Unlike Lauren Conrad, who wanted to forgive—and forget—frenemy Heidi Montag, Roy Horn (not the peroxide blond) has truly made amends with Montecore, the gigantic white and black-striped quadruped who nearly cost him his life.*

According to the Associated Press, Horn is "convinced that Montecore sensed [he] was having a mini-stroke and was dragging him to safety, rather than attacking him. 'I hang out with my lifesaver,' Horn said." Even neater? There's talk of a revival act…a full-tilt, Vegas production starring Siegfried, Roy and (you guessed it!) the heroic Montecore.

When asked for her take on this exciting news, Steve Irwin's still-grieving widow turned to Roy Horn and scornfully remarked, "You're an idiot."

*But who, singlehandedly, taught us to authoritatively answer the question, "Which one's Roy?"

Eight-year-old Bindi Irwin, daughter of the late crocdile hunter Steve, is set to hit the American small screen and quickly make the transition from everyone's sweetheart to Dakota Fanning-levels of obnoxious. Score!

Not only does Bindi have the 26-part Bindi, the Jungle Girl series on Discovery Kids, she's also making the gabfest circuit, hitting The Ellen Degeneres Show and David Letterman's Late Show.

"She'll be welcomed with open arms and rightly so. She's a very special child," Discovery senior vice-president Annie Howell told Australian media on Monday.

Welcomed with open arms? Let's be honest here: It doesn't entirely hurt that her father – who everybody loved, except for those stuffy animal rights activists – just died.

• Roman Polanski may be hiding out in France, but not on the big screen. [MW]

• Responding to Rush Limbaugh's claims that he overacted his Parkinson's disease in political ads, Michael J. Fox claims he was overmedicated when he taped them. A more adult response would've been overacted his first into Limbaugh's chin. [AP]

• Nicole Richie enters treatment for inability to gain weight. Coke addiction? Anorexia? Rachel Zoe? We may never know the cause. [People]

• While CNN and NPR refuses ads for Death of a President, NBC and The CW just say no to running ads for the Dixie Chicks' documentary Shut Up & Sing. [Drudge Report]

• Those changes at the Times to help distinguish between hard news editorial and commentary? Uh, yeah, not working. [Hot Type, second item]

• Thankfully, South Park gets to mocking Steve Irwin before our own MollyGood almost had to. [Daily Mail]

• Shows with ratings low enough to warrant cancelation just a few years ago are now having their script orders upped. [MediaWeek]

• Unlike Matthew McConaughey, Dominic Monaghan doesn't appreciate it when photogs swarm at the beach. [TMZ]

• There is a reason all writers are alcoholics. That's the only topic that really sells books. [NYO]

• Cindy Crawford isn't saying she didn't get Botox — she's just saying the fake interview that ran in Gala is a bunch of bull. [Page Six]

• Friends, family, and fans say goodbye to Steve Irwin. By laughing at all the times he almost died but didn't. And then cried again. [AP]

• Who hasn't Madonna drunk dialed with an offer to do freaky things to them? JFK Jr. is, like, a given. [NYDN]

• Dina Lohan tells Star magazine that her and Lindsay are tired of the tabloid's crap. And that Lindsay won't be doing cartwheels. Which is breaking news, considering, you know, her wrist is broken. [Star]

There's a national tragedy down under today, as news that Steve Irwin, known as "the Croc Hunter" was killed while snorkeling in the Great Barrier Reef. Of course, like everything he else he'd done in his life, the scene was all captured on videotape. It shows Irwin pulling a poisonous stingray barb from his chest after the animal "came up, and spiked him" in the chest.

Police said there was nothing suspicious about Irwin's death and no evidence he provoked the animal. Irwin, 44, was stabbed through the heart on Monday while snorkeling with a stingray during filming of a new TV program on Australia's Great Barrier Reef.

It really is quite sad. Especially since he didn't even have the chance to hold his baby above a stingray nest before he passed.

Crocodile Hunter's death caught on video [AP News]