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Rosie O'Donnell Is The Most Annoying Celebrity

 

Comedienne Rosie O'Donnell has topped a new magazine poll to find the most annoying celebrity. O'Donnell won 44 percent of the vote - leading her closest contender, Paris Hilton, by 20 percent in the survey conducted by U.S. publication, Parade.

 

American TV personality and author Ann Coulter came in third place with 16 percent, while Paul McCartney's estranged wife Heather Mills gained fourth place with 12 percent, and an unknown and heavy-set celebrity blogger took fifth position with four percent.

 

Meanwhile, troubled pop star Britney Spears was named the most over-exposed celebrity with 50 percent of the votes.

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and an unknown and heavy-set celebrity blogger took fifth position with four percent.

 

 

He can't be all that unknown if he got 4% of the vote, and I am willing to bet its Perez.

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It is Perez..I love that they left his name out of the article!

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It is Perez..I love that they left his name out of the article!

 

He must be fried that they did that. I wonder what he took offense to most: (1) "heavy-set" or (2) "unknown?"

 

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Comedienne ROSIE O'DONNELL has hit back after she was named the world's most annoying celebrity - insisting all stars are irritating. The former talk show host won 44 per cent of the vote in the survey conducted by U.S. publication, Parade, with second place going to Paris Hilton. But O'Donnell is unimpressed by the dubious honour - despite agreeing with the sentiment of the poll, according to celebrity blogger Perez Hilton. She says, "I apparently am the most annoying celebrity. And, frankly, most celebrities are annoying. So, I agree. "Celebrities are annoying and the fact that I am one is annoying. And I suppose I am the most annoying."

 

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No surprise, but Rosie O'Donnell wont be catching Celebrity Apprentice, sparring partner Donald Trump's forthcoming attempt to beef up his flailing reality franchise.

 

"I think not," O'Donnell answered one reader of her popular blog, who asked if she would tune in when Apprentice premieres this Thursday.

 

The show, centered around projects that tests entrepreneurial and leadership skills, is stocked this season with overwhelming starpower like Marilu Henner, Stephen Baldwin, Gene Simmons and Lennox Lewis.

 

O'Donnell, who laughed at the prospect of watching, also touched on her battle with depression in the blog entry, recorded in Miami where she's currently vacationing with wife Kelly and their children.

 

"Why are you often sad?" one reader asked. Ro chalked it up to biochemicals, but also a lack of exercise.

 

"You need oxygen, I don't move enough," she said.

 

And, according to O'Donnell, it takes a bit more than a barking Trump to get her in gear.

 

"You know what can get me to move? Like 2000 people waiting in an audience at a Broadway stage."

 

O'Donnell last performed for audiences in the summer of 2007, a guest performer and drummer on Cyndi Lauper's True Colors Tour.

 

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ROCK MAKES THE GARDEN HOWL

 

January 3, 2008 -- RAUNCHY stand-up Chris Rock had Madison Square Garden in stitches Monday night, when he kicked off his six-month tour performing for a sold-out New Year's Eve audience of 20,000 fans who gave him a midnight standing ovation.

 

The comic from Bed-Stuy proclaimed he was a bit "nervous" when he took the stage after his opening act, R&B singer Jill Scott, also brought down the house. "I haven't done this in a while," said Rock, who was clad in a slick gray suit and brown silk shirt. But he quickly got down to business, covering every topic from Britney Spears to each presidential candidate's flaws.

 

"Britney Spears, boy. Even OJ kept his kids, and he even killed their mother," Rock cracked. "Britney went and messed up her dance moves at the MTV awards and they took her kids away. Go rehearse and get your kids back."

 

Moving on to the election campaign, Rock observed, "They sure don't want you to vote - it's easier to vote on 'Dancing With the Stars.' "

 

On Barack Obama: "Bush [bleeped] up so bad, now people are like, 'We don't want another white guy in the White House' . . . but Barack don't realize he's the black candidate, talking in measured tones like he does."

 

On Hillary Clinton: "I think America's ready for a woman president . . . just not that woman. Being married to somebody doesn't make you good at their job. I've been with my wife 10 years now. If she got up here right now, y'all wouldn't laugh. At all. You get on a plane tomorrow, you want the pilot's wife flying you?"

 

On Rudy Giuliani: "Everyone says Giuliani was great on 9/11. Great on 9/11 . . . What about 9/10?"

 

Next Rock professed black guys' love of Rosie O'Donnell. "Black men will [bleep] the whole 'View,' we'll take Barbara, Joy. They will drop kick Jessica Simpson . . . and [bleep] Rosie O'Donnell."

 

Even Barry Bonds made it into Rock's new act. "Our government's not trying to get bin Laden, they're trying to get Barry Bonds. If you tell me I'm gonna make more money if I take a pill, I'd be freebasing."

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The Donald is back! After a nine-month hiatus and some star-power infusion, The Apprentice returns tonight with Donald Trump taking in celebrities under his wing in a much-anticipated new season. One person who won't be watching is his nemesis, Rosie O'Donnell.

 

"I think not," she says sternly while responding to reader mail in a video blog.

 

That's just a bluff, though, Donald believes.

 

"She'll be watching," he says on The Morning Show with Mike and Juliet after being shown the video. "She won't say that she's watching, but she'll watch it."

 

The 61-year-old mogul came to blows with the opinionated ex-talk-show host after she chastised him for pardoning the former hard-partying Miss USA, Tara Conner. Their feud played out in the media early last year, but Donald says that's just because they were egged on to do so.

 

"I'm here to talk about The Apprentice and you show this unattractive woman on the television and you say you think I play it up too much!" he laughs.

 

Talk did turn to the reality show, in which such stars as Gene Simmons, Stephen Baldwin and Olympic gold medalist Nadia Comaneci will compete. Also among cast -- season one bad girl Omarosa Manigault-Stallworth, who, after undergoing breast enhancements, has "aged beautifully."

 

"Omarosa changed a little bit," Donald says coyly. "She got a little heavier. She's fuller."

 

Helping him in the boardroom will be his business-savvy children, Ivanka and Donald Jr., who made Donald a grandfather last year with the birth of his daughter, Kai Madison. Being a grandfather isn't that much different than being a father for Donald -- his son Barron, 21 months, is just a year older than Kai.

 

"Barron is one of the youngest uncles in the world -- he's like one month older," he jokes. "Barron is Uncle Barron. Right now, neither can speak. You put these little babies together and it's like one of those things. I always think of uncles -- they were 70! They were old. Barron is on the young side."

 

The Celebrity Apprentice premieres tonight at 9 p.m. on NBC.

 

 

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Rosie And Elisabeth Kiss And Make Up

 

 

Rosie O'Donnell attended the Broadway opening of The Little Mermaid last night where she confessed to People that she has made up with Elisabeth Hasselcrack. Rosie said she sent baby gifts to Elisabeth's new son Taylor Thomas, "He's very, very cute. I saw him on TV, and I sent him a lovely gift, and [she and Hasselbeck] have been e-mailing each other. And peace prevails."

 

"We e-mail back and forth. She seems good. She looks like she adopted, like she didn't give birth. She looks perfectly fit and gorgeous already."

 

Wow, Rosie's in a great mood. I thought she was going to hate Elisabeth for the rest of her life. Too bad her skin doesn't fit the inside. I'm sure that's what the inside of Paris Hilton's ass cheeks look like. Rosie, stay out of the damn sun. It's making you look like you have an STD on your face.

 

Here's Rosie with her love-love-lover Kelli last night.

 

 

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Wow. that skin is a public service announcement for sun block...

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Anna Nicole Maybe, But Not Princess Diana

 

 

Rosie O'Donnell took to her blog today to comment on Brit Brit's drama. She compared her to Princess Diana and thinks Brit could suffer the same fate. Ro writes:

 

"I remember the tunnel as it appeared on the news, lit by headlights, flashlights, red lights. Between the cement tall pillars was a heap of twisted metal. I saw it then, and I can see it now. Diana dead."

 

"She will be trying to get away, but they will chase her, just as they chased her into that church yesterday. There were dozens of them, jostling their way into sanctuary, elbowing past each other, just to creep closer to her. Even her last-minute, folded-hand prayers can’t be kept sacred. There can be no silent moments in a crowd; no silence, and no secrets."

 

She went on, "At eight years old, she bravely stood before a microphone. By 17, she had sold 25 million records. Where were the sidewalk-skinned knees, the chalk stained hands, the monkey bars, the passed notes? A Disney set is not a childhood, no matter how many bright colors they use, or how cheerful the script. Not a girl, barely even a woman yet, they chased her. A mob of stalkers for whom no stalking laws have been written. Smother. Crush. Flash. Photo Credit. Even Dr. “Get Real” Phil got in on the action. Unreal."

 

"The tunnel is crowded now. There are only inches of separation between vulnerability and disaster."

 

I think there's a pretty big difference. I see what Ro's trying to say, but I really do believe that Britney loves the attention at times. I mean she's dating one of them! She's sleeping with the so-called enemy and she's fucking cool with it.

 

Yes, the paps are crazy at her, but I think she brings it on. She brought it on by constantly going out and constantly wanting to get attention. If she doesn't want them around anymore, she needs to pull it back and disappear. It's at a fever pitch and if she wants it to stop, only she can really make it stop. She won't though, bitch loooves it.

 

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Although, hate to admit it, I think she looks very pretty in the photo posted directly above.

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Rosie: The Show

 

 

Rosie O'Donnell is currently in rehearsals for a show based on her life. Rosie plans to bring the show to Broadway. The show will cover all the bases including her childhood, her time at The View and coming out of the closet as proud member of the carpet muncher's association. Rosie has enlisted Michael Mayer of "Spring Awakening" fame to direct her ass. It will mostly be a solo-show, but apparently Tom Hulce has a role in it.

 

Rosie eight times a week? Is there a buffet dinner included in this show? That's probably the only way I could stand it. Either that or Jackee Harry making her triumphant return as Star Jones.

 

Cindy Adams reports that Rosie isn't the only one jacking herself off with a solo show. Will Ferrell, Val Kilmer and Joan Collins are reportedly working on one. Great, that's what we need. These four just need to get together in a room with lots of mirror and take turns banging themselves. It's the same effect.

 

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ROSIE DRIES OUT

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February 7, 2008 -- ROSIE O'Donnell says she was boozing too much and has gone on the wagon. The moon-faced comic made the confession on her blog after telling one fan she'd shed pounds by giving up beer. That prompted another fan to ask, "So, Rosie, alcoholic or not? Just spit it out! Don't go all Star Jones on us here. What led to you stopping the beer? You'll only help someone else." To which O'Donnell admitted: " 'Cause I was drinking too much, 'cause I didn't want to any more, 'cause it is hard to lose weight when drinking, 'cause I can never have only one."

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Rosie Wants To Lose Weight

 

 

I figured Rosie O'Donnell as one of those types that was perfectly fine with the way they looked. The kind of person that really doesn't give an eff. I guess that type doesn't really exist. Rosie confessed on her blog that she has been drinking too much and is laying off the bottle, because she wants to drop a few. One reader asked her why she was not drinking beer anymore. Rosie wrote:

cause i was drinking too much

cause i didnt want to anymore

cause it is hard to lose weight wen drinking

cause i can never have only one

cause belly gettin too big

cause kelly could no longer eat cat

cause belly in way

cause like when kelly munch muffin

cause belly must go

 

Rosie didn't write that last part, but you know that's the real reason. Hey, you gotta do what you gotta do.

 

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Join The Fan Club

 

Britney Spears' former "manager" Sam Lutfi, who's alienated her whole family, has now also angered protective mama bear Rosie O'Donnell. Rosie, who says she reached out to Spears many times over the past year with offers to come live with her family, recently vented about Lutfi on her blog: "I have spoken to him in my life . . . a few times. I think he is a bad guy all around." O'Donnell adds that Lutfi once had her paged on one of her R Family cruises and said Britney wanted to meet her - but "she was never there."

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Rosie Plots Return to TV With the 'Nanny'

 

 

What do you get when you pair one of daytime TV's loudest personalities with her prime time counterpart?

 

A splitting headache? An urge to hurl your TV out the window?

 

No. According to Rosie O'Donnell and Fran Drescher, you get family-friendly comedy.

 

The former "View" moderator is plotting her return to the small screen -- she wants to create a sitcom about three best friends that would co-star Fran Drescher, the nasal New Yawk-accented star of "The Nanny."

 

“Now, Fran and I have a new sitcom, but we can’t talk about it, right?” O’Donnell says in a video posted on her blog, rosie.com, Feb. 22.

 

Drescher chimes in, “We’re going to do a new, fun, happy, family comedy."

 

The project is in its early stages. A spokeswoman for O'Donnell told the Los Angeles Times that it's "way too premature" to discuss.

 

O'Donnell has mostly stayed away from the spotlight since abruptly leaving "The View" in May 2007 after a heated political debate argument with co-host Elisabeth Hasselbeck. Last fall, she released her second memoir, "Celebrity Detox," and had preliminary talks with MSNBC about hosting a talk show.

 

Drescher's stints on TV have been few and far between since "The Nanny" went off air in 1999. In 2005, she returned to the small screen with the sitcom "Living with Fran," but the show was canceled after two season

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“Now, Fran and I have a new sitcom, but we can’t talk about it, right?” O’Donnell says in a video posted on her blog, rosie.com, Feb. 22.

Oh my god. The horror.... the HORROR!

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Lauper, O'Donnell headline `True Colors'

 

 

Cyndi Lauper will take her "True Colors" tour back on the road this summer.

 

Lauper, whose tour last year promoted gay rights, will open the second go-round in Boston on May 31 alongside fellow headliners Rosie O'Donnell and the B-52s, it was announced Wednesday.

 

Carson Kressley ("Queer Eye for the Straight Guy") will host the 24-city event, which winds down in Morrison, Colo., on July 5.

 

"The tour is a nonstop five-hour music party with a message," Lauper, 54, said. "This year, the party only gets bigger and our message to the fans is to get out and vote in November."

 

Guest artists such as Joan Jett and the Blackhearts, Regina Spektor, the Indigo Girls and Wanda Sykes will perform at various cities throughout the tour.

 

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Danny Noriega: Princess Of The High Seas

 

 

Rosie O'Donnell has offered a job to our favorite faux chola, Danny Noriega, on her R Family Cruise to Mexico next week. Rosie said on her blog that she would love him to come out with a friend or his family and perform "Tainted Love."

 

She also said that Cyndi Lauper was also set to perform on the cruise and Danny could duet with her. Rosie went on to say, “I think you’re fantastic. And I think you’re a bold and brave and beautiful young man. And I admire you, Danny Noriega. You have an amazing voice. And your hair looks good straight.”

 

That's the only thing that's straight on him. Anyway, Danny should only it if he gets to headline. Danny is going to be a big shining star.......on the drag circuit.

 

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Rosie: Hasselbeck a ‘Little Republican Who Scared Me’

April 8, 2008

 

Nearly a year after their blow-up, Rosie O’Donnell is still sore at Elisabeth Hasselbeck.

 

“I tried my best but it’s hard for me when I’m not the boss,” O’Donnell, 46, said on The Martha Stewart Show Tuesday, reflecting on her experience on The View. “There was people there telling me what to do. There was a little Republican who scared me.”

 

During O’Donnell’s final weeks on the show, the Republican Hasselbeck, now 30, and the liberal O’Donnell famously sparred in May 2007 over the Iraq war.

 

Whoopi Goldberg, 52, later took over O’Donnell’s spot.

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Rosie O'Donnell: 'Leave Miley Cyrus Alone'

 

 

 

Rosie O'Donnell has Miley Cyrus's back. She's taken to her blog to defend the Disney star after her controversial Vanity Fair photographs set off a surge of criticism.

 

"Leave Miley Cyrus alone," O'Donnell says in a video posted Monday night. "Disney [is] making her apologize. Ay yi yi."

 

While some have described the portraits as too risqué – and PEOPLE.com readers deemed them "inappropriate" for a 15-year-old – O'Donnell finds them beautiful, she says, explaining that working with celebrity photographer Annie Leibovitz can be an intimidating experience.

 

"Listen, Annie Leibovitz – I had two photo shoots with her," O'Donnell says. "You kind of do what she says. It's intimidating. I also didn't think it was a pornographic photo in any capacity. I thought it was sort of a beautiful portrait.

 

And she continued: "I like the one of her and her dad, too. I don't know. It's Annie Leibovitz, people."

 

O'Donnell has also polled her readers, asking in her "Question of the Day" feature: Do U Care About This Photo? (A majority of her readers have responded 'no.')

 

For her part, Cyrus apologized for the photographs – and Leibovitz too has said she's sorry for any misinterpretation.

 

Source: People

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Rosie Responds to Barbara's Oprah Interview

 

Rosie O'Donnell doesn't agree with everything Barbara Walters said about her on The Oprah Winfrey Show Tuesday – but she's not holding any grudges.

 

"I love her," the former host of The View wrote on her Web site's Q & A page, when asked her thoughts on Walters's interview.

 

Still, O'Donnell used the forum to respond to several assertions made by her former boss.

 

For example, Walters told Winfrey that she thought O'Donnell "regretted" writing her 2007 book Celebrity Detox, and that was why she didn't promote the book.

 

"It was so full of anger at me," Walters said. "I got into bed and pulled the covers over my head and said, 'I think I'll stay here until a week from Tuesday.' " She added, "I think she kind of regretted the book."

 

Not so, O'Donnell wrote in her trademark freeform prose:

 

i didnt promote it

because the way i left the view

distorted the story

 

changed the essence

 

And when a fan who had watched the Oprah interview asked O'Donnell if she has "rage issues" – Walters said that at one point during O'Donnell's tenure on The View, "the audience tuned in every day to see who [Rosie] was going to hate" – O'Donnell made light of it:

 

WHAT THE HELL R U TALKING ABOUT

S--T

DAMN IT

 

But in the end, both women proclaim nothing but respect for one another, with Walters saying she will "always have the greatest affection for [Rosie]."

 

As for O'Donnell, a fan posted on her website, "BW loves you and you love BW, right?...right!...that is all that matters about that..." She replied simply, "I agree."

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Rosie and Star respond to Barbara’s barbs

By Ree Hines

MSNBC contributor

 

While Barbara Walters shares the scandalous stories revealed in her new memoir, “Audition,” some of the subjects of those tales would prefer she didn’t. Barbara’s Tuesday chat with Oprah Winfrey inspired responses from two of her former “Viewers.”

 

After telling the talk-show titan she believed Rosie O’Donnell regretted writing her own tell-all tome, “Celebrity Detox,” Barbara pointed to Rosie’s choice not to promote the book as evidence. Not so, according to Rosie, who shot back (in her usual haiku-like style) on her Web site:

 

it became very noisy

i wanted to book

the message of it

to b defined by each reader

not by sound bites

i think it is a good - honest book

 

As for Barbara’s claim that Rosie has rage issues, Rosie added:

 

WHAT THE HELL R U TALKING ABOUT

S--T

DAMN IT

 

Ultimately, Rosie admits she still loves Barbara, but fellow former host Star Jones wasn’t as kind when she spoke out about Babs’ blabs. “It is a sad day when an icon like Barbara Walters, in the sunset of her life, is reduced to publicly branding herself as an adulterer, humiliating an innocent family with accounts of her illicit affair and speaking negatively against me all for the sake of selling a book,” Star vented to Us Weekly. “It speaks to her true character.”

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NBC's Rosie O’Donnell variety show disappoints

Rosie O'Donnell gave NBC a real turkey.

 

The network's attempt to revive the primetime variety show failed to draw an audience Wednesday night, tying for the evening’s lowest-rated program.

 

A mere 5 million viewers tuned in for the 8 p.m. premiere of “Rosie Live,” with the program earning a 1.2 preliminary adults 18-49 rating. The telecast matched ABC’s recently canceled “Pushing Daisies” as the night's lowest-rated program on a major broadcast network.

 

NBC had high hopes for the special and planned to expand the program into a series should viewers re-embrace the decades-old variety format. Other networks, too, were watching closely since several are developing variety shows of their own.

 

“There’s a notion that the climate is right for the genre to make a comeback,” emailed one executive at a rival network. “I guess we now know what not to do, thanks to Rosie.”

 

Segments included Kathy Griffin impersonating Nancy Grace, Alec Baldwin hitting Conan O'Brian with a pie, O'Donnell singing "City Lights" with Liza Minnelli and Jane Krakowski doing a product-placement-themed striptease for White Castle burgers and Crest Whitestrips.

 

Critics were not kind. The NY Times described it as "hokey comedy with an enemies list." TV Guide called it a "ghastly ego trip." And LA Times asked "Rosie, what on earth were you thinking?"

 

Networks have been looking for variety show programming as a low-cost option to fill their schedules. But the idea has been sought by executives due the format’s rock-bottom low cost, cross-promotion possibilities and advertiser-friendly format rather than being a genre that's bursting from the creative community or demanded by viewers. In other words, the neo-variety show is a product designed to solve financial woes rather than an inspired act of programming creativity and therefore always had the odds stacked against it drawing large numbers.

 

NBC’s variation in particular seemed unlikely to attract a broad audience given O'Donnell's somewhat divisive personality. Stocked with appearances by Alannis Morrisette, Ne Yo, Rachael Ray, Harry Connick Jr., Clay Aiken and Gloria Estefan, along with Minnelli, Baldwin, Griffin and Krakowski, the lineup also skewed heavily female for a show broadcast the eve of a family holiday.

 

One special that did perform well last night was Barbara Walters’ interview with president-elect Barack Obama (11.6 million, 3.0 rating), which nearly matched "CSI: NY" in the 10 p.m. hour and gave ABC its highest non-awards show rating in the time period in more than a year.