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Well, well, well. How the worm has turned. Except not really. After bitching and moaning about her E! talk show, Chelsea Lately, for much of this year, Chelsea Handler has now signed on to continue doing the show until 2014. Remember, Chelsea only got her own show because she was screwing her boss – and she dumped him right after she signed her last contract. Well, her contract was up next year, and Chelsea had already been giving interviews saying that she didn’t want to keep doing the show – “There’s only so much of this nonsense you can talk about before your brain starts to feel like it’s bleeding.” Chelsea fancies herself an actress, and an Anderson Cooper-style journalist who just happens to be stuck on basic cable, I guess. Here’s more:
Chelsea Handler has had a change of heart. The 36-year-old host and producer of E!’s late-night talk show Chelsea Lately has renewed her contract through 2014, Us Weekly can confirm.
“It’s a great time for women in comedy, and it’s a great time to have real breasts,” Handler tells Us in a statement.
Says E! president Suzanne Kolb: “Chelsea is an extraordinary talent whose smart, clever, no-holds-barred point of view has clearly been embraced by viewers. We are thrilled to continue our partnership with Chelsea as we build on the success of Chelsea Lately.”
Handler will also develop and produce shows for E! and NBC Universal via her production company, Borderline Amazing Productions. Her semi-scripted E! Show, After Lately, returns for its second season on November 27.
Prior to Tuesday’s announcement, the comedienne and bestselling author — whose best friends include A-list stars like Jennifer Aniston and Reese Witherspoon — had been vocal about her desire to leave the show when her initial contract expires in 2012.
“I want to do something that’s going to utilize my brain a little more than this show,” she told The Hollywood Reporter in June. “If Lately is the show that I’m going to do, it’s going to change. But it may turn out that I’m done with it altogether. I can’t keep doing the same thing; my brain is bleeding.”
“I want to do something that’s more mindful and isn’t celebrity-centered,” she said. “I’m not looking to totally bail on E! They’ve done a lot for me, and I like it here…if you take away the Kardashians.”
[From Us Weekly]
So what does this about-face mean? Does Chelsea figure that there’s still money to be made off of her rude, profoundly unfunny, racist persona? Does she have an expensive drug habit? Or is she going to spend the next three years “transitioning” herself into a more mainstream talent? She’s already trying to do that, by the way. Her recent Glamour interview sounded strange, like she’s spent too much time in the Goddess Circle, reading self-help books. Plus, she’s got a movie role in This Means War, so now she’s an “actress” too. Maybe she really is going to spend the next few years building up her career beyond Chelsea Lately. The problem might be that no one really cares about her beyond her drunk, rude persona…? I don’t know. I’m biased. I really dislike her, and I feel like it’s some kind of “The Emperor Has No Clothes” situation – no one wants to admit that she’s actually not funny at all. Plus, I just think it’s funny that E! is really the only place she fits and excels. She and the Kardashians are the same.
I still love these cameltoe photos, by the way.
Photos courtesy of WENN and Fame.
Written by Kaiser
Posted in Chelsea Handler
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Oh, ok she’s 36 now. She’s been 35 for the last 5 years.
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You know, I’m not sure how much “tweaking” she’s had done to her face but I think she’s kind of pretty (at least in these photos). I will always find it odd though, that she looks like a blonde, caucasian, female version of 50 cent.
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Yeah she doesn’t look significantly tweaked. Any work she’s had is subtle. I wouldn’t be surprised if she was lying about her age, but I don’t think she’s much more than 40 — I think so many actresses get work done in their 30s that we have crazy expectations about what a celeb should look like at any given age….
She should stay on TV. Hers, I believe, is the first successful female-led late night show. I love that she’s made it. I actually think she’s kinda funny. Also, she’s probably not going to be as successful at anything else she does. To be un-PC and to go back to age, it’s not easy for a 40-something looking lady to gain traction in the first instance as a leading lady. Hell, it’s not even easy for a man of that age. If she wants more fame, a more realistic goal would be to get a late night show on basic cable.
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Hope they bring back the Community on NBC shedule. I can’t deal with Chelsea Handler
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Well she better step it up because her show isn’t even funny anymore. Most of the time she looks like she’s planning her after show drinking as her guests carry the show. Love Ross- he’s the main reason I turn it on.
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She looks better than she has in the past… she does not look like she is walking around with a perpetual hangover. E! is definitely where she belongs.
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Love her but the camel toe has got to go.
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I just don’t get it. I don’t find her funny AT ALL. Crass? Yes. Vulgar? Yes. Funny? No.
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Nooooooooooo!
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If and when I might watch the show is when John Caparulo is on….oh and Ross too!
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Racist.
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there is definitely some Blake Lively happening around her chichis; must look into those fat transfer procedures myself!
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She looks like she’s from Star Trek..and sorry, can’t help but ask, Jennifer Aniston an A-lister (cough)
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She looks like she’s from Star Trek..and sorry, can’t help but ask, Jennifer Aniston an A-lister (cough)
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I love her show. She always makes me laugh. Her dry sense of humor and insults to her guests are hilarious. I don’t give a sh@t who she slept with or how she looks.She’s not one of those late night hosts afraid to step on the wrong toes, she steps on every ones toes.
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Please don’t use these pictures anymore. They are just ugh.
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You have the monoploy on useful information-aren’t monopolies illegal?
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