Janice Dickinson: World's First Home Shopping Supermodel

Here's the latest from JCKonline.com about those Janice Dickinson rumors:

Last night while channel surfing, I paused on HSN's fall fashion Hot in Hollywood segment with HIH co-creator Laurie Feltheimer (also wife of Lionsgate's CEO Jon Feltheimer, whose company produces hot TV properties Mad Men and Weeds). Feltheimer was showing pictures of "friends" wearing her wares, including one Ms. Janice Dickinson, of the Janice Dickinson Modeling Agency (you know, the "world's first supermodel").

According the Feltheimer, Dickinson is launching a jewelry line with HSN. (The HSN co-host didn't comment or elaborate.) Who knows what the line will entail, but one thing's for sure: The spicy dicey Dickinson will make sellin' fun.

I hope this is true!!! Love her or hate her, Janice will certainly make for some interesting television. She has about as much trouble censoring herself as Joan Rivers, so there is no telling what kind of rude or completely inappropriate comment will pop out of her mouth.

She does have a reputation for saying ... how shall I say ... "not-so-nice" remarks about plus-size women and plus-size models. That type of stuff will not fly at HSN.

Oh, how I wish Kelly Repassy were still there. Now that would have been interesting.

ShopNBC Board Member Resigns in Protest!

More high drama going down behind the scenes at ShopNBC. I just love it when inept, overpaid executives start slinging mud around.

If you don't already know what's going on, read my blog entries about it here and here.

According to StarTribune.com, Marshall Geller, a 16-year member of the board at ValueVision Media Inc. [parent company to ShopNBC] has resigned to protest the choice of the new leadership.

After huge second quarter losses were reported last week, CEO Rene Aiu was fired and replaced with board chair, John Buck.

Buck neglected to tell shareholders that the board of directors wasn't united in backing him as the new CEO or the direction of the company.

Geller said he did not know why the company chose to wait to disclose his resignation. In his letter, Geller said he was stepping aside to "honor my business judgment and maintain my reputation as a board member serving the public shareholders of the companies I am involved in."

Geller said he quit because he wanted to see "something more dramatic. ... There should have been a lot more emphasis on either doing some strategic partnership, selling the company, merging with someone, acquiring another company -- something other than continually changing management."

I don't claim to know these people or the inner workings of ShopNBC, but this Buck guy seems shady to me. He fires Aiu after giving her only five month to turn the company around (mind you, ShopNBC hasn't been in the black in many, many years), appoints himself in her place, and neglects to tell shareholders that the board doesn't actually agree with his decisions. What a snake.

Who Won by One Vote???

By only ONE VOTE, the always clever and unique Lori Greiner edges out Joy Mangano for the win!!! It's a good thing that online polls don't have hanging chads or this Home Shopping Cage Match could have gotten ugly.

I have to admit, that I have and love her Silver Safekeeper Mirrored Jewelry Cabinet (in the cherry finish). It's by far the best jewelry box I have ever owned.

Here is some interesting Lori tidbits:

--She likes to write plays.

--In 1996, Lori took out a huge loan to create an earring organizer. This is what started it all.

--She used to work for the Chicago Tribune.

--Lori holds over 52 U.S and International Patents.

--Lori provided $40,000 worth of her Food Bag Closures to the Greater Chicago Food Depository, a member of America’s Second Harvest.

--She spent spent a week at a Salvation Army church in Newfoundland due to the September 11 terrorist attack.