Fox News Dumps Sarah Palin, Upgrades to a Furby with a Wig on It

By Lindy West  |  January 26, 2013 | 1:00am
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Well, Sarah Palin‘s three-year contract as a contributor at Fox News is finally up, and, strangely enough, they’ve decided not to re-up. Palin is out. I honestly have no idea why—is it their stringent adherence to journalistic ethics? Their disdain for self-aggrandizing liars? Their reluctance to heap airtime upon lunatic anti-gay bigots? LOLOLOLOLOLOLLLOOOLOLLLOLOLL. No. It certainly cannot be any of those things. So, I guess, they just didn’t like that jerk.

The onetime Republican vice-presidential candidate will not be returning to the cable network as a contributor, a role she first landed in January 2010 after stepping down as governor of Alaska.
“We have thoroughly enjoyed our association with Governor Palin,” Bill Shine, an executive vice president at Fox, said in a statement Friday. “We wish her the best in her future endeavors.”
Her contract had ended this month and her last appearance on the network was in mid-December.
Palin, 48, received mixed reviews as a pundit, mainly along partisan lines, but she continues to be lightning rod for conversation no matter what she does. For instance, she’s spent months in the Hollywood spotlight in absentia thanks to the success of the HBO movie Game Change.

When reached for comment, Poo-chai, the beige Furby who will be taking over Palin’s slot, was guarded and humble in his remarks: “Dah a-loh nah bah,” he said, “Dah doo-ay. Dah lee-koo koo-wah! Hey boo loo-loo. A-loh doo? Dah noh-lah. Doo-moh may-lah kah!” Doo-moh may-lah kah indeed, Poo-chai. Doo-moh may-lah kah indeed. [E!]

Oooooooooooo, Prince is talking hella shit about Madonna and Maroon 5:

“She was getting paid, but at the time we were selling more records and selling out concerts on multiple nights. It wasn’t about her. This was about business.” Following their frankly strange relationship, way back in 1985, and their collaboration on 1988’s ‘Love Song’, the pair have had often aired their dirty laundry in public. “[He] was a little troll,” Madge said of Prince said during a 1994 interview, “He was just sipping tea, very daintily. I have this theory about people who don’t eat. They annoy me.”
And on Maroon 5, who perhaps don’t have the same star status as either him or Madonna, Prince has plenty to say. They included a cover of his song ‘Kiss’ on their latest album. “I do pay performance royalties on others’ songs I perform live, but I’m not recording these songs and putting them up for sale,” he says. “Why do we need to hear another cover of a song that someone else did? Art is about building a new foundation, not just laying something on top of what’s already there.”

If I was Maroon 5 I would be SO EXCITED that Prince had heard of me. [ContactMusic]

Weird. Liberty Ross doesn’t want to be married to Rupert Sanders anymore.

Liberty Ross has filed for divorce from her cheating hubby Rupert Sanders … TMZ has learned.
Ross just filed her paperwork in L.A. County Superior Court. She’s asking for joint custody of their 2 children — ages 5 and 7.
Ross, who is repped by disso-queen Laura Wasser, is also asking for spousal support, as well as attorney’s fees.
Sanders, who is repped by Lance Spiegel, also filed his response to the divorce petition. He’s also requesting joint custody. He is not asking for spousal support. As for attorney’s fees, he wants to share the costs with Liberty.

Maybe she finally saw Snow White and the Huntsman, amirite?! Ahahaha! Ahahaha! Ahahahahhhhhh nevermind. [TMZ]

Burt Reynolds is in the hospital! Nooooooo!!!!!

According to Burt’s rep … Burt, like everyone else in the country, caught that nasty flu bug that’s been going around … and was coping with the symptoms for several days.
But the symptoms got worse, and Burt was admitted to the hospital. The rep tells us Burt was moved to the ICU earlier today after doctors determined he was “severely dehydrated.”
The good news — we’re told doctors are optimistic that he will make a full recovery.

Phew. [TMZ]

  • Holly Madison says that she and her husband often have “pretend conversations” with the fetus developing in her womb: “Sometimes we have conversations with [her], and I pretend I’m her and converse back with [Pasquale]. We’re all wackos. Hopefully she hears us and feels good.” [Us]
  • Seann William Scott and his fiancee broke up. [ContactMusic]
  • Here are Rihanna‘s boobs, lookin’ great. [DailyMail]
  • The NYP can suck my dick, but they do turn a good headline sometimes: “Shirley Temple joins Twitter, asks who Honey Boo Boo is.” I would like to take this moment to mention that when my dad was a little kid he went to Shirley Temple’s birthday party. And also Gene Autry gave him a pony (my grandparents were like, “What? We live in Glendale. Get this out of here”). [NYP]
  • Busy Phillips says her first pregnancy—which coincided with the writers’ strike—was way better than her current one because she just got to snooze all day. Also now she has to walk around all day with paaahp on her sheeeyiiirt. [E!]
  • Alyssa Milano‘s dog has cancer. [ContactMusic]
  • I feel weirdly sad when Scott and Kourtney are having problems. I guess I just want SOMETHING TO MEAN SOMETHING, YOU KNOW? [Radar]
  • Here is Taylor Swift wearing a plaid coat. [JustJared]
  • 🙁 [Dlisted]
  • Jason Hoppy told Bethenny Frankel that she’s going to end up shriveled and alone just like her shrew of a mother. [Radar]
  • Ronaiah Tuiasosopo is going to go on Dr. Phil and talk about stuff because Jesus is real I’m pretty sure!!!!! [VH1]
  • BONUS 1. [Yup]
  • BONUS 2. [Yuuuuuuup]

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