E!’s Giuliana Rancic has launched a Goop type diet, fitness and life advice site called Fab, Fit, Fun which is sent to subscribers in the form of a daily e-mail. The website opens with a towering photo of Rancic inviting users to sign up for her newsletter, and promises “heart-pumping workouts, beauty must-haves, tasty recipes” and “relationship-strengthening, confidence-building secrets.” It wasn’t enough for Guiliana to simply blog about her very low calorie diet and belief that the principles of The Secret actually work, she wanted to tout herself as some kind of lifestyle guru and hired a team of people to help her.

At the party for the launch of the site, Giuliana told Radar Online that she hopes she “inspires other people to live in a healthy, fun way.” She also bitched that people told her to eat a cheeseburger in order to help her conceive, complaining that she actually ate a whole cheeseburger and it didn’t work. According to an older blog entry by Rancic, her normal lunch consists of “a rotisserie chicken breast” without the skin and “a large side of steamed broccoli on the side.” Or she’ll have a chicken salad, without any “wontons” or “fried stuff” on it and writes on that she has them “toss it LIGHTLY in balsamic vinaigrette which is healthier than most other dressings.” Now she’s set to help us live better, more fulfilled lives by helping us skip the croutons, bacon bits and creamy dressing. It’s not a salad without the croutons! You need some of those dried cranberries, some crumbled gorgonzola, maybe some olives on there too.

“I love Fab Fit Fun,” Giuliana said. “It is a way to connect directly with people and offer up healthy tips for everything from food to drinks to my favorite new exercise. I love sharing all the cool things that I have learned about and hope that it inspires other people to live in a healthy, fun way.”

On a girls night out, Giuliana offers a substitute for the calorie heavy drinks that aren’t so healthy.

“If you’re drinking you can have skinny drinks – don’t do a margarita, they’re so much sugar. Drink tequila on the rocks with extra lime juice so it tastes really yummy.”

She also warns against going overboard on sweets.

“As far as cupcakes, don’t have it! Just don’t do it. Or do it once a week. Maybe twice a week. If you start doing it too much the taste gets in your system. Especially if you’re drinking a little bit so just skip dessert. Instead when you’re craving something sweet just have an apple. You’ll feel so much better the next day.”

Giuliana and her husband Bill Rancic have gone through grueling fertility treatments, none of which have resulted in a baby for the couple. She spoke to RadarOnline.com about the mean advice people give her on Twitter, especially the taunts about her weight, telling her to just “eat a cheeseburger” and she’ll get pregnant.

“I tried eating a cheeseburger, it didn’t work! I took a pregnancy test right after I ate a cheeseburger so sorry everyone who tweeted me that great advice – it didn’t work.

“It’s kind of crazy that there are ignorant people out there. The bottom line is a lot of people have fertility issues. Overweight people, underweight people, healthy people. At the end of the day, unless your doctor tells you, weight doesn’t really have anything to do with it.”

Giuliana revealed that she and Bill aren’t going through more fertility treatments.

“We stopped trying so if it happens naturally, great, but we’re not moving forward with any procedures. We’re calling this the Summer of Fun. If it happens that’s wonderful and if it doesn’t that’s ok.”

[From Radar]

Giuliana has talked about the whole “too skinny to conceive” controversy before, and has basically told people that her weight has nothing to do with her fertility, and countered that other thin women get pregnant. However she admitted on The View that her doctor told her to gain ten pounds and that she’d gained five and thought that was enough.

Well now she’s telling us just how she gets so whippet thin, happy and successful so we can all be like her. The website isn’t bad, honestly, and is quite a bit easier to read, lighter, and less sanctimonious than Goop. They also use experts like fitness trainer Jackie Warner and diet advice author Divya Gugnani to let us know how to get thin, look pretty and generally aspire to be like Giuliana. So many women strive to be just as hungry, tiny and superficial as she is so it might be successful for her. If she ever has kids I’m sure she’ll tell us how to raise them too.

Giuliana and Bill are shown at the launch of Fab, Fit, Fun on 3/3/11. Credit: Juan Rico/Fame Pictures

Not to be mean, but what’s going on with Teri Hatcher? CB and I were trying to figure out if she’s just overly-Botoxed or if she had some eye work done. She’s looking particularly cat-like in these new photos. Teri was in NYC yesterday, launching her new advice website GetHatched. Not to be confused with GetThatched, a thatching site which is also about to launch (it was the first one I found, and I was honestly confused). GetHatched is an advice site aimed at 40-something moms, from what I can tell, It’s like GOOP for 40-somethings, only not as constipated, and with a more Disney-centric view of life (Disney is hosting the site). Here’s more:

Teri Hatcher wants us to believe that she is like any normal mother. According to the actress’s new online blog, she is ‘one of those women that does the laundry, cleans the house, feeds the pets, drives the carpool, and as if that wasn’t enough of a job, also brings home the bacon. (And then cooks it, too!)’

But judging by these pictures, it appears there is nothing ordinary about the Desperate Housewife star. The age defying 45-year-old, who plays Susan Mayer on the hit U.S. show, turned heads in a red Dolce & Gabanna dress and gold peep-toe stilettos at the launch of Gethatched.com in New York yesterday, a new website where ‘Teri and friends tell it like it is.’

Offering advice on fashion, relationships and careers based on her own experiences, Teri promises however that Get Hatched is not ‘The Teri Hatcher reality show.’

The site, created in collaboration with Disney, includes an interview with co-star Eva Longoria Parker and readers even had the opportunity to vote for the satin number Teri wore last night.

The single mother said: ‘We graciously take on these responsibilities because we have big hearts and deep wells of commitment. But the weight of all of this too often leaves us drained and craving support of our own. That’s why I wanted to create GetHatched as a resource, a go-to respite, a trustworthy support system for women.’

‘GetHatched is about finding your way to the ME part without getting lost along the way. My desire is to be able to reach women, lots of women, and supply just the right boost they might need on any given day.’

‘And I want it to be a place where I want to go – and it is.’

The brunette will no doubt be drawing on her own experiences. Teri married first husband Marcus Leithold in 1988 but they divorced the following year. She was then married to actor Jon Tenney for nine years during which they had a daughter, Emerson Rose, before divorcing in 2003.

[From The Daily Mail]

I love Teri’s second ex-husband, Jon Tenney. He’s on The Closer, and he’s awesome and really good-looking. Now, regarding the site – eh. It sounds like an interesting project I suppose. I would imagine it will get more coverage and more initial readership just because it’s affiliated with Disney, and because it’s part of the “Disney Family” online community. But it really does remind me of a less-constipated GOOP. I don’t expect Teri to start recommending endless juice detoxes, but I would imagine the answer to a lot of mom-dilemmas will involve taking a trip to DisneyWorld.

Teri at the launch of GetHatched in NYC on May 10, 2010. Credit: WENN.

Robert DeNiro is a notoriously difficult man to interview. He got the reputation through years of giving grunts and shrugs to reporters, for refusing to divulge or participate in even the most basic of publicity tours. But in the past few years, it seems like DeNiro has softened. He’s been trying more comedies, working with a wide range of actors and directors, and he’s basically become a hell of a lot sweeter, at least in my mind. It could totally be that DeNiro was always a kitten, and he just wanted to give off the impression of a tough guy. Something loosened him – and it’s nice to see.

He’s out promoting Everybody’s Fine, a family dramedy about “a widower who reconnects with his grown children“ costarring Drew Barrymore, Kate Beckinsale and Sam Rockwell. He gave a surprisingly sweet (and lengthy) interview to Parade Magazine this week (complete interview here), and there are some really lovely moments. Here are the highlights:

DeNiro on becoming a star: “I think it’s important to have had at least a few years of obscurity, where people treat you like everybody else. Then it goes crazy, and all of a sudden people behave differently toward you, they’re agreeing with you all the time, they’re not telling you no.”

Why he did Everybody‘s Fine: “I like Kirk Jones, the director. I think everything he does will be special. Good directors can bring certain things out of you, with their intensity or gentleness or sensitivity or understanding. They can make an actor feel he can do no wrong.”

DeNiro on what his youngest children—twins Aaron and Julian, 14, and Elliot, 11— think of his success and fame: He smiles his famous impish smile. “My kids aren’t too impressed with me,” he says. “They don’t say very much about my career. Sometimes they Google me, though. And who knows what their friends say?”

De Niro on growing up in New York City in the 1940s, 50s and 60s with his painter parents: “It was an exciting time to grow up. Kind of bohemian. Things were happening. There were big changes. I wasn’t really a part of it, though. I was more on the outside. But by virtue of being an actor, I was a good observer of it.”

On always knowing he would be an actor: “I didn’t have a Plan B. I never quite got to the point of needing one. I did one thing, then the next. I was able to sustain myself. I had some regular life behind me. It anchored me, going into the future.”

On his acting process: “In acting, I always try to go back to what would actually be the real situation, the real human behavior in life. It’s the most difficult thing and the easiest thing, and it’s all you need—the truth of the moment. If you give too much, if you telegraph things, you weaken it. You have to trust yourself not to do more.”

On Los Angeles, and why he prefers New York: “We had a house there, my first wife and our oldest kids. But I never really lived in it much. I like to visit L.A., but I wouldn’t want to live there.” His first wife was the actress and singer Diahnne Abbott. She brought her daughter, Drena, to the relationship, and he and Abbott also have a son together, Raphael. Both kids now live in New York. It’s a New York family and always was. “My father’s side was working-class, lower middle-class,” De Niro says. “My mother’s side didn’t have much money. They were kind of academic. My grandfather was a working man. He worked for the health department.”

On giving advice: “I don’t mind giving advice. I’ve had more experience, just by virtue of being alive longer, so I don’t mind doing that—if people ask. I don’t want to be preachy.”

On his costars: “Drew Barrymore was terrific to work with. I knew her mother a little, when Drew was a little kid. Kate Beckinsale was terrific, too, and Sam Rockwell. The crew, too. It was like an extended family, especially because we were on location. Everyone cared about everyone else, everyone tried their best, everyone felt it was a special endeavor. The director made it feel very sincere.”

[From Parade]

See? Doesn’t he seem like a sweetheart? I wish he was my special friend. I don’t mean that in a sexual way, although I’ve seen him in more than a few movies where he seemed very sexy to me (mmm… Heat). I just want DeNiro to talk to me and give me advice, maybe I could cook for him, and we could take a walk or something. Just a special friendship.

In other DeNiro news, he received the Stanley Kubrick award for excellence in film at the Bafta/LA Britannia awards last night. Once again, he startled reporters by being nice and by declaring himself “happy” to be receiving the award (I swear, the BBC actually reported it that way). He also chatted with reporters about the film he’s working on right now, Little Fockers, the third film in the Meet the Fockers franchise. DeNiro said: “I don’t know if I can say it’s the best one, that’s for the audience to decide – but we’re having fun. Is it the greatest movie ever? I hope so, we’re having fun doing it.” So cute. I love him.

Here’sRobert De Niro with Drew Barrymore at the AFI’s screening of ‘Everbody’s Fine’ in Los Angeles on November 3rd. Images thanks to WENN.com .

Glamour Magazine has honored FLOTUS Michelle Obama with a “special recognition” for “her focus on mentoring the next generation”. She appears on one of five celebratory covers for Glamour’s December “Women of the Year” issue. It’s the first time a first lady has appeared on Glamour’s cover. The entire interview has not been released yet, but Glamour does havea very interesting preview of the cover interview up on their site right now. The editor also excerpts the interview by giving six “lessons” that she took away from Michelle’s interview. Some of these lessons are pretty good pieces of advice.

This year, Glamour is honoring First Lady Michelle Obama with a Special Recognition award for her commitment to mentoring young women. (She also appears on our cover–the first time in Glamour’s 70-year history that a First Lady has ever done so.) You simply cannot talk about 2009 without talking about Mrs. Obama: and no, I don’t mean her status as a style icon (richly deserved though it may be). Just nine months into her job, our nation’s first African-American First Lady has thrown open the doors of the White House to local children and families, determined to show young people that, in her words, “there’s no magic to being here”–that with hard work, any one of us can rise to greatness. And at Glamour, we love that she’s particularly set on expanding young women’s horizons: The First Lady is establishing mentor relationships between top women in the administration and girls in need in DC, and is encouraging women leaders around the country to do the same where they live. Love that.

One of my favorite things about [Katie Couric’s] interview with the First Lady is that Mrs. Obama delivers truly useable advice–the kind of advice any woman can draw on to reach her own personal goals. Here are six lessons I took away from her responses:

Mentoring matters, especially for young women: “I think that mentoring is such a critical part of the role I can play in this position. I see how little bits of exposure and big bits of exposure really change my girls significantly, and I want that for more girls around the country and the world.”

The real role models aren’t movie stars–they’re the people you know: “They were the people in my life. My mom, for sure. My dad. The teachers. For me, role-modeling was immediate, it was touchable…Children connect with who is in their lives, present and accounted for…That’s why we’re trying to encourage moms, teachers, fathers, to be that presence in their children’s lives, in their communities, because it really makes a difference.”

Don’t wait to be “discovered” by a mentor: “I was blessed throughout my entire career. I had people rooting for me. It started with my parents, but it extended to almost every teacher that I had. When I was a young lawyer, there were other women and men in the firm who took me under their wing. Look for those mentors, because sometimes mentors don’t find you–sometimes you seek them out. Oftentimes, they’re flattered and glad to lend a hand.”

Don’t put yourself last in line: In answer to a reader question about how she keeps her sanity, the First Lady told Katie, “I have always tried to put my kids first, and then…put myself a really close second, as opposed to fifth or seventh. One thing that I’ve learned from male role models is that they don’t hesitate to invest in themselves.”

When it comes to looks and style, set your own standards: “People are always going to have opinions, and people have a right to their opinions, particularly when you’re the First Lady; you’re representing the nation. So I can’t be surprised that people are interested. But I’ve tried to be at peace with the choices that I make first, and then be open to everyone else’s reflection.”

With men, don’t be swayed by “cute”: “Cute’ [is] good. But cute only lasts for so long, and then it’s, Who are you as a person? Don’t look at the bankbook or the title. Look at the heart. Look at the soul…When you’re dating a man, you should always feel good…You shouldn’t be in a relationship with somebody who doesn’t make you completely happy and make you feel whole.”

[From Glamour]

One of my favorite moments of the year was Michelle’s speech to a girls’ school in London back in April. The school had a 90% minority enrollment, and Michelle delivered an emotional, heart-wrenching, empowering message to those young girls: “You too can control your own destiny, please remember that. Whether you come from a council estate or a country estate, your success will be determined by your own confidence and fortitude…You are precious and you touch my heart.” I also like the whole “cute doesn’t last” quote from this interview. But the original saying is more to the point – “Pretty doesn’t last, stupid is forever.” Great advice!

This just in: you need to stop having sex. Like, now. Because according to Pamela Anderson, sex will turn you orange, make you shrivel, give you matted Barbie hair, and basically make you look like a dried up old lunch sack. Pam says she looks the way she does due to sex. Except she says “thanks to” instead of “due to.” So if you want to look like Pamela Anderson, have a lot of sex. If you want to look better, I suppose you’ll have to do something else.

PAMELA ANDERSON says a frisky sex life is the secret to her cracking figure. The former Baywatch star, 42, puts her toned body and radiant skin down to the extensive time spent between the sheets.

She said: “Looking good to me has always been because of the amount of sex I’m getting! I’ve hardly ever been a member of a gym and I can’t follow diets.”

She added: “When I’m not in a relationship and not – hypothetically speaking of course – having lots of sex how do I keep fit? Oh I don¹t know. I can’t remember! Oh I know… I jump up and down a lot!”

Pammi has been linked to scuba diving instructor JAMIE PADGETT and was also seen canoodling with ex-hubby TOMMY LEE at the Hard Rock Hotel in Las Vegas earlier this week.

And the star admits there was a time she thought her days of serious relationships were over. Pammi added: “A couple of years ago I was asked if I’d ever consider walking down the aisle again. At the time I said: ‘You know what, I’d love to, but who’s going to have me?’ Seriously, imagine the advert in the lonely hearts column: ‘Mother of two, boisterous boys. Slightly crazy ex-husband never too far away.’”

[From the Sun]

I really wish The Sun had bothered to include an inset list based on tips from the article. I’ll go ahead and make one for you. Here are the bulleted points:

• Do not jump up and down – ever
• Follow a strict gym regimen
• Diet your pants off (so to speak)
• But actually keep your pants on
• Stay away from scuba divers and rock stars – if unsure if a guy falls into one of
those categories, either ask how long he can hold his breath or if he’s ever snorted a line of coke off a groupie
• Avoid plucking your eyebrows completely, thinking you and your musty old Crayola can do a better job than God
• Avoid Hard Rock Hotels
• Avoid drawing attention to your used up lady bits by wearing tattered pantyhose than you’ve ripped apart to hip level.

I’d like to politely request that you all print out this list and tape it to your fridge and dashboard. If you do these things – following them to the letter – I guarantee you, you will look better than Pamela Anderson. Also, avoid wearing spider hair-based extensions, and you’ll probably be good to go. Or you could stop trying, give in now, and follow Pam’s recipe for success – making out with Tommy Lee whenever you’re in between dudes.

Celebrities branch out in plenty of venues in which they’re not particularly qualified: fashion, perfume, music, and writing thinly-veiled biographical fiction and unoriginal cookbooks to name a few. You slap a celebrity’s name on something and people will buy it.

Jennifer Love Hewitt, who most recently pressured her new boyfriend to propose by saying during a radio show “By this time next year, if we’re not planning something, then there’s a situation,” is writing a self help relationship book for women.

She’s been romanced by the likes of John Mayer and Carson Daly, engaged to actor Ross McCall, and is currently hot and heavy with her Ghost Whisperer costar Jamie Kennedy. Love is, after all, her middle name.

With plenty of dating experience under her belt, Jennifer Love Hewitt has decided to write a book, titled The Day I Shot Cupid, addressing romantic relationships that will include everything from tips on text-flirting and how to start over after a breakup.

“I thought it was time to share the real story of what I’ve learned navigating the dating waters.” Hewitt says in a statement from Voice publishers. “Hopefully, in addition to having a good laugh, women reading this will learn from some of my hard lessons.”

The book, which is a first for the actress, will be available in March 2010.

[From People]

I like Jennifer Love Hewitt and honestly wish her well in all her ventures, but she’s dating dingbat Jamie Kennedy for God’s sake. How is she going to market this book? To her credit, she says she’s sharing the difficult things she’s learned along the way. It’s probably more of a biography with a dating angle, and she has a lot of fans who will buy the book for her personal stories. If Jordan/Katie Price can make a mint selling multiple biographies about her brief life, than so can someone likable and semi-normal like Hewitt. We’ll have to see if she’s still with Kennedy by the time this book is out, but if they do break up at least she’ll have some good tidbits to add. Maybe she’ll hook up with someone who isn’t as much of a doofus, although Kennedy does seem to treat her well. He’s still sticking around after she told him on a radio show he better propose by next year.

Jennifer Love Hewitt and Jamie Kennedy are shown on 6/10/09 and 6/11/09 at the Monte Carlo TV Festival. Credit: Fame Pictures

Madonna is one of those people who will never learn humility or common sense. Despite her disastrous marriage, she still feels fine doling out relationship advice to others – specifically Britney Spears. Madonna’s advised Brit to avoid walking down the aisle again because marriage doesn’t work for girls like them.

Having recently returned to LA following her family trip home to Kentwood, Louisiana, Britney Spears was spotted out to dinner at Nobu last night (November 16).

The “Womanizer” songstress was joined by a friend as she dined at the West Hollywood hot spot until around 9pm, leaving in a chauffeured car.

And it sounds like Brit Brit is getting some marriage advice from fellow pop star Madonna, who is currently going through a messy divorce with Guy Ritchie.

An inside source told press, “Britney asked Madonna if she will ever marry again after her split from Guy. Madonna not only said she wouldn’t but told Britney to forget about marriage. She said it just doesn’t work for girls like them. Madonna clearly sees a lot of herself in Britney because she seems very eager to help her.”

[From the Gossip Girls]

Madonna giving out relationship advice is like Kate Moss telling people to eat more. It’s hard not to call her out on it. First off, the “girls like [us]” thing makes it seem like Madge is blaming her career, since that’s what she and Britney most have in common. From the rumors I’ve heard, you could blame a lot of things for the demise of her marriage to Guy Ritchie, but they mostly have to do with her shrill, cold, hard character, not with her career per se. I can see how it’s easier for Madonna to blame her job, because that’s slightly external and not about who she is at her very core.

I’m not saying I think Britney should get married again – I just think she should take any advice that comes from Madonna with a snowball-sized grain of salt.

Here’s Britney and Madonna in concert at the Dodger Stadium in L.A. on November 6th. Images thanks to WENN.

Being famous sucks. At least if you’re to believe most of the people that are famous. And it’s not hard to see why. What could possibly be advantageous about being rich, thin, and beautiful? And let’s not even mention all the free swag and getting the best tables at booked restaurants. It’s a hard, empty, solitary life – at least if we’re to believe Kirsten Dunst.

Dunst recently gave an interview to OK! magazine in which she dispensed some of her legendary sage advice, and then talked about some of the hardships of being famous.

Kirsten also admits that she can identify with Marie Antoinette’s troubles with celebrity after playing her onscreen.

“Being famous can be isolating,” she says. “I was 11 when I started acting, and I’ve always been surrounded by adults and people I’m trying to please. It can make you feel very lonely. You’re constantly wondering if people are using you.”

The Spiderman 3 star says she’s gotten some good advice, however, from others in the industry on how to deal with the ups and downs of fame and success.

“The one thing every actor has told me is, ‘Always keep your head on straight and never stop being the person you really are.’ As soon as you start getting wrapped up in the celebrity side of the business, which has nothing to do with acting, that’s when you can lose it,” she recalls. “I remember James Wood telling me, ‘Do small movies.’ But I took that with a grain of salt because he said it while he was in that Oliver Stone football epic Any Given Sunday.”

[From OK! Magazine]

As much as most of us hate hearing celebs complain about the downside of fame, I can definitely see Kirsten’s point – especially since she’s been acting since she was a child. I doubt she knows what a completely normal relationship is like; and it’s got to be impossible not to wonder why it is someone really wants to hang out with you. It must make you feel like you can never really be yourself – because who knows when the person you’re with is going to go blab to Star or something?

The cliched acting advice from James Woods was a little grating. Not just because Dunst calls him out for doing an Oliver Stone film while relating the story, but because she certainly has done several big films too (hello Spiderman?). But he did make a good point that celebrity has nothing to do with acting in and of itself. The best actors I’ve ever seen where in relatively small plays, and I’m sure no one will ever hear of them. Not that Spiderman wasn’t epic or anything.

Here’s Kirstin in Paris during fashion week yesterday . According to Fame, “the actress spends the day shopping at “Isabel Marant” boutique. Taking a short break, Kristin enjoys a hot chocolate at cafe “la palette’ in the Saint Germain district of the city before venturing to dinner at a restaurant on “Rue De Vertus.” Images thanks to Fame.

Ellen DeGeneres and wife Portia de Rossi were originally planning quite the spectacle of a wedding. Nothing crazily over the top, but certainly not the low-key affair they ended up going with. It was reported that they were planning a lavish event and their guest list was so huge, “my gardener is invited,” according to Ellen.

In the end it wound up being just 19 guests that were just close friends and family. What led to Ellen and Portia’s change of heart? Justin Timberlake. And Ryan Seacrest convincing the pair not to have him sing at their wedding. Naturally.

Ellen DeGeneres says Ryan Seacrest played a hand in keeping her August Beverly Hills wedding to Portia de Rossi “lovely and small.” Originally, Justin Timberlake was going to perform a new song he penned for the two. “That made it get bigger,” DeGeneres said Wednesday on Seacrest’s KIIS-FM radio show. “We said, ‘He can’t just sing for our Aunt Helen from Mississippi! We got invite some more!’”

George Michael was going to sing as well. “It just got bigger and bigger,” DeGeneres said. “It was going to be gigantic, and Ryan talked us out of it.” Explained Seacrest: “‘Are you sure you’re going to be comfortable with elephants on your grass?’ I truly believe people get carried away with the volume of the wedding that they don’t enjoy the purpose of the wedding.”

“It started from the wrong place,” DeGeneres later admitted. “We called and disinvited everyone. They totally understood.”

[From Us Weekly]

I never thought I’d say this seriously, but that was some classy advice Ryan Seacrest gave. Joshua Radin ended up playing instead. And as great a singer as Justin Timberlake is, Radin is a little more quiet and folksy, which definitely fits together nicely with their smaller wedding theme.

Whoever thought someone like Ryan Seacrest would give such down to earth advice? He’s right, even non-celebrity weddings have gotten out of control lately. When your event has gotten so big that you have elephants wandering around, it’s time to take a step back and re-evaluate if that’s what you really want. If so, more power to you. But it’s nice that he was able to phrase it in a way that was sort of a question instead of just saying, “I think this is getting crazy big.” Which is exactly how Seacrest would phrase it. Now I almost hate him a little less. Almost.

Here’s Ellen and Portia on the beach in Malibu on August 31st. Images thanks to Fame.

When most people hear the name Donald Trump, they instantly think “Douche bag.” Next, they think, “toupee/bad comb over.” Following that is something cheesy about being fired, and some mockery of his steely-eyed gaze. But never – never – on that list is any mention of Donald Trump’s legendarily awesome parenting skills. Why? Probably because the rest of his personality overshadows that aspect of his life. But he actually has raised three smart, successful adult children – Ivanka, Donald Jr., and Eric. Trump’s young son Barron and daughter Tiffany are still kids and thus works in progress.

Apparently The Donald has decided to promote his parenting skills – and says he’s a kick ass father. Thus the next logical step is to tell you how to raise equally kick ass kids. He spoke to AOL’s Mom Logic website, where he dispensed his five tips for parenting.

1. Be an example. Children watch — and they will emulate what they see.

2. Set the standard high. Challenge is good, and accomplishment creates healthy self-respect.

3. Stress the importance of education, it’s the foundation for success.

4. Let them know they are exceptional, so exceptional results are expected.

5. Exhibit a sense of community through participation and philanthropy. Giving back is a great reward

[From Momlogic via Bitten and Bound]

Few things here. First off, what exactly is Trump an example of? If his kids followed his lead, they’d all have multiple marriages and bad real estate investments under their belts by now. Jokes aside, I can’t really argue with that advice, or number two, though I highly doubt Donald came up with any of these on his own. Bitten and Bound points out that all of Trump’s kids have gone to boarding school, so number three was pretty easy for him. It just involved purchase of a plane ticket. But again, can’t argue with it.

Number four surprised me and is good to hear from someone like The Donald. He seems so full of himself that I was pleasantly surprised that he realizes the importance of passing on self-worth to his kids. Number five is just an all-out lie. Donald Trump is a legendarily tiny giver. It’d be beautiful advice if he backed it up in any meaningful way.

I’m guessing there’s a good chance this was just written by one of The Donald’s people. But his grown kids are all successful. Ivanka is the most famous and quite the multitasker, but Donald Jr. and Eric have done really well for themselves as well. Obviously Trump did something right – though it might have just been hiring the best nannies.

Here’s Donald Trump announcing the launch of Trump SoHo Hotel Condominium with Ivanka Trump, Donald Trump Jr., Eric Trump and the founder and chairman of Bayrock Group Tevik Arif in New York in August 2007. Images thanks to WENN.