TV Buzz Bits: Parker Posey, Carson Kressley & Rupert Dishes Award Shows

Parker Posey's gonna play a real Jezebel on TV.

This just in from TV land...

Parker Posey has signed on for a new Fox series for this fall. In the sitcom, The Return of Jezebel James, Posey will play a divorced woman who learns that she can't conceive a child, so she asks her sister to carry a kid for her. The show's producer Amy Sherman-Palladino sez: "Because it's a comedy, the character runs the gamut of emotions from laughing to flipping out to breaking your heart in 22 minutes, and only one in a zillion people has enough skill and charm to pull that off. Parker Posey is that person."

I'm down with that. I'd watch Parker do anything. He-he-helllllloooo! (Anybody remember Party Girl?)

Dashing (and out) actor Chris Sieber is gonna talk to the animals on "Wildlife."


Openly gay actor Christopher Sieber, known for the sitcom, It's All Relative and his work on Broadway in hits like Spamalot and Chicago, has signed on as a zookeeper, the leading role in NBC's comedy, Wildlife. And who says gay actors can't get work, eh?

Carson is going to help women get "Naked" on Lifetime.


Openly gay non-actor (though he's often very entertaining) Carson Kressley has been hired for a new gig. He's going to work for Lifetime, hosting their makeover show, How to Look Good Naked, in which he'll guide women through full-body makeovers that won't include surgery or extreme tactics, but rather will focus on confidence-building techniques. Somehow that includes taking a photograph of the woman in her undies, and posting it larger-than-life on the side of a building and listening to what people say about it. Yikes!

And the award for Hollywood's most gossipy insider goes to...


And finally, I'm sure you're a sucker for awards shows, but don't believe that participating in one is a super-glamorous affair. Rupert Everett is more than happy to burst your bubble:


"Giving an award is one of the most depressing pastimes known to man... You stand in the wings with another publicity starved celebrity in borrowed jewels. You breeze onto the set to one or other of your famous theme tunes. And after the award is doled out? ...You all sweep off stage and give interviews in the VIP area about vulnerability and becoming a better person (than anyone else), flogging your latest product in between the lies."

Ack!!!
Thanks, Rupe!