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Lindsay Lohan, The Victim? Special Edition of Showbiz Tonight: Stars Up Close and Personal
Aired December 22, 2010 - 23:00 ET
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BROOKE ANDERSON, HOST: Big news breaking today on SHOWBIZ TONIGHT - Lindsay Lohan the victim? Lindsay`s startling allegation today that she was attacked by a rehab center staffer. That staffer speaks out for the very first time today. So we are asking in the SHOWBIZ Flashpoint - is Lindsay the victim here?
SHOWBIZ TONIGHT gets up close and personal with Hollywood`s biggest stars. Explosive plastic surgery confessions. Which stars really regret getting nips and tucks?
And Portia`s pain over anorexia. Portia De Rossi`s emotional weight confessions to her wife, Ellen DeGeneres, right on Ellen`s show.
TV`s most provocative entertainment news show starts right now.
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Hi, there. I`m Brooke Anderson with big news breaking today - you`re fired! The Lindsay Lohan rehab fight just got uglier. There is brand-new outrage today after the rehab worker accusing Lohan of assault speaks out and then promptly loses her job.
Former Betty Ford employee, Dawn Holland, is telling her side of the rehab shoving match. And she points the finger squarely at Lohan today. But Lohan is apparently brushing off Holland`s claim reportedly saying Holland is to blame.
And now, there is new evidence to suggest that Lindsay may actually be the victim here. SHOWBIZ TONIGHT with Lindsay`s devastating new drama.
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(voice-over) Is Lindsay Lohan acting like a violent real life mean girl while in rehab? Or is this now ex-rehab staffer a violent real-life Nurse Ratched?
UNIDENTIFIED ACTRESS: You sit down!
ANDERSON: Today, Lindsay Lohan and the now ex-Betty Ford staffer Lindsay`s accused of roughing up are battling each other once again. Lindsay`s reportedly telling friends today that she`s the victim of violence here and the now ex-rehab employee saying today she was fired unfairly.
NINA PARKER, PRODUCER, TMZ: This doesn`t seem like it will (INAUDIBLE) quietly or anytime soon.
ANDERSON: SHOWBIZ TONIGHT confirms the Betty Ford Center has fired Dawn Holland for talking to the media about an altercation she says she had with Lindsay the night of December 12th.
Lindsay is undergoing court-ordered rehab at Betty Ford after a string of DUI arrests and probation violations.
DAWN HOLLAND, FORMER BETTY FORD CLINIC EMPLOYEE: Lindsay and then two other patients were - snuck out, went drinking, trying to sneak back in and they got caught.
ANDERSON: In this TMZ interview, Holland says she tangled with Lindsay after the starlet broke curfew and tried to sneak back into Betty Ford.
HOLLAND: She`s been defiant and broken almost every rule there is to break since she`s been there. She is very angry and out of control. She pushed me.
PARKER: Dawn claims that she has to be on workman`s comp because she says Lindsay Lohan pushed her in a way that allowed her to sprain her arm.
ANDERSON: Today, Lindsay`s lawyer told SHOWBIZ TONIGHT they won`t be commenting on the Betty Ford incident. But behind the scenes, Lindsay`s reportedly doing lots of commenting. TMZ reported today Lindsay`s been telling friends and family she`s innocent.
PARKER: She also says about the alleged assault that the worker - that, you know, she never hit this worker, that the woman attacked her.
ANDERSON: And while Lindsay`s reportedly chatting up her friends about this incident, today, Holland is lawyering up and going after the Betty Ford Center.
Today, her attorney told SHOWBIZ TONIGHT, quote, Ms. Holland was immediately targeted, unmercifully interrogated, intimidated and threatened with her livelihood unless she conformed to the immoral and unethical requests of the clinic. The BFC was exerting every influence they had in attempting to cover up their own unlawful conduct.
But this rehab center attorney tells SHOWBIZ TONIGHT Holland should not have gone to the media.
MICHAEL BARNES, ATTORNEY FOR THE BETTY FORD CENTER: The fact this worker has disclosed information related to Ms. Lohan`s treatment is really egregious in addition to being obnoxious.
ANDERSON: Police in Palm Desert, California are investigating the battery allegation against Lindsay. That`s bad news for Lindsay, who has already tested the court`s patience with repeated probation violations.
PARKER: If she gets into any trouble, she could face 180 days in jail.
ANDERSON: So Lindsay is looking at a possible jail sentence. And her alleged victim and/or tormenter is out of a job. We don`t know who started the fight, but we do know one thing - both women wound up bruised.
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I had really hoped Lindsay would complete this rehab successfully without any drama. So much for that. But this isn`t a black-and-white case. That brings us to our SHOWBIZ Flashpoint today - is Lindsay Lohan the victim in this alleged assault case?
Joining us right now, Carlos Diaz, who is a syndicated radio show host and a guest host on "Prime News" this week right here on HLN. And with me, Pat Lalama, who is an investigative journalist.
OK. Carlos, Pat, there are a lot of gray areas in this story but both sides really sticking hard to their stories. Pat, to our SHOWBIZ TONIGHT Flashpoint, is Lindsay in any way a victim here?
PAT LALAMA, INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALIST: I don`t see it. Let me just tell you that just a second ago - a few seconds ago, I got off the phone with Keith Davidson, who is Ms. Holland`s attorney. And he reinforces one point that`s very important.
He says his client is not discussing her treatment at Betty Ford. She is discussing a criminal investigation about which she is involved and perhaps a victim, according to him.
ANDERSON: How about then Holland reportedly saying that she didn`t think, in her opinion, Lindsay was responding well to treatment? How do you make that distinction, like, where do you start talking? Where do you stop talking? How can you make that distinction?
LALAMA: Well, I think there`s a lot of gray area still at this point. But listen, Brooke, I have to make one really important point about this whole mess.
Notwithstanding the incredible work that rehab centers do, including Betty Ford, literally saving lives and we know that, I must tell you in the many, many years, too many to count that I have been covering the criminal justice system in Los Angeles, I know for a fact that this rehab business is big business, that these places are vying for big, big celebrities.
They need the money. They want the money. They want the free advertising. They don`t want any black marks. And I have to believe that it`s very possible that this woman, Ms. Holland, could, in fact, be a scapegoat for something Ms. Lohan may have provoked.
ANDERSON: That may be a legitimate point but we don`t know that about the Betty Ford Center.
LALAMA: Yes. I`m just saying.
ANDERSON: And Carlos, have I to tell you it really saddens me, though, that there are even reports that Lindsay could be going down the same destructive path, even though she reportedly says she did nothing wrong. She was not drinking. This is her fifth time in rehab. To our SHOWBIZ Flashpoint, which side are you buying? Is Lindsay actually the victim here?
CARLOS DIAZ, SYNDICATED RADIO HOST: It all comes down to the tale of the tape, the surveillance tape. We`re talking about gray areas. We don`t know this. We don`t know that. The surveillance tape tells all.
And Lindsay`s people are saying there`s a surveillance tape there, and when we see the surveillance tape, which we`ll probably never see, but once Betty Ford`s people see the surveillance tape, which they probably already have, that`s what`s going to be the determination factor right there.
That`s the truth because there were no witnesses, according to both sources. It was just Dawn and Lindsay so it`s all coming down to if there is anything significant on the surveillance tape.
The bottom line is Lindsay`s in drama. Everyone`s talking about the Lindsay drama. Lindsay does not need being in the middle of drama. This is terrible for her career.
ANDERSON: It`s terrible.
DIAZ: Yes.
ANDERSON: And Pat, you know, SHOWBIZ TONIGHT spoke with Holland`s lawyer. You spoke with Holland`s lawyer and he is - his defense of her is she is speaking out because it`s a criminal case. She was involved in an alleged assault, but that she was not speaking out about her treatment.
How can that be his defense though going forward? Because it`s reprehensible any time you talk about the confidential information about a patient in a rehab center. Very quickly.
LALAMA: This may not hold up in a court of law, but the fact is she probably feels - Ms. Holland - that she has to defend herself against a huge client with a lot of money and a lot of attention.
ANDERSON: Possibly. All right. We`ve got to now get to more big news breaking today. I`m talking about those outrageous "Jersey Shore" kids. They`re back. And I`ve got your very first look at the wild new season of the show. Paris Hilton has an in-flight scare with (INAUDIBLE). Not hot. And Michelle Williams dramatic new confessions about her late ex, Heath Ledger. It`s all making big news in "The Buzz Today."
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(voice-over) Michelle`s emotional new revelation. In a brand-new interview on ABC`s "Nightline," Michelle Williams opens up about the death of Heath Ledger, the father of her daughter, Matilda.
MICHELLE WILLIAMS, ACTRESS: In a strange way, I miss that year because all those possibilities that existed then are gone. It didn`t seem unlikely to me that he could walk through a door.
ANDERSON: Ledger died of an accidental prescription drug overdose in 2008.
Paris` in-flight shocker. Paris Hilton is tweeting about the scare she got on a Delta airline flight to Hawaii. Paris tweets, "We were about to take off and then security made everyone deplane because they found a big knife on board the plane."
Delta tells SHOWBIZ TONIGHT they found a, quote, "small catering knife and everyone was able to get to Hawaii."
"Jersey Shore" is back for more. Snooki, Ronnie, J-Woww, Pauley D., The Situation and the rest of the crew are back in New Jersey for a third season. MTV just released the preview and it looks wilder than ever.
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UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Get the (EXPLETIVE DELETED) off my -
ANDERSON: The new season of "Jersey Shore" premieres January 6th.
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ANDERSON: And now SHOWBIZ TONIGHT gets up close and personal with some big stars today like Madonna. Her unbelievable confessions about being bullied as a kid.
You know, super-aggressive paparazzi chasing down stars? That`s kind of a form of bullying, right? You`ve got to hear the amazing story "Entourage" star Adrian Grenier tells me he was hounded by a teenage paparazzo. But then, he became friends with the kid.
Also this -
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ANDREA MINEO, CNN PRODUCER: What`s in a beautiful foot?
DE VITO: Who said it was beautiful? It`s a troll foot. I`m the troll guy.
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ANDERSON: We`re getting up close and personal with Danny DeVito`s troll foot. Nothing`s off limits here. This is SHOWBIZ TONIGHT on HLN news and views.
And now, the "SHOWBIZ News Ticker" - more stories from the SHOWBIZ TONIGHT newsroom making news today.
TEXT: Oprah says that launching her new network, "OWN," is taking a big gamble. "Bedroom Intruder" singer, Antoine Dodson, releases new viral video, "Chimney Intruder."
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ANDERSON: We welcome you back to this special edition of "SHOWBIZ TONIGHT, Stars up close and personal." I`m Brooke Anderson with A.J. Hammer in New York. Now, up close with Madonna, her shocking bullying confession.
HAMMER: Brooke, this is truly an incredible story. Madonna of course one of the strongest, most powerful women in the world, but as a kid, well, she was actually an outsider and she was bullied. Listen to what she tells Ellen DeGeneres.
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MADONNA, SINGER/SONGWRITER: I can totally relate to the idea of feeling isolated and alienated. I was incredibly lonely as a child, as a teenager. And have I to say I never felt like I fit in at school. I wasn`t a jock. I wasn`t an intellectual. There was no group I felt a part of. I just felt like a weirdo.
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HAMMER: Well that, weirdo became one of the biggest stars of all time.
ANDERSON: She certainly did. OK, right now I get up close and personal with "Entourage" star Adrian Grenier in a limo. Adrian took me along as part of his entourage for an exclusive ride just hours before the big premiere of his first documentary. It`s about paparazzi.
What I learned along the way was really eye opening. Adrian spilled his secrets about the paparazzi, what he`s most passionate about and what he won`t hit the red carpet without.
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ANDERSON (on camera): Ready?
ADRIAN GRENIER, ACTOR: I`m ready. I got all my tools for a premiere.
ANDERSON: Banana?
GRENIER: Banana, a little nourishment.
ANDERSON: A little bit of water.
GRENIER: Some water. Talking a lot. This is for the after party.
ANDERSON (voice-over): Dressed to impress in a new suit to premiere his new documentary, "Teenage Paparazzo," Adrian Grenier was ready to roll but realized he forgot one small detail, removing the tag.
GRENIER: Wait, am I supposed to take that off?
ANDERSON (on camera): Is it your suit?
GRENIER: This is a suit that was loaned to me by boss on a permanent basis.
ANDERSON: Hugo Boss doesn`t do anything halfway.
GRENIER: Perfection.
ANDERSON (voice-over): Now, that Adrian was red carpet ready, I was ready for our SHOWBIZ TONIGHT exclusive during our revealing 45-minute limo ride to the premiere of "Teenage Paparazzo."
ANDERSON (on camera): Tonight is the night for the big, big event.
GRENIER: I`ve got my banana. What else do I need?
ANDERSON: You`re all set. You`re all set.
GRENIER: Want a bite? Red carpet walks can be brutal. I mean, an hour of just talking about yourself.
ANDERSON (voice-over): In his documentary, "Teenage Paparazzo," Adrian goes inside the mysterious world of the paparazzi, picking up the camera himself and staking out stars.
(on camera): You wanted to see what it was like behind the paparazzi`s cameras.
GRENIER: The most important thing for me was to get to know them as human beings and to discover the humanity behind these lurking, faceless monsters that were always hiding in the bushes and looking to capture, steal a piece of my soul. And I knew that that couldn`t be true.
ANDERSON: A lot of people see you as a film star, a TV star from "Entourage." But is this where your passion lies?
GRENIER: I try to bring passion into everything I do. I`m a communicator. To me, it`s just different ways to tell stories and communicate ideas, you know, whether it be producing or directing or acting.
ANDERSON (voice-over): In HBO`s "Entourage ", Adrian`s character, Vinnie Chase, is now struggling with drugs. He spirals out of control and he could potentially head to jail. Sound familiar Lindsay, Paris?
(on camera): This season seems like it was ripped from the headlines.
GRENIER: Actually it`s surprising how accurate the show is. A lot of things that happen in real life we can`t put in the show because it just wouldn`t be believable.
ANDERSON: Speaking of Vince Chase in "Entourage," is the next season really the last season?
GRENIER: The word on the street is that season eight will be the last, I`ve heard. However, the word on the street is also that there`s going to be a movie.
ANDERSON: How do you keep yourself out of the negative headline?
GRENIER: I was lucky to have come into this experience later in life and I had already done my rebellion.
ANDERSON (voice-over): As I rode with Adrian in this SHOWBIZ TONIGHT exclusive, I had to wonder how he dealt with answering all of those questions he`s gets from reporters on the red carpet.
GRENIER: There becomes like this psychic split at some point, somewhere in the middle after you`ve already answered the same questions about 14 times where suddenly you literally leave your body. You depart earth, and suddenly, you`re looking at yourself talking. Who do you think you are and why does anybody care about you? What? It`s weird.
ANDERSON: Weird, maybe. But as Adrian knows, it`s all part of the job of being a star and facing the paparazzi.
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HAMMER: Moving on now to Kelly Osbourne`s cancer fear. Kelly totally broke down on live TV after revealing her emotional fears about getting cancer. Kelly`s mom Sharon, Ozzie Osbourne`s wife, was diagnosed with colon cancer back in 2002. Sharon is cancer-free now, but on "The Talk," Kelly bravely admits she gave up her career for a while to take care of her mom.
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KELLY OSBOURNE, DAUGHTER OF OZZY OSBOURNE: I got a phone call in New York, when I was about to start write my first album. And they said, "You`ve got to come home. Sharon has got terminal cancer." She saved my dad`s life and she almost died, and my mom`s a hero.
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HAMMER: Since Sharon`s cancer diagnosis, Kelly says she actually struggles with anxiety over getting the disease. She says she`s absolutely convinced she`s going to get cancer, and she goes to the doctor every week to get vitamins.
ANDERSON: More shocking star up close and personal confessions coming your way, like Eminem. I had the very rare opportunity to chat one-on-one with Em, and he really opened up to me about his addictions and his dramatic brush with death.
HAMMER: Also, Portia`s pain over anorexia. Portia De Rossi`s emotional weight confessions to her wife Ellen DeGeneres right on Ellen`s show.
ANDERSON: You think everyone has a price for their secrets? Not Vanessa Williams. We are going to reveal what she says she will never reveal, not even for $500,000.
HAMMER: Right now star TMI - Cynthia Nixon loves her girlfriend because she`s like a short man with boobs. Those are her words, not mine.
The "Sex in the City" star says this about her partner Christine in "The Advocate" magazine, "A lot of what I love about her is her butchness. My daughter said one time that if you really had to break this down, it looks like she would be butch and I would be fem, but really once you get to know us, it`s really the opposite."
You`re watching a special edition of "SHOWBIZ TONIGHT, Up close and personal" on HLN.
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HAMMER: Eminem`s shocking brush with death. That`s Eminem`s hit single, "Not Afraid" out of his album, "Recovery" where Eminem reveals his dramatic near death experience and his long and painful road to recovery.
Welcome back to the special edition of SHOWBIZ TONIGHT, "Up close and personal." I`m A.J. Hammer in New York with Brooke Anderson. And now, Eminem`s shocking brush with death.
ANDERSON: Yes, and you know, A.J., Eminem doesn`t normally do a whole lot of interviews. But I did get the chance to go one-on-one with him and he really opened up about his past struggles, including the time he overdosed and drugs and almost died. Watch.
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(on camera) You`ve been through a very dark time in your life. You took a five-year hiatus. How did you pull yourself out of that dark time?
EMINEM, RAPPER: Well, it was definitely - it was a process. But it was - it took me a while to actually admit, you know, that I had a problem. I mean, you know, in the hip-hop world that I live in, I think that it can be mistaken for weakness.
The last thing you want to do in hip hop is admit that you`re weak. But if I didn`t admit I was weak with this certain thing, I was going to die, you know, so -
ANDERSON: How close did you come?
EMINEM: I certainly probably a couple hours away from death. Not to make this too tense of a moment but, yes, I overdosed and almost died.
ANDERSON: How did you mentally turn it around? Because, like you say, you are a strong, tough, macho guy. How did you do it?
EMINEM: Well, I had to admit that I had a problem. I had to - I think I had to be ready for myself. Like I had to be ready - I don`t mean to make it sound like cliche but you have to do it for yourself.
I went through a really rough period after I came home from rehab. And I lost my best friend and kind of (INAUDIBLE). It was kind of just like, you know, screw it. This is like, you know - from there I really went downhill.
And that`s when I overdosed, got out of the hospital, relapsed a short time after that, basically scared the (EXPLETIVE DELETED) out of myself and went to some people and was like, "Yes. I`ve got a problem. I need help. I can`t beat this on my own." Because the whole time, I think I was thinking that I could, but I couldn`t.
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HAMMER: And now, the SHOWBIZ lineup - here`s what`s coming up at the bottom of the hour on SHOWBIZ TONIGHT.
Up close and personal star plastic surgery confessions. Bye-bye, Botox. Regrets about Restylane. Are stars saying no to the knife for good?
Jessica Simpson`s yuck mouth? It`s Jessica`s terrible habit.
Also this -
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BARBARA WALTERS, CO-HOST, "THE VIEW": You have said cheating is when you lie and are deceitful. It`s not that you when you have sex outside of the marriage. Do you and Sid have sex outside of the marriage?
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HAMMER: It`s Mo`Nique`s open marriage shocker. This is a special edition of SHOWBIZ TONIGHT, "Up Close and Personal" on HLN news and views.
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HEIDI MONTAG, ACTRESS: Sounds crazy, but once you get a certain size boob, you always want bigger. Bigger is better.
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HAMMER: Right now on this special edition of SHOWBIZ TONIGHT, "Stars Up Close and Personal," plastic surgery confessions. From big implants to big regrets - explosive plastic surgery confessions. Is Hollywood`s love affair with plastic surgery over for good?
ANDERSON: Portia de Rossi`s scary health revelations. Her emotional battle with anorexia. And how Portia`s wife, Ellen DeGeneres, helped save her life.
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MINEO: What`s in a beautiful foot?
DE VITO: Who said it was beautiful? It`s a troll foot, for crying out loud.
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HAMMER: Danny DeVito`s troll foot? Why the "Taxi" star loves to tweet about his funky feet.
ANNOUNCER: TV`s most provocative entertainment news show continues right now.
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HAMMER: Welcome back to a special edition of SHOWBIZ TONIGHT, "Up Close and Personal." It is 30 minutes past the hour. I`m A.J. Hammer.
ANDERSON: And I`m Brooke Anderson. We`re coming to you from New York City with shocking star plastic surgery confessions.
HAMMER: Yes. There are a remarkable number of stars who are peeling back the layers and going public to reveal that not only did they have work done, but that the work actually turned into a disaster.
I`m talking from bad Botox to bad lips. Stars are admitting that their attempt to reshape their faces turned into a fiasco. SHOWBIZ TONIGHT reveals the plastic surgery secrets that have now gone oh so public.
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(voice-over) SHOWBIZ TONIGHT is sad to report another Hollywood relationship may be about to go kaput, the long-time love affair between Hollywood and plastic surgery. SHOWBIZ TONIGHT can tell you a shocking number of stars are going public with extremely personal tales of how plastic surgery has done them wrong, and now they are through with it forever.
Forty-seven-year-old actress and reality show star Lisa Rinna, who is famous for her artificially-inflated lips discussed this shocking revelation she just made on "People.com." Lisa revealed that this summer, she had her famously prominently puckers surgically reduced.
LISA RINNA, ACTRESS: I had no idea you could reduce it, so I was like, yes, let`s do it!
HAMMER: SHOWBIZ TONIGHT can tell you that, for years, Lisa`s lips have been a puckered up punch line on celebrity Web sites. Even this online cosmetic forum discusses how to avoid Lisa Rinna`s lips.
DAWN YANEK, EDITOR-AT-LARGE, "LIFE AND STYLE WEEKLY": When you have a star like Lisa Rinna who is talented and beautiful and wonderful but who is known for one very big thing, which is of course, her lips, people are going to speculate about whether or not she had work done.
HAMMER: Lisa finally admitted last year that, yes, she`d had a silicone injection back in 1986.
RINNA: For 24 years, I`ve had this lip and I really didn`t pay any attention. I mean, everybody always guessed it. I just never - I never said it was true. And when I came out to say it, it just opened the floodgates.
HAMMER: Now, after years of getting slammed for not admitting her lip augmentation and months of getting slammed for admitting her lip augmentation, Rinna tells "Today" she decided this August to have her lips reduced and end the chatter once and for all.
RINNA: And I do it for me. I do it because I no longer wanted my lips to be what defines me.
HAMMER: SHOWBIZ TONIGHT can tell you Lisa Rinna is not the only celebrity who`s down on plastic surgery. Fifty-four-year-old TV star, Dana Delaney, reveals that a botched Botox procedure seven years ago permanently damaged her face.
She now says she`s sworn off plastic surgery for good, saying, quote, "We are getting to the point that nobody says `That`s a beautiful woman.` Instead they say, `She`s had good work.`"
HEIDI MONTAG, REALITY TV STAR: I`ve really been wanting big boobs.
HAMMER: And you know the Hollywood-plastic surgery relationship is in trouble when even Heidi Montag can`t make it work. Late last year, Montag had 10 plastic surgery procedures in one day, including a massive breast augmentation that she documented for "People.com."
MONTAG: Bigger is better.
HAMMER: Well, maybe not. Montag now says she regrets her breast super- sizing session, which is why SHOWBIZ TONIGHT is asking today, has the long love affair Hollywood enjoyed with plastic surgery gone the way of Heidi Montag`s original nose?
YANEK: I don`t think that plastic surgeons in Hollywood should be worried. The thing is when we have aging celebrities, we are going to have plastic surgery.
HAMMER: So with stars like Lisa Rinna, Dana Delaney, and Heidi Montag now doing an about-face about work on their face and other body parts? We`ll have to see if this truly marks a new era in the long relationship between Hollywood and plastic surgery.
RINNA: I no longer wanted my lip to be what defines me.
HAMMER: Or if it`s all just lip service.
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ANDERSON: Lisa Rinna isn`t the only one to take a stand against plastic surgery. Angelina Jolie also reveals she hasn`t had any work done and doesn`t plan on ever doing it.
That brings us to our SHOWBIZ TONIGHT Flashpoint - is Hollywood`s love affair with plastic surgery ending?
Right now in New York here with me is Dr. Sharon Giese. She`s a New York plastic surgeon. And in Hollywood is Ramani Durvasula who is a professor of psychology at Cal State L.A. and the psychologist on the Bravo series, "Intervention."
OK, ladies, it seems to me there`s more and more backlash against plastic surgery in Hollywood. Heidi Montag, who is famous for all the work that she got done in one day practically, now says it was the biggest mistake of her life.
Dr. Giese, to our SHOWBIZ TONIGHT Flashpoint, is it possible that Hollywood`s love affair with plastic surgery is ending?
DR. SHARON GIESE, NEW YORK PLASTIC SURGEON: I don`t think that we`re ready for a divorce in Hollywood yet, and I don`t think there`s ever going to be quite a divorce. But I think that things have started to change somewhat.
People are deathly afraid of looking fake. They can see stars who are just doing too much. It`s gotten a little bit too extreme. And once you`ve done too much - it`s not positive.
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ANDERSON: There`s no going back, really - right?
GIESE: Some things are reversible. Like with Lisa Rinna`s lips - she can reverse that. It`s great. Heidi Montag - she can reverse her breast implants.
ANDERSON: But some of it - once you go a certain extreme, it`s hard to turn back.
GIESE: In Hollywood, unfortunately, they could lose their career.
ANDERSON: Yes. It`s a fine line. And you know what? It`s not just extreme plastic surgery cases like Heidi Montag that have caught big time attention.
Angelina Jolie says that she has never had plastic surgery and she doesn`t plan on it. She tells "The Daily Mail" this, "If it makes somebody happy, then that`s up to them. I`m not in somebody else`s skin to know what makes them feel better about themselves. But I don`t plan to do it myself."
Ramani, what do you think? To our SHOWBIZ Flashpoint - is it possible Hollywood`s love affair with plastic surgery is ending?
RAMANI DURVASULA, PSYCHOLOGIST: Absolutely not. I mean, Hollywood is about creating illusion. And plastic surgery is part of that illusion. We expect our stars to be eternally young, eternally beautiful. And plastic surgery becomes an essential part of creating this illusion of artificial beauty in this business even when it starts going off the deep end and people start looking a little bit funky.
ANDERSON: Yes.
DURVASULA: So I think that the love affair is well in place and it`s not going to end anytime soon.
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ANDERSON: Take somebody as beautiful as Angelina Jolie. You really do believe her when she says she doesn`t plan on going under the knife. But Dr. Giese, do you think it`s possible 20 years from now, 30 years from now, she may change her mind? Because there is that relentless pressure to look younger and younger and younger.
GIESE: There`s a lot of pressure to do that. Some people just choose to age gracefully. However, she may wake up one and look in the mirror and say, "I miss those big lips that I have 20 years ago." And she can`t say how she`s going to feel when she sees herself. I mean, everybody`s lips get a little bit smaller, and -
ANDERSON: I`m hoping she makes wrinkles en vogue 20 or 30 years from now.
GIESE: Maybe. I don`t know. Who knows?
ANDERSON: Well, somebody else who has spoken out and said that she really doesn`t want to get plastic surgery is Julia Roberts. She`s a stunning 42- year-old. And she has said no plastic surgery for her. No Botox. She thinks it`s ridiculous. She tells "Elle" magazine "I want my kid to know when I`m P`d, when I`m happy and when I`m confounded. Your face tells a story and it shouldn`t be a story about your drive to the doctor`s office."
Ramani, it`s really starting to sound like there`s a revolution maybe brewing of stars speaking out against plastic surgery. And we haven`t heard a lot of this before now so do you believe them?
DURVASULA: I mean, only believe them to a point. I think folks like Julia Roberts and Angelina Jolie who are so iconic are always going to work in this industry. But I think that the modal actress, the modal person trying to get out there, it`s hard. They are supposed to look a certain way for the bulk of their careers.
And I do really agree with Dr. Giese in the sense that, you know, how are these woman going to feel in 20 years when they wake up and life is marching across their face and they really want to say, "I don`t want to look like this anymore."
The procedures are getting better and better all the time, so I think there is also a way to be more stealthy and more secretive about how you get your work done, and you can grow old gracefully and subtly as long as there are some procedures that are sort of silently happening. So I think a lot of these stars are making strong pronouncements, but I`m not convinced that we`re going to see these. I think they`re going to give in.
GIESE: Those are excellent points. And I think that when you think about the 40-year-old women in Hollywood today, they`re fabulous. We don`t have women who like look that. Not all of them claim that they haven`t had anything done.
ANDERSON: Yes.
GIESE: Plastic surgery is not the same. It`s about rejuvenation.
ANDERSON: I understand a lot of times they say think don`t have anything to refresh. Dr. Sharon Giese, Ramani Durvasula, thank you both, ladies.
HAMMER: Well, there`s one thing the gorgeous Vanessa Williams won`t let anyone get up close and personal about, her love life. Vanessa says she will never expose details about her past marriages.
Vanessa tells "Ebony" magazine she turned down a $600,000 book deal because they wanted her to dish the dirt on her ex-husband, Ramon Hervey and former NBA star and "Dancing with the Stars" contestant, Rick Fox. Vanessa says she refuses to throw the fathers of her children under a bus.
ANDERSON: Portia`s pain. Portia de Rossi`s dramatic revelations about anorexia to her wife, Ellen DeGeneres right on Ellen`s show.
HAMMER: Mo`Nique`s up close confessions about her open marriage. Her incredible personal revelation about what she`ll do if her husband cheats on her.
ANDERSON: Danny DeVito has famous feet. And he just loves showing them off.
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MINEO: Are you a fan of Anderson Cooper?
DE VITO: Big fan. Big fan of Anderson Cooper.
MINEO: OK. Would you like to go into the office and take a picture of the troll foot on his desk?
DE VITO: Oh, on his desk? Oh, yes.
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ANDERSON: Did Danny put his troll foot on Anderson Cooper`s desk? You`ve got to see this.
And right now star TMI. Jessica Simpson`s gross habit. Jess has revealed a very shocking secret - she doesn`t believe in brushing her teeth every day. She told Ellen DeGeneres she doesn`t like to brush because it makes her teeth too slippery.
But Jess says she does floss and use mouthwash every day. You`re watching a special edition of SHOWBIZ TONIGHT, "Up Close and Personal," on HLN news and views.
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HAMMER: Welcome back to this special edition of "SHOWBIZ TONIGHT, Stars Up Close and Personal." I`m A.J. Hammer in New York with Brooke Anderson.
And right now we are going way up close and inside Oscar winner Mo`Nique`s bedroom.
ANDERSON: That was pretty up close, A.J. The actress and talk show host revealed surprising details about her open marriage. Yes. On the Barbara Walters Oscar special, Mo`Nique revealed to Barbara that she`s totally OK if her husband cheats.
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BARBARA WALTERS, EXECUTIVE PRODUCER AND CO-HOST, "THE VIEW": You have said -
MO`NIQUE, ACTRESS: Yes.
WALTERS: Cheating is when you lie and are deceitful.
MO`NIQUE: Yes.
WALTERS: Not when you have sex outside of the marriage.
MO`NIQUE: Yes.
WALTER: Do you and Sid have sex outside of the marriage?
MO`NIQUE: I have not had sex outside of my marriage with Sidney. Could I have sex outside of my marriage with Sidney? Yes. Could Sid have sex outside of his marriage with me? Yes. That`s not a deal breaker. That`s not something we would say, "Oh, my god, because you are attracted to another person, and because you happened to have sex that`s in the marriage.
WALTERS: What if it`s not once? What if it`s -
MO`NIQUE: What if it`s 20 times?
WALTERS: Yes. What if?
MO`NIQUE: So what?
WALTERS: You wouldn`t care?
MO`NIQUE: That`s not something that would make us say, "Pack your things" in the marriage because we`ve been best friends for - is it over 25 years? And we truly know who we are.
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ANDERSON: Well, something must be working for Mo`Nique and her husband, Sidney. They`ve been best friends for over 25 years, and they`ve been happily married for four.
HAMMER: Different strokes. All right. Moving now to Portia`s incredible personal pain. That is the only way to describe Portia de Rossi`s jaw- dropping revelations to her wife on her wife`s TV show.
Portia`s wife of course is Ellen DeGeneres. And wait until you hear Portia`s incredible revelations to Ellen where she`s telling all in such remarkable, emotional, and painful detail about her battles with eating disorders that had her down to 82 pounds.
Portia`s reveals this to Ellen with such raw and real emotion, it is something so very up close and personal, we won`t soon forget it.
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PORTIA DE ROSSI, ACTRESS: I don`t think anyone can really understand what it`s like to suffer from an eating disorder unless they`ve actually gone through it themselves.
HAMMER: Speaking out about her long battle with eating disorders, actress Portia de Rossi definitely chose friendly territory, namely her wife`s talk show.
ELLEN DEGENERES, HOST, "THE ELLEN DEGENERES SHOW": I have to say of course, you know, I`m biased because I love you and I think you`re brilliant and amazing.
HAMMER: Portia shares her shocking story with Ellen, who Portia has been with for six years. Now, the author of a new book, "Unbearable Lightness," Portia explains why she`s now talking about a weight obsession that at one point whittled her down to almost 80 pounds.
DE ROSSI: I wanted to go back to that dark, horrible time and explain why I thought I was doing the right thing, why I thought I was doing the healthy thing and making good choices for my life.
HAMMER: And she reveals how her relationship with Ellen helped to make her the healthy person she is today.
DE ROSSI: I don`t think that I`m perfect at all.
DEGENERES: I do.
DE ROSSI: Aw, come on.
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DE ROSSI: The toothpaste I use is really strong. Makes your tongue tingle.
HAMMER: Portia`s struggle intensified in 1998 when she was cast in her breakout role on hit TV, "Ally McBeal." This was years before she met Ellen DeGeneres, and at the time, no one knew she was gay.
SUZANNE ZUCKERMAN, "PEOPLE" MAGAZINE: She felt the need to sort of transform herself into this image of a person that she thought everyone wanted her to be. That included thin, straight, and sexy. She refers to swallowing up to 20 laxatives a day. She even goes into shocking specifics about, you know, binging and purging.
HAMMER: Portia writes the night after her first day on Ally McBeal she had a huge celebratory dinner. She writes, quote, "Of course I`d have to throw up after but that was OK. I didn`t have work for the next two days so I had time to get rid of the dots above my eyes that were caused by my blood vessels bursting from purging.
ZUCKERMAN: At one point, she lowered her calorie intake to 300 calories a day and got as thin as 82 pounds.
DEGENERES: When I read this book and I read that the self-loathing and how much she hated herself -
HAMMER: In this clip from Thursday`s "Ellen DeGeneres Show" SHOWBIZ TONIGHT obtained today, Ellen says reading about the extent of Portia`s struggles was a real eye-opener.
DEGENERES: I was shocked and it broke my heart. I had no idea how much she hated herself and I just can only imagine.
HAMMER: Portia explains that, at the time, people close to her expressed concern, but she didn`t listen.
DE ROSSI: "You`re too thin" to me was more of a compliment than just "You`re thin." You`re too thin? Who can be too thin?
HAMMER: Pleas from her family finally led Portia to get help in 2001. And by the time she got together with Ellen in 2004, Portia was a much- healthier 168 pounds. She tells Ellen that relationship has changed her life.
DE ROSSI: She`s taught me that who I am is perfectly good enough and that I don`t have to pretend to be anything other than who I am.
ZUCKERMAN: Ellen sort of recognized the person within and that really enabled Portia to further accept herself.
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ANDERSON: Here`s a question - does Halle Berry want more kids? Well, we just got up close and personal with Halle about expanding her family.
HAMMER: Yes. Of course, Halle has a daughter with her ex, Gabriel Aubry. And Halle has said that motherhood comes naturally to her and has given her life a new perspective. So we just had to ask Halle her thoughts on being a mom again. And you have to hear her very candid and, quite frankly, very funny response.
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HALLE BERRY, ACTRESS: Every mom in the world will tell you it`s life changing, you know. It`s profound; it`s given me a greater purpose. I`m like every other mom in the world I think. She`s the love of my life.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: And would there be another one on the way, would you like another one?
BERRY: If God says so. I think my eggs are on like walking sticks. So, probably not.
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HAMMER: Eggs on walking sticks? I don`t know about that. But Halle, you`ll never know.
ANDERSON: Nothing about her looks like it`s on walking sticks. All right. Danny DeVito is a major TV and movie star. So why are so many people following his feet on Twitter?
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MINEO: That`s a beautiful foot.
DEVITO: Who says it`s beautiful. I`m a troll foot. I`m a troll guy.
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ANDERSON: It`s Danny DeVito`s troll feet. I can honestly tell you, you will not believe where those feet have been.
HAMMER: Right now, more star TMI. Sharon Osbourne`s sex secrets. In an utterly jaw-dropping moment on "The Talk," Sharon reveals how many times a week she and her husband, rock legend, Ozzy Osbourne, had sex.
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UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: How many times do you and Ozzy have sex a week?
SHARON OSBOURNE, CO-HOST, "THE TALK": Five.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: No, you don`t.
S. OSBOURNE: Hold on here. It`s like brushing your teeth in my house. You have sex. You brush your teeth. We do it before bed.
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HAMMER: This is a special edition of SHOWBIZ TONIGHT, "Up Close and Personal" on HLN news and views.
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HAMMER: Danny DeVito tweets about his feet. Yes, the star of "Taxi" and "It`s Always Sunny in Philadelphia" loves for everyone to get up close and personal with his self-proclaimed troll feet.
ANDERSON: Yes, A.J. This is something that Danny has been doing for a while. He takes picture of his feet in various places from the interesting to the downright gross and then posts them on Twitter.
So when Danny walked into the SHOWBIZ TONIGHT newsroom with our SHOWBIZ TONIGHT producer Andrea Mineo, we all wanted to see his famous feet.
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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Welcome to CNN.
ANDREA MINEO, CNN PRODUCER: Come on, troll foot. Come with me. When did you drop your dignity and feel like it would be OK to show your troll foot? Do you get pedicures?
DANNY DE VITO, ACTOR: No. It takes nine months to have a baby. That is not my baby. "It`s Always Sunny in Philadelphia" -
MINEO: Yes.
DE VITO: It`s a show on FX at 10:00 on Thursday nights.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: All right. Not bad.
DE VITO: We did a live show and we took it on the road to six cities. We have a great fan base. We love our fans and they love us. And I play a troll in the show.
MINEO: OK.
DE VITO: I`m the troll guy?
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Who else would be the troll?
DE VITO: I like that.
MINEO: Do you sing?
DE VITO: We sing -
MINEO: What do you sing?
DE VITO: Well, the idea is that - you want to know what I sing?
MINEO: I do. Do you have a good voice?
DE VITO: I sing a song called "You`ve Got to Pay the Troll Toll."
(SINGING)
DE VITO: We gave to benefit for Haiti and we raised in the neighborhood of $300,000. Did you bring the toll?
MINEO: Are you a fan of Anderson Cooper?
DE VITO: Big fan. Big fan of Anderson Cooper.
MINEO: OK. Would you like to go into the office and take a picture of the troll foot on his desk?
DE VITO: Oh, on his desk? Oh, yes. You made me think of that.
I`m the troll guy. This is Anderson cooper`s office? I thought he`d have a bigger office.
MINEO: What`s in a beautiful foot?
DE VITO: Who said it was beautiful? It`s a troll foot, for crying out loud. What do you expect it to be? As pretty as your feet?
MINEO: This is CNN Money.
DE VITO: Really?
MINEO: Be quiet. This is like a library. Stop tweeting.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: We plan to show your feet on TV. Do you have any problem with that? Ladies and gentlemen, Danny De Vito.
DE VITO: Thank you so much. Thanks a lot. Which show would that be? "It`s Always Sunny in Philadelphia." Guess who in this room has never seen the show?
MINEO: You`re embarrassing me in front of everyone at SHOWBIZ TONIGHT.
DE VITO: If you can`t stand the heat, get out of the kitchen. Troll toe. Just the foot, please. Wait, you`re shadowing it.
MINEO: It`s not.
DE VITO: You could touch it if you want.
MINEO: I don`t want to touch it.
DE VITO: Clean as a whistle.
MINEO: Thank you for the offer, but -
DE VITO: You could eat off that foot.
(SINGING)
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HAMMER: I love Danny. It gets a little strange.
ANDERSON: He makes a funny troll.
HAMMER: That is it for this special edition of SHOWBIZ TONIGHT, "Stars Up Close and Personal." I`m A.J. Hammer.
ANDERSON: And I`m Brooke Anderson. Take care.
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