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  • Nicolle Wallace to Bid Adieu to ‘The View’

    Nicolle Wallace to Bid Adieu to ‘The View’

    Nicolle Wallace–who was recently deemed “Kardashian illiterate” is the next in a line of people to bid adieu to The View. ABC News has run the show since October, and hired Wallace as part of an attempt to re-work the show. They are letting Nicolle Wallace go because of double-digit ratings drops since she came on board.

    Offered the option to stay on The View as a contributor, Nicolle Wallace declined, meaning she won’t reappear on the next season of the show.

    Nicolle Wallace’s departure means every new co-host brought on to The View for this season will have left. Rosie O’Donnell was in and back out quickly. Rosie Perez announced just last month that she was leaving, too.

    “Team, Our friend Nicolle Wallace is going to leave the show at the conclusion of the season,” EP Bill Wolff said in a staff memo at ABC News.

    Candace Cameron Bure is another of The View’s new co-hosts to recently come on board. And while she hasn’t been axed or given her resignation, she is away for a while, reprising her role as Full House’s D.J. Tanner in the show’s reboot, Fuller House.

    Nicolle Wallace previously served as communications chief for former President George W. Bush, as well as senior adviser for the McCain-Palin presidential campaign.

    How do you think The View will fare in Nicolle Wallace’s absence? Will she be missed or will most viewers applaud the decision to ax her?

    Sherri Shepherd has agreed to come back on board as the powers that be work to find a permanent panel. Joy Behar was asked to return as well, but declined.

  • Rosie Perez Reveals Junior High Same-Sex Experience

    Rosie Perez declared that she had felt confused about her sexual identity, in a speech on TrevorLIVE New York on June 16.

    The co-host from The View also revealed that she tried a relationship with another girl during junior high in a Catholic school, wrote Carlos Geer for Page Six.

    The host, now in her fifties, initially had a crush on a girl called Michelle. And though she wanted nothing but to “hump her,” she didn’t give in to the urges and instead concealed her desires.

    Perez’ uncertainty in having homosexual feelings, however, made her feel all alone, “until Michelle, one day, started humping on me”, the host revealed through the event by national LGBT youth organization The Trevor Project.

    Regardless of the same-sex relationship that she had in junior high, Perez, now married to artist Eric Haze, announced that she does not consider herself as “gay.”

    The host claimed that she is not confused anymore of her sexuality and that she has arrived at a place of security.

    “I know I’m not lesbian, gay or whatever,” she declared. “I’m a quasi-straight person.”

    Perez further added that she still had that moment when she had a lesbian relationship but admitted that she thought she was all alone, Amanda Mikelberg reported on CBS News.

    The relationship didn’t end well as the two broke up and stopped being friends, which hurt Perez. She admitted she needed someone who could understand her and someone she can talk to.

    But she didn’t have The Trevor Project, and had no community so she kept silent, which she confessed added more to her pain.

    “That silence brought shame,” Perez announced on the show. “I remember that hurt and that hurt kept me silent, and that silence brought shame” Perez said.

    “I didn’t have a community. No, I’m not gay, lesbian, transgender . . . but I’m a human being.” she added.

    And Perez went on about the significance of The Trevor Project’s crisis hotline for teenagers. She acknowledged that she is not the only one that went through this period of confusion on sexuality.

    “I’m not the only one that suppressed those feelings,” Perez said.

    Perez further emphasized the role of adults in a teen’s life. She admitted that if she had some grown-ups to call up to tell her that she was normal and that it will pass, “it would have made all the difference in the world.”

    But Perez says she was fortunate to have some great people in her life, referring to her father and aunt. There were also community leaders who assured her, ‘No, it’s okay to be different and just let your spirit shine.’”

    Perez’ advice for teenagers? Accept the journey and their individuality. “There’s no such thing as normal”, she added. “What is the norm is being different.”

  • Amanda Seyfried Joins Nina Dobrev in Marathon Stage Play, ‘The 24 Hour Plays on Broadway’

    Amanda Seyfried and Nina Dobrev are among the actors who have signed up for a marathon stage play that takes place in 24 hours and raises money for Urban Arts Partnership, which supports arts education in New York City’s public schools.

    Seyfried will take part in the 14th annual performance of The 24 Hour Plays on Broadway benefit Nov. 17. The event, touted as an “extreme rite of theater,” has actors, writers and directors writing, directing and performing six original short plays in a 24-hour period.

    Quite the undertaking, the marathon begins at 10 p.m. Nov. 16 when six writers, six directors, 24 actors, two musical guests and a production staff gather at New York City’s American Airlines Theatre. After each of the actors share a costume, prop and special skill, their assigned writer must create a ten-minute play by 7 a.m. the following morning. Directors return to read and select their piece and meet with their cast for the first time by 9 a.m. The final pieces will be performed at 8 p.m., interspersed with six musical acts.

    Actors joining Seyfried and Dobrev are Sasha Alexander, Uzo Aduba, Jamie Chung, Billy Crudup, Peter Dinklage, Rachel Dratch, Michael Ealy, Seth Green, Bryan Greenberg, Melanie Griffith, Taran Killam, Zoe Kravitz, Justin Long, Aasif Mandvi, Stephen Merchant, Diane Neal, Rosie Perez, Jay Pharoah, Pablo Schreiber, Sebastian Stan, Julia Stiles, Tracie Thoms and Michael Kenneth Williams.

    Directors include America Ferrera, Andy Fickman, and Kathy Najimy. Writers include Christina Anderson, Bekah Brunstetter, David Cross, David Lindsay Abaire and Jonathan Marc Sherman. Musical Guests include Andra Day and Bryan Terrell Clark, and the DJ will be Samantha Ronson. Also writing one of the plays is Sarwat Siddiqui, the winner of the Young Writers Program, who will be mentored by playwright Christina Anderson.

    Seyfried is currently filming Seth MacFarlane’s Ted 2, the follow-up to MacFarlane’s 2012 raunchy comedy about a foul-mouthed Teddy bear.

    Her first big break came in 2004, with the movie Mean Girls. The multi-talented actress and singer went on to star in HBO’s acclaimed polygamy series Big Love and then starred in the blockbuster movie musical Mamma Mia!

    Other movie credits include Dear John, Letters to Juliet, Gone, Red Riding Hood, and Les Miserables.

    She is also slated to play Mary, the mother to Wendy Darling and her brothers, in the new Peter Pan film adaptation, Pan.

  • Sherri Shepherd Says She Would Give ‘The View’ Cast a Grade of B

    Former The View co-host Sherri Shepherd has been keeping her eye on her former show to determine how the show is faring after her departure.

    Shepherd said the show is still working out some kinks after undergoing some major changes this season.

    “They’re working some things out,” Sherri said during an interview Monday in New York with Billy Bush and Kit Hoover for Access Hollywood Live.

    Shepherd told Bush and Hoover if she were to give new cast Rosie O’Donnell, Rosie Perez, Whoopi Goldberg and Nicolle Wallace a grade, it wouldn’t yet be an A.

    “I would give them a B,” she said. “Because you have to be able to go somewhere [from there].”

    Even though her departure from the show was wrought with emotion, Shephard said she still tunes in and becomes very engaged with the topics.

    “I’ve been watching The View every day. I love Hot Topics. I love Rosie Perez,” said Shepherd. “I think everybody has got to figure out what they’re doing and they’ve got to jive. It took me three years to get it together!”

    Shepherd, who currently stars as the Wicked Stepmother in Cinderella on Broadway, said she still feels like she is sitting on the panel, even if it’s from her own living room couch.

    “You were live Tweeting during the second episode,” Bush said.

    “I know,” she said. “I’m looking at the Hot Topics and I’m throwing out jokes [at home] and I’m like, ‘Nobody hears me!’ But that’s how much I love it. And that’s the thing – it gets so heated and you feel like you want to be a part of it.

    “But I did it for seven years and it was wonderful. Now it’s on to bigger and better things,” Shepherd said.

  • Jennifer Lopez Slammed By Rosie Perez In New ‘Tell-All’ Memoir

    Jennifer Lopez has apparently rubbed Rosie Perez the wrong way over the years. Now, all of the details about their contention are coming to the light.

    According to US Weekly, Perez, who recently published her memoir Handbook for an Unpredictable Life, had a lot to say about her apparent, on-going feud with the singer-actress.

    The tell-all memoir recounts a number of events that have occurred between the two over a 23-year span.

    The accounts that Perez shares definitely reveal that the two weren’t the best of friends.

    The New York Post has released excerpts from the new book, which is scheduled to be released on Feb. 25.

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    The book revealed that the two Puerto Rican dancer-actresses initially met during the In Living Color open casting call for the show’s memorable Fly Girls. Perez was actually the famed head choreographer behind the show’s dance group.

    She also stated that her influence was one of the reasons that Lopez was selected, as she convinced the sketch comedy television series creator Keenan Ivory Wayans to pick her.

    While Lopez has always accredited Wayans for her Fly Girl breakthrough, Perez begs to differ. The Fearless actress claims that Lopez was actually “chubby and corny.”

    However, Wayans has also shared his perspective of the American Idol judge. Back in 2010, Wayans made a cameo on VH1’s Behind the Music segment on Lopez. He stated that he immediately noticed that Lopez had star potential. He also recalled one of the memorable moments where she exuded that star quality he spoke of.

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    “I’d been there hours and seen every dancer in New York, and then this young girl steps up and a spotlight landed on her and she captivated everyone in the room,” Wayans recalled. “He just saw something in me,” Lopez confirmed. “He would always tell me, ‘You’re going to be a big star.’”

    Although both Lopez and Wayans were on one accord, Perez shared more detailed accounts to further explain her disdain for the Maid in Manhattan actress. She revealed that Lopez had difficulty remaining amicable with most of the Fly Girls during her time on In Living Color. Perez claims Lopez didn’t initially connect with the other girls, as her “inner diva” was quite evident from the start.

    “All of the girls were coming into my office complaining how she was manipulating wardrobe, makeup, and me, all to her advantage,” Perez recalled. She even recounted one squabble in particular with Lopez where she claims things got out of hand between her and the Grammy-nominated singer.

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    Perez took things a step further in her memoir with a more blatant indignation saying that Lopez quickly dropped the “sweet girl act” and “went off” on her like “some ghetto biatch, screaming and pounding her chest.”

    Perez even recalled the verbal sparring match between the two. “You pick on me, me and only me, every f**king day! Every f**king day!,” Lopez exasperatingly shouted. “I work my ass off, deliver and you keep pushing me aside, treating me like s**t! I know I’m good! I’m better than any of these girls, and you know it.”

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    Handbook for an Unpredictable Life should be quite an interesting read. Lopez has not released any comments in reference to the book.

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    Image via Jennifer Lopez, Facebook
    Image via Rosie Perez, Twitter

  • Jennifer Lopez “Ghetto Biatch” According To Book

    Remember when we were instructed by “Jenny from the Block” to not be fooled by the rocks? According to a new memoir by actress Rosie Perez, there may have been a good reason for it. The two women have been feuding for some time, and now Perez intends to dish on how it all began.

    The New York Post shared juicy excerpts from Perez’s book, which at least provide us with her half of the explanation for why the two New York natives don’t get along.

    Lopez and Perez, met back in 1991. Rosie Perez was a choreographer for “In Living Color” and Jennifer Lopez arrived to audition as a “Fly Girl” dancer.

    Lopez credits her fame to show creator and host Keenan Ivory Wayans. However, Perez stated that Wayans found Lopez to be “chubby and corny” and implied that if not for interceding on behalf of Lopez, she would not have gotten the job.

    It was also stated by Perez that Lopez’s first big break only came after a haircut and dropping roughly twenty pounds.

    The Brooklyn-native didn’t stop there, adding that Bronx-native Lopez quickly revealed herself to be “a diva” and single-minded backstabber.

    “All of the girls were coming into my office complaining how she was manipulating wardrobe, makeup, and me, all to her advantage,” Lopez rejected the accusations made by the other girls, saying that they were all just “jealous” of her talent and ambition.

    Perez stated that Lopez actually went off on her, behaving in her words like “some ghetto biatch, screaming and pounding her chest!”

    She alleged that Lopez ranted that Perez was singling her out unfairly.

    “You pick on me, me and only me, every f–king day! Every f–king day! I work my ass off, deliver and you keep pushing me aside, treating me like sh-t! I know I’m good! I’m better than any of these girls, and you know it!”
    Lopez would leave the show after two seasons, but she eventually made her opinions about Perez’s alleged treatment of her well known once she established herself in Hollywood.

    Perez claims that she was “blindsided” by Lopez’s remarks.

    “I’d thought we were cool. I called her up. She wouldn’t pick up. Frustrated, I left her an irate message on her answering machine. Instead of calling me back and hashing it out like friends do, she went on a major talk show and reiterated my lashing.”

    Is Jennifer Lopez a self-centered ego maniac or is Rosie Perez just spiteful and jealous?

    The only people who know for certain are the two women at the center of this feud. One thing is certain, if Lopez loves to speak out about Perez in the manner stated in the book, we can expect to hear a rebuttal from Lopez sooner rather than later.

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