Winning Moments
You’re hired! Joan Rivers wins Donald Trump’s ‘Celebrity Apprentice’
Tart-tongued comedian Joan Rivers was crowned Donald Trump’s “Celebrity Apprentice” winner Sunday night, edging out poker-playing diva Annie Duke. In the season finale of the hit NBC reality show, the 75-year-old Brooklyn-born Rivers showed heart, tears and “disgust” for Duke. “You are a two-faced person,” Rivers told Duke, 43, in a live face-to-face smackdown in... »
Brooke Burke is ‘Dancing’ Champ!
TV personality and model Brooke Burke was crowned season 7 champ last night on “Dancing with the Stars.” The 37-year-old mother of four was announced the winner after the judges scores were combined with viewer votes. Professional partner and first time winner Derek Hough was in shock, saying, “I actually can’t believe it! I... »
Italian transvestite ex-MP triumphs as reality TV star
ROME (AFP) — The first transvestite elected to the Italian parliament, Vladimir Luxuria, garnered the votes of most TV viewers Monday night as the winner of the reality TV show “Celebrity Island.” The 43-year-old served in parliament for two years as a member of the Refoundation Communist Party before losing his bid for re-election... »
Teary-eyed Boyd takes ‘Talent’ title
32-year-old opera singer wins $1 million prize, Las Vegas headliner gig. Tears streamed down opera singer Neal E. Boyd’s face on Wednesday night as he was named the winner of the third season of “America’s Got Talent.” “What has happened to my life?” Boyd said with a laugh after claiming the NBC summer reality show’s... »
High school teacher wins Big Brother 10
LOS ANGELES — Dan Gheesling schooled everyone on “Big Brother 10.” The sneaky 24-year-old high school teacher from Dearborn, Mich., won the voyeuristic CBS reality show’s $500,000 prize Tuesday after outlasting 12 other contestants inside a makeshift house on a Studio City soundstage. Gheesling was unanimously voted the winner by the show’s jury, made... »
Theo Tams is exactly where he wants to be – Canadian Idol Season 6
Canadian Idol Season 6 – Theo Tams has been crowned the new Canadian Idol, but long before he ever took the Idol stage he stood in a lineup at a mall to audition just like thousands of other hopefuls across the country. The 23-year-old student from Lethbridge, Alta., made the trip to Calgary with his... »
Rachel Rice beats Mikey Hughes to win Big Brother 9
It was so close it was a photo finish but the question wasn’t so much who would win Big Brother 9, and the £100,000 prize, but who would stay upright. The pouring rain made the catwalk a precarious slide. This series of Big Brother hasn’t been the most scandalous and the glory years... »