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Jon And Kate’s Children Officially H8 Them

2:00AM Foster Kamer | Jon and Kate Gosselin completely suck at life. Michael Jackson was weird on The Simpsons. Weird! Weirdos will get off on Marge Simpson in Playboy. Carrey Mulligan? Emmy Rossum! Pervy Dr. Phil, many more. Presenting your Saturday Gossip Roundup: More »
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YouTube Clip Of The Day II

12:48PM Jess McGuire | Sure, this is a short clip – but it’s still definitely worth watching. Immediately. I can’t believe it’s taken me this long to witness Dr Phil’s “Goony Bird” moment! More »

Would You Pay To See ‘17 Again?’

10:52AM Seth | Here’s a fresh and intriguing concept: Matthew Perry falls off a bridge (no wait there’s more) and becomes a teenager again. How will he approach high school? First kisses? Getting his licence? The possibilities are endless! Did you miss Ellen’s comments today about Sarah Palin’s crusade against gay marriage? It moved us to the point of making us want to find a nice lesbian and settling down. Warner Bros. was found not guilty of copyright infringement in a $US40 million lawsuit that claims We Are Marshall ripped off a documentary about the same high school football tragedy. Approached for comment, Marshall star Matthew McConaughey smiled his high-wattage smile and offered reporters a morsel of the most delicious beef they’ve ever tasted. “Alyson Hannigan Is Pregnant!” Sorry, brah. Mr. Phil is getting sued by the memorabilia dealer who just put O.J. away, for editing his interview to make it seem as if the dealer was agreeing with the talk show host’s incriminating questions about the case. We realise this is just a civil suit, but wouldn’t it be nice if one armed hotel ambush put both O.J. and Phil away? More »

In These Times of Economic Crisis, We Turn To Noted Finger-Wagger Dr. Phil

6:00AM Kyle Buchanan | While David Letterman spent the better part of his Late Show last night ripping into John McCain, things were no less political over on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno. Leno’s guest was Dr. Phil, and talk turned not to negligent parents or feuding spouses but to the government bailout of Wall Street. Turns out: Dr. Phil? Not really a fan of that plan! Oh, how we long for the halcyon days of mid-January, when Dr. Phil was merely a Britney Spears-chasing charlatan and not a needed, sober voice on economic matters. Enjoy your Great Depression, America! [The Tonight Show] More »

Ratings-Obsessed Quack Dr. Phil Tells ‘The Early Show’ He Was Only Motivated By Britney’s Welfare

6:58AM Seth | Are we going soft if we’re starting feel a little badly for Mr. Phil? The guy answers one frantic phone call from a family in need, then instantly jumps to action, gathering a handful of tongue depressors, a non-functioning stethoscope, and a camera crew before rushing bedside to treat their daughter’s Fake British Accent Disorder. He then innocently offers his frank assessment of her condition to Paramount TV syndie-cousin ET. More »

Dr. Phil’s Life’s Work Of Yelling Good Sense Into People Now Compromised By One Ill-Advised Britney Hospital Call

4:00AM Seth | Tough love guru in the media crosshairs Mr. Phil has broken his silence™ about the Britney Spears incident, speaking with Matt Lauer on The Today Show this morning. Since exploding onto the national stage as Oprah’s motivational-speaking protégé, no other case has managed to so rattle the foundations of his “Talk Loudly At People Until They Do What You Tell Them To Do”-based therapy practice. More »

Dr. Phil Now Second-Guessing Sharing His Britney Files With ‘ET’

6:34AM Seth | To watch an actual doctor actually do something towards curing non-actual celebrities with actual drug problems, we refer you to the goings on over at VH1’s Celebrity Rehab, with board-accredited, medical-degree-holding Dr. Drew and his ragtag gang of Z-list addicts. (And a constantly-moaning-in- withdrawal-system-agony Jeff Conaway. Seriously–shit’s fucked up. We don’t think the I Love New York 2 people really realized what they were getting into.) For all your other TV quack needs, we refer you instead to Mr. Phil, who apparently now regrets breaching Fake-Doctor/Someone-Else’s-Patient confidentiality laws by blabbing all about Britney Spears to those guys over at Entertainment Tonight: More »

You Don’t Look Like A Dude To Me

9:11AM Defamer Hollywood | Actually, it kinda looks like a dude to us. Spoiler alert! The Cloverfield Monster … revealed! Click only if you must. “Did I, at any point, say to you, ‘Flip the genre’? No. All I said was to put in a few more song and dance numbers.” If the advance quotes are any indication, the new Pixar tell-all is going to read like a Dreamworks animation picture. We agree with The Fiddler, Ledger’s Joker looks for the world like Beetlejuice. We loves us some Tina Fey, but the trailer for Baby Mama looks stillborn. More »

Seven Places That Britney Spears Would Never Be Spotted By The Paparazzi

9:33AM Defamer Hollywood | Is she in New York City? Is she in Mexico? Is she at a Shell station in Hermosa Beach buying cigs? These are the kinds of riveting questions that had a nation (and the Defamer staff) glued to the AM radio yesterday, furiously dialing between stations in search of an update on The Animal’s whereabouts. While we eventually found out the answers (no, yes and yes), we thought about a few places that the paparazzi would never even THINK to look for Brit Brit. 7) Hyde – Because NOBODY goes there anymore. 6) The library – No, not The Library Bar. We mean an actual library. You know, the place with card catalogs? 5) Daycare – Clearly Sean Preston and Jayden James have ample time to bite each other at home. 4) Cedars-Sinai Hospital – That was

Spears Family Incensed That Dr. Phil Accepted Their Idiotic Invitation To Ambush Britney

3:25AM Seth | While our proprietary, patent-pending VirtuaPhil™ technology allowed you to experience what a showdown between the KingWorld tough-love swami and a Britney Spears well-past the verge of a nervous breakdown might have looked like, the actual footage from their historic meeting will never air. (Save, perhaps, for repeated 4 a.m. screenings on a rickety Super-8 projector in the doctor’s home library, popping cashews into his mouth as he obsessively relives every moment of the intervention that got away.) Now the Spears family, whose only means of dealing with a situation involves relaying their problems to the nearest national media outlet, is on the attack, with frayed matriarch Lynne Spears and fecund tween daughter Jamie Lynn having dispatched a representative to The Today Show to insist they had never authorized a Britney-themed Dr. Phil episode. The representative further castigates the celebrity therapist for having made “inappropriate” public statements regarding Britney’s mental state. A betrayal of trust does appear to have occurred here, as of the approximately 16,000 licensed mental health professionals currently working in California, the one the Spears family painstakingly selected to help a relative deeply in need, with nothing to gain from going public with this access save for perhaps a massive ratings boost on his nationally syndicated show, marks a clear breach of TV-therapist / bottomed-out-pop-star-patient confidentiality. Watch Video The Today Show More »