Here's Carson!

CARSON DALY became the first late night host to cross the picket line during Hollywood's writers' strike last night when he hosted an all-new episode of Last Call on NBC. Daly, who ad-libbed his way through his opening remarks on the episode, addressed his decision to come back to work, saying he chose to so because, quote, "We ran out of repeats." He did get serious, though, when he said, quote, "If I had not been back on the air tonight, 75 members of my loyal staff and crew were going to get laid off." Daly explained that NBC gave him an ultimatum, claiming the network told him that if he didn't return to the air, the non-striking members of the show would be laid off.

J LO Hewand her "al-bum"!

JENNIFER LOVE HEWITT is cutting the Internet down to size. The 28-year-old actress has fired back to unflattering comments that accompanied photos of her that recently appeared on the Internet. The pictures in question feature Hewitt, looking heavier than usual, with fiancé ROSS MCCALL as they frolicked on a Hawaiian beach. Several sites mocked what appears to be Hewitt's cellulite. For example, TMZ.com posted a comment reading, quote, "We know what you ate this summer, Love -- everything!"

On her website, Hewitt wrote, quote, "I've sat by in silence for a long time now about the way women's bodies are constantly scrutinized." She added, quote, "To set the record straight, I'm not upset for me, but for all the girls out there that are struggling with their body image."Hewitt ripped the idea that small is always better. She wrote, quote, "A size 2 is not fat! Nor will it ever be." She also mentioned, quote, "being a size 0 doesn't make you beautiful."Hewitt wrapped up her response by writing, quote, "To all girls with butts, boobs, hips and a waist, put on a bikini -- put it on and stay strong."

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TV Potpourri

MELORA HARDIN, who plays Jan on NBC's The Office, will star in the big-screen comedy 17, in which MATTHEW PERRY plays a man who wakes up one day to find he's 17 years old again. Hardin will play the principal of the school where Perry enrolls along with his children. ZAC EFRON and former Buffy star MICHELLE TRACHTENBERG has also signed onto the film. She'll portray the daughter of Perry's character...

Last night's episode of Desperate Housewives could be the last new one viewers see for a long time. ABC has one new finished episode of the hit series left to broadcast, but won't say when that will happen. Reports say the network wanted to air it to begin a whole run of new episodes, but there aren't any other fresh episodes after the next one because of the writers' strike. Fans may be particularly curious to see the next episode to find out who died in the tornado that occurred on last night's show

Montell is wigging out!

MONTEL WILLIAMS' behavior Friday was the stuff of daytime talk show guests. Williams allegedly threatened to blow up a high school intern at the Savannah Morning News in Savannah, Georgia after he ended an interview when she angered him by asking a question about the pharmaceutical industry.

The 51-year-old Williams, who suffers from multiple sclerosis and champions free prescriptions for the underprivileged, was in Savannah to promote the cause. He ended an interview, though, when COURTNEY SCOTTT asked him, quote, "Do you think pharmaceutical companies would be discouraged from research and development if their profits were restricted?"

Williams later confronted Scott while she covered a different assignment because he believed she had been following him. According to another employee at the newspaper, the talk show host told Scott, quote, "Do you know who I am? I'm a big star and I can look you up, find where you live and blow you up." Scott filed a police report in the aftermath of Williams' actions.

Williams, meanwhile, has tried to make amends by inviting Scott to New York City to attend a taping of his talk show where he would make a public apology. Williams also wrote an e-mail apology sent from an address belonging to the president of the company that produces his show. Scott doesn't seem impressed by Williams' offer, though. She said she would go, but she thinks Williams' people are the ones who extended the invitation, and not Williams himself.

***Wow...Montell is losing his mind...making a little newspaper intern cry...then file a police report against him...

Such a warm and wonderful person....

JAY LENO has finally joined his late night brethren in lending a hand to his employees. According to the Hollywood Reporter, The Tonight Show host announced Saturday he will pay the salaries of about 80 non-striking staffers on the program for at least the next week. The Tonight Show, of course, has been in reruns for nearly a month due to the writers strike.

Leno is a little late in helping his employees compared to his counterparts. DAVID LETTERMAN, whose production company produces both his Late Show and The Late Late Show With Craig Ferguson, is paying the staffs of both series through the end of the year. And last week, CONAN O'BRIEN decided he would pay the non-striking employees of his Late Night show out of his own pocket on a week-to-week basis. Leno's decision comes after he rankled some feathers Friday when several staff members of The Tonight Show were laid off and told they may not be re-hired once production resumes. Several workers were furious, especially since Leno had told them shortly after the strike began they were not in danger of losing their jobs.

The Hollywood Reporter is also reporting comedian WANDA SYKES turned down the chance to guest host The Tonight Show during the strike and NBC mulled over the possibility of using a rotating stable of musicians as hosts. The network even considered having Leno continue to host the show without any monologue whatsoever.

R-E-S-P-E-C-T

The writers strike may be the biggest issue in Hollywood these days, but it's not bigger than ELIZABETH TAYLOR. The Writers Guild of America lived up to its promise not to picket outside Paramount Pictures studio Saturday in Los Angeles when the film legend, along with JAMES EARL JONES, gave a benefit performance of the play Love Letters. The 75-year-old Taylor put on the show to raise money for AIDS research.

The guild vowed not to picket because, quote, "this worthy event is happening solely through the efforts and underwriting of Dame Elizabeth Taylor, who is not only a longtime member of the Screen Actors Guild, but an outspoken supporter of the Writers Guild."

Saturday was World AIDS Day and Taylor, who has raised million to fight the disease over the years, had asked the writers guild for a, quote, "one-night dispensation" so neither she nor audience members wouldn't have to worry about crossing the picket line. Over 500 people attended the show at 25 hundred dollars per ticket.