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Cristián de la Fuente is recovering from the surgery he needed after becoming injured on Dancing with the Stars 6. He “had surgery last week to repair the tendon he tore from the bone in his left bicep in the middle of a dance routine,” and that “required that a hole be drilled through his bone,” USA TODAY reports. (Those halfwits who think he’s faking will undoubtedly assume he just had a hole drilled into his arm to keep up the ruse.) He’s still in pain. “I’m taking two Percocets every four hours — and that’s a lot. Sometimes that’s…

Six years after coming up with the idea for America’s Next Top Model in her kitchen, Tyra Banks now “makes an estimated $18 million a year, and her net worth is around $75 million,” according to a New York Times Magazine profile. Part of that is from the 25 percent of Top Model she owns. The profile follows Tyra as she casts girls for the 11th season, and Tyra said that process “was frustrating,” and as a result, “at Bankable [her production company], we’re cooling on reality shows. In the beginning, the girls were spontaneous. But now everyone looks at…

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Clay Aiken has artificially inseminated his best friend and former record producer who, yes, is female, and the ambiguously gay American Idol 2 runner-up will become a father in August. The mother is Jaymes Foster, David Foster’s sister, who produced A Thousand Different Ways and is apparently Clay’s best friend/roommate. People confirmed unsourced gossip reports with David Foster, who said, “The story is true. It is true Clay is the father. She was artificially inseminated by Clay. She’s due in August. They have been friends ever since American Idol, when they worked together.” The Insider posted a story at 12:45…

Tonight, IFC debuts At the Death House Door, a documentary that explores the death penalty in Texas via a pastor who served as a death row chaplain for 15 years. It debuts at 9 p.m. ET and repeats this weekend and next week. For those without access to IFC, the network has made the film available for download. The film follows “Pastor Carroll Pickett, who served 15 years as the death house chaplain to the infamous ‘Walls’ prison unit in Huntsville” and “presided over 95 executions, including the world’s first lethal injection,” according to the network. He “had no reservations…

In a story about several new MTV series, network executive Tony DiSanto told The Hollywood Reporter that their programming strategy’s “main goal is to always pull the rug out. If something is working great, we don’t want to do it again, we want to do something new. Our viewers expect us to keep evolving, genre-busting and taking chances.” He also told Variety, “Our audience expects us to constantly reinvent and evolve. That’s the challenge at MTV, but also the fun part.” You’d think that’d mean MTV was cancelling The Real World immediately, but no, they’re forging ahead with more of…

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