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• TMZ claims Danity Kane dropout Aubrey O'Day is headed for Playboy! Hey, guess that's one way to take the heat off the nearly-nekked Complex shoot that cost you your job/singing career. (MTV News)

• The Real Housewives of Atlanta's resident homewrecker Kim Zolciak wasn't sure she'd survive the whole experience. ""After the reunion show, I was afraid I was going to get killed," she confessed. So natch, she did what any slightly spoiled person would do: she "invest[ed] in something that would kill them instead." (Usmagazine.com)

• Carson Daly is gonna be a daddy! (MSNBC)

• Heath Ledger's entire life/film career/losing battle with prescription drugs to be reduced to one 60-minute Law & Order episode! Dibs on playing MK Olsen! (NY Post)

• Brooke Burke won Dancing with the Stars! (Um, obvs.) Fortunately, she totally nailed the "OMG, I'm so surprised!" face. (E! Online)

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Tags Aubrey O'Day, Brooke Burke, Carson Daly, Dancing with the Stars, Danity Kane, Heath Ledger, Kim Zolciak, Law & Order, Mary-Kate Olsen, The Real Housewives of Atlanta

+ Recession alert! You know you're on the brink of economic disaster/full-scale depression when even snotty rich people (like Jeana Keough, right, from The Real Housewives of Orange County) are cutting down on their crazy expenditures. (E! Online)

+ Note to former 'NSYNCer Joey Fatone -- Next time you feel like slamming the DWTS contestants for being tacky, you probably shouldn't follow it up by sitting on a toilet in the middle of Times Square. 'Kay? (Page Six, Best Week Ever)

+ Meanwhile, could the Dancing with the Stars judges BE any more in love with finalist Brooke Burke? "You're the one that we all want," said judge Bruno Toniolo following Burke's Grease-inspired freestyle number. Awww/ewww! (NY Daily News)

+ Former SNL funnyman Horatio Sanz is virtually unrecognizable now that he's embraced the power of the tweed blazer lost upwards of 80 pounds. (Scandalist)

+ The Girls Next Door get all hatted up for the Kentucky Derby! Fun fact: Kendra Wilkinson had to have her giant straw monstrosity custom-made because her head's "gigantic." (TV Watch)

Tags Brooke Burke, Bruno Toniolo, Dancing with the Stars, Horatio Sanz, Jeana Keough, Joey Fatone, Kendra Wilkinson, Saturday Night Live, SNL, The Girls Next Door, The Real Housewives of Orange County

+ Brad Pitt tells Oprah Winfrey some cute things about being a dad while she stares dreamily into his eyes, nods and tries not to drool all over her yellow sweater. (Usmagazine.com)

+ Hannah Montana star Miley Cyrus has an important message for whoever just hacked into her YouTube: Get a life. (Buzzworthy)

+ Dancing With the Stars star Brooke Burke admits she can't jive to save her life. (TV Watch)

+ Former SNL-er Amy Poehler successfully recruits Rashida Jones to star in her as-yet-untitled solo project/Office wannabe. (E! Online)

+ Apparently, actress Brooke Shields isn't the only one who thinks Lipstick Jungle still exists! She is, however, the only one who seems to think the show might be re-upped for another season. (NYT Blogs)

Tags Amy Poehler, Brad Pitt, Brooke Burke, Brooke Shields, Dancing with the Stars, Hannah Montana, Lipstick Jungle, Miley Cyrus, Oprah Winfrey, Rashida Jones, Saturday Night Live

• According to Katie Couric, Tom Cruise is totes jealous of Today show host Matt Lauer. Why? Because "[Cruise] wants to be the only heterosexual man in the room who everyone thinks is gay." Zing! (CNN)

• Jessica Szohr (a.k.a. Vanessa from Gossip Girl) admits that her character is kinda lame. Sadly, she refuses to discuss the awkward sexual tension between Vanny and Dan Humphrey's dad. (MTV News)

• The View's Elisabeth Hasselbeck thinks the media's putting way too much attention on Sarah Palin's designer duds. Oh, and BTW, Palin is totally "not a fashionista." (Obvs, she's a pitbull!) Which explains why "she called Jimmy Choos Johnny Choos" by mistake. D'oh! (Usmagazine.com)

• Project Runway's Tim Gunn joins Speidi, other gay rights activists in standing up for same-sex marriage. (E! Online)

• Recently ousted reality something-or-other Kim Kardashian is betting on Brooke Burke to win this year's Dancing with the Stars. (TV Watch)

Tags Brooke Burke, Dancing with the Stars, Elisabeth Hasselbeck, Gossip Girl, Jessica Szohr, Katie Couric, Kim Kardashian, Matt Lauer, Project Runway, Sarah Palin, Speidi, The View, Tim Gunn, Today Show, Tom Cruise