Frankly, we were well over the whole David Hasselhoff phenomenon quite shortly after it started. Chuck Norris online love was vaguely amusing for about a week, but was dragged out in email forward after email forward for an interminably long time.

But could Dr Karl Kennedy become an internet hero we can wholeheartedly get behind? There's a new Facebook appreciation group for Erinsborough's favourite medico, and their list of reasons to love him are hard to argue with.

Today Karl performed hypnosis on Lou. Is there nothing this man can't do??

Recently Dr Karl went away to see Libby.Everyone postponed their illnesses till he came back...

Thank You to Jon Hart of Cardiff for pointing out that Dr. Karl is also a children's entertainer! BLIMEY!!

Eileen O' Doherty just reminded me that he's an oncologist aswell. I think that pretty much he's an expert in every kind of medicine under the sun...I wonder if he's immortal...

DR. K FACTS:

Inspired by Charlie Osbourne, I have decided to write down a few little known facts about KK.

1)When the Boogeyman goes to sleep every night, he checks his closet for Dr. K.

2)Dr. K doesn't read books. He stares them down until he gets the information he wants.

3)Dr. K does not sleep. He waits.

4)Dr. K counted to infinity - twice.

5)When Dr. K does a pushup, he isn't lifting himself up, he's pushing the Earth down.

6)Dr. K doesn't wear a watch, HE decides what time it is.

7)Dr. K can slam a revolving door.(Elle and Clare's favourite fact)

8)Dr. K does not get frostbite. Dr. K bites frost.

9)Dr.K can touch MC Hammer.

10)Dr.K once ate an entire bottle of sleeping pills. They made him blink.

The man is a genius we concur. He really managed to win back our heart once he finished with that brazen harlot Izzy Hoyland and to be honest, for a long time we weren't sure such an impressive feat would ever be possible.

This clip has made our long weekend come down all the more easier to get through. Marvel at the single men, ladies/gentlemen who are that way inclined!

Jeff is our favourite, hands down.

Australia's Got Talent judge Dannii Minogue - who, last we can recall, spent most of her time on the Channel Seven program fawning over any act that came her way, doubly so if there happened to be any sort of rainbow tinge to the performance - has apparently morphed into a harsh assessor of showbiz skill now that she's appearing on Britain's The X Factor.

Dannii, who's joined Simon "normally the nasty one" Cowell and Sharon Osbourne as judges on the UK version of The X-Factor, is becoming increasingly unpopular with the contestants.

Choreographer Brian Friedman explains: "One girl came in for auditions and said, 'I used to like Kylie'." Dannii didn't like being compared to her sister and voted her out on the spot.

"She has left several contestants in tears." Meow!

The idea of any contestant feeling the need to put on the waterworks after hearing Dannii Minogue finds them talentless strikes us as vaguely amusing, but there you go.

(Our beloved gay and UK correspondent Will is no doubt going to kill us for writing the above sentence.)

And by "essential viewing", we mean "as weird and uncomfortable as we always imagined".

It seems the reviews are starting to roll in, and the general consensus seems to be that it's, erm, awkward to watch.

The grade-schoolers for whom Bindi the Jungle Girl is designed should find this new series a breezy, affectionate, info-packed introduction to the world's animals, vivaciously led by someone their size. Their parents and other adults may find the show hosted by eight-year-old Bindi Irwin a little bit creepy. That's because her dead dad Steve is everywhere. He's shown and mentioned in the present tense, even popping up in the show's studio "treehouse" with Bindi and mom Terri, as though he's well among the living.

"While this shouldn't matter to six-year-olds - who may not even be aware the beloved Crocodile Hunter died last September off the coast of Queensland in a freak encounter with a stingray - it can be a serious jolt for those of us who whiled away tube-years with the zesty Aussie zoo-master known the world-over for his delighted cries of "Crikey!" The shock and mourning are still too fresh.

"It's downright - well, I don't know what, but not comfortable - when Steve pops into the treehouse in Saturday's 5.30pm second episode. He's crouched behind a desk resting his chin on its edge, his head alongside that of a gorilla skull, which Bindi asks us to tell apart. Sorry. That's more than I can handle. By the time Steve and wife/widow Terri helped Bindi bid the audience bye-bye at the end of my hour screening disc, I was seriously weirded out.

(bites tongue)

We're pinning our Irwin Empire hopes on Bob-Bob, if you must know.

Quite the Windsor-themed day we're having, isn't it? Lucky we're not a Republic or we wouldn't be able to get away with such mischief.

Princess Anne has snapped at a "hapless official" who nobly attempted to help the clumsy lady up from an embarrassing public stumble.

A hapless official has received a tongue lashing from Princess Anne when he rushed to her aid after she slipped and fell in front of crowds during a tour.

The 56-year-old princess took offence to Geoffrey Rowland's attempts to help, saying "No don't do that, thank-you. Grabbing me round my ... (inaudible) won't help.

"I'm perfectly capable of getting myself up."

We plan on publicly using the phrase "grabbing me round my inaudibles" from this day forth with frightening enthusiasm. Because we are quite idiotic.

Britain's News Of The World published a damning article about the world's favourite ginger royal over the weekend. The paper, it would seem, is riled up that Prince Harry went on an off-duty bender in Canada (where he has been sent for army training) whilst the shit storm in Iraq continues to take the lives of fellow enlisted Britons.

DRUNKEN Prince Harry is pictured slobbering all over girls in a sleazy club - just hours after our 150th soldier died in Iraq.

As British troops mourned the landmark casualty, we can reveal Harry spent his off-duty hours on army training in Canada SLUGGING back booze and SNOGGING barmaids.

Excessive and dramatic use of capitals tabloid's own.

The article goes on to spell out in great shouty detail the multitude of sins committed by the bloodnut prince, who has apparently gone wild with the ladies in regular girlfriend Chelsy Davy's absence.

"I want to see ALL the beautiful women," the prince yelled before downing a heady mix of beer, sambuca and rum and cokes.

To be fair, it strikes us as unlikely that Harry chose to go on a celebratory bender because Britain's 150th soldier had been killed in Iraq. But you never know with these dicey royal types now, do you? Best to damn now and get the message across to other young, rich, blue-blood army types that such carousing is frowned upon, and you never know when this schmozzle of a Middle East "freedom" campaign will, with unfortunate timing should you be indulging in a round of lick-sip-suck at that very moment, claim yet another life.

We can honestly say that when we woke up this morning, we were not expecting to see a headline like "Emos need our total support" anywhere in the papers. But the world is a strange and wonderful place, and we must adjust to this fact accordingly.

You see, Labor politician Lindsay Tanner has penned a moving piece published under that very compelling headline. We're sure he means well, but a grown man putting his name to an article which repeatedly makes use of the word "emos" results in a discombobulating explosion of feelings deep within us. We are amused, and yet frightened. We are touched at the effort, whilst simultaneously shuddering in vicarious embarrassment. Kind of like when your older bachelor uncle tries to hang out with the young folk at family get togethers, forever dropping archaic "groovy" lingo into conversation, his pot belly hanging awkwardly over his hipster tight black stovepipe jeans.

Emos need our total support
By Lindsay Tanner

You might not have heard of emos. Neither had I until two teenage girls from Melbourne's outer east committed suicide.

Some people blamed the emo culture.

Emos belong to a distinct youth subculture that emerged from the music and fashion of the goth and punk culture in the 1980s.

Emo is short for emotional. It now seems to reflect quite a bit more than just particular music and fashion styles.

Emos are supposedly sensitive, introverted and alienated.

Already, we're marvelling at the pace of the missive. In our heads, we are imagining Lindsay Tanner in school uniform, standing in front of the chalkboard and hastily reading his report on the phenomenon of "emos" to a mildly interested troop of classmates. Each sentence is delivered in a nervous, breathless manner, with every new paragraph giving the knee high socks-donning Lindsay a chance to quickly gasp for air.

More of Lindsay's insight into the world of "emos" after the jump.

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We're sure this makes perfect sense to someone, somewhere out there.

Were you surprised to be evicted last night?
I was in my TDs (Trackie Daks). It was TD Sunday. I pretty much knew it was happening, but I was supporting the TD Sunday movement, which everyone else had jumped off the band wagon for. Geez, don't even know what to say about those guys, it's like the animals that might jump of the arc, yeah.

Yes. It's exactly like the animals that might jump of the arc.

Totally.

(cracks open can of V and downs in one go)

("gets" it, finally)

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Sunday night's program saw the eviction of Rebecca The Mormon and Ice Queen Emma.

Emma has told journalists that she's not really comfortable talking about her father's death right now (well, fair enough) but she'll spill her guts soon enough.

She's also been banging out the traditional Things In The House Are Intensified, I'm Not Really Like That excuse now that she's discovered the public find her to be a bit of a heinous bully.

"Obviously in such a confined area you do get upset, or gossip and bitch about petty little things that wouldn't phase you in normal life."

And that's not the only cliche she's rolled out.

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The ugly divorce and custody dispute between Anne Heche and husband Coley Laffoon (five-second primer: Anne: You pleasure yourself to pornography, subject our child to poker games, and frequent strip clubs while I'm hard at work! Coley: You're crazy.) has ended in what can only be heartbreak for the Men In Trees star, as a judge has given custody of Homer, their five-year-old son, to Laffoon:

TMZ has learned that a judge wasn't crazy about Anne Heche, and awarded estranged hubby Coley Laffoon physical custody of 5-year-old son Homer, with alternate weekend visits for Anne...

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Positing that the public might be growing tired of the Lohan/Hilton/Spears class of troubled starlet and that the industry is ready to pump out a more wholesome, less frequently rehabbed product to capture the tween entertainment dollar, the LAT looks at the "new wave" of Hollywood good girls, including Nancy Drew's Emma "Aunt Julia Would Produce My Movies Even If We Weren't Related" Roberts, Nim's Island's Abigail Breslin, and the Charlize Theron-approved AnnaSophia Robb. The article's true focus is the impeccably pedigreed, terrifyingly ambitious Roberts, who's so precocious she's already bored with the whole imminent movie stardom thing:

"I want to do a fashion line too, but not an 'Emma' fashion line," she said, clicking through her mental check list. "I want to do a real fashion line and sell it out of a boutique in Barneys or Neiman's. Like Mary-Kate and Ashley's line [the Row] but a really cool line of jeans or maybe dresses like [British pop singer] Lily Allen. [...]

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With Rosie O'Donnell gone from The View, the majority of her days since her abrupt, contentious departure spent dictating angry haikus to an assistant while suspended in her upside-down depression-therapy rig, ABC has been quietly auditioning potential replacements. According to Star Magazine, they have settled on former Patrick-Swayze-channelling conduit Whoopi Goldberg:

"As far as everyone at ABC is concerned, she has the job," a network insider confirms to Star. "They have been meeting with Kathy Griffin, Rosanne Barr, Ricki Lake and Gayle King." While Kathy was a strong contender, Whoopi has won everyone over."

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Demonstrating the same admirable commitment to bravely seeking out publicity in the face of unspeakable personal tragedy she exhibited in choosing to spend her final night of freedom with 4,000 of her best friends at the MTV Movie Awards, a newly re-jailed Paris Hilton yesterday expended one of her precious phone calls to reach out to the only person she felt she could trust to deliver a message of hope to her millions of fans: Barbara Walters. In a brief conversation with The View's den mother, Hilton reveals that her brief stay in prison has caused the Swarovski crystal-encrusted scales to fall from her eyes: she's now found God, is ready to drop the dumb girl "act", and wants to build a giant dollhouse in which sick children can simulate her own charmed, carefree upbringing. Truly, the L.A. County justice system's short-sighted desire to topple an icon of privilege has backfired, as Hilton will soon emerge from her incarceration as the Celebutard Nelson Mandela. A clip from Walters' heart-to-heart with the heiress is above. You will be moved.

• EXCLUSIVE: Hilton Calls Barbara Walters From Jail -- 'God Has Released Me' [ABC News]

Warning: This post contains spoilers. If you chose to ignore the most significant moment in the history of pop culture by living in Australia, where Channel 9 will finally play it out at 3 in the morning during the silly season of 2021, we recommend you smash your monitor with a rock and save yourself the anguish of having your life ruined.

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Barbara Walters brought the world a glimmer of hope this morning, repositioning fallen debutante Paris Hilton as newly reinvigorated with the gifts of spiritual clarity. But even as she passes long, hard hours behind bars sketching the preliminary floor plans for the Paris Hilton Living Doll House Pediatric Recovery Center - featuring real play-servants sick children can dress up and order around as they please! - there still appears to be no shortage of judgmental commentary on the Hilton affair, and the greater question of What It All Means For Our Society. A round-up from around the web: · Jamie Lee Curtis - who, having once swapped bodies with Lindsay Lohan, has first hand knowledge of what it means to walk a mile in a Hollywood party whorelet's shoes - places the blame for Paris's predicament on bad parenting.That means you, Kathy Hilton: She thinks you're a terrible mother. [HuffPo]

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With news that a Berkeley watchdog group has discovered an abandoned Pentagon plan to develop a "hormone bomb" that would turn enemy soldiers into lusty, same-sex-craving flesh addicts, producers - whose antennae are always attuned to a juicy, plucked-from-the-headlines story - instantly went into a Gay Bomb movie pitching frenzy. Studio executives were soon inundated with varying takes on the basic Manhattan Project-meets-The Birdcage premise. ("Ours is a musical!" "Ours is from the Gay Bomb's point of view!" "Ours dares to keep the cameras trained upon steamy displays of insurgent-on-insurgent action!") Ultimately, it was the little-known indie team who envisioned a Dr. Strangelove update, featuring Jake Gyllenhaal in full cowboy regalia bareback riding the Gay Bomb out the bay doors of a mirror-tiled B-52, that won Hollywood over for its bold, fabulous vision.

• Pentagon Confirms It Sought To Build A 'Gay Bomb' [CBS5.com]

The ex-con who had once plotted to kidnap David Letterman's infant son while working as a painter on the talk show host's Montana ranch has succeeded in executing yet another jaw-dropping maneuver straight out of the Depression-Era Crime Movie Playbook: He escaped with another inmate from the Montana State Prison where he was being held, and, four days later, the two are still on the run:

Offers of help came the New York Police Department and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security as officials continued searching for two missing, Montana State Prison inmates, one accused of bilking television personality David Letterman.

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Temporarily put aside the existential despair of your post-Sopranos existence by self-medicating with the weekend box office numbers. It's what Dr. Melfi would want. 1. Ocean's Thirteen - $US37.080 million One might have expected that a movie featuring The King of Hollywood, Angelina Jolie's Pretty Boy Partner, and Al Pacino spray-tanned to the exact hue of an expertly basted turkey could have scared up $50 million during a season in which the much-unclamoured-for Shrek the Third put up a nine-figure opening. Unfortunately, the moviegoing public chose to punish George Clooney and Brad Pitt for the entertainment industry's blockbuster-recycling sins, perhaps not realising that withholding their box office dollars could negatively impact the do-gooding pair's ability to conduct their many charitable activities. If a Vietnamese orphan goes unapopted into a high-powered Hollywood family because of a shortfall in Pitt's profit participation, blame yourselves, America. You should have waited for the new Fantastic Four movie to send your message of frustration to the greedy studios.

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Having already blown untold millions of promotional dollars into 300-foot-long, building-sheathing Transformers prophylactics and custom-built Lamborghini-bots that will assist director Michael Bay in his premiere night groupie-acquisition plans, DreamWorks has apparently run through most of its advertising budget, and... Read More »

If NBC or Warner Bros. recently ponied up for a For Your Consideration ad for Matthew Perry's fine Studio 60 work (if nothing else, he showed consummate professionalism in not walking out when Aaron Sorkin forced that "hallucinating a... Read More »