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Paris Hilton Debuts New Song About "My BFF"

Allison Corneau — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 12:10:06 -0400

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Paris Hilton is in the market for a new BFF and she's taking to the airwaves to explain why.

The 27-year-old's latest song, "My BFF," premiered on Ryan Seacrest's KIIS-FM radio show Tuesday.

"My BFF" will serve as the theme to her new MTV show, Paris Hilton's My New BFF, which starts tonight.

"All my life I've been waiting for someone I can trust, someone who will tell me the truth - even when it's the hard thing to say," she sings.

Listen to "My BFF."

Paris Hilton's My New BFF marks the heiress' return to reality television after starring with pal Nicole Richie in The Simple Life from 2003 to 2007.

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The new show is "going to be full of good chick drama and you will see a side of Paris not seen on Simple Life," a source told Us.

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Would You Put Your Family on Reality TV?

Mandi Illuzzi — Wed, 21 May 2008 13:00:40 -0400

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Tell Us if you'd follow in the footsteps of the Hogans and the Lohans

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From the Osbournes and the Barkers to the Hogans and now the Lohans, a range of celebrity families have sought reality TV success – would you?

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Living Lohan Reality Show Premieres This Summer

Lindsay Powers — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 12:04:07 -0500

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Cameras will follow Ali and Dina Lohan at their Long Island home

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The E! reality show starring Dina Lohan and her 14-year-old daughter Ali finally has a name — Living Lohan — and a summer premiere date.

“Viewers will go inside the Lohan’s Long Island home for the first time to follow Dina as she works double duty as mom and manager to help Ali try to follow in her big sister [Lindsay’s] famous footsteps,” a press release for the show says.

Cameras will also follow the duo to Vegas as Ali records an album.

“Dina is determined to help each of her four kids fulfill their dreams and refuses to live in fear of what others may think, despite being under the paparazzi microscope,” the press release adds.

Ali has made it clear she craves fame.

"I want it so bad. So bad you don't even know. And now, it's actually happening," she told Teen Vogue this month. "I've already been asked for my autograph, and it's just a really good feeling to have."

Dina's ex-husband Michael is supporting Ali's ambitions as well.

“This show could show Ali’s ability and talents, and spring forward to launch her career," he told Usmagazine.com. "Ali’s got a lot of talent. She’s a gorgeous girl, and can sing. She’s animated and full of life."

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Project Runway Recap: Chocolate and Couture Collide

Allison Corneau — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 13:30:33 -0500

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Season two alum Emmett McCarthy recaps a sweet episode of the Bravo hit for Us

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Hi, I am Emmett McCarthy, designer and Project Runway alum from season two.

We all sit in front of the TV and eat, and the January 2 episode of Bravo’s Project Runway gave me a sugar rush like the one I used to have when I got home from trick-or-treating!

It started as the dapper Tim Gunn shuttled the designers to the Hershey's Chocolate Factory, where he announced that their challenge was to create a garment out of what ever they could stuff into their bags in five minutes. The designers ripped the place apart, carrying out huge bundles of candy, pillows, stuffed animals and cellophane.

On a sugar high, the designers crafted candy-wrappered creations both good and bad. Ricky finally offered up a dress that was both sexy and well-constructed. His ode to the classic Hershey’s Kiss featured a silver halter with a balloon skirt. Christian, on the other hand, copied Michael Knight's coffee-filter dress from season three. And he says he has an original point of view? Jillian’s sizzling Twizzler bodice and fringe skirt was the perfect future Ice Capades costume for Sasha Cohen. And Rami could have won an origami competition with his use of peppermint-patty foil and plastic wrap to create an intricate bodice and skirt.

Then there was Elisa — who, in the beginning of the episode, oh so casually revealed that she had recently been hit by a Porsche in London, leaving her with a cracked skull and in a coma for days. (Um, thanks for sharing?) Her creation — a brown velvet frock with strange silver puffs for sleeves — was bad, and the panel (including guest judge Zac Posen) was kind not to spit it out like worn-out gum. The “sad brown dress,” as judge Michael Kors characterized it, was out, and in my opinion the show lost a unique voice. But Elisa’s underground taste was just too inaccessible.

The winner? Rami. The judges hailed his “interesting use of materials” and “excellent execution.” And because Hershey's will auction off the outfits to benefit women with cancer, the outcome of this challenge is sweet all around.

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EXCLUSIVE: Pamela Anderson and Rick Salomon to Star in Reality TV Series

ken — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 23:50:08 -0500

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Sources confirm to Us that the newlyweds will bring their "reality" to E! next year

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Just two months after their Las Vegas wedding, Pamela Anderson and Rick Salomon are taking the next step in celebrity marriage: a reality show!

Sources tell Us Weekly in its new issue that the couple is developing a reality series for the E! network that will bring viewers inside their whirlwind lifestyle. Says a source: "Think Nick and Jessica's show [MTV's Newlyweds], but with a lot more sex and a crazier family life." (Anderson recently said of her marriage, "We're in every night. Having sex.")

Anderson, 40, has two sons (Brandon, 11, and Dylan, 9) from her marriage with rocker Tommy Lee; Salomon, best known for producing and starring in a 2003 sex tape with ex-girlfriend Paris Hilton, has two daughters from a previous marriage. The couple married on Oct. 6 after dating for just over a month.

Sources say the show is slated to debut in 2008.

“These two don’t have any boundaries, which is perfect for reality stars,” says a source of Anderson (whose honeymoon footage with ex Tommy Lee was turned into a porn video).

An E! rep had no comment.

Click here to see Anderson in her wedding bikini with ex-husband Kid Rock.

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The Hills to Return This Spring With Eight "Bonus" Episodes

Allison Corneau — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 22:45:42 -0500

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And in Monday's season finale, Spencer and Heidi part ways to get much needed "space" as Brody and Lauren's courtship is put on hold

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This spring, everyone's favorite reality TV queens will ditch Hollywood for new scenery: in Paris, France! And their Euro-trip will be part of eight "bonus" episodes airing on MTV early next year.

Lauren Conrad turned down an offer to work in the City of Lights last season, but now Teen Vogue boss Lisa Love has sent her - and pal Whitney Port! - on an overseas working vacation. (See what the girls looked like as kids here.)

And while the girls will be schmoozing with fashion's elite at the famed Crillon Ball, Spencer and Heidi will stay Stateside to hash out their wedding plans. As with many Speidi spats, the couple parted ways at the end of Monday's episode, resulting in matrimonial mayhem leading into the new episode block.

"It's not working," Heidi explained to her fiance. "I need space." And space she'll get, as Ms. Montag packed her bags and left the Speidi homestead for her family back in Colorado. As for Brody? He was stuck helping his flirtatatious friend LC load her luggage into the trunk as she jetted off to the airport for Paris. But, as Lauren was quick to remind him, "[I] won't be gone long."

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Snoop Dogg on His New Family Reality Show: 'This Ain't the Huxtables!'

Allison Corneau — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 13:44:16 -0500

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The rapper-turned-reality star tells Us family is his "number one passion in life"

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E!’s new reality series Snoop Dogg’s Father Hood takes viewers inside the rapper's L.A. pound, showing his wife Shante, sons Corde and Cordell and daughter Cori going about their manic lives as rap’s royal family.

During a recent visit to Usmagazine.com’s NYC headquarters, Snoop rapped with Us about his new show (which premieres this Sunday), what it was like playing soccer with Becks, and how he juggles his hip-hop career and family life.

Us: E! is touting your family as including your “surprisingly unaffected” children. Are you worried that they’ll become divas with all the cameras around?
SD: Well, they might, but I just feel like they’re kids. [Viewers] get a chance to see kids who have a celebrity as a father just dealing with life and them becoming celebrities as well, because that’s what the camera brings. Now they have cameras in front of them, so I’m pretty sure their lifestyles will change, but for the most part my sons are not affected. My daughter really loves me in front of the camera.

Us: You coach your youngest son’s football team and have developed a related charity, right?
SD: We won our Super Bowl game last Sunday! I got 32 kids on my team – the Pomona Steelers - and the Snoop Youth Football League has 2,500 kids, 2,000 football players and 500 cheerleaders.

Us: In the show’s second episode, David Beckham helps teach you and your boys the “other football.”
SD: Yeah! He’s gonna show the fellas how to expand and do something outside the box. We’re so used to American sports - baseball, basketball, football - I wanted my kids to see something other than that: Futbol!

Us: So, David’s a cool guy?
SD: Super cool. That’s my homeboy!

Us: Did he bring his own boys with him?
SD: He brought the little one, Cruz.

Us: With so many other celebrity families on reality shows, how do “The Doggs” fit in?
SD: This ain’t the Huxtables! We’re a black family with money, but we don’t do it like that.

Us: What do you think viewers will enjoy most?
SD: The camaraderie between me, my kids and my wife. It ain’t made up. A lot of times you can see these TV shows and you can just see the fakeness.

Us: What’s more difficult: raising a family or making hit records?
SD: Probably raising my family. Making hit records is easy. That’s my number one passion in life. I just find ways to put it on pause and do other things to accommodate my music career, so when I do come back and make music it’s an event.

Catch the premiere of Snoop Dogg’s Father Hood on Sunday, Dec. 9 at 10:30 p.m. on E!

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Tila Tequila Is "100% Bisexual" Says Rep

Lindsay Powers — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 14:55:16 -0500

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The MTV reality star is fighting a new report claiming her sexual orientation is a "sham"

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Is Tila Tequila — star of MTV's A Shot At Love With Tila Tequila — secretly straight?

Friday's New York Post reports that the MySpace queen, 26, has a boyfriend and that her bisexuality is "a massive sham."

Though on her show she claims to be searching for Mr. or Ms. Right, "Tila has had a boyfriend for over a year," the Post quotes a source as saying, adding that she refuses to dump the guy, "who's like five years older than her."

As a result, the source tells the Post, her MTV show has been scrapped.

But her rep, Marcee Rondan, told Usmagazine.com: "She is 100 percent bisexual. Anyone who knows her history and has kept up with her as she built a career knows that to be true.”

When asked if Tequila — who is in Australia promoting the show — had a boyfriend, her rep said, "That’s news to me, and I’ve been working with her since February!”

No new deal for a second season has been inked yet.

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VIDEO: Hills Watch: Lauren Conrad Attacked by Spencer's Sis as Audrina Gives Bad Boy the Boot

Allison Corneau — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 21:12:03 -0500

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MTV's golden girls do battle with a Pratt spawn and a cheating boyfriend

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If there was ever a time for Audrina Patridge and Lauren Conrad to lean on each other for moral support, it's now. But, as Monday night's episode of The Hills showed, they are way too distracted by their own dramas.

The first drama: A brazen Stephanie Pratt (yes - the other Pratt) confronted Conrad at L.A. club Opera while LC was out with pals. (Although promoted by MTV as being the reality catfight to end all catfights, the confrontation was your standard bar-girl hatespeak.)

"When you hate my brother, it makes me hate you," She-Pratt spewed, with little emotion. Moments later came a memorably hateful stare-down when She-Pratt and Brody Jenner locked eyes. "I could never be friends with someone who's [friends with Lauren]" the male Pratt, after the fact, explained for the umpteenth time.

Just as a war-torn Lauren started looking for someone to turn to, Audrina was running damage control on her own crisis: Justin Bobby was busted making out with a redhead at the bar. As Us reported earlier this month, Partridge ended up giving JB the boot - finally! But, as she reasoned, a breakup can only be effective if she neither sees nor hears about her ex.

That seems easier said than done, but surprisingly 'Drina realizes how the relationship's effect has wreaked havoc on her over the last few months, and drop-kicked her man to the curb for good. "It's hopeless," she mused. "We should just be friends."

But, as the show often has revealed, a good friend is hard to find - especially on The Hills.

Talk to Us: Do you think Audrina and Justin Bobby are broken up for good?

* Hooked on The Hills? Check out Usmagazine.com's Hills Extra page here!

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Scott Baio: It’s Not Easy Being Chachi

Allison Corneau — Sat, 28 Jul 2007 10:25:08 -0400

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Known to the masses for his years on both Happy Days and Charles in Charge, 80’s heartthrob Scott Baio is back, and – yes – still sexy!

Us lunched with the newly-minted reality TV star when he stopped by our New York City offices to give us the inside scoop on his quest for love, chronicled on his new weekly VH1 series, Scott Baio is 45…and Single, airing Sundays at 10:30 p.m. Check out Chachi’s views on stardom and singledom in our exclusive interview.

Usmagazine.com: Tell us what it’s like to have a new generation of fans.
Scott Baio: I haven’t even thought about that, to be perfectly honest. I’m just glad to be doing something that I like doing as opposed to doing something that I don’t like doing, which I’ve done before [laughs].

Us: On the series, you allow a life coach to chart your path to love. What types of things did she suggest to help you find out if your girlfriend is the woman of your dreams?
SB: She tells me to refrain from seeing her – and be celibate - for eight weeks. And revisit women from my past to find out what I’ve done wrong so I can go forward in life. My friends are in the middle of all this trying to pull me every which way so [the show is] very much more a romantic comedy than it is a reality show.

Us: Why do you think so many Hollywood marriages fail?
SB: From an actor’s point of view, it’s very difficult to date an actress. Inevitably it becomes an ego contest, it becomes ‘who’s she on the set making out with?’ and ‘who’s she going to fall in love with in Bulgaria making a movie?’ It all seems fairy tale-ish and very romantic, but it’s tough. There’s just too many elements pulling you apart.

Us: So is it safe to say your current lady, Renee, is not in the entertainment industry?
SB: She was actually a stunt woman in her younger days. She’s a tough chick—you have no idea. And - I mean this in a nice way - one of the simplest, non-egoed women I’ve ever met. And the only woman who has not tried to change me.

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