Julianne Hough Leaving from 'Dancing With the Stars'...

"I wasn't planning to come back this season because I wanted to focus on my music," Julianne Hough told us backstage after taking out the Top New Artist category. "But I went back and it’s been so much fun to dance with my good friend who happens to be my boyfriend." (Julianne Hough then motioned to her personal and professional partner, Chuck Wicks, who was patiently waiting to congratulate his leading lady.) So are Julianne Hough's "Dancing" days done with for good now? "I will be taking next season off," she confirmed, adding that she'll be busy touring and bringing out the "real" Julianne Hough.




Julianne Hough stole the Academy of Country Music Awards show in Sin City on Sunday night by showing off her flawless figure in a form-fitting gold gown by Zuhair Murad, but the super-svelte star insisted that she has no restrictions when it comes to diet. "Apparently Us Weekly http://www.usmagazine.com/news/see-dwts-react-to-new-us-cover-200924 says I don't eat carbs except for orange juice," she told Tarts, referring to last week's cover of the weekly magazine. "But trust me, I eat what I want. (The story) was very random. So young girls - don’t let OJ be your only carbs!" So what is the real recipe behind the ballroom babe’s itty bitty body? "Eat until you’re just full and keep working out,"




Hough responded. But the 20-year-old almost revealed a little too much of herself earlier in the evening when her zipper came undone during her acceptance speech. Hough let out a surprised squeal mid-sentence when Jack Ingram was laid his hands on her; well we think he was "trying" to fix the wardrobe malfunction.

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Farrah Fawcett in hospital....

Farrah Fawcett has been hospitalized in the latest stage of her battle against cancer, a producer working with the actress said Monday.

"She is not unconscious, she is not unresponsive, and she is not comatose," Craig Nevius told CNN.

He added that Fawcett "is surrounded by family and friends." She "has a real iron will" and is "a fighter," he said.

Nevius has been working with the 62-year-old on a documentary about her fight with cancer.

Earlier, he told People magazine that Fawcett had checked into "a Los Angeles hospital."

Fawcett was diagnosed in 2006. People magazine reported that she has anal cancer.

Early in 2007, Fawcett said she was told her cancer had gone into remission. Her official Web site has posts from February, 2007 celebrating the news.




But the cancer returned later that year.

Fawcett was a model best known for bit parts and commercials, and as "Six Million Dollar Man" actor Lee Majors' wife, when she shot a best-selling pinup poster in early 1976 at the behest of a Cleveland, Ohio, company called Pro Arts. Photographer Bruce McBroom placed Fawcett -- then known as Farrah Fawcett-Majors -- in the Indian blanket-draped front seat of his 1937 Chevy and snapped away. The poster, with Fawcett's million-dollar smile front and center and right nipple obvious through the fabric of her red bathing suit, became a sensation.



Soon after the photo shoot, Fawcett was asked to join the cast of a new Aaron Spelling TV show, "Charlie's Angels," about a trio of female detectives who work for a mysterious man named Charlie. Fawcett, who played Jill Munroe, was the last to be cast -- co-star Kate Jackson was the known name at the time -- but, thanks to her poster, Fawcett became the series' breakout star.

Danica Patrick's infuriating, yet fascinating

One of these days, someone is going to forget that Danica Patrick is a "lady" and haul off and ...

Well, you know.

And she'll have no one to blame but herself.

How many times has she put her hands on another driver in a fit of pique after a wreck? Ask Jaques Lazier (Fontana, 2005). Ask Dan Wheldon (Milwaukee, 2007).

She hides behind her gender, knowing no one dares get physical with a female (except another female, like, say, Milka Duno at Mid-Ohio in 2008).

The latest incident happened Sunday in the Indy Racing League's 2009 opener at St. Petersburg, Fla. Patrick and Raphael Matos (an IndyCar Series rookie, but at 27, the same age as Patrick, not an inexperienced driver) collided in a turn and wrecked.

Video replays seemed to support Patrick's later contention that Matos, who was trying to pass in tight quarters, was to blame for the crash.

What wasn't clear from the video was how, exactly, she dealt with him immediately after exiting her car. According to The Associated Press report, Patrick "patted Matos on the helmet as if to say 'Use your head.' " Then the two had "a lively discussion" while they waited for a ride back to pit lane.

"A lively discussion." I'm sure it was.

Again, only Patrick and Matos really know what the nature of her helmet-pat was, but do you think he might have taken exception had anyone else in the field (read, any male driver) done the same thing? "Put your hand there again, pal, and you might not get it back" would have been a perfectly understandable response.

The funny thing is, as exasperating as Patrick's "tough guy" routine is, it's also refreshing. I mean, I'm writing about the IRL and you're reading about it. If you're an open-wheel junkie and will read anything on the subject, fine, but there are a lot more people who wouldn't know Tony Kanaan from Tony the Tiger who are here just because the headline said something about "Danica."

Of course, a lot of you are merely looking for the link to her photo gallery. Can't say that I blame you.

But Danica would be good for racing even if she looked like A.J. Foyt. Not because she's such a great driver (although she's better than a lot of people are willing to give her credit for), but because she's passionate and feisty and fiery. She lets her real emotions show, even if they sometimes reveal her inner 2-year-old.

She's wasting a huge opportunity by staying in the IRL, though. To most of America, it begins and ends with the Indy 500. Otherwise it might as well have gone out of business once they stopped running those Andy Granatelli STP commercials.

Imagine what Danica could do for NASCAR. The stock car circuit could use a guy with a little fire, even if he's a girl. It'd be better than the ultra-careful, never-say-anything-bad-about-the-other-guy, corporate-spokesman-types they have behind the wheel right now.

Take away the one guy who can stir most fans' emotions (but only because of his last name), and what have you got? You've got the PGA Tour without Tiger Woods, that's what you've

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