Well, well, well. How the worm has turned. Except not really. After bitching and moaning about her E! talk show, Chelsea Lately, for much of this year, Chelsea Handler has now signed on to continue doing the show until 2014. Remember, Chelsea only got her own show because she was screwing her boss – and she dumped him right after she signed her last contract. Well, her contract was up next year, and Chelsea had already been giving interviews saying that she didn’t want to keep doing the show – “There’s only so much of this nonsense you can talk about before your brain starts to feel like it’s bleeding.” Chelsea fancies herself an actress, and an Anderson Cooper-style journalist who just happens to be stuck on basic cable, I guess. Here’s more:

Chelsea Handler has had a change of heart. The 36-year-old host and producer of E!’s late-night talk show Chelsea Lately has renewed her contract through 2014, Us Weekly can confirm.

“It’s a great time for women in comedy, and it’s a great time to have real breasts,” Handler tells Us in a statement.

Says E! president Suzanne Kolb: “Chelsea is an extraordinary talent whose smart, clever, no-holds-barred point of view has clearly been embraced by viewers. We are thrilled to continue our partnership with Chelsea as we build on the success of Chelsea Lately.”

Handler will also develop and produce shows for E! and NBC Universal via her production company, Borderline Amazing Productions. Her semi-scripted E! Show, After Lately, returns for its second season on November 27.

Prior to Tuesday’s announcement, the comedienne and bestselling author — whose best friends include A-list stars like Jennifer Aniston and Reese Witherspoon — had been vocal about her desire to leave the show when her initial contract expires in 2012.

“I want to do something that’s going to utilize my brain a little more than this show,” she told The Hollywood Reporter in June. “If Lately is the show that I’m going to do, it’s going to change. But it may turn out that I’m done with it altogether. I can’t keep doing the same thing; my brain is bleeding.”

“I want to do something that’s more mindful and isn’t celebrity-centered,” she said. “I’m not looking to totally bail on E! They’ve done a lot for me, and I like it here…if you take away the Kardashians.”

[From Us Weekly]

So what does this about-face mean? Does Chelsea figure that there’s still money to be made off of her rude, profoundly unfunny, racist persona? Does she have an expensive drug habit? Or is she going to spend the next three years “transitioning” herself into a more mainstream talent? She’s already trying to do that, by the way. Her recent Glamour interview sounded strange, like she’s spent too much time in the Goddess Circle, reading self-help books. Plus, she’s got a movie role in This Means War, so now she’s an “actress” too. Maybe she really is going to spend the next few years building up her career beyond Chelsea Lately. The problem might be that no one really cares about her beyond her drunk, rude persona…? I don’t know. I’m biased. I really dislike her, and I feel like it’s some kind of “The Emperor Has No Clothes” situation – no one wants to admit that she’s actually not funny at all. Plus, I just think it’s funny that E! is really the only place she fits and excels. She and the Kardashians are the same.

I still love these cameltoe photos, by the way.

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