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

A former publicist who worked for Kim Kardashian from 2007-2009, Jonathan Jaxson, did a radio interview in which he claimed that Kim Kardashian’s engagement ring “from” Kris Humphries was “very similar” to a ring that she used in 2007 to stage a fake engagement with Reggie Bush. This is supported by paparazzi photos taken at the time, which show Kim wearing a ring that looks identical to her engagement ring with Kris. Jaxson also said that Reggie was not aware that Kim set him up for fake engagement rumors, and that “these type of antics” ended their relationship. He also said that Kim had a whole plan to get famous, that she wasn’t fazed by her sex tape at all and that it wasn’t released without her permission. (He has no insider information about that, other than the fact that she was barely upset when it came out.) In response, Kim is predictably suing Jaxson for defamation for $200,000. Her lawyer, Marty Singer, claims that Kim barely worked with Jaxons, that Jaxson is lying and that he signed a confidentiality agreement that prevents him from talking to the media. In response, Jaxson says he was given a confidentiality agreement by the Kardashians but that he never signed it. He also published video, photos, email and documentation showing he had a close relationship with Kim.

TMZ had contacted me last night regarding a story that I was being sued by Kim Kardashian for $200,000 and requested an immediate comment. Only because they wish to share a VERY small snippet, I want to provide the full statement I gave them. Why would I have thought they would have been fair to post my side?:

To the best of my knowledge, I have never signed an agreement dealing with confidentiality with Kim Kardashian. I have an agreement in my possession that does not have either parties signature on it.

When I have been contacted by the press to give comments on the wedding, my opinions have been from my personal point of view based on the statement she posted on her blog and conversations with mutual friends.

Regarding her engagement ring from Kris, I have stated that is was quite similar to the same ring I staged with her for a story we released to the press back on December 26, 2007. It was a planned shoot as she exited XIV Jewelers in Beverly Hills with the 7-carats on her right hand for media speculation that she was engaged, as she exited the jeweler.

I have not worked with Kim in a professional capacity in a couple of years and have absolutely no ill feelings towards her what so ever. The work we did together, I did as an acting publicist/friend on the side “behind-the-scenes” for her from 2007-2009. The pictures online, along with a video blog, and audio together speak for themselves.

The book I am publishing, “Don’t You Know Who I Am Yet,” chronicles one’s 15-minutes of fame and is a behind-the-scenes look from a publicists world in Hollywood and my dealings with several of the clients in which I have worked with and those I have met along the way. Kim was and always has been only a very small part of that equation.

I still have not been served with any papers regarding this matter.

[From Jonathan Jaxson's website]

It seems like just about everyone is over this chick and calling for her fifteen minutes to be up. Michael Bublé ripped on Kim during a recent performance in NY. He said “Please welcome Kim Kardashian [to the stage],” then joked “Nah, just [bleeping] with you! That bitch isn’t coming on my stage.” The NY Post has this story, along with the detail that he then dedicated a song to Kris Humphries.

Meanwhile there’s a new book by a former NY Daily News writer called Celebrity, Inc.: How Famous People Make Money. It examines how Kim Kardashian was able to best her former bestie, Paris Hilton, in earnings. Now, however, author Jo Piazza says that “everyone thinks [Kim is] a joke” and that her “shelf life” is almost over. Unfortunately, there are more Kardashians available. Kim’s little sister Kendall may soon take her place according to Piazza. Kendall just got a $90,000 Range Rover for her 16th birthday. She’s got to be fully indoctrinated into the khurch of Kardashian, where money rules and appearances matter above all else. She’ll soon be getting lip injections and Botox, if she hasn’t already.

Here’s Kim flying out of Atlanta and into LA after filming for a Tyler Perry movie. There’s a petition to eliminate Kim from this movie, just as there’s a petition for E! to cancel all the Kardashian shows.

Remember when Kate Gosselin went on the Today Show and dissed the fact that her ex, Jon Gosselin, had been working a regular 9 to 5 for over a year? She said “Jon may be accepting of mediocre for his kids and working a regular job and I want the best for my kids and the best opportunities, not unlike every parent. I think that to be a good parent is to work as hard as you can and give them the best opportunities in life.” So to Kate Gosellin a real job equals mediocre. How is she going to explain the fact that she just took a “regular” job as a coupon blogger for a company called Coupon Cabin? I’m sure she got a nice six figure salary in exchange for the minimal amount of work she has to do and all the publicity she’s getting for the company. There are probably over a hundred moms who currently run coupon blogs and would do a much better job for a fraction of the cost.

As we first told you last week, the reality TV mom scored a new gig blogging for bargain-hunting website CouponCabin.com.

So how did Gosselin’s first day on the job work out? Find out after the jump…

READ: Kate Gosselin’s Got a New Job

In a just-released video clip from the Indiana-based company, Gosselin is shown settling in with the crew by brainstorming money-saving ideas for her first blog post on Nov. 22.

The 36-year-old mother of eight is also seen taking photos with coworkers—as well as a portrait for the office walls—and learning how to navigate a computer.

“Another day, another city! I love my job!” Gosselin tweeted yesterday. “Coupons and saving excite me!! Yay!!!”

[From E! Online]

Well at least she got a job and it’s not on TV and she’s not pimping out her kids, for now. I clip coupons. I don’t go crazy with it and I try to only use them when it’s something I already buy and the coupon makes the item cheaper than the store brand. For brands I’m loyal to, like haircare products and some makeup, you can save quite a bit with coupons and that makes it worth it. If you’re spending hours tracking down the best bargains it kind of defeats the purpose. Also, if you ever buy anything online just search on the name of the site you’re buying on plus the word “coupons.” I pretty much do that before I buy anything.

Oh and since it’s Veteran’s Day I just learned that you can donate expired coupons to military families since they can use them on military bases for six months after they expire. That’s nice!

Getting back to Kate Gosselin, I’m sure she’ll soon alienate just about everyone she works with. Remember how fed up her dance partner, Tony Dovoloni, was with her on Dancing With The Stars? It was pretty clear from his statements after working with her that he basically couldn’t stand her. This is a last ditch effort for Kate after she was tried to pitch shows to multiple networks and failed. It’s still not “mediocre” enough for my taste though. That would involve Kate doing dirty, smelly manual labor.

Here’s a link to a video of Kate “working.” She tries to sound like she actually knows what she’s talking about and fails. They show her working at an actual desk with other people around. She looks like she’s trying so hard not to yell at a woman who tries to give her instructions.

photos credit: CouponCabin via Radar Online

The Kim Kardashian divorce debacle has become a public relations nightmare for the Kardashians. Mom Kris has made it much worse while she’s on her book tour. She’s been saying that Kim shouldn’t have to give the ring back, that this was a difficult decision for Kim to divorce her husband after less than three months, and that we don’t know her family at all, only of course they’re an “open book.” So now the Kardashians are doing damage control, and it’s coming across as lame and fake, just like everything else about them. There’s a new story on TMZ that Kim has to pay Kris H. if she wants to keep her $2 million engagement ring, as per the terms of their prenup. Of course Kim isn’t going to pay for half the ring, she bought it for herself two years ago.

Over the weekend Kim flew to Minnesota to seek “counseling” with her estranged “husband,” with the pastor who married the two of them. Kris H. has been holed up in his hometown during the NBA lockout and apart from issuing a statement that he was “committed” to Kim and “devastated” about the divorce filing (while he’s been partying with strippers) he hasn’t said anything further. Now TMZ is reporting that Kim is “conflicted” about the divorce. She was photographed at the airport in LA and again outside of Kris’ house. Of course she was. Details of their supposed four hour meeting with a counselor were leaked to TMZ, which reports that a reconciliation is “up in the air.”

Kim Kardashian and Kris Humphries threw a Hail Mary Sunday … to see if they could save their marriage — and after a four-hour meeting with their pastor, sources close to the couple tell TMZ a reconciliation is “up in the air.”

According to our sources, the meeting with Pastor Joel Johnson went well as they talked through lots of issues. We’re told the two expressed respect and love for each other … but both acknowledged a lot is wrong with their relationship.

Our sources say Kris was “ecstatic” Kim made the trip to Minnesota and he truly thinks he can win her back.

As for Kim …. she’s unsure if she even wants to give it another go … but for now, she’s willing to keep talking.

[From TMZ]

I doubt the whole breakup was staged for publicity, but the wedding and this “reconciliation” surely were. So it’s hard to figure out what’s “real” with these people. Kim realizes that she failed to play the breakup for sympathy, and that she came across like the petty, greedy self-obsessed plastic surgery victim that she is. So now she’s trying to act like she’s willing to reconcile with Kris, and like she put a smidgen of effort into her relationship instead of listening to her narcissistic “intuition.” There’s no reconciliation happening for her. This woman is incapable of having a reciprocal relationship at all.

Update: Here’s the SNL Kardashian spoof that so many of you were talking about. It’s hysterical!

Kim is shown at the airport on Saturday with her pillow. She’s also shown on Friday coming into LA from Australia with Khloe and Lamar. Credit: Fame and Pacific Coast News.