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Dalai Lama Has Eye for the Ladies

Mary Papenfuss — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 00:02:12 CDT

Turns out the Dalai Lama isn't on an entirely different astral plane than lots of men. He admits a beautiful woman can turn his head. "Do you ever feel temptation when you see a woman?" Piers Morgan asks his holiness in a CNN interview. "Oh, yes, sometimes I think, 'Oh,...

Everybody Hates Madonna

Evann Gastaldo — Fri, 30 Mar 2012 10:59:05 CDT

The latest to slam Madonna: electronic musician Paul van Dyk, who calls her "so stupid" in Billboard . "She made the biggest mistake of her career" when she apparently referenced drugs "in front of a crowd of 18-year-olds" at the Ultra Music Festival on Saturday, he says. Madonna, introducing festival headliner...

Kirk Cameron: Homosexuality Is 'Destructive'

Neal Colgrass — Sun, 04 Mar 2012 14:29:41 CST

Former sitcom star Kirk Cameron flexed his anti-gay-marriage muscle on Piers Morgan last night, the Huffington Post reports. The 1980s Growing Pains heartthrob called homosexuality "unnatural ... I think it's detrimental, and ultimately destructive to so many of the foundations of civilization." Now a "devoted follower of Jesus Christ," Cameron said...

Christie to Buffett: Pay Up and Shut Up

Polly Davis Doig — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 08:32:15 CST

Chris Christie has just about had it with that pesky Oracle of Omaha and all his talk about millionaires paying more taxes. The New Jersey governor cut off Piers Morgan's Warren Buffett question at the pass in an interview last night on CNN , telling him, "He should just write a...

Santorum to Rape Victims: Save 'Horribly Made' Gift

Mary Papenfuss — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 02:22:34 CST

He certainly has a way with words—and Rick Santorum is still getting ripped for some of them. Santorum last week urged rape victims to protect the "horribly created" pregnancies that may result as a "broken" gift from God. Rape victims who become pregnant should "make the best of a...

Piers Morgan on Defensive at Phone Hacking Hearing

John Johnson — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 12:16:43 CST

Piers Morgan was in the hot seat today in Britain's phone hacking inquiry, but the CNN host refused to play along. He got grilled via video from the US on one point in particular, notes AP : If he didn't engage in phone hacking, how did he manage to hear a...

2011's Least Fascinating People

Evann Gastaldo — Sun, 18 Dec 2011 12:57:06 CST

Needless to say, Gawker isn’t all that impressed with Barbara Walters’ annual list of the year’s 10 most fascinating people . The good news is, that didn’t stop blogger Seth Abramovitch from offering up his own list, of the year’s 10 least fascinating people, in response: Piers Morgan : “The turnip-headed reality...

Trump: Why I'm Most Qualified to Host Debate

Evann Gastaldo — Thu, 08 Dec 2011 06:52:26 CST

It's the question on everyone's mind: What exactly makes real estate mogul Donald Trump qualified to host a political debate? Well, that's easy: "I know a lot of the moderators and some are wonderful, and some aren't, but I know the issues better than the moderators," Trump explained yesterday on...

Howard Stern May Judge America's Got Talent

John Johnson — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 18:20:53 CST

Here we go again with the Howard-Stern-as-celebrity-judge rumors. This time, he's supposedly in talks with NBC to join America's Got Talent as a judge alongside Howie Mandel and Sharon Osbourne, report the Wrap and the Wall Street Journal . Both cite anonymous insiders. Stern would replace Piers Morgan, who announced this...