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Cher Rips Romney's 'Racist Tea Bagger Masters'

Rob Quinn — Wed, 09 May 2012 00:30:00 CDT

Don't expect Cher to sing a duet with Ted Nugent any time soon. If Mitt Romney "gets elected I don't know if I can breathe same air as Him & his Right Wing Racist Homophobic Women-Hating Tea Bagger Masters," she wrote in one of several tweets yesterday that were later...

Cher Sells Key to Adelaide, Aussies Stunned

Mary Papenfuss — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 08:29:10 CDT

Cher must be getting a little hard up because she sold the symbolic "key" to the city of Adelaide on eBay—and Aussies are flabbergasted. "I am exceptionally disappointed," huffed current Adelaide Mayor Stephen Yarwood . "It's more a reflection on Cher than the city of Adelaide. It must be very...

Chaz Bono Trims Down for DWTS

Neal Colgrass — Sun, 04 Sep 2011 13:49:56 CDT

Chaz Bono is already wiggling his tush and shaking off the pounds in preparation for Dancing With the Stars . Only six days into rehearsals, his DWTS partner Lacey Schwimmer says Bono is "funny," "awesome," " so nice" and 5 pounds lighter than when he started. "It's so great," Schwimmer tells People...

12 Bizarre Celeb Odd Couples

Evann Gastaldo — Sat, 09 Jul 2011 18:08:33 CDT

Sometimes opposites attract ... and when that happens in Tinseltown, it's sure to make headlines. The Frisky rounds up a dozen celebrity odd couples: Lisa Kudrow and Conan O'Brien : The Friends actress recently revealed that she dated the late night host before she hit the big time, but they were better...

Burlesque So Terrible It's Funny

Evann Gastaldo — Wed, 24 Nov 2010 11:11:05 CST

Cher is back, starring in her first film in seven years, but critics aren't too wowed by the campy Burlesque , which also feature Christina Aguilera: "The choicest dialogue in Burlesque provokes the sort of laughter that other, intentionally funny films only dream of generating," writes Michael Phillips in the Chicago...

Cher: Chaz Is a 'Very Smart Girl—Boy!'

Evann Gastaldo — Tue, 02 Nov 2010 09:56:08 CDT

Cher’s daughter Chastity is now her son Chaz —and the singer still can’t quite get her pronouns straight. “She’s a very smart girl—boy! This is where I get into trouble,” she tells Vanity Fair . “I still don’t remember to call her ‘him.’” Even so, she remains a proud...

8 More Stars Who 'Unretired'

Evann Gastaldo — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 11:28:17 CDT

Just five weeks into her early retirement , Amanda Bynes is back —thank goodness. “As you let the good news sink in, possibly while IMDBing who Amanda Bynes actually is,” Mary Elizabeth Williams writes for Salon , consider eight other public figures who just couldn’t quit: Cher : “The diva has gone away...

Top 10 Plastic Surgery Addicts

Evann Gastaldo — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 09:37:00 CST

Heidi Montag recently admitted—just in time to promote the release of her album, what a coincidence!—that she is addicted to plastic surgery. But Heidi’s not the only celeb who’s gone under the knife more than a few times. Kate Torgovnick rounds up the top 10, on The Frisky...

Chaz Bono Very Happy After Sex Change

Nick McMaster — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 16:28:07 CDT

Chaz—formerly Chastity—Bono is enjoying the payoff of years of effort: He’s finally a man. Born the daughter of Cher and Sonny Bono, Chaz says his female-to-male sex change was the “end of a long process going back almost a decade. I got clean and sober in 2004 and...