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(UPDATED with information from law enforcement press conference) Felicity Huffman and Lori Loughlin knowingly broke the law trying to get their kids into top tier colleges, according to the FBI and the U.S Attorney’s office for the district of Massachusetts. The Desperate Housewives and Fuller House actors were named among a group of 33 parents who paid millions in bribes to coaches at Ivy League schools like Georgetown University, Stanford University, UCLA, Yale and USC so their children could gain admission as recruited athletes – even if they weren’t actually athletes. The just unsealed March 6 indictment notes that the...

A mother on a New York parenting blog wrote Monday that while shopping at the retailer, she gave her four-year-old daughter a peanut butter and jelly sandwich, and "a woman stopped me to lecture me about peanut allergies." The child's mother then asked other moms on UrbanBaby if it was unacceptable to eat peanut butter in public. The anti-peanut butter backlash was swift and brutal. Most responses attacked the mother for potentially endangering children with peanut allergies. Some criticized her for feeding her daughter in a shopping cart, which they considered disgusting. "That's really inconsiderate," one person wrote. "So many...

Straight trippin': Saudi fatwa permits the use of hallucinogenic drugs during sex with ugly wives Saudi social media users have poured scorn on a fatwa that allowed young men married to ugly women to take drugs before intimate relations in order to have the delusion they are as beautiful as houris. The fatwa said that hallucinogenic drugs can be taken for 30 minutes during sexual intercourse and only by men who are less than 40 years old. The drugs can be used only in the evening, it added. “This is the ideal men who are unfortunately married with ugly-looking wives...

SEE IT: Eva Longoria compares Donald Trump to Hitler, blasts ‘emotional poison’ about Mexico BY MELISSA CHAN Donald Trump's nasty spiel about Mexicans is as toxic as the hate Hitler spewed, according to Hollywood starlet Eva Longoria. The 40-year-old Mexican-American actress blasted the billionaire for saying most Mexican immigrants are rapists and criminals, likening his words to one of the world's most evil dictators. "What I think he doesn't understand, and what people don't understand, is words create emotional poison," Longoria told E! during a National Association of Latino Independent Producers luncheon Monday. "Hitler moved a nation with words, just...

he Perry campaign wants to reboot, having retooled and refined its message and tried hard to get back on the jobs message. Okay, fine, but first the Perry camp needs to answer a basic question — why should supporters who went all in for him and wound up feeling burned give him a second shot? I asked him about that and it was, perhaps, a good sign that he stayed on the jobs message. The jobs message, though, raises a question about his flat tax — won't it just help the rich? Also, what about President Obama's approach and his...

WASHINGTON – Rick Perry, after calling Mitt Romney a “fat cat,” today also called on the former Massachusetts governor to release his income tax returns, an indication that Perry will increasingly make an issue of Romney’s wealth in the Republican presidential primary. The strong charges from Perry are striking coming from a candidate who himself two months ago accused President Obama of “trying to engage in class warfare and shooting high-powered bullets at people who have corporate jets.” Now, as Perry tries to gain an edge on Romney – by far the wealthiest candidate in the race – the Texas...

Does Lynette get what she wanted when she kicked Tom out of the house?

Desperate Housewives' Felicity Huffman Promotes Abortion Hollywood, CA -- Felicity Huffman, the Oscar-nominated and Emmy-winning star of ABC's Desperate Housewives, is the latest Hollywood heavyweight to promote abortion. http://www.lifenews.com/2011/09/27/desperate-housewives-felicity-huffman-promotes-abortion/

“Desperate Housewives” star Eva Longoria said today that she was “brainstorming” with President Barack Obama at the White House last week to “reframe the immigration argument.”“Last week we were asked to meet with President Obama--there’s about 10 of us that are considered influential in the media--in hopes to reframe the immigration argument, or the immigration conversation,” said Longoria, “and we were--it was like a brainstorming room.”

Let's talk images. A snake. A butterfly. A young man with his shirt unbuttoned to his waist, pouting at the camera. Lots of chest stubble. Alone, each image is rather boring. Put them together, and what you have is a hotter-than-Johnny Depp new Rolling Stone cover of American Idol runner-up Adam Lambert. The 27-year-old dude who made guyliner fashionable again gave an interview to the magazine confirming—big surprise—that he's gay. What's really surprising: I can't stop thinking about him. And neither can any of my cougar-aged friends. We love Adam, truly, madly, deeply, in a kind of weirdly Mrs. Robinson...

Greetings from Eva Longoria who brought another wow factor and real drama to the Cannes red carpet. The Desperate Housewives star wore an incredibly beautiful Atelier Versace Spring 2009 blue gown along with YSL heels. Simply great!

Oh, criminey. The government of the Philippines is getting involved. Like they don’t have better things to worry about.   Sign Petition here***I am getting a lot of e-mail from people I’ve never heard from before about an apparent ethnic joke about Filipino medical professionals on the shlocky ABC show, “Desperate Houswives.” There’s even a petition about it: To the producers of “Desperate Housewives” and ABC:We are writing to express concern and hurt about a racially-discriminatory comment made in an episode of Desperate Housewives on 9/30/07. In a scene in which Susan was told by her gynecologist that she might be...

A little bit of this, little bit of that. A tribute to our veterans with a picture that will amaze. Plus some TV tidbits. It's great, it's zany, it's offbeat, it's funny, it's true life. I speak of my new TV fascination…."Desperate Housewives" Plus what's with Faith Hill at the 2006 CMA Awards? Finally, the new series, "Brothers and Sisters". There's are very distasteful liberal flaws in this series and they could cause it to fail.

LAWRENCEVILLE, Ga. (AP) — Jennifer Wilbanks, who became known as the "runaway bride" after taking off just days before her lavish wedding in 2005, is suing her former fiance for $500,000. Wilbanks and John Mason broke up for good in May, about a year after her excursion to Las Vegas and New Mexico made international headlines while hundreds of friends and family members searched for her back home in suburban Atlanta. Mason has until Oct. 22 to respond to the lawsuit, filed last month in Gwinnett County's Superior Court. The suit, Wilbanks vs. JCM Consulting et al, was filed Sept....

...In addition to opening up about times she has placed others' needs before her own, Hatcher, who as a child once kept a scrapbook of her failures, tells tales of a disappointing dating life. She manages to do so without being bitter. Even in a year when she has watched her fellow Housewives meet men, fall in love and get engaged (Marcia Cross to Tom Mahoney, Nicollette Sheridan to old flame Michael Bolton and Eva Longoria, who is not engaged but deeply committed to San Antonio Spurs ballplayer Tony Parker), the eternally single gal is able to celebrate their joys...

Teri Hatcher is no desperate politico. The “Desperate Housewives” star was asked several times to appear on the politically oriented “Real Time with Bill Maher,” but, says a source, keeps turning down producers, saying she’s not politically correct. “She said she’s not in-sync with Bill Maher — or most of Hollywood for that matter,’” an insider says. “We took that to mean that she’s more conservative than most of Hollywood.” “Yeah, well who declined?” Hatcher, who doesn’t have a publicist, emailed The Scoop...

NEW YORK (AP) - Joey Buttafuoco is working on Desperate Housewives - at the show's concession stand, anyway. Buttafuoco, who made national headlines in the early 1990s when his teenage girlfriend shot his wife in the face, is working in craft services on the Hollywood sets of TV shows, according to a story in the latest issue of Inside TV. The 49-year-old Buttafuoco runs a concession that doles out protein shakes and ice cream to the stars of Desperate Housewives and Crossing Jordan, the magazine reports. He was a New York auto body shop owner in 1992 when his 17-year-old...

AN INCREASING number of middle-aged women are suffering from potentially life-threatening eating disorders as they strive to emulate the characters of Desperate Housewives, the cult American television series, according to a leading eating-disorder specialist. Since the show, starring petite Teri Hatcher and her equally slim co-stars, became a hit, eating disorder clinics across the UK have seen an increase in older women suffering from anorexia and bulimia. Clinics in Scotland report a fourfold increase in the number of women aged between 30 and 50 seeking treatment for anorexia. Experts have said a "Desperate Housewives syndrome" has caused a significant rise...

By LYNN ELBER, AP Television Writer 9 minutes ago "Desperate Housewives," a dark satire about suburbia that became an instant television hit in its debut season, was among top nominees announced Thursday for the 57th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards. The ABC series, competing in the comedy category, received 15 nominations, sharing status as series front-runner with the rowdy NBC sitcom "Will & Grace," which also got 15 bids. Premium cable channel HBO once again dominated the made-for-TV category with two of its films, "The Life and Death of Peter Sellers" and "Warm Springs," each garnering 16 bids to top all...

Most of Mrs. Bush's humor at the correspondents' dinner was just right: Edgy but not over the edge. But I think the stripper and horse jokes were totally beneath her. Just put it to the other-shoe test: If it were Teresa Heinz Kerry standing up on the dais telling the same jokes, the conservative commentariat would be buzzing for the rest of the year about what a tasteless skank she is.