And the Most Valuable Guest Star of the Week Goes To… : Parker Posey, whose hilariously biting portrayal of Amy Poehler’s small-town rival has “recurring guest star” written all over it.

The “I Can’t Define Irony But I Know It When I See It Award” Goes To… : President Obama, who interrupted the last fifteen minutes of CELEBRITY APPRENTICE — hosted by nemesis Donald Trump — to announce that Osama Bin Laden had been killed.
 
And You Wonder Why You’re Fat: The best show you’re not watching, Jamie Oliver’s FOOD REVOLUTION, was yanked this week and replaced with… reruns of DANCING WITH THE STARS.
 
Oddest News: Lorenzo Lamas — who will forever be FALCON CREST’s Lance in our minds — announced that he’ll be taking the last name of his latest wife (#5 for those keeping track), Shawna Craig.
 
Call-Out Of The Week: AMERICAN IDOL judge Steven Tyler’s new book accuses CELEBRITY REHAB of faking footage involving former bandmate Steven Adler. “They wanted him to act out his own messed-up state when he entered rehab,” Tyler claims. “It was ghoulish and unreal.” 

Call-Out Of The Week: AMERICAN IDOL judge Steven Tyler’s new book accuses CELEBRITY REHAB of faking footage involving former bandmate Steven Adler. “They wanted him to act out his own messed-up state when he entered rehab,” Tyler claims. “It was ghoulish and unreal.” 

Biggest Shocker: Unlike 98.73% of the uninspired sequels Hollywood tries to shove down audience’s throats, COMMUNITY’s “Fistfull of Paintballs” actually exceeded expectations. Seriously, Josh Holloway can riddle us with paintballs anytime.

Best Time Waster: At work and already read everything on thetvaddict.com? Why not cruise over to jerryseinfeld.com and watch old clips of the comic’s performances and appearances on late night shows?
 
Déjà vu, Primetime Division: Watching THE REAL WORLD’s Leroy and Naomi deal with the repercussions of repeatedly having unprotected sex felt like an exact replay of the last time this show was in Sin City. Longtime viewers will remember that during that fleshfest, it was Steven and Trishelle who feared a visit from the stork.
 
Déjà vu, Daytime Division: THE YOUNG & THE RESTLESS has two concurrent storylines that could have been ripped from it’s own past. Supposedly-dead Sharon’s life on the farm is more than a little similar to the story in which Victor met Hope, while Sofia’s baby drama couldn’t be a more obvious replay of the famous Malcolm/Dru/Neil story… but without superstars Shemar Moore and Victoria Rowell to make it bearable.
 
Best Reason To Watch A Show Nobody Outside Of New York City Cares About: Neil Patrick Harris will return to host this year’s Tony awards.
 
Proof That Endtimes Have Arrived: This week, The Situation became the fourth JERSEY SHORE cast member to sign a spin-off deal.
 
Best Reason To Stay Up Past Your Bedtime: Former MSNBC host Keith Olbermann will appear on THE DAVID LETTERMAN SHOW on Wednesday, May 11.

Biggest Regret: That THE GOOD WIFE, NIKITA and THE VAMPIRE DIARIES remain safely stored on our PVR/DVR for weekend watching. Do you have any idea how difficult it is to stay off Twitter and avoid spoiler free. Seriously, we’re fairly certain we’re going through withdrawal!

Best Calling Out: MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell put his corporate bosses in the hot seat by insisting they end attention whore Donald Trump’s “relentless campaign of hatred” by revealing that the tycoon can’t run for president because he’s committed to doing another season of THE APPRENTICE. (We here at thetvaddict.com continue urging viewers to boycott Trump’s offerings… and here’s why.) 
 
Most Likely To Mangle A Phrase: Whether declaring “You can’t stand the truth!” (instead of the famous line from A Few Good Men “You can’t handle the truth!”) or talking about how “you can’t pull the wool over the undercover specialist,” SURVIVOR’s Phillip is proving one of the most misquote-worthy contestants in the show’s history.
 
Best Twist: Once again harkening back to its first season, DESPERATE HOUSEWIVES revealed that Wisteria Lane’s curmudgeonly Karen McCluskey knew all along that Paul Young didn’t kill Felicia Tilman.
 
Most Conveniently-Timed Break: A lotta people complain about how long it is between MAD MEN seasons, but star January Jones is making good use of her down time by having a baby!

 
The Saving The Best For Last Award Goes To… : THE OFFICE, for making sure that Pam got the final farewell to departing boss Michael in what turned out to be one of the uneven sitcom’s most outstanding episodes.
 
The When It Rains, It Pours Award Goes To… : GENERAL HOSPITAL which, even as it was being dogged by increasingly-loud cancellation rumors, was hit by a lawsuit filed by the estate of of the show’s legendary creators claiming it is owed syndication money.
 
Worst Export: Oh, England, we’re sorry. You give us classics like THE OFFICE and ALL IN THE FAMILY (TILL DEATH US DO PART was the original) and what do we give you? JERSEY SHORE, being remade as GEORDIE SHOREM by MTV UK. On behalf of all of us, we’re sorry.
 
Something To Sing About: Holy crap, THE VOICE is entertaining TV. From the format to the likeable trainers, this show deserves to be bigger than the lackluster IDOL. Our only complaint? Carson Daly.
 
Least Open Minded: The reaction of Dustin Zito’s REAL WORLD housemates to his naked frolicking on a site aimed at gay men (which included one abbreviated close encounter of the oral kind with another guy) proved that, sadly, today’s 20something’s are just as capable of homophobia and prejudice as their older brethren.
  
The “Yeah, Right” Award Goes To… : Former ONE TREE HILLer Chad Michael Murray, who tweeted that if the show returns next season, he might be on board. Why? “Maybe… for you guys.” Or maybe for a bunch of money. Or because he hasn’t exactly had a lot to do since leaving.

This morning, I did something that — as a TV fan who considers certain reality shows to be among his guiltiest of pleasures — was tough but necessary: I deleted THE CELEBRITY APPRENTICE from my DVR. Despite having thoroughly enjoyed this season, I can no longer in good faith support anything tainted by Donald Trump, and would encourage others to do so as well.

Trump is many things, including a blowhard and an egomaniac. Always has been and, I have to assume, always will be. But above all, he is a man whose desperate attempts to keep himself relevant have led to such memorable media blitzes as his support of homophobic beauty queen Carrie Prejean and his nasty public feud with Rosie O’Donnell. More recently, he has stepped into the spotlight — stealing it from far more important issues — with a laughable presidential bid fueled almost entirely by the badly-coiffed tycoon hitching his star to the birther wagon.

Yesterday, in what was surely a low-point in recent American history, Barack Obama — the sitting president of the United States of America — was forced to hold a press conference at which he handed out copies of his birth certificate in order to silence those who insist that he is not qualified to hold the office.

That should have ended the talk and silenced Trump, who has made this the cornerstone issue of his will-he-or-won’t-he candidacy.

Instead, Trump immediate ran to cameras and began insisting that the president should not provide college transcripts and implying that somehow Obama was not worthy of the presidency.

In many corners, Trump is now being labeled a racist, a term which most agree applies to many in the “birther” movement. (Rather than come right out and admit to being freaked that an African-American is in power, the birthers couch their racism by not-so-subtly implying that there is something “not quite right” about Obama in an attempt to delegitimize his presidency).

I, however, do not believe that to be true of Trump. Instead, the man is a media whore who will attach himself to anything — no matter how disgusting — that keeps him in the spotlight. The moment a birth certificate was produced, he had no choice but to find another way to remain in the spotlight, thus his intimating that the something scandalous might be found in the president’s college records.

As MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell said during last night’s broadcast, “NBC has created a monster who is using his NBC fame to spew hatred, reeking with racist overtones and undertones about the president of the United States.” He added, “In his desperation today, Trump turned from attacking one man’s birth certificate to actually trying to undermine the acceptance of academic credentials of not only Barack Obama, but of African-Americans generally.”

Whether Trump is doing so out of a need to feed his oversized ego by remaining “relevant” or for some darker reason, I do not know. But what I do know is that I can no longer take any pleasure in watching any show featuring or produced by him, nor will I be visiting his casinos or doing anything else that might put money into his pocket.

In the end, Donald Trump believes in one thing and one thing only: His own glorification. He loves touting that CELEBRITY APPRENTICE is “NBC’s top-rated show.” Well, I hope that you’ll join me in helping to make that yet another lie by refusing to tune in to future episodes. After all, given how many other options there are on Sunday night, it’s not like you’ll have trouble finding something — anything — more entertaining.

With a slew of season finales just around the corner, the phrase “game changer” has become pretty much par for the course when perusing any interview with either showrunners and stars alike. And while we don’t blame either party for [over]-hyping their wares in an effort to attract the maximum number of eyeballs, we do think that now might be as good a time as any to separate perception from reality.

HOW I MET YOUR MOTHER
Perception: Fans will finally meet the titular mother on the upcoming HOW I MET YOUR MOTHER season finale.
Reality: A CBS press release touting the network’s upcoming May finale storylines promises that “Ted is a best man at the wedding in which he meets his future wife,” does in no way guarantee that the biggest mystery since LOST is anywhere close to being solved. Which is to say, Ted may meet his future wife, but us viewers… forgetaboutit! Creators Carter Bays and Craig Thomas have been in this business we call show long enough to realize that the far smarter move is to save the audience reveal until September’s season premiere.

CASTLE
Perception: Television’s second-most popular platonic partners will finally end their will-they-or-won’t-they.
Reality: Despite executive producer Andrew Marlowe’s promise of an “explosive climax that has to do fundamentally with the Beckett and Castle relationship,” there is absolutely no chance that he’ll risk doing anything to disrupt the simmering sexual tension, not to mention the upwards rating momentum that has been building over the course of a mere two and a half seasons. Particularly when fans of BONES have set such a dangerous precedent in terms of being gluttons for punishment! And speaking of which…

BONES
Perception: Booth and Brennan will finally go where shippers have been clamoring them to go for six seasons now.
Reality: Even though Hart Hanson has a history of producing season finales that may-or-may-not leave fans — to put it mildly — somewhat perturbed, not even he would be crazy enough to name the episode “The Change in the Game” without doing just that. Would he?

FRINGE
Perception: As per a Fox press release, “a beloved team member meets an untimely demise.”
Reality: Would you really characterize either Broyles or Bell as “beloved?” Seriously, no offence to any of the actors on FRINGE, but is not killing any character outside of the central three (Read: Walter, Olivia and/or Peter) the equivalent of vaporizing a “red shirt” on a STAR TREK away mission? We’re just sayin’

THE APPRENTICE
Perception: After months of speculation, THE APPRENTICE season finale will culminate with Donald Trump announcing that he is officially running for President.
Reality: Not even Donald Trump (Read: America’s Biggest Blowhard) is delusional enough to think that a country that almost put Sarah Palin within arm’s length of the Oval Office… oh wait.

It’s not often I admit to being wrong. This is not to say I’m never wrong, but rather that I rarely admit to it. However, where NBC’s freshman series OUTSOURCED is concerned, I feel the need to not only admit that my initial opinion was wrong, but heap a bit of praise upon the show. Sight unseen, I — and I suspect many others — rolled my eyes at what I assumed would be an offensive show playing upon every stereotype in the book. But in my rush to judgement, I forgot that some of the best television shows manage to play upon stereotypes (which are, in almost all cases, based on at least a nugget of truth) in a funny and often heartwarming way. ALL IN THE FAMILY managed to make us love a bigot, while WILL & GRACE taught us the difference between laughing with and laughing at people who embrace the very thing that makes them different. Likewise, OUTSOURCED proves itself to be a quirky, wildly-charming show populated by some of the most lovable folks currently occupying primetime. Whether the humor is mined from names — my personal favorite is Manmeet — or the culture clashes born of the stranger-in-a-strange-land premise, the laughs here are as hardy as they are heartfelt. While comparisons to THE OFFICE are perhaps inevitable, OUTSOURCED is quickly shaping up to be a far superior show if only for the lack of a character as annoying as Michael or Dwight (although Diedrich Bader’s borderline-psychotic Charlie comes pretty darn close). 

I hate commercials. With a passion. So for me to actually stop fast-forwarding whatever I happen to be watching, a commercial has to really, really grab my attention. Yet that’s exactly what I do whenever the Allstate commercials featuring Dean Winters — aka OZ inmate Ryan O’Reailly and 30 ROCK’s “beeper king” Dennis Duffy — playing Mayhem (Posted Above). In fact, I think I might have to form some kind of support group for people who can’t get enough of insurance spokespeople. Whether it’s Winters, the Geiko gecko or Flo, the Progressive insurance gal (aka actress Stephanie Courtney), the industry currently seems to have cornered the market on cool spokesfolk.

After several cycles of CELEBRITY APPRENTICE, it’s actually nice to have a real-people edition of the show. On the star-packed edition, nearly every challenge inevitably boils down to “who can get the most rich people to write big checks”, whereas the regular version actually relies, at least to some extent, on actual abilities. And let’s face it: Rare is the celeb who’s going to bring the train-wreck appeal of David, to whom every viewer can relate. He’s that guy in the next cubicle we all do everything in our power to avoid because, well, he’s an ass. And of course, every single quality that would make him a nightmarish co-worker happens to make for fantastic television. 

As regular readers of this column know, DESPERATE HOUSEWIVES is one of those shows that I want better for. It has an incredible cast and a premise that should make it one of the most entertaining shows on the dial. Yet all too often, it falls short thanks to what I consider a fatal flaw: The inability — or perhaps unwillingness — of its writing staff to allow the sudsy drama to truly lather up. This season has, so far, been a bit of a mixed bag, although better than last. As usual the villain-of-the-year is as intriguing as he is underplayed. We get tiny snippets of Paul and his in-over-her-head bride, but have yet to see enough of his plot to be intrigued. And new-gal-on-the-block Renee (the always-phenomenal Vanessa Williams) is… well, a toothless Wilhelmina. Is she a maneater or a gal pal? Both, because she’s currently being written as a character who bends to the needs of that week’s script as opposed to one who has an actual purpose on the show. What should have been a wonderfully emotional story involving Gaby and Carlos dealing with a long-ago baby switch has all-too-quickly turned into a predictable mess. Surprisingly, Susan’s foray into soft-core porn has been one of the most compelling tales of the season. It’s nice to see a storyline which in the past would have been dealt with in a single episode for laughs actually turned into something with at least a few more teeth. In fact, it seems that this season. Lynette and Tom have been turned into the “plot-of-the-week” couple, with him developing “post-partum depression” and, a week later, Lynette turning pre-teen Penny into a junior nanny. It’s still a hit-or-miss show for me, but this season has, so far, been at least slightly more hit than miss.

When GLEE faded to black for its mid-season break, I admitted to being more than a little disappointed. Story-wise, the season had been a hot mess with plots randomly rushed, dropped or shuffled depending on who’d written any particular episode. But in true feel-good-TV style, the finale gave us comeuppance (Sue was suspended) and true love conquering all (Will and Emma’s dramatic kiss). But within minutes of last night’s episode, we were taken right back to the beginning. Sue was back, having paid no price for her actions and learned nothing. Will and Emma had one date before he was making out with a woman who looked enough like Rachel to call into question his relationship with the student. Finn was dating Rachel but unable to forget Quinn except when he was dating others. And, as usual, Mercedes, Artie, Tina and Kurt were practically non-existent. The musical numbers were, of course, stellar… in fact, about half-way through, I realized that I was enjoying GLEE in much the same way one does some bad Broadway musicals – suffering through the plot developments to get to the songs. A major saving grace? Heather Elizabeth Morris’ hysterical bits as cheerleader Brit. Is GLEE a bad show? God, no. Neither, however, is it the great series it could be. GLEE is, however, a show that needs someone with a strong sense of pacing and storytelling to come in and make the tales being told something more than pretty people delivering witty dialogue as a way to pass the time before the singing starts again. Until then, it is a phenomenon that’s not actually all that phenomenal.
 

So the voices in the woods are people “stuck” on the island because of their past sins. We can check that off the endless list of questions raised by LOST… although, come on, didn’t most people — even those like me who struggle to follow the mythology — already assume it was something like that? Meanwhile, last night’s episode, “Everybody Loves Hugo” was yet another one in which 95 percent of the time was spent wandering around in the woods. This leaves me to wonder how on earth Hugo hasn’t lost weight. I mean, we rarely see these folks eating and they’re constantly hiking from one side of the island to the other. It was nice seeing the Hugo/Libby relationship play out, but the best thing about the episode was probably that bizarre Willy Wonka voiceover during the scenes for next week’s outing.
 
While the first half of GOSSIP GIRL’s season was something of a dud, the past few weeks have seen the show rebound nicely. This isn’t to say that it’s a great series, but rather that when it remember what it does best, it’s extremely entertaining. This week’s outing focused on two of its strongest elements: the wildly dysfunctional Chuck/Blair relationship and the charming wedding of Dorota and Vanya. Nate was the best damn thing to ever happen to Serena — he made her, if not interesting, at least bearable — so of course, she’s screwing it up as usual. Vanessa isn’t doing much to make Dan more interesting… and they had a three-way with Hilary Duff for the love of God! Sometimes, I can’t help wondering if GG might be a much more entertaining hour if it focused only on life in the Waldorf home. Margaret Colin’s Eleanor had the line of the night (“These Russians drink more than Larry Hagman on his first liver), and Wallace Shawn is (I have to do it… forgive me) inconceivably charming as Cyrus.
 
CELEBRITY APPRENTICE is one of those programs I keep saying I’m through with, and yet — when there’s nothing else to watch on Hulu — week after week, I get sucked back in. At first, it was because I hate Blago with a passion and wanted to see him make a fool of himself. Fortunately, he did, repeatedly. By the time Blago got the boot, I found myself being amused by — and occasionally mortified for — Cyndi Lauper. Like her, I wanted to slap the crap out of Holly Robinson Peete, who comes off as an obnoxious twit. Yet I continued to watch. But this week, I might — just might — have reached my breaking point… not because of the celebs, but Trump himself. I realize that the guy’s main function here is to introduce the execs representing whatever product is being represented that week, but I’ve also come to the conclusion that I simply do not believe a single word out of his mouth. I don’t believe that decisions are made for any reason other than dramatic purposes, and without at least some sense of rationale or at least sincerity behind the proceedings, all that is left is a mind-numbing show whose only entertainment value comes in mocking celebs when they look like idiots. So I think I’m gonna cut this one loose. In my head, former WWE diva Maria Kanellis walks away the winner. Why? Because she comes off as downright likeable, and that ain’t easy to do on this mess.

BROTHERS & SISTERS (9PM ABC)
In an effort to single-handedly prop up the California wine industry, tonight’s two-hour installment promises double the surprises (A Walker health crisis!? A Walker exit!?) and assuredly, double the alcohol consumption.

UNITED STATES OF TARA (9PM Showtime)
While you’ll tune in for Toni Collette’s Emmy worthy performance, you’ll stick around for the equally unique, hilarious and touching supporting cast of characters including Keir Gilchrist, Nathan Corddry and Rosemarie DeWitt. The latter of whom delivered one of the funniest monologues in recent memory during last week’s very NSFW episode.

BIG LOVE (9PM HBO, 10 HBO Canada)
In what is shaping up to be a phenomenal third season, BIG LOVE continues to give us BIG reasons to keep shelling out the BIG bucks for HBO.

NEW & NOTABLE:
THE CELEBRITY APPRENTICE (9PM NBC, E! in Canada)
For continuing to milk this tired an unentertaining franchise, we’re going to borrow a line from Mr. Trump himself and say Ben Silverman: You’re Fired. Or at the very least, you should be.

According to E! Online, Donna Martin is indeed heading back to America’s favorite zip code. Which means it’s time for this TV Addict to offer a little bit of free advice to the ‘brains’ behind the new 90210. Ready? Because here we go in 3… 2… 1… Fans are never going to become emotionally invested in the younger generation of characters if you keep bringing back the original class. So either stop with these pathetic rating stunts, or simply rejig the show to what you cleary wish it was: 90210 Ten Years Later.

With Kathy Griffin’s penchant for hilarity catapulting her off the “D-List” and into serious “B-List” contention, perhaps Donald Trump could borrow the moniker. Because after announcing his new crop of contestants for the new season of THE APPRENTICE: ‘CELEBRITY’ EDITION that include the likes of, Clint Black, Andrew Dice Clay, poker player Annie Duke, Tom Green, golfer Natalie Gulbis, Scott Hamilton, Jesse James, DEAL OR NO DEAL model Claudia Jordan, Khloe Kardashian, Brian McKnight, Joan Rivers, Melissa Rivers, Brande Roderick, Dennis Rodman, football star Herschel Walker and Tionne “T-Boz Watkins — we can’t help but wonder if it’s finally time to call ‘CELEBRITY’ APPRENTICE what it is, THE-LIST APPRENTICE.

And speaking of D-listers. We’re fairly confident that Sanjay Malakar releasing a memoire is a sure sign of the coming apocalypse.

And finally, while last night’s UGLY BETTY does get serious props for managing to surprise us with one emotionally charged ending that we didn’t see coming. We’re not so sure how many more times we can watch Betty mess things up at Mode only to miraculously save the day just in the nick of time.

That was probably the smartest thing the walking combover had done since hiring reality-star-in-the-making Omarosa several seasons earlier. But the moment NBC came back to Trump and asked that he return to the boardroom, Trump folded like a cheap suit. In a desperate attempt to revive the failing franchise, it was announced that the new edition would feature the Trumpmeister firing celebs.

And that’s when things went tragically awry.

Already, the series had been showing a serious lack of creativity during the previous season, in which it was decided that the show could “re-invent” itself by relocating from New York City to Southern California. The only other major twist involved having each week’s losing team sleep in tents outside the mansion in which their winning rivals were living it up. Worse, the weekly tasks began to feel both repetitive and more like commercials than challenges.

The season was a bomb, the show was canceled and then, mysteriously, brought back to life and returned to Trump’s home base, New York City.

Did we mention this season has celebrities?

Sadly, any fire that THE APPRENTICE once had was snuffed out long ago, and this season’s offering can’t hold a flame to such far-superior offerings as SURVIVOR or even the recently returned BIG BROTHER. And the reason it is failing so miserably is due in large part to the celebrity twist.

Week after week, the celebs (and when one of your names is a former telemundo exec, that might be stretching the term to its limits) are given boring tasks which mainly involve them calling friends and asking for money. This week’s challenge, for example, revolved around the two teams vying to raise the most money by selling carriage rides through Central Park. Again, this isn’t a particularly revolutionary concept on THE APPRENTICE, which has beaten this particular horse to death. But where in past seasons the no-name contestants actually had to use their brains and, on occasion, wiles to lure in customers, the celebs instead rely on the power of their rolodex, giving whole new meaning to the phrase “phoning it in.”

Worse, Trump is treating the celebs with kid gloves and allowing boardroom decisions to be obviously dictated by outside factors. For example, Omarosa and Piers Morgan spent the entirety of this week’s task bickering (with him branding her a slut and her nastily dragging his children into the matter) in one of the most childish displays of immature behavior to hit reality television in quite some time. In the end, the team headed by Piers won the task, forcing The Donald to decide who to fire from the opposing team, made up entirely of stars who got along and worked well together. Rather than fire one of the folks who played well with others, Trump decided that he wasn’t going to fire anyone at all.

Which on the surface, seems almost fair, especially to believers in karma.

But here’s the thing: When it was suggested by the losing team that Trump should fire either Omarossa, Piers or both, he blinked, falling back on the excuse that he couldn’t because that wouldn’t be playing by “the rules.” Of course, no where in those established rules was “don’t fire anybody” ever made an option, either.

Obviously, Trump could — and should — have fired Piers and Omarosa. So why didn’t he?

Because they’re good television.

In fact, that’s why he bent over backwards to rearrange the teams so that the Bickersons would wind up having to work together. Let’s face it, in the real world, no business exec would take two people who obviously despised one another and force them to head up a project. No, this was blatant manipulation on the part of Donald and his fellow producers, having less to do with playing a game by the established rules and everything to do with creating “good television.”

Too bad they failed to succeed on either level.

Based on the horrific ratings, one can only assume that NBC will soon be canceling THE APPRENTICE again in the very near future. Here’s hoping this time, it sticks.

Speaking of ‘jumping the shark’, the Dumpster, err we mean the Trumpster is up to his old tricks. In yet another desperate attempt for attention, Donald Trump claims that he’s currently negotiating with Britney Spears and Paris Hilton to take part in THE APPRENTICE: CELEBRITY EDITION. And if you believe Trump, we at theTVaddict.com know this Prince in Nigeria who only needs a few thousand dollars to help… well you get the idea.

Today’s announcement by FOX that Ryan Seacrest will be hosting the upcoming 59TH PRIMETIME EMMY® AWARDS can only mean one thing. Ryan Seacrest is the only actor — unlike say Lindsay, Paris and Nicole — that we’ll actually believe when he’s checked into the hospital for ‘exhaustion.’ AMERICAN IDOL NEW YEAR’S EVE! E! NEWS LIVE! HIS OWN RADIO SHOW! Does this guy ever stop working!