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« Dancing with the Stars: Former Contestant Bristol Palin Dropped From Abstinence Panel | Home | Live To Dance Star Paula Abdul Reveals Her Idol » January 29, 2011 12:00:57 by Paula_Kosowski Bravo’s Real Housewives of New York City star Countess LuAnn de Lesseps is getting naked for a guest role on “Law & Order: SVU.” Keep reading for more details on the reality star’s first acting role… E! Online reports “Real Housewives of New York City” Countess LuAnn de Lesseps will strip down for her role on “Law & Order.” According to the website, she plays an art collector who’s set on posing semi-nude for an artist. “I can’t even believe I’m standing in front of Mariska Hargitay and Chris Meloni and reading lines!” LuAnn tells E! Online. “It’s a far cry from Housewives , isn’t it?” LuAnn has previously said on the “Real Housewives” she wouldn’t mind posing for Playboy if asked, so it’s no surprise she’s willing to pose semi-nude for the hit legal drama. LuAnn couldn’t reveal too many d...
Ever since she was introduced as a “teen activist” on the premiere of Dancing with the Stars 11, Bristol Palin has been a joke of a contestant. But that she survived to next week’s finale is no surprise at all. Brandy Norwood went home instead, leaving Jennifer Grey and Kyle Massey with her in the finals. There’s a lot of interesting discussion that we can have about Bristol’s success, but as a tangent, there is nothing I loathe more than people whining and complaining about a competition reality show’s results by making moronic arguments and drawing simplistic conclusions: It was fixed! Sarah Palin rigged it! It was scripted! I’m never watching again except next week to see what I can be even more outraged about to give my life a little bit of meaning! I don’t think there’s any single reason why she made it, but rather, there are several reasons, and drawing a chunk of voters for each reason has obviously been enough to overcome her usually anemic judges’ scores. Here are those reaso...