+ Former Nanny star Fran Drescher has announced that she'll be making a play for Hillary Clinton's soon-to-be-vacant Senate seat. When reached for comment, California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger replied "Zat ees da craziest zheeng I eva heard." (USA Today)

+ Not long after Chuck Bass and Vanessa Whatsherface's alleged airport smoochfest comes word that Nate Archibald is gettin' it on with Jenny Humphrey. Well played, Little J! (Page Six)

+Meanwhile, elsewhere in Unsubstantiated Rumorville, Gossip Girl Serena Van der Woodsen was reportedly spotted swapping spit with someone other than her real-life bf, Dan Humphrey. Nooooooo! (E! Online)

+ Lance Bass' ex-dancing partner, Lacey Schwimmer, says she'd love to tango with Jackass' Steve-O on next season's Dancing With the Stars. "I would be totally down to dance with him!" Schwimmer says of the man best known for dropping trou on the red carpet (and taking a stapler to his you-know-what.) "I'm not kidding," she insists. (Usmagazine.com)

+ Bachelorette reject Jason Mesnick (who stars on the upcoming season of ABC's The Bachelor) says he's finally found his happy reality tv ending. "I'm engaged!" Mesnick revealed. "I'm completely in love. I can't believe it's this great." (TV Watch)

• Despite the fact that Chuck Bass (and, by extension, Ed Westwick) is the epitome of awesomeness, it appears that some women are impervious to his (their?) charms. And by "some" we mean a certain "leggy brunette" who (inexplicably!) responded to Westwick's persistent overtures by turning around and shouting "All right - enough out of you!" (NY Daily News)

• "Which Gossip Guy would you date?" Usmagazine.com wants to know. Your options are (a) Chuck, (b) Nate or (c) Dan, although we would have added in a fourth choice: (d) Does it even matter? (Usmagazine.com)

• Hot-but-unknown actor Luke Grimes is reportedly in talks to pay William Walker's illegitimate son, Ryan on Brothers & Sisters. (E! Online)

• Meanwhile, what's up with all the celeb cameos this year? This week in sitcom-land, Nicole Richie guest-stars on Chuck, Lindsay Lohan reprises her role as Ugly Betty's high school nemesis and Katie Holmes drops in on Eli Stone. (Philly.com)

• Speaking of which, Sarah Palin's guest-appearance on this weekend's SNL yielded the show's highest ratings in over a decade. Presumably, this has something to do with Palin's influence over the elusive Joe Six-Pack demographic. (WaPo)

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• Everyone knows Tina Fey does a mean Sarah Palin, but the SNL alum isn't looking to extend her run for, say, four more years. "If she wins, I'm done" Fey told TV Guide. "And by 'I'm done,' I mean I'm leaving Earth." (NY Daily News)

• Gossip Girls aren't just about designer clothes and killer highlights. They're also way into politics! (Well, maybe not Serena Van der Woodsen, but you KNOW prepubescent Dan Humphrey was out campaigning for Nader in 2000.) Meanwhile, Blake Lively and her real-life bf, Penn Badgley, are all about Obamarama. (E! Online)

• Hugh Hefner may have lost his main gal, Holly, but he's still living it up with the ladies! Oh, to be an octogenerian pornographer... (Usmagazine.com)

• This just in: Dancing with the Stars judges forget how to add, inadvertently award frivolous old lady Cloris Leachman an 8. (TV Squad)

• Meanwhile, Lance and Lacey soar (obvs!) while Rocco DiSpirito proves that he's (still) about as graceful as an elephant on roller skates. (TV Watch)

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• Since Gossip Girl would be nothing without the boys, here's your chance to ogle Chace Crawford, Ed Westwick and Penn Badgley on the cover of this month's Details. (Details)

• Meanwhile, in this highly informative article, the real-life Nate Archibald admits his fans are more like seventh grade stalkers than Dutchesses and cougars. Plus, he totally cops to having "gayface!" (Usmagazine.com)

• Perez Hilton spends way too much time thinking about Lauren Conrad and Audrina Patridge's use of emoticons. (Perez Hilton)

• Adorably dough-faced Benjamin McKenzie stubbornly refuses to accept that he will ALWAYS be "Ryan from The O.C." (Gossip Girls)

• Dancing with the Stars judges refuse to recognize the amazingness of Lance Bass and Lacey Schwimmer. (TV Watch)

• Weepy right-winger Elisabeth Hasselbeck to leave The View and worship at the feet of Fox News?? Yeah, that sounds about right. (Jezebel)

• No, Paris Hilton's chihuahuas were not eaten by rabid coyotes. No, she didn't spend all day locked indoors, crying hysterically about it. And no, she has no idea how the Tinkerbellicide rumors got started. (Celebitchy)

• It's makeover week on America's Next Top Model! Sadly, nobody cries. (Buddy TV)

• Gossip Girl's Penn Badgley -- who plays brainy/introspective Brooklynite, Dan! -- likes his women curvy. According to Badgley, those walking stick figures on 90210 could definitely use some more meat on their (already protruding) collarbones. (Usmagazine)

• America's Got Talent is becoming so...predictable. (TV Squad)

• Lance Bass prepares for his role on Dancing with the Stars by walking around in high heels. Insert obvious joke *here.* (TV Watch)

UPDATE: According to one of our readers, there were some tears shed during the ANTM makeover episode! Apologies for forgetting about the melodramatic vegan chick. Hey, you know what would ease the pain of that crappy haircut? A nice, juicy double cheeseburger. With bacon.

• Pssst! Gossip Girl sources say the real life Serena Van der Woodsen is touchy-feely, way into PDA and totes gets freaked out whenever poor, hipstery Dan Humphrey talks to other girls. (NY Post)

• Incarcerated D-lister Nick Hogan celebrates his 18th birthday behind bars. Aw, it seems like only yesterday he was still a juvie! (E! Online)

• Apparently, Eliot Spitzer's former "escort" is still raking in the dough...high-priced call girl Ashley Dupree is reportedly eying $2 reality tv deal. (NY Mag)

• Women are apparently lining up to date Bachelorette runner-up Jason Mesnick. (People)

• Chris Brown to take on Dancing With the Stars, So You Think You Can Dance and America's Best Dance Crew with a totally innovative concept: a weekly dance competition! (Variety)

• Rachael Ray launches a new delish doggy food line. (E! Online)