Meredith Blake is a freelance writer living in Brooklyn.

Blog Entries by Meredith Blake

The Real Problem with Gwyneth Paltrow's Goop

32 Comments | Posted February 2, 2009 | 11:55 AM (EST)


Gwyneth Paltrow has always been high on any list of celebrities people love to hate, but since launching the unfortunately-named lifestyle website "Goop" a few months back, she has been subjected to heightened levels of internet derision. Paltrow dismisses the backlash, claiming that "people get a hit of...

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Has "The Hills" Jumped The Shark?

Posted August 18, 2008 | 11:13 AM (EST)


MTV recently announced that Brody Jenner, the less than entirely convincing Lothario from "The Hills," has scored his own spin-off reality series called "Bro-mance," wherein he searches for a new best friend to replace the hole left in his heart by Spencer Pratt. Given the fact that virtually everyone in...

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The "Living Lohan" Pizzeria

Posted June 16, 2008 | 04:49 PM (EST)


Against my better judgment, I have been watching E's utterly execrable Living Lohan, a genuinely tedious and self-aggrandizing reality show that makes The Hills seem like gritty cinema verite by comparison. Living Lohan is well and truly about nothing, and the only Lohan we really want to see -- Lindsay...

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Desperate for the (Real) Housewives

9 Comments | Posted March 23, 2008 | 11:23 PM (EST)


I never thought that I could love/hate anyone, at least not any group of middle-aged fame whores, as much as I love "The Real Housewives of Orange County." For three seasons now, I have watched the "RHOC" flaunt yards of wrinkly, surgically-enhanced cleavage while wearing age-inappropriate rhinestone-encrusted tops, and I...

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An Open Letter To JJ Abrams About "Cloverfield"

Posted January 3, 2008 | 10:57 AM (EST)


Dear J.J. Abrams-

Hi, how are you?

Based on all the hullaballoo, I am sure you are very, very talented. Maybe even "prodigiously talented," if I were the type of person to say that.

But to be honest, except for the first 2 seasons of "Felicity" (until the episode...

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