Today in celebrity news: Some staid reports from the post-Golden Globes party scene, Will and Kate announce a vague due date, and Ann Romney says no to reality TV.
If you're wondering how the Romney family is holding up post-election loss, the answer is: not well. Mitt has resorted to retail therapy, and Ann might be the most disappointed Romney of all.
Today in celebrity news: see the highlights and lowlights of American Music Awards, learn the mystery of Scarlett Johansson's new beau, and take a ride on Rihanna's private plane to party town.
Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan both believed the public polls were wrong, and that they'd win on Election Day. Their wives did, too.
All the top pundits in the talking head business say this presidential election was totally lame, riddled with "smallness," lacking "bigness," focused on petty complaints instead of big issues. What planet are they on?
Perhaps you just passed the two-hour mark standing in line to vote as frozen tears inched down your face and your toes started dying one by one, which happened to me earlier this morning. Well, cheer up, because someone somewhere in America probably has it worse than you.
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Ann Romney will be filling in for Good Morning America cohost Robin Roberts next week, it was announced today. Doling out mom-friendly morning show fluff seems like a job Romney is ideally suited for, having yelled in her Republican National Convention speech, "I love women!"
Maybe you didn't know, but Jay-Z and Beyonce held a fundraiser for the President in New York this week. And Ann Romney's been telling people to go easier on her husband. Enter the Saturday Night Live writers, who took both of those events and swung for the fences this week.
Ann Romney, classy horse lady and wife of Republican nominee Mitt Romney, would kindly appreciate it if you laid off from criticizing her beau, lest you want to "get in the ring" and try running for President yourself.
If Lyn Mosbacher is to be believed, then Ann Romney is also quite capable of sounding like a cartoonish caricature of a rich person.
A commenter steeped in theatre compares the podium performances from Ann Romney and Michelle Obama.
After the dueling convention speeches Ann Romney and Michelle Obama, we can never really know which woman loves her husband more, or who more deeply prizes motherhood and PTA meetings and changing diapers and all that woman stuff. But we can rank them by other woman stuff: whose dress was more fierce?
Ann Romney recently told Entertainment Tonight that ABC's Modern Family is her favorite show on television, and that didn't go unnoticed by the show's creator, Steve Levitan, who invited Romney to star in the wedding of the show's gay dads.
If you didn't know much about Mitt and Ann Romney's biography, you might have gotten the impression from Ann's speech at the Republican National Convention Tuesday night that they were once two crazy kids in love just scraping by in a sad little slum.
The first night of the Republican National Convention featured two key speeches that aimed at raising the curtain for Mitt Romney. So, how did they do?
A new survey from USA Today/Gallup finds 9 percent of 1,033 adults surveyed have "never heard of" Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney's wife, Ann.
Ann Romney revealed she had a miscarriage in 1991, 10 years after her fifth son was born, in an interview with CBS News Tuesday.
Now that Day One is officially not happening and the Republican Convention schedule has been compressed and re-configured, you might need to adjust your own schedule to catch your favorite politicians.
Mitt Romney is but a man. He is no better than you or I, despite his much larger checking account. He falls victim to human perils from time to time, like leaving his homework to the last minute. Yes, Mitt Romney is a procrastinator.
He might not officially be a birther, but Mitt Romney knows how to play into that crowd's conspiracies, as he showed at a rally in Michigan on Friday.
Tropical Storm Isaac is predicted to turn into a hurricane tonight, and it looks like it'll be hitting Tampa on Monday night—possibly around the time when Ann Romney is set to take the stage at the Republican National Convention.
Ann Romney is going to be named the headlining speaker for the first night of the Republican National Convention on Monday, according to a new report from CNN's Mark Preston.
Maybe you're one of those people who thinks Mitt Romney is doing a disservice to the American people by not releasing more years of tax returns as is standard among presidential candidates. Well, you're wrong—it's the American people who are doing Mitt Romney a disservice by demanding them.
Oh, you're so terrible, they said. How dare you monsters make fun of something as classic and elegant and beneficial as horseback riding, they said. There is nothing mockable about dressage, Ann Romney's fancy horse sport, they said. Well, they can turn on their Olympic daytime coverage right now and see for themselves. Dressage is happening live, and it is weird.
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Reporters are not allowed to even see Ann Romney's fancy dancing horse Rafalca—much less whisper an interview to her—before she competes in dressage at the Olympic Games on August 2.
Every time the Mitt Romney Veepstakes Finals gets quasi-officially narrowed down to the couple "boring white guys" the Romney campaign has been reportedly looking at for months, the campaign quickly moves to make the list looks more expansive.
Ann Romney credits horseback riding, acupuncture, and reflexology for helping her cope with multiple sclerosis, but a Wall Street Journal feature on her condition suggests future sufferers could credit Romney herself with their treatment.
Fox Business Network's Neil Cavuto gave a passionate defense of Ann Romney's fancy horse sport on his show last night, saying that it's entirely unfair to make fun of her horses, since she uses them as therapy for her multiple sclerosis.
Rafalca, the Romney's Olympics-bound dressage horse, nets the family a $77,000 tax credit, $2,000 of which is for what they spent on health care for the horse. The average American family only spends $1,557 a year on health care.
Republicans continue to insist, against all objective data, that Ann Romney's horse sport isn't weird. They are wrong.
For years conservatives have tried to turn Michelle Obama's extracurricular obsessions -- organic gardening, healthy eating, exercising -- into a political symbol. But her husband's up for re-election which means there's a First Lady in waiting, Ann Romney, who has her own hobbies, like the expensive horse riding sport called dressage.
Ann Romney sounded very openminded in her well-received speech about being a stay-at-home mom Monday night, saying she was happy the response to April's mommy wars showed "that women have choices in life and some choices are not all the same, but that we value everyone’s choice in making their profession," Politico's Maggie Haberman reports.
Ann Romney, who is not running for president, has rekindled the Mommy Wars by giving a single interview defending herself after a Democratic talking head said a single mean thing about her resume.
If Mitt Romney really wanted his "dog-on-the-roof" controversy to die, he should probably try and get Ann on board.
Ann Romney's very first tweet, in response to a dumb comment about stay-at-home moms, said, "I made a choice to stay home and raise five boys. Believe me, it was hard work." She wasn't kidding!
For 24 hours, people cared so much about a mean thing Hilary Rosen said about Ann Romney that more people searched for "Ann Romney" on Twitter than "Justin Bieber," the tween Twitter god. This fake outrage -- the "Umbrage Wars"! -- is a terrible thing, according to lots of hand-winging reporters. They're wrong.
Mitt Romney didn't waste any time pulling his wife Ann into the fray at his address to the National Rifle Association on Friday, a speech his advisors say marks the beginning of the general election.
It's not that there are no second acts in American political life, it's more like the second and third acts are littered with what comedians refer to as "callbacks," allusions to jokes from Act One.
If your'e among those who are sick and tired of hearing about Hilary Rosen and her CNN remarks about Ann Romney, you have company in Rosen herself, who announced on Friday she didn't want to go on Meet the Press because she had "said enough."
Ann Romney may not have a full-time job per se, but we can all give her credit for struggling to raise five boys, especially with of millions of dollars to pay for help.
Whenever Mitt Romney talks about money, he loses. His wife, Ann, is usually much better than he is at projecting sincerity in the artificial situations of the campaign, but she, too has stumbled when talking about money.
Democratic pundit and strategist Hilary Rosen has issued a statement apologizing to Ann Romney for saying Mrs. Romney "never worked a day in her life" on CNN Wednesday, but, political strategist that she is, she's not exactly ceding all her points.
Hilary Rosen has had a lot of jobs: a Napster-killing lobbyist, the Huffington Post's political director, Democratic talking head on CNN, and, on Wednesday night, she became conservatives' current Enemy No. 1.
Mitt Romney's campaign has launched an all-out war against President Obama to win the ladies back. Unfortunately, the weapons at its disposal are quite limited.
What could possibly move Ann Romney to start using Twitter? How about an attack on her credentials as a "working" mom?
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The Web has alighted with a quote from Ann Romney that sounded unintentionally, shall we say, PG-13.
Speaking on Fox News Monday, Ann Romney showed that her husband's habit of making uncomfortable references to their wealth is rubbing off.
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