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Pippa Middleton, Kardashians And Katy Make Barbara Walters’ Most Fascinating List

Ooooh, we can’t wait for these interviews! Barbara Walters announced nine of her 10 Most Fascinating People of 2011 today, and while we’ve certainly heard a lot from all of them, you just know there will be new, emotional dirt revealed when the special airs on December 14 on ABC.

Pippa Middleton, Katy Perry, the Kardashians and Simon Cowell seemed like pretty obvious choices. We kind of forgot about all that Donald Trump business earlier in the year, so thanks for reminding us, Babs. To some of us, the most fascinating thing Derek Jeter did this year was break up with Minka Kelly, but there are probably more sporty things he has to talk about. Modern Family’s Eric Stonestreet and Jesse Tyler Ferguson also made the list, for reasons beyond just being adorable. And then the most fascinating person will be revealed during the show. (We’re confused by the numbers here — are the Kardashians all one person but Eric and Jesse are two people? Someone, please explain.)

Who do you think should be #1? Courtney Stodden? Jub Jub the St. Bernard? Coco? Write in your candidates in the comments below!

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Diddy Called Out On The View For Having 6 Kids With 3 Women

You can’t see it, but we are fanning our faces with both hands, trying calm down after seeing Barbara Walters call Diddy out on The View for have six children with three different women. While Diddy Dirty Money was on to hype their new album Last Train To Paris, Barbara wanted to find out why Diddy hasn’t settled down with any of his baby mamas Misa Hylton-Brim, Kim Porter or Sarah Chapman, eventually blurting, “What’s your trouble?” It is so horrifying uncomfortable to watch. It’s like your Grandma asking you why you aren’t married in front of your entire family, except it’s on TV and Joy Behar is leaning over her shoulder, giggling.

Diddy handles his business though, getting over his initial shock to explain, “The reason of it, why I’m not married yet, I don’t have the exact reason…I know I haven’t been ready…My father was killed when I was three years old, and my mother was a very strong woman, and she just said, I love your father and I’m not going to have no other man around…But on the flip side, I never got the chance to see the way a family lives. But I’m not giving you an excuse. I’m just giving you my background.” Seriously, what other explanation did Walters expect? “Why, I just hate condoms, Barbara!” Please, nobody wants to see Elisabeth Hasselbeck having an aneurysm on camera.

Barbara Walters Thinks Kate Gosselin Is Fascinating

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The end of the year is coming, and that means that Barbara Walters will air her annual special on the most fascinating people in the world (according to her, natch). Making the list this year is our favorite porcupine-haired mother of eight – Kate Gosselin! Although her ex-hubby Jon did not make the cut (what, Babs – Ed Hardy, cigarettes, and college parties aren’t fascinating?), other celebs including Adam Lambert, Sarah Palin, and Lady Gaga all make the exclusive list. So, who will Barbara declare the most fascinating of all? Find out when her special airs on ABC on December 9th. [Photo: Getty Images]

Jon Peters’ Tell-All Proposal Leaked

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Deadline Hollywood Daily has leaked the entire proposal for notorious Batman producer Jon Peters‘ upcoming tell-all, Studio Head, and it looks even more disgusting than we knew already. If the hairdresser-turned-studio exec-turned-lawsuit magnet is to be believed, he’s nailed every woman he ever wanted to—except for Elle MacPherson. “He tried everything, and, with Jon, that means everything, but he could not melt her antipodean heart.” And somehow, no one else could resist.

Barbra Streisand: “He found Barbra totally hot. He loved her body, particularly her heretofore concealed legs and derriere, and he was overtly provocative in telling her so. What really turned him on was that he saw her becoming even hotter under his Pygmalion makeover skills.”
Barbara Walters: “She plied Jon with champagne and caviar, then changed into ‘something comfortable,’ leaving her bedroom door strategically ajar as she stripped down to her bra and panties, giving Jon a 20-20 view, as it were, of the Barbara W in all her glory. Whether Barbara was setting a trap to get the scoop of a lifetime, or whether she was making a sincere pass, Jon didn’t snap at the bait.”

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Whoopi Counsels Heidi And Spencer

The chatty ladies of The View + Heidi Montag and Spencer Pratt = drama! The Hills stars stopped by The View this morning to rap with Barbara Walters and the ladies about their botched courthouse wedding and their family drama.

Spencer revealed that he called off their courthouse wedding, which would have made their Mexican “wedding” official, because he had a “robbing feeling.” Heidi has always wanted a “princess” wedding with a traditional cake and dress, and apparently Spencer felt at the last minute that he was taking that away from her.

Suspicious as the rest of the world is, Barbara leaned in and asked, “Is this for real?” Heidi and Spencer delivered their perfectly pre-packaged answers: “I really want to get married,” said Heidi. “Everything on The Hills is real,” answered Spencer.

Although now they are allegedly planning the wedding of Heidi’s dreams, they have encountered some family drama, especially with Heidi’s mom. According to Spencer, Heidi’s mom “believes everything she reads,” and doesn’t know the real him.

Co-host Whoopi Goldberg suggested the reality couple go spend a couple weeks with Heidi’s mom in Colorado, where she lives, but Spencer insisted that was impossible because “they don’t give us a day off without cameras.”

Whoopi then said that they need to demand for those days off. Nothing like a little Whoopi to knock some sense into Speidi. [Photo: Splash News Online]

Rosie O’Donnell Strikes Back At Barbara Walters—Twice.

Bless you, internet. If it wasn’t for you, we wouldn’t have known how Rosie O’Donnell reacted to Barbara Walters saying she should “get on with her life” yesterday morning until her interview with Conan O’Brien that night. But thanks to the information superhighway, Rosie had a vlog up by 5:00pm, complete with reaction shots, the Billy Elliott: The Musical photo taken last week, Eminem‘s “Without Me” and a crack about Debbie Matenopolous. Harness that technology, Rosie!

Not that she was out of sarcasm by the time she hit Late Night. Here’s what she told Conan:

Apparently, “Lady,” she was talking about this lady, which it hurt her feelings. And truthfully, in spite of the fact that she now loathes me, I still do enjoy her. Yeah. I’m not sure I’m gonna be a guest on that show again because it didn’t go down well. But, you know, I tried my best. I told them when they hired me that I had never worked on a show before where I wasn’t the boss, and that there was a chance that might cause some problems.

Listen, I don’t want to dump on the show in order to benefit my own career, you know, to use it for publicity because I didn’t have a career before that show. So, I’m very thankful to The View for the help that it’s given me in my life. And I’m a big fan of the program and the producer.

Ignore her, Barbara! You’ve got your hands full with the co-hosts you’re working with now; Rosie’s out of your hands. Just smile politely and send her a bouquet when her variety show tanks.

Check out the gallery for shots of Barbara and Rosie’s rising sexual tension since 1997.

Barbara Walters Tells Off Rosie O’Donnell: “Get On With Your Life”

Barbara Walters is sick of your shit, Rosie O’Donnell. You were considered politcally strident long before you ever sat across from Elisabeth Hasselbeck, so Walters would appreciate it if you’d stop blaming your year on The View for the fact that people don’t always remember you’re supposed to be funny.

Rosie not only made that claim at a press conference for her new variety show yesterday (“If you watch my stand-up comedy, I talk about my life, my family. It only became about [politics] with the job on The View“—selfrighteousbloggersayswhat?), but gave Walters some grief for trying to pretend her co-workers don’t hate each other. “[She] wanted everyone to believe and think and act as if they get along and are really good friends and happy and hang out together, and, you know, that’s just not the reality.”

Walters, annoyed that Rosie would rather revisit the past rather than make with the ha-ha, had this to say:

Some people have done this show, and then—for years—felt the need to dump on it, maybe for their own publicity. And that not only hurts me, but I resent it. So if the shoe fits, lady—ladies—get on with your lives. We are not perfect, we are not always happy, but we’re pretty good!

Yow! Hard to believe the photo above was taken only a week ago, at the premiere Billy Elliot: The Musical. Can’t wait to see how Rosie cryptically responds on her blog!

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Spotted

Which Rolling Stone was spotted having a late lunch at celebrity favorite Pastis in New York, NY on Saturday?

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