• 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)

• 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)

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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)

• 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)

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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)

• 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)

• 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)

+ 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)

• You can't blame Isaiah Washington (f.k.a. Dr. Burke) for joining the OMG, Grey's Hates Gays!! bandwagon. 'Course, his critique of the show's decision to fire Dr. Hahn would carry more weight if he weren't a) previously fired for his own latent homophobia, and (b) simultaneously begging Shonda Rhimes for his old job. (Usmagazine.com)

• Jumpin' Joe Scarborough is so excited about Barack Obama's clean campaign he's dropping F-bombs on MSNBC. Take that, FCC mother-f***ers! (HuffPo)

• Holly Madison is hoping to be a bridesmaid at Kendra Wilkinson's nuptials. Meanwhile, we're just hoping Hugh Hefner isn't the one giving her away. Hey, he was her (sugar) daddy... (People)

• Knight Rider to fire three of its series regulars (Bruce Davison, Sydney Tamiia Poitier, and Yancey Arias) and replace them with an onslaught of Hail, Mary celeb cameos. (Yahoo! News)

• NBC gives new "Life" to that "quirky detective show" that's nobody's ever seen. (TV Squad)

• "Rogue" governor (and possible 2012 presidential nominee??) Sarah Palin teared up during Senator John McCain's concession speech. Elsewhere, talk show host/Obamama Oprah Winfrey was reportedly "vibrating" with happiness over Barack's victory. Not to mention openly weeping. (Stereohyped)

• We always knew Chuck Bass was a sure thing -- but we had no idea he was also a SHOE thing. Either way, Ed Westwick's officially the new face (foot??) of K-Swiss! (Just Jared)

• Meanwhile, on this week's Gossip Girl, Little J. learns that the secret to instant tabloid notoriety is crashing a boring old-person party with Marissa Cooper's younger sis. (Gawker)

• Dr. McDreamy is super sad that his co-star, Brooke Smith was abruptly fired from Grey's Anatomy. That said, Patrick Dempsey's crazy Freudian slip made this sappy spot on Ellen a whole lot more interesting. (TV Watch)

• Plus, check out this sneak-peek of Dr. Erica Hahn's last ever episode of Grey's Anatomy. (E! Online)

• CNN's techies finally got to live out their Star Wars fantasies last night when they beamed in Will.i.am (Princess Leia style!) during the election coverage for no reason whatsoever. (Best Week Ever)