Whatevs, Ma: Anti-Martha Builds Empire

Adding insult to injury, Home Depot stops selling her paint

(NEWSER) - Martha Stewart is not having a good 2012 so far. The Martha Stewart Show will end in April due to poor ratings, and Home Depot won't even sell her paint anymore, the New York Post reports. Stewart's flagship show, currently on the Hallmark Channel, averaged 225,000 viewers last year, and just 41,000 in the key demographic: females from 25 to 54 years old. Making matters worse, it's very expensive to produce. More»

Life with perfect homemaker was hell, daughter reveals in book

(NEWSER) - Turns out super homemaker Martha Stewart was a bit of a shrew in the maternal department—a gut-churning, demanding perfectionist when it came to her house, and decidedly not kid-friendly. That's the verdict from her grown daughter, Alexis, who has penned a kind of "Mommie Dearest" tell-all about life with mother. "If I didn't do something perfectly, I had to do it again. I grew up with a glue gun pointed at my head," she writes in Whateverland: Learning to Live Here. One of the things she was ordered to do was to wrap her own Christmas presents, perfectly, without peeking at the gifts. Halloweens were spent hiding out in the house with the lights off to dissuade trick-or-treaters. And there was never anything to eat. "Other people had food. I had no food. There were ingredients, but no prepared food of any kind," grumbles Alexis. More»

It's clear the legend can't hack it anymore

(NEWSER) - If you needed proof that it’s time for Larry King to retire—beyond the plummeting ratings —you got it during his painful interview with Lady Gaga. The interaction was a total dud, despite Gaga’s obvious willingness to have fun. “If he can no longer hit a hanging curve ball over the middle of the plate, shouldn’t CNN be thinking hard about who is on deck?” writes David Carr of the New York Times . More»

(NEWSER) - In anticipation of his visit with Jon Stewart on tonight’s Daily Show, an admittedly “nervous” Jim Cramer sought counsel today from another Stewart—Martha. “You should be nervous,” the lifestyle maven said on her syndicated show. “He’s fast as lightning.” The Mad Money host joked that the feud has elevated his profile at home, reports the Los Angeles Times. “My kids only know I have a show because Jon Stewart is skewering me.” More»

Brits refuse to issue a visa for the domestic diva (and felon)

(NEWSER) - Domestic diva Martha Stewart has been refused entry into the United Kingdom because of her felony conviction, the Daily Telegraph reports. She planned a business trip this month to meet with leading figures in the fashion and design worlds and to speak at the Royal Academy, but Britain refused to grant her a visa. Stewart served five months in prison for lying to investigators about some shady stock transactions. More»