Cyndi Lauper and Bret Michaels
Two reality-TV veterans and a pop songstress make up part of this year's Celebrity Apprentice cast.
Bret Michaels, Sharon Osbourne and Cyndi Lauper may all get to hear the words "you're fired" from Donald Trump on the NBC program's new season.
Nine others are joining them, including...
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Megan Hauserman, Sharon Osbourne
Reality TV regular Megan Hauserman didn't walk away from Rock of Love: Charm School with the grand prize, but now she's seeking damages from the show's host, Sharon Osbourne.
Hauserman, the leggy and often bikini-clad star of Rock of Love's second season and I Love Money, sued Osbourne Monday for battery, negligence and intentional infliction of emotional distress after a spat between the two ladies turned physical during a taping for the VH1 show's reunion.
The suit alleges that ...
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Charm School
Megan Hauserman, one of the most manipulative and watchable of the competitors on VH1's Charm School, left the show this week after hitting the eavesdropping Brandi M.
"The one thing I cannot stand is violence," Charm School headmaster Sharon Osbourne explained, as she expelled the bikini-prone former contestant on Beauty and the Geek, Rock of Love, and I Love Money.
Hauserman explained that she kicked Brandi M. out of fear that she would hurt her dog, Lily, who has inspired Hauserman's dream of starting a foundation for mentally challenged dogs.
We talked to Hauserman before the airing of her final episode, in which she left with the ultimate kiss-off: "Charm School was a (expletive) nightmare. I can't wait to go back to my best life ever, where I just lay out and tan and eat sushi and tan." Here are the highlights of our talk.
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Rock of Love's Charm School
Taming the wayward women of VH1's Charm School would be a tough job for anyone – except Sharon Osbourne. She's the one who took over Ozzy Osbourne's career after his firing from the seminal Black Sabbath, saved him from booze and drugs, and led him through more comebacks than you can count.
The Charm School attendees – all of them former competitors for Poison singer Bret Michaels' fickle affections on Rock of Love – gave Osbourne plenty of trouble with boozing, feuds, and screaming matches as they competed for $100,000 and the title of Charm School Queen. The unflappable Mrs. Osbourne called us (exactly on time, of course) to talk about why Charm School was a learning experience for her, too.
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Piers, Sharon, The Hoff and Jerry are back in Atlanta to start off week four.Billy Dodson - He's big, he's burly, he's imposing. He gets on stage and sings...soprano? Three quick X's.Alex Pyles - A 10-year-old cutie with a great southern accent. She comes out on stage with her father, and they perform a combination of acrobatics, gymnastics and self-defense. I mean, they are hurling each other around the stage and kicking the you-know-what out of each other (with very light contact). Piers gives 'em an instant X. Sharon and The Hoff are intrigued. Piers asks a very valid question: how can this act help you win the competition? Sharon asks if Alex and her Dad are sent on to Vegas, how can they build upon this act in the upcoming weeks? Alex: "I would bring in more people and fight off more attackers because it's not always one person who attacks you." Can't argue with that. She wins Sharon over and they're headed to Vegas.Sarah Lenore - She comes out with her guitar and belts out Car...
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Ozzy, Kelly, Sharon and Jack Osbourne by Mark Allan/ WireImage.com
The Osbournes are once again inviting the cameras into their tumultuous lives. This time, they'll appear on Fox, and they've got a new schtick.Ozzy, Sharon, Jack and Kelly will headline a variety show — produced by FremantleMedia North America (the folks who bring you American Idol) — that will include a mix of performances, stunts and competitions.Fox alternative programming chief Mike Darnell told Variety the Osbournes' show — currently with the working title The Osbournes: Loud and Dangerous — is likely to launch as a Christmas special, and that he sees the show as a potential throwback to Donny and Marie's variety show from the 1970s (Osbournes? Osmonds? That's a stretch, dude, but we'll go with it).Sharon, by the way, is still under contract as a judge on NBC's America's Got Talent. Fox will tape episodes of the new show around her AGT schedule. — J.R. Whalen
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Piers, Sharon, The Hoff and Jerry embark on week three of scouring the country looking for the USA's best talent.Remember, the contestants who get the nod move on to Vegas. The ultimate winner collects $1 million and a Vegas contract.This week we start in Dallas (where, by the way, ventriloquist Terry Fator was discovered last year).Corky Duke - does some kind of cowboy contortionist routine. Three quick X's. But, you know what? He can kick kind of high.The Rodeo Rhythm Kings - Three cowboys (oh, right, we're in Dallas) playing the violin, bass and geetar. They also tried to harmonize. X-X-X.Then a quick series of rejected acts: a guy jumping off a horse, a woman trying to catch hula hoops,a guy snapping and clapping his fingers.The judges and the Springer-ized energetic audience appear to have seen enough.Holly Hardin - She's nahn-TAY-in (19). Sings These Boots Are Made For Walking and the audience is buying it. No X's, but Sharon is not in love with her singing. Piers likes her, b...
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Week Two of finding the nation's best talent. And, sadly, again in standard definition. Piers, Sharon and The Hoff are in L.A. with Jerry. The judges' picks move onto the next round in Las Vegas, all vying for a grand prize of $1 million and a Vegas contract. Victoria - a singing fairy (and part-time nanny) who sings in a three-and-a-half octave voice. Er, right. She is perhaps three and a half notes into When You Wish Upon a Star when Piers issues an 'X' with a buzzer that blows everyone's ears out. Then she's no'd out the door.Daniel Avila - He compares himself to Luciano Pavarotti, but sounds more like Chef Boyardee. Hoff howls like a dog. Gone.Polina Nikiforova - She (looks like a he with a mustache) and her mother playing ther keyboard. Polina does everything with a pair of cymbals but clap them together. Three quick X's.Eli Mattson - Inspirational story of a young man who's had some rough financial times. I'm hoping he does well. Sings Walking in Memphis and he's pretty good,...
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We're back for another season and the first thing I notice is this show is not in high definition. Uh, NBC, 2008 called and it will see you now. This show takes place in a darn theater. I think you guys can dig up a few HD cameras. OK, I feel better.The big news is that this year's winner wins $1 million and a gig in Las Vegas. That's big. Plus, we learn last year's winner, ventriloquist Terry Fator, has just signed a $100 million deal to perform in Vegas.Piers Morgan, Sharon Osborne, David Hasselhoff and host Jerry Springer are back, and they're holding auditions in New York, Chicago and Los Angeles.Bill Curlee aka "Serious Mysterious" - Not a bad Tom Jones impression, until he began singing. Instant X's from Piers, Hoff and the entire audience. Sharon, strangley, lets him finish. Did she think it was Ozzy? (vote: 3 no's)Nick Afanasiev - the guy can just about lick his entire nose with his tongue. Would this work in Vegas? All X's.The judges were modestly entertained by Lady J and ...
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Nothing says summer is here quite like the Hoff, Sharon Osborne and that curmudgeon British dude sitting behind the judges' table for an all new season of America's Got Talent. And get a load of this kid's unlikely talent — baton twirling. Now before you dismiss the performance as some lame beauty pageant shtick, you may want to check it out. We'd like to see this contestant's childhood bullies and haters twirling fire batons on their necks while on national television. Sweet, sweet revenge!
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