Christina Applegate arrives at Los Angeles International Airport holding hands with her boyfriend


Bauer Griffin
![]() |


Bauer Griffin

Multiple sources confirm that ABC has pulled the plug on Samantha Who? after two seasons.
The news comes as a bit of a surprise considering ABC and the show’s producers appeared to be close to compromising on a cost-cutting measure that would have shifted the comedy from its current single-camera format to the more traditional (and cheaper) multi-camera model.
SUBSCRIBE TO ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY FOR ONLY $19!
On the bright side, at least there will be closure: Per an ABC insider, seven unaired episodes remain in the network’s arsenal and the last one “feels like a series finale.” Of course, there’s no telling when or where those eps will be shown.

As photos surface of actress Christina Applegate smoking a cigarette in Los Angeles yesterday, a source tells THE INSIDER, “Christina had been a smoker for quite sometime. She stopped smoking when she received her health news last year, but as everyone knows it’s a difficult to break an addictive smoking habit. Considering all the stress she’s had over the years, she had that occasional weak moment which has led to the occasional cigarette. We need to remember she’s only human.”


Pictured: Katherine Heigl, Kate Hudson, Reese Witherspoon, Carrie Underwood, Jessica Stroup, Jewel, Jordin Sparks, Brooke Burke, Debra Messing, Queen Latifah, Marisa Tomei, Dakota Fanning, Teri Hatcher, AnnaLynne McCord, Jennie Garth, Ellen Degeneres & Portia de Rossi, Christina Applegate

Christina Applegate says fighting breast cancer “sucks,” but you shouldn’t feel sorry for her.
“I still have quite a process until this is done,” the actress says in the new issue of TV Guide. “Yes, it’s hard. It sucks. But I’m not a victim.”
She will undergo reconstructive surgery near her 37th birthday, at the end of November. She had a double mastectomy in July.
Applegate - a workaholic who clocks 14 to 16 hour days on Samantha Who - changed her outlook on life after her spring diagnosis.
“I started looking for a beach house the day I found out I had this little disease,” she says. “You just kind of go, ‘What are you waiting for to get the things that you want and the things you dream of?’
“I don’t own tomorrow or yesterday - today is all I’ve got,” she adds. “And if I don’t make today good, then I’m only gonna’ be p–ssed off tomorrow!”
Applegate has also taken time for herself to grieve. Just weeks before having both her breasts removed this summer, two of her cats died and her ex-boyfriend, Lee Grivas, was found dead of an apparent drug overdose.
“To be honest, I think that was even more difficult and more painful than anything else,” she says of Grivas’ death. “It still is a lot of the time.”
She draws from her recent painful experiences for her day job as a sitcom star.
“I think I’m bringing a lot of me now to Sam, just in the sense of, ‘This too shall pass,’ you know?” she says.
