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Grey's Anatomy: Doctor Burke is going to Gayhab and other dirty gossip around the skinny-sphere

• Grey's Anatomy Isaiah Washington, "I said the derogatory gay F-word, I-didn't say the gay F-word, okay ABC is making me apologize again for saying that I did say the derogatory gay F-word" is going to a Gayhab to get a psychological assessment for his hateful behavior. Oh pleez! [Life & Style]

• My favorite show, Law & Order SVU, will be on air for two more years with Benson & Stabler as the show stars Mariska Hargitay and Christopher Meloni have inked new contracts for more than $6.5 million each per year. Ni-ceeee! [AP]

• Over at Vogue, Renee Zellweger asks, ""Why is there so much fascination with other people's flaws and failings in our culture?" Yeah! How come Miss Potter? [Style.com]

• Anne Heche has left her husband for.....another man. Whew! You never know with Anne. She likes to keep us on our toes. [People]

• For $39.97 a month you can see pictures and video of what a really, really skanky, tampon smoking, attention whore Paris Hilton really is at Parisexposed.com. OMG! Did I say all this out loud...Alright yeah. I'm in a mood. I've been pretty good at refraining from the Paris trash talk, but this time I just could not help myself like Ted Casablancas all over gay Hollywooders in the closet. WTF. It's Friday!

Jessica Biel is healthy looking in a bikini

Jessica Biel is quickly becoming a rising A-list starlet from her 7th Heaven days. Not only is this young woman very talented, she exhibits a very healthy look with muscles. Jessica has curves, she has muscle definition, and she looks vibrant.

I wish more starlets in her age group would follow Jessica's lead instead of the Bone Brigade look of Nicole Richie, Mary Kate Olsen, and Keira Knightley.

Over at The Superficial you can see more pictures of Jessica having fun at the beach.

Forbes Web Celeb 25 list and only 4 are women

Forbes has become famous in my book more for their "lists." People love lists. It's the hierarchy, and fame for being on the top. The most recent Forbes list is "The Web Celeb 25". It's basically a list of who Forbes thinks are the most fascinating, influential people online.

What I don't get is that women buy 52% of all consumer electronics. 9 out of 10 women in the age group of 35-49 influence the purchase of home electronics.Women under 30 outpace their male peers in online usage. 1 in 4 U.S. households are headed by a single mother. With all that purchasing and influencing power, why are there only 4 women in the Forbes Web Celeb 25 list?

Here are the power 4 ladies:

• # 1 of all 25 is LonelyGirl15, Jessica Lee Rose, of YouTube fame
• # 8 is Amanda Congdon former RocketBoom host and new ABCNews.com Videocaster
• # 16 Xeni Jardin, a co-editor of Boing Boing
• # 25 Violet Blue, Sex editor of the SF Chronicle, and contributor to Metroblogging SF, Fleshbot, Open Source Sex.

I am irked that there are so many talented and high profile women online, and tons of ladies surfing the net, and yet the representation here is still male dominated. Here are some very influential online women who are missing in my book. Why aren't any of these ladies in this Forbes list?

• Arianna Huffington - Her blog The Huffington Post is in the top 10 on the Technorati 100.
• Gina Trapani - The Editor of Lifehacker another Technorati top 10.
• Michelle Malkin - Political blogger, Hot Air videocaster and fellow Filipina (hooray in my book)
• Dooce - Of Dooce.com longtime prolific blogger and first to get fired for blogging. It takes enormous discipline to be blogging as long as she has been blogging.
• Heather and Jessica - Go Fug Yourself. Bad celebrity fashion was never so much fun.

Update: I stand corrected on why Huffington and Malkin are not on the list. Late night. Info didn't stick. My bad. But still. There should be more women on this Forbes list.

Tips on what to do if you are being sexually harassed at work

Today's video post is on tips to help you deal with unwanted advances at work. Having worked and been a manager of people in technology, a male dominated industry, I have seen and experienced many cases of inappropriate and un-desired behavior in the workplace. Not all guys are creepoids, and most are very cool, but there's always one in the bunch who don't know better. Hopefully you never run into him or her, for that matter, but in case you do, I want to share some of my wisdom.

It is always important that you feel safe where you work, and that at all times you feel that you are respected and treated professionally.

Tyra Banks was hurt by fat remarks

A while back I wrote a post called, "Tyra Banks is not fat for crying out loud" in which I spoke about the fat remarks some celeb blogs were making about pictures of Tyra in a bikini on vacation. The woman isn't in skinny runway shape anymore, and has gained some weight since her modeling days, but gimme a break, she is far from being fat. Tyra is still stunning, and in my opinion looks more womanly. At 5'10" she is carrying about 161 pounds. She was 30 pounds lighter when she posed on the cover of Sports Illustrated in 1997.

In the February 5 issue of People magazine, Tyra comes out to say how upset she was by all the unflattering things people were saying about those vacation pictures, and to the tabloids who ran titles like "America's Next Top Waddle" or "Tyra Porkchop". Yeah! That's some mean stuff. If I were her, I'd be upset too. Frankly, it would be devastating. Tyra said in People:

"It was such a strange meanness and rejoicing that people had when thinking that was what my body looked like. It was really hurtful to me." She added, "I get so much mail from young girls who say, 'I look up to you, you're not as skinny as everyone else, I think you're beautiful. So when they say that my body is 'ugly' and 'disgusting,' what does that make those girls feel like?"

Why is weight gain such food for fodder at someone's expense even if it is a celebrity? I think people are harsher towards Tyra because she was once a highly paid catwalker and covergirl. Tyra can finally relax and not live a model's life anymore, so let her people. Tyra is the host of her own talk show and executive producing another. She's doing things far more substantial than modeling. We think Tyra is beautiful, and good for her for letting her human-ness shine.

[People.com]

Don't bore Renee Zellweger with questions about her body and other nibbles around the skinny-sphere

• While promoting her new movie Miss Potter, a reporter asked Renee Zelleweger what she thought of all the attention that was showered on the fact that she had to gain weight for the role of Bridget Jones. Renee replied, "It’s disheartening, because it is a reflection of what it is that we value, and it is a superficiality that does not deserve the focus of energy that it gets. It’s boring — and it sends wrong messages." Bravo! See why we love Renee so. [MSNBC]

• Following her Golden Globe win, Jennifer Hudson was nominated for an Academy Award today for Best Supporting Actress for Dreamgirls. Let's cross our fingers for our Effie to win Mr. Oscar. Real looking ladies rock! [Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Science]

• Keira Knightley is suing the UK pub The Daily Mail because it said that she is lying about having the eating disorder anorexia after they put a picture of her in bikini looking very skinny. The Daily Mail story also included with said picture a story about a girl who died from anorexia. Keira is also challenging that she is not a role model that the girl was emulating thus causing the girl's anorexia. I think the paper is wrong in how it manipulated the story, but Keira has been looking very skeletal lately. [BBC News]

• According to Fast Company, these are the top 10 hot jobs for 2007. Oh, I should mention that blogger is one of them. Woo-hoo! [Fast Company]

The Nicoderm patch will save you from getting ugly

I have to give Nicoderm, the people who make the patch to help you stop smoking, some credit for being creative in getting us to use their CQ patch. The best way to scare any woman into using something is to tell her that you will save her from the uglies.

I find this new campaign for Nicoderm CQ "The Beauty of Quitting" sociologically interesting. Call me cynical, but I think people are far more motivated to quit something bad for them if it relates to their beauty as opposed to their health.

As an example, models smoke all the time because it helps them stay thin. They don't care that the ciggies can give them lung cancer. They are thin. But tell them that the smokes will wrinkle their skin and age them 10 years, watch them drop that pack of Marlboro's as fast as they drop pounds for fashion week.

Celebrities without makeup

Over at TMZ, they have a bunch of photos of celebrities without makeup. Some of the famous mugs without glossing include Pam Amderson, Britney  Spears, Courtney Love, Nicolette Sheridan, Queen Latifah, and Jennifer Lopez.

Without all the makeup, most of these ladies look just like the rest of us. See celebrities are just regular people too. Check out the TMZ No Make-up gallery.

Orville Redenbacher comes back from the dead to pimp popcorn

The other night Matt and I were watching CSI: Original Recipe and while TIVO fowarding we caught a glimpse of Orville Redenbacher holding an iPod. We looked at each other. "WTF! Orville is dead!" Of course we had to stop, rewind, and watch the commercial. I'm telling you this thing was creepy on many levels.

Some kind of state-of-the-art technology was used in bringing Orville back from the grave. Now, you all know I'm all for technology, but in this case, the use of the technology to bring back a dead guy to sell product just made the popcorn less appetizing. Orville's grandson thought the ad was cool and said,

"Grandpa would go for it. He was a cutting-edge guy," grandson Gary told USA Today. "This is a way to honor his legacy."

This "back from the living dead" ad is the highest amount of money ConAgra Foods, who owns the Orville brand, has ever spent on an ad. I'm all for honoring a great man, but why not just re-run his real ads instead of trying to make digi-robo versions. Vintage is cool and real beauty.

[Advertising Age]

Gisele Bundchen blames weak families for anorexia

Gisele Bundchen, the supermodel, came out and said that weak parents are to blame for their daughter's anorexia and not the fashion industry. The girl is obviously protecting her meal ticket. Gisele goes on to say, "Everybody knows that the norm in fashion is thin. But excuse me, there are people born with the right genes for this profession."

Gisele may have the skinny genes to be a super rich model, but she seems to be lacking a gene for sensitivity. Here is a video post, of what I think of Gisele's anorexia "diagnosis."