The Bachelor: Forget Jason, Melissa Reveals New Boyfriend. Buddytv

Taking into account some recent developments, it looks like Melissa Rycroft’s now infamous dumping on the latest season of The Bachelor was a huge blessing in disguise after all. Not only did she get unprecedented support from people about the incident (while Jason Mesnick and Molly Malaney were portrayed as backstabbing villains), she landed a belated spot on yet another ABC show Dancing with the Stars, and, judging from the ratings, helped make the transition on ABC’s Monday night lineup as fluid and successful as possible.

As if that weren’t enough, Us Weekly reports that Melissa hasn’t exactly been pining over Jason weeks after the televised dumping. Melissa revealed that she has been dating long-time friend and insurance agent Ty. She first mentioned Ty, which ironically is also the name of Jason’s four-year-old son, on a recent appearance on The Ellen DeGeneres Show.

“We’ve been really good friends, but the timing was never right,” she says. “With all this going on, he’s my support system. It’s funny how things happen.”

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‘Iron Chef’ Cat Cora and partner both pregnant. MSN

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Things are about to get crowded in Cat Cora’s kitchen.

The “Iron Chef America” star says on her MySpace page that she and her partner, Jennifer, are each expecting a son.

“(Jennifer) carried my embryo and I carried hers,” Cora told OK Magazine. “It’s like surrogating, but obviously all of our kids are equal.”

The same anonymous sperm donor fathered all four children.

The 41-year-old Food Network chef says she and her 37-year-old partner will deliver their babies about three months apart. The couple already has two sons: Zoran, 5 and Caje, 22

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Big Brother 11: It’s That Time Again! . TV Grapevine

Big Brother is now entering it’s eleventh season and there is great anticipation from the fans. Many fans have been worried for the past few seasons that Big Brother would soon end it’s long run as the best reality TV show of the summer season. Fear not Big Brother 11 is now casting and will return

Last season Big Brother made a concerted effort to turn away from what had become very extreme and returned to what had made Big Brother a success in seasons one through seven. Last season may have been the best season ever with the under-rated Dan pairing up with Memphis and making it all the way to the end as the winner.

Most fans will surely agree last season was a season of enjoyable characters, who will ever forget Renny Martyn the eccentric hairdresser from N’Orleans, or Jessie Godderz the self possessed bodybuilder. The list of great characters seems endless for Big Brother 11, April, Michelle, and Jerry, and the list goes on goes on beyond that. The comparison to Big Brother 6 is indeed accurate in that both seasons were full of interesting characters with the out come of the show turning on a dime each week.

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Steve Wozniak Struck by the ‘Dancing with the Stars’ Curse!. ETOnline

The injuries on “Dancing with the Stars” continue to mount — and ET has the latest.

Holly Madison and Melissa Rycroft stepped in to replace two injured celeb dancers, Gilles Marini suffered a separated shoulder and now Apple computer co-founder Steve Wozniak is snapped wearing a cast.

The “Dancing with the Stars” competitor, who is partnered with Karina Smirnoff, was spotted with a removable cast on his left leg, allegedly due to a foot fracture.

The good news: ET has confirmed with an ABC spokesperson that Steve will still be competing. His doctor has advised caution and he is to wear his cast as much as possible and rest his foot whenever he can.

Steve has vowed that next week’s performance will be “wild and fast, and all-over and crazy and fun, just like the first one.”

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Bedlam breaks out at NYC ‘Top Model’ auditions. MSN

Three people were arrested and six others hurt Saturday after bedlam broke out while they waited to audition for “America’s Next Top Model,” police said.

Police didn’t know what prompted the chaos involving hundreds of people outside the Park Central New York hotel in Manhattan. The panic left the street outside the hotel littered with shoes and clothing, according to news reports.

Three people were arrested on disorderly conduct charges, police said. Authorities also shut down the audition, saying it wasn’t properly organized.

Four injured people declined treatment, while two others were taken to a hospital, the fire department said. Their conditions weren’t immediately available.

The phone rang unanswered at the hotel, and representatives for The CW Network, which airs the reality show, didn’t immediately return calls.

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Dancing with the Stars: Steve-O, Wozniak Injured–Will They Stay?. Buddytv

It seems that season 8 of Dancing with the Stars has a string of bad luck attached to it as injury has just claimed two more victims. Steve-O, the 34-year-old Jackass prankster, is now suffering from a painful back injury, which is believed to be related to his recent salsa rehearsals. Wozniak has been dancing on a fractured foot for two weeks.

This marks the fourth and fifth injuries the show has claimed this season. Country singer Jewel was the first reported casualty after being diagnosed with a fractured tibia in both legs, followed by Gilles Marini, who has been diagnosed with tendonitis in his groin and shoulder, and Nancy O’Dell, who will need surgery on torn knee cartilage. Jewel and O’Dell withdrew from the competition but Marini decided to stick around.

Like Marini, Steve-O has no plans to withdraw from the competition.

“We will dance Monday… He’s in loads of pain,” his dance partner, Lacey Schwimmer told Usmagazine.com Thursday.

Meanwhile, the prankster has also released this statement:

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Gilles Marini Won’t Be Dancing’s Next Casualty. People

With singer Jewel and Access Hollywood host Nancy O’Dell having to bow out of the competition due to injuries, actor Gilles Marini tells PEOPLE he does not want to become Dancing’s next casualty.

“I am going to do everything in my power to keep dancing,” Marini says. “I will dance on Monday, no question.”

Marini was diagnosed with tendonitis in his left shoulder and groin area on Feb. 27. and has been taking ibuprofen for the pain and inflammation.

“It’s like I have a knife [in the groin area] and when I move or lunge, it’s like it is turning a quarter turn,” Marini confessed.

The 33-year-old actor will perform the cha-cha with partner Cheryl Burke on Dancing’s season 8 premiere Monday, March 9.

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Conference Call with Jasmine Murray and Jorge Nunez of American Idol. Reality Wanted

American Idol may have taken a Top 13 for season 8 but it meant a double elimination after this week’s performance. The theme was Michael Jackson and some singers, who looked great in Hollywood and in Top 36, suddenly fell flat and found themselves at the bottom of the pack. On last night’s live elimination episode of Idol, Jasmine Murray and Jorge Nunez received the lowest amount of votes. In a new twist, the judges were given the power to save a contestant and keep them in the competition but they passed on Jasmine and Jorge. Today, the two spoke to reports in a conference call about their song choices and their feelings on not being saved.

On their song choices, Jasmine‘s rendition of “I‘ll Be There“ and Jorge‘s “Never Gonna Say Goodbye“…

Jasmine: I thought it was a good song choice. It’s a beautiful song and The Jackson 5, they were really young when they did it so I thought it would be a good idea for me to also do something that they did when they were young. It’s a beautiful song with a great message and I really liked it.

Jorge: I just wanted to do something different because I didn’t want to stay in the same kind of vibe of singing. I didn’t wanna sing ballads throughout the whole competition. And since it was the first time on the big stage I wanted something I could play with, move around, have a little fun on stage, and I had a lot of fun there.

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Exclusive: Spencer Duhm talks about his time on ‘Survivor: Tocantins’. Reality Tv World

For someone who was only 10-years-old when Richard Hatch won the first season of Survivor in 2000, Spencer Duhm did pretty well in Survivor: Tocantins’ as the long-running reality series’ first-ever teenage castaway.

However, following an Immunity Challenge that played to his weaknesses and left him as the scapegoat for the Jalapao’s loss, the 19-year-old college student from Lakeland, FL became the fifth castaway to be eliminated from the CBS reality series.

On Friday, Spencer spoke to Reality TV World about why he felt he performed so badly in the Immunity Challenge, what actions he took to try and save himself from elimination that weren’t shown on television, and what his rationale was for deciding not to tell his castaways that he was gay.

Reality TV World: So based on your pre-Tribal Council conversation with [James "JT" Thomas] and the comments you made at Tribal Council afterwards, it looked like you weren’t too surprised to be the one voted off, is that correct.

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‘Hell’s Kitchen’: Francisco returns as the women go down in flames. Zap2it

It is nice to know that despite the tweaks that have been made to “Hell’s Kitchen” this season some things remain the same. You have still got your infighting. You have still got your imploding. And you have also still got your sparkalicious party planner, Francisco. Who could ask for more?

How did the Red team possibly start the night mourning the loss of Colleen? They seemed to believe that they really needed her as their “cheerleader.” From what we saw of Colleen, she was pretty incompetent, perhaps a half-step better than Lacey, but only a half-step. I know Ramsay said that at the last service Lacey was “shining,” but I think he got all confused with the difference between real gold and fool’s gold. Lacey is not real gold.

Tonight’s challenge was to impress a boy (Max), and his mother and grandmother with fine dining versions of a hamburger, brisket, and chicken soup for the young one’s upcoming Bar Mitzvah.

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