ELLEN DEGENERES FINALLY TRAPS CLOONEY

Hollywood star George Clooney has made television host Ellen DeGeneres' dreams come true. The actor finally appeared on her show. The comedienne has led a lengthy campaign to get Clooney on her program ever since she moved to the Burbank, California studios.Her techniques have included sending Kate Hudson, Dolly Parton, marching bands, sexy male strippers and hot models over to his production office. She even asked Clooney's good friend Brad Pitt for advice when he was a guest on her show last year. But Clooney was never in his office when either the comedienne or her guests called on him. DeGeneres then installed a mousetrap-style device above the door of Clooney's office, in the hopes of catching her man, and she created an alert system on her set, so she'd know whenever Clooney was in the building. The alert went off in the middle of Friday's show as Clooney's car pulled up outside. And, after taking advice from Clooney's former "E.R." co-star Noah Wyle, DeGeneres arranged for Cincinnati Reds baseball icons Johnny Bench and Joe Morgan to lure the movie star into her studio. Clooney taped his first appearance on the daytime show on Friday, and admitted he was starting to get a hard time from employees and Ellen fans for not showing up. He says, "Informing is not what I would call what my office has been doing to me. (They're) complaining. They were a little concerned when the marching band came. "People do come up to me all the time and say, 'What's wrong with you, why don't you go do Ellen's show ...?' I've been busy." The star admitted he's been keeping check on the lengths DeGeneres has been going to to get him to appear, adding: "You gotta love Dolly Parton coming in."

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ELLEN OFFERS ANNE HATHAWAY BOY HELP

Ellen DeGeneres

Television host Ellen DeGeneres is offering up her matchmaking services to Hollywood actress Anne Hathaway after her 2008 breakup from convicted felon Raffaello Follieri. The sexy star dumped Follieri in June, just days before he was arrested for fraud and money laundering. The Italian businessman was later sentenced to four-and-a-half years in prison. And now talk show host DeGeneres is eager to find Hathaway a new lover. During Hathaway's appearance today on the "Ellen DeGeneres Show," the host tells the actress: "If you need someone, I will find you a boyfriend. I'm really good at it." A red-faced Hathaway replies, "Did you see how nervous I just got?"DeGeneres adds, "You don't even have to date. You can go straight to commitment." And Hathaway has only one real requirement from any potential new boyfriends: "At this point I would just like him to be law abiding. "2008 was the year I learned to have a sense of humor about everything."

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ELLEN DEGENERES CLIMBS TO TOP HOST

Ellen DeGeneres

Television personality Ellen DeGeneres has won out against talk show legend Oprah Winfrey and is to be named America’s favorite Television personality in a new poll. DeGeneres climbed up seven places from last year’s Harris Poll to take the top spot, which had previously been ruled by media king Winfrey since 2002. Fellow U.S. chatshow host Jay Leno came in third position, while House star Hugh Laurie and funnyman Jon Stewart rounded out the top five.

PORTIA DE ROSSI TO ADOPT WITH ELLEN

Ellen DeGeneres and Portia de Rossi

Portia de Rossi believes she and girlfriend Ellen DeGeneres would be "selfish" not to adopt a baby. The former 'Ally McBeal' star - who has been dating the US chat show host for three years - revealed the couple want to start a family in the future, and are keen to help a child in desperate need of a home. Portia, 34, said: "There are times when I think I'd be really selfish not to adopt a child. It would be great to share our lives with somebody, a little child that really needs a home. "But it depends when you ask us. A few months ago, we were thinking about it. I wouldn't want to say never, but at this point, it's not something I think we're going to do." The couple had previously considered getting a sperm donor, but could not decide who should get pregnant. Portia said: "We would like to have children some day. Ellen would carry." But Ellen replied: "That will never happen!" Portia is currently playing Joely Richardson's girlfriend in hit US plastic surgery drama 'Nip/Tuck', and admits appearing in the series has made her consider getting some cosmetic work done herself. She said: "It's hard to be against it when you need it. I've never really thought about it, honestly. It certainly wouldn't be right now."