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The Situation Admits Addiction To Painkillers

Admitting what we already knew, because TMZ.com had his chosen rehab wired for sound and video before the addiction even took hold, The Situation says in a new interview with MTV that ‘prescription pills’ were the drug that landed him at Utah’s Cirque Lodge Treatment Center for three-weeks ending in April. ‘My addiction was prescription painkillers,’ he said. ‘At first, I thought it gave me energy, I thought it helped me. Being in this business is not easy. [I] made a mistake by picking a substance over what I previously chose, which is fitness.’ Although he denies doing coke, weed, or being an alcoholic, or mixing substances. In related Jersey Shore news, RadarOnline.com reports that Angelina Pivarnick will return briefly for contrived drama: ‘Angelina is going to be back with the cast and she starts filming in a few weeks. She was always the center of all the drama and she’s coming back to stir things up. Angelina will be on three episodes and she’s ready for all the craziness that comes with the house!’

Demi Lovato Will Also Be An X Factor Judge

It was revealed late last week that Britney Spears was in the final stages of becoming a judge on American X Factor, although TMZ Live was keen to dispel the rumour that she ‘signed’ the contract since the singer remains under conservatorship and doesn’t have the legal right to sign anything on her own. Which means, at some point before Monday morning, she’ll give her handlers the crayons with which to sign the deal. And today another corrupted Disney star has signed on. So I’m guessing this whole thing’s one, big contrived trainwreck (in the words of Howard Stern). Which means Simon Cowell will have to spend his time backstage hiding the chocolate milk, jelly beans, and the cocaine because this panel is an overdose waiting to happen. Photos of Lovato in NYC in March.

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Jon Hamm Giving Randoms Relationship Advice

Here’s Jon Hamm, looking like he’s exhausted from f**king his way through the entire Mad Men cast and crew including the help, reading fan questions off his cell and offering relationship advice to random 16-years-old-ish girls on the ‘net.

Khloe & Lamar Isn’t Cancelled Because MONIES

Realising pimp momager would never allow her family to walk away from the publicity and easy endorsements, the world let out a collective DUH! because Khloe & Lamar has not been cancelled. A rep panick BBM’ed the following: ‘It has NOT been cancelled. It’s just on hold now while schedules are figured out. It will depend on their schedules, as Lamar’s basketball schedule is a priority.’ Another cipher, which translates as: ‘I’m in a dark room, watching the rough-cut of Mason’s spin-off on a loop. I’m so cold. Send blankets. And a sack lunch. No. Send hel…’ I can’t understand the rest. Something about string cheese?

The photo is from today’s We Didn’t Get Cancelled tour of New York, while grandmas watch her sister’s porn yelling ‘It’s purple at the end, she left a gap in the middle… cly-toris.’ That clip is below (Thanks for the reminder, Joan!)

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AnnaSophia Robb Filming The Carrie Diaries

With the movies long out of steam, mostly because they weren’t very good, the CW and producers of Sex & The City made a cash-grab in the form of a prequel of sorts, The Carrie Diaries, which is basically going to be like Gossip Girl but with one person in retro garb. The retrospective thing was dull when S&TC2 did the same, with the loose premise that the ageing cast would be digitally made younger (they weren’t). It serves a purpose now, however. Because it looks like Not Carrie ™, AnnaSophia Robb, spent more time posing for photographers than acting on the New York City set of the pilot. Wearing the same outfit as in the promotional picture, here’s Robb as a baby-faced Carrie Bradshaw even though S&TC/ S&TC Movie writer Michael Patrick King said, at the time Blake Lively was reportedly in line to play the lead (something Lively denied): ‘I took [Sarah Jessica Parker's] Carrie from 33 to 43. That’s what interested me, her growth in those years. I didn’t even want to know who were her parents were. To me, she could have just materialized at 33. I have no interest whatever in a prequel.’

10 photos below for those who see anything but Violet Beauregarde.

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John Slattery Defends January Jones Again

Last year, 11-year-old Jared Gilmore who used to play Bobby Draper accused January Jones of being vituperative and austere. Asked whether he had any advice for the boy who’s going to replace him in season five, Gilmore replied, ‘Be careful around January [Jones]. She’s not as approachable as the others. She’s really serious about what she does. Everyone else is so nice.’ About which John Slattery immediately replied: ‘Well, it’s an intimidating character… I mean, that’s the character. Betty Draper is an intimidating woman I suppose, if you were a seven-year-old boy [or] her son. She’s a sweetheart. We got lucky. We don’t have anybody like that.’ Asked again, as Mad Men starts again this Sunday with a new kid, Slattery copy pastas his own statement by saying it’s the kid’s fault for being a p**sy and it’s not Jones’ fault she’s such a great actor. Slattery, who I’m suddenly reminded wanted to pee on Carrie Bradshaw, told Shortlist

‘She plays a formidable character, she’s not mother of the year, she has a hard relationship with that child and she’s horrible to him. It’s remarkable to watch her, actually. You look at her and think: this is an actual person, in this moment, going through all this. She becomes the part. That poor f**king kid, I’m not surprised she scared the hell out of him. She’d scare the hell out of me… [Moreover] I don’t think she is misunderstood by anyone else but that one kid. Coincidentally, that kid doesn’t play Bobby Draper any more. Not because of what he said, but because… well, for other reasons. They’ve had about five Bobby Drapers and they can’t seem to find one who doesn’t look straight into the lens.’ [via Vulture]