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Small Screen
Are Meredith Vieira And Al Roker Going To Kill Each Other?
1:40AM Richard Lawson | On the American Today show this morning, Meredith genially asked weatherman Al Roker, who is black, if he knew about the weather in Africa. Because her kid’s going there! Al, though, took jokey offence, and the scene got pretty uncomfortable More »
Small Screen
Susan Boyle’s Campaign To Win Next Year’s Razzie
5:30AM Aaron Coleman | Eeking out a 16th minute, housefrump-turned-household-name Susan Boyle sits with Today to voice soundbits with all the enthusiasm of a funeral director. Once more, with feeling, Suze! And Cowell, send her to Lee Stasberg, stat! More »
Everything Tom Cruise Knows About Bush, He Learned From the ‘Today’ Teleprompter
2:32AM Kyle Buchanan | Tom Cruise reunited with Matt Lauer on the Today Show this morning, and fortunately for the audience, Cruise’s strategy appeared to be, “Bring the crazy up front and as early as possible.” More »
Lynne Spears Book Tour to Address The Real Victim: Lynne Spears
8:10AM Kyle Buchanan | It ain’t easy being Lynne Spears: sure, you can live off the wealth accumulated from your daughters’ hard work and sell their teen pregnancy secrets to OK! for a million dollars, but occasionally, people will think you’re a bad parent! That’s why it’s important for Lynne to set the record straight, and the Today Show gave her just the forum this morning. Hawking her book Through the Storm, Lynne discussed the perils of overexposing your children, something that will surely be nipped in the bud by her incredibly revealing tell-all about daughter Britney’s loss of virginity. Congratulations, Lynne: here’s your celebratory Cheeto. [Today] More »
Martha Stewart Is No Lush, But She Sure Loves Getting Talk Show Hosts Trashed
8:30AM Molly Friedman | After gleefully watching along as Martha Stewart doused Conan O’Brien with all sorts of lush-inducing cocktails, from Guinness to gin to mystery concoctions, we put on our thinking caps and sorted through our clip-clustered memories. After we cleared the cobwebs a bit, we remembered that this wasn’t the first time Martha shared her love of liquor with television hosts. Loyal Defamer readers will recall her 8am rise-and-shine mixers with Meredith Vieira on The Today Show last month, and insomniacs will certainly remember her booze-on-the-brain appearance on The Late Show last week (in which she listed at least four indecipherable drinks she calls her “favourites”). But her fondness of ladylike cocktails doesn’t stop there. Intrepid Defamer Videographer™ Molly McAleer put together a burp-filled mashup of our favourite Professional Housewife’s alcohol-drenched appearances of late; as always, video is available the jump. More »
Martha Stewart and Meredith Viera Jumpstart Their Day With Booze For Breakfast
5:15AM Defamer Hollywood | Why the Today Show waited so long to combine massive martinis, Meredith Vieira and Martha Stewart into a segment is beyond us. After watching two of the most regal small screen dames tip back an early morning stiff one, we’re ready to hand the producers a Daytime Emmy. The festivities began with Martha calmly asking Meredith if she’d prefer gin or vodka in her martini (no Cosmos for these boozehounds), Meredith got all flustered and said, “Uhhhh, whatever you recommend?!” Martha’s suggestion? “I like vodka!” More »
