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There’s a forthcoming trend in reality TV: politics.

The popularity of the Occupy Wall Street event has given producers the idea to make activists and politically-inclined people the new star of this TV programming genre. They figure, the outspokenness and opinionated personalities of such people will make a loud impact in the entertainment industry.

mtvU has started this trend with its call for college students who followed the Occupy Wall Street event. They want the students to feedback them at castme@mtvu.com.

Then, MTV also made a casting call that specifically wants political candidates, campaign managers, and activists:
MTV Seeks Atypical Activists

Bunim/Murray Productions also wants a politically opinionated person for the upcoming season of MTV’s The Real World:
MTV’s “Real World” Season 27 Casting

In fact, a post on New York City’s Craigslist has been posted last October. With the subject “Part of Occupy Wall Street? Real World 27 Wants You!”, it reads:

“MTV’s Real World is seeking cast members to tell their unique stories on our show. If you are over the age of 20 and appear to be between the ages of 20-24, and the description below sounds like you, we want to hear from you! Are you a part of the OCCUPY WALL STREET movement? If so, please contact realworldcasting@bunim-murray.com. Your subject heading should be YOUR NAME and WALL STREET.”

The production company has explained that their casting call came out of the current zeitgeist. Suddenly, there is a need to focus on people who are “involved in whatever is going on in the world around them”.

Shortly after, many other production companies also become interested in creating reality series for politically opinionated people.

The list includes a popular casting company probing the whole USA for “personalities that rally behind a cause and influence others to do the same”:
Nationwide Search For Political Activists

Then there’s also a casting call for couples who do not agree on politics:
Reality TV Seeks Couples Who Don’t Agree On Politics

All of these reality TV programs promise activists and politically opinionated people the “voice” that they need to be heard by the world. But everybody knows better. Reality TVs are all about sensationalism too. Someone who’s passionate about a political cause but with a so-so personality is not part of the call.

This Miu Miu ad image featuring child superstar Hailee Steinfeld is banned in UK.

The image is not sexually provocative. There is no prepubescent girls doing sensual poses or feeling each other up. This is not Dakota Fanning putting a bottle of perfume between her thighs nor a 10-year-old girl dressed as a sexpot adult. So why the verdict?

Well, according to the presumably strict judgment of the UK advertising standard authority, the image is inappropriate and “irresponsible” for public viewing because it features a 14-year-old girl sitting on an unsafe train track.

According to Miu Miu’s mother company, Prada, the image is but “part of a serious high-fashion campaign” and is “based on the set of an imaginary film”.

A well-dressed girl is sitting on the train track, crying. What film could it be?

Is she crying because she just missed an important appointment, because she did not make it to the train station in time? Is she crying because someone just left her on an abandoned railway and she couldn’t find her way home? Or is she crying because her puppy love left her for someone new? Ah, the source of her pain could be whatever but the image is clear on one thing — a sobbing young girl is sitting on the train track like she could stay there forever…

Oh my God, suicidal teen!

Soon-to-be-married Twilight fanatics, here’s your once-in-a-lifetime chance to relive Bella and Edward’s immortal vows.

Say “I do” in Bella’s wedding dress!

The Twilight wedding dress is designed by famous fashion designer Carolina Herrera who want it to convey “romance and innocence”. Front view, the dress is modest with full-length lace-trimmed sleeves although it has dramatically plunging cut neckline. Rear view, it screams “bite me!” with the cut-out-illusion and buttons on the center of the dress that runs down to the hemline, seemingly tracing the body’s contour. The gown is made of liquid satin sheat.

Not to burst your bubble here, but the marketed Twilight wedding gown is only a licensed replica of the original by designer Alfred Angelo. The good news is that it is available in sizes 0 to 30W. The not-so-good news is that although the sales figures are not available yet, interested brides are already snapping it up at $799.

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Here’s Mila Kunis enjoying the night at the Marine Corps Ball in Greenville on November 19th.

Over YouTube, the Friends With Benefits actress has been asked by Sgt. Scott Moore to be his date to the ball, which marked the 236 years of military history. Justin Timberlake and Kristin Cavallari have also been asked for a date on the marine ball.

Ill-stricken? Or a member of the U.S. troops in Middle East perhaps? Then you’re perfect for something that’s been going on a frenzy these days!

Nah, I’m not talking about reality TV. I’m talking about the wonderful opportunity to invite Hollywood celebrities to become your date. Ask your favorite stars for a date and post your videos on YouTube. It won’t take long for people to talk about your plea. Soonest, the celebrities will be alerted of the poor soul who’s only happiness is to date them. How cruel could they be to turn down an innocent invite from a dying person or someone who risks his life for the country, right?

Here’s the latest on celebrity invites — a cancer-stricken woman asking for a coffee date with the 50/50 star Joseph Gordon Levitt:

Not sure if saying yes to the date request is a worthy cause for Joseph Gordon Levitt. But a celebrity really has the power to put a worthy cause in the spotlight like nothing else.

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Cause Celeb

In yet another news of modeling scandal, top celebrity photographer Lee Crooper aka “The Mofo” has been arrested following charges of rape and sexual assaults. His celebrity subjects include Sadie Frost, Billie Piper, and many other Vogue magazine cover models.

His early success in the fashion photography has made it possible for him to make sexual advances on women in their early to mid-20’s. Using his impressive portfolio of celebrity shots, he has been luring aspiring models to come to his London studio for casting shoots. His modus operandi is to book models through an agency and use a new email address when he got blacklisted following complaints.

The Mofo will serve 33 months of jailtime. He is already placed on the sex offenders’ register, “banned from working with children and vulnerable adults, forfeited his camera, computer and photographs of the victims and was made subject to an indefinite Sexual Offenders Prevention Order”.

“His career as a photographer is over. There is no way he can go back to it. It is a small community,” says his lawyer.

Dude, if you ever had a criminal record, better not work in Hollywood. Sooner or later, someone will run a background check on you. The next thing you know, you’ve not just lost your job but also headlined the Hollywood gossip sites.

This is what happened to Jason James Murphy, a casting assistant for the Super 8 movie by director J.J. Abrams.

Fifteen years ago, Jason James Murphy was convicted of kidnapping and molesting an 8-year-old boy in Washington. He served 5 years in prison and underwent counseling as a sex offender. In 2005, he moved to California and found work in Hollywood under the alias “Jason James”. He has worked with children on the sets of “Bad News Bears”, “The School of Rock”, “Cheaper by the Dozen 2″ and even the upcoming film, “The Three Stooges”.

Although there have been no reports of Jason James molesting children on set, he was still found guilty of breaking state laws, which includes not working directly with children. And though he may have served his offense already, the history in child molestation has created a stigma that he will bear in perpetuity.

Upon learning the casting assistant’s record, J.J. Abrams has expressed his disappointment to the Los Angeles Times newspaper:

“It’s shocking and it’s devastating, not just as a filmmaker but as a father and someone who is entrusted to make sure that everyone I work with, especially children, are safe. To think that someone like this was among us is unthinkable.”

‘Good thing Jason James was never alone with children while in their offices. That’s according to the movie’s Casting Directors April Webster and Alyssa Weisberg.

Imagine Jesus’ mother looking like Pamela Anderson in person.

No, I’m not courting hate comments from Marian devotees here. Sexy actress Pamela Anderson is really going to play the fair Virgin Mary! And she’s acting out the role for a Christmas special!

Pamela Anderson’s Virgin Mary gig is for the play “A Russell Peters Christmas” that will air on CTV and The Comedy Network on December 1. Joining the Canadian actress are funny men Jon Lovitz, Ted Lange, Scott Thompson, and Michael Bublé. (The singer has rightfully earned the title “comedian” after slamming Kim Kardashian at his recent concert).

Is Pamela Anderson fit for the role of the Virgin Mary? Why not! She’s got silicone, sex tape, plenty of rocker boyfriends, and many many nude pictorials on Playboy — she’s nowhere close to being a virgin!

In case you don’t know what “A Russell Peters Christmas” is all about, well, it’s a comedy show with lots of spoofs on the traditional Christmas story. The play is described as the “irreverent twist on the Christmas special”.

Thus, someone like Pamela Anderson is great choice for being irreverent.

Do you know that there was really a fashion designer who dressed busty and sensual models as Virgin Mary for his fashion show?

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Woah! ‘Never thought haters would go all the way to campaign for the boycotting of the Kardashian clan ala Occupy Wall Street. But an organized effort is really circulating on a petition website to ouster the famous reality TV family:

“In a grass roots effort, we have collected signatures for a petition asking E! Entertainment to remove the Kardashian suite of shows from their programming.

“We feel that these shows are mostly staged and place an emphasis on vanity, greed, promiscuity, vulgarity and over-the-top conspicuous consumption.

“While some may have begun watching the spectacle as mindless entertainment or as a sort of ‘reality satire,’ it is a sad truth that many young people are looking up to this family and are modeling their appearance and behavior after them. I’ll remind you here that the Kardashian family fame largely started with a ‘leaked’ sex tape.

“There is no particular religious or political platform behind our disgust; we are just finally fed up.”

It’s too much to say that this public outrage has been triggered by Kim Kardasian’s failed 72-day marriage.

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Former Disney princesses Miley Cyrus and Demi Lovato are joining forces to campaign for one very important cause: “Stop Calling Teenage Girls Fat!”

Via Twitter, Miley Cyrus posted a photo of an emaciated women with the caption, “By calling girls like me fat this is what you’re doing to other people. i love MYSELF & if you could say the same”. Then she posted another photo of the voluptuous Marilyn Monroe along with the words “PROOF that you can be adored by thousands of men, even when your thighs touch”.

Demi Lovato, who has been cured from an eating disorder just few months back, couldn’t agree more. She replied, “AMEN”.

And things started getting more passionate:

“@ddlovato AMEN! I will destroy any one that ever calls you the F word. You have the SEXIIIESTTTT curvyyyy body! I LOVE IT! #werkthosecurves”, tweets Miley.

“@MileyCyrus god I love you. SO DO YOU!!! And whoever called you that has it coming. Miss you more than ever”.
@MileyCyrus ps SO proud of you for posting that! #curvesareBEAUTIFUL”, replies Demi.

Wouldn’t it be nice if Hollywood has more of this scenario where celebrities have something good to say about each other instead of bulshitting each other’s craft?

And isn’t it cool that two famous young adults in Hollywood, despite having their own share of controversies, are standing up for something that greatly affects the youth of America and the world?

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Her gorgeousness, Victoria Bonya, hails from Moscow, Russia. She stands 5′7″ with a vital statistics of 36-26-36. Radiating beauty in her true green eyes and light brown hair, “Vika” is a model, actress, and TV presenter of MTV Russia. She is also a fashion designer.

As told on her social networking page, Victoria Bonya was born in the mining town of Krasnokamensk and moved to the Russian capital of Moscow when she was only 16 years old. She first worked in Moscow as a waitress, but her outstanding beauty has opened up a career for her in the modeling and beauty industry. She represented Russia in the 2001 Miss Earth competition. From there, she went on to do a lot of modeling and acting gigs for film and TV, including doing shoots for Maxim and Playboy and her well–known appearance in the Russian reality TV series “Dom2″ (House 2).

Victoria Bonya’s modeling gig with the Italian fashion brand Crema and Cioccolato has opened up a career for her in the fashion design industry, where she sold her signature under the Crema and Cioccolato by Bonita collection.

Aside from her native tongue, Victoria Bonya also speaks English and Spanish. Always the social and adventurous woman who’s not afraid to take on the world, she says “Strive skyward and never fall down!”

Check out her New Faces® portfolio at:
http://www.newfaces.com/Bonya