Drew Carey debuted a strikingly slim figure at a party in Los Angeles last night, picture above right. The photo on the left is from a mere five months ago, when Carey celebrated his 500th episode of ‘The Price is Right.’ This new development is arguably the healthiest that Carey, 52, has ever looked in his 15-plus years on TV. Kind of reminds us of John Goodman’s recent transformation!

Congrats on the great look, Drew. We want to hear your secret!
In May, the National Enquirer wrote that Carey was using appetite-suppressing injections prescribed by a nutritionist. The Enquirer reported Carey as saying, “I now have no desire to eat…I can hardly even get down the tiny portion of fish I’m supposed to have for dinner.”

“Carey claims to have shed all his weight the old fashioned way, through diet and exercise,” the UK’s Daily Mail reports.

The former ‘Drew Carey Show’ star has hosted ‘The Price Is Right’ since 2007, when he took over for five-decade host Bob Barker. The 86-year-old Barker supposedly took a jab at Carey’s hosting style when grilled by a TMZ cameraman earlier this week, but quickly cleared things up the next day, telling Entertainment Weekly, “He’s a charming man, and kind and gracious. To think that I would say anything derogatory about him is idiocy.”

In one set, the now-mother of six has black tape over her nipples and a dog leash around her neck. Others show her during a 14-hour heroin-smoking bender.

“The photographs are a startling reminder to Angelina of a period in her life I’m sure she wants to forget, a shady piece of her history that she’s kept hidden away, even from Brad,” celebrity biographer Andrew Morton, author of Angelina: An Unauthorized Biography, tells Star in our cover story.

The never-before-seen photos are packaged with tidbits from Morton’s tell-all: Angelina got a genital tattoo of Billy Bob Thorton’s name, lost her virginity at 14 to the boy who introduced her to knife play and hired a hit man to kill her (the hit man told her to think about it for a month, during which she decided to live).

1/2 cup shortening

1 1/2 cups sugar

2 eggs

1 tablespoon cocoa

2  1-oz. bottles red food coloring

1 teaspoon salt

1 teaspoon vanilla

1 cup buttermilk

2 1/2 cups sifted flour

1 1/2 teaspoon baking soda

 1/2 teaspoon vinegar

Cream shortening and sugar.  Add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each.  Make a paste of cocoa and food coloring and stir into creamed mixture.  Mix salt and vanilla with buttermilk. Add this liquid alternately with flour to the creamed mixture.

 Blend soda and vinegar.  Fold this mixture into batter (do not beat.) 

Turn batter into 2 prepared 8 inch or 9 inch cake pans.  

Bake at 350 degrees for about 30 min. (9″ pans) or 35-40 min. (8″ pans).  

Cool, then fill and frost.

FROSTING

Blend 5 tablespoons flour with 1 cup milk.  Cook into a very thick paste, stirring constantly. Let stand at room temp. until cool, then remove crust.  Measure 1 cup butter, 1 cup sugar and 1 teaspoon vanilla into bowl.  Cream until very light and fluffy.  Gradually add flour milk paste, beat about 10 min. until sugar is completely dissolved and mix is consistency of whipped cream.

Listener Recipe!!! Courtesy of Robert Cagley.

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