I caught about an hour of the BET Awards on Tuesday night before I turned to more Benoit coverage. The Jennifer Hudson/Jennifer Holliday "And I Am Telling You" duet was great, although a bit comical at times. I liked Beyonce's robot performance, although she got taken to task all over the internet for biting the routine from Kylie Minogue. Haters.
I am trying to watch this Paris Hilton interview on Larry King Live but it's torture. I don't know what's worse: Paris trying to string a complete sentence together or Larry's purple shirt. Her face has a weird look tonight. After the part where she tried to explain to Larry what bologna was, I couldn't take anymore and I had to turn to Sanford and Son. But it was the stupid episode where Fred pretends to have whiplash so I crawled back to the Paris interview. She said that she had to wear the classic orange jumpsuit in prison, which I would have paid cash money to see. Then the big moment: Larry asked her what "severe medical issue" she had that caused her to be sent back home for that one day. She said it was........ (wait for it)........ claustrophobia. Damn, I picked "crabs" in the office pool. This is pointless. I'm going back to Sanford.
According to an article on aol.com, American Idol winner Jordin Sparks has denied that she is dating runner-up Blake Lewis:
From si.com:
Nancy Benoit
From espn.com:
Guess who is the latest celebrity to put out their own perfume? Mimi! It's going to be called "M by Mariah Carey". Clever. A picture of the bottle is below:
I wonder if it smells just like her? You know, like a plate of candied yams, with extra syrup.
It was announced yesterday that Vince McMahon is on the list of people who will receive a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame next year. At least this means the "Vince is Dead" angle won't carry into the next year. He will be going into the HWOF under the television division along with Howie Mandel, the guy who created Gilligan's Island and the lady who played Mrs. Chancellor's maid on Young and the Restless. Only the elite.
It appears that WWE Diva Ashley Massaro's appearance on the next season of Survivor is pretty much confirmed. According to the latest Wrestling Observer Newsletter, the producers of Survivor approached WWE and asked for someone who they thought would make a good television character. Because of the injury bug, they couldn't afford to send one of their main event stars, so they picked one of the 50 women on the payroll. But I think she will do well. She is expected to return to WWE towards the end of the year. Yeah, it's a slow news day.
Oh hells no! Two of my favorites quit before last night's TNA Impact tapings. Konnan and Ron "The Truth" Killings walked out on the promotion. According to pwtorch.com "Konnan was upset at TNA for what he felt wasn't ample support for his health problems. Ron Killings, who is friends with Konnan, was also unhappy with his pay and status with the company. Both quit before tonight's TV tapings. "
Courtesy of tmz.com, here is a cast photo of VH-1's "Rock of Love",which is the white version of "Flavor of Love" that will star Poison lead singer Bret Michaels, starting next month. Let's see: the lead singer of an 80's hair band, 20 skanks, liquor, and a big house. Yeah, go ahead and put me down for it.
"Girl, I would put you on a plate and sop you up with a biscuit." 
Still no news on the cause of death of Sensational Sherri. According to yesterday's Figure Four Weekly news update "The police are apparently keeping it very quiet". Hmmmmmm.
All aboard the Crazy Train. First of all, what is scarier than Britney getting behind the wheel of a car? At least she doesn't have the baby in her lap this time. I guess it was hot in L.A. so she pulled down her dress and decided to ride around town in a red bra (below).
Now granted, people might see something like this all the time in Festus, but for Pete's sake, this is L.A. and she used to be Britney Spears! This broad gets crazier by the SECOND.
TNA Slammiversary was a fun wrestling show with some great action and sensible storylines. It was enjoyable to watch a wrestling show that was void of any fake deaths and eulogies. Anyway, here are the results:
- Frank Wycheck and Jerry Lynn beat "Cowboy" James Storm and Ron "The Truth" Killings: Wycheck did a good job for this being his first match. Crowd was really into it. Storm is great and Killings was good in his first match back after an injury.
- Bob Backlund beat Alex Shelley: Largely a waste of Shelley. I hope this isn't leading to Nash vs. Backlund.
- Kip James and B.G. James beat Doug Basham and The Damaja: Short match but a good angle. Bashams continue to impress me. I'm not sure exactly when Christy Hemme became a heel, but I'm sure it was a good episode. I don't know if she can make it as a "bad guy" because she's too damn cute. She could push somebody's grandmother down a flight of stairs, steal a TV set from an orphanage and slap a panda right across the face and I would still be like "Damn, she's so adorable".
- Eric Young beat Robert Roode: Good match, I would like to see both of these guys advance up the card. Young pulling down Ms. Brooks' pants was weird but necessary. We need more Gail Kim.
- Team 3-D beat Rick Steiner and Road Warrior Animal: I liked Animal as the sub for Scott Steiner. Decent match. I'm wondering if we will ever actually see 3-D vs. The Steiners actually happen.
- Sting (below) beat "The Fallen Angel" Christopher Daniels: Highlight was Sting coming down from the rafters, although I always have those Owen flashbacks. Match was too short.
- Abyss beat Tyson Tomko: Nice match. Tomko made a great move quitting WWE, where he would have been traded to Velocity this week if he had stayed. I think the "glass" was sugar, like they use in Hollywood. I hope so, anyway.
- Kurt Angle won the TNA Title in a King of the Mountain Match over Christian, Samoa Joe, A.J. Styles, and Chris Harris: Good match. It's amazing how "regular" Samoa Joe and Kurt Angle seem. They might benefit from some time off. Harris made sense as the fifth guy. Angle should be wrestling once a month, at PPVs only, as a featured attraction, against the challenger of the month. Looks like they are headed for Joe vs. Angle, IV. Should be interesting.
Frankie Abernathy, one of the cast members from Real World: San Diego, one of the greatest seasons ever, passed away last week at the age of 25. On the show she had battled cystic fibrosis. She was one of the more interesting cast members because of her tattoos and piercings, her habit of cutting herself, the fact that she was from Missouri, her love of Hello Kitty, her fear of boats, and her boyfriend, who had huge earlobes.
I am sorry to hear that Sherri Russell, better known as Sherri Martel and Sensational Sherri, passed away yesterday at the age of 49. The cause of death is unknown as of right now.
In addition to being a heck of a wrestler (she was a former AWA and WWF Women's Champion) she was the manager to of some of the top wrestlers of all-time, including Ric Flair, Randy Savage, Shawn Michaels, Ted DiBiase, Booker T and Stevie Ray (Harlem Heat), Shane Douglas, Buddy Rose and Doug Sommers. She wrestled in all of the major federations including the AWA, WCW, WWF/WWE, and ECW. 
Even though she largely retired for the most part in the mid 90's, she would still make occasional appearances on WCW and WWE TV, including a memorable angle just a couple of years ago where Kurt Angle was going after people from Shawn Michaels' past and he ended up putting her in the ankle lock, while the announcers feigned outrage. She still has a presence most weeks on WWE Raw because that is her voice heard at the beginning of Shawn Michaels' theme music (she originally sang the whole "Sexy Boy" theme song before they replaced her voice with Shawn's).
Some of my favorite Sherri moments included when she was the manager of Randy Savage as Queen Sherri. They had a great feud against the Ultimate Warrior, including her turning against Savage at WrestleMania 7, getting beaten up by Elizabeth, leading to the Savage/Liz reunion. She had a series of long matches on AWA TV in the late 80's, which to me, pretty much carried the show. She also appeared on the Arsenio Hall Show (in character) during its prime and was a complete maniac. One time she did an interview with Mean Gene Okerlund and as she walked away, he looked at her, nearly dropped the microphone and whispered "gravy". My friend Geoff and I went on to imitate that moment for years afterwards. 
I never got the opportunity to met Ms. Russell but I am proud to say that I was in attendance during perhaps her greatest career moment, when she was inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame last year in Chicago. She seemed so genuinely happy to be there and gave a really funny and enthusiastic speech, which I am going to watch again later today. You couldn't help but feel happy for her.
With Paris Hilton setting the bar so high for drama (raking tin cups across prison bars and being dragged across courtroom floors), what's a girl gotta do to get noticed by the press these days? Well, walking down a public street half topless is a good start. Britney the Walking Trainwreck is seen above earlier this week walking around L.A. with two of her enablers. You might notice that her boobs are about to fall out of her 1987 prom dress. Glad you noticed, because apparently she didn't. Who on earth does stuff like this? The day after this, she was photographed getting out of a car crotch first (old habits apparently die hard). Thank God, she was wearing draws this time. What a lady. Think her kids are going to have a tough time in boarding school? Then to top it off, she left another message on her terrifying website. This time she asked members of her fan club (hee hee) to vote for the best album title for her upcoming CD. The bizarre choices included such titles as "OMG Is Like Lindsay Lohan Like Okay Like?", "What If The Joke Is On You", "Down Boy" (my favorite), "Integrity", and "Dignity". We have officially reached the point where if Britney called me and wanted to go out, if I accepted, it would be a mercy date.
According to an interview with Lindsay Lohan's former bodyguard in the News of the World, Your Girl is far worse off than I could have imagined. Highlights from the interview with Lee Weaver include:
According to tmz.com, WWE Diva, Playboy covergirl, and the Absolute Nicest Woman in the World, Ashley Massaro (pictured above-- no, on the left) will be on the next season of CBS' Survivor. The timing fits since she was just "suspended" on Friday for spilling coffee on the now deceased Mr. McMahon character. I guess if GaryHogeboom of the Dallas Cowboys can do it, so can she. I just hope she isn't the first one cut like Chris Jericho on that celebrity singing show. I still haven't lived that down at work.
According to last night's Entertainment Tonight, Beverly Hills 90210 alum Jennie Garth a.k.a. "Kelly" has signed on to be on the next season of Dancing With The Stars. This is on the heels of Steve Sanders finishing fourth on the show last season. I think we are about two seasons away from seeing Nat from The Peach Pit trying his hand at this. Well, I'm on board for next season.
As you may recall, as Mr. McMahon was walking out of the building he was going in a totally opposite direction from the limo. Who was it that made sure to point him in the direction of the limo? HAHA! It was The Coach. Plus with Mr. McMahon gone, he would have total power over the Monday Night Raw show. Damn, I'm good.
The former owner of ECW has probably always wanted to get revenge on Mr. McMahon for destroying his creation then firing him. What a better way to gain that revenge than blowing up his limo on national TV!
3. Mickie James
Did you see the little outfit this minx had on backstage as Vince was walking out of the building? Conceiveably, he could have thought of that and just burst into flames. It could have happened.
4. Snoop Dogg
He was on the show earlier giving Mr. McMahon some well wishes. So he might have been in the area. Hey, we all love us some Snoop Dogg, but you know this brother has a shady past.
5. The Cast of Jackass
I think Steve-O was supposed to be backstage to start some angles for the proposed Jackass vs. WWE feud at SummerSlam. Maybe they planned to shoot off some fireworks in Mr. McMahon's limo but the stunt went awry. Sounds reasonable to me.
I'm sure we will hear much more about this during WWE programming as this topic gets beat into the ground in the upcoming weeks and months.
From people.com:
After being literally dragged out of the court room on Friday, crying for her momma, Paris Hilton has accepted her fate and will serve out the 45 days she was ordered to serve. You would have thought it was 45 years with all of the whining that went on last week. She told her lawyers not to appeal the sentence. According to tmz.com, she is eating cereal and bread, so I guess we do have a lot in common. Well, except that she is eating hers in a bright orange state-issued uniform and I can come and go as I please. Don't worry, she will be out soon and everything will be back to normal with her annoying us as usual with whatever it is that she is famous for.
I had to catch the morning version of the show because there was no way that I could wait all the way until the evening showing. This show is like a precious jewel. Each episode is like a solid gold bar. Clearly (at least to me) it is the greatest show ever to grace a television set. If there was any thought that the show was going to suffer once the lead heel Larissa was gone, those fears were erased in the first five minutes. There was still nothing but drama. I can kind of see a pattern with the show; when the episode is centered around one of the skanks, er, hoochies, uh, women, it seems that they are going home that very episode. Today was no different. In this edition, the girls were taught about the different types of men that are out there (players, convicts, career men, etc.) and then had a "prom" to try to find the one good man. Whichever girl picked the good man at the end of the competition won an exemption for the week.
This is when the show got great. Your girl Brooke/Pumkin (above), who had been doing so well all season, just went apeshit when faced with the grape. The girl got a little liquor in her and just LOST it. When she was talking with the massage guy, he told her that he massaged necks, backs, feet, toes, etc. and then she piped in with "vaginas?". I about died on the basement floor. You're not going to see this kind of stuff on CSI. She was totally sprung on the convict guy. She got freaked down on the dance floor. She asked one guy "do you **** or make love?" She drank out of an ice sculpture in the most lewd way possible. It was all so great. This show is like a giant televised diamond. Then when the convict (he served an 8 year bid!) was talking about Brooke's boobs, saying they were a handful and he didn't like them bigger because then they would have stretch marks, Saaphyri just went ballistic! She jumped all over that brother. They were trading insults and he even went back into the Sanford and Son archives and said that she should stick her face in some dough and make some gorilla cookies. It was great. Afterwards, the girls had to find the one "good" guy and of course they all failed miserably, meaning everyone was on the block this week. When it was all said and done, one of the judges inadvertently called Brooke "a pig" and Mo'nique called her a "slut" and "The Whore of Charm School". She was cut. Then came the waterworks and even I felt bad for her (of course, I'm a "Pushover"). Then she flashed her boobs. I can't remember, did I mention anything about Charm School being the greatest show ever created?
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And if anyone thinks anything about the show is on the level, below is a picture of "rivals" New York and Pumkin. Oh yeah, they really hate each other!
