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NeNe Leakes has got a big...ego (for real, though). The Real Housewives of Atlanta star is apparently so jealous that Kim Zolciak’s getting a one-season show about her wedding that NeNe’s demanding her own. She told Bravo that she’ll quit if they don’t give her a spinoff.

“She’s furious that Kim got her own show and she didn’t. She’s saying she’s too big for RHOA and Bravo doesn’t pay her enough...NeNe has told friends if she doesn’t get what she wants, she will quit!”

NeNe thinks that the show is “all about her” and it will “crumble” if she leaves. Because, you know, someone has got to fill the hilariously offensive void in our lives! She better be careful, though. According to Star, her diva behavior probably ain’t gonna fly with Bravo--drama magnets are replaceable, even if they think they’ll last forever.

TLC has a new show called The Virgin Diaries. The commercial for the show, which premieres on Dec. 4 on TLC, has gone viral. It's hard not to laugh when you watch this video. I've seen it a few times, sadly, and it still makes me nauseous and SMH. This couple kisses like a bird feeding its young.

The Virgin Diaries Promo

Kim Kardashian's master plan has worked! Last night's premiere of Kourtney & Kim Take New York was the series' most-watched season premiere ever! Kourtney Kardashian, Scott Disick and Kim's prop husband Kris Humphries' opener drew 3.2 million viewers.

TV by the Numbers reports: It exceeded last season’s premiere by +6% while also posting the series’ most-watched premiere among the coveted Persons 18-49 and Women 18-49 audience, up +8% over last season’s premiere and delivering over 1.7 million Women 18-49 viewers, up +10% over last season’s premiere.

Naturally folks want to watch Kim and Kris' marriage derail because we all love a scripted train wreck. I knew Kim and Kourt's show would have a strong premiere. Their season premiere ratings are just like Ashton Kutcher's Two and a Half Men premiere ratings. More people than ever tuned in, but the audience kept shrinking week after week. The Kardashians have done it all. Khloe will get knocked up eventually and Kourtney will get married, but there isn't much more they can do... Maybe Kris Jenner will convince Kendall to get knocked up soon.

"You're my wife," Kris Humphries says. "How crazy is that?" Kim says. In their bedroom, Kris tells Kim "You're my wife. It'll take a lot to get rid of me." Kris then picks Kim up and takes her in the bathroom for a shower. Kris looks really happy to be Mrs. Kim Kardashian.

Kourtney Kardashian says that she booked "the biggest suite" in a NY hotel for she, Scott, Kim and Kris to live.

Kim and Kris take a private jet to New York. On the plane, Kris tells her "You're so pretty, baby." Awww. Isn't he supposed to be some huge a-hole?!

Kim says that she "wouldn't have it any other way" than to live with Kourtney, Scott Disick and Mason as a newlywed. She forgets to mention that she's living with them for no other reason than to film her f*cking reality show.

Scott is smoking outside and Kourtney doesn't want him to. Gasp! Drama!

Kris is woken up by Mason at 7AM. Hours later, Kim's room is covered with Kris' crap and she starts freaking out. Gasp! Drama!

Scott and Kourtney go out to dinner where he sets up the premise for the season: his romance with Kourt has fizzled and he hopes it comes back.

And then it's TMI time. Kourtney and Kim go to the spa where Kourt gets an enema.

Back at the hotel, Kris accidentally ruins his wife's pedicure and Kim tries to punch him but he restrains her. Nails are the kinds of things that Kimmy gets upset over.

When Evelyn Lozada quit Basketball Wives, she claimed that no amount of money could bring her back on the show. But since she’s easily distracted from her so-called principles by the memory of paparazzi flashbulbs and the twinkling of fame, she will be returning for a fourth season.

Evelyn decided to leave the hit show after a VH1 blog insinuated she cheated on Chad Ochocinco, but the producers pushed to bring her back because Evelyn basically runs the damn thing. It looks like they're pretty eager to please! Under the new arrangement, Evelyn will work half as often--and for more pay. She'll also be able to work around her daughter’s schedule and not miss any of her hubby’s football games.

The real clincher, however, was the promise of more attention. Apparently, VH1 promised Evelyn a spin-off centered around the months leading up to her and Chad’s wedding. It makes sense that this would draw her in. Now that everyone’s P.O.-ed at the Kardashians, she wants to become the next Kim. Fairytale Wedding Part II! Except maybe her marriage will make it to seventy-five days. Fingers crossed.

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Bachelor Pad 2 winner Holly Durst went wedding dress shopping on Nov. 10 at Alfred Angelo Bridal salon in Atlanta. Yes, the Alfred Angelo who also made a replica of Bella Swan's wedding dress!

Holly and her fiance, Blake Julian, began dating over the summer while filming Bachelor Pad 2. He then proposed to Holly very quickly, obviously, and the two publicly announced their engagement on the Sept. 12 season finale.

Holly told Life & Style: I never pictured my wedding until I met Blake. I wish we were getting married tomorrow!"

Holly and Blake plan to tie the knot in early June, around Blake's 29th birthday.

The Wall Street Journal is reporting that the King of All Media may replace Piers Morgan's judging slot on America's Got Talent. Stern has been offered $15 million to take over, but the show would have to move from Los Angeles to New York, where he hosts his Sirius FM radio show.

Yesterday, Piers Morgan announced that he's leaving America's Got Talent to focus on his CNN program, Piers Morgan Tonight.

I adore Howard Stern, but I don't think this is the right fit. I think he would have been better on American Idol, a show I no longer watch. I don't watch America's Got Talent either, but I would if he joined the panel. I think Stern would hate the lack of talent and the randomness that plagues the show, but he'd have fun with it and make it interesting. I'm a stern fan, which does make me biased as hell.

Phaedra Parks of The Real Housewives of Atlanta knows a lot about bullying. Six foot giant NeNe Leakes bullied her, like Nene did with Kandi Burruss, throughout Phaedra's first season on Bravo's hit show. Phay Phay did an interview with The Associated Press yesterday where she specifically pointed out what's fundamentally wrong with reality TV, besides everything.

Why are Phaedra's nails different colors?!

Phaedra said: " Reality TV has spawned a whole culture of bullying. The behavior you see on reality TV does not exactly exemplify how adults should be conducting themselves." Sadly, that's what Bravo, and the public wants. The Real Housewives franchise itself is all about middle-aged Mean Girls.

Parks said that parents need to monitor what their children watch. "We have to say that violence is unacceptable. We have to learn to resolve our issues by communicating effectively," she said. Yeah, but then we'd be stuck with the Oprah Winfrey Network, and no one wants to watch that.

The "reality" of reality TV continues to get uglier. First it was the suicide of Real Housewives of Beverly Hills star Russell Armstrong, now Tonya Cooley, one of the stars of MTV's Real World/Road Rules Challenge has filed a suit claiming that she was raped on set with a toothbrush by fellow cast members Kenny Santucci and Evan Starkman. 

The suit claims Santucci and Starkman "Took another male participant's toothbrush and rubbed the toothbrush around plaintiff's genitals, including her labia, and inserting the toothbrush into plaintiff's vagina." Cooley claims the cameras were rolling at the time, and that producers helped cover up the incident and even replaced the toothbrush. Cooley goes on to allege that producers encouraged male cast members to "inappropriately touch female cast members' bodies, including in intimate areas."

The fourth season of Jersey Shore is at an end and we all enjoyed watching our favorite guidos fighting, smushing, and suffering from GTL withdrawal in Florence. But if you think you saw it all, you're mistaken. In fact, it seems like MTV could craft another season's worth of episodes out of what they left on the cutting room floor.

First of all, remember when JWoww's boyfriend Roger had to cancel his visit? Ever wonder why she wasn't more upset about it? Turns out, he just postponed the trip. Roger and Jenni totally did hang out in Italy (that's a picture of them shopping in Florence), the visit was apparently just too boring to bother putting it on the show.

But while that editing decision makes sense (healthy relationships don't make for good reality TV), some of the incidents that got cut out could've been hugely entertaining. The Taltos twins - who are now desperately trying to score their own show - were way more involved with the cast than you would know from watching this season. In fact, Deena and Snooki drunkenly confronted the twins on the streets of Florence, resulting in what was said to be a hilarious midday screaming match. Sadly, the producers decided there were already enough scenes featuring Team Meatball acting like drunk idiots.

Anyone who watched the show closely enough could pick up on several other aspects of the Italy trip that never made it to air. For example, we learned in the season finale that the Shore kids weren't the only Americans working at the pizzeria. You know Pauly D tried to smush those girls. Maybe the fact that so much potentially good stuff had to be cut out is just a testament to how entertaining The Sitch and company really are. But don't leave us out of the loop, MTV. Give us a special episode featuring the best deleted scenes from Florence. Anything to help us get throughthe next four months without our weekly does of spray-tanned debauchery. #GuidoProblems

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