Did you hear the news? Miss America is abandoning her perch over at Viacom's Country Music Television and heading over to The Learning Channel instead.

Because there's truly nothing more educational than watching a bunch of tiara-wearing debutantes parading around in their bikinis while entreat us to enthusiastic, off-key (and slightly nasal) rendition of "The Star Spangled Banner" while articulating their irrepressible desire for world peace.

God bless America.

[B&C]

How did Miss America Jennifer Berry spend her Thanksgiving holiday?

Current Miss America Jennifer Berry underwent surgery for undisclosed reasons and spent the night in a Raleigh, North Carolina, hospital, a pageant official has confirmed to the Associated Press.

Berry, 22, a Tulsa native, was visiting family and friends on Saturday when she was admitted for surgery at Rex Hospital and released the next day, said Sharon Pearce, a spokeswoman for the Miss America Organization in Atlantic City, N.J.

"Undisclosed reasons?" "Released the next day?" Now we're no medical experts, but it sounds like someone had a case of the nosejob-eyebrow-lift-Restylane-lip-injection Saturdays.

• Miss America, the strapped-for-cash beauty pageant that's far less interesting than America's Next Top Model, has resorted to asking former winners to fund their scholarship program. Tina Fey needn't even write a punchline for this weekend. [AP]

• Britain is granting 24-hour liquor licenses to many of its pubs with hopes of curbing last-call violence. You know, when the bartender announces "last call," so you chug a half dozen drinks, drunkenly make a pass another guy's lady and end your night with a bloodied face in the sidewalk. [Washington Times]

• When you're shopping on Walmart.com (after laughing), you'll have two ways to spend that $10,000: On a new plasma TV or an 18-karat white gold ring. [NYT]

• It's not quite up to the Jenny Jones "murdered my gay neighbor who had a crush on me" caliber, but ABC's Wife Swap is being sued by an Oklahoma man who wasn't too pleased to see his spouse swapped for a gay man. The episode hasn't aired yet, and we have a feeling it's not going to. [NYP]

• Keith Olbermann will be back on the radio dial Monday thru Friday alongside Dan Patrick at 2pm. Even if MSNBC doesn't like it, too bad — it's good PR.

• Plastic surgery among men is up 8 percent this year, and only some of it is attributable to David Gest. [NYP]

• Jake Gyllenhaal is "flattered" when you call him bisexual — and ecstatic when you call him a nelly fag. [The Scoop]

• Congratulations to Camden, New Jersey, for snagging the "most dangerous city" superlative for the second straight year. [CBS 3]