Julie Suzanne Chen, TV host and journalist who has gone by “Julie Chen” for the entirety of her career, signed off from last night’s episode of Big Brother, the show she has hosted for 18 years, by saying, “From outside the Big Brother house, I’m Julie Chen Moonves. Good night.”
One hundred years after women over the age of 30 were given the right to vote in England, Celebrity Big Brother will kick off its next season with a loving, respectful tribute to that milestone: by starting the show in January as a “man-free zone.”
Tiffany “New York” Pollard, a reality TV veteran who’s still doing reality TV, has been selling grim t-shirts on her site that read “David Is Dead,” casually referring to David Bowie. If that wasn’t already distasteful, it seemed even more so now that her former cast mate David Gest has died.
After accidentally touching her Elf on a Shelf doll at her family’s home, a seven-year-old girl in New Jersey did exactly what she thought she should do when faced with an emergency. She called 911.
Here's an unconventional approach to the ever-escalating cost of American weddings: One couple is courting corporate sponsors. The bride is quite literally willing to slap a logo on her wedding dress to defray their expenses.
Back in October, word went around that schools in California and New Mexico were officially banning Flamin' Hot Cheetos because of their "hyperpalatability" (translation: OM GROM GROMPH OMPH GROM GROMPH). A travesty, I know. When corn turds dipped in chili powder are outlawed, only outlaws will have corn turds dipped…
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…
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…
After talking some crazy shit about Asians (and black people and homosexuals), Aaryn Gries was finally evicted from the Big Brother house during Thursday night's live episode, where she was confronted by Julie Chen about her bigoted remarks, which made for gripping television.
Aaryn and Amanda—two contestants on this season of Big Brother who have made headlines for their racist remarks—spent Wednesday evening bleaching their anuses because, as Aaryn laughed, "I want my butthole to be white—shocker."
It's really hard to get away with anything on Big Brother thanks to the "live feeds" component of the show, which gives subscribers 24/7 access to the cameras in the habitat. Still, people are human, and to go 100 days without masturbating, it must be really, really hard (that's what she said).
On last night's Big Brother, Howard, one of the show's two African-American castmates, was voted out of the house. It's been a particularly trying season of Big Brother for the contestants of color as several of the white house guests have outed themselves as blatant, unabashed racists.
The current season of Big Brother has been fraught with racism, sexism, homophobia and pretty much any other form of bigotry you can think of. Initially, CBS was only airing the footage of the contestants' hate speech through the show's online live-feeds and not the main broadcast, but eventually it became so bad that…
This season of Big Brother has been remarkable for having the most bigoted, openly hateful cast members in the reality show's 13-year history. Now they've decided to be more direct with their racism, targeting Candice, the only African-American woman in the house, by messing with her bed and personal property, and…
The lurid reality TV shenanigans we enjoy with only the strongest sense of irony and postmodern cynicism may lead to real trouble for an Ethiopian woman who appeared, during her time on Big Brother Africa, to have sex with one of her housemates, an incident that probably didn’t scandalize the reality-show viewership…
I don't watch Big Brother, mostly because I have more interesting things to do on Sunday, Tuesday and Wednesday nights like picking at patches of dead skin and googling images of dogs wearing sunglasses, but my mom likes to watch and will give me the occasional unsolicited update. Anyway, I'd like to dedicate this…
In an effort to ensure that people are svelte enough to fit into their Logan’s Run jumpsuits, some companies are encouraging employees to track their health habits, including how much they exercise, what they eat, and, creepiest of all, how much sleep they get when they’re not busy becoming part of the company’s hive…
We use our phones for most things these days—scheduling meetings, throwing birds at pigs, keeping track of everything from our grocery lists to our periods, checking Facebook, calling our mothers. So is there a limit to how far we're willing to let these little devices into our lives? As much as you love your phone,…
This weekend's episode of Big Brother Brasil featured a disturbing scene: a female contestant apparently being touched by a costar while she slept. Now she thinks she may have been raped, and many are criticizing the show's producers for quite literally standing by and watching it happen.
