Demi Moore, Ashton Kutcher to Divorce

It's the end of the road for Demi Moore and Ashton Kutcher. "It is with great sadness and a heavy heart that I have decided to end my six-year marriage to Ashton," says Moore in a statement. "As a woman, a mother and a wife there are certain values and vows that I hold sacred, and it is in this spirit that I have chosen to move forward with my life." She adds: "This is a trying time for me and my family, and so I would ask for the same compassion and privacy that you would give to anyone going through a similar situation." Kutcher Chimed: "I will forever cherish the time I spent with Demi. Marriage is one of the most difficult things in the world and unfortunately sometimes they fail." The split follows reports that 22-year-old Sara Leal alleged a one-night stand with Kutcher on his sixth wedding anniversary with Moore in September. In the weeks since, Moore, 49, and Kutcher, 33, appeared to be working on their relationship, showing up together for Yom Kippur services and were spotted building a campfire at a lake near Santa Barbara, Calif., alongside their Kabbalah instructor. The two stars weathered a previous cheating scandal one year earlier, when Brittney Jones, 22, claimed she had sex with Kutcher in July 2010. At the time, they took a trip to Israel for what the actor described as a spiritual journey. Those who know the couple say the union had been under strain for some time, and spending more time apart.


Cain Requests Secret Service
Republican presidential candidate will begin receiving protection from the Secret Service at his campaign's request. Cain will be the first Republican presidential candidate to begin receiving protection after having applied for a detail with Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano. Officials will not say whether a specific incident or concern prompted the authorization. It's not clear what circumstances contributed to Cain's protection; the service will not say when the detail will begin or whether any specific concerns prompted this step.

Former Packer Johnny Jolly is going away for six years

Former Green Bay Packer Johnny Jolly was sentenced Thursday to six years in prison for violating his probation. It's a terribly sad story, but not one that's unfamiliar. Jolly could not shake the death grip of addiction. His vice was codeine, which got him into trouble with the law and the league. He told ESPN that when the NFL suspended him for one year, he lost control. He described codeine as his only friend because it kept him numb.

 One is not enough: Real Housewives of Atlanta star Kim Zolciak wore not one but three wedding outfits for her $1 million nuptials to Kroy Biermann, her first wedding gown was worth $58,000. At her reception the reality star switched dresses, putting another pearl and Swarovski crystals creation, this time a $18,000 mermaid style gown designed by Pnina Tornai of Say Yes to the Dress fame. Kim kept with the frou-frou theme for her third ensemble, opting for a $16,000 backless jumpsuit by the same designer. Kim Zolciak is heading down the aisle as the star of Bravo's new docu-series "Don't Be Tardy for the Wedding." "I am so excited to give an up close and personal look at the next chapter in my life," gushes Zolciak, 33. "My life has turned into a true Cinderella story and to watch the pieces unfold is going to be great! I can't wait to share with all of you!" Each 30-minute episode will showcase Zolciak during the hectic two months that she had to prepare for her Nov. 11 wedding to 26-year-old Kroy Biermann, defensive end for the Atlanta Falcons.



TV NEWS
Joy Behar has decided to leave her HLN show at the end of the year. Behar will continue her co-hosting duties on The View.


Top-rated comedy Modern Family has landed a major-name talent for a key guest role: Greg Kinnear is coming to the hit ABC series this season. In his first TV sitcom gig since he appeared on NBC’s Friends in 2003, Kinnear will play Tad — Phil Dunphy’s new business partner. Tad is described as a successful and athletic real estate broker, and Phil is extremely impressed by him. But Claire has quite the opposite impression of Tad.


NBC is hosting a party in honor of Betty White’s 90th birthday! But don’t fret if you didn’t get an invite. The network plans to air the dinner-style event as a special around the time of the Golden Girl’s birthday on January 17, 2012.



Oprah Winfrey's OWN Network is extending the orders for two series: Our America With Lisa Ling and Welcome to Sweetie Pie's. The network has picked up eight more episodes of Our America for a total of 16 episodes for the second season. Ten additional episodes have been ordered for the family docu-series Welcome to Sweetie Pie's for a total of 18 episodes for its rookie year.


NBC’s freshman thriller Grimm has cast Angel and Dollhouse alum Amy Acker as the fearsome Black Widow.


3rd Rock From the Sun and Saturday Night Live vet Jane Curtin is taking a detour from comedy, joining CBS’ freshman drama Unforgettable as a series regular. Curtin will play an acerbic inspector from the Manhattan Medical Examiner’s office who has been demoted to Queens PD.


Seinfeld‘s Estelle Harris and frequent Chelsea Lately roundtable guest Natasha Leggero have been tapped for multi-episode arcs on NBC’s new comedy Are You There, Chelsea?

Munchkin Karl Slover dies at age 93

Karl Slover, one of the last surviving cast members of the 1939 hit "The Wizard of Oz," has passed away at age 93. John Fricke, author of "100 Years of Oz," says, "Of the 124 little people, he's one of the handful who got to enjoy this latter-day fame, to have people know who he was and be able to pick him out of the crowd in the movie." In 2007, seven of the survivor Munchkins were honored with a Hollywood Walk of Fame star. One of them, Meinhardt Raabe, who played the Munchkin coroner, passed away in April 2010.
 Supermodel Niki Taylor and her husband of 5 years, former NASCAR driver Burney Lamar, welcomed their fourth child. Their son, Rex Harrison, joins sister Ciel (2) and half brothers Jake (16) and Hunter (16).

Justin Bieber Accuser Still Wants DNA Test, Says New Lawyer

With her paternity lawsuit against Justin Bieber dropped, Mariah Yeater now is trying to pursue her claim out of court. "We're negotiating with Bieber's counsel, to reach a confidentiality agreement and to get private testing and results," one of Yeater's new lawyers, Chicago-based attorney Jeffrey M. Leving says. Yeater's previous lawyers filed a request to dismiss the paternity suit in a San Diego court on Nov. 9, says Leving, who had been involved in the case earlier on and is now back, along with Los Angeles attorney John Carlson. The attorneys for Yeater, 20, are negotiating with Bieber's camp for him to privately take a DNA test in the next few weeks to determine whether he's the father of Yeater's child. "Yes, of course I believe my client's allegations," says Leving. "I can't comment on whether she has physical evidence or not." Leving adds that he fears for his client's safety. "I just spoke to Mariah today, someone was recently stalking her," he says. "She is happy that she changed her number so she's not getting death threats by phone. She's a young 20-year-old mother who now has to worry about her safety and her child's. It's a lot for any woman that age to handle."


Alleged Baby Mama Sent Incriminating Text Messages
Justin Bieber's alleged baby mama sent a text Wednesday to a friend, begging him to erase an incriminating text in which her mom says someone OTHER than Justin Bieber is the baby daddy, and then promising to give him a cut of the action when she scores a payday. He has been in touch with Yeater regularly ... even before the baby was born on July 6. In the text, Yeater pleads for John to "ERASE ALL MESSAGES from my mom." The text goes on to say that her mom sent John messages in the past, stating that baby Tristyn was fathered by Robbie -- an ex-boyfriend. She then goes on to talk about giving John money if he cooperates:  "Ill kick u when we get paid." All of her texts end with Mariah Laci-- Laci is Mariah's middle name. In one text, Mariah writes, "[John], would you please stress to Robbie how important it is for him to be in his son's life?.."  John says he's already shared this information with Howard Weitzman, Justin Bieber's lawyer. Weitzman says, "This information proves Mariah Yeater fabricated the story.  Our independent investigation indicates Ms. Yeater never meet Justin, she has consistently identified another man as the child's father, and Ms. Yeater and her co-conspirators hatched this scheme in order to extort money from him and to sell her story to the media." Weitzman adds, "There have been no settlement discussions and there never will be."
 Sure, he's easy on the eyes, but there's more to 2011's Sexiest Man Alive Bradley Cooper than dazzling baby blues and a killer smile. Ladies, take note: this Georgetown grad can whip up dinner, take you for a spin on his motorcycle and whisper sweet nothings in French (he's fluent!). Just don't try convincing him what a catch he is. "I think it's really cool that a guy who doesn't look like a model can have this [title]," says the Hangover actor, 36. "I think I'm a decent-looking guy. Sometimes I can look great, and other times I look horrifying." Another reason to love him? Cooper, whose father Charles passed away in January, is especially close with his mom, Gloria. When he learned he'd been crowned Sexiest Man Alive, the "first thing I thought," he says, "was, 'My mother is going to be so happy.'

Feds seize cocaine from boxer's home

Federal agents in Puerto Rico have seized more than $4 million worth cocaine from a house owned by pro boxer Ivan Calderon. Drug Enforcement Administration spokeswoman Laila Rico says 225 kilograms (nearly 500 pounds) of cocaine were found when agents raided the house in the coastal town of Humacao. Calderon issued a statement in Puerto Rico denying any knowledge of the drugs. The boxer says the house was one of a number of investment properties he owns and he was not aware of any illegal activities there. The house was raided earlier this week following the arrest of an alleged Puerto Rican trafficker who has been charged in Miami with smuggling cocaine into the U.S. through the Dominican Republic.
 Posh Spice Victoria Beckham and 4-month old daughter Harper Seven.


TV NEWS
Thicken your hides, Hollywood, because Ricky Gervais is set to complete the hat trick and host the Golden Globes for a third straight year. The Hollywood Foreign Press Association, which throws the annual kudosfest, announced Gervais’ return on Wednesday afternoon via Twitter. NBC will, as is tradition, broadcast the comparatively fast-and-loose awards ceremony on January 15, 2012.


NBC has axed the ratings-challenged Prime Suspect. Production on the Maria Bello-starring crime drama will wrap this month, ultimately fulfilling the series’ 13-episode order.


How I Met Your Mother producers have found a new girlfriend for Barney, and this time they’re not playing around (no offense, Nora). Much-missed Ugly Betty scene-stealer Becki Newton is joining the CBS hitcom as a potential love interest for Neil Patrick Harris’ brokenhearted cad.



Bridesmaids scene-stealer Wendy McLendon-Covey will play a nurse in a January episode of TV Land’s Hot In Cleveland.


Susan Lucci wants fans to know that it’s “simply untrue” that she is one of the reasons why All My Children is not moving forward via Prospect Park’s TheOnlineNetwork.com. “This is simply untrue and not the case,” the daytime legend said Wednesday in a passionate statement posted to her Facebook page. Lucci went on to explain that she has “been in discussions [to stay with AMC] since Prospect Park first expressed interest in moving the series online, and [in early September] I made it clear that I would be ecstatic to be a part of All My Children in a prominent way if they committed to producing the series for another year. “I have not heard back from Prospect Park since then,” she revealed. “In fact, I learned of their decision not to proceed with All My Children at the same time you did, through the media.”



Criminal Minds has tapped Dean Cain (Lois & Clark) to guest-star in an episode slated to air in early 2012. Cain will play a “down-on-his-luck gambler” who thinks killing people is his lucky charm.



NBC has given the go-ahead to Bryan Fuller’s modern-day reboot of the creepy classic The Munsters!A Peacock spokesperson confirms that the network has ordered a pilot of what it’s calling an “imaginative reinvention of The Munsters as a visually spectacular one hour drama.”

Heavy D Autopsy Results Inconclusive

Authorities have not yet determined what caused Heavy D's death. After results were inconclusive, the Los Angeles coroner's office has deferred judgment on what killed the rapper/producer (born Dwight Errington Myers) suddenly at age 44 last Tuesday pending the results of toxicology tests. Officials said the autopsy results were unclear and that it could take several more weeks to determine a cause of death. Coroner's spokesperson Ed Winter has already stated that no illegal drugs were found at the rapper's Beverly Hills home, but that a doctor had recently prescribed medicine for a cough. "We need to see what's in his system," Winter said. The paper said toxicology tests are common in cases when a relatively young, healthy person dies unexpectedly. D had just returned from some shopping on the day of his death when he began complaining of difficulty breathing and collapsed. He died a short time later at a local hospital and officials believe his death is related to a medical issue and do not suspect foul play. A private funeral is planned on November 18 at Grace Baptist Church in Mount Vernon, New York. Diddy and the Rev. Al Sharpton are expected to speak at the event and BET is planning a tribute to the Overweight Lover at Sunday's Soul Train Awards that will feature Big Daddy Kane, Doug E. Fresh, Curtis Blow, Naughty by Nature, Whodini and Stetsasonic's Daddy-O.



Justin Bieber Paternity Suit DismissedJustin Bieber's alleged baby mama has dismissed her paternity lawsuit against the singer. The suit was quietly dismissed late last week.  What's more, Mariah Yeater's lawyers, Lance Rogers and Matt Pare, have quit her from the case. Justin not only planned to take a DNA test when he returned to the U.S., he was going to sue Yeater and her lawyers for making a bogus claim.  And, as we reported, Justin's lawyer, Howard Weitzman, called the attorneys and informed them a suit was looming.

Heather Locklear and Jack Wagner Call Off Engagement

Heather Locklear and Jack Wagner's Melrose Place characters wed on TV almost a decade ago, but there is no real-life marriage in the works for the actors who played Amanda Woodward and Peter Burns. "Jack and Heather are no longer engaged," Locklear's rep says. The longtime couple, who got engaged in August, had Locklear's daughter Ava's stamp of approval. The actress was previously married to rockers Tommy Lee (1986 to 1993) and Richie Sambora (1994 to 2006).

Connie Britton Adopts a Baby Boy

For years, Connie Britton has been hard at work on her acclaimed show Friday Night Lights and most recently on the new hit American Horror Story. But the actress, 44, has just been cast in her most rewarding role yet: Mom. She's adopted a 9-month-old baby boy from Ethopia. After a three-year-long adoption process, the actress's dream of motherhood came true about a week ago, after she returned from the African country with her son Yoby – a nickname for Eyob, his given name. "I am thanking my lucky stars every day," Britton, 44 says.

Patti LaBelle sued for throwing a water bottle at a child

R&B legend Patti LaBelle still has an incredible voice, but apparently she’s a bad neighbor. In a just-filed lawsuit, a Manhattan woman is accusing the diva of verbally accosting her, attempting to attack her, and throwing a water bottle at her 18-month-old child. The incident is supposed to have occurred in the lobby of the New York building where the plaintiff lives and LaBelle was staying while performing in Fela!, the Broadway musical about the life and music of Fela Kuti. LaBelle was apparently upset that Roseanna Monk had allowed her child to wander around the area while the plaintiff attempted to sort out her luggage. According to the suit, LaBelle said something and Monk told her it was none of her business, at which point LaBelle launched into an obscenity-filled rant that ended with the water bottle toss. Monk filed a police report after the incident occurred, though no arrests were ever made. She filed the suit because, according to her lawyer, “someone’s got to teach her even a diva can’t attack and frighten and assault regular people in the building.”



NBA cancels more games
The NBA informed teams Tuesday that games had been canceled through Dec. 15. The report comes as little surprise following the players union's rejection of the owners' latest proposal for a new collective bargaining agreement on Monday. Players Association executive director Billy Hunter said Monday the players had approved disbanding the union in order to file an antitrust lawsuit against the league, kicking off what is expected to be a lengthy court battle. NBA commissioner David Stern, who had said the latest proposal was the owners' final offer, called the union's decision "irresponsible," adding that Hunter "has decided to put the season in jeopardy and deprive his players of an enormous payday." Stern previously cut all of November's games in two stages as talks continued to break down.

Gayle King is the latest to leave OWN

Oprah Winfrey's best friend is leaving her network to join the "Early Show" on CBS, but Gayle King's exit from OWN looks to be amicable. We are so happy for Gayle's opportunity of a lifetime," OWN presidents Sheri Salata and Erik Logan said in a statement. "She 'll be a fantastic host for the new morning show on CBS and we wish her all the best. Although her show will not continue on OWN, we look forward to her joining us from time-to-time as her schedule allows."The last episode of OWN's "The Gayle King Show" will air Thursday. King's exit follows several other high-profile departures from the network, which has burned through money and executives while earning fewer viewers than Discovery Health, the network it replaced at the start of the year.But the other departures were by executives, and King's exit, notably, is for an opportunity to join a much-larger network. Winfrey named herself permanent CEO and chief creative officer in July, replacing Christina Norman. Logan and Salata were named co-presidents at the same time. Robin Schwartz, the network's previous president, left well before the network launched after 10 months on the job. 

 Courtney Love stormed offstage during Hole's appearance at Brazil's SWU festival on Sunday after an audience member held up a picture of her late husband Kurt Cobain. The outspoken rocker halted her set at the Sao Paulo event to call out a concert-goer in the crowd brandishing a photo of the Nirvana frontman, who took his own life in 1994. She shouted, "I don't need to see a picture of Kurt, a--hole, and I'm going to have you f--king removed if you keep holding that up. I'm not Kurt, I have to live with his f--king s--t and his ghost and his kid every day. Throwing that up is stupid and rude and I'm going to beat the f--k out of you if you do it again." The furious star then removed her guitar and flashed her middle finger as she walked offstage, declaring, "Great, we'll leave now. F--k you!" Love and her bandmates later re-emerged after a member of her entourage encouraged the crowd to chant, "The Foo Fighters are gay!", taking aim at the rockers' frontman and former Nirvana drummer Dave Grohl. The singer then took a dig at Grohl herself, ranting, "I don't care what you listen to at home, but if a guy takes money off my kid's table, f--k him."



Snitch
"The Walking Dead" co-star Jon Bernthal has joined the cast of Ric Roman Waugh's action drama "Snitch" at Summit Entertainment. Shooting begins early next month in Louisiana. Dwayne Johnson plays a construction company owner who becomes a DEA snitch to reduce his son’s prison sentence.Bernthal plays an ex-con laborer for the construction company who is forced by his boss to help connect him to an underground drug dealer. Susan Sarandon also stars.


The Man From U.N.C.L.E.With Bradley Cooper now out, Channing Tatum is being eyed for the lead role in Steven Soderbergh's "The Man From U.N.C.L.E." at Warner Bros. Pictures.



Django Unchained
Cooper Huckabee, who recently starred as Joe Lee Mickens on "True Blood", is apparently the latest to join the cast of Quentin Tarantino's "Django Unchained". Huckabee will play one of the three Brittle brothers, the redneck outlaws who sell off Django and Broomhilda. Tom Savini and M.C. Gainey have already been cast as the other two.

Kris Humphries Plans to Sign His Divorce Papers

After lying low with family and friends in his home state of Minnesota for the past two weeks, Kris Humphries surfaced in New York on Monday evening. Humphries, who is in town "on business," says a source close to the 26-year-old, is working on moving on from his "devastating" split after 72 days of marriage to Kim Kardashian. While reports surfaced that Humphries is refusing to sign divorce papers and that he's hired a new lawyer, Minnesota-based Lee Hutton, to challenge Kardashian in court, sources close to Humphries insist neither story is true. "He will be signing the papers," says a source close to Humphries, adding that there will be no war between the two. And as for the reportedly new legal team: "There's nothing new about it," says the source. "[Hutton's] been his lawyer since day one."

The Situation Sues A&F
The Situation just turned up the heat in his ongoing feud with Abercrombie & Fitch -- filing a lawsuit against the clothing company ... 3 months after it publicly offered him money NOT to wear its clothes. A&F made a public ploy to distance themselves from the Situation back in August, offering him a cash bonus if he agreed never to wear Aber ever again. Sitch just filed a lawsuit in Florida, claiming Abercrombie has infringed on the GTL and the Situation trademarks, through its bogus advertising ploy and by selling T-shirts with the words "The Fitchuation" and "GTL...You Know The Deal" emblazoned on them. Sitch wants at least $4,000,000 in damages.



TV NEWS
In an unsettling development for NBC's adaptation of the British series "Prime Suspect," the series will wrap after its initial 13-episode run. the series' options will be considered after that, but so far the series, which stars Maria Bello as NYPD detective Jane Timoney, has failed to generate much in the way of ratings.

Breathe easy and maybe take a shot or two, Chelsea Handler fans. The tart-tongued funny lady isn't going anywhere soon. The host of the late-night series "Chelsea Lately" has re-upped with E! Entertainment in a deal that keeps her with the cable outlet through 2014.

Elsbeth Tascioni’s work is far from finished. Carrie Preston, hot off her scene-stealing Nov. 6 appearance on the acclaimed CBS drama — during which her legal eagle deftly saved Alicia from doing The Department of the Treasury’s bidding — is already booked for a comeback. News of Preston’s latest Good Wife gig comes on the eve of the True Blood vet sinking her teeth into a role on NBC’s Law & Order: SVU, this Wednesday at 10/9c.


Anyone who has longed to see Erica Durance channel the Wonder Woman are going to see their dream come true — albeit perhaps via the unlikeliest of circumstances. The Smallville alumna is set to guest-star on NBC’s Harry’s Law — which currently airs Wednesdays at 9/8c and was just picked up for a full second season — as a psychologically infirm woman who retreats into the persona of the DC Comics heroine to help wreak revenge on perpetrators of domestic abuse.

NBA players reject league's labor offer

NBA players delivered a resounding but risky response to one more ultimatum from NBA Commissioner David Stern: See you in court. The players' association rejected the league's latest proposal for a new labor deal Monday and began disbanding, paving the way for a lawsuit that throws the season in jeopardy. Negotiating went nowhere, so now the union is going away. And Stern said ''nuclear winter'' is coming. ''We're prepared to file this antitrust action against the NBA,'' union executive director Billy Hunter said. ''That's the best situation where players can get their due process.'' And that's a tragedy as far as Stern is concerned. ''It looks like the 2011-12 season is really in jeopardy,'' Stern said in an interview aired on ESPN. ''It's just a big charade. To do it now, the union is ratcheting up I guess to see if they can scare the NBA owners or something. That's not happening.'' The sides still can negotiate during the legal process, so players didn't want to write off the season just yet. Over the weekend, Stern said he would not cancel the season this week.

Jerry Sandusky: 'I Horsed Around with Kids'

Jerry Sandusky, the former football coach at the center of the Penn State child molestation scandal, acknowledges that he touched children but denies he committed any crimes. "I have horsed around with kids," Sandusky, 67, said in an interview that aired Monday on Rock Center with Brian Williams. "I have showered after workouts. I have hugged them and I have touched their legs without intent of sexual contact." Asked by Bob Costas if he is guilty of the charges contained in a 40-count indictment, Sandusky says, "I am innocent of those charges." "Are you a pedophile?" Costas asked. "No," replied Sandusky, who went on to state: "I could say that I have done some of those things. I have horsed around with kids. I have showered after workouts. I have hugged them." He also said, "I enjoy being around children. I enjoy their enthusiasm. I just have a good time with them." Of the 2002 incident that was reputedly witnessed by assistant coach Mike McQueary, involving Sandusky and a young man in the locker room, Sandusky told Costas: "We were showering and horsing around and he [the boy] actually turned all the showers on and was actually sliding across the floor and we were, as I recall, possibly like snapping a towel." Now reports that as many as 10 more alleged victims of Sandusky are stepping forward, according to police close to the investigation.


Terrell Owens Pays Back Child Support
Terrell Owens is no longer a wanted man ... because he's anted up on his back child support payment. a California judge issued an arrest warrant last week after T.O. was a no-show at a child support hearing.  T.O. -- who was behind child support -- had been trying to reduce his payments, claiming he just doesn't make the big bucks anymore. The lawyer for Monique Reynolds, the baby's mother, says, "Terrell Owens has today paid his child support obligation to Monique Reynolds, and Ms. Reynolds has requested that the Court dismiss her contempt motion and recall the associated warrant that was issued."
 Supermodel Miranda Kerr and 10-month old son Flynn; dad is actor Orlando Bloom.
 

Big Ten takes Paterno's name off trophy

The Big Ten has taken Joe Paterno's name off the Big Ten's football championship trophy. League commissioner Jim Delany said Monday that it is ''inappropriate'' to keep Paterno's name on the trophy that will be awarded Dec. 3 after the first Big Ten title game. Penn State fired Paterno, its longtime head coach, last week and investigations are under way into allegations of child sex-abuse involving a former assistant for the Nittany Lions. The trophy had been named the Stagg-Paterno Championship Trophy. Amos Alonzo Stagg won 319 games in 57 years, most at the University of Chicago. Paterno's 409 wins are the most by a major college coach. The trophy will now be called the Stagg Championship Trophy. Penn State (8-2, 5-1 Big Ten ) and Michigan State (8-2, 5-1) lead their respective divisions and will advance to the title game in Indianapolis if they win the rest of their games. Robert Stagg of Grand Rapids, Mich., a great grandson of Amos Alonzo Stagg, said last week his family was honored to have the Stagg name on the trophy whatever happened with Paterno's name.

Chelsea Clinton's New Job: Special Correspondent for NBC

She's made headlines before as the daughter of a former U.S. president – and as a glowing newlywed. But now Chelsea Clinton will sit on the other side of the news desk. The daughter of Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Bill Clinton will begin working as a fulltime special correspondent for NBC News. Clinton, 31, will work on features segments for the "Making a Difference" series, which showcases people helping out their communities through volunteer work. "I hope telling stories though 'Making a Difference' – as in my academic work and nonprofit work – with help me to live my grandmother's adage of 'Life is not about what happens to you, but about what you do with what happens to you,' " Clinton said in a statement.
 Natalie Portman and fiancé Benjamin Millepied with 4-month-old son Aleph.

New York Giants All-Time Leading Rusher Tiki Barber Tackled Just Shy Of Altar

A timeout has been called on Tiki Barber's plans to marry next spring. The former NFL star has a little issue he must take care of first: Barber still hasn't officially divorced his estranged wife, Ginny. Traci Lynn Johnson, the former NBC intern, and Barber got engaged in August, with wedding bells expected in the well-heeled Hamptons in May of 2012. Much like Tiki's NFL comeback, though, the wedding has run into an obstacle. His divorce is far from complete (the two sides can't seem to reach a settlement), which has put the wedding on hold. It's just another way that it's been a tough year for the former Giant to get what he wants. A member of the 10,000 rushing yards club, Barber had planned to come back to football after four years away from the game. He filed papers with the NFL to come out of retirement in March after his unsuccessful television career. After working out hard for several months, not a single NFL team was interested enough in Barber to offer him a contract. Johnson, 24, was already making wedding arrangements with the 36-year-old former athlete. Now it seems she'll be making them a bit longer than expected. The couple live together in Manhattan. Barber was publicly roasted in the tabloids back in 2010 after he dumped his then-pregnant wife after 11 years of marriage to be with the Peacock Network intern and lost his job as a correspondent for the Today Show.

Chesney, McGraw team up for super tour of stadiums

Chesney and McGraw got to know each other living in the same apartment complex 20 years ago, cemented their friendship opening for George Strait, and joined forces in 2001 when McGraw invited Chesney on the road at a pivotal moment in his career. They're teaming again from the pinnacle of country music. "It's two artists who've known each other for 20 years, who've been friends for 20 years ... at the top of our game to be able to go out and do this together," McGraw said. "To get two artists to agree on anything is pretty spectacular. But to agree to go out together, do a tour together and just have a great time together and play music together is a pretty unique and remarkable thing. And I think that can only happen with guys who are as good of friends as we are." The tour, dubbed the Brothers of the Sun Tour, will kick off June 2 in Tampa, Fla., and wrap Aug. 25 in Foxboro, Mass. Along the way, there will be stops in many of the nation's largest cities, including East Rutherford, N.J., where Chesney set a record this summer for paid attendance to a live country show in the New York City area. There's also a stop in Nashville, Tenn., a place neither artist has played regularly. "It seemed time," Chesney said. "There was no other reason than that. It just seemed like it was time for us to play at home again. It's a really ironic place for us to play because we played in the shadows of that place for so long, right downtown in all these bars ... for tips. Now all we have to do is go across the river."

Bachelor Pad's Vienna Girardi, Kasey Kahl Split
It's another Bachelor break-up: Vienna Girardi and Kasey Kahl have called it quits. "Yes vienna and I have split. It's been 5 weeks now. I can't fake it anymore. I will always love, be there for her, and wish her the best," Kahl, 27. "@KaseyRKahl will always be my best friend, but yes we have split. No idea what the future holds for us but we will always remain friends," Girardi, 25, posted to her account. Girardi won Jake Pavelka's season of The Bachelor but the engagement didn't last long and the couple split in an ugly and highly publicized break-up. Kahl wooed Ali Fedotowsky on The Bachelorette with song, and his catch phrase, "guard and protect your heart," ended up tattooed on his wrist. Fedotowsky was unimpressed.



TV NEWS
NBC is making some significant midseason scheduling changes in an effort to jump-start what has been a lackluster season so far. That’s good news for Up All Night, but bad news for Community. For starters, the Peacock is moving Up All Night to Thursdays at 9:30/8:30c following The Office beginning Jan. 12. The deteriorating Whitney will take over Night‘s former Wednesday lead-off spot on Jan. 11, where it will be paired with new sitcom Are You There, Chelsea? Critical fave Community is being benched to make way for the return of 30 Rock on Thursday, Jan. 12 at 8/7c. An NBC source insists the show is just taking a breather and has not been canceled.


CBS is replacing one Saturday Night Light alum with another. The David Spade-starrer Rules of Engagement is being temporarily benched to make way for Rob Schneider’s new sitcom, ¡Rob! The half-hour comedy, starring Schneider as a bachelor who marries into a tight-knit Mexican-American family, debuts in Rules‘ time slot — Thursdays at 8:30/7:30c — on Jan. 12. Rules will return to its Thursday home later in the season, but with a reduced episode order


Fresh off her stint on the short-lived Playboy Club, Laura Benanti will appear on NBC’s Law & Order: SVU as the estranged wife of the department’s new detective, Nick Amaro (Danny Pino).


Other midseason changes on NBC Harry’s Law is relocating to Sundays at 8/7c beginning March 4. New drama The Firm will replace DOA rookie drama Prime Suspect on Thursdays at 10/9. Parenthood‘s season finale airs Feb. 28.



Also on NBC, beginning Friday, Feb. 3, Who Do You Think You Are? takes over for Chuck, which will conclude its five-season run with a two-hour finale on January 27 at 8/7c.


Anna Kournikova is leaving The Biggest Loser after just one season as a trainer. The tennis star joined the NBC weight loss series for its 12th cycle (which is currently airing on Tuesdays at 8/7c) as a replacement for Jillian Michaels.


Megan Mullally has landed a guest spot on NBC’s Up All Night. The ubiquitous funny lady will play a rival of Maya Rudolph’s Ava.

 30 Rock‘s Best Friends Gang is back in action! Kelsey Grammer, playing Kelsey Grammer, will reunite with his cake-scamming buddies Kenneth and Jenna in a Season 6 episode of the NBC comedy. The Boss star first appeared in an Oct. 2010 installment.


Castle has elected a new mayor. Damages‘ Derek Webster is taking over the role of Robert Weldon, the show’s (fictional) New York City Mayor. He replaces General Hospital grad Joseph C. Phillips, who previously played the Big Apple’s top politico in two Season 1 episodes.


Tanya Williams, the estranged wife of incarcerated former NBA star Jayson Williams, will not be back for season 2 of "Basketball Wives: LA" ... in fact, she wasn't even invited to the reunion show. Williams says producers informed her manager they did not want to "move forward" with the relationship. She says the split is amicable, telling us, "I wish everyone involved continued success with the show."

Evelyn Lauder Dies at 75

With the nation awash with pink during Breast Cancer Awareness Month in October, Evelyn Lauder certainly left her mark. Lauder, the daughter-in-law of the late cosmetics magnate Estée Lauder, died at her Manhattan home from complications of non-genetic ovarian cancer, according to reports. She was 75. It was Evelyn, along with her friend and former Self editor-in-chief Alexandra Penney, who created the pink ribbon campaign for breast cancer awareness in 1992. Shortly after marrying Leonard A. Lauder, the chairman emeritus of the Estée Lauder Companies, in 1959, Evelyn began working in the family business and went on to have a long career as an executive in the company. Lauder learned she had breast cancer in 1989, though she brought little attention to her own battle, instead focusing on women's health in general. She recently reflected on the campaign's origins, a time when she and her husband, Leonard, paid for the little bows handed out at department store makeup counters to remind shoppers about breast examinations. Evelyn also founded the Breast Cancer Research Foundation, which has raised more than $350 million.
  Kidnapped major league baseball player Wilson Ramos, a catcher for the Washington Nationals, was rescued in Venezuela Friday under heavy gunfire, and Saturday he shared details of his harrowing ordeal. Even as Venezuelan security forces raided the mountain hideaway where he was kept, Ramos – who was abducted by armed men Wednesday in his home country – said he knew he wasn't completely safe. "The truth is, at the moment they came to get me I was very nervous. There were many gunshots. ... Thanks to God, those guys did a tremendous job. I'm super grateful to them," Ramos told Venezuelan state TV Saturday. The catcher, 24, has played 113 games for the Nationals as a rookie in 2011. He is revered in Venezuela, where baseball fans waved placards demanding his release and players wore green armbands in solidarity.

'Immortals' tops weekend box office

Adam Sandler's gender-bending turn in "Jack and Jill" made $26 million at the weekend box office. Still, it was no match for "Immortals," the Henry Cavill-fronted action flick co-starring Mickey Rourke that raked in $32 million in ticket sales. The animated "Puss in Boots" came in third with $25.5 million, while Brett Ratner's all-star ensemble action-comedy "Tower Heist" was a distant fourth at $13.2 million. Leonardo DiCaprio's turn as J. Edgar Hoover in the Clint Eastwood-directed "J. Edgar," which also opened this weekend, brought in a respectable $11.5 million.

Zoe Saldana Splits with Longtime Fiancé

Zoe Saldana has split from her fiancé, entrepreneur Keith Britton. The pair "have amicably separated after 11 years," her rep said in a statement. Avatar star Saldana, 33, and Britton, 35, revealed their engagement in June 2010. They are also business partners in the website My Fashion Data Base. "Saldana and Britton remain committed business partners as co-founders of fashion resource MyFDB.com," the statement continues.



Bill O’Reilly’s ‘Killing Lincoln’ Book Riddled With Historical Inaccuracies
Bill Oreilly Killing Lincoln Inaccurate, Ford's Theater Bans Bill O'Reilly's Lincoln Book for Gross Factual Errors. Fox News Bill O'Reilly's latest book, "Killing Lincoln," has been judged so factually inaccurate by a reviewer that Ford's Theater is refusing to allow it to be sold there. So how badly did Bill O'Reilly mess up his history? A reviewer for Ford's Theater found the book to be "sloppy with the facts and slim in documentation." Translation? O'Reilly didn't do his research and offered no proof of any of his claims. Salon National Park Service bookstore at Ford’s Theatre pointed out these glaring inaccuracies:

• Killing Lincoln refers several times to the Oval Office. Little problem: The Oval Office wasn’t built until 1909.

• O’Reilly writes of Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee: “The two warriors will never meet again.” In fact, they did have a second meeting in 1865 to talk about prisoners of war.
• According to the book, Ford’s Theatre “burned to the ground in 1863.” Sorry Bill, make that 1862.
• In O’Reilly’s words, John Wilkes Booth used “a pen knife to carve a very small peephole” to observe Lincoln in his theater box. But one historical record says the hole was bored so guards could keep an eye on the president.

Kat Von D Reveals Cheating

Hell may have no fury like a woman scorned, but it ain't got nothing on a scorned woman with a large Facebook following. On Sunday, Kat Von D posted a jaw-dropping tell-all letter about her fickle, fizzled engagement to Jesse James. "Today I encountered the 19th girl to add to the list of people Jesse cheated on me with during this last year," wrote Von D. "I kept going back and forth in my mind as to what the best way would be for me to release and let go of any residual feelings remaining from that toxic relationship." She apparently decided that a soul-baring public confessional was just the ticket. Oh, and don't bother to chastise her with the whole, "Once a cheater, always a cheater," because she's figured that out for herself. "I know I deserve a big fat 'I told you so' from everyone," admits Kat, who called it quits with Jesse (yet again) in September, "and wish I didn't have to say, 'You all were more right than you'll ever know,' but you were." She adds that she's sick of being mistaken for the execrable Michelle "Not a Bombshell" McGee, who was the first woman to come forward with claims that she had an affair with James during his marriage to Sandra Bullock. "It would be nice to not be associated with her, but that's trivial in the grand scheme of things," sighs Kat, before adding, "I think it just made me sad today to imagine him still in that dark place, where seeking validation through the attention of women takes precedence over being a good father, a sincere friend, a better coworker, and a happy individual." Her reason for going public with Jesse's alleged two-timing is "about making peace with myself," she explains, "and forgiving myself for making some bad mistakes. I don't want to sink into the feelings of regret, or resentment. Because right now, for the first time in my life I have felt regret (for someone like me, who's never felt that before, this is hard to say out loud)." According to Von D, "Never have I felt so strong about True Love than I do today. I believe in Love more than anything else, and more than ever before." Concludes Kat, "Time is something you can never get back, and what we do with this very present moment is the most real thing we have. So if that's the lesson Jesse forced me to face and learn by all of this, than all I can say is Thank You."

If you were hoping to score a Rocawear Occupy Wall Street t-shirt, you've missed your chance. The company -- owned by rap mogul Jay-Z -- has pulled the shirts from its online store in the wake of criticism about the profits. Apparently, 100 percent of the profits would have gone to Rocawear and Jay-Z, with no percentage being donated to the cause they were designed to promote. An individual who identifies himself only as "Grim" and is described as one of the leaders of the OWS movement: "Jay-Z, as talented as he is, has the political sensibility of a hood rat and is a scrotum. To attempt to profit off of the first important social moment of 50 years with an overpriced piece of cotton is an insult to the fight for economic civil rights known as #occupywallstreet." Jay-Z had been photographed earlier in the week at the OWS protests wearing one of the shirts, which read "Occupy All Streets."

Kim Zolciak, Kroy Biermann Wed on 11/11/11

It really was her lucky day – the sun shone as Kim Zolciak wed Atlanta Falcons player Kroy Biermann on 11/11/11. "Beautiful weather! Beautiful day!! I'm walking on a cloud and I'm so grateful," the Real Housewives of Atlanta star Tweeted Friday shortly before her marriage. The couple, who have a 5-month-old son, Kroy Jagger Jr., together, said their vows around 4:30 p.m. at their Atlanta home. The couple sent mushy Tweets to each other on their big day, with Zolciak retweeting a special missive from Biermann – "Thank u everyone 4 your early congrats and best wishes!!! @Kimzolciak has made me the happiest man alive!!! 11.11.11." – to which she added, "I love u." The pair announced their engagement exactly one month ago. Zolciak, 33, said during her pregnancy that Biermann, 25, blended perfectly with her family, including daughters Brielle, 14, and Ariana, 9, from a previous relationship.


TV NEWS
Ashley Greene has touched down in the ’60s. The Twilight Saga star has landed a multi-episode arc on ABC’s high-flying freshman drama Pan Am. Greene will play a debutante with a connection to Michael Mosley’s character Ted. She makes her first appearance in the series’ Dec. 5 installment.



The Wonder Years‘ Danica McKellar and speed skating superstar Apolo Ohno have nabbed the leads in Syfy’s latest original movie, Tasmanian Devil, which is set to bow in 2012.



The Finder has located an attorney for 50 Cent. The Bones spinoff has cast Eureka‘s Salli Richardson-Whitfield as Athena Brooks, the lawyer representing the music mogul played by special guest star 50 Cent. The actor-rapper-entrepreneur will appear in a February episode as Big Glade, a successful, intimidating hip-hop bigwig who is desperate to find the lost tracks of a deceased rap artist on his music label.



CBS is adding Oprah BFF Gayle King and veteran journalist Charlie Rose to its soon-to-be revamped The Early Show.



TBS’ upcoming comedy series The Wedding Band — which stars Brian Austin Green (Beverly Hills 90120) and Harold Perrineau (Lost) as two pals who escape daily life by performing in a musical group — has announced a slew of Season 1 guest stars. Among the familiar faces making appearances are Kurtwood Smith (That ‘70s Show), Donald Faison (Scrubs), Wendi McLendon-Covey (Bridesmaids), Ashley Williams (How I Met Your Mother) and Molly Sims (Las Vegas).

Nia Long Welcomes Son Kez Sunday

The actress, 41, and Ime Udoka welcomed son Kez Sunday.  “Both mother and child are healthy and happy to be home,” spokeswoman Priscilla Moralez says. The Soul Food and Love Jones star also has a 10-year-old son, Massai, from a previous marriage. Long and Udoka, a professional basketball player, announced the pregnancy in June.

Billy Crystal Replacing Eddie Murphy as Oscars Host

Despite a social media campaign to have the Muppets host the Oscars this year, the job instead went to a perennial favorite, Billy Crystal. Crystal replaces Eddie Murphy, who announced on Wednesday that he was stepping down from his originally assigned duties. "Am doing the Oscars so the young woman in the pharmacy will stop asking my name when I pick up my prescriptions," the comedian, 63, Tweeted on Thursday. "Looking forward to the show." It'll be the ninth time as emcee of the big show for Crystal. The 84th Academy Awards air Feb. 26 on ABC.
 Tunie's longtime business manager, Joseph Cilibrasi plead guilty to grand larceny and other charges in court after getting caught stealing about $1.4 million from her. Authorities say Cilibrasi admitted to secretly opening a credit card in the actress' name and also wrote checks from her bank accounts without her knowledge. He also fessed up to bilking about $75,000 from the Kansas City Symphony's music director Michael Stern. Cilibrasi could serve anywhere from two and a half to seven and a half years in prison. He will be sentenced Jan. 4. 

Ashton Kutcher Sorry for His Ignorance in Defending Joe Paterno

Following an avalanche of criticism, Ashton Kutcher deleted a controversial Tweet Wednesday night protesting the firing of Joe Paterno, admitting he hadn't known about the sex-abuse scandal at Penn State. "How do you fire Jo Pa? #insult #noclass as a hawkeye fan I find it in poor taste," Kutcher wrote to his 8 million Twitter followers. His followers responded with an explosion of insults, many of them extremely vicious, blasting the actor for defending the 84-year-old coach, who is under fire for possibly covering up former defensive coordinator Jerry Sandusky's alleged sex abuse of young boys. Kutcher, 33, soon realized his mistake, quickly backpedaled and admitted his ignorance. "Heard Joe was fired, fully recant previous tweet!" he wrote. "Didn't have full story." He later deleted that message, too, and added this one: "As an advocate in the fight against child sexual exploitation, I could not be more remorseful for all involved in the Penn St. case." This is the second Twitter faux pas in recent months for Kutcher. On Sept. 11, he backtracked after calling it "the greatest day of the year," because it was the start of football season.
 Actress Selma Blair and 3-month old son Arthur.


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Showtime announced that it has renewed "Weeds" for an eighth season. Though an air date has not been named, the show will go into production in 2012 and will likely return for the summer season, as it has for the past several years.Season 7 ended with a cliffhanger after marijuana "queenpin" Nancy Botwin (Mary Louise Parker) moved with her sons, sister, nieces, Doug and Andy to a family compound in Connecticut. An unknown sniper targeted the family, and a shot rang out as the credits rolled. 

The Finder has procured a pretty money guest star. The Bones spinoff has tapped 50 Cent to appear in a winter episode directed by David Boreanaz. The actor-rapper-entrepreneur will play Big Glade, a successful, intimidating hip-hop mogul who is desperate to find the lost tracks of a deceased rap artist on his music label. The Finder will air Thursdays at 9/8c beginning in January. The Boreanaz-helmed 50 Cent episode is slated to air in February.


Friday Night Lights MVP Jesse Plemons is joining NBC’s midseason sitcom Bent in a recurring role.



Prospect Park, the upstart media group which last July announced its plan to rescue both All My Children and One Life to Live from the brink of cancellation, is reportedly rethinking its stance on one of its two ABC Daytime saves. As reported by ABC Soaps In Depth, Prospect Park has indefinitely put on hold plans to relaunch AMC via its new web hub, TheOnlineNetwork.com, which itself is scheduled to (hopefully) go live in early 2012.



Supernatural‘s heavenly angel has returned to Earth. Misha Collins — aka the Winchesters’ ally-turned-foe Castiel on the spooktacular CW series — will guest star on the network’s rookie drama Ringer. Collins will appear in Episode 14 as Dylan, a man that both Bridget and Siobhan have a past with and who is partly responsible for the wedge between them.

Bil Keane, Family Circus Creator, Dies at 89
Bil Keane, the creator of Family Circus, died of congestive heart failure at his home in Paradise Valley, Ariz. He was 89. In recent years, Keane's son Jeff had taken over drawing Family Circus, though Keane himself continued to sketch out the ideas and captions.


Nationals' Ramos Kidnapped
Wilson Ramos, the Washington Nationals’ starting catcher, was kidnapped Wednesday at his home in Valencia, Venezuela. Ramos, a 24-year-old who just finished his rookie season, was taken away in an SUV by four armed men in Santa Ines in central Carabobo state, the spokeswoman for his Venezuelan League team, the Aragua Tigers, said on her official Twitter account. "It's true, Wilson Ramos was kidnapped," Tigers spokeswoman Katherine Vilera said in a statement, adding that Venezuela's judicial police, the CICPC, was investigating, The Washington Post reported. Vilera said Ramos was taken at 6:45 p.m. at his home in the region 95 miles west of Caracas. She said police were notified. A person close to Ramos' family, who asked not to be quoted by name out of safety concerns, said the catcher was at home with his father and brothers when several men ''entered the house and took him away.'' ''As of this hour, there has been no contact'' between the kidnappers and Ramos' family, the person said. Ramos, one of the top young catchers in baseball, batted .267 with 15 home runs and 52 RBI in 113 games for the Nationals this year. He returned to his homeland for the offseason but had yet to play a game for the Tigres de Aragua, who still own his rights in the Venezuelan Winter League.
Valencia, a large industrial city and capital of the Carabobo state, is also the hometown of major leaguers Felix Hernandez and Francisco Cervelli. Two years ago, the son of then-Colorado catcher Yorvit Torrealba was kidnapped along with two family members in Venezuela before their safe return.


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JoPa Fired From Penn State
In a massive shakeup, Penn State football coach Joe Paterno and school president Graham Spanier were fired Wednesday night by the board of trustees amid the growing furor over how the school handled child sex abuse allegations against an assistant coach. The longtime coach, the winningest in major college football, was ousted at the end of day that began with his announcement to retire at end of the season, his 46th. It was not to be. ''The university is much larger than its athletic teams,'' board vice chair John Surma said during a packed press conference. Paterno and Spanier were informed by telephone of the unanimous decisions to remove them. ''We were unable to find a way to do that in person without causing further distraction,'' Surma said. Defensive coordinator Tom Bradley will serve as interim coach while Rodney Erickson will be the interim school president. ''The Penn State board of trustees tonight decided it is in the best interest of the university to have a change in leadership to deal with the difficult issues that we are facing,'' Surma said. ''The past several days have been absolutely terrible for the entire Penn State community. But the outrage that we feel is nothing compared to the physical and psychological suffering that allegedly took place.'' Paterno said: "I’m trying to figure out my reaction,’’ Paterno said. "We’ll see what’s going to happen, OK?’’ "Right now, I’m not the coach. And after 61 years, I have to get used to that.’’ Paterno has come under harsh criticism, including from within the community known as Happy Valley, for not taking more action in 2002 after then-graduate assistant and current assistant coach Mike McQueary came to him and reported seeing Jerry Sandusky in the Penn State showers with a 10-year-old boy. Paterno notified the athletic director, Tim Curley, and a vice president, Gary Schultz.

Piers Morgan Leaving America's Got Talent

America still has talent, but now it's missing a judge. Piers Morgan is leaving NBC's America's Got Talent after six seasons, he announced Wednesday night, saying his schedule had become too hectic since he began hosting a nightly talk show, Piers Morgan Tonight, on CNN this past January. "Turned out that juggling's harder than it looks, so I'm going to focus on CNN," he wrote on Twitter. The British TV personality, 46, thanked NBC, production company FremantleMedia, "and of course, my friend Simon Cowell, for giving me such a great opportunity. It's been a blast." He added: "And congrats to @MrsSOsbourne @howiemmandel & @NickCannon – you don't have to put up with me any more!" Morgan was also one of the original judges on Britain's Got Talent, but quit that show in 2010 after four seasons to take on the CNN gig.
 Dakota Fanning‘s latest role has received a big thumbs-down in the U.K. The actress’s recent magazine ad for Marc Jacobs’s Oh, Lola! perfume is too suggestive, Britain’s advertising watchdog has ruled, and must be pulled immediately, the BBC reports. The ASA ruled that the ad was irresponsible, likely to cause “serious offense,” and must not appear again. Coty UK, the maker of the perfume, had argued that the image was “provoking but not indecent.” On Tuesday, Marc Jacobs released a statement, calling the banning “unfortunate.” He wrote: “It was our pleasure to work with Dakota Fanning for the Oh, Lola! campaign. She is a smart, pretty, interesting, talented young woman and we would never have suggested an advertising concept that we thought was inappropriate. I believe she is also very thoughtful about the projects she takes on and would not have done something that she felt was in questionable taste. It’s really unfortunate that people have taken anything negative from what we believe is a really good campaign and one that so perfectly embodies the fragrance.”




TV NEWS
 With Regis Philbin’s final days on Live! drawing near, the long-running ABC daytime talk show is making sure its other co-host is staying put. Kelly Ripa — who has occupied one of the show’s signature high chairs for 10 years — has signed a deal that keeps her with the syndicated gabfest through 2017.


David Anders is positively hospital obsessed! The Alias and Vampire Diaries vet — who’s currently playing doctor to Prince Charming on ABC’s Once Upon a Time — will find himself on the other end of the scalpel on House. Anders has signed on to play the Patient of the Week in an early ’12 episode of the Fox drama that also features (as we reported earlier this week) a guest turn by Jeffrey Wright.


Disney Channel has renewed its animated hit Phineas and Ferb for a fourth season.



Vampire Diaries‘ Paul Wesley is bringing his personal life to work. The actor’s real-life wife, Torrey DeVitto, has landed a recurring gig on the CW saga.  The Pretty Little Liars/One Tree Hill alumna will play an intelligent (and beautiful!) doctor who finds herself fascinated with Matt Davis’ reluctant do-gooder, Alaric. DeVitto makes her Mystic Falls debut in Episode 10.




Southland is staging a 227 reunion with former co-stars Marla Gibbs and Regina King. Gibbs is set to appear in the Jan. 24 episode of the TNT drama playing Granny, a family member of a suspect in a murder investigation being conducted by King’s Lydia.