Shark Bytes

Shame on Ellen for a sloppy interview of Bachelor, Brad Womack.

Briefly, in a previous airing, she'd called him "a jerk" for not picking one of the bachelorettes and wanted to use her show to apologize to him in person. In reality, it appeared to be more damage control.

But in her haste to plug up that dam, she underestimated the intelligence of her viewers:

Ellen: "When we heard you flew the father in, then it looked like, well, now you really are [a jerk]."

Brad: "Not a single time did I ever look at the producers and say, 'yes, please fly DeAnna's father in.'"

Ellen: (looking at her audience and nodding while he is speaking) "That's something no one knew until now, which makes me change a lot of my opinions."

WRONG! She admittedly watch ALL The Bachelor episodes, including the AFRC (After The Final Rose Ceremony) in which this exchange took place between Brad and Chris Harrison--and she never even challenged Brad on this statement:

Chris: "Well, you ASKED for her father to come out. You asked for him to be there."

Brad: "That's correct."

Don't underestimate us, Ellen.

http://www.realitytvworld.com/news/the-bachelor-star-brad-womack-contradicts-himself-in-new-interview-6195.php

Lots of households with small children have dogs, and Ellen certainly had the right to fight the rule. However, she shouldn't have used the kids and their love and emotions as a tool to do her fighting. Surely there was a better way that wouldn't have involved them.

Fight the rule, get it changed, THEN give the dog to them.

Mutts and Moms should have left Iggy the dog alone once Ellen adopted him. I know Ellen should have called them if things didn't work out, but surely Mutts and Moms could have made arrangements to let the hairdresser's kids keep Iggy. However, if Mutts and Moms had a rule against dogs being placed in homes with children, and Ellen was trying to sneak them a pet, then it was an injustice that Ellen had the right to fight. What's so wrong about letting kids have a dog? It's not like they were too young to understand that a dog is a living creature and not a stuffed toy. What danger did they pose to him...showering him with love and kisses? How inhumane, being loved by two kids. Now that Iggy has new owners, there's nothing that can be done. As for the idiots who made death threats against Mutts and Moms, I hope they are caught and prosecuted.

Jumped the shark, big time. So unprofessional to boo hoo like that on Tv. My guess is she was found out at last, she has adopted 9 dogs for photo ops and then given them away later. Ask her where is Morkie, Stormy, the border collie, the bull dog mis, the white poodle mix, all gone, given awaylike so much used tissue paper. She needs to consider giving away scented candles instead of live creatures. Iggy never made it home to meet the cats even, he was given away right from the dog trainer. I stopped shopping at Food Lion over this ( one of her sponsors) and I now buy my groceries at Wal Mart.

JTS big time with Iggy, the dog.

I suspect her motives for adopting the dog in the first place, already having two cats in the house. I think she wanted it all along for her hairdresser's daughters, who are underage as per the shelter's rules. People with a lot of money can make things happen.

In addition, she broke every other rule of the shelter: not contacting them when the dog "didn't work out"; re-gifting the dog; (and re-gifting to underage children).

THEN, when the shelter rightfully takes the dog back because of her blatent snub of their rules, she expects them to overlook those rules that everyone else understands and follows and give the dog back to the kids anyway.

And when they won't, she cries before her millions of adoring fans--many of whom would do violence for her--and makes the shelter out to be callous and unfeeling, inciting a frenzy of death threats to the shelter.

And STILL, Ellen doesn't get it: After (weakly) telling everyone not to resort to threats, she still insists the dog be returned to the kids, who now, stubbornly, vow not to have any other dog in their lives but Iggy--a dog they had for just a few weeks.

Someone should tell the kids that they can fall in love again and again with many dogs in their lives. And someone should tell Ellen to come back down to earth and follow the rules like the rest of us. And if she's not going to follow rules in the future, not to involve anyone else.

She finally did it. I'd never thought it would happen but it did. The dog deal. She didnt just jump the shark folks she friggin' flew a mile high over that damn fish..She did an Oprah and changed the format of her show for a couple of minutes and I don't think anyone is going to look at her quite the same way again. Chrissakes, the way she carried on you would have thought someone close to her just dropped dead right before curtain.. Her producers and writers couldnt get into the conference room for a damage control meeting fast enough after that show I'm sure.

I love Ellen but this "dog" thing smells like a shark jump to me. when I first heard about it I thought it was November sweeps month then I realized it was still Oct. Never thought I'd say this but:

Ellen has finally jumped the shark

Crying about the dog! JUMP

Love Ellen's show. Hate the new time in the midwest though...1:00 p.m. It was much better when it was on in the morning. Ellen is funny and always will be. Her show hasn't Jumped the Shark yet.

how about when she was picking and choseing what episodes her dr said she couldnt get out of bed??? ...

which also happened to be during sweeps might i add!

Ellen has single handedly saved the gay community from The Beast (some dare speak her name...ROSIE!!!!!)

so sick of these outted gays going overboard to prove anything and everything...how does one even know they're forever gay unless they've taken a trip to head doctor to see if they can get their head screwed on right after therpy or something...or maybe they don't want to...it's their right, i guess...ellen, unlike rosie is much more likeable...still, i say jumped day 1, just because when i turn on tv, i wanna be taken away, not caught up in all this liberal crap shoved down my throat.

I LOVE Ellen, and love her appearances on Letterman but I just can't stand to watch her show anymore. It jumped when the stupid dancing got old and repetitive which was in the 2nd season.

day one

Much as I hate to admit it, I actually liked this show when it was in its formative years, but since the beginning of the fourth season it has lost me as a viewer. The first thing I noticed was the new set. I hate to be an obnoxious pettifogger, but the Regis and Kelly-esque TV studio just ruined the whole "mood" of the show. Speaking of annoying daytime talk shows, The Ellen DeGeneres Show has become one. The comedy has been moved to the back burner, and in its stead is a neverending series of contests, celebrity gossip, and audience giveaways. I knew it was going downhill when every promo began with Ellen asking the celebrity guest, "So are you two dating?" Eugh.