Are you still trying to scrub the memory of those heinous Emmy awards from your brain? Perhaps this rumour will do the trick. We can all agree that one of the only bright spots of the awards were when Ricky Gervais did that "give me my Emmy" bit with Steve Carell. Well, according to E-Dubs (that's Entertainment Weekly for you laymen), after that performance, "his reps were besieged with inquiries about his availability and were urged to book a meeting with Academy Awards organisers, stat." So does that mean Ricky's gonna host the Oscars? He'd probably do an incredible job, and frankly, he's the only host who actually feels exciting these days. We've already been down the Jon Stewart and Ellen DeGeneres roads, Billy Crystal has been M.I.A. for years, and if they go with Whoopi again, America will pluck out its collective eyeballs in protest. So why not give a Brit a chance?

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Long time Defamer Australia readers will know how much we just love seeing the Australian press wet themselves when one of ours is touched by the hands of the gods and gifted with an award nomination on the hallowed shores of America or Britain, so they'll no doubt be rustling their Thesauruses in glee at the news that Rachel Griffiths has picked up her fourth Emmy Award nomination.

Break out the Bolly, sweetchops!

Rachel Griffiths has picked up her fourth Emmy Award nomination for her role opposite dual Academy Award winner Sally Field in US drama series Brothers and Sisters.

In Australia filming Rachel Ward directed and Bryan Brown produced feature film Beautiful Kate, Rachel Griffiths, 39, happily toasted the best supporting actress nomination news with close friends and family following the announcement after 11pm last night.

"I got a call telling me I had been nominated when I was out to dinner with friends in Australia," the mother of two told Variety magazine.

"We were just finishing up and were determined to go home not too drunk and not too late. Then we heard the news and got champagne and stayed an extra hour."

Bless. Also, I feel we should take this moment to welcome Griffiths in our "top celeb chicks we'd sink the piss with" list (she now breathes the same rarefied air as Sienna Miller and Charlotte Church).

And that's a nomination to write home about if ever there was one!

The world awoke this morning to the chirping of little birds resembling Kristin Chenoweth and Neil Patrick Harris, perched at a podium in the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, announcing nominations for the 60th Emmy Awards. While most rolled over and tried to get back to sleep, we sat bolt upright as usual and sprinted to the window, our furious note-taking chronicling a few snubs, surprises and plenty of the conventional wisdom we've come to expect from the annual ritual.

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