I’m very sad to say that last night’s ep of The Hills was a major snoozefest. Except for being heavily bombarded with the message that the new Epic Records band White Tie Affair is “hip and cool”, I really didn’t glean anything of substance from last night’s ep:

Even still … I must soldier on and do my duty to recap last night’s “action” as best I can. After the jump, find out what went down on last night’s ep of The Hills titled You Always Miss A Best Friend …

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Earlier this summer we saw pics of Cristiano Ronaldo hobbling around SoCal on a pair of crutches after suffering an ankle injury on the soccer field (or mebbe he was recovering from surgery, I’m not sure) and even more pics of Cristiano soaking up the SoCal sun as he fried next to various pools around town. Well, it looks like Cristiano is finally healed … and is back to enjoying the sunshine in his hometown in Funchal, Portugal:

Cristiano was in Funchal for more than just lazing by the pool … he was in town to be awarded the Golden Shoe for being the Top Scorer in the European Futbol league … or something like that. In any event, it’s the wet white bathing suit that caught my eye so I thought it would only be prudent to share the goods. It’s good to see him back to his good ol’ self again … hopefully he can keep the skin cancer at bay.

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Yesterday I posted a few pics of Jennier Lopez, Matthew McConaughey and Mark-Paul Gosselaar at the Nautica Malibu Triathlon which took place in Malibu, CA on Sunday … but I failed to realize that Buffy the Vampire Slayer/Angel alum Eliza Dushku, who will be starring in the upcoming FOX series Dollhouse, was also among the celebrity competitors at this year’s triathlon race. Here are a few pics of Eliza’s triathlon day:

She looks great. I just love her. Kudos and props to Eliza and all of the athletes who competed in the triathlon race this year. I gotta say, my hat is deffo off to those folks who can make their way thru a grueling race like this … I don’t know that I can ever do something like that myself. Again, well done … and Eliza, I <3 U!

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Megan Fox is featured on the cover and in the pages of the new issue of GQ magazine … and she looks smokin’ hot, y’all. I mean … wow. In her coverstory interview, Megan reveals that she had a “fling” with a female stripper back in the day but is quick to clarify that she is “not a lesbian”. HMMM. Here is Megan’s coverphoto and a portion of her GQ magazine interview:

Megan Fox kissed a girl — and then some! — and she liked it. The 22-year-old actress, who is now engaged to Brian Austin Green, reveals in October’s GQ that she once had a fling with a female stripper named Nikita. The romance began when she was 18 and first living in L.A. “Well, that year my boyfriend broke up with me, and I decided – oh man, sorry, mommy! – that I was in love with this girl that worked at the Body Shop,” Fox said. “I decided that I was going to get her to love me back, and I went out of my way to create a relationship with this girl, a stripper named Nikita.” Fox said Nikita would do “these beautiful slow dances to Aerosmith ballads.” She added that she would bring the Russian stripper gifts and try to inspire her to quit her line of work. Despite the relationship, Fox said she does not identify herself as gay. “Look, I’m not a lesbian,” she went on. “I just think that all humans are born with the ability to be attracted to both sexes. I mean, I could see myself in a relationship with a girl – Olivia Wilde is so sexy she makes me want to strangle a mountain ox with my bare hands,” she continued. “She’s mesmerizing. And lately I’ve been obsessed with Jenna Jameson, but … oh boy.” Fox also slammed Disney for forcing Miley Cyrus and Vanessa Hudgens to apologize for their racy photo scandals. Disney, she said, takes “these little girls, and they put them through entertainment school and teach them to sing and dance, and make them wear belly shirts, but they won’t allow them to be their own people. It makes me sick.”

You know, for a chick who is adamant that she is “not a lesbian”, I am quite taken with her attraction to Olivia Wilde whom Megan finds “so sexy” that she wants to “strangle a mountain ox with [her] bare hands” … I mean, whoa girl, calm yo’self. That is a very passionate response. In any event, I think it’s clear that Megan Fox is a very sexual person … whatever her proclivities are, she strikes me as the type of girl who really goes after what she wants and get it. After the jump, check out a bunch of photos from Megan’s GQ photoshoot. Altho she is fully dressed (well, in a bikini) I feel I should stress that the pics may not be totally safe for work …

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Here are a few new cute pics of Jessica Alba stepping out in the bright SoCal sun this week with her baby girl Honor Marie … altho she’s lookin’ cute in her sassy bib and adorable bow, la niña Honor looks like she ain’t havin’ none of it:

The little tyke’s scowl isn’t quite as menacing but you can already see her resemblance to her often grouchy mamacita. In any event, this baby is cute, y’all.

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Madonna.com has released the backdrop video titled Get Stupid which is broadcast during Madonna’s Sticky & Sweet World Tour for those of us who have yet to see the show to watch it on the Interweb. This is the video that has angered a few politically conservative folks here in the US (for obvs reasons). Check it out for yourselves:

MTV released news late yesterday that as of November of this year their once-popular live daily video countdown show, Total Request Live, will be ending production for the foreseeable future. Altho the network has left TRL’s ending a bit open-ended (ie. there is hope that it may be resurrected in the future), it has been announced that the show will end after special 2-hour Saturday episode airs in November:

Start the countdown clock on MTV’s countdown era: “Total Request Live” will soon shut down after 10 years on the air. The music video show will conclude in a two-hour special on a Saturday afternoon in November, Dave Sirulnick, executive producer of “TRL”, said Monday. He stressed that the show wasn’t ending for good, but felt now was the right time to give it a break after an unprecedented run on the cable music channel. “We want to close this era of ‘TRL’ in a big celebratory way, and 10 is a great number,” Sirulnick said. “And 10 is the number that ‘TRL’ counted down every single day for 10 years, and we hit this 10th (anniversary) and we thought, ‘You know what? This feels like the right time and let’s celebrate it and let’s reward it. And let’s let it have a little bit of a rest for a minute.’ Let it catch its breath! Been working hard — for 10 years!” “TRL” debuted in September 1998 and became the splashy center of the teen pop music scene with Britney Spears, the Backstreet Boys, N’Sync and other acts. From its heydey until 2008, it’s been a destination for musicians, movie stars and celebrities promoting their new music, movies and other projects. Sirulnick said “TRL” — which airs weekday afternoons from MTV’s Times Square studio — lost some luster as it aged. It peaked in 1999 with 757,000 viewers tuning in daily, according to Nielsen Media Research. “It becomes more of a mainstay and more of an institution than — pardon the pun — the new kid on the block,” Sirulnick said. For the finale, Sirulnick said he hopes to celebrate with many of the “folks who helped make ‘TRL’ what it is — whether that’s Justin (Timberlake) and his guys in N’Sync, the Backstreet Boys, Britney, Eminem — I think we would love to see all of them here.” That includes former host Carson Daly. In a statement, Eminem said: “I’m going to miss ‘TRL.’ … Where else will I be able to start feuds, defend my honor vigorously and act like an angry teenager on national TV? Oh wait … The VMAs!” MTV found a replacement of sorts with “FNMTV.” The show debuted over the summer in a 15-episode run hosted by Pete Wentz, bassist for rock band Fall Out Boy. Taped in Los Angeles, it aired Friday nights and televised exclusive music videos and performances by such diverse acts as Slipknot and the Jonas Brothers. MTV said it was bringing “FNMTV” back for another run in mid-November. Like last time, there will be no video countdown with the 10 viewer favorites.

No offense to Pete Wentz and his new MTV show but … FNMTV, I watched TRL, I knew TRL, TRL was a friend of mine. FNMTV, you’re no TRL. This news is so sad to me … not only have some very important events in modern pop culture taken place on the TRL stage, live in front of the youth of the nation … but I have a few very personal, very important memories thanks to MTV and TRL. I remember that on my first visit to NYC in 2001 Sarah and I made a point to be in front of the MTV Studios in Times Square so that we could watch TRL being taped live for broadcast. I was still teaching at the time and was in NYC on Spring Break. In the crowd on the street I was zoomed in on by one of the cameras (I was wearing a striped scarf from the GAP, apparently it caught the cameraperson’s eye) coming back from commercial break and pretty much every kid at my school saw me on TV. Needless to say, I was immediately deemed the “coolest teacher” in the school (I also came home with at t-shirt from the MTV Store that read “Carson, can I come up?” which immediately negated my new cool factor). TRL was also the place where I got to meet and take a photo with Madonna, deffo one of the coolest moments in my life:

And early on in my relationship with David, we attended a taping of TRL together … the one where Nelly Furtado debuted her new video for her song Promiscuous. At that moment, David and I agreed that the song would be a monster hit … and, of course, it was. It was at that taping that I got to give a trademark TRL “shout out” to “all my Pink peeps out there” and my face was broadcast on the massive LCD screen in Times Square … yes, I have a few really great TRL memories. I’m very sad that the show is ending. I must admit, I do not watch it as fervently as I used to — and maybe that is the reason why the show must end (ie. sagging viewership) … which is sad.

I do hope the show will be revived in some way in the future. All MTV needs is another Carson Daly to breathe new, fun life into the show … maybe after a short break, it can come back better than ever. I, for one, will miss TRL very much.

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