Hayden wins Big Brother 12 and $500,000. Lane wins $50k, Enzo gets nothing.
Brittany grabbed the heart of viewers, and won 25k. Hopefully, it will be a small consolation when they tell her that last night in Arkansas, her home burned down. For real.
Bachelor Pad: And The Real Winner Is…
Face it. The Bachelor Pad sucked. Horrible show, torturous to watch. But, guess what? The finale was good. The right couple won, but the real winner is comeback kid of the year, Wes Hayden.
To recap: Congrats to Dave and Natalie. Of the two final couples, they were my fave by miles. I’ve always liked Natalie, she has so much moxie and not an ounce of fake goody-two shoes-ness. Dave really rehabilitated himself from his angry, psycho, over-macho performance on Jillian’s season, something I never would have thought possible. I actually liked him on this show.
But my favorite part, and I’ll bet I’m not alone, was Wes and Gia. They make a great couple, and he’s so due some love after the way the show trashed him with its hatchet-editing job on Jillian’s season. I’m glad Chris Harrison acknowledged it — and they let him sing at the end.
I doubt Kiptyn and Tenley will make it, she’ll drive him crazy with her helium voice and two note repertoire, little girl giggles or crying. I don’t care about them one way or the other, but I really hope Wes and Gia last. I think Gia is the best looking woman to appear on the show, all seasons combined, and she seems to have a big heart to match. Elizabeth? Yikes, run for cover. Nikki? Loosen up girl, you come across like a grandmother. Memo to Michelle: Karma’s a b*tch. Which is why you should have forgiven Tenley when she apologized (for the third time.) It will come back to bite you. Continue reading
Bachelor Pad Finale: DWTS Competition
The final three couples compete in a dance-off with pros Chelsie Hightower, Edyta Sliwinska and Louis Van Amstel from DWTS. Who wins? Which couples are still together? Reality Steve has the answers. (Unfortunately, he’s added ads with sound to his site which you can’t turn off. Hope he removes them soon.)
Big Brother: The Final Three
Big Brother’s final Head of Household contest happens in three parts. Hayden won part One. Part Two airs tonight, and Part Three will air on Finale night, Sept. 15.
In part One, the three remaining contestants, Hayden, Lane and Enzo, compete in an endurance contest. Hayden won.
Part Two will be a skill game between the two who lost in Part One: Enzo and Lane. It will air tonight.
Part three will be a knowledge test about events that occurred during the season. It will be between Hayden and the winner of Part 2.
The winner of Part 3 will become HOH. The other two houseguests will automatically be nominated for eviction, but since they can’t vote, the HOH breaks the tie and chooses who to evict. The other guy moves to the Final Two with him.
Again, Parts 1 and 2 will air tonight and Part 3 will be shown on Finale Night, and right after the third guy is eliminated, the members of the jury house will come on to vote for the winner. Also, the viewers’ favorite and winner of the $25,000. prize will be announced.
Las Vegas Sportsbook: Bristol Palin Least Likely to Win DWTS
Via MediaLite: Wynn Las Vegas put out a press release with the odds of winning for each of the new couples on Dancing With the Stars. In last place, at 35:1, Bristol Palin and Mark Balas.
MediaLite makes a good point about why Bristol may not be sent home as early as some think: Sarah Palin’s Facebook Friends could keep her in.
A big part of the elimination process is fan voting. You don’t think Sarah Palin can use the power of her Facebook page to mobilize support for her daughter’s cha-cha?
In third place, the couple I’ll be rooting for: Jennifer Grey and Derek Hough.
The full list of couples and odds follows: Continue reading
2010 Emmy Awards Tonight
The 2010 Emmy Awards show, hosted by Jimmy Fallon, begins at 5pm PT, 8pm ET. TV Guide’s Fashion Cam goes live at 3pm PT. Here are the nominees in the major categories: (The full 43 page list of nominees is here.)
Drama Series
Breaking Bad
Dexter
The Good Wife
Lost
Mad Men
True Blood
Comedy Series
30 Rock
Curb Your Enthusiasm
Glee
Modern Family
Nurse Jackie
The Office
Lead Actor in a Drama Series
Kyle Chandler, Friday Night Lights
Bryan Cranston, Breaking Bad
Matthew Fox, Lost
Michael C. Hall, Dexter
Jon Hamm, Mad Men
Hugh Laurie, House Continue reading
“Weeds” Season Six: Botwins On the Run
It seems like a lifetime ago that Weeds season five ended on Showtime. The last scenes were of Shane Botwin, age 16, killing Pilar, the rich and powerful controller of Esteban (Nancy’s new husband and baby- daddy, who happens to be both a Mexican politician and a drug-running mafioso) with a croquet maillot, while Nancy stares at her lifeless body lying facedown in the pool in disbelief.
But, back it is, and it looks to be another great season. In the first episode, “Thwack,” Nancy takes the family on the run to protect Shane. Alanis Morissette is back as Dr. Audra Kitson, with whom brother-in-law Andy is obsessively in love.
On the lam, the family change their names from Botwin to Newman and Nancy, Andy and Silas get jobs at a hotel. Here’s Nancy as a chambermaid.
The hotel’s valet is also a pot dealer, but he’s on strike. Continue reading
Congrats Jesse and Ann: Another Bachelorette Engagement
The Bachelor/Bachelorette Franchise has another win in the engagement column. Congratulations to Jesse Csincsak and Ann Lueders. Jesse and Ann have been dating for a year since they met on one of Jesse’s Bachelorette reunion cruises to Mexico, and this week he got down on one knee at a romantic spot on Lake Erie and proposed.
They will wed in Las Vegas and then return to Colorado to start their married life. Radar Online has the exclusive video of the proposal, in which Jesse tells Ann:
“I’ve spent the last year getting to know you….When I was on that boat to Mexico, the first time I met you, I would never have dreamed this would have happened, that it would get to this point. But I have fallen in love with you and I want to grow old with you.”
Ann was a contestant on Jason Mesnick’s season of the Bachelor while Jesse was the winner during Deanna Pappas’ season. Deanna broke up with Jesse within months, and it’s great to see him so happy again.
Jesse has been my favorite male contestant on the show over the many seasons. I’ve interviewed him many times and stayed in touch since then, and am really delighted for him and Ann. My congratulations and best wishes to them both.
Bachelorette Ali: Love and A Contract With William Morris
Ali and Roberto really do seem in love. The finale was wonderful to watch — Mike Fleiss and Co. delivered the most romantic final episode in many seasons. Congrats to the happy couple, just watching them smile lifts the spirits. Roberto really grew on me last night. I wish we had seen more of his personality during the season. I also really liked Ali’s family, they were so level-headed (as compared to some families we’ve seen in prior seasons.)
Ali has signed with William Morris, so much for those protestations she wants to get back to regular life. I’ll bet she’s commuting from San Diego to LA in no time.
Whether Ali’s ultimate fairy tale ending is that she ends up happily married or with a show biz career, or both, remains to be seen, but a fairy tale ending it was, complete with Prince Charming.
Here’s a nice photospread from the Final Rose Ceremony. Just click on the photo and they all come up. And here’s what the couple had to say on the ABC teleconference call today.
Bachelorette: Who Got Fleissed?
Did Reality Steve, who released the first spoilers at the beginning of the season that Ali ends up alone get Fleissed? Or did Fleiss himself get Fleissed by Reality Steve? Today, Reality Steve admits he got Fleissed. He says his sources were wrong, Ali ends up engaged to Roberto and Chris leaves early.
Chris leaving early is nothing new. The show practically spoon-fed it to us in previews. That Ali chooses Roberto is also nothing new — or at least it’s something that has been predicted here and at FORT for weeks as the most likely ending (if for no other reason than Roberto has been MIA since filming ended while Chris has been out and about.) Roberto as F1 has been evident as well, except to those who had a different favored outcome (like wanting the F1 to be Chris.) I wrote last week, it is likely to end with “A final rose ceremony with only one guy. The suspense might be in “Will Roberto Accept?” rather than “Who did Ali Choose?” (My tweak on it, which probably won’t happen, was to further speculate she proposes to Roberto rather than the other way around.)
This weekend, the ending became even more obvious. The New York Post had an article with new comments by Bachelorette producer Mike Fleiss and Bachelorette Ali Fedotowsky. The money quotes:
Fleiss: “The audience is going to be very satisfied with the outcome.”… “I think it ends up pretty well for her. I think she’s happy.”
Ali: “The finale is really good. Sometimes they can seem very orchestrated. This one is very real,…I feel like I made the best decision that I could.” Continue reading