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TV tributes for Patrick Swayze are pouring in with the latest coming from ABC's "Dancing with the Stars". This coming Wednesday, September 23, the dancing show is going to honor the late actor who previously made guest appearances on the show during season 1 when he supported his pal John O'Hurley.

"We have some very fond memories of [Patrick] coming to help us when we were a tiny little show way back when," the show's Executive Producer Conrad Green told People. "He was one of the few people to integrate dance with being an A-list actor. He inspired many people and many of our pros to dance. We want to honor the great moments he's brought to film by getting our dancers to do their interpretation to some music from his films."

Josh Groban this week, Celine Dion next week. In the preview released for the September 23 episode of "Glee", Rachel Berry is trying out for a spot in a cabaret where one "must" sing a Celine Dion song during the audition. She opts "Taking Chances".

Meanwhile, Kurt takes center stage when he tries out for the football team in order to impress his dad. Sandy and Sue join forces to carry out their plans for destroying the Glee Club. Meanwhile, Quinn and Finn's relationship is tested when they receive some life-changing news.

Jana Kramer is crossing from "90210" to "One Tree Hill" starring as an actress named Alex who becomes the new face of Brooke's clothing line, Clothes Over Bros. "Jana is so charismatic and fun as Alex, an actress who has been chosen to model for Brooke's clothing line," creator Mark Schwahn gave a comment on the guest star.

In the episode called "What Are You Willing to Lose", Clay defends Nathan against a growing scandal. Kate French, who previously appeared on "Gossip Girl", is guest starring as the girl who spreads scandalous photos of her and Nathan and threatens to destroy his reputation as an NBA player.

The guy with the guitar came out as the champion of "America's Got Talent" on Wednesday, September 16 finale. Kevin Skinner, a musical act that hailed from Mayfield, K.Y. was awarded 1 million dollar grand prize and a spot at Las Vegas' Planet Hollywood Resort & Casino show when he was announced as the winner of fourth season.

In the final round, host Nick Cannon narrowed it down from Top 10 to Top 5. The Voices of Glory finished fifth, followed by Texas Tenors at fourth place and Recycled Percussion at number 3. After dispatching these acts, Nick separated Barbara Padilla and Kevin Skinner to second and first place respectively.

In the next "The Beautiful Life: TBL", the girls are not afraid to play dirty on each other. Marissa accuses Sonja of stealing the Versace campaign from her and decides to seek revenge in a very public way, which leads Sonja to Cole for assistance.

Meanwhile, Chris believes his chances at a modeling career are over and prepares to leave New York City until he receives a surprise phone call from Claudia. Claudia informs Raina that she needs to focus more on her career and less on her new relationship with Chris.

Jennifer Aniston did Ellen DeGeneres a favor when she appeared on "The Ellen DeGeneres Show" on Wednesday, September 16. To Ellen, the actress showed a side of her which was never revealed publicly, singing. Given a single spotlight and handed a mic, Jennifer picked "I've Got a Crush on You" to sing.

Jennifer was actually there to promote her latest romcom "Love Happens" but the conversation continued to her next project "The Goree Girls" where she is playing one of the singers. Asked by Ellen whether she sings in real life, Jennifer answered "I sing a tune or two". The host quickly took the opportunity to force her displaying the talent live.

Two worlds will collide when "Gossip Girl" airs an episode where Tyra Banks, the host of "America's Next Top Model", pays a visit as an actress named Ursula Nyquist later this season. There is little detail about Tyra's role but it was reported that Serena will get a job as a publicist taking charge of Ursula's movie premiere night. No episode date was suggested.

Apart from sharing some scenes with Blake Lively, Tyra will also meet another guest star Hilary Duff who plays a movie star in disguise, Olivia. They have shot their joint scene and Duff said, "It was fun to work with her in a different atmosphere than appearing on her show. She looked beautiful and did a really great job. She had the flat hair that squiggles on her forehead. Very flapper-ish!"

FX Network's "Sons of Anarchy" is moving on to the third episode of season 2 with Jax's involvement in Luanne's porn business getting to Tara. Meanwhile, Gemma's rape is undermining her relationship with Clay.

Charlie Hunnam said previously that Jax's relationship with Tara is not going to be happily ever after. "He's got the girl back, even though she had some pretty big reservations about jumping back into bed with Jax and this lifestyle," the actor said. "But, I think they've made the promise again that they are going to be together and do everything we can to make this work."

The CW's Tuesday duo "90210" and "Melrose Place" will return next week with episodes "Sit Down, You're Rocking the Boat" and "Grand" respectively. For Annie it's time for retaliation while for David, it's time for revelation.

In "90210", Annie is humiliated that the entire school received her sext message and is on a mission to reveal Naomi as the sender of the revealing photo. Harry and Debbie attempt to discuss Annie's situation but the conversation only causes more tension, leading Harry to open up to Kelly about his family problems.

As the network that airs Patrick Swayze's last TV project, "The Beast", A&E is dedicating a day full of tributes. On Wednesday, September 16, the cable network is going to present a marathon of "The Beast" starting from 2 P.M. to 6 P.M. ET/PT along with an encore at 11 P.M. ET/PT.

Additionally, a special called "Bio Remembers: Patrick Swayze" is scheduled to air at 10 P.M. ET/PT. "We are saddened by the loss of one of our generation's greatest talents and a member of the A&E family," said Bob DeBitetto, President & General Manager of A&E. "Patrick's work on 'The Beast' was an inspiration to us all. He will be greatly missed and our thoughts are with his wife Lisa and his entire family during this difficult time."

A spokeswoman for Oprah Winfrey has come out with a denial that the talk show queen will pay Jaycee Lee Dugard to appear on "The Oprah Winfrey Show". Daily Mirror reported recently that the rape victim would receive 1 million if she shows up but Angela DePaul said that they never pay for interviews.

Oprah indeed expressed her desire to be the first to interview Dugard. To Samantha Harris of The Insider, she put stresses in the words "I want that interview". Already securing Whitney Houston to be her season opener, Oprah said that it didn't matter compared to this Dugard case. "This is the one that I want," she added.

After 73 days shield from the outside world, Jordan Lloyd came out of the "Big Brother" house $500,000 richer. The 22-year-old waitress from Matthews, N.C. beat 24-year-old student Natalie Martinez on the season finale airing Tuesday, September 15.

Jordan first beat Kevin Campbell during the tiebreaker and evicted him. Kevin and the last six evictees on the show except for Chima Simone then became the members of Jury who will determine who should be crowned the winner. The panel interrogated Jordan and Natalie separately regarding their games before casting in their votes.

Cover has been taken off, the second group of presenters in duty for 61st Primetime Emmy Awards reveal themselves. Kevin Bacon, who is nominated at the award show for his role in TV movie "Taking Chance", will be on hand to present together with his wife Kyra Sedgwick who is also a nominee for her role on "The Closer".

Also presenting together would be the leading stars to CBS drama series "NCIS: Los Angeles", LL Cool J and Chris O'Donnell. Others taking similar task include Alec Baldwin, Kaley Cuoco, Cat Deeley, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Johnny Galecki, Ricky Gervais, Jim Parsons, Amy Poehler, Anna Torv, Sigourney Weaver and Kate Walsh.

David Letterman's September 21 guest would be none other than Barack Obama. The President of United States is given the privilege of being the only guest on "Late Show with David Letterman" that night.

"President Obama's appearance will mark the first by a sitting U.S. President on the 'Late Show' and his first visit back to the show since his election," CBS said in the press release. Obama has appeared on the show five times before taking the office with the latest being September 10, 2008 when he was at the height of Presidential election campaign.

The CW has provided two sneak peeks to the upcoming episode of "The Vampire Diaries" where Vicki is recovering from Damon's attack. In the first clip, Stefan, knowing who was responsible for the incident, goes to the hospital and uses his ability to make Vicki forget who attacked her. However, his attempt was cut short when Matt arrives.

In the second clip, Elena goes to the Salvatore house to talk to Stefan, but finds Damon instead. Damon tells her about Stefan's past relationship with a girl named Katherine, and when Stefan arrives home, Elena is surprised that he seems upset to see her there.