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In case you were wondering just how much of a disaster Lily Allen's ratings nightmare of a TV chat show is, someone's gone and put the most recent episode on YouTube. Part one is above; Lily is in totally wooden mode when she's forced to read the teleprompter, which only serves to make her flirting with Martin Freeman even more awkward. Plus: there's footage animals doing it with Perez Hilton-style scrawl over them, Chris Crocker takes the "Internet celebrity" role that Tay Zonday had in episode one, and there's found YouTubage of some woman who can "make her butt clap." Poor Martin, looking absolutely mortified while trying to explain to Lily the Web 1.0 definition of "friend." I want to give him a cookie. [YouTube via The Daily Swarm]

This morning, Today sat down for a chat with Delilah DiCrescenzo, the young Olympic hopeful who inspired the Plain White T's "Hey There Delilah" and who'll be attending the Grammys next month as lead singer Tom Higginson's date. Even though she has a boyfriend! Who, she claims in her delay-plagued chat with Meredith Vieira and Matt Lauer, is actually completely fine with her going on said date, although one wonders how much he was gritting his teeth when he reiterated that fact. DiCrescenzo is, bless her heart, saying that her Grammy appearance will be a good opportunity for her to humanize track and field before this summer's Olympics in Beijing, although one does wonder if her definition of "humanize" means, in part, "getting a sweet correspondent's gig if the whole running thing doesn't work out come Olympic Trials time."

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