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Will Paula Abdul Join Simon Cowell's 'The X Factor'? [VIDEOS]
By Mary Phillips-Sandy - AOL NewsPaula Abdul has made it through the first round. Everyone's favorite cantankerous Brit, Simon Cowell, told "Access Hollywood" that he's considering his former "American Idol" co-judge Abdul for a judging spot on his new talent show, "The X Factor," which debuts on Fox this fall. "I've spoken to Paula," Cowell said, adding: "We've taken it down to a smaller group of people and she's in that panel. But, you know, it's more than me who makes the decision." On "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno" last night, Cowell had nothing but praise for Abdul, with whom he famously sparred during their "Idol" ...
Harlem Globetrotters Aim to Win 'The Amazing Race'
By Monica Garske - AOL NewsThe upcoming season of "The Amazing Race: Unfinished Business" features memorable teams from seasons past, and one duo in particular is back to finally settle an old score. That team is Nate "Big Easy" Lofton and Herb "Flight Time" Lang, a couple of wise-cracking big shots who play professional basketball for the Harlem Globetrotters. Monty Brinton, CBS Harlem Globetrotters Herb "Flight Time" Lang, left, and Nate "Big Easy" Lofton will race around the world for a second chance to win $1 million on "The Amazing Race: Unfinished Business," premiering Feb. 20 on CBS. The pair were ...
The Weird World of Steven Tyler
By Monica Garske - AOL News"American Idol" isn't exactly known for being edgy or weird, but judging by new judge Steven Tyler, times they are a-changin'. Tyler spoke briefly with the press Tuesday about the brand-new season of "American Idol," which kicks off at 8 tonight on Fox. Instead of sugar-coating his new job on the show or touting specific contestants, the outspoken, clearly unpredictable Aerosmith rocker said what he wanted, when he wanted. Even if it made no sense. Michael Becker, FOX Steven Tyler and Jennifer Lopez are the latest celebrities to join Randy Jackson and Ryan Seacrest on "American ...
How Did TruTV Get Jail Access for 'Hot Blond Tina' Video?
By Steve Friess - AOL News
LAS VEGAS (Dec. 4) -- At first blush, it seems like a trivial matter, a lawsuit by a buxom blonde from Sin City who is outraged that a cable TV show broadcast footage of her flirting and trying to flash people while being booked on a drunken-driving charge. Yet the peculiar situation of "Hot Blond Tina," as YouTube users have dubbed her, raises an important question at a time when many believe reality television has gotten all too real: How do those cameras get access to such sensitive spaces in the first place? In the case of footage of 32-year-old Tina Vlijter filmed for TruTV's "Inside ...
Nation Breathlessly Awaits DWTS Results: Will Bristol Win?
By Dave Thier - AOL News(Nov. 23) -- The finale has aired, the results are being tallied, and the nation is waiting. Can dark horse "Dancing With the Stars" contestant Bristol Palin pull off an unlikely run toward taking home the top prize in the reality show? Despite not being the most talented dancer, Palin has made it all the way to the final round and has been the focus of media attention in a season that has also included Mike "The Situation" Sorrentino and actress Jennifer Grey of "Dirty Dancing" and "Ferris Bueller's Day Off" fame. Palin's ability to stick around has prompted some incredulous commentators to ...
Even Jerry Springer Makes Fun of 'Springer' Show
By not in system - AOL News
Jerry Springer has a startling confession of his own: The second generation of guests is starting to appear on the 20th season of his talk show. "These people were told not to procreate," jokes the 66-year-old schlock TV legend. "We are probably the only show that grows its own guests." ...
Iraq's Reality-TV Car-Bomb Show a Real Blast, Some Viewers Say
By Matthew Hall - AOL News(Sept. 9) -- Iraqi television has taken reality programming to a controversial new level by broadcasting a show in which celebrities are pranked into believing their vehicles are transporting car bombs. In what appears to be a cross between "Candid Camera," "Punk'd" and the Academy Award-winning film "The Hurt Locker," Iraqi celebrities are told they will be going to jail or may be executed when the "bombs" are discovered by soldiers at a fake checkpoint in Baghdad. albaghdadia.com Is this funny? An Iraqi reality TV show is pranking celebrities into believing they will be jailed or even ...
She Had a Job, a Boyfriend and a Brain Tumor, Back When Reality TV Was Real
By Donna Trussell - Politics DailyFor a moment in time, she was pediatric resident Dr. Marnie Rose at Memorial Hermann in Houston. I got to know her a little during my first, tumultuous year of recovery from ovarian cancer. Dr. Rose was on TV. Back in those days I was combing the schedule for any reality show that slithered its way to the tube. There among the dreck of the early 2000s (guilty pleasures "Mr. Personality," et al., I'm looking at you) was the lovely Ms. Rose in "Houston Medical," an ABC show that featured doctors, patients and their families. The program, shot over the course of a year, ran for six episodes in ...
How an MTV Reality Show Sparked a Crime Wave
By Paul Kix - AOL News(July 28) -- The point of reality shows is for their stars to behave badly, if not for outright criminal enterprises to develop. Now a study to be released Aug. 2 in the journal Economics Letters argues that reality shows may not only breed delinquents but attract them off camera as well. Its key finding is that crime seemed to rise in Laguna Beach, Calif., precisely because "Laguna Beach" was filmed there. Lesley Chiou and Mary Lopez authored the study. (The briefest of abstracts can be found here.) They're assistant professors of economics at Occidental College in L.A. -- and, yes, admit to ...
Pauly Shore 'Adopts' New Persona As 'Slut Killer'
By David Moye - AOL News(July 27) -- If Madonna and Angelina Jolie can adopt African kids, why not Pauly Shore? He is still a celebrity, right? Well, he is in Australia. Yes, the country that helped keep Abba's music alive during the 1980s, and once made "Can't Stop the Music" -- a woefully cheesy musical starring the Village People -- one of its biggest blockbusters ever, worships Shore as the French worship Jerry Lewis. Pauly Shore Comedian Pauly Shore's latest project is a mockumentary where he attempts to adopt two kids from Africa. Hey, he'll take the hero worship any way he can get it. Oh, and throw in a ...
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