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Jimmy K didn’t take Sarah Silverman’s video lying down. You know, the one where she proclaimed that she was fucking Matt Damon. His video features a ton of actors and musicians. Including Harrison Ford. Funny stuff. (more…)

I guess frequent Montel guest Sylvia Browne forgot to tell him that this would lead to trouble in his future.

A thoughtful question was all it took for Montel Williams to cancel an interview and later threaten the high school newspaper intern who asked it.

Montel was in town to promote a free prescription drug program for low-income patients. But he ended the press event after the teen reporter asked if he thought that pharmaceutical companies might be discouraged from research and development if their profits were restricted. It seems like a harmless enough, even intelligent question right? Apparently Montel disagreed, acting like a Media Diva:

“I’m here as a patient advocate talking about the fact that medications available today are saving people’s lives, that’s what’s saving mine and after that, this interview is done.”

Later on, Montel confronted the reporter and crew at his hotel, while they were covering a different story. Montel, accompanied by his bodyguard, got in the reporter’s face, pointing his finger and saying, “Don’t look at me like that. Do you know who I am? I’m a big star, and I can look you up, find where you live and blow you up”.

It seems Montel has a bit of a temper. Whether he was thinking of actual dynamite, C-4 or simply referring to blowing up careers, no one is sure.

He later apologized for the outburst in a statement that read:

“I mistakenly thought the reporter and photographer in question were at the hotel to confront me about some earlier comments. I was wrong, and I apologize for my overreaction.”

How about apologizing for the actual threat? Just another talk show host behaving badly.

For the record Montel…You’re not that big of a star. Daytime talk show hosts are the bottom feeders of the TV ecosystem wasteland. Geeze.

[MSNBC]

Rosie O’Donnell has never had any problems keeping her opinion to herself. After Oprah she was the queen of the daytime talk show circuit four years ago and had her very own monthly magazine too but her outspoken ways and adversarial nature soon short circuited both of those venues. She then took some time off before landing one the vacant Star Jones spot on “The View” which drove up ratings but also set off the start of several confrontations with co-host Elizabeth “I’m so Republican” Hasselbeck. And then there was the matter of Rosie’s very public and nasty name calling feud with the King of All Comb-Overs, Mistah Donald Trump. By the start of the fall Rosie had exited “The View” and we had just started to think that maybe we would have a couple of months without another new Rosie story.

Not so fast! According to multiple reports O’Donnell is close to signing with MSNBC and getting her own political talk show. Rosie apparently spilled the secret to fans at a book signing last weekend and as the story developed legs others confirmed that she was indeed in talks with the news network. The word is that her show would replace the ailing “Live with Dan Abrams” in the MSNBC 9 PM slot. That would place her in direct competition with CNN’s “Larry King Live” and Fox News’ “Hannity & Colmes”. The PopTherapists are interested in seeing what Rosie would do with her own political pundit show because we like watching fireworks go off as much as anyone else but we also wonder would her daytime fans flock to the late evening show? That’s a long day if you’re watching “The View” early in the morning and then Rosie’s show in the night.

It’s about time too. We were wondering why there was a void in vaginal discourse on talk shows lately. Tyra plans on doing an entire talk show around the taboo topic.

“I have wanted to do this show for two years,” Banks said to People magazine. “I know for a lot of women talking about what is going on in our bodies is extremely difficult, but it is incredibly important.”

The model turned Talk show host believes that women should be able to talk to their daughters, sisters, mothers and friends about their bodies and not be embarrassed.

Ratings grab or genuine concern over the public image of the vagina?

There is one overlooked but important question here. If she is “one with her vagina” and perfectly ok with it, then how about a little show and tell?

[The Hollywood Gossip]

NBC could not have made it more clear. In 2009, Jay Leno is out. Conan O’Brien will be replacing his comically large chinned predecessor as host of the Tonight Show.

Whether Leno is having second thoughts or not, the announcement by NBC Universal President and CEO Jeff Zucker on Monday suggests that it is a done deal.

A deal for Leno’s exit was finalized three years ago as part of NBC Universal’s effort to keep “Late Night” host O’Brien from bolting to a competing network. Leno marked his 15th year as host of “Tonight” last May.

Translation: Leno has only held the position for as long as he has because he stole it from David Letterman. Conan is younger, funnier, hipper and in general easier to look at.

This shouldn’t really come as a surprise. And besides, I’ve always thought there was something weaselly about Leno. Just could never put my finger on it. Oh yeah. Leno himself. But maybe that’s just me.

[AOL News]

Ellen, come here sweetie. You need to have a therapy session with us right now.

Yes, we know that you’re a good person and that you probably had the best interests of everyone in your heart when you made your emotional and tear-filled plea this week on your daytime talkshow asking the cruel owners of Mutts and Moms to return your Brussels Griffon puppy Iggy to your hairdresser’s household. We know that you tried to get Iggy and your two kitties (not counting Portia de Rossi as one of them) to play nice together and things didn’t work out. That happens. But when you thought it was no big deal to give a dog that you signed a legal agreement with a non-profit small business about caring for to someone else, yes Ellen, that is a big no-no. It sounds like the owners of Mutts and Moms research every home before handing over the canine so it seems fair to understand why they would get upset and take the dog back from your hairdresser, right?

But when you came on your show did you stop and think about what you were doing? The last we heard Mutts and Moms doesn’t have its own Emmy-award winning platform to voice their opinion to millions of people. Did you not think that the picture that you painted would make Mutts and Moms look awful to millions of people?

But the really important question that you need to give us an answer for is why your hairdresser refused to go down to the Mutts and Moms business and sign legal papers adopting Iggy when that was all they had to do to become the new and rightfully legal owners of the pooch. Oh yes Ellen, we now know the ugly truth about that and are shocked to find out that your hairdresser had multiple occasions to do things the right way but refused. And we had to learn it from Bill O’Reilly, of all people!

Do take the weekend off. Rest up, don’t turn on the television and come back to work ready to start things fresh. But when you do come back don’t pull another stunt like the one you did this week without telling us all of the details first. If you had done that, and your hairdresser wasn’t such an ego-filled parent, then those two little girls would be walking Iggy this weekend and not missing him.

Even O is getting into the reality TV business. Reportedly Oprah’s production company, Harpo (Oprah spelled backwards) is working on two new shows for ABC.

The first “Oprah Winfrey’s The Big Give,” is a charity completion. Ten people are given money and resources which they must use to help others. The winner gets to realize a “wildest dream come true.”

The second “Your Money or Your Life,” focuses on families that are facing a crisis and must make changes to survive. Oprah will dispatch a team to give the family a life and money makeover.

Oprah will appear in at least one if not both of these shows.

Your Therapy:

ABC is obviously overjoyed at Oprah’s move into prime time. Harpo is very successful and has had recent luck in launching magazines, a satellite radio station and a broadway production of “The Color Purple.”

The big networks are facing a crisis of their own. I’m wondering if Oprah can give ABC a “Total Life and Money Makeover.” NBC recently announced they were cutting comedies and dramas in favor of reality shows and game shows in order to trim costs. It seems Oprah will help ABC with a similar strategy.