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Chelsea Handler Calls Tori Spelling a Faux Fag Hag

8:22AM Kyle Buchanan | Gay men used to be known for their powers of artistic discernment, granting a priceless cultural imprimatur on the only trends, films, and iconic women who deserved it. No longer! Now, when even a reality show fourth banana like Audrina Patridge can have gays flinging themselves onto the pavement of Santa Monica Blvd. in a desperate attempt to be her new BFF, the standards for gay adoration have reached a watermark so low that it wouldn’t even reach the hem of $220 capri pants. Thus it is that Tori Spelling has seen fit to anoint herself as a modern-day gay icon, an honour that E! talk show host Chelsea Handler tells The Advocate is simply canny marketing: More »

Which Guest On Last Night’s ‘Chelsea Lately’ Was Caught Doing Blow?

10:50AM Mark Graham | · We spotted this juicy little nugget of gossip just moments before last night’s episode of Chelsea Lately aired on E! last night. One of the show’s staffers maintains a Tumblr called C’est L.A. Vie, in which she often details the mundane things that happen on the show. Yesterday, all that changed when she alleged that someone who was wired with a hot mic was caught doing coke on set. Our handy video clip runs down the list of all the on-camera guests last night’s episode; leave your guesses (and investigative rationale) in the comments! [C'est L.A. Vie] · Our hearts just broke a little — scratch that, a LOT — when we read this anecdote about Life Goes On star Corky and his racist streak. [Byron Crawford] · Chuck Klosterman’s latest Esquire column features a lengthy diatribe on Jennifer Love Hewitt’s left femur (”Love Hewitt’s left thighbone strikes me as unusually long, and I feel like it lacks the convincing self-assurance of her right femur”), which he grades a B+. [Esquire] · Ignore Lindsay Lohan’s nipples for a second and, instead, focus on her mouth. Is she wearing braces? Grillz? Is she chewing tin foil? [Egotastic] · And we know the day is almost over, but here are 88 ways you can enjoy 8/8/08. Our fave? “Call up Eddie Furlong and ask why there are 8 of him to a mile. Then, find out how he’s doing. Let us know.” Guaranteed to be the best list until the 99 ways you can enjoy 9/9/09 comes out next year! [Best Week Ever] More »

9:42AM Mark Graham | While she may not be a “power lesbian” publicist on the scale of Ellen Page’s notoriously hard-assed rep Kelly Bush, Radar is reporting that Sandra Bernhard’s longtime ladyfriend, Sara Switzer, may have used her clout as a Vanity Fair publicist to secure Bernhard a spot in VF’s upcoming spread of twelve Chicks With Schticks (their pun, not ours). Now that that mystery has been solved, we can move onto the more pressing matter of finding out how Chelsea Handler got herself included on this list. After all, last time we checked, Ted Harbert hadn’t vacated his post as the President and CEO of the Comcast Entertainment Group for the colder East Coast confines of Condé Nast. [Radar] More »

9:42AM Mark Graham | While she may not be a “power lesbian” publicist on the scale of Ellen Page’s notoriously hard-assed rep Kelly Bush, Radar is reporting that Sandra Bernhard’s longtime ladyfriend, Sara Switzer, may have used her clout as a Vanity Fair publicist to secure Bernhard a spot in VF’s upcoming spread of twelve Chicks With Schticks (their pun, not ours). Now that that mystery has been solved, we can move onto the more pressing matter of finding out how Chelsea Handler got herself included on this list. After all, last time we checked, Ted Harbert hadn’t vacated his post as the President and CEO of the Comcast Entertainment Group for the colder East Coast confines of Condé Nast. [Radar] More »

Short Ends: How To Fuck Up The American Version Of Your Hit British Sitcom

3:25AM Defamer Hollywood | · “I can answer that with three letters: N-B-C. Really good cast, really good writing team, the network totally fucked it up. You want a show to be funny? Get somebody other than Jeff Zucker and his team because they will fuck it up. There, that’s the end of my career in LA.” · Courtney Love is looking better than ever. · Is there actually a Transformers fan insane enough to bid $US40,000 on a prop, or is some prankster interfering with eBay’s invisible hand of commerce? · “I really want to do a different take on the celebrity interview. The last thing I want to see is Nicole Kidman talking about what movie she’s going to be in. I want to talk to Nicole Kidman’s neighbour about what’s going on with Nicole Kidman and Keith Urban when he’s pretending not to drink.” That’s admirable and all, but the big question for Chelsea Lately’s Chelsea Handler: Will even Kidman’s neighbour be willing to slum it on an 11:30pm show on E!? More »