The Hills

Audrina Patridge: I’m Not an Attention Seeker

May 16, 2008

Audrina Patridge has bared herself in a series of risque photos and shared her life for television audiences, but she maintains she doesn’t do it for the fame.

“I am not an attention w—-,” the 23-year-old star of The Hills tells Vegas Magazine, which hits newsstands June 1. “I’m not going to release naked photos of myself just to get attention. I’d rather get different attention and be respected.”

Clearing the air, Patridge said the first round of photos, which show her topless in several backdrops, “were never supposed to be seen.” And the second round, released shortly after the first set hit the Internet, the photographer misrepresented what he intended to do.

“He was like, ‘Let’s just do these, it’ll be like a Maxim thing,’” she said of them. But it was the public’s reaction to the photos that surprised her. “People were like, ‘You have fake boobs.’ And I’m like, ‘No I don’t, but thanks. I take that as a compliment.’”
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Ugly Betty

Michael Urie Ready for Ugly Betty Move to N.Y.C.

May 16, 2008

Ugly Betty might be moving to the Big Apple come summer, and Michael Urie, who plays fabulously scheming assistant Marc St. James to Vanessa Williams’s villainous Wilhelmina Slater, is ready to pack up and go on one condition: as long as he and costar Becky Newton can find apartments in the same building. (The two currently live in the same Los Angeles apartment complex.)

“We’re going to have to be neighbors there too, that’s all there is to it,” Urie told PEOPLE at Wednesday’s Hot in Hollywood Legendary Bingo’s 10th anniversary at West Hollywood’s Hamburger Mary’s. “I’m going to do all I can [to make that happen].”

As for what nighborhood the castmates are looking into, Urie says, “I’ll probably stay in Manhattan. I did Brooklyn and Queens for eight years so I think it’s time… I’m an adult!”
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Beverly Hills, 90210, TV News

Rob Estes: The Latest to Join 90210 Spinoff

May 16, 2008

The Mills family finally has a father.

Rob Estes will join the cast of The CW’s 90210 spinoff as Harry Mills, a father who moves his family from Kansas to Beverly Hills, according to a statement released by the studio and network.

Harry is the principal of West Beverly High School, his alma mater, where his two children played by Shenae Grimes and Tristan Wilds will attend.

Estes is probably most famous for playing Kyle McBride in the popular ’90s nightime soap, Melrose Place.

His announcement rounds out the 10-member cast, but viewers can expect guest appearances from Jennie Garth, who will reprise her role as Kelly Taylor.

Taylor who is a guidance counselor at West Bev High is the first alum to join the spinoff from the original cast. –Elaine Aradillas

Meet the cast of the new 90210 here!

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TV News

TV Roundup: Star Jones Can Make a Fat Joke

May 16, 2008

• What happens when The Bad Girls Club tapes a reunion special? Bad stuff goes down. A fistfight broke out among the girls after one told another she was “a cheeseburger away from being obese.” Host Star Jones, who’d heard the exchange, reportedly joked, “If I punched every b—- who called me fat, it would be dead b—-es all up and down the highway.”

• Miss the old-school Bachelor? You know, back when a rose meant a marriage proposal that was eventually broken as soon as the finale aired…wait, nothing’s changed. But you can catch the first 7 seasons of The Bachelor in marathon format on VH1 — it’ll restore your faith in true love, really.

• How do you outfox TiVo? If you’re the Fox network, you come up with Remote-Free TV, which means less commercials between your favorite shows! We’ll still be using using our remotes, of course—to fast-forward through the boring parts of Idol.

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Lost

Lost Finale, Part I: The Survivors Leave the Island

May 16, 2008

Jack, Hurley, and others (the Oceanic Six) got their first glimpse of post-island family life on Thursday’s Lost, part one of a dramatic — and revealing — two-part, three-hour season finale. The small survivor crew (which also included Sun, Sayid, Kate and Aaron) reunites tearfully with their families at a Honolulu airbase. Jack (Matthew Fox) tells the Six before landing that they will talk to the media–within limits. (He makes up a false story.) Other big revelations include Sayid (Naveen Andrews) meeting his old girlfriend Nadia and Jack learning that he is the deceased Claire’s (Emilie DeRavin) half-brother.

Looking forward to May 29’s part two of the season 4 finale, more answers loom for how the Oceanic Six will be rescued from the island. –Nicholas White

Tell us: What is your theory for how Lost will end this season? Are the revelations in season four satisfying or have they raised even more burning questions?

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Grey's Anatomy/Private Practice

Last Night’s Grey’s Gets Mental

May 16, 2008

On last night’s Grey’s Anatomy, titled “Losing My Mind,” more than a few of Seattle Grace’s doctors, residents and patients seemed to turn into mental cases.

Let’s review our patients’ charts …

In what must be a true breakdown, Rebecca continued to hold onto the belief that she’s pregnant with Alex’s baby. When confronted with the evidence that she was never pregnant in the first place, Rebecca breaks down and tells Alex she’s sorry she lost their baby. Clearly she’s not in her right mind, and we’ll see if Rebecca reverts back to Ava or possibly someone else altogether next week. Stay tuned …
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America's Next Top Model

Whitney’s Seventeen Cover Revealed

May 15, 2008

Whitney Thompson catwalked her way to becoming America’s Next Top Model’s first full-figured winner on Wednesday’s episode. Her prize includes a photo shoot for the cover of Seventeen magazine. Well, here it is!

Tell us: What do you think of Whitney’s first cover?

American Idol

Syesha Mercado: ‘I’m Like a Black Christina Aguilera’

May 15, 2008

With so many appearances in the bottom two over the course of the competition, Idol watchers may not have predicted Syesha Mercado would make it to the top three. But she squeaked by each week and got better and better and eventually she became Idol’s leading lady until Wednesday when her time ran out. Speaking to reporters Thursday, Syesha revealed that she never packed her bags to go because, “I just wasn’t ready.” She also talked about coping with her father’s addiction, her plans after Idol (”I want to open up an organic restaurant”), and tells Paula exactly what kind of artist she is.

Paula Abdul said you sang songs that didn’t really define who you were. In your mind, who are you exactly as an artist?
I’m a mix of a lot of things … I’m like a black Christina Aguilera [or] Alicia Keys. I definitely can see myself putting together a Christina Aguilera album, the one that she just recently did and an Alicia Keys album like The Diary of Alicia Keys. I like Pop and I like R&B and I like the old school, new school thing so I’m growing as an artist, I’m evolving … You’ll know who I am once I put out that album. Read the rest of this entry »

TV News

Rosie & Fran Drescher In Talks For a New Show

May 15, 2008

At a luncheon in her honor at The Friars Club in Manhattan Thursday, Fran Drescher (The Nanny) shared a details about the television show she and Rosie O’Donnell are in the process of developing — a show that they would costar in if it becomes a reality.

“It’s called The New 30, and it’s about old friends who are living very different lives, but they live in the same building in Murray Hill, Manhattan,” Drescher explained. “It’s basically about middle-aged women on the verge of a midlife crisis.”

O’Donnell herself had talked about developing a show with Drescher on her blog in the past, but this is the first time a title has been revealed.

“We’re in talks with NBC,” Drescher says. “It’s not real yet, but we’re talking to NBC, so we’ll see what happens!” –Mark Dagostino

Tell us: Would you watch a show about middle aged women in New York starring Fran Drescher and Rosie O’Donnell?

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Reality TV

Lorenzo Lamas, Sean Young Get Country for TV Show

May 15, 2008

A second season of Gone Country has been announced, with an eclectic cast ready to try their hand at country music — which they did Wednesday at Nashville’s Wildhorse Saloon when the stars debuted songs they’d written, in front of several hundred family, friends and fans.

It wasn’t an easy process: ’80s diva Irene Cara dropped out after deciding the competition wasn’t for her. The remaining cast members include Sebastian Bach (Skid Row), Chris Kirkpatrick (’N Sync), Mikalah Gordon (American Idol), Jermaine Jackson, Lorenzo Lamas and Sean Young.

So how did they do? Well, these stars clearly know how to put on a show. Young wore tight blue jeans, a red blouse and a black bolero as she sang an upbeat song entitled “It’s Time (For the Boy to Grow Up).” Jackson went the ballad route, singing “Loving You Is the Natural Thing to Do,” inspired by his fourth wife, Halima Rashid. (Extra style points for Jackson, who had his first name embroidered across the groin of his blue jeans.) Lorenzo Lamas got the women in the audience going as he flung his Manuel couture jacket across the stage, exposing his biceps under his white T-shirt.

The prize for most promising, however, goes to Gordon, who competed on Idol against Carrie Underwood in Season Four. The Nashville-ready song? “You’re Ugly When You’re Drunk.”

The series begins in August. –Steve Helling, with reporting by Kay West

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