Celebrity Trash

Despite low ratings, the CW has ordered more episodes of its freshman series Melrose Place. The Hollywood Reporter said that executives are holding out that viewers will still discover the program, especially as Heather Locklear is making an appearance come November. The CW has also given a full season order to One Tree Hill and has ordered additional episodes of The Vampire Diaries.


Universal pictures is developing a live-action film featuring the iconic doll, Barbie. The Hollywood Reporter announced that Laurence Mark -- whose credits include Jerry Maguire and Julie & Julia -- is producing the film. Toy-maker Mattel has been very protective of Barbie in the past, with this project marking the first time she will appear on the big screen. It's unclear how Barbie's story will translate as she's "sometimes a high school teen, but at times a pilot, military officer, teacher or astronaut."


Mackenzie Phillips is returning to the Oprah Winfrey Show on Friday (September 25th), where she and half-sister Chynna Phillips will address the incest revelations that made headlines earlier this week. On Thursday's show Winfrey said, "You heard the bombshell from child star Mackenzie Phillips. Now she's back for the reaction, and her half-sister Chynna is speaking out." It's unclear if they will be live in studio.

Phillips revealed that she had a decade-long sexual relationship with her father, John Phillips, of the Mamas and the Papas. She said, "It started very early on in my life. And this was the mother of all difficult experiences. I was 17, 18. I wasn't a small child, but I'll tell you something, it was one of those things where you tell yourself, 'Don't look.' ... I felt so alone. And I think my father was not a bad man. It's kind of a testimony to what drugs and alcohol [do]."

Chynna has said that she does not doubt her sister's story but Mackenzie's stepmother, Genevieve Waite Phillips, denies the claims. She said in a statement, "John was a good man who had the disease of alcoholism and drug addiction. He was incapable, no matter how drunk or drugged he was, of having such a relationship with his own child."


MTV is planning to air Adam Goldstein, aka, DJ AM's drug-intervention reality series, which was shot shortly before his death last month. The Hollywood Reporter says that although MTV has not confirmed that Gone Too Far will definitely get a place in its line-up, sources say that the network has been in talks with Goldstein's family "about the timing."

Although a toxicology report taken after his death has not been released, preliminary findings suggest the 36-year-old musician died from a drug overdose.
On the show, Goldstein, an addict who had supposedly been clean for a number of years, acted as a "tough-love" guide for troubled substance abusers.