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Annie Barrett

Staff Writer, Entertainment Weekly and EW.com

You can find EW.com's esteemed reality TV recapper answering readers’ questions on Vyou (http://vyou.com/anniebarrett) or behind Tom Bergeron’s shoulder in the Dancing With the Stars ballroom. She enjoys snacking, sparkling, and sniffing out desperation in American Idol contestants.

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PopWatch Casey Abrams shaves beard for Inflammatory Bowel Disease awareness, completes transformation into Cabbage Patch Kid cop -- VIDEO
by Annie Barrett | Feb 06, 2012 06:27 PM

It's an important milestone in any doughy young boy or doll's life. Watch American Idol season 10 standout Casey Abrams (have his dad) shave his...

PopWatch Why did M.I.A. flip the bird during the Super Bowl? -- POLL
by Annie Barrett | Feb 06, 2012 12:27 AM

We may never know why pharaoh bitch goddess M.I.A. gave us the middle finger while performing Madonna's new single "Give Me All Your Luvin'" during...

Inside Movies 'Act of Valor' Super Bowl trailer: Watch it here
by Annie Barrett | Feb 05, 2012 09:47 PM

At first it's hard to tell if this is a trailer for upcoming Navy SEALs action thriller Act of Valor or a commercial attempting to...

PopWatch 'It's halftime, America.' How to top Eminem? Get Clint Eastwood to do a Super Bowl commercial
by Annie Barrett | Feb 05, 2012 08:48 PM

2011's best Super Bowl commercial was Eminem for Chrysler. It's only halftime, of course, but the greatest of 2012 so far has been Clint Eastwood...

PopWatch Super Bowl 2012: Best and Worst Commercials
by Annie Barrett | Feb 05, 2012 05:32 PM

What is...football? Is it that thing where polar bears try to maul each other to death while figure skating, all for the sake of a...

Super Bowl 2012 Super Bowl ads: See 'em here!
by Annie Barrett | Feb 05, 2012

From ''Ferris Bueller'' and ''The Voice'' to ''The Hunger Games'' and ''Transformers,'' the ads everyone will be talking about

News Briefs J.C. Penney stands by Ellen DeGeneres as spokesperson
by Annie Barrett | Feb 04, 2012 04:01 PM

After taking heat from conservative group One Million Moms this week for hiring an out lesbian as its spokesperson, J.C. Penney announced Friday that the...

News Briefs 13 injured in Friday's Super Bowl Village crowd
by Annie Barrett | Feb 04, 2012 02:49 PM

Indianapolis police are planning new restrictions to access of its Super Bowl Village in the wake of a 200,000-person crowd Friday night. In a news...

PopWatch Did 'American Idol' want us to think Lauren Gray is the next Carrie Underwood?
by Annie Barrett | Feb 03, 2012 12:27 AM

Okay, maybe not, but at least that's the lasting impression American Idol wanted us to have after Thursday's St. Louis auditions. The episode was framed...

TV Recap 'American Idol' recap: Arch Angels
by Annie Barrett | Feb 02, 2012 11:12 PM

The judges attempt to find the next Carrie Underwood in St. Louis

TV Recap 'American Idol' recap: Portlandia
by Annie Barrett | Feb 02, 2012 01:22 AM

TV worlds collide as Ryan Seacrest's ego takes a healthy beating in the land of environmental consciousness

PopWatch If They Mated: Conan O'Brien and Andy Richter
by Annie Barrett | Feb 01, 2012 09:55 PM

We've finally found him! Congratulations to American Idol reject Ben Harrison for having such hilarious genes! My recap of the Portland auditions will be up shortly. Conan...

PopWatch 'The X Factor' poetry roundup: 12 most powerful lines from departing judge Nicole Scherzinger
by Annie Barrett | Jan 31, 2012 08:00 AM

Hot on the heels of a real tragedy, sources close to The X Factor say that judge Nicole Scherzinger will join host Steve Jones in...

PopWatch 'It's time. To get. Serious': 10 Things I'll Miss Most About Departing 'X Factor' Host Steve Jones
by Annie Barrett | Jan 30, 2012 09:45 PM

10. Looking at him 9. His naive insistence on order in the most chaotic and nonsensical of all the red galaxies 8. Genuine, unscripted affection for...

PopWatch 'Two and a Half Men': Stormy Valentine's Day episode -- EXCLUSIVE PHOTOS
by Annie Barrett | Jan 30, 2012 07:23 PM

We've got a first look from an upcoming episode of Two and a Half Men episode airing Monday, Feb. 13 at 9 p.m. ET on CBS....

PopWatch Emma Stone's eyes have really done it this time
by Annie Barrett | Jan 27, 2012 09:00 AM

Every time I see Emma Stone's new Revlon commercial, I think to myself, this is it, this HAS to be the time she'll crack herself...

PopWatch 'American Idol': Watch Baylie Brown's season 6 audition -- VIDEO
by Annie Barrett | Jan 27, 2012 12:28 AM

What a difference five years and some honey-colored lowlights can make. American Idol golden ticket winner Baylie Brown had auditioned for season 6 in 2007,...

TV Recap 'American Idol' recap: The Revolution is Here
by Annie Barrett | Jan 26, 2012 11:37 PM

A few local loons and dissension among the judges provide a welcome change of pace for the Texas auditions

TV Recap 'American Idol' recap: Got Any Aspen?
by Annie Barrett | Jan 25, 2012 10:55 PM

Our wacky extended family vacations in tranquil Colorado for another round of auditions

PopWatch We all know 'Beauty and the Beast 3D' got robbed
by Annie Barrett | Jan 25, 2012 06:00 AM

Plenty of Oscar snubs yesterday, but perhaps most egregious is the Academy's woefully unenlightened cold shoulder toward Best Supporting Actor Lumière. Don't they realize that...

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