Retirement has not agreed with Even Stevens star Shia LaBeouf, who announced his exit from the world of arts and culture only two weeks ago due to completely valid and well-grounded criticism of his plagiarism and general skulduggery what he perceived to be vicious attacks on his artistic integrity. LaBeouf will soon…
This week, Julie Chen and Sharon Osbourne apparently went on Howard Stern's show and badmouthed Jenny McCarthy. Good job girls! Everyone agrees with you about Jenny. Except why are you and your coworkers spending all your time talking about a show that you're not even on?
Last night's finale episode of Big Brother not only crowned a winner of the game—Andy Herren, the first gay man in the show's 13-year history to take the big prize—but also marked the end of the sequester for 11 of the show's contestants who were not allowed to receive information from the outside world since the…
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After admitting on The Talk last week to undergoing eye enlargement surgery at the behest of a racist Dayton, Ohio TV studio back in '95, Julie Chen has clarified that she has not had a nose job. Any difference you see above is due to expert contouring, witchcraft and wizardry.
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After revealing her deep dark plastic surgery secret last week on The Talk, Julie Chen is now clarifying her statements, explaining that her decision to get eye surgery wasn't an attempt to look less Chinese but just to make her eyes bigger.
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Wednesday on The Talk, Julie Chen proved that she's not so different from the numerous women in South Korea famous for trying to "Americanize" their faces when she revealed that, early on in her career, she got plastic surgery to make her look less Asian.
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This season of Big Brother was racist. Just how racist was it? Well, it was racist enough that people actually remembered that Big Brother is still on the air, which is to say that it was really very racist. The non-white houseguests had to put up with all kinds of bigoted comments and harassment from their fellow…
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Last night at the 40th Annual Daytime Emmy Awards — held at The Beverly Hilton Hotel — soap opera stars mingled with "real" "housewives" and talk show hosts. The fashion, much like the personalities of these ladies, was big, brash, flashy and tacky. But fun!
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Last night, luminaries gathered in Washington, DC for the 35th Kennedy Center Honors at the Kennedy Center. National treasures ahoy!
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Pippa Middleton's been hanging out in New York with Andre Balazs and Roger Federer but, ultimately, the highlight of Pippa's stay here came when she and Chace Crawford "didn't party together, but spoke for 10 minutes." About what? About conditioners?
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Awww, man. B-Shatz! Whyyyyy? I mean, it's not like your everyday persona has given anyone the impression that you aren't totally 'nanners, but do you have to take it to the next level? Creepo-'nanners? Gross. A couple of William Shatner's former employees (who, by the way, could be total jerk liars—I don't know) are…
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In this week's compilation of pop culture crap, the quest to find Kelly Ripa a new cohost continues, Michele Bachmann invades your morning and late night talk shows, and Martha Stewart has a topical new recipe for flavoring your turkey this year: pepper spray.
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Julie Chen made the "executive decision" to stay live and not go to commercial as the jury's verdict was delivered in the Casey Anthony trial (her husband Les Moonves does run CBS, after all.) Upon receiving the news, Julie Chen choked up as she delivered the news to the other hosts and audience that Anthony was…
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In this week's compilation of pop culture crap, Steven Tyler judges an American Idol contestant's ass, Julie Chen explains her eyes, and interspecies love between a dog and a baby raccoon.
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Well, it's here — The Talk, CBS's answer to The View. It makes Barbara and company seem both genuine and serene. And did you know Christine Brinkley does leg lifts while she brushes her teeth? Now you do.
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Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps premiered, logically enough, in New York. And yes, Carey Mulligan looked absolutely adorable. Tyra? Well, judge for yourselves.
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CBS has announced that its View imitation has an equally original name: The Talk. Today, Sara Gilbert talked to TV critics her partner being left off the press release, and Leah Remini promised not to be the Scientology one.
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Do we need another version of The View? CBS says we do. But this one is Moms Only.
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• New evidence has linked Joran Van der Sloot with the disappearance of two girls from Thailand. Van der Sloot was allegedly involved with a sex trafficking ring, where he recruited a dozen young Thai woman.
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Extraordinary Measures deals with desperate parents and fearless doctors racing against time for a cure for a rare disease. The premiere, at Grauman's Chinese Theatre, dealt with crochet, furs, weird dresses and Jessica Simpson-as-Ivana.
