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Hairspray Star Nikki Blonsky Is Proud To Be Working At A Hair Salon

Hairspray Star Nikki Blonsky Is Proud To Be Working At A Hair Salon

Unlike other celebs, Nikki Blonsky will not only work customer service jobs when her acting career lags, but she’ll tweet about how proud she is to have a job. Good for her! More »

Hot Shot: Nikki Blonsky’s New Boyfriend, Tommy Potoeski

Hot Shot: Nikki Blonsky's New Boyfriend, Tommy Potoeski

Nikki Blonsky‘s got a new fella in aspiring model and actor Tommy Potoeski. The two were recently spotted locking lips outside of a New York restaurant on Monday. This shirtless pic is taken from Tommy’s Model Mahem profile, and there are more where this came from — even some with clothes. More »

Gallery And Fashion Show Report: Fashion Week’s First Plus-Size Event

Gallery And Fashion Show Report: Fashion Week's First Plus-Size Event

I attended Fashion Week’s first-ever plus-size runway show on Wednesday, for the label OneStopPlus. Yesterday, I posted about the body-image insensitive Pretzel Crisps incident — and unfortunately that was not the event’s only weight-insensitive gaffe.

But first the celebs! Nikki Blonsky and Gabourey Sidibe were in attendance, along with Jersey Housewife Caroline Manzo and America’s Next Top Model winner Whitney Thompson. I was most excited to see Richard Schiff, who played White House staffer Toby Ziegler on The West Wing – so maybe that says something about my qualifications for covering a fashion show. More »

Is ABC Family’s ‘Huge’ Trying To Take On Too Much?

Is ABC Family's 'Huge' Trying To Take On Too Much?

Right off the bat, you know that ABC Family’s new show, Huge is going to be tackling some big issues. Just look at its title and its subject matter — it’s a story about a weight loss camp and its cast is filled with plus size actors and actresses who all come to Camp Victory for various reasons. But is Huge taking on too much? Is Huge trying to be too, well, huge?

Speaking with reporters last week, Huge’s star Nikki… More »

Crush This: ‘Eclipse’ Will Save Us From Pre-July 4th Doldrums

Crush This: 'Eclipse' Will Save Us From Pre-July 4th Doldrums

Welcome to Crush This, your weekly guide to what’s new in movies, music and TV. We’ve navigated the inner reaches of our entertainment-obsessed brains in search of all the pop culture landscape has to offer. It’s the week before a long holiday weekend, which means everyone — including Hollywood — is going on a little vacation. So with everyone taking some time off from work, it’s the perfect time to debut the biggest movie of the summer, the third Twilight… More »

Watch ‘Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows’ Trailer Monday Night

Watch 'Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows' Trailer Monday Night

The first half of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows may not hit theaters until November, but you’ll be able to catch a sneak peek much sooner than that.

Warner Brothers Pictures is debuting the film’s first theatrical trailer on Monday, and you can watch it in its entirety during the premiere episode of Huge, starring Nikki Blonsky on ABC Family at 9 p.m. ET. The channel will also be airing the first five Harry Potter films July 8 through July… More »

Nikki Blonsky Weighs In On Body Image And Her New Show, ‘Huge’

Nikki Blonsky Weighs In On Body Image And Her New Show, 'Huge'

Former Cold Stone Creamery scooper Nikki Blonsky burst onto the scene at the age of 17 when she won the hearts of audiences — and scored a Golden Globe nom — for her role Tracy Turnblad, the lead in movie musical Hairspray. But then the plus size actress with the super size voice dropped off the Hollywood radar, while her personal life become fodder for the tabloids. But now Nikki’s back, playing another plus sized role, which is very different… More »

Crush Links: Rachel Weisz Is Like ‘Whatevs’ When Asked About Competish With Katie Holmes

Crush Links: Rachel Weisz Is Like 'Whatevs' When Asked About Competish With Katie Holmes

Katie Holmes and Rachel Weisz will be playing Jackie Kennedy in two different films — but Rachel says there’s no competition. (People)
Lena Horne, the legendary jazz singer and civil rights activist, died on Sunday in New York. She was 92. (Associated Press)
Nikki Blonsky and her parents are being sued for thousands of dollars by the same lawyer who repped them after the airport melee with Bianca Golden. (Perez Hilton)
Bobby Brown got engaged! Whitney is NOT gonna like this. (Dlisted)
Lance Bass… More »

Miley Cyrus Gives Tough Love On ‘American Idol’

Miley Cyrus Gives Tough Love On 'American Idol'

Miley Cyrus offers advice on American Idol, talks about stage fright. (MTV News)
At 3:23 on March 23, 2010, Scrubs was pronounced dead. By Zach Braff. On his Facebook page. (Popeater)
David Hasselhoff’s daughter Hayley Hasselhoff has been cast in an ABC show about fat camp, along with Nikki Blonsky. Hayley will play the “hottest and thinnest” girl. (Huffington Post)
With Oprah off the air, will Rosie O’Donnell reign? She hopes so. (New York Daily News)
In somewhat related news, a Jon Gosselin impersonator… More »

Bianca Golden Cleared of Charges

Bianca Golden Cleared of Charges

Bianca Golden and Hairspray star Nikki Blonsky have ben cleared of all charges related to their July 29 airport brawl.

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“The cases against Nikki Blonsky and Bianca Golden have been dropped,” Turks and Caicos Police Sgt. Calvin Chase told E! Online.

Bianca talked about the incident on The Tyra Banks show in October, saying Nikki’s dad openly and repeatedly hit her mother, and Nikki’s whole family attacked her.

Charges against Nikki’s father are still pending. The police refused to… More »

Nikki Blonsky’s Dad Finally Released

Nikki Blonsky's Dad Finally Released

A few days ago, Nikki Blonsky’s father was denied bail. He was being held for causing grievous bodily harm to Bianca Golden’s mom during their families’ brawl in a Turks & Caicos airport a couple of weeks ago.

Both Nikki and Bianca were arrested as well, but were quickly released on $6,000 bail. Because Bianca’s mom had to stay in the hospital, Nikki’s dad’s charges were far greater, and he remained incarcerated longer.

However, People is reporting that Carl Blonksy was… More »

Video: Bianca Golden/Nikki Blonsky Brawl

Video: Bianca Golden/Nikki Blonsky Brawl

TMZ has acquired a video of the aftermath of the brawl Bianca Golden had with Hairspray star Nikki Blonksy. By the sounds of the video, it was Bianca who started getting physical. Then Nikki’s mom comes over to those videotaping and says her daughter was just sitting there and Bianca whacked her for no reason.

The video doesn’t have any of the fight, but the person taking the video tells you what she say.

See the video here.

Both Bianca and Nikki were… More »

Rumor: Bianca Golden Brawls with Nikki Blonsky

Rumor: Bianca Golden Brawls with Nikki Blonsky

TMZ and US Weekly are reporting Nikki Blonksy–star of Hairspray–was arrested after an altercation in the airport at Turks & Caicos.

The altercation was with America’s Next Top Model alum Bianca Golden.

According to TMZ, Nikki was saving seats for her family before their flight back to the US. Before her family came by, Bianca and her family approached, wanting a place to rest before getting on the same flight.

A fight broke out, resulting in Bianca getting charged with one… More »