Mon 29 Jan 2007
Kelly Ripa Gets Botox On Live TV And Other Odd Celebrity Practices
Posted by The Jay under Orlando Bloom , Lindsay Lohan , Brangelina , Isaiah Washington , The Butterscotch Stallion , Nicole Ritchie
I just read on PopWatch that Kelly Ripa is planning on airing her first Botox injection live on Regis & Kelly. While the EW.com is adamant against watching her to do this, I say what day does it air? I’ve always been intrigued by the inane and sometimes arcane things celebrities will do to make themselves younger, thinner and prettier. We always hear rumors about wacky beauty regiments, oddball diets (like Billy Bob only eating things that are orange), and other more absurd personal lifestyle practices (hello, gerbil). I commend Ripa for leading the charge in documenting her desperate attempt to remain Couric-style perky for another decade or so.
It may not get me to watch her show (Regis’s steadfast refusal to decompose like a good little corpse has become more frustrating than its worth), but it has got me thinking what other odd celebrity practices I’d like to see live on the air.
Maybe something like…
Donald Trump combing his hair on the next episode of The Apprentice.
Isaiah Washington doing anything on any episode of any show on The Logo.
Ryan Seacrest flat-ironing his hair and practicing “Simon Sucks!” insults into a mirror before an episode of American Idol.
Oprah Winfrey burning piles of cash on her show just for funsies (btw, Happy Birthday Oprah! Please don’t sue me!).
Orlando Bloom talking about his “process” on Inside the Actor’s Studio (and James Lipton subsequently falling asleep).
Barbara Walters unlatching her jaw and swallowing Rosie O’Donnell whole on The View.
Owen Wilson showing off his, ahem, “Butterscotching” skills, on Conan.
Sharon Stone searing the flesh off of Sudanese refugee babies to make the cream for her daily anti-mummification skin peel, done for a beauty segment on The Tyra Banks Show.
Lindsay Lohan high-kicking on The Insider. Oh wait, I already saw that…
Sylvester Stallone rubbing HGH cream on his old man thighs during a training montage of an episode of The Contender.
Nicole Ritchie and The Olsen Twins eating lunch on Emeril.
Nicole Ritchie and The Olsen Twins “working off” their lunch on NBC’s The Biggest Loser.
Charlie Sheen chatting with hookers online for G4’s Tech TV.
Tara Reid’s routine Sunday morning walk of shame on Entertainment Tonight.
Jennifer Aniston getting her nose done on Mtv’s “I Want A Famous Face!”: Angelina Jolie Edition.
Bangarang!
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January 29th, 2007 at 8:39 pm
What about Lindsay Lohan going to rehab on A&E’s Intervention.
January 30th, 2007 at 7:50 am
I would like to see them catch Wilmer Valderrama on that show where they catch the child molesters. He’s been elusive so far, but they’ll get him.
January 30th, 2007 at 11:09 am
Hey Jay:
Getting a botox needle on TV is nothing new, nor it is particularly entertaining to watch. Both Oprah and the View have had people (usually audience members, not themselves) get botox and collogen and a vareity of other line-plumping, fat-injecting, face-erasing kinds of treatments on air.
Kelly may be interesting to watch as she is so unbelievably self-absorbed that she can’t help but up the ante on all her previous dramatic hysteric fits. Makes you wonder how an overpaid, untalented mother of three can actually complain about getting a needle in the face. (Some of us suffer more painful indignities on a daily basis — wiping the bottoms of crazy-ass, won’t-stand-still preschoolers, anyone??)
But then again, if Oprah can cry and have dramatic teeth-clenching anxiety over having her EARS PIERCED on tv, well, I’m sure Kelly can make it a show worth watching.
On another note, what the hell is “butterscotching”? And how can it be a skill??? Is it a code name for something rude, or just the streaky colour of Owen’s hair??? Fill me in on the joke, please!
JoBaby.
January 30th, 2007 at 2:19 pm
“The Butterscotch Stallion” is Owen Wilson’s nickname. It comes partly from the way he looks in his shaggy blonde mane of hair, and partly from his prediliction for, ahem, tossing the salad. So to speak. That’s all I’m saying here. Go do a Google search to learn more.
January 31st, 2007 at 8:48 am
I knew about your nickname for him, just not the “other” part.
A related question - what’s your take on the Kate Hudson/Owen Wilson affair?
All in favour say Yea? Nay? or maybe “Neigh!”
JoBaby.
February 5th, 2007 at 3:50 pm
Or maybe he’s the Butt’n'crotch Stallion?