I finally watched episode one of “The Secret Life of an American Teenager,” the new, much advertised and talked about television series that premiered on ABC Family last Tuesday. I know my fellow Idol Chatter blogger Kris is rather outraged about the proliferation of Christian stereotypes that raced across the screen as the show was…

As Idol Chatter reported last week, Madonna and her husband Guy Richie have been undergoing Kabbalah marriage counseling in New York. Now, it seems there’s more to the story. Rumors have been swirling that Madonna is having an affair with Yankees star Alex “A-Rod” Rodriguez, and that was what prompted the need for marriage counseling.…

I ran a preview of “The Secret Life of an American Teenager” last week because I was hopeful it could be an intelligent new summer series. It seems others were equally optimistic because the show debuted to the highest ratings ever for a premiere on ABC Family Channel. Which puts this show in the negative…

Recently the Vatican’s newspaper L’Osservatore Romano officially quashed rumors that Pope Benedict XVI’s red shoes are not Prada (an urban legend Idol Chatter’s own Donna Freitas debunked back in April). “Such rumors are inconsistent with the simple and somber man who, on the day of his election to the papacy, showed to the faithful gathered…

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