Lindsay Lohan’s mother Dina is apparently so desperate to make herself and the rest of the family famous that she’s in talks to star in a reality TV show of her own.

Dina, who likes to think of herself as the ‘white Oprah’, is in talks with E! Online to do a reality show tentatively titled “Mom-ager,” in which she’ll try to turn her youngest children, Ali, 14, and Cody, 11, into stars.

A disapproving insider tells Page Six, “Can you believe that? She totally messed up Lindsay by making her a ‘star’ and living vicariously through her – and now she’s going to do the same thing to the other two?

“How the [bleep] can E! do this? Those kids should be in school having normal lives, the life that Lindsay didn’t get to have.”

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A segment of last week’s fundraising episode of “American Idol” that focused on an impoverished area of Eastern Kentucky is being criticized by the governor and others in the region that the show intended to help.
“I’m disappointed with the implications of ‘American Idol’ last night,” Gov. Ernie Fletcher said in a speech Thursday night touting the potential of Eastern Kentucky at the 20th Annual East Kentucky Leadership Conference.
The “American Idol” segment from Letcher County was narrated by Paula Abdul, although only a video crew came to Kentucky.
The show focused on illiteracy in Eastern Kentucky and highlighted some Appalachian stereotypes, with scene-setting pictures such as an abandoned school bus, overgrown with weeds and tilting to one side.
The film crew visited Beckham Bates Elementary School, which Abdul said has just 500 books in its library. Several children were interviewed; all had heavy accents and some used poor grammar, but they spoke about the value of education and their favorite books.
One young mother who appeared to have no teeth talked about being illiterate herself and the satisfaction she gets from watching her children learn to read.
Some of the money raised by “American Idol” will go to Save the Children, which started in the United States 75 years ago as a hot-meal program for undernourished children in Harlan County.
Fletcher did not watch the TV show but said he learned about its Kentucky message from his staff.
His office, he said, received e-mails from across the state expressing concern about Kentucky’s image on the show.
Bill Weinberg, chairman of the East Kentucky Leadership Foundation, said “outrageous” stereotypes of Appalachia persist in the media.
“I think it damages the region in terms of the perception that people outside the region have,” he said.
Mark Kennedy Shriver of Save the Children said last week that he saw “American Idol’s” involvement as a new model for charitable giving, one that reached a huge television audience that might not be aware of poverty and how organizations are tackling it.
“‘American Idol’ and Fox deserve a lot of credit. It could turn people off. It could send a mixed message,” Shriver said.
The Republican governor said the intent of Shriver, the executive director of Save the Children, was not shown on the TV show.
“I’ve worked with Mark Shriver. We have a partnership with him,” Fletcher said.
“What he really intended was to show the work being done in turning around these children. Unfortunately, it didn’t come across that way to many people,”
Fletcher said his education secretary, Laura Owens, talked Thursday with Shriver, “and that was not his intent. His intent was to show what Save the Children does.”
Fletcher said the episode was similar to issues he had in 2004 with remarks made by late-night TV show host Jay Leno, who suggested the state adopt the slogan “Kentucky: Got Teeth?”
Fletcher made an appearance on “The Tonight Show” to defend the state.

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The Apprentice Ended this week with the words You’re fired James Sun.
Stepfani Schaeffer won the Apprentice Job

Seattle Internet entrepreneur James Sun, who lost in the final round of the reality TV show “The Apprentice” on Sunday night, writes in his blog that he was “confused” and “completely dumbfounded” by the mysterious reasons Donald Trump gave for his firing.
P-I contributor Maureen Moriarty agrees that Sun deserved a better explanation, writing in today’s column that it “isn’t good policy to leave someone wondering why he or she was fired.”

Sun, the odds on favorite to win “The Apprentice,” says he has received over 300 e-mails from people wondering what happened. The 1999 business graduate of the University of Washington comes to the conclusion that he may have been punished for mentioning the name of his Internet startup, Zoodango.com, during the live finale. Sun said it was a subconscious decision to name Zoodango, writing that it is “just part of my every day speech.” He writes:

    During the finale, I made a subconscious decision to choose my life today over the life that Trump’s new job could offer. Not that Trump’s deal isn’t great… It’s a phenomenal opportunity to work with Donald Trump making $250K. It just wasn’t for me this time around.

Mentioning his Internet startup on live TV did have an impact. Sun says that traffic spiked by 900 percent on the night of the show, crashing the servers.

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