MANILA, Philippines — Filipino teenage singer Charice Pempengco says she prepared for her debut on the hit TV show "Glee" by getting Botox and an anti-aging procedure "to look fresh on camera."

The 18-year-old Charice, whose singing career rocketed after appearing on Ellen DeGeneres' and Oprah Winfrey's talk shows, underwent a 30-minute Thermage skin-tightening procedure and Botox to make her "naturally round face" more narrow, celebrity cosmetic surgeon Vicki Belo told ABS-CBN television.

Charice, in the same interview, said last week's face makeover was part of her big preparations for her appearance on the hit show's second season. She starts filming at the end of this month.

"All people will be anticipating how will Charice look? Is she good enough to pit against Rachel Berry? So of course there is tremendous pressure," Charice said.

In an earlier TV interview, she said she auditioned for "Glee" in mid-June in Los Angeles and was thankful to have been accepted.

"It's really a blessing," she said, adding she was "very proud to be an Asian, very proud to be Filipino."

On the streets of Manila on Monday, some residents who follow Charice had mixed feelings about what she did with her face.

"I think it's OK for women to have procedures done, but Charice is too young. Does she need it?" said Patricia Carpio, a 21-year-old student.

For Myrna Lumanao, a 23-year-old seller in a doughnut stall, looking natural is better. "I guess she can afford to have those procedures done because she has the money, but I wish she did not change her looks."

Born Charmaine Clarice Relucio Pempengco and raised with her brother by a single mother, she sang in local contests and appeared on TV talent shows in the Philippines and South Korea before she got a big break on "The Ellen DeGeneres Show" at age 15.

She later appeared several times on the "Oprah Winfrey Show" and credits Winfrey for helping push her career.

Keith Olbermann named Rush Limbaugh his Worst Person in the World Tuesday night for Limbaugh's comments that Oprah and President Obama only succeeded because of their race.

"These quotes speak for themselves and for a diseased and failing mind," Olbermann said introducing Limbaugh's comments.

On his radio show earlier in the day, Limbaugh said:

[Obama] wouldn't have been voted president if he weren't black. Somebody asked me over the weekend why does somebody earn a lot of money have a lot of money, because she's black. It was Oprah. No, it can't be. Yes, it is. There's a lot of guilt out there, show we're not racists, we'll make this person wealthy and big and famous and so forth.... If Obama weren't black he'd be a tour guide in Honolulu or he'd be teaching Saul Alinsky constitutional law or lecturing on it in Chicago.

"It's naked ugly racism, it is the distillation of Rush Limbaugh's ugly view of our country," Olbermann said.

He ended with a plea to the queen of daytime talk: "Oprah, please crush this schmuck!"

Don’t read this if you hate your job.

Staffers at Oprah Winfrey’s O Magazine just received one of the sweetest bonuses known to man. To mark then ten-year anniversary of O, the talk show queen gave every one of her staffers an Apple iPad, a leather case engraved with the staffer’s initials and a check for $10,000.

A spokeswoman for Hearst, the publisher of O, said they were “personal gifts to the staff from Oprah to thank them for their hard work and dedication to the magazine.” All staffers received the gift, regardless of how long they had worked there.

The hefty gift resembled some of Oprah’s previous giveaways, including a car giveaway in 2004 to every single member of her audience and all-expenses-paid vacations for her staff to exotic locales like the Mediterranean and Hawaii.