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> Johnny Depp -- who recently agreed to reprise his role as Captain Jack Sparrow in the fourth installment of the Pirates of the Caribbean for a record $56 million -- is reportedly keen on scoring himself a part in the Little Britain film. Depp became a fan of the outrageous series, which was featured as the cover story in Out's October issue, after seeing the American version of the sketch comedy when it premiered on HBO last month. The actor is currently working with Little Britain star Matt Lucas, who plays Tweedledee and Tweedledum to Depp's Mad Hatter, in Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland adaptation, and continues to plead for a part in the big screen version of the show. "Johnny was laying it on thick saying how much he enjoyed the first episode of the series. He said he would do anything to have a part in the movie," a source told Yahoo! Movies. Anything? How about offering him the part if he works for scale -- then we'll know if he really wants it.
> Hungry? Want a cupcake? Want a cupcake sold by a questionably famous (meaning either we question why they're famous or even if they really qualify as famous) person? Good. Because eight contestants from the next season of the Celebrity Apprentice will be peddling their sugary wares in New York today. According to Khloe Kardashian -- Kim's feisty sister and co-star of E!'s Keeping Up With the Kardashians (and, we have to admit, our favorite of the family) -- a bake sale will be held at 57th and 5th Ave from 10:30 until noon. Then from 12:30 to 2:00 pm you can catch the gang at Rockefeller Center. All proceeds go to charity (we should hope so!) and though we can't find any info on what other D-listers will be competing, we say just go. The anticipation and surprise -- will it be Heidi Montag? Richard Simmons? Tila Tequila? -- is half the fun. Plus, even if there's no one there to get remotely excited about, you can drown your disappointment in copious amounts of frosting.
> Now that we've got your appetite fired up, we're happy to report that one of our favorite Food Network fag hags is returning to the air with a bunch of brand new shows. Ina Garten, AKA the Barefoot Contessa, will premiere her Back to Basics on Sunday October, 18 at 1:30 pm. The first episode in the series is "Steak and sides" with "The Perfect Dinner Party" running the following Sunday. There's sure to be lots of butter, lots of drinking, and lots of time spent asking all of her best gays rhetorical questions like "How bad could that be?" or "Who wouldn't like that?" If you want to try your hand at whipping up a few of Ina's homemade delights, you can order the corresponding cookbook, Barefoot Contessa Back to Basics: Fabulous Flavor from Simple Ingredient from Amazon.com or find it at your local independent bookstore when it's released on October 28.
> Finally, we received an alert from a reliable source that yesterday's Quickie about Sean Hayes and Megan Mullally reuniting onscreen is NOT true, though from the many LOLs we overheard they found the idea of a Jack & Karen spin-off as hilariously far-fetched as we did. We apologize for feeding you potentially rank info, but in this day and age, anything is possible -- even Sarah Palin for Vice President.
-- NOAH MICHELSON
I have never been so happy to hear Popnog was wrong.
Posted by: jess | October 07, 2008 at 12:15 PM