Just yesterday I was at a farm supply store and was confronted with a Paula Deen Magazine in which she was grinning maniacally and clutching a huge slice of cake, daring us to eat it. (It was the first magazine cover below, the one with her husband.) I looked up her other magazine covers and that’s pretty much how she always poses, like the food pusher that she is.
Ever since this woman came out with the news that she’s had type 2 diabetes for years I’ve seen her in “a different light.” She’s conniving and very much in control of her image and empire. After her diagnosis three years ago Deen continued promoting incredibly unhealthy food through her various media outlets, and then she waited until she had a huge drug endorsement deal lined up before she made the announcement that she has diabetes. As many of you have pointed out, the best treatment for diabetes is a revamped diet, and although Deen has paid lip service to the fact that her diet contributed to her disorder she’s downplayed it. Deen’s recipes will get some reworking to be more healthy, but it’s too little too late and instead of promoting a healthy lifestyle she’s hawking an expensive drug treatment.
In an appearance on the talkshow “The Chew” earlier this week, Deen promised to donate “a certain percentage” to the American Diabetes Association out of the millions she’s making by promoting a pharmaceutical product.
Paula Deen may be the new face of the diabetes drug company Nova Nordisk, but she’s defending that decision by saying a portion of the profits will be donated to the American Diabetes Association.
After announcing she has Type 2 Diabetes this week, Paula appeared on ABC’s The Chew on Wednesday and discussed her diagnosis.
The Food Network star said she was diagnosed three years ago, but didn’t want to share that because she felt she didn’t have “anything to bring to the table.”
After learning about diabetes and coping with her diagnosis, Paula feels she can talk openly about it.
“I’ve always said moderation. I don’t eat every day like you see me cook on that show,” Paula said, defended her recipes. “It’s 30 days of my life, and it’s for your entertainment.”
“I don’t blame myself for my Type 2 Diabetes,” she said.
She now takes Victoza and is working with the drug company for a New Light campaign.
Paula said she and her two sons, Bobby and Jamie, are working with them “because we, like everybody else, have to work.”
However, she said they are “in a position” to “set aside a certain percentage and we’re donating that back to the ADA.”
[From OK! Magazine]
Of course Deen won’t say what “percentage” she’s donating, because if her donation is made public we’ll do the math and figure out just how rich she got by knee-capping people and then selling them crutches. (I agree that people have will and self control and can choose not to eat her food. She’s a food pusher though, pure and simple, and she has no shame.) Deen can give a relative pittance and make it seem like she didn’t really get rich by frying stuff in butter and wrapping it in sugar and then selling people a pill to treat their adult onset diabetes.
Also, I’m really reporting this because I wanted to give a shout out to Bodhi who noted that Deen is just like the Fairy Godmother in Shrek. “All sweet & nice on the outside, but cunning & manipulative on the inside” They look a lot alike too.
I put this story in the links earlier, but there have been even more developments, and now it’s become a “thing”. Ugh. I can’t even describe how much I hate writing about Bristol Palin. To me, she’s worse than Kim Kardashian. At least you know what you’re getting with Kim Kardashian – a cat-faced famewhore who got famous for a sex tape. With Bristol it’s all lies and hustling and the grift. So, the basics of the story: Bristol Palin was invited by a student group at Washington University to be part of a panel discussion on abstinence and teen sex and such. Bristol wasn’t making an appearance on the panel out of the goodness of her heart, though – it is rumored that Bristol’s speaking and appearance fee would be more than $10,000. When the Washington University student body was informed of Bristol’s potential appearance (and it was “potential” as it does seem like no appearance contracts were drawn up), the students revolted, mostly over the idea of their money being spent on Bristol. So… Bristol was dis-invited. And of course she’s a snot about it.
One thing Bristol Palin is NOT abstaining from is engaging in a war of words with the university that dumped her from a paid speaking engagement about abstinence. The 20-year-old single mom was dumped by Washington University after a student uproar over her invitation and speaking fee, which was not revealed but estimated to be as high as $20,000.
Now Bristol’s lawyer has release this statement to RadarOnline.com, slamming the university and even suggesting the Palin name is the real reason she was dumped.
“Bristol was invited to speak with college students as part of a panel. Evidently she has now been disinvited because of apparent concerns by some vocal members of the undergraduate community,” the statement reads.
“Bristol is deeply disappointed that an institution that publicly claims to “listen to diverse and sometimes conflicting perspectives, to contribute rigorous academic standards and unbiased scholarship to discussions, and to encourage a civil discourse in which a pluralistic society can respectfully address complex and difficult issues” would withdraw an invitation to a speaker because of “uproar” over their assumed content of her message or even worse, because of her last name.”
Every day brings a new martyrdom for this family of grifters. Here’s an idea, Bristol: Instead of nailing yourself to the cross at every opportunity, why don’t you OFFER TO SPEAK FOR FREE? Wouldn’t that quiet your critics? That way, if they still didn’t want you to come even when they weren’t paying you, THEN you might have a reason to don your crown of thorns.
Nevermind.
Thankfully, Radar was able to get a statement from an outraged and well-spoken student:
As RadarOnline.com previously reported Palin’s scheduled appearance was cancelled following protests. One student claiming there were 563 signatures on a petition against Bristol and just 7 students standing in favor of her. One student, Ryan McCombe, 20, who is studying economics and strategy at the University, explains why he took an anti-Palin stance.
“The issue meant a lot to me because I am a registered Republican and my vote went to Sarah Palin, but most of this didn’t have anything to do with politics – this isn’t about it being Sarah Palin’s daughter,” He told RadarOnline.com. “This is about paying an exorbitant amount of money to someone whose life has improved because of teenage pregnancy. Bristol got pregnant at 17 and is cashing in on that, she’s not someone we should be hearing from. I want to hear from someone who had dreams and goals that were put on hold by teenage pregnancy – instead, her life has been improved financially and publicity-wise. It’s very interesting how a 20-year-old who has only a GED can afford a 5-bedroom house. We don’t want our student union money going to her mortgage, we’re promoting responsibility.”
“She’s promoting ‘do as I say, not as I do,’ and I don’t agree with that. The story she has to tell doesn’t line up with the reality of the situation. She may say ‘I had all these dreams and they weren’t realized’, but she has been way more successful simply because she got pregnant at such a young age. She wouldn’t have been invited on Dancing With The Stars if she hadn’t gotten pregnant as a teenager. I have no intention of funding Sixteen And Pregnant or Teen Mom either!”
When it comes to Palin’s agreed fee, student government sources say they were ordered not to disclose the exact amount, just that $20,000 was allocated to cover the costs of the ENTIRE panel. However, it’s unlikely that the other panel members, Planned Parenthood, the Catholic Student Center and the Student Health Services were being paid for their appearance on the panel – leaving a sizeable chunk of change for Palin, even after all other costs, such as venue rental, were met.
But not every student was against Bristol – Scott Elman was one of the student representatives that were campaigning on behalf of Bristol speaking, and he explains to RadarOnline.com: “The Student Health Advisory Committee promotes safe sex goals and trying to reduce unwanted pregnancy, we thought no issue could be discussed fully without talking about abstinence.
“We thought that having Bristol, would attract a lot of students to come to the panel and promote discussion about safe sex and abstinence. We didn’t want to do as it was a publicity stunt, but thought someone who has gone through teen pregnancy and an ambassador for Candie’s Foundation, which promotes abstinence would be more than qualified to talk. Our goal was to engage the student body as much as possible. We were surprised by the reaction, we expected some controversy but never expected it to get so out of hand. We think people hear the name Bristol Palin and just think of her mother.”
“Some people don’t think she’s qualified just because she had a baby as a teen but I don’t think they realized why she actually is qualified or why we chose her. We expect students to be open to another point of view and we’re a little disappointed in the way they reacted and the overall message was getting lost. Bristol, her agent, I and the committee decided that it wasn’t the best time to have her speak. I think Bristol is upset but she understands the message that she’s trying to promote is more important than her personal feelings. I am very disappointed that she’s not coming. No contract was signed we were just in talks. I totally believe that Bristol has a strong message to share and that she has turned her story into a positive message that people deserve to hear in a balanced environment. I personally don’t believe in abstinence and we’re not telling people to think that but there are people who do and they’re unrepresented on campus.”
Let the ass-covering begin. Honestly, it warms my heart that students were able to wage a successful campaign to dis-invite Bristol. I also love that a 20-year-old student was capable of making a well-reasoned, thoughtful and rational argument for dis-inviting Bristol. MSNBC should hire that kid.
Comedian Steve Harvey, 53, has a syndicated radio talk show and holds relationship seminars. He also has two books out in which he gives relationship advice to women, Straight Talk, No Chaser: How to Find, Keep, and Understand a Man and Act Like a Lady, Think Like a Man. Steve is currently on his third wife, who he’s been married to since 2007, and has four children by different women. The last we heard from Steve he was claiming that men could not be platonic friends with attractive women, because they would always want to sleep with them. So I guess it’s not surprising to hear that this God-fearing man, who gives relationship advice for a living, cheated repeatedly on his last wife.
Steve’s second wife Mary Harvey has recorded a series of threeyoutubevideos in which she discusses what went on in her marriage. This woman’s story was so well told and so harrowing, that I found myself crying during the third video when she revealed the outcome. It sounds so devastating and yet she recounted the details so thoughtfully and with such class. If you have time, watch this woman’s story on YouTube. It’s incredible.
I’m going to quote the highlights from The YBF, but they do not do justice to Mary’s story and how well she tells it. I went a little overboard with the coverage (below), but I think her story is worth it.
Mary Harvey, Steve’s former wife of 16 years, is now partaking in Youtubery to blast her ex husband about what kind of man he really is. And it’s all because Steve is suing HER because he didn’t get offered a show on Oprah’s OWN.
Mary Harvey, a former cosmetics associate, wants you all to know that the uber successful radio host/”relationship expert”/comedian/actor/author that we all know as Steve Harvey is not the same man she married several years ago. And to the public, he’s acting like a stand-up guy that he really is not, at least not to her.
Here’s a video of her detailing Steve’s cheating habits with his mistresses–including one chick who sent a letter to Mary about condoms on the nightstand–and how he cheated on Mary with his current wife Marjorie. Of course, it is well known that Marjorie was originally Steve’s other woman. But who knew she called Mary and Steve’s house during their cheating escapades as if she had every right to enter the marriage?
- Mary says Marjorie called their marital home claiming to be “checking up on” her application to work at Steve’s suit company.
- Mary said she once confronted Marjorie.
- Mary received a CONFIDENTIAL letter from another of Steve’s mistresses named Terry, while she was at the beauty shop. [sic] The letter was meant for Steve. And it detailed their cheating escapades, condom usage, hard core anal sex, and an abortion.
- Mary said she and Steve used to steal gas and save coins just to get him to his gigs in their poor and early days.
- Their son, Wynton who is now 12, almost died in childbirth and so did Mary. This was right after [ed note: timeline is unclear] she found out Steve was cheating on her.
- She stayed with Steve even though she knew about the cheating because she wanted the family she had worked for and created, and wanted it for her kids.
- Steve evicted her from her home and took custody of their son Winton, turning the boy against her.
- Steve convinced the court that she didn’t deserve a cut of the businesses she helped build with him.
I was so impressed and moved by this woman’s story. She wasn’t angry or upset about it and just told it like it was. In fact she spent a lot of time reminiscing about how Steve wooed her (in the first video) and about how they built a life together over 16 years.
In the second video (also above), Mary talks about how she almost lost her son with Steve, Winton, when he was born in 1996. Doctors found that the cord was around the baby’s neck and performed an emergency c-section which saved the baby’s life. Around that time, Mary figured out that Steve was cheating on her. I was so touched with how she explained it:
During this emotional time in my life, it was further complicated when I realized that I was not alone in my relationship with my husband. That was a painful thing to have to deal with. I really didn’t want to… accept it. At that time our life and lifestyle and Steve’s career had really started to move forward, and there were a lot of outside influences around us constantly. It began to be a concern of mine, but you can’t lock yourself away – you have to continue to live your life, you have to be sociable and all of that.
She intercepted a letter from Steve’s then-girlfriend (not his current wife)
Realizing that, when that moment did hit me… it was on our second wedding anniversary. I was in Los Angeles… Steve was in Chicago waiting on me to join him… I’m sitting in my kitchen and my hairdresser’s there and I’m getting all dolled up. There was a knock on the door and… there was a package that had come to the apartment and it was really supposed to go to our office… the man gave it to me, and the instant that I saw it, it had like “confidential…” something just fell apart inside of me… I opened the package and I started to read this letter that was from this woman, and she really started to go into detail about how long she’d actually been in a relationship with my husband. [Ed Note: read the letter at The YBF and you will realize how much she is understating her case.]
When I first became aware that there were other people involved in my marriage, it was really hurtful to me, because my marriage represented so much to me. It was my life. My children, my marriage, the fact that Steve and I literally came from nothing. I had worked hard. I had given it my all up to that point to help make him successful.
Mary talked about how hard it was to make ends meet when she first started out with Steve and how they used to live out of their car driving to his gigs, getting by stealing gas and using change they’d saved up. She said when she found out that Steve was cheating, all those old moments flashed through her mind and she “thought about the struggle, thought about the discipline, thought about the commitment we made to each other to have a better life… when I realized that was being interfered with, I really didn’t know what to do… it kind of felt like I had been shattered to pieces.”
Mary wasn’t able to let go of her marriage after finding out about Steve cheating, so she stayed and tried to make it work. It was when she found out about Marjorie, his current wife and then-mistress that she faced reality.
Mary intercepted a phone call from another mistress, now his wife
“When I intercepted the phone call and Marjorie, his present wife, was on the phone, that was when I realized that it had really crossed over into something else. When you have somebody calling your home, it’s because they’d gotten a green light.
“Steve and I had been together for 16 years. To come face to face with the reality of what that phone call did and the things it set into motion. That was really difficult for me. I did confront her on the phone and she went into this scenario about she had to apply [for a job with Steve.]
“I said to her ‘I didn’t realize I was taking applications from my kitchen.’
In the third video, she talks about the fallout after the divorce in 2005. It sounds just awful and she got royally screwed. Steve has been married to his current wife since 2007.
On how Steve left without saying goodbye, moved in with the other woman
When I think about how quickly he moved forward from me to Marjorie. That was disturbing. With all the e-mails and the text messages and the different things that I was finding… I thought the least that he could do, make me whole at the end of it.
He just left, walked out the door. Once he realized that I was going to divorce him, he walked out, went right to NY to our apartment… and then she joined him there.
Never an apology, Steve never said that he was sorry. He had our housekeeper… forward [his] belongings to NY.
Steve took custody of their son and evicted her
When it was time to go before the judge, Steve did not show up… The judge said ‘Ok, you’re divorced,’ that was that.
The not having closure part was very devastating, but on top of that, he took my Winton. He turned my son against me, had me evicted from our house. Thrown out. All the businesses, all the money, the cars, at a moment when I was down and devastated. He maneuvered everything, he manipulated the courts against me. He went to court and under oath said that on his own he had built this whole thing on his own. I just sat at the table and cried… I woke up, everything was gone.
Steve is now suing her
For as much as I try and put all this behind me… there’s a lawsuit filed against me in Texas, because in Steve’s opinion I was responsible for Oprah not giving him a talkshow.
Many women have gone through situations similar to Mary and I have to say that I’ve never heard anyone explain it so well and show so much strength and conviction. Mary deserves the talkshow from Oprah, not Steve. At the very least I would love to see her situation get much more publicity than it has. Here is a woman who gave her all to a man for 16 years and got cheated on repeatedly, evicted, sued, and had custody of her son stripped from her by a rich and powerful man. It’s really sad, and it’s time she fought back.
Abusive ex con Michael Lohan has exacted revenge on two of his ex girlfriends by sellingnude photos of them to websites. He’s similarly sold and released secretly recorded phone calls with those women, with his then-friend Jon Gosselin, and with his daughter Lindsay begging and crying for help. He’s done all that in addition to holding various press conferences about Lindsay. So it’s more than ripe that Lohan is calling out Demi Lovato’s dad for some very benign comments he made about how cute she was as a little girl and how he agrees that the pressure must have gotten to her. Lohan also threatened Demi’s dad with bodily harm if he talks about Lindsay at all. I have no idea why he’s doing that, and I’ve gone over Demi’s dad’s threeinterviews on Radar Online as well as some minor comments he made to Access Hollywood and not once does Lindsay’s name come up. What the hell?
Demi’s dad is battling cancer and just completed two months of treatment in the hospital, so it’s pretty despicable that Michael Lohan is threatening to send him there again when he never even mentioned Lindsay. Here’s more.
Despite receiving death threats, Demi Lovato’s estranged father Patrick Lovato refuses to back down from his controversial comments — blaming the temptations of Hollywood for his Disney star daughter’s stint in rehab.
“This is the United States of America, I can talk anytime I want to,” Patrick told RadarOnline when asked if Disney’s lawyers and Demi’s mother, Dianna, had demanded that he stop talking about his daughter’s problems.
Patrick’s relationship with Demi has been strained since he and Dianna divorced in 1994 and has only gotten worse. Now, Michael Lohan, who has a long track record of talking to the media about his own daughter, is offering advice from one dad to another.
“There are two reasons why I have no respect for people who talk or comment about others,” Michael tells me. “First, it’s because, in most cases, those individuals are looking from the outside in, and they are passing judgment or commenting on people they know nothing about. The second reason is because they are too cowardly to say it to the person themselves.”
And Mr. Lovato better think twice before comparing Demi and Lindsay, Lohan warns.
“I ask Demi Lavato’s [sic] father to refrain from making asinine statements about my daughter, or say it to my face himself,” Lohan says. “And if so, I will pay for the transportation and his hospital bills
If anyone can find any statement where Demi Lovato’s dad made any reference to Lindsay, please comment with a link. As it is, it just sounds like Michael Lohan is picking on another estranged dad of a famous troubled daughter who is trying to use his past relationship for some cash and press. It’s like Lohan think he’s cornered the market on that racket and is going to take down anyone who tries to step in. He even sold the photos and story of his “private” reunion with Lindsay to Radar Online – right after holding a press conference saying he wouldn’t reveal any more details to the press. Pathetic.
Michael Lohan is shown on 10/19/10 and 10/6/10. Is he back with Kate Major after abusing her and releasing nude photos of her? Her self esteem must be in the gutter.
Sharon Osbourne has penned a self-righteous article about the downfall of society with the rise of people who are famous for nothing. She has a point in that there are many young people who strive to just be famous without having the talent or work ethic necessary to contribute something. At the same time her long essay is peppered with boastful stories about how she and Ozzy met President Bush and Andy Warhol and how well known and famous they were. Sharon and her family also starred in a reality show and she’s hosted countless reality shows, including Rock Of Love: Charm School, in which Sharon’s responded to a contestant’s criticism of her husband by jumping up out of her seat and trying to rip out the bikini-clad girl’s cheap weave. If Sharon is so opposed to being famous for nothing, why is she lending what she no-doubt considers her good name to shows like Celebrity X Factor, Celebrity Apprentice and America’s Got Talent? She’s as full of sh*t as the Tiffany boxes she sends to her detractors. Here are some quotes from the article, published in The Daily Mail. This is to promote a work of fiction she just wrote, Revenge, which is out in March. The best part is when she writes that “young people regard fame as a birthright. They have a sense of entitlement the size of one of my houses.” That pretty much sums up Sharon’s point: I’m rich and famous and you’re not. If you are, you don’t deserve it:
On kids wanting to be famous
Of course, Andy Warhol is most famous for saying: ‘In the future everyone will be famous for 15 minutes.’ These days I’d put that figure closer to five minutes.
I thought of Warhol’s prediction when I was watching a morning chat show on TV recently.
It featured a girl aged about 14. Her one aim in life was to have surgery so that she would look like Katie Price. Her reasoning seemed to be that if she looked like the glamour model, she would become as famous as her idol.
How depressing that the loftiest ambition a child of 14 can summon up is to have breasts the size of barrage balloons. It was bad enough that she regarded ‘being famous’ as a worthy goal – not ‘being talented’, you note.
When Ozzy was starting out as a musician in Black Sabbath, for him and his contemporaries fame was simply a by-product of doing something they loved, not an end in itself. Of course, they wanted to be successful and to make money, but they certainly didn’t expect it and that wasn’t the reason they were in a band.
Today, though, young people regard fame as a birthright. They have a sense of entitlement the size of one of my houses.
On “lesser” celebrities
A lot of people confuse fame and infamy – two very different things. There is now a whole army of ‘celebrities’ who are notorious rather than famous.
Take Kerry Katona, for example. I mean, what is she? Whatever modicum of talent she originally had, she is now best known for behaving badly in public. How does she add to the sum of human happiness? What does she contribute to the arts?
In 2006, I was a judge on a celebrity version of X Factor. James Hewitt and Rebecca Loos were two of the contestants, both famous, or infamous rather, for having had affairs with married people – relationships that they had milked for all they were worth.
After their execrable assault on the Robert Palmer song Addicted To Love, I suggested to Loos that for the next performance she should wear some knickers. ‘It will help warm up your voice,’ I said.
I heard my fellow judge Louis Walsh groan, and Simon Cowell wasn’t very happy but I didn’t care.
Loos and others like her are not contributors. They are on the outside scratching to get in.
Then there is the small matter of talent, something many of those who want to be famous seem to overlook. To succeed in life it helps a lot if you are actually good at something – music, writing, acting, business. It’s not enough – or shouldn’t be – just to be willing to take your clothes off in public or to get drunk in a nightclub in front of the Press.
On whether she’s being a hypocrite
Some might argue that I have contributed to the fame epidemic myself, with The Osbournes show, and by appearing on X Factor and America’s Got Talent.
The Osbournes opened so many doors for us and both Jack and Kelly loved doing it. But although we pioneered the reality show I didn’t expect the wave of copycat programmes that followed.
My eldest daughter, Aimee, is very private and doesn’t want anything to do with the world of celebrity – who can blame her? She elected not to appear in The Osbournes and my only regret about doing the show is that it meant I spent less time with her while we were filming it.
As for the talent shows, I don’t think I’ve ever given false hope to anyone who has appeared on those programmes that I have helped judge. Also, I think that now people know what they are getting themselves into when they decide to audition.
If you are prepared for it, and it makes you happy, do it. It’s a great opportunity for a very rich life experience, a chance to meet interesting people, and travel. Why not take a roll of the dice? If you win, fantastic. You’ll have one hit record – maybe more if you’re very lucky.
But don’t expect a career with the longevity of, say, Ozzy’s. He has had 40 years in the business and it’s still a struggle. (Of course, it helps if you marry your manager.)
Look at what history has taught us. Think of the people who have won these shows and where they are now. The odds aren’t great. I know the music industry inside out and it is brutal, unforgiving and treacherous.
Just as power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely, so fame corrupts and megastardom can destroy.
For all you can say about Sharon, her kids turned out pretty well after they battled drug addiction and came out on the other side. We can only keep tabs on Jack and Kelly, and there’s also their older sister, Aimee, who decided not to appear on The Osbournes and has stayed out of the spotlight.
Reading this long, obnoxious treatise I’m struck by how much Sharon is highlighting her husband’s talent and longevity as opposed to the struggling young people she passed judgment on for X Factor and America’s Got Talent. It’s as if no one is entitled to the trappings of wealth and fame except Sharon and her family. We shouldn’t even criticize them for doing the reality show that she blames for this new fame phenomenon because of course Ozzy was already famous. Sharon sounds so incredibly threatened by the fact that she and her family are no longer the center of attention. Why doesn’t she use her “talent” to get ahead again? I guess she is, considering the only thing she’s known for is talking smack.
Of course I’m annoyed by the usual hemorrhoids-masquerading-as-celebrities, your Heidi Montags, your Spencer Pratts, your Tila Tequilas, your random mistresses/hookers/junkies. But few fake celebrities piss me off more than Dr. Drew. Probably because I used to like him, back when he and Adam Corrola did Loveline on MTV. After the first few years, Dr. Drew began believing his own hype, I think. Or he began seeing himself as the psychological savior to Hollywood, or maybe he just wanted more money. Whatever it was, Dr. Drew took a nasty turn and became very sanctimonious, hypocritical, unprofessional, and nasty. Just my opinion. Now I can’t even sit through one of his interviews without being disgusted.
Anyway, Life & Style has an interesting story about Dr. Drew, who is currently running Celebrity Rehab on VH1. Apparently, Dr. Drew might have been a cokehead in the eighties:
To millions of viewers who tune into VH1 reality series Celebrity Rehab and Sober House, David “Dr. Drew” Pinsky is one of Hollywood’s most powerful weapons against drug and alcohol addiction. But now, in exclusive interviews with Life & Style, two former colleagues at KROQ — the LA radio station that gave Drew, 51, his big break on the program Loveline — have come forward to talk about the doc’s past. They say Drew knows firsthand what it’s like to fall under the spell of illegal drugs — because he was once a frequent cocaine user himself.
In 1982, Drew hadn’t even finished medical school when he met KROQ DJ Jim Trenton at a party. “I asked him to do this segment with me called Ask a Surgeon,” Trenton tells Life & Style. “Listeners could call in and get answers to their romance and medical questions.” The segment was such a hit, it soon evolved into Loveline — which remains on the air to this day.
While they spent their days helping listeners with their love, sex and health-related problems, Drew and Jim spent many of their nights partying away. Often, Trenton says, that included cocaine use.
“He used to say to me, ‘Jim, I love cocaine,’” Trenton notes. “He’d say that a lot — that he loved coke.” In fact, Trenton adds, Drew “did coke with a lot of different people, including myself, on numerous occasions.”
Joanna Swylde, who worked as an intern at KROQ at the time and partied with Drew and Trenton, confirms Trenton’s claims. She tells Life & Style they even used to snort lines of cocaine off album covers in the control room at work. “We would do it during the breaks on the show,” Swylde recalls.
Although Drew used coke, “I don’t think he was addicted to it,” Trenton tells Life & Style. “He used it recreationally.
“I would say by the mid to late ’80s, he had quit,” Trenton says. “We all stopped doing it.”
Hmm… he did it “recreationally” you say, but he wasn’t an addict? If Dr. Drew was treating himself, he would say that he was an addict, plain and simple, and that he needed to get to Celebrity Rehab right away to work on all of his problems, all while the camera is rolling. But, whatever. I was a child in the eighties, but from what I hear, everyone was doing coke. Which is the point I’d like Dr. Drew to acknowledge – some people do drugs recreationally without ever becoming “addicts”. Some people do drugs and are able to stop without some Dr. Drew-approved rehabilitation. Some people are cokeheads for a decade and then just stop, and become sanctimonious hypocrites, doling out advice that they never took themselves.
I have not watched the new “Girls Next Door” featuring Hugh Hefner’s new girlfriends Crystal Harris and the Shannon twins. I’ve only seen pictures of them, and they’re pretty much what you’d expect. Blonde, vapid-looking, plastic dolls. In other words, they’re basically “clones” of Holly Madison and the other two girls. Except Holly was a clone of literally millions of other girls. It’s not like Holly owned the whole “blonde and big-boobed” look. But anyway…
Holly Madison gave yet another interview where she’s whining about how the new girls are just big copycats. She claims the new girls aren’t focusing on what makes them unique… which begs the question, “Do any of these girls have anything that makes them unique?” Holly also talks about how she’s topless in her new Vegas show, and how it’s “tasteful”, much like Dita von Teese. She actually name-drops Dita! So… Holly is complaining that the new girls are copying her while she’s busy copying Dita. And you know what? I find that offensive, quite honestly. Dita is a million times more original:
Holly Madison first strutted into the spotlight as the number one girlfriend of Hugh Hefner and star of the “Girls Next Door,” but since packing away her Playboy bunny ears for the sights of Sin City, she’s not bothering to watch the new season of the E! series which features Hef’s new leading ladies Crystal Harris and the Shannon twins.
“I had a great time with Hef and the girls when they came to see ‘Peepshow’ and hang out in Vegas. I don’t watch the other episodes though, because it kind of makes me mad,” Madison told Tarts. “The girls need to focus on what makes them unique and not doing the same things Bridget, Kendra and I have already done on the show. Even camping in the backyard was an idea I had for an episode that we never got around to shooting. And guess what they just showed? The girls camping in the backyard. I don’t want to look behind, I want to look forward.”
Ouch.
(However according to Nielson data, the show featuring the new ladies is totally killing it and was the most-watched season premiere in the show’s history, with 2.4 million viewers.)
But back to the subject of moving forward, Madison is filming her very own reality show which will give the world a glimpse into her life as a Vegas showgirl and a “major life project nobody would expect her to do.” The buxom blonde is also busy bearing those infamous boobs six nights a week in her ongoing burlesque “Peep Show.”
“The ‘toplessness’ is worked into the show very tastefully and I was very controlling about when and how long I would be topless,” Madison explained. “Not because I am shy about nudity at all, but because I feel there is an effective way to do a burlesque show and then there is a sloppy way. I’m very inspired by Dita Von Teese and people who do it really well. Hef really liked the show, but I knew he would. He loves burlesque and the girls in the show are really beautiful. There are contemporary pop songs in the show, but a lot of old school style, too. The Red Riding Hood number reminds me so much of the sexy Red Riding hood Tex Avery cartoons from the 40′s that Hef loves.”
And it seems the 29-year-old couldn’t be happier being known as Holly Madison rather than a girl of the Playboy Mansion.
“The biggest challenge I have had to face is sticking by who I am and what I want to do. There have been a lot of people trying to push me in different directions, but I had to stay true to my vision of what I wanted to do and how I wanted to brand myself as an entertainer,” she added. “I can’t be another LA reality show girl. There are too many people doing the same thing in that city.”
Dita should cut a bitch, seriously. There are so many girls out there who think that they can just copy Dita’s whole thing, and they can’t. Dita spent years developing her old-school burlesque shows, and Dita knows so much about the history of all of it – from the old shows, to the fashion, to the music, to the film influences, everything. As for Holly’s claims that the new girls are copying… well, I guess the new girls should go directly to the source and start copying Dita, right?
So Miley Cyrus quit her Twitter account, and now she just won’t shut up about it. She’s made a YouTube rap video explaining her reasons for leaving Twitter, she faced down criticism from her father (The Mullet), she’s written about it on her official website, and she’s done several interviews about the mess. If the point of leaving Twitter was to get some privacy and take the publicity machine down a notch, it isn’t working. Because Miley has gotten more press this week than she has in the past few months.
What’s slightly surprising to me is that Miley seems super-concerned that people think she only closed her Twitter because a boy told her to. Miley wants us to know that she doesn’t just do what her boyfriend Liam Hemsworth tells to do, she does what she thinks is right. I can see the distinction, and I wonder if someone criticized Miley to her face for giving the idea that she would just do whatever Liam ordered her to do.
Miley Cyrus is feeling some cyber peer pressure. Days after she tweeted that rumored new beau and Last Song co-star Liam Hemsworth recommended she delete her Twitter account, the singer took to her official website to set the record straight about her internet blackout.
“I often complain to the ones closest to me that I don’t seem to have much of a private life any more and part of that is my fault. How can I whine about my life being [too] public if I am the one telling the world what I am doing?” she wrote.
As for Hemsworth’s part in that decision, she explained: “I had mentioned to him that someone made a fake twitter with his name and we both starting chatting about how ridiculous it is. Liam is a wonderful friend and he did not try to make me delete my page, he just helped me realize how much time I was wasting on that site.”
For the record, I don’t think Liam ordered Miley to close her Twitter, nor do I think Miley would go for a guy who ever tried to order her around. I get the feeling that Miley’s in charge in most of her relationships, for better or for worse. And that includes her relationship with her father.
Miley reiterated these sentiments in yet another interview, this time with Wisconsin’s Kiss 103.7 (story via MTV). Miley said: “I was kind of just like over tweeting about what I was doing instead of actually doing it. I complained that I wanted my private life more private but I’m the one who is giving the world access to it.” By God, I think she’s got it… say it with me, Miley: “hypocrisy”. Good girl.
Miley also answered questions about that stripper-pole-dance she did at the Teen Choice Awards: “If I stood up there and just sat by a microphone and there was nothing going on, it would just be like boring to me… I’ve never claimed to be [like Hannah Montana] for myself as Miley Cyrus. I’ve never claimed to be like you know the sugar-coated artist. I kind of do you know what I feel goes with the song and you know whether people like it that’s great and if they don’t that’s who I am so, they don’t have to be a fan.” Oh, it sounds like someone wants to rebrand herself, doesn’t it? I can almost hear the strains of Britney Spears: “Not. That. Innocent.”
Here’s Miley going out for a bite at the City Wok restaurant in Studio City on September 21st. Images thanks to WENN.com .
Mel Gibson is the process of divorcing his wife of 29 years and has a pregnant girlfriend who comes with him to his ultra conservative Catholic church every Sunday. Mel’s girlfriend, 39 year-old singer Oksana Grigorieva, accompanied him to a premiere in April and Mel confirmed the relationship, and Oksana’s pregnancy, to the press. He also said that his marriage “ended three years ago,” around the time of his anti-semitic rant, implying that he wasn’t technically cheating. In the eyes of the Traditionalist Catholic Church Mel built, which doesn’t even grant annulments, he was definitely committing adultery though.
Meanwhile Mel’s estranged wife of 28 years and the mother of his seven children, Robyn, 53, is finding a little happiness of her own. She has a new boyfriend and unlike Mel she’s trying to keep the relationship under wraps. That doesn’t matter to her estranged husband, though. Cheater Mel is reportedly livid that Robyn is moving on and doesn’t think she should have a boyfriend:
After being married to the serial cheater for 29 years, Robyn Gibson has finally found a man who makes her happy, and Mel is outraged, a family friend told The Enquirer.
“Robyn is in love and having the time of her life with a new guy from northern California,” the friend divulged.
“She’s introduced him to her children, and they think he’s great. But hypocrite Mel has made it clear he feels mothers should NOT have boyfriends!”
The “Passion of the Christ” star – whose mistress is pregnant with his eighth child – freaked out after he learned his 53-year-old estranged wife was dating.
“Mel had the nerve to call Robyn and actually proclaim that mothers shouldn’t date. All Robyn could do was laugh!” the source confided.
The Enquirer adds that “Robyn has been very discreet,” that she wears a blonde wig when she’s out to avoid being recognized, and that she’s only introduced her boyfriend to her kids as a “friend.”
Compare how considerate and classy Robyn is acting in her new relationship to Mel, who issued statements and went on “The Tonight Show” to announce Oksana’s pregnancy. He’s even using his fame to help Oksana’s career, and her singles and music video are getting play on People’s website.
Robyn needs to pull some kind of stunt to rub it in Mel’s face, like being photographed out at an outdoor restaurant having a great time with her boyfriend. Shania Twain basically arranged for the paparazzi to catch her out with her new boyfriend after her husband betrayed her. In Shania’s case she was hooking up with the hot estranged husband of her husband’s mistress. Now that’s revenge.
Robyn Gibson is shown out in 2000. Credit: Fame Pictures
I once read that most famous people – be they Hollywood celebrities, politicians, or other well-known public figures – become famous because they have a combination of drive and some type of delusional personality disorder (there’s a couple to chose from). Put those two things together and you have the winning recipe for a lifetime of fame and money.
A perfect example is Tyra Banks. Tyra seems to suffer from some form of severe narcissism combined with delusions of Oprah. She’s on the cover of the upcoming issue of the New York Times Magazine, and gives a great quote that perfectly illustrates just how highly she thinks of herself.
Talk about a major coup for Tyra!
Not only is this cover stunning, it officially puts Tyra in another league.
According to the New York Times, the article “goes inside the world of Tyra Banks – ex-cover girl, ex-Victoria’s Secret model and the reigning star of two popular TV shows, ‘America’s Next Top Model’ and ‘The Tyra Banks Show’ – learn how the 34-year old entrepreneur turned herself into a brand.”
“I think I was put on this earth to instill self-esteem in young girls,” says Tyra.
That’s a pretty interesting thing to say, considering Celebitchy wrote a story about how horribly Tyra treated an 11-year-old girl who was a guest on her show. Tyra embarrassed Linda and her mother Claudia on national television, refused to meet with them before or after the show, and wouldn’t pose for a picture or sign an autograph. Tyra makes a good deal of money from every show she hosts, and is profiting from humiliating this poor little girl. Linda has to go to school and likely be teased by classmates due to the experience. Tyra just gets to take a pile of cash home in exchange for exploiting Linda’s embarrassment.
What a fabulous way to instill self-esteem in young girls. Tyra no one can stand you – your abrasive personality is cringe-worthy. But there’s a fine line between your own high self-esteem and blatant narcissism, and you crossed it a long time ago. Don’t act like you’re doing anything good for anyone but yourself – let alone young girls.
