The Biggest Loser: What you didn’t see!

April 15, 2010

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Stephanie Anderson didn’t become the The Biggest Loser — she was sent home after Koli convinced her friends that she was manipulating them — but she did change her life and find love with contestant Sam Poueu, which means she’s still very much invested in what happens next. Stephanie, who has been giving In Touch readers exclusive insight into every episode, will now be weighing in on life at the ranch from a new perspective. This week, Suze Orman advised the contestants on how their financial well-being is related to their health — and made a prediction, based on money management, that Sunshine would be the ultimate winner. “I have a good FICO score, so I wondered whether if I had been there, she might have said me!” Stephanie tells In Touch. “People might say, ‘What does Suze Orman have to do with losing weight?’ but I can definitely see the correlation. I’ve kept my finances more or less good. I pay all of my bills on time, but I’m horribly disorganized when it comes to paperwork — and that’s a reflection on my unorganized life in terms of my health and nutrition.”

For more on what Stephanie has to say about this week’s
episode, click here.

Idol: No more saves

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The American Idol top nine took to the stage again this week, thanks to the judges’ save last week for Michael Lynche. And while the outcome this week was good for Michael, it wasn’t so good for fellow contestants Andrew Garcia and Katie Stevens, who were sent home in a double elimination.

Neither contestant was a stranger to being in the bottom three and while upset, they took the news gracefully. “I think the singing part was easy,” said Katie. “It was nerve-racking going into the judging.”

Many thought Andrew peaked in the Hollywood week rounds after a blazing rendition of Paula Abdul’s “Straight Up,” and his subsequent performances lacked personality. “They never hung out with me,” says Andrew. “If they had, they would have loved me — I guarantee.”

Both contestants admit having last season runner-up Adam Lambert as a mentor this week was inspirational. Adam also returned to the Idol stage with a visually-stunning performance of his new single ‘Whadda You Want From Me,” a spectacle that would have made Lambert collaborator Lady Gaga proud!

For more with this week’s eliminated contestants, click here.

Sources: Elin Nordegren Woods to Divorce Tiger


Tiger Woods and fed-up wife Elin Nordegren Woods appear headed to divorce court as attempts to heal their shattered union apparently came up short.

Elin has already met with a divorce lawyer, according to reports, and the final straw in their disintegrating marriage may have been his return to golf.

Or the creepy Tiger Woods Nike ad that accompanied it.

The New York Daily News, People, and his hometown Orlando Sentinel confirm the divorce lawyer meeting, and ET says the marriage is “indeed over.”

Numerous reports say Elin Nordegren was irate over the Nike ad that aired during last week’s Masters featuring the voice of Woods’ late father, Earl.

Already concerned that he was insincere in his efforts to change his ways and put family first, the ad spot is said to have pushed her over the edge.

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Will Tiger Woods’ next drive be to divorce court?

According to ET, Woods believed his trip to rehab stint for sex addiction would be enough to keep his family together. Only temporarily, it seems. If that.

Elin is reportedly fixing up the $2 million house she purchased in her native country, fueling rumors that she is moving to Sweden for good this summer.

There is speculation that she will choose to live there with her kids after a split with Woods … and it would be hard to blame her if that were the case.

It is imperative to note that nothing has been confirmed by either Tiger or Elin Woods as of now. There is certainly more to this than we possibly know.

However, you have to figure things aren’t going well. All Tiger offered last week was that he was excited to be back … nary a word about his spouse.

Even worse? The fact that relations were noticeably better between the two as recently as early March, then cooled. Now they’re on vacation… separately.

What do you think: Elin Woods needs to  …

Out & About


Martha Stewart posed with pal Colin Cowie while hosting an intimate dinner for Sony Dash, a new internet app gadget for the home at Monkey Bar in New
York.

Katie Holmes donned The Shirt by JOE’s on the set of her new film, Son of No One.

Merilee Gerth “Shocked” There Were Other Jesse James Mistresses


Poor Merliee Gerth can’t comprehend that Jesse James, who had at least four other mistresses in addition to wife Sandra Bullock, would dare cheat on her.

And you think you know someone …

James’ fifth alleged mistress often found him cheating on her with other women. It always sucks to be the other other other other woman, doesn’t it?

Merilee Geeth would go into his office on the weekend and Jesse would be “fooling around” with another girl. This apparently left Merilee “shocked.”

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Note to Merliee Gerth: Imagine how Sandra Bullock feels!

Merliee expressed her frustration with Jesse, saying:

“Jesse doesn’t know anything about me … he is so selfish that even if I wanted to talk to him about my personal life, he wouldn’t be interested.”

Boo hoo, Merliee. Did you forget that YOU are the home-wrecker? At least one of Tiger Woods’ mistresses incomprehensibly said the same thing.

You girls are mad you’re not the only mistress? Really?

You are sleeping with a married man. Why would he be loyal to you in the least? Talk about delusional. At least Michelle “Bombshell” McGee admits she sold out James for money and claims she didn’t know he was married.

Ben Roethlisberger Accuser Claimed She Was Raped By NFL Star, Coerced By Bodyguard


Ben Roethlisberger’s sexual assault accuser has broken her silence for the first time, describing an allegedly disturbing incident with the NFL star.

A friend of the woman told police that Roethlisberger’s bodyguard dragged the woman into a bathroom where she and Ben had sexual relations.

In 572 pages of documents released Wednesday, Nicole Biancofiore told police that her friend, a student at Georgia State University, “was dragged by a bodyguard to the back room in Capital [City, a local nightclub].”

“She was extremely intoxicated and not aware of what was happening.”

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Ben Roethlisberger: What a shady individual.

“He had sex w/me and meanwhile his bodyguards told my friends they couldn’t pass them to get to me,” the accuser wrote in her statement.

Roethlisberger will not be charged in the incident, which occurred March 5, as the accusations could not be proved beyond a reasonable doubt.

In the Milledgeville, Ga., incident, Roethlisberger was out drinking with friends to celebrate his 28th birthday and bumped into the student.

The girl and her sorority sisters linked up with Ben’s crew at Capital City, where he invited them to a VIP section and bought them shots.

Later, the accuser said Roethlisberger had sex with her in a bathroom … having already taken the equipment out beforehand. Uhh

Another friend of the accuser, Aliesha Scholten, told police she tried to open the door, but “she was taken away by a bodyguard of Ben’s.”

The initial police report said that “One of the suspect’s bodyguards escorted her to a back room/hallway area where the suspect was.”

“Once there, she stated, the suspect asked her for sex. It is unclear what happened after this due to the “hysterical” complainant’s recollection being foggy. However, she did write a statement of what she thought happened.”

She told authorities Ben took his penis out of his pants before following her into a bathroom, and later told people she was raped.

This just moments after her encounter with Ben.

According to one witness, the accuser claimed it all started in a secluded hallway when Ben walked over “with his penis already out of his pants.”

The accuser claimed she tried to walk out of the area, but instead of opening an exit, mistakenly opened the bathroom door … and walked in.

According to the witness, the accuser claimed afterward that Ben followed her inside the bathroom, shut the door, and proceeded to rape her. 

Police say they spoke to Ben that night, and according to the document, at the time he told officers he remembered hanging around the accuser earlier in the night … but told her “she was too drunk after observing her fall.”

Ben said he then walked away from her. 

Ryan Phillippe: Shirtless, Sad Over Divorce from Reese Witherspoon


Ryan Phillippe is pissed at the media. And in what arena is the actor taking out those frustrations?

Via the media.

Reese Witherspoon’s ex-husband is featured in the latest issue of Men’s Health and will host Saturday Night Live this weekend. He opened up to the magazine about his divorce.

“I still have sadness and complicated feelings about my divorce,” he says. “But how beneficial is it to keep hanging onto those feelings?”

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We’ve also excerpted other parts of his interview, including how Ryan feels about aging, among other topics:

On playing a gay teen on One Life to Live: “I would worry, ‘What will the people at school think?’ And they shunned me in a lot of ways. But it ended up being an incredible experience and such a time of growth for me.”

On working with Will Forte and Kristen Wiig on the movie MacGruber: “I tend to internalize and analyze, but with them, there’s none of that. There was no edit, no judgment. I was just a really free atmosphere.”

On getting older: “I thought the most experience you had, the more certain you would be about life. But I’m finding the opposite, man. I’m more in wonder and confusion than I was in my 20s.”

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Tila Tequila Challenges Perez Hilton to Celebrity Gossip Off


Having abadoned her career as a professional, rarely clothed Twitter user, Tila Tequila has set her sights on a new goal:

World Wide Web domination.

In an interview with Fox News, the shameless D-lister said she’s excited about her upcoming celebrity gossip blog, TliaTequilaOMG.com, because it “will dethrone Perez Hilton.”

“Everybody knows I dubbed him ‘Piggy Perez’,” Tila said. “All my friends say, ‘we can’t wait for your site, you’re going to beat Piggy Perez.’”

That’s a tall order, of course. Can Tequila draw penises on photos, make everything about herself, and use second grade-level vocabulary?

Miss Tila

Hilton isn’t the only person Tila says she’ll take down with her new site.

“People who have messed with me, I will put them on ‘blast,’ every single one of them, and it is going to be ugly,” she promises, possibly aiming her venom at THG.

If that’s the case, we have a message for this future rival: Bring. It. On. We also have a question for readers:

Who sucks more?

Sarah Palin Documentary Series: An All-Time Low


When we heard Discovery was not only airing a documentary series called Sarah Palin’s Alaska, but shelling out big bucks for the right to, we were confused.

Seriously … a show about the state’s natural beauty from a former half-term governor turned professional celebrity who arguably did tremendous ecological harm to Alaska and wishes she could drill, baby, drill even harder?

How is that not an all-time low for the network?

Apparently it is. A source within Discovery says that when they pitched the show to ad buyers, they were not impressed: “the whole thing [was] comical.”

As much as a contractual demand for straws that bend? Hard to say.

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HALF-BAKED ALASKA: Who gave this the green light?

“After the promo, (employees and buyers) were rolling their eyes, snickering … people were laughing and it’s not even a comedy. No one took it seriously.”

The insider was concerned that given a lack of interest from ad buyers, Discovery would have to “dump the show to a crappy time slot” to cut losses.

“The bottom line is that everyone thought it was an all-time low for Discovery … My guess is the show is going to tank big time.” We’d have to agree.

After all, it’s going to air on Discovery’s sister network, TLC. As in The Learning Channel, where the audience presumably wants to learn something.

That’s pretty much the opposite of what Sarah Palin is known for. What’s next, Kate Gosselin doling out parenting advice? Oh… wait.

Who’s Hollywood’s Hottest Eligible Bachelor?


Which single Hollywood hunk is the hottest? It’s a question that you don’t have to answer this instant … you can examine the evidence closely first.

THG has compiled a little gallery of celebrity pics of up-and-comers and A-listers alike who just got out of relationships or who aren’t in one right now.

If you had your pick of available Hollywood singles (guys only), who would you go out with? Oh, so many great options. How can you go wrong really?

Perhaps one of these two …

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Ryan Gosling and Usher are both on the market … for now.

Sorry, Tiger Woods and Jesse James. You have to be patient and wait ’til Elin and Sandra make it official before you jump back into the dating pool.

Here’s a look at some eligible celebrity fellas. Click to enlarge and let us know if we missed any you think should be included, so we can oblige …

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