Tell us something we don’t know with that title, right? Well the best part of this story is the source, who goes on the record with In Touch to totally trash his old lover Kris Jenner. Remember how Kris bragged in her memoir about cheating on her first husband, attorney Robert Kardashian, during the day with some young thing when she wasn’t off spending her husband’s money? The guy she was cheating with, who was originally assumed to be Khloe’s biological dad (but there are plenty of other candidates given what a skank Kris is), told In Touch that when he wasn’t boning Kris he was watching her be a terrible mother. What’s more is that Kris paid for this guy’s apartment and gave him money (her husband’s money) to live on, just like a dude with a mistress on the side!

Also, it gets better. It’s hard to tell, but it sounds like Kris and this guy stopped seeing each other around the time she got divorced. The exact timeline is vague, but he makes it sound like the divorce kind of split them up because she was looking for another man with money. In the 1991 divorce papers, Robert Kardashian describes Kris cheating on him with another guy, whom he names as her eventual second husband Bruce Jenner. So it sounds to me, based on these details, that Kris was cheating on her husband with both this young guy she was paying for AND with Bruce Jenner. Genius! Of course she married the one with money even though he liked to wear her clothes. It was a small price to pay for maintaining the cushy lifestyle she knew she was entitled to. Here’s more:

In an exclusive interview with In Touch, Kris’ former lover, soccer-player turned animator Todd Waterman, 46, reveals that he spent lots of time around Kris and Robert’s three girls, Kourtney, Kim and Khloe. And while Kim “didn’t seem to mind” that he was so close to her mom, Todd saw first-hand how deeply affected she was by her mother’s questionable values – which went way beyond their illicit romance, as he recalls.

How Kris influenced her daughters
“It was a steady, superficial diet of what to wear, who your friends are, where to be seen and what car to drive,” explains Todd, whose affair with Kris went on for many months, continuing even after Robert caught them in the act. “Early on, it was made clear to me that Kris desired a celebrity lifestyle.”

From the start, Todd says, Kris clearly prized fame, money and sex above all else. And, unlike her sisters, Kim never once questioned her mother, who Todd remembers “had great expectations,” even back then, of molding the pretty little girl into her own image…

On how Kris made him a kept man
“I didn’t have the money for the lifestyle Kris was leading, so she paid for a lot – or it was Robert who was paying, I guess,” admits Todd, who, for a time, lived in an apartment Kris paid for with Robert’s money. And after Robert finally divorced Kris, she and Todd made no effort to stay together. “There was no way I could help maintain what she was accustomed to financially,” he explains….

“Kim is Kris 30 years ago,” the friend observes. “That’s not going to change.”

[From In Touch, print edition, February 6, 2012]

I guess we know where Kim got it from, only she’s made her own money and she’s not going to bother staying married if she has the slightest issue with a partner. As for the subtitle on the cover “pushed to have sex at 14,” that’s not what the article claims. They just write that “Kris gave Kim the green light to have sex in her teens.”

The article goes on to say that Kendall and Kylie Jenner, 16 and 14, are “Kris’ next project.” We just heard from Bruce that those two probably aren’t going to college. They can make money slapping their name on clothing lines and showing up at events, why would they bother getting an education? Kris is the ultimate stage mom and she probably had kids just for this purpose. I feel for the youngest ones. The oldest ones are too messed up and they’re responsible enough to make fun of. We don’t all have to be carbon copies of our parents.

Kim is shown on 1-23-12. She’s also shown with her mom on 12-31-12. credit: WENN.com

This is a minor story compared to so many other things going on today but I personally find it very interesting and wanted to cover it. We all know how ridiculous it looked when butter and sugar pusher Paula Deen, 65, made the dual announcement that she had diabetes and was a new spokesperson for a diabetes drug. Paula’s longterm nemesis Anthony Bourdain may have summed it up best when he tweeted that he was “thinking of getting into the leg-breaking business, so I can profitably sell crutches later.”

In her ensuing PR blitz, Paula barely acknowledged that her consumption of high fat calorific food, which she promotes on TV and through her magazine, contributed to her metabolic condition. Paula also barely acknowledged that the best treatment for diabetes is a healthy diet, not some pill, although she’s also launching a new show (tada!) in which she finally tries to cook healthy versions of her favorite food. Paula’s contract with drug giant Nova Nordisk is thought to be in the millions. Her long term publicist thought that was a very bad idea given Paula’s previous image as a down-home promoter of food that’s bad for us. Paula’s publicist quit and made that statement that she “could not agree with the new business strategy going forward.” That’s a very nice way of saying that Paula very transparently cashed in on her diabetes.

Paula Deen’s longtime powerhouse publicist, Nancy Assuncao, has quit after six years over the butter-loving chef’s plan to plug a diabetes drug.

Assuncao faithfully stuck with Deen through years of hearty drama, including her battle with rival chef Anthony Bourdain, who called her “the most dangerous woman in America.” But she quit as Deen’s spokeswoman and chief marketer last month as Deen negotiated her deal to hawk the drug Victoza.

Deen, now under siege by diabetics, nutritionists and fellow chefs for keeping her own Type 2 diabetes secret for three years, even as she pushed recipes full of sugar and fat, probably could use Assuncao’s help now. Deen only revealed her diagnosis last week.

A source said Assuncao “strongly disagreed with Deen’s dramatic turnabout, after years of promoting fatty foods, to announcing she has a deal with a diabetes drug company [Novo Nordisk] and will be promoting lighter food and ‘diabetes in a new light.’

“While Paula did tell some people at her live appearances about her diabetes, she certainly didn’t talk about it on her show. Nancy disagreed with Paula’s plan to be a drug-company spokesman and challenged her decision. But this wasn’t a battle Nancy felt she was going to win. She couldn’t be part of it.”

Assuncao, whose past clients have included Ian Schrager, told us last night, “I’m very grateful for the six years that I worked with Paula in helping her build the Deen brand.

“Although we had a great deal of fun along the way, I could not agree with the new business strategy going forward. Nonetheless, I wish them continued success.”

Deen’s new rep could not be reached last night, with a staffer at her office telling us, “She is on the Paula Deen cruise.” The chef’s Web site said Celebrity Cruises’ Eclipse would be a “tasty journey” in the Caribbean with a group buffet dinner, a cooking demo and a personal photo with Deen (one per family).

[From The NY Post]

At least people see this woman for what she is now. As I’ve mentioned I’ve barely thought of Paula Deen up until this point, but it’s incredibly obvious that she’ll stop at nothing to make a buck. How can you manage the image of a woman who is so money grubbing that she’ll continue to promote unhealthy food for years until she has a drug endorsement deal lined up? You don’t, you step down and say “screw it, the money’s not worth it.” Unless you’re Paula Deen, then it’s all about the money.

Update: After I wrote this, I saw this story on Entertainment Tonight (about 3/4 into the full episode available on their website) about the controversy over overweight celebrity chefs who cook unhealthy food. They said “Paula’s shocking announcement… may change attitudes says ‘The Doctor’s’ Travis Stork.

Dr. Stork said that “I would like to think that this is a wake up call. I don’t think chefs realize their influence on America. I think they realize now that their actions can influence America by giving alternatives and healthy recipes.”

They mention that Mario Batali has lost 35 pounds (I hope he didn’t go on Goopy’s expensive pill diet) and that Oprah’s personal chef Art Smith has lost 120 pounds. Smith mentioned that he had a show in the works, and that he lost it “because they didn’t like me ‘skinny chef.’ Lose the fat, lose the funny.” Smith is cooking more healthy now and is opening a new restaurant, JoAnne, in New York, along with Lady Gaga’s parents. That’s an odd pairing.

It’s nice to hear about a different celebrity chef getting healthy the right way, and it’s also reassuring to know that people in Paula Deen’s inner circle are calling her on her complete and utter bullsh*t.

Also, I need to use these photos of Paula Deen vs. the Fairy from Shrek again. (I put them together, and credit to Bodhi for coming up with it!)

Header image is from 12-15-11, credit: PacificCoastNews.com

I’m just posting these so I can make fun of Kate Gosselin’s ridiculous outfit. It’s like she thinks we’re all magpies and she can distract us from her face by wearing that shiny short dress. You know she thinks she looks hot in that number with her boltons standing at attention and her fake hair blown out. At least she didn’t pair it with lucite stripper heels. She probably considers this look sexy but demure. Extra! hasn’t posted their fascinating Kate Gosselin interview yet so we don’t know what she was promoting, but she does have a job as a coupon website spokesperson and we just heard that she’s hosting a cruise. It’s a really bad time for that. The spokesperson for Royal Caribbean claims that the tickets for the one week western Caribbean Cruise, which takes place in August, have been selling well and they’ve been “getting a lot of enquiries about singles” hoping to attend. That sounds like hype from Kate’s camp. Tickets sell for $1,900 to $5,500 a person, which seems steep for that type of cruise. If you take that exact same cruise without the Kate Gosselin option it’s hundreds cheaper of course.

Along those same lines is this new story from the Enquirer claiming that Kate is hoping to find a “sugar daddy” on that cruise. She probably wants to find someone who will put up with her whom she doesn’t have to pay:

While she desparately needs the paycheck, sources say her true motive for taking the job is to meet a man, preferably one with money.

“Kate’s plan is to hook up with as many halfway decent men as she can sink her claws into during the seven-day voyage,” revealed a source.

And according to another insider, she’s keeping her options open.

“Kate’s being open-minded about who she may meet. But she’d love to find some deep-pocketed sugar daddy types – even an old geezer – because they can hire nannies to keep up with her brood!”

[From The National Enquirer, print edition, January 30, 2012]

Good luck with that. Obviously the bodyguard she’s sleeping with is still around so her money must not have dried up yet. I guess we’ll know if she’s serious about landing a new man if she shows up to the cruise without him. Also whatever she did to her face seems to have settled enough for her bitchface to come out again, not that it ever really went away.

That quote is taken completely out of context, but I couldn’t resist. I think Justin is talking about his songwriting and about waiting to sing about getting down once he’s older and his fanbase is older (as if that will ever happen), but still it’s funny. Widdle Biebs turns 18 in March. A new cover story interview in V Magazine focuses on where the teen phenomenon wants to go with his career as he makes the transition into adulthood. Bieber comes across as driven, committed and full of himself. He keeps talking about how he wants to be the best and the greatest musician and the biggest star in his field, and how he looks up to Michael Jackson as the King of Pop. There’s no humility, there’s no acknowledgment that he owes a lot to other musicians – although he does admit that he has to practice and train hard. It’s all about how he’s going to be the best, better than anyone else that came before him. At one point he talks about how his mother got a message from God that he was supposed to be “voice of the next generation.” I do admire how tenacious the kid is, but he is in no way down to earth. How could he be when he’s been propped up and worshiped for years?

ED But what does that mean to you? Just a goal to have?
JB My goal at the end of the day—right now—I want to be successful and be great at what I do. But eventually, I want to become the best at what I do. I want to be the best. In the world. I want to be better than anybody that’s ever done it. And in order to do that, I need to strive to be the best, be good to people and treat people with respect, and work as hard as I can. Because for me, I work so hard and this consumes my life, and it’s not worth it if I’m not the best.

ED So who’s the best now?
JB Right now? I mean, I consider Michael Jackson the best. If I could be at his level… But I’ve got a lot of work to do. I’m not saying it’s going to happen within the next three years. But hopefully by the time I’m 30, people will remember me. I think people will remember me at this point, but I don’t want people to just think of me as a teen sensation. Because I could probably just sell out, and then in two years not put out another album, and just become Justin Bieber the teen superstar. But I don’t want to be that. I want to transition, and become the greatest.

ED That’s something I want to ask you about: transitions. You’re going to be 18 in March. It’s a big benchmark from childhood to adulthood. Do you feel like you have to play the role of a kid still?
JB Here’s the thing: I think that I don’t need to try to do anything. There are people who try to grow up too fast—they’re 18, so they’re like, I’m not a kid anymore. People need to know I’m not a kid anymore. But at the end of the day, I’m not completely grown-up. I’m still learning. I’m going to grow up how I grow up. I’m not going to try to conform to what people want me to be or go out there and start partying, have people see me with alcohol. I want to do it at my own pace. But I’m never going to make myself so the kids and the parents don’t respect me. There’re some artists that [parents won’t] let their kids go and see because they think they’re a bad influence. I want to be able to do what Michael did—he always sang clean lyrics—and it was always that little kids loved Michael and grandparents loved Michael. I don’t want to start singing about things like sex, drugs, and swearing. I’m into love, and maybe I’ll get more into making love when I’m older. But I want to be someone who is respected by everybody. Because right now, the young people are who make society. Young people determine what’s cool. Young people determine what’s going to be in style. So I always stick with the young people, that’s what I say.

ED You know, Michael kind of went crazy. A lot of people go crazy. Is that something you think or worry about?
JB Michael had a really bad childhood. I was blessed with a great childhood. My mom loved me. My dad loved me. I’m now a teenager and I don’t feel like I’ve missed out on anything in my life. I’ve gotten to experience everything I possibly could. I don’t look back and think, Ugh, I wish I would have been able to do that. Maybe [Michael] missed out on a lot, so he tried to [re-live] his childhood when he was older. But I’ve got such good people around me, I’m not worried.

ED You’re talking about keeping clean and making music for everybody, but a lot of the artists you look up to, like Lil Wayne, Kanye—a lot of what those guys rap about is drugs, sex, and money. So what is it that you like so much about them? Is it the music? The rhymes?
JB I can’t say I look up to them, but I definitely like what they do. I think that they’re amazing. But are they on Michael’s level? I don’t think they’re on Michael’s level.

ED Tell that to Kanye.
JB Well, Kanye is on a different level. I mean, Kanye is probably my favorite producer. He’s a musical genius. But, he’s not on Michael’s level. I think that in order to be on Michael’s level you have to reach as many people as Michael reached, and Kanye doesn’t reach as many people. No one really does.

[From V Magazine]

So no one else is on Michael Jackson’s level, but Bieber is going to be. At least he’s trying to keep it clean, if only so he can sell more bubblegum pop.

Bieber recently got a big tattoo of Jesus on his leg around the calf area. Since he’s under 18, his moms presumably had to sign off on it. He talked about his spirituality to V, saying that he prays and talks to JC but isn’t religious and doesn’t go to church. He also claimed that people hate him because he’s successful and that they need to give his music a chance:

“It’s all about making good music, and people hate me before they even listen to my music. I know a lot of people say they hate Justin Bieber who haven’t even listened to any of my music. They just hate me because they hate the idea of me. I’m young, I’m handsome—I don’t mean to sound conceited—but they think that I just got here because [of that], because I’m good-looking and girls like me.”

Maybe this kid will take it farther, it remains to be seen. He’s definitely got the motivation and he’s been wildly successful up to this point. He’s really lacking humility though, and isn’t that what JC is supposed to be all about?

Bieber is shown on 12-28 at a Raptors Pacers game in Toronto. Credit: WENN.com

Back when Bristol Palin debuted her new face earlier this year we heard that she was working on some kind of reality show with her fellow Dancing With The Stars competitor, Kyle Massey, and his brother. The plot was supposed to be Bristol moving to L.A. with the Massey brothers. The Bio channel even made an announcement that they were on board with the show and that it would air in the fall of 2011. Only nothing happened whatsoever with that show, and it never got off the ground. Well Bristol hasn’t given up her dream of becoming a reality star. She’s gunning for a Kardashian-type show centered around her life with her family and boyfriend. Bristol’s mom, the abrasive Sarah Palin, isn’t happy with putting her younger 17 year-old daughter, Willow, on television, but she can’t really object since she’s already shown her family on their own docu-reality show for TLC, Sarah Palin’s Alaska. Meanwhile Sarah’s husband Todd wants his own reality show about snowmobile racing. And of course Sarah is still gunning for more episodes of Sarah Palin’s Alaska, the first season of which concluded in January.

The Palin family is embroiled in a war over reality shows, with husband Todd and daughter Bristol blasting “Mama Grizzly” Sarah for promoting her program while failing to fully support their bids, sources tell The Enquirer.

“Sarah is getting flak from both Todd and from Bristol,” said an insider.

Todd’s proposed show about his snowmobile racing was shot down by both Discovery Communications and the A&E Network. And Bristol is struggling to reinvent her scrapped Bio channel reality show, this time under a Kardashian-style format featuring her boyfriend Gino Paoletti and her 17 year-old sister Willow.

“To Sarah’s credit, she helped pitch Todd’s show,” noted the insider. “But he’s still furious. He thinks she didn’t work hard enough because it wasn’t centered around her.

“And Bristol’s upset because Sarah wants to stay out of negotiations for her show. Sarah isn’t thrilled with Willow being involved. But Bristol believes the show will be more marketable with Willow – that they can be the next Kardashian sisters.”

Meanwhile, after Sarah announced in October that she wasn’t going to run for president, on Dec. 19 she hinted that she might. But sources charge it’s just a plot to raise her exposure as she seeks to bring back her own TLC reality show “Sarah Palin’s Alaska.”

[From The National Enquirer, print edition, January 9, 2011]

I love how all of Sarah Palin’s family now feels entitled to their own reality shows. There are enough other fascinating reality shows about non-famous people with weird jobs. I truly enjoy Storage Wars on A&E, for instance, and that show is incredibly popular. A quick glance at A&E’s website shows they have a show called Parking Wars, which is about meter maids. I’m not sh*tting you. They also have Shipping Wars, about people who ship stuff, and American Hoggers, about people who catch wild hogs. On Discovery there’s American Chopper, American Guns, Moonshiners and Deadliest Catch. So some Palins are not going to compete, even with snowmobiles, fake hunting and lots of plastic surgery. The days of the Kardashians and the family reality show are hopefully grinding to a halt.

Bristol Palin is shown on 8-18-11 filming scenes for the reality show that never was. Credit: Pacific Coast News

Do you guys remember The Blair Witch Project? I know a lot of people say it wasn’t scary, but I saw it in the theater with friends and I was scared sh*tless. I knew the spoilers ahead of time too. The lead actress on that indie movie, 37 year-old Heather Donahue, has a new memoir out about how she quit Hollywood, which wasn’t that fond of her anyway, to become a medical marijuana grower in California. Apparently it’s sort-of legal if you follow certain guidelines, but it’s a gray area and growers and dispensaries have been busted by the feds.

The world got its first glimpse of Heather Donahue thanks to her role in 1999′s terrifying “Blair Witch Project,” but don’t expect to see the actress on the big screen anytime soon. She ditched acting to pursue a new career growing marijuana.

It may seem like an odd career choice, but it’s a decision Donahue hopes to profit from thanks to her new memoir, “GrowGirl: How My Life After ‘The Blair Witch Project’ Went to Pot,” which will be released Jan. 5.

Donahue explains her decision to quit Hollywood in favor of farming on her website.

“I wanted to change my life, see what else was out there for me, what else I might become,” she says. “So I burned most of the stuff from my life in LA (resumes, headshots, lingerie, lint) in the desert.”

According to the Philadelphia Inquirer, Donahue first received a prescription for medical marijuana in 2007 to treat PMS, and decided to cultivate the herb herself — mostly for medical use — for a year in “Nuggettown,” a Northern California community known for growing weed.

“I had no idea what to do next, and growing pot was what presented itself,” she says on her website. “I felt better about putting medical marijuana in the world than I did about about making another terrible movie.”

However, Donahue decided to leave her pot business behind in order to write “GrowGirl,” and admits she was put off after a fellow grower friend got busted.

As to whether or not she thinks pot should be legalized, she thinks medicinal marijuana is here to stay, but she would hate to see big business eradicate local growing communities.

“‘Cannabusiness’ has been a place that some people have been able to turn to in this tough economy,” she writes. “I’d hate for legalization to take that away. I’d hate to see corporations suck up large swaths of land and leave the mom-and-pop small time growers who have built this business no option but sharecropping.”

[From Huffington Post]

I get PMS too, sign me up. I’m from the east coast and I’ve always lived there, so I don’t know much about medical marijuana apart from what I’ve seen on TV and in brief visits to California. Pot is much less available here and it’s prosecuted quite heavily depending on where you live. On the west coast it’s a totally different world. I saw a documentary on Current.TV’s Vanguard called “The War on Weed” that contrasted the two coasts in regard to pot use and prosecution. It’s jaw-dropping how different it is. So this is interesting to me as a kind of anthropological study. The book has been getting good reviews too. This chick’s cheese moved and she followed it to her buzzed bliss. Donahue has since quit growing pot, though, after a friend of hers got raided. At least she says she’s quit. That’s probably the best stance to publicly take.

Mothers of daughters – would you ever, in any universe, want your daughters to turn out at all like the Kardashian girls? Even with all the cash and luxury goods that go along with that, we’re talking vapid, baby-voiced, narcissistic plastic surgery victims. Maybe Khloe is a semi-decent person and Kourtney is tolerable, but Kim? I mean, even though these women were adults when they entered into this reality show, fame for fame’s sake career path, they changed into warped versions of themselves. And even if you argue that only Kim changed significantly, she’s enough of a cautionary tale about entering into show business without having any discernible talent to trade on.

Well Kate Gosselin doesn’t seem to care. She sees all the wonderful things that fame has brought her – like a new face, a married paid-for boyfriend, a huge house and lots of stuff, and she wants that for her daughters. Anything else, like an education or a normal life outside of the spotlight, would be “mediocre.” Kate has reportedly reached out to pimp mama Kris Jenner for help on “how to turn the Gosselin kids into a money-making machine” like the Kardashians. We’ve seen where that train is getting off and it’s not pretty.

Fallen reality TV star Kate Gosselin is turning to Kris Jenner to save her tanking career!

Cash-hungry Kate is hoping [Kris]… can help reinvent HER family as the next Hollywood dynasty, sources say.

“Kate has reached out to Kris hoping she’ll mentor her on how to turn the Gosselin kids into a money-making machine,” a source divulged.

“Kate wants her family to be Kardashian 2.0!…”

In a bid to rebiuld their brand, Kate is enrolling the children in singing and acting classes, and planning a move to Hollywood…

“Kate got Kris’ e-mail address and sent her a gushing note about how much she admires Kris for turning her family into international superstars,” the source divulged.

“Kate ended the note by saying, ‘I hope you can teach me some of your magic tricks.’”…

“Kate is praying this new friendship will lead to a meeting with executives at the E! network, where the Kardashian TV empire is based,” said the source.

[From The National Enquirer, print edition, December 5, 2011]

I believe this. Kate is desperate for some kind of career and she’s probably reaching out to Kris as a last ditch lifeline. Kris’ empire is crumbling though, and she’s not going to be able to help her at all. E! knows that they can’t continue to build their schedule around this family and they see the writing on the wall. The Gosselins are even older news than the Kardashians. Kate should accept her fate as a spokesperson for CouponCabin.

You remember how Kate’s new face was a minor topic last week? US Weekly speculated that Kate had a face lift, while Radar got a plastic surgeon who guessed that she’d had a new-fangled treatment involving fat transfers to the face. A Beverly Hills plastic surgeon named Ashkan Ghavami told Radar: “She will have had it injected into fat pockets in her face to get the lines filled and plump up the skin. If it’s not done precisely it can make you look slightly wide and distorted, which is what has happened to Kate.” So all of you who commented that her face looked smooshed were right. Kate just penned a very brief blog entry for CouponCabin denying that she’s had a face lift. Of course she didn’t mention anything about getting any other treatments at all.

Kate Gosselin photos credit: CouponCabin. Kris Jenner photos are from 11-7-11 credit: Josiah True/ WENN.com

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Remember earlier this year when Christina Aguilera flubbed the National Anthem during the Superbowl? I thought that she covered it up as well as she could in that she sang some other lyrics without pausing, but the consensus was that it was totally unacceptable, especially for a seasoned professional who’s performed the song in the past. Christina was deep in denial about it, and that was the beginning of a long, drunken precipitous downfall for her that’s going on to this day.

American Idol runner up Lauren Alaina, 17, was performing The National Anthem during a Detroit Lions vs. Green Bay Packers game on Thanksgiving. Unlike Aguilera, Alaina didn’t just make up some other words when she forgot the lyrics at just the second line. She skipped a few beats before she started singing again and you could hear the crowd booing during the awkward silence.

The season 10 runner up kicked off the Detroit Lions vs. Green Bay Packers game Thursday with a rendition of “The Star- Spangled Banner” that included an unforced error.

After singing “What so proudly we hailed, through the twi…”, she went totally silent (at about the 35 second mark).

Luckily, though, she was able to pick the song back up a few seconds later, finishing the line with “Whose broad stripes and bright stars…”, and then going on to complete the rest of the song with a smile.

Unfortunately, however, the Twitterverse had already caught on to Alaina’s Thanksgiving game day snafu.

She became a top 10 trending topic right after the incident. Yikes!

But we’re thankful she showed poise and persevered.

[From E! Online]

Well at least she recovered and sang the rest of the song. This girl is going to be dealing with the fallout from this for a long time, and it will probably affect her career quite a bit. It’s hard enough for American Idol contestants to maintain any kind of music career after that show is over.

Meanwhile Lauren’s boyfriend (or former boyfriend, it’s hard to tell whether they’re still together), winner Scotty McCreary, messed up his easy gig lip syncing at the Thanksgiving Day parade. The music had already started and the backing track had him singing a few words until he lifted up the mic and caught up with it.

These photos are from 8/12/11 and 6/11/11. Alaina has since lost weight. Credit: WENN.com

This is a pretty juicy story that would have gotten more mileage prior to Kim Kardashian’s precipitous downfall. Remember how Kim sort-of dated her hot Australian bodyguard late last year? (You can see photos of their on-screen hookup here) They even were shown in bed together on “Kourtney & Kim Take New York.” Well apparently the guy was married, his wife had the impression that they were still together (although they were necessarily apart at the time due to their jobs), and then he hooked up with Kim and unceremoniously dumped her. They’re also still married, and she’s still waiting for the guy to give her a divorce. Here’s the story, via Hollywood Life. Star did get the other woman to speak on the record and they have photos and everything, so this isn’t a story based on unnamed “sources.”

Kim’s romance with her Australian body guard Shengo Deane played out on her show back in 2010, but now Shengo’s wife is speaking out against the reality star.
Kim Kardashian has found herself in the middle of another love story gone wrong. Zuzana Deane is accusing Kim of stealing her husband, Shengo Deane, Star magazine reports.

Kim was introduced to Shengo in April of 2010, while he was her bodyguard in Australia. He then appeared as Kim’s love interest in a September 2010 episode of Keeping Up With The Kardashians and an October 2010 episode of Kourtney & Kim Take New York.

“In my eyes, I was happily married to Shengo when he and Kim met,” Zuzana told Star. “Less than two weeks later, he told me he didn’t want to be married to me anymore, and then he ends up in her arms in Los Angeles. It was a whirlwind. I don’t know what Shengo initially told her about his situation — he’s handsome and charming, and I can see where Kim would be smitten. But it was all a shock to me.”

But Zuzana and Shengo are still technically married. “Incredibly, Shengo still hasn’t given me a divorce, and that’s all I want from him, nothing more,” Zuzana said. “As for Kim, I actually don’t have too many hard feelings. I think she was a bit too trusting and impulsive — and Shengo saw her as the golden ticket to fame.”

[From Star via Hollywood Life]

I would say that if this guy wasn’t legally unavailable Kim would have married him, thrown a fairy tale wedding, and ditched him later. He he was too low status for her though. He was worth a fling and that’s it.

Radar is reporting that Kim is being portrayed as the “victim” to baddie Kris Humphries on the upcoming season of “Kourney & Kim Take New York.” Of course Kim has “editorial control” and is going to manipulate the footage to make it seem like Kris treated her poorly and not the other way around. Even if this is true and the guy was a total ass, she chose to marry him and that’s on her.

The E! reality darling will be seen “as the victim, and Kris will definitely be the bad guy. Kim was stunned by the amount of bad press and the public relations nightmare she has endured since deciding to file for divorce,” a source close to the situation tells RadarOnline.com. “Kim will be using the show to attempt to rehab her image. Kim has been telling her inner circle that she has worked very hard to get where she has, and she isn’t going to let her marriage and subsequent decision to divorce Kris Humprhies ruin that.

“Kim carefully and methodically plans all of her business decisions, and that is how she is looking at her divorce, as all business. Of course she is sad, but it’s all about Kim’s endorsement deals and paid promotional appearances. There were reports that Kim was going to lay low after she filed for divorce, yet several days later, she was in Atlanta shooting a role in the movie, The Marriage Counselor.

“Kim will be ringing in New Year’s Eve in Las Vegas. The fact is Kim is extremely insecure, and she is truly afraid that if she were to disappear from the public eye, for even more than a week, her fame would disappear,” the source says.

[From Radar]

Kim is right, her fame is about to disappear. She should count on it.

Meanwhile Kim is still co-starring in that Tyler Perry movie, The Marriage Counselor, as an assistant to a matchmaker. Perry defended his decision to cast Kim, writing that “I thought and still do think that it would be very responsible of her to be a part of this film. To have the young people that look up to her, see her in a film that is about what happens in life when you make the wrong choices.” Perry doesn’t seem to get that Kim has much less “young people” looking up to her at this point.

In related news, PETA is slamming Kim for wearing fox fur. They may as well do it now when she’s still somewhat relevant.

Most of these photos are from 11/2 and 11/3. Credit: WENN.com. Open mouth photo from 8/31/11. Credit: Fame

Among all the latest Kardashian stories there’s been one major theme, and that is that the general public, not just the heavy gossip consumers like us, are sick of these bitches, particularly Kim, and are ready to see them go away permanently. We’ve all been saying this for some time, but it took a while for the tide to turn and it really has. Last night’s Entertainment Tonight asked if the Kardashian empire was crumbling, and it definitely seems to be. There are several petitions to take their shows off their air, the most active of which has over 100,000 signatures and an accompanying website, BoycottKim.com. The website is an amusing parody and brief commentary on the Karadashians, although the brands to boycott section is incomplete. That’s probably because it’s nearly impossible to keep up with all the crap these people have slapped their name on.

Well advertisers are worried and wary of the Kardashians, according to ET, as is E!’s parent company, Comcast. ET claimed last night that they had a source that confirmed that “Comcast is concerned about the Kardashian franchise.” A journalist for Hollywood Reporter, Leslie Bruce, really summed things up during ET’s segment. She said “The Kardashian brand relies solely on it’s authenticity, and viewers really believing that they have a window into their life. Without that really what do the Kardashians have?”

What’s more is that the Kardashian sisters have a new book out called Dollhouse. It’s very thinly veiled fiction about their lives, with three sisters called Kamille, Kassidy, and Kyle who live in L.A. with their controlling mom and her new husband, a former professional baseball player. Their rich dad died a few years prior and now they’re hustling to keep up their luxurious lifestyle. The existence of this book just brings home how fake this family is and how much krap they’re trying to sell us without possessing any talent or a intelligence.

If you do a google news search on Kardashian, all the top results are about the petition to take them off their air. There’s also news that Kim ditched her best friend, Brittny Gastineau, shortly after she got married. Brittny’s mom told Radar that Brittny was concerned about Kim jumping into her marriage with Kris Humphries too fast. After Kim got married, she shut Brittny out. She also seems to have shut her husband out, and to have simultaneously slammed the door on all the easy money she was making. Narcissists aren’t very good at maintaining relationships after all.

Here are Kourtney and Khloe promoting their new book in New Jersey yesterday. Look at how orange Kourtney’s face is! And her pantsuit is ridiculous. Kim was a no show.

Photo credit: WENN and Fame