Remember when the Oscars audience gave Stacey Dash the silent treatment, after she shimmered onstage to thank the Academy for naming her its "minority outreach director" in the thick of the #OscarsSoWhite controversy? No? Well, how about the Lesbian Death Syndrome that seemed to infect TV drama writers?

Still drawing a…

Two men who sought to storm Ryan Lochte on Dancing With The Stars last month have today been put in their place by a state judge – sort of. At a downtown hearing Tuesday, Barzeen Soroudi and Sam Sotoodeh were ordered to stay at least 300 yards away from the Olympic swimmer and the CBS Television City studios on…

UPDATE, 2:25 PM: Adjust those NFL preemptions in LA, DC, SF and Pittsburgh last night and Monday’s Dancing With The Stars season debut looks a lot like fall 2015 – with the exception of the audience members who tried to rush contestant and disgraced Olympian Ryan Lochte.

Now having come down to ratings Earth, the opene…

“Oliver Stone is doing a movie about last night,” Dancing With The Stars host Tom Bergeron snarked this morning on ABC’s Good Morning America about the two middle-aged protesters who’d rushed the stage after disgraced Olympian Ryan Lochte performed his foxtrot.

“Drama on the Dance Floor!” GMA announced breathlessly at…

UPDATED 10:50 PM WITH DEREK HOUGH STATEMENTS: ABC has released the following statement: “An individual stormed the dance floor tonight and was immediately subdued and escorted out of the building. The matter is now being handled by the authorities.”

A reporter for ABC’s Los Angeles station tweeted a photo of two men, h…

The U.S. Olympic Committee announced Thursday that gold medalist Ryan Lochte has been suspended from swimming events for 10 months over an incident at a Rio gas station during the Olympics last month. Lochte will be banned from the 2017 world championship meet in Budapest in July, and you won’t see Lochte at the White…

Controversial Olympic swimmer Ryan Lochte is joining ABC’s Dancing with the Stars for Season 23, the network confirmed this morning when it unveiled the rogues gallery of celebrity competitors on Good Morning America.

Presidential politics is bleeding over into ABC’s hoofer competition. Former Texas governor and GOP pr…

UPDATE with Brazil charges: Police in Rio de Janeiro have charged U.S swimmer Ryan Lochte with filing a false report in connection with his now self-described “embellished” story of a robbery near the end of the Rio Summer Olympics.

The Associated Press reported the news just now amid earlier reports by Fox News and ES…

Ryan Lochte is diving into a new competition. The Olympic gold medalist and Rio Public Enemy No. 1  is joining ABC’s hoofer competition show Dancing with the Stars. The deal apparently was in the works before the Olympics — and before he and some Team USA buddies swam into trouble with Brazilian authorities.

Lochte, of…

“When I exaggerate I tell people I’m 6′ tall. When I over-exaggerate I tell them I’m 6′ 5″,” NBC’s Olympics wrangler Bob Costas tells NBC’s late night star Seth Meyers. He called Lochte a “great swimmer and a nice guy” who did one thing right – “he rinsed the blonde out of his hair” before doing his “I…

James Feigen has become the third U.S. swimmer involved in the now infamous Rio gas station incident to give a detailed account of the events that cast a shadow on the American athletes’ performance at the Olympic games. Following Gunnar Bentz’s written statement and Ryan Lochte’s apology and TV interview, Feigen on…

CBS Late Show host Stephen Colbert last night did the best “interview” with U.S. Olympian Ryan Lochte about his gas station encounter in Rio – based on which, it’s probably safe to say, Lochte never will actually sit down for an interview with Colbert.

Speaking to Edited Lochte, Colbert “asked” the question we all were…