Posted Jun 24th 2009 12:10PM by TMZ Staff
The new Bravo show "NYC Prep" has got New York's real gossip girls and guys quaking in their Gucci loafers.
The show mimics "Gossip Girl" ... with a healthy dose of drugs and sex. Two of the show's stars, recent Dwight School grads "PC" Peterson and Jessie Leavitt, went on the air yakking about booze, sex, and smoking up -- and that was just the first episode.
The Dwight School is apparently panicked that other students will appear in similar shows exhibiting similar debauchery. So they sent a letter to the student body and alums, expressing a "zero tolerance." But the letter is so confusing, it's not clear if school honchos mean a zero tolerance for drugs and sex or a zero tolerance for appearing on reality shows.
The school is also concerned about perpetuating stereotypes. Hmmm ... spoiled rich kids screwing up. Is it a stereotype if it's true?
Filed under: Reality TV, The Rich Life
Tags: bravo, dwight school, DwightSchool, gossip girl, GossipGirl, jessie leavitt, JessieLeavitt, pc peterson, PcPeterson
Posted Jun 24th 2009 10:30AM by TMZ Staff
"Real Housewives of New Jersey" star Danielle Staub has no problem putting the most intimate moments of her life on display for the world to see -- except for when she's getting intimate.
Staub is trying to block the release of a sex tape her former boyfriend is trying to sell. Her lawyer filed a complaint today in Passaic County Superior Court alleging Stephen Zalewski, who also appeared on the reality show, invaded her privacy and has caused her and her young daughters emotional distress.
Also causing Staub's young children emotional distress -- seeing their mother on "Real Housewives of New Jersey."
Zalewski told Star magazine, "I'm definitely weighing my options as far as selling [the tapes] and getting them out there ... She cost me so much money, why shouldn't I make a few dollars?"
UPDATE -- Staub won round one. A judge granted a temporary injunction against the tape. The order could become permanent at a hearing next month.
Filed under: Reality TV, Real Housewives
Tags: Danielle Staub, DanielleStaub, Real Housewives of New Jersey, RealHousewivesOfNewJersey, sex tape, SexTape
Posted Jun 22nd 2009 1:19PM by TMZ Staff
In the "We've Been Used" department -- the hateable duo that quit "I'm A Celebrity ... Get Me Out of Here!" and then threatened to sue the show is coming back.
Heidi and Spencer are in a first class torture chamber (seats 1A and 1B) right now ... heading back to Costa Rica.
So the whole Al Roker feud, was a giant ruse -- we think.
Looks like they would rather deal with spiders than lose their coveted spot on the C-list.
Filed under: Reality TV, Heidi & Spencer
Tags: al roker, AlRoker, heidi montag, heidi pratt, HeidiMontag, HeidiPratt, im a celebrity get me out of here, ImACelebrityGetMeOutOfHere, nbc, speidi, spencer pratt, SpencerPratt, the hill, TheHill
Posted Jun 21st 2009 1:45AM by TMZ Staff
Sandro "Rico" Padron, a contestant on Season One of "I Love New York" just lost on another TV show -- and this time it's costing him self-respect and money.
Padron went toe-to-toe with his roommate -- who claimed Padron stiffed him on rent for their Hollywood apartment -- on Friday's "Judge Joe Brown." The Judge ended up ordering Padron to ante up $3,130.
P.S.--Padron was sleeping on the couch in the one-bedroom. Welcome to Hollywood.
Filed under: Celebrity Justice, Reality TV
Tags: i love new york, ILoveNewYork, judge joe brown, sandro rico padron, tiffany pollard
Posted Jun 20th 2009 11:58AM by TMZ Staff
So we know exactly why Ryan Seacrest and Lindsay Lohan have been hanging out together -- it all has to do with second chances.
Our sources say Ryan wants Lindsay to do a show he's producing with this premise -- a million bucks will be doled out to people who are on the wrong track and are looking for a second chance.
There will be a panel which decides who gets the dough. Contestants will tell their sob stories. No, Lindsay won't be a contestant -- she's on the panel. Sounds kinda like "Queen for a Day."
Ryan Seacrest is one smart dude ...
Filed under: Lindsay Lohan, Reality TV, Ryan Seacrest
Tags: giveaway, lindsay lohan, LindsayLohan, money, new show, NewShow, reality show, RealityShow, ryan seacrest, RyanSeacrest, second chance, SecondChance, singing, sob stories, SobStories, television show, TelevisionShow
Posted Jun 15th 2009 12:00AM by TMZ Staff
On the left, VH1 "Tough Love" contestant Taylor Royce enjoying her evening in Biloxi, Miss. -- on the right, cops hauling her off to jail a few hours later. Wha' happened?
Royce was busted on June 6 for disturbing the peace and resisting arrest. As you can see in the photos, she began the night working a gig at the Beau Rivage Resort and Casino as a DJ -- but we're told she sucked so bad, she was asked to leave. Cops say she then began yelling and screaming at everyone in sight and had to be pepper sprayed before being escorted out in cuffs.
Things were so bad, we were told by security that if Royce ever comes back, she'll be arrested for trespassing on sight.
Filed under: Reality TV, Photo Galleries
Tags: arrest, Biloxi, casino, cops, disturbing the peace, DisturbingThePeace, dj, mississippi, resisting arrest, ResistingArrest, taylor royce, TaylorRoyce, tough love, ToughLove, VH1
Posted Jun 12th 2009 12:25PM by TMZ Staff
Unless Stephen Baldwin's charity on "I'm a Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here" is called the "Keep Stephen Baldwin from Losing His House to Foreclosure Org." -- dude is gonna lose his digs on the auction block.
According to documents, Stephen and his wife are more than $824,000 behind in payments on their Rockland County, NY home -- although they only paid $515,000 for it in 1997.
Unless the born-again Christian hits the lottery, his home will hit the blocks on June 24.
Filed under: Celebrity Auctions, Reality TV
Tags: auction, finance, foreclosure, house, Im A Celebrity Get Me Outta Here, ImACelebrityGetMeOuttaHere, money, Stephen Baldwin, StephenBaldwin, taxes
Posted Jun 11th 2009 2:37PM by TMZ Staff
Fired Miss California USA Carrie Prejean was offered a huge amount of money to appear on a reality show.
We got hold of an email sent by a pageant honcho to Carrie on May 15th. Lewis writes producers from "I'm a Celebrity ... Get Me Out of Here!" offered her $70,000 to appear on the show for one week and $140,000 if she stayed for 3 weeks. The show also gives money to charity but who knew the "celebs" scored that kind of payday?
Lewis wrote that he had declined the offer and wanted an email from her also rejecting the offer.
The email also confirms the story we broke yesterday -- an email from Lewis to Carrie stating that Playboy wanted to do a shoot with her that involved "partial nudity" and that it would have to "take place soon." Prejean told us yesterday that Playboy offered $140,000, but the email says the offer was $120,000.
Filed under: Reality TV, Carrie Prejean
Tags: beauty pagent, BeautyPagent, carrie prejean, CarriePrejean, fired, im a celebrity get me out fo here, ImACelebrityGetMeOutFoHere, miss california usa, MissCaliforniaUsa, playboy
Posted Jun 9th 2009 2:00AM by TMZ Staff
A reality show contestant busted for disturbing the peace and resisting arrest? That only narrows it down to everyone on the network.
In this case, it's someone by the name of Taylor Royce who is on something called "Tough Love." According to cops in Biloxi, Miss., Royce was popped early Saturday morning for the aforementioned misdemeanor offenses.
Royce posted $715 bond.
Filed under: Celebrity Justice, Reality TV
Tags: tayor royce, TayorRoyce, tough love, ToughLove, vh1 chick, Vh1Chick
Posted Jun 8th 2009 1:32PM by TMZ Staff
A five-star hotel, it ain't -- but does it really look like Heidi and Spencer Pratt were being tortured in the Costa Rican jungle when they were held in solitary?
We got our mitts on these photos of the "chamber" Speidi was forced to sleep in (top), the camp grounds the rest of the cast slept in (bottom) and the detestable duo (just kidding, but it's great alliteration) kissing before they went into the chamber (inset) for a night of "torture."
Filed under: Reality TV, Heidi & Spencer
Tags: costa rica, CostaRica, heidi montag, HeidiMontag, spencer pratt, SpencerPratt, torture chamber, TortureChamber
Posted Jun 8th 2009 11:15AM by TMZ Staff
Heidi and Spencer Pratt are still in Costa Rica -- but not by choice.
Sources tell TMZ the detestable duo wanted to fly out last night, but couldn't get clearance from a doctor to fly. Heidi was diagnosed with a gastric ulcer after she claims she was "tortured" by the producers of "I'm a Celebrity ... Get Me Out of Here!"
The production company behind the show says Speidi's claims are all BS -- and the tape will prove it.
Filed under: Reality TV, Heidi & Spencer
Tags: Heidi and Spencer, HeidiAndSpencer, Im a Celebrity Get Me Outta Here, ImACelebrityGetMeOuttaHere
Posted Jun 7th 2009 5:19PM by TMZ Staff
Folks behind the scenes at "I'm a Celebrity ... Get Me Out of Here!" are going after Spencer Pratt something fierce. A source is saying...
-- Spencer and Heidi Pratt quit the show last Monday, and stayed in hotels for three days.
-- There were no critters in the "lost chamber" (an isolated room Speidi entered for the show), other than the usual bugs in Costa Rica.
-- They were indoors at all times protected from the elements, even though other cast members have been sleeping outside in daily thunderstorms.
-- They were never in any danger and they slept most of the time.
-- No one is being held against their will.
We're told Spencer is sayin it's all BS ... they were effectively tortured and he's planning on suing NBC.
Stay tuned (just the way NBC wants it!).
Filed under: Reality TV, Heidi & Spencer
Tags: CostaRica, heidi montag, heidi pratt, HeidiMontag, HeidiPratt, hospitalization, im a celebrity get me out of here, ImACelebrityGetMeOutOfHere, nbc, spencer pratt, SpencerPratt
Posted Jun 7th 2009 4:55PM by TMZ Staff
ITV, the company that produces "I'm a Celebrity ... Get Me Out of Here!" is taking aim at Spencer Pratt for his allegation that he and Heidi Pratt were effectively tortured by NBC, resulting in her hospitalization.
ITV Studios says Spencer's claims are "untrue," adding, "The health of the celebrity participants are of the utmost importance." ITV adds a medic and doctor are there all the time and "allegations of the celebrities being deprived of food and water are completely untrue."
Filed under: Reality TV, Heidi & Spencer
Tags: heidi montag, HeidiMontag, im a celebrity get me out of here, ImACelebrityGetMeOutOfHere, nbc, spencer pratt, SpencerPratt
Posted Jun 7th 2009 10:35AM by TMZ Staff
Heidi Pratt was tortured by NBC to the point she was "convulsively throwing up" -- that's what some people on the set of "I'm a Celebrity ... Get Me Out of Here!" are telling TMZ.
We've learned Heidi was rushed to the hospital and diagnosed with a gastric ulcer, after being held with hubby Spencer Pratt in a dark room for a day and a night with only water, rice and beans. It was designed as punishment because they left the show. One cast member described their treatment this way: "It's the same as Guantanamo Bay."
And get this ... a cast member tells us NBC execs tried to convince Heidi to stay on the set rather than take an ambulance to a hospital for treatment. She has now left the hospital and is on meds.
We're told some of the cast members want to quit, but their passports have been taken away and they are under guard.
Paul Telegdy, NBC's Exec VP of Alternative Programming, told Ryan Seacrest about holding Heidi and Spencer in isolation as punishment, adding, "... They are now going to be examined, and their value system utterly deconstructed ... These people really are going to bare their souls."
We're told Spencer has fired his lawyer (who wanted him to stay on the show) and is now planning to sue NBC over the show.
Spencer and Heidi now want out ... for good ... but there's a problem -- they signed a contract with NBC to do the show.
NBC reps did not return our calls ... so far.
Stay tuned ...
Filed under: Reality TV, Heidi & Spencer
Tags: heidi montag, HeidiMontag, Im a celebrity get me out of here, ImACelebrityGetMeOutOfHere, spencer pratt, SpencerPratt
Posted Jun 7th 2009 9:40AM by TMZ Staff
The bigwigs over at NBC and Granada Television are fuming mad at Heidi and Spencer for their latest claims of "being tortured" -- and they say the video tape will prove their side of the story.
As we first reported, Heidi Pratt was rushed to the hospital and diagnosed with a gastric ulcer after a rough few days of filming "I'm A Celebrity ... Get Me Out of Here!"
But we're told it's all BS. A source on the production tells us there were medics on scene the entire time and the whole thing was filmed.
Spencer tweeted that Heidi was "locked in a dark room for 3 days w no food or water" -- we're told it was 8-10 hours max, with food and water.
Filed under: Reality TV, Heidi & Spencer
