There's no amount of money in the world that would make us sit through the American Music Awards (OK, that's not entirely accurate), so instead of a write-up of the snooze-fest, here's an exhaustive collection of photos. From the looks of things, Miley Cyrus once again made the entire event all about her (and her 16th birthday, which she's been celebrating for the past few months). Surprise, surprise.
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Last night's TRL finale wasn't quite the circus it proved to be back in its heyday, mainly because the show has been trying way too hard since before Britney Spears took her tumble. Regardless, some of the show's most successful graduates showed up to pay tribute to arguably the best thing MTV ever produced. Tons of photos after the jump. CONTINUED »
• This girl needs to back off of Michael Phelps immediately or there's going to be trouble. [DListed]
• Nick Lachey and Vanessa Minnillo hang out with Lindsay and Samantha in a desperate attempt to stay relevant. [PS]
• Felicity Huffman must have a death wish. [Yeeeah]
• Paula Abdul is undergoing neck surgery, because how else is she going to get more painkillers? [ICYDK]
• There's cheerleading in the Olympics? Really? [CityRag]
• Katherine Heigl got into a small tiff with a cop. Unfortunately, it didn't end in an arrest. [INO]
NBC is actually going to broadcast a show called Clash of the Choirs, simultaneously sating America's forgotten Sister Act 2 fans and proving that this writer's strike really needs to come to an end.
Michael Bolton, Patti LaBelle, Nick Lachey and Kelly Rowland are all involved with the show in some way or another, which should give you a clear understanding of just where their careers are going. Vanessa Minnillo will be hosting.
It's going to be terrible. Also: Quit putting church stuff on our TV!
• Snoop Dogg is shaming the instructors from his etiquette school. [Stereohyped]
• I Am Scientologist. [Yeeeah]
• In Touch hired a private investigator to look into Tom Cruise's sexuality! This is not a joke! The world has gotten that bad. [DListed]
• The strike drags on like an episode of Two and a Half Men. [PS]
• Vanessa Minnillo in the Virgin Islands. I'll leave it to you to make some variation of the "but she's certainly not a virgin" joke. [HT]
• Another tool to scare children into believing they're constantly being watched. Cute! [INO]
• "Common likes himself some Serena." (Of course, improper English for stories on black celebs.) [ICYDK]
• Who can say "gay"? [Queerty]
• New York television news team terrified the orange guy might ruin their very important iPhone story. [BWE]
• Most hookers feel lucky when they're not beaten to death. [DListed]
• Lohan in jorts. [HT]
• License to Wed fails worse than many real marriages. [ICYDK]
• Now hopeless thirtysomethings can venture outside their condos and boo Big on the silver screen. [Glitterati]
• This is how unwanted babies are made. [Yeeeah]
• Veins mean she's alive. They're not gross. Sorry. [CityRag]
• A look at luxury with Blonde Redhead, by editor Cord Jefferson. [Filter]
• Nick and Vanessa trying desperately to block photos that would destroy their "careers." [DListed]
• This guy dislikes Eva Longoria. [HT]
• Michelle Pfeiffer batting for the other team. [ICYDK]
• Cameron Diaz promises she didn't make the magician's wife disappear. [Yeeeah]
• Demi or Ozzy? How about neither? [CityRag]
& bull; This guy tries to nab the FOX News mic instead of the absurdly coveted iPhone. People are calling him stupid and I think that's more than obvious. What's not obvious is why they didn't give him the mic. Normally, FOX lets every dunce with an opinion get their hands on one. [BWE]
• Britney getting angry! You know Britney not like getting angry! When Britney get angry, things get bald! [DListed]
• But their money's worth twice as much. Why do they get the free ones? [Glitterati]
• More of Paris dressed like a scarecrow. [HT]
• Technically it's Nick and Vanessa skinny dipping, but it's actually more like censor-dip. Get it? [ICYDK]
• Katie Holmes taking flack for looking dowdy. [Yeeeah]
• While Kathy Griffin isn't particularly funny, I like that she's set her sights on Ann Coulter. [CityRag]
• Dane Cook as John Lennon. That's apt. [BWE]
• It's Juneteenth today. Time to celebrate the freed slaves! This year, the government's finally coming through with those 40 acres and a mule. Just kidding. Fuck you, descendants! [SH]
• No more doofus hats on grup parents who hate growing old. [ICYDK]
• Maria Menounos is still second-rate Minnillo. [HT]
• These are not the ribald gents who wanted nothing more than girls, girls, girls. These are but sniveling schoolchildren. Away with the motley fools. [Yeeeah]
• Lipo-speculation. [CityRag]
Nick Lachey is being accused of grabbing a photographer by the neck and shoving him, while simultaneously whispering into his ear, "I'm going to fucking kill you if I ever see you again!" This following the paparazzo directing a "nasty" comment toward Lachey's girlfriend, Vanessa Minnillo.
Though he is wearing a trucker hat—a good indicator of a clueless dick—be sure to watch the movie before passing judgment. From what I can ascertain, Lachey's pissed, but he's certainly not violent. If there's anyone to be afraid of, it's that knife-wielding VJ.
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Vanessa Minnillo may be facing some large career consequences for taking several strange pictures with Lindsay Lohan that depict the two, among other things, holding knives up to each other's throats.
The mystery brunette posing sexily with a knife at Lindsay Lohan's throat in photos that ran in yesterday's New York Post is Vanessa Minnillo, who might have a hard time getting a new job because of the risqué party pictures.
Minnillo, 26, was host of MTV's "TRL" and New York correspondent for "Entertainment Tonight," both Viacom shows, until her contract expired in April. The former date of Derek Jeter and current girlfriend of Nick Lachey did not renew with either show.
Last week, she co-hosted the Miss Universe pageant in Mexico City with Mario López without incident. But the beauty is gaining a bad rep in the TV industry for her diva-like behavior at work and hard partying outside the studio.
While friends of Minnillo insist it was she who decided not to renew the contract with "ET," insiders say her bosses at CBS Paramount soured on her when she covered the Grammys in February. Minnillo was not assigned to the Academy Awards in March.
When producers flew her to Los Angeles to cover the Grammys, "she was extremely high maintenance," said one source. "She insisted they fly her own hair and makeup people and her personal assistant out with her every time she flew to L.A. She only flew first class and stayed at the Four Seasons, and then she didn't want to work.
So, she has an extreme sense of entitlement, she's adverse to work, she's rude and, when she is on the job, she's hosting the Miss Universe pageant? What's everyone's problem with her taking pictures brandishing knives? She was on TRL, not Frontline. Give the baby her knives and never hire her ever again.
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• Fergie's new single is an amalgam of Extreme, Pink and garbage (literal garbage, not the band). [DListed]
• Bud got busted with buds. [BWE]
• Joey Buttafuoco looks like butt. [Glitterati]
• I hope they didn't eat half an hour ago. [HT]
• Cameron says breakups hurt. Thanks for a scintillating interview I could have read in a middle school girl's bathroom. [ICYDK]
• Crow buys American. [Yeeeah]
• Demi wants Ashton to stop drinking? How 'bout first he concentrates on not being grating the instant you see his face. [CityRag]
• Larry the Cable Guy found the most efficient way to alienate his blue collar fan base: make light of the war their sons and daughters are dying in. [BWE]
• Spiderman 4? Will the villain finally learn to just cut off his arms at the elbows and shoot him in the head? [TheBosh]
• Everything wants to get away from Britney, even her breasts. [HT]
• Sardonic British wit hits a low point with Hugh Grant's cancer jokes. [INO]
• TRL loses the only reason 15-year-old boys were still tuning in: Vanessa Minnillo. [Jossip]
• He's bringing drinking on the job back. [ASL]
• Subconscious chic for Paris. [ICYDK]
• Coco opts for optical illusion chic. [DListed]
• Paper's Anna Nicole coverage from 10 years ago. [Paper]
• TRL might be canceled. Nobody cares except Vanessa Minnillo and your little sister. [Jossip]
• Beyonce not really appreciating her majestic, cover model beauty. [INO]
• American Idol dudes. There's someone named Sundance Head. And you bet your ass there's hair product. [JJ]
• Anna Nicole biography on the rebound, making the world's worst biographer now the world's luckiest biographer. [NYT]
• Nick and Vanessa at a Knicks game, laughing, wearing sweaters and drinking plastic cups of domestic beer. These pictures are so American they could be the new flag. [PopSugar]
• Don't look Ms. Miller in the eye when you give her your free shit. [NYP]
• Unfortunately, yet another vehicular manslaughter. [TMZ]
• I think this means that Brandon Davis has a small penis. I'm not good with the "blind item" things. [NYDN]
• Take a pic of Diddy and he'll "spend the rest of his life hunting you down." Or, he'll run away and have his bodyguard do it. [Jossip]
• Josh Hartnett's so overcome with grief after breaking up with Scarlett that his only refuge is getting blown in bar bathrooms. [ASL]
• Victoria Beckham is starting a clothing line aimed at "curvy" women. She's also placing a ban on size zero models promoting her clothing. I respect what she's doing. That being said, isn't this like Michael Kors banning gay men from his shows? [SNO]
It sounds like introducing innocent children to the word fuck was only the beginning of New Years for Vanessa Minnillo. If I've said it once, I've said it a million times but Nick Lachey has the patience of a saint. Seriously. Us Weekly reports on Vanessa's drunken antics:
– 1:44 a.m. Nick, Vanessa and their huge entourage arrive at the Joonbug.com party at Marquee in a black SUV with Vanessa sitting on the Nick's lap because there isn't space for everyone in the car.
The former Miss Teen USA is wearing backless mini-dress with a plunging neckline [ed note: pictured to the side], and the couple of eight months holds hands while they walk into the club.
The gang heads to a VIP booth and Vanessa begins sucking down glass after glass of champagne. Soon her eyes are half closed, her head rolling around.
She keeps opening her legs and the ladies in her entourage physically shut them for her. Vanessa then straddles Nick and makes out with him passionately while her short skirt rides up.
She later falls off of the booth and into the recesses of the furniture. Her crew helps her up while Nick watches in stony silence, unamused by her antics.
– 3:35 a.m. Vanessa takes Nick's beer and chugs it, while some of the beer runs down her face and neck.
As the group gets ready to leave, an unsteady Vanessa tries to stand up but she falls down into the booth. Nick starts to pay the bill, and Vanessa digs into her wallet puts a wad of cash in her mouth and jokingly starts waving it around.
Vanessa's girlfriends take the cash from her mouth and distribute tips to the beleaguered staff.
– 4:23 a.m. Vanessa's pals help her out the back entrance of the club while Nick ignores her and talks on his cell phone. As Vanessa is poured into the car, Nick climbs into the back seat and avoids her.
At least she gave him a massage in the Newark airport waiting for their flight to Los Angeles the next day. He was probably sore from having to carry her ass into bed and maybe hold her hair back as she yacked all night long. I kid, they're pretty precious.
Perhaps Vanessa Minnillo was a touch sauced when she dropped a "fucking" bomb on MTV's live broadcast last night. I expect at least minimal controversy over this. Posting the clip and calling attention to the incident probably won't help Vanessa keep her job. Eh, at least she looked hot getting all intimate like with Nick Lachey ringing in '07.
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Hello? Anyone out there? If you're still at work, now is the perfect time to test out that napping under the desk/blow-up doll self decoy trick you've been so tempted to try. Seriously, tell your boss I say you can leave. He/She will listen.
In any event, this picture of Vanessa Minnillo from yesterday's TRL (special guest Michelle Trachtenberg!) made me giggle. No reason, but perhaps the hair/make-up was an homage to all the pageant-related drama this week? Just a thought.
I'll be here in bits and pieces over the weekend, but barring any births, deaths, divorces, DUIs or Britney crotch sitings, I'll be far away from the computer on Monday and Tuesday (who am I kidding, I hyperventilate when I'm more than three feet from my device). I hope that you all have a fun, safe, boozy (if you're into that sort of thing), and love-filled long weekend.
Stay out of trouble, ya hear?
Cheers, friends.
Kisses and Egg Nog and Spiked Cider and Good Wine and Seasonal Microbrews and Late Night Cocktails,
Molly
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