Carole Middleton: Battling Alcoholism, Humiliating Kate Middleton, Source Claims

Earlier this month, we reported that Carole Middleton got noticeably drunk while attending a rugby match at London’s Twickenham Stadium.

A single instance of Carole knocking back one pint too many is amusing. Unfortunately, sources are now claiming that it happens quite often and that Duchess Kate often cringes in embarrassment at her mother’s sloshed behavior.

“It seems to be happening a lot lately,” a source tells Star magazine.

“It’s a huge concern for Kate. She’ll hide her booze at her house, but mom just brings her own! Last Christmas, Carole had too much to drink and started telling totally inappropriate jokes.

“Kate was so humiliated that she finally had to drag her away. She told her mom if she doesn’t straighten up, she’ll be banned from all royal events.”

Of course, if Kate is really so concerned, she should probably stop quietly ushering her mom out of the room and start taking her to meetings.

We know Kate has two kids and a whole heap of royal obligations to work with, but certainly her siblings should have time to help their mum get off the sauce, right?

Pippa can’t keep a job, and James seems to devote most of his time to beard maintenance. Then again, those two might be a big of why Carole is getting snockered on a regular basis. 

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Erin Andrews: Suing For $75 MILLION in Nude Peephole Case!

Fox Sports beauty Erin Andrews is still pushing for justice after a pervy peeping tom secretly videotaped her in her hotel room back in 2008.

The Dancing with the Stars co-host and veteran sports reporter filed an amendment to her ongoing, 2011 lawsuit against Marriott hotels.

For $ 75 million dollars!!

It seems almost quaint now, in a post-Fappening word where hacking is standard, and where high production value porn is the new sex tape.

But back in the day, the Erin Andrews peephole video was a very, very big deal, and some clown even went to prison for taking it. Prison.

The year was 2009.

Michael David Barrett put a camera in the peephole of her hotel door and got a grainy video of Erin Andrews nude as she got dressed.

Footage of the blonde “leaked” online, but unlike the complex iCloud breaches nowadays, the FBI tracked down Barrett fairly easily.

Given that he was, you know, in the room next to her filming Erin naked, it wasn’t too hard to figure out. Should’ve just turned on Cinemax.

Andrews sued Marriott, claiming its employees were negligent in giving Barrett the room next to hers, at his request, no questions asked.

Defense attorneys wanted her to be specific about what she’s seeking in damages, and she obliged, saying $ 75 million will do the trick.

Whether she gets anywhere near that sum is not the point … Marriott is in some hot water and will be setting in the millions of dollars.

Scandal Season 5 Episode 4 Recap: Fitz and the Giant Impeachment

We kicked off Scandal Season 5 Episode 4 behind bars, as Roward denied all culpability in the Louvre fire.

Were you buying his defense? Because Jake was not.

Watch Scandal Season 5 Episode 4 Online

Unable to frighten Rowan with any threats (because he’s Rowan), Jake recruited Charlie to team up with him Paris in search of the individual who launched Lazarus One.

Enter Elise, a woman Charlie hooks Jake up with and who knows many things about stolen paintings.

Oh, did we mention that Elise used to serve as Jake’s wife undercover?!? He believed she was dead… and then she actually got shot after agreeing to help him here, prompting Jake to bring Elise back home.

In Gladiator World, Quinn tricked Marcus Walker into meeting her for a drink so she could offer him the position of OPA spokesman.

But Marcus said he had no interesting in slaying dragons, as Quinn put it, arguing that OPA is “hemorrhaging clients” in the wake of the Olivia-as-mistress-scandal.

Wait… so why did he turn around 24 hours later and accept the position? Because he needs the money.

Marcus does insist that he’s an activist, though, not a puppet, calling out the media for its racist coverage of Olivia during his first press conference.

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Fitz and Olivia, meanwhile, butted heads after the former fired Abby, with the latter saying she finds it “offensive” he tried to rescue her. So Fitz hires Abby back.

There’s also some commentary mixed in about the unfortunate nature of online criticism these days. Or bullying, we should really call it.

“A lot of anonymous Internet people want to have me killed,” Olivia laments to Fitz.

“Also raped… I have at least a thousand threats of rape here… from guys who are mad that I had the audacity to be born female. And black.”

As for Mellie? She’s in a difficult position because the women of the Senate want to impeach their cheating President.

Cyrus implores Mellie to be aggressive, though, giving a classic Cyrus pep talk (You either go after your husband and claim the White House for your own or you do nothing and end up being a sad little well-meaning freshman senator… wanting to hang yourself.)… only to then quit after Mellie calls him out for just being hurt by Fitz, his “son.”

Finally, Fitz says screw it. And takes Olivia out on an actual date! So, naturally, Mellie responds by telling her senators that she’s in. The impeachment is on!

GULP! Also: AWESOME!

Hurry up and watch Scandal online to relive all that went down and then take a look below at the first teaser for Scandal Season 5 Episode 5:

Scandal Season 5 Episode 5 Teaser