The banking crisis is hitting so many people and not even fame can protect Toni Braxton.  Bank of America is looking to foreclose on Braxton’s shack due to $12,000 in missing mortgage payments.  Considering that the house is located in California, she’s probably one month late.

God, I hate banks and the predatory ways that they choose or chose to lend to people.  However, hasn’t Toni sold like, a billion trillion records?  I’d think that $12K would be pocket change.  Rest assured, now that this has hit the media, there will be a swift resolution followed up with the release of a blanket, “bookkeeping error, just an oversight” type of statement.

In the meantime, can someone please explain how Lindsay Lohan gets to keep her property?

Jimmy Fallon’s Late Night show might suck, but he did a pretty funny skit last night.  He dressed up as Billy Ray Cyrus and rapped a song to explain his daughter’s departure from Twitter and to reassure his fans that he is still on Twitter.  Really, it’s all just an excuse for Jimmy Fallon to publicly make an ass of himself.  And I’m okay with that.

Pro-wrestler “Captain” Lou Albano died today at the age of 76.  People isn’t reporting an exact cause of death, but he was hospitalized earlier this week before being sent home under hospice care.

Albano was very well-known in the ’80s playing the role — unless you’re one of those people that believes wrestling is real — of an angry manager.  Really though, don’t we all truly remember Lou as Cyndi Lauper’s angry, finger-wagging father in the “Girls Just Want To Have Fun” video?

Thoughts and prayers to the family!

Last week Ralph Lauren came under fire for publishing a picture of model Filippa Hamilton looking atrociously gaunt.  It’s a clear example of abuse by Photoshop.

Now Hamilton has revealed that she was fired by Ralph Lauren for being too fat.  The model told New York Daily News that the Ralph Lauren company was like family until this spring when they kicked her fat ass — as shown in second picture above — out the door.  Does anyone see the irony in the fact that this chick is posing in front of a bunch of candy dispensers?  Yeah, she’s so not fat.

Seriously, can we call for a boycott or something against companies that are terminating employees based on 5′10″ being defined as “too heavy”?

“I could remember those two, especially those two people, treating me like the invisible guy.  Now look where they at.  Cheri Oteri, she can’t get arrested.  … That’s what happened to me over there.  They never treated me well.  I never cared for them either.  Fuck ‘em.”

Tracy Morgan’s “I Am The New Black” audiobook account of his days at Saturday Night Live and the treatment he received from Chris Kattan and Cheri Oteri.

Just a reminder, if you haven’t submitted your marriage/commitment proposal story yet for a chance to win a FREE two-night trip to Napa or Vegas, get your submission in now to proposalcontest@gmail.com. The prize includes roundtrip airfare and hotel for two, as well as a rental car. All you have to do is bring your gambling and/or drinking money!

Here are some of my favorite submissions so far. Can you beat these? Then send in your stories so you can win the prize! Read the full rules here.

It was 1972 and I had been dating my future-ex-husband for most of our junior year of high school and into our senior year. One night, he told me he had a very important question: did I believe in pre-marital sex. I answered “no”. Then he said “In that case, do you want to get married?” Believe it or not, I did. We actually were married for 13 years before I got fed up and bailed.

And another one …

I was supposed to listen for a horse in the house, but of course couldn’t hear anything. After I yelled out, “What horse could be in my house?” Alex came “riding” into the room on a horse (a child’s toy with a horse’s head on the end of a stick), wearing a full suit of armor. I couldn’t help laughing as I thought, “What in the world would make him do something as crazy as this?” He then drew his sword (which even made sound effects), got down on one knee and said, “Sarah, I want to be your knight in shining armor. Will you be my wife?” I was caught so off-guard that I couldn’t respond right away and started to shake my head, apparently to keep from passing out. (Alex later told me that he grew more nervous by the second as he waited patiently for an answer, and at the same time watched all of the color drain from my face.) However, once I came back down to earth and realized what was happening, I nodded “yes” through lots of happy tears.

Is your proposal sweeter or funnier or just plain more interesting than these? Get it in, and get your chance at the prize.

We’re running this contest in honor of the DVD release of the Sandra Bullock flick The Proposal, which hits stores tomorrow!!!

Cameron Diaz behaved like a totally normally person in between shooting scenes on her new movie with Tom Cruise Wichita in Boston, MA today. She flailed about in the streets waving a toy pistol, seemed to be interpretive dancing and even held a mailbox a gunpoint. I’m tellin’ ya, either homegirl is going to get an Oscar or wind up in a psych ward after this movie because the photos coming in from set? They’re all bananas.