12-1 Dish: Kate Hudson 'Stalked a Man" (and she liked it)

So if you are a regular here at The Dish, you've been through some tough times with me... Now we have the ATTACK OF THE PING-BACK!! Over the past few posts, there have been numerous comments that arent really comments. Here's a warning

DO NOT CLICK ON THE LINK! THESE ARE SPAM AND MAY HARM YOUR PC. 

I am working on removing them as fast as possible. 

Also, just received an email from CNN

-- The U.S. entered a recession in December 2007, according to the National Bureau of Economic Research.

Ummm, why have we been told for the longest time that "we're not in a recession, dont worry about it"?

Finally, before we begin, check back later this week for a really cool announcement

Kate Hudson: 'I Stalked a Man'...
Kate Hudson once stalked a man she was desperate to date, and even recruited her friends to help her track the unwitting suitor down.
The single star confesses she was so obsessed with an unnamed bachelor, she tried to manipulate meetings in the hope he would ask her out.
She doesn't reveal if her tactics worked, but admits, "I did go through this stalker phase. I was completely crazy about this one guy and used to drive by his house and get my friends to call me up if they saw him in a restaurant so I could show up."

Britney Opens Up...
Britney Spears is still chopping out those people she can't trust in her life - because she fears they'll destroy her.
In a candid MTV documentary, which aired commercial free on Sunday night, the pop superstar revealed the events of the past few years have left her mistrusting many of those who have made up her entourage for years - and she's still learning who to trust.
She said, "I've been through a lot this year, actually the last two or three years and my trust has really been battered. I've definitely grown up, big time. I'm very weary of a lot of things. Very protective of myself.
"You are guarded, you have to be that way, otherwise you get taken advantage of and get in situations like I did.
"I had certain people in my life who were just bad people and I was very guarded at first but then I went to a point where I ended up letting them in, because I was lonely... and I really paid the consequences for that."
Spears concluded the often emotionally-charged documentary, which chronicled 60 days in her crazy life from the eve of her 2008 MTV Video Music Awards appearance to the middle of November, by warning those from her past who plan to ruin her future.
Half-joking she snarled, "Now I try to avoid situations from the past that may threaten me... I go through life like a karate kid."
The hour-long TV special, Britney: For The Record, featured Spears in dance rehearsals, chatting with Madonna backstage at the Material Girl's Dodgers Stadium show in Los Angeles, visiting New York for record label and fragrance meetings, and trying to avoid scary paparazzi encounters.

M.I.A. Convinced Baby is a Boy...
Pop star M.I.A. is convinced she'll give birth to a baby boy in February - because she's full of male energy.
The rapper/singer, who is pregnant with indie rocker Benjamin Brewer's baby, has visited a clairvoyant for information about her unborn child.

Rosie O'Donnell Variety Show Pulled...
Actress/TV host Rosie O'Donnell has had her variety show "Rosie Live" scrapped after its preview on Wednesday received poor ratings.
The program was aired by TV network NBC to determine whether there was a market for the show.
But Rosie Live pulled in just 5 million viewers and garnered scathing reviews - prompting O'Donnell to admit her show was a failure.
She writes on her blog, "there will be no more. no ratings. bad reviews. yet still - a thrill 4 me."

Celeb Chef Gordon Ramsey Denies Affair...
Scottish celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay is denying author Sarah Symonds' claims that he had a longstanding extramarital affair with her.
Usmagazine.com said Symonds penned "Having an Affair: A Handbook for the Other Woman" and publicly stated she had a seven-year affair with Ramsay, who has been married to wife Tana for 12 years and is the father of her four children.
"What a week I have had," the Daily Telegraph quoted Ramsay as telling the audience Friday for BBC's "Good Food Show." "I want to give you a big thank you for coming -- it's been a tough week."

And here's a story called Sentenced to Manilow!
Some noisy teens and young adults in Colorado got an earful after getting ticketed for loud music.
Judge Paul Sacco of Colorado has come up with a creative new way to punish these offenders...forcing them to listen to Barry Manilow, among other artists.
Sacco says he's tired of fining these young drivers for playing their music too loud. He says parents just pay the fine and the drivers learn nothing.

What do you think about THAT?