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Alec Baldwin may have admitted to my pals over at Entertainment Weekly that he used an "ass double" for a naked scene in It's Complicated, his upcoming flick with Meryl Streep, but he should know there are people out there who would like to see the real thing.

Like 30 Rock's new hunkster Cheyenne Jackson.

"I'd look at that," Jackson, a Broadway musical star who makes his debut on the NBC comedy tonight as TGS' new castmember Danny Blake, tells me. "Alec Baldwin is incredibly sexy. He's an alpha male."

That doesn't mean the openly gay Jackson wants Baldwin in a biblical sense…

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Laurine Wickett doesn't think last night's elimination challenge on Top Chef was fair.

Can ya really blame her? She was told to pack her knives not for her cooking, but for her lack of skills running the front of the house at the restaurant.

"I think if the judges knew the circumstances and the whole situation, I'm not sure if I would have been the one to go home that night," Wickett told me this morning. "I think if the playing field was equal and all things were fair, I think Jen was kind of instrumental in bringing the kitchen to a halt that evening."

Meow!           

What else did Wickett have to say? Read on to find what she thinks of Robin, Michael and Padma Lakshmi's need for salt… 

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Top Chef contestant Ashley Merriman is not against cooking at straight weddings.

So what was her beef with this season's wedding challenge?

It was all about timing. "My objection was more about the decision to have this challenge at the height of Proposition 8," Merriman tells me.

"It was not about the bachelor and bachelorette. I don't have any problems with them. When somebody comes and wants to propose in my restaurant I'm the first person putting the ring in the chocolate cake."

Fortunately, it wasn't her politics that got her eliminated on last night's show. Read on for the first of my weekly Top Chef exit interviews with the season's 10 remaining cheftestants.

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Padma Lakshmi has a bun in the oven.

And it has nothing to do with her work on Top Chef! The reality TV host is pregnant with her first child.

Her rep said in statement to Us Weekly that doctors are referring to the pregnancy as a "nothing short of a medical miracle" because Lakshmi, 39, suffers from endometriosis.

The condition, in which the uterus's lining grows in other areas of the body outside the uterine cavity, often causes infertility…

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Here it is!

Your very first look at Padma Lakshmi's sexy new commercial for Carl's Jr. and Hardee's.

Didn't I tell you it was hot? I mean, the way she digs in, licks and even hikes up her dress a bit.

Fun! Fun! Fun!

So how on earth did the Top Chef host end up hawkin' burgers?

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It's here…well, almost!

I got my hands on Top Chef host Padma Lakshmi's new commercial for Carl's Jr. and Hardee's. Lemme just tell ya, the Western Bacon Cheeseburger never looked so sexy!

And y'all will be able to see it here tonight, exclusively, at 6 p.m. PT.

So if ya wanna see Ms. Padma lickin' her lips—and some Ketchup off her hand—make sure to come back. I promise you will not be disappointed.

There's no slowing down Padma Lakshmi.

In addition to hosting Top Chef, designing her own jewelry line and being an all-around fab lady, she's now sexing up Hardee's Bacon Western Thickburger.

Yummy!

Click on my daily videoblog above to get all the dish on this delicious casting.