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Tomorrow is the deadline for Hosni Mubarak to get out of Egypt.  Which means things could get a whole lot worse in Cairo and other parts of that country over the weekend.

NBC News' Brian Williams joined Chief Foreign Correspondent Richard Engel in Cairo

What a mess it is for people living there and reporters trying to cover the chaos in the streets.  Two major names in the news business ran it to trouble yesterday as they tried to report back to America on the demonstrations in Cairo that are turning quite violent.

Anderson Cooper was punched 10 times by some of those in the streets of Cairo yesterday.  He and his CNN crew escaped harm by finding a safe haven in a nearby building .   And Richard Engel from NBC News ran in to the same problems while covering the story in the streets near the protesters as his camera lens was hidden by a demonstrator and he was pushed to a point where he is now reporting from a rooftop.

Seems at this point that no reporters are actually on the ground in Cairo because of safety issues.  Which is probably the smartest strategy to take over the next 24 hours.

The picture you see is of NBC Nightly News anchor Brian Williams and Richard Engel walking the streets of Cairo with ease earlier this week.  That is no longer a way of life for reporters in Cairo.

Rick Thomas

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Well Neil Patrick Harris finally has a Daddy.  After Eric Braeden played the role and was asked to come back to do it again, well he refused.  He says he was too busy, Neil jumped all over him and called Braeden a typical Hollywood, self centered actor.

John Lithgow in Showtime's 'Dexter'

Bye bye, Eric.  In steps the incredible John Lithgow who will do the daddy thing on the hit CBS show ‘How I Met Your Mother.’  Lithgow just finished up an arc as a ‘Dexter’ arch rival on that Showtime show.

Of course Lithgow was absolutely flawless in the role.

He’ll drop in for one episode in February.

Then comes Richard Dreyfus.  Another legendary name in the film and television business.  He just finished his role on another Showtime series ‘Weeds’ and will star in ‘Parenthood’s final four episodes of this current season.  He will play a buddy of Craig T. Nelson’s ‘Zeek’ character in those shows.

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Maybe he’s superstitious about the number ’13′ which is where ‘Dancing with The Stars’ is headed in March when it returns to ABC.  Well there’s actually a different reason for Derek Hough is leaving, for now.  But HollywoodLife.com says the staff is jumping for joy that Hough is not returning to the show.

For now.

Why are they happy?  Well because they would like to see someone else!

Slackers.

Hough has a different assignment that will take him to New York and Toronto this Spring to work on ‘Cobu 3D,’ a movie about a dancer falling for a Korean pop star.  They say it’s a Romeo and Juliet thing.

Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz…….

Jennifer Grey and Derek Hough on 'Dancing with The Stars' on ABC-TV

But don’t worry about whether Derek will return to the show.  He plans on being set and ready for Season 14 set to air this fall.

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There’s another big wedding taking place, to air on national TV.  OK on TLC, which is considered national cable TV but you can bet the latter will the least watched wedding in TV history.

Trust us this will be no Prince William and Kate Middleton affair.

Yes this network used to be ‘The Learning Channel’ but there’s not a lot left to learn on TLC.  It will air a two hour special detailing the marriage of TV host Niecy Nash and her future husband Jay Tucker.

Niecy Nash Shows her Bling

Niecy says she’s going to have some fabulous guests showing up for her big day as the cameras will be rolling throughout the event that takes place on May 28th.

Niecy dumped her ex-husband back in 2007 and announced her engagement to Jay, an electrical engineer, in September.  She just finished up ‘Clean House’ on the Style Network in December.

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This is so strange.  Anderson Cooper did a guest shot appearance on ‘Saturday Night Live’ and he got beat up in that segment as well as a the attack he suffered while covering the disruption we know today as Egypt.

In a skit with Andy Samberg and Pee Wee Herman, the host of ‘Anderson Cooper 360′ played himself as he was walking in the streets of New York and took a fake whooping from Andy and Pee Wee.

Anderson Cooper and Nene Leakes

Oh so strange.  Check out the video of the ‘SNL’ segment along with Anderson’s report on CNN after he and his crew escaped what could have been a really serious situation in Cairo, Egypt.  Other journalists have been beat up in the country along with Cooper.  Even one report of a reporter being stabbed by someone in the maddening mess.

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Carson Daly is moving from late night to prime time and will now be the host of a new reality competition series coming to NBC.   Modeled after the Holland TV show ‘The Voice of Holland,’  ‘The Voice’ on NBC will seek out the best vocal talent in America.

So now ‘American Idol’ will have direct competition for singing talent on television with this new program hosted by Carson Daly and produced by reality guru Mark Burnett.

Carson Daly

“I have a true appreciation for authentic, raw talent and ‘The Voice’ is about is all about finding that,” says Carson Daly, host of the NBC overnight show ‘Last Call with Carson Daly.’  And you won’t have to wait long to see the new show as the premiere date is set for Spring of this year.

So here is how it works.  Four really well known musicians will search the United States looking for new talent that they will mentor and turn in to solid artists.  Of course once the talent lineup is set for those competitors, viewers watching the show will vote for the final winner.  A grand prize of a recording contract and $100,000 will be up for grabs.

Gee does this sound so familiar.

“This is a show based on strictly vocal performance,” says Carson Daly.

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Lots of very nervous people in the broadcast business this morning.  Anderson Cooper, the host of ‘Anderson Cooper 360′ on CNN and the guy set to host a daytime talk show on local TV, was attacked by a mob in Egypt overnight.  Anderson was punched 10 times by a group of pro-Mubarak supporters while covering the collapse of the government in that country.

Might be time for Anderson to head back to the U.S.  Maybe cover a snowstorm.

In a Tweet from CNN producer Steve Brusk, “Anderson said he was punched 10 times in the head as pro-Mubarak mob surrounded him and his crew trying to cover the demonstration.”

Anderson and his team escaped further harm by getting to a roof atop a building close to where his CNN team was reporting.

No word on Cooper’s injuries if any but things are getting so bad in Egypt right now that Richard Engel from NBC news told Matt Lauer on the ‘Today Show’ this morning that “Egyptians are fight Egyptians” on the streets of Cairo.

Might be time to get all reporters to safe havens wherever they are in that country.

Here’s a Tweet just minutes ago from Katie Couric…

“Outside square Pro mubarak protestors very hostile…wouldn’t let us shoot video, pushing etc another photog just got punched and maced.”

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Porn stars, strippers, hookers, who knows who else will show up on some of these morning shows and late evening entertainment programs.  Is there a reality show coming for Charlie Sheen’s female exploits because this one is getting her 15 minutes of fame and doing one hell of a job jamming up television’s highest paid performer.

While Charlie Sheen is trying to do rehab at home in Los Angeles for an expected three months, one of his porn star friends is giving the media just about all we need to keep doing stories on the ‘Two and a Half Men’ star.

Kacey Jordan

Kacey Jordan, who probably is now the most watched porn star on several 18 and older web-sites, is on her tell all tour about Charlie Sheen.  On Good Morning America Kacey ratted Charlie out on the amount of cocaine in his residence during his last party.  “It was all over the bathroom counter,” Kacey said on GMA.

But wait, there’s more.

“You could see him like chiseling it off, putting it in there repeatedly” Kacey continues.

She also says Sheen wanted her to babysit his kids while he went off and took a seat inside of Jupiter 2 to take himself away from the little ones to do his thing.  “When he was doing his drinking…he didn’t have to have his kids see him like that…”

But wait there’s even more.

Kacey told the same story on Nightline Monday night on ABC.

Sheen’s lawyer says Kacey is just trying to build her brand on Charlie’s celebrity which of course is something that never happens anywhere in America.  A porn star, stripper or hooker trying to sell her story for money to the media.

Did this lawyer get his degree off a matchbook?  Or from some fake school advertising on Jerry Springer or Maury Povich?

Oh this is such a mess.

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…well you didn’t think I would make it that  easy, did you?  With a positive rating of 98% and 3,742 ‘opinions’ as they call them, the number one reality star on Twitter, Facebook and Amplicate is Khloe Kardashian.

Coming in at a close second is ‘Girl Next Door’ star Kendra Wilkinson with a 94% positive rating and 1,991 ‘opinions’ (and she has a new sex tape out) followed by Mila Hermanovski from ‘Project Runway’ with a 95% positive rating and 682 opinions.

Khloe Kardashian, Kourtney Kardashian and Kim Kardashian

Amplicate is the company that produced the research for the study.  You like that…doing studies on the popularity of reality stars.  But where is Snooki?  Where did my girl end up on the list?

Snooki came in 5th but her love percentage was only at 89% which dropped her down the list.

Here’s the full overview of the top reality stars on Twitter and Facebook.

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…but he’s getting up and going to work everyday.  For now.  That’s what you have to do when health issues creep up on you unexpectedly.  Stuart Scott has been with ESPN for 18 years, since the launch of the network.  And he’s been in the line of fire for a couple of health issues during that time.

Once hit got hit in the eye while attending a practice for the New York Jets.  That put him on the sideline for three months after undergoing surgery for that incident in 2002.  Then he became ill covering a Steelers-Dolphins Monday Night Football game in 2007.   He had an emergency appendectomy that night that required additional surgery as doctors found and removed malignant cancerous tissue.  He went through chemotherapy after that procedure.

Stuart Scott and Rich Eisen

So the cancer has returned.  Sadly.  Scott is undergoing chemotherapy again for the same medical issue.  “I join the fight and like 3 years ago, I plan to beat this thing…I’ll be back to work soon” Scott said in a statement.

We wish this announcer well.  I’ve spent time on this blog dogging the ghetto mentality of African American sports announcers like Charles Barkley and Chris Webber.  These two are not even in the same room as Stuart Scott.  He is an absolute pro.  One of the best on television.  He will continue to do his work at ESPN as time and his day to day progress moves forward.

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