Dancing With The Stars' judge and animal activist Carrie Ann Inaba will be hosting the Humane Society of the United States' 26th Annual Genesis Awards in Los Angeles on March 24, 2012 where celebrities in the entertainment world are honored for their contribution in bringing animal issue awareness to the world. Carrie Ann is thrilled to do the gig:

“I’m honored to have been asked to host an awards show that is both a celebration and a consciousness raiser,” said Carrie Ann. “In a busy awards season, The Genesis Awards stands out as an event that has true meaning in the larger scope of things– it’s the Oscars for animals and the people in the media who give voice to their plight.”

Beverly Kaskey is the Senior Director of The Humane Society of the United States’ Hollywood outreach program and executive producer of the annual Genesis Awards and says of choosing Carrie Ann:

 “Carrie Ann is the ideal host for The Genesis Awards.  She has energy, personality, beauty, and, most of all, she really cares about the animal protection cause.  I think she’ll score a perfect 10 with our audience,” 

So far celebrities like Kaley Cuoco, Pauley Perrette, Bill Maher, and Kristin Bauer van Straten are scheduled to present at this fine awards show.

Carrie Ann is the perfect choice for this awards show. If you follow her on Twitter (@carrieanninaba) you know that she is always tweeting and re-tweeting ads for cats and dogs in shelters needing forever homes. 

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Back on March 8 we posted how Dancing With The Stars’ Carrie Ann Inaba was engaged to be married this summer, but she hadn’t actually received the ring yet from fiance Jesse Sloan (who btw is pretty smoking hot).

Well that all changed today on Live With Regis & Kelly when he proposed to her on bended knee with a GORGEOUS ring. Carrie Ann talked about how sweet and great Jesse is and how he takes care of her. She seems really very happy.

What a beautiful proposal. How many women can boast that they had Regis Philbin standing there looking over your shoulder as your man proposed to you? Enjoy the video! Congratulations to the beautiful bride and groom!

EW.com held a podcast last night for TV Insiders where they talked about, among other things, Dancing With The Stars and of course Bristol-gate.  Maksim Chmerkovskiy calls in where he talks about his first impression of Kyle Massey and how he was so impressed with his cha-cha he immediately thought Kyle would be in the final 3 for sure.

He says he wasn’t angry on the inside when Brandywas voted out, but was ‘laughing’ on the inside. He doesn’t pull any punches and won’t be ‘politically correct’ saying that Bristol’s dancing is fine.  He calls it ‘bullsh*t’.  He talks about a ‘clan of Palinism’ voting Bristol in not because of her dancing skills. But that’s the problem you have when you have a show that allows the viewers vote to have a lot of weight. It’s not always a logical choice.

He thinks Bristol is trying and has shown nothing but support for her saying that she had every right to be on the show, but what pissed him off was her coming out in the media on Monday and saying he didn’t like her. That is the first time he was upset about the situation.

And he says ‘now that it’s all over screw Carrie Ann’. This season might be all over, but there is always next season But you know what he says isn’t unreasonable and he’s telling it like it is but Maks tends to rub people the wrong way and someone else saying the exact same thing will be received differently than him.

Maksim is at the beginning the the audio.

Sometimes words aren’t necessary for photos.  These pictures are kind of like that. Dancing With The Stars‘ judges Carrie Ann Inaba and Bruno Tonioli ham it up in the gifting suite at the dance studio where they model their swag.

I think Bruno is showing us his boots in the main picture, although I could be wrong

Louie Vito also hit the suite to hang out and do some flips.

Pictures after the break

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Dancing With The Stars’ Carrie Ann Inaba is at Lloyd Klein being fitted for a couture gown for Sunday’s Emmy Awards.

You know the new episodes of your favourite televisions shows are about to commence when the previous years are honoured at the Emmy’s!!!  That’s the smell of the Fall television season!!

How I Met Your Mother’s Neil Patrick Harris will be hosting this year.  To see the complete list of nominees go here.

This year, Vaseline® Sheer Infusion™ with Stratys-3™ and The Emmy’s® bring you the Emmy Awards Breakthrough Performance of the Year where you can vote toward

one of these shows for the performer  who delivers a superior breakthrough performance and provides something different than what has ever been done before

Some of your favourite shows are part of this:

• Grey’s Anatomy
• CSI
• The Bachelor
• Real Housewives of New Jersey
• The Grammys (Jennifer Hudson’s performance)
• Gossip Girl
• The Obama Inauguration
• Dancing With The Stars
• American Idol Finale
• True Blood

Go here to find out which of your favourite celebrities are considered for these particular episodes and make your vote count!

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Dancing With The Stars’real life couple Karina Smirnoff and Maksim Chmerkovskiy will guest star in Broadway’s ‘Burn The Floor’ for the first 3 weeks of its 12 week run.  DWTS Judge Carrie Ann Inaba is producer for the spectacular dance show.  On Monday Carrie Ann released this statement:

“I’m thrilled to get my feet wet on Broadway with this wonderful production,”  “I’ve been a fan of Burn the Floor since its inception, and I am honored to be a part of the creative team that is bringing this wonderful show to Broadway.”

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Photos:  Joseph Marzullo/WENN.COM