Blog Posts by Claudine Zap

Looks like "Keeping Up With the Kardashians" will have a new cast member: Kanye West. But don't expect Khloé and Lamar-style action.

Kim K. confirmed to E! Online that her new beau, rapper Kanye West, will appear on several episodes of the reality series, saying: "I want to show my life,” adding, "If we are having dinner and he does show up, I'm sure we're not going to go, 'Stop the cameras!'"

But she added, "I'm not going to be taking a bubble bath and drinking champagne or on a sex swing [on camera] like Khloé and Lamar do," Kardashian told E! News, adding, "It's not going to be like that."

The lovebirds haven’t exactly been hiding their relationship: The two were recently spotted courtside at a Los Angeles Lakers game, but seemed to have eyes only for each other.

[Photos:"Keeping Up With The Kardashians" Season 7]

Fans of the show should look forward to Kimmy turning a new chapter of her love life after her disastrous 72-day marriage to Kris Humphries last season.

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The premiere of Season 8 of "The Bachelorette" airs this Monday. Expect drama! Heartbreak! Tears! Or not. Here, a look at the show's star, Emily Maynard.

You’ve seen her before
The blond beauty has already done this rodeo. Maynard captured Brad Womack’s attention, and she received his final rose in Season 15 of “The Bachelor.” But the romance didn’t last, and the two split up last June.

Third time’s the charm?
The Southern belle has been tragically unlucky at love. Viewers of “The Bachelor” may remember that Maynard revealed that she had been engaged to her high school sweetheart, NASCAR driver Ricky Hendrick, who died in a plane crash. Days after his death, she learned she was pregnant with his child.

The show’s first single mom
Host Chris Harrison said that this time around, with the bachelorette a single mother looking for love, the show has a different vibe. "Her being a single mom definitely changed the tone,” he said, adding, “Throughout the show, there was always just

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Your forecast today: cloudy with a chance of royalty. None other than Prince Charles delivered the weather report on the BBC.

The Prince of Wales was touring the network’s Scottish studio when he stepped in to deliver the afternoon forecast. The heir to the throne looked like a natural, standing comfortably in front of the meteorology maps in a crisp dark suit and red striped tie.

Holding a clicker to control the maps, he ticked off the forecast with a slight smile, pronouncing the afternoon “cold, wet, and windy” (we’re talking about Scotland, after all) and pointing to areas on the maps behind him.

The 63-year-old read a script especially written for him, which included references to the royal residences in Scotland. But even the royal touch could not improve the gloomy forecast.

This is not the first time the prince has tried doing a job meant for ordinary people: Earlier this year, Charles piloted a London Underground tube train while touring the factory where the

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You can win a date with Carmen Electra! Yes, you! (Click Photos)Have you dreamed of scoring a dream date with Carmen Electra? How about "The Situation"? Tempting, right? Take a number. Or, more likely, wait for these stars to take a spinning seat on the new summer reality dating show on Fox, "The Choice," where eligible single celebrities meet and choose regular folks to date.

Taking its cues from the popular NBC hit "The Voice," viewers will also see four celebrity contestants, blind auditions, and, yes, those spinning chairs.

Cat Deeley will host the show that will feature four celebs sitting, "Voice" style, with their backs to their potential dates describing themselves. (Not by singing, we assume.) If the bachelor or bachelorette hears something they like, they pull a "love handle" (not the body part, but an actual contraption), which spins the chair around to face the desired single.

If more than one celeb pulls their love handle for the same single, they go into speed rounds where the single must choose which celeb to side with. The

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It's the season when the accomplished, the funny, and the powerful descend on college campuses -- and talk at them. The 2012 graduating class can look forward to an impressive and powerful lineup of speakers: President Obama, First Lady Michelle Obama, and Mitt Romney, to name a few.

But before the distinguished speakers can deliver their advice to this year's graduating class, we have some of our own: The best speeches seem to be from people who never graduated from college, or are funny, or better yet, are both -- and who honestly share their hard-earned wisdom.

Past speeches have gone beyond the campus quads where they were given to be shared on the Web. Here, some favorite addresses that are still buzzing.

Ellen DeGeneres had a serious and seriously funny message for the 2009 graduating class of Tulane University, who had braved Hurricane Katrina back in 2005.

The talk show host, who did not go to college, recounted, "When I was your age, I really thought I knew

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Sheen with new co-star Daniela Bobadilla (WhoSay)There's a new woman in Charlie Sheen's life: actress Daniela Bobadilla, who co-stars in Sheen's new show, "Anger Management."

The 19-year-old is already bringing out Sheen's softer side. The actor tweeted a photo on WhoSay of the pair with this post: "Meet America's newest rising star!! Follow my co-star, @DanieBobadilla. She plays my daughter & I just love her!" Awww.

The Mexican-born actress can already be seen in recurring roles on the TV dramas "Awake" and "Desperate Housewives."

The up-and-comer got her first break co-starring with George Lopez in the 2009 TV movie "Mr. Troop Mom." The actress auditioned for the "Anger Management" role and won the part.

CassandraIt probably didn't hurt that the petite brunette bears a slight resemblance to Sheen's real-life eldest daughter, Cassandra Jade Estevez, his child with high school girlfriend Paula Speert. The two young women share Sheen's dark features, unlike Sheen's four children with wives Denise Richards and Brooke

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Now that Jessica Simpson has finally delivered her bundle of joy, she’s apparently prepared to lose weight for a bundle of cash.

Last December, the New York Post reported that the star had inked a $3 million deal with Weight Watchers to become its spokesperson. That means we could watch the reality TV star go from maternity duds to her Daisy Dukes.

The fashion mogul, who jokingly called herself “fat” while pregnant, has another motivation: She is planning to wed her fiancé, Eric Johnson, and would probably like to be slimmed down for her walk down the aisle.

Us Weekly, citing an unnamed source, says Simpson “would have one year to use the point-counting program to ‘lose a significant amount of weight.’”

Then, as those familiar with the program know, there would be the big reveal of skinny Jessica, who would appear in ads for the diet company touting its formula for success.

The 31-year-old wouldn’t be the first star to cash in on her post-baby weight gain.

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For months, fans have followed Jessica Simpson’s baby bump, baby shower, baby shopping. Is it any wonder then -- now that the star has welcomed her daughter -- that attention has turned to the newborn’s name? Simpson announced the arrival of one Maxwell Drew Johnson, and a storm of comments hit the Web.

The name Maxwell has a family history from dad Eric Johnson's side -- it's his middle name and his grandmother's surname. Drew is the maiden name of Jessica's mother, Tina Simpson.

And Life & Style was first to report that the parents plan to call their baby Maxi for short.

Back in April, Simpson talked baby names to Elle magazine and promised "It's nothing shocking and nothing you'll have to add to the dictionary. Still, when people hear it they'll know … why."

Well, if the hundreds of comments on Yahoo! are any guide, J-Simp couldn’t have been more wrong.

While wishing the new mother and child well, some couldn’t help but weigh in on the choice of the name. One wrote,

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