Morning Brew – Friday, October 15: Jillian Michaels is peeved at the LA Times, “The Talk” starts Monday

TGIF! Hope you had a lovely week.

As you probably read in BLWE, Jillian Michaels is furious over a scathing piece in the LA Times said she was a fitness fraud. She told Us magazine:

Apparently I’m an actress. Shame on the Los Angeles Times for saying I’m a fraud and not a trainer. I currently own two certifications, one of which doesn’t expire. I developed my own continuing education program for trainers, with sports medicine doctors. I’ve been a trainer since I was 17-years old for 19 years. I’m going after them.

I love Jillian, but I do wonder about some of the things she/The Biggest Loser promotes. I mean, those instant smoothie things have a ton of sugar in them!

Grey’s Anatomy is producing six webisodes this season, found exclusively on ABC.com. The first one just went up last night, so head on over to watch. (Spoiler: No Calzona in this one.)

The Indigo Girls have released Holly Happy Days, a mix of classic Christmas songs and a few of their own, including one called “Mistletoe.” Sexy!

There’s a rumor going around that Top Gun 2 could be in the works. Something tells me Kelly McGillis wouldn’t be asked to take part, which means I couldn’t watch it if you paid me.

TheScavenger.net thinks female vampires are feminists, and I have to agree. They write of True Blood‘s Pam:

[She’s] cold, calm, and deliciously comfortable with her bloodthirsty nature…except when it gets gore on her favourite pumps. She is violent, and carnally a-typical (that is, possessed of intent).

Pam’s exceptionality from the ‘whore’ archetype is the control she exerts over her appearance and, through it, the reception she garners from her surrounding characters; that is, her strikingly normal — and high femme — aesthetic.

She does, after all, have a penchant for lavender; she may wear leather and fishnets as Fangtasia’s dominatrix maitre de, but it’s just a clever disguise. She wields her sartorial choices expertly, and the disconnect between her pastel preferences and the woman they contain evoke Pam as ‘other’ in a surprisingly interesting way; a bizarre feminine type who blurs the lines women are supposed to walk religiously between good and bad, virgin and slut.

In short, she’s fierce. And if Nan Flanagan ever gets staked, Pam will surely be the new HBIC.

La Roux’s Elly Jackson might have just had Kanye West guest on her “In For the Kill” remix, but