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Chatting about celebrity gossip with Us Weekly, doing the talk show circuit - this guy actually makes running for president look like fun!

Crediting his previous appearance on The Ellen DeGeneres Show - in which he famously danced with the funny host - for his poll numbers shooting through the roof, Barack Obama did not showcase his dance moves again yesterday.

But the Illinois senator did talk with Ellen about how his wife, Michelle Obama, is making him quit smoking, how he respects Sen. Hillary Clinton, what he would do on his first day in the Oval Office and much more.

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Might the presidential campaign of Stephen Colbert be in trouble?

Barack Obama is getting in touch with his inner dancer below, showing a lighter side on the Ellen DeGeneres show. But is it too late?

After all, Colbert's numbers are awfully impressive so far. Do you think Barack can overtake him?

High School Musical fans may get angry over the following comparison between celebrities, but it's hard to argue with, isn't it?

While Zac Efron is best known for looking cuter than a puppy sitting atop a kitten, the same may also need to be said about talk show host Ellen DeGeneres now.

The two stars have a similar haircut and smooth face. We can imagine Vanessa Hudgens going home with Ellen by accident one night... and DeGeneres not minding at all.

Portia de Rossi should be proud. Her lover is quite the trooper.

Despite an injured back, Ellen DeGeneres is hosting shows this week from a hospital bed on the stage.

The host of the syndicated The Ellen DeGeneres Show said during Monday's taping she was placed on bed rest after she hurt herself Sunday when she leaned over to pick up her dog in her kitchen.

"I felt a tear," said DeGeneres on the show with guest Ryan Seacrest that aired this morning. "I tore a ligament and did something to something else. That's what happened and they said that I'm not able to sit, to move or to do anything."

While lying in her adjustable bed, DeGeneres introduced to the audience her doctor, Fred Lerner, and the emergency room technician who treated her, Frankie Conrad.

After the show with Seacrest, DeGeneres arranged to tape a second program Monday with a guest that knows all about lying on her back in bed: Lindsay Lohan. It airs Wednesday.

Because she can't travel, DeGeneres postponed a much-promoted show aboard an airplane from Los Angeles to New York that was to tape Thursday. She also canceled a May 5 trip to Chicago for a Make-a-Wish Foundation charity event. Fortunately, other charitable endeavors by celebrities are still a go:

Kristine Lefebvre raises cervical cancer awareness in Playboy on Friday.

Ellen DeGeneres is happy.

She's got a hit talk show, will be hosting the Academy Awards soon - and, oh yeah, has a really hot, loving girlfriend in Portia de Rossi.

DeGeneres tells The Advocate in its new issue that she's reached a different level of contentment with her actress girlfriend of two years.

"I could say the same thing I've said in every relationship: 'I'm happy.' But there's happiness and there's love, and then there's completion," the Emmy-winning talk-show host says. "It doesn't take away from any of the relationships that I've had, 'cause I've had amazing relationships. ... But I feel like I found my perfect fit."

One of her ex fits, Anne Heche, has moved on once again recently.

One key to their happiness, says DeGeneres, is that they learn things from each other.

"She's taught me lessons about myself, and I feel like I've taught her," says DeGeneres.

"We've both changed and grown, and we just feel like, 'Oh, OK, this is completion.' "

Sort of like how Tara Conner used to feel about alcohol.

In September 2005, de Rossi told The Advocate that her relationship with DeGeneres was "very loving, peaceful," adding, "I really feel not alone for the first time in my life."

Sadly, the Oscars hosting gig means Ellen won't get to walk the red carpet with de Rossi. But actually, that's okay, says DeGeneres:

"When we're together and she's in her heels, I always feel like Tom Cruise next to Nicole Kidman."

You loved the use of their current and former talk shows in that headline. Admit it. Here at THG, we do more than report on Lindsay Lohan car crashes. We like to keep it interesting and diverse, which leads us to the (hot) image below:

In an unexpected showdown of sexy talk-show gods (and goddesses), Matt Lauer and Meredith Vieira go head-to-head, holding huge portraits of themselves in suggestive beach poses. Ellen DeGeneres is also in this picture, but not holding a similar shot of herself. Which is okay. She looks a little too much like Owen Wilson for our taste.

When Howard Stern (the radio guy, not Howard K. Stern of Anna Nicole Smith fame) said on his show that talk show host Ellen DeGeneres and overrated actor Owen Wilson look very much alike, we had to put that to the test. Henceforth, he have compiled a little comparison for you here at T.H. Gossip.

Okay, so this is not exactly a pair of dead ringers along the lines of Abbie Cornish and Reese Witherspoon. Or, for that matter, Tom Cruise and Kim Jong Il. But in the Celebrity Look-Alike business, you can't force it. Not every day hands you a gem. You take what you can get.

 
"I was Coco and it was fifty bucks - I did anything."
â€" Hugh Jackman, on his stint as a professional clown

"Before he was born, we swore we wouldn't be those parents with plastic gear everywhere ... and now we have plastic gear everywhere."
-- Rachel Weisz, on parenting

"I don't know what Snoop Dogg was smoking, but I don't think it was catnip."
- Elizabeth Perkins, on Snoop's visit to the set of Weeds

"Every morning I would come down to the kitchen and I would see myself making coffee and I would think, 'Oh she's pretty.'"
- Ellen DeGeneres, on what she would do if she had an identical twin

"Hot sex."
- Annette Bening, on what it is that makes her marriage to Warren Beatty work

"My grandmother saw Faith on TV and said, "I found the perfect girl for you," and Faith's grandmother called and said the same thing to her."
- Tim McGraw on who set up he and wife Faith Hill

"I never enjoy [Halloween]. I loved it when I was like 8, 9, 10, and then after that I was like, ‘I feel embarrassed.'"
â€" Sarah Jessica Parker on dressing up for Halloween

"I got booty. Booty's what I got."
- Sandra Bullock when asked about her clothing

"A few years down the road I am going to be a correspondent for Extra."
â€" Ben Affleck joking when asked of his future plans

"I wasn't a rebellious teenager ... I was so afraid of getting into trouble that it didn't interest me."
- Ashley Olsen

"I've never wanted to get married and I've been with great men. My need for newness ... is greater than my need for any idea of security."
- Maria Bello

"Yeah, I get asked to a lot … I don't go, that would be so inappropriate … it's very strange … it makes me uncomfortable."
- Jennifer Love Hewitt, on being asked to attend funerals because of her show Ghost Whisperer

"They call me Dr. Hooker. Isn't that nice?"
- Kate Walsh, on her sexy image on Grey's Anatomy

For a long time, Suri Cruise pretended to exist (and, come on, we still have questions).

Now, Ellen DeGeneres is gonna pretend to be a seal.

Yes, you read that correctly. The next Oscars host will become a virtual seal who heads up an environmentally conscious flock on the California Bay as part of a new website.

"I just think [seals] are adorable," she said. "I've always loved animals and I want to do anything I can to help."

In related news, apparently Dustin Diamond has always found porn stars adorable and wants to do anything he can to help.

DeGeneres is lending her famous name to Dawn Saves Wildlife, a Web-based program to educate visitors about how they can help save the environment and protect aquatic animals from pollution.

Site visitors can become virtual pelicans, penguins, ducks or seals and form "flocks" with their friends as they learn simple sea-saving steps, such as recycling used motor oil and disposing of cooking grease in sealed containers.

Of course, Mary-Kate Olsen has done her part to help but not eating seafood. Or anything at all.

An Oscar host that isn't insulting or political? Ellen DeGeneres claims that's her goal.

"I want to be respectful," the talk-show host told The New York Times about her gig hosting the 79th annual Academy Awards on Feb. 25, 2007.

Respect is fine, Ellen. So is being funny! Talk to Stephen Colbert, if need be.

"I know what the job is," DeGeneres said. "It's to honor movies and to honor people who worked hard. Those people take it seriously. I'm there to make them feel good and take their minds off it a little bit and make it a fun night."

Ellen does have a solid background. She deftly emceed the Emmys after both the 9/11 attacks and Hurricane Katrina and is perceived as the perfect Oscar host in the wake of Hollywood's tepid box-office showing last year as well as this time of turmoil in Washington and overseas.

But if we aren't promised a Tom Cruise joke or 17, we're not watching.

"She's got the best laugh in show business," Robin Williams, an Oscar winner, told the Times. "I think she's genuinely having a good time. If it felt fake, or put on, I think people would pick up on it."

"I have a certain philosophy," DeGeneres said, referring to both her daily show and how she'll approach Oscar night, "that if it feels good, that if I feel good doing it, then it will just feel good to watch."

She also avoids the political and seldom mentions partner Portia de Rossi, recalling the negative fallout after she appeared on the cover of Time with the headline, "Yep, I'm Gay."

"Maybe because I was penalized in a way when I came out, there are certain areas that I am aware would get me in trouble," she said. "I talk about my life and I talk about Portia and it's not a big deal if it comes up. But it really doesn't come up."