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« Kenya Moore Responds To Apollo Nida’s Prison Sentence | Home | Kim Kardashian Flaunts Cleavage At The Valentino Haute Couture Show » July 10, 2014 07:00 AM by Stephanie Gustafson As of last year, the Facebook community assumed that it would be completely impossible to top the impressive ratings garnered by NeNe Leakes’ wedding spin-off. But another Real Housewives Of Atlanta star appears to have accomplished the impossible: Kandi Burruss! With Mama Joyce on board, it was pretty much a guarantee that Kandi’s Wedding would attract an impressive audience. After all, the reality mom has proven incredibly popular on The Real Housewives Of Atlanta. But nobody could have predicted that Kandi’s Wedding would so easily beat out last year’s I Dream Of NeNe. The ratings results are in, and as Kandi Burruss was happy to point out via social media, her spin-off easily topped all of the other Real Housewives wedding shows. The series amassed nearly three million viewers, which, based on a Br...

In its first Sunday episode, Big Brother 16 revealed several minor but smart changes that improved the show. Its players are freaking out over floaters, becoming paranoid, forming and abandoning alliances, which is bad for their games but decent entertainment, the kind we expect from this show but didn’t get much of last year. The most significant change: The tedious key-draw ceremony, utilizing the table’s turntable, has been eliminated in favor of an immediate reveal of the HOH’s decision. They turn a key; the nominee’s face appears on a screen. Besides cutting down on the time that the whole thing takes, this is far a more dramatic reveal, because there isn’t dwindling suspense as to who might be chosen. Unfortunately, the first two HOHs used their power lamely—or at least, their reasons were lame. Few HOHs have ever given good rationale for their decisions, but nominating the first four people to have fallen during the challenge is just weak. It’s not like that challenge affected...

« Vicki Gunvalson’s Daughter Welcomes A Second Child | Home July 09, 2014 12:00 PM by Lisa Princ Brandi Glanville is usually dishing up some sort of drama on Twitter or on The Real Housewives Of Beverly Hills , but when she’s not causing trouble, Brandi is also a single mother of two sons. And in a new interview, Glanville talks parenting and…dating? That’s right, read all about it inside. Facebook fans often wonder if Brandi Glanville is constantly stirring up drama, even off of the set of The Real Housewives Of Beverly Hills , but it doesn’t seem likely as she has to be a mother as well. And being a mom is something that Glanville takes very seriously – when she’s not bashing her son, that is. In fact, in a new interview with In Touch Magazine, Glanville opened up about her parenting, claiming: “The biggest lesson I hope to teach my kids a little humbleness and appreciation.” However, Glanville says it scares her because her children are spoiled. And while she didn’t come right out ...

Big Brother 16 is that it is pretty much exactly the same show. It’s in HD, there will be two HOHs, there’s a new “Team America” twist, but for better or for worse, those don’t seem new at all, just variations on old themes, with no sign that the show will stop grinding along on the same well-worn path it has been for years. The welcome change to HD felt completely normal but simultaneously disorienting; the new house design is bright and clean and pops, though several camera angles were oddly blurry. In the hour of mostly filler, the houseguests learned that there’d be a second group of eight who’d have their own HOH, only one of whom would be safe. They created an alliance immediately, calling it Crazy Eight, or perhaps spelling it like the Breaking Bad character Krazy 8, in order to foreshadow the fate of their alliance. There’s also a fledgling women’s alliance that I want to believe will be successful. Julie Chen explained to viewers that “Team America” is “a secret three-person...

Original Biggest Loser trainer Jillian Michaels has left the show, marking her third exit. NBC said only in a statement that “The Biggest Loser and Jillian Michaels have decided to part ways and she will not be returning for season 16 when it airs in the fall.” While there was no reason given for her exit, told Us Weekly last month, “The problem with Biggest Loser is that it’s become such a cartoon of me and it’s also—you maybe see what I’ve done in 10 days, you maybe see 5 minutes of it. And of course, the 5 minutes that they’re going to show is going to be the most sort of crazy, off the wall 5 minutes.” Earlier, after season 15 winner Rachel Fredrickson lost a frightening amount of weight, Jillian and Bob said they were “not comfortable commenting.” Jillian previously quit in 2010 to have a child, and after season three because of the editing. View the original article here

Yes, summer has its reality series: the big ones are Big Brother and America’s Got Talent , and there are also shows such as American Ninja Warrior and The Bachelorette . But a bunch of new and returning shows, most on cable, are (or appear) worthy of sampling. We haven’t had a breakout hit this summer like last year’s terrific Naked and Afraid , but perhaps in this batch there will be such a show. Here are preview of the shows I think are worthy of checking out; all summer debuts are on the summer schedule. The Quest , ABC, July 31, Thursdays at 8. The first preview I saw of this both intrigued me and made me laugh dismissively. The queen/host/whatever was so comically bad when she talks about “Everrealm” that I thought it was a spoof. Also, my confidence in Betram Van Munster and Elise Doganieri creating a new genre of reality competition is sadly low, because he hasn’t exacty reinvented or improved The Amazing Race in recent years. In a behind the scenes preview, which looks mor...

For the second year in a row, the Emmy nominations for reality TV’s major categories remain nearly unchanged, though two new categories have offered some new entrants—and new reasons to wonder why voters make the decisions they do. There were 57 people eligible for a reality show host nomination, yet we ended up with basically the same people who were nominated last year. Last year’s nominees for reality show host dropped Phil Keoghan in favor of Heidi Klum and Tim Gunn, while this year’s replaces Ryan Seacrest with Jane Lynch, who hosts NBC’s fun Hollywood Game Night . Yet once again, Betty White has been nominated for NBC’s now-cancelled Off Their Rockers, which only makes sense as a vote for her, not her work on the show, which is not worthy of recognition. Ditto Anthony Bourdain’s nomination as alleged host of The Taste . The nominations are disappointing in that tedious and boring So You Think You Can Dance was again nominated while increasingly exceptional Survivor was ignored...

« Kim Kardashian And Kanye West Miserable Already? | Home July 10, 2014 11:00 AM by Lisa Princ There definitely was a time in the past when Khloe Kardashian was in a rush to get married and have children, but those days are long gone. And though Kardashian’s romance with French Montana has left Twitter fans wondering if the couple will get engaged soon, rest assured that the reality star is in no rush to get engaged or married any time soon! Khloe Kardashian has definitely learned her lesson. After rushing into her marriage with Lamar Odom, and trying to have a baby with him, she is doing things differently this time around. In fact, according to a new report by Hollywood Life, Khloe is in no rush to get engaged or married again in the near future. Instead, this time, Khloe is taking things slower, and: “She wants to get to know French and his family and his life,” one insider revealed to the site. And while Khloe and French’s relationship is definitely getting serious, Khloe does not...

« Kim Kardashian Feels Working Moms Can Have It All | Home | Brandi Glanville Talks Parenting And Dating » July 09, 2014 11:00 AM by Stephanie Gustafson Vicki Gunvalson is already a proud grandma, but now, she is fortunate enough to have another grandchild to cuddle. After a false alarm, the Real Housewives Of Orange County  star’s daughter was scheduled to deliver her baby via C-section; as Facebook fans anticipated, Vicki is beyond thrilled at the prospect of a new grandbaby! Say what you want about Vicki Gunvalson, she certainly is a loving mother and grandmother. As Real Housewives Of Orange County viewers learned in recent episodes, the reality star was absolutely devastated when her daughter chose to move to Oklahoma. Briana Culberson is currently very happy in her new place of residence and is eager to raise her children there. Ultimately, although she’s disappointed about Briana’s Oklahoma abode, Vicki is willing to put in a little extra effort in order to spend more time wit...

Home > Drama > BBC Three’s Murdered By My Boyfriend scores massive ratings & BBC One repeat July 10th, 2014 by Lisa McGarry. Critically-acclaimed BBC Three film Murdered By My Boyfriend achieves 3.5m viewing figure (Live +7) and is to get a BBC One repeat Murdered By My Boyfriend , the critically-acclaimed and hugely impactful BBC Three film has landed itself a repeat on BBC One after winning massive ratings, critical success and generating a whole heap of online buzz. The one off drama aired originally on Monday 23rd June and has since been watched by more than 3.5 million viewers. The hard hitting special will now air again on BBC One on Sunday 20th July at 22.35pm. It’s a touching story and one which has made a huge impact, mostly because in real life the issue of domestic violence affects so many women around the UK. It is estimated that one in four women will experience domestic abuse in their lifetime, with those most at risk being females aged between 16-24. Murder...

Home > Music > Foo Fighters’ Dave Grohl is LOVING the idea of crowd-sourced gigs! July 10th, 2014 by Martin Lamont. Recently American rock band the Foo Fighters agreed to play at a gig that they hadn’t even arranged thanks to the actions of a group of determined fans. Some diehard rock lovers in Richmond, Virginia worked together to organise a show in the hope that the band would turn up and play in the region for the first time in 15 years. The gig, which eventually sold 1,400 tickets through a crowd-sourcing model, is all set to go ahead after the Foo Fighters eventually gave it their approval and added the date to their diaries. However the whole idea and the gig came as a bit of a surprise to the band they have since revealed. Foo Fighters eighth studio album is coming! Frontman Dave Grohl loves the whole idea and structure and in an interview with 5FM confessed: “I’m telling you, it could become the way that bands decide where they want to play. It’s a fun thing; it s...

« Heather Thomson Versus Mario Singer: Who Is The Better Singer? Take Our Poll | Home | Kandi Burruss Proud Of Record Ratings For Kandi’s Wedding » July 09, 2014 06:00 PM by Stephanie Gustafson Nobody was particularly surprised when Facebook rumors of Apollo Nida’s prison sentence were recently confirmed. If anything, the Real Housewives Of Atlanta star got off easy — he could have spent over a decade in the slammer, but instead, he’ll be in prison for a maximum of eight years. In the aftermath of this revelation, Kenya Moore is showing Apollo Nida and Phaedra Parks a surprising level of sympathy. Kenya Moore has been known to kick her frenemies when they’re down, so it came as a bit of a surprise when, in the aftermath of Apollo Nida’s sentencing, the reality star reached out with an unusually kind Twitter message. At the time, many of Kenya’s fans were busy bashing Apollo, claiming that Phaedra’s man was getting exactly what he deserved. Kenya, on the other hand, expressed a differ...

« Teresa Giudice Is Terrified About Potential Prison Time | Home | Kenya Moore Responds To Apollo Nida’s Prison Sentence » July 09, 2014 05:00 PM by Megan Thompson Last night on The Real Housewives Of New York City, Ramona was proud to show off her husband’s musical talent.  But when Heather Thomson hit the stage she got a standing ovation.  It was battle of the voices RHONY style…who do you think won?  Take our poll! Who knew Mario could sing?  I guess no one, because everyone was surprised that Mario was going to take to the stage and sing. Mario’s biggest supporter was of course, Ramona. “I find Mario extremely sexy when he sings. I love his voice,” she wrote in her Bravo blog. Just in case you missed it or want to hear Mario sing again, take a look at the clip below. LuAnn was going to sing, but she backed out at the last second. In typical Ramona fashion, she called LuAnn out on it – saying it was because there was no auto-tune. But Ramona always own up to her bitchiness – and sh...

« Kandi Burruss Shows Off Her Wedding Truck | Home July 09, 2014 03:03 PM by Stephanie Gustafson Teresa Giudice’s sentencing date has been pushed back, and, while this gives the Real Housewives Of New Jersey star more time to prepare, it also forces her to endure the agonizing wait for another two months. For now, the celeb is trying to focus on the positive, as the mere thought of prison leaves her feeling completely terrified. No matter the ultimate sentence in Teresa Giudice’s fraud case, it’s pretty much a guarantee that Facebook critics will not find the punishment harsh enough. But it’s impossible to deny that Teresa and Joe Giudice have already faced the consequences of their indiscretions. If nothing else, the reality stars have been forced to deal with a ton of stress — and it’s definitely having an impact on their family. In a recent interview with In Touch, Teresa admitted that she’d endured many a sleepless night over the course of the last several months. She’s mostly w...

Home > Music > ‘Selfish’ 5 Seconds Of Summer cancel One Direction gigs & fans explode over MTV VMAs! July 10th, 2014 by Martin Lamont. 5 Seconds Of Summer have had an incredible amount of success recently and while their debut album failed to reach the top of the UK charts they’re not letting that stop them. The band made a very special announcement yesterday but not all their fans were happy about the big news. There’s been a bit of trouble to say the least! We can’t believe it’s almost been a year since the MTV VMAs but it’s making a comeback for 2014 on the 24th of August at The Forum in Los Angeles. Every year at the MTV VMAs some of the biggest performers gather and put on a show for millions watching around the world and this year will be no different. Talking on their collective Twitter page yesterday 5 Seconds Of Summer revealed that they will be performing at the awards ceremony next month but it means they’ve had to cancel a few shows. “HELLO, we have some ...

Any fear/hope that Big Brother was turning into and/or borrowing from Survivor ’s game was put to rest during last night’s episode. While the cast is the best the show has had in years and minor production changes have improved the episodes, it remains Big Brother , for better or for worse. But as of right not, it’s definitely better, especially compared to the last few dreadful seasons. The two HOH thing simply adds another step in the game; everything else remains exactly the same as always. I suppose there’s potential for the losing HOH’s nominations to come back and bite him or her, so perhaps it’ll yield dramatic dividends, but it did not this week. Thus, all of the speculation about how this new game would unfold based on the little bit of information CBS revealed before the season started turned out to be wrong but oddly prescient, in that it mirrored the delusional fantasies that several of the houseguests are having. Witness Devin and Caleb deciding that Donny was a super-se...

Home > Soaps > Hollyoaks Spoilers: Is Sandy Roscoe leaving for good & did she kill Fraser Black? (PICTURES) July 10th, 2014 by Anna Howell. As we have previously reported, Sandy Roscoe is to leave the village of Hollyoaks, and now we might just have the pictures to show you her departure. When we all found out that Gillian Taylforth was to leave her role as Sandy we assumed it would be in connection with the murder of her husband, Fraser, despite the powers that be insisting that a door would be left open for Taylforth should she wish to return at a later date. But now Channel 4 have released pictures of Sandy with her bags packed waiting for a bus out of Chester for good, in an episode due to be shown tomorrow night on Channel 4. However we can’t help but smell a rat….. You see this news comes on the same day it was also revealed that Fraser Black’s killer would be announced in the show next Friday which, considering that we have always thought Sandy was responsible, ma...

« Kim Kardashian Flaunts Cleavage At The Valentino Haute Couture Show | Home | Khloe Kardashian In No Rush To Get Married Again » July 10, 2014 09:00 AM by Lisa Princ Ever since they tied the knot, Facebook and Twitter fans have been wondering how long Kim Kardashian and Kanye West‘s marriage would last, because, well, look at her track record. Now, rumor has it that less than 50 days into their marriage, the newlyweds are already miserable! After Kim Kardashian’s last joke of a marriage to Kris Humphries lasted only a few short months, fans have been wondering if she would have better luck this time around. However, after tying the knot with Kanye West back in May, a new report from Radar Online suggests that the couple are unhappy together already! One source told the site that during their honeymoon, Kim sulked the entire the time and that is where the trouble started. Apparently, while in Ireland, Kanye attempted to get Kim to check out some local museums and things of that sort, ...

Devin winning HOH on Big Brother ’s first regular live show wasn’t exactly a classic power shift, since he already has power in the house, but power is now in temporarily in the hands of the person who’s closest to a villain. It’ll be interesting to see which Devin emerges: the one who often has good ideas about how to play the game, or the one who executes those plans and his made-up fantasies with all the finesse of an elephant fingerprinting on a thimble. Devin went on a tear insisting that everyone vote unanimously to protect and conceal the alliance; he told people that “nobody wants to vote against the house,” which was another of those odd phrases he uses to tell someone how they should be thinking about the thing he’s telling them. And he added a threat that whoever votes against the house will be a target. Frankie rolled his eyes at this, and I so wish he or someone else would have cast a single vote for Joey, especially someone who wanted to vote for Joey, just to throw the ...

The Real World season 30 is definitely filming in Chicago, as officials approved Bunim-Murray’s request to film the show in a former nightclub at 1100 W. Randolph St.. But residents who met with producers are skeptical and don’t want the “shenanigans” that came last time the show filmed in the Windy City. The Chicago Tribune reported that the “Zoning Board of Appeals has issued Bunim/Murray, which produces the reality series, a special use permit” and Chicago Film Office’s Rich “Moskal said filming on the reality show will likely begin in August and continue over 12 weeks.” DNAinfo Chicago reported that before the meeting with the zoning board, a small group of West Loop residents met with producers. One, Greg Shapps, who lived near the first Chicago house, called it “a real pain in the ass” because “there were a lot of idiots out there”—and he wasn’t talking about the cast. Instead, it was “shenanigans” from “people try to start fights because they wanted to get on camera.” There we...

The Bachelorette cast member Eric Hill’s death was revealed to the show’s star and cast on camera, and that footage was included in the episode that was broadcast last night. Host Chris Harrison revealed in an interview with TV Guide that while some on the show’s crew did not want to film or air an on-camera reveal, he “fought like crazy to shoot it and eventually use it”—though even show creator Mike Fleiss felt bad about filming it. While the death of a cast member is the most brutally real thing the show has ever dealt with, and while I certainly don’t think they should have concealed it from the cast, the entire segment felt exploitative and crass, just another occasion for The Bachelor franchise to use people’s emotions to get ratings. Watch the segment below. The choices that were made and that ended up in the episode all project a prioritization of getting footage for the show, not the emotional well-being of the cast. Having the guys fly out to L.A. and not telling them what...

Survivor Blood vs. Water cast member Caleb Bankston, the fiance of Colton Cumbie, was killed today in an accident where he worked. He was 26. The AP reported this evening that “[o]fficials from a Kansas-based transportation company say a worker has died in an accident at the Alabama Warrior Railway in Birmingham.” People confirmed that it was Caleb, noting that he “worked at the Alabama Warrior Railway in Birmingham” and that he “died when the train he was on derailed.” No other details were available late Tuesday. Update, June 25, 8:10 a.m. While Colton’s Twitter account is private, a quoted tweet says he wrote, “I just wish it was me….” Early Wednesday, Colton changed his Facebook profile photo to one of him riding on Caleb’s back. Last week, Caleb posted a screenshot on Facebook of a pedometer app with the caption, “My daily walk while at work…always wondered how much I walked working on the railroad.” Update, June 25, 4:02 p.m. Cast member Sabrina Thompson said Colton and Caleb...

Home > American TV Shows > Glee spoilers! Chris Colfer not sad about Glee ending (yet!), but will Rachel Berry have a new love interest? July 10th, 2014 by Emily H. Glee is set to return to our TV screens early next year with its sixth and final season, but it doesn’t seem like Chris Colfer is too sad about the hit show coming to a close. In an interview with EW Morning Live radio, Chris Colfer revealed that he’s not upset about the end of the musical comedy… Yet. “When the final shot of the final episode is done, I think I’ll be sad then”, Colfer revealed. “I think I’m gonna have to wait until it’s absolutely over to be sad, [that's] when it’ll hit me and I’ll be able to feel it. But now I’m just like, ‘OK, got another season to do.’ But it’ll hit me when it’s over; it hasn’t quite hit me yet”. But he won’t be sad for too long. In the same interview, he revealed his next big project – portraying the composer and playwright Noel Coward. He revealed that the role is incred...

Home > American TV Shows > Extant ‘Re-Entry’ RECAP: Molly returns to earth with a bump! Here’s everything we learned from last night’s episode… July 10th, 2014 by Nick Barnes. Last night, CBS’ highly anticipated new space drama, Extant premiered. We were pretty excited about the premiere of the drama, and we weren’t really disappointed. Much like any new show, we got the background of what was going on, but there were a few odd surprises along the way. Head on inside for all the details. So, to begin with, Molly Woods (Halle Berry) is an astronaut, and she’s just come back to earth after being on a 13-month solo mission in space. But, she came back to earth with a bump – literally. The first episode posed a lot of questions, which we’re hoping will be answered as the first season goes on, but we’re willing to give the show the benefit of the doubt for a few weeks. Molly Returns The episode opened with a very normal looking boy flying a spaceship in his room, but then he heard...

Big Brother has had many greats—and by that, I mean houseguests who came across as delusional nitwits, impossibly frustrating to watch yet also entertaining. They’re paranoid, confrontational, controlling, megalomaniacal, dumb, and/or just plain annoying. If that’s the standard of great, Devin certainly meets it, least of all because of his tearful and dumb house meeting speech, when he said, “When I walked through that door on day one, and I got to stand in the same house where a lot of the greats have played, it hit me that the greats haven’t gotten to the end of this game without being somewhat dishonest and somewhat deceitful at times.” I’d transcribe the rest but it doesn’t get any more coherent. Devin has all the makings of a great cast member, from terrible grammar (“We had a agreement”) to the way he makes unilateral decisions and then expects everyone to blindly follow him, such as when he told his nominees that he didn’t ever want to see them nominated, but now that they we...

« Brandi Glanville Talks Parenting And Dating | Home | Teresa Giudice Is Terrified About Potential Prison Time » July 09, 2014 02:03 PM by Stephanie Gustafson Kandi Burruss and Todd Tucker do not enjoy the typical celebrity relationship. The lovebirds met while filming The Real Housewives Of Atlanta and were forced to contend with a great deal of disapproval from all sides. Their unusual relationship approach extends all the way to wedding gifts, with Todd offering Kandi a white pickup truck in honor of their nuptials. From a bachelorette party filled with female strippers to a prenup argument right before the big ceremony, there really was nothing normal about Kandi Burruss and Todd Tucker’s wedding. Continuing on this apparent lack of tradition, Todd decided to give Kandi an unusual (but much appreciated) gift: a pickup truck! The present itself was less than typical, but perhaps even stranger were the circumstances surrounding its unveiling. As Kandi’s Wedding viewers already kno...

This American Life’s episode this weekend was about “Human Spectacle,” and although the intros drew connections to reality television, there was only one story about reality TV—and it was horrifying. It’s the story of a comedian who starred in a 1998 Japanese reality show, Susunu! Denpa Shonen , which left him alone in a room, naked and with no outside contact or supplies. He had to subsist only on what he won via sweepstakes, and couldn’t leave until he’d won about $10,000 worth of prizes. The show also broadcast a live feed to millions of viewers, edited to turn his suffering into hilarious comedy. The year Nasubi spent doing that, which included eating dog food, pales in comparison to what producers did next. Listen to the story before reading on. The incredible part was that he essentially admits he wasn’t trapped or held hostage; he could have left at any time and the door was unlocked. He also agreed to film what was basically a second season. On some level, at least at first, h...

« Kandi Burruss Proud Of Record Ratings For Kandi’s Wedding | Home | Kim Kardashian And Kanye West Miserable Already? » July 10, 2014 08:10 AM by Stephanie Gustafson Kim Kardashian is super proud of her curvy post-baby body and, as such, is showing it off whenever possible. The Keeping Up With The Kardashian recently captured quite a bit of interest among Facebook fans, flashing her cleavage at the Valentino Haute Couture show in Paris. It’s no secret that Kim Kardashian adores Valentino — who could forget the designer-hosted wedding brunch, for which Kim’s guests were asked to dress up in Valentino outfits? Twitter rumors suggest that the celeb even chose Valentino over her own brother; she was less than sympathetic about his inability to fit into his designer suit, a predicament that is believed to have spurred his wedding absence. Given her obsession with all things Valentino, it was only natural for Kim to show up at the designer’s recent fashion show in Paris. Kim’s attendance w...

Tonight, the Big Brother debuts its 16th season, with an entirely new cast and somewhat of a new format. Based on the past 15 seasons, a lot of things will happen, ranging from the innocuous to the outrageous, that will lead viewers and people like me to criticize the show’s producers. For example, it’s more likely not that the show will be edited into formulaic episodes that match past episodes beat-for-beat. Its relatively low-rent cast, personally selected by CBS CEO Les Moonves, will shout in the Diary Room and act like twits. Human error will invite conspiracy theories, as will producers’ attempts to silence the houseguests and prevent them from talking about things. Twists will seem like blatant attempts at manipulating the game. Houseguests may say stupid, offensive, and/or bigoted things, and CBS will copy and paste the same response. All of that typical Big Brother stuff is ultimately the result of how the show plays out live: being filmed in real time and broadcast live on...