You have to hand it to the guy.

He gave his all and he came out on top.  The ‘nice guy’ of the house, Dan Gheesling, knew when to lay low, when to start controversy and when to win HOH!  With the exception of the first week, when his first ally, Brian, was evicted, Dan had everything going for him.

In the final stages of the game, he made a strong pact with Memphis, the “mixologist” from L.A. to take each other to the end.  (Which, puh-leeze.  I was a bartender for 7 years and never once did I insist people call me a mixologist.  Get real dude, you’re a drink slinging bartender!)  The two men single handedly evicted their competition one by one until they were the last two standing.  In the end it was Dan who prevailed, with a house vote of 7-0.

So what does this 25-year-old Catholic school teacher have to say about his former houseguests, winning Big Brother 10 with a unanimous vote and his flirtatious relationship with Keesha?

Read on to find out.

What did you think of the unanimous vote in your favor? Who did you think was the least likely to vote for you on the jury?

Man I was hoping to get four votes … maybe. But 7-0, wow, what a phenomenal feeling. I thought Keesha and Renny were solid but the others were up in the air. I thought Jerry and Libra would vote for Memphis and April, Ollie and Michelle would decide the game. I think this is a first in Big Brother history. (Editor’s note: He’s right. It is. Even the Big Brother master, Dr. Will, had two votes against him in season 2.)

We saw your girlfriend Monica hug you at the end. Did she think you acted like a good boy?

Monica was pretty supportive but I had some questions to answer. One had to do with my sharing a place to sleep with Keesha. I assured Monica that I built a wall of pillows between us and put a picture of Monica on top of the pillow wall. I told Monica it was for game play. Any girl would hate to see her boyfriend in bed with a girl as beautiful and charming and nice as Keesha, but we were just friends.

There was speculation in the house that you were America’s player. Did that last for long?

I had to fight that off every second thanks to one woman: Libra. She started the America’s Player conspiracy. It went on constantly. I always had to battle it. (Editor’s note: Dan was America’s player for one week, and won $20,000 for it.)

It’s all over now Dan, so you can say it. Who was really a vile person in the house?

You’re trying to get me in trouble here! How about we say who was the most un-clean? The person with the least amount of personal hygiene was Jerry, but we still loved him. At 75 he doesn’t need to wash his hands anymore.

Was it just us or were you always yelling to the camera in the diary room? Are you just a loud talker?

I tried to be very inconspicuous, very calm, in the house. I’m very calm as a teacher. But after school as a coach I like to get fired up. So in the diary room I’d like to coach up America. That was my chance. I took it and ran with it.

Let’s go back and talk about specific things in the house. I have to start with what you said at the start of the game … that you think a trip to confession will help wipe the slate clean. Dude, really? Are you gonna go? And what on earth will you say?

Without a doubt, I’ve already spoken to the powers at be back at St. Mary’s and arranged a three-hour confession. Part of being Catholic is that you’re not supposed to lie and manipulate, but that’s what you have to do to win. The St. Mary community was behind me 100 percent. I didn’t want to be seen fighting or dropping f-bombs. I didn’t want the kids (back at school) losing their temper, and they never saw me do that. I played Big Brother the best that I could. I stayed within the confines of the rules, though there are no rules in Big Brother.

Let’s talk about Jerry’s Judas comment. Were you hurt by that or were you more hurt by the implication that Jessie, of all people, represented Jesus in that scenario?

Neither was offensive. It was like water running off my back. I never let it pull me in. I knew what they were trying to do, but it was not worth getting into personal fight over religion. I was focused on the game.

Jerry was in your face a lot. Did he scare you?

No, Jerry’s a big teddy bear. He’s still is tough man, though, who could beat me in a fight.

Can we go back to that HOH competition when Michelle won and we heard Jerry trash-talking you in the background? Do you remember all the crap he said?

When Michelle won, it felt like Jerry won. He was in my face, pointing his finger in my face saying ‘don’t hide behind the cross,’ blah blah blah. He got so fired up and made it so personal, but I never did anything to him in the game. I voted Jessie out, not Jerry. He acted like I took shots at him but I never put him in harm’s way but he took things so personally.

Now let’s talk about when you won against Ollie. We at home were pretty suspicious that you were the only one wearing a hooded jacket during what turned out to be a very wet challenge. Ollie said he was half-nude. How is it possible you knew to wear a jacket?

I’m been waiting for this question. In this game, it’s not about being bigger or stronger, it’s about being smarter. I knew we hadn’t done an endurance competition yet with any kind of liquid, so I decided why not wear a jacket to be prepared? Sometimes I carry out a long sleeve shirt and throw it aside if I don’t need it. This was the one case where I got lucky with it. There was a lot of speculation that producers told me to wear it. Being a Big Brother fan I was suspicious about how involved the producers were, but there was no funny business. No one told me to wear a jacket.

What are you going to do with the money and please don’t say you’re going to give it to charity.

Here’s what I’m going to do. Some time in the near future I’m going to buy Monica a gift to fit on her ring finger. Other than that I may invest it. I’ll stay at St. Mary’s and continue the job I love. I may even set up a college scholarship for Big Brother alumni — but only for the non-winners because the winners won’t need it.

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[From Issue 1061 — September 18, 2008.]

We heard that while you were filming commercials for the VMAs with Britney Spears, you were telling her shocking things you wanted to do to her.

I did describe one very basic sexual technique, which I think she would have hugely benefited from — just standard clitoral stimulation whilst achieving an upward, diagonal motion so that you can induce anal and clitoral stimulation simultaneously. But I wasn’t able to demonstrate, so it was a dismal failure.

You’ve had a fraught history with MTV. When you worked for the network in the U.K., you were fired for showing up to work dressed as Osama bin Laden — on September 12th, 2001. What were you thinking?

I was taking loads of crack and heroin. And I was a little bit excited because I’d been talking about Osama bin Laden for ages before that, right? So it was kind of like when a band breaks that you’ve liked for ages. I was like, “I told you this guy was gonna be big!” Still, what I did was deeply regrettable. I mean no disrespect to the thousands who lost their lives in that terrible tragedy. It was a very, very stupid thing to have done.

You’ve been pretty open about your history with drugs and bulimia and sex addiction in your memoir, “My Booky Wook.” Did you draw on your own life when you were acting as the rock star Aldous Snow in “Forgetting Sarah Marshall”?

Yeah. Nicholas Stoller, the director of that film, and Jason Segel, the writer, plundered my life like British archeologists picking through a pyramid: “What else happened? What else did you do?”

What’s one of the better stories you told them?

When I was making RE: BRAND, a TV show that was inspired by Jackass, I was doing all these insane things, like having a bath with a homeless man whose ulcerated legs were weeping into the water. And I smoked crack with a prostitute and her family. During that time, we were on tour in this Winnebago, and I drank a bottle of gin first thing in the morning to steady my nerves. It made me incredibly emotional, and I was crying. I climbed on top of the Winnebago. I said, “Film me!” And the film crew said, “We can’t film you on a moving vehicle, it’s against regulations!” So I said, “You make me sick!” and stuck my fingers down my throat and started puking, but there was nothing to come out except fumes. So I tried to vomit fumes on the production company as a punishment for not having trust. Then this whole shoot was canceled, and several of my friends lost their jobs. My solution was to say, “Let’s just not tell our mums.”

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In the latest issue of Steppin’ Out’ magazine Wendy Williams finds herself on the opposite end of the interview.

The talk show diva talks about the fight she had with reality bitch, Omarosa, her career without an agent, breast implants and more juicy goodness.

Why she didn’t smack Omarosa:

I really wasn’t trying to push any of her buttons. And I also wasn’t buying into any of the buttons that she was trying to get me to push. This may sound horrible to say, but Omarosa is an A list reality TV star and I’ve got my own network TV show. I’ve got the potential to be the next big thing on daytime TV. We’ve seen from Oprah that shows like this can be unstoppable. So I’ve held my tongue with Omarosa. She was ready to fight and I’m talking verbally or physically.

Why did you hold your tongue?

Because there are publicists with fabulous clients watching and waiting to see how I treat my guests. Also, I’m a grown woman. I’m a wife and a mother. I’m 44 year old and I’ve never been in a playground fight a day in my life. I don’t need to hurt anybodies feelings and I don’t need to ask any questions that I wouldn’t want asked of myself. Listen Chaunce, I’ve had a very celebrated radio career and no omelet gets made without breaking a few eggs. But this current venture that can take me into my next life is extremely important to me.

On Barack Obama:

Whether Obama wins or doesn’t win, he has helped me in more ways than he’ll ever know regarding my efforts to raise a strong positive black boy into a black man. My son who is seven years old is growing up in a time that his father and I did not experience. The first time I was called a nigger all I could think of is Shirley Chiasm. She was a congresswoman at the time. That’s not a lowly position, but lets face facts, being commander in chief of the free world has a lot more week. It hurts just as hard to be called a nigger now but society doesn’t reinforce it has hard. You may not understand my answer to your question, but I tell you right now, Obama has helped me and my husband complete a full circle of black pride in rising a black boy. He’s made my job so much easier as a parent. My son has never been called a nigger yet, but it will happen. It’s something that we as black people know. And when my son is called a nigger I have no doubt he will eloquently know how to defend himself. It’s one of those things that we as black people have to deal with in this country. It happens to us. Its not “if” we will be called a nigger. It’s more about the first time it happens and who will be there for you when it happens. Barak Obama whether he knows it or not has already provided a great example for both white and black around the world.

On her breast implants:

For me personally, it was to fill out the rest of my body. I’m 5′11 and I love to where heels. I wear heels 95 percent of the time. So 95 percent of the time I’m 6′ 4”. But I was born with A cups. I needed bigger breasts to fill out the rest of my body. Now D cups sound big if you’re talking about Ashley Simpson. But D on a big thick women like me is normal. I look like I was born with these.

On staying with her cheating husband:

First and foremost, Kevin and I are friends. If you’re my friend, you’re my friend. Almost to a fault. Plus, in Kevin’s case, in addition to being a friend he’s the father of my child. At the time I found out about Kevin’s infidelity I knew nothing about being a mother. I wasn’t going to let him leave me along with this infant. We were going to work this thing out. Besides, Kevin is also my manager. He’s said things to me that nobody else has in terms of my career. He said to me 15 years ago while riding though Times Square, one day you’ll have a piece of this. He said he was going to make it happen for me. And I’ll be damned if my TV Show wasn’t on the jumbotron in Times Square! Some of my wildest dreams have come true thanks to Kevin.

On P-Diddy trying to keep her down:

I do feel that Puffy had a very heavy hand in my demise in New York back in 1998. And I told him that. But I also feel that no matter who tries to get in my way, and the end of the day it’s all about me and my manager. We’re the ones there late at night strolling the streets trying to host a party or handing out my own fliers outside of clubs. People don’t understand what it takes to get ahead. You have to have a hustler’s mentality to make it in this business. I don’t have fancy management or even an agent. Listen, I was signed to ICM and William Morris and no disrespect but neither of them ever did anything for me. You know how I got this show? Kevin’s phone rang and a year later here we are on TV. I did it all without an agent. Of course now they’re all trying to get a piece of me. I’ve worked with people in the past that didn’t know what the hell to do with me. I’m talking about companies like VH1 and William Morris. Now nobody is trying to change me or recreate me. It’s a dream come true and God I hope it keeps going.

Jessica Simpson arrived on the scene a fresh faced, cute young, seemingly innocent girl who was often compared to Britney Spears.

But most of her singing career has been overshadowed by her personal life.

First it was her marriage to Nick Lachey and the Chicken of the Sea fiasco, then rumors of her infidelity on the set of Dukes of Hazard, then her divorce, then the steady stream of boyfriends, her sister’ surgeries, her controlling father, you name it.

Although she has never been known for her singing skills, she has pushed on - even after her terrible performance at the Kennedy Center Honors tribute to Dolly Parton where she freaked out and cried after forgetting the lyrics to 9-5.

So what does she have to say about all this?  Read on and find out.

During the Kennedy Center Honors tribute to Dolly Parton, you messed up singing “9 to 5,” but now Dolly not only wrote the title track of your album, she sings on it, too. Did you ever think you’d go from the Kennedy Center drama to being friends with Dolly?

You know, what happened at Kennedy Center, I really thought I was done singin’. I was just at a place where I’d lost a lot of confidence and I didn’t even know who I was. But Dolly totally took me under her wing and helped me up and over the cares of the world.

It went from the Kennedy Center to her being a part of this record and getting letters from her of encouragement. She told me she’s never been more proud of anything in her whole life. And I have it written down in her handwriting! I do owe a lot of my confidence to her.

During your recent concerts, you’ve been thanking your fans for giving you a second chance. Did you ever think your real fans left you?

Um, no, but sometimes I feel like I close myself off so much to the fans. But at my shows, it’s not just fans. It’s people that are skeptics, critics. It’s, you know, all different kinds of people interested to see what I would actually be doing on stage, and if I could carry my own, and if I could stand up there as a woman with something to say. Be up there with a sense of purpose, you know. So I think more than anything, when I say, “Thank you for giving me a second chance,” I feel like I’m having a comeback. I’m on solid ground again. They can look to me for inspiration. I wanna be a role model.

I have to admit I’ve been analyzing some of the songs, trying to figure out which song is about whom. Are you worried that people are going to overdissect everything, like this song is about this boyfriend, and this song is about this time and the ex-husband?

People are gonna dissect it, but I hope they give the album a chance first. I hope they listen to it, and my biggest hope for this record is that people aren’t listening to it and thinking about me and somebody else. That they can actually listen to it and relate to it…I think that it’s important for people to give it a listen without thinking about any of my relationships.

So you’ve done a song with Dolly. You do Shania Twain and Dusty Springfield in your shows. But who else you lookin’ to sing with? How about someone like fellow Southerner Miley Cyrus?

Miley’s adorable. She looks up to my sister so much. She’s so cute, yeah. You know, when it comes to duets, I really can’t top Dolly Parton. That’s always been a dream of mine. So I really don’t know who I’d duet with.

How about acting—want to do more?

Hopefully there’s more acting to come. I’m not closing that chapter of my life by any means. But I am all about the music right now…When it comes to acting, it’s gotta feel right for me at this point in my life. It’s gotta just be a really incredible director and production with an awesome studio and great cast…But for me right now it’s just Jessica Simpson is music.

David Letterman rarely does interviews, but in the latest issue of Rolling Stone he opens up, giving his views on the future of The Tonight Show, Jay Leno and his own future with CBS.

Dave says he can’t believe Johnny Carson’s successor is leaving the show after sixteen years.

“Unless I’m misunderstanding something, I don’t know why, after the job Jay has done for them, why they would relinquish that.  I guess they thought it was a less messy way to handle what happened to me at NBC. I don’t know.”

“I’m not quite sure why they would do that, so much so that one wonders if that’s actually what’s going to happen…[It] just seemed so preposterous to me.”

Letterman, 61, was originally thought to have been the one that would replace Mr. Carson after he retired in 1992, but Leno, 58, won out, and Letterman moved his show from NBC to CBS.  He understands what Jay is going through and when asked if he felt empathy for Leno he replied,  “I guess empathy is the right word. It’s hard to know what he felt about it. I have to believe he was not happy about it.”

Dave, always thinking ahead, added that he would love to have Jay on his show after he retires.  “I think he’d be a great guest on the show. The first night that he is out of a job, I think that would be a great situation.”

As for Dave’s future, he says he is contemplating it, and he isn’t exactly thinking about retiring anytime soon.

“The way I feel now, I would like to go beyond 2010, not much beyond, but you know, enough to go beyond. You always like to be able to excuse yourself on your own terms.”

The most popular male porn star in the world, Ron Jeremy, chats it up with TIME magazine in a new interview about his crazy life.

Jeremy talks about how he got into the porn industry, what it was like and how it has affected his relationships.  Great read!

TIME: How did you get your start in the porn industry?

Ron Jeremy: Like many Jewish boys, I was working up in the Catskills, as a waiter and the maitre d’ at the Paramount Hotel. I was doing theater, and it was a very difficult situation, especially in New York, where you couldn’t be an extra unless you were part of the Screen Actors Guild. I was making no money. We agreed — my girlfriend Alice and I — to take some pictures in the deluxe wing of the Paramount. We knew women could do Playboy and that might lead to a career in theater, film. I thought I would try it out and at least get some kind of exposure, pardon the pun. So my girlfriend took the photographs and sent them to Playgirl. I thought maybe they would agree to bring me to L.A. for a layout, and while I’m in L.A. I’ll try to get some work in Hollywood. Then Playgirl called and they said we have good news and bad news. The bad news is they weren’t going to fly me anywhere. The good news is that they were going to use the pictures we had taken.

How did the public respond to the photos?

I had used my real name: Ron Hyatt, from Queens, New York; likes to go hang gliding and sailing when he gets the chance, and working on his master’s degree in special education. A lot of people looked up R. Hyatt in Queens, New York, but they were getting my grandmother, Rose Hyatt, who lived downstairs. My poor grandmother was being woken up night and day, mostly by guys. Playgirl likes to think that their audience is mostly women, but no, no, the majority is gay. My poor grandma had to move. Then my dad sat me down and said, “I don’t know what cockamamie business you are getting into. You want to do something, fine, you’re an adult, but don’t you ever use the family name again.” So I used my middle name, which is Jeremy.

What was your path to the porn industry?

I quit teaching because I was making no money. After Playgirl I went to see a filmmaker I knew. Joe said he only did adult movies, so I said that’s kind of sleazy. Then I did theater for a few months and starved. So I went back to Joe and thought, it’s not so bad. I asked my family what they thought and they said, [we] aren’t crazy about the idea but if you really want to do this go ahead, if you think it may be a shortcut to the mainstream. So Joe put me in my first adult film, Tigresses and Other Man-eaters. I spent an hour in makeup and they never once saw my face.

Were you embarrassed during the filming?

Yes, a little. There were some professionals there who had done it for a while. I wasn’t getting the liftoff as quickly as they did. It was embarrassing. It’s funny because now, years later when I am not taking Viagra and the other guy does, I am still slow to the punch. I am the slow man on the totem pole. It was embarrassing because I was not used to being nude and having sex in a room full of people.

Continue reading Ron Jeremy’s Interview after the cut!

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I love this crazy bitch. She’s a goofball and I love her.