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An eBay auction of an original Knight Rider car was suspended last week due to overwhelming interest in the vehicle. An attorney for the estate of the late ANDREW KISSEL said the auction for KITT -- DAVID HASSELHOFF's car in the 1980s series -- received more bids than he could handle while on vacation. The auction will be re-listed once his vacation ends next month. The sale will help pay off the debts of Kissel, a real estate developer who was found dead last year...

Girl met police last week when 26-year-old actress DANIELLE FISHEL was arrested in Newport Beach, California on a drunken driving warrant from Los Angeles County. She was arrested last Thursday morning and released from jail shortly thereafter. Fans of the 1990s comedy Boy Meets World know Fishel as Topanga, the girlfriend of BEN SAVAGE's character on the show. She became a correspondent for The Tyra Banks Show earlier this year...

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STEPHEN COLBERT of Comedy Central's The Colbert Report has been voted AP Celebrity of the Year by broadcast producers and newspaper editors who said that he had the biggest impact on pop culture in 2007. Colbert beat out Harry Potter author J.K. ROWLING and Former Vice President AL GORE, who finished second and third respectively.

One of the original KITT cars from the hit '80s TV series Knight Rider is up for auction on eBay. The talking, black 1984 Pontiac Trans Am is being sold to satisfy some 30 million dollars in debts of slain real estate developer, ANDREW KISSEL whose killing last year remains unsolved. As of yesterday, one bid for the 20 thousand dollar minimum was posted on eBay...

VINCENT MARGERA, who is known to fans of MTV's Viva La Bam show as "Don Vito", was sentenced yesterday to probation for ten years to life after he was convicted of groping young girls at an autograph signing session near Denver. The 51-year-old reality star was found guilty in October of two counts of sexual assault on a child. He was also ordered to register as a sex offender, get substance abuse treatment, undergo a mental-health evaluation, and to not to appear as his "Don Vito" character for 10 years...

ABC-TV has announced that it will move the last original episode of Grey's Anatomy from January 3rd to January 10th. The move prompted NBC-TV to reverse the premiere of Celebrity Apprentice from January 10th back to January 3rd to avoid losing a large chunk of its audience to the popular primetime medical drama

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The previously-announced update of the 1980s series Knight Rider will pull into NBC's schedule in February. Zap2it.com confirms that NBC will air the two-hour movie centering around Michael Knight's son, Mike Tracer, on February 17th. The film could eventually give rise to a Knight Rider series later in the year. Soap star JUSTIN BRUENING will star as Tracer, and actor WILL ARNETT will lend his voice to the super-car KITT. Original Knight Rider star DAVID HASSELHOFF is also attached to the project...

TMZ.com reports that NBC and the producers of America's Got Talent are facing a class-action lawsuit over a text-messaging game featured on the summer reality series. The lawsuit claims the game constitutes illegal gambling, and the plaintiffs -- namely everyone who did not win a prize in the 99-cent contest -- are asking for their money back...

NBC's Deal or No Deal has special episodes lined up for the New Year. The January 2nd show will welcome WILL JIMENO, the 9/11 survivor who inspired MICHAEL PENA's character in OLIVER STONE's movie World Trade Center, as a contestant. A disco-and-1980s-themed Deal or No Deal will air on January 6th, and ELLEN DEGENERES will guest star as a celebrity briefcase model on January 16th...

Twenty-one-year-old Los Angeles receptionist SALEISHA STOWERS won the ninth season of America's Next Top Model last night. She receives a 100-thousand-dollar deal with CoverGirl and a fashion spread in Seventeen magazine...