4. Joy Behar: "Barbara, You're Looking Very S&M Today!" It's hardly unlike the chatty ladies of The View to stir up trouble. But boy, did we get that and then some when topic turned to—duh!—Fifty Shades. "I left my whip—" Barbara Walters started when told her leather jacket was quite red room-worthy, and when she stopped Joy Behar kept prodding, joking, "Where did you leave your whip?!"
And if that wasn't enough to get you going, the sexy talk turned to HBO's controversial Girls, where Babs talked about sex "from the rear" then proceeded to ask Elisabeth Hasselbeck, "Do you like it when he's rough?" A flabbergasted Whoopi Goldberg summed it up best, crying, "My eyes are bleeding!"
5. E.L. James: "This Is My Midlife Crisis!" While millions upon millions of copies of Fifty Shades and its sequels (Fifty Shades Darker and Fifty Shades Freed) have sparked a passion in the hearts loins of loyal followers, author E.L. James (who won't reveal her age but says she's in her 40s) has a different outlook on it, embarrassingly telling The Today Show, "This is my midlife crisis—all my fantasies out there."
The humble writer continued to say she doesn't think she's a great writer (in fact, she calls the work "raw") and that the stories are far from revolutionary ("I'm stunned by its popularity"). So might that be the most scandalous of all?
James isn't expecting a Pulitzer Price—she just wants a hot actor to fulfill her fantasies on the big screen. Can't fault her for that, eh?
(E!, The Today Show and Universal Pictures are part of the NBCUniversal family.)
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