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Haggard on Wife Swap

It's been a while since preacher Ted Haggard made headlines. You may recall that back in 2006, a male escort claimed he had sex with Haggard and that Haggard bought drugs from him. Haggard denied having sex with the man and said he only bought the drugs, but didn't actually use them.

Either way, it did some serious damage to his image...for a while, that is. "I went through a scandal five years ago, and most marital problems aren't nearly as serious as that one was and we survived it," Haggard said.
Not only did Haggard survive, but he now wants the world to know he is thriving. Audiences will soon see him, his wife and their kids on ABC's "Celebrity Wife Swap."


"So many people are fixated on the scandal as though it is the only thing in [our lives]," he said. "We've been married 33 years. We've got wonderful children. We had a wonderful church life at New Life ministries for 22 years, and now at St. James Church. The kids were excited about the idea of communicating the current status of our life so that [viewers] could have some actual data instead of the symbolic imagery that I have become [to some people]."

One thing is for sure: viewers will see Haggard in a very different light. Haggard and his wife switch living places with Gary Busey and his fiancée Steffanie in the first episode of "Celebrity Wife Swap," which premieres on ABC January 3.

And if you think Haggard might have his hands full with or be seriously annoyed by Busey and his significant other, think again.

Haggard says he and his family really bonded with Busey's fiancée. "She kept saying, 'You have been surviving for the past five years and it's time for you to start thriving.' So she would not let us refer to the scandal," said Haggard. "She resisted that and kept saying, 'You all are such a good family,' and, 'you've got to move forward and enjoy the resurrection that God has for you.'"


HBO renews Enlightened

HBO renews Enlightened. HBO still 'Enlightened', HBO has renewed "Enlightened," a show about a self-destructive executive trying to rebuild her life. Other shows, including "Hung," "Bored to Death" and "How to Make It in America," weren't as fortunate. 
American cable network HBO is renewing its Golden Globes-nominated freshman series Enlightened, but is axing three other series.

Hung and Bored to Death will not return for a fourth season, nor will How to Make it in America be back for a third cycle, the network said on Tuesday.

Enlightened, which ended its first season earlier this month, last week earned a Golden Globe nomination for Best Comedy or Musical Series, as well as a nomination for its star, Laura Dern. On the show, Dern plays an unstable career woman who wants to be a social activist.

HBO will premiere six new series in 2012. They include Luck, an untitled drama series created by Aaron Sorkin, Veep, Girls, Life's Too Short and Angry Boys, which debuts on New Year's Day.
'Toddlers' star's new role
Toddlers' star's new role. Toddlers singing along to a nursery rhyme have been banned from making a "star" sign in case the "rude" gesture offends deaf people.

The children were making the sign with their hands to indicate a twinkling star as they sang along to Twinkle Twinkle Little Star, when staff asked them to use a different gesture - prompting a furious response from one parent.

The disgruntled mother said: "It seems a little politically correct. These are innocent little children just making a sign to show a star. No-one would give it a second thought. Now every parent may worry their child may be making an offensive gesture when they're singing this song."

A spokeswoman for City of York Council, who are responsible for the Sure Start mother and toddler group in Acomb, York, denied it was a case of political correctness, insisting it was more "a sensible decision taken to prevent deaf children or deaf parents being offended by the use of the gesture".

She added that staff at the Sure Start group had been on a sign language course at which they were advised that the "star" gesture was very similar to the sign used for female genitalia.

The staff used a language programme called Makaton which uses signs and symbols to help people communicate, she said. Makaton is designed to support spoken language by using sign and symbols use with speech in spoken word order.

She said that staff realised it was a sensitive matter and, using their own discretion, had decided to use the accurate hand sign for a star.
The spokeswoman added: "Parents have not been banned from using the other sign and City of York Council does not have a policy over this matter."
Linda Hogan relationship rehab

Linda Hogan's 23-year-old fiance just couldn't tame the cougar -- because he and the Hulk's 52-year-old ex-wife will be working out their issues on VH1's "Relationship Rehab" ... TMZ has learned.

Sources close to production tell us, Linda and literal boyfriend Charlie Hill have agreed to appear on the upcoming reality show, hoping to fix their crumbling relationship -- and taping is already underway.

Linda and Hulk Hogan got divorced back in 2009 -- and Charlie, who Linda had been dating since 2008, proposed a year later.
Michelle Duggar miscarriage

Reality TV couple Michelle and Bob Duggar  lost their 20th child after suffering a miscarriage.  The two went to the doctor to find out the gender of the baby, but instead got the news that they lost it. 
Michelle Duggar has suffered a miscarriage with her 20th child, according to a report from People.com

The “19 Kids and Counting” star, 45, and her husband Jim Bob Duggar learned the sad news while at a routine doctor’s appointment to learn the sex of the baby.

“We had just been talking about baby names last night and they were getting excited about naming a boy or a girl. It has been a real sad disappointment,”
she told People.



The Duggar’s plan to select a name for the baby before having a funeral service.

"I feel like my heart broke telling my children," she said. "They have all been so excited about this baby and looking forward to April coming around and having a new little one in our arms. That was the most difficult. The Lord is the giver of life and he can choose when that life is ready to go on and be with Him."

This was the couple’s second miscarriage. They previously lost a baby during her second pregnancy while she was taking birth control. The couple cites it as a reason they decided to leave the number of children they have “up to God.”
Martha Stewart dirty joke


Martha Stewart, 70, got a little carried away on her show while teaching the audience how to make homemade sausages. The host and a guest butcher were describing sausage casings  and then Stewart made a funny comparison.
Stewart hosted butcher Ryan Farr on her show to teach audiences how to prepare homemade sausages. As Barr described sausage casings as cleaned out pig intestines, Stewart made some more lighthearted analogies. Holding up a casing, Stewart said "so these are more like rubber balloons actually," before adding, "or condoms."


When Barr challenged her condom comparison, Stewart insisted that she "bet they [would] work," since they were "good enough for sausage." Awkward!

Stewart made headlines recently after her daughter Alexis released a book that painted her mother in a less than perfect light. Her daughter's book revealed that Stewart would avoid Halloween trick-or-treaters by pretending she was not home, and would urinate with the bathroom door open.

Watch the video below, and view a slideshow of another daring move Stewart recently made. Stewart was photographed sproting leather pants and sequins.
Abdul Scherzinger death threats

"X-Factor" hosts Paula Abdul and Nicole Scherzinger voted off the wrong contestant Thursday night -- at least according to several angry Drew Ryniewicz fans ... whose violent threats have Paula and Nicole fearing for their lives.

According to our sources, Paula and Nicole both got the cold shoulder from Simon Cowell after the show ... who was "furious" with their decision. But that's nothing compared to the abusive tweets and Facebook messages they've received.
Abdul Scherzinger death threats. 'X Factor' judges get death threats, After the latest elimination on the show "X Factor", judges Paula Abdul and Nicole Scherzinger apparently received death threats. Abdul and Nicole Scherzinger for voting Drew Ryniewicz out of the competition have lashed out with death threats against the two judges.

Both panelists have received harassment filled with violent language on Facebook and Twitter, and sources with the production confirm to Gossip Cop that there’s been “a ton” of vitriol directed at Abdul and Scherzinger since Ryniewicz’s ouster.

Online outrage is nothing new in TV talent competitions, but the sheer volume of angry, threatening messages has alarmed the “X Factor” personalities.

Gossip Cop is seeking to confirm whether additional security precautions will be taken.

We’ve also reached out to reps for Abdul and Scherzinger but have yet to hear back.
Abdul Scherzinger death threats

She broke down in floods of tears as she learnt she was the latest X Factor contestant to be heading home from the show and the news of Drew's departure left mentor Simon Cowell fuming.

But while the music mogul refused to speak to fellow Nicole Scherzinger and Paula Abdul after they gave their damming verdicts, fans of the 14-year-old have been extremely vocal telling the judges exactly what they think.


In fact, some angry fans have even gone as far as to post death threats to the women on social networking sites like Twitter.
A source close to the judges told MailOnline: ‘Paula and Nicole have been really shocked by the reaction they have had, immediately after the show they were being bombarded with messages angry fans who supported Drew.’
It seems a lot of people were as upset for Drew as Simon was. She's a young girl and was visibly upset, but like Astro a lot of Drews fans are online and they are very vocal’

When Drew was kicked off the show after performing a save me song against Marcus Canty her mentor Simon had stormed off from the judges desk and refused to speak on stage as he held the sobbing teenager.

Speaking about the elimination the source said: ‘Drew has handled it really well but Simon was devastated for her, he loved working with her and he blamed himself. He was angry with Paula and Nicole at first but he knows they are always going to go with their own decisions, that’s their job to do that, more than anything he was upset for Drew.’
Tulisa admits to X Factor fears
X Factor judge Tulisa Contostavlos says she is still dogged by fears she does not 'belong' on the show
X Factor judge Tulisa Contostavlos says she is still dogged by fears she does not "belong" on the show after her troubled childhood.

X Factor judge Tulisa Contostavlos says she is still dogged by fears she does not "belong" on the show after her troubled childhood.


She said she is still overcome by doubts following her teenage years in which she attempted suicide, self-harmed and was a regular dope smoker.

The star told the Radio Times she has her moments of self-doubt "now and again".

Tulisa joined the show this year as the judging panel underwent a revamp.

But reflecting on her role, she said: "I'll think, 'I don't belong here.'

"I get those moments now and again. Although I can be very feisty, that's a defence mechanism for me. I'm defensive because too many years of my life I was treated like shit."

She said it was a result of "being bullied, feeling weak all the time".

This series of ITV1's The X Factor winds to a close on December 11, but Tulisa said she would be happy to return to the show for a second year if asked.

And the star - one-third of chart act N-Dubz along with her cousin Dappy and boyfriend Fazer - said she has formed the most intimate bonds with the acts she has mentored.
"I get closer to my acts than any other judge. I want them to feel they've got a little family.


Jersey Shore producer's new show 
 
Jersey Shore Producer's New Show,Have you ever been to a mall,bar or similar location and noticed a pathetic mother attempting to dress act and talk exactly like her yound adult daughter.? Most likely you have and most likely you have dry heaved. Well now those people have their own show.

VH1 annouced today that they've prdered 10 episodes of a new show from SallyAnn Salsano (the genius producer of Jersey Shore) to debut January 1st, call Mama Drama. The show places five trasy cougars and the daughters the emulate in a house together and then much like Jersey Shore, waits for the drama to happen. Which it inevitably will.


Just like Jersey Shore here is a group of people that many of us have heard of and might have glimpsed in some of the sadder sports bars we've been goaded into, but don't know much about up close. Yes, we get to peer into an unknown world, one that many will find reprehensible, but all will find fascinating.

Salsano told Hollywood Reporter:

With this show, I had the same experience I had in Jersey Shore [Season] 1. Where I couldn't leave the control room because I could not believe what was happening before my eyes. At any second chaos could erupt, and most days it did. When there was a fight in that house, it wasn't a regular reality show squabble—it was personal. Whoever was saying something was going after someone's mother or daughter.

Oprah Winfrey's TV comeback, Oprah Winfrey's returning to talk show roots. Oprah Winfrey is set to return to her talk show roots by launching a new series to interview celebrities in their own homes.

The TV titan walked away from her successful "The Oprah Winfrey Show" in May after 25 years on the small screen to establish her own network OWN.




However, Winfrey will soon be back doing what she does best for the channel, hosting "Oprah's Next Chapter" in January. The show will feature Winfrey talking to stars at home, starting with Aerosmith rocker Steven Tyler at his house in New Hampshire on Jan. 1.

She says, "After 25 years I got myself out of the studio chairs. I moved into the next chapter, and I am having more fun than ever - moving around the country and the world talking to people I'm really interested in getting to know and I think viewers will be, too." steven tyler, oprahs next chapter, oprah returning television,

Winfrey will also interview George Lucas and Sean Penn as part of th

Elisabeth Shue is going back to Las Vegas.The award-winning actress, who was nominated for a best-actress Oscar for her role in Leaving Las Vegas, is joining the cast of the Vegas-based CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, CBS announced Friday. Her character’s first appearance will be in the Feb. 15, 2012 episode.

Shue, 48, also known for her roles in 1980s flicks including Adventures in Babysitting and The Karate Kid, will be a series regular.


She’s coming on board just as longtime cast member Marg Helgenberger, who played CSI Catherine Willows for 11 seasons, prepares to leave the show.

Shue’s character will be the team’s newest CSI who arrives shortly after taking an anger management course – and viewers will discover she has a history with D.B. Russell (played by Ted Danson), whom her character worked with in Seattle.

“While it’s difficult to say goodbye to a beloved character like Catherine Willows, it’s exciting to start a journey with a new CSI, especially when that character is played by Elisabeth Shue,” executive producer Carol Mendelsohn said in a statement. “The new CSI also struggles with ‘brutal honesty issues’ and suffers no fools.”
Elisabeth Shue joins 'CSI'
Los Angeles - In a long and varied film and television career, Elisabeth Shue has played a stripper with a heart of gold, a babysitter lost in the big city and Marty McFly’s love interest.

But she’s never nailed a serial killer using DNA evidence while The Who blared on the soundtrack — until now.



Cue up “Who Are You,” the Oscar nominee is joining the cast of “CSI: Crime Scene Investigation,” CBS announced Friday.

The “Leaving Las Vegas” star replaces Marg Helgenberger, who is exiting the show after playing a blood splatter analyst for 12 seasons.

Shue will first appear on the series on Feb. 15.

Shue will play the newest CSI, fresh off an anger management course, amid rumors that D.B. Russell (Ted Danson) fired her when she worked for him in Seattle. Danson is himself a recent transplant to the Las Vegas crime lab. The “Cheers“ star replaced Laurence Fishburne as top investigator this season.

Shue’s film credits include “Adventures in Babysitting,” “Back to the Future Part II,” “Mysterious Skin,” “Hollow Man,” “The Karate Kid.” She next stars in the upcoming film “House at the End of the Street” opposite Jennifer Lawrence and is currently filming “Of Men And Mavericks,” directed by Curtis Hanson.
'Yo! MTV Raps' is coming back-On Sunday, December 4th at midnight, MTV2 will be airing a 30-minute special called “Yo! MTV Raps Classic Cuts,” following the airing of the channel’s Sucker Free Awards show. The retrospective episode will feature hosts Ed Lover, Dr. Dre, and Fab 5 Freddy, as well as artists like Ice Cube, Busta Rhymes, The Roots’ ?uestlove, Wiz Khalifa, Ali Shaheed Muhammad, Fat Joe and DJ Premier, who will be remixing the show’s theme song.

When asked about the new special, former host Fab 5 Freddy said the show will take viewers back to a bygone era in hip-hop.



“In this Classic Cuts special, people will go back to a seminal time in hip-hop which many have called the ‘Golden Era’ – resulting in records that are as meaningful today as they were back then,” Fab 5 Freddy said. “In order to appreciate how far hip-hop has come, you have to pay respect to the songs and artists that helped catapult the genre from a small community of fans to world domination.”

Ed Lover, one of “Yo! MTV Raps’” other hosts, couldn’t be happier with the announcement.

“It’s a great moment to be re-connected with Yo! and examine the music that had a role in introducing hip-hop to music lovers globally,” Ed Lover said.

Yo! MTV Raps has often been credited as one of the sole mainstream influences that introduced Hip-Hop on a national level to households, through television.

The show, which aired on MTV between 1988 and 1995, introduced artists and acts like N.W.A., Wu-Tang Clan, Public Enemy, Ice-T, and more to viewers and potential music consumers across the country.

'Yo! MTV Raps' is coming back

Yo! MTV Raps is coming back!With reality shows continuing to take over at MTV, MTV2 is bringing back the iconic hip hop show, Yo! MTV Raps.

MTV2 is resurrecting Yo! MTV Raps on Sunday, December 4th. It will air after the first annual Sucker Free Awards, which premieres at 11p.m. that night.

For all the youngin's or those who don't know how major this show was, Yo! MTV Raps aired from August 1988 to 1995 and it is "one of hip-hop’s most celebrated and influential music franchises ever." Yo! MTV Raps ushered in a generation of music that continues to make history and top the charts today: rap music.

According to MTV2's Rapfix:

"The show will return as a 30-minute retrospective called Yo! MTV Raps Classic Cuts, profiling three artists and their classic tracks: A Tribe Called Quest's "Scenario," Geto Boys' "My Mind's Playing Tricks on Me," and Ice Cube's "It Was a Good Day." The special will explore the way each song revolutionized the genre and impacted generations to come. In addition to the three classic cuts, the special will also feature a long list of current hip-hop artists from Common to Wiz Khalifa and Fat Joe."


Former host, Fab 5 Freddy, stated "The episode will take viewers back to a “seminal time in hip-hop which many have called the "Golden Era."

Yo! MTV Raps' original hosts, Fab 5 Freddy, Ed Lover and Dr. Dre, as well as some of rap's royalty, will take part in the special. DJ Premier will modernize the show by remixing the iconic theme song.

Catch discussions from former hosts Fab 5 Freddy, Ed Lover and Dr. Dre, as well as some of rap's royalty.

Tune in on December 4th at midnight to MTV2 to relive the history that is Yo! MTV Raps. And check out the video below of some of the biggest rappers' (even Jennifer Lopez as a dancer) first time on Yo! MTV Raps!“Yo! MTV Raps Classic Cuts” will air at midnight on December 4th, 2011   

Yo! MTV Raps - Famous First Times




‘FAMILY GUY’S’ 9/11 SATIRE, Show reminds that MacFarlane partied his way off doomed flight.On Sunday night, MacFarlane satirized the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks a decade after the plane he was scheduled to be aboard was flown into one of the Twin Towers. The episode of “Family Guy” — the cornerstone in MacFarlane’s animation empire — was a dark reminder that had Fox’s future multimillionaire creator-producer made it to the Boston airport minutes earlier, he wouldn’t be among us to lampoon those very events.


On Sunday night’s episode, baby Stewie and Brian the martini-sipping mutt use a time machine — employing clones to carry out the tricky business of monkeying with past events — and grapple with the opportunity to prevent 9/11. Their ultimate moral dilemma: Alter the course of history or let it go unchanged?In a nod to self-parodying the show’s origins, the episode is titled “Back to the Pilot.” (Although given the show’s twisted sci-fi democracy, the episode could have been subtitled: “Attack of the Voting Clones.”)

Too soon? Well, this isn’t the first time MacFarlane has tapped the terrorist attacks as “Family Guy” fodder — he’s repeatedly made 9/11 jokes on the show, which rose like a warped Phoenix after it was canceled in 2002.

After one of the nation’s darkest days, MacFarlane said in interviews that he partied hard the night before Flight 11 and also had been told that his flight was scheduled to depart a half-hour later than it was.

“I missed it by 10 minutes,” he said of the flight. “It was very, very fortunate.”
Apolo Ohno & TV actress cast in new film

 Wonder Years' Danica McKellar Teams Up with Apolo Ohno for Syfy Original Movie.
Apolo Ohno, Danica McKellar team up for "Tasmanian Devil",Olympic speed skater Apolo Ohno, 29, apolo ohno wins eight medals and a former "Wonder Years" actress danica mckellar have been cast in a new Syfy TV movie.  The film is about BASE jumpers at a national park who get chased by grizzly bear-sized animals.  It's set to premiere next year.  Former "Wonder Years" star Danica McKellar and Olympic speed-skating champion Apolo Ohno will co-star in the upcoming Syfy telefilm "Tasmanian Devil," the network announced Friday.

The movie, which will premiere on Syfy next year, will begin production in British Columbia this month, via Vesuvius Productions.


Kenneth Mitchell, who played Deputy Mayor Eric Green on the post-apocalyptic series "Jericho," will also star in the film.

The film's plot involves a group of BASE jumpers who travel to an isolated Tasmanian national park in search of extreme-sports thrills, but end up being pursued by grizzly bear-sized Tasmanian Devils, who serve as the lands' protectors.

Ohno, who won gold medals at both the 2002 and 2006 Olympic games, has dabbled in show-business matters, having won season four of "Dancing With the Stars" with partner Julianne Hough.
'Pretty Little Liars' star divorcing


'Pretty Little Liars' star Holly Marie Combs and David Donoho, a TV production worker whom she married in 2004, are going their separate ways. Combs reportedly has asked Donoho for custody of their three children.
Charmed star Holly Marie Combs files for divorce from second husband David Donoho. Holly Marie Combs clearly does not have a 'charmed' love life, given that she's just filed for a divorce from her second husband.

The former Charmed star has announced her split from husband of seven years David Donoho.

The 37-year-old actress cited irreconcilable differences as her official reason for calling it quits.

who have been told the marriage has been rocky for 'quite a while.'

The couple have three young sons together: Finley, 7, Riley, 5, and two-year-old Kelley.

The website says that Combs has requested joint custody.
The second divorce could be quite costly for the actress, who now stars on ABC Family's Pretty Little Liars, given that she never signed a prenup.

Most of her fortune was amassed on the now defunct WB Network series Charmed, where she starred as good witch Piper Halliwell for eight years.

She met Donoho back in 2004 when he was working as key grip on her show.


This is the star's second divorce: she was previously married to Bryan Travis Smith from 1993-1997.

While Combs is divorcing, her Charmed co-star Shannen Doherty recently tied the knot for a third time.

She married Kurt Iswarienko on October 15 of this year in Malibu.


The 40-year-old was also married to actor George Hamilton's son Ashley for seven months in 1993-1994 and had her seven-month marriage to producer Rick Salomon annulled in 2003. Holly Marie Combs divorce, Holly Marie Combs divorce, David W. Donoho, David Donoho Holly Marie Combs wedding photos

Alyssa Milano appears to be the only Charmed co-star that's lucky in love.

She wed CAA agent David Bugliari two years ago and gave birth to son Milo this August.
Mansion autopsy show delayed

The results of a second autopsy on 32-year-old Rebecca Zahau, the girlfriend of wrinkle-cream millionaire Jonah Shacknai, 54, Medicis Pharmaceutical Corporation firm he heads will be aired next week. autopsy dr. phil.
 The San Diego County Medical Examiner's Office determined that Zahau, who was found hanging from a balcony in Shacknai's mansion Coronado California had committed suicide. her family says zahau family not suicide. The "Dr. Phil" television show that will release the results of a second autopsy performed on Rebecca Zahau following her hanging death will air in two parts on Monday and Tuesday, rather than on Thursday as originally scheduled, a spokeswoman said.

According to Sign On San Diego, the episodes were taped Tuesday in Los Angeles with Zahau's family and their attorney, Anne Bremner.

Bremner said the doctor hired to perform the second autopsy, Dr. Cyril Wecht, released the findings on the show.


She said that two shows were needed due to the complexity of the case, and that the taping was a positive experience for the Zahau family.

Zahau's death at the historic Spreckels mansion in Coronado has been questioned ever since the San Diego County Medical Examiner declared Zahau hanged herself on July 13.

The Sheriff's Department said no new evidence has been found that would compel them to reopen the investigation.
'Jersey Shore' sets return date

"Jersey Shore" is returning. (Do some say the Jersey Shore fake show is fake?) The reality TV series about guidos and guidettes will start its fifth season on Jan. 5, 2012  they'll be Seaside Heights, N.J.

MTV brought a little warmth to the hearts of those struggling over news that Kim Kardashian’s marriage is kaput by telling the world Wednesday that the new season of “Jersey Shore” will start Jan. 5.

The fifth season of the popular series built around a group of folks living together, partying, and, yes, occassionally fighting will kick off at 10 p.m. on Jan. 5.

This time around, the cast and crew will be back in Seaside Heights, N.J., where the show was filmed earlier this year. The season follows the fourth outing, which had them living together in Florence, Italy.

“Jersey Shore” is produced by SallyAnn Salsano, and stars Mike (The Situation) Sorrentino, Jennifer (JWoww) Farley, Nicole (Snooki) Polizzi, Paul (Pauly D) Delvecchio, Sammi Giancola, Vinnie Guadagnino, Deena Nicole Cortese and Ronnie Ortiz-Magro.


“Jersey Shore” is the top series in MTV history. The fourth season averaged 9.4 million viewers each week, with the season premiere hitting a record 10.5 million people.

Word of the “Jersey Shore” launch date comes as E! tries to figure out how to deal with the demise of Kardashian’s 72-day marriage to basketball star Kris Humphries.
Top series returns Jan. 5, heading back to Seaside Heights

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