Here are more shots of Kellie Pickler at NY Fashion Week.

I am REALLY unhappy with this new face and look of hers. I just adored her before. Now she looks so fake.

Guys, there are no posts so far today because Wendie and I are sick and Soleil told me a long time ago that she wouldn’t be able to work this weekend because of prior commitments for her day job. No one is slacking.

I’m gonna try to post some today, but I have that really nasty flu that has been going around, and I literally just woke up.

Chris Brown is in Virginia, and apparently spent some time with his father, who then spent some time with People magazine. Here’s what he had to say:

“Just know that he’s home … He needed some time to get his thoughts together and regroup. He’s very concerned about the situation and he wants to make sure that [Rihanna is] okay. This is unfortunate—this stumble, this situation. Hopefully, he will get past it. We all have our shortcomings. We all trip … If you are on his side, you are on his side. Just because someone trips, if you are truly a fan, you are not going to demonize him instantaneously. This music industry is very unforgiving when it comes to having indiscretions. He will continue to be a good person. He loves people. And like most of us, most humans, things will occur. And hopefully a person won’t be judged simply on that alone.”

I guess if anyone on this planet is allowed to try to justify Chris’s actions, it’s his father. But, listen, I am the queen of “indiscretions.” I have made many “mistakes.” I have treated people poorly, I have betrayed the trust of people I loved, and I’ve definitely lost my cool more than once. What I have never, ever done? Beaten up on someone to the point that they have to go to the hospital. It’s never happened. I understand that Chris likely has anger management issues that need to be dealt with, but this is far more than an “indiscretion.” This is serious violence against someone who never stood a chance of winning any physical confrontation. Rihanna is tall, but she’s skinny as hell (I’ve seen her in person), and it’s not like she was in a position to physically hurt him.

So, yeah, dude, I’m gonna go ahead and judge Chris Brown by “that alone,” and I hope the music industry does as well.

If he wants to spend some serious time in anger management therapy to work through these issues, and spend the next few years taking responsibility and talking publicly about how domestic violence is NEVER CONDONABLE, we can revisit this issue again in a few years. I believe that people can change, but not overnight. For now, I hope we’re nowhere near forgiving this dude for beating up his girlfriend.

Olympic champ Amanda Beard got engaged to her boyfriend, photographer Sacha Brown, over Christmas. “We are thrilled to be starting the next chapter in our lives together,” says Beard. “We are completely in love and to top it off we are best friends. Sacha proposed on Christmas morning in the most perfect way I could imagine. He is truly the man of my dreams and every day I spend with him is a blessing. Basically, it rocks.”

Sigh.

Lindsay Lohan found a lover who lasted longer than a summer.

Even stupid Jessica Simpson seems genuinely happy in her current relationship.

I am still flu-ey as all hell, lying on the couch staring at the TV, and TLC had this show on about two little people who were just married, and the show was about their first full year as a married couple. They’re both in their mid-30s, and they interviewed their parents about raising them. The girl’s mother was like, “You know, Jen would call me crying, because she was watching all her friends fall in love, get married and have babies, and she didn’t think it was ever going to happen for her. And I told her, ‘You’ll find someone, you’re ready now, it’ll happen,’” and, sure enough, she met her little-person love soon after, on a little-people dating site! I actually cried when I heard that. Perhaps I am pre-menstrual, but still. It was a 4 pm Friday show on TLC, and my eyes are overflowing. I related to this so strongly for some reason. My mom and I have had this conversation A LOT lately.

I’ve been single for coming on three full years now. And I do mean single, like basically haven’t been out on a date with a person more than once during that entire time — not, like, even many mini-relationships based on lust that failed miserably. I’ve just been my own partner for these years, buoyed by the incomparable support of my friends and family. It was good that I was single during that time — I was able to build and grow this business, which I love and which gives me a great deal of joy. It has also required pretty much every waking second of my life during those three years, making it difficult to get a new relationship off the ground. As a result, today I am certainly someone who can say they love going to work every day, and I am grateful for that. But now I have a couple of amazing writers who help me out, and I don’t need to commit so much of my time to The Beet.

Here’s my point: I’ve decided I’m going to actively look for love.

If you, my fantastic readers, are in long-term, happy relationships (read: no Chris Brown bullshit going on), I wanna hear exactly how you met that person. Then I am going to try to meet people in all those different ways. This is just a numbers game, right?

Get to postin’ in the comments, you guys!

We’re landin’ me a man!!!

(Thanks to Lacy for the graphic!)

I don’t even know who this person is, but she looks about 20 years older than little Kellie Pickler.

Kellie — cut it out with the plastic surgery on the face!!!

That goes for ALL of you adorable Hollywood girls! Anna Faris? Audrina Patridge? ARE YOU LISTENING? It is NOT HOT to look like everybody else, and it is certainly not hot to look like a mangled plastic surgery experiment.

This is such a tragedy. Kellie was so adorable. This new face is horrific. Ew. Why do people do this to their faces when they’re perfectly hot to begin with??? These girls are so misguided.

At the BCBG show at NY Fashion Week.

I don’t care how hard you’re trying to stay friends for the kids, going on a romantic vacation with your husband, your ex-husband and his girlfriend is just WEIRD.

This is from Demi Moore’s Twitter, just minutes ago.

WEIRD.