mansion-related stories
Posted Oct 23rd 2009 12:02PM by Allison Waldman
Filed under: Other Reality Shows, OpEd, Celebrities
If you can, imagine Fran Fine from
The Nanny saying these words, "Oh my gawd..." because that's the voice in my head when I read that
Real Housewives'
Teresa Guidice is losing her New Jersey mansion to foreclosure.
The table-flipping mother of four, who was shown moving into the palatial, marble-laden manse during the first season of Bravo's
The Real Housewives of New Jersey, is behind in her mortgage and DLJ Mortgage Capital filed papers in Superior Court of New Jersey this week to begin foreclosure.
Continue reading Real Houswives table-flipper is losing home to foreclosure
Posted Aug 15th 2008 9:41AM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: Celebrities, Reality-Free
Sometimes your savior comes with pursed lips and really weird hair.
Billionaire
Donald Trump has come to the rescue of Ed McMahon. The
Apprentice star has bought the mansion that McMahon has had on the market and will let McMahon live there. The house has six bedrooms and five bathrooms. My bathroom has no window and you practically have to stand on the toilet to open and close the shower door.
The interesting thing is that McMahon and Trump don't even know each other, so it's not like Trump is an old friend and decided to bail him out. At the same time this might be a good investment for Trump. The mansion is worth $4.6 million.
Of course, McMahon isn't completely out of the woods financially. He is currently being
sued by, well,
every single person he has ever had a
monetary transaction with. I wonder if he'll be co-hosting
The Jerry Lewis Labor Day Telethon again this year?
Posted Feb 5th 2007 2:02PM by Julia Ward
Filed under: Other Reality Shows, ABC, Programming, Pickups and Renewals
Dutch reality mogul John de Mol (pictured) has sold yet another series to ABC. (Can anyone explain to me why the Dutch have such a stranglehold on innovation in reality television?) This one is called
The Golden Cage. It's a touch
Big Brother, a touch
Dynasty, a touch white collar prison. Here's the skinny. Ten people, who have each paid $14,000 to participate, are put in a luxury mansion. They have servants, throw lavish parties and, in the Dutch version at least, have sex with prostitutes. Whoo-hoo!
Continue reading ABC wants to put you in a Golden Cage
Posted Oct 22nd 2006 3:01PM by Adam Finley
Filed under: NBC, OpEd, Animation, Short-Lived Shows, Children
The creation of Foofur, a Saturday morning cartoon that ran on NBC for two seasons starting in 1986, is typically credited to Freddy Monnickendam, the man who helped bring The Smurfs to American television and who later created The Snorks. However, Don Markstein of Toonopedia writes that the cartoon is more precisely attributed to Phil Mendez, who created Kissyfur one year earlier. Whoever created it, Foofur was a staple of my Saturday mornings, and I was glad to find a few episodes on YouTube.
Continue reading Short-Lived Shows: Foofur
Posted Jun 21st 2006 8:11AM by Anna Johns
Filed under: Other Reality Shows, Celebrities, VH1
$25 million may seem like a lot of money to pay for the home of a former wrestler. Until you hear a little bit more about it. According to the St. Petersburg Times:
"The roof tiles are imported from France. The floors are center-cut oak that's hand-carved in a basketweave pattern. The windows are handmade leaded glass. The kitchen has custom copper sinks, hand-carved limestone and steel countertops, and a fireplace, one of seven in the 17,000-square-foot house."That's mighty extravagant, Hulk. The grounds are 2.3 acres overlooking the Intracoastal Waterway. Hulk and the fam damily moved to Miami Beach last month. The home is actually appraised at $6.4 million (with $126,000 in property taxes last year!), but Hulk's real estate agent evidently thinks his celebrity is big enough to push that price up nearly $20 million.
Posted Apr 11th 2006 9:30AM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: FOX, Talent, American Idol, Music and Variety, Celebrities
American Idol host Ryan Seacrest
has
bought Kevin Costner's Hollywood Hills
home for $11.5 million. WTF?!
Seriously, how much house does one person need? Could he spend, maybe, $2
million on a really nice home, and maybe spend the rest on hair product, or maybe gifts for Teri? Why spend that much
money, unless you're role model is Dr. No and you plan on trying to take over the world from sercret underground lair?
Is the place surrounded by water like in Costner's
Waterworld?
I'm actually a defender of Seacrest,
though I guess this seems a bit extravagant to me. But what do I know? I'm just happy I could pay my electric bill this
month.
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