Let’s be blunt, people. If anyone had any doubt that popularity trumps talent on Dancing With the Stars, it just got proven beyond a shadow of a doubt last night. Marie Osmond wasn’t a great dancer, but she outlasted Sabrina Bryan. Bryan looked like she should turn pro in her return performance last night. And Helio Castroneves beat Melanie Brown. Helio was good, but Mel was better. She was the top scorer of all the dancers overall. And aside from my own eyes, I trust three professional dancers’ opinions. I’m not disappointed by the results so much as feeling my cynicism confirmed. The trophy is probably cold comfort against his fiancée dumping him, but I’m not going to lie and say I think he deserved it just because his relationship died.

And as an aside, would someone please put Celine Dion out of my misery? Or at least feed the woman more than 900 calories a day?

Seems the NY Post, alongside misspelling Omarosa’s and Danica’s names in yesterday’s announcement, was either over-enthusiastic or gulled about the cast list they spread for Apprentice season 7, AKA “I’m a Celebrity, Give Me a Job!”. Follow-up inquiries to NASCAR racer Jeff Gordon revealed that he was approached but hasn’t signed on. In fact, odds are he can’t, as he has a race to prepare for and drive in while they’d be filming the series. His people also tried to get real specifics out of Trump’s crew but heard nothing back.

I’d be willing to believe Donald Trump has Omarosa on board. It’s not like she has anything better to do. But I’d lay odds that the more successful the celebrity, the more likely someone told a fib.

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Of course we SeenON.com staffers live for the commercials during the Super Bowl. Sure, the game is fun, the half-time show is glitzy, but we really care about those 30-second product-hyping spots that are meant to get people talking. And hey, we live for product placement. So which commercials are we talking about around the water cooler this morning?

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Photo from the Belleville News-Democrat

Green is the color of money here in the US, allowing for the government

Can Heroes get any better? As we get deeper into the season, I am paying closer attention to how the heroes’ paths are going to cross and eventually how they will