Larry David's ex-wife has already responded to reports that she had a two-year affair with Al Gore. "The story is completely untrue," she told the Huffington Post. "It's a total fabrication. I adore both Al and Tipper. I look at them both as family. And I have happily been in a serious relationship since my divorce." Regardless of whether or not these reports are true, one thing is for certain: the eighth season of Curb Your Enthusiasm just became a lot more interesting. Can Ricky Gervais do a Tennessee accent? [HuffPo]
On today's episode of Studfinder, we dredge up the best five dudes from last night's Broadway-bound episode of The Bachelorette. Did Ali send the right hunks of burning love to the incinerator? Did she pick the right amateur to go onstage with her for a Lion King cameo? And most importantly, who gave us the best sh*t metaphor of the night? Join us as we rank the five finest men who are vying (and often crying) for Ali's affection.
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Say whaaaaaaaat? According to new reports, a third person contributed to the dissolution of Al and Tipper Gore's marriage...and that person is Larry David's ex-wife. Laurie David divorced the Curb Your Enthusiasm creator in 2007 amid rumors that she was stepping out with the caretaker of their Martha's Vineyard summer home, but now she's been linked to Gore in a way that goes beyond co-producing his Academy Award-winning documentary An Inconvenient Truth.
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Have you ever wanted to see Craig Ferguson dive with sharks? Beginning August 1 you can -- when the Late Late Show Scotsman travels to the Bahamas to host the Discovery Channel's Shark Week. Ferguson made the announcement last night via his shark puppet Brian, who suggested that all of the sharks of the world unite to eat Ferguson so that CBS "can finally get Kilborn back." [THR]
Last week on the Real Housewives of New Jersey, Danielle taught viewers that if you buy a man a new suit, he will stop using gay slurs. When she returned last night, she focused all of her negative energy on sex tape rumors while Dina enjoyed her last moments in front of Bravo's cameras and the cast visited a petting zoo. Revisit the drama after the jump, when Movieline examines the moments that hit the Real/Fake Jackpot.
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Despite the looks of that picture, you aren't high right now. Probably. British comedian and self-described "entrepreneur" Matt Sky -- who interviews various celebrities using a green puppet -- spoke with Conan O'Brien's former Late Night announcer Joel Godard to find out why he never appeared on The Tonight Show. Because who else would Joel Godard speak to about this?
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The sixth season of Kathy Griffin: My Life on the D-List kicks off tonight with our not-so-D-List comedienne landing a bit role on a certain NBC drama and taking acting lessons from a famous diva. Will she finally become a respected primetime actress? Will she ooze sexuality and one-liners with equal aplomb? Or will all her best work be censored?
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Since Rue McClanahan's passing on June 3, there's one thing that's been missing: the comforting coo of Rose Nylund herself, Betty White. Though White released a statement about her Golden Girls co-star immediately after her death, it wasn't until this week on The View that we were able to see her reflect on the duo's halcyon days of lanais and pastel-colored pants. Video of White discussing the shock of McClanahan's death (and her status as the last living Golden Girl) is after the jump.
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Admit it: when you heard that another one of Charlie Sheen's Mercedes had been "stolen" from his Los Angeles gated community and driven into a ditch off the side of Mulholland Drive -- for the second time in four months -- you immediately fantasized that the actor was living out his own Phil Connors nightmare.
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True Blood came back to HBO with its biggest season premiere yet, although its 5.1 million viewer tally -- up 38% from last year's opener -- isn't the show's highest-rated episode ever. Still, if True Blood can continue its unlikely trend of growing from episode to episode, as it did last season, this is a great place to start. How soon until they add some (literal) bloodsuckers to Tilda? [EW]
The hardest working octogenarian in the biz -- Betty White -- hit the late night circuit last night twice to promote her upcoming TV Land comedy Hot in Cleveland. At the Daily Show, the former SNL host told Jon Stewart why she will never joke about drugs while on the Late Late Show, she talked to Craig Ferguson about the rules of soccer. Click through for those segments as well as the other highlights you missed last night while decompressing from the darkest hour of television ever.
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· There are pilot recastings and then there are pilot recasting massacres -- and today's news about ABC's drama pilot Edgar Floats falls into the latter. The network ordered six scripts from writer Rand Ravich and is considering Edgar for midseason pickup... with an almost entirely different cast. That means that lead Tom Cavanagh (R.I.P. Ed) as well as co-stars Alicia Witt, Derek Webster, Alex Solowitz and Raoul Trujillo have all been forcibly removed from the project. Robert Patrick is the only actor remaining on the series, about a police psychologist-turned bounty hunter. [Deadline]
NCIS secures its lead for a few more years, USA Network gets into the ice cream business, and more TV Bites after the jump.
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Old Spice's "man your man could smell like" apparently impressed some suits with his 30-second Super Bowl ad. NBC just declared Isaiah Mustafa, star of the gone-viral cologne commercial, "a talent worth developing" who will now audition for parts on the network's various series as part of a talent holding deal. Let's analyze the network's fall schedule and figure out where Mustafa can fit his aromatic allure.
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Cable's rich pageant offers many things this week, but nothing quite as riveting as the spectacle of Matthew McConaughey laying the foundations of his career in the badlands of Texas Chainsaw Massacre sequel hell...
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Details surrounding the death of Gary Coleman are about to get even murkier thanks to newly surfaced legal documents in which the Diff'rent Strokes actor specified that he did not want to be pulled off life support -- a direct contradiction of what happened on May 28, when the actor's ex-wife Shannon Price instructed doctors to pull the plug on the comatose Coleman. Since then, Price has been accused of charging $50,000 for an interview and shopping photos of the actor shortly after he passed away. [TMZ]
