Al Roker -- yes Al Roker -- ripped into Heidi and Spencer on the Today Show this morning, asking the couple if they were proud of their ridiculousbehavior on NBC's I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here!. After the interview was over, Roker twittered:
Heidi and Spencer are an interesting couple. famous for...being infamous. Bad and vacuous behavior. I think we're at minute 11 of their 15.
For the first time in his life, Spencer took the high road and refused to get into a childish war of words with Roker. Oh wait, no he didn't. He acted exactly like you'd expect him to act. He told Ryan Seacrest:
"Was the weatherman asking us questions? I thought we were getting interviewed by a guy named Matt Lauer. We were thrown off that the weatherman was even trying to talk to Speidi."
Heidi added:
"I was shocked at how rude he was. I was crying afterwards because I felt personally attacked because he was yelling and saying, 'Do you feel proud of this?' I felt like saying, 'Do you feel proud of what you're saying [to us]?' I'm a young woman and you’re coming at me so mean-spirited."
It's too bad the pre-stomach stapling Al Roker didn't conduct this interview. Old Al would conducted the interview pretty much in the exact same way. But at the end . . . he would have eaten them. How cool would it have been to finally have Heidi and Spencer out of our hair because Al Roker fucking ate them? I would literally squeal in delight.
Heidi and Spencer entering the "Isolation Chamber"
Heidi Montag and Spencer Pratt are claiming that NBC basically tortured them during filming of I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here!. Heidi was rushed to the hospital on Saturday after convulsively throwing up. After deciding to quit the show last week, Heidi and Spencer were put in an "isolation chamber" before producers were to decide their fate today. The couple claims that the chamber was tantamount to torture since they were denied food and water for three days. Spencer's sister Stephanie told E! Online's Marc Malkin:
"They kept them locked up and through the roof they were dropping spiders the size of [Heidi's] hands in on her in the black. They treated them like they were criminals or terrorists. She was throwing up 30 times with nothing in her stomach. She was really sick. She thought she was dying….I know they pulled such shitty antics. But being treated like criminals or terrorists? It's insane!"
No waterboarding? Not even a little? That is why you are a last place network NBC. You don't give the viewers what they want. Malkin adds:
My show insider insists the newlyweds were not only fed, but they were only in the lost chamber for about 14 hours. "They slept most of the time," said the insider, who asked not to be identified. "And when they weren't sleeping, they were laying side by side praying."
The insider also said Heidi was not vomiting: "They were in happy spirits when they came out of the chamber."
Now, sources say, Spencer is considering suing NBC for its treatment of him and Heidi, while NBC is threatening to sue the newlyweds if they don't live up to their contract and bail in the show.
I hate to see Heidi and Spencer fighting with NBC like this. Hopefully this is all just a big misunderstanding and they can get everything worked out in time to appear on the new season of I'm a Celebrity...Will I Burn if You Soak Me in Lighter Fluid?.
After threatening to quit twice in the first two days, Heidi Montag and Spencer Pratt have officially quit NBC's I'm a Celebrity ... Get Me Out of Here!. They're due back in L.A. tonight. I really hope the charity the couple was playing for -- the Red Cross -- wasn't expecting too much money. From E!:
All told, the duo's run will last just two episodes. They will appear in a taped segment of tonight's show, but will not take part in the live portion of the telecast. Sources confirm to E! News that the Pratts are scheduled to return to Los Angeles just after midnight tonight.
"They're leaving right after the live portion of the show," an NBC source said. "The fact that they are leaving the show and deserting their charities is lame."
The identity of [Heidi and Spencer's] replacement(s) remains hush-hush at this point, though the DailyFill reports that producers are doing their best to keep it in the family, naming Daniel Baldwin, whose brother Stephen is already on the show, and Heidi's sister Holly Montag as the top contenders.
Holly as a replacement? Fuck that. The producers have to find a way to get Audrina in that Costa Rican jungle. "Hey Mr. Wilderness Expert, look at this cute little frog I caught! I like petting him because his skin is so soft" . . . "Um Audrina, that's a poison dart frog. We warned you about those. We even made you watch a 4 hour safety video. You have 6 minutes to live" . . . "Hey, there's another one! Come back here froggie!"
So you know how Spencer Pratt likes to smoke weed? In April he accidentally posted a picture of his huge bong to his Twitter page. Just a few days later, he was seen leaving a medical marijuana store in L.A. According to Star, Spencer doesn't just like getting high, he loves it -- so much so that he earned himself a douchy nickname:
When Spencer was just 15, he started smoking pot and "fell in love with it," his friend tells Star in our June 8 issue. "He was smoking it every day. He always had a big bag and would share with everyone. He was the King of Weed!”
It didn't take long for Spencer to progress to other drugs, including Xanax and Valium, says the pal. And he made sure those around him got to enjoy the same high -- with the friend saying the first time she ever took Valium was because of Spencer. "He gave me five [pills] and told me I'd be OK," says the friend. "I didn't know it was too much. The next day he said, 'Girl, I gave you so much Valium, and you just handled!'"
Despite a stint in a rehab center in Arizona to kick the pills (his sister, Stephanie, also went to rehab), he went back to his beloved pot about six months after he was treated for his habit.
"One day, he walked in on a party and pulled out a bag of pot and said, ‘'We are soooooo getting stoned!' recalls the friend. "No one thought much of it, because at least he was staying away from pills."
Everything on The Hills is starting to make sense now. Heidi stays with Spencer because he's her dealer and she needs her fix. Audrina comes off as a moronic airhead because she's constantly getting high off Spencer's stash (and she actually is a moronic airhead). And Lauren's whacked-out fashion designs are a result of the acid provided by Spencer . . . or maybe Lauren was given a chance to design a fashion line because someone at MTV was high on acid -- I always get those two mixed up. With so many drugs being ingested on this show, it shouldn't be a surprise who next season's sponsor will be: Pfizer Courtney Love.
Heidi Montag and Spencer Pratt filming a promo for I'm a Celebrity ... Get Me Out of Here! in L.A. (5/23)
Heidi Montag and Spencer Pratt have already tried to quit NBC's I'm a Celebrity ... Get Me Out of Here! twice, but were convinced by producers to stay on. Oh, and it's only the second day of filming. From E!:
"They wanted to be treated like stars," a high-level source on the series tells E! News' Ryan Seacrest. "[Spencer] literally thought he and Heidi were staying in a Four Seasons, working out and getting a tan."
The two refused to eat the same food as the rest of the cast, and complained about being teamed with low-wattage stars, among them former model/reality-show queen Janice Dickinson, actors Stephen Baldwin and Lou Diamond Phillips, former NBA star John Salley and American Idol castoff Sanjaya Malakar. An NBC exec had to coax the newlyweds to remain on board.
"I wish they got some real celebrities like K-Fed," groused Montag, per the network insider.
Thank god Heidi and Spencer were convinced to stay on the show. Because the more time they spend in the jungles of Costa Rica, the better chance they have of catching some crazy tropical disease. Personally I'm hoping they catch the rare shutthefuckupitis, a debilitating virus that attacks the vocal cords.
+ Kelly Brook looks rather awesome in a bikini [NewsToob]
+ Bridget Moynahan's hottest pic EVER [Holy Taco]
+ Huge boobs are awesome [Double Viking]
+ Denise Milani is your afternoon pick-me-up [F-Listed]
Janice Dickinson, Heidi Montag, and Spencer Pratt at a gas station in Beverly Hills (5/11)
The one time you really need a gas station to explode into a hellish fireball of burning shrapnel and death, it doesn't happen. That kind of bad luck deserves a sad face :(
NOTE TO SPENCER: In this pic, is that your new car to the right? If so, fuck you.
Aw god dammit. Heidi and Spencer didn't catch swine flu when they were in Mexico. They landed at LAX yesterday. You know how much money I threw into the wishing well I have behind my house hoping that Heidi and Spencer would come back to L.A. in bodybags? Like 40 bucks! I want a refund.
NOTE: Of course they did this. Holy crap I hate them.
Spencer Pratt and Heidi Montag outside the Monique Lhuillier boutique in L.A. (4/24)
Yesterday, in response to the rapid outbreak of swine flu, the Mexican government announced a nationwide shutdown of schools and universities, as well as a cancellation of all public events. As of today, 152 deaths in the country have been attributed to the flu, with another 2000 active cases. With that in mind, where's the one place you wouldn't want to visit right now? That's right, Mexico! Guess where Heidi and Spencer are right now? That's right, Mexico! But not on their honeymoon. Heidi's shooting the music video for her new single "Sex Ed." Of course. Why wouldn't you go to Mexico to do that? Yesterday in an interview with Ryan Seacrest, Spencer said:
"We're definitely wearing the facemasks everywhere we go. We're not playing -- I'm not trying to get pig flu. We're in isolation, we're in full hiding."
Montag later added, "Every second, we're washing our hands."
So what it finally took for Heidi and Spencer to go away was the deaths
of 152 people and a nationwide shutdown of schools? I think the
Mexicans are onto something here . . .
