him?
Hightower: I’m hoping so! It definitely has the potential to be with the way it’s going so far. We actually got the whole routine down in one day to music. We’re doing well!
TVGuide.com: It could be a comeback too after being in the bottom two. Were you surprised you ended up there?
Hightower: I don’t know if I would say I was surprised. I’ve been here two years and you know nothing can ever be a shock. So much depends on votes. But I’m super-happy we made it through and got another chance to redeem ourselves and show what we’re made of. I wasn’t too worried [about elimination] until it was us and Buzz [Aldrin]! [Laughs] Then I was a little worried because he’s an icon. … I wasn’t really surprised that he was eliminated. His dancing wasn’t up to par. I was shocked when Shannen [Doherty] left first. She had potential. People just didn’t vote.
TVGuide.com: People think Kate [Gosselin] should’ve been eliminated already.
Hightower: Yeah, that’s been a big topic: whether she should go home or not. And I don’t know! [Laughs] It depends if you like her or not. Her dancing’s not the best; I’ve seen better. But she’s got the fan base!
Dancing’s Jake Pavelka: I feel dumb every day in rehearsal
TVGuide.com: What do you think of the two-score format this week for technique and performance?
Hightower: It’s interesting. It puts a lot of pressure on us. Now we’re not only getting judged on teaching the celebrity, but we’re also getting judged on our actual choreography. That’s basically what the artistic score is. It’s more pressure than normal. It’s going to be out of 60. It’s just this week, though, and then next week is movie week or something like that.
TVGuide.com: What does Jake need to work on the most?
Hightower: Just getting the steps down and getting into character. Being stiff, but not tense. When he tries to be really sharp, he tends to get really tense, so we’re working on that. The judges have commented on the fact that his legs are flexible, which will actually help him in the tango because you don’t have to be as stiff as you are in the quickstep.
TVGuide.com: Your acoustic paso doble with Derek [Hough] was great last week. Will we see more stripped-down performances like that?
Hightower: I hope so! It was fun. It was Mark [Ballas] and Derek’s idea. It was actually originally supposed to be me, Derek, Mark and Cheryl [Burke]. But Mark ended up getting hurt, so it ended up being Derek and me. We choreographed it together.
Morena Baccarin and Kate Gosselin
Television is rife with ethically dubious characters. This week a bunch of them made us laugh, cry and cheer their misdeeds. Gossip Girl’s Little J set her sights on her stepsister’s boyfriend, Southland’s Detective Bryant saw a young mentee become a murderer, Jesse exacted delicious revenge on his already exhausted parents on Breaking Bad, and Anna, V’s alien den mother, followed up some really weird sex with a little cannibalism. Welcome to Top Moments: Dirty Rotten Scoundrels Edition.
11. Best Cliff-hanger: Caprica’s mid-season finale reveals that Zoe the Robot Dead Girl is on the run! After learning that her father, Daniel Graystone, plans to remove her consciousness from its Cylon body for eventual destruction, Zoe high-tails it out the door to join her Soldiers of the One cohorts in Gemenon. She kills her charming suitor, Philomon, along the way. It’s unclear how the giant robot — essentially a giant pile of steel — will escape, given the massive roadblock she faces as the episode ends. But is it weird that we’re kind of rooting for her?
10. Best Femme Fatale-in-Training: Our Little J is all growed up! In this week’s Gossip Girl, a drugged Jenny Humphrey narrowly avoids a date rape with the help of a surprising rescuer: Nate Archibald (aka Serena’s true love… this week). They’ve always been fond of each other, but Nate’s protective overture raises visions of boyfriend-stealing in Little J’s ethically complicated, peroxide compromised noggin. If Nate’s pathetic Internet stalking is any indication, Serena should prepare for the worst.
9. Best Intro: Fringe returns from a too-long hiatus with “Peter,” a blockbuster episode that flashes back to 1985 to explain how the younger Bishop came to be both dead and not so. In keeping with the show’s totally tubular setting, those cheeky monkeys at J.J. Abrams‘ Bad Robot Productions reimagine the show’s opening credits, theme song and title cards as if they had been created 25 years ago. The overall effect is subtly wry and eerily accurate. (See the results for yourself.)
8. Most Shocking Exit, Part I: Darryl Strawberry tells Donald Trump to fire him instead of project manager Michael Johnson on Sunday’s Celebrity Apprentice. The four-time World Series champ chalks it up to exhaustion after a busy year, and in the process becomes only the third person to quit The Apprentice.
7. Biggest Loser (no, seriously): We’re constantly amazed at the success of Biggest Loser contestants, but this week’s episode flabbergasts us with a live weigh-in of super-fan Wayne Vandenlangenberg, who weighed more than 600 pounds just two years ago. By changing his diet and walking a lot, he lost 418 pounds, all on his own.
6. Most Heart-Wrenching Turn: Southland’s Detective Sammy Bryant arrests Casper, a young informant to whom Sammy has grown attached, after he kills another teenager defending himself in a neighborhood attack. Sammy, who spends the episode trying to get Casper off the streets and into the LAPD’s Explorers program, sobs as he hugs, then handcuffs Casper in one of the brutal show’s most moving scenes yet.
5. Most Shocking Exit, Part II: Survivor: Heroes vs. Villains loses one of its most prolific players Thursday when newbie Russell Hantz organizes a group vote against veteran “Boston Rob” Mariano. Given that he’s one of the tribe’s strongest physical competitors, the game’s best puzzle solver and a natural camp leader, we think his teammates will miss him a lot sooner than they expect. And not just because of that unmistakable accent.
4. Sweetest Revenge: On Breaking Bad, Jesse, fresh out of rehab, uses the windfall from Walt’s big meth sale to make a real estate investment — with a little help from everyone’s favorite “criminal lawyer.” When Jesse learns that his parents are selling the house they once kicked him out of, he hires Saul to talk them into lowering their asking price. How does he do it? By reminding them that their basement used to house Jesse’s meth lab. And that they may be breaking the law by not disclosing it. Trying to get back at your parents in a big way? Better call Saul.
3. Worst Tantrum: Kate Gosselin brings unnecessary yet predictable drama to Dancing with the Stars by hassling her good-natured partner, Tony Dovolani, over his teaching skills — to his breaking point. “I quit,” he says, clearly no longer wanting to dance through the pain. He walks out of rehearsal, leaving her in tears. Of course, he comes back and apologizes. “A lot of people quit on me in life,” Kate weeps. Or at least they try to.
2. Best Return: “The Package” is an episode of Lost about Jin and Sun, but ultimately its namesake is not a what, but a who: A woozy, drugged-up Desmond Hume has been forcibly relocated to the island, brutha, and Charles Widmore seems to think he has a prominent role to play in its endgame. We always knew, as Mrs. Hawking warned, that the island wasn’t done with Des. But it’s a great surprise to see him so surprisingly thrown back into the fray. He’ll always be our constant.
1. Most Consuming Sex Scene: Now that the resistance is getting its act together on V, Anna decides it’s high time to create a Visitor army of her own. After hand-picking a suitor, she turns on the fog machine, slips into a Victoria’s Secret robe and proceeds to engage in a sexual coupling so oddly choreographed it’s like you’re 12 again sneaking a peek at Cinemax. Eight seconds later, after declaring herself pregnant (”my army is to be born”), her fertilized eggs need nourishment. So she unhinges her jaw, exposes her true, lizard self — fangs and all — and devours her unwitting inseminator.
Dancing with the Stars - Maksim Chmerkovskiy
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Hope you enjoyed the shows this week. What did you think?
It feels great to make it through elimination because now Erin knows everything about the show. We’ve been through a grueling rehearsal process, the elimination process, the “Oh my God! How come they’re not calling us safe?” process, the “I’m about to puke” process, so we’ve done it all. I’m happy to move on and there’s nothing that she doesn’t know about now.
I thought our foxtrot was great and she did a great job, given that she was coming off a nervous cha-cha performance. I have to give a lot of credit to Erin because we were the only couple who didn’t start our second dance before the show began. All the couples are given the first two dances and songs in the three weeks leading up to the premiere to work on them. By the time the show premieres, couples have nearly both routines down. As I mentioned in a previous blog, I was trying something new this season by not teaching Erin our foxtrot routine until after the first week, so we were the only ones who concentrated on one dance before the premiere. I just showed her basics of the foxtrot, but no choreography. I don’t think it makes a difference whether you start the three-day turnaround in Week 1 or Week 2, so our foxtrot was the result of three days of hard work.
Now, we have the waltz and I’m again taking a big risk. It’s going to be amazing! I can’t wait for everybody to see it! The story aspect is going to be somewhat interesting. Everybody has waltzed before on the show and so far everything’s been generic and waltz-y, so we’re trying to do something different. Hopefully the outcome will be great. People are definitely going to talk about it! Erin likes it and I love it, so now it’s just the execution. It was my idea. When we started, I told her, “Look, I’ll be coming up with everything, but if I need your help, I’ll be asking for it.” She goes, “Yeah, of course.” So everything’s my idea — costumes, choreography. It sounds like I’m the man, but I’m not really. It’s just that she trusts me and it’s refreshing. When she comes out and says, “Hey, I want to do something like this, it’ll be a plus.” Also, I don’t want her to be preoccupied with things that she doesn’t need to worry about it.
Last time, I talked about Erin having trouble getting into character and exaggerating movements. This week, it’s all about acting, so I told her to build upon what we did in the foxtrot because it has to be that much bigger and that much more exaggerated. You’ll see why next week! Everybody is either going to absolutely love our waltz or not get what just happened. I’m not concerned with the judges. I know that what we are going to do is going to be technically savvy and the choreography is a very straightforward waltz. It’s Week 3 and I think what I need to have Erin do is to come out with a solid performance that doesn’t have to be “Oh my God!” The “Oh my God!” is going to be the story.
Len Goodman — Lord have mercy, you are the man! This week, he gets the lifetime achievement for what he said: Celebrities need to show up, keep up and shut up. I think it’s the most amazing thing to happen to us. People don’t realize that the pressure in its entirety is on us. The real pressure is not on the celebrities. They just have to do the dance. How fast they learn is all them, but everything else — the choreography, the costumes, the interpretation — no one has any idea how freaking hard it is to choreograph a number in four days and teach it to someone who’s never danced. Not only do you have to choreograph it, but you have to fight with them to prove that what you want them to do is going to be great.
Below, we reflect on the past seven days in celebrity gossip, news and rumors - and what a week it was. Welcome to The Hollywood Gossip Week in Review.
Some of the highlights from March 20-26 include …
The classy women of Jesse James keep piling up.
These hot, gossip-friendly couples are no longer.
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Welcome to The Hollywood Gossip Week in Review. Below, our staff takes a look back at the past week in celebrity gossip, entertainment news and rumors.
Some of the highlights from March 13-19 include …
Looks like marriage trouble for Sandra Bullock and Jesse James. Trouble by the name of Michelle “Bombshell” McGee, a tattoo model, porn star and James’ alleged mistress.
These beauties are both back on the market!
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Christiane Amanpour
Christiane Amanpour, who has served as the face of CNN’s international coverage for more than two decades, is leaving the cable news network to host ABC News’ This Week.
Amanpour is “a highly respected journalist recognized around the world for her reporting,” ABC News President David Westin said Thursday in an e-mail to his staff.