Desperate D-List Phone Calls
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Michael Lohan and Kate Major. The former couple has been a fixture in the headlines for domestic issues and brushes with the law.
Would you pay $18 a minute to talk to Lindsay Lohan’s dad?
How about $25 a minute to talk to her mom?
No? Well apparently there are people out there who will.
D-lister Michael Lohan raked in $3,500 last week through dial-a-star.com, a service that allows fans to pay by the minute to speak to a stable of tabloid celebrities like the Lohans, Real Housewife Danielle Staub, former “Jersey Shore” cast member Angelina Pivarnick and a handful of celebrity mistresses.
“It’s been really great. I have gotten a lot of calls,” Lohan told Fox411. “There has been a wide variety. One woman’s best friend has a son with an addiction problem, so I talked to Dr. Drew about that and told her what he said, and then of course you have TMZ calling me just to harass me.” (Lohan added that a portion of his proceeds will go to charity.)
The most popular star in the network is Danielle Staub, who has made approximately $7,000 since the site launched six days ago.
Dial-a-Star is the brainchild of Gina Rodriguez who manages a crew of D-list celebrities and celebrity mistresses under her company DD Entertainment. Rodriguez believes she is filling a need in the marketplace — the demand for one on one contact with famous people. It is a service that people are apparently willing to pay good money for.
“I get emails all the time from fans and people who want to tell my clients something but because we don’t use mail anymore they can’t contact them,” Rodriguez told Fox411.com “I thought it would be great to set up phone calls and then the celebrities could get paid for people to talk to them.”
According to Rodriguez, Staub has been getting calls that last as long as 60 minutes, and her fans aren’t shy about shelling out $1,500 for a single call.
The prices vary and are determined by the celebrities themselves. Dina Lohan chose $25 a minute, while her ex Michael charges $18. (Michael originally charged $10/min, but apparently he’s feeling in demand, as his rate rose to $18 per 60 seconds on Thursday.) “Octomom” Nadya Suleman costs $12 a minute to chat with, and Tila Tequila costs $20.
There is a $50 minimum and the celebrity number is kept confidential. Customers dial into a central hub and are connected through an operator after they provide their credit card information. Rodriguez takes a 50 percent cut.
Since launching last week, Rodriguez says her own phone has been ringing off the hook with other celebrities who want to sign up to make cash just for chatting on the phone. The latest addition to the site is Tiger Woods’ mistress Rachel Uchitel, whose rate is $20 a minute.
Rodriguez has simplified the system so that a celebrity can set their own hours and their own days to talk. They can log in immediately after a call to see how much money they have made.
“The money is available to them immediately,” Rodriguez said. “They don’t have to wait. So they can be like, ‘Oh I’m broke, I need money for lunch. I’ll take some calls.’”
Rodriguez says she plans to launch similar sites where people can dial an athlete or a recording artist.
Because the calls are not screened (there are no publicists or managers on the line) things can and do get a little out of control.
“I’ve been getting sex calls,” Angelina Pivarnick, who estimates she has made $3,000 from the service so far, told us. “Guys try to have phone sex with me. I actually talk back to them. It’s funny. I just make it a joke I go back at them and say, ‘wow you have to keep paying to talk to me.’”
Lindsay Lohan hit-and-run news bloody as 'absurd': Favorite people
View full sizeLohanThe embattled actress calls
accusations “a complete lie”
Lindsay Lohan could conceivably find herself in more legal hot water, but she says a hookah lounge manager’s claim that she grazed him with her Porsche is “a complete lie.”
“I’ve been at community service. Last night, I attempted to wish a friend happy birthday, which I didn’t even get to do because I was freaked out by all of the paparazzi.”
“These false accusations are absurd.”
And ever-changing.
Officers who were originally on the scene of the 12:30 a.m. incident asked the manager if a car had hit him and he was “emphatic it hadn’t,” a law enforcement source told RadarOnline.com.
Later, after friends told him who was driving (and what her significance is), he started to complain he had been injured.
Certainly, a hit-and-run could lead to a revocation of LiLo’s probation, but the law enforcement source said, “Based on the timing of the events and the fact the alleged victim changed his story, it’s unlikely that Lindsay will be charged with any crime.”
Which doesn’t necessarily end her problems. Reports say he’s also planning to sue.
View full sizeIn the delivery room with Snooki?A ‘Shore’ shower: A DJ
and some tanning booths
Nicole Polizzi (Snooki to you) wants Paul Delvecchio (Pauly D to “Jersey Shore” followers) in the delivery room when she gives birth to her first child.
Why, you ask?
“She told me she wants me to deejay the delivery room,” Delvecchio told People magazine. “I told her I’ll just deejay the baby shower.”
And he has some ideas on what the shower for his “Jersey Shore” castmate would be like, including “spray tan booths in the corner, because she loves to tan, and a lot of loud music.”
Clint Eastwood’s family
to do reality show on E!
Maybe the E! network is just feeling lucky.
The network that brought you the Kardashians again and again and again is now bringing “Mrs. Eastwood Company” to the small screen. That’s Eastwood, as in Dina Eastwood, the wife of Clint, who is expected to make guest appearances on the 10-episode series that begins in May.
The show spotlights Dina and the vocal group she manages, in addition to two of Clint Eastwood’s daughters.
Springsteen wept when
he heard Clemons’ sax solo
Bruce Springsteen tells Rolling Stone that he shed tears when he heard Clarence Clemons’ saxophone on the “Wrecking Ball” album.
After Clemons died last year, producer Ron Aniello took a live rendition of the concert staple “Land of Hopes and Dreams,” separated Clemons’ part and put it into a studio version.
Springsteen said: “When the solo section hit, Clarence’s sax filled the room. I cried.”
He said losing Clemons was “like losing the rain.”
Jersey Shore Recap: Inside, Outside, Upside Down
Oh, Jersey Shore, how I love you…let me count the ways. I love you when you’re camping, when you incite food fights, and when you bring home grenades. I love you when you wear furry Ewok boots and need to blur out your private area because you forgot to put on underwear. I love it all.
Mike failed to execute his master plan on the last episode, so he takes an opportunity to take Jionni aside. He tells Snooki’s boyfriend that Snooks has totally seen the Sitch’s P while Ryder was hooking up with the Helium. Mike hopes that Jionni can respect his admission, man-to-man. Jionni shakes Mike’s hand and then crawls back in bed with Snooki to relay the Situation’s most recent situation. Snooks looks worried in the night vision cam, but seem legitimately concerned when the producers switch to full-on regular lighting. Jionni asks Nicole if Mike is being honest, but he continues to spoon Snooki as she laughingly declares Mike a liar.
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Mike is serving as an international spy, listening to the breakfast chatter while hovering on the stairs. He tells Rawn of his conversation with Jionni. Sam is concerned that Jionni doesn’t care about Nicole since he won’t react to Mike’s confession. Mike knows that Snooki will one day thank him for his honesty with Jionni. Nicole takes this opportunity to throw a bunch of crap in the Situation’s direction. Nicole is relieved not surprised that Jionni couldn’t care less about Mike’s declaration. Mike tells Pauly and Vinny about the Jionni confession and hand shake, and the VP believes that the only reason Jionni took the news so lightly is because he has girls on the side.
Snooki hopes that Jionni will propose “sometime…within the future.” The couple exchange an intricate handshake/high-five/fist pump that they will hopefully bestow on their unborn child. At Sunday dinner, the group decides to rough it on a camping trip, while Snooki continues to laughingly throw food at Mike. According to Vin, it’s no longer a fun food fight…this shiz is personal. Pauly does everything in his power to protect his tennis shoe collection from stray leftovers, while Snooki calls Mike onto the patio where the food fight gets real…real fast.
Both Snooki and Mike are laughing (?) while launching curdled milk and spicy mustard at one another. Vinny hates to hear his name brought into the argument. Snooki takes the food fight one step further and goes to flail around in Mike’s bed, making sure that mustard, icing, and hot dogs get embedded in his twin bed sleeping quarters. It turns from a food fight to a full on screaming match, with the roommates watching. All of the shore mates are thinking what Vinny says…Snooki is clearly lying, and as much as he hates to say it, Mike is telling the truth. Snooki is protesting too much to be innocent.
Rawn and the meatballs are working at the Shore Store for the last time of the summer and discussing the gangs’ upcoming camping trip. The MVP is all about the GTL. Deena invites a hesitant Joey to hang out for the evening. The girls in the house are still wary of Joey and think he’s using Deena. Deena is worried she’s forcing a relationship, but what else can one do when you’re the only single person in the shore house? Um, you hang with MVP. That’s what you do.
Pauly and Vinny try to talk some sense into Deena regarding Joey. Pauly and Vin are the quintessential big brothers who think that Deena is settling for less than what she deserves. Deena didn’t believe the girl roommate hate, but if VP says it, Joey must be a douche. Pauly intercepts a Joey-call on the duck phone, telling Joey that Deena is sick. The roommates think if Joey really cared, he’d offer to bring her soup. J-Woww answers the next Joey-call and basically breaks up with him (were they really even dating?) for Deena.
MVP is going to Aztec in all their skinny-jeaned glory. Rawn is joining the ladies at a different bar, sans Nicole, who wants to cuddle with Jionni. Deena isn’t happy…her meatball has abandoned her for sex. At Aztec, Mike is trying really hard to land a grenade groupie. Rawn and his harem go out, and he should be worried about how many furry boots he’s with this evening. Deena and Jenni remember a simpler time, a Jionni-free time, a time when Nicole was always willing to be a bigger dumbass then they were at the bar. That’s quite a feat, y’all. It brings Deena to tears.
Pauly is bringing an extra girl home for Vinny. Will Vin choose the cute girl or the thick girl? Thick. Cute girls are boring. The scene pans to one of the guys desperately trying to grab a condom out of the box by the light of the night vision camera. This show is nothing, if not classy. After the “ladies” leave the following morning, the gang heads out to go camping. Really? Pauly D is upset he won’t get to tend to his blowout in the wilderness, so he decides to stay home with Vinny. It’s prank time! The boys recruit Shore Store boss Danny to help execute the most ridiculous prank ever.
After shopping for camping supplies, the remaining roommates head into the forest. Mike–duh–makes inappropriate jokes about pitching tents. Rawn is impressed with both Mike and Jenni’s tent pitching abilities. He’s not as good. Back at the house, Vin and Pauly are executing the prank to end all pranks. They are moving the indoor furniture outside, and bringing the outside in. The boys are trying their best to replicate the den on the patio. Since they can’t move the hot tub indoors, the pair blows up a baby pool to make their vision happen. As Pauly says, “It takes team work to make a dream work.” So true, Pauly, so true. Danny brings manpower and Astroturf to make the indoors look like the porch. Even the rooftop hammock is sitting by the duck phone. Priceless.
At the campsite, Mike is trying to burn a giant Ficus tree in the name of a campfire. Deena calls him a hermaphrodite. I’d correct her with pyromaniac, but she was probably right the first time. Mike begins pacing and Jenni calls him out for being paranoid. He’s not paranoid he’s coked out vulnerable. The girls think he’s weird. They are right. A drunk and single Deena gets sad that she can’t hang with her coupled up girlfriends like they used to do. Snooki thinks that Deena is jealous, but she is sad that her friend his hurt. Jenni just doesn’t want anyone to think she’s a different person now that she’s happily dating Roger. The following day, Mike yells at Jenni for not helping pack up the campsite. Jenni yells at Mike because he won’t kill a spider for her. What have we learned folks? Guidos shouldn’t camp.
Vin and Pauly are waiting with bated breath for the roommates to return and revel in their inside is outside/outside is inside mega-prank. Might I mention they are also wearing snorkels and sunscreen while drinking in the baby pool. I so heart them. It is a pretty amazing prank. The campers return. Cue the screams.
Next week, on the season finale (already?), Mike is less than impressed by the prank to end all pranks. Vinny tries his hand at converting lesbians, and Sam is actually going to miss the shore house for once.
WHAT DID YOU THINK ABOUT JIONNI’S REACTION TO MIKE’S CONFESSION? WAS THE SITUATION’S DIABOLICAL PLAN KIND OF A BUST? WOULD YOU CAMP WITH GUIDOS? THOUGHTS ON THE PRANK?
Jersey Shore Recap: EPTs for GTLs, Or Why Mike’s Diabolical Plan Will Always Be An Epic Fail
Last night’s Jersey Shore was one party short of a baby shower for Snooki. Or, it was just the gang clerbing before Nicole became “with child.” Tough to tell…
Snooki and Vin come back to the house as drunk messes. Deena and Pauly question the duo about sexual tension and hooking up with one another. Nicole and Vinny play it cool while cuddling up on Vin’s twin bed. Sexy. Snooks passes out, while the rest of the gang prepares to go to Jenks. Deena’s boy toy Joey calls the bat phone, and he informs her (and her white clip on extensions) that he’s going to have to bail. She needs to change her outfit to something less DTF. Deena is disappointed in the roommates’ showing. The Rawn/Sammi pair is sleeping, JWoww is in bed… That leaves Vinny, Pauly, Deena, and sketchy Sitch heading to the club.
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At Jenks, Pauly D’s tongue finds it way into the mouth of some chick he finds slightly intriguing. Next, who do they run into? It’s trash bag packer, Angelina! I guess if MTV won’t renew your contract, you should stalk Jersey Shore hangouts to get more air time. At the end of the night, Mike applauds himself on being so good with the ladies. He’s so smooth “he should have a butter named after him.” Mike pulls the comforter over himself and his newest paramour (what happened to Paula?) to fend off the night vision cameras. Unfortunately, Mike’s girl is only DTS – yes, down to snuggle. He’s not as bad off as Pauly D, who finds out his DTF girl is being visited by Aunt Flo. He sends her and her tampons packing back to the Motel 6.
Down to snuggle is also down to leave early. No worries, as Mike can’t even remember her name. Cabs are here. Mike calls in some breakfast for the crew…chocolate chip bagels and yellow gatorades for everyone! The poor delivery guy waits patiently by the door, as the Situation wakes the roommates hoping to find cash for a tip. As no one has visited the ATM lately, the delivery guy will have to settle for a protein power pack. Same as money, right?
A burping Jenni can’t wait to get some sex toys (a vagina mold is at the top of her list) to celebrate her and Roger’s anniversary. Nothing says I love you like some porn apparatus. After shopping, Jenni and Sammi both want to warn Deena that they think Joey doesn’t have the best of intentions. Deena doesn’t want to hear it…they just need to drop her off at the hair store so she can pick up some fancy new extensions for the night.
Mike, Rawn, and Nicole head to work at the Shore Store. Mike is on fire today with the customers. Snooki is wearing rainbow hair while manning the iron-on station. My imaginary best friends, Pauly and Vin, head to the boardwalk. They lament about the lack of single roommates. Pauly regales Vinny about how JWoww is planning to decorate the smush room for her anniversary celebration with Roger. How romantic.
Ronnie and Sam take full advantage of their break from work. Mike “chills back.” And by chilling back, I mean that he goes into the stock room to call the Millimeter to make sure he’ll be on hand to execute Mike’s devious master plan to expose Snooki for the preggo liar she is. Back at home, Jenni showers before decorating the smush room with rose petals and bondage equipment. Vin and Pauly are taking back the smush room…it’s like an “occupy rally,” only they are unoccupying the STD bedroom. In their minds, the smush room is for singles, not for couples. They decide to take the mattress out of the room to put it on the patio. Pauly D is concerned that he may have gotten pregnant from handling the nasty mattress. This GTL may need an EPT.
Pauly and Vin pretend to sleep while listening to Jenni’s rant about the missing smush bed. Pauly D can’t help but laugh when accused, and Jenni thinks it’s hilarious. She retrieves the mattress from the patio because “supposeably,” it’s easy to carry. Rawn, Pauly, and Vinny go see the smush room, which has been transformed into a rose petal and sex toy-infused retirement home. Roger arrives, with Jenni greeting him at the door in denim panties and a hot pink lycra scarf which barely covers her nipples. Roger, do not pass go. Do not collect your $200. Take her directly to meet your mother.
Vinny is excited to go to Karma. He dresses as Gilligan and Justin Timberlake’s love child…but only the Justin Timberlake circa early 2000s who wore a denim tuxedo to match Brit-Brit Spears‘ denim maxi dress. You all know to what I am referring. Vinny needs to change clothes stat. The gang heads to Karma, and who does Nicole run into but Jionni’s mom and dad! Why, praytell, are his parents at Karma? I guess they are present to be the unwilling audience to the Situation’s dirty master plan.
After hearing some Joey-hate from her roommates, Deena approaches him at the bar and questions him about his intentions. She asks him to come home with her, to which he replies he’ll play it by ear. Joey is on Sammi’s radar…no one messes with her BFF. Meanwhile, Mike tries to convince himself that he’s not throwing Snooki under the bus, he’s just trying to clear his name. He’s not a bad guy, right? RIGHT? When Snooks sees the Inch, she knows trouble will ensue. She introduces the Decibel and Mike to Jionni’s parents. Mike hopes things won’t get messy in light of MTV’s new guest list.
Vinny can’t believe what a grenade magnet Karma is. There are so many ladies who are DTF, but sadly, Pauly D knows they are all about to blow like a giant mine field. Snooki and Jionni go to smoke, and Mike decides it’s now time to put his plan into action. Nicole is hip to his game, and she convinces Jionni to leave. Not to be deterred, Mike invites the Staple to come back to the house to execute Phase Y of the plan that has failed so many times before.
The quick scene during the commercial break is a wet t-shirt contest among the customers at Shore Store. The male employees are armed with water balloons and squirt guns. That was fast!
Snooki and Jionni arrive back at the house. Pauly and Luke Duke Vinny are done with the clerb uglies – you can’t smush every night. They have standards. The guys would much rather go home alone than have sex with a grenade. Deena turns all psycho and continues to ask Joey if he’s only with her for sex. If you have to ask, you know the answer. He won’t reassure her. Instead he gets angry at her clingy nature.
Mike’s diabolical master plan is unraveling at the seams. The Hybrid is beyond wasted. After the Tunic falls into the street, Mike vows to take him home, clean him up, and prepare him for crazy master plan, take 109. Mike fancies himself a “Sitchstrodamus” who can see the future…and in the future, a drunk Vacuum gets arrested for public drunkenness. Curses! Will the plan ever take shape? All Mike wants to do is expose Snooki to Jionni for the cheating wench she is–why is this so difficult? Why, God, why must you put so many obstacles in the way of the Situation’s evil deed? It’s just so not fair.
Poor Sitch is defeated as he tries to find a pal to help spring the Helium from the clink. Rawn knows from experience that he won’t be getting out of the “Seaside Slammer” in the witching hour. Mike should get a good night’s sleep and try to bail him out in the morning. And speaking of the morning, the Situation can’t believe his luck when Jionni comes stumbling into the kitchen for breakfast while Nicole is still tucked away and dreaming about their future baby juicehead. He takes the opportunity to have a little talk with Nicole’s boyfriend.
Next week, we see Snooki throw a basket at Sitch’s head, presumably after his chat with Jionni. Pauly tries to convince Deena that Joey isn’t right for her. The crew goes camping, and Deena thinks Mike is a true hermaphrodite pyromaniac. But hermaphrodite works too, especially since she doesn’t know the meaning of either word.
WHAT DID YOU THINK OF LAST NIGHT’S EPISODE? WILL MIKE’S DIABOLICAL PLAN EVER COME TO FRUITION? SHOULD DEENA GIVE UP ON JOEY? DO YOU WONDER, LIKE ME, WHY WE STILL WATCH THIS SHOW?
‘Jersey Shore’ Star — Situation Is NOT Snooki’s Baby Daddy
The Situation is definitely NOT to blame for the mini-guido baking inside of Snooki’s womb … this according to Sitch’s BFF. “The Unit” — aka Jonny Manfre — just called in to “Big Poppa” Gary Spears at KISS-FM in NY … and said there is…
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