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MTV reportedly fires Jersey Shore cast over greed

[The Limey] – In a disputed piece that is almost certainly more MTV hype it’s being reported that the entire cast of that peerless example of brainless inbreeding, ‘Jersey Shore’ are due to be axed and replaced before season three.

Somebody up there likes me!

Pop Eater says the [...]

Betty White doubles SNL ratings, both new viewers amused

[The Limey] – So, after what feels like six moths of endless, relentless and immeasurably pointless hype and self-serving marketing, the great Betty White / SNL spectacular is finally done.

Now we can suppose NBC will spend the next six months telling us how smart, funny and bitingly relevant the show [...]

Did Ryan Seacrest save American Idol hopeful from quitting?

[The Limey] – In between being every B-list celebrity’s favorite agony aunt on his KIIS-FM radio show, Ryan Seacrest also finds time to front American Idol, and he’s now being praised for saving one contestant, Crystal Bowersox from losing her chance at the prize.

Crystal, it seems, was in the process [...]

Hollywood needs a new blacklist

[The Limey] – People, we need a blacklist. A list of all the brainless, worthless, attention-seeking egocentrics who are currently suffering from the groundless delusion they’re famous.

I’m talking about the seemingly unending swathe of mediocre performers who are so irreparably inept, yet driven by ego they engage in one [...]

Joaquin Phoenix stars in brutal PETA fur ad

[The Limey] – When Joaquin Phoenix stepped out of the limelight in 2008 the world lost a fine actor. Now back, and with a movie in which he’ll play Edgar Allen Poe already in development Joaquin has made a new film for PETA – and the story is brutally true.

The [...]

Spencer Pratt is the victim, Producer should quit

[The Limey] – I’m not the man’s biggest fan and I’ve never seen the show, but the way Spencer Pratt disappeared from MTV”s tiresome ‘reality’ slapstick ‘The Hills’ is too much to stand.

The story, first floated by People said the 26-year old actor was leaving because he’d found “a new [...]

Will and Grace co-star, Sean Hayes drops the last veil

[The Limey] – In the final denouement of what may be Hollywood’s worst-kept secret since the personal life choices of the late Liberace, Will and Grace actor Sean Hayes has finally agreed that he’s gay.

When the now 39-year old actor first appeared on the screen in 1998 as Will’s constantly [...]

Conan O’Brien picks a feathery friend on Twitter

[TheLimey] – The curious, virtual peacock that is Twitter has gained a great deal of press since many so-called celebrities jumped aboard to stroke their own egos and compound their fame. But Conan O’Brien is the one viable celeb who has found a good use.

Since he began tweeting on February [...]

MTV’s Jersey Shore now owes us big bucks

[The Limey] – After nine endless, pain-riddled weeks MTV’s latest hype-driven insult, Jersey Shore has vacated our screens. But rather than give the public a few weeks of BS-free silence the ‘network’ is now leaking stories on how the ‘cast’ of this mindless farce are supposedly demanding more money to do it again.

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Jay Leno regains Tonight Show…or does he?

[The Limey] That beacon of truth and incisive reporting, TMZ is running a story that NBC and Jay Leno have struck a deal which puts Jay firmly back on the throne he should never have left.

The Hollywood Reporter, meanwhile, says that story’s hokum and no deal has been reached.