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Special Edition of SHOWBIZ TONIGHT: Stars Up Close and Personal
Aired December 31, 2010 - 23:00 ET
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A.J. HAMMER, CO-HOST: Right now, on this special edition of SHOWBIZ TONIGHT - SHOWBIZ TONIGHT gets up close and personal with Hollywood`s biggest stars.
Explosive plastic surgery confessions. Which stars really regret getting nipped and tucked?
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LISSA RINA, ACTRESS: I no longer wanted my lip to be what defined me.
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BROOKE ANDERSON, CO-HOST: The battle for baby. Mariah Carey, Celine Dion - their unbelievable, intimate stories of trying to get pregnant and beating the odds.
HAMMER: Portia`s pain over anorexia. Portia`s emotional weight confessions to her wife, Ellen DeGeneres, right on Ellen`s show.
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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.
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HAMMER: A special edition of TV`s most provocative entertainment news show, "Up Close and Personal" -
ANDERSON: Starts right now.
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HAMMER: Welcome to a special edition of SHOWBIZ TONIGHT. I`m A.J. Hammer.
ANDERSON: And I`m Brooke Anderson.
HAMMER: And right now, we are getting up close and personal with Hollywood`s biggest stars now more than ever. Celebrities are sharing their most intimate, most harrowing and most heartbreaking personal real- life struggles.
ANDERSON: Yes, A.J. And one of those struggles, the battle for baby. Mariah Carey expecting her first, Celine Dion celebrating two bundles of joy.
But SHOWBIZ TONIGHT can tell you that for many stars, there`s a long and painful road to that ultimate baby love. Now, some of Hollywood`s biggest celebrities are revealing the struggle and sorrow of infertility and learning how long to turns a once-taboo subject into triumph for women everywhere.
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(voice-over) When entertainment journalist, Giuliana Rancic, decided to start family two years ago, she thought it would happen quickly.
GIULIANA RANCIC, ANCHOR AND MANAGING EDITOR, "E! NEWS": I was about 34 years old and I thought, "Oh, my gosh. This is great. Perfect timing. I`ve got my career down and I want to have a baby. This is going to be so easy."
ANDERSON: It wasn`t. Giuliana and her husband, season one "Apprentice" winner, Bill Rancic, soon discovered they had fertility problems.
RANCIC: After eight weeks, we lost the baby. We lost our baby.
ANDERSON: Every step of their experience, including a cycle of in-vitro fertilization and a devastating miscarriage has been chronicled on their Style Network reality TV show, "Giuliana and Bill."
(on camera) Infertility is a very personal topic and most people in the public eye don`t talk about it. Why are you sharing your experience? Why have you decided to do that?
RANCIC: When we first went through all of this and we`re going through the IVF process, I felt very alone. And it wasn`t until I shared what I was going through with other women that I realized, "Wow, I feel a lot better talking about it."
And so I just feel like by us talking about our journey, it`s going to help so many women and so many couples.
ANDERSON (voice-over): Nearly 15 percent of couples in the U.S. deal with infertility, according to the Mayo Clinic. That number increases as women age. With so many images of stars in their mid-30s and 40s with young children, it`s easy to assume having a baby at any age is an option.
Not necessarily says Beverly Hills reproductive endocrinologist, Dr. Hal Danzer.
DR. HAL DANZER, REPRODUCTIVE ENDOCRINOLOGIST: There are some women who are easy to get pregnant when they`re 44, but that`s a misconception. A lot of women are going to struggle after age 35.
ANDERSON: Celebrities may seek treatment for infertility, but given its highly personal nature, choose to keep it private. Danzer says, for many patients, infertility feels like failure.
DANZER: They`re very successful at everything. And now, they`re failing at something for the first time in their life and they don`t know how to cope with that. It`s painful.
ANDERSON: More and more celebrities are discussing their painful paths to parenthood. Forty-two-year-old Celine Dion recently had twin boys after six rounds of in-vitro fertilization. She told CNN`s Larry King about it.
DION: We would love to have another child. We would love to -
LARRY KING, HOST, "LARRY KING LIVE": Are you trying?
DION: We`re trying. We tried four times.
KING: What happened?
DION: It didn`t work. We had a first - the first time, we had a miscarriage, and the three other times did not work. I mean, it`s kind of common, you know.
ANDERSON: Singer Mariah Carey went on "Access Hollywood" to announce she`s expecting her first child at 41 and revealed a previous miscarriage.
MARIAH CAREY, SINGER: Yes, we are pregnant. This is true. It`s been a long journey, but it`s been tough because I`ve been trying to have - like I said, to hold on to a shred of privacy and that was not easy.
ANDERSON: Giuliana hopes as more celebrities talk about their challenges to conceive, the stigma often associated with infertility will disappear.
RANCIC: At the end of the day, whether you adopt, whether you use a surrogate, whether you get pregnant naturally, whether you get pregnant through IVF, all that matters is that you have a baby that you`re going to love and take care of and that`s going to love you. And that`s all that matters.
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ANDERSON: Giuliana is so courageous. I think these emotional revelations are proof that stars don`t always get their Hollywood endings so easily.
Right now, in Hollywood, is Jenn Berman. She is a psychotherapist and a bestselling parenting author. Also, in Hollywood, is Kristin Cruz. She is the co-host of the "Mark and Kristin Show" on radio`s KOST 103.5 in Los Angeles.
Jenn, Kristin, reality TV, as we know, can sometimes be sugarcoated versions of the true lives of stars. But Giuliana here is really baring her soul about the problems she`s having getting pregnant.
Dr. Jenn, were you as blown away as I was that Giuliana decided to reveal all of this on television, make herself that vulnerable?
DR. JENN BERMAN, PSYCHOTHERAPIST AND AUTHOR: I think it`s so spectacular. I think that Giuliana is doing such a great service to the millions of women who struggle with this every year. And like it was pointed out earlier, I think the public looks at these women in their late 30s, late 40s, these celebrities, and think, "Oh, no one has a problem getting pregnant. I won`t."
And so it helps these women, and I`m one of them, who have to experience infertility. And I was lucky that I had a great outcome. But it really - it cuts down on the isolation and it helps women to feel less alone, and that`s a beautiful thing.
ANDERSON: Well, you know, when I look at these women, Kristin, when I look at Mariah, Celine, Giuliana being so revealing, so truthful, so honest, it`s refreshing. You know, as Dr. Jenn pointed out, they`re not being dishonest. They`re being very open about the challenges they had to overcome in order to become pregnant.
So do you think there could be any downside for them because of that?
KRISTIN CRUZ, CO-HOST, "MARK AND KRISTIN SHOW": Well, I hope not. It`s such a courageous thing they`re doing. And being an IVF success story mom myself -
ANDERSON: Congratulations.
CRUZ: Thank you. And I just found out again - we went back to HRC - and I`m pregnant again.
ANDERSON: Wonderful.
CRUZ: It`s such a battle. It takes so much - like, you`re calling it - it`s a true battle mentally, emotionally, physically. They have enough to deal with. And now, maybe if they`re sharing their stories more, women like me and so many other women, will be able to relate and feel hopeful about it.
ANDERSON: Yes. I think it`s fantastic. Dr. Jenn, do you think there could be any downside for them doing this?
BERMAN: Well, the only down side is really that it is so personal and it`s such a raw experience to have to go through in the public eye. And that can make it a little more difficult to heal.
But the flip side of that is because it is so public, as Giuliana mentioned, she`s getting letters. She knows that she`s helping other people, and that can help her healing process.
ANDERSON: Absolutely. Well, ladies, I want to talk about the whole baby bump watch because it really has become a spectator sport in Hollywood, right? People asking, "Is she preggers?" Or "Has she just eaten a burger?" It`s really insanity.
Kristin, do you think stars like Giuliana, Celine, Mariah, coming forward like this - do you think it will teach people to be a little more sensitive about those intrusive questions?
CRUZ: Yes, I hope so. I mean, that`s to a fault. I mean, you don`t ask a woman about her pregnancy. You know, it`s just an off-limits kind of thing. And the other thing is celebrities are already under so much pressure to stay thin.
Can you imagine how much more pressure that`s putting on them? I just want a t-shirt that says "I`m not pregnant. Back off."
ANDERSON: Right. Or "I am and now can you ask."
CRUZ: There you go.
ANDERSON: Yes. Dr. Jenn, how do you think stars should react going forward to those intrusive questions? Because it is a very sensitive, raw, personal topic.
BERMAN: I do think stars have to protect themselves and they can`t reveal the information until they`re ready to. So I think it`s very fair to say to an interviewer, "You know, I`m not ready to talk about that." Or you know, "I promise you when I am ready, you`ll be the first to know." Because it is personal and it is something that often involves a lot of suffering, a lot of pain until you get to that happy ending.
ANDERSON: Congratulations to all these women who have now conceived and our parents, our mothers now and who will be mothers in the future. Dr. Jenn Berman, Kristin Cruz, thanks, ladies. Good to see you.
HAMMER: We move now from baby love to baby weight. It seems to just melt off stars the instant they give birth, poof! And then, of course, there are the mandatory slamming post-baby bod cover stories.
Well, one big star is just furious about a controversial story about her post-baby body. Kourtney Kardashian - she`s blasting "OK Magazine" who put her on the cover weeks after she gave birth with the headline screaming "My Diet Secrets: Kourtney`s Body After Baby Exclusive."
The problem though - Kourtney claims "OK" Photoshopped the shot. In interview with "WWD.com," Kourtney claims, "They doctored and Photoshopped my body to make it look like I have already lost all the weight, which I have not."
And on her Twitter page, Kourtney added, "One of those weeklies got it wrong again and I gained 40 pounds while pregs, not 26, but thanks!"
HAMMER: Well, we`re getting up close and personal with Madonna - her unbelievable confessions about being bullied as a kid. Wait, somebody`s bullied Madonna? That`s pretty incredible.
ANDERSON: You know, super-aggressive paparazzi chasing down stars. That`s kind of a form of bullying, right? Well, 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 -
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: That`s a beautiful foot.
DANNY DE VITO, ACTOR: Who said it was a beautiful? It`s a troll foot.
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HAMMER: Oh, yes. We`re getting up close and personal with Danny De Vito`s troll foot. Hey, nothing`s off limits here.
ANDERSON: Right now, stars` TMI. Angelina reveals the moments that make her want to get frisky with Brad Pitt. She tells "Vogue" magazine, "He`s most sexy. When I think about him, I just think of the man who is such a great friend and such an extraordinary father. And that`s when I fall - you know, when I have my moments of getting "roar," caught up in how much I love him."
You`re watching a special edition of SHOWBIZ TONIGHT, "Up Close and Personal," on HLN news and views.
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ANDERSON: And 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. And now, up close with Madonna, her shocking bullying confession.
HAMMER: Yes. 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 the 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: Tools? 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 fascinating 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: Oh, bravo. 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 camera.
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. You know, 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 Vincent 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, so 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 headlines?
GRENIER: I was lucky to have come into this experience later in life and I had already done my rebellious indulgence.
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 writing 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 (UNINTELLIGIBLE). 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 websites. 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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