X Factor
December 19, 2012 by Hollywoodite
Simon Cowell has been pretty honest about throwing money at Britney Spears in hopes of an X Factor ratings boon. He offered a permissive contract full of caveats pertaining to her mental health care, and her fiance, and breaks, and letting her get away with a lot on the assumption that people would tune in to gawk at […]
November 26, 2012 by Hollywoodite
The X Factor USA is well into its live rounds and shedding people each week. Although, one of the hosts is still making more headlines than some of the contestants (not least because her family turns up to tapings to make the episodes all about them, just as anticipated). Since the first live episode, Khloe […]
October 31, 2012 by Hollywoodite
Britney Spears somehow made it onto the cover of Star Magazine this week. Which must mean even the tabloids are out of reality filler if they’re talking about real celebrities again. There were rumours back in September that the singer’s fiance Jason Trawick cheated. Those claims were unfounded and, at this point, mostly forgotten about. […]
October 30, 2012 by Hollywoodite
This year’s X Factor took a big enough risk casting Britney Spears, whose mental health issues, drug issues, legal issues, and conservatorship, protracted her contract negotiations. The show basically threw money at the 30-year-old, and included several permissive caveats in her contract in addition to paying over-the-odds. They wanted her, badly, even knowing she would […]
October 30, 2012 by Hollywoodite
One of the most annoying things about Kim Kardashian marrying Kris Humphries for the money was her detached, delusional, infantile, nonsensical idea of the fairy tale wedding that even made its way into the title of the E! Special, Kim’s Fairy Tale Wedding: A Kardashian Event. As Humphries pointed out when Kardashian admitted, like the woman-child […]
October 17, 2012 by Hollywoodite
Khloe Kardashian was nearly dropped from her X Factor co-hosting deal for which she had been a rumoured favourite of Simon Cowell for several weeks. Negotiations became protracted when her prohibitive contract with her pimps at E! or her slave-masters as she called them once, jokingly, if memory serves, nearly ruined her chances. Kardashian was […]