florence henderson

Execs Appalled As Cloris Leachman Reaches Sanjaya-Like Threat to ‘Dancing with the Stars’

6:45AM Kyle Buchanan | It’s a bad time to be backstage at ABC: not even twenty-four hours after word broke about behind-the-scenes in-fighting at The View, the Chicago Sun-Times is reporting similar agita over at Dancing with the Stars, where the tyrannical Cloris Leachman has proven impossible to send home. It appears the producers and fellow dancers are firmly on Team Florence Henderson, as they’re tired of the 82-year-old Leachman evading the ax simply by hamming it up for the cameras. “She has a Quentin Tarantino role to get to,” they cry! “Does she need anything else?” More »

Here’s The Story of Warring Battle Axes Florence Henderson & Cloris Leachman

8:45AM Kyle Buchanan | While it wasn’t hard to see some of today’s blowups coming, we were unprepared for the latest feud to hit Hollywood: Brady Bunch materfamilias Florence Henderson versus resurgent Dancing with the Stars hoofer Cloris Leachman! The 82-year-old Leachman has paso dobled her way into America’s hearts over the past few weeks with her patented brand of cussing and cleavage, but to fellow Dancing vet Henderson, that simply isn’t how its done! She spilled on her anti-Cloris crusade to Life & Style: More »

Hollywood Privacywatch: Adrian Grenier Not Afraid Of A Little PDA

7:40AM Mark Graham | PrivacyWatch celebrity sightings are submitted by our millions of Defamer operatives. We’d like to remind you that this feature is powered by you, so if you want to see more installments of PrivacyWatch, then all you’ve got to do is to send us your sightings. Submit yours to tips[AT]defamer.com (please put “sighting” or “PrivacyWatch” in the subject line so we don’t lose them) and tell everyone about the time you saw Adrian Grenier getting ready to Diving Bell the Butterfly out of “some model looking chick.” More »

A Very Brady Bitchfight

9:13AM Molly Friedman | It’s always fun when a Shiny Happy People show like Full House, The Partridge Family or The Brady Bunch is unveiled as a breeding ground for future meth addicts, domestic abusers, and on-screen mother/son duos still bitchily feuding decades after their stars have burnt out. And the Brady cast is by far the most over-achieving bunch of fuck-ups to efficiently destroy any warm and fuzzy associations we may have had with that humorless bundle of 70s saccharine. Following Jan and Marsha’s fictional sibling rivalry leading to a non-fictional lesbian porn, little Cindy Brady showed up to a radio interview last week reeking of vintage wine and memories, excusing herself to vomit during commercial breaks. And now, reality trainwreck Christopher “Peter” Knight has taken down the last remaining beacon of Brady light, Florence Henderson, by involving the (until now) scandal-free actress in a messy online war of words: