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Leif Garrett says Celebrity Rehab producers asked him to use when he was sober

admin — Tue, 04 Jan 2011 00:53:55 +0000

Celebrity Rehab participant Leif Garrett said that before his time on the show with Dr. Drew Pinsky, he was sober but producers asked him to use on camera, so he did. And first-season participant Jeff Conway said producers asked him to lie and create drama

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Amber Portwood gets $280K a year, doesn’t "want to be known as Amber from Teen Mom"

admin — Tue, 04 Jan 2011 00:42:03 +0000

Teen Mom star Amber Portwood was released from jail last week, but not before a judge forced her to reveal in open court how much she earns every year: $280,000, which is two six-month $140,000 contracts. Amber cannot contact her former fiance Gary Shirley after being “arrested Monday on two felony counts and a misdemeanor count of domestic battery and one felony count of neglect of a dependant,” The Herald Bulletin reports

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Chris Lambton explains why he rejected The Bachelor

admin — Mon, 03 Jan 2011 19:00:22 +0000

Brad Womack returns to ABC tonight to try to find love again, and will face the two women he rejected (Jenni Croft and DeAnna Pappas), an event that turned him into a villain but saved The Bachelor by making it relevant and interesting again. The man who producers first approached about fronting the 15th season, The Bachelorette runner-up Chris Lambton, says he rejected the show and a mid-six-figure paycheck because he didn’t like the way…

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Reality TV saves teenager’s life

admin — Mon, 03 Jan 2011 12:52:14 +0000

Some good news to start 2011: Discovery’s Man vs. Wild and Survivorman were credited with saving a 14-year-old’s life

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Sea Shepherd, whalers’ claims "impossible to verify," AP says; do they not know of Whale Wars?

admin — Sun, 02 Jan 2011 22:56:49 +0000

Is it possible that the Associated Press has no knowledge of Animal Planet’s outstanding reality series Whale Wars, which documents the Southern Ocean battles between Sea Shepherd conservationists and Japanese whalers? It certainly seems like that, because in a story about Sea Shepherd finding the whaling fleet–before they were able to start whaling–the AP’s Kristen Gelineau writes, “Every year, Japan and Sea Shepherd make claims of aggression against each other, but the accounts are generally..

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The year in reality TV, 2010

admin — Fri, 31 Dec 2010 15:10:10 +0000

The year’s end is upon us, and although the transition from today to tomorrow won’t really be noticeable in any other meaningful way, the change from one number to the next prompts us to be nostalgic.

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16 and Pregnant helps prevent teen births

admin — Fri, 24 Dec 2010 00:08:07 +0000

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s National Center for Health Statistics found that the teen birth rate dropped among all groups in 2009, the year that 16 and Pregnant debuted, and a survey reveals that teens say the show has helped them not get pregnant, probably by scaring the bejeezus out of them.

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Fabio says Survivor jury "deviated" from Ponderosa voting plan

admin — Thu, 23 Dec 2010 15:48:39 +0000

In his interview with HitFix, Survivor Nicaragua winner Jud “Fabio” Birza is a bit more coherent than I’ve seen in other interviews (it’s no surprise that a jury member wrote 420 next to his name when they cast their vote), and reveals that he was surprised by how many votes Chase received, and those were probably sympathy votes that went against what the jury planned at Ponderosa. In the interview, Fabio said, “I thought I…

SBT loses ‘Big Brother’ case

admin — Tue, 21 Dec 2010 21:43:42 +0000

TV News: Network ordered to pay damages to Endemol — RIO DE JANEIRO — A Brazilian court has ruled that “Casa dos artistas,” produced and aired by local net SBT in 2001 and 2002, was an unlicensed version of “Big Brother” that infringed Endemol’s copyright.

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The Amazing Race 2 is coming to DVD

admin — Tue, 21 Dec 2010 02:49:28 +0000

Only two seasons of The Amazing Race have been released on DVD, seasons one and seven, but that may soon change, as the second season of the show has been listed on Amazon. TV Shows on DVD reports that while there is not even a pre-order available right now, “it likely is” coming soon “since the listing shows a running time (569 minutes), a studio-provided description (quoted just below), and package art which is not…

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