The teleprompter fiasco wasn't the only technical glitch Tuesday night on Dancing with the Stars. During the last commercial break, before Tom Bergeron announced the second couple to land in the bottom two, the dreaded red spotlight came on. Its target: Shannon Elizabeth and Derek Hough. The hellish spotlight didn't last long. But as the commercials rolled, Elizabeth couldn't stop crying, convinced that the red light was the kiss of death and that the judges' tough remarks about her samba the night before would be sending her home. "I don't want this to be over," she had said just before the show. "I'm dreading the day when I don't get to go to the rehearsal studios every morning to work with Derek. I love everything about this show: the rehearsals, the costumes, the makeup, the performances.... Before this, I was pretty much sitting around the house and thinking that was OK." The red light turned out to have no significance whatsoever, as it was Priscilla Presley who got the bad...
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Judge Bruno Tonioli was in rare form Tuesday night. In an interview with TV Guide just moments after the show, he let loose on the male stars of Season 6, calling them "lazy bastards." Apart from R&B star Mario, Tonioli says he was not impressed by the quality of dancing on the season-opener. "I'm so relieved seeing the girls," says Tonioli, "because the boys needed a kick in the ass. Mario was the only one who really sparkled. The others? They were lazy bastards. Sorry, but it's true. They did the dances, but not enough. You're not going to get away with that on Dancing with the Stars. And if you try, we're going to go after you."This isn't the first time, of course, that the first dances of the season have been less than stellar.... The efforts of Master P., Kenny Mayne and Billy Ray Cyrus come to mind. So why is Tonioli so wound up this time? Maybe because now, Dancing is the No. 2 show in the land and we've grown to expect more. Maybe it's because on Tuesday night, the show ...
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Lisa Marie Presley is suing U.K. tabloid the Daily Mail over an article that discussed her weight gain and noted that she was "piling on the pounds." Presley was, in fact, pregnant, and she felt that the widely spread report, which she termed a "vicious personal attack," forced her to announce her pregnancy.Presley made her announcement Friday on her MySpace page, on which she also lambasted the media. Lashing out, she wrote, "Once [the media] got a glimpse of my expanding physique a few days ago, they have been like a pack of coyotes circling their prey whilst eerily howling with delight." Reiterating Presley's discontent — albeit with less vitriolic language — her lawyer told Reuters, "My client is deeply upset and offended by this article, especially as it was widely published just as she and her family were meant to be celebrating her happy news."In addition to her newest baby on the way, Presley also has two teenage children from a previous marriage. — Anna Dimon...
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Lisa Marie Presley announced Friday that she's pregnant with her third child, but not without lambasting the media for "slanderous and degrading stories" questioning the source of her weight gain in recent days. Unleashing her fury on her MySpace blog, Presley, 40, insists her announcement is under duress. "Once [the media] got a glimpse of my expanding physique a few days ago," she wrote, "they have been like a pack of coyotes circling their prey whilst eerily howling with delight." Presley continued, "They couldn't wait to find out if my weight gain was because I was just overeating, in which case it would be open season and they can do the old following in her fathers [sic] sad and unfortunate demise story again or... much to their dismay, I could just be pregnant... at which point they should probably wipe the saliva off of their fangs and put them back in their mouths or they may expose the black little souls that they are."Now that things are confirmed," she added, "hopefully...
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For more than a year, Priscilla and Lisa Marie Presley sorted through the vast Presley family archives at Graceland, selecting cherished images and songs for a new TV special, Elvis by the Presleys. As part of Elvis week on CBS, the two-hour program will peer into the King's private world with intimate family reminiscences, home movies and rare concert footage. (There's also a new two-CD set of the same name from Sony BMG, for $19.98.) Nearly 30 years have passed since her ex-husband's death, but the task, as Priscilla reveals here, left her all shook up.TV Guide: Why did you decide to open the vaults on this material right now?Priscilla Presley: You can't deny the passion that's out there for Elvis. On the anniversary of his death, 70,000 people come to Graceland with candles. It's overwhelming. But we realized there's a whole new generation that doesn't really know who Elvis was. Children, people in their twenties, thirties. They're the ones
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