This next season of Ugly Betty will be big, how big??? As big as James Van Der Beek's forehead! Good ol' Dawson himself will be starring this upcoming season in Ugly Betty. Other people that will be making cameos will be Gina Gershon, Salma Hayek, and Posh Spice in....are you ready for this???? A fat suit! I would love to see Fat Spice. Fat and Fabulous is how she should roll (no put intended).

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"They're purposefully big-upping the ugly fat girl to make everybody feel great, but it also glamorises the fact that people are getting plastic surgery because they can. It's really bizarre."

And, she adds of the series that will go up against her own acquired taste, My Name Is Earl, in the fall: "It bores the hell out of me."

Jaime better watch who she's slamming...

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On the day he makes a cameo on Ugly Betty (above), Tim Gunn announces that he's quitting the Parsons The New School for Design after 25 years-- for a job in the corporate fashion world.

But does the move mean that the Project Runway mentor will be returning for the next season or not?

All we know is that it doesn't mean he's not returning.

Word came today that Tim is leaving his job as chair of the fashion design program for the role of chief creative officer at Liz Claiborne. He'll start his new job on March 5. On the surface, that's a good thing. Tim is the only Runway star not yet signed to the fourth season of the series, and his obligations at the school were said to be a major issue.

But there's still a big "but."

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So there's America Ferrera, the chubby cutie who plays Betty Suarez, running around this week, sporting a sexy Andersonesque tight t-shirt on TRL (above left), and on the cover of Cosmopolitan magazine, photoshopped, airbrushed and nipped and tucked to stereotypically beautiful perfection. Is it us?

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It's just too bad they're trying to fit the dog with a socially-conscious collar. ABC's using the "Family" side of its operations to launch a "be glad you're ugly" campaign that reminds us of those bizarre and cynical J Lo-narrated "self esteem" public service ads that Fox ran on The Swan-- during breaks between disfiguring surgeries on ordinary-looking women.

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