Anyone who watched “The Bachelor Pad” last night caught the big reveal of the “Dancing With the Stars” season 11 cast. The new line-up will be hitting the dance floor–and your television–on Monday, September 20th at 8 p.m. EST. The premiere event will take place over the course of two nights; after the cast’s first performances on the dance floor, the couple with the lowest combined judges’ scores and public votes will be sent home during the “Dancing with the Stars: The Results Show” on Tuesday, September 21st.
Last season, Nicole Scherzinger of The Pussycat Dolls fame took home the Mirror Ball trophy. Any bets on who will make it to the end this season?
The “Dancing With the Stars Season 11 Cast:
The Guys:
Michael Bolton
Rick Fox
David Hasselhoff
Kyle Massey
Mike “The Situation” Sorrentino
Kurt Warner
The Women:
Brandy
Margaret Cho
Jennifer Grey
Florence Henderson
Bristol Palin
Audrina Patridge
Bristol Palin is most definitely the talk of the upcoming season. Many were shocked when rumors started spilling out just a few days ago about Bristol becoming part of the cast and last night it was dutifully confirmed by the announcement of the upcoming cast. Sadly, after watching her interview with ABC News (below) I’m not too excited about seeing this “other side” of her that she wants people to see because she still does not seem to have a personality. Bristol Palin has always been very one-note to me; kind of catatonic-like, unable to muster up any inflection when she’s speaking and she’s just horrendously boring to me. I’m not hoping she makes it very far in the competition and I’m not drawn to watching this season of “Dancing With the Stars” because of her being cast.
The person who did pique my interest about this upcoming season was Margaret Cho. If I told you who I would never guess to appear on “Dancing With the Stars” that list would most definitely include Margaret Cho. Since I’m not a fan of the show in the least, I’m kind of disappointed about her agreeing to be on the show, but am happy that she gets the opportunity to appeal to more people, this time in the form of dance–and how awesome will she look in some of those ballroom dancing costumes? Being the very typical fangirl that I am, I did immediately check to see if Margaret Cho’s tour date for my city was still set, despite her run on the show just to make sure I would still have the chance to see her this October.
Who are you most excited to see hit the dance floor on this season of “Dancing With the Stars”?
The 2010 Primetime Emmy Awards aired last night. I usually love awards shows and always watch them, rooting for my favorites to take home an award or complain about how my favorites shows and movies were robbed. This is typically a time of indulgence and enjoyment for me, but I realized last night just how much weight the host of an awards show has on the entire show and Jimmy Fallon hosting the 2010 Emmys really turned me off last night.
I do not like Jimmy Fallon. I don’t think he’s funny and I’m actually surprised his career in comedy has done as well as it has. I do hope that Jimmy Fallon has hit his peak with hosting the Emmys and we don’t have to see too much more of him in the future because I can honestly say that if he is chosen to host another awards show anytime soon, that is an awards show I will not be watching.
While watching the 2010 Emmys last night, I was also chatting with a friend and co-blogger of mine who I run the media and entertainment blog Women’s Eye on Media with. We published our Emmys chat from last night, so be sure to check that out for a lot (and I mean a lot) of snarky conversation all about who won last night, who walked away with nothing and of course, a whole lot about our hatred for Jimmy Fallon.
And onto the winners and nominees from the 2010 Emmy Awards…
Outstanding Comedy Series
Curb Your Enthusiasm
Modern Family (WINNER)
The Office
30 Rock
Nurse Jackie
Glee
Outstanding Drama Series
True Blood
Dexter
Mad Men (WINNER)
The Good Wife
Breaking Bad
Lost
Lead Actress in a Comedy
Amy Poehler, Parks and Recreation
Edie Falco, Nurse Jackie (WINNER)
Julia Louis-Dreyfus, The New Adventures of Old Christine
Toni Collette, United States of Tara
Lea Michele, Glee
Tina Fey, 30 Rock
Lead Actor in a Comedy
Larry David, Curb Your Enthusiasm
Matthew Morrison, Glee
Tony Shalhoub, Monk
Steve Carell, The Office
Alec Baldwin, 30 Rock
Jim Parsons, The Big Bang Theory (WINNER)
Supporting Actress in a Comedy
Jane Lynch, Glee (WINNER)
Jane Krakowski, 30 Rock
Sofia Vergara, Modern Family
Kristen Wiig, Saturday Night Live
Julie Bowen, Modern Family
Holland Taylor, Two and a Half Men
Supporting Actor in a Comedy
Jesse Tyler, Modern Family
Neil Patrick Harris, How I Met Your Mother
Chris Colfer, Glee
Ty Burrell, Modern Family
Eric Stonestreet, Modern Family (WINNER)
Jon Cryer, Two and a Half Men
Lead Actress in a Drama
Julianna Margulies, The Good Wife
Kyra Sedgwick, The Closer (WINNER)
Glenn Close, Damages
Mariska Hargitay, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
Connie Britton, Friday Night Lights
January Jones, Mad Men
Lead Actor in a Drama
Kyle Chandler, Friday Night Lights
Bryan Cranston, Breaking Bad (WINNER)
Michael C. Hall, Dexter
Hugh Laurie, House
Matthew Fox, Lost
Jon Hamm, Mad Men
Supporting Actor in a Drama
Martin Short, Damages
Terry O’Quinn, Lost
Andre Braugher, Men of a Certain Age
Aaron Paul, Breaking Bad (WINNER)
Michael Emerson, Lost
John Slattery, Mad Men
Supporting Actress in a Drama
Rose Byrne, Damages
Christina Hendricks, Mad Men
Archie Panjabi, The Good Wife (WINNER)
Elisabeth Moss, Mad Men
Sharon Gless, Burn Notice
Christine Baranski, The Good Wife
Reality-Competition Program
American Idol
Dancing with the Stars
Project Runway
The Amazing Race
Top Chef (WINNER)
Host for a Reality or Reality-Competition Program
Jeff Probst, Survivor (WINNER)
Phil Keoghan, The Amazing Race
Tom Bergeron, Dancing with the Stars
Heidi Klum, Project Runway
Ryan Seacrest, American Idol
And the Bob Hope Humanitarian Award went to George Clooney.
As any Lady Gaga fanatic knows, the essence that is Lady Gaga is not seen in merely her trendsetting and jaw-dropping clothing; what truly completes a Lady Gaga look is the accessories. Lady Gaga wigs can also be purchased to complete your costume in a variety of different Lady Gaga identities–her signature curly blonde hair, a blonde hair-like bow clip and a soda can wig.
Will you attempt to pull off a Lady Gaga-inspired costume this Halloween?
We’ve known for a little while now that CBS is planning a daytime talk show with Hollywood moms that is being developed and co-produced by Sara Gilbert and while ABC has the very popular The View, they also have a little something extra up their sleeves and it’s being planned by Barbara Walters.
ABC is currently developing another daytime talk show to take the place of Oprah when it goes off the air. The difference between this new talk show and the already-airing The View, which Walters is a part of, is that this show will be made up of a male panel and targeted towards a male audience.
The male-themed View will be using a new set of celebrity panelists, said to include former ‘Today’ host Bryant Gumbel, comedian Alec Mapa, former BET news anchor Jacque Reid and former Fox News personality E.D. Hill.
This concept could potentially go over well, considering the current daytime television lineup is targeted predominately toward women. Do you think the potential co-hosts of the Male View could bring in the audience it needs to stay afloat?
Wow! Wow! Wubbzy! is an Emmy Award-winning Nick Jr. preschool TV series that is super cute, engaging and encourages young viewers to embark on new, exciting adventures. Each episode has a lesson or teaches social skills like sharing, listening, compromising, helping and appreciating others and self-awareness.
In Wubbzy Goes to School, the cute and quirky bendy-tailed character is nervous about going to school for the first time and because he knows best, as all kids tend to think they do, he decides that he will learn everything he needs to know all by himself. Wubbzy realizes that he can’t teach himself everything and even worse, he has no friends to play with, he gives school a shot and realizes it isn’t so bad after all.
Because the first day of school–not to mention all the preparation leading up to it–can be an extremely hectic, stressful and downright scary time; especially if your child is just starting school and doesn’t know what to expect or even why they have to go in the first place, I was really happy to be able to host this giveaway and get this DVD out to someone who will undoubtedly get a ton of use out of it. So, the winner of our Wubbzy Goes to School DVD giveaway is…
The first day of school–not to mention all the preparation leading up to it–can be an extremely hectic, stressful and downright scary time; especially if your child is just starting school and doesn’t know what to expect or even why they have to go in the first place. As a parent, you want to make sure that when you get your child to their classroom on that fateful morning, you can turn around and walk out the door knowing full well that you eased your child’s fears and anxiety about school and got them excited to learn new things and making new friends.
Wow! Wow! Wubbzy! is an Emmy Award-winning Nick Jr. preschool TV series that is super cute, engaging and encourages young viewers to embark on new, exciting adventures. Each episode has a lesson or teaches social skills like sharing, listening, compromising, helping and appreciating others and self-awareness.
In Wubbzy Goes to School, the cute and quirky bendy-tailed character is nervous about going to school for the first time and because he knows best, as all kids tend to think they do, he decides that he will learn everything he needs to know all by himself. Wubbzy realizes that he can’t teach himself everything and even worse, he has no friends to play with, he gives school a shot and realizes it isn’t so bad after all.
In addition to the back-to-school episode, the DVD also includes an episode about making friends and acceptance after the larger-than-life new student named Murphy joins the class. Wubbzy finds that good friends can come in all shapes and sizes. Additional episodes include “Gotta Dance”, “Wubbzy the Star”, “You Gotta Have Art” and “Magic Tricks”. There are also a slew of bonus features on the DVD, including a photo gallery, coloring and activity sheets and more.
Thanks to Grand Communications, we are able to give one Wow! Wow! Wubbzy! Wubbzy Goes to School DVD away to a lucky Woman Tribune reader.
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Bristol Palin and Levi Johnston have been on quite the rocky road through the years. When it was first announced that Bristol was pregnant, the word on the street was that she would be marrying her child’s father, Levi Johnston. That engage was called off, they went their separate ways–Levi vying for fame on his own and Bristol preaching about abstinence–and then they were back together and shopping for a reality show about parenting and then they weren’t together anymore and Levi, still the little famewhore that he is, announced he was going to get to Hollywood by running for Mayor of Wasilla and have a reality television crew follow him on his path.
In most recent news about the parents of Tripp, Bristol Palin and Levi Johnston have finally reached a settlement in their custody case. According to the settlement, which was filed in an Alaska Superior Court, Bristol will get primary physical custody of Tripp and Levi will have visitation rights from 9AM to 4PM on Saturdays and 12PM to 6PM on Wednesdays. Levi has also been ordered to pay Bristol child support and although the sum of money was not stated, the agreement says the calculation is based on Levi’s earnings of $72,000 per year.
There is also a clause in the settlement stating that the parties are not to “speak badly about the other parent in front of the child … or allow anyone else to speak badly about the other parent or members of their family in front of the child.”
While the clause is important since I suppose these people are incapable of acting like civilized adults considering they are not yet fully matured as adults should be before having a child. I vote for this clause to be renamed the “Assume responsibility for your actions and act like a human being” clause, but that’s just me.
Now the next portion I have a little bit of a problem with. It goes on to state “The parties agree that they shall not allow the child to visit with, or interact with, any family member who publicly … or in front of the child, criticizes the other parent or the other parent’s family.
I have an inkling this clause was made up by Sarah Palin, since she is almost at the forefront, according to recent political surveys, of the GOP 2010 presidential candidates. She’s undoubtedly going to go for it and there is already quite the feud between the Palin family and the Johnston family; just take a look at Mercede Johnston’s blog that keeps getting more and more heated with rumors about how Bristol is insisting that Levi not speak to his family and never let them see his own son. This is a clause that I believe was written in order to keep a nice thumb over Levi and not allow the other side of Tripp’s family to see him so the Palins can flex their power a little more.
Of course, this is all up to interpretation and it is my sincerest wish that these two people can learn to exist and parent their child in a calm, mature and friendly way. I think Bristol will need to separate herself from the influence of her mother first in order for that to happen, though.
Bill O’Reilly recently attacked Jennifer Aniston because of her new movie The Switch, about a single woman deciding to have a baby using a sperm donor and not with a man who would be a father to her child. While promoting the movie, Jennifer Aniston commented on the movie’s premise, saying:
“Women are realizing more and more that you don’t have to settle, they don’t have to fiddle with a man to have that child. They are realizing if it’s that time in their life and they want this part they can do it with or without that.”
Many have been commenting on what the movie is really saying about society, but this commentary goes back as far as when other movies of the same type came out; movies like like Baby Mama and Miss Conception. But one person in particular had quite the negative reaction to Aniston’s comments about women having children without fathers being in the picture; and that person is none other than Bill O’Reilly.
O’Reilly is under the impression that Jennifer Aniston is some gigantic role model amongst children and commented saying, “She’s throwing a message out to 12-year-olds and 13-year-olds that, ‘Hey you don’t need a guy. You don’t need a dad.’ That is destructive to our society.”
When I heard about this comment, the first thing I thought of was “Why would 12 and 13-year olds need a guy in the first place? At that age, you kind of want them to stay far, far away from guys”, but perhaps he just meant that Jennifer Aniston is out there saying that kids don’t need any kind of male figures in their lives whatsoever. Even so, that’s a pretty big slip up on O’Reilly’s part. Secondly, what 12 and 13-year-olds know who Jennifer Aniston is or what she is doing or what movies she is in? I really don’t think they care much about Jennifer Aniston and I was assured in my thought about this when Beth Feldman of Role Mommy came out and said the same thing.
But let’s get down to the real point of this topic–Do children of single mothers suffer more than if they were brought up in a household with a father present?
“The traditional family that we have always known as mom, dad and two kids is no longer the traditional family. … Children of single parents do just as well as kids who have two parents. There’s nothing in the research that says having a baby by yourself is a terrible thing.”
Carl Pickhardt, a parenting expert and psychologist also commented on where Bill O’Reilly’s comments were coming from and what to take away from them, saying that while fathers are important in a child’s life, what it is even more important and downright crucial is “the quality of parental commitment to raising that child after it is born. … It is a prejudice that single parents — mostly moms — are deficient parents. In fact, they are among the strongest and most resourceful parents I see.”
Lindsay Lohan hasn’t been the topic of half as many media stories since she was released from jail and entered into the 90-day rehab treatment that came attached to her jail sentence. So how is she doing? What is she up to? Is she recovering and what has this whole process been like for her and her family?
Well, if you’ve been wondering about Lindsay Lohan lately, your concerns will be addressed tomorrow morning as Dina Lohan sits down for an exclusive interview to Matt Lauer on the Today Show.
This will be the first time Dina Lohan speaks out publicly about Lindsay’s incarceration and court-ordered rehab, although we have heard a lot of hot air coming out of Michael Lohan’s mouth from the day of Lindsay’s court hearing until recently.
Urban Girl Squad scored 50 free tickets to raffle off for the advance screening of The Switch with Jennifer Aniston and Jason Bateman, an offbeat comedy about a woman whose plans to have a baby on her own go awry due to a last-minute switch that’s discovered seven years later. The movie is from the people behind Little Miss Sunshine and Juno, so it’s sure to be a hit! Twenty-five lucky winners will win two seats to the advance screening on Wednesday, August 18 at 7:300PM.Enter to win here.
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Bristol Palin is most definitely the talk of the upcoming season. Many were shocked when rumors started spilling out just a few days ago about Bristol becoming part of the cast and last night it was dutifully confirmed by the announcement of the upcoming cast. Sadly, after watching her interview with ABC News (below) I’m not too excited about seeing this “other side” of her that she wants people to see because she still does not seem to have a personality. Bristol Palin has always been very one-note to me; kind of catatonic-like, unable to muster up any inflection when she’s speaking and she’s just horrendously boring to me. I’m not hoping she makes it very far in the competition and I’m not drawn to watching this season of “Dancing With the Stars” because of her being cast.
The person who did pique my interest about this upcoming season was Margaret Cho. If I told you who I would never guess to appear on “Dancing With the Stars” that list would most definitely include Margaret Cho. Since I’m not a fan of the show in the least, I’m kind of disappointed about her agreeing to be on the show, but am happy that she gets the opportunity to appeal to more people, this time in the form of dance–and how awesome will she look in some of those ballroom dancing costumes? Being the very typical fangirl that I am, I did immediately check to see if Margaret Cho’s tour date for my city was still set, despite her run on the show just to make sure I would still have the chance to see her this October.
Lady Gaga recently approved of a whole line of Halloween costumes inspired by several of her most note-worthy looks.
We’ve known for a little while now that CBS is planning a 
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Because the first day of school–not to mention all the preparation leading up to it–can be an extremely hectic, stressful and downright scary time; especially if your child is just starting school and doesn’t know what to expect or even why they have to go in the first place, I was really happy to be able to host this giveaway and get this DVD out to someone who will undoubtedly get a ton of use out of it. So, the winner of our Wubbzy Goes to School DVD giveaway is…
Bristol Palin and Levi Johnston have been on quite the rocky road through the years. When it was first announced that Bristol was pregnant, the word on the street was that she would be marrying her child’s father, Levi Johnston. That engage was called off, they went their separate ways–Levi vying for fame on his own and Bristol preaching about abstinence–and then they were 
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Lindsay Lohan hasn’t been the topic of half as many media stories since she was released from jail and entered into the 90-day rehab treatment that came attached to her jail sentence. So how is she doing? What is she up to? Is she recovering and what has this whole process been like for her and her family?
