The prostitute at the center of the salacious scandal that brought down former New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer and generated national headlines is going to dish on her life as a pricey escort. ABC says Ashley Alexandra Dupre sat down with Diane Sawyer on the program “20/20.”

Dupre reveals how an “upper middle-class, girl next door got into the profession and the psychological journey she continues to experience.”

Spitzer resigned March 12 after it was disclosed he had used Emperors Club VIP. Dupre worked for the escort service.

On Thursday, federal prosecutors said they wouldn’t bring criminal charges against Spitzer, marking the end of the saga.

Four people pleaded guilty to running the prostitution operation.

The show will air Friday at 10 p.m.

(source)

• Eliot Spitzer Hooker Earns $200,000 in Music Downloads
• Kristen in N.Y. Governor Elliot Spitzers Scandal Speaks Out

Series creator Marc Cherry is “very hot to trot to have her appear on the season-five finale,” Hollywood p.r. man Hal Lifson, who’s not involved with the show, told us. “Marc is highly enamored of Sarah and sees her as the ultimate guest star [playing] a similar version of herself. The idea has gone over surprisingly well with execs at Disney, who see it as a blockbuster based on Sarah’s huge ratings on ‘Saturday Night Live.’ ” Cherry declined to comment. An ABC rep said, “There’s no truth to it.”

(source)

• Christina Aguilera: “Inspired” to Record After Having Baby
• All is forgiven; McCain returning to Letterman

After defeating John McCain in Virginia, Ohio, Iowa and Florida and leading in Electoral College votes, Barack Obama made history Tuesday night by becoming the nation’s first black president.

“Change has come to America,” he told an estimated 125,000 supporters who cheered him on in Grant Park in Chicago, his hometown. “The road ahead will be long. Our climb will be steep. We may not get there in one year or even one term, but America — I have never been more hopeful than I am tonight that we will get there. I promise you — we as a people will get there.”

The 47-year-old senator from Illinois (who is married to wife of 16 years, Michelle, and has two daughters, Malia, 10, and Sasha, 7) swept through traditionally Democratic states in the East and Midwest, as well as Virginia, Ohio, Iowa and Florida. (Obama’s victory in Ohio was particularly telling: No Republican has ever won the presidency without it.) He also lead in Electoral College votes.

“The American people have spoken, and spoken clearly,” a disappointed McCain told supporters as they booed in Arizona.

Along with his running mate Joe Biden, Obama will be sworn in as the 44th U.S. president on Jan. 20, 2009.

Barack Obama scored a barrier-shattering victory last night to become the first black president of the United States - capping a 22-month quest that tapped into a national hunger for “hope” and “change.”

At age 47 and still serving his first Senate term, the Democrat cleared a historic hurdle that seemed insurmountable just a few years ago - and was bolstered by his party padding its majority in Congress.

He had 338 electoral votes to John McCain’s 157, and was winning the popular vote by 52 to 47 percent. Obama was the first Democrat in decades to crack the 50 percent threshold.

The president-elect and his family took the stage at a massive rally of more than 125,000 people at Grant Park in Chicago.

“It’s been a long time coming, but tonight, because of what we did on this day, in this election, at this defining moment, change has come to America,” Obama told the throng, which included Oprah Winfrey, Brad Pitt and the Rev. Jesse Jackson, who in 1984 became the first black candidate to win a presidential primary.

“If there is anyone out there who doubts that America is a place where anything is possible, who still wonders if the dream of our founders is alive in our time, who still questions the power of our democracy, tonight is your answer,” Obama said.

“I was never the likeliest candidate for this office,” said Obama, who paid tribute to his grandmother, who died Monday.

In January, he will become the 44th president of a nation that has struggled to come to grips with its history of slavery and its bloody battles for civil rights that raged just a few decades ago.

“Even as we celebrate tonight, we know the challenges that tomorrow will bring are the greatest of our lifetime - two wars, a planet in peril, the worst financial crisis of a century,” he said.

“The road ahead will be long. Our climb will be steep,” he said. “We may not get there in one year or even one term, but . . . I promise you, we as a people will get there.”

“There are many who won’t agree with every decision or policy I make as president, and we know that government can’t solve every problem,” he added. “But I will always be honest with you about the challenges we face.”

He sent a message to the rest of the world that the nation would defeat its enemies, and join with its friends.

(source)

• All is forgiven; McCain returning to Letterman
• Christina Aguilera: “Inspired” to Record After Having Baby

Barack Obama, whose grandmother, Madelyn Dunham passed away one day before the election, thanked John McCain for his condolences while campaigning in North Carolina on Monday, Politico.com reported.

“It was incredibly gracious of Senator McCain,” Obama told the crowd. “It’s an example of that Senator McCain has continued to serve his country honorably.”

Dunham, 86, who helped raise Obama, was battling cancer. She also recently broke her hip.

“She has gone home. She died peacefully in her sleep, with my sister at her side. So there’s great joy as well as tears,” Obama said.

He described his grandmother as a “very humble person” and a very plainspoken person” and “one of those quiet heroes,” according to Politico.com.

“This is a little of a bittersweet time for me,” Obama said. “We have had a remarkable campaign and – when we started 21 months ago I didn’t know how it would turn out, and no matter what happens tomorrow I’m going to feel good about how it’s turned out because all of you have created this incredible campaign.”

(source)

• All is forgiven; McCain returning to Letterman
• Christina Aguilera: “Inspired” to Record After Having Baby

My friends, it’s John McCain, live from New York, just three days before the election. Aides to the Republican presidential candidate said Friday that McCain will make a detour from battleground states to appear on “Saturday Night Live,” the late-night show that has been a must-watch for many during the political season.

Hosting the show this Saturday is actor Ben Affleck, a supporter of Democratic candidate Barack Obama. The musical guest is singer David Cook.

When McCain’s running mate, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, appeared on the show Oct. 18, “Saturday Night Live” earned its best ratings in 14 years. Former star and head writer Tina Fey, a Palin lookalike, has been at the center of the show’s recent parodies of the campaign.

“SNL” regular Darrell Hammond impersonates McCain on the late-night show, now in its 34th season.

McCain last appeared on “Saturday Night Live” in May, after clinching the nomination and while the Democratic primary continued. The 72-year-old Arizona senator joked about his age, saying: “I ask you, what should we be looking for in our next president? Certainly, someone who is very, very, very old.”

(source)

• All is forgiven; McCain returning to Letterman
• Christina Aguilera: “Inspired” to Record After Having Baby

It is tough to comprehends the level of assitudeness that John Edwards is reaching. I don’t think there has ever been anything quite approaching it. Sure, Balthazar Getty came close, but his wife wasn’t dying of cancer. True, he chose Sienna Miller, which makes it close, but I think John Edwards is the clear winner of the a-hole of the year award. I know there are still a couple of months in the year remaining for someone to do something spectacular, but I just don’t see someone catching him.

The Washington Post was covering a speech that Elizabeth Edwards gave Monday night and she was not wearing her wedding ring for the first time ever that anyone could remember. You would think John would have been the best husband in the whole world after all the recent revelations. Nope. Guess again. Instead of spending time with the woman he has been with forever he has instead been spending a great deal of time with Rielle Hunter and her child. His child? I don’t know. Guess if he grows up with a twang and a penchant for cheating we will know it is his.

So, not only do you abandon your terminally ill wife, but you go back to the woman that caused all the trouble in the first place? You would rather hang out with Rielle than your dying wife? Does John Edwards even have anyone who wants to be with him? I mean friends? Would you be his friend? I think he is disgusting and to turn your back on your family to be with someone as awful as Rielle Hunter automatically earns you the a-hole of the year.

(source)

• Is it over between John Edwards and his wife, Elizabeth?
• I Want Some Hush Money

“The wedding band is missing,” the Washington Post reported yesterday after covering a speech the cancer-stricken mother of two gave in DC on Monday night. Edwards, the former North Carolina senator who ran for president twice, finally acknowledged three months ago that he had an affair with campaign videographer Rielle Hunter. He denies he’s the father of Hunter’s baby girl, although he has been spotted visiting mother and child. A source said Edwards is no longer living with Elizabeth and that the couple have separated. But reps for Elizabeth Edwards did not return calls and e-mails.

(source)

• John Edwards Wants You To Know He Is Still An Ass
• I Want Some Hush Money

The Executive Producers of Fox’s Are You Smarter Than A 5th Grader? asked Barack Obama, John McCain, Bill & Hillary Clinton, NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg, and California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger to see if they wanted to find out if they are smarter than a 5th grader. They all wimped out, I mean declined. So then Zoo Productions (the EPs) asked Katie Couric, Diane Sawyer, Brian Williams, and Barbara Walters if they are daring enough to challenge a bunch of 5th graders and they too failed to take on the challenge. Seriously why are they all afraid to find out if they are Smarter Than A 5th Grader?

Personally I wished they would’ve asked George W Bush, just so they could ask him “Who is the President of The United States?” and see if he knew the answer!!!

Well they might not be brave enought ot face the 5th graders, but the Boston Celtic Cheerleaders are on this Friday’s episode of the show at 8p!

(source)

• Khloe Kardashian to Shia LaBeouf: Be Smarter
• Elisha Cuthbert should never wear red lipstick - ever

A popular local TV anchorwoman who had a small part in the Bush biopic “W” was in critical condition Monday after being beaten in her home, and police said they are investigating possible motives.

KATV anchor Anne Pressly, 26, was found about 4:30 a.m. Monday by her mother, who went to the house when her daughter didn’t answer a wake-up call, Little Rock police spokesman Cassandra Davis said.

Davis said investigators are talking to Pressly’s co-workers to determine whether she “has had any problems.” Davis said Pressly’s purse was gone and that robbery was among the possible motives being explored. Davis would not discuss specifics of what the investigation revealed.

Pressly was found unresponsive in her bed and a police report said she was bleeding from her head. Davis said Pressly was in critical condition at an hospital.

Davis said Pressly was stabbed, but KATV cited investigators later in reporting that all of her injuries were from being beaten in the head and upper body.

Pressly appeared briefly in Oliver Stone’s new movie about President Bush that opened over the weekend.

She portrays a conservative commentator who speaks favorably of President Bush’s “Mission Accomplished” event on an aircraft carrier shortly after the start of the Iraq war. She won the role after being noticed by the casting director when she went to Shreveport, La., where the movie was filmed, to work on a story about it and the city’s film industry.

Spokeswoman Kate Hubin for the film company Lionsgate confirmed Pressly’s role but declined to comment further.

KATV’s Web site notes that Pressly’s most notable interview was with Vice President Dick Cheney. Traveling through an Arkansas town, she found the highway blocked in front of a hunting goods store because Cheney was inside. Pressly asked for an interview, which she conducted on the ammunition aisle.

During its 11:30 a.m. newscast, anchor Jason Pederson read a story about the attack.

“We would ask that you keep Anne in your thoughts and, especially, in your prayers,” Pederson said.

Early Monday afternoon, a man answering a phone number for Pressly’s mother, Patricia Cannady, said the family had no comment.

(source)

• Jaime Pressly exposed Oops
• It’s All Over The Front Page, You Give Me Road Rage

Levi Johnston, who’s having a baby with Gov. Sarah Palin’s daughter, can’t believe all the things he’s hearing. No, he wasn’t held against his will on the campaign trail. No, he’s not being forced into a shotgun wedding with 17-year-old Bristol Palin.

“None of that’s true,” Johnston, 18, said in a rare interview with The Associated Press. “We both love each other. We both want to marry each other. And that’s what we are going to do.”

Standing in the driveway of his family home in this small Alaska town, Johnston spoke about the rumors swirling around him.

The soft-spoken teenager discussed his relationship with Palin and how life has changed with fatherhood fast approaching. He agreed to talk despite the presidential campaign’s advice in the days following Gov. Sarah Palin’s nomination to avoid the media.

“They’re not telling me anything right now,” Johnston said as he checked his Blackberry. “It’s pretty chill.”

Not surprisingly, Johnston was a little shocked when he learned about Bristol’s pregnancy, but he says he quickly embraced the prospects of fatherhood. The baby is due Dec. 18. Johnston has dropped out of high school to take a job on the North Slope oil fields as an apprentice electrician.

There’s no word on how his future mother-in-law feels about Johnston’s decision to drop out of high school. Last year, she made a point of trying to turn around the high dropout rate in their hometown.

“I’d remind the kids that no matter where they are in life — (maybe) in circumstances that probably aren’t ideal — that there is no circumstance that they’re in that is insurmountable or would necessitate them just giving up,” Palin said.

Johnston hinted he’s expecting a boy, but he declined to discuss baby names.

“I’m looking forward to having him,” he said. “I’m going to take him hunting and fishing. He’ll be everywhere with me.”

Johnston, a Wasilla heartthrob, said he wanted to set the record straight.

For starters, he said his much-maligned MySpace page was a joke — the one that claimed he said: “I’m a … redneck,” and “I don’t want kids.” Johnston said his friends created the page a few years ago and he had nothing to do with it.

Johnston said he has dated Palin since his freshman year in high school.

“We were planning on getting married a long time ago with or without the kid,” he said. “That was the plan from the start.”

While Johnston provided few details about next summer’s wedding, the planning has started: A cousin will likely be his best man, and he has asked two hockey buddies, Ben Barber and Dane Wilson, to be groomsmen.

Barber doesn’t think anyone pressured Johnston into marriage.

“If he thought it wasn’t the right thing to do he probably wouldn’t do it,” he said.

Johnston is an avid hunter. He’s dark haired, tall and muscular, sports a bit of stubble and drives a red Chevy Silverado truck. He’d be the perfect cover for Field & Stream.

He’s bagged bears, sheep, elk, and caribou. Some of the antlers are scattered about his yard. Last July on a caribou hunt he lost a “promise” ring that Palin had given him. He said he decided to tattoo her name on the finger and not bother with more rings because he’d just lose them anyway.

Johnston said he wasn’t forced to campaign with Palin’s mother. Bristol Palin invited him and Johnston jumped at the chance. It was a whirlwind experience for Johnston, who was seated with the Palins at the Republican National Convention.

“At first, I was nervous,” he said. “Then I was like, ‘Whatever.’”

While Barber said his friend is a celebrity now, Johnston said it hasn’t changed him.

“I’m still the same old boy,” said Johnston. “I’m just a workin’ man.”

And now he’s also about to become a family man.

“We’re up for it. I’m excited to have my first kid. It’s going to be a lot of hard work but we can handle it.”

Wasilla hockey coach Bill Sturdevant, who was invited to the wedding, said he was sorry to hear Johnston wasn’t going to return for his senior year of high school. But he said he believes Johnston, a talented hockey player, will find his way.

“He’s a tough kid,” Sturdevant said. “He’s taking everything in stride.”

What about Johnston’s politics?

The young man said he wasn’t an expert on politics by any stretch. Asked about Barack Obama, he replied: “I don’t know anything about him. He seems like a good guy. I like him.”

Johnston didn’t register in time to vote, according to the Mat-Su Division of Elections Office in Wasilla. But he’s still rooting for John McCain and Sarah Palin.

“I just hope she wins,” he said. “She’s my future mother-in-law. She better win.”

(source)

• Demi Moore’s daughters know it all
• Christina Aguilera: “Inspired” to Record After Having Baby

If you’re among those who speculate that the only thing better than Tina Fey doing Sarah Palin on “Saturday Night Live” would be Sarah Palin making a cameo on the show, there might be hope yet.

If the buzz is to be believed, the NBC show is working to get the vice-presidential candidate and Alaska governor on air before the election.

Although “Saturday Night Live,” like many other shows, doesn’t comment specifically on bookings, a rep said, “There are always talks with the candidates’ camps.”

There’s also some buzz about Palin making an appearance on “The View.”

Sen. Barack Obama and Sen. John McCain have both made appearances, and “View” executive producer Bill Geddie says, “‘The View’ has established itself as a place to be seen for both the presidential and VP candidates, their wives and/or husbands and they all have an open invitation to appear on the show.’”

(source)

• John McCain set for Saturday Night Live cameo
• Take that, Tina: Palin wants to spoof her spoofer

It’s looking more and more likely that Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin will appear on ”Saturday Night Live” — to have some fun with Tina Fey.

As the comedian’s impressions of the GOP vice presidential candidate draw laughs from Republicans and Democrats alike, a top honcho from the John McCain campaign tells me there’s a debate going on about how to respond.

Some key McCain staffers are content with Palin joking about the “SNL” routines on the campaign trail — as when she scribbled “I’m not Tina Fey” on a supporter’s cell phone and said she’d dressed as Fey on Halloween. But others — including the governor herself — think a return punch on the NBC airwaves is what’s needed.

I’m hearing some sort of Palin tweak of Fey’s American Express commercials is in the works.

While next weekend’s ”Saturday Night Live” will be a rerun, it is possible Palin could appear Thursday on the first of NBC’s ”Weekend Update” specials in prime time.

Otherwise, the next orginal “SNL” show will be broadcast Oct. 18, a little more than two weeks before the election.

(source)

• All is forgiven; McCain returning to Letterman
• Cameron Diaz wants to retire???

Senator Ted Kennedy, who was diagnosed with a cancerous brain tumor in May, was taken to a Cape Cod hospital by a fire department rescue squad on Friday, CNN has reported.

“Doctors believe the incident was triggered by a change in medication,” a local police spokesman said. “Senator Kennedy will return home tonight and looks forward to watching the debate.”

Kennedy was “alert and conscious” when the emergency squad arrived at his home in Hyannis Port, Massachusetts, Sergeant Ben Baxter of Barnstable Police Department told CNN.

His office has said he plans to return to Senate in January.

In June, the 76-year-old Democrat, who is undergoing radiation and chemotherapy, voiced his support for Barack Obama.

“After completing treatment, I look forward to returning to the United States Senate and to doing everything I can to help elect Barack Obama as our next president,” Kennedy said.

(source)

• Ted Kennedy’s Operation a Success
• Kate Beckinsale’s Pre-Show Cat-astrophe

The world’s richest man is finally opening up about his complicated love life.

Warren Buffett, whose shrewd investing has swelled his Berkshire Hathaway assets to nearly $278 billion, reveals in a new biography that “the biggest mistake I ever made” was letting his late wife, Susie, walk out the door of their Omaha home.

Buffett, 78, who spent thousands of hours talking with author Alice Schroeder for her engrossing book “The Snowball,” admits he gave Susie plenty of reasons to leave.

One was Katharine Graham, publisher of The Washington Post and Newsweek. Graham, a 59-year-old widow, was smitten with the investment genius, then 46. When not trotting around the country “on business,” they holed up at her Martha’s Vineyard mansion. Rather than hide her flirtation, Graham would toss her house key to Buffett at parties.

Schroeder writes that Susie “made it plain to several friends that she was furious and humiliated,” but sent Graham a letter granting her permission to date her husband. “Kay showed the letter to people as though it let her off the hook,” writes Schroeder.

When Buffett was at home, he spent most of his time in his study. Telling one of her friends he was an “iceberg,” Susie began a romance with her tennis coach, John McCabe. Then, in 1977, after falling in love with the arts scene in San Francisco, she informed Warren that she was buying a small apartment there. McCabe followed.

Meanwhile, Susie, expecting that Warren would fall apart without a woman to look after him, arranged for attractive blond Astrid Menks to cook and clean for him. She eventually moved into his house. Susie and Warren never divorced. After her death in 2004, he married Menks.

Buffett tells Schroeder that Susie’s departure “was preventable. It was definitely 95% my fault. … I just wasn’t attuned enough to her, and she’d always been perfectly attuned to me. She kept me together for a lot of years. … It shouldn’t have happened.”

(source)

• Christina Aguilera: “Inspired” to Record After Having Baby
• Cameron Diaz Loves Her Job… Yet Does Less!