The View's Lisa Ling admits she's tempted by the controversial Fox reality series Temptation Island. In fact, the 27-year-old Ling — who can be seen hosting the WB's G-rated special, "20 Teens Who Will Change the World," Friday at 8 pm/ET — says the lust-driven game show is, gasp!, educational.
"I have to say that I'm pretty addicted to Temptation Island right now, but not for the typical salacious reasoning," Ling tells TV Guide Online. "What I like about Temptation Island is that jealousy and infidelity are issues that face every couple in the world, and by watching this show you can watch idiots make fools of themselves, but learn from the mistakes that they make. So, I actually find there to be incredible redeeming social value to the show."
When she's not indulging in some guilty viewing pleasures, Ling says she's happy to participate in celebrations of youth — like Friday's WB/Teen People special. "It was just
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The past few days have been busy ones for celebrity parents. The Practice's Kelli Williams and hubby Ajay Sahgal gave birth to a 7 lb, 12 oz baby girl, Sarame Jane Sahgal, on Saturday. And on Monday, newlywed actor-singer Marc Anthony and his bride, former Miss Universe Dayanara Torres, welcomed a 7 lb, 1 oz son, Cristian Anthony Muniz.
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On the heels of her separation from Tom Cruise, Nicole Kidman is returning to the London stage in a production of Ibsen's The Lady from the Sea, Reuters reports. She'll play a young woman married to an older country doctor. Kidman made her West End debut two years ago in David Hare's The Blue Room.
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Jennifer Lopez will serve as both host and musical guest on this weekend's Saturday Night Live... Mick Jagger has finally reached a settlement with Brazilian model Luciana Morad over child support for their 21-month-old son. Terms of the agreement were not disclosed, but Morad was seeking $35,000 a month. — Michael Ausiello and Daniel R. Coleridge
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In Ed's sassy, self-confident schoolmarm Molly Hudson, Lesley Boone, 32, has a role she can be proud of. Unfortunately, the plus-size actress didn't always have it so good. In the early '90s, she launched her acting career on the short-lived Fox sitcom Babes — and immediately got that sinking feeling.
"The premise of the show was three heavyset sisters living together in one small New York City apartment," Boone tells TV Guide Online. "At first, I was quite offended by the scripts. It was gratuitous humor. It wasn't savvy and smart." Thoughtfully, she adds, "You know, I was a baby when I did that. I don't regret doing that job; it taught me a lot, good and bad. But after the series ended, I was pigeonholed and I couldn't get out. Every role that came my way was the poor, pathetic fat girl who didn't have a life — I didn't want to portray that."
Flashing forward to the present, Boone smiles, "I'd
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Paramount has aborted plans for Caroline, a talk show to be hosted by comic Caroline Rhea, a regular on Sabrina, the Teenage Witch and frequent Hollywood Squares guest. "Due to the current daytime marketplace, the cost of producing the show, in a manner the industry has come to expect from us, made it financially prohibitive to continue," a studio spokesperson said.
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HBO will air Bruce Springsteen's first televised concert. "Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band" will premiere on the pay-cable network on April 7 at 9 pm/ET. The special was recorded last summer at New York's Madison Square Garden.
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David Duchovny and Julianne Moore are the latest Hollywood heavies to pay a visit to Fox's Ally McBeal. When a fire broke out last week on the set of their latest film, the Ivan Reitman-directed sci-fi comedy Evolution, the duo took cover on the show's nearby soundstage.
"David Duchovny and I got into a golf cart and went to Ally McBeal," Moore tells TV Guide Online with a laugh. Once there, the two-time Oscar nominee sought out her good pals Lucy Liu and James LeGros (her co-star in The Myth of Fingerprints). "[James's] call [time] wasn't until 12 o'clock, so we went to Lucy Liu's dressing room. She has a couch... it's nice in there."
Considering the events that had just transpired, it's no surprise that Moore was anxious to kick back and relax. Cast and crew — including a swarm of extras clad in gorilla suits — were forced to flee Evolution's Manhattan Beach, Calif., set when a 15-foot
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Producer David E. Kelley (Ally McBeal, The Practice) will take home the newly minted Brandon Tartikoff Award at the third annual TV Guide Awards, which will air on March 7 on Fox. Named for the legendary network executive, Tartikoff's award honors other creative movers and shakers behind the scenes.
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One of television's last-remaining virgins will lose her innocence tomorrow night when Joey (Katie Holmes) goes all the way with Pacey (Joshua Jackson) on Dawson's Creek.
"These kids have been together for nine months, they spent three months on a boat together last summer... it made a hell of a lot of sense," executive producer Greg Berlanti tells TV Guide Online of the momentous occasion. "It felt like the right thing to do."
Fans holding out hope that Joey would reunite with her first love, Dawson (James Van Der Beek), may disagree. But as Berlanti teases, don't count out Dawson just yet. "I don't think this is the final answer," he says. "Sex, as I think any adult understands, can complicate things. It's no finish line. It's a new plateau fraught with new difficulties that make for really interesting drama and tension.
"I sort of always make the case that [Dawson's Creek] is a
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