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Dancing's Mya: I'm Not Mad at Len Goodman
It seems Len Goodman has it out for Mya and Dmitry Chaplin. Week after week, the resident grumpy judge of Dancing With the Stars always finds something wrong with their performance.
But Mya isn't letting it get to her. "If I fell on my face I might be embarrassed, but I'm happy and proud of myself for coming this far," she told me this morning. "I don't care what other people have to say."
Besides, Mr. Goodman isn't Mya's biggest concern right now—the flu is! It's already struck Derek Hough, Mark Ballas and Lacey Schwimmer. Donnie Osmond also talked last night about feeling a bit under the weather.
Yikes!
Find out what Mya has to say about staying healthy, meeting Cloris Leachman and next week's plan to perform two dances.
Jodie Sweetin: Why I'll Never Use Drugs Again
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It sounds like Jodie Sweetin, who played lovable Stephanie Tanner on family favorite sitcom Full House, is finally on her way to living the sweet life after years of alcohol and substance abuse.
In her new, brutally honest memoir UnSweetined, which hits stands today, Sweetin details how her life went from child star to out-of-control crystal meth addict. We caught up with Sweetin, now 27, the other day to talk about recovery, her one-a-half-year-old daughter, Zoie, and why she no longer thinks about using...
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Derek Hough: I'm Not Gay, Though I Almost Played One on TV
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It's good to know that Derek Hough can laugh at all those rumors that he's gay.
So much so that he was thisclose to playing a gay character "in a funny little scene" with Courteney Cox on her new hit ABC series Cougar Town. Unfortunately, he couldn't do it because of his Dancing With the Stars schedule.
"It would have been perfect," Hough said. "With all the rumors going around, I thought it would be really funny because it's just not true. But I was like, you know what? If that's what you want to see."
Not so funny, however, was Hough's recent battle with the flu...
Oprah Winfrey on Precious: Don't Expect to "Enjoy" It
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Director Lee Daniels insists he never thought that his new movie, Precious, would have much success.
In fact, he never even thought it would be released in theaters.
"I thought it was going to go straight to DVD," Daniels told me last night at Precious' AFI Fest 2009 presented by Audi premiere in Hollywood. "I mean, who was going to want to see a movie about an obese black girl learning how to read?"
But then he got a call from Oprah Winfrey…
90210: Just How Bad Will It Get for Dixon?
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Things are about to go downhill for 90210's Tristan Wilds.
At least for Dixon, the character he plays on the prime-time soap opera.
Last we saw, Dixon found out that his older ex-girlfriend, Sasha (Mekia Cox), is pregnant with his child. Wilds says this is just the beginning of Dixon's problems...
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True Blood: Make Way for More Lesbian Vampires!
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Move over, Queen Sophie-Ann!
There may be more lesbian vampires coming to True Blood.
Series creator Alan Ball recently told the Advocate magazine that he could imagine Eric's toughass sidekick, Pam, getting in on some girl-on-girl action.
And now Kristin Bauer, who plays Pam, tells us she's up for it…
Sex Talk With Miley Cyrus and...Bette Midler?
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Talk about a quickie.
Miley Cyrus admits she didn't have to work too hard for her cameo in the upcoming Sex and the City movie sequel.
"I shot for like an hour and a half, and I was done," Cyrus told Ryan Seacrest this morning on his KIIS-FM morning radio show. "It was like the best job I'd ever been on."
Cyrus appears as herself in a scene in which she and Samantha Jones (Kim Cattrall) wear the same dress to a red carpet event.
"It was a total dream come true," the Hannah Montana star gushed. "It was so cool. Working with Kim was a really cool. And Sarah Jessica Parker was like the nicest person in the world."
And speaking of celebrity cameos in SATC 2…
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Orlando Bloom’s Model Girlfriend Forgets Her Victoria’s Secret Panties
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It's been a bit chilly the last few days in Los Angeles, but that doesn't mean Orlando Bloom's girlfriend Miranda Kerr has been wearing layers.
In fact, she left the house the other night without any underwear on.
How do we know? Read on to find out...
DWTS' Karina Scolds Aaron for His Twilight Blunder
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Aaron Carter didn't exactly get spanked by Karina Smirnoff because he's lacking in the Twilight appreciation department, but she did give him a good talkin'.
Earlier this week, Carter got a lot of flack from Twi fans because not only didn't he do cartwheels for being compared to Robert Pattinson on Dancing With the Stars, but he admitted he still hadn't seen Twilight.
"I told Aaron, 'Don't put that out there. What if Rob does the next season of Dancing With the Stars?! I want him to come and dance,' " laughed Smirnoff.
As a little extra incentive for Pattinson, Smirnoff said she plans to watch Twilight with Carter as soon as the season is over. "Then we're going to tweet about Rob's great performance," she told us last night at the Genlux, Ford Models and Madison Kelly fashion party in Beverly Hills.
While we love our DWTS, we can't imagine Rob will be signing up for the show anytime soon.
Besides, Smirnoff isn't exactly lacking in the romance department…
Oprah: A Precious Appearance at Film Festival
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There's no real official start date for awards season here in Hollywood, but it definitely feels like it's taken off already.
Not only were the Hollywood Film Awards earlier this week, but AFI Fest 2009 presented by Audi opens tomorrow night with the animated Fantastic Mr. Fox with voices by George Clooney, Meryl Streep and Jason Schwartzman.
Precious producer Oprah Winfrey, Mariah Carey, Kate Beckinsale, Tom Ford, Eva Mendes, Julianne Moore, Robert De Niro and Michael Cera are just a few of the bold-faced names who are expected to show throughout the week-long festival.
But you don't have to be a Hollywood insider to see the fest flicks. A limited number of free tickets are available for the public on AFI's website.
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Top Chef's Mike Isabella: "Robin Is Crazy and Annoying"
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Mike Isabella admits the leek dish he prepared during last night's Top Chef, well, sucked. But he didn't think he'd be the one told to pack his knives and go.
No surprise, but he thought Robin Leventhal should have been sent home.
"In Robin's dish there were beets and zucchini and chickpeas and a Moroccan marinade and goat cheese and mushrooms," Isabella told me earlier today. "It didn't make sense. It wasn't good and it didn't make sense."
That's not all the Washington, D.C.-based chef had to say about his rival. Read on for more…
Duhamel: I Did Not Cheat On Fergie With Stripper
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Josh Duhamel is shooting down a new supermarket tabloid story alleging he cheated on his pop-music superstar wife, Fergie, earlier this month with a stripper.
In an interview with The National Enquirer, Nicole Forrester says she and the 36-year-old Transformers hunk enjoyed a sex romp in an Atlanta hotel room while he was in the area shooting Life As We Know It, a comedy costarring Katherine Heigl, Christina Hendricks and Josh Lucas.
But Duhamel's rep insists the story is bogus...
