If so many people are nuts about Chuck, why is it in danger of being canceled?
Just a question.
Anyway, this week resembled the one before in that Kate Gosselin's two left feet carried her into another week of competition on Dancing With the Stars, opening her up to even more criticism and, wouldn't you know, more love and support from her honest-to-goodness fans.
Speaking of loyal fans, Conan O'Brien has found a new meetinghouse for the CoCo-ites.
Read on, and all will be revealed...
ON THE MOVE: Kate Gosselin still doesn't know what the bottom two on Dancing With the Stars looks like. Admittedly, the eliminated Aiden Turner, while delish, wasn't particularly great, so no travesty occurred when she wasn't voted off. But not only did Kate show just enough life out on the dance floor to earn less heinous remarks from the judges than she did last week, the well-paid single mom also may have touched a nerve with some of the haters in here out there. "I want to be at home with my kids...if I was financially able to do so, you would never see me again," she told E! News, probably not long after finding out that she was in the clear as far as child labor law goes in Pennsylvania. Even better, she had zero answer when Jay Leno asked her on The Tonight Show what Jon Gosselin does for a living.
OUTFOXED: Conan O'Brien revealed this week that TBS will be his new late-night home starting in November. George Lopez, knowing what's what, said he's glad to move to midnight to accommodate Conan—who comes with a built-in audience of appreciators of irreverent humor, at 11 p.m.
PASSION PLAYED OUT: So much for the next chapter of Mel Gibson's romantic life. He and Oksana Grigorieva broke up after more than a year of dating and one baby. We hear they're still committed to raising 5-month-old Lucia together, just...not together, together.
LIFE PRESERVER: Zachary Levi & Co. aren't out of the woods yet, but you voted (and voted some more!) to name Chuck the winner of our annual Save One Show competition. Everything's coming up Chuck lately—Sarah and Chuck were your favorite TV couple awhile back, too! So come on, NBC, why don't you go ahead and placate the masses for a change?
SWEET!: Britney Spears showed a side of her that few have seen when she released the before (i.e., unretouched) pics from her latest Candie's shoot. It turns out she still has a bod beyond most.
JOIN THE CLUB: Glee returned after a million-year hiatus—or so it seemed, considering all the excitement, the heated responses to Watch With Kristin's influx of scoop and the fake mustache-and-nose disguises being snatched up by the confused souls who don't like Glee that much.
SHRINKING VIOLET: Michelle "Bombshell" McGee is apologizing for the media scrum caused by reports of Jesse James' extramarital indignities by further injecting herself into the public eye, apologizing to Sandra Bullock and telling E! News (among others) that James told her he and his wife weren't living together when they met, that they wouldn't be in this inky situation if he had just told the truth and that it's hard being the "most hated person in America." Aw, does she really think people care about her that much? How cute. Speaking of, um, cute, we also got a bunch of her exclusive modeling shots.
LOST IN AMERICA: The series is spiraling toward a conclusion and, man, we're dizzy. So Hurley's kinda like Desmond, in that he can sense the connection between two worlds, both of which, apparently, are too fragile to accommodate John Locke, whether he's a substitute teacher in a wheelchair or a shape-shifting evil mastermind.
IDOLIZED: Katie Stevens and Andrew Garcia got the brush on a double-elimination American Idol. Fans were more impressed by Adam Lambert-as-mentor than anything else, though, and last year's runner-up has even been suggested as a possible replacement for Simon Cowell when the Brit leaves after this season (when he might as well firebomb the studio on his way out if they don't get an awesome successor). Plus, band leader Ricky Minor is heading over to replace outgoing Kevin Eubanks as musical director of The Tonight Show.
UNDER SIEGE: Steven Seagal, the high-kicking action star who washes up on our radar from time to time, has been sued by a former employee who claims he hired her under false pretenses—i.e., he didn't tell her that she was supposed to have sex with him whenever he wanted. All of this has been fervently denied by Seagal's lawyer, but the Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Department isn't in the mood to play Lawman with him right now.
LEGAL ISSUES: Alleged Tiger Woods mistress Jaimee Grubbs arrested on three outstanding warrants for driving with a suspended license…Did sometime forget to tell Charlie Sheen he had the right to remain silent?…Girlicious singer Natalie Mejia pleads not guilty to cocaine possession...Another arrest warrant issued for Randy and Evi Quaid...Pamela Anderson owes major back taxes.
CHECKED OUT: Paris Hilton and Doug Reinhardt appear to be done with each other yet again. Who spearheaded the breakup is a he-said, she-said story—though no matter how it's told, Paris' fellow Hiltons are said to be breathing a sigh of relief. How dare Doug try to ensnare their Paris in something as plebeian as shared reality TV! Especially when she's busy trying to find a BFF over in Britain!
LONELY HEARTS: Reese Witherspoon and Ryan Phililppe remain platonically divorced...Rumors that Robert Pattinson and Leighton Meester are hooking up are nothing but tall tales…Melissa Etheridge and Tammy Lynn Michaels called it quits after nine years and two children together. They swapped vows in 2003…Larry King and sixth wife (though it's his seventh marriage) Shawn are getting divorced...Kate Walsh is officially divorced from Alex King.
FAREWELLS: Dixie Carter, 70, of Designing Women and Desperate Housewives died of cancer...Peter Steele, lead singer of Type O Negative, is, sadly, really dead this time at the young age of 48.
HEALTH SCARE: Bret Michaels spent a few days in the hospital recovering from an emergency appendectomy and then a post-op fever. We wonder if they let him wear his bandanna under the surgical cap.
BALLSY: Tiger Woods didn't win the Masters, but he scored moral support from Jim Carrey, who dared to suggest that Elin Nordegren may not be an unsuspecting victim of Tiger's cheating...Rufus Wainwright may be the only person to get away with saying 50 Cent is gay. Do you know of any others who have said it? Exactly!
SEEN: Lindsay Lohan trying to get Samantha Ronson's attention at a Beverly Hills bar …Keri Russell's supercute kid…Scorned-celebrity reunion on South Park…Kellan Lutz wet 'n' shirtless in Interview…Sam Worthington toying with the paparazzi…The return of Deadliest Catch…Pete Wentz spray painting a car for an artsy cause...Jake Gyllenhaal on the cover of GQ...The new Sex and the City 2 poster...Hugh Hefner celebrating his 84th birthday in Las Vegas...Russell Crowe getting a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame...Shakira and Sean Penn in Haiti...A preview of Kitty Kelley's unauthorized bio of Oprah Winfrey...Eliza Dushku and her fella, retired NBA star Rick Fox (ex-Mr. Vanessa Williams), competing in the Nautica South Beach Triathlon for charity...Tina Fey wearing Sarah Palin glasses on SNL again...Joel McHale throwing out the first pitch at a Dodgers game...Rihanna cheering on boyfriend Matt Kemp at a different Dodgers game...The Twilight Saga on the list of the most frequently challenged books of 2009...Charlie Sheen's fake mustache.
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