Watching Ugly Betty

“I certainly do Botox, which I definitely think that almost every woman that I know has [done],” she said. “And it’s a miracle drug, no cutting, nothing –and I love it. But I also want to act too … so I don’t do it to freeze my face,”

Vanessa Williams admitted to Barbara Walters that she uses Botox during her interview. Kudos to Vanessa for being bold enough to admit she uses Botox. Their are a lot of Hollywood stars that should be so upfront. The annual Oscar edition of The Barbara Walters Special also interviewed Harrison Ford, Miley Cyrus and Juno Academy Award nominee Ellen Page. During her interview Vanessa also discussed her surprise that Barbara even called her since she’s been working in the industry for over 20 years and how Ugly Betty has helped reinvigorate her career. Vanessa also discussed the fact the she misses being in a relationship and shared her experiences with racism while growing up.

*More info about the Barbara Walters Oscar Special can be found at ABC News.

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My choices for best quotes from Episode 2 Family Affair. What’s your favorite?

1.   Wilhelmina: Betty dear pie eyed pie eating Betty. To Betty when she asks shouldn’t Daniel be writing the letter from the editor

2.   Marc: I wish I got to know Marlon Brando before he got fat. To Amanda who wishes she got to know her mother better

3.   Henry: I drank milk first to coat my stomach. To Betty explaining his drunken state

4.   Marc: You are a bit of a monster on the inside. To Amanda agreeing with her that she’s not equipped to take care of a living creature

5.   Amanda: So what if you’re mangy and disgusting with a weird rash on your butt or maybe that is your butt. To Halston when she decides to keep him instead of dropping him off at the pound

6.   Wilhelmina: Come on girl! I am black you’re Mexican lets not talk around it like a couple of dull white people. Wilhelmina trying to convince Betty to keep quiet about seeing her having sex with the bodyguard in exchange for Wilhelmina getting Ignacio a Visa to return home from Mexico

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I’m highlighting my top favorite quotes from the Season 2 premiere. I’m sure their were more but this time this was all I caught! Maybe because the episode was so sad.

1.   Marc: You’ve taken a lover and that lover has a creamy center! catching Amanda eating candy to cope with the news that Fey Sommers is her mother

2.   Mrs. Tanen: Your father has lethargic sperm. Amanda’s mother discussing how she came to be adopted

3.   Amanda: That makes Daniel my brother, who I slept with a lot. And that’s the kind of dirty that don’t wash clean. To Marc when she realizes that Bradford Meade might be her father

4.   Wilhelmina: Is this no one’s most wanted? when she receives a phone call from fugitive Claire Meade

5.   Marc: Sister Mary gang member threw me to the ground and took my wallet. To Wilhelmina after he’s been beaten up

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A much darker show than normal the Season Finale of Ugly Betty didn’t include as many great quotes as normal but their was still plenty of fun and snarkiness to keep the fans entertained. So enjoy!

1. Daniel: “A rock. Wow.”
Betty: “It’s supposed to be mystical. The old man who sold it to me said it will help you on your journey of enlightenment, or with cramps. My Spanish really sucks.” Giving Daniel a gift from Mexico

2. Wilhelmina: “I thought I smelled jewelry.” When Bradford places a ring on her pillow

3. Marc: “Inhale Ricky Martin exhale Colin Farrell.” Getting over visual of Bradford and Fey getting kinky in the love dungeon

4. Amanda: “Ill Dork-es interrupt-es.”
Betty & Henry: “Get out!”
Amanda: “Hey everyone! Betty’s in heat.” When she walks in on Betty and Henry sharing a private moment in the copier room

5. Diane: “It’s like when Julia Roberts flossed before whoring herself in Pretty Woman.” Commenting on how romantic Betty and Henry are

6. Diane: “Back to your cage Shrek.” to her grumpy assistant

7. Betty: “If my lips are going to be tingly tonight, I want it to be because of Henry.”
Diane: “Oh you are such a chick flick. I would totally pay 12 dollars just to see you.” When Betty only wants her teeth cleaned instead of getting her cavity filled in

8. Marc: “What do you get from St. Patrick’s? Bad incense and a bunch of guilty man in dresses.” When the church that Wilhelmina wants is booked

9. Marc: “And she got Elton John to sing for the wedding. He’s rewritten Candle in the Wind just for her.”
Wilhelmina: “What! He was rewriting Candle in the Wind for me.”
Marc: “Oh give that Queen 20 bucks and she’ll rewrite it for anybody.” When she finds out that Fabia is about to steal her thunder

10. Betty: “Daniel what about the drugs?”
Daniel: “Oh come on its more like medicine except I happen to buy it from a guy who has a shaved head and a neck tattoo.” trying to explain away his drug use to Betty

11. Fabia: “You must come to the ceremony I won’t be able to get married without my something old.”
Wilhelmina: “With the veins in your legs you already have your something blue.” When they have a meeting to discuss their upcoming weddings

12. Amanda: “And now my special place is ruined!”
Christina: “Oh please! Your special place was ruined years ago.” When Christina finds the secret love dungeon

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1. Daniel: “Don’t do that to me you’re not the only one in charge.”
Alexis: “I am the only one with pupils that aren’t the size of quarters.”
When she cuts him off

2. Wilhelmina: “Okay girls tuck them back in, your both big.”
Trying to stop Alexis and Daniel from fighting

3. Wilhelmina: “Your boyfriend fakes his death and comes back as a very big girl. Their really isn’t a card for that.” When she finds out that Jordan is Alexis’ ex-girlfriend

4. Marc: You’re as dead on the outside as you are on the inside.” To Wilhelmina when she’s worried about her laugh lines showing

5. Amanda: “It’s so unfair. I finally got a hot boyfriend and I can’t even use it to make all the other sluts feel bad about themselves.” When she can’t make out with Tavares in public

6. Hilda: “It means the women is nuts. A minute ago she was eating a candle.” Describing the healer to Betty

7. Betty: “She wants me to fill in mom’s side of the tree.”
Hilda: “You could climb it with those toe nails.” When she’s figured out the healer’s cryptic message

8. Marc: “Don’t tell me you forget we were going to rent 300 and enjoy the mildly homophobic slash homoerotic content?”
Amanda: “I’m sorry its Tavares party.”
Marc: “Of course Tavares. Clearly you’ve replaced me with that African Queen. Looks like I’m yesterday gay’s news.” When she can’t hang out with him after work

9. Jordan: “By the way the boobs are amazing.”
Alexis: “Thanks, their yours. I took a picture of you to the surgeon. The nose is Kate Winslet’s.” commenting on her transformation

10. Marc: “You were just dismissed turns out he’s a mean gay.”
Amanda: “So what you’re a mean gay too.”
Marc: “Yes. But not to you.”
Amanda: “Yesterday you told me my head was too big for my neck.”
Marc: “That was constructive criticism.”
Amanda: “Well what am I supposed to do about it?”
Marc: “I don’t know. As a friend my job is only to point things out.” When he tries to show her Tavares is being rude to her

11. Marc: “You’re in love with a gay man! It’s like you and me all over again.”
Amanda: “I was never in love with you.”
Marc: “Oh are you kidding? When we first met you couldn’t keep your eyes off of me.”
Amanda: “That was before you got your veneers. You had that dark tooth, I couldn’t look away.”
Marc: “Okay. Big head.”
Amanda: “Dark tooth.”
Marc: “Nicole bitchy.”
Amanda: “Nelly Ripa.” After Marc sees Amanda and Tavares kissing

12. Hilda: “Let’s just live here, get jobs, watch our asses grow.” A stressed Hilda when she and Betty finally manage to walk to the town

13. Marc: “Oh really. Well apparently that sad little hag can have it and has. In ways that are too disgusting to even think about! You could have had a real relationship with that women and you would have been lucky, because she is one of the nicest easiest girls around.”
Tavares: “Marc”
Marc: “Okay maybe she’s not nice.” to Tavares after he insults Amanda

14. Marc: “Open your eyes people. He’s straight. Straight as the crease on an old mans jeans” inning Tavares at his party

15. Marc: “If anybody hears us they’ll just think its Christina stumbling around blind drunk, crying and making out with the mannequin.”
Amanda: “Again.” When they break into the Christina’s closet

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1. Hilda: “She’s s 130 pounds of bitch.”
Cosmetology Teacher: “What did you say?”
Hilda: “A 120?” commenting on how mean her teacher is

2. Nick “Don’t you know the refrigerator stacking system?” Commenting on Betty stealing his food from the fridge

3. Marc: “What till we get to that Middle Ages place tonight and make fun of all the nerds in shining amour. It’ll be the mocking event of the season.”
Amanda: “I think I’m gonna pass.”
Marc: “What! You can’t past! I’m not going stag, hag!”
Amanda: “You’ll have to buy your own beer, queer.”
Marc: “You can’t just ditch, bitch.” On going to the Secretaries Day event at the themed medieval restaurant

4. Betty: “If this is what it takes to help my father then I will ride that giant robot horse all the way to Mexico!” Trying to win a $1,000 by riding a horse at medieval restaurant

5. Marc: “Middle ages is going to be dah-licious. It’s going to be Britney shaving her head all over again.”
Amanda: “Oh that was fun but then it got sad.”
Marc: “No! Then it got fun again.” Trying to convince Amanda to come to Middle Ages restaurant

6. Marc: “I swear on the abs of Mark Wahlberg.” promising to keep Amanda’s secret

7. Daniel: “You went down to the 14th floor, grabbed the first guy you saw and told him I’m a freak.”
Betty: “Actually he’s the third guy I saw the first two thought you were a lost cause.” When she arranges him a meeting to discuss his sexual addiction

8. Claire: “At least here you can score a decent glass of toilet wine.” Describing the benefits of jail over rehab

9. Marc: “Will you be back in time for that luncheon for the homeless children?”
Wilhelmina: “Well if I’m not make sure they get their free hair products, priorities Marc priorities.” As she goes to visit Claire Meade in jail

10. Christina: “All right Betty. The sooner you tackle that horsy the sooner I tackle something in a codpiece.” after arriving at event with mechanical horse

11. Hilda: “Don’t you have some sort of a special fair? Well what if I put him in a pet carrier.” Trying to get Ignacio a ticket to Mexico

12. Amanda: “I’ve been dewenched” when she’s been replaced with a younger model in the middle Ages restaurant commercial

13. Amanda: “Sure today I’m the eye candy but tomorrow I’ll be old candy. Old hard wrinkly candy covered in lint.” Wondering where her career is going

14. Henry: “Betty my grandparents had horses. I never got near them cause I’m allergic but I used to watch them out the window all of the time.” on why he should ride the mechanical horse instead of Betty

15. Amanda: “Oh it’s about to get nerd nasty!” On Henry and Nick’s battle

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1. Hilda: “don’t even know what this is. I love you or just I love you naked.” Describing her and Santo’s relationship

2. Hilda: “A job is not about making friends. It’s about making money and stealing office supplies. By the way were out of coffee filters.” Consoling Betty whose doesn’t want to got to work

3. Leta: “This isn’t about money this is about Petra’s career she is going to be the next Kate Moss but not such a piggy.” Describing why she does not want Daniel’s money

4. Wilhelmina: “I try to nod off and when the finish line approaches he starts howling like a wounded beagle.” Talking to Marc about why she needs Bradford’s Viagra pills replaced

5. Wilhelmina: “Out of the mouth of gays” commenting on Marc’s suggestion of how she can become indispensable to Bradford

6. Amanda: “Pretty sure she was drunk dialing.” On Christina’s repeated calls for Betty

7. Amanda: “Someone’s got there Bitch on” to Betty when she tells her to trash her messages

8. Ignacio: “You went out with Santos. I heard you climb the drainpipe. Did he at least walk you to it and give you a boost? Commenting on Hilda’s attempt to sneak in

9. Hilda: “God! I hate this house! So out of here when I’m 40!” responding to Ignacio’s comments about Santos

10. Amanda: “You can have Tuesday at 10. Lindsay will be back in rehab by then anyway” giving Tavares an appointment

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1. Quincy Combs: “Just admiring the office of the feckless prince, as the empire absolves even the cushion on the bone white shag sags with defeat.” telling Betty why he is in Daniel’s office

2. Quincy Combs: “…seen humping under the Peter Pan statue.” reading Daniel’s exploits on Page Six

3. Quincy Combs: “You may be the beast that guards the gate but I’ve taken down kings, presidents the electric car…” letting Betty know he will not give up

4. Marc: “Well fill my bucket with nothing but thighs.”
Wilhelmina: “Relax Kernel we all know you prefer nuggets.”
Christina: “That’ll be chicken ruined for me.”
Upon seeing Wilhelmina’s altered dress

5. Ignacio: “Good news is I’m free. Bad news, now I got to take out the garbage.” after getting ankle bracelet removed

6. Daniel: “That’s the Peter Pan statue. I just thought it was some creepy kid watching us.” Commenting on his entry on Page Six

7. Amanda: “I want a career I can be proud of and a door I can shut when I want to take a nap.” describing why she wanted to be Alexis assistant.

8. Marc: “He hasn’t even been here long enough for us to figure out why we hate him.”
Amanda: “I know why. Because he’s a suck up and he wont sleep with me.”
Marc: “Me either” talking about Nick

9. Betty: “Am I dressed right for the club?”
Christina: “Sure. If you’re auditing them.” talking about Betty’s office attire

10. Amanda: “Oh look scary Bradshaw and a side of potatoes.” describing Christina and Betty as they head out to the nightclub

11. Nick: “Where do they keep the menus?”
Amanda: “Uh Do I look like I eat?” when Nick is trying to order some takeout

12. Wilhelmina: “He patted my hand.”
Marc: “Maybe that’s foreplay in a nursing home.” discussing her failed attempt to attract Bradford

13. Christina: “Betty you’re addicted. If he was crack you would sell your nephew for a bag of him.” on her obsession with Daniel

14. Hilda: “Your case worker was fired two months ago.”
Ignacio: “What?”
Hilda: “You heard me. She lied. Bitch crazy!” telling Ignacio what she found out about Constance

15. Amanda: “I just wanted to let you know Nick left. Something about cheer leading finals on cable…and cocaine.” to Alexis

16. Amanda: “I knew Janey in Styles was pregnant before she did, and FYI its not her husbands or her boyfriends.” to Alexis

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1. Ignacio: “I’m going stir crazy in here! Starting not to remember the feel of rain, the smell or freshly mowed grass…”
Hilda: “Papi we live in Jackson heights the grass smells like fried onions.” Hilda and Ignacio talking about how he’s going crazy being copped up inside

2. Marc: “I’ve been telling her you’re my girlfriend for three years now; she’s starting to pressure me to buy the cow.”
Amanda: “So you’re saying were over and I’m fat?” Marc on why he broke up with pretend girlfriend Amanda

3. Marc: “We’ll always have that fake pregnancy scare!”
Amanda: “Oh that was a real scare you idiot it just wasn’t yours!” Marc and Amanda talking about their fake dating

4. Betty: “Daniel, You’ve done a great job running this magazine for the last 6 months. I know you can win this race. It’s like the tortoise and the hare…”
Daniel: “Okay, okay I’m going to figure it out. You can cross my pep talk off your list for today.”
Betty: “Their will be more.” Betty encouraging Daniel when he begins to doubt his abilities to co-edit the magazine with his brother

5. Alexis: “I for one have much bigger dreams.”
Daniel: “Like what a uterus?”
Alexis: “You can say it, but can you spell it.” Alexis and Daniel when she claims she wants no part of the magazine

6. Wilhelmina: “Your father will die of shame. “
Alexis: “He wouldn’t die. Stroke maybe.” Wilhelmina convincing Alexis to make her stamp on the magazine
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Icing on the Cake

Daniel: “A woman who likes sex 3 times a night and doesn’t want to cuddle. Where have you been all my life?” to Grace

Claire: “It doesn’t even have a park view. I might as well be tied to a chair having my ear sliced off.” to Daniel about her room in the Regent

Betty: “I got a new shower curtain” telling Henry and Charlie what she did on the weekend

Marc: “He’s like the it designer for all those actors whose faces you recognize but you never really know their names.”
Amanda: “Ooh like what’s her name”
Marc: “and that guy” talking about the designer who just sent Amanda a dress
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My favorite quotes from Episode #6: Trust, Lust, and Must.

“Tired of sticking your finger down your throat? Want to lose weight the easy way? Ask me how.” Betty to Hilda when asked what her Herbalux sales pitch will be.

“Unless its Taye Diggs covered in baby oil I doubt it.” Mark to Betty when she tries to sell him Herbalux

“Stop playing Nancy Drew you’re supposed to be selling” Hilda to Betty when she distracted from selling Herbalux

“Of course she eats sheep stomach” Betty to Hilda describing the one sale she’s made at Mode.

“Oh she sent her bitch.” Nico to Mark when he shows up to the store where she was caught shoplifting.

“Looks like a gay version of Star Trek” Hilda to Betty as she comes into the offices of Mode.

“Your flag was kind of at half mast.” Amanda to Daniel after they had sex.

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Last Thursday’s episode of Ugly Betty, “I’m Coming Out” marked the beginning of February sweeps, and the episode helped ABC win the night in total ratings. Ugly Betty had a rating of 9.3 beating out an episode of CSI to win the 8pm time slot. The addition of Rebecca Romijn to the cast helped the show score a 4.8 rating among adults the highest the show has scored since the first two episodes premiered.

*Bonus: Here’s a link to a wonderful article about how Ugly Betty has broken stereotypes and changed the face of Latin women in Hollywood. The Future of TV

My favorite quotes/moments from episode #14.

”You want that green card you don’t have a choice man ride that squishy train until you reach your destination” Tucson to Ignacio on how he should handle his situation with Constance.

Constance is making gumbo for Ignacio and asks him…” where you keep the peppa sugar, cause we need something spicy, oh wait here I am”.

“She’s a model shiny things confuse her” Amanda to Marc on how to distract the model whose dress they are trying to steal.

“If this is anything like my prom night you’re paying for the therapy” Marc to Amanda when she tells him to come on to the model.

“Seeing eye gay” Wilhelmina to Marc when she tells him she needs him to lead her around fashion show after her eyes becomes swollen from cosmetic surgery.

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