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Every week on "World of Jenks," we step out of our comfort zones and spend the night in someone else's shoes. Thanks to Andrew (and his omnipresent camera crew), we've gotten a fly-on-the-wall look at everything from autism to activism, and a newfound respect for that which we don't understand. And since this is a show about opening our eyes and pushing past our boundaries, it's only fitting that the soundtrack would force us to stop, listen and question everything we thought we knew about music.

Case in point, U.K. imports Mumford & Sons. Sure, they call themselves folk rockers (y'know, like Simon & Garfunkel), but these guys are nothing like the old timers gathering dust in your parents' vinyl collection. For starters, they're young (i.e., early to mid-20s), they like to dress up (think Fall Out Boy, only British), and, most refreshing of all, they've all got serious talent. Soundwise, they remind us of Dispatch--a freshman year rite of passage--but with more of a bluegrass flavor (and none of that nasty, behind-the-scenes breakup biz). Plus, unlike some overly auto-tuned pop stars we know, all four band members can sing AND play an instrument, and they'd sooner die than be caught lip-synching on "SNL."

Even better? While they're not doing this for the fame (they just like making awesome music, OK??), it looks as though Mumford & Sons are starting to get some well-earned recognition. Their catchy, acoustic-heavy single, "Little Lion Man," (off their 2009 debut EP, Sigh No More), is currently No. 1 on Billboard's Alternative Song Chart (though you might remember it from the "WOJ" promos), and they've had tracks on "Grey's Anatomy" (love) and "Lone Star" (R.I.P).

So forget what you think you know about folk music and give these guys a shot by checking out their official website and watching the "Little Lion Man" music video below. Oh, and don't blame us if Mumford & Sons make you a convert. (For the record, we've heard Simon & Garfunkel and, well, your parents might be on to something.)

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Tags Dispatch, Fall Out Boy, Grey's Anatomy, Lone Star, Mumford & Sons, Music, Saturday Night Live, Simon & Garfunkel, Soundtrack Spotlight, Video

Celebrities get stopped on the street by their fans on a near-daily basis -- and City star Whitney Port is no exception. The weird part? A lot of the peeps who approach her seem to have her confused with someone else! Earlier this week, Whit told the UK's Daily Mail that she's been mistaken for both Ivanka Trump and Katherine Heigl in the past, so we thought we'd round up pics of all three girls and find out if you guys see the resemblance.

+ Think Whit might be secretly related to The Donald? Or is she one scalpel away from getting cast on Grey's Anatomy? Take the poll and tell us which of Whitney Port's fellow celebrities looks the most like her!

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• Christian Bale is sorry he's a scary psycho-ranter. So are we. (Usmagazine.com)

• Grey's Anatomy's crossover with Grey's spinoff/copycat show, Private Practice, was a huge ratings bonanza! Go figure. (E! Online)

• We don't wanna say reviewers "aren't that into" He's Just Not That Into You. So instead, we'll put it another way: the movie kinda sucks. (Baltimore Sun)

• American Idol's "Bikini Girl" blames her early exit on fatigue and not, as experts are saying, a complete and utter lack of talent. (TV Watch)

Tags American Idol, Bikini Girl, Christian Bale, Grey's Anatomy, He's Just Not That Into You, Private Practice

• Breaking: Ashlee Simpson and her baby daddy will be playing "Bonnie & Clyde wannabes" on CSI: NY. Laugh now, but we haven't been this excited since the time Method Man played a Nigerian polygamist on an episode of Law & Order S.V.U.! (EW)

• Johnny Knoxville is sorry he brought a fake grenade to the airport. Then again, he IS a Jackass -- and, well, that's what jackasses do. (Usmagazine.com)

• Meanwhile, Kendra Wilkinson is sorry she said a bunch of not-so-nice things about the man who plucked her from obscurity, exploited her for his personal/professional gain and hired her to play his "pretend" girlfriend. (E! Online)

• When eccentric actor Joaquin Phoenix said he was leaving the film biz to work on his music, we just figured it was another one of his crazy, nonsensical ramblings. Turns out, it wasn't! Dude's got a hip hop album coming out, and Diddy's producing.  (Hollywood Reporter)

• This week on Grey's Anatomy: Izzie resolves to stop sleeping with a dead guy while Meredith tries, fails, to bring back the High Ponytail. (TV Watch)

Tags Ashlee Simpson, Diddy, Grey's Anatomy, Joaquin Phoenix, Johnny Knoxville, Kendra Wilkinson, Method Man

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+ Teeny-tiny Grey's Anatomy star Chyler Leigh has announced that she's pregnant with her third child. We're torn between saying "Congratulations!" and sending her a card that says "Wait, you've had two kids?! You're giving us a MAJOR weight complex, lady." (Usmagazine.com)

+ Ed Westwick/Chuck Bass admits he was too starstruck to introduce himself to soccer star David Beckham at a recent partay. In related news, we once saw Ed Westwick/Chuck Bass on the street, then awkwardly/conspicuously turned and hid behind the nearest telephone pole. True story. (Radar)

+ Former Top Model winner Eva Pigford (now, apparently, Eva Marcille) is reportedly engaged to her boyfriend/House of Payne costar Lance Gross. Yeah, something tells us she'll be holding onto her (new) maiden name for a while. (Essence via Us)

+ Kendra Wilkinson says she and her linebacker fiance will be getting hitched at the Playboy mansion, a.k.a. her old stomping grounds, but she hasn't decided whether her grandpa-aged ex, Hugh Hefner, will be walking her down the aisle. Because, you know, THAT would be the weird part. (Reality TV World)

Tags America's Next Top Model, Chyler Leigh, David Beckham, Ed Westwick, Eva Marcille, Eva Pigford, Gossip Girl, Grey's Anatomy, House of Payne, Hugh Hefner, Kendra Wilkinson, Lance Gross, The Girls Next Door

• Lost's Josh Holloway (a.k.a. Sawyer, a.k.a. our the love of our primetime tv lives) is becoming a baby daddy! We wish the proud papa-to-be (and his ridiculously lucky wife of 4 years) all the best. (Access Hollywood)

• T.R. Knight (who plays Dr. George O'Malley on Grey's Anatomy) denies persistent rumors that he's being written out the show a la Isaiah Washington. Hey, isn't karma weird?? (Usmagazine.com)

• Oprah Winfrey admits that she hasn't been watching her girlish figure lately -- and reveals that her current weight is up to 200 pounds. "I'm embarrassed," she writes in the new O magazine. "I look at my thinner self and think, 'How did I let this happen again?'" (Associated Press)

• OMFG, Chuck Bass isn't seriously going to fall to his death while holding a bottle of liquor (just like annoying Surfer Boy Johnny did in that other Josh Schwartz series!) is he? IS HE??? (E! Online)

• Conan O'Brien may be taking over Tonight Show hosting duties for Jay Leno, but the prominently chinned comedian has reportedly inked a deal with NBC to do a nightly 10pm variety show -- like The Tonight Show, only earlier! (NY Times)

Tags Chuck Bass, Conan O'Brien, Ed Westwick, Gossip Girl, Grey's Anatomy, Isaiah Washington, Jay Leno, Josh Holloway, Josh Schwartz, Lost, Oprah Winfrey, T.R. Knight, The Tonight Show

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• FINALLY, people are starting to notice that Grey's Anatomy is both disturbing and ridiculous. That is, of course, unless you like watching tawdry unrealistically hot/mentally unstable doctors (Shoutout, Izzie Stevens!) sleep with nonexistent dead people. (E! Online)

• O.J. Simpson's attorneys have asked the court to go easy on their client because he's "a first-time offender" who only hypothetically confessed to brutally murdering two people. (Scandalist)

• FYI, NeNe Leakes from Real Housewives of Atlanta (whose writing has drastically improved since yesterday) wants you to know that she and her hubby were NOT, in fact, forcibly removed from their home. (Bravo TV, via Us)

• Top Chef recap: Melissa Harrison serves up one hot tamale, Ariane "The Cougar" Duarte plays it safe and one mathematically-challenged chef gets his (or her!) just desserts. (TV Watch)

• Oprah Winfrey to move her talk show to Washington D.C. during inauguration week as part of an ongoing effort to soak up every last minute of Barack Obama's impending presidency. Yes, she can! (Usmagazine.com)

Tags Ariane Duarte, Barack Obama, Grey's Anatomy, Melissa Harrison, NeNe Leakes, O.J. Simpson, Oprah Winfrey, The Real Housewives of Atlanta, Top Chef

• Attention, Upper East Siders!Gossip Girl's lovable lothario Chuck Bass was just spotted PDAing with that hipstery, letter-stealing Vanessa. When reached for comment, a visibly distraught Dan Humphrey muttered "Watch out, Chuck. I hear poverty's contagious." (Usmagazine.com)

• Conan O'Brien's ratings are officially lower than Craig Ferguson's! Which means either (a) Conan's already checked out, or (b) Craig Ferguson is actually much, much funnier than we thought. Kidding! Sort of! But seriously, it's the former. (TV Squad)

• Ringleader Britney Spears takes her Circus act to Good Morning America. (MTV News)

• Blind-ish item alert! Is a certain someone (*cough* George) getting slowly-but-surely phased out of Grey's? And if so, we gotta know, why him? Why now? And, most importantly, why not Meredith?? (E! Online)

• Dallas and Toni's amazing Amazing Race romance still going strong. Amazing! (TV Watch)

Tags Amazing Race, Britney Spears, Conan O'Brien, Craig Ferguson, Ed Westwick, Ellen Pompeo, Good Morning America, Gossip Girl, Grey's Anatomy, Jessica Szohr, T.R. Knight

• The Britney Spears "Don't Call It A Comeback" Tour continues! Over the weekend, Brit swung by Simon Cowell's hit U.K. show to perform her latest smash, "Womanizer." Cowell's verdict? "I would literally have her on my show every week for the next 10 years." (Usmagazine.com)

• Oh, and did we mention that Spears (whose MTV doc, Britney: For The Record, aired last night) also spent the weekend ringing in her 27th bday, gracing the covers of Rolling Stone and Glamour and admitting that she's on the lookout for hubby #3? (E! Online)

• Rosie O'Donnell sums up her disastrously overhyped/underwatched variety show in 10 words: "No ratings. bad reviews...yet still – a thrill 4 me." (Rosie's blog)

• Chef Gordon Ramsey may be a jerk -- but he's not a jerk who cheats on his wife. At least, so says chef Gordon Ramsey. (Daily Telegraph - UK, via Us)

• Grey's hot new MD (and Cristina Yang's hot new Replacement Burke) Kevin McKidd might be checking out for a movie deal. Hey, when in Rome ... (E! Online)

• Nickelodeon stars Drake Bell and Josh Peck are celebrating Christmas in style! That is, assuming ugly sweaters are the new black. (Buzzworthy)

Tags Britney Spears, Cristina Yang, Drake Bell, Gordon Ramsey, Grey's Anatomy, Josh Peck, Kevin McKidd, Merry Christmas Drake & Josh, Rosie O'Donnell, Simon Cowell

+ Gossip Girl's Blake Lively (a.k.a. THE Serena Van der Wooden) denies that she and co-star Leighton Meester (a.k.a. Blair Waldorf) are real-life frenemies. "Everybody just works 18-hour days and goes home to sleep," she insists. Yep, nothing says drama-free quite like working a full day on no-sleep...with a bunch of attention-starved up-and-comers. (W Magazine)

+ With Dr. Erica Hahn booted from Grey's, it's time to bring on da new characters! Introducing...Melissa George and Mary McDonnell! (E! Online)

+ Oh, and did we mention that Kevin McKidd (a.k.a. Dr. McCrazy) was signing on as a series regular? (TV Watch)

+ Desperate Housewives' Jesse Metcalfe fell forty feet...and (miraculously) lived to tell about it. (The Sun - UK)

+ This doesn't exactly qualify as reality tv news, but when Jennifer Aniston starts going around saying Angelina is "totally uncool," it's enough to grab our attention. (Usmagazine.com)

Tags Angelina Jolie, Blake Lively, Desperate Housewives, Gossip Girl, Grey’s Anatomy, Jennifer Aniston, Jesse Metcalfe, Kevin McKidd, Leighton Meester, Mary McDonnell, Melissa George