Jersey Shore star Nicole Polizzi, aka Snooki, was arrested and taken away by police in Seaside Heights, New Jersey, where the third season is currently being filmed. TMZ has photos and says she was released around 6:30 p.m. ET. She fell off a bike right before she was arrested.
Snooki “was being very disorderly on the beach, bothering other patrons there. When our police went to deal with the situation — not Mike ‘The Situation’ — they found they needed to arrest her,” John Camera, a Seaside Heights Borough Administrator, told the New Jersey Star-Ledger.
Her arrest comes the day after the season two debut drew a record 5.3 million viewers to MTV, which is “280% over the Season One debut (1.4 million viewers), and +96% versus the Season One average,” and “MTV’s best season premiere rating in more than seven years (since the Season Two launch of ‘The Osbournes’ on 11/26/2002),” according to the network, as TV By the Numbers reports.
The Emmy for outstanding reality show host will not be presented during the prime-time awards ceremony, as it has been for its first two years. Instead, it will be given out during the Creative Arts Emmys a week earlier, the ceremony dubbed the Schmemmys by Kathy Griffin.
An Academy spokesperson told Variety, “The host category was added two years ago and was never required to be in the Primetime Show. Additionally, last year CBS let the show run 5 minutes over and there were also two no-shows for awards which opened up more time in the show. Since the Bob Hope Humanitarian Award will be presented for the first time in six years, along with the second play of the show on the West Coast beginning at 8 p.m., NBC wants us to try to get off on time and there was just no room for more awards.”
That, of course, is what you might call “bullshit,” and simply a sign of the contempt the Academy obviously has for unscripted TV shows. While both the best reality competition and best reality show Emmys will still be part of the prime-time broadcast, which this year airs on NBC Aug. 29, dropping this category was unnecessary.
The unnecessary filler that consumes time during the show could be cut if they actually cared about coming in on time. And considering they give awards during the prime-time telecast for supporting actors in miniseries, it’d be nice to also spend three minutes on an award that recognizes a person who fronts a show people actually watch.
After just over a year of marriage, former Hills star Heidi Montag filed for divorce with her husband Spencer Pratt. Yes, 20 to 30 orgasms a day isn’t enough to keep one married to Spencer Pratt.
People reports that “two months after Heidi Montag went to court seeking legal separation from husband Spencer Pratt, the reality starlet filed for divorce … [citing] the usual irreconcilable differences in the divorce petition filed in Santa Monica, Calif., Superior Court.”
Her lawyer told the magazine, “Heidi has amended her petition for separation and today has filed a petition for dissolution of marriage from Spencer Pratt. The couple has agreed they would like their divorce to be finalized in a timely manner in an out of court settlement. Both parties are amicable with each other and over the possibility of finalizing their divorce.”
Billy Bell was finally sent home on So You Think You Can Dance after being in the bottom three for five weeks in a row. That ends a journey that began last fall, when he dropped out for mysterious reasons that involved his possible death if he danced. Also eliminated by the judges was Jose Ruiz. Next week, the judges lose their power and viewers pick the final two, and then the winner.
Meanwhile, Nigel Lythgoe is once again defending himself against charges of homophobia because of his comment during the eliminations that viewers might not have liked Billy Bell’s “slightly androgynous style.”
First, Billy isn’t exactly androgynous, he’s rather feminine. You don’t have to look past him nuzzling his nose into Kent’s neck for evidence of that, but there’s plenty of other evidence—not that there’s anything wrong with that. But our culture’s biggest problem with gay people is their failure to conform to traditional gender roles, so Billy not acting like a ball-scratching, horse-straddling man’s man is what makes some people more uncomfortable than what his brain and penis is stimulated by. (A year ago, I discussed this, and Nigel’s ironically feminine hair, in-depth.)
Nigel wrote on Twitter that “describing one’s dance style as androgynous is not homophobic,” and then expressed his desire more masculinity, writing, “It’s an easy label to paste on anybody who strives to have their male dancers be strong and masculine.”
I don’t think Nigel is a bigot or even ignorant like that twit Elisabeth Hasselbeck, but he doesn’t quite understand how criticizing men for not being masculine is at the root of others’ homophobia, and he needs to wise up.
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Three weeks after its debut, Big Brother 12 finally got interesting, thanks to a big pre-eviction speech by Andrew that Julie Chen called “the best last plea speech I’ve ever seen.” While Andrew’s take-down of Kristen (of all people!) didn’t work to save him, as he was evicted unanimously (and hilariously by Ragan: “I vote to institutionalize and evict Andrew”), it immediately began to cause tension in the house, just as his rant at the veto meeting also started drama.
First, Andrew and Brendon’s “plan,” which Rachel put in quotation marks when she learned about it because it made little sense, backfired. Matt explained that “Rachel had this horribly fake reaction to” Andrew’s veto meeting comments, so Matt knew it wasn’t real. Once again, Matt has no idea what he’s talking about, since Rachel didn’t know, and when she confronted Brendon, he just planted his pouty face on her face to stop her from asking questions.
For some reason—and I’m sure this is one of those occasions when live feed watchers have a lot more context, but whatever, the live show needs to provide that to those of us who have lives (ha)—Andrew melted down even more and told Kristen “don’t play me like a fiddle; don’t play me any more.” She got mad at him and even started screaming, meaning she was actually on screen. I didn’t quite understand the conflict, perhaps because I was just too fascinated with the fact that she was in an episode.
With all of this, I can’t believe the show wasted a few minutes on Julie Chen’s mindless “interview” with the houseguests that included a conversation with Lane about shooting glowing eyes and Enzo’s pronunciation of certain words. We already saw that, show us some of the drama from the previous five days. Dammit. During his HOH interview, Matt said Hayden is the weak link in their alliance, forgetting that he is in his own alliance.
One useful bit of filler was an interview with Matt’s wife, who told us “the way his brain works isn’t like anybody else’s” because “he lacks all common sense.” She was “extremely shocked” by his lie about her having a disease, and said, “I don’t agree with what he did, I don’t think it was a good move on Matt’s part” because he “didn’t think of all the repercussions” but isn’t “malicious or evil.” Well, wrong: His lie subjected her to being interviewed on camera and ridiculed by people who probably have no place ridiculing people for the way they look. But I digress.
Andrew’s big speech was the highlight of the night, as he called out Kristen and Hayden and told everyone “you need help getting these two out” because
“you have to break up two alliances in this house.” Kristen made sure we saw her by opening her mouth as wide as it could go,” and Andrew ended by saying, “watch out for Kristen, guys. Captain Kosher, out.” Kristen tried to argue back, and that caused the Chenbot to spin out of control: “Houseguests! Kristen, this is not your chance to talk.”
After Andrew was evicted, Julie Chen schooled Andrew—a doctor, did you know?— that Matt’s wife a real disease but Matt lied about it. In other words, although the producers are sequestering the evicted houseguests, they cannot let them back into the house—unless they’re just going to dispense with fairness, since Andrew will undoubtedly tell the others, and that would be unfair to Matt, even though he deserves to have that blow up in his face.
The HOH competition allowed the houseguests to call out their enemies repeatedly, but Rachel—who’s proving herself to be quite the player, though not quite yet of Janelle proportions in terms of surprising us with her intelligence—won again. She immediately went after Kristen, saying, “Why don’t you grab a life vest because you’re a floater and float on off because you’re in dangerous waters, Kristen. I have this key and that means I get to make nominations.”
That arrogance is never good—at least for a houseguest. Like the rest of the episode’s events, it’s good for us and the remaining six weeks of the series. The return of the saboteur—we can now vote on a new saboteur, so Annie won’t return—and Pandora’s Box may not be necessary after all.
After yesterday’s announcement that Ellen DeGeneres quit American Idol, reports say Jennifer Lopez and Aerosmith’s Steven Tyler are joining the judging panel and Kara DioGuardi’s contract hasn’t been renewed, so she’s effectively been fired. That means Randy Jackson will serve as the third judge and is the sole survivor. Wow.
Gossip Cop first reported “that offers have been made to Jennifer Lopez and Steven Tyler.” And TMZ reported that Kara was fired and “the show will be going back to a three-judge format and assuming all deals are finalized, the judge’s panel will consist of Randy Jackson, Jennifer Lopez and Steven Tyler.”
Deadline reported that Jennifer Lopez’s “manager Benny Medina (whom she once fired) orchestrated the meeting with the American Idol producers a month ago, and negotiations have been ongoing ever since. We’ve learned a deal was closed earlier this week under the utmost secrecy.” However, Variety reported that “Insiders told Variety late Thursday that no deal is actually in place just yet — and certain deal points might still stall [Lopez’s] hire on the show.”
The official announcement on all of this is expected Monday morning at the TV Critics’ press tour in L.A., where I am this week and next, so for live updates then—and today, for NBC, Bravo, Universal, and SyFy’s day—follow me on Twitter.
Ellen DeGeneres has quit as an American Idol judge after one season, and Fox will apparently announce Simon Cowell’s replacement—and perhaps an entirely new panel of judges—on Monday.
In a statement posted on her web site, Ellen wrote that she actually quit a while ago,
“A couple months ago, I let FOX and the “American Idol” producers know that this didn’t feel like the right fit for me. I told them I wouldn’t leave them in a bind and that I would hold off on doing anything until they were able to figure out where they wanted to take the panel next. It was a difficult decision to make, but my work schedule became more than I bargained for. I also realized this season that while I love discovering, supporting and nurturing young talent, it was hard for me to judge people and sometimes hurt their feelings. I loved the experience working on “Idol” and I am very grateful for the year I had. I am a huge fan of the show and will continue to be.”
Fox released a statement with quotes from executives saying how awesome she is. Fox entertainment chair Peter Rice said, “We love Ellen and understand and support her decision to bow out of Idol. We were fortunate to receive the humor, energy and love for talent that she brought to the show.” And Fox reality president said, “It was a joy to work with Ellen. She brought an incredible spirit to IDOL and was a great new addition to the team. While we’re saddened by her decision, we are very appreciative that she gave us ample notice so that we could work through it together.”
That means two of the four judges are now gone, and Kara DioGuardi has a one-year contract that has yet to be renewed. It’s likely we’ll learn that there will be three or four new judges to judge American Idol 10’s teenage singers.
The Real Housewives of Atlanta cast member Lisa Wu Hartwell won’t return as a full-time cast member for the show’s third season, though she will appear in a few episodes.
Black Voices reported that she left “amicably” over “creative differences,” and won’t be part of the opening sequence but will appear in up to three episodes. According to an anonymous production source, “They basically wanted to script elements of Lisa’s life and make her amp up the drama. She wasn’t with that at all. Lisa felt like if her real life alone wasn’t enough for the network, then maybe it was time for her to go.”
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution confirmed that with her publicist, who said, “She doesn’t want to just be a reality star.”
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