Reality Rocks
  • OK, I just want to state for the record, before I proceed with this post, that I am not some toddler-hating monster. Readers, please do not report me to Child Protective Services after reading this. I write this blog out of CONCERN, not scorn, for Kaitlyn Maher.

    For those of you not watching America's Got Talent this season, contestant Kaitlyn Maher is an adorable, plucky 4-year-old girl. She sings pretty well for a 4-year-old. But the key part of that phrase is FOR A 4-YEAR-OLD. Her very young and raw talent just is not up to par with that of the older, more seasoned finalists (including some older children in familial bands like the Wright Kids and the Taubl Family). She has absolutely no business being on this show, a show that will award a $1 million contract for a full-time Las Vegas revue to its winner--presumably an adult winner capable of handling that much income, a grueling weekly performance schedule, and fast-lane life in Sin City. This little tot isn't even old enough to

    Read More »from Kaitlyn Maher: The Kid’s Not All Right
  • Some people might say host Russell Brand went too far on last night's MTV Video Music Awards, with his constant comments about the Jonas Brothers' famous vow of chastity.

    And some people were especially irked by Russell's ridicule of the innocent Jonases' purity rings. America's sweetheart, Jordin Sparks, was possibly the most irked of all. So she felt the need to say something, in what was one of the VMAs' very few unscripted moments:

    Now, while I respect Jordin for having an opinion, sticking to her beliefs, and daring to stray from the teleprompter...I do think she went a little too far here. Was she saying that everyone who has premarital sex is a "slut"? Isn't that a tad extreme?

    I wonder how single mom and fellow Idol Fantasia would feel about Jordin's judgmental remark.

    Read More »from Jordin Sparks: “Not Everyone Wants To Be A Slut!”
  • Amid all the arguing with my co-workers and IM buddies about whether this year's controversial MTV Video Music Awards host Russell Brand was funny last  night (um, YES, he was), I failed to congratulate my favorite America's Best Dance Crew team, Fanny Pak, on their recent and long-overdue win.

    The Pak went head-to-head in a "VMAs Challenge" dance-off with season 1 crew Kaba Modern at last night's VMA pre-show on the Paramount Studios lot, and they brought the "Damaged" goods indeed.

    Viewers wisely voted for Fanny Pak, and avenged the underdog crew's unjust upset on ABCD2. So without further ado, here's the VMA performance that finally brought Fanny Pak the thrill of victory (and the chance to accept an award live on-air from Lindsay Lohan):

    Read More »from Congratulations, Fanny Pak!
  • Viewers at home are probably still wondering how in the world Ronny B made it to the top 40 semi-finals round of America's Got Talent.

    Piers Morgan has been red-X-ing this vocally and socially awkward bus-stop busker since the open-call auditions weeks ago. Sharon Osbourne calls him an "absurd little man." David Hasselhoff says Ronny has "zero voice, zero danceability, and zero talent"--which would presumably immediately disqualify Ronny from a show called America's Got TALENT, but apparently the producers bent the rules a bit for him. Even Jerry Springer, a man who's seen it all, seems dumbfounded by this "singing ant."

    Really now, it's obvious Ronny why was advanced to the semi-finals: to provide comic relief. Because every good TV talent contest needs its own William Hung.

    Which brings me to the crux of this post...this week, Ronny B performed the Ricky Martin hit "She Bangs" on America's Got [No] Talent. He WAS amusing, I have to admit (although if Ronny wins this overall

    Read More »from They Bang, They Bang!: Ronny B vs. William Hung
  • It is an established fact that the addition of second-stringer Ted McGinley to any TV cast results in the certain downfall of any television show.

    Happy Days, The Love Boat, Dynasty, Married With Children...the guy has ruined so many programs--or has been recruited in so many unsuccessful last-ditch attempts to salvage already-ruined TV programs--that he has his own category on JumpTheShark.com.

    So now it's been announced that Ted, the "patron saint of sharkjumping," will be a cast member on the upcoming season of Dancing With The Stars.

    What's next? Is Darren #2 from Bewitched going to sign up? (Yes, I KNOW both Bewitched Darrens have passed away, people; I'm just trying to make a point.) What about Bo from Welcome Back Kotter or baby Andy from Family Ties or Oliver from The Brady Bunch? They're all still alive, and probably not doing much these days...

    Anyway, the one hope for saving DWTS from McGinley Syndrome is Lacey Schwimmer. The So You Think You Can Dance alum has signed on

    Read More »from ‘Dancing With The Stars’ Jumps The Shark!
  • Today it was announced that pro songwriter Kara DioGuardi will be joining Simon, Paula, and Randy as a fourth judge on season 8 of American Idol. While you may have never heard of Kara, surely you're familiar with the hits she's penned for Idols like Carrie Underwood and Kelly Clarkson, as well as other superstars like Celine Dion, Pink, Avril Lavigne, Lindsay Lohan, Hannah Montana, the Jonas Brothers, Ashlee Simpson, Christina Aguilera, and Kylie Minogue. Pretty impressive.

    Kara has also written for, um, Paris Hilton. Hey, they can't all be hits!

    Speaking of not all songs being hits...Kara actually briefly fronted Platinum Weird, a sort of fake band with the Eurythmics' Dave Stewart that was the subject of a Behind The Music-style spoof rockumentary on VH1 a couple years ago.

    That TV exposure obviously didn't do as much for Kara's profile as her new AmIdol job will, since Platinum Weird's one-off album only sold about 5,000 copies. But hey--at least her Platinum Weird stint proved

    Read More »from Finally, An American Idol Judge That Can Sing!
  • Well, it's just been announced that Da Brat--old-skool rap icon, BFF of Mariah Carey, lone witness to the Mariah/Nick nuptials, and star of such reality gems as The Surreal Life, Celebrity Fit Club, and Celebrity Rap Superstar--will spend the next three years imprisoned not in a Surreal Life McMansion with Chyna Doll and Adrianne Curry or in a fitness bootcamp with Dustin Diamond, but in an actual prison.

    Not sure which is worse, reallly...

    In all seriousness, Da Brat's bratty ways have finally been punished, after she allegedly used the broken end of a rum bottle to slash the face of a waitress/nemesis at Jermaine Dupri's Studio 72 nightclub in Georgia. Brat was sentenced today by an Atlanta judge on charges of felony aggravated assault.

    This isn't the first time Da Brat's been in trouble with da law...but really, any glimpse of some of her hot-headed scenes in past reality shows would have given the prosecution in this particular case all the ammo they needed to secure a

    Read More »from Da Brat Headed To Da Slammer
  • Avid America's Best Dance Crew viewers probably know by now that frontrunners SoReal Cru, who never once landed in the bottom two, were trumped at this evening's finale by b-boy underdogs Super Cr3w, who were on the chopping block THREE times before taking the second-season title home tonight in a bit of an upset.

    Congrats to them--they earned it.

     

    Yes, as you can see from the photo above, I was there when Mario Lopez announced the big news tonight, with the residual smoke of the celebratory pyro clogging my lungs and the fallen confetti sprinkled in my hair. Here's Super Cr3w in all their post-victory glory:

    S to the chest!

    Lil' Mama was also there to help celebrate the triumph of one of the fiercest crews on the show. I was happy to merely celebrate the fierceness of her outfit--just LOOK how absolutely fabulously she was dressed tonight (hence the vertical-format framing of this clip, the better to capture the awesomeness of her Barbie-on-acid ensemble):

     

    But speaking of

    Read More »from Backstage At The ‘America’s Best Dance Crew 2′ Finale
  • Oh, Sanjaya Malakar, I've missed you so. Your creative hairdos that belong more on Shear Genius than on American Idol, the way you can destroy a perfectly good Kinks song like nobody else, your ability to make little Ashley Ferl cry on cue...WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN?

    The answer is, apparently Sanj has been shooting his own Kevin Federline-esque "Life Comes At You Fast" commercial for Nationwide Insurance. Except his commercial is waaay better than K-Fed's. He's wearing a fauxhawk! And trying to act! And singing! Kind of!

    Somewhere out there in TV Land, Ashley Ferl is crying next to her plasma screen:

    Welcome back, Sanjaya. Now all I need is for Danny Noriega to get his own Nationwide ad and I'll be weeping tears of joy, too...

    Read More »from Sanjaya Comes At You Fast
  • Impossibly cute singer-songwriting boy wonder Teddy Geiger's new movie, The Rocker, comes out this week. In it, he is once again typecast as, well, a rocker. What else?

    See, this isn't the first time Teddy has portrayed a fictional musician--you may remember him as promising young troubadour Wayne Jensen on the short-lived TV dramedy Love Monkey--but I'll personally always think of him as the boy who tried to fill the purple velveteen bellbottom suit of another fictional pop star, Keith Partridge.

    Yes, four years ago Teddy was a finalist on the somewhat self-explanatorily titled In Search Of The Partridge Family--an American Idol-style, ill-advised televised talent hunt for a new Keith, Laurie, Danny, and Shirley (and, presumably, the other two Partridges) to star in a VH1 remake of the classic '70s sitcom.

    I think Teddy would have made a fine Keith 2.0, really. He certainly had the non-threateningly dreamboat Tiger Beat looks that got original Keith (and In Search Of The Partridge

    Read More »from Reality Flashback: Teddy Geiger Hops On The Partridge Family Bus

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  • NYers furious over photos taken through windows

    NEW YORK (AP) — In one photo, a woman is on all fours, presumably picking something up, her posterior pressed against a glass window. Another photo shows a couple in bathrobes, their feet touching beneath a table. And there is one of a man, in jeans and a T-shirt, lying on his side as he takes a nap.

  • Denmark favorite to win Eurovision Song Contest

    MALMO, Sweden (AP) — An ethno-inspired flute and drum tune from Denmark is the bookmakers' favorite to win this year's Eurovision Song Contest on Saturday, which also features a bizarre opera pop number from Romania and an Armenian rock song written by the guitarist of Black Sabbath.

  • Native American actress proud to walk Cannes red carpet

    By Belinda Goldsmith CANNES (Reuters) - Native American actress Misty Upham never dreamt she would be walking the red carpet at Cannes to showcase a film shot on her reservation. Upham features in "Jimmy P. Psychotherapy of a Plains Indian", focused on the relationship between World War Two veteran Jimmy Picard, a Native American Blackfoot, and Georges Devereux, his psychoanalyst. Upham said like Picard, played by Puerto Rican actor Benicio Del Toro, she is Blackfeet, the largest tribe in Montana state. ...

  • NYC artist's secret photos raise privacy issues

    NEW YORK (AP) — In one photo, a woman is on all fours, presumably picking something up, her posterior pressed against a glass window. Another photo shows a couple in bathrobes, their feet touching beneath a table. And there is one of a man, in jeans and a T-shirt, lying on his side as he takes a nap.

  • Paul McCartney kicks off "Out There" tour in US

    ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Paul McCartney is kicking off the North American leg of his "Out There" tour in Orlando.

  • Denmark's de Forest wins Eurovision song contest

    MALMO, Sweden (AP) — Denmark's Emmelie de Forest has won this year's Eurovision Song Contest with her ethno-inspired flute and drum tune "Only Teardrops," despite tough competition from spectacular stage shows by performers from Azerbaijan and Ukraine.

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