Category — Reality tidbits

The 2012 Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras was held on the weekend, with American drag superstar RuPaul dismissing forty back-up dancers at the last minute because she wanted to perform solo.

An insider spoke to The Daily Telegraph, saying it was a shock for the dancers, who prepared and rehearsed all day. However, once RuPaul finished her musical number, the troupe of dancers got to do their part, even without the ‘star’.

Meanwhile, another diva was making noise on the saturday, as a bare-chested Kyle Sandilands was trolling around on popular gay men’s ‘dating’ iPhone app, Grindr. His newly-made profile was under the name ‘big gold mic’ and its welcome message was “Happy Mardi Gras darls x”.

Grindr is generally used to cruise for sex, with GPS navigating so people can locate other online members just kilometres away. As Sandilands’s manager explained, “he did it as a joke”. Apparently, the shock jock thought it would be funny to create a profile, after seeing someone else playing with Grindr during an Australia’s Got Talent recording. Could it be Grant Denyer or Brian McFadden?!

Speaking of Australia’s Got Talent, judge Dannii Minogue is in Sydney for the talent quest, but also attended the Mardi Gras to watch sister Kylie perform. However, Dannii’s partner, Kris Smith gave the show a miss as he spent the weekend in Melbourne on ‘daddy duties’ while having a ‘lad’s weekend’. The Football Superstar host said that the Mardi Gras just isn’t his thing.

While Kris hasn’t embraced the gay culture of Mardi Gras, Home and Away‘s Dan Ewing loves to call himself ‘gay-friendly’. The actor and contestant on last year’s Dancing with the Stars, attended the Belvedere/DNA party at the Beresford and was often asked about his sexual orientation. For those who don’t know, DNA is an Australian gay magazine, featuring half-naked models. In the Daily Telegraph’s Sydney Confidential, Ewing says he doesn’t “have a problem going to gay clubs and hanging out on Oxford Street” and attended the event with his fiancé, Marni Little.

Some Reality TV romances, former Australia’s Next Top Model host Jodhi Meares and Jon Stevens are apparently dating, and it would appear Jesinta Campbell and Didier Cohen are no longer going out. As it has been reported she is having a long distance relationship former Temptation game show model Scott McGregor. (Source: Sunday Telegraph)

However on reality romances gone sour, Dating In The Dark host Laura Dundovic has split from James Kerley. (Source: Sunday Telegraph)

Ros Reines gives Celebrity Apprentice Australia winner, Julia Morris, a tickle up for her performance on the red carpet at the ACTAA Awards this week. (Source: Sunday Telegraph)

One of Holland’s Next Top Model winners is suing her modelling agency for not paying her the full prize money, because she was too fat. (Source: WA Today)

Celebrity Apprentice Australia is going the full copy of the US version with news Mark Bouris’s son Dane is to appear on the show as an advisor, along with Deborah Thomas. (Source: Sunday Telegraph)

Reality TV gone too far. A Fear Factor episode has now been pulled because a contestant was made to drink donkey semen and another donkey urine. The question has to be asked where and how did they get the donkey semen? (Source: Reality Blurred)

The Courier Mail has an article about Reality TV villains and how they brings in ratings. It also appears Jennifer from My Kitchen Rules is OK with being this series villain. (Source: Courier Mail)

Josh Flinn from Australia’s Next Top Model will be reporting on all things fashion for Mornings on Nine. (Source: Sun-Herald)

Pete Evans from My Kitchen Rules is not happy that the paparazzi take photos of his children Chilli and Indii. (Source: Sun-Herald)

Simon Cowell has put axe through The X Factor US with judge Paula Abdul and Nicole Scherzinger getting the chop. Also host Steve Jones won’t be back either. (Source: Reality Blurred)

However Simon Cowell appears to be taking it in his stride, and appears relaxed in these photos as he takes his ex-girlfriend Jackie St Clair out to dinner. (Source: Daily Mail)

So You Think You Can Dance choreographer Alex Da Silva has been sentenced to ten years for rape. (Source: Reality Blurred)

Jamie Durie gets an Order of Australia for his services to reality TV, only joking it was for charity work. (Source: TV Tonight)

Paul Kalina from SMH on the set of Excess Baggage. (Source: SMH)

Simon Cowell no longer engaged and single? Well this article says so. (Source: Daily Gossip)

Speaking of Simon Cowell he has announced a new reality show he is working on with Jada Pinkett-Smith looking for the best DJ. He won’t be a judge on the show. (Source: Daily Telegraph)

The Stafford Brothers starts on Fox 8 on Friday night at 8.30pm it is a reality program which follows two Australian DJ’s around the world. (Source: Herald Sun)

Mel B is selling her house in LA with a dodgy rumour she is moving to Sydney. However there are rumours she will be on Dancing With The Stars. (Source: Daily Telegraph)

Seal talks about his marriage breakdown with Heidi Klum, it doesn’t appear to be too vexatious. (Source: Daily Telegraph)

Also the other The Voice Australia Joel Madden’s marriage to Nicole Ritchie may be in trouble. (Source: Front cover of Famous Mag, Ok that source is spurious)

Project Runway mentor Tim Gunn has not had sex in 29 years, and it appears to be a voluntary choice. (Source: Dlisted)

The cast for The Amazing Race Season 20 has been revealed. (Source: Huffington Post)

Masterchef UK host John Torode has split from his wife. (Source: Daily Mail)

Top Chef judge Gail Simmons says the most overrated TV chef at the moment is Paula Deen, and Fabio said Anthony Bourdain was the judge he liked the least. (Source: Huffington Post)

Jersey Shore star Snooki is now promoting fat burning pills. (Source: Daily Mail)

Speaking of low rent reality TV shows – the Geordie Shore cast have released a perfume that smells of kebabs. (Source: Daily Mail)

Bethenny Frankel gets her own talk show, as does Rocco DiSpirito. (Source: Reality Blurred)

Kerri-Anne Kennerley’s role at Seven will be more than Dancing With The Stars, but no news on what that actually will be. (Source: TV Tonight)

Media Spy is reporting that the Big Brother house is being built at Dreamworld. No idea how valid that rumour is.

Ronan Keating talks about his foray into acting and also his new tour in January in Australia. (Source: SMH)

Alan Jones tells Kyle Sandilands to not be vulgar. I finding it interesting that Alan Jones is giving him advice on being an ethical radio announcer. Last time I looked wasn’t he one of the guys that were behind the cash for comment scandal? (Source: Daily Telegraph)

Lara Bingle is dating a surfer. (Source: Sunday Telegraph)

Australia Idol alumni Paulini Curuenavuli has a new single out. (Source: Sunday Telegraph)

Kelly Clarkson will be a mentor on the US Version of The Voice. She will assist the singer judge Blake Shelton picks. (Source: Sunday Telegraph)

Don’t expect to see Fifi Box as a competitor on Four Weddings anytime soon, the host of the show says she is married to her careers. (Source: Herald Sun)

The Voice judge, Christine Aguillera in the US caused a sensation when she turned up at a press call to promote the second season in a revealing dress with no bra on. (Source: Dlisted)

Paula Abdul has split from her boyfriend, Jeff Bratton. I didn’t know she had one. (Source: ET)

Teen Mom Amber Portwood is in jail and facing eviction, the article does not say who is actually looking after her child. (Source: Huffington Post)

Newly engaged UK Strictly Dancing contestant Holly Valance has cracked a rib on holidays. OK it is a slow news day. (Source: Daily Telegraph)

Ricki-Lee Coulter is in Paris is eating. She apparently lost 30kgs this year that is a lot of weight. (Source: Herald Sun)

Australia’s Next Top Model winner Montana Cox kissed a boy at a music festival and he was Channel V presenter Billy Russell. (Source: Herald Sun)

Alesha Dixon will move from judging Strictly Come Dancing in the UK to Britain’s Got Talent. David Walliams is also going to be a judge on the show. (Source: Daily Mail)

Simon Cowell has two ex-girlfriends feuding over him, and his fiancee is yet to show up on his holiday. (Source: Daily Mail)

Gordon Ramsay’s father-in-law has to pay him 250,000 pounds. (Source: Eater)

Uptown mag outlines their nine craziest reality TV moments in 2012.

More reality stars are backing in US Presidential candidates, the Duggars are supporting Rick Sanctorum. (Source: USA Today)

Ryan Seacrest talks about where his media empire is heading. (Source: Fortune)

Former employee of Rachel Zoe has his own reality show now, and wonders why Rachel and him don’t speak. (Source: Daily Mail)

Real Housewives of Beverly Hills star Taylor Armstrong’s marriage was over before her husband committed suicide. (Source: Daily Mail)

China cracks down on reality TV as it is being too real about the new China and its youth. (Source: New York Times)

Lee Furlong host of Cricket Superstar talks about the show. It premieres on Fox 8 on Wednesday 4 January at 7.35pm. (Source: TV Week)

TV Tonight is saying former Australian Idol host James Mathison might be in the mix for host of The Voice, as no one has been officially announced yet. The other two names mentioned have been Darren McMullen and Jabba. I hope he is right. (Source: TV Tonight)

TV Tonight also reviews The Amazing Race app, the positive thing about it is that it does have Phil raising his eyebrow!

The US version of So You Think You Can Dance has had a rating decline so there will be no results show, it will be all be rolled into one. (Source: Hollywood Reporter)

Because there has to be a Kardashian on every show, Khloe gets Punk’d on Punk’d by Miley Cyrus and Kelly Osbourne. (Source: Huffington Post)

Also Kim Kardashian has a new look to go with the New Year. (Source: Huffington Post with Pic)

Celebrity Wife Swap cast member Carnie Wilson talks about her weight gain. More importantly are we going to see this series in Australia? (Source: Huffington Post)

Courtney Stodden does another gyrate for the cameras in the hope of getting her own reality TV show. (Source: Daily Mail)

Rachel Zoe keeps herself covered up on the beach in the Carribean, but she looks like she has lost any baby weight she might have gained. (Source: Daily Mail)

Janice Dickinson alleges America’s Next Top Model winner is not picked by the judges but the Cover Girl executives. (Source: Radar)

The Bachelor or Bachelorette have never had a non-white person in the title role. Cheryl Robinson writes about this in her new novel The One, where her main character is black and in her forties and is in the title role of the show. (Source: PR Web)

Erin the single mum from season one of Farmer Wants A Wife is getting married. (Source: The Herald)

Shanina Shaik is home in Australia with her boyfriend Tyson Beckford, let’s hope the family didn’t see Tyson’s interview at the Victoria Secret show as things could be a little awkward over the dinner table. (Source: Herald Sun)

Go to Callum’s from Masterchef Australia season 2 website if you want to see a sneak peek of his cookbook The Starter Kitchen.

Timomatic say’s Australia’s Got Talent has propelled him to fame. He has a single rising in the charts and he has been doing a lot of gigs. Also he is still going out with So You Think You Can Dance winner Talia Fowler. (Source: Herald Sun)

This is for Survivor addicts only – Reality Blurred has linked to a site which has analysed data of all the winners of the series and ranked them in order of worthiness.

Shear Genius host Camila Alves has become engaged to long time partner and father of her children, Matthew McConaughey. (Source: Daily Telegraph)

Rumour has it that the US host of The X Factor, Steve Jones, is going to get fired. (Source: Reality Blurred)

Danny Gokey from American Idol is engaged, which is nice news as his first wife died three years ago. (Source: The Boot)

American Idol judge Steve Tyler is engaged, and like any good rock star he has made sure his new fiancee is 25 years younger then him. (Source: Huffington Post)

Lowes has removed its advertisments from the show All American Muslim, and here is an article that outlines why they made this controversial decision. (Source: Huffington Post)

Jill Zarin from Real Housewives of New York is continuing her reality TV career as a judge on Iron Chef America. See her a summary of her performance here.

 Snooki from Jersey Shore has lost a lot of weight, if interested in seeing how she looks click here.

American Idol contestant and now actress Jennifer Hudson shows off her mega weight loss in a Weight Watchers advertisement. (Source: Daily Mail)

Guilana Rancic is back at work two weeks after having a double masectomy. (Source: Daily Mail)

Chrissie Swan leaving The Circle to host Breakfast show on Mix FM in Melbourne. (Source: Herald Sun)

Dan Ewing may have his assault charges dropped. (Source: Daily Telegraph)

The Block in Melbourne has come up with some planning issues, with plans to turn a house into four garages being knocked back. (Source: Herald Sun)

Giuliana Rancic has come through her double masectomy well. (Source: Herald Sun)

The Duggars hold a memorial service for Jubilee Shalom. (Source: D Listed)

American Idol winner Fantasia is a mother again. (Source: DListed)

Clint Eastwood’s family to be in a reality TV show. (Source: Canoe)

Sober Model House – reality show based on a house where models get sober, Janice Dickinson to star in it. Chances of us seeing it on Australian screens must be slim. (Source: Reality Blurred)

Season 1 winner of Survivor, Richard Hatch wants to go on The Amazing Race also a reality show based on him meeting up with the kids he produced as a sperm donor may be on the cards. (Source: Reality Blurred)

Sarah Palin and husband Todd are unsuccessfully pitching a reality show based on Todd’s snowmobile racing. (Source: Reality Blurred)

Nick Jonas has flown in to meet his girlfriend The Voice judge, Delta Goodrem’s family. (Source: Daily Telegraph)

Nicole Ritchie will be joining her husband Joel Madden when he comes out here to star on The Voice. (Source: Herald Sun)

Simon Cowell congratulates the team of The X Factor Australia saying it was a ‘massive step up’. I wonder if he would have said that if Andrew Wishart had won. (Source: Herald Sun)

Dani Minogue will be a judge on Britain’s Got Talent. (Source: Daily Mail)

Dancing With The Stars US contestant  proposed to his girlfriend on TV. (Source: New York Daily News )

Kim Kardashian says she won’t be having kids before she is thirty now. If you care… (Source: Huffington Post)

Also soon to be ex-husband Kris is unhappy about how he was portrayed in the first episode of Kim and Kourtney Take On New York. (Source: Huffington Post)

The Huffington Post, which seems to be obsessed with the Kardashian write that Kris Jenner, aka the mum, might be the next Kardashian on Dancing With The Stars.

If you are interested in what Courtney Stodden wears to church click here.  The 17 year old and her 50 something old husband are pitching a reality show. Her husband Doug has also pulled out of a movie due to what he thought was inappropriate sexual content. (Source: Huffington Post)

Bethenny Frankel won’t be getting her own talk show as she is thought to be too aggressive. (Source: Reality Blurred)

Survivor renewed for two more seasons, with Jeff Probst as host. (Source: Reality Blurred)

A funny article on 10 reasons why you should watch Celebrity Apprentice. (Source: SMH)

I have done some pretty cool things since blogging on reality TV but appearing on The Playlist with Andrew Mercado and Di Butler from News Ltd is one of the highlights. (Source: The Playlist)

Former Dancing With The Stars contestant Simone Callahan has refused to meet ex-husband, Shane Warne, new fiancee, Liz Hurley. (Source: Herald Sun)

For some reason I do want to know the answer to this – Dr Drew is going to find out if Courtney Stodden breasts are real. Courtney was the 16 year old who married a 50 something actor who had a few cameos in LOST. (Source: Dlisted)

Former Fashion Show host, and now UK X Factor judge Kelly Rowland told the media that Beyonce’s not yet born baby was a girl. (Source: Dlisted)