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Top Chef's Robin: They Really Did Hate Me That Much
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Robin Leventhal knows she wasn't exactly the most liked contestant on this season's Top Chef.
"They hated me," Robin says of her fellow cheftestants. "I think they just wanted to hate me."
Yikes.
There's more. Read on to find out what she says about being eliminated last night for a—gulp—simple panna cotta, Eli's Circus Circus disaster and her not-so-pleasant reunion with Mike V.
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Dancing's Mya: I Can Eat Whatever I Want...for Now
Sure, Mya and Dmitry Chaplin grabbed a perfect 30 with their '70s-themed samba on last night's Dancing With the Stars, but the singer says Donny Osmond was the real star of the night.
"Donny and Kym Johnson rocked the house," Mya told me earlier this morning. "It was hilarious with Donny and his Jheri curl. He was like Michael Jackson, George Michael, Prince and Boy George all wrapped up in one."
But Chaplin's mustache also made quite the impression. Read on for more of this week's installment of my exclusive morning-after chats with Ms. Mya…
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Kelly Osbourne: Why I Won't Weigh Myself
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Kelly Osbourne may be looking better than ever (have you seen her waist lately?!), but that doesn't mean the Dancing With the Stars contender ain't eatin'.
"For the first couple of weeks, I was like, 'I need spaghetti Bolognese!' And that is what I ate every single day," Osbourne, 25, says while sitting in a Hollywood dance studio with her pro partner, Louis van Amstel. "Now, it's chicken quesadillas. I love the carbs from the cheese. But I have to stop eating it, because it's starting to make feel sick because I'm eating it so much."
Even with her shrinking waistline, Osbourne hasn't been quick to jump on a scale…
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Dancing Debi: Madonna, Boobs and Maksim's Butt
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Madonna is a fan of Dancing With the Stars—sorta.
Her longtime best friend, Debi Mazar, tells me that the queen of pop was one of the first people she heard from when it was announced she'd be competing in the upcoming ninth season of the hit reality competition show.
"She's really excited for me," Mazar, 45, said. "She was on her way to Budapest and she just said, "Oh, my God! How great! And you are dancing with Russians—how lucky are you?!"
That Russian would be Mazar's partner, Maksim Chmerkovskiy. Mazar's already under his spell...
Emmy Preview: Fashion, Flowers and Food
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Kristin Chenoweth is changing things up for the Emmys. A nominee for her work on Pushing Daisies, Chenoweth tells me she's not going to be doing all black like she did last year in Giorgio Armani.
"I'll just say it's extremely different for me and extremely different from last year," she said during a break from shooting You Again, a comedy flick with Kristen Bell, Jamie Lee Curtis, Sigourney Weaver and Betty White. "I usually go with black because i like blondes in dark, but..."
In other Emmys news, The Academy of Television Arts & Sciences previewed the Governors Ball the other day in Hollywood. The evening's expected highlights include...
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Malia & Sasha: Cheeseburgers and Milkshakes!
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Michelle Obama must be taking notes from Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie, who brought their brood to McDonalds earlier this week. The first mom treated her kids to the Good Stuff Eatery.
I just got word that Malia and Sasha joined their mom and about 15 of her staffers for a lunch at former Top Chef contestant Spike Mendelsohn's year-old restaurant on Capitol Hill.
What was on the menu? Read on to find out.