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Why Yes, Ben Lyons WAS On ‘The View’ Today!
5:15AM Kyle Buchanan | Today on The View, Ebert usurper Ben Lyons took his place next to Elisabeth Hasselbeck in what could only have felt more like a Defamer-targeted Last Supper if Joaquin Phoenix had crashed it, rapping. More »
Ben Lyons Shares Secret, Xbox-y Trick For Critical Dumbing-Down
6:50AM STV | Looking for that elusive, one-of-a-kind resource to help you attain Ben Lyons’s dizzying heights of film literacy? Oh. Well, he’s revealed his secret anyway. More »
Ben Lyons Forced To Atone For His ‘Benjamin Button’-Loving Sins
7:11AM Kyle Buchanan | In 2007, Ebert usurper Ben Lyons proclaimed I Am Legend “one of the greatest movies ever made.” In 2008, he gave highest honours to The Curious Case of Benjamin Button. Finally, he’s being called out. More »
Hollywood PrivacyWatch: Ed Helms and Ben Lyons
5:05AM STV | 1/14 — At the Clipper game, ED HELMS sitting behind the basket with some agent type. Cute in person, seemed to enjoy the game, acted like a normal fellow. To screw up this nice sighting, enemy to anyone with taste, BEN LYONS was toddling around with that other E! anchor, Saul and/or Sway and/or Quaddus. Saul had floor seats, Ben was a couple rows back, sucking down what looked to be cherry daquiris, flailing his arms around uselessly, and screaming at the male cheerleaders. I swear to God, I can’t swing a dead cat in this town without hitting that toolbag. [We know, we know — just swing it hard. Hollywood PrivacyWatch is written by and for Defamer readers; send your sightings to tips@defamer.com.au.] More »
What Loudmouth Movie Critic Bashed the ‘Old Putz’ His Son Was Hired to Replace?
7:40AM STV | A tipster wasn’t naming names when s/he sent word of one film critic’s rather vocal dissing of another, more “highly respected” critic at a press screening eariler this afternoon. But the math seems easy enough, even for us: A father, a son and a “pathetic old putz” who’s no longer on the air? Show your work after the jump. More »
Ben Lyons Gleans Valuable Starfucking Tips From Roger Ebert
8:34AM STV | Always the type of man to make the best of a bad situation, Roger Ebert has now spun his recent Reviewgate scandal into a deeply constructive thesis on movie critic ethics. And by “deeply constructive,” we mean “a point-by-point indictment of Ben Lyons” — that proven archenemy of taste, restraint and decorum in an ever-thinning field of trained professionals. More »
The Continuing Adventures of Ben Lyons, Starfucker
9:20AM STV | We (and you) were none too pleased when Ben Lyons joined Ben Mankiewicz as the host for At the Movies earlier this year, particularly when we considered Lyons’ track record as something of a half-wit Richard Roeper to Mankiewicz’s low-rent Roger Ebert. And while Manckiewicz has settled in relatively well in the last six weeks, we continue to cringe at the sight and sound of Lyons fluffing away at Hollywood loins in his blurb-fertile reviews. Still, we knew he was a hack; what we didn’t know (at least to the extent we do today) was the garish, staggering extent of his starfucking. More »
Whitney From ‘The Hills’ Gets Spinoff, New Fake Boyfriend
7:20AM Kyle Buchanan | MTV’s worst-kept rumour has finally been confirmed: eternally OMG-faced Whitney Port (seemingly the most normal member of The Hills) has gotten her own NYC spinoff show, The City. According to Us, “Port, now a Diane Von Furstenberg employee, reunites with ‘a best friend from her past’ and meets ‘a guy she’s head-over-heels for.’” Translation: MTV provides Port with brand-new, camera-ready pals (including NYC socialite Olivia Palermo) and a carefully focus-grouped boyfriend! Paparazzi snaps of Port filming have strongly suggested that the teased love interest is Aussie musician Jay Lyon, who already has one ignoble celebrity relationship on his resume: More »
Russell Brand, Britney Spears, And The Tale Of One ‘Terrifying Vagina’
5:00AM Defamer Hollywood | Though ladykiller VMAs host Russell Brand is certainly no stranger to female anatomy, his elephant-starring VMAs commercial with Britney Spears was nearly waylaid when he became obsessed with, as he puts it, one “terrifying vagina.” In a chat with the Ebert-usurping Ben Lyons, Brand details how the elephant’s mammoth sexual orifice nearly blew his mind, causing him to be late to an initial meeting with Spears (and subsequently leading the confused pop singer to ID him on-air as “Russell Brown”). With colorful anecdotes like these, the Defamer liveblog of this Sunday’s VMAs should be a breeze; most of all, we can’t wait until an onstage Brand takes the Jonas Brothers aside to demonstrate the colorful things an ambitious trio is really capable of. [MTV] More »
