In honor of their last Valentine's Day in the White House, Barack and Michelle Obama exchanged love messages to each other on The Ellen DeGeneres Show on Friday. Michelle called in to surprise her husband, who was making his first in-studio appearance on the show, with a sweet Valentine poem: "Roses are red, violets are blue, you are the president and I am your boo." The crowd - and the president - erupted in laughter and Michelle continued, "I wrote that while I was doing 100 push-ups this morning. You know, it gets the creative juices flowing." "You should try it,...
- 2/12/2016
- by Tierney McAfee, @tierneymcafee
- PEOPLE.com
In honor of their last Valentine's Day in the White House, Barack and Michelle Obama exchanged love messages to each other on The Ellen DeGeneres Show on Friday. Michelle called in to surprise her husband, who was making his first in-studio appearance on the show, with a sweet Valentine poem: "Roses are red, violets are blue, you are the president and I am your boo." The crowd - and the president - erupted in laughter and Michelle continued, "I wrote that while I was doing 100 push-ups this morning. You know, it gets the creative juices flowing." "You should try it,...
- 2/12/2016
- by Tierney McAfee, @tierneymcafee
- PEOPLE.com
Ellen’s Design Series is returning to Hgtv in January. The top-rated furniture design competition series, first conceptualized by Ellen DeGeneres, adds more competitors to its sophomore season, and jumps from six to nine episodes, including a 60-minute behind-the-scenes special, according to Hgtv. During its first-season run, Ellen's Design Challenge ranked as one of the highest-rated series in Hgtv history, delivering more than 12 million total viewers. It also ranked as…...
- 6/15/2015
- Deadline TV
An anonymous tip led to the disqualification of an Hgtv talent reality competition's winner, creating a controversial end to what was set up to be a light and fluffy six-episode furniture design competition produced by Ellen DeGeneres. Ellen revealed that on her talk show today, when she talked with the person who won "Ellen's Design Challenge" and then had his win taken away. Tim McClellan was disqualified for essentially plagiarizing the design of his final piece. Tim's desk, which resembled a stack of lumber but unfolded to reveal secret compartments, looked almost identical in form and function to a desk created by a European designer, Simon Schacht. Tim said on Ellen's talk show this afternoon that "in my recollection, I have never seen his piece of furniture before" but also admitted that "the similarities of the two pieces are quite compelling, and I understand the decision made and accept...
- 3/6/2015
- by Andy Dehnart
- Hitfix
Ellen's Design Challenge was short, but boy was that ending a whopper. The hit Hgtv show concluded last night with a shocking epilogue: Tim McClellan, the Western-style furniture designer who'd been named the winner, was disqualified and runner-up Katie Stout learned she would take home the $100,000 prize. To be fair, producer and namesake Ellen DeGeneres had warned her audience on Monday's episode of her eponymous talk show that the finale would be "very dramatic. Even if you think you know what's going to happen, you don't know nothin'." At the end of Monday's finale, the episode flashed to one week...
- 3/3/2015
- by Lanford Beard, @lanfordbeard
- PEOPLE.com
Ellen's Design Challenge was short, but boy was that ending a whopper.
The hit Hgtv show concluded last night with a shocking epilogue: Tim McClellan, the Western-style furniture designer who'd been named the winner, was disqualified and runner-up Katie Stout learned she would take home the $100,000 prize.
To be fair, producer and namesake Ellen DeGeneres had warned her audience on Monday's episode of her eponymous talk show that the finale would be "very dramatic. Even if you think you know what's going to happen, you don't know nothin'."
At the end of Monday's finale, the episode flashed to one week...
The hit Hgtv show concluded last night with a shocking epilogue: Tim McClellan, the Western-style furniture designer who'd been named the winner, was disqualified and runner-up Katie Stout learned she would take home the $100,000 prize.
To be fair, producer and namesake Ellen DeGeneres had warned her audience on Monday's episode of her eponymous talk show that the finale would be "very dramatic. Even if you think you know what's going to happen, you don't know nothin'."
At the end of Monday's finale, the episode flashed to one week...
- 3/3/2015
- by Lanford Beard, @lanfordbeard
- People.com - TV Watch
There's a lot of reality TV ahead in 2015: more than 70 new and returning reality shows debut in January alone. Here's a guide to some of the highlights and lowlights, and trends that I've spotted among all the reality TV networks are flinging our way. Twists and changes come to the big shows "The Amazing Race" (CBS, Feb. 25) will, for the first time, bail on the one thing that made it different: casting people with preexisting relationships. While all 11 teams are dating couples, including a former New Kid on the Block and his boyfriend, five of the 11 teams will meet for the first time at the race's starting line. It seems like a desperate attempt to create even more drama, but it may also be interesting to see how well strangers function as a team during a race around the world. "Survivor Worlds Apart" (CBS, Feb. 25) isn't celebrating its 30th season with an all-star season,...
- 12/25/2014
- by Andy Dehnart
- Hitfix
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