I suppose they look a lot better these days than they did when they first showed up.

Still, though …

Anyway, Kate, 39, just got engaged to Alex Young, a studio exec at Fox. The two have been dating a whole entire month.

Additionally, Kate’s Grey’s spinoff, now titled Private Practice, got picked up for a full season on ABC. It’s a good week to be Kate Walsh.

It was just back in March that Kate was quoted as saying, “Sometimes I feel like, ‘What am I doing? Am I becoming my character, or is my character becoming me?’ I’m starting to get a little superstitious here. I definitely identify with my character in that, romantically at least, this is not where I thought I’d be at 39.”

What a difference a couple months makes …

Anyone want to start a pool on her DUI?

ABC killed once again, maintaining its Grey’s viewership even with the two-hour, you-can-tell-which-city-we’re-in-because-of-the-color-palette, Addison-Montgomery-may-not-be-able-to-have-a-baby-but-that- bitch-can’t-go-five-minutes-without-another-gorgeous-doctor-
making-out-with-her-and-I-still-don’t-have-a-boyfriend-so-fuck -that-shit, Taye-Diggs-is-still-hot, everyone-in-LA-surfs-and-drinks-martinis, spinoff-introducing juggernaut. So it turns out you guys really do have all the attention span Chandra Rimes was betting on you having. Way to go, America.

What did everyone think of Grey’s last night? It was interesting, I thought, to watch actors essentially filming a pilot juxtaposed against actors who’ve been working together on a hit series for year. Pilots are always awkward, I guess, but switching back and forth made the awkwardness all the more obvious. I do love the Addison Mongomery character, even when I’m insanely jealous of her, and I love that they’ve given her such increasing depth since the day she showed up as McDreamy’s evil wife. I almost like her more than Meredith these days.

Okay, did her bangs think they were getting their own spin-off, too?

I mean, unless she has some sort of inexplicable, totally untreatable fucking growth on her forehead this week, there is no fucking excuse for this haircut. It looks ridiculous and it makes her look about 10 years older. I don’t get it, Kate. You used to be such a pretty girl.

Update: You know, I should add that both T.R. Knight and Katherine Heigl made appearances at this GLAAD event. But I went through all the photos and couldn’t find a single one of Isaiah Washington. Curious.

Slowest. News week. Ever. So, celeb gossip bloggers have taken to their favorite slow-news-week activity: posting outtakes and best-takes from celeb photo shoots. Check out some of my favorites, and pray that someone finally snaps that pic of Paris Hilton doing what she does best in the bathroom at Hyde next week.

Shakira at the Latin Grammys [Teddy and Moo]

Kristen Bell in Giant magazine. [HGW]

Paris Hilton in Seventeen. [MollyGood]

Celeb candids [celebrity nation]

Jennifer Lopez and Marc Anthony at a Latin Recording Academy event. [YBNBY]

Brangelina and Maddox in India. [Hollyscoop]

Grey’s star Ellen Pompeo on Friends, Kate Walsh by Roberto D’Este [HGW, more]

And, finally, a celeb nipple slip compilation video. [Celebrity Pictorials]