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The wild cast of MTV’s hit reality series Jersey Shore are getting into the spirit of the Oscars by reenacting scenes from several Oscar-nominated films for George Lopez’s TBS late night show, Lopez Tonight.

The first spoofs — which aired on Lopez Tonight’s Monday night episode — and featured Ronnie Magro, Paul Delevcchio (aka DJ Pauly D), and Mike “The Situation” Sorrentino spoofing Best Picture nominee The Hurt Locker, and Vinny G. co-starring in the opening scene of Quentin Tarantino’s Best Picture-nominated film, Inglourious Basterds.

“The Jersey Shore Oscar Parodies” will run on Lopez Tonight through March 4.

ABC has revealed the next lady who will be looking for love as The Bachelorette: Ali Fedotowsky was confirmed as the new Bachelorette during The Bachelor: After The Final Rose on Monday night.

As fans may recall, Ali — a frontrunner in the pursuit of Bachelor Jake Pavelka — had to leave the show in order to keep her job. Ali faced a tough decision on the show: stay in The Bachelor House and compete for Jake’s heart and risk losing her job, or leave and lose a man she’d fallen in love with. She chose her career.

“I’m so excited. I’m so thrilled and honored and grateful. I just can’t believe it,” Ali — who’s blonde looks often earn her comparisons to a young Belinda Carlisle — told host Chris Harrison on last night After The Rose Special. “I’m not gonna let my fear dictate my life anymore. And I just need to go for it and I want to find someone,” she continued. “I want to be in love. I want to get married and have kids and all of that and this is my chance, so I’m not gonna make the same mistake I made last time, I’m going for it.”

The show returns May 24.

-Denise Richards may testify against ex-husband Charlie Sheen in the actor’s upcoming assault trail with current wife Brooke Mueller…..

-Speaking of Sheen; his crack-addicted wife reportedly wants out!

-A teen Dunkin’ Donuts employee dies after falling in cesspool…..

–Sugababes sued by former member Keisha Buchanan over band name….

-J-Woww has put her stamp all over J-Woww…..

-Before there was Jon & Kate Plus 8 or Octomom, there was Eight Is Enough. Whatever happened to those folks?

-Chicken Wing Craze Sends Prices Soaring

-Legendary hip-hop star Guru — of the ’80s/’90s duo Gang Starr — is in grave condition in a New York City hospital after suffering a heart attack over the weekend….

-Jackie Chan: One of Hong Kong’s Most Untrustworthy Stars!

-Does the heart of Snooki’s new guido belong to another?

-Dermont Mulroney joins Rockford Files remake…..

-Spider-Man’s out of a job!

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“>Michigan Bridge sold for $1…..

-Uh-Oh. The Sharon Osbourne/ Dannii Minogue Feud lives on!

-Ryan Reynolds and Nic Cage are teaming up for a new movie about the Stone Age…..

-Someone at FOX News doesn’t know where Sydney, Australia is…..

-Shar Jackson
http://www.redlasso.com/ClipPlayer.aspx?id=b0ea5f70-0e4c-4951-a659-08adcae9bef7″>talks about Celebrity Fit Club and Kevin Federline on Good Day L.A….

–The Colbert Report lands a new producer…..

-Carly Simon says “You’re So Vain” has nothing to do with David Geffen. (Sigh) Do we have to wait another 40 years to find out who this damn song was firing shots?!

-Roger Ebert to make a special return to TV on tomorrow’s Oprah…..

“I don’t want you to ever forget this. Vienna, I love you … Vienna, will you marry me?”

Talk about betting on The Underdog: Jake Pavelka chose bad girl marketing rep Vienna Girardi to be his bride on Monday night’s season finale of The Bachelor: On The Wings Of Love.

After kicking off the season with 25 women, Pavelka narrowed the playing field down to two: controversial firecracker Vienna and bubbly sweetheart Tenley Molzahn. Although he claimed to be in love with both woman, the 32-year-old airline pilot from Dallas, TX chose Girardi over fan fave Tenley on the explosive season’s four-hour finale event.

Before tonight’s season ender, Jake told PEOPLE that he was pleased with his decision and hoped the public supported his choice: “I just hope that everybody understands the decision I made because I’m the one who has to live with it. The show will keep going, another season will get under way and the public will move on to being obsessed with another person’s budding romance, but my life will keep going so I tried to make the best decision I could, the one that I could live with. I still feel like I made the right decision now a few months later. I’m happy because of that.”

On the car ride home, a jilted Tenley tearfully insisted that Jake had chosen the wrong woman.

“My heart feels broken right now. Hurts pretty bad,” she weeped, wiping away tears. “I want a man who can love me for every piece of me and who just lights up my life and I light up his. And I see Jake. Jake will see the mistake he made and I feel bad for him. I think he’s gonna see it, I think. I don’t think he knows what he wants….”

According to The Associated Press, the success rate of The Bachelor has been relatively poor. Only four of the 13 other couples are still together.

Pavelka will compete on the forthcoming 10th season of ABC’s Dancing With The Stars, premiering March 22.

A mother of eight, an NFL wide receiver, and a former Beverly Hills baddie are among the stars hitting the ballroom for a new season of Dancing with the Stars.

The list is out — Check out the celebs will be competing for the coveted disco ball trophy on the 10th installment of TV’s hottest ballroom dance competition…..

The Bachelor Jake Pavelka; former astronaut Buzz Aldrin; Reno 911’s Niecy Nash; Pussycat Dolls singer Nicole Scherzinger; Olympic gold medalist Evan Lysacek; former bombshell Pamela Anderson; reality star Kate Gosselin; big-mouth Cincinnati Bengals wide receiver Chad Ochocinco; All My Children’s Aiden Turner; ESPN reporter Erin Andrews; and spoiled actress Shannen Doherty were announced as the latest cast of DWTS during Monday night’s season finale of The Bachelor.

I’m not sure about you, but I’ll take Nicole Scherzinger for the win. Anyone who can master those PCD routines should breeze through the Paso Doble. Do you have any early favorites?

The 10th season of Dancing With The Stars debuts March 22 @ 8 PM on ABC.

On Monday, TV Land ordered 10 episodes of its first original sitcom, Hot in Cleveland, a new comedy featuring an all-star cast of veteran small screen stars: Valerie Bertinelli, Wendie Malick, Jane Leeves, and the adorable Betty White.

“We are thrilled that ‘Hot in Cleveland’ is TV Land’s first original sitcom,” states Larry W. Jones, president, TV Land. “The talented cast has amazing chemistry and delivers the clever script from a renowned sitcom writer with hilarity and sincerity. This show has enormous potential and we are so excited to be a part of it.”

The series revolves around three eccentric fortysomething best friends from Los Angeles (Bertinelli, Leeves, Malick) who end up stuck in Ohio after their vacation to Paris is temporarily derailed. The girls decide to stay in Cleveland when they realize the locals consider them glamorous. Betty plays an opinionated old grump who lives in a cottage adjacent to the trio’s rental home.

Hot In Cleveland premieres in June.

The Backstreet Boys are set to embark on a fan appreciation cruise that will hit the open seas this spring. The Orlando-based boy banders — who rose to fame in the ’90s with hits like “All I Have To Give” and “Everybody (Backstreet’s Back)” — took to their Twitter on Monday to announce that they are taking their show seaside with the first official Backstreet Boys Cruise.

“BACKSTREET BOYS CRUISE!!! Pre-SAIL March 15th at 12:00PM EST to FC members only first. Keep checking the site for more Cruise details….”

Visit BackstreetBoys.com For More Information…..

Jaime Escalante — the East Los Angeles math teacher whose devotion to his students inspired the 1988 film Stand and Deliver — is fighting cancer, and his family is struggling to raise the money needed to pay for his treatments.

The Bolivian-born Escalante, now 80 years old, gained international acclaim for his work teaching advanced math to impoverished students at Garfield High School in Los Angeles. Now Mr. Escalante could use a bit of encouragement of his own. His family needs about $25,000 to get the beloved educator the medical care that will make his final days a bit more comfortable, and his friends are reaching out for help. A fund for Escalante has been set up by a number of Stand and Deliver cast members — which includes Edward James Olmos, Vanessa Marquez, and Lou Diamond Phillips — and The Foundation for Advancements in Science and Education in Pasadena.

If you’re in the Los Angeles area, a fundraising drive is set for this Saturday, March from 10 AM to 4 PM at Garfield High School. If you’re not in California, but would like to help, contributions can be sent to “Friends of Jaime,” C/O FASE, 236 W. Mountain St., Suite 105, Pasadena, CA 91103. Call 626-793-5300 for information.

Jay Leno returns to the nation’s TV screens on Monday night. Leno will be reclaiming his old job at NBC’s Tonight Show just nine months after turning the show over to the now unemployed Conan O’Brien, and only 19 days after NBC pulled the plug on Jay’s ill-fated primetime reality show.

Do you think viewers will hold a grudge when Leno returns to 11:35 PM? Can the comedian reclaim his audience after the debacle that left O’Brien out in the cold?

Former American Idol finalist Katharine McPhee has signed up for a new pilot on NBC, The Hollywood Reporter has learned.

McPhee — who finished second behind Taylor Hicks on the fifth season of American Idol — is making her TV-pilot debut with a lead role in The Pink House, a new network comedy about Midwestern twentysomethings John “Fitz” Fitzgerald and Rob “Bernie” Burnett who move to Los Angeles rent a house on the beach and set out to find their dream jobs.

McPhee will play Emily, a sexy, down-to-earth Midwest girl who lives in an apartment behind the guys’ house.

This is not McPhee’s only foray into the world of acting: Katharine co-starred in the 2008 box office comedy The House Bunny and made her TV acting debut in an episode of the CBS crime drama CSI: NY. The powerhouse will next appear in the big screen romantic comedy You May Not Kiss the Bride, premiering in theaters later this year.

How cute. Now that he’s 16, tween pop sensation Justin Bieber is using his courtside Laker seats to do what an red-blooded young man would — ogle at the melons of hot cheerleaders.

Things have been quiet on the Kirsten Dunst front lately — then this turned up: A new music video from Japanese girl band Akihabara Majokko Princess — featuring the Spider-Man starlet lipsyncing to a revamped version of The Vapor’s ’80s classic “Turning Japanese.” Dunst participates in some over-the-top cosplay and has a great time dancing through the streets of Japan in this video choreographed by Japanese artist Takashi Murakami.

The Learning Channel has left Miss America homeless.

TLC has opted not to renew its television rights to the decades-old beauty pageant, effectively dumping the show in a statement to The Associated Press on Monday.

“We are happy that TLC was part of the modernization and revitalization of the Miss America pageant. This year we delivered record ratings, besting any of it’s prior performances on cable. However, our three year deal has concluded and we have chosen not to renew. We wish the Miss America Organization well.”

According to Reuters: Miss America aired on NBC from 1966-96, then switched to ABC. When ABC declined to renew the pageant in 2006, organizers shopped the show to cable networks. CMT picked it up for two years, then dropped it. TLC signed a three-year agreement with pageant organizers in 2008.

TLC declined to say why it is cutting ties with the pageant — which has waned in popularity in recent years, but attracted a record 4.5 million viewers in January.

The buzzed-about 10th season of Dancing With The Stars just got a dose of bitchiness from one of Hollywood’s most notorious villains! Beverly Hills, 90210 vet Shannen Doherty will be dancing her way back into our lives — one tantrum at a time — as a contestant on the new season of TV’s hottest ballroom smash, celebrity snoops spilled to The Wrap on Monday.

The official 2010 DWTS lineup will be revealed by host Tom Bergeron on tonight’s season finale of The Bachelor, kicking off @ 8 PM on ABC.

Congrats to Christina Milian and her husband The-Dream (real name Terius Nash) — the newlyweds welcomed their first daughter last week. The singer-actress delivered a healthy daughter Violet, with “a full head of head,” on Feb. 26, a friend of the couple confirmed to PEOPLE on Monday.

This is the first child for Christina, 28, and the fourth for the Grammy-winner singer/songwriter/record producer, 31, who has three children (a four-year-old daughter and three-year-old twin sons) with his ex-wife, R&B singer Nivea.

The couple wed in September. Milian announced her pregnancy just weeks after secretly eloping with The-Dream in Las Vegas.

Sorry Full House fans, Uncle Jesse won’t be shaking to the Cha Cha Cha or jumping to the Jive on the new season of DWTS. John Stamos took to his Twitter account on Monday to debunk whispers that he is among the Z-listers that will herded into the ballroom for the 10th season of Dancing With The Stars.

“I’M NOT DOING DANCING WITH THE STARS/ flattered to be asked (i guess)i’m not a dancer….” Stamos wrote.

This isn’t the first time Stamos has distanced himself from the career graveyard known as reality TV. In an October 2009 interview with The Advocate, John slammed Dancing with the Stars, branding the popular series an aging hasbeen’s final pit stop on the Road To Obscurity.

Gee John, tell us something we don’t know!

The Avocate: “You already show off some pretty groovy moves in Birdie. Would you ever do Dancing with the Stars?”

John Stamos: “Uh, no. Not to be disrespectful, but isn’t that the place you go when you don’t have a career? Why would I dance on that show when I get to dance on Broadway?”

The mother of Jasmina Anema, the 6-year-old New York girl who died of leukemia in January, has backtracked from a Twitter post questioning Rihanna’s motives in rallying behind her daughter’s cause – but the grief-stricken mom admits that she expected a phone call from the “Rude Boy” crooner after her daughter passed away.

“It has been a month since Jasmina’s passing. Still not even a card or text message from Rihanna. Did she use my child for a publicity stunt?” the tweet in question, posted to the official ONEFORJASMINA account this weekend, read. The note has since been deleted, but not before it was retweeted hundreds of times.

Rihanna — along with Kelly Rowland, Lil Mama, and even The First Family– were instrumental in a worldwide initiative to find a bone marrow donor for the precocious Manhattanite. But Thea Anema felt abandoned by her celebrity pals after Jasmina lost her cancer battle earlier this year.

In an e-mail to PEOPLE.com Monday, Anema denied writing the message herself, but said she is disappointed not to have heard from Rihanna, 22, since Jasmina passed away on Jan. 27.

“Friends have helped me with all kinds of stuff and many know the passwords to my personal e-mail, the Caringbridge site and also Twitter,” Anema wrote. “Although I did not Tweet this particular one, I do wish that Rihanna had responded to me on Jasmina’s passing. It would have meant the world to me. Jasmina adored her,” she writes. “Rihanna was so kind to come and visit her. I just felt hurt not hearing anything from her. Or of any other celebrities for that matter. The only ones who reached out to me personally during this time of grief were the Obamas.”

In Rihanna’s defense, pals say the pop star was devastated by Jasmina’s death, and hasn’t been able to bring herself to call the child’s parents. Days after Jasmina’s passing, Rihanna remembered her fondly in a statement issued by her publicist: “She was a very free, fun spirited little girl, full of energy, always happy, always energetic. I always remember she wouldn’t sit still. She was always running around, always had a smile on her face.”

He’s already famous for his choreography on the end zone, but Cincinnati Bengals receiver Chad Ochocinco could soon be scoring touchdowns for his Paso Doble and saucy tango.

Rumor has it that the NFL star has joined the 10th season of ABC’s ballroom dancing competition, Dancing With The Stars, premiering later this month. If true, Ochocinco will follow the footsteps of previous NFL stars who have appeared on the reality smash, including Warren Sapp, Emmitt Smith, and Jerry Rice. The cast of Season 10 of DWTS will be revealed tonight on the season finale of The Bachelor

Kate Gosselin and Pamela Anderson are also rumored to be joining DWTS this year – what other star would you like to see on the show?

When Elmo Met Autotune: Elmo, Sesame Street’s eternal 3-year-old, ventured away from one television’s friendliest neighborhoods for a visit to the land of big hair and even bigger hijinks — The Wendy Williams Show. And he even learned a new catchphrase. Check out this video of Elmo singing his original song, “How You Doin?”, for Wendy on Monday’s show.

Kim Kardashian has reportedly forked over $4.8 million for a Mediterranean villa she will share with her Super Bowl star boyfriend, the New Orleans Saints’ Reggie Bush. According to TMZ, the socialite recently bought a 4,000 square foot home that has 5 bedrooms and 4.5 baths in the Hollywood Hills.