Fancast: dish 'n dat

The cast of Gossip Girl suckered into posing for a clothing label that their characters wouldn't be caught dead wearing [People Magazine]

This has nothing to do with anything but...OMG Absinthe is back! [NY Times]

Today’s Biggest Duh Award goes to…Hollywood Reporter for their enlightening thesis that suggests that—gasp!—younger people are watching tv on the web more than older folks [Hollywood Reporter]

Last week’s tornado on Wisteria Lane? Pretty much cleaned house [Hollywood Reporter]

The Guardian suggests Posh Spice doesn’t belong in LA because she places too much emphasis on dressing up during the normal daily routine, which supposedly is a major no-no for us Angelenos. Should she revamp her wardrobe to include sandals and dreadlocks? [The Guardian]

Are the blogs and the magazines on a nose-modifying witch-hunt? It’s good for smelling stuff and getting all runny when you’re sick. Get over it guys. Leave girls and their bodies alone [E! Online & Fox News]

People magazine has a newfound obsession with what pregnant ladies like Law & Order's Elisabeth Rohm and The Office's Angela Kinsey eat. This just in! They get hungry! They eat lots of food! Uh, point taken [People & People]

American Idol's Melinda Doolittle hawking chicken (haha get it) for a restaurant we've never heard of (that also sounds fake!) [Entertainment Weekly]

MTV freelancers are following in the footsteps of their WGA brethren and have staged a walk-out over crappy health benefits. No word yet as to when former MTV Veejays Kennedy and Kurt Loder will walk the line in solidarity, sporting "I NO LONGER WANT my MTV" t-shirts. [Gawker]

Entertainment weekly calls out American Idol's Blake Lewis' new music video. I know the music industry is struggling, but this is ridiculous. My little sister can do a better job shooting a music video with $7, our dad's panasonic and Barbie. And maybe some sparklies. [EW]

Ellen is creating animal sanctuaries, doing her best to reverse the harm that was done by Iggie-gate. [Page Six]

Brad Pitt is selling his signature newsie cap to raise funds for the Make It Right foundation, in support of rebuilding New Orleans. Swoon. [Make It Right website]

The Regis Philbin Redux Diet: Regis announces he'll be hosting 'Live' three times per week starting in 2008. Oh Regis we hardly knew ye. [Mollygood]

Kevin Bacon and Tim Robbins sign up to support Democrat John Edwards in his presidential bid. It remains unclear if, should he win the election, they would be pardoned for the farce that was Mystic River. [People]

Jane Pratt, creator of Jane magazine and all that is good in the world, is in talks to develop a new reality show: A cross between Ugly Betty and American Idol. American Betty? Ugly Idol? [Jezebel]

CNN's Anderson Cooper doing his best Norman Bates impression. Kind of creepy. [Page Six]

WGA strike: All's not yet quiet on the homefront. [EW]

OMG alert. Isaac Mizrahi to be a guest on Martha Stewart's show December 28th. Enough diva behavior to make one's head explode. [Fashion Week Daily]

Scott Baio weds his reality show costar--I mean--his longtime girlfriend, Renee Sloan. The entire event was filmed for VH1's Scott Baio is 45... and Single. Tacky. [People Magazine]