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10 Things You May Have Missed On TV This Week

Tracie — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 14:20:00 EDT

Many weeks, we come across stupid stuff on TV that might fall through the cracks. In Mixed Bag, we collect those odds and ends, for a multimedia compilation of pop culture crap.

1.) Paris Hilton's My New BFF
Love. On the premiere episode this week, Paris eliminated a girl because Wayne Newton's tiger didn't like her. I miss her already. She was fun to watch.

Gif via FourFour

And she did good drawings.

2.) Paris was on The View, and Babs wasn't buying her whole "it's Pilates" act.

3.) Babs seems to to think that Paris Hilton and Paris Is Burning are one and the same. To be fair, it's an unsurpising mistake for some to make.

4.) Digging for gold, picking a winner.
A two-year old little boy purported to be an expert pool player was invited on The Yenta Hour of Today, where he picked his nose and ate his boogers.

5.) Why did she deliver her baby alone? Why is her baby not related to her? How did her baby die? Why is her baby alive? Why didn't she question anything!?

6.) "Betty White is a raging bitch."

7.) The magic behind Bridget's Sexiest Beaches is that watching Bridget Marquardt is like watching the joy of a toddler discovering the world, like how doorknobs work, or how food on a spoon is sometimes like an airplane flying into your mouth.

8.) That, and the cultural learning experience that comes with shopping abroad.

9.) Heidi Pratt is very much into Christianity. She strives to be like Mother Teresa, and thinks that material possessions are not important.

Unless, of course, it's dry shampoo.

10.) "I don't play well with others."

Organ Grinder

Intern Katy — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 11:40:00 EST

A court official ruled yesterday against Richard Batista, who sued his wife for the value of his donated kidney, on grounds that it's illegal to buy or sell human organs. [New York Post]

Gary Coleman, Child Bride Try To Reconcile On Divorce Court

Tracie — Thu, 01 May 2008 14:00:00 EDT

The traveling freak show that is the marriage of former child star Gary Coleman, 40, and his 22-year-old wife Shannon Price rolled into Divorce Court today, not necessarily to solidify the break p their marriage, but to get counseling from Judge Lynn Toler in order to save it. (Part two of the episode airs tomorrow. ) Gary still seems a little off — he has a hard time keeping his eyes open and talking at the same time — which makes me wonder if he's on something. And the fact that Shannon describes their fiery fights as going on until 3 AM, because they are "night people" who "sleep all day" only raises my suspicions. Clip above.

Lifestyles Of The Rich And Heinous

Dodai — Thu, 09 Aug 2007 15:00:00 EDT

When a story has a headline like "Violence, Viagra And The Truth About The War Of The Tarrants" you know that shit is gonna be good. Chris Tarrant, the host of the UK's Who Wants To Be A Millionaire is in the midst of a nasty split, which is being called "Britain's Worst Divorce." And the play-by-play is in all the papers! Tarrant's wife, Ingrid, found out he had been cheating and wanted 30% of his $68 million fortune. She could have asked for half! But what did Chris do? He offered 20%. And then things got ugly. Ingrid started spilling marriage secrets to the tabloids, including the identity of his girlfriend. Chris retaliated by telling the tabs his wife withheld sex, so he had to have a fling. (The fling lasted seven years, by the way.) Then Ingrid gave an interview to a tab, accusing Chris of being "clumsy and naïve in bed," in spite of using Viagra for four years because he "couldn't get it up." There's so much more.

For example! Chris loves fishing trips, and would often go to bed stinking of carp, says Ingrid. She also claims their arguments turned violent: "I asked if he was having an affair. He turned and belted me in the face," she says. Not to mention, when Chris changed the locks on their gorgeous mansion, Ingrid was forced to bargain-shop!

"When the children and I moved out of the family home, I left everything we owned. The children and I didn't have a bed to sleep on, a TV to watch or an alarm clock to wake us up. We had no plates, knives, forks, spoons or cups. Not even a kettle or a tea bag. What we had accumulated over the past 22 years I had to immediately replace. But I was not extravagant: instead of going to Harrods and Conran, I went to Ikea."

Ingrid wants back in the 8-bedroom manse, because she lives with: "Our children, Sammy and Toby, my daughter Fia at weekends, my son Dexter, his partner Chrissy and my grandson Rhys, who regularly visit, and my stepchildren Helen and Jennifer, who stay with us at Christmas. I also have a live-in help, a dog, three cats, rabbit, guinea pig (all of which Chris disliked), plus three ducklings and four chickens which we recently adopted."

What is it about rich people — does the money make them crazy? It's like an amazing episode of Dynasty, come to life. In fact, we'd like to cast the sure-to-be-proposed award-winning film right now. We see Daniel Craig as Chris and Ellen Barkin (no stranger to messy divorces!) as Ingrid.

Violence, Viagra And The Truth About The War Of The Tarrants [DailyMail]