Even the stripper-obsessed can find love! "[Drew] Carey, the new host of The Price Is Right, got engaged to Nicole Jaracz, a recent graduate of culinary school, on Tuesday, said his spokeswoman, Christina Papadopoulos." We wish the couple a strong marriage, and an even stronger prenup—otherwise Carey's looking at paying out in powers of ten for every year they manage to make it last. [cnn.com]
· We realize we left many of you hanging last week when we posted the shocking clip in which the beloved Olly Girls of Sunset Tan were let go for failing to fully commit to their accelerator-pimping duties. As this Yo on E! clip plainly shows, however, the girls are in good spirits, and ready for whatever spray-on-nozzle-clearing challenges lie ahead.
· Drew Carey waxes philosophical about suddenly finding himself in a game show ghetto.
· Now it's Virgie Arthur vs. Howard K. Stern on the Anna Nicole Sue-Go-Round.
· Every lyric from Billy Joel's "We Didn't Start the Fire," explained with a hyperlink.
· No, your eyes are not deceiving you. That's Barbara Walters making out with Star Jones on a New York city street!
We're not entirely sure what to make of this Pringles-can-eye-view of Rosie O'Donnell recently uploaded to her Flickr stream. Perhaps the digitally altered portrait is message-art, there to remind Drew Carey—recently chosen over her to host The Price is Right—that despite his recent casting coup, the planet still very much revolves around O'Donnell's blinding star, and that he should remain grateful that she doesn't choose to dispense of the bespectacled comedian by incinerating him with her sapphic UV rays or one blow of her hurricane-powered super-breath.
Having determined that Hi Lo matches would in no way be enhanced by a clinically depressed hostess who'd interrupt the popular pricing game to vengefully accuse announcer Rich Fields of having betrayed her, producers of The Price is Right opted not to go with Rosie O'Donnell as Bob Barker's successor. Instead, TV Week reports, CBS has made an official offer to former sitcom star and improv referee Drew Carey:
· Imagine's Brian Grazer will superproduce an adaptation of the graphic novel Cowboys and Aliens for DreamWorks and Universal, a project the spikey-haired seeker described as the "perfect realization of all the cowboys-meeting-aliens-related ideas I've been quietly developing since I was a hyperactive six years old locked in my bedroom with a chest full of toys." [Variety]
· Fox's show about people who think they can dance continues to shame their one about people who think they can direct movies, pulling in more than triple the viewers of the last On The Lot installment. [THR]
· Another famously overweight TV personality rumored to be under consideration to replace Bob Barker is Drew Carey. [Variety]
· Advertisers give a $2.4 billion upfront vote of confidence to Steve McPherson's vision for ABC, with one Madison avenue booster gushing, "Have you heard about this Cavemen thing? It's like a sitcom and car insurance commercial all rolled into one! Think of what they could do with that Coke ad with the polar bears." [THR]
· Stripping off his shirt and smearing his entire body in warpaint, CEO Howard Stringer whipped 7,000 employees into a frenzy at a shareholder ceremony in which he dramatically declared himself the "Sony Warrior." [Variety]
