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It’s funny how The View’s Elisabeth Hasselbeck announced she was infanticipating with her third child by saying she was knocked up without knowing all about it! Last Thursday, the feisty anchor lady announced on her show that she is due to “pop out” when the show is on its summer hiatus.

Elisabeth is already a proud mother to her three year old daughter, Grace and a son, Taylor, who just turned one year old last November. Elisabeth is married to Tim Hasselbeck. Both are in their 30’s.

The host claims that she was oblivious to the pregnancy for two months and was very surprised she was positive.

Here is a video of her announcement on national television.

Happy New Year!

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Just finally caught up with the series finale of The Starter wife. The last episode, the 10th for the second season, aired the other week.

The series ends with Molly (Debra Messing) being single again…after dating her writing instructor, Zach, for some months. Their parting was sad but sweet and mature though. Zach was that kind of man threatened by a woman’s success. And with Molly really spreading her wings out with her career, nothing can really stop her.

Joan, one of Molly’s best friends, has lost her husband and is suspected of killing her. She skips town and avoids the police. Hers is a bittersweet ending too. She never meant to kill her husband, but she did mean to get away from him to be with the person she really loves…an affair which her very own husband encouraged.

Rodney, Molly’s gay best friend, is finally with a man who is proud to tell the world he is in a relationship with a gay person. Never mind if Rodney’s boyfriend’s flourishing movie career is going down the toilet by admitting he is gay.

Do you watch The Starter Wife?

I was a bit underwhelmed about how the second season went. It probably had something to do with the character changes and I didn’t like how some of the story lines played out (did they change writers, too?). It still proves to be a good one though, better than most shows running right now (in this crappy season? It sure is better!)

I guess no one was more shock about the news of Brooke Smith’s firing from Grey’s Anatomy than Brooke Smith herself. She wasn’t given any notice and she didn’t realize the day they were shooting this Thursday’s episode would be her last. Brooke Smith was told the network wanted to get rid of her character, Dr. Hahn, who is portrayed as a lesbian.

This was the biggest TV news from yesterday. In this interview Brooke Smith said —

“I was very excited when they told me that Erica and Callie were going to have this relationship. And I really hoped we were going to show what happens when two women fall in love and that they were going to treat it like any heterosexual couple on TV. So I was surprised and disappointed when they just suddenly told me that they couldn’t write for my character anymore. I was really, really shocked.”

But another victim to this whole mess is none other than Sara Ramirez, who plays Callie Torres, Erica’s lover.  This was the only story line that is developing her character, giving it some exposure. And it’s the kind of story line that is as real as real can be. With Erica gone, what’s her angle on the show now? Her marriage to George crumbled, her tryst with Sloan looks like it isn’t going anywhere. What will happen to Callie Torres?