Live Coverage: The Red Carpet Blog

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Bitter, party of one! Californication star Madeline Zima ain't too happy about Lauren Conrad's rise to Emmy presenter.

"I know she's on television, but she's not an actor," Zima sneered about The Hills starlet at TV Guide's post-awards party at the Kress in Hollywood. "That's a little ridiculous, I think. I mean, nothing against her, but...I'm not so down with that."

Let's just hope they didn't run into each other inside the party, where Ms. Conrad was hanging with Hills buddy Lo Bosworth.

Who else was there? Well...

The first celeb to hit the carpet at Entertainment Tonight and People magazine's party, held at the Disney Concert Hall, hadn't seen any of the Emmys.

"I have no idea what's going on," Jonathan Schaech confessed, before adding that he was rooting for his Emmy nominated ex-wife Christina Applegate.

"I've been sending a lot of love and support," he said, in regards to her recent breast cancer diagnosis. "She's doing great. She's a real hero."

Although Christina didn't go home with an award, Jeremy Piven got the statue for the third time. So does this mean his head will get huge?

"His head's not going to get bigger," dished Entourage costar Rex Lee. "If anything, I think this humbled him a little bit."

90210's Ryan Eggold stopped to squash the rumors about Shenae Grimes and Jessica Stroup being too skinny. "I see them eating cheeseburgers all day, every day."

Brooke Shields, clad in Badgley Mischka, also had food on the mind when asked what she was looking forward to at the fete. "Billy Idol, a cupcake and a great gift bag!"

The cupcakes she referred to were set up inside at the Crumbs dessert bar, which proved to be just as popular as the regular dinner buffet featuring Spanish cuisine such as paella. And the gift bag guests got were so heavy, people could barely carry it to their cars!

Neil Patrick Harris hightailed it inside with his beau in tow just in time to see Billy take the stage. Newly single Nicolette Sheridan also arrived fashionably late with a girlfriend.

Paula Abdul seemed to be rekindling things with her restauranteur boyfriend JT Torregiani. Although the two broke up in June, JT and Paula were sharing a table together inside the bash.

Also hanging at the soiree: Emmy winner Jeff Probst, Kristen Chenoweth, John Krasinski, Kathy Griffin and Larry Birkhead.

Tina Fey won three Emmys but lost a purse. Reality TV was embraced on stage but dissed by more than one winner.

Here's a look at some of the long, strange night's backstage doings—and sayings...

While there were pops of color on the red carpet (hello, Brooke Shields!) it was the intense black outfits on America Ferrera, Debra Messing, Kate Walsh and others that really made an impression.

It was Goth for a grown-up crowd—with lots of ruffles, layers and ruching creating a faintly creepy effect, as if Wednesday Addams had grown up and gone to the Emmys in all her gory glamour.

Or maybe we're taking the funereal-looking frocks a little too seriously? What do you think: Was all the black for the best, or were you also afraid of bustles going bump in the night?

Only a month ago, Christina Applegate announced that she'd had a double mastectomy, and here she is walking the red carpet. Hit the clip to see what she tells Ryan about her health and her Emmy nomination.

Heidi Klum stripped. Ricky Gervais badgered. Tina Fey scored. Get the highs, lows and in-betweens now!

"I think Carell's had his day. I made him what he is. He was nothing before he met me, and how does he repay me? Pretty well, actually. I get half his wages until he's 65."
—Ricky Gervais, on giving Steve Carell a career and subsequently profiting from it

“I am definitely more comfortable casually. On the show, sometimes, if I’m sitting behind the reception desk, I just keep my sweatpants on. I don’t even put the skirt on. I just dress the top half of myself.”
—Jenna Fischer, despite looking ravishing on the red carpet, on how she'd much rather be dressed down. Sort of like how she is on set, when she's supposedly dressed up

"I am from the South. The higher the hair, the closer to heaven."
—Kristin Chenoweth, commenting on her outlandish 'dos when Ryan Seacrest pulled out pictures from her pageant days

"Apparently, allegedly, my ailment was enlarged balls."
—Steve Carell, recounting the excuse he used when he called out sick during the writers' strike

"I just saw Josh Groban on the red carpet. It's got to hurt you that he gets so much more tail than you do."
—Kathy Griffin to Seacrest

"He's such a dork, but at the same time, he likes muscle cars and war games and he's kind of a bully and it's like all these different suburban, American traits I grew up with, kind of all in one guy, all in one dude."
—Rainn Wilson, explaining why he once said Dwight, his character on The Office, is America

"Mrs. Oh."
—Sandra Oh, who brought her mother to the Emmys, after being asked her mom's name by Seacrest

Let's face it. When you're a celeb, you probably have your pick of the litter when it comes to nabbing a piece of arm candy for TV's biggest night. Which just makes it all the more admirable when our favorite stars opt out of bringing a here-today, gone-tomorrow date and go with someone who's been there from the very beginning.

This year, several famous faces, often the life of the party, chose as their escorts those who gave them life, including Rainn Wilson, who showed up with dear old dad; Sean "Diddy" Combs, who was accompanied by mom; and Sandra Oh, who was fortunate enough to be flanked by both her folks.

Surprisingly, the person who actually broke his own annual trend of bringing his mother was Jeremy Piven. 

"My mom clocked out," said the Entourage star, whose mother was a frequent red carpet fixture. "She's sitting at home with a glass of wine."

A glass she no doubt raised in salute to her son when he walked off with the Emmy for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series.

A three-way exchange between E!’s Giuliana Rancic, Teri Hatcher and Lisa Edelstein just revealed the ugly side of the Emmys red carpet.

“It’s a little bit too small of a carpet honest,” Hatcher said, adding she was about to "pass out."

“There are too many people getting here.”

“It’s a celebrity cattle drive," Edelstein chimed in, "all to the slaughterhouse.”

Rainn Wilson challenges Ryan Seacrest to streak naked through the auditorium. With his dad there and everything. Check the clip to see how it turns out.

Well that was brutal   We're cleaning the residual shrapnel out of our eyeballs after witnessing that odd minibattle between Emmy red carpet host Ryan Seacrest and Kathy Griffin.  "You are the devil," Griffin just told Seacrest on the carpet, adding cryptically, "Why did you call security?"
 
The talk turned to Emmys. Seacrest congratulated her on her past Emmy win. Griffin retorted that Ryan has no Emmy. Ryan replied that he has a "Daytime one."
 
"Can that be revoked?" Griffin said. "You're kind of bothering me. You're kind of judging people."
 
After a bit more of Griffin swinging away and Ryan sallying forth, Griffin ended the interview, calling Seacrest a "man whore."
 
"That was a lot of work," Seacrest told Rainn Wilson right after the, uh, whatever that was. "You know how she is."

Too hot on the red carpet? Not for E! Online's Marc Malkin. He's at ground zero gathering smoking-hot A-list scoop for you. Read on for all of it!

Do not panic. But the Emmys Red Carpet. Is on. Right now. At this moment. In an odd turnabout for Hollywood, celebrities actually showed up early for the Emmy celebration at L.A.'s Nokia Theatre, with Ricky Gervais, Lauren Conrad and nominee Sandra Oh among the first to arrive. Oh, and this just in: Heidi Klum's earrings just may be picking up short-wave signals from space.

Get our arrivals gallery here, and drop in the comments and let us know what you think!

I'm told Oprah Winfrey hit On3 Productions' AEG Ehrlich Presenters Lounge at the Nokia Theatre yesterday and walked away with LeSportsac's Stella McCartney bowling bag in purple-gray.

Ms. O was also really digging the TrueJeans.com booth, where she was shown how she could find the perfect jean for herself. In short, enter your measurements, body type, style preferences and TrueJeans will sift through its database