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Underwear Model Squires Miley to Church

Pop star, parents, Nashville Star reject attend church together

(Newser) - Fifteen-year-old Miley Cyrus is keeping company with a 20-year-old underwear model and aspiring country singer, E! reports. Justin Gaston, an ex-contestant on Billy Ray Cyrus’ reality TV show Nashville Star, attended church with the family, setting tongues wagging. Reps for the possible couple say he's a "friend" who's in...

Seacrest, Paris Working on New (Scripted) Show

Reality stars partner for series

(Newser) - Two of reality TV’s biggest stars are working together on a scripted show, People reports. Paris Hilton—or rather, an employee of Paris Hilton Entertainment—has been working for months with Ryan Seacrest on a so-far mysterious new series. Seacrest produces E!’s Keeping Up With the Kardashians,...

American Idol Adds Fourth Judge
American Idol Adds Fourth Judge
Aug 25, 2008 12:23 PM CDT

American Idol Adds Fourth Judge

Songwriter Kara DioGuardi to join Cowell and company

(Newser) - American Idol is getting a fourth judge this season, marking what the New York Post calls the biggest change TV’s top show has ever undergone. Songwriter Kara DioGuardi will join Simon, Paula, and Randy, in a move producers say they always intended. All of Idol’s international counterparts feature...

Cho Gung-Ho on New Show
 Cho Gung-Ho on New Show
Aug 21, 2008 12:26 PM CDT

Cho Gung-Ho on New Show

Comedienne has a new show and plenty to talk about

(Newser) - If you've missed Margaret Cho's raunchy brand of comedy, her new "scripted reality sitcom," The Cho Show, debuts this month on VH1 and follows the comedienne and hangers-on through outrageous adventures in Hollywood. Cho sat down with Radar to talk about anal bleaching, defending Britney Spears, and winning...

Transgender Woman Competes on Top Model

Isis was born a male

(Newser) - The new season of America's Next Top Model will include a transgender contestant, US Weekly reports. "My cards were dealt differently," says Isis, 22. The former receptionist from Maryland identifies herself as "a woman born physically male." The president of a gay advocacy group says the...

Extreme Makeover Home Goes Into Foreclosure
Extreme Makeover Home Goes Into Foreclosure
OPINION
Jul 29, 2008 8:41 PM CDT

Extreme Makeover Home Goes Into Foreclosure

Atlanta family unable to pay back bank loan

(Newser) - A house constructed for ABC's Extreme Makeover: Home Edition is up for auction after the owners lost the building to foreclosure. The Atlanta home, the biggest built on the show, was collateral for a now-overdue $450,000 loan. The foreclosure represents a comeuppance not only for its owners but for...

Lopez Lands Extra Anchor Slot
 Lopez Lands Extra Anchor Slot
Jul 29, 2008 11:25 AM CDT

Lopez Lands Extra Anchor Slot

Will be solo emcee of the entertainment show

(Newser) - Mario Lopez will become the solo anchor for Extra when the entertainment news show’s 15th season kicks off in September, Variety reports. The former weekend co-host, best known for his stints on Dancing With the Stars and the teen sitcom Saved By the Bell, replaces Dayna Devon and Mark...

Reality TV: Bad for Child Stars?
 Reality TV: Bad for Child Stars?
Jul 26, 2008 5:41 PM CDT

Reality TV: Bad for Child Stars?

Critics says it's exploitation, but others call it education

(Newser) - CBS’ Kid Nation has drawn its share of controversy, which hasn’t stopped a new crop of kid-centric reality shows from cropping up. NBC is letting teenagers care for babies and toddlers on The Baby Borrowers; a Nickelodeon channel probes children’s emotions on The N’s Student Body; and...

RFK Jr. Takes Green Dream to Reality TV

Bobby Kennedy Jr. will chronicle building his green home

(Newser) - The most prominent American political dynasty is branching out into reality TV. Environmentalist Bobby Kennedy Jr. and wife Mary are developing a 13-part series that will document the building of their dream green home, the New York Daily News reports. This Old House star Bob Vila will supervise construction of...

From Reality TV to Broadway
 From Reality TV to Broadway
Jul 25, 2008 11:30 AM CDT

From Reality TV to Broadway

Real-life sorortiy girl is new 'Elle Woods'

(Newser) - In just a year, Bailey Hanks has gone from sorority girl to reality TV star to Broadway star. The 20-year-old preacher’s daughter from South Carolina beat out nine other hopefuls on MTV’s Legally Blonde the Musical: The Search for Elle Woods and made her stage debut on Wednesday,...

Bravo Adds Parker's Reality Art Show

SATC star to produce Runway -style competition

(Newser) - Bravo has picked up a Project Runway-style reality art show produced by Sex and the City star Sarah Jessica Parker, the Hollywood Reporter writes. American Artist is slated to feature competition between up-and-comers in varying media; it will be co-produced by Magical Elves, the skill-driven reality TV experts behind Top ...

Dupre May Get Dose of Reality TV

Spitzer call girl in talks with MTV over 'being the next Tila Tequila'

(Newser) - Eliot Spitzer's high-priced prostitute, Ashley Dupre, is developing a reality TV series with the producers behind Nicole Richie and Pamela Anderson's careers—and may move to Los Angeles to complete the project, E! Online reports. Handprint Entertainment is "talking to MTV about Ashley being the next Tila Tequila,"...

Disabled Models Take Brave Turn on Reality TV

Half a million tune in to premiere of UK show

(Newser) - She may have only one arm, but Debbie van der Putten loves her body, and she thinks Britain will too. Ven der Putten is one of eight disabled girls competing in the BBC’s latest reality TV sensation, Britain’s Missing Top Model. Half a million people tuned in to...

Campy Documentarians Focus on Fleiss

Pair talks of fame, and falling out with the Hollywood madam

(Newser) - The makers of such revelatory documentaries as Inside Deep Throat and The Eyes of Tammy Faye have a new film in the works, about Heidi Fleiss’ bid to open an all-male brothel in the Nevada desert, W reports. Fleiss, who had a falling out with directors Fenton Bailey and Randy...

Janet Plans Her Own Talent Show for TV

She will seek out aspiring singers and dancers from obscure locales

(Newser) - Move over "American Idol:" Janet Jackson is headed for reality TV, reports Variety. The pop icon plans to mentor aspiring singers and dancers as she prepares for her world tour—participation in which could be the grand prize. Drawing contestants from YMCAs and church groups, the show’s...

Inside Pam's Wacko World
 Inside Pam's
 Wacko World 
glossies
Jun 19, 2008 12:15 PM CDT

Inside Pam's Wacko World

Andrew Goldman writes of a weird road trip and interview

(Newser) - Is Pamela Anderson playing us all? Andrew Goldman can’t seem to make up his mind, as he reports on a wacky road trip with the silicone diva for Radar. Goldman does manage to tease a few salient facts out of the actress, who is producing a new “docu-series”...

Reality Lineup May Induce Vomiting

Slew of odd shows suggests a new low

(Newser) - Has reality television reached rock bottom? ABC News takes a look at this summer’s lineup landscape, which includes competitions centered on vomiting, mud-drenched obstacle courses, and the most talented dogs. Celebrity-for-no-reason Nicole Richie is even shopping a show that would have talentless nobodies compete to become the next celebrity-for-no-reason....

I Was Never In It to Win It: 'Accidental' Idol
I Was Never In It to Win It: 'Accidental' Idol
OPINION
Jun 15, 2008 11:32 AM CDT

I Was Never In It to Win It: 'Accidental' Idol

Cook says he 'was never in it to win it'

(Newser) - David Cook almost didn't audition for American Idol—he was there to offer moral support to his younger brother. But goading from his family kicked off a whirlwind journey that took him from fledgling Midwest rocker to Billboard star. Cook tells Rolling Stone about his modest beginnings—and his early...

TV Home Shows Boom During Bust

'People loved comedies during the Depression, too,' producer says

(Newser) - Home shows are becoming the heavyweights of reality television, even as the housing market continues to plummet, the New York Times reports. HGTV and TLC have million-plus nightly audiences as shows that provide step-by-step guidance to potential homesellers and buyers appeal to viewers weary of past hits that traded on...

Trauma Unit: TV's Leading Luckless Ladies

If these characters didn't have bad luck, they wouldn't have any luck at all

(Newser) - As a cokehead-dating addict who, among other things, got shot by carjackers, burned in a house fire, and suffered amnesia, Kelly Taylor of "Beverly Hills, 90210" is the gold standard of TV victims. Employing the misery-measuring "Kellyness" scale, Radar rates prime time's most luckless ladies.
  1. Meredith Grey, "
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