The question this morning is: where the heck is Matt Lauer?? The truth is always stranger than fiction and The Today Show host is currently recovering from a serious bicycle accident, according to good friend Meredith Vieira.

Apparently Matt was happily enjoying his bike ride in Long Island, when a cute little deer darted into the road. To avoid injuring the poor animal, Matt quickly braked to avoid veering into the venison and the sudden stop sent him flying over the handlebars.

“He was riding his bike over the weekend and he had a run-in with a deer,” Today show cohost Meredith Vieira explained on this morning’s broadcast.

“He apparently dislocated his shoulder and he’s at the doctor’s this morning.”

Vieira said her early morning colleague sent her an email to explain the unusual situation and air his suspicions that “the deer was hired by the competition.”

“I hired the deer, but I said just graze him,” she joked.

This is just too ridiculous to be true! No word about the deer’s health condition or if it will need therapy after the horrible accident. Hopefully Matt will make a quick return to The Today Show!!

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Former Manhattan madam Kristin Davis has spilled the beans and pointed the Yankee player Alex Rodriguez as one of her special clients. Davis provided Alex with his usual fix of prostitutes, often meeting them at the Four Seasons hotel on W. 57th St., but their relationship went a little further than just business.

Davis described their friendship as something more than just professional as Alex tried to hit on her numerous times while he was married. Alex reportedly sent her flowers, jewelry and heated e-mails before he became a regular client. Here is an e-mail exchange between the two:

Rodriguez purportedly told Davis on Nov. 17, 2006: “Thanks for setting me up with Samantha. She was gorgeous. But she is not you. When can I see you you are gorgeous . . .”

The exchange goes on: Davis: “Hi Alex. You don’t want to see me. I’m no fun. lol. Just because your (sic) so sweet, here are some pics of me and I appreciate the compliments. Your (sic) a doll. Thanks, Kristin”

Rodriguez: “You have been playing hard to get for a year now, your (sic) killing me.”

Davis: “It’s not playing I am hard to get. Maybe you should try harder.”

Rodriguez: “Kristin, I definitely will and I love the pics. I put the one on my cell so I can look at you all the time. Alex.”

Davis: “You are too sweet. I’ll let you know when I get someone you like.”

A-Rod just can’t keep himself out of trouble these days. First his many secret relationships, with Madonna and model Melissa Britos, then the steroid scandal and his infamous photo shoot for Details Magazine. It is not easy being Alex Rodriguez!

American cyclist Lance Armstrong was rushed to a hospital in Spain today after crashing during a cycling race there.  Armstrong was taken to the hospital by ambulance and likely broke his collar bone.

This update just made by CNN:

Armstrong reportedly fell around 20 kilometers from the finish and was seen pointing to his collarbone, CNN’s Al Goodman reported from northern Spain.

Organizers said Armstrong was taken to hospital at Palencia and had withdrawn from the race.

The 37-year-old Armstrong, who ended a three-year retirement to return to competitive cycling in January, walked to the ambulance unaided, television pictures from the scene showed.

A group of 15 to 20 riders fell, according to Bartosz Huzarski, a cyclist racing for the Italian team ISD. Huzarski, who saw the fall, said he did not know what had caused it. Only Armstrong appeared to indicate he was hurt, the Polish cyclist said.

Armstrong and his Astana team are in Spain competing in the Vuelta of Castilla and Leon race.  Today was the first day of the five stage race.

Updates: Lance has in fact fractured his collarbone.

Veteran actor Bruce Willis married girlfriend Emma Heming at his Parrot Cay home in Turks & Caicos in a private cermony. Heming, 30, is twenty-four years younger than Willis.

Heming is a model/actress and had been dating the grizzly actor for the past year or so.  They are planning a civil service upon their return to California.

Guest in attendance included Bruce’s first wife Demi Moore, along with their three children (Rumor, Scout, Tallulah Belle), and Moore’s husband Ashton Kutcher.

Congrats to Bruce and his Demi clone!

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Boston Red Sox pitcher Curt Schilling has retired from baseball after twenty-three years in professional baseball.  He played for the Orioles, Astros, Phillies, Diamondbacks, and Red Sox.  He made the announcement on his blog 38 Pitches.

To say I’ve been blessed would be like calling Refrigerator Perry ‘a bit overweight’. The things I was allowed to experience, the people I was able to call friends, teammates, mentors, coaches and opponents, the travel, all of it, are far more than anything I ever thought possible in my lifetime.

Four World Series, three World Championships. That there are men with plaques in Cooperstown who never experienced one, and I was able to be on three teams over seven years that won it all is another ‘beyond my wildest dreams’ set of memories I’ll be allowed to take with me.

Schilling will best be known for his final years and World Series apperances with the Red Sox.  His gutsy ‘bloody sock’ apperance in the 2004 playoffs will forever be etched in MLB history.  Now if it was really blood or something else is a different story.

Schilling was very outspoken, but well educated, and usually good for the game with his honest appraisels.

Weekend Box Office
March 20 -March 22, 2009

1. Knowing - $24.8 million ($24.8 million)
2. I Love You, Man - $18.0 million ($18.0 million)
3. Duplicity - $14.4 million ($14.4 million)
4. Race to Witch Mountain - $13.0 million ($44.7 million)
5. Watchmen - $6.7 million ($98.1 million)

Full Box Office Totals

Kelly Clarkson is on top of the  Billboard Top 200 Albums chart with her new album All I Ever Wanted.

Other newcomers to the chart this week included The-Dream, J. Holiday, and Chris Cornell.

Here is a look at the top 10 Billboard Albums.

1. All I Ever Wanted - Kelly Clarkson
   
2. Love Vs Money - The-Dream
   
3. No Line On the Horizon – U2
4. Round 2 – J. Holiday
   
5. Fearless - Taylor Swift
   
6. The Fame - Lady GaGa
   
7. Dark Horse - Nickelback
8. I Am…Sasha Fierce – Beyonce
9. Intuition – Jamie Foxx
   
10. Scream – Chris Cornell
    

source: Billboard: Issue 2009-03-28

In an interview for Nylon Magazine, the struggling actress confesses she would love to be a model, admires Britney Spears and believes gossip sites and magazines are degrading her career. Here are some highlights from Lindsay Lohan’s Nylon Magazine interview:

On Having Her Picture Taken: “I love doing photo shoots… I mean, if I could just sign with IMG and do ad campaigns and model more, I’d do that… because that’s fun for me. That’s not work.”

Her one Mean Girls reference: “There’s not much I can do about the fact that I’ve become a kind of tabloid obsession. I can’t change that. And yes, the websites, the gossip pages, and all of that stuff have hurt my career – they’re like the Burn Books of Hollywood… but I really don’t feel like I should have to prove myself to anyone because of living out my college years in the public eye. I’m glad everything happened the way it did.”

On Britney Spears: “She’s marketed as an entertainer, which is what she is. Not necessarily as, like, an artist. And I respect that about her, cause she doesn’t want to pretend.”

On her future: “I’m talking to [lots of people]. One is Sean Penn – I spoke to him again the other day. We’re trying to get Seth Rogen for this project, but Seth won’t call us back. So call us back, Seth, if you’re reading this!”

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Former Playboy Playmate Shauna Sand is completely in love with her new boy toy, a model named Greg Knudson and the happy couple posed for a sexy photo shoot in Malibu.

Shauna says: “I found a best friend who I love spending time with. I love him and feel that he’s a part of my family. I am trying to build a solid foundation of a relationship that is extremely special to me and to go very slowly and see how it evolves.

I always rush into relationships and marriages. I have no patience and I have a past of many disappointments. I’m trying to learn and grow from those mistakes. We will see what the future brings. My daughters adore him.”

Shauna just can’t keep her clothes on for long and she ended up showing off her huge fake boobies. I think those girls have a mind of their own, they had to break free and the bikini was just not strong enough to hold them!

Shauna Sand’s NSFW Topless Photos Below go on reading »

‘Keeping Up With The Kardashians’ star Kim Kardashian is the new cover girl for Russian Playboy Magazine. Kim admits the photos were taken two years ago and she looks stunning in red. The 28 year-old recently posed for her first time with NFL boyfriend Reggie Bush for GQ Magazine.

Unfortunately Kim has dismissed the rumors she and her sisters, Kourtney and Khloe, would pose for Playboy becoming the brunette version of ‘The Girls Next Door’.

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German tennis player Sarah Gronert wants to compete in the woman’s tour but has been target of discrimination and cruelty by coaches and fellow tennis players.

The 22 year-old woman was born with both male and female genitalia, which makes her a hermaphrodite. Although Sarah had her male genitalia removed and is a medically certified woman, she is not yet accepted because she is considered a different gender. She’s definitely not a man but she might have an advantage being a different woman on court.

Julia Glushko’s coach Schlomo Tzoref paints a very clear picture of unfair strength and overall performance that Sarah is capable of – that other women cannot achieve: “There is no girl who can hit serves like that, not even Venus Williams.”

“When I heard her story, I was in shock. I don’t know if it’s fair that she can compete or not. She does have an advantage, but if this is what the WTA have decided, they probably know best. If she begins to play continuously, within six months she will be within the Top 50.”

“This cannot be. This is not a woman, it’s a man. She does not have the power of a woman and no woman has such a technique. She serves like a man. It’s very strange.”

Is it not enough the discrimination this girl went through while growing up!?! Sarah is medically a woman, it’s not like she had a sex change. She is different and fellow tennis players needs to stop fearing a little competition. Strength isn’t everything in tennis! Let the girl play!!

Video of President Barack Obama being un-Presidential on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno making fun of the Special Olympics. The exchange took place when Leno asked Obama if he had replaced the White House bowling alley with a basketball court.

Obama: “No, No, I have been practicing bowling.”
Leno: “Really!, Really!”
Obama: “I bowled a 129.”
Leno: “That’s very good That’s very good Mr. President!” (sarcastically)
Obama: “It’s like Special Olympics or something.”

Ouch! This one might even sting the second coming of the Teflon President for a few days. Didn’t we all learn in second grade not to make fun of the handicap kids and the Special Olympics? There is a reason President Obama always has his teleprompter in front of him.

Obama’s press secretary Robert Gibbs is going to have a fun day in a few hours. He very possibly might break his ‘ummmmm’ record which stands at 57.

Barack has had a busy week in giving his NCAA March Madness picks on ESPN, appearing on Leno, and confessing to Leno that he has been practicing his bowling in the White House.