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Home > Drama > Former EastEnders star Natalie Cassidy says her ex-fiancé “needs to get help” January 3rd, 2012 by Sarah. No comments Natalie Cassidy , who of course played the role of Sonia Fowler in EastEnders , has told new! magazine that she believes her former fiancé, Adam Cottrell, “needs to get help.” Natalie was speaking with the magazine ahead of going into this year’s Celebrity Big Brother house – which launches on January 5th on Channel 5 – and during the interview, she revealed that she blames Cottrell’s alcohol abuse for much of what’s gone so badly wrong in his life. He and Natalie have a daughter, Eliza , who is just 15 months old, and just a week before she gave the interview to new! Natalie publicly praised Adam for “kicking the booze” and she revealed that she had lifted the restraining order that prohibited him from seeing Eliza unsupervised. However, just days later, Cottrell was arrested on suspicion of burglary, having allegedly been found in the garde...

Documentary filmmaker Ken Burns has slammed reality television, which is too bad since he understands its appeal and could use his considerable talent to make the genre better. Burns’ Prohibition documentary is currently airing on PBS, and in an interview with the Telegraph , he said, “Reality tv is like dog droppings in the street. You just try to avoid it and keep going with what you’re doing.” He’s said things like this before . Yes, some reality TV is dogshit. But you know what, Ken? Some reality TV is art. Here’s a radical idea: Maybe you should make some and try to improve the genre that is part of the nonfiction spectrum on which your work exists. Part of the problem here is that the people who make high-quality reality TV reject the label because they’ve accepted the media’s narrative that “reality TV” means “poorly made stupid shit for dumb fucks” instead of embracing the idea that a genre can have many levels of quality. Who knew? It’s not like there’s a range of quality or...

American Idol raced through its Las Vegas episode, compressing Beatles performances sometimes into mere clips, so it could get to three hours of elimination faster. But the hour started with a glimmer of hope, and her name is Peggi Blu. She easily outshined mentor Jimmy Iovine, who apparently thinks he’s on The Sopranos and can just sit and mumble things like, “You ain’t gonna win singing that song.” The directness of Iovine’s comments was promising, but Peggi Blu is pure awesomeness. Her passion (or something) came out in hilarious, angry statements. “You’re going to die onstage in front of all those people. I’m going to be laying in my bed watching you just croak,” she said at one point. She interrupted two singers after they started a song and screamed, “No! What is that? Sing, dammit! Do it from the top one more time, and don’t make a mistake.” Later, Seacrest joked that she had a good “philosophy about teamwork,” which was: “Bury her ass on stage. Tap right dance right on her ton...

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CMT »     by Andy Dehnart / February 9, 2011, 12:33 PM This April, American Idol and So You Think You Can Dance executive producer Nigel Lythgoe will debut a surprisingly original new show on CMT: CMT’s Next Superstar , a competition for singer-songerwriters in which viewers vote. I suppose that it’s for singer-songerwriters makes it slightly different, but please. CMT says the show “will search for undiscovered singer-songwriters who think they have what it takes to make it in the music industry” and “will compete while living together in Nashville,” where they “will try to impress celebrity guests each week through a series of music business-related challenges and grueling performance rounds.” Although CMT doesn’t explicitly mention it, Nigel told the Hollywood Reporter that this is a country music competition: “Country music is all about storytelling, personalities and putting yourself into the songs. This show is not about going to a set, it’s about being in a location that has...

Minute-long title sequences are a thing of the past on Survivor, host Jeff Probst revealed. “We are using very short main titles this season - too much story to waste time on this… they’ll never be :60 again,” Jeff wrote on Twitter. He said that during his live tweeting of the show, which CBS now smartly advertises on-screen before the episode starts, and which now happens twice, once for the east coast broadcast and once for the west coast broadcast. It’s part of Jeff Probst’s expanding online empire, which now includes his new web site , where he now recaps the show instead of on Entertainment Weekly’s web site. Jeff’s frequent Twitter usage is already being mocked by a satirical “not Jeff Probst” , a sure sign that he’s doing something right, but Jeff has unfortunately started to follow Nigel Lythgoe’s Twitter footsteps and lash out at fans, asking one if they were “high” and and telling a critic of his tweeting “bite me.” And his live-tweeting of the show—twice, which is impres...

Paula Abdul’s Live to Dance , which debuted on CBS last night, is the worst kind of plagiarism: it’s like the student who changes a word or two from an essay they’ve copied off the Internet, thinking that’s enough to trick a teacher into not noticing that the rest of it is very familiar and obviously not original work. The new series is nowhere near the level of Fox’s So You Think You Can Dance or America’s Got Talent , both of which it rips off blatantly; instead, it’s like Skating with Celebrities , ABC’s sad but misguided attempt to capitalize on the popularity of Dancing with the Stars. Paula is actually the least offensive part of this. While I was not looking forward to her return to reality TV , she’s who she was at the end of her time on American Idol: cheerful, repetitive, supportive at all costs, seal-clappy. Her best moment was telling one little girl—and, indirectly, her parents—to not wear so much makeup next time. As I wrote on Twitter last night, I do think there’s po...