JESSICA SIMPSON gave jailed actor LANE GARRISON something to smile about over Christmas (07) - she reportedly gifted the former PRISON BREAK star with a colour TV. Garrison, who is serving a 40-month prison sentence for a drink driving accident that cost a teenage passenger his life, was granted access to a TV in his cell for good behaviour, but didn’t have the funds to buy one. So Simpson, who grew up with Garrison, offered to buy her troubled friend the TV, according to In Touch Weekly magazine.

Here she is the other day with the baby daddy.  Or at least we hope it’s the baby daddy.

Have any of you seen Atonement yet?  It still haunts me.

The Gauntlet III is the 15th season of the Real World/Road Rules Challenge and the third of the Gauntlet series. The teams will be in the format of The Gauntlet II, designated Veterans and Rookies, based on the number of prior Challenge seasons on which each cast member has competed.

After each team challenge, the losing team captain would be sent to the Gauntlet, where they would face an opponent of the same sex and same team who was voted into the Gauntlet by the opposing team. Gauntlets alternated between males and females.

Filming took place south of the border in sunny Mexico. The host once again this year is BMX Biker TJ Lavin. The season premieres on MTV January 23rd, 2008.

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One New Year’s resolution for the multi-tasking Ryan Seacrest, who is single, could be to find a Mrs. Seacrest – or, at least, make time for a personal life.

“I think, in a way, my goal is to focus on a little bit more balance,” a smiling Seacrest 33, told PEOPLE at a recent photo shoot for Crest and Scope’s tooth-whitening products. “I really haven’t been out with anybody. … This week I’ll literally work seven days, and I’ll get home at 10 p.m.”

So, how will he make more time for romance?

“I don’t know,” Seacrest says. “I haven’t figured it out yet.”

As for his busy schedule this week, Seacrest will be in New York’s Times Square to bid farewell to 2007 with his New Year’s Rockin’ Eve co-host Dick Clark – whom Seacrest tells PEOPLE is “doing better and better” after suffering a stroke in late 2004.

“He’s doing alright,” says Seacrest. “He and Fergie and I were doing a photo shoot, and Fergie couldn’t have looked better. Dick gave some vintage looks to [the] camera when he saw her gorgeous legs and body in this little skirt.”

Meanwhile, Seacrest is also prepping for American Idol’s upcoming seventh season (premiering Jan. 15). “This year, you will see us go back to our roots,” Seacrest says. “We’re going to focus more on the kids – where they came from, the background, what they did for a living. We also have more rockers this year.”

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