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Macho shithead rocker Ted Nugent has agreed to pay a $10,000 fine and accept two years probation for illegally killing an Alaskan black bear during the filming of an episode for his hunting reality show. He also has to film a PSA about hunting. “This PSA will discuss the importance of a hunter’s responsibility in knowing the rules and regulations …

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Deadline notes: Cyndi, starring singer Cyndi Lauper and executive produced by Mark Burnett, and Kendra On Top, starring Kendra Wilkinson-Baskett. Cyndi, which has received a 12-episode order, will chronicle the personal and professional life of Lauper, who has been married to actor David Thornton for 20 years and has a 13-year-old son. The series will start production next month for …

“Pregnant, drunk, and stupid is no way to go through life.”

Life is hard for an uneducated, unwed, young mother from the sticks with no employable skills. Except if your mom is Sarah Palin. Entertainment Weekly: Lifetime has ordered 10 episodes of Bristol Palin: Life’s a Tripp, a half-hour docuseries that will “provide an exclusive, rare glimpse into Bristol Palin’s real life as a young, single mother forging her own way …

A rather spectacularly nellie self-avowed gay Republican will be the featured “villain” in the new season of Survivor. Type casting? Of course, no Survivor is complete without a villain, and Probst says this season’s baddie comes in the form of gay Republican Colton Cumbie. “He doesn’t know it, but he is a full-on villain. He thinks he’s the most charming …

Truly we are a doomed nation.

Media watchers are chortling over the lack of interest in a reality series based on Todd Palin’s career in snowmobile racing. Which is an actual sport, apparently. As exciting, ahem, as the show’s storyline sounds, sources told Hollywood Reporter that both TLC and A&E aren’t interested. Those were the same networks that battled over Palin’s other reality show, “Alaska.” It …

Lowe’s has caved to fevered complaints of the Florida Family Association and pulled its ads from TLC’s All-American Muslim, a show that tracks the daily lives of five Muslim-American families in Dearborn, Michigan. According to the hate group, the show is “propaganda that riskily hides the Islamic agenda’s clear and present danger to American liberties and traditional values.” Lowe’s has …

The relentless human Pez dispenser named Michelle Duggar has miscarried what would have been her 20th child. The couple seems to have taken their cue from Rick Santorum over what comes next. At a routine check-up Thursday to find out the sex of their 20th child, their doctor was unable to find a heartbeat and told the couple they had …

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“I’m reluctant to criticize any given individual who divorces because moral judgments are hard without more information that it is my business to know – and celebrity divorces are too common to warrant special notice. Hollywood in general and Kim Kardashian in particular support gay marriage. Perhaps that makes sense, if the speed of her divorce reflects a reduced commitment …

Buzzfeed has posted the photos of “20 couples that put Kim Kardashian to shame.” The caption for the above photo: “Ed Watson is 78 years old and has Alzheimer’s. He’s worried that by the time the court finally rules on Prop 8, he won’t be able to recognize Derence, his partner of over 40 years. They cannot get married, but …

A-List: Dallas cast member Taylor Garrett apparently called the Dallas police today to report the alleged gay-on-gay crime that has had the gay blogosphere buzzing since he first tweeted then deleted his claim four days ago. Dallas police logged the call under category 31, “criminal mischief.” It’s not yet known if any physical investigation will be made. Garrett’s show debuted …

Today Logo’s official blog unquestioningly posted GOProud member Taylor Garrett’s claim that an angry gay leftist hurled a rock through his window because he had lunch with Ann Coulter for an upcoming episode of A-List:Dallas. Logo and the show’s producers have refused to comment on widening disbelief that the incident actually happened. We all know that reality show producers will …

Yesterday Logo executive producer John Hill tweeted congratulations to A-List: Dallas cast member Taylor Garrett for “making headlines” with his gay-on-gay hate crime claim. Embedded in his tweet was the link to my second post on the alleged incident. When I questioned Hill as to whether he’d played a role in the stunt, his tweet to Garrett was instantly deleted. …