Kellie Connolly, a fill in co-host on Channel 9's Today show, made headlines this morning when she fainted during a cooking segment on the show. The Age reports -

The Nine Network's Today show co-host Kellie Connolly has collapsed on air.

Connolly, a fill-in host on the show, collapsed about 8.10am during a cooking segment with Toby Puttock, of Jamie Oliver fame.

She appeared to faint and was helped up by co-host Richard Wilkins and Puttock.

Connolly appeared dazed and was assisted off the set as the program went to an ad break.

Connolly returned to the presenters desk about 15 minutes later, attributing the dizzy spell to her 3am wake-up.

"Anyway, I'm fine thank you, I'm not pregnant, I'm not diabetic, it was just one of those things,'' she said.

Earlier, Wilkins returned from the ad break reassuring viewers his co-host was okay.

"She had a little moment, she had a dizzy spell, she's fine, especially if you're Kelly's mum, she wants you to know she's fine.''

Connolly was standing in the studio kitchen watching Puttock make an Italian panaforte dessert when she could be heard collapsing while momentarily off camera.

She returned to shot as Puttock and Wilkins were assisting her to her feet, saying: "Yeah, yeah, I'm fine, I'm fine. Sorry guys I might need some of your sugar fixes with the panaforte.

"Do you mind if I go for a walk?''

Connolly is filling in as co-host after Jessica Rowe was recently sacked from the position.

Now, Defamer Australia don't like conjuring up a load of conspiracy theories during times like these, but... no wait. We just like coming up with conspiracy theories. Here are a few things we suspect could be behind Kellie Connolly's mysterious collapse on air.

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· The man who gave us Jar Jar Binks (and who glued two hair-danishes to Carrie Fisher's head and gave Hayden Christensen a career) knows a "silly" movie when he sees one.
· We're stunned that yesterday's Hasselhoff parody video is placing a weak eighth on the Hoff Viral Video charts. And this mash-up is still too new to chart, but we think it's a comer.
· Rub a 20-year-old lamp and a studio genie will bring you $US1.6 million.
· Hamas decides there's a better way to call for an Islamist liberation of Jerusalem than through a Militant Mickey Mouse character.
· Please pardon us for a minute, but: OMG OMG! Cameron TOTALLY KISSED JUSTIN! OMGOMGgonnadie! There, now that's out of our system.

For a while there it felt as though we were receiving updates as to the goings on of Eva Longoria's nether regions every couple of minutes. Waxing, underwear, how often she and lover Tony Parker made the beast with two backs... Nothing was too personal for Eva to let slip to the press.

Worryingly, Eva has been rather quiet of late - so we're glad she's finally back in the news letting everyone know exactly what's happening in her special place. Or rather, what's not happening...

Desperate Housewives star Eva Longoria has imposed a 'no-sex' policy on her fiance Tony Parker until the couple exchange vows in July.

The actress implemented the ban to help basketball star Tony reach the NBA play-offs with the San Antonio Spurs.

She told US chat show host Jimmy Kimmel: "Luckily, we're getting married after the play-offs and then we need to consummate the marriage. I scheduled it that way."

Good to know. In celebration of their coitus-less (for now) love affair, let's take a moment out of our busy days to watch Tony's rap video featuring one Ms Eva Longoria.

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So says one Britney Spears' back up dancers, the pleasingly named Crisilla Crossland, who has told reporters that Brit's two-inch fuzzball hairstyle is "a stunning look, she looks so good she should model."

We have no reason to disbelieve Crossland, as this gripping report also contains a quote we believe can only have come from Ms Spears, scribbled down verbatim by a thoughtful and honest Crisilla - a dancer-cum-journalist whose short but meaningful time on tour with the Baby, One More Time singer has led her to conclude that the public has been positively craving a trustworthy inside source in the Spears camp to let us know how the poor dear's going, and she is the chosen one.

Weary of her wig and longing for her blond locks, Britney Spears had a playful request for her four blond dancers during her four-city mini-tour. "Would y'all cut your hair?" she said, according to Criscilla Crossland, one of the dancers. Spears showed the dancers her buzz cut, but no one took her up on the invitation.

It's the "y'all" bit that gives it that flavour of authenticity, don't you know.

Online love seekers take heed - next time you read a profile on a dating website where your potential male paramour describes himself using lines like "handy with a sword" and "have at some point in time placed myself in Kate Bosworth", they may not be mildly entertaining fibs.

Cinematic heartthrob and swarthy star of the Pirates Of The Caribbean movie franchise Orlando Bloom is looking for romance, and he's doing it through the net, if recent tabloid reports are to be believed.

The handsome actor is worried most women are only interested in his fame and fortune, so to test their intentions he is using a friend's name and photograph to set up a profile on networking service Facebook.com.

Orlando is reported as saying: "It's difficult sometimes to know whether girls like me, or the guy they see in Pirates of the Caribbean. This way I can get to know them from behind a disguise."

The 30-year-old actor plans to get to know prospective dates by chatting online, before arranging to meet them in person.

Orlando recently revealed he is desperate to find his perfect woman and start a family. The actor, who ended a four year relationship with Superman Returns star Kate Bosworth, is on the look out for 'Miss Right'.

He said: "I'd like to live a proper family life - with a partner and kids. That's what it's all about, isn't it? I've had a crazy life, in many ways, and I realise now I want someone to share it with."

We wish Orlando the best of luck in his one-handed-typing cyber endeavors, although we can't help but wonder if this is simply a clever lie created by some canny soul in the Facebook.com marketing department to try and encourage more teenage girls to sign up, leaving rival social networking site MySpace cursing and shaking their fists at the sky until they're struck with the brilliant idea of leaking tales to the media of an unlucky in love Justin Timberlake turning to them in a last ditch effort to find "the one".

With all the dramatic fires and firings sweeping through Hollywood lately, we almost let an entire day pass without updating you on the latest developments in the saga of recently disciplined Hollywood überpresence Paris Hilton. Well, it's time to correct that egregious oversight, with your daily Paris Hilton round-up:
· A statement issued through her attorney corrected "what I believe are misperceptions about me...I absolutely realise how serious driving under the influence is ... I do not expect to be treated better than anyone else who violated probation. However, my hope is that I will not be treated worse." She then signed it, "Yours, Elliot Min - I mean Paris! 'That's hot.' See? It's really me!"[TMZ]
· Some confusion over why the convicted heiress has been spotted zipping around town in her Bentley is cleared up: Her license was reinstated in March. [People]
· We think it's a matter of time before Paris: The Reckoning becomes a hit Broadway courttroom drama, à la 12 Angry Men. Why not save all the effort and time it would take to write it, and simply use this Nancy Grace CNN transcript instead? [Transcripts.cnn.com]
· In this dark graphic novelette, Hannibal Hilton helps Clarice Starlet (played by Lindsay Lohan) find her way to Buffalo Britney. But will she save Sanjaya before it fails to properly rub the conditioner in its hair? We aren't telling. [SFGate.com]
· If you cut her, does she not bleed plaster of Paris? Finally, we get an unobstructed bird's eye view of the "Paris Hilton Autopsy" sculpture, revealing her innards to look not much different than ours, especially after we've had one too many #5 combos at El Pollo Loco. [news.yahoo.com]

Dean Geyer, Australian Idol 2006's heartthrob and, according to recent non-existent market research, Christian popstar of choice for tweens and teens (sorry, Guy) is proudly shouting his love for Lisa Origliasso from the proverbial rooftop that is Sydney Confidential.

The Australian Idol runner-up - and self-proclaimed virgin - this week revealed he and the pint-size popette were singing the song of lurve after a couple of recent dates.

"Am I going out with Lisa from The Veronicas? Yes, I am," Geyer was proud to confess.

God love 'em. Literally - God will probably love 'em, considering Dean has close connections with the big guy upstairs. And isn't it just adorable how the two pop stars got it together?

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Confirming the earlier DHD report that HBO boss Chris Albrecht was, in the words of an insider, "toast," Variety now says that corporate parent Time Warner will soon announce that it's given the embattled, rehabbing executive "the boot". Brace... Read More »

If this morning's reports of previous workplace lady problems and secret HBO settlements weren't enough to ruin CEO-in-hasty-absentia Chris Albrecht's day (pictured in happier. pre-mugshot times), the LAW's Nikki Finke's afternoon item claiming that the executive has an ankling... Read More »

Proving that its emergency preparedness program is unquestionably the finest in Hollywood, the Church of Scientology sprung into action following news that the spread of the Griffith Park wildfires necessitated the evacuation of many adjacent Los Feliz homes, dispatching... Read More »

Queen Elizabeth II, fresh off her triumphant trip to her semi-retarded former colony, has invited her Academy-Award-winning portraitist (and occasional Defamer forbidden lust object) Helen Mirren to dine with her at Buckingham Palace. Reports spread quickly that Mirren turned the invitation down, for the rather unregal excuse that the actress was unable to escape the South Dakota shoot of the much-unanticipated next installment in the Bruckheimerian scavenger hunt series, National Treasure: Book of Secrets. Now, via a message tied to the leg of a carrier pigeon branded with the logo of a leading Hollywood P.R. firm, comes Mirren's own official explanation of the royal regrets:

"I was honoured to be invited to dinner at the Palace. This was a gracious gesture and very appreciated by me. It was therefore hard to have to decline. I was contracted on that date to be working in South Dakota, in a situation which was impossible to change.

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· The Weinstein Co. (with help from their besties at Lionsgate) will release Michael Moore's documentary Sicko on July 29th, which should do for America's health care system what Bowling for Columbine did for a senile-seeming, rifle-loving Charlton Heston. [Variety]
· Hollywood Out Of Ideas, Even In The Prehistoric Past And Distant Future Edition: Robert Rodriguez is in talks to direct a live-action feature adaptation of The Jetsons, and has also met with Universal about Will Ferrell's adaptation of Land of the Lost. [THR]
· Universal lands its second Serious Actor for its The Incredible Hulk project, as Tim Roth is in negotiations to play Hulk antagonist Abomination and spend long hours discussing how best to portray the emotional torment of gamma-wave-poisoning sufferers in the context of a superhero film. [Variety]
· FX may pay up to $US40 million for the TV rights to Spider-Man 3 for five years, but only once it completes it pay-cable run on Starz. [THR]
· Var TV critic and Entourage nemesis Brian Lowry is amused that his HBO stand-in, who'll be harassed by an aggrieved Johnny Drama in an upcomnig episode shot in the paper's offices, has an assistant. [Variety]

We're always up for checking in with theorist Camille Paglia, whose column in Salon.com (ad view req'd) bounces from topic to topic like a post-feminist superball ricocheting off the walls of popular culture. In the current edition, she weighs... Read More »

The media shitstorm in which HBO CEO Chris Albrecht finds himself since his early Sunday domestic violence arrest in Vegas has not diminished in filthy intensity since Tuesday afternoon's announcement that he's headed off to rehab, as today brings... Read More »

Ignoring party-positive stage mum Dina Lohan's obvious on-camera charisma and agreeable red-carpetside manner, today's Page Six claims that Entertainment Tonight might only have engaged her services to penetrate troubled daughter Lindsay's anti-media defences:

"Dina wants to be a TV star," said one snitch. "But 'ET' may just be hiring her so they can get the Lindsay exclusive."

As much as Lindsay loves the limelight, she may be wary of granting interviews since London's News of the World newspaper published photos Sunday allegedly showing the 20-year-old starlet doing drugs.

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