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Comedian Artie Lange has spent decades in showbiz making people laugh, but nobody is laughing after he posted a disturbing photo of his extremely warped nose. The funnyman took to Twitter on Christmas Day to share an image of his “hideously deformed” schnozz, allegedly from what he describes as three decades of drug abuse. In a tweet, he is jokingly refers to sitting next to French actress Sophie Marceau and the face she makes after he wishes her a good morning — the only difference would be her nose’s appearance. The troubled, 51-year-old star previously revealed he would be entering...

As we toast Megyn Kelly on her departure from NBC and sip our Trump Schadenfreude (which tastes like Diet Coke with a slightly stronger New York accent) let us also enjoy watching NBC pay $69 million or so in exit fees to the 21st century's version of Pink Lady and Jeff. Kelly was a lawyer who joined Fox News as a reporter and worked her way to an anchor post. They promoted her to prime-time. She was doing fine until the first Republican presidential debate in August 2015. She picked a fight with Donald John Trump. He ate her up...

The 2020 presidential race might just be a face-off between Donald Trump and the man who plays him on TV. Alec Baldwin — who has portrayed POTUS on Saturday Night Live since 2016 — said in an interview with Howard Stern on Monday that if he ran for president, he could unseat Trump. In the interview embedded above, Baldwin and Stern’s conversation turns to the 2020 election, and Baldwin admits that he “can only think of a couple people who I think could beat Trump.” “I’ve got a name for you: Alec Baldwin,” Stern replies, prompting Baldwin to say, “If...

Quentin Tarantino has apologized to Samantha Geimer after suggesting that she wanted to have sex with Roman Polanski when she was 13. SNIIP Facing an online backlash, Tarantino has changed his position and called his remarks “cavalier.” “Fifteen years later, I realize how wrong I was,” Tarantino said. “Ms. Geimer WAS raped by Roman Polanski.” SNIP

Amid controversy over Uma Thurman’s near-fatal “Kill Bill” stunt, a 15-year-old interview with Quentin Tarantino went viral online Monday. The 2003 Howard Stern interview included an almost eight-minute defense of Roman Polanski by the famous director. “He didn’t rape a 13-year-old. It was statutory rape. It’s not the same thing. He had sex with a minor. That’s not rape. To me, when you use the word rape, you’re talking about violent, throwing them down...it’s like one of the most violent crimes in the world,” Tarantino told the shock jock. “You can’t throw the word ‘rape’ around. It’s like throwing the...

Megyn Kelly reportedly 'threw an Olympic fit' when she was told Katie Couric had been offered the job of covering next month's Winter Games opening ceremony for NBC. It has been claimed Kelly - who joined the network from Fox News last year on a $23 million a year deal - had insisted that she should not be forced to cover special events as well as her usual responsibilities.

Megyn Kelly will be staying home next month when her fellow NBC stars travel to South Korea for the Olympics — raising new questions about the standing of NBC News’ highest paid star. The Olympics is a command performance for any high-profile star or executive at the Peacock Network, which has paid nearly $1 billion to broadcast the 2018 Pyeongchang Games in the United States. While it’s unclear if Kelly made the decision to stay home herself, it’s unusual nonetheless. NBC traditionally sends its entire panoply of news stars to the games, and true to form, both the “Today” show...

“Today” host Megyn Kelly revealed her secret to staying thin — fat shaming. “Some of us want to be shamed,” she said. “When I was in law school, I was gaining weight, I said to my stepfather, ‘If you see me going into that kitchen one more time, you say, ‘Where you going, fat ass?’ And it works!” The moment, which came during a segment on weight loss, produced awkward laughter from the crowd and Kelly’s guest “Fit Mom” Maria Kang. “My husband does that to me all the time,” said Kang. “I tell him my goals and if it’s...

Her ratings tanking, Megyn Kelly has a new idea: Why not interview three women who claimed President Trump sexually harassed them? According to CNBC: NBC News Anchor Megyn Kelly will conduct an exclusive live sit-down interview on Monday, Dec. 11 with three women who have publicly accused President Donald Trump of sexual misconduct, the network said. The interview with Jessica Leeds, Samantha Holvey and Rachel Crooks will air on NBC News' "Megyn Kelly TODAY" at 9 a.m. New York time. Interesting, because the former Fox News host made her name by quarreling with Donald Trump over sexism, back when he...

Staffers at The Today Show have expressed their disgust and outrage at Megyn Kelly for her smug, self-aggrandizing display and insensitivity to her distraught colleagues in the wake of Matt Lauer's firing. Insiders at the show told DailyMail.com that if she had a public comment to make she should have focused on the accuser and the Today team who are devastated by by the allegation surrounding Lauer and his firing, which came late Tuesday night.

Megyn Kelly appears willing to give recently ousted "Today" host Matt Lauer a platform to discuss his sexual misconduct scandal during her hour of the NBC morning show. Kelly — who hosts the 9 a.m. hour of the program with "Megyn Kelly Today" — made it clear any of the women accusing Lauer of inappropriate behavior are welcome to tell their stories on her show. She then extended that invitation to the people who are being accused of sexual impropriety as well, without specifically naming Lauer. "As hard as it is to report on one of our own colleagues, we...

Add another alleged groping incident to Al Franken’s growing list of sexual misdeeds. The one-time comedian appeared on the Howard Stern Show in 1999, where he bragged about groping Kathie Lee Gifford. Later in the show, however, Franken changed his story, and said it was “wrong” he had sexually accosted Gifford.

Embattled actor George Takei has apologized for a recent interview with Howard Stern in which he joked about sexually assaulting men, after the former Star Trek star was accused last week of groping a male model in an alleged incident in 1981. In a social media post, Takei said he attempted to play the role of a “naughty gay grandpa” whilst appearing on the radio show, adding that it was a “caricature that I now regret.” “Many have raised concern over a back-and-forth between Howard Stern and myself, where we joked about me touching men during my ‘Star Trek’ days...

NBC “Today” host Megyn Kelly used her program Monday to take on her former employer, Fox News, over the disclosure that the network signed former host Bill O’Reilly to a $25 million contract in February after he had paid $32 million to settle a sexual harassment claim. Kelly opened her show by noting how she complained to Fox News about O’Reilly, who had disparaged her publicly for writing about her own experiences with sexual harassment at Fox News in her memoir “Settle for More.” “The abuse of women, the shaming of them, the threatening, the retaliation,” Kelly said in her...

NBC: Megyn Kelly TODAY opens on a somber note as Megyn reflects on the Texas church shooting that took 26 lives. ...... "How do you make sense of a case in which a 5-year-old gets shot 5 times? 26 people are dead. What does it say about us, right? What are we going to do about it? All the victims are in our prayers this morning."

Megyn Kelly’s slot of the “Today” show desperately needs a ratings boost after less than a month on the air. On Thursday, Hoda Kotb, the ever-upbeat popular “Today” host from another hour appeared as a guest. They chatted. They danced. They tried to get the audience on its feet dancing, too. Critics hated the moment. “I’ve never been so embarrassed,” tweeted BuzzFeed News’s Kate Aurthur. “I feel nothing but second-hand embarrassment for Megyn Kelly,” chimed in media critic Ian Miles Cheong. Vulture called the clip “22 nearly unbearable seconds.”

A new report indicated that things aren’t getting any better for NBC’s newest morning host, Megyn Kelly.Page Six reports that last week, “viewership slipped from 0.77 ratings points on Monday to 0.54 ratings points on Tuesday of last week.”A source told Page Six, “It’s a possible all-time low for ‘Today.’ It may even be lower than her [Fox] cable show.”This comes after weeks of bad headlines for Kelly, who jumped from Fox News Channel last year to NBC News, now hosting a morning show, “Megyn Kelly Today.” She lost popularity with some of FNC’s more conservative viewers after she went...

Megyn Kelly is so toxic that she is reportedly dragging down NBC’s lucrative Today franchise as viewers are just tuning out NBC because of the vapid former Fox News talent. According to a report in the New York Post’s Page Six, “Kelly’s hour of ‘Today’ is down 32 percent compared to a year ago. And ‘Kathie Lee & Hoda’ is down 26 percent.” “Not only are ratings plummeting since Megyn Kelly joined the ‘Today’ franchise, but the numbers show Kelly’s lead-in has also affected Kathie Lee [Gifford] and Hoda Kotb’s show, which follows straight afterwards,” a source told the outlet....

Welcome to Megyn Kelly Today, Today, a new daily column in which we will share the most memorable things that happened on Megyn Kelly Today every morning until we are no longer able to watch Megyn Kelly Today without feeling like there will be no tomorrow. ·Megyn Kelly walked onstage in a long-sleeved black blouse and a leather skirt. ·Megyn Kelly says she can’t wait for Valerie Bertinelli. ·Bobby Finger thought, “Megyn Kelly and I finally have our Breakfast at Tiffany’s.” ·Megyn Kelly did NOT explain the first segment for the first time ever. ·Megyn Kelly said Donna Karan used...

Welcome to Megyn Kelly Today, Today, a new daily column in which we will share the most memorable things that happened on Megyn Kelly Today every morning until we are no longer able to watch Megyn Kelly Today without feeling like there will be no tomorrow. ·Megyn Kelly walked onstage in a gray blouse and pink skirt. ·Megyn Kelly said Morgan Freeman would be a guest today. ·Megyn Kelly once again explained the first segment of the show immediately before beginning the first segment of her show. ·Megyn Kelly asked the audience if they knew who Harvey Weinstein is. ·Most...