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The show drew a 23.4 overnight rating on Sunday night, according to ABC.
The ratings for the three and a half hour broadcast was down 5% from last year's 24.6 overnight rating and would give the awards its lowest overnight rating in eight years.
It should be noted that overnight ratings can be inaccurate in terms of measuring viewership and more detailed numbers including viewership will be released later on Monday.
The low overnight ratings are surprising seeing that this year's Oscars were one of the most talked about awards in recent years. This was due to backlash and protests over the Academy's lack of diverse nominees.
The Oscars are boring as shit, just like every other mainstream awards show. You can bring in whatever host you'd like, have any comedians make dumb joke you'd like, and it's still going to be boring. That's just the nature of the beast. Sure, we want to see what everyone wears on the red carpet and who gets to take home those gold statues, but I'd rather just read about it afterwards than have to sit through three insufferable hours.
I am pretty stoked for Brie Larson and Alicia Vikander, though. />
Last night was Hollywood's biggest celebration of films and their actors, and it was a monumental night. I mean, I'm guessing it was — I didn't actually see it. Instead, I was watching the Tina Fey & Amy Poehler movie Sisters, which was way better than I expected and had me LOLing throughout. Apparently all I missed on the Oscars was a bunch of white people winning awards, Sam Smith making an ass of himself (more on that later), and Leonardo DiCaprio finally getting that beloved gold statue. Turns ou...
“It was a real marriage,” Garner tells me. “It wasn’t for the cameras. And it was a huge priority for me to stay in it. And that did not work.”
On Nannygate:
“We had been separated for months before I ever heard about the nanny. She had nothing to do with our decision to divorce. She was not a part of the equation. Bad judgment? Yes. It’s not great for your kids for [a nanny] to disappear from their lives.” Months later, she’s still assessing the damage. “I have had to have conversations about the meaning of ‘scandal,’” she says, with her children.
On Ben as the love of her life:
“He’s the love of my life. What am I going to do about that? He’s the most brilliant person in any room, the most charismatic, the most generous. He’s just a complicated guy. I always say, ‘When his sun shines on you, you feel it.’ But when the sun is shining elsewhere, it’s cold. He can cast quite a shadow.”
On Ben as the knower of truths:
“He’s still the only person who really knows the truth about things. And I’m still the only person that knows some of his truths.”
Well, I suppose that's pretty special. Jennifer Garner is pretty inoffensive because she's so bland, but no one deserves to be fucked over the way she was. It's great of her to take the high road, but I do wonder why she's trying to paint Ben as some mythological god with depths that none of us can ever understand. He's an idiot, and his pseudo-whatever it is he's pandering isn't fooling most of the world. />
It's been a long time (or maybe it just feels that way) since Ben Affleck's affair with the family nanny and his split from wife Jennifer Garner went public — in actuality, it was only last summer that it all went down. Still, she's kept quiet about the whole thing ever since, likely in an effort to protect her kids and not draw unnecessary drama (a rare quality for a celebrity, but certainly a welcome one). Now Garner is speaking out in the most vanilla star profile ever published on the p...
I've always thought that the reason Taryn Manning is so perfect for the role of Pennsatucky on Orange is the New Black is because she's as crazy in real life as the character is on screen. OK, maybe not quite as insane, but certainly a little unhinged. That being said, I really like her, and I especially love that she seriously thought the ghost of her good friend Brittany Murphy was responsible for a sound system shut down during her recent DJ set at an H&M party in Toronto. Because of course she...
In a resurfaced YouTube video from December 2014, a man named Dave Johnson claims that Ramsey is not dead but is in fact pop star Katy Perry. Johnson, who does not show his face in the video, claims the family kept this secret so that Perry could rise to fame.
"All of these people are liars, man," he says over images of Perry and Ramsey. "Nobody died, nobody got hurt. That sacrifice was in name only, and that was to get something, and that something was to become a star. JonBenet became Katy Perry, and that's a fact."
Never mind that Katy is 31 and JonBenet would only be 25 if she was alive today. Never mind that there are tons of pics of Katy Perry from various stages of her life in which she was definitely Katy and not JonBenet. They have similar eyebrows, man!
"You know, the eyebrows don't change much on a person," he claims. "You're born with your eyebrows. They're very close, very close indeed, aren't they? … As you know, this whole entertainment industry is just a charade -- you really don't know the truth."
I... don't even know what to say about this besides, "Wut?"
Here's the YouTube video in question you want to feel better about your relative sanity in comparison to these yahoos:
“I say what I feel. I probably went too far with Madonna [publicly calling her out for lip-synching], and I got very personal and I wrote her — she was very gracious. … You know, f--king music magazines writing a review of Janet Jackson saying, ‘This is the greatest show — four and a half stars.’ It’s f--king lip-synched! Hello! That’s not a show! I’d rather go and see a drag queen. F--k off.”
Elton bringing Janet up is literally the most random thing ever. Look, he's a legend and has contributed so much to modern music yada yada, but he's still a bit of a dickhead, don't you think? I'm not even a massive Janet Jackson fan and I think that. What he's saying might be true - I have no way of knowing either way because I've never seen her live - but what has Janet Jackson ever done to him? And how is she even all that relevant at the moment to be ragging on?
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Elton John has always struck me as being catty as hell, and he's proven it again today by accusing Janet Jackson of lip syncing. In a new interview with Rolling Stone, Elton basically trashed Jackson for no reason, claiming that he'd rather go see a drag queen than her because she doesn't sing live. Is it true? Who knows. Is it bitchy as hell? You know it!
“I say what I feel. I probably went too far with Madonna [publicly calling her out for lip-synching], and I got very personal and I wrote her — she was very gracious. ...
“I thought [internet speculation] was going to chill down when I said: ‘OK, I admit it, I got my lips done, I never lied, I just wasn’t telling the whole truth’, she tells Wonderland Magazine in their “Fame” issue. “People don’t realize I just turned 18, so there’s no way my mom would ever let me undergo a nose job or a boob job.”
First of all, Kris Jenner leaked her own daughter's sex tape to get her a career, so I don't for one second think she wouldn't have signed off on an opportunity to make even more money off her youngest daughter. This is more than just gaining a little weight or wearing a good bra — she has a completely new body, just like big sister Kim.
Anyway, as I said, my issue isn't that she had these things done (though I do think it's sad that the women in this family are so insecure), but that she expects us to buy a load of boloney that's clearly not true.
In case you're not hip on what the BRIT Awards are, it's a UK music awards show — basically their version of the Grammys, but only for young, hip artists. It should go without saying that Adele pretty much cleared up during Wednesday night's ceremony and remained the most adorable, most talented singer who you also want to be your BFF. She also used her acceptance speech for the Best Female Solo Artist trophy to publicly support Kesha as she goes through her legal battle against Sony Music and Dr. Luke.
From Jezebel:
“To come back after so long away and be so warmly received is really lovely, thank you so much,” said Adele. “And to all the other girls that are nominated, Thank you for letting me be in your company. You’re all incredible, you’re all amazing and it’s a privilege to be alongside you.”
After thanking her label and management “for embracing the fact that I’m a woman,” Adele referenced Kesha’s lawsuit against Dr. Luke in a major acknowledgement, adding, “I’d also like to take this moment to publicly support Kesha.”
And there you have it. It's pretty great for an artist of Adele's stature to come out and say something, especially not just on Twitter. It doesn't change anything, obviously, but the solidarity is nice and I'm sure incredibly appreciated.
Oh, and there's video of the speech, too, if you'd like to see for yourself. />
In case you're not hip on what the BRIT Awards are, it's a UK music awards show — basically their version of the Grammys, but only for young, hip artists. It should go without saying that Adele pretty much cleared up during Wednesday night's ceremony and remained the most adorable, most talented singer who you also want to be your BFF. She also used her acceptance speech for the Best Female Solo Artist trophy to publicly support Kesha as she goes through her legal battle against Sony Music an...
Depp, who once said “religion is not my specialty,” is one of the scheduled speakers at the Reason Rally, a project of seven national atheist, humanist and other secularist organizations slated for June 4. Other speakers include television personality Bill Nye, scientists Lawrence Krauss and Carolyn Porco, comedians Margaret Cho and Julia Sweeney and musicians Killah Priest and Mark White of the Spin Doctors.
“Up until now, for a celebrity, politician or athlete to identify as openly nonreligious has been regarded as career suicide,” said Lyz Liddell, the Reason Rally’s executive director. “The fact that these big, mainstream names are beginning to openly support our work and become involved in our community means that the entire cultural attitude towards nonreligious Americans is shifting towards acceptance and inclusion — and that’s wonderful!
This event sounds... interesting, to say the least - especially since one of the sponsors of the event is Richard Dawkins' foundation. Ugh. Ah, to be a fly on the wall at the Reason Rally! />
Johnny Depp seems like a somewhat reasonable guy, save for the homeless chic fashion sense and several questionable movie roles. Anyway, it's no surprise that he's an atheist, but apparently that's a topic he feels so strongly about, Depp's going all the way to Washington D.C. to talk about just that, along with some of his fellow (albeit less famous) celebrities at the Reason Rally.
Depp, who once said “religion is not my specialty,” is one of the scheduled speakers at the Reason Rally, a project of seven national atheist, humanist and o...
For some reason, we live in a world obsessed not only with celebrities, but their offspring. We're desperate to see the children of the famous people we lionize in the weirdest way, and it's a booming business for the celebs who market the first pics to the highest bidder, getting magazine covers showing off the happy family. Kim Kardashian has enough money for now, so she decided to share a photo of her son Saint West in her own time, and that time was this morning.
The picture of the baby was posted on Kim's webs...