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  • Lindsay Lohan: Has Oprah Winfrey Had Enough?

    Some might be wondering if Oprah Winfrey regrets working with actress Lindsay Lohan, as the two partnered up to release the documentary series Lindsay, which shows the actress trying to get her life back in order and get back into show business again.

    If you’ve watched the series, you’ll see that Lohan has given Winfrey quite the hard time, because she hasn’t showed up for scheduled shoots, she shooed away the camera crew on the days she didn’t feel like filming, and she’s been missing in action for several days on end.

    According to a source of the show, Lohan has come up with a nifty little scheme to keep her job: She keeps telling Winfrey that she’s doing her best to be sober, but as soon as the cameras go away, she does the exact opposite and reverts back to her partying lifestyle.

    “She’s got people coming and going at all hours,” said the source. “Lindsay loves talking about her sobriety, then going to the Electric Room every Friday and Saturday night.”

    And she’ll play the keep-away-game from Winfrey too, says the source. “Lindsay avoids her calls some of the time,” the source revealed. “She thinks she has it handled. Oprah really does care and really wants to see her healthy.”

    In a 2013 interview on CNN’s Piers Morgan Live, the 27 year old said a lot of her arrests and problems with the law come from making bad and hasty decisions, and she also said that getting better was difficult because the media wouldn’t give her enough space to heal.

    My arrests were “totally irresponsible, a stupid mistake,” she said.

    “And from then on, the press were on me all the time. It was the first time I’d taken drugs. I was out in a club with people I shouldn’t have been with, and took cocaine, and got in the car. It was so stupid.”

    With Lohan’s docu-series suffering low ratings, it’ll be interesting to see if Winfrey decides to pull the plug, especially since the red haired actress has been nothing but a pain in the you know what for Winfrey.

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  • Chelsea Handler Takes Piers Morgan To Task

    Were they joking around or were they serious?

    That’s what some folks are probably wondering when they saw Piers Morgan interview Chelsea Handler on CNN’s Piers Morgan Live on Monday night, as the two were engaged in a heated exchange.

    It all started when Morgan was texting during a commercial break, which seemed to bother Handler. She felt she was being ignored, and chastised the British talk show host for not being a better interviewer.

    “I mean, you can’t even pay attention for 60 seconds,” griped Chandler. “You’re a terrible interviewer.”

    And in typical Piers Morgan fashion he retaliated with pure sarcasm and said he wasn’t paying attention to Handler because she wasn’t interesting enough. “Well, you just weren’t keeping my attention, he said. “It’s more an issue for you than me.”

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    And anyone who’s familiar with Handler’s brand of comedy, which is a mixture of mean-girl-teasing and celebrity bashing, probably knew she wasn’t going to take that comment lying down, and she shot right back at Morgan and said it was his responsibility to take care of the person he’s interviewing.

    She even poked fun at the show Piers Morgan Live being cancelled, as it was revealed the show won’t be coming back next season. “This is your show,” said Chandler. “You have to pay attention to the guest that you invited on your show. Maybe that’s why your job is coming to an end.”

    News of Morgan’s show being cancelled came last month, and it was mainly due to poor ratings and a lot of folks not caring for the talk show host at all. Morgan said it was a hard sell for CNN to get Americans to listen to a person from the UK talk about American issues, especially politics.

    “Look, I am a British guy debating American cultural issues, including guns, which has been very polarizing,” said Morgan. “And there’s no doubt there are many in the audience who are tired of me banging on about it.”

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  • Sam Champion Feels Betrayed By Fellow GMA Hosts

    Weatherman Sam Champion recently scored a new TV gig with The Weather Channel, and left his longtime job at ABC’s Good Morning America, but it was his recent appearance on Piers Morgan Live that has people talking.

    The 52 year old said he doesn’t get the whole gay marriage debate at all, and he’s confused why someone would oppose gay marriage so harshly. And when Morgan asked him where he sees the gay marriage debate going in the next decade, Champion said the following:

    “Piers, I hope it’s just a regular conversation,” he said. “I hope you’re able in this country and really in the world, why shouldn’t you be, to proudly talk about the person that you’re in love with, that you share your life with and have no one bat an eye.”

    In addition, the weather guru said he could care less about who chooses to be together, because if the union is about two people being in love, then nobody should have a problem with it.

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    “I cannot imagine being unhappy for someone who is in love,” stated Champion. “I just can’t. It’s beyond me. It’s an argument I can’t even launch to make because I don’t understand the other side.”

    And another thing that Champion doesn’t understand are the accusations by some that he’s difficult to work with, and that he left Good Morning America for the Weather Channel solely for money. And it hurt him that some of these things were allegedly said by his former Good Morning America co-hosts.

    “Sam was with ABC for 25 years,” revealed an inside source. “When he did the goodbye show at GMA he felt good about walking out the door, but then came these digs by people that throughout his career he would have called friends and he doesn’t understand why, or what’s in it for anybody.”

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  • Piers Morgan: Gun Control Views May Be To Blame For Low Ratings

    Piers Morgan will be ending his show, “Piers Morgan Live”, in the coming weeks due to low ratings, and he says it may be because of his views on gun control. The U.K.-born host hasn’t been able to compete with other news shows in the primetime slot, but he says he’s ready to move on–possibly to another show on CNN–because the program was turning into something different than what he wanted.

    “I think I can credibly do news and the ratings reflect that, but it is not really the show that I set out to do,” he said. “There are all kinds of people who can do news here. I’d like to do work — interviews with big celebrities and powerful people — that is better suited to what I do well and fit with what Jeff is trying to do with the network.”

    Morgan admitted that the recent flare-up of gun violence across the country had dominated several of his shows, and because it’s such a hot-button issue, his strong feelings about it might have become too much for some viewers to handle.

    “Look, I am a British guy debating American cultural issues, including guns, which has been very polarizing, and there is no doubt that there are many in the audience who are tired of me banging on about it,” he said. “That’s run its course and Jeff (Zucker, president of CNN) and I have been talking for some time about different ways of using me.”

    Morgan has also been surrounded by controversy after allegations were leveled against The Daily Mirror involving phone hacking while he was editor there. He has denied the claims that he had any knowledge of such actions.

    CNN has not announced a formal ending date for “Piers Morgan Live”, but it will likely be sometime in the coming month.

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