Our top moments of the week:
14. Worst Ode to Cops: After The X Factor's judges' panel walks out on 19-year-old Deangelo Wallace's painful audition, he calls them "devil worshippers" and steals a $3,000 mic pack. An uninteresting, low-speed police chase through Kansas City ensues before Deangelo is booked for the theft. We're not sure what's worse: the fact that Deangelo then sings about his arrest ("I'm getting arrested, but I'll be out in a few hours. I get to ride in the front seat! I'm a celebrity!") or that the whole sequence is scored to...
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All right, stop, decorate and listen. Last night, rapper-turned-home rehabber Vanilla Ice pulled up a chair along Design Star host-mentor David Bromstad and judges Genevieve Gorder and Vern Yip to help weigh-in on the show's always-popular White Room challenge. So we threw a few questions his way just to see if he could still flow like a harpoon.
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Vanilla Ice (aka Robert Van Winkle, really) was arrested Thursday night at his home in South Florida shortly after his wife Laura called 911, claiming he had kicked and hit her during an argument over buying bedroom furniture. (Ice's wife later amended her statement to say she had only been pushed.)The 39-year-old former rap star was booked on charges of simple domestic battery, and released Friday morning. — MWMUPDATE: Vanilla Ice won't be prosecuted for allegedly beating his wife. "The State declines to file criminal charges," say court papers. "There is insufficient credible evidence... due to the victim recanting her original statement and lack of an independent witness."
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Jon Lovitz has agreed to play the Laugh Factory on Sunset Strip every Wednesday night for the rest of his life. That isn't a joke.... Fresh out of dignity, the '80s Eminem, Vanilla Ice, is joining wackadoodle Baldwin brother Stephen and down-and-out '70s pinup Leif Garrett on CMT's new reality show, Ty Murray's Celebrity Bull Riding Challenge, debuting Aug. 10.
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Black. White. Aaaah, good for Carmen... she's making progress. Last week she's calling a black woman a creature, and now look at her. She's marching into the heart of Los Angeles' black community as a white woman seeking acceptance. Pretty bold move, considering everyone on camera (and probably off) is shaking their heads and basically saying, "Yes, we know you'd like to buy the world a Coke and teach the world to sing... but it's not 1971 and you're just starting to get the melody...." Thankfully she has Dianne to set her straight. I like Dianne — so genuine and so, so patient. Did you catch that look on her face when Carmen revealed her true identity — it was like "What the...?" Yet there she is, walking down the streets of L.A.,
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