• Not surprisingly, Heidi Montag and Spencer Pratt selected the ugliest wedding rings ever. [ICYDK]
• Scarlett Johansson dyed her hair brunette. Alert the media! [PS]
• Julia Roberts is married to crazy person. [CityRag]
• Brad Pitt on the paparazzi: "I have no respect for these people. I do not like them. I don’t understand how they can live their lives that way." Tell us how you really feel. [INO]
• On a superficial note: Britney Spears looked really pretty last night, y'all. [Yeeeah]
• Real Housewife Nene, the love of Anderson Cooper's life, has gotten herself into a little bit of trouble. [DListed]
• Too much hotness in one video: Anderson Cooper and Michael Phelps take to the pool.
• Tom Cruise allowed his family to have a nice, quiet Thanksgiving at home. Just kidding, he paraded them out in front of the paparazzi, as usual. [PS]
• Another lukewarm "Womanizer" performance by Britney Spears. [Yeeeah]
• And the Britney mediocrity continues, this time in Glamour magazine. [HT]
• When did Shia LaBeouf turn into a homeless person? [INO]
• Worst rumor of the week: Mary-Kate Olsen is pregnant. Xenu help us all. [ICYDK]
Last night's finale of The Real Housewives of Atlanta made us incredibly sad. What are we going to do without the vocal stylings of Kim gracing our television sets every week? But the real star of the show, NeNe, also managed to captivate the heart of the amazing Anderson Cooper. And — oops! — NeNe may or may not have just hinted at his homosexuality:
I'm not surprised that Anderson Cooper is talking about me! Wouldn't you talk about me? I'm not surprised. Anderson Cooper is gorgeous. He is THE silver fox, and I just wish he'd come over on this side of the street.
How much do you love Anderson Cooper? He's a great news anchor, making a valiant attempt to stay neutral and simply report the news instead of bullying his guests into submission (ahem, Bill O'Reilly), and he manages to take time in his day to enjoy what really matters: reality TV.
Coop stopped by to visit with Jay Leno last night about all things Obama-related, but the main highlight (around 3:10) occurred when he brought up his love affair with The Real Housewives of Atlanta's NeNe. If anyone can get the Silver Fox to do some reality television commentary for Mollygood, let us know.
It's hard watching Anderson Cooper anchor a segment about gay rights — particularly, gay marriage — when he can't even acknowledge where he stands on the issue.
Barbara Walters released the names of some of her Most Fascinating People for 2008. Among the lucky losers are Will Smith (uh, why?), Tom Cruise (again, why?), Miley Cyrus, Tina Fey, Frank Langella, Rush Limbaugh and Michael Phelps. We agree with a few, but overall it looks to be another snoozefest.
After the jump: Mollygood's Most Fascinating People for 2008. Feel free to add to the list. CONTINUED »
The great thing about all these Real Housewives series is that every city is home to a different breed of women. The Orange County ladies are botoxed and over-tanned into an orange oblivion, the New York City women are sophisticated and pretentious beyond belief — but the Atlanta housewives are truly glorious specimens to behold.
In the clip above, meet one of the delusional stars, Kim (not Anderson Cooper's favorite, NeNe, unfortunately), who genuinely thinks she is meant to be a professional singer. We can't say much more than that — just watch the scene and cover your ears.
Anderson Cooper is rapidly becoming the one person, living or dead, with whom we would choose to have dinner. Not only is he hilariously sarcastic when it comes to politics — telling Ellen Degeneres, "I'm not sure I existed before [the election]" — he also focuses on what really matters: Reality television. The former Living Lohan critic revealed his current obsession with The Real Housewives of Atlanta, most notably resident crazy NeNe. When Ellen admits she hasn't watched, Anderson asks incredulously, "What have you been doing?" before giving the show the hard sell: "It's good … or something." Swoon.
Clip after the jump (skip to 2:30 for the good stuff). CONTINUED »
We all love Anderson Cooper. (It would be UnAmerican not to!)
And no one wants to make America's silver fox out to be some sort of hypocrite or anything — he's certainly a good, down to earth journalist, but can we just pause and call bullshit for a second?
What a tangled web our bloody, shameful, slave-ridden American history has woven.
A genealogical study has found that silvern newsman Anderson Cooper's great-great-grandfather, Cornelius Vanderbilt, once owned Michelle Obama's great-great-grandfather, Jim Robinson, on Friendfield(!!!!!!!!!), a 3,000-acre plantation in Georgetown, South Carolina.
Whitney Tower, a budding author and cousin of Cooper's who still lives in Georgetown, has now invited Obama to visit Robinson's resting place at Friendfield. Obama has yet to accept the offer, probably because walking amid tremendous wealth tended to for decades by one's enslaved ancestor and people like him, many of whom are now buried underfoot, is equal parts infuriating, creepy and fucking depressing.
If her husband is elected, Michelle Obama would be the first First Lady with slave roots.
Update: Whoops! The Daily News has updated their article to include the information that the Vanderbilt family did not own Friendfield in the slave era, meaning Cornelius Vanderbilt never owned Jim Robinson—some other horrendous, lazy pig did.
Well, that was fast: After Lindsay Lohan issued a statement to Access Hollywood in response to her father's cries for attention and then Samantha Ronson posted a MySpace rant about Michael's idiocy, Linds took to her MySpace to vent some more. Because evidently enough hurtful things haven't been said amongst the Lohan clan.
We feel for Lindsay a bit, because her father truly is a media whore, but she lost us when she insisted that her mother is the goddess of all things pure and good in this world. Um, no. To make matters worse, she also does that weird thing with the hyphens, just like Sam.
This is way less entertaining without Anderson Cooper around to provide commentary. CONTINUED »
We've come to the conclusions that the Lohan family can't survive without being involved in some sort of public feud. The latest was with America's hero, Anderson Cooper, but this time they're keeping it inside the family and battling father Michael Lohan. Oh boy.
Upon news that Lindsay's girlfriend Samantha Ronson plans to write a tell-all, Michael went into a tirade accusing Sam of using LiLo for fame. Mike's not so self-aware, is he? In response, Lindsay pulled her dad aside and had a mature talk about how his actions hurt her. Just kidding, she went to Access Hollywood to announce that her father is "out of control."
So now it's Samantha's turn, and she unleashed her anger via MySpace, Brooke Hogan-style. CONTINUED »
If you haven't been keeping up with the Anderson Cooper-Lohan family feud, then we'll give you the shortened version: Anderson insulted Dina and Ali on Live with Regis and Kelly, then Dina told OK! magazine something about cruelty and karma, then Anderson responded on 360 by basically laughing at the idiocy of the entire family. Caught up? Good.
We knew it was only a matter of time before Michael Sr. threw his hat into the ring, and he didn't disappoint with his statement to Access Hollywood:
I think Anderson Cooper is an opinionated, hypocritical idiot who should be an adult and keep his opinion to himself. He is the last person to judge anyone, when he and his own family have their own issues.
Because if anyone is in a position to talk about keeping your opinions to himself, it's Michael "I sell my statements to the tabloids" Lohan. Well played.
Anderson, rebuttal?
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On yesterday's Live with Regis and Kelly, guest co-host Anderson Cooper launched into an attack on the Lohan family, offering up his great Dina impression and nothing this lovely observation: "The only thing I've seen her actually do is sit around in an office reading stuff about her daughter online and then calling the people up like, 'You gotta take that offline.'" Which is perfect, because this is exactly what Dina did — by the end of the day, she had called OK! magazine with an "exclusive" quote about how Anderson has bad karma (we don't even need to go into the pot and kettle introductions). But Anderson has won yet again with his latest opinion on last night's 360. Dina, honey, you're out of your league.
After Anderson Cooper's anti-Lohan rant yesterday on Live with Regis and Kelly, we knew mom Dina would be quick with a rebuttal. For a quick refresher, here's part of what Coop had to say about Ali, the family's littlest famewhore:
Allegedly a 14-year-old girl, looks to be about 60. … I say that with concern and love. She allegedly wants to be a singer and/or actor-slash-performer of some sort, striptease person, I don't know.
Dina disappointed us in the statement department, simply offering up: "People are just cruel! This is bad karma for him." Well, she would know about bad karma.
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Our apologies for posting a second Anderson Cooper video in the same afternoon, but this moment is made of such greatness it deserves to be shared. Anderson shares with Kelly his reality TV viewing habits and then goes on to bash Dina and Ali Lohan, but the best part is where he references Joel McHale. The fact that Anderson Cooper watches The Soup just made our entire day.
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