Oh man, if this is true, it could be the most exciting television news all year: Larry Emdur is being "tipped" to take over the Dancing With The Stars mantle from Daryl Somers, who left at the end of last year. Can you imagine? Larry Emdur with Tina Sparkle? It'll cause a tear in the space time fabric of tongue-in-cheek light entertainment hosting because of its astronomical awesomeness!

I think this deserves an "OMG!!"

Ahem, anyway:

While sources from Dancing with the Stars' production company Freehand are placing their bets on Emdur, Mr Come On Down himself wasn't giving up the game when Confidential contacted him yesterday.

"It would be awesome but I'm not so sure that it's me," Emdur said.

"I did do a couple of tests but as far as I know I'm just one of the names on the list."

Can we start some sort of Defamer Australia-led campaign for Larry to get the gig? Someone make one of those online petitions!

It was Christy from BB05, I believe, who coined the phrase "confliction", and I'm feeling much Big Brother-related confliction at this latest BB rumour: apparently Steve Carell may be entering the Big Brother House.

Now, correct me if I'm wrong, but aren't BB intruder spots generally reserved for nonentities and those whose careers are either in or looking forward to a spell in the toilet?

The plot may or may not thicken:

"It is a rumour," a Ten spokesperson told Confidential yesterday. "It's unconfirmed.

"There's always a chance but it's just a rumour at this stage."

Rumours have been swirling for weeks a superstar guest would inject some serious ratings gunpowder into the current series of Big Brother.

Carell is the obvious pick given he and co-star Anne Hathaway will be on the Gold Coast this Sunday to promote their new film Get Smart.

Jeremy Piven is important, he will have you know. He can pick up girls in a hooptie. He can cut Stephen Dorff in bathroom lines. He can tell Billy Bush to fuck off on the red carpet and his own mother to fuck off over brunch. And, as Janet Charlton reports today, he can also cast wildly eccentric and ill-suited stars in cameos on Entourage based solely on fun chatter he has with them on aeroplanes. As the piece claims:

"On a recent weekend, Jeremy rode the Planet Hollywood private jet from Las Vegas to Los Angeles and...started chatting about Entourage. [Piven] suggested that it would be fun to have [his seatmate] make an appearance...Jeremy was overheard calling a producer and telling him as soon as the plane touched down in LA."

So which diva extraordinaire tickled Piven's pickle so well she earned herself a much-needed spot on the HBO hit? Details after the jump.

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Not a day goes by without a dozen blind items stirring up rumours about the newest Hollywood heroin addict or closeted anchor with sex swings in his office, but there is one very rare kind of bold face name-less rumour that catches our eye. And it has to do with "celebrity dads," "piercings," and "nether regions." As the NY Post Just Asks this morning:

Which celebrity dad is just as rebellious as his starlet daughter? The troubled parent wears a ring through a piercing on his nether regions.

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Angelina Jolie has come a long way from her blood vial-carrying, lesbian sex-dabbling days as Hollywood's resident bad girl, but the potential release of a tape showing Jolie snorting and smoking heroin may do some serious damage to the soon-to-be mother of six's new reputation as a much hotter version of Mother Teresa. While Jolie has openly admitted to using all kinds of drugs in her past, her alleged comments and behaviour shown on the tape in question may overshadow all those Yes I've Done Drugs But Drugs Are Bad comments she's made since:

The key part of the tape is Angelina doing heroin. She says, "Wow, this is really good smack - not that cheap crap that's been stepped on."

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While most of our knowledge regarding AA and the 12-step program comes from the druggie movies we've seen over the years (Rush, Requiem For A Dream, Herbie: Fully Loaded), we're pretty sure one of those steps is to avoid jumping into new relationships minutes after leaving rehab. But as we learned earlier this month, Kirsten Dunst's rumoured fling with Ryan Gosling suggests Dunst isn't a fan of following rules. And according to today's NY Post, Dunst has some very unique and romantic ideas when it comes to taking her new man out on the town:

Sources say Dunst...has been schlepping her All Good Things co-star, Ryan Gosling, to 12-step meetings.

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When news that Jennifer Aniston and John Mayer got together for a "touchy, feely" lunch date and dinner in Miami over the weekend broke, the entire community of celebrity observers and glossy magazine readers let out a big ol' collective yawn. Aniston has been linked to (and we're roughly estimating here) seven hundred or so possible paramours since her split with Brad Pitt, and Mayer has pulled what Liz Phair would call the all-too-common "fuck and run" on so many starlets that he earned Us's "Cad of the Year" award. But just because the gossip is yawnworthy doesn't mean there isn't a larger issue here: mainly, is Aniston really dating or trying to date all these guys-of-the-month, or is this charade her publicist's idea of spinning her post-divorce life into an unglamorous version of Sex And The City?

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Just last week it seemed the best thing They could come up with for Lara Bingle's career renaissance was to appear on an advertorial travel show on Nine; hardly worth all the fanfare her return to the tele was generating.

Hold your horses, then, because it looks as though Lara might have something even more spectacularly exciting in store for viewers: SHE MIGHT BE THE NEW ADRIANA XENIDES.

By that we don't mean she'll disappear from public view only to reappear in a haze of driving offences and bizarre medical conditions, but rather that Lara could well be the new "letters girl" on the revamped Wheel Of Fortune.

It's understood Nine is casting for the co-hosting gig of the new-look Wheel Of Fortune with Tim Campbell and Lara, who is currently employed by Nine as part of its Holidays For Sale program, is a frontrunner for the game-show gig.

A rep for Nine yesterday confirmed auditions for the job were being held in Brisbane but stopped short of naming Bingle as one of the starlets in line for the job.

"We are auditioning for the part of co-host at the moment but we would never say who is taking part in those auditions," the spokesperson said.

"I can't say that she is or isn't being considered for the role. I cannot say either way."

We feel Lara would be great for the role. It would finally afford her the chance to learn to read and spell.

Sometimes a celebrity marriage rumour comes along that you simply can't ignore. Photo agencies bombard you with visual proof, New York State court legislation is involved, and the very fact that the starry couple in question seems destined to stay together begin to haunt you throughout the day until you just can't stay quiet anymore. Today's are-they-or-aren't-they couple, of course, is Beyonce Knowles and Jay-Z. Rumours surfaced on Tuesday that the pair had filed for a marriage licence upstate, and construction on the rapper's rooftop coupled with reports that floral arrangements and standard wedding gear chandeliers had been shipped to his penthouse are beginning to convince us that the longtime couple is finally tying the knot. We sort through all the fishy and not-so-fishy details after the jump, and leave it to you to tell us whether or not we should "bite the hook", as Bobby Brown would say.

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Maybe there's no need to feel sorry for Jennifer Aniston after all. Despite the tear-drenched interviews post-Brangelina, the constant inductions of Chosen Ones, and all the hits and misses when it comes to on-set dating, Jen may not have to spend her spare time on-set chatting up whoever happens to be standing next to her in line at the craft service table. Several reports claim that Orlando Bloom spent his Friday night flirting with Aniston at a party thrown by Hollywood hairdresser to the stars, Ken Paves. But as you might recall, this isn't the first time Orlandiston sparked rumours. Back in October, the pair were spotted in Mexico sharing the same veranda in skimpy swimwear (pictures after the jump)...

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