Oh it’s on!! Dancing With The Stars is ramping up and Annie is getting mighty excited. I really hope this season is a fabulous season which airs on Monday, March 22 with a two-hour premiere event! Woo hoo!

Derek Hough and his partner Pussycat Doll Nicole Scherzinger are seen leaving Toast where they had lunch taking a break from their practicing.  I think it’s fairly safe to say Nicole will do fabulous considering she is sex on stilettos and can move like nobody’s business.  She dancing on stage all the time and seems naturally inclined in that way so this one is a no-brainer.

Kate Gosselin is seen in New York where she is headed to a dance studio to practice. She has admitted she can’t dance but maybe her inner stripper will come out (we all have one, don’t judge).  She is paired with Tony Dovolani.  He’s a nice guy so I really hope that Kate doesn’t trample all over him.  I doubt he would take it and maybe it’s just Jon that set the nag dial up to its limit.

Will you be watching? Come join me on Twitter when Dancing With The Stars is on. Lots of great people watch it and Tweet to one another.  It’s a lot of fun.

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Olympic medalist (and Dancing With the Stars champ) Apolo Ohno has become the OMEGA Ambassador for the watchmaking company and paid a visit to the flagship store in New York on Fifth Avenue this afternoon.

Apolo Tweeted about the visit:

Had an awesome time at the Omega Store on 5th avenue. I signed my watch & it’s on their wall with a pic! I was in heaven! Cool partnership

He seems like such a sweet, hard-working young man.  A fabulous role-model.

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Producers of Desperate Housewives have confirmed that Drea De Matteo will not be returning next season. Apparently in November rumours had surfaced that Drea was fired because of lackluster ratings but the producers are saying that isn’t the case at all (as to her being fired..I have no idea if the ratings are bad or what..and I’m kind of too lazy right now to look).  Executive Producer Marc Cherry:

“Part of the deal when (we) hired Drea was she was only interested in doing one season. She has a baby and is eager to get back to her life in New York.”

Drea was brought in to play the wife of an Italian family who have some type of skeleton in their closet that we don’t know yet.  Although I still haven’t watched Sunday’s episode so possibly something more has been revealed.

I thought her character and the dynamics surrounding that brought a lot to the show. Drea’s last episode will air in May.

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Johnny Depp has been immortalized in plastic forever as the Mad Hatter in Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland. Although it kind of does look like him I think Johnny is much prettier even as the Mad Hatter, yes?  My birthday is coming up.  :)

The movie looks incredible and to see it in 3D will be quite the experience.  Do you plan on seeing it?  It hits theatres tomorrow!  Woo Hoo!

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Dave Navarro poses with strategic placement of his big hands for PETA’s Ink Not Mink campaign and all I can say is thank you sweet baby Jesus.

Dave talks to PETA about how he was impacted to never wear fur again:

“[S]everal years ago, I saw video footage of animals being skinned alive and screaming, and it, it honestly is the most horrific, inhumane thing I’ve ever seen.” These animals are often still conscious as they have their pelts peeled off their writhing bodies and can be heard screaming in pain.

Buying and wearing fur promotes an industry filled with cruelty and suffering.  ”[S]ome of the simple things you can do to help save animals is not buy fur, stay away from products that have been animal tested. It’s really very, very simple to just support something or buy something that doesn’t brutalize animals like this.”

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Kirsten Dunst looks ultra glamorous in her Dolce & Gabbana bustier top on the cover of V Magazine.  She looks very much like the old screen sirens back in the day doesn’t she?

The cover was shot by the famed Mario Testino and is quite a departure from her everyday life.  Then again, who goes grocery shopping looking like this, right?

What do you think of the cover?