That Sarah Palin will appear on Desperate Housewives... Sources say that Marc Cherry, the show's creator, is "hot to trot to have her appear on the season-five finale... Marc is highly enamored of Sarah and sees her as the ultimate guest star (playing) a similar version of herself. The idea has gone over surprisingly well with execs at Disney, who see it as a blockbuster based on Sarah's huge ratings on Saturday Night Live"... That P Sean Diddy Combs will appear on two episodes of CSI: Miami... That, when Britney Spears did a cameo appearance on How I Met Your Mother a number of months ago, cast regular Neil Patrick Harris said: "our show does not need stunt casting in order to succeed"... It's been confirmed that Kim Kardashian will appear on an upcoming episode of the sitcom, alongside Heidi Montag and Spencer Pratt... That Britney Spears brought Jayden James to a crocodile park yesterday, two hours after his release from hospital... That, of the MTV 'Europe' Music Awards being a big pile of plop, Kanye West said: "Britney Spears over Rihanna? Are you serious? I mean f***ing Jared Leto? He's my boy but he shouldn't have won over some of those other artists. I won nothing last year and I'd brought out Stronger. Then this year, just because I was there, I won best urban act. This was Lil Wayne's year"... That, instead of taking it easy on her milestone of a 16th birthday, Miley Cyrus is "keen to work" at this year's American Music Awards later this month... That she will also "lead the 82nd annual Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade" on the same week... That John Cleese has had a hair transplant, admitting on Richard and Judy's New Position: "As we're talking operations, since I saw you last, I've had a hair transplant. Because I have got a very strange shaped skull, very pointy... and I don't like wearing wigs!" That the procedure involved "taking two strips of hair from the back of his head and cutting them into a further 800 pieces. The 800 incisions were then transplanted back on to his scalp"... That Lance Bass has "shrunk two inches" thanks to his cosmonaut training which failed to send him into space: "I got shorter. I did! I don't know what happened. Everyone said, 'You're much shorter', so I measured myself and... yeah".... That Madonna has been saying the following to friends regarding Alex Rodriguez: "he has the heart of a poet trapped inside an insanely gorgeous body"... That, of shelving any more Deuce Bigalow movies, Rob Schneider said: "If you're lucky to capture a little bit of magic it's like capturing lightning in a jug. To try and recapture that is foolish. That to me, artistically and financially - the studio made, like, a behemoth amount out of the first one, like $350 million - was such a good lesson. I was kinda relieved when it (the sequel) didn't hit big, because it meant I'll never have to do it again. I don't want to be that guy"... It's a little bit late for that... That David Beckham's "childhood home" in Leytonstone, east London, is been put on the market with the asking price of £850,000... That it's a three bedroomed terrace which should be on the market for the more modest price of £250k... The property is being advertised as: "Lucky leafy Leytonstone, celebrity hotspot - London's answer to Hollywood"...