<![CDATA[Jezebel: good morning america]]> http://tags.gawker.com/assets/base/img/thumbs140x140/jezebel.com.png <![CDATA[Jezebel: good morning america]]> http://jezebel.com/tag/goodmorningamerica http://jezebel.com/tag/goodmorningamerica <![CDATA[Feuding With Your Mother-In-Law? It's Probably Her Fault]]> Today GMA reported that in the mother/daughter-in-law relationship the "power struggle is very primal." While both should compromise, it's clear who the folks at GMA think is at fault. Let that be a comfort to you during passive-aggressive family festivities.

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<![CDATA[Warning: Good Morning America Is Trying To Steal Your Dog]]> In 2009 there was a 30% increase in pet thefts. To investigate, GMA's Bill Stanton stole dogs in public on hidden camera. Few people intervened, but they were probably scared off by Stanton's creepy proclamations about his love of dognapping.

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<![CDATA[Meryl On Golden Globe Noms: "I'm Up Against That Bitch Meryl Streep"]]> Earlier today on Good Morning America, Meryl Streep talked about choosing between Steve Martin and Alec Baldwin in It's Complicated and another tough choice: Whether she'd rather win a Golden Globe for that film or Julie & Julia.

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<![CDATA[Downey Jr. Downplays Sherlock Holmes "Bromance," Breaks Jude's Heart]]> Today on GMA, Jude Law discussed the "harder, edgier" Watson he plays in Sherlock Holmes. Then, when confronted with a clip of Robert Downey Jr. saying he doesn't have a crush on Jude, he replied, "He's broken my heart."

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<![CDATA[Robert Downey Jr. On Brawling, Babies, And Playboy Bunnies]]> Today on GMA, new co-anchor George Stephanopoulos awkwardly asked Robert Downey Jr. if he's ready to become a dad again. He replied, "Sure, why not?" but his wife, who was standing off-camera, gave the plan a "definitive no."

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<![CDATA[Why Women Cheat: Steve Harvey Explains It All]]> Today on GMA, world-renowned relationship expert Steve Harvey explained how to prevent women from cheating: "If you're attentive to them, if you're a provider to them... most women will stay put." "Most women" were, unfortunately, unavailable for comment.

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<![CDATA[Woman Battles Eating Disorder During Pregnancy]]> Tonight, Discovery Health will air the documentary I'm Pregnant And... I Have An Eating Disorder. In a preview from GMA, Beth Jones struggles to eat enough for her unborn child, even when doctors tell her the baby is too small.

Beth, who has battled anorexia, bulimia, and excessive exercising for 25 years, is not one of those women. In a therapy group for pregnant women with eating disorders, Beth explains what's going through her head: "This baby's going to come and you're going to be big and fat. Who are you going to be if you're big and fat? That's just not acceptable, sorry."

Luckily, Beth's baby is born at a healthy weight and she plans to continue treatment. However, her husband Mike worries about the effect her eating disorder may have on their three children. He breaks down as he says, "Kids pick up on everything. its something we are extremely aware of and I will be extremely sad, especially if my daughter... if they would ever have to go through that."

Pregnant With An Eating Disorder: "I Want To Get Well" [ABC News]

Earlier: New Standard For Obese Women: Zero Weight Gain During Pregnancy

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<![CDATA[Gabourey: Golden Globes Are Great, Justin Timberlake Is Better]]> Earlier today, Gabourey Sidibe Skyped in to Good Morning America after learning that she'd been nominated for a Golden Globe. She said: "First, I'm super excited, because I'm in really good company... But seriously? Justin Timberlake just said my name!"

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<![CDATA[Jimmy Kimmel Hates GMA Now That Diane Sawyer's Been "Fired"]]> In the only break from two hours of teary-eyed tributes, late-night comedians bid Diane Sawyer funny farewells on her last day at Good Morning America. "I don't know why they fired you," said Jimmy Kimmel, "But I hate everyone there."

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<![CDATA[Obamas Bicker About Gifts In Oprah's Christmas Special]]> Are you stressed about holiday shopping? At least you're not Michelle Obama. In GMA's preview of Oprah's Christmas at the White House special, the President says, "Here's the general rule: I give nicer stuff than I get." Clip at left.

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<![CDATA[First Female Citadel Cadet Reflects 15 Years Later]]> Though she's left the military, today on GMA Shannon Faulkner said fighting for admission to the Citadel was worth it because, "It's not for all women, but the fact that they have that choice. That's my prize." Clip at left.

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<![CDATA[Did Lindsay & Jason Segel Hook Up? Is Madonna Adopting Again?]]>

Apparently he came outside and told nosy paparazzi that she was not inside. An hour later, she emerged. [Daily Mail]

  • The photographer who shot Lindsay Lohan in a ménage-à-trois situation for Muse magazine, Yu Tsai, says: "When you see her nipple, it just happened in the moment. She was playing the role of Kate Moss — you're at a party and you are with a guy you really love and another girl. She is stunning and radiates in the pictures. Lindsay is incredibly focused where it comes to her career and fashion is her passion. It's raw, it's exposed, this is her at her best. She told me: 'I want to make this iconic.'" So; the nipple shot was in the moment, huh? What about the bare-assed shot? [Page Six]
  • Madonna could possibly adopt again. "Never say never," she told a TV news reporter. [Daily Express]
  • Is Britney's dad's conservatorship coming to an end? Jamie Spears actually has two: one over Britney as a person; another over her business affairs. The business conservatorship will likely continue, but Britney may get some freedom back. [TMZ]
  • "Brad Pitt and Morgan Freeman, the American actors, have made it into Who's Who 2010, adding a 'touch of Hollywood glamour' to the list of new entrants." [Telegraph]
  • Diane Sawyer has announced that this is her last week on Good Morning America. She will take over the World News anchor chair for Charles Gibson, who retires December 18. [Good Morning America]
  • Christopher Cuomo has resigned from ABC, where he was the is co-anchor of Good Morning America and a regular contributor to ABC Evening News. Is it because people are saying George Stephanopolous will take over for Diane Sawyer? [Radar Online]
  • mediabistro.com's TV Newser column declares: "Reports of Chris Cuomo's Resignation Untrue." [TV Newser]
  • Alexa Ray Joel is out of the hospital. [Showbiz 411]
  • Sources claim that Alexa Ray Joel took pills after fighting with an ex-boyfriend. [Extra, People]
  • Alexa Ray Joel's ex-boyfriend, Johnny Riot, says: "I don't know how she's doing." [NY Daily News]
  • Drew Barrymore and Justin Long are heating up again, and you know, I hope those crazy kids make it work. Adorable. [Gatecrasher]
  • Over the weekend, Jake Gyllenhaal said: "Obviously I exist in my girlfriend's world and my sister's world in a different way, but [being around their kids has] opened my heart and I feel much more grown up and want to be grown up as a result of it." Does using the word "girlfriend" mean that he and Reese have not broken up? [Gatecrasher]
  • Tiger Woods is a regular at two bars in Orlando, FL — people who work at the Blue Martini say that Tiger is "really friendly" with the waitresses and at a bar called 23, the private lounge is called the Tiger Room — where Tiger's tab is around $1,500 a night. [TMZ]
  • Tiger Woods' fourth alleged mistress, Jamie Jungers, is a former Trashy Lingerie "Trashy Girl," as you can see in the pictures at the link. [E!, E!]
  • This post claims that Tiger Woods made the decision to pay off Rachel Uchitel after a "secret phone call" in which she made it clear that was not the one who leaked the story of their affair. And: "Tiger felt it was important to silence Uchitel more than any other woman because his relationship with her was current and intense." [Radar Online]
  • More women may come forward to say they've been involved with Tiger Woods. An anonymous Las Vegas nightclub owner says: "He wasn't one to send away someone who was interested. There was a revolving door of women with Tiger. I can think of half a dozen off the top of my head." [MSNBC Scoop]
  • One alleged mistress says that Tiger Woods told her his marriage was a sham and "only for publicity." [NY Daily News]
  • Tiger Woods' best friend, Byron Bell — the one who bought tickets for Rachel Uchitel to join Tiger in Australia — is getting married next week. Tiger is the best man. [TMZ]
  • Wait, what? "Tiger Woods Alienates Black Community With White Lovers." You mean golf didn't do it? One blogger says: "If Tiger Woods had cheated on his gorgeous white wife with black women, the golfing great's accident would have been barely a blip in the blogosphere." [NY Daily News]
  • Hey, look who's on the January cover of Golf Digest? Tiger Woods. And Barack Obama. [The Life Files, WSJ]
  • Unsolicited uterus update: Amy Adams is pregnant. She and fiancé Darren Legallo have yet to set a wedding date. [NY Daily News]
  • Clothingus strippis! The new Harry Potter flick will feature a "very sexy" love scene in which Daniel Radcliffe and Emma Watson are NAKED. Doubt that we'll see Harry's wand, though. It ain't Equus. [Telegraph]
  • Susan Boyle is still at the top of the album charts in the UK. [Mirror]
  • Matt Damon thinks a fourth Jason Bourne movie will happen "someday." He adds: "It's gotta happen - we've just got to get a script, and we don't have one." The thing is, he wants to do it with director Paul Greengrass, who recently said he wasn't interested in returning to the franchise. "I wouldn't do it with anybody else." [MTV News]
  • Rihanna high-fived a young woman wearing the same outfit at her album launch party. [Gatecrasher]
  • Shakira will speak at the Oxford Union debating society in front of Oxford University students. [The Star]
  • Helen Mirren keeps her Oscar, SAG Awards, BAFTAs, Golden Globes and Emmys in her attic. At the Women in Film and TV Awards – where she won a Lifetime Achievement award — she was asked how a Lifetime Achievement prize made her feel. She said: "Old." [Telegraph]
  • A Mexican governor plans to empty a prison in Veracruz in January so that Mel Gibson can film a movie there. [AP]
  • "Harvard Medical School professor contends U.S. talk show host Nancy Grace is partially to blame for the suicide of a mother of a missing boy three years ago." [UPI]
  • I didn't read this item about how Hulk Hogan wants his antique toilet seat back from his ex-wife because I don't want to know. [TMZ]
  • Hotel Gramercy Park premieres tonight on the Sundance Channel, and luminaries such as Debbie Harry, Julian Schnabel, Karl Lagerfeld, Ben Stiller, Winona Ryder, Russell Simmons and Kanye West make appearances in the film. [Page Six]
  • John McEnroe and rocker wife Patty Smyth: Spotted smoking a joint at an art exhibit. [Page Six]
  • "I've tried, but I get too crazy with that guitar arm and the things coming toward you… I think the game is great… I think the graphics are great."— Ringo Starr has never played Beatles: Rock Band. [Mirror]
  • "I didn't really have that many friends at school. Kids would just heckle me: 'Oh, go sing that country beep.' It just dawned on me that I had to love being different or else I was going to end up being dark and angry and frustrated by school. Sometimes I felt like I was some sort of spy because I would go to school during the day, and then, after school, I had this life that was completely different. I definitely was more nervous walking into my first day of freshman year in high school than I was walking up to record labels and handing them my CD." — Taylor Swift. [NY Times]
  • "I felt like that was fun. I would do it exactly the same way. You know, I am who I am." — Adam Lambert wouldn't change a thing about his AMA performance. [Gatecrasher]
  • "We definitely got bigger than we wanted to be. You feel like you've done something wrong. That woman in mom jeans who'd never let me date her daughter? She likes my music. That's fucking not cool. You almost start doing damage control: When people ask you to do stuff, you're like, ‘No, because I can already tell this record is going to get to a level where people will fucking hate us.'" — Caleb Followill of Kings Of Leon. [Gatecrasher via Spin Magazine]
  • "I hid out for a while, but that just drove me crazy. I got cabin fever. I was ready to make music again. It was a hard time, but I found peace in the studio." — Rihanna, on the making of her new album, Rated R. [USA Today]
  • "The bottom line is, I really don't know how to relax to the degree that I could just stop. So when something comes along and is presented to me, and I think, 'Gee, I could have some fun doing that,' or 'I think I could bring something to that,' I'll do it."— Angela Lansbury, who is on Broadway in A Little Night Music with Catherine Zeta-Jones. [CBS News]
  • Where do you live? "The May Fair hotel." But you must have a home somewhere? "My home is onstage." Where do you keep your things? "I have storage." Not even an apartment? "No. I don't care about those things. I tell my fans this little poem I wrote: For every minute of the day, The truth is that I'm dead, Until I'm here onstage with you -Then I'm alive instead." — from an interview with Lady Gaga. [Times Of London]
  • "I'm not trying to be the girlfriend. I'm just kind of game. Often the role they send me is a man's role, written with a man in mind. But character is character; it's not about gender. Writers write these male stereotypes, and it makes it ten times more interesting if a woman says the lines." — Sigourney Weaver on the kind of roles she gets or looks for. Also, she says she once went to the White House, during the Reagan administration, when an 11-year-old Saudi Arabian prince and Ghostbusters fan had requested her presence at a dinner… he was disappointed that she didn't turn up as Zuul. [New York Mag]
  • "He hissed at me yesterday. I tried to explain to him but he doesn't understand concepts such as international travel and work. He certainly doesn't understand the concept of a bikini. I am getting him a pet passport which means he can travel around as much as he likes. Unfortunately, they don't do photos. I was really looking forward to that." — Russell Brand on his cat, Morrissey. [Mirror]
  • "I started auditioning here and I had the accent, the body and the attitude for the Latin woman, but they don't associate 'blond' with us. I went for a screen test, and they asked me to come with dark hair. I thought it looked better because I have darker eyebrows. So now they believe me that I'm Latin. [Laughs] I always joke that if they throw me in a chlorine pool, all my Latin is going away — my hair and my self-tanner!" — Sofia Vergara, on her role on Modern Family. She also says: "When I came to L.A., people started telling me I had to lose some weight. No one has ever told me in my life that I'm fat. Or that my breasts were too big! When I told my mother that my reps want me to get a reduction, she went crazy. 'God is going to punish you if you cut your [breasts].' …Mine are natural, so they go here and they go there and there's no dress that picks them up! When they told me to lose weight, I was like, are they playing a joke on me? I've always been known for my body! . . . . The thing is I did lose a little weight because I understand that standing next to the stick figures, I don't look as good in pictures. My friend says that the other actresses look better than me on TV because they're skinny. And I'm like, 'Yeah, but I look better naked!'" [LA Times]
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<![CDATA[Concussions Much More Likely In Young Female Athletes]]> Today, GMA reported teenage girls are much more likely to suffer concussions than boys. Now lawmakers are pushing for national guidelines on concussions because many young athletes return to the field before they've healed, causing brain damage. Clip at left.

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<![CDATA[Robin Roberts Schools GMA Reporter On Victim Blaming]]> Today in a Tiger Woods-inspired report on GMA, Juju Chang repeatedly suggested men are "hardwired to stray," so wives must do more to prevent cheating. Robin Roberts called her out for "victim blaming," which made Juju giggle. Clip at left.

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<![CDATA[Chris Brown "Still Has Love For" Rihanna]]> In GMA's preview of Chris Brown's 20/20 interview, he apologizes again for assaulting Rihanna, but Robin Roberts questions his sincerity. He replies: "People see me smiling and kind of nonchalantly giving answers... I'm like, really hurting inside." Clip at left.

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<![CDATA[GMA On Too Early For Leashes, Simulated Oral Sex]]> Good Morning America has canceled an Adam Lambert appearance scheduled for tomorrow. An ABC News spokesperson explained: "Given his controversial live performance on the AMAs we were concerned about airing a similar concert so early in the morning." [Mediabistro]

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<![CDATA[Nadya Suleman Says She May Have More Children]]> This morning, GMA previewed Nadya Suleman's upcoming documentary, in which one of her older kids throws a screwdriver at her face. In an interview, Nadya defends having octuplets saying, "Which one should I have murdered? Noah? Isaiah?" Clip at left.

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<![CDATA[Gayle King: Public Is Grief-Stricken About Oprah Ending]]> Today on GMA, Gayle King said people were "literally weeping" due to the "tremendous sense of loss" they feel about Oprah's show ending, and reported Oprah's "very much alive and happy." They know she's not dying, right? Clip at left.

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<![CDATA[Kate Moss "Nothing Tastes As Good As Skinny Feels" Backlash]]> Today GMA asked women about recent statements by Kate Moss that seem to endorse anorexia. Said one woman: "Skinny sells. We can be upset about it and we can disagree, but it's not going to change anything." Clip at left.

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<![CDATA[Martha Stewart Is "Pissed" About Prison Stint, Rachael Ray]]> Prison really hasn't softened Martha Stewart. GMA previewed tonight's Nightline interview, in which Martha says she doesn't kick herself for jeopardizing her company because, "there are other people to be kicked." Like Rachael Ray, apparently. Clip at left.

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