Today Forbes released their list of the highest paid women in primetime and I’m sure that more than one of the names will completely shock you. Tyra Banks took first place with her America’s Next Top Model hosting gig (making over $30 million in a twelve month period), and was followed by the Snow Princess herself, Katherine Heigl, whose earnings will also shock you. The complete list is here:

1. Tyra Banks: $30 million
2. Katherine Heigl: $18 million
3. Marg Helgenberger: $9.5 million
4. Eva Longoria: $9 million
5. Mariska Hargitay: $8.5 million
6. Julia Louis-Dreyfus: $8 million
7. Maura Tierney: $8 million
8. Tina Fey: $7 million
9. Marcia Cross: $6.2 million
10. Jennifer Love Hewitt & Ellen Pompeo (tie): $6 million

For the most part these ranking make sense, except for Tina Fey’s #8 spot, as she also writes and produces her hit show 30 Rock. Also, Jennifer Love Hewitt can still rack in 6 million a season for a TV show? Who knew? Do people still care about her? I was unaware. I’m also a bit surprised that a Seinfeld alum like JLD isn’t worth more than Heigl, who beside being a complete brat on and off the set of Grey’s, only makes crappy romantic comedies these days.

Katherine Heigl’s Grey’s Anatomy co-star and BFF T.R. Knight was snapped by the paps heading over to her house this morning. For those of you who are just tuning in to the story, Heigl and hubby Josh Kelley adopted a baby this week from Korea named Naleigh (they will call her “Leigh” for short.) Although the arrival of the new addition has not been announced, several of Heigl’s co-stars have been seen coming in and out of her home the last couple days, presumably to get a peek at Heigl and Kelley’s little bundle of joy. Heigl herself has also been out of dodge for a moment, further adding to the speculation that her mail-order baby has already been delivered.

A few weeks ago, Beet told us about how Grey’s Anatomy actress Katherine Heigl had put on a couple of pounds and quit smoking.  She asked the question that has been milling in the minds of tens of us:  ”Could she be pregnant?”  Then, more recently Molls told us that Katherine is taking a leave of absence from Grey’s.  More fuel for the pregnancy rumors.  It seems that we were on the right track with our suspicions.

Katherine Heigl is not pregnant, but she is having a baby.  She and husband Josh Kelley have adopted a 10-month-old baby girl from Korea.  Her name is Nayleigh and she should be here in the states this week.  This will be a first child for the couple and I don’t even have one snarky thing to say about it.  She quit smoking for her health and the health of her new baby, she’s taking some time off from work to bond, she’s providing a home to a child that needed one, and she’s spared the human race of perpetuating the existence of her bitchy DNA.  It’s a good thing!

Good luck to Katherine and Josh in this new endeavor!

Katherine Heigl is probably my least favorite celebrity ever, so if I even bothered to watch Grey’s Anatomy I would be thrilled by the news that she’s taking a leave of absence from the show to go film a movie that I also won’t watch, Life as We Know It. The show has a large cast, so for Heigl to dip out for five-or-so episodes (no one’s sure yet exactly how long the filming will take) won’t cripple production, but her interest level in staying on the show in the long run is confirmed by the fact that she doesn’t mind picking up and leaving her cast mates to go make what will undoubtedly be a shitty RomCom.

And, just to break the writers at their kneecaps, Heigl’s hiatus is supposed to occur around the same time that her co-star Ellen Pompeo is due to give birth meaning not just one, but two of the series regulars will be off doing their own thing while they are supposed to be working on the show.

America may hate Katherine Heigl, but her husband Josh Kelley has yet to give up on her. The twosome were spotted shopping on Robertson this weekend, alone with Katie’s mom, Nancy.

Katherine was sucking on a lollipop with nary a cigarette in sight. IMHO, she looks like she’s put on a little bit of weight, too. So … maybe she’s quit smoking and the weight gain is a result of that. Or maybe she quit smoking because she’s pregnant and the weight gain is a combination of those two factors. Or maybe I need to stop speculating on people’s weight gain and pregnancies — but then what fun would gossip be?

“I think it’s unfortunate.  People are going to behave in the way they choose to behave. There are so many people who work so hard on ‘Grey’s,’ and all of our shows, without any notoriety and those are the ones I’d be concerned about, people who feel like they’re being criticized or looked down upon.”

Steve McPherson, ABC entertainment president, publicly slamming Katherine Heigl for her Letterman appearance in which she whined about her 17-hour workday that was necessary due to her being a pain in the ass.

Katie better hope that her movie career continues to thrive.  Her chances of ever getting work on television are slipping away.

I never watched Grey’s Anatomy, so I feel I’m sort of on the outside looking in with the whole Heigl hate train. Don’t get me wrong– I get it. But I just don’t feel the fires of Heigl rage as fervently as some of you. *cough*Wendie*cough*

However, I might be ready to climb aboard if she keeps giving everyone such easy reasons to dislike her (as if her new movie weren’t enough).

Last week, while making the talk show  rounds to promote her odiously misogynistic new film The Ugly Truth, Heigl complained about the length of her first day back on the Grey’s set, saying that the day had lasted 17 hours and that she hoped the studio was embarrassed  for putting the cast & crew through something so “cruel and mean.”

But it turns out that the person responsible for that grueling 17 hour day was…. Katherine Heigl!

A source on the Grey’s set spilled the beans to TV writer Kevin Levine:

“Poor
Katherine Heigl. What she neglected to add was this: This ‘cruel’ shooting schedule was only to accommodate HER and her needs. The producers graciously shuffled things around so she could go off and do promotion for her new film. Also, with union rules,
the producers had to pay a ton of overtime and penalties to make this happen. The thanks they get is
Katherine Heigl going on national television hoping to embarrass them.”

If you’d like to hop on the Heigl hate wagon, now might be an opportune time.

Aw, even mainstream media such as Newsweek has turned on Katie Heigl.  They’ve published a not-so-complimentary piece on their website highlighting the most annoying parts of the Grey’s Anatomy actress.  What’s going on?  I guess people are tiring of the constant smoking, the constant whining, and her general inability to let something go (Isaiah Washington).

How did Katherine Heigl fall so far and so fast in esteem? Part of it is pure sexism. Every decade has a Most Annoying Actress (not that long ago, Jennifer Love Hewitt was the object of tabloid disaffection), never an actor, and it’s a distinction doled out via a caveman’s principles. Heigl violates every archaic, unspoken rule of being America’s box-office sweetheart. A lot of actors smoke, curse, drink, and mouth off, but she gets the most grief for it. Last summer, when she was caught flicking a finished cigarette onto the sidewalk, Star magazine quickly tarred her as an environmentally unfriendly “litterbug” who inappropriately goaded a nearby police officer into letting her off without a ticket.

But more than simply daring to challenge chauvinistic mores, Heigl has shot herself in the foot with her delivery. Everybody applauded her defense of Grey’s costar T. R. Knight after costar Isaiah Washington called him a “fag.” But then Heigl kept prattling on and on, even after Washington was fired in disgrace. People started to wonder if Heigl’s comments were less about Knight and more about her. Last July, in an attempt to be noble, she removed herself from the Emmy race because, she said, she had not been “given the material this season to warrant an Emmy nomination.” The press again slammed her for the diva attitude (did she really need to issue a statement? And did she have to insult the show’s writers and producers while she was at it?). When she resubmitted herself in the race this year, Emmy voters failed to nominate her—even though she’s done her best work on the show this season as cancer-stricken Izzie. But forget about Izzie and her eroding brain. Heigl wants all the sympathy for herself. This week, she carped to David Letterman that she’d had a “seventeen- (dramatic pause) hour (dramatic pause)” workday on set, and that she was “going to keep saying this because I hope it embarrasses them [the Grey's Anatomy show runners].” Embarrass them for what? Keeping her employed? To a country nearing 10 percent unemployment, the remark was tone-deaf.

She is an undeniable box office draw, as her newest movie The Ugly Truth premiered this weekend to $27M in ticket sales.  That’s a career best opening for Heigl and her costar Gerard Butler.  Unfortunately, Newsweek wasn’t so impressed with her performance.

Heigl has fared pretty well on the big screen—Knocked Up was a smash, 27 Dresses a modest hit. Now she’s back with The Ugly Truth, a romantic comedy that hits theaters Friday and does her likability no favors. She plays Abby Richter, an uptight local news producer whose staples are Ann Taylor button-downs and sanctimony. When a boor named Mike Chadway (Gerard Butler) with a smutty dating show joins her morning lineup, Abby kicks the shrillness into overdrive, furious that non-news would invade her pristine segment. But then, before you know it, Mike and his 5 o’clock shadow are leaving beard burn all over Abby’s face. Soon, they’re floating away to paradise in a hot-air balloon. Good for them.

Except, you don’t feel very good for them. It’s hard to empathize with Heigl’s character, so thorny and shrill for the first half of the movie, so dumb and willing for the second half. (At a recent pre-screening in New York City, at least five people bolted for the door midway through the movie.) Abby fails to see the vast swath of middle ground between buttoning up to the top button and donning vibrating black-lace panties, which she does meekly at Mike’s command. Just like real life, in which Heigl seems unable to see the acreage between oversharing and keeping her mouth shut. Heigl might be an actress, but she could work on her act.

There’s only one thing that can save Katherine Heigl’s rep.  She needs to start adopting orphans.  Stat!

The press junket for Katherin Heigl and Gerard Butler’s new film The Ugly Truth was interrupted Saturday when a bomb threat was called in to the Four Seasons Hotel where it was being held. The building was evacuated for two hours while police searched the premises. Butler and Heigl mingled and took photographs outside with other evacuated guests, then ducked into a nearby restaurant to grab a bite.

After the police search turned up nothing, the hotel was reopened.

No word yet on what Wendie was doing yesterday afternoon at approximately 1:45pm when the threat was called in, or whether or not she has the phone records to prove her innocence.

Bad news, guys.  I don’t think Izzie is dead.  A source close to negotiations of the Grey’s Anatomy cast confirms that T.R. Knight is definitely a goner, but Katherine Heigl got a bunch of money thrown at her to stay.  Want to take a collection so we can throw a bunch of money at her to leave? 

I think I watched one season of Grey’s and couldn’t tolerate any more.  If I remember correctly, Izzie was performing all sorts of unorthodox and life-saving procedures on Denny — the dead dude she’s been chatting up this past season courtesty of a brain tumor – and I had to stop watching.  I would torture my husband, asking questions like, “Is that proper hospital protocol?  She didn’t wash her hands, couldn’t that kill him?  Would a bunch of doctors just stand around and watch her kill her fiance?  Is there anyone on staff that Izzie hasn’t schtupped?  If I agree to have another kid, will you promise me that we never have this show on our television again?”  I don’t know if I have any of those facts right, but that’s how acid-induced the show appeared to me at the time.  And we have a two-year-old — I’m a woman of my word.

So, to all you rabid Grey’s fans, are you just so excited that Izzie is alive?  Who is she going to sleep with on this upcoming season?

Dr. Isobel Stevens is FINALLY DEAD!!!

If I’d known for sure she was gonna die, I would have hosted a viewing party. We would have played a drinking game. It would have gone like this: If Izzie dies, you have to chug a fifth of vodka and then puke all over the screen during her funeral. Screaming “HAVE FUN MAKING SAD WHINY FACES AT THE DEVIL, IZZIE!” would have been optional.

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I haven’t watched Grey’s Anatomy in years, mostly because when Katherine Heigl is on the screen I just want to slap somebody, and since I live alone I was afraid I would start injuring my cats. So you’d think I’d be delighted to watch this footage of her close to death in the 100th episode — and I guess I am, kinda — but even though she’s dying she’s still annoying as hell. Seriously. This trailer of Izzie dying annoys me. How is anyone on this planet not annoyed with the Izzie character?

Anyway. Yeah. Izzie’s dying, Denny’s ghost is off to jump the shark again usher her to the netherworld, Derek and Meredith are getting married, and the truth is I’m probably never going to watch this show again. Katherine Heigl ruined it for me forever.