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America Ferrera: An Ugly Side of Politics
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America Ferrera, who once hit the campaign trail for Hillary Clinton, is now a very public supporter of Barack Obama, and for almost a year she's been urging young people to vote through Declare Yourself.
However, that doesn't mean the Ugly Betty star is hoping to declare her own candidacy for public office someday.
"I don't think running for office is anything I'm prepared for or could even prepare myself for," Ferrera, 24, told me earlier today, when we chatted about her work with Declare Yourself during a lunch break from filming her hit ABC series in New York City.
Why not? Read on to find out...
Ugly Betty Costar: Lindsay Plagued by Paparazzi
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Marc Indelicato would have loved to have gotten to know Lindsay Lohan when she shot her Ugly Betty episodes, but it was kinda impossible.
"Everyone has been asking me how Lindsay was, and really all I can say is that there was so much paparazzi that it's really hard to get to know the girl, because they're like all over the place," says Indelicato, who costars as Betty's nephew, Justin, on the hit ABC sitcom. "But she was really nice and was having a lot fun on the set."
Indelicato, as well as most of the rest of the cast, has relocated to New York to shoot the next season of Ugly Betty. And at just 14 years old, this boy has some big dreams—and he's doing what he can to make sure they come true...
Regis & Kelly Ugly Up
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Ugly is the new black.
Just days after it was confirmed that Mark Consuelos will guest star in the third episode of Ugly Betty's newly relocated New York-set season comes word that his missus, Kelly Ripa, and morning cohort Regis Philbin will also be popping up for the Mode masses, appearing as themselves on the Sept. 25 premiere.
Betty herself, America Ferrera, announced the casting coup while appearing today on Live With Regis & Kelly.
Philbin and Ripa are the latest name-brand stars to lend their fierce selves to the show. And that's not even counting Lindsay Lohan, who's set to reprise her role as Betty's high school nemesis for a five-episode run this season.
Breaking News
Rebecca Romijn & Jerry O'Connell: Havin' Twins!
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Break out the baby toys for Rebecca Romijn and Jerry O’Connell.
Romijn is pregnant with twins, their rep confirms.
Romijn, 35, and O’Connell, 34, started dating four years ago and got hitched last July.
"They haven't told that many people," a source tells me. "Rebecca wanted to wait until she was done shooting Ugly Betty."
Romijn has been in New York City filming the hit ABC sitcom. As my scoopin' cohort Kristin Dos Santos reported in April, Romijn’s role as glamourati transsexual Alexis went from regular to recurring after executive producer Marco Pennette was fired.
The twins, due this winter, will be the first babies for the parents-to-be. The news was first reported by Us Weekly magazine.
Lindsay Gets Ugly Again
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Lindsay Lohan is a working girl.
After a Hamptons getaway with Samantha Ronson, LiLo is on the New York City set of Ugly Betty, a source tells me, where she'll spend the next couple of days or so reprising her role as Kimmie, Betty's high school nemesis.
A rep for Ugly confirms Lohan's return and says she'll begin work tomorrow on the show's set in Queens.
She recently wrapped Labor Pains, a comedy in which she stars as a woman pretending to be pregnant so she won't get fired from her job.
But before returning to America Ferrera & Co., Linds and Ronson kept busy with their weekend in the Hamptons...
Bad Tidings for Ugly Betty's Benry?
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Darn all this summer casting news! (Stop reading if you believe that blissful ignorance is best when watching TV.)
Naomi Campbell: Don't Call Me a Supermodel
Naomi Campbell as an advocate for political correctness? At least if you're an international beauty icon.
Naomi is standing up for beautiful women everywhere and trying to put a stop to the term supermodel, according to an appearance on this Ugly Betty podcast (promoting the show's season finale this Thursday).
"It's a term we don't particularly like," says Campbell, pointing out that the preferred nomenclature among good-looking women who are paid to promote stuff is "working model."
Too bad no one asked her what she thinks of the term diva.
Vanessa Williams Gets Schooled
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Getting an education never looked so good.
School was back in session one final time for Vanessa Williams on Saturday, when the Ugly Betty star was awarded a bachelor of fine arts degree from Syracuse University. Williams attended but never graduated from the school, dropping out in 1983 after just two years at the university in order to become Miss America.
Donning a cap and gown with orange trim for the occasion, the star, whose daughter just completed her freshman year at Syracuse, also delivered the convocation address to the graduating class of the school's College of Visual and Performing Arts.
"These days are irreplaceable and are the beginning of the rest of your life," she said in her speech, per the Syracuse Post-Standard. "Treasure the moment."
And when in doubt, just ask yourself: What would Wilhelmina do?
Lindsay Gets Her Ugly On
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Life just got a whole lot uglier for Lindsay Lohan.
The trouble-prone actress began work Saturday on an extended guest spot for ABC's hit series Ugly Betty, according to Daily Variety.
Everybody's favorite mean girl is playing a former classmate of America Ferrera's Betty Suarez character, who, natch, wasn't that nice to Betty back in their school days. However, when the two bump into each other again, Lohan's character is down on her luck.
LiLo makes her debut on the show's May 22 season finale and will appear in five episodes next season.
Ugly Betty Rumor Patrol
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Art, life and Ugly Betty. Bear with us as we try to distinguish the difference.
America Ferrera's on-set wardrobe this week (specifically a honking-big diamond ring) sparked real-life engagement rumors between the 24-year-old actress and her longtime boyfriend, Ryan Piers Williams.
"Not true," her rep tells E! News about the report. But no word on which TV boyfriend might have popped the question. (We're still pulling for you, Henry!)
Meanwhile, producers are reportedly considering stunt-casting Lindsay Lohan for the show's finale May 22 and bringing her back for an even bigger arc next season.
To which we say—Naomi Campbell, Christian Siriano, Nina Garcia, Victoria Beckham—just how many divas can Mode absorb? Apparently, the answer is, never enough.
Naomi Campbell Takes Another Swing
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Naomi Campbell just flung a baseball bat and is sprinting directly toward us...Run for your lives!
OK, time-out: The combative supermodel is actually filming a scene for the season finale of Ugly Betty, a softball game between Elle and Mode magazine staffers. From the looks of it, Naomi hit it out of the park—unprovoked by assistants, housekeepers or British Airways personnel.
And while no telephones or BlackBerrys were reportedly harmed during the making of this show, if any castmembers are injured, at least they have an enthusiastic blood donor on the field.
Ugly Betty's Beauty of a Role
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America Ferrera's next project is shaping up to be a simple numbers game.
According to the Hollywood Reporter, the Ugly Betty star has signed on to topline the feature adaptation of Aimee Bender's quirky novel An Invisible Sign of My Own, revolving around Mona Gray, a twentysomething loner who found solace in math and geometry as an obsessive-compulsive child after her father fell ill.
Later in life, the loner becomes a math teacher to a group of young children and uses the subject to help her students through crises of their own.
Mad Hot Ballroom helmer Marilyn Adrelo directs the coming-of-age flick.
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