Sugar Inc., the company that owns several leading websites including PopSugar, has just received about $16 million in venture capital financing to launch Sugar Digital Entertainment.

Sugar Digital Entertainment will be a Los Angeles based unit "that will expand the Sugar brand into online video, television, film, videogames and other content formats. David Grant, former President of Fox TV Studios, Exec VP of the FOX Network and founder and CEO of Shopflick.com, joins Sugar as President of SDE with a mandate to work with talent and media partners on Sugar-branded projects."

What we think this means is that fashion designers will be able to hire Sugar Digital Entertainment to help sell their wares via fashion and beauty videos.

If there are any LA-based videographers looking for extra work, this looks like a great new venture to apply to.

LIFE.com has just released 18 photos of Marilyn Monroe that have never been seen before. The reason they haven't been seen is probably because they aren't spectacular and some of them are not even flattering. Check them out here.

The photo above of a wax museum Monroe is via darkpatator.

Nicci Gerrard has written a good article about Susan Boyle and our collective shame. Here's an excerpt;

When Susan Boyle first took part in Britain's Got Talent, she became an international sensation overnight. Tens of millions of people have watched her on YouTube (apparently more than watched Obama's inauguration). She has been invited on to the Larry King and the Oprah Winfrey shows. Paparazzi have camped outside her door. There are thousands of articles, tens of thousands of blogs about her. There's a Susan Boyle fan site. You can buy a Susan Boyle T-shirt.

She's now known as SuBo (every celebrity has to have a logo). She seemed a symbol of authenticity – in a world obsessed with appearance, here was a 47-year-old woman who wasn't pretty, wasn't skinny, wasn't groomed and glossed and highlighted and buffed and plucked and tweaked and manicured and waxed and styled, but who seemed ''real''. She walked out on stage, opened her mouth and – my God, how astonishing – this woman had a nice voice. The judges looked taken aback and moved, the audience became hushed.

Read the rest here.

The photo above is from the video about her makeover.

Yummie Tummie is a company that sells shapewear. They've got an ingenious idea with a tank top that slims your belly (muffin top) if you have one. It's not like a girdle in that it is meant to be worn to be seen. Only the middle part of the tank top has a discreet shaping shapewear component. Check out the video below where the product is reviewed on the Today Show. Also see the Yummie Tummie Shaping Tankas displayed on Amazon.