POSER According to rumors, Fergie is pregnant with Josh Duhamel's baby. Even though they're engaged and stuff, we never thought that was a real relationship. But now there's proof that the two are intimate with each other, or a fertility doctor at the least. [Page Six]

Take a sip of coffee and prepare to spit out. Josh Duhamel and Fergie are engaged. Shocking, right?

We always thought Duhamel was a little too attractive to be into Fergie, or women in general. But there’s nothing like an engagement to a more famous person to quell sexuality rumors.

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• Fun and confident. That's what Ann Shoket's new Seventeen is all about.

• Star Jones back on daytime. Here's hoping her Court TV gabfest has Star sparring with The View's timeslot.

• Ann Coulter put quote marks around "faggot." And so she gets a pass.

• "Honestly confident." That's how new NBC Nightly News exec producer Alexandra Wallace feels about landing back in first place by April. How will she get there? A little thing we like to call … a prayer.

• The Office star Rashida Jones is half-Jewish. Also, half-black. Doubly disadvantaged?

• Josh Duhamel, ass inspector. But he'll probably tell you he was just touching Fergie's swimsuit because he misses his own.

• Rosie O'Donnell lets it all hang. Upside down. To fight SAD.

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• Those damn movie trailers are so persuasive even we're convinced Ferris Bueller's Day Off is a drama

• The former treasurer at NBC Universal is arrested for allotting a suspiciously large percentage of the budget towards, well, himself.

• Tyra Banks talks about bulking up for her role as the increasingly irritating host of America's Next Top Model.

• Check out the gold chain! Those chiseled abs! Josh Duhamel has gotta be the hottest guy this side of New Jersey!

• Special Olympics thanks American Idol for treating "special" contestants as nastily as everyone else.

• A bunch of Brooklyn idiots plan to race shopping carts on January 27th…and it's not too late to join them.

• Not exactly sure why anyone would want to watch it, but here's footage of Nicole Kidman mini-car crash caught on tape.

Last week was, as always, another dizzying frenzy of gossip and media-related news. We gave you our up-to-the-minute take, but we're far more interested in your reactions. Please continue to send us your comments, and every Monday we'll recap the burning issues and a sampling of your "colorful" responses in "Hot Topics."

Issue: Anderson Cooper is pulling in some serious bank
You said: "Yay! More great reporting, wit, stylish pinstripe suits and those pensively sexy AC360 ads on CNN."

Issue: Britney Spears has a brand new ex-boyfriend, to go along with her new grandma-inspired wardrobe
You said: "Sofa jacket? K-Mart sunglasses? Am I alone in feeling nostalgic for Britney's fashion-forward days of MILF t-shirts, and cutoff jean shorts?"

Issue: Rosie disses Randy, Paula and Simon, calling the American Idol judges rich and possibly alcoholic
You said: "'Three millionaires, one probably intoxicated.' Geez, Rosie better watch out! I hear Paula can be one angry drunk…"

Issue: Shawn Hornbeck's family turns his childhood trauma into a cash cow
You said: "I don't think what they did was wrong. The reality is that Oprah's interview will do more for the cause of missing children than any other interviews. If Brangewhatever their names can sell photos of their baby for a cause, what is wrong with asking interviewers, if they want an interview, to do this?"

Issue: Fergie and Josh Duhamel may be secretly engaged
You said: "Not only is Fergie wholly untalented, but her face has more nooks and crannies on it than one of those Thomas' English muffins."

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Sure, by now most of us have heard the rumor that Fergilicious and her ridiculously attractive (and somewhat talented) boyfriend, Josh Duhamel, are headed for the altar. But, truthfully, we're not sure we totally buy it.

For those of you not "in the know," (i.e. those of who spent their day working productively insteading of reading trashy online gossip), it's being reported that Stacy "Fergie" Ferguson and Duhamel have been secretly engaged since just before Christmas. According to L&S, the couple kept it hidden from the public these past few months, preferring to hold off on announcing the engagement "until they set a wedding date."

And how did they keep it all so mysterious?

Instead of wearing the ring on her finger, Fergie Ferg has allegedly been keeping a low profile by toting it around in her dirty handbag. Sounds romantic, right?

Wrong.

Shoving the ring into her purse instead of proudly brandishing it on her finger…Isn't this kinda like that episode of Sex and the City where Carrie wears the engagement ring around her neck because she secretly isn't at all ready to get married? And isn't it true that Fergie's face, up close, is all wrinkled and craggly, and that she's actually sort of irritating, and that Josh Duhamel is far too young and attractive to spend the rest of his natural life with her?

Yeah, we're going to have to hold off on this one until we hear something a little more conclusive. But all we're saying is, if you were seriously getting married to Josh Duhamel, wouldn't you be shouting it from the rooftops…rather than "celebrating privately" by letting the shiny, four-carat ring gather dust in your last-season's Louis Vuitton?

• Britney Spears blames California for the stress on her marriage, so she's moving back to Louisiana. You know how those country love dying their hair black and getting naked for magazines. [The Scoop]

• In a Daily News "exclusive" Star Jones tells the paper exactly what she told People in their "exclusive" two days ago. Oh, plus some words of wisdom from Rosie O'Donnell. [NYDN]

• Kate Moss offers Burberry an eight ball to take her back. They accept. [E!]

• How many sports players with Paris Hilton sleep with in her lifetime? ESPN is guessing into the double digits. And it sounds like she might get things rolling with a few soccer players to start with. [TMZ]

• If only Josh Duhamel had been standing in line with Fergie, Tommy Lee would have been friggin' toast. [Page Six]

If we were sleeping with Fergie of the Black Eyed Peas, we'd be making an effort to hide it too. Which explains the flack attack from Josh Duhamel's camp when Fergie's team was readying a press release to announce her Mardi Gras appearance.

From: < [redacted]>
Date: Feb 23, 2006 11:47 AM
Subject: Josh Duhamel Media Update
To: [redacted]

… I am hoping this piece may be of interest of you. This line: ‘Duhamel currently dates Fergie of The Black Eyed Peas’ appeared in the original release (where the asterisks are), but had to be taken out as Josh’s team was VERY upset we included her in the release. Seems to me someone is a little upset they have to piggyback off of their girlfriend’s fame - sucks to be ‘Mr. Fergie’!

Because his PR and Management teams are already a little upset with the Fergie incusion, it might be best to include it after the event actually happens[…]

Or, you know, include it right here and right now.

The full email leak, after the jump.

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