Designer Isaac Mizrahi Gives Away His QVC Purses on Rachael Ray’s Show: They Are Fellow Vendors On That Home Shopping Network

The QVC drawstring bag that guest Isaaci Mizrahi gave to Rachael Ray's audience

QVC’s new in-house designer, Isaac Mizrahi, was on “The Rachael Ray Show” Wednesday.

Our sister saw the show, we didn’t, but she tells us that Mizrahi gave away one of his QVC leather handbags to the audience.

The purse is a drawstring tote, with matching accessories, that was a QVC Today’s Special Value some weeks ago. It’s on QVC’s Web site now for $218.

On Ray’s show, the audiences was shown the eggplant color version of the pebble leather bag, but it comes in a multitude of bright colors.

You can call the whole episode corporate synergy, since Ray is also a QVC vendor, just like Mizrahi.

Lucky Magazine Features Stefani Greenfield Faux Fur Jacket From HSN

HSN coat as seen in Lucky magazine

We just got around to reading the January issue of Lucky, and it featured a fake fur coat from HSN.

On Page 101, in a feature on “The Art of Layering,” a model is wearing a black and white striped jacket from Curations with Stefani Greenfield. The coat sells for $200.

As part of a contest, Lucky also gave away five of the coats to readers.

Valentine’s Lobster Pot Pies And Bison Burgers Are On Wednesday’s Menu At ShopNBC And HSN

Anyone for bison?

We are not feeling ShopNBC’s and HSN’s specials Wednesday.

ShopNBC’s Our Top Value is a really romantic Valentine’s Day gift: “Heart topped lobster pot pies in ceramic ramekins,” for only $90. It reminds us of the time years ago when our then-boyfriend gave us an ice cream maker for our birthday. Here’s our motto: You give us a gift for the kitchen, and you won’t see any action in the bedroom.

Over at HSN, the Today’s Special is fitness king Tony Little’s “Body By Bison” food, including bison steakburgers, bison and beef hot dogs, Italian sausages, breakfast strips and snack sticks. The 34-Count Combo is $70.

We are into eating healthy, and know that bison meat is a less fatty source of protein than beef. We know Ted Turner raises buffalo and has buffalo restaurants. But we’re just not into this offering.

HSN To Report Fourth Quarter and Fiscal 2009 Results March 3

HSN will release its fourth-quarter earnings and fiscal 2009 results March 3 before the market opens, the company said Wednesday.

CEO Mindy Grossman and Judy Schmeling, executive vice president and chief financial officer, will hold a conference call at 11 a.m. to review the results.

Those interested in participating in the conference call should dial 800-210-9006 or 719-457-2506 at least five minutes prior to the call. There will also be a simultaneous audio webcast available via the company’s website at http://www.hsni.com.

A replay of the conference call can be accessed until March 17 by dialing 888-203-1112 or 719-457-0820, plus the passcode 2149417 and will also be hosted on the company’s Web site for a limited time.

QVC Celebrates Our Mom’s 80th Birthday, Groundhog Day, With Special Festivities

Phil a year ago, but we're betting on Essex Ed this year and his prediction of an early spring

Maybe because it’s based in Pennsylvania, Punxsutawney Phil’s home state, but QVC is going all out for Groundhog Day.

First of all, the No. 1 home shopping channel is offering four Easy Pays on all its merchandise Tuesday.

Second, the network aired a clip of Phil, with a crowd of oflicials and locals watching, coming out and seeing his shadow, meaning that we are in for six more weeks of winter.

And QVC host Dave James is doing a live Groundhog Day Webcast until 6 p.m.

New Jersey has its own groundhog weatherman, “Essex Ed,” who Monday did his own prediction at the Turtle Back Zoo in West Orange, N.J., just about five minutes from our house. Ed didn’t see his shadow, according to The Star-Ledger, so he is predicting an early spring, unlike Phil today in Pa.

But that’s not why today’s a holiday. It’s our mom’s 80th birthday today! Happy birthday Mama, and many more to come. We love you.

QVC Was Swift To Hawk A Taylor Swift Doll Within Hours Of Her Grammy Wins

What, QVC is selling a doll of me?

QVC wasted no time jumping on the bandwagon to make money off of Taylor Swift’s four Grammy wins last night.

The home shopping network is selling a Swift “You Belong With Me” fashion doll for $22. It’s on advanced order, and will ship May 15. The doll is only available on QVC.

As QVC.com says, “Let her heart sing. This Taylor Swift doll plays a clip of her smash hit ‘You Belong With Me.’ In a long white dress trimmed with sparkling rhinestones, and complete with a guitar, earrings, a bracelet, shoes, and a hairbrush, it looks like Taylor stepped right out of the video!”

The package includes the doll, guitar, earrings, bracelet, shoes, hairbrush, and three batteries. The song clip is about 30 seconds

We watched the Grammys, and like Swift’s music. Props to her for getting album of the year.

However, her duet with Stevie Nicks left much to be desired. We admit we are totally tone deaf, but wasn’t Swift off-key during the whole song?

Page Six Spots HSN Celebrity Chef Todd English — Apparently Over His Broken Engagement — Drinking, Dancing On A Banquette And Playing Air Guitar

The New York Post’s Page Six continues to track HSN celebrity chef Todd English as he cavorts following leaving his bride at the altar last October.

Today Page Six says that English, who sells a line of “green” pans on HSN, was “embracing his bachelorhood” by drinking Belvedere, dancing on a banquette and playing air guitar at Bagatelle in Manhattan.

English’s jilted bride, Erica Wang, claims he left her at the altar on the day of their wedding. English denies it, and filed domestic assault charges against Wang. She may be taking anger management classes and doing community service to get the charges dismissed. Isn’t love grand?

Thank God the Post isn’t watching our whereabouts, otherwise they would have seen us sloshing down two huge margaritas with a gang of journalists at the Diva Lounge in Montclair, N.J., last night. With our buzz on, we sent out one of those e-mails last night that you wish you could pull back.

New York Post Fatmouth Phil Mushnick: Put A Sock On It, And Don’t Pick On Barry Manilow AND QVC

New York Post sports columnist Phil Mushnick always has an opinion on everything, even stuff he doesn’t know too much about.

In his TV Sunday column, “Prime Time,” Mushnick today takes a cheap shot at Barry Manilow, who last week did a live concert from Las Vegas for QVC to
promote his new CD.

In the final lines of a column that’s mainly a rant against Mel Gibson’s terrible anti-Semitism, out of nowhere Mushnick writes, “Things that look kinda pathetic: Barry Manilow on the QVC home shopping channel, last week, hawking his new album.”

What’s the big deal? Manilow is doing what every artist does: using every outlet at his disposal, including a cable network that reaches more than 90 million homes, to promote his CD.

Get over yourself, Phil.

Jon Hamm, As Don Draper Of ‘Mad Men,’ Mocks QVC In ‘Saturday Night Live’ Opening Monologue

Mad Men's Jon Hamm brings Don Draper to QVC

We thought we’d died and gone to heaven when we heard Jon Hamm, who portrays the mysterious troubled anti-hero of AMC’s “Mad Men,” was hosting “Saturday Night Live” for a second time. It was even more fantastic when we watched the opening monologue last night, which was laugh-out-loud funny.

We’re having trouble posting the video clip, but we hope to get it up shortly. But here’s the link to it on Hulu.com.

Hamm was hilarious, and began talking about the roles he’d played before getting on the Emmy-winning “Mad Men” — including a supposed stint on QVC. Hamm started out by talking about his supposed role in the early 1990s on the teen sitcom “Late for Class,” where he played “Bonzo.” We see two high school kids standing by their lockers, and then we see Hamm — in character and wardrobe as Don Draper.

Hamm then says he next gig was on QVC. We’re shown a big-haired QVC host (was it supposed to be Pam McCoy or Mary Beth Roe?) virtually screaming and hawking a raft of turquoise jewelry. Once again, Draper walks into the scene.

“Calm down, you’re hysterical,” Hamm says, a la Draper. “I feel like I’m selling jewelry with a little girl.”

Hamm then slaps the QVC host in the face and walks off. “Wait, I love you,” the host calls out to Hamm.

“I should have sex with that woman,” Hamm says. He then goes on to describe what he says was a breakout career moment for him — doing stand-up on “Def Comedy Jam.”

Again, we see Hamm as Draper, with a cigarette and a drink, onstage before an African-American audience. He starts talking about women “with big bootys, adding “they need to wash their ass.”

Ending the monologue, Hamm says, “Believe it or not, that is how I got ‘Mad Men.'”

The last time “SNL” made fun of QVC was during Sen. John McCain’s presidential run, when he and his wife appeared and did a skit in which they were QVC hosts.

We’ve seen Hamm during the Television Critics Association press tour, and even went to the “Mad Men” set in LA with a group of reporters, but we never had the nerve to introduce ourselves. We eavesdropped on his conversations with other writers, and he was always charming, funny and self-deprecating. And gorgeous.

Will MTV Rename ‘Jersey Shore,’ Since The Second Season Won’t Be in Jersey?

They're coming back this summer, but they won't be in Jersey

We were dreading heading out early this morning, in 9 degree weather, to go to the gym. It doesn’t open until 7 a.m., and it was 6:30, so we decided to check our e-mail.

Lo and behold, at about 1:30 a.m. Eastern Time MTV had issued a press release saying it had greenlit a second season of “Jersey Shore.” That’s a real lid lifter for you. We quickly wrote it up for NewJerseyNewsroom.com.

We were amused to see that the 12 new episodes, which will air this summer, will not only not be shot in Seaside Heights, they won’t even be shot in Jersey. The press release didn’t disclose the new location that will infested by the unlovable and annoying self-proclaimed “guidos” and “guidettes” of the cast.

The ghastly “Jersey Shore” crew, who actually may not be as dumb as they act, had been holding out for more dough, reportedly $10,000 an episode, from MTV. They were negotiating as a group, the tack that the cast of “Friends” used to get big pay bumps. Our guess is that the Jersey group managed to wring some extra dollars out of Viacom.

“Jersey Shore” certainly has been a bit hit for MTV, and for the man who made it possible: MTV president of programming Tony DiSanto. In a prior post, we said we wanted to hunt down the MTV exec who approved “Jersey Shore.” And we questionned whether Midwesterners knew what a “guido” was.

Well, now we know DiSanto is the exec behind the show. And we’re sure most of America knows what a guido is now, thanks to MTV.

“Jersey Shore” may be a breakout show, and a pop culture phenomenon, but we still hate it. And we’d still like to hunt down DiSanto.

Here is his canned quote about the second season renewal:

“Our audience has fallen in love with ‘Jersey Shore’ and its amazing cast who have really grown together as a family. That bond gives the show its heart, and we’re thrilled to reunite these friends to bring fans more of what they love — laughs, love, drama and of course, GTL.”