We're supposed to like Eddie Cibrian now because he drives a Prius

Eddie Cibrian and LeAnn Rimes in Cabo San Lucas last year

I don't know who the hell Eddie Cibrian hired for an image makeover, but he needs to get his money back. You don't need to hire someone to convince everyone you're not an asshole. You just need to not be an asshole. From Us Weekly:

Eddie Cibrian's discovered that his bad boy rep doesn't work on everyone. The actor, who left wife of eight years Brandi Glanville, 38, in 2009 after Us uncovered his affair with LeAnn Rimes, 28, has hired an image consultant.

"He's tired of being portrayed as a philandering sleaze," a source tells the new issue of Us Weekly, on stands now. First up? "He made Eddie get rid of his Porsche and buy a Prius," says the insider.

The consultant also told the newly-engaged star, 37, to be seen more with his and Glanville's kids Mason, 7, and Jake, 3. Says the source, "Instead of going to a Lakers game with his buddy, the consultant insisted he bring a son."

Driving a hybrid isn't going to improve Eddie's image with his female fans -- but a televised castration might. It's odd, but for some reason most women don't take too kindly to a man that leaves his wife and children for a younger/wealthier woman. Who knew? If Eddie's ever going to repair his reputation, he has to do something that shows women he's an extremely charitable person -- like ~~volunteer at an orphanage~~ sleep with a chick that's over 30.

*5 Eddie Cibrian and LeAnn Rimes pictures total in the gallery:

[Pacific Coast News]

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What a world of improvement his image would have if he just told Leann to SHUT UP, seriously, the first thing the image consultant should have done was to close LR twitter account(not tell her to protect it because now that she has protected her tweets people are saying that her tweets are 10X worse than they were before), forbid EC and LR to give any interviews/photo-shoots/photo-ops since they have sent the internet and mags in EC and LR overload with their daily photo-ops, and instruct LR not to talk about those kids or their wedding/her engagement ring in ANY of her interviews because how is this man going to pay for a wedding or ring when he can't even pay his child support?

Lance

You obviously don't know about Prius. They are like hot chick magnets. There is something about a Prius that turns chicks on big time. Once a chick hops in your Prius, its no problem to get her to hop into your bed a half hour later.

Don't knock the Prius until you have tried one.

Hawk

Question.

What does this guy do? Is he an actor? A singer?

Gianna

Smug comes to mind.

They need to come to terms that no one likes either of them and that's not going to change.