Shannen Doherty was the first to be voted off Dancing With The Stars, in a surprising elimination show Tuesday.
“Dancing isn’t really my thing,” the 90210 alumna said when she was booted from the competition along with her partner Mark Ballas.
Shannen said she did the show for her dad, who recently suffered a stroke. He sat in the front row during her DWTS performances. “To see my dad’s face light up the way that it did and how proud he was of me just filled me with this kind of amazing emotion of thankfulness. I call that a success.”
Shockingly, astronaut Buzz Aldrin was safe from elimination despite his low score from the judges. So was Kate Gosselin after her lackluster performance. And in a surprise let down, Pamela Anderson was in the bottom two.
With its group dance numbers and earnest covers of songs like Journey’s buoyant “Don’t Stop Believin’,” Glee seems like the sunniest show on TV. But darkness lurks just barely below the surface — the series also seamlessly weaves in plots about teen pregnancy, scheming wives and the most hard-hearted cheerleading coach to ever grip a whistle. Rolling Stone ventures into the Fox hit’s most controversial corners, uncovering the stories behind stolen car stereos, illegal substances, Facebook-revenge fantasies and more in the new issue.
Glee creator Ryan Murphy, who previously helmed Nip/Tuck, explains the show’s double-edged appeal: “It’s about there being great joy to being different, and great pain.” Twenty-three-year-old Lea Michele, the Broadway talent who plays Rachel, tells RS about her tattoos, and Cory Monteith, who portrays jock Finn, owns up to a few childhood arrests for offenses that “didn’t hurt people.” Dianna Argon (slippery cheerleader Quinn) describes what it was like joining the cast late and falling victim to Monteith’s fart pranks, and 19-year-old Chris Colfer, who bravely plays gay teen Kurt, opens up about his own painful youth and his never-changing voice. “You know that forget-and-forgive bullshit? No, no, no, no, not for me,” he says of channeling childhood traumas into creative energy. “You take that grudge and let that grudge fester, and then you use it.”
The only Glee cast member who talks back is Jane Lynch, but her softer side comes out when she stopped by the Rolling Stone offices recently for an Off the Cuff chat with Rolling Stone movie critic Peter Travers. For the full interview with Lynch, go to RollingStone.com.
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It could have been their dream home. The sleek $5.1 million Hollywood Hills mansion where Kim Kardashian lived with New Orleans Saints star Reggie Bush for the past eight months had plenty of room to plant roots in and grow a family. But that all seemed like some distant fantasy as Kim tearfully packed her bags and walked out of Reggie’s house and life. In the wake of allegations that Reggie cheated on her, the reality star hightailed it to Miami, where she put on a brave face.
All the while, work was being completed on the five-bedroom Mediterranean-style Beverly Hills villa Kim recently purchased. She plans to move into the house in early April, an insider reveals, and put her troubled relationship behind her. “Kim’s not heartbroken,” the insider tells Life & Style. “Her attitude’s healthy.” She takes some measure of peace in knowing that she gave it her all. “They split for a while, then they tried their best to make it work again,” the insider adds. “It didn’t work. They remain friends.”
According to NYDailyNews, there’s trouble behind the scenes of “HawthorRNe”, and sources say it’s being caused by star Jada Pinkett Smith’s husband, Will Smith.
The cast, which also includes Michael Vartan, just returned to the set this week after an unplanned, eight-day hiatus – and although one source says it was because of an illness in the Smith’s family, another
well-connected insider suggests it was imposed by the network to sort out all of the production’s complications.
The second snitch continues that TNT executives are blaming the show’s current issues on Smith – a co-producer on “HawthoRNe” – because he isn’t cooperating with the rest of the team.
“He is not currently shooting a movie, so he’s been a constant on the set in recent weeks,” the network source says. “He’s been inserting his input and requesting so many changes to the script that it pushed back the production schedule tremendously and caused everything to spiral out of control.”
Pinkett Smith plays a nurse on the hit show, which premiered last year to stellar ratings. But despite the first season’s success, our insider says her husband wants the dramatic scenes pushed to the limit – and he apparently submits pages of notes and rewrite requests to the show’s writers and producers each week.
A rep for TNT had “no comment” on the matter, and Smith’s flack said that this was “untrue.”
Elizabeth Taylor does not want any more life-saving surgeries. Celebitchy
