Spin Cycle presents another installment of “All the News That’s Fit to Razz” …
The season premiere of TLC’s Here Comes Honey Boo Boo - about pint-size pageant queen Alana and her self-proclaimed “redneck” kin (Mama June, Sugar Bear, Pumpkin, Chickadee and Chubbs) - kicked off with “Watch & Sniff” cards of six scents in People and Us Weekly magazines, allowing viewers to not only see but smell the episode.
So now the show stinks literally as well as figuratively.
Replacing comedian Joy Behar, former Playboy Playmate Jenny McCarthy is joining the cast of The View, ABC’s female talk show.
Hey, who better to get something off her chest?
At a game last weekend between the Houston Astros and Tampa Bay Rays, pop singer Carly Rae Jepsen, best known for her single “Call Me, Maybe,” threw a pathetic ceremonial pitch, with the ball nose-diving to the ground between the mound and home plate.
As for her baseball future, “Call her, never.”
Kardashian matriarch Kris Jenner hyped the debut episode of her talk show Kris with a Twitter/Facebook photo of her cuddling an infant and this line: “You never know who will stop by our show today #WatchKris,” leading viewers to believe it was daughter Kim’s new baby with Kanye West - baby North (when, in fact, the baby belonged to a show stylist).
Seems this show (not available in this market) is already going South.
After several contestants from Big Brother’s season 15 have made racially and sexually biased comments, CBS has added a dis-claimer to its show and Internet feeds for those who might feel insulted: “Big Brother is a reality show about a group of people who have no privacy 24/7. At times, the houseguests may reveal prejudices and other beliefs that CBS does not condone. Views or opinions expressed by a houseguest are those of the individuals speaking and do not represent the views or opinions of CBS. Viewer discretion is advised.”
We miss the good old days when Big Brother merely insulted our intelligence.
Singer Dave Matthews was flat in concert the other night - well, before a concert. He had a flat tire on his bicycle and no phone with him, when he hitched a ride to his show from fans en route to the performance.
Rule of thumb: Never pick up hitchhikers … unless they give you front-row tickets.
It has been discovered that Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling used the pseudonym Robert Galbraith on a crime novel called The Cuckoo’s Calling. Which means that Galbraith’s bio (“Born in 1968, Robert Galbraith is married with two sons. After several years with the Royal Military Police, he was attached to the Special Investigation Branch, the plain-clothes branch of the RMP. He left the military in 2003 and has been working since then in the civilian security industry. The idea for protagonist Cormoran Strike grew directly out of his own experiences and those of his military friends who have returned to the civilian world”) is all false too.
It’s all a bunch of Hogwarts. Er, hogwash.
Speaking of names, the spelling-obsessed singer born Stacy Ann Ferguson has filed papers to legally change her name to reflect her nickname and four-year marriage: Fergie Duhamel.
Or in Fergie-speak, that’s “F to the E-R-G, the I, the E, and the D to the U to the H-AM-E-L.”
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Style, Pages 47 on 07/21/2013