NEWS

**MTV announced Jersey Shore will return for Season 4, all talents are signed on. MTV also details that three spinoffs are in the works. Snooki, Jwoww and DJ Pauly D will get their own spinoff series.

**A Wall Street Journal/NBC News Poll has Donald Trump #2 as a Republican nominee in the 2012 race. Mitt Romney comes in at #1.

**Paramount is re-releasing Top Gun in selected theaters for the movie's 25th anniversary.

**We hear chatter that John Barrowman sans all clothes for Torchwood: Miracle Day---- pump up those gym visits, sweetie.

**NFL hottie Tom Brady is building a $20M, 22,000-square-foot manse. Eight bedroom...with a six-car garage, weight room, spa, wine cellar, a lagoon-shaped swimming pool, and a covered bridge that connects two parts of the mansion.

**Ryan Seacrest will earn $55M+ this year. Cha-ching.

**25 states are introducing legislation to prevent employers from using credit scores as part of the hiring process, reports USA Today. Using a credit report to make a hiring decision is essentially making a value judgment,” says Givens. “The employer is saying, ‘I think you’re an irresponsible and careless person because you have a bad credit report."

**Tim Roth (Planet of the Apes) joins Arbitrage with Richard Gere and Susan Sarandon. Roth's character Michael Gower is a detective investigating a murder.

**Former California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has an animated children series, The Governator. 52 episodes are almost sold in several countries. The series is produced along with Stan Lee. Arnie wants to lockdown sales of the series in other countries before finding a US market.