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		<title>David Duchovny and Téa Leoni separated</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Jun 2011 13:50:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Actors David Duchovny and Téa Leoni have separated after 14 years of marriage, People reported online. Duchovny, 50, and Leoni, 45, also separated in 2008, as Duchovny entered rehab for sex addiction. They reunited and had seemed close lately. People reports that the couple met early in their acting careers during interviews for a &#8220;Tonight [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="KonaBody"><p>Actors David Duchovny and Téa Leoni have separated after 14 years of marriage, <a href="http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20506365,00.html?xid=rss-topheadlines">People reported online</a>.</p>
<p>Duchovny, 50, and Leoni, 45, also separated in 2008, as Duchovny entered rehab for sex addiction. They reunited and had seemed close lately. </p>
<p>People reports that the couple met early in their acting careers during interviews for a &#8220;Tonight Show&#8221; guest spot. They have a daughter Madelaine West, 12, and son Kyd, 9. </p>
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		<title>Tyra Banks sued after teen appears as sex addict</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Oct 2010 03:45:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eiko Watanabe</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[15-year-old's mother didn't know]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://blastmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/61859306bmediaventures10172010114356PM-199x300.jpg" alt="" title="Tyra Banks attends a Roberto Cavalli Party last month in Paris." width="199" height="300" class="alignright size-medium wp-image-51181" />A Georgia woman is suing TV personality and model Tyra Banks for $3 million after she said her 15-year-old daughter appeared without her permission on an episode of Banks&#8217; talk show about teen sex addicts.</p>
<p>According to the Associated Press, in a lawsuit filed October 8 in federal court in Atlanta, Beverly McClendon claims the show contacted the teen on her cell phone after she responded to a request on the show&#8217;s website seeking “sex addicts.” The girl was then picked up from her home in Georgia in a limo and flown to New York, where she was put up in a hotel, all without her mother&#8217;s knowledge.</p>
<p>McClendon filed a missing person report with local police when she realized her daughter was gone. The teen has never been diagnosed as a sex addict.</p>
<p>The source reports that the lawsuit also names Warner Brothers Entertainment and the executive producers of the show as defendants.</p>
<p>The lawsuit seeks a jury trial and asks for $1 million in compensatory damages and $2 million in punitive damages. It also asks the court to bar the episode from ever being aired again on television or online.</p>
<p>The $3 million lawsuit claims that the show violated McClendon&#8217;s right to privacy by putting her daughter, who was a minor, on television without McClendon&#8217;s permission.</p>
<p>In addition, the lawsuit claims negligence, saying the teen was paid for her appearance but that the show didn&#8217;t get permission from the labor commissioner to employ her and didn&#8217;t get McClendon&#8217;s permission before paying the girl to fly to New York, stay in a hotel alone and appear on the show.</p>
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		<title>Sex addiction is real</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Aug 2010 17:07:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shannon O'Neill</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[...and you may have it]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://blastmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/474px-Tiger_Woods_in_2009-237x300.jpg" alt="" title="474px-Tiger_Woods_in_2009" width="237" height="300" class="alignright size-medium wp-image-47711" />There&#8217;s no denying it: There are many women, and maybe even some men, who&#8217;d love to give Tiger Woods and Jesse James a piece of their minds. How could a family man like Tiger ruin his marriage? How could Jesse James cheat on Sandra Bullock with tattooed skanks? Both stars are blaming sex addiction for their infidelity. But is it that simple? Are they really sex addicts or are they chronic cheaters who are using it as an excuse? While it&#8217;s controversial in medical circles, some experts do believe that sex addiction is real. Although the American Psychiatric Association does not include sex addiction in its handbook, the Mayo Clinic asserts that 3 to 6 percent of American adults are addicted to sex, according to CNN.</p>
<p>Diana Kirschner, Ph.D., author of &#8220;Love in 90 Days: The Essential Guide to Finding Your Own True Love,&#8221; says sex addiction is a real disorder that is similar to alcohol or drug addiction. She explains that a love of sex crosses the line into an addiction when &#8220;the person repeatedly manages their stress, emotional disturbance, suffering, or other problems by turning to a sexual outlet to diminish their upset.&#8221; Specifically, she says that the six fundamental signs of sex addiction are the following:</p>
<p>1. Engaging in sexual behavior frequently, to a greater extent, or for longer than the person intended.<br />
2. Having difficulty stopping or controlling the sexual behavior.<br />
3. Spending a large amount of time thinking about, procuring, acting out, or recovering from the sexual behavior.<br />
4. Sexual addiction interferes with current relationships, work and/or financial responsibilities.<br />
5. A sex addict needs to do more of the sexual behaviors over time to gain satisfaction.<br />
6. If not engaging in the sexual behavior, the addict feels anxious, distressed, depressed or angry.</p>
<p>Infidelity expert Ruth Houston, author of &#8220;Is He Cheating on You? 829 Telltale Signs,&quot; agrees with Kirschner. &#8220;Sex addiction is real,&#8221; she says, &#8220;but it&#8217;s not as common as cheating men would like you to think it is. After the fact, many cheating men use it as an excuse for their infidelity or as a way to justify their behavior.&#8221;</p>
<p>So are Tiger Woods and Jesse James really sex addicts? Houston has her own theories.</p>
<p>&#8220;I believe that Tiger Woods is a sex addict and that Jesse James is not,&#8221; Houston says. &#8220;The women Tiger got involved with were easily within his reach; he didn&#8217;t go out searching for them. They were strippers, night club hostesses, all people he came into contact with while out eating or while out on the town. Jesse went out searching for a specific type of woman; he knew what he was doing, and it was contrived on his part.&#8221;</p>
<p>Houston further explains that &#8220;Sex addiction means taking risks that a &#8216;normal&#8217; person wouldn&#8217;t take. Look at all the risks Tiger took&#8211;he didn&#8217;t even bother to use protection, and he had all these incriminating text messages and voice mails. He didn&#8217;t take the normal precautions cheating men would take. He was going hog wild! He&#8217;s an intelligent man who should know better, but his sex addiction was overcoming his common sense. The sheer number of women he slept with is outrageous. He was most likely engaged in this type of behavior before his marriage, and he never stopped.&#8221;</p>
<p>So is it possible to forgive a sex addict for their destructive behavior?</p>
<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s possible to forgive only if the addict gets help,&#8221; Houston says. &#8220;It&#8217;s a good idea to try to make the relationship work. There&#8217;s no &#8216;one size fits all&#8217; when dealing with infidelity. Every woman needs to think for herself.&#8221;</p>
<p>Girlfriends and wives of cheaters often have &#8220;flashbacks,&#8221; which is the most difficult part of forgiving a cheater, says Houston. For example, when a cheater is on his cell phone, his wife wonders who he&#8217;s speaking to; when he&#8217;s away, she wonders what he&#8217;s doing. And it&#8217;s not so easy to forgive when mistresses keep popping up on magazine covers and TV shows spilling the details of perverted texts sent by the cheater.</p>
<p>As for Jesse and Tiger, they have both been kicked to the curb, as both of their marriages are ending in divorce. Houston blames the media in part for the couples&#8217; inability to reconcile.</p>
<p>&#8220;Because of the media, their marriage problems were in their faces. It&#8217;s hard to put issues behind you when the media won&#8217;t let it happen,&#8221; she says. &#8220;If their marriage issues had not been public, these two couples may have been able to overcome this.&#8221; </p>
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		<title>TV Notebook: 10/30/09</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 14:53:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Blast Magazine Newsroom</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA["Pit Bulls" on Animal Planet and "Trauma" is off at NBC]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="KonaBody"><p>&#8220;Pit Bulls and Parolees&#8221; premieres tonight at 10 on Animal Planet. On Sunday, look for Dr. Drew&#8217;s sex rehab show on VH1 at 10 p.m., and another reality program, &#8220;Styl&#8217;d&#8221; to start off on MTV at the same time.</p>
<p><a href="http://blastmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/trauma_7_gallery_primary.jpg" rel="lightbox[32231]" title="trauma_7_gallery_primary"><img src="http://blastmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/trauma_7_gallery_primary-300x224.jpg" alt="trauma_7_gallery_primary" title="trauma_7_gallery_primary" width="300" height="224" class="alignright size-medium wp-image-32233" /></a>NBC is canceling its brand new drama, &#8220;Trauma,&#8221; with the production stopping after the initial 13-episode order. NBC has not said whether or not it will even air the remaining episodes. NBC did order six new mid-season episodes of &#8220;<a href="/tag/chuck">Chuck</a>,&#8221; so it&#8217;s not all bad news. This expands the season to 19 episodes. &#8220;Chuck&#8221; was originally going to open after the Winter Olympics, but it may come sooner. </p>
<p>ABC announced that &#8220;Scrubs&#8221; will premiere with two episodes on December 1 at 9 p.m. The regular time period will be Tuesdays at 9. &#8220;Better Off Ted&#8221; will premiere December 8, and will regularly follow &#8220;Scrubs&#8221; at 9:30.</p>
<p><a href="/tag/syfy">Syfy</a> ordered 13 new episodes of &#8220;Being Human,&#8221; an American port of a British series based on three roomates &#8212; a ghost, vampire and werewolf &#8212; who lead double lives. The show will premiere in the summer.</p>
<p>Finally on this Friday, we know that NBC is working on a &#8220;Monk&#8221; ripoff with a few twists. Variety reported that a washed up magician with agoraphobia will be approached by an elite law enforcement group to use his talents to solve the hard cases.</p>
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