entertainment - "celebrities"

Tonight, Fox airs American Idol 7's charity event, Idol Gives Back. It will actually start at 7:30 p.m. ET/6:30 CT, and will feature appearances by celebrities and politicians. Last year, the show asked viewers to give money, and also donated money for every vote up to 50 million; Ryan Seacrest didn't mention votes yielding donations at all last night. Because they are such humanitarians, the show's cast will all give their paychecks to charity. 'You know, we all are. We're all going to give back what we would make on that night, you know, for doing that regular episode,' Ryan Seacrest told Larry King Monday night.That's a nice gesture and all, but if you're multi-millionaire Ryan Seacrest or Simon Cowell, do you really want to publicly pat yourself on the back for giving back the money you earn in 2.5 hours? Actually, maybe you do: Seacrest makes $12.5 million a year to host the show, so doing some rough, unofficial guesswork/math, we find that Seacrest is paid $297,619.05 per epi

The hospital employee who allegedly snooped into the medical records of 60 patients, including Farrah Fawcett and Arnold Schwarzenegger's wife Maria Shriver, insists she was 'just being nosy.'

TV Reviews: In essence, 'Secret Talents of the Stars' is an old-fashioned variety show, but it achieves a perverse backflip: Taking celebrities and, by prodding them out of their element, turning them into painful-to-watch amateurs.

GEMMA ATKINSON and DANNI MINOGUE are planning to trek along the Great Wall of China to raise money for charity.Other celebrities joining the pair on the walk ...