The Pivert better lay off the fish for good, because he's just signed up for hosting duties for WWE’s Monday Night Raw alongside Shaquille O’Neal.

According to the WWE, "each week 'celebrities' from the world of sports, television, music and film take control of the most-watched regularly scheduled program on cable television" which includes the likes of Seth Green and ZZ Top.

What's that smell?

Is that the smell of desperation?

Shaq is too cool for this shiz!!!

It's just perfect for JP, though!

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That look on Jeremy Piven's face on the cover of the new Men's Fitness can best be described as __________.

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Jeremy Piven says that he has been fish-free for the past 10 months.

And no, we ain't talking about that kinda tuna. (Are you kidding? The Pivert can't keep his hands off a piece of "filet-o-fish" for more than 5 minutes.)

Still embroiled in a battle with the Actors Equity, who have been - and rightly so - suspicious of Pivert's "mercury poisoning," the actor attempts to garner sympathy by adding, "What basically happens is when you work your whole life without stopping like I've done, you end up in the hospital. Basically, I had a cardiologist say your body is trying to catch up and it can't. I had a resting heart rate of 47, something called arrhythmia, along with all the mercury poisoning."

And then he tries to top it off with a little bit of environmentalism: "By the way, for the record, it's the not the fish's fault. It's a man-made problem. It's all the mercury being dumped. Women shouldn't eat tuna, especially when you're pregnant."

The whole thing sounds fishy to us…and no, it's not his beard.

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Ashton Kutcher is seriously considering taking on the The Great White Way!!!

The "actor" has been offered the starring role in Neil LaBute's play Fat Pig.

Although Kutcher has no stage experience, he is pretty, which is mandatory for this meaty role!

In Fat Pig, Ashton would play Tom, a good-looking guy who dates the sweet but heavyset Helen, but when his friends find out about the romance, they tease him mercilessly.

The play began off-Broadway five years ago starring Jeremy Piven, back in the day when he took his work seriously, but never transferred to Broadway.

LaBute is set to direct!!!

Kutcher should go for it!!!

What else does he have to do?!

Twitter?!

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MercuryGate continues!

Jeremy Piven and the Actors' Equity and producers of Speed the Plow will appear at an arbitration hearing on June 8th and 9th in New York to voice their continued disputes over the Pivert's early exit from the Broadway production.

To prepare their case, the producers of Speed the Plow have requested a heap of personal information from the Pivert, such as "medical records and documentation of Mr. Piven's activities both during and after the run of the show", which will be subjected to strict confidentiality agreements.

In response, the Pivert issued the following long-winded statement:

After Mr. Piven was diagnosed with a potentially toxic Mercury level, he reluctantly left SPEED-THE-PLOW at the insistence of his doctors, who warned him that enforced rest was required to avoid severe medical problems, including a heart attack. Mr. Piven is looking forward to testifying in Arbitration along with his doctors so that the truth comes out about the very health serious risks caused by Mercury exposure, which the Obama administration has recently described as the world's gravest chemical problem.

Starting back in December, Mr. Piven repeatedly offered to turn over his medical records to the Producers subject to an appropriate confidentiality agreement. The Producers repeatedly rejected that proposal. It is obvious that the Producers did not really want the medical records Mr. Piven volunteered to provide, since those records would confirm the medical necessity of his withdrawal from the show. The Producers' recent statement claiming that they had offered to keep the medical records private is nothing more than PR "spin." We have confirmed with Actors Equity today that the Union is not aware of any such confidentiality proposal by the Producers.

In addition to repeatedly offering his medical records subject to a confidentiality agreement to prevent the Producers from disseminating them to the media, Mr. Piven had also repeatedly offered to be examined by a doctor designated by the Producers both before, during and after his hospitalization for toxic Mercury levels. The Producers never took him up on that offer.

The fact that the Producers issued a statement announcing the Arbitration dates suggests that this is part of a punitive strategy to intimidate actors so that they ignore serious health symptoms and the advice of medical professionals due to fear that they will be sued.

Holy shiz! Them's fighting words!

We wonder how this will all go down!

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Will the Pivert ever wise up???

Jeremy was spotted in Miami this past weekend chowing down on both calamari salad and tuna tartare, mere months after the actor dropped out of Broadway's Speed the Plow due to "mercury-poisoning"!!!

The mercury dramz of the year has been filed for arbitration by the producers of the show and a ruling on the legitimacy of Piven's poisoning cry will be decided soon.

FYI, doctors recommend at least a 3 month break from foods with high levels of mercury (such as tuna) after a bout with mercury poisoning.

Sounds fishy!!

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Oh, Pivert.

You'll never live this one down, will you??

Speed the Plow producers are now filing for arbitration to settle the "mercury poisoning" incident which caused Jeremy Piven to quit the play with little to no notice back in December.

Piven is now claiming his mercury poisoning was not from sushi, rather it was an "illness stemmed from eating fish twice a week for 20 years."

O rly???

Is that the story now?

After Thursday's hearing in which the Actors' Equity union was unable to reach a unanimous decision, they have decided to bring in a professional arbitrator to decide the legitimacy of the Entourage star's quick exit from Speed the Plow.

"The grievance went as expected yesterday. The grievance committee (made up of League and Equity representatives) did not rule for either side and we will be filing for arbitration as provided by our contract," the producers said in a statement released yesterday.

We think the Pivert's time might finally be up!!

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Well, the Actors' Equity union heard out Jeremy Piven and the producers of Speed the Plow on Thursday, and ultimately no unanimous decision was reached.

Up until his doctor-ordered departure from Speed The Plow, The Pivert was dutifully present at every show, despite battling "extreme fatigue, spatial and balance problems, advancing neuroskeletal weakness, memory problems, difficulty breathing, and an alarmingly low resting heart rate," says a statement from the Entourage star.

By mid-December, the Pivert had to pull out or face dire health consequences, and it took a Yale affiliated Harvard-educated cardiologist to finally pry poor Pivert from the play. Or so he claims.

By the end of January, the show's producers announced that they had made their investment back and that the play had been profitable.

The statement also said that Jeremy is hopeful the producers will realize he had no choice, and leave him alone.

Pussy!

A joint statement issued by the Actors Equity union and the Broadway producers' trade association, the Broadway League, said "the producers have the right, as a next step, to proceed to arbitration."

Hopefully they will pursue that!

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Jeremy Piven's hearing before the Actors' Equity committee is tomorrow, and the outcome is not lookin' too good for the Pivert!

Piven's "mercury poisoning" incident, which left him no choice - he claims - but to leave the cast of Broadway's Speed the Plow, has put the hard pAArtying actor's honesty and integrity up for debate.

It was no secret to producers that Piven was less than ecstatic to be a part of the production!

…Piven was agitating to leave the show. He called several prominent actors on his own and begged them to replace him… He was also overheard telling people backstage that he was "bored out of his mind" in the show. Although Piven claimed he was so ill that he often went home after the show, sources say the log shows that he spent many nights out on the town.

Dumb dumb dumb!

Piven left the play permanently, which baffled producers because sick leave is considered temporary. "Unless it's a life-or-death situation, you usually find a temporary replacement and then negotiate a return," says a source.

If Jeremy is found guilty by the committee, his membership with Equity will be terminated and Speed the Plow producers are free to bring Piven to civil court.

Hope the pAArtying was worth it, Pivert!!!

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