Category Archives: Celebrities

‘American Idol’ Loses TV Ratings Crown to Football

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its been a couple weeks since our last rant… so we figured this would be a good topic to start back up again… Idol… American Idol… this show jumped the shark years ago, grasping at atraws to remain relevant. Regardless of the wanna-bes that show up to the tryouts, the show is lame. It has been lame for some time and all of the viewing public hopes that this horrible season closes out the legacy. As an open letter to the producers, please walk away and end it. We no longer want to watch the train-wreck its become. If it does come back, please show us ALL the horrible auditions that you’ve edited out. We dont care about the good auditions… we wand to see that bad ones! 

Is “American Idol” no longer the cultural titan it once was? The numbers are in for last night’s season finale. Not even the notoriously kind Judge J.Lo would have been impressed.

For the first time in a long time, “Idol” won’t finish as the top-rated program in primetime. According to preliminary numbers, NBC’s “Sunday Night Football” will go down as this season’s top-ranked program. The NFL game of the week averaged around 20.7 million viewers, while “Idol’s” Wednesday edition averaged 19.7 million viewers this season. With big NFL ratings come big numbers for the league. Last December, according to The Hollywood Reporter, “the NFL pre-emptively renewed TV rights deals with CBS, Fox, and NBC for nine years (through 2022) at an average increase of 7 percent per network that will take revenue for the NFL from $1.93 billion annually to $3.1 billion by 2022.”

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Zimmerman family member calls NAACP ‘racists’

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If there is a bandwagon to jump on, the NAACP will be there. Same thing with Al Sharpton and Jessee Jackson. Guilty until proven innocent is their ‘unspoken’ mantra. It appears that the NAACP is the “legal” version of reverse racism… Is there a NAAHP? (Hispanic)? Perhaps the Zimmerman family should seek one out. With only a portion of the facts available, I think its horrible that so many people, celebrities included, have jumped on the ‘Trayvon’ train for shameless publicity. Speaking of celebrities, what have Rosanne Barr and Spike Lee done in the last 20 years? These are two of the most irrelevant celbs someone could find…

In a letter obtained exclusively by The Daily Caller on Monday, a family member of George Zimmerman ripped Seminole County, Fla. NAACP president Turner Clayton for a rush to judgment in the Trayvon Martin case.

“It’s time for you to end the race issue in this matter and call for cooler heads to prevail,” the letter reads. “If something happens to George as a result of the race furor stirred up by this mischaracterization of George there will be blood on your hands as well as the rest of the racists that have rushed to judgment. You need to call off the dogs. Period. Publicly and swiftly.”

George, the letter adds, “has been called a racist and a bigot and there have been very few that have stood up for him.” The letter was addressed to Clayton at the NAACP’s national headquarters in Baltimore.

The family member, whose identity TheDC has confirmed but is withholding out of concern for the Zimmerman family’s safety, said George Zimmerman “has been found guilty” in the court of public opinion “until proven innocent,” adding that the details of what happened on Feb. 26 — the night Zimmerman shot Martin in what he claims was self-defense — “will not be disclosed until the police report is made public.”

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Chevy Chase to ‘Community’ creator: ‘F*ck you’

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I applaud Chevy for standing up for his family! His wife and kids were there and for Dan Harmon to be so self absorbed to not finish the scene because the “writing was bad”? Please… you’re not doing Shakespeare! You’re doing a second, o0r third, rate sitcom! Get a life Dan and well done Chevy! You need to go on Howard Stern again for talk about this!

It looks like there is trouble brewing in the Greendale Community College “Community.”

A heated voicemail left by actor Chevy Chase for “Community” creator Dan Harmon leaked online over the weekend, revealing a troubling rift between the veteran comedian and the series showrunner, Deadline reports.

During the third season wrap party, Harmon reportedly made a speech where he gave Chase a big “fuck you” after the actor reportedly refused to film a final scene because he didn’t like the writing.

Chase’s wife and daughter were present at the party, so the actor stormed out — and that is when things got even more tense.

Chase then called and left Harmon a volatile voicemail, in which he calls Harmon a “fat fuck” and says that the writing on the show is an “abomination.”

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America thinks LeBron James is more overpaid than anybody but Snooki and Kim Kardashian

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The writer of the article clearly has a bias towards Lebron. Simply put… someone who is as self serving as Lebron needs to be on this list. 99% of all Americans hate these three people because of their sheer irrelevance. Besides, the NBA is filled with many many examples (as the writer states) of players who are paid way too much for mediocre performances. I think ill start to lobby to have the nba shut down… its a horrible organized activity.

Nestled within the results of a new joint lifestyle survey conducted by Yahoo! Finance and Fitness magazine is an interesting little NBA nugget. Asked to identify people who make way more money than they deserve, nearly a quarter of survey respondents picked LeBron James.

In addition to questions about monthly finances, planned uses for tax refunds, spending preferences and how money impacts relationships, 2,000 Americans were asked, “Who do you think makes way more money than she/he deserves to?” The most popular choice was mom-and-wife-to-be Nicole “Snooki” Polizzi of “Jersey Shore” fame, picked by 51 percent of those surveyed. She was followed closely by Kim Kardashian (45 percent), with whom we are all very familiar.

There’s a big gap after the two reality stars — the third-most popular answer didn’t get even a quarter of respondents’ votes — but James is No. 3 on the list. Twenty-four percent of the 2,000 people surveyed said the Miami Heat superstar and two-time league Most Valuable Player gets paid more money than he deserves.

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Celeb Trend Alert: Sexy Garter Tights! (video)

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This is an awesome new style… IF you’re hot. Beyonce’, you should have left them on the shelf at the store! Try cargo shorts/pants, they are more your style… Paris, the hottest of them all… (video below)

Miley Cyrus steps out in Los Angeles on Tuesday rocking some super sexy garter tights and she’s not the only celeb to sport this growing trend. Check out some stars who donned the racy leg-wear and let us know on Twitter and Facebook who you think wore the look best! Plus, Ryan Reynolds strikes a pose for the premiere of his new action flick “Safe House,” and Ashton Kutcher celebrates his 34th birthday.

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Facebook Graffiti Artist Could be Worth $500 Million (video)

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All of here at Minute14 are HUGE Stern Show fans and heard every minute of the Choe interview discussing his new found wealth… as I read this New York Times article all I could think was ‘Jealous much?’ He points out that had requested an interview several times and was declined, but goes on The Stern Show… Perhaps Nick should have dome better reporting instead of telling us what Howard spoke about. Tell us something that 10 million of us didn’t hear on Tuesday Good for Choe on making some good decisions on his business… well done! Oh, and one more thing… BABA BOOEY? BABA BOOEY! BABA BOOEY!

Last week Evelyn Rusli and I wrote about the people who are set to get rich from Facebook’s cominginitial public offering of stock. The most startling was David Choe, a graffiti artist who chose Facebook stock instead of cash when he spray-painted the first Facebook offices in 2005.

Although Mr. Choe declined several requests for an interview while I was reporting the story, he took to the airwaves on Tuesday as a guest on The Howard Stern Show to discuss his windfall. (Warning: the conversation, like Mr. Choe’s paintings, is very sexual descriptive.)

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What Were They Thinking?!

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At what point does the large sites start calling this kid a freak? This is pretty well documented at this point…

Tween dream Justin Bieber was all smiles as he arrived at the NRJ Music Awards in Cannes, France, on Saturday night. Not smiling … Team omg!, who thought his cheesy motorcycle jacket outcheesed his Provolone-infused pose. And dare we say we even miss his signature sideswept ‘do?! (1/28/2012)

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M.I.A.’s Raised Middle Finger Raises Question: Why The Provocation?(Video & Pic)

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M.I.A., Guess what? No one heard of you before the half time show at the Superbowl and no one will care in 24 hours. You were at Minute 13 before your performance and now you’re at Minute 14! Welcome to irrelevance! Because of your actions, half time next year will now feature a mime instead of a music show. You’re so ignorant of the stage you were on that your self-importance took over your judgement… lame. Video and more pics below

So, who used whom in the Madonna/M.I.A. Super Bowl halftime controversy–per that already famous middle finger that M.I.A. offered tens of millions of viewers before the censors could get to it? Did Madonna encourage this insurrection from her guest rapper, so that she’d have some provocation in her otherwise family-friendly set without having to take the rap herself? Or was M.I.A. using Madonna and the Super Bowl to get attention for her own new video and forthcoming album? Or maybe just driven to atone, in her own outrageous way, for having sold out in agreeing to be Madonna’s celebrity cheerleader?

Whatever the motives, this is hardly the first time M.I.A. has gotten the public’s hackles up. Her status as a lightning rod for controversy was satirized just a couple of months ago on “Saturday Night Live,” when an actress parodying M.I.A. interrupted a spoof Christmas duet with Michael Buble by repeatedly firing a pistol in the air, mid-carol.

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Kelly Clarkson nails National Anthem (Video)

First, we’d like to congratulate the New York Giant on willing the Superbowl! Way to, once again, shut down the New England Patriots! As for Clarkson… she did a great job! No Minute 14 for Clarkson!

She nailed it.

Kelly Clarkson tackled the National Anthem prior to Sunday’s Super Bowl and wrapped her big Texas-sized vocals around the song. There were no slip-ups and there wasn’t much vocal showboating, just a straightforward, powerful version of the Anthem.

The first season “American Idol” winner, whose “Stronger (What Doesn’t Kill You)” is currently No. 2 on Billboard’s Hot 100 singles chart, appeared in a black mini-dress, rocking a new set of bangs on her forehead while backed by a children’s choir and a drumline. Clutching a bejeweled microphone, Clarkson stuck to the script, choosing not to go for over-the-top glory notes but hitting her marks with gusto.

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Paula Abdul, Simon Cowell speak on ‘X Factor’ changes

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Paula, why do you keep doing this? Getting yourself fired when working with Simon… Is there something else we don’t know about that happened? Just fade away and do something else. Oh, wait… what else would you do? Perhaps go back to American Idol?? Hmmm…

After a number of outlets whispered that Paula Abdul is parting ways with the “X Factor” after only one season, the judge/mentor is confirming the news herself.

“Yes, it’s true; I won’t be returning to ‘The X Factor’ next season. I’ve learned through my longevity in this industry that business decisions often times override personal considerations,” Abdul says in a statement. “Simon [Cowell] and I, along with Fox and Fremantle, have been communicating about this for a while now, and I have absolute understanding of the situation.”

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