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74 Reasons to Hate TMZ

tmzagingsmall.jpgIt takes a lot to get us angry these days. We're medicated and mostly in a constant state of sedation. However, we'll make an exception for TMZ's new slideshow: Premature Aging! (exclamation point theirs). This is a gallery featuring 74 photos of celebrities with pithy comments underneath, criticizing them for looking "decades" older than their age. For instance: "Mischa Barton — At 22, she looks old enough to play her mother on The O.C." or "Tara Reid — At 32, she's still not as haggard as her liver."

Unsurprisingly, this perpetually misogynistic website uses mostly women in the gallery, although they throw in a few men like Mickey Rourke to pretend to even the score. The one saving grace is that by the time you get to page 2, TMZ no longer bothers with their moronic commentary.

Listen, we agree that Chelsea Handler is probably not 33. Who's kidding who here? Fergie looks older as well, mostly because she has meth face. But taking cheap shots at the physical appearance of teens like Ali Lohan, 14, Riley Keough, 18, and Miley Cyrus, 15, is unnecessary and crass. Most offensively, it's not funny. Painfully unfunny.

While we're on the subject of the painfully unfunny, hear this, TMZ! We caught some of your show TMZ TV when it first ushered in the end of times. With the exception of the one hot guy you clearly just hired for the show, most of the staff has what is called a "face for blogging." You're the last people on earth who should be calling other people out for looking busted. Unlike you guys, however, we're not going to name names because that would require us to actually learn your names. Which would require us to watch the show again.

A sample of TMZ's "hilarious" commentary below...





4:42 PM on Fri Apr 11 2008
By Noelle Hancock
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  • While I agree TMZ is hateful, and I know this comment may get me banned or temporarily booted or whatever - the younger girls they critique? As in the teenagers? They DO look way older than their age. I think it's all the makeup.

    But yeah, Harvey Levin is a douchebag, my love of People's Court notwithstanding.

  • Image of TedSez TedSez at 06:06 PM on 04/11/08 *

    Of course, in Hollywood, nobody is supposed to age. But at the same time, everyone looks older than you expect, because you just saw Sleepless in Seattle on TV and forget that it was made 15 years ago.

    TMZ is a complete train wreck, because there isn't enough actual celebrity news to fill a 24-hour blogging cycle. So the only way to keep things moving is with unadulterated nastiness. But it's still better than "Extra."

  • Image of Dickdogfood Dickdogfood at 06:10 PM on 04/11/08 *

    See, when I make fun of someone's looks, I usually try to stick to stuff that people have more control over than genetics, like hair or clothing. (Tho you might find exceptions to that general rule in the archives. I'm no angel.)

  • @psych101: it also seems kinda weird to say it's ok to call out old ladies for looking whorey but NOT teenagers. but whatevs.

  • @psych101: I agree, the makeup can make them look old, but remember that TMZ has plenty of photos to pick the worst from. I think they're just jealous of Hilton.

    Oh, and Fergie is fucking smoking hot.

  • Image of Conbon Conbon at 06:17 PM on 04/11/08 *

    TMZ sucks!11! Noelle, you look exactly as old as you are. I mean younger than you are. If that's, you know, what you want. Whatever you say. You're pretty AND smart.

  • Image of Hez Hez at 06:19 PM on 04/11/08 *

    @valarmorghulis: She needs to take that thing out of her face. (Interpret both "thing" and "face" as freely as you like.)

  • @valarmorghulis: All I know is, I'm at that age where I'm starting to go from, "I'm going to be SUCH a cool mom", to "Good gravy Jesus, THAT'S what they let 8-year-olds wear" (i.e. highlights, thongs, etc.).

    I guess this means I'm old.

  • @Conbon: Your subtlety and restraint is delightful. Love it.

  • @valarmorghulis: Fergie looks like Carrot Top's sister hombre. So not.

    TMZ is like my annoying, aging and single gaybor. Hmmm, I wonder why that is....? [planethomo.typepad.com]

  • @valarmorghulis: Fergie looks like Carrot Top's sister, hombre.

    TMZ is like my annoying, aging, single gaybor. Hmm, I wonder why that is? [planethomo.typepad.com]

  • I love TMZ. I don't think the evening news focues nearly enough on celebrity news, and someone has to do it. All the news channels are so busy covering the war, and analyzing our recession, I don't even know who is having kids or getting divorced anymore.

  • It is a slippery slope the middle age stars walk through. Indulge in too much plastic surgery and get labeled a freak, but not enough and you are subjected to "old before their time" features like this... Is everyone in Hollywood a "fake 33"?

  • I wasn't truly upset until I read Fergie's caption. Black Eyed Please?! WTF TMZ? That is some serious Leno level unfunny right there.

  • Also I have no idea what exactly they are trying to say about Riley Keough. I get that it has something to do with her looking old, but they lost me when they started talking about cars.

  • Image of cassandra cassandra at 09:59 PM on 04/11/08 *

    Oh my God, someone on Gawker is calling out another site for the obvious misogyny of judging women as whores for the way they look? Noelle, stay forever and please also sprinkle your magic feminism dust over Denton.

  • Not to play devil's advocate, but Chelsea Handler does look mad haggard for a 32-year-old. I've watched TMZ ON TV a couple of times, and there's this blonde lady with an amorphous neck that cracks me up. One would think someone that subhuman-looking would be smart enough not to publicly malign other people's appearances.

  • Chealsea Handler does look older than 33. But she always calls herself out about it on her show. If she can dish it, she has to take it as well.

  • Just 74 ways? Why Gawker, you're being too nice. But really - TMZ used to be a part of my daily routine with the internet in the morning, then their show at night...but it's gotten so boring. Well, not boring like Entertainment Tonight or Access Hollywood, but boring as in been there done that Jerry Springer type boring. You know what I mean?

  • Back when Bebe Daniels and I were speaking, and this would have been after she appeared in Wild Wild Susan but before she starred in Registered Nurse, we'd invariably meet on Friday nights at the Brown Derby for Cobb salad and a slice of that exquisite chiffon cake that Harry Baker had just invented.

    Anyway, Bebe had a raging terror of aging although when she was even at her most haggard, the poor soul never looked a day over thirteen. So, one night at the Derby, Bebe confessed that she owed her youthful appearance to a series of cat-placenta extract injections that a Dr. Delgado in Los Feliz gave her bi-monthly for any absolutely unbelievable sum.

    I of course wanted to dismiss this as crackpot, a sham, but I couldn't deny what I saw with my own eyes. The cat-placenta extract clearly worked wonders.

    The amazing finale of this story is that years later Bebe's very own Dr. Delgado made national news when the FBI arrested him for doing all those cat mind-control experiments for the Russians. Well, quite a few wags around town insisted the Delgado scandal was what drove Bebe to London, where she basically lived in exile until her death.

  • I love it how TMZ throws in Mickey Rourke as a person who has aged prematurely. Isn't the Marlboro Man (or was he Harley Davidson?) like 65 by now? I think he play'd Bukowski in the last millennium opposite the equally prematurely aged Faye Dunaway in Barfly? I'd understand a shot of his "prematurely aged vis" circa Elllen-Barkin-handling-the-johnson-in-the-popcorn-bucket-Diner but post F-L-A periwinkle vespa drunk driving bust?

  • I love it how TMZ throws in Mickey Rourke as a person who has aged prematurely. Isn't the Marlboro Man (or was he Harley Davidson?) like 65 by now? I think he play'd Bukowski in the last millennium opposite the equally prematurely aged Faye Dunaway in Barfly? I'd understand a shot of his "prematurely aged vis" circa Elllen-Barkin-handling-the-johnson-in-the-popcorn-bucket scene in the movie Diner, but post F-L-A periwinkle vespa drunk driving bust mug is premature? As if...

  • Image of cassandra cassandra at 07:33 AM on 04/12/08 *

    @Hamud: You are special, and don't let anyone tell you different.

  • Two reasons to hate Chelsea Handler: 1. Chelsea Handler calling herself a comedian. 2. Chelsea Handler sleeping her way to the middle.

  • @psych101: I have to agree, even though this is all trash, for young girls, or anyone really, they wear waaaay too much makeup. No matter how young and pretty you are it makes you look bad and unnatural.

  • TMZ is getting old.

  • @NYToimes®: What do you mean by getting? Talking about TMZ made it get old.

  • Don't watch TMZ, don't ever plan too. Harvey Levin is a asshat.

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