11/18/10 Afternoon Show Segments

Fast Facts for Thursday:

• Prince William and longtime girlfriend Kate Middleton are now officially engaged. The royal wedding will be next year, "spring or summer" is as specific as they would get.
• Whoever had three years in the Tony Parker/Eva Longoria pool... you win!
• Scarlett Johansson, the "Iron Man 2" actress, was chosen as Babe of the Year by GQ magazine for her versatility and willingness to try new things.
• The word of year is "refudiate." It's a word Sarah Palin made up and used on Twitter last summer, and now The New Oxford American Dictionary has named it the word of the year for 2010.
• Christina Aguilera has gotten her own star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
• Barbara Walters is doing a one-hour special with the President and First Lady that will air the day after Thanksgiving.

Afternoon Oddball:

We feel this guy's pain. Steven Cowan, 66, was so angry about Bristol Palin being on Dancing with the Stars that he fired a shotgun round into his television! His outburst prompted a 15-hour standoff with Wisconsin cops. According to the police report, Cowan's wife called cops Monday night, saying her intoxicated husband had shot the TV and was threatening to kill himself. The report noted that Cowan was "upset that a political figure’s daughter was dancing on this particular show when Steven did not think that she was a good dancer." Good thing he was in jail Tuesday night. He missed seeing Bristol land a spot in the Dancing with the Stars finals. It's probably best he doesn't know.