In honor of 'The Holiday Lite' - and all the festive music we are playing... i wanted to share an old video of my daughter Sophia.  She was 22 months old and loved to sing Christmas songs! 

(stick around for the 1:29 mark... pretty funny)

Dakota Fanning is getting a lot of drama for her latest project.  she posed for a magazine ad for Marc Jacobs Oh Lola perfume.  She is wearing a sweet flowery printed dress, pink background… but the bottle of perfume is right between her legs.  The ad has been banned in the UK – officials say the leangth of her dress, her legs and position of the perfume bottle – was just wrong on so many levels.  

Now that director Brett Ratner is out of the mix – Eddie Murphy will not host the 84th Academy Awards.  The president of the Oscars says he gets it – “I appreciate how Eddie feels about losing his creative partner Brett’  Ratner resigned – or was fired – depends on who you talk to – after he made a gay slur at a press conference for his movie Tower Heist – which stars Eddie Murphy.  The Oscars are scheduled Feb 26th 2012 – hello Billy Crystal – howz your schedule looking?

Its so over!  David Arquette says his marriage to Courteney Cox is definitely over.  Its so over – he says he is dating Entertainment Tonight reporter Christina McLarty and he is in love.  When he broke it to Court – he says they both cried.

And my spies on the inside say Kim Kardashian is not getting back together with Kris Humphries.  The divorce is full steam ahead – despite the 4 hour face-to-face meeting with their pastor last weekend.

Well, that took no time at all!  I hear Lauren Conrad just ended her little fling with Derek Hough and she is already on the arm of ano0ther hottie.  Chace Crawford.  Yes – the cutie from Gossip Girl.  These two were seen flirting at a club in LA and then later smooching at after hours house party.

The final 11 performers on The X Factor hit the stage with songs from movie soundtracks last night. My prediction... Astro, Drew and Melanie Amaro are all safe. That's a given. They were amazing last night. The X Factor loses another act tonight on FOX – Willow Smith and Jessie J perform. 

So word on the street – Kanye and Kim K hooked up before she walked down the aisle with Kris.  Kanye Wests ex-girlfriend Amber Rose hinted that the singer and Kimmy got together when he was filming a cameo on their show Kourtney and Kim take New York.  it happened back in the summer of 2010.  So way before Kris Humphries… but not by much.  They started dating in December. Married in August.  Separated in October. 

Tori Spelling and Dean McDermott are showing off their new baby girl. Meet Hattie Margaret!  Tori had a c-section scheduled on Oct 16th – but Hattie couldn’t wait. Tori says her water broke on the 10th in the middle of the night.  They rushed to hospital and had no idea what they were having – Tori says she was 100% sure they were having a boy.  Wrong!  Congrats to Tori, Dean, Liam and Stella.

Mel Gibson needs to wrap it up. If you know what I mean!  I’m hearing that he may have another baby on the way from another brunette he dated briefly this past summer.  Her name is Laura Bellizzi – she was on a failed VH1 show in 2010.  (Secrets of Aspen?).  Well, she is telling her friends that she is pregnant with Mel's baby.  But, she doesn’t want to go public with the news.  Mel’s people say its "physically impossible" for the 55 year-old to father a baby.  Time and a test will tell that soon. If its true – this will be Mel's 9th kid.  (He already has 7 with his ex-wife and 1 from his ex girlfriend) Rumorfix.com has some pics from her facebook.

Ashton Kutcher – think before you tweet!  Especially when it comes to child sex abuse charges.  He jumped on twitter yesterday and said ‘how could you fire Jo Pa?  As a hawkeye I find it in poor taste’.  Jo Pa is Joe Paterno the former head coach of Penn State.  Well –Kutcher's gazillion followers blasted him – so angry that he was supporting someone who hid the child rape scandal for so many years. Here’s the twist – Ashton and Demi Moore have campaigned against child sex trafficing.  Ashton finally did some research on the scandal and he retweeted ‘fully recant previous tweet.  Didn’t have full story’.  a few more apologies .. then ‘I will stop tweeting until I find a way to properly manage this feed.  I feel awful about this error.  Wont happen again.’    

Goodbye Nancy Grace.  She was finally let go from DWTS last night.  She had the lowest judges scores on Monday's show.  And on last night's results show – the dancers paid homage to the late King of Pop in a really cool montage from the MJ Immortal World Tour.  Andrea Bocelli also performed... so I was in heaven!

Rapper Heavy D has died at a hospital in LA after collapsing outside of his condo in Beverly Hills. The call said a man was having trouble breathing. The rapper's real name was Dwight Arrington Meyers. He was only 44. He was the leader of the hip-hop trio Heavy D & the Boyz.  He did the theme to In Living Color – was on Jam with MJ and Alright with Janet Jackson.  Now that we found love what are we gonna do… with it.

We didn’t get to hear him speak on the stand – but this Friday, we can watch Dr. Conrad Murray explain himself.  MSNBC will air a documentary about Michael Jackson's doctor who was convicted Monday of involuntary manslaughter.  The interview for Michael Jackson and The Doctor: A Fatal Friendship was conducted in November 2009, prior to Murray being charged.  But the cameras kept rolling throughout the whole trial.  It’s on Friday night – and will repeat on Sunday.  And yes – he got paid for it.

The F Bomb is a big no-no.  And I don’t mean that one.  Brett Ratner resigned as producer of next year's Academy Awards because he used a gay slur at a screening of his latest movie – Tower Heist over the weekend.  On Monday, he issued an apology and on Tuesday he resigned from the Academy.   So what does that mean for Eddie Murphy?  The actor comedian is on deck to host the Oscars – because of Brett.  Eddie is also in the movie Tower Heist.

Wait … the Duggars are having baby #20 – because they didn’t want to end in an odd number?  Seriously!  The entire family was on The Today Show and announced that 45 year old Michelle was already 3 1/2 months pregnant.  The other 19 kids actually thought their dad was joking when he broke the news to the family.  They lined the family up on the staircase for a photo – and just before the clicked the camera, dad Jim Bob says ‘Smile, Moms gonna have another baby!”  now that’s the Christmas card pic to see.  Jim Bob told The Today Show "we didn’t want to stop on an odd number"

Kelly Ripa just signed a 5-year deal to cohost her talkshow on ABC.  Regis Philbin is leaving next week. Kelly’s deal goes through 2017.  The search for the new co-host has been underway for months – Ryan Seacrest, Jeff Probst, Nick Lachey and Bravos Andy Cohen are some of the names I’m hearing.  Nothing official yet

Mariah Carey was on The Rosie Show on OWN this week.  And she looked amazing!!!  She entered on a crescent moon wearing a tight black mini and lots of cleavage thru her leather jacket.  She says she lost 70-lbs while on a strict diet and exercise plan.  Guuuurl… gimme your secret!  Sophia is 4 and Im still working on those pregnancy pounds!   Haha.  Check her out on the cover of US Weekly.  Gorgeous! 

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ou can now own Michael Jackson’s bed.  The mansion on Carolwood and pretty much everything in it are going up for auction next month.  Sat Dec 17th in Beverly Hills – but you can bid for the furniture, art and antiques on line too.  And yes – this is the house where he died.  CLICK HERE for all the info.