{"id":1827,"date":"2008-04-02T11:35:20","date_gmt":"2008-04-02T11:35:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/idolchatter\/2008\/04\/nothing-a-good-leeching-wouldn.html"},"modified":"2008-04-02T11:35:20","modified_gmt":"2008-04-02T11:35:20","slug":"nothing-a-good-leeching-wouldn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/2008\/04\/nothing-a-good-leeching-wouldn.html","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Nothing a Good Leeching Wouldn&#8217;t Cure&#8217;: Demi Gets Sucked"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"demimoorepicforIC.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/idolchatter\/demimoorepicforIC.jpg\" width=\"180\" height=\"213\" style=\"float:right; margin: 5px;\">Oh, celebrities! What won&#8217;t they do for beauty and youth? If they&#8217;re willing to inject their faces with botulism or get lipo&#8217;d during a lunch hour or wear red strings\/study Kabbalah, why should anything as natural as a good leeching make our skin crawl?Because it&#8217;s gross. And <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eonline.com\/gossip\/hum\/detail\/index.jsp?uuid=39973ae1-213a-467e-969f-9f71da2df04a\" target=\"_blank\">hearing Demi Moore talk<\/a> about her recent leeching in Austria to detox her blood doesn&#8217;t make the prospect any sexier; what it does sound like is another episode of the SNL bit <a href=\"http:\/\/snltranscripts.jt.org\/77\/77rtheodoric.phtml\">Theodoric of York: Medieval Barber <\/a>(starring Steve Martin) . Seriously. Judge Demi below (around 3:26 into the clip), and see the SNL bit after the jump:<object width=\"425\" height=\"355\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/MxK7JGUqtBE&#038;hl=en\"><\/param><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/MxK7JGUqtBE&#038;hl=en\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" wmode=\"transparent\" width=\"425\" height=\"355\"><\/embed><\/object><!--more-->The brilliant Theodoric of York sketch:<embed allowNetworking=\"all\" allowScriptAccess=\"always\" src=\"https:\/\/widgets.nbc.com\/o\/4727a250e66f9723\/47f29da2281e5f4c\" width=\"384\" height=\"316\" quality=\"high\" wmode=\"transparent\" id=\"W47f29da2281e5f4c\" pluginspage=\"http:\/\/www.macromedia.com\/go\/getflashplayer\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\"><\/embed><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oh, celebrities! What won&#8217;t they do for beauty and youth? If they&#8217;re willing to inject their faces with botulism or get lipo&#8217;d during a lunch hour or wear red strings\/study Kabbalah, why should anything as natural as a good leeching make our skin crawl?Because it&#8217;s gross. 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