Lusth couldn't squelch his seething anger with Shallow during the final tribal council. Visibly annoyed at being voted off the island in an effort orchestrated by Shallow, Lusth told her, "The hardest part of this is that you took away 14 days I could have spent with Amanda."

He then proceeded to pour his heart out to Kimmel: "I'm glad I didn't win (previous season) 'Cook Islands' so that I could be here and meet you. I'm not faking my feelings for you ... I honestly feel like I've started to fall in love with you."

And how, do you think, Kimmel responded to this surprisingly romantic and sweet declaration?

"Thank you."

Is that the best you can do? C'mon, girl! It's not like Lurch just proposed to you. Ozzy Lusth is cute, talented and clearly ga-ga for you. OK, so maybe he's just a waiter. But that doesn't mean you'll have to resort to eating bugs or rats or scorpions... Right?

Like father, like son.

Chef Gordon Ramsay ("Hell's Kitchen," "Kitchen Nightmares") has a reputation for uttering naughty words without provocation. Ramsay's talents lie in combining colorful curse words with others, such as "doughnut" and "donkey," which might seem completely innocuous if spoken alone. To borrow a phrase from Ralphie in "A Christmas Story": "My father worked in profanity the way other artists work in oils or clay. It was his true medium."

Now, apparently, Daddy's bad habit has rubbed off on his impressionable 8-year-old son, Jack. Ramsay told the British magazine Radio Times that Jack has been asking his father to define all sorts of X-rated words.

"I had to sit him down and found out that this was coming from the 16-year-olds on the bus who'd decided to teach Jack Ramsay a different swear word every day," he says. "I simply told him they were rude words and he wasn't to use them in front of the girls or his mother."

But it's OK to utter them in front of his dear old Dad? 'Atta boy, Jackie!

Why Ramsay is so perturbed about this turn of events is surprising, given his propensity for dropping "f" bombs. This is, after all, the same man who hosts a series in Britain called "The F Word." You might think that the show's title refers solely to "food," but that's where you'd be wrong.

We swear, Denis Leary, comedian and star of the FX drama "Rescue Me," has come up with the most brilliant idea E-V-E-R.

Leary, you see, is a rabid fan of "tough-guy" television, the new catchphrase for any program which celebrates "male" professions or pursuits. What shows are those? "Man vs. Wild," "Deadliest Catch," "Survivorman" and "Dirty Jobs" on Discovery, and "Ice Road Truckers" and "Ax Men" on History Channel, to name but a few.

Anyway, Leary apparently is chomping at the bit to try his hand at one of these super-scary jobs.

"If there's a show about guys who can throw rocks 20 yards, I'd watch it," Leary excitedly tells USA Today. "I hope they have 'Celebrity Ice Road Truckers.' I'd do it."

And we would so be there to watch every blessed minute of it, Denis.

There's nothing like knocking a pregnant woman when she's down.

We're speaking, of course, about Nicole Kidman, who last week was dumped as the face of Chanel. (Which is actually kind of ironic, since we've seen her Chanel No. 5 Baz Luhrmann-directed commercials repeatedly over the past week. But we digress...)

The 40-year-old ex-Mrs. Tom Cruise has been replaced by gorgeous 29-year-old French actress Audrey Tautou from "The Da Vinci Code." But we still say Tautou's best work thus far is the fabulous French film "Amelie." If you haven't seen it, please do so ASAP.

Once upon a time we might lament this bit of news and label it Chanel's loss. But the beautiful Aussie's face has looked so odd of late (we watched "The Invasion'' from start to finish and not once did we see the woman's forehead crease) that we can't say we can totally blame Chanel.