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  • Bob Newhart: Social Media Has Fun With His College Football Ref Doppelgänger

    Bob Newhart was the center of some fun social media attention Monday, when football fans noticed that the head referee for the first ever College Football Playoff national championship football game between the Ohio State University and the University of Oregon had a striking resemblance to the legendary comedian.

    Referee Greg Burks, who usually refs for Big 12 games, really does look like Newhart and perhaps that was a blessing, since the ref received little attention for blown calls and much attention for striking resemblance to his Elf doppelgänger.

    The Buckeyes went on to beat the Ducks, 42-20, becoming the first official national championship winners.

    Even PGA pro-golfer John Daly got in on the comparisons:

    #BobNewhart trended on Twitter Monday night, leading the man himself to chime in on Twitter, and he didn’t necessarily deny that it was him.

  • Nina Dobrev: From Vampire Diaries to The Originals

    Nina Dobrev is reportedly crossing over from The Vampire Diaries to The Originals. Fans have long suspected a crossover was in the works, and now they know at least some of the details.

    Entertainment Weekly has in fact confirmed that Nina Dobrev will join the second season of The Originals for the first time during their fifth episode–as Tatia. She will appear during a flashback in the November 3rd airing of the show. Fans should recognize that name from The Vampire Diaries’ third season. It was then that the Mikaelson brothers and the Salvatore brothers were brought together.

    EW explains, “Klaus and Elijah explained the “allure” of the Petrova doppelganger by taking things back to the original doppelganger–Tatia. Not only were both Klaus and Elijah in love with Tatia, but it was Esther who later killed Tatia, in order to use her blood for the spell that would stop Klaus from becoming a hybrid.”

    E! did a recent interview with showrunner Julie Plec, who also confirmed Nina Dobrev’s crossover from The Vampire Diaries to The Originals.

    “There’s a lot of people that could cross over, and when we plan our crossovers, we like to think of the most clever way to integrate The Vampire Diaries mythology into The Originals mythology,” Plec told them. “There was a character’s name introduced a long time ago in season three in association with Klaus [Joseph Morgan] and Elijah [Daniel Gillies] and how they became vampires and a girl that they both loved a long time ago who was the original doppelgänger, Tatia. So Nina Dobrev will be visiting The Originals for a nice little storyline in our fifth episode which airs November 3.”

    Why now for Tatia–three seasons after her name was introduced? Plec answers that question, too.

    “We made a rule at the very beginning, like, ‘Let’s not be number whores or number grabbers,’” she says. “We don’t want to be doing crossovers for the sake of, ‘Look at us!’ You know? But in this particular case, the character of Tatia is part of their history and is kind of a dangling chad. It’s something we brought up a long time ago and never paid off.”

    Rumor has it that things are tough behind the scenes at The Vampire Diaries for Nina Dobrev since her split from Ian Somerhalder. Since Ian started dating Nikki Reed, those tensions have reportedly climbed even higher. This move to The Originals might be just what everyone needs.

    Are you excited about seeing Nina Dobrev involved in a deadly love triangle between Klaus and Elijah? Will you follow her to The Originals?

  • Kate Upton Look-Alike Imitates Swimsuit Cover Pic

    Kate Upton has once again graced the cover of Sports Illustrated’s swimsuit issue, this time wearing a revealing parka and not much else on the 2013 swimsuit issue cover.

    The pic, of course, has been much imitated since it was revealed, with women using their winter coats to “tastefully” show off their cleavage and abs. However, the pic has probably not been recreated as well as by this Russian beauty, who was brave enough to publicly tweet a picture of her attempt to Twitter. The tweet was quickly re-tweeted by Kate Upton herself, making Ania famous overnight.

    Now that Ania has proven she is a dead ringer for the world’s current most popular supermodel, Sports Illustrated took the time to interview the Upton doppelganger. Ania, revealed that she decided to take the photo because she had been told she looks like the model, and because she owned the exact same coat Upton was wearing on the SI cover. It remains to be seen whether Ania can dance the Cat Daddy as well as Upton.

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    Ania didn’t expect anyone but her friends to see the photo, but seems ok with the attention she’s drawn. The retweets and comments about her photo were, predictably, about the most prominent (and lighted) part of the pic: