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In the world of celebrity, getting your own reality show exists somewhere between going to rehab and starring in any kind of weight loss commercial as a barometer for how well your career is going.

American Idol season three winner Fantasia Barrino just got her own reality show on VH1.

Someone is hard up for fame and fortune, emphasis on the fortune. 

Saturday night, Kanye West’s episode of VH1’s Storytellers, which was filmed on February 13th, aired.

One of the comments that was edited from the show was when Kanye spoke about the Chris Brown/Rihanna situation and said, “Can’t we give Chris a break? … I know I make mistakes in life.”

Really, Kanye? Really?

Are you just trying to be contrary for the sake of controversy or are you seriously speaking out in defense of a man who violently abused his girlfriend?

Either way, we’d love to give him a break.

After the drama of the reunion show catfight, Sharon Osbourne is stepping down as the headmistress of VH1’s Rock Of Love: Charm School.

She will be replaced by Ricki Lake.

HUH?

Charm School is for strippers, ex-hookers and alkies. Those girls are going to eat little Miss Ricki “I was in Hairspray” Lake alive.

Christopher Atkins, the star of 1980's The Blue Lagoon, smiled for the cameras as he posed with two butterfaced, body-painted models on the “Game Day at the Playboy Mansion” red carpet on Sunday.

We were a little too young to be on Atkins’ bus back in the Lagoon days but we’re addicted to VH1’s Confessions of a Teen Idol and he is the coolest guy ever.

Those focus group ladies were right; we would love to see him step back into leading man roles. He seems like a great guy; mellow, down to earth, smart, honest and a wonderful dad.

Those guys looking to become Megan Hauserman's new sugar daddy may be competing over damaged goods, thanks to Rock of Love: Charm School's host, Sharon Osbourne.

Megan and Sharon were both on hand for the shooting of the show's always-classy reunion special on Saturday, where Megan claims Osbourne went "ballistic" and attacked her.

We’ve come to expect very little from VH1. Once upon a time, we turned to old-fart MTV for Behind the Music specials, Sade and Sarah McLachlan videos and the occasional episode of The Surreal Life.

Gonorrhea is making its way back to cable primetime.

Remember dirty, crusty Daisy De La Hoya who got dropped like a sack of crabs on the season finale of Rock of Love 2? After Poison has-been…we mean frontman…Bret Michaels picked Ambre Lake (who he, of course, eventually dumped also)? The spazy, tattooed stripper (“that’s your profession”) is getting a second chance for true reality TV love.

If you live in LA, there is a bar synonymous with douchebaggery, drunken whoriness and frat boy antics. Actually, there are a few of them, but the one that reigns supreme is the Saddle Ranch Chop House on the Sunset Strip.

A sad sack take off on Urban Cowboy with a mechanical bull that “hold-my-hair-back” wasted sorority girls dry hump while Real World/Road Rules has-beens cheer them on. If you’re looking for the lowest common denominator in LA nightlife, the Saddle Ranch is where you'll find it.

Bret Michaels and Ambre, the winner of Rock of Love second season, have broken up. That means Bret needs to find someone new to touch his backstage pass, ride his limousine. But this time, there’s a twist.

Rock of Love Bus with Bret Michaels is set to premiere in early 2009.

Yes, kids, a BUS!