Yeah well based on Meat's last post I don't think I'll hurry home from work, I'd rather go to the pub after work or do my mothers day shopping than watch it.... I'll catch it if someone posts it I guess.

Happy Thursday, meatie peeps !
 

I like Ellen's show. I haven't visited the UK forum for some time and didn't know until yesterday Meat will be on today's episode. I'm sorry, Meat, that you are unhappy with what happened.

I DON'T like Donald Trump or any show with which he's involved, but I am watching CA because you are on there. There's no way I'd be watching any other way. (okay, maybe if they roped in Vincent D'Onofrio or Johnny Depp... lol ... ) Continued good luck to you and your charity ... xo

I'm sorry to hear this Meat ... unfortunately it's all about the ratings :(

IMO the producers of the show think that people would rather hear about the "incident" AGAIN than hear about how great Meat is doing on the show. That's part of the reason I thought the George Lopez interview was brilliant .. yes he brought up the "incident", but they were able to make a joke out of it and was able to put Meat at ease right away. It just goes to show that George truly likes Meat, and is a better talk show host than a lot of the other ones out there.

Yyyyyyyyeeeeaaahhhh......

They gave fscking kristy alley a half hour..... and you 10 minutes? I call bullshit. What a jip, honestly. Pissed me off, as i love her show. Sucks to see you treated like that.

But its like you said meat, "you gotta have a backbone"... and the producers of her show dont have one.

Too bad. I told you nothing good would come out of that. The Busey thing overshadows all the other stuff

People thought Meat was an insane nutjob in the 1970s and it never seemed to do him any harm. At least people are talking.

Watched the interview this morning. On the plus side, Meat looked good and held his own against Ellen. And some good news came from the interview.
I usually find Ellen humorous and very engaging with her guests. I was definitely less than impressed with her interview skills today. I couldn't tell if she was competely intimated by Meat or if she had been swayed by others in her opinion of him and was less than enthusiastic to be talking to him. At times he almost had to tale control of the interview.
I hadn't read what was posted here b4 i watched it, however after reading Meat's post, the whole tone of the interview now makes sense to me. it sucks that he was treated that way by the show.
The good news: Even as Ellen was trying to cut him off when he was trying to talk, he said something like "Now I need to finish what I am saying" He was talking about the song Standing In The Storm that we know he is recording with John Rich, Lil Jon and Mark McGrath. He said that it is supposed to be released NEXT WEEK on i-tunes and the proceeds will be going to their repective charities. Can't wait for next week! we get new music and a chance to help his charity = win, win!

Meat should take note of.... Oh wait a minute .. $20,000 for the children helped by The Painted Turtle, a book published with royalties going to the same charity, Standing In The Storm out next week with proceeds to Painted Turtle and 3 other charities .. and I'm expecting another win by Meat with another cheque for Painted Turtle .. seems to be some good to me ;)

And as Lorenzo says .. he's acted crazy before and it's never stopped that train :-)

Caryl

And that's what it's all about Cathy ... the song is going to be released for charity on Itunes :)) A great song for some very worthy causes !! Let's just hope :pray: that they'll be able to sing it on the live finale.

NENE's behavior last week made her look like a 2yr old in comparison to Meat telling Gary not to "F***" with him.

The only reason these jerk off's make a bigger deal out of Meat's argument than Nene's tantrum is simple.......

Meat is a CELEBRITY

Nene is NOT.

I don't like Ellen....or her checkered shirt and TIE. :twisted:

Only watched to see MEAT, and if he was told the Busey "thing" would not come up....they LIED, and I despise Liars.

Meat, again, takes ownership...but I beg to differ that he is a "moron".

Kar

That's exactly right Caryl, at the end of the day the big picture is Meat has made a lot of money for his charity, and will have made more when he wins another task and that single gets released.

Carole

I'm glad he held his own, And I am really disappointed at Ellen....have a total new opinion of her now after the way she's treated Meat.

Wow next week! Woo Hoo!

Thanks Vicki. It sounds like it was a bit of a let down in the end. :( I'd still like to see it though.

I feared the worst when I read this, but you came across great, Meat! I'm sure you would rather have talked about other things, like your new movie about to come out, but you did get in a mention of Standing In The Storm :) And I think it was really good that you had the opportunity to tell the truth about the paints, even if you weren't planning on talking about that. You were confident, relaxed, likeable, just great! ..and who knows, maybe they get Ellen in China ;)
-Kathy

:up:

To be honest I didn't think the interview was too bad, Meat ajusted well, given he wasn't expecting the whole interview to be about THAT moment....

Yes .. plus

Meat is almost invariably gracious with those around him, and skilled in handling his interactions wth others. He is grounded, quick witted, funny, articulate, usually pretty equable, only lost it for a brief minute when pushed beyond his endurance, and was clearly upset with himself that he had.

NeNe (who I have to say I think is honest at heart, and not calculatingly devious like Star) seems to be a product of her environment, honed and encouraged by the reality show where she found her "fame". She takes offence at almost anything, could be offended in an empty room, and appears to be constantly compelled to "Tell it like it is!!!" in loud, emotive, colourful and language calculated to offend, and for which she feels no sense of shame or embarrassment at all. The shock would be if she failed to launch a sustained verbal attack over some perceived slight in every episode.

Caryl

I think you handled the interview well Meat. Hopefully people can move forward and stop beating a dead horse with the Gary thing. It is so old... I wasn't surprised that they showed it, very disappointed. :roll:

Hang tuff big guy. :-)

Shea

I absolutely agree Shea :-)
Vicki

I saw this on YouTube from the show. Meat did just great adjusting to it :D

YouTube Video

Thanks for that :)

And as others have said Meat, given you weren't expecting it to be played as you waited to come on, yes, you dealt with it with the skill, honesty and charm we can always expect from you, and I'd be surprised if anyone who was there, or who watched the show, could fail to be impressed. And as has also been said already .. a moron you're not .. but nice touch ;)

Caryl

I'm still damned if I understand why any Meat Loaf fan would be surprised or disenfranchised by seeing his reaction to the Busey thing. We've had decades of seeing a volatile, exuberant, passionate guy wearing his heart on his sleeve. If you don't love him for that, you don't love him, period. Restraint and Meat Loaf simply don't go together, and being pissed off about being screwed over, especially where charity is concerned is just cause in my book. If Meat having a 'don't ~~~~ with me' attitude is news to you, you've been burying your head in the sand.

Ellen seemed like she didn't know what to make of Meat. I've always liked her, but frankly she sticks to a 'type' on her show, and that type is Tinseltown Darlings. I would imagine Brian May, Brian Johnson or David Gilmour would seem equally if not more like fish out of water on there.

That aside, one other thing I wanted to mention - note Meat said they were mixing the song this week and 'sending' the song to iTunes next week. From what little I know I believe songs are sent to iTunes at least a week ahead of release, so I wouldn't necessarily expect the song to be available to buy next week.

Good point ... I wonder if they're going to wait and make it available just in time for the live finale on May 22nd :??: I just hope it gets promoted properly so they can all raise a lot of money for their respective charities :-)

yep. they sell 4 million downloads, that around 1 million dollars to each charity!