It is no secret that producers of Ugly Betty are finalizing details surrounding an upcoming musical episode. BUT did you know that they are also talking about bringing the whole show to Broadway? Michael Urie let it slip during a radio show that there are hopes to bring the sitcom to the big stage and Michael wants in!

They do want to do an Ugly Betty musical, a full-on Broadway musical, but it’s all hush-hush. I think it would be great, and they should use the cast from the show.

But does the rest of the cast want to be Broadway bound? 

"I think we would all do it, although we maybe don’t dance and sing as well as professional singers and dancers. I think it would be fun for us to do it for a while, and then they could get real people in. They definitely want to do an episode that is a musical one, but then they want to do a full stage show. I think it’s a great idea. It would definitely work."

I don't know how I feel about all of these shows and movies becoming Broadway plays. Broadway used to have a very different feel when I was growing up and now it is replaced by something much more commercial.  

Exciting! Rumors are flying that America Ferrera is engaged to her long term, film maker boyfriend, Ryan Piers Williams. She was spotted walking around the set of Ugly Betty with a big diamond ring on that magic finger :) Check out the Daily Mail for the picture of America flashing that ring for the paparazzi.
I guess we'll just have to wait for rep confirmation on this one, but I don't think that the ring was for an Ugly Betty scene since she wasn't wearing it most of the shots of them filming yesterday. If it's true, congrats to the happy couple!
*Update: Her rep just denied the story.  So much for that...

America Ferrera and Eric Mabius were photographed filming a new episode for their show, "Ugly Betty" in Beverly Hills yesterday. Obviously they are filming a show that has to do with baseball and while I can't say I like America in her baseball uniform I do rather find her other outfit cute. Now if only we could get some new episodes of, "Pushing Daisies"....Look out on FitCeleb for calorie counts on baseball later on today.WENN

America Ferrera out on the campaign trail for Hilary Clinton.
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Jessica Alba, glowing and *gasp* smiling! D-Listed.
Vanessa Hudgens heads out to the airport looking chic. Drunken Stepfather.
A really cool photo shoot of Heidi Klum with body paint. Hollywood Tuna.
See what Kate Beckinsale and Victoria Beckham's families did for Easter. Just Jared.
Adriana Lima is totally in love with herself! Lossip.
Watch K-Fed get booed off the stage at his own party. Mollygood.
Audrina Patridge out and about. Jeez, she is skinny! Bastardly.
Mickey Rourke is almost totally unrecognizable. City Rag.
Aaron Carter is a serious P-I-M-P. Celebslam.
Haha, this picture of Matthew Perry is absolutely hilarious!!! A Socialite's Life.

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Alexis Bledel and America Ferrera posed for photographs at the Warner Bros. Presents. "The Big Picture '08" during ShoWest in Las Vegas, Nevada. I love both these ladies and they looked lovely at the Warner Bros. event. Alexis and America will be starring in, "The Sisterhood of The Traveling Pants" which comes out August 8th and I don't think I need to tell you all how excited I am.
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America Ferrera looked as adorable as ever at the Hot In Hollywood party this past Saturday. The Ugly Betty actress worked her charm and good looks for a great cause, as the Hot In Hollywood party was an AIDS benefit. The event was hosted by the beautiful Jamie Pressly.

Minnie Driver promoting her new... cd??? WHAT?  I haven't heard much about her lately. I guess she's been busy attempting to make the cross over. Click on the thumbnails below to see what the following celebs decided to wear to a variety of events from this weekend.

• Kirsten Dunst


• Marcia Cross


• Christy Turlington


• America Ferrera

Well, isn't THAT a funny way of talking about anorexia? America Ferrera admitted she wouldn't be able to commit to anorexia even if she wanted to (um... why would ANYONE want to).  Instead, the way she tries to keep in shape is heading to the gym when she can and staying on top of her weight when she feels like it. I think America doesn't have as much pressure to be thin as the rest of Hollywood because the role that has made her famous is depicting the average girl next door. HOWEVER, I wish more people in Hollywood took this lackadaisical approach to their fitness regime. There is too much expectation for the general public otherwise.

"There are times when I go to the gym and really try, and there are times when I just don't," the actress, who turns 23 on Wednesday, tells W magazine in its May issue. "I gain a pound; I lose a pound. But I think I've developed a really good sense of when I'm doing something for myself as opposed to when I'm doing something because of other people's expectations of me."
"And honestly, even if I wanted to be anorexic, I just don't have what it takes," she continues. "After four hours of being anorexic, I'd be like, `It's been four whole hours! Feed me!" (source)

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America Ferrera looks simply amazing on the cover of W magazine's May edition. She opened up about her fake engagement, on not fitting in, and her nervous breakdown.
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ON THE TABLOIDS ANNOUNCING THAT SHE AND BOYFRIEND RYAN PIERS WILLIAMS GOT ENGAGED... "It's totally not true! And his mom called me and my sisters were calling me, and I was like, "Are you kidding? Did you not think I would tell you first?' And then I put out a statement that it wasn't true, and that became a whole news story. So now it's news when something doesn't happen? Like, news flash: California did not get hit by a hurricane today."
ON NOT BEING OFFERED LEADING ACTING ROLES DESPITE HER RECENT SUCCESSES... "When it comes to envisioning an actor in a role that they haven't seen them in, people in this business can be a little uncreative. No one is willing to take a gamble... It's been more about developing my own material, finding roles that I would like to play and figuring out a way to get those things made."
ON TRYING TO ENJOY THE MOMENT... "The hardest part of this year has been learning to enjoy it. It's almost like a full-time job reminding myself to live in the moment and not look for more, more, more... I see now that people who make movies, this world of creative geniuses that I grew up idolizing, are just normal people who wanted to do something and made it happen. Everything that's happened to me in the last year has only made me feel more like a normal person, more human, but in the most beautiful way."
ON HAVING "A MINI NERVOUS BREAKDOWN' AFTER HER FIRST SHOW BIZ EXPERIENCE ON THE DISNEY CHANNEL MOVIE GOTTA KICK IT UP... "I just felt really empty. I had achieved my dream, and it wasn't totally fulfilling. I still had school problems, and I still had boy problems. My life was still my life. I guess I had been waiting to be turned into a swan."
ON BEING HONDURAN AND GROWING UP IN A CAUCASION NEIGHBORHOOD... "As early as second grade I remember feeling really different and isolated. I had the hugest crush on a boy, and my best friend had a crush on him too. One day he said to me, "I like your best friend more because she's paler and she has freckles.' And it was right then that I began to feel like, Oh wow, I'm different."
ON NOT FITTING IN WITH THE LATINO COMMUNITY... "I mean, I grew up in the Valley. All my friends were white Jewish kids. So the Latino kids thought I was this white girl."