Week of December 27, 2009 - January 2, 2010

By now you probably know I love the movie "Precious." If you didn't -- you do now! Everyone in it is absolutely amazing, and many of them are in a role totally opposite their public image, including MARIAH CAREY. You will barely recognize her! I can't wait to hear all about the experience. She'll also be telling me about her new CD, "Memoirs of an Imperfect Angel." Then, I read a book by JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER called "Eating Animals," and I just had to share it with you. He'll be here to talk to me about his experience writing it. In the book, he evaluates his own attitudes about nutrition and diet, and examines the attitudes society has about eating meat. He found out some amazing facts that you might not know about your food, so you'll want to hear what he has to say. Also, I decided to feature some of the dancers from this past season of "So You Think You Can Dance," so, I'll have a few of the dancers right here.

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Today is the day! He's here, the hottest man on the planet right now -- ROBERT PATTINSON! The gorgeous guy has been stealing the hearts of women across the world since he played the vampire Edward in "Twilight". Now he's in the sequel "New Moon" and is being literally mobbed everywhere he goes. Today he's coming here and I can't wait! Also, earlier this year I met a 13-year-old fiddler named JUSTUS RIVERA after Ashton Kutcher tweeted about him. He's self-taught and plays on the streets of Philadelphia to help support his family. You have to see him to believe it.

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I've been watching DAKOTA FANNING grow into a beautiful young woman over the years, and I feel like I'm responsible for her success. She once played a younger version of me on my sitcom -- and now she's in one of the biggest movies of the year, "The Twilight Saga: New Moon." She gets to work with Robert Pattinson and Taylor Lautner... I'm sure she'll thank me when she's on the show today. Then, I have some huge surprises for my home viewers -- you won't want to miss what I've got planned for today! I'll give you a hint: it involves a lot of dough. Also I'll make sure to tweet SEAN "DIDDY" COMBS before he arrives. He was the one who introduced me to Twitter -- and now I have almost 4 million followers! I once made him try to identify his Ciroc Vodka in a blind taste test. He got drunk. He still got it right though. Now they've introduced Ciroc Coconut and Ciroc Red Berry -- I wonder what will happen if I make him taste test both flavors..

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I always thought I was good at Ping-Pong... until I saw a YouTube video of XIN-XUE FENG. She is absolutely amazing, and she's only 7 years old! I was so impressed with her that we're flying her all the way from China to show you what she can do. Also, for over 25 years BON JOVI has been one of the top rock bands, selling over 120 million albums -- and they proved that they've still got it with their album "The Circle." Now they're on my show to perform their single "We Weren't Born to Follow," and I'll see if I can convince them to play one of their classics, too. Then I'll get a chance to talk to Jon Bon Jovi and I want to hear everything! Then, KELLY OSBOURNE AND LOUIS VAN AMSTEL made it all the way to the finals of "Dancing With the Stars" this season! Kelly will tell me all about her unexpected life-changing experience and, of course, they'll perform a dance for us.

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It's been four years since she came back to the show, now JENNIFER GARNER is here again! Last time, she was pregnant with her first child, now she and her husband Ben Affleck have two little girls! And if motherhood weren't keeping her busy enough, Jennifer is in the movie, "The Invention of Lying." Also, if you saw my TBS special this summer, you saw the absolutely hilarious comedian JOE WONG. (And if you didn't see my TBS special -- how dare you!) He was so great, I'm bringing him on the show today and you've got to see him! I also have Scottish musician PAOLO NUTINI on the show. He'll be performing the hit song "Candy" from his album "Sunny Side Up."

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