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Not only is P. Diddy not suing Proactiv Solution, but a drunken Diddy was caught on video trash-talking his Proactiv Solution infomercial co-stars Lindsay Lohan and Jessica Simpson, taunting them for not using the acne product earlier.

Here’s the transcript (or at least as best as I could decipher Puffy’s slurred mumblings):

You all know damn well, you all know damn well that Lindsay Lohan and Jessica Simpson was not using no Proactiv…Diddy wore Proactiv. Now you’re all into skin care products. Now, you see, now y’all think it’s official. Well, Ha, I got a secret. I was off on Proactiv for seven years. That’s why I got silky smooth cocoa-butter skin. So Lindsay, Jessica, you’re late. You should have followed my pretty ass from the beginning. Now you’re late [expletive deleted].

(By the way if you want to follow Diddy’s pretty ass for yourself, you can get go here and get a free Proactiv Solution kit just for taking a survey.)

The Advocate, a gay publication, has run an article in which Youree Dell Harris, better known as fraudulent psychic Miss Cleo, admits that she’s a lesbian. Here is the link to the online version of it:

http://www.advocate.com/currentstory1_w_ektid36683.asp

The revelation comes just in time for Cleo’s upcoming appearance on VH1’s The Surreal Life 7. I just wonder if this means we’ll be seeing any hot girl-on-girl action between Miss Cleo and some of her female co-“stars” on the show. French kisses between Miss Cleo and Cassandra “Elvira” Peterson? Fondling in the hot tub between Cleo and V.I.C.I. the Robot from the TV show Small Wonder? Maybe Cleo will even get a follow-up series just like Christopher Knight and Adrian Curry got. This could be the best season of The Surreal Life ever!

By the way, in that article in The Advocate where Cleo comes out of the closet, author Greg Hernandez describes Miss Cleo as “Wearing her trademark headdress, colorful robes, and chunky jewelry on the infomercials…” In my review of the Miss Cleo infomercial I wrote “…it’s hard to imagine Miss Cleo without her trademark headdress, colorful robe, and chunky jewelry.” What an amazing coincidence that we both described Miss Cleo’s wardrobe using the exact same words!

In my last post, I upload a video clip from QVC of the Facial Flex exerciser in action. Today I’m including several screenshots from that video.

If you’d like to use any of the images on your own website, feel free. Just be sure to give us a link back.

By the way, someone on YouTube had a one word comment on this video: G.I.L.F—which is even more disturbing than seeing Facial Flex in action.

(Ever seen the movie Brazil?)

Are you a male sex slave who has trouble finding the right gift for that dominatrix who seems to have everything?

Well, the Ridiculous Infomercial Review is here to help by letting you know about Facial Flex, a device designed to be placed in the mouth so that the unlucky victim can be forced to squeeze it repeatedly using only the muscles in his face.

We must admit, however, that even though Facial Flex looks exactly like the kind of torture device you’d expect to see in any well-stocked S&M dungeon, this product was not in fact designed for that purpose. Facial Flex is actually supposed to be an exercise device for the facial muscles.

And far from being sold at femdom conventions, this FacialFlex was marketed on QVC and HSN, to the same sweet grandmas who buy Joan Rivers rings and Quacker Factory sweaters. Old bags who are afraid to get sliced up in a real face lift surgery or too scared to have the toxic bacteria of Botox injected into them can still get rid of wrinkles by doing reps on their Facial Flex exercisers.

For the rest of us, seeing this video clip from QVC of the Facial Flex in action will provide great raw material for our nightmares:

“It’s kind of freaky” indeed!

At the beginning of April, the Hip Hop website SOHH.com posted this article about the rapper P. Diddy (aka Diddy aka Puff Daddy aka Puffy aka Sean Combs) suing the makers of Proactiv Solution after he had previously endorsed the acne product on their TV infomercial:

P. Diddy’s Skin Breaks Out; Files Lawsuit Against Proactive [sic]

Saturday - April 1, 2006 by Rich Rock

On Friday (3/31), P. Diddy filed a $1.5 million lawsuit against Guthy Renker, the makers of Proactiv Solution for failing to leave his skin “with no bumps.”

[…]

“I use Proactive,” says Diddy in the ad, because it helps “moisturize my situation and preserve my sexy.”

However, just months after the ads, Diddy says he started to experience breakouts and decided to file suit, saying the product has discredited him in the hip-hop community.

Read the entire article…

At the end of the article SOHH.com even provides links to these court documents containing photos of Diddy’s acne-plagued skin.

And if the date and tone of the article hadn’t tipped you off the “court documents” would let even the dimmest bulb know that it was all an April Fool’s joke and that P. Diddy is not in fact suing Proactiv Solution.

The article is actually pretty funny, and it was a pretty good April Fool’s joke.

I’m just wondering how long before the Urban Legends Reference Pages will need to put up a page informing people that P. Diddy did not actually file suit against Proactiv Solution.

–Paul “Clear Skin” Lucas