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Monday, Oct 26
Todd English's Jilted Bride Called His Kids 'Pigs' [Gossip Roundup]
The Todd English/Erica Wang PR food fight continues. In this round, jilted bride Wang's people are saying that celebrity chef English backed out of the wedding because his restaurants are in danger. English's people stick with the party line of "that Erica bitch is crazy, yo." Oh, also they...
Tuesday, Oct 13
Eight TV Actresses Who Should Never Sing Again [Kill The Mic]
Leighton Meester TV Show: Gossip Girl Musical Project: "Somebody to Love" (2009) Gets Points For: Convincing Robin Thicke to sing with her and being Blair Waldorf. Loses Points For: Not sounding like a creature that is found in nature. Horrible-ometer: 7
Keeping His Options, Oh Penn [Open Caption]
Penn Badgley has a lady at his front and Gossip Girl costar Ed Westwick coming up for the rear while on the red carpet for the premiere of his new movie The Stepfather last night. Image via AP]
Friday, Oct 9
The Week We Lost Elegant Bride [Week In Review]
Seth Green threw a big fit because he got mugged, and we thought it was fake, but then we thought it was real. Those terms mean nothing anymore, though, so who knows.TV comedian David Letterman continued to be mired in controversy and scandal because he apologized and was nearly extorted for...
Friday, Sep 25
Madonna and Michael's Rivalry: Exhumed! [Gossip Roundup]
Gossip Girl actress Kelly Rutherford filed a restraining order against her soon-to-be ex-husband. [NYDN] Jude Law won't be meeting his new daughter until Christmas. How sweet. [3am] Lily Allen's record company won't let her retire. Shame. [3am]
Friday, Sep 18
The Week We Let Taylor Swift Finish [Week In Review]
A young lady named Ashley, who used to be an "escort," has a lucrative cross-promotional agreement with a local tabloid. Betty Draper, a fictional character, gave birth. Everybody died at Yale. We met Princess Coldstare! Steve Jobs cannot stop lying. Kanye might've been an inside job, and e...
Thursday, Sep 17
Mischa Barton's Wisdom Teeth Managed Not to Ruin The Beautiful Life [Things We Actually Like]
Life (sorry, CW, no matter how hard you try, we are not going to let TBL happen) is a bit like Gossip Girl for a slightly older crowd, but with less money and more drugs. Barton plays Sonja, a super model who is on her way out thanks to taking a few months off (we find out later that she ran off to have...
Wednesday, Sep 16
Star Trek to Roll out Its Deadliest Weapon: Political Allegory
Gossip Girl: Blair finds that putting on her headband makes her feel great and tingly all over. When she wants to buy more headbands, she discovers they are illegal and that the U.S. government is in a long, protracted, and expensive battle to keep headbands out of the country and off the stree...
Saturday, Aug 1
Opinion: Today, A Dick Joke Involving Child-Rearing Expert Tom Cruise Becomes Even Funnier [Gossip Roundup]
Michael Jackson's doctor is still just as sketchy as before. Tom Cruise will raise your kids for you. Jude Law's new baby's name, rappers, witches, Heroes, Gossip Girls, and Ashton Kutcher's fake life. Presenting an epic Saturday Morning Gossip Roundup:
Tuesday, Jun 23
Opinion: NYC Prep: You Don't Know How It Feels to Be Me [Recaps]
Well, great TV spirits be thanked/damned, it finally arrived. NYC Prep! The show about Real Life rich kids who are real life Girls who sometimes Gossip. Even the two boys, Sebastian and PC, are Girls. Who Gossip. Let's talk. Anyway. Beans, baby, beans. Do you know what it means?
Tuesday, Jun 16
New York City Rich Bravely Defend Themselves Against NYC Prep Kids [Infighting]
See one of the Bravo show's cast members, the cockle-eyed Camille, goes to Nightingale-Bamford, a tony Upper Eastern academy in the vein of those on Gossip Girl. Well the school isn't exactly thrilled about this attention, so the administration sent out a bitchy-in-a-stiff-East-Coas...
Thursday, Jun 4
<i>NYC Prep</i> Continues to Make Us Hope for a Better Tomorrow [Beautiful Disaster]
It just keeps getting better/worse. On the heels of our introduction to the kids of NYC Prep, Bravo's new real-life Gossip Girl series, an in-person preview was held at the Paley Center. Erstwhile Gawker editor Joshua David Stein was there.
Wednesday, May 20
Anna Wintour to Oprah: 'Lose Some Weight, Fatass!' [Gossip Roundup]
Gossip Girl pretty boy Chase Crawford has signed on to play Kevin Bacon's former character in a remake of Footloose after Zac Efron turned the role down. [Daily News] Vanessa Minnillo's people claim that she's still dating Nick Lachey, but she was recently seen pounding vodka and sitting...
Monday, May 11
Which Seven Characters Should Die In This Year's Season Finales? [Written Off]
The shows they list as possible killer-offers: Desperate Housewives, 30 Rock, House, Ugly Betty, The Office, CSI: NY, Smallville, Supernatural, How I Met Your Mother, Prison Break, Lost, Gossip Girl, 90210, Grey's Anatomy, 24, and Bones.
Monday, Apr 27
Jamie Lynn Spears' Beau Recovering In Hospital After Escape Attempt [Gossip Round]
Were you one of the two high school boys commenting on Kate Winslet's "big, hot booty" while she walked down 6th Avenue in workout gear? If you were, she wasn't paying attention to you. Because she's British, and a lady, and so you'd need to say "madam, what a fine rear end" to get a wink and a "yo...
Monday, Apr 6
"Honestly, Honey, Just Because Madonna Wore It in 'Like a Prayer' Doesn't Make It Church Clothes." [Open Caption]
Gossip Girl" actress Taylor Momsen walking home from church with her mother yesterday; image via Splash] TedSez's new line beats the original, Ghost of Easter Present Wishes Holiday Was Over Already.
Monday, Mar 23
Opinion: Gossip Girl: Touch Football Can Get Rough [Recaps]
So Rufus raged off and Lily sat in bed, wheezing while she shoveled lo mein down her gullet. And honestly I can't remember if they reconciled at the end of the episode and I frankly don't really care. Blair awoke suddenly and heard the sexbot murmuring softly to itself in its sleep.
Tuesday, Jan 20
The City: Boys Drool [Recaps]
You thought Gossip Girl was the most important thing to talk about today? Incorrect. That title does, in fact, belong to last night's episode of The City. Participate in the discourse after the jump. Basically there were two stories, both about young men being stupid idiots who are stupid.
Friday, Jan 16
The Week We Survived a Double Bird Strike [Week In Review]
The Golden Globes, Hollywood's half-remembered yearly award bender, happened. Everyone was drunk! Even Hoda Kotb! Who wasn't there! Next week is the most important inauguration of our time. So buy some crap! Some people on TV were big scary gays and some people were just losers from Jerse...
Saturday, Nov 1
Opinion: Four Soap Operas The CW Needs to Develop [Better Than Melrose Place]
From its early days on radio, the soap opera has been the most successful dramatic formula in the serial medium. The buzz around the beautiful young people of Gossip Girl is now just off its zenith, and if there's one thing to know about soaps, it's that they can run hot and cold. (The OC went fro...
Friday, Oct 31
The Week We Got a Rock [Week In Review]
David Letterman used appropriate scorn while speaking to Lauren Conrad. Tina Fey was not appropriately scornful of Sarah Palin.Mad Men was about women, and Gossip Girl was about sex.Do you work for Time Inc? Not anymore! You should try winning the Olympics maybe if you need a quick buck.Ever...
Tuesday, Oct 14
The Most Conservative and Most Liberal Shows On TV [Television]
The Gossip Girl kids have gotten political. Two of them at least, Penn Badgley who plays Dan and his off-screen ladylove Blake Lively, who plays his on-screen ladylove Serena. They're appearing in a MoveOn.org anti-McCain ad in which regular kids—including these two soap stars at that Han...
Opinion: Gossip Girl: Bulldogs Blair and Serena Go At It At Yale [Recaps]
The Gossip girls are off to college! Well, for the weekend at least. Yes, last night's episode of the one and only New York City teen soap bitchery carnival brought the floppy youngsters to storied Yale University, a role poorly played by Columbia. And what did they find in this little Amazon...
Friday, Sep 5
Opinion: Why Doesn't Anyone Watch Gossip Girl? [Mysteries]
Yes! The show gets abysmally low ratings—it was 150th in the listings for last year. The article trots out all the old horses: it's internetting, it's DVRing, it's being secretly downloaded into vaginae nationwide! Which, fine, might be true. But the real answer to this ratings mystery is...
Tuesday, Sep 2
Gossip Girl's Return: The Dogged Days of Summer [Recaps]
As for the most interesting characters, Blair and Chuck, they had another little pas de deux of double crosses and deceptions. Well, OK, that makes it sound a little more exciting than it actually was. Mainly Blair trotted a fake boyfriend in front of Chuck, successfully trying to make him f...
Wednesday, Aug 20
How To Talk About Fall Television (That You Might Not Be Watching) [Fall TV Preview]
MONDAY WEDNESDAY America's Next Top Model: Why We Can't Have Nice TV What You Should Say: "This is the worst television show ever made. Tyra Banks is a monster. My face hurts. Oh, but, how's that tranny doing?" Returning, endlessly. 8pm, The CW, Sept. 3]
Tuesday, Jul 8
How Television and Movies Make the Clothes [Fashion]
I can understand being inspired by what people are wearing on a TV show or in a movie, I mean where else can we emulate from, but some people take it so literally! Please don't wear kilts! Or carry muffs! It would make me upset. Some people, though, do realize that the whole thing is just a little...
Tuesday, May 13
Opinion: "I Killed Someone! But, Um, Not Really." [Gossip Girl]
Also hugely positive about last night was that Serena and Dan, America's Most Boringest Couple, came ever closer to ending once and for all. Wicked Georgina! (Even wickeder, "haha I fooled you Richard, I still suck" Michelle Trachtenberg!) I don't exactly see how her stealing Dan tops re...
Sunday, Apr 20
Opinion: Three Reasons Why The Gossip Girl Phenomenon Is The Worst. Thing. Ever. [Rants]
All right, that's it. Rant over. I shouldn't write anymore. The New York article is forced and wayyy overdone, but nothing on The CW deserves this much attention. Spotted: R., the pajama-clad Gawker writer, seething with jealousy that his far more respected "colleagues" got to meet Chace Cra...
Tuesday, May 15
Second Prize Is a Set of Steak Knives. Third Prize Is You Get Tim Allen In Your Martial Arts Movie
· The success of Ugly Betty earns budding TV mogul Salma Hayek a 2-year overall deal with ABC Studios. [THR] · Adorable netlet The CW makes like the big-people channels, picking up the dramas Gossip Girl, Reaper, and Wild at Heart; Veronica Mars, however, remains on the bubble. [Variety]
