In today's Tweet Beat, Chet Haze has a realization about women's figure skating, Wilson Bethel compares the Marleys to the Jacksons and Rosie O'Donnell is unfamiliar with the biathlon.
Earlier this week, Barbara Walters decided to use her platform on The View to share her fascinating opinion that Woody Allen can't have molested Dylan Farrow because she's seen him be nice to his new children. On Thursday, she implied that it's been an open secret around ABC that Elizabeth Vargas is an alcoholic. And…
In today's Tweet Beat, Jena Malone is happy to accept your apologies re: her acting, Rosie O'Donnell shares a pretty gross photo and Solange lays down the law concerning her former producer.
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Paula Deen was questioned for three hours regarding the $1.2 million lawsuit filed by the general manager of their Savannah restaurant last year, which alleged that Paula and her brother Bubba made black and white employees use separate bathrooms, threw the N-word around, repeatedly told racist and sexist jokes, and …
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Despite the claim on this week's People magazine cover, Jennifer Lopez DOES have one regret: Camp J. Lo is intensely unhappy with the cover photo, accompanying an interview with the star that is timed precisely to upstage Mariah Carey's judging stint on American Idol. Unfortunately, the plan backfired, as Lopez…
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"Yo La Tengo playing Superchunk, Mission of Burma and Pixies covers" is one unsurprising description of Amber Tamblyn and David Cross' cool-as-fuck nuptials. Tobias Fünke, 48, and Joan of Arcadia, 29, have been dating for the last four years, and this is the first marriage for both of them. Filmmaker Lance Bangs, in…
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The rumblings around the castle are ominous this week: the now-infamous Prince Harry Naked Bear Hug-Gate photos are only the tip of the iceberg, say Vegas sources, and the royal media will soon have to contend with "something pretty gigantic" (LOLOLOL pun). It appears that there's actually video of the Prince partying…
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The Ryan Lochte/Prince Harry Vegas bacchanal news continues, now with additional cavorting! Undoubtedly under the spell of jeah, England's prodigal son Harry played a game of strip pool in Las Vegas that ended with him butt-naked, freaking with the girl next door (see above), and Wales lawyers were undoubtedly like,…
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Groundbreaking female comedian, world-class cackler, and irrepressible icon Phyllis Diller passed away in her sleep this morning. She was 95. Diller began her stand-up career in the mid-'50s when she was already a 37-year-old mother of five.
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Ugh, poor Rosie O'Donnell. Apparently her fiancee Michelle Rounds is suffering from something called a desmoid tumor, so Rosie took to the internet to get ahead of the story "b4 the tabloids run it." Her preferred delivery system? Free-verse poetry. Obv. Like ya do. Here's the poem:
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It was only moments after news of the Brad Pitt-Angelina Jolie engagement broke that the entire world turned its lonely eye to Jennifer Aniston and began speculating about how she was taking it. Well, now it seems like we have reliable word on her reaction, and you may be surprised to know it doesn't involve a plan to…
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While appearing on the Today Show's lame "The Professionals" segment this morning, Rosie O'Donnell took it upon herself to become a "professional" bossypants. She declared Lindsay Lohan unfit to work and called her a terrible choice to play Elizabeth Taylor. Who knew Rosie was such a passionate anti-Lohanite?
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It's not quite time to mourn the passing of the television hothouse experiment in hubris that is Oprah's floundering cable channel — Comcast has agreed to a new distribution deal with the Oprah Winfrey Network, which would guarantee that OWN will be beaming its mediocre programming into 83 million homes, according to…
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It looks like The Situation finally got himself into one situation that he couldn't handle. A source has just revealed to TMZ that Mike Sorrentino, he of Jersey Shore ab fame, has checked into an inpatient rehab program for substance abuse problems. Well, this will certainly throw yet another wrinkle into the newest…
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Get out the hairspray and start hitting the tanning booth, because it's just been announced that Jersey Shore is coming back for a sixth season. The even more exciting is the news that Snooki's baby bump is going to be joining in the cast.
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Just a day late for the Ides of March, Oprah Winfery's faltering OWN network announced that it will cancel Rosie O'Donnell's eponymous talk show, The Rosie Show. But why? you ask. It's actually quite simple — nobody's tuning in, despite occasional spikes in viewership from an Oprah-hosted interview series and seemingly …
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Rosie O'Donnell and Chelsea Handler have gotten themselves into some super-sized trouble with the little person community. The two were chatting on Rosie's show when O'Donnell confessed, "I'm a little ashamed about it [but] I have a mild fear or anxiety around little people." Handler then went on to say some pretty…
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"I was so delusional, I was like, 'I'm ready for a baby,'" Chelsea remembered as she chatted with Rosie O'Donnell on The Rosie Show. "(My parents) were like, 'You're getting an abortion.'" Chelsea tried to argue with them, but they informed her "this is not what our family's about." She added, "Obviously, you should do…
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Mark Wahlberg has found himself in an mess of his own making. In an interview with Men's Journal, he spoke about how he was supposed to have been on one of the planes that hit the World Trade Center on 9/11. Apparently he thinks that action stars have the same powers in real life as their characters do in the movies,…
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Last night, Rosie O'Donnell appeared on Watch What Happens Live, where she was something of a lesbo-ambassador, discussing Kristy McNichol's recent decision to come out of the closet; gay celebrities she's dated (Sophie B. Hawkins); and what she thinks of the rumors that Oprah and Gayle are lezzie ("I've seen both of…
