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Tony Dovolani couldn't snag a disco ball with reality-TV sweetheart Melissa Rycroft. But he has high hopes for reality-TV...er, um...Kate Gosselin!

"Although we have only had a week of rehearsals, I see potential," Dovolani exclusively tells E! News. "I think she is going to do incredibly well. She has the drive and determination needed to compete on Dancing With the Stars."

Well, obviously there's fire in those feet! Remember how vehemently she talked about her No. 1 priority being her kids?

"Kate has taken on this challenge to show her children that just because you're scared of doing something doesn't mean you shouldn't try," Dovolani says.

"She came to the show with no dance experience, which is actually a good thing, because I have no bad habits to fix. It is a great opportunity for me to truly use my teaching skills and show America what we are capable of once we hit the dance floor."

Don't worry, Tony. America can hardly wait.

(Originally published March 5, 2010, at 4:03 p.m. PT)

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Denial isn't just the first stage of the grieving process. It's also a common legal defense.

An overzealous Dr. Drew Pinsky fan pleaded not guilty Friday to stalking and five counts of making criminal threats, all felonies that could carry jail time.

Charles Pearson was arrested Wednesday at an L.A.-area community college after allegedly using a campus computer to make a threat. Police say that the suspect has sent numerous shady messages to Pinsky over several months, and showed up at a radio station affiliated with the Celebrity Rehab doc.

A judge raised Pearson's bail from $150,000 to $400,000 and issued a permanent order of protection mandating that the accused stay at least 500 yards away from Pinsky and his family for three years.

The next hearing in the case is set for March 18.

—Reporting by Ashley Fultz

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Is the proof in the put-down?

Accused of aiding in the assault of three guys who asked for his autograph in 2006, Kid Rock testified Friday in Los Angeles Superior Court that, first of all, the plaintiffs are lying when they say he lashed out at them with the threat: "Who wants a piece of me next?"

"I wouldn't say something corny like that," the self-proclaimed badass said on the stand, before further denying that he punched, kicked or in any other way assaulted Michael Medlin, Jose Perez and Carlos Bonilla, who sued the music star in March 2008.

"It was kind of chaotic," Rock remembered. "There were cameras everywhere and people yelling."

And yeah, maybe things got out of hand, but not because of him, the rocker added.

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• Mickey Rourke has something he'd like to share: "I once spent a weekend in the U.K. and had 14 women in one night." All right, that's enough out of you. Goodbye.

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• Everyone exicited for the Oscars this Sunday? Will Giuliana do anything embarrassing? Maybe! But it's OK, she tells the Washington Post: "Anything could happen to me on live television and I sincerely don't care."

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What else to do when you're out of work? Why, take a road trip. And that's just what Conan O'Brien is planning to do.

A source close to the former Tonight Show host tells E! News that O'Brien will officially announce performance dates next week on his new Twitter page. O'Brien will perform a live theatrical revue in major cities across the country beginning in April.

Guess that Home Depot gig didn't pan out, huh?

One potential date was leaked earlier today when Ticketmaster accidentally posted a notice that Big Red would be at Phoenix's Dodge Theater on April 30, with tickets going on sale Monday. The message has since been removed, and O'Brien's rep said the listing was premature and they were still "firming up dates." San Diego is reportedly one of the other cities making the cut.

No word whether the rest of Team CoCo, like Andy Richter and Triumph the Insult Comic Dog, will be along for the ride. But the show will combine music and comedy, hearkening back to what O'Brien did back in 2004 when he transplanted NBC's Late Night to Toronto for a string of shows.

We'll be anxiously monitoring Conan's tweets. (Sarah Killen, you're life's about to change!)

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You know the favorites. We know the favorites. To keep us all from getting bored between now and Sunday's show, we're back with our sorta-annual look at why the Oscars won't go the way we think know they're going to go.

To be honest, Sandra Bullock doesn't have a thing to worry about. Until, perhaps, she checks out our list of why-nots and what-could-bes:

Why The Hurt Locker Won't Win Best Picture: It's December again, and Avatar is the too-successful-to-ignore lock.

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OK, it's not so much that they didn't want you to see it—more like, it just didn't quite make the final cut. But this is Oscar weekend, after all, and seeing as how we're in the general vicinity of Hollywood, we're pretty much required to engage in some kind of hyperbole.

That being said, we did manage to get our hands on an exclusive deleted scene from the Academy Award-nominated Up in the Air, featuring not only George Clooney but fellow nominees Vera Farmiga and (our new BFF!) Anna Kendrick.

And those feet-draggers who still haven't made it to the theater need not worry: the clip, which takes place as the leading man prepares for his sister's wedding, is more or less spoiler-free.

So watch it, love it, buy the DVD or Blu-ray when it's released on Tuesday (with more deleted footage), and then get yourself ready for Sunday night's festivities with our Oscar Prediction Quiz! If you promise to take it, we promise to waive our 10 percent cut of whatever you win in this year's Oscar pool.

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