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Eric Roberts is too good for Celebrity Rehab, some thoughts

By April MacIntyre Jul 24, 2010, 18:53 GMT

US actor Eric Roberts arrives with his wife Eliza EPA/NINA PROMMER

The most talented of all the Roberts' clan, actor Eric Roberts, has signed up for "Celebrity Rehab."

This breaks my heart. Roberts is such a towering inferno of talent and has such an illustrious body of great work to his credit, that the idea he is to share the same air as Janice Dickinson and Jeremy London is sacrilege.

He's Eric Roberts! As Mickey Rourke reminds us, he's the effing MAN:

Now we have to watch Dr. Drew psychoanalyze the man who brought us outstanding roles in "The Dark Knight," "The King of the Gypsies", "Star 80", "The Pope of Greenwich Village," "Runaway Train" (he was nominated for an Oscar in this film) and "Fight Club," and who also starred in the last season of Starz short-lived series "Crash" alongside Dennis Hopper, as Roberts played the erudite, Vicodin-popping billionaire, Seth Blanchard. 

Roberts got his first major role in 1977 playing Ted Bancroft on the soap, "Another World."  Yesterday he returned to daytime TV as ruthless attorney Vance Abrams on "The Young and the Restless."

Come August, he'll be on the big screen with Dolph Lundgren and Sylvester Stallone in the action film, "The Expendables."

Now we have to watch Roberts have revealing therapy sessions alongside Tiger Woods' most successful mistress ($) Rachel Uchitel (whose addiction is to married men!) and rehab habitual attendee, Jason Wahler.

With the exception of Roberts, the cast of the latest "Rehab" are the biggest group of "Johnny Nobodies" ever assembled!

Roberts, 54, has moved into the Pasadena Recovery Center. No word on what Roberts is getting treated for though he was arrested in 1987 for cocaine possession and allegedly battled a cocaine problem into the '90s.

Roberts is the father of Emma Roberts and the brother of Julia Roberts. 

The new series of the show is expected to be aired on VH1 in October.

Hollywood needs to listen to Mickey Rourke.