accident-related stories
Posted Apr 8th 2009 10:01AM by Allison Waldman
Filed under: Programming, American Idol, Watercooler Talk, Contestants

Last night at 8:56 PM, EST, I was watching
American Idol. Host Ryan Seacrest went to a commercial, saying that coming up next would be Adam Lambert, the last performer of the night. Again, I looked at the time. How on earth was Fox going to get this show done by 9:01 as planned?
Well, the answer is that they didn't. In fact, people
recording American Idol on DVRs are ticked off this morning.
For those who relied on the DVR and missed those last six minutes, you missed a lot.
Kona, who's no Adam Lambert fan, was even impressed with his performance of Tears for Fears' "Mad World."
Continue reading Why did Amercian Idol run so long last night?
Posted Jun 9th 2008 2:23PM by Kristin Sample
Filed under: Other Reality Shows, OpEd, Celebrities, News and Gossip

The Hulkster's son, in jail for a driving accident that put his friend in a coma, just got moved last Friday into a new jail cell. He was serving
his eight-month prison sentence in solitary confinement after pleading no contest to the three charges: reckless driving, drunk driving, and having tinted windows on his Supra.
In a conversation with his mother, Linda Hogan, Nick (real last name Bollea) described the jail cell as half the size of his bathroom with no windows. According to
Nancy Grace, the cell measures 12 X 16. Nick's new digs include a cable television, unlimited phone use, a snack bar, and three other juvenille inmates. According to the Sherrif's office, he was being held in solitary confinement becuase he is seventeen and therefore too young to be with the rest of the criminal population. His lawyers apparently
filed a lawsuit against the sheriff's office saying that the decision to keep their client in solitary confinement is a violation of his privacy.
What do you think? Should Nick have stayed in solitary confinement until July 27th, his eighteenth birthday?
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Posted Aug 3rd 2007 12:35PM by Varun Lella
Filed under: Prison Break, Celebrities

So, sue me -- please don't, I can't afford a lawyer -- but I couldn't help using the pun. Garrison, who plays David "Tweener" Apolskis on FOX's
Prison Break, will undergo
a 90-day evaluation to help evaluate an appropriate sentence for his
act of vehicular manslaughter.
In late May, Garrison
pleaded guilty to the manslaughter and linked alcohol charges that resulted in the death of a 17-year-old passenger and the injury of two teenage girls. Garrison was driving with a blood alcohol content of .20 (California's legal limit is .08).
Continue reading Lane Garrison most likely to get a "Prison Break" -- UPDATE
Posted Jan 29th 2007 9:01PM by Julia Ward
Filed under: Cable, Celebrities, Documentary

Former supermodel
Niki Taylor has sued E! Entertainment Television for "intentional infliction of emotional distress" with its recent
Boulevard of Broken Dreams profile of the model's career and near-fatal 2001 car accident. According to Taylor and her lawyers, E! secured Taylor's involvement in the profile by telling her that the show would focus on her current professional endeavors - including a fragrance and clothing line.
Boulevard, of course, did no such thing. The show's tagline is, after all, "In a place between heaven and Hollywood, dreams turn tragic and fame goes sour fast."
The complaint filed by Taylor's lawyers reads that E! "neglected their journalistic obligations to report truthfully and accurately." E! replied that they weren't aware that "journalism" had any attendant "obligations." The network's spokesperson issued a statement saying, "We're E! Entertainment Television, not E! Stewards of Responsible Media Television." Just kidding. E! has yet to go on record regarding the suit.
Posted Dec 4th 2006 9:15AM by Julia Ward
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, FOX, Prison Break, Celebrities

Former
Prison Break actor Lane Garrison's SUV
struck a tree on Saturday night in Beverly Hills killing one of its passengers and injuring the others. Inside the SUV were two 15 year-old girls, one 17 year-old boy and Garrison, who played David "Tweener" Apolskis on the hit Fox series. (His character was killed off earlier this season.)
The teenage boy on board was taken to Cedars-Sinai following the accident, where he died. One of the girls was critically injured. Garrison sustained minor injuries. There's no word on whether alcohol was involved, who was driving or why a 26 year-old actor had a bunch of teenagers in his SUV in the middle of the night.
This isn't Lane's first SUV accident this year. In October,
Garrison was caught by paparazzi outside of LA's Hyde nightclub after a far less tragic accident in which he crashed his Land Rover into a parked car.
Posted Oct 30th 2006 11:02AM by Anna Johns
Filed under: Celebrities, Documentary

EightNine-year old Jacob Roloff is in serious condition at a Portland, Ore. hospital following an accident with a pumpkin catapult on the family farm. Jacob is the youngest of the Roloff family, which owns a farm in Hillsboro, Oregon and also stars in the TLC show,
Little People, Big World. Jacob's father, Matt Roloff, says Jacob and a farm employee were using the catapult when it triggered at the wrong time. Both were rushed to a local hospital.
**Update: Matt Roloff
details the accident here. It sounds like everybody's going to be okay.
Posted Mar 18th 2006 12:08PM by Anna Johns
Filed under: Other Reality Shows

A reality show stunt got way out of hand near Montevideo,
Uruguay on Friday. Hundreds of residents of one town were pulling on a train as part of a reality television show
fundraiser for a local hospital. They were tugging at an engine and two attached cars when several contestants fell and
were run over by the train. Seven were killed.
The residents were competing in a program called,
A
Challenge to the Heart, where Uruguayan communities raise money for local charities by completing difficult tasks.