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What About Man-Bob?

Posted Jan 25th 2007 1:32PM by TMZ Staff

Now that every Urban, Spade and Cojo has taken to sporting the Meg Ryan-spawned man-shag, a new haircut of mass destruction has reared its ugly head: The man-bob!

The Man-Bob Attacks
Once relegated to the likes of Dorothy Hamill and Posh Spice, now some of Hollywood's hottest hunks, like actor-turned-goth rocker Jared Leto (upper left), and "Heroes" star Milo Ventimiglia (upper right), are getting their locks sheared, shaped and flat-ironed into the feminine flip. How lovely!

Fall Out Boy bassist Pete Wentz (lower left) has taken the emasculating man-bob a step further by also adding heavy eyeliner to the not-so-dandy do, while AFI's Davey Havok's (lower right) man-bob with fake eyelashes makes RuPaul look butch. Can you say Liza with a Z?

Before you start blaming these metrosexual messes for their bad bouffants, send your man-bob hate mail to the real person responsible for its 21st Century resurgence -- Miss Rosie O'Donnell (center).

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1. Yuck. Make up your mind which way you want to go.

Posted at 10:39AM on Jan 25th 2007 by Prnzez

2. jerad can for some reason still get away with still looking cute but god the rest are sooo ugly.

Posted at 3:08PM on Jan 25th 2007 by LittleLori

3. "the real man responsible"???? Even in a stupid hair article anyone can slip an ignorant homophobic remark. And in the same breath discussed Isiah Washington's homophobia in condemnation. Psychotic? Sure. Hypocritical,a 100% Ignorant and bigoted, without a doubt!

Posted at 10:53AM on Jan 25th 2007 by GGirl

4. Its about time somebody commented on these weirdos. What a bunch of creeps.

Posted at 2:28AM on Jan 28th 2007 by k dubbs

5. Please, remember Echo and the Bunnymen? The man bob has been around..just not with the masses.

Posted at 10:56AM on Jan 25th 2007 by Donna

6. oh STFU about the Rosie comments....she gave up being a woman a long time ago!

Posted at 11:24AM on Jan 25th 2007 by josh

7. Layered hair equals Man-bob? Uh... The whole pretense of this article is irrefutably lame, it's just tragic that Rosie ODonnell's name and obvious cross cultural fugly equals "an ignorant homophobic remark." I'm more surprised you didn't get nailed for the RuPaul thing. I suppose the fact that Davey veets his pits makes it okay.

Posted at 4:08AM on Jan 26th 2007 by April

8. The reason for this look is the fad called EMO. It means emotional whiny boys wear really tight skinny leg jeans and skin tight shirts and steal their sister's eyeliner. It is kind of a gender bending fad because the haircut and style is the exact same for the EMO girls. The really skinny guys with no hips look like thirteen year old girls. The music is a llittle rock with high pitched whiney vocals. All American Rejects, Fall Out Boy and many more have the EMO sound.

Posted at 11:59AM on Jan 25th 2007 by Cp

9. looks like Goodie two shoes bitch Rosie is flipping the bird.

Posted at 11:40AM on Jan 25th 2007 by rosie

10. Davey looks great with that cut, he recently has it in a shorter version but I agree he needs to forego the lashes. AFI was on SNL this past weekend where Davey was seen in all his sexaliciousness!

Posted at 5:31PM on Jan 25th 2007 by toni

11. gross-'nuff said

Posted at 12:25PM on Jan 25th 2007 by m

12. Please retract the statement in your article regarding Rosie O'Donnell being "the real man responsible". That's a blatantly homophobic remark and I will no longer be reading TMZ until there is an apology issued or the statement is removed. Celebrity gossip is one thing but homophobia is despicable.

Posted at 12:49PM on Jan 25th 2007 by Jennifer

13. Call me crazy but I've always dug boys with funky haicuts and eyeliner. It's a rock chick thing. I can guarantee that Pete Wentz and Jared Leto get more p***y than a kitty litter box. Wentz is packing the goods too.

Posted at 12:29PM on Jan 25th 2007 by Ms. V

14. Cp is right. This is the emo look, except for Rosie and that guy from Heros. Their hair looks too soft and flowey for emo. The key is the angles and shredded edges. To me, the haircut is sort of replaying the skater fad of the 80s. We called it the skater cut. Boys would grow out their bangs and cut the back and one side short. Nothing new under the sun here.

Posted at 12:49PM on Jan 25th 2007 by Amber

15. Not 100% related but the article mentioned Cojo...have you noticed that he and Lara Spencer, (the once respected correspondent on Antiques Roadshow that has forever been tarnished by appearing on the worst show on TV ever, (the Anorexic twins work out with Mary Jo, Joey and the Long Island Lolita during February sweeps while we claim things that happened last week are "breaking news on The Insider) Anyway....it's getting difficult to tell Cojo and Lara Spencer apart, no?

Posted at 1:49PM on Jan 25th 2007 by david

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