NBC has indeed discovered how to turn losers into winners.

Despite all the money that changed hands tonight on The Biggest Loser: Second Chances finale—$250,000 for the not-so-big-anymore winner and $100,000 for the most successful among the previously eliminated contestants—a bit of bling stole the show.

"I love you with all my heart," the newly svelte Antoine Dove began, kneeling in front of fellow season-eight alum Alexandra White. "I've accomplished the impossible in my life because you were by my side. And now we're going to be able to live our lives together forever, if you'd accept this ring."

Cue the awesome!

But aside from the happily-ever-after subplot, the evening's main focus was still the massive physical (and, one would imagine, emotional) transformations achieved by the three finalists.

Would the Biggest Loser be 19-year-old Amanda Alauskas, who topped 49-year-old grandma Liz Young in the viewers' choice vote to become the third finalist; former rocker Danny Cahill, 39; or 31-year-old Rudy Pauls, who astutely pointed out that he "can't be a family man and be dead"?

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Paris Hilton can sympathize.

The heiress took to her Twitter Tuesday to express outrage over an alleged burglary that apparently took place today at sister Nicky Hilton's house in Los Angeles.

"The cops finally just got to Nicky's house," Paris, whose own home was ransacked a year ago by an alleged bunch of burglars that targeted celebrities, wrote shortly after 4 p.m.

"She thought her cats escaped in the robbery but she just found them under the bed. Thank God."

The LAPD confirmed to E! News that a car was dispatched to Nicky's house at around 3:27 p.m., though they obviously didn't get there fast enough for Paris' liking.

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Gatorade doesn't need any of Tiger Woods' help to quench that deep down body thirst.

The company is putting an end to its Gatorade Tiger Focus beverage but insists the decision to do so is not at all relaed to the golfer's "transgressions."

"We decided several months ago to discontinue Gatorade Tiger Focus along with some other products to make room for our planned series of innovative products in 2010," the drink purveyor said in a statement to E! News.

Wow, curious timing the Gatorade brain trust has.

Ever since news broke of Tiger's alleged infidelity, there's been much speculation as to what effect, if any, it would have on his numerous endorsement deals. Last week, Nike, Gillette and Electronics Arts expressed support, while AT&T refused to comment.

Will the dominoes start falling now?

(Originally published Dec. 8, 2009, at 3:17 p.m. PT)

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Nicolas Cage is liquidating assets and burning bridges. Possibly with a flamethrower.

The financially strapped actor has been sued by the mother of his 18-year-old son, Weston, who claims Cage bought her a house and promised to turn the title over to her, but instead served her with a 60-day eviction notice in September.

Christina Fulton put her acting career on hold to take care of Weston, who turns 19 later this month, and Cage promised to provide for her, per her lawsuit filed Tuesday in Los Angeles Superior Court.

According to the complaint, the Oscar winner turned most of the parenting duties over to Fulton, opting not to exercise his joint legal and physical custody rights to the fullest, and then, when Weston turned 18, Cage "removed" the young man from his mother's home.

"Absurd." That's what Cage's lawyer calls the suit.

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There may be a ton of anger floating around Tiger Woods' Florida estate these days, but this morning, it was filled with fear.

When a woman—either wife Elin Nordegren or her twin sister, Josefin—dialed 911 for the golf star's mother-in-law, Barbro Holmberg, the caller was clearly terrified.

Listen to audio of the 911 call

"Hurry up, my mom just collapsed," the call begins at 2:35 a.m. ET.

"Calm down for a minute so I can understand what's happening," the switchboard operator urges.

"She collapsed in the bathroom. What do I do?" the caller asks, panicked.

Seconds later, both she and Holmberg were doing better.

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The truth is out there...in the fine print.

E! News has gotten a hold of the dispatcher's notes from the 911 call reporting Tiger Woods' Nov. 27 car crash that eventually led to scandalous allegations of extramarital affairs committed by the golf great that has done severe damage to his previously squeaky clean reputation.

The scorecard provided by the Florida Highway Patrol is an extremely detailed account of the call history and information taken by the dispatcher from emergency responders on the scene.

The first entry is timestamped at 2:32:12 a.m. ET and simply states, "Blk [Black] Escalade vs. Tree."

Five seconds later comes this little ditty: "Driver on ground unconscious."

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How did Tiger Woods allegedly keep track of so many alleged mistresses? We're finding it to be quite the chore to remember which cocktail waitress is denying what and who's sexting who.

So here is a handy cheat (ha!) sheet of the alleged Tiger ladies. And who knows how many more will come out as the day goes on, so keep refreshing!

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Where's K.I.T.T. when you need him?

E! News has gotten a hold of the 911 recording of David Hasselhoff's post-Thanksgiving medical emergency that led to his Nov. 27 hospitalization and it is not pretty.

"My dad...he just collapsed," his choked-up 17-year-old daughter, Hayley, tells the dispatcher. "He's standing up but he keeps falling back down...But then he got back up and he's fine. It kind of scared me."

Us, too, and we're not even to the end of the call yet.

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Are supersize reality families out? Is Steven Seagal—gasp!—in? And is Wednesday the cure for Ugly Betty? 

The answers—and more questions about Desperate Housewives, Brothers & Sisters, Monk and other finales, fall and otherwise—in the latest TV ratings quiz:

1. Jon & Kate is over. Michelle Duggar is hospitalized. Is this it for the giganto-family genre? Not if TLC keeps getting some of its best ratings from its biggest casts. Last week, while the network averaged 775,000 prime-time viewers, per Nielsen, an all-new episode of the Duggar army's 18 Kids and Counting scored 1.2 million, and an all-new episode of the Hayes squad's Table for 12 scored 889,000.

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Travis Barker just got a little more closure and presumably a lot more compensation from last year's fatal Learjet crash.

The Blink-182 drummer, who is now the sole remaining survivor of the event that killed four and spared the lives of himself and DJ AM, has settled his negligence suit with the various owners and makers of what he deemed a "defective" aircraft.

The terms of the settlement were not disclosed, a spokesman for the Los Angeles Superior Court tells E! News, and the documents have been sealed.

The mysterious deal, which was noted in documents filed last Thursday, was reportedly hashed out during a Nov. 18 mediation session involving the respective legal teams of Barker, Clay Lacy Aviation, Goodyear Tire & Rubber and Global Exec Aviation.

Barker first filed suit against the companies on Nov. 22, 2008, and was seeking a minimum of $25,000 in damages, placing blame for the fatal crash on the failure of one or more tires on the runway, as well as the pilot's "negligent attempt to abort the takeoff."

A similar lawsuit filed by DJ AM earlier this year is still pending. The late spinner was seeking a payout of roughly $20 million. A mediation conference is set for this Wednesday.

—Reporting by Whitney English

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Hulk Hogan is looking on the bright side again. And by bright, we mean bright and shiny.

E! News has confirmed that the 56-year-old wrestler is indeed engaged to his girlfriend of nearly two years, Jennifer McDaniel.

"Yes, they are engaged," the star's rep, Darren Prince, says. "Jennifer showed my wife her big, gorgeous ring while we were in Brisbane, Australia, last week at Hulk's wrestling match. They are two incredible people—we are so, so happy for them."

In case you forgot (as if), Hulk married Linda Bollea in 1983 and they filed for divorce in 2007. Proceedings nearly resembled what goes down in the wrestling ring, but finally concluded earlier this year.

—Reporting by Maureen Heaton

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If they hurry up, they could make it into our 2009 Celebrity Weddings gallery. No pressure!