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This makes me sooooooooooooo sad!  I actually really liked DSM! I’m so pissed!  I can live without Pushing Daisies, I quit watching that last season.  I never even watched an episode of Eli Stone, so no sleep lost there either.

But DSM was good!! Dangit!

Here’s what Kristen from E! has to say:

ABC has canceled Pushing Daisies, executive producer Bryan Fuller has confirmed to me exclusively.

“I just heard the news,” star Kristin Chenoweth tells us in an exclusive interview tonight. “Obviously it’s a bittersweet night.”

According to our inside sources, Eli Stone and Dirty Sexy Money also have been canceled. Reps for both shows have declined to comment. However, sources who work on Eli and DSM say they were informed today the shows would not continue.

So what happened? And is there any chance these characters will live on?

Daisies’ creator Bryan Fuller tells me he received a call from [ABC president] Steve McPherson this afternoon, and it’s clear now the show won’t go on.

According to Fuller, the facts are these: “It’s very likely that Pushing Daisies will end after episode 13, which as you know, is a cliffhanger. But we are talking to DC Comics about doing comic books that will wrap up our storylines, and I already have a pitch for a [big-screen] movie ready to go.”

ABC intends to air the remaining Daisies episodes that have been shot, either in the current Wednesday at 8 p.m. timeslot or in another spot.

“To be honest,” Fuller tells me, “I’m really not feeling very boo-hoo about it. I am so proud of the show. We put together 22 really good episodes, and there is a lot to be proud of. I’m sure I’ll be working with a lot of these people again, and I would love to do so.”

(In the meantime, I’m told he likely will be lending his genius to NBC’s Heroes, though nothing is official yet.)

As reported by the Hollywood Reporter and E! News earlier today, the ratings for last night’s Daisies episode were the series’ worst-ever numbers in the key 18-49 demographic. Tragic and surprising? You bet. But sadly, true.

I think the writers’ strike did it,” Chenoweth (Daisies’ Olive Snook) tells us tonight of the cancellation. “I think that the ratings for all the shows are poor this year, and it’s not what the networks were hoping for. I’m not sure why ABC decided to ax our show. I know they don’t own us, so I know that probably has something to do with it, but who knows?”

We caught up with Kristin at the premiere for her new movie Four Christmases, shortly after she was told Daisies was canceled.

“I just found out about an hour ago,” she said. “Pushing Daisies will probably forever be one of my most happiest times of my career. I loved being a part of that show, such quality, and I’m very sad.”

As for all the storylines that will be left hanging, Kristin says, “We don’t really have a closure. It’s going to leave a lot of our friends wondering.” So would she do a movie? “I hope [Bryan Fuller] does it, because there’s nothing like his mind. I often ask him if his brains hurt because there are so many ideas inside of his head. I would love to do a movie.”

You heard the woman. Bryan, Warner Brothers, let’s make it happen, OK?

Also, to you fans, please know that we are very much trying to get info for you on Eli and DSM as well, but so far have not been able to dig up any info beyond the confirmation from sources who work on the show that they were told it’s over. We will update you as soon as we hear more.

Lookout Bar! Leonardo DiCaprio has a new admirer in actress Kate Bosworth.

Leo got extremely cozy with the 25-year-old actress, who was holding his hand and stroking his leg at Bardot in Hollywood on Tuesday night.

“Kate was all over Leo,” says an eyewitness. “Her body language suggested that she wanted to be more that just friends and wasn’t worried who saw. They spent the entire night together side by side, intimately whispering in each others ears and squeezing each other tight.”

Leo was with a group of pals, including Kevin Connelly and Lukas Haas, at a table in the VIP section. They were surrounded by about 11 woman including Leelee Sobieski, but it was Kate who was snuggling up to Leo.

“Leo and Kate acted as if there was no one else in the club,” continues the source. “She was making sure his focus was solely on her and the black skintight dress she was wearing certainly helped. When the club closed at 2am, Leo and Kate left with the rest of the group to keep the party going elsewhere.”

Leo had been on and off with model Bar Refaeli since 2006; Kate had been dating James Rousseau since soon after she split with Orlando Bloom in 2006. They were seen together as recently as last week.

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Where’s Vince Vaughn?

Also pictured below: Minnie Driver & Kristen Chenoweth.

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Ashlee Simpson-Wentz and husband Pete Wentz welcomed a son Thursday night, PEOPLE confirms.

Bronx Mowgli Wentz weighed 7 lbs., 11 oz., and was 20 1/2 inches long. (Isn’t Mowgli the boy from Jungle Book?)

“Ashlee, Pete and baby Bronx are all healthy and happy, and thank everyone for their well wishes!” a spokesperson tells PEOPLE.

Simpson-Wentz, 24, and the Fall Out Boy bassist, 29, announced her pregnancy in May, a few weeks after their opulent Alice’s Adventures In Wonderland-themed wedding.

“I would love to have a big family one day,” Simpson-Wentz told PEOPLE at the time. Added Wentz: “A big soccer team or a band!”

And, as her dad, Joe Simpson, recently put it to PEOPLE: “The day she found out she was pregnant, she became a woman.”

Wentz, meanwhile, has been leaning on rocker pal Joel Madden – dad to 9-month-old Harlow with girlfriend Nicole Richie – for tips on fatherhood. “Joel gives me advice,” Wentz recently told PEOPLE. “[It’s] been really awesome for me to go to another person my age.”

Richie and Harlow were guests at Simpson-Wentz’s Winnie the Pooh-themed baby shower on Nov. 1.

Wentz also has another kind of baby on the way: Fall Out Boy’s third album, Folie A Deux, will be released on Dec. 16.

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