Harry Connick Jr. was a guest judge on the Australian show Hey Hey It’s Saturday and took it as an opportunity to speak out against racism.

A team of men doctors, educated men, took to the stage in blackface and afro wigs to do a skit of the Jackson Five.  The audience seemed to enjoy the performance and the host clearly thought it was hi-larious, but Connick wasn’t so impressed.

During judging, Harry scored the performance as a zero and told the audience that an act like that would never make it past television censors in the United States.  After the commercial break, the host gave Connick a chance to explain why this would be considered offensive in the United States.

Some Aussies have stated that they feel Harry was being too politically correct and I am just amazed by this response.  I know we have a big readership from Australia and I’d really love to hear your thoughts on this.  Is blackface considered a socially acceptable act in Australia?

The formerly super-skinny Nicole Eggert is back on the beach in her Baywatch bikini with a few more pounds on her.  And she’s willing to let someone die if they don’t like it.

Eggert is all set to appear on this season’s Celebrity Fit Club on VH1, but all I could think is, “She looks perfectly fine!”  Now, a size 10 wearing a bikini equals fat?  I am so screwed if that’s the case.

Upon hearing that his baby mama Nicole Richie was in a car crash yesterday, Joel Madden rushed to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center to be by her side. The two just had their second baby together, and while there’s no sign that the two will ever get hitched, they are one of the only Hollywood couples that seem free from rumors of infidelity and secretly hating each other.

The broad from Hung, Jane Adams learned first hand what it’s like to be a victim of a world that Tweets everything, and the man who spilled his unflattering account of the actress? Well, he got fired.

A waiter at Barneys Greengrass, the restaurant inside NYC’s Barney’s shop reported on his Twitter that Adams skipped out on a bill after forgetting her wallet at home. Although her agent came in the next day to settle her tab, the waiter still told all of Twitter that he felt stiffed. ”Tues: Jane Adams, star of HBO series ‘Hung’ skipped out on a $13.44 check. Her agent called and payed [sic.] the following day. NO TIP!!!”, the dude wrote on his feed to all of his followers.

Shortly after that was spilled, Barneys took a look at the rest of his feed only to discover Tweets like “Thurs: Tori Spelling eats salami eggs and onions. BTW when did Tori become hot? Also Emilio Estevez looks like his dad,” and ”Watched Neil Strauss pick up girls and Mindy Kaling talking at a hungover BJ Novak. My work is not reality!”

Trust me, this kind of dish is delicious and one of the main reasons we’re all so happy that Twitter is around, but seriously? On the job? You gotta know better than that. There are PAs on The View who see more spill-worthy deets on the hour but show a bit more decorum in the work place.

Point is: watch what (and who) you Tweet about on the job!

Lily Allen performed at the Chanel show in Paris yesterday in what looks like one of the most dreamy performances ever. Of course Lils and her “bandmates” were dressed in head-to-toe Chanel and looked gorgeous, but everything, from the stylish drum kit to the stage they were standing on looked like they were straight out of a fairy tale. Karl Lagerfeld was of course near by, looking like a wax doll and probably enjoying the music if he can still feel feelings. These photos are beautiful and look far more like a photoshoot than a performance at a fashion show.

I would expect someone as brilliant as Chris Rock to be above accusations like this, but someone is claiming that he stole the idea for his movie Good Hair from a flick that had already been made. Filmmaker Regina Kimbell says that back in 2005, she showed Chris a her movie My Nappy Roots on the set of Everybody Hates Chris and now four years later, he’s releasing pretty much the same movie under a different title.

Kimbell’s film has a similar format– celebrities talking about different hair styles that are commonly worn in the black community– and Rock’s big-budget wide-release is bound to make her hard work get blown off the map. While Kimbell has already filed a lawsuit, comment from Rock’s camp has yet to be released and the amount that the suit was filed for is still unknown.

I’m still definitely going to check out Good Hair, but now I also want to find a copy of My Nappy Roots. It’s not that I want to compare the films, I just don’t think that there’s possibly enough movies about weaves to ever satiate my needs.

Victoria’s Secret held the first of its “national model searches” at Yankee Stadium today. Thankfully, unlike the last major open casting call for models that took place in NYC, this time there were no stampedes, and no “bitches pissing in cups.”

If you are at least 5′8″, are reasonably good-looking, and can put one foot in front of the other without thinking too hard about it,  you too have a chance to walk around in a room full of strangers in your bikini while news outlets take pictures of you. Sounds fun, right? (You couldn’t pay me enough money.)

Once all the finalists have been chosen, the public will get a chance to vote for their favorite on the Victoria’s Secret website. The winner of the search will don a pair of wings and walk the runway with the other angels during the Victoria’s Secret fashion show in December.

Pop quiz time!

1. Which beautiful size 4 contestant will get cut for being “too fat?”

2. Which contestants need to get down and nasty with a couple of half-pound burritos, like NOW?

Answer both of these questions correctly and you’ll win self-respect and a healthy body image. Congratulations!