Blog Posts by Lizbeth Scordo

Hayden Panetierre on the cover of Self's December issue. (Kenneth Willardt/Self)Hayden Panettiere has been a vocal advocate for endangered whales for a few years now. She's appeared in the Oscar-winning expose documentary "The Cove," flown to Japan to try to take on local governments when it comes to whaling laws, and serves as spokesperson Whaleman Foundation, which fights to protect whales and dolphins. So we kind of figured she'd be a vocal vegetarian, too. Turns out salads just don't cut it for her … and she even eats fish.

"I tried vegetarianism, but my body didn't respond well. I was low-energy. Now I make egg-white scrambles with veggies for breakfast. For lunch, I have chicken or fish and greens, which are good for keeping your system working," she says in the December issue of Self. "I'm a fan of sushi for dinner, as long as the fish aren't endangered. When I indulge, I try to do it in the morning so I can burn it off. It's my responsibility to be healthy and, no, I'm not going to starve. I'm sorry — I can't be full on salad."

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Guy Fieri fired back against the writer of a bad review. (Taylor Hill/Getty Images)In response to the searing New York Times review his new Manhattan restaurant received this week (which quickly went viral and made headlines around the Web on Wednesday), Food Network star Guy Fieri fired back on the "Today" show Thursday morning, claiming the food critic who wrote the piece was simply trying to gain attention for himself. In a 1000-plus-word review, which some are calling the worst in the paper's history, writer Pete Wells bashed Fieri's new 500-seat eatery Guy's American Kitchen & Bar in Manhattan with a series of questions-belying-insults like "How did Louisiana's blackened, Cajun-spiced treatment turn into the ghostly nubs of unblackened, unspiced white meat in your Cajun Chicken Alfredo?" and "Why did the toasted marshmallow taste like fish?"

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Guy Fieri. (Ray Tamarra/Getty Images)If you watch Food Network's "Diners, Drive-ins and Dives," you know that the show's star, Guy Fieri spews accolades at nearly every eatery he stops — gushing about garlic fries, cheering for chili, and drooling over dry-rubbed steaks.

But the 44-year-old didn't get quite the same treatment when it came time for The New York Times food critic Pete Wells to review Fieri's new mega-restaurant, Guy's American Kitchen & Bar, a 500-seat eatery smack in the middle of Times Square.

In a rare zero-star review (which some are calling the writer's harshest ever), Wells dedicates none of his more than 1,000 words to anything positive, instead making the piece a series of searing questions for Fieri — questions about the food that paint a very unappetizing picture.

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When you play a male stripper in film and spend many of your scenes half naked, you pretty much automatically get nominated for the Sexiest Man Alive title … and probably have a good chance of winning.

Indeed, “Magic Mike” star Channing Tatum did just that and has clinched the honor of being named People magazine’s Sexiest Man Alive for 2012, landing on the cover of this week’s issue. But despite his good looks and buff physique, he didn’t quite believe it.

Channing Tatum vs. Mark Wahlberg: Battle of the Abs

"My first thought was, 'Y'all are messing with me,'" the 32-year-old actor tells People of hearing the news. "I told Jenna [Tatum’s wife of three years is actress Jenna Dewan-Tatum] after we'd been in the bathtub washing our dogs because they'd gotten skunked. She was like, 'What?'"

Hollywood’s sexiest family guys

"People know him to be fun and sexy, but they don't know how emotionally deep and spiritually open he is," says Dewan-Tatum, 31, who’s now taken to calling him the

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Denise Richards and her new addition, Tara. (North Shore Animal League)

Denise Richards' crowded house is about to get even more crowded. The 41-year-old, who lives with her three daughters, her father, and a house full of dogs in Los Angeles, just added another four-legged friend to the family.

Over the weekend, Richards flew to the East Coast and visited Long Island's North Shore Animal League America to help promote the non-profit's animal rescue efforts in the wake of devastating Hurricane Sandy and encourage the public to adopt a pet.

The actress did such a good job, she even convinced herself, and ended up adopting an adorable little dog named Tara.

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Mary-Kate Olsen and Olivier Sarkozy at Friday's Knicks game. (James Devaney/WireImage)Pro basketball games aren't usually a popular spot for PDA, unless a duo suddenly finds themselves the subject of the kiss cam, which plasters the faces of happy couples on a giant video screen for the entire sports arena to see, and then pressures them into spontaneously smooching on camera to prove their love.

Though sports fans didn't get to see Mary-Kate Olsen, 26, and her boyfriend, 42-year-old French banker Olivier Sarkozy, on the big screen at Friday night's New York Knicks game at Manhattan's Madison Square Garden, those seated near the twosome got an eyeful as the two canoodled throughout the game from their courtside seats as photographers snapped away.

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Jennifer Hudson on the cover of the December issue. (Ruven Afanador/Redbook)By now you already know that Jennifer Hudson has lost a lot of weight and looks pretty amazing. And on the cover of the latest issue of Redbook she shows off her trim figure yet again. And while she may look as confident as ever, she admits she's still not completely comfortable in her own skin … now that it's on such a slim body.

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"I'm getting used to my new self more than anything else. I got used to being plus-sized and knowing how to be that," Hudson says in the December issue, "whereas this is like, 'Okay, who am I?' I keep thinking that I probably need an extra-large or a large and the stylist is like, 'No, you need a medium or a small.'"

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Daniel Craig as James Bond (Columbia Pictures)

If you've taken a look at the early reviews for the new James Bond flick, "Skyfall," you'll see that critics are gushing over the 23^rd installment of the franchise and over Daniel Craig's portrayal of the tuxedo-wearing, martini-drinking, secret agent ladies' man. It's almost as if Craig has James Bond in his blood. And, it turns out, he kind of does.

Genealogy website Ancestry.com has told omg! from Yahoo! exclusively that the 44-year-old British leading man is actually related to James Bond, the man author Ian Fleming named the iconic character after when he wrote his first novel, Casino Royale back in 1953.

[Related: Get more scoop on 'Skyfall' on Yahoo! Movies]

As die-hard 007 fans know, the real James Bond wasn't an international spy and man of mystery, however, but, actually a bird expert. (Yes, really.) Fleming, an avid bird watcher himself, was familiar with ornithologist (a fancy name for one who studies birds) James Bond, author of the book Birds of the West Indies, and

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