Two of NASCAR’s hottest gals, (okay maybe two of Nascar’s only gals) have ties to cbslimited.com! North Carolina native, Monica Palumbo (far left) and South Carolina sweetheart, Paige Duke (far right) are two of NASCAR’s three Sprint Girls. They are charged with the smiles in Victory Lane following each checkered flag.

NASCAR has become one of the most popular sports in the country and these girls are sort of like the cheerleaders…sort of . In the 1970’s, they were Winston Girls and wore bikinis in Victory Lane. Their duties included kissing the sweaty cheek of the winner, smiling and looking oh-so-beautiful. They were trophy girls, a reference Monica Palumbo says is offensive.

“Absolutely offensive,” said Palumbo, a Miss Sprint Cup figure since Sprint became NASCAR’s title sponsor in 2008. “We’ve worked really hard to change the program and change our name, change the perceptions.”

The new Sprint girl wears a racing suit, like the drivers, and is also a huge part of the marketing of NASCAR. Along with advertising, these gals tweet about their driver interviews and post race riff-raff on Facebook, a far cry from the days of the Winston chicks.

But before Monica Palumbo was a Sprint Girl, she was a member of the CB’s Winners Circle. CB Mathis helped to lead Monica to the crown in 2001, when she became Miss North Carolina. He assisted her with her wardrobe as well as training for stage and interview. She went on to place 15th in the Miss USA pageant later that year.

One of the newest additions to the Sprint Girl roster is Paige Duke. Paige has been a pageant and prom customer of CB’s Limited in Lancaster, SC for years and was even employed there through high school. We are proud to say that Paige is a CB’s Girl!

The season finale of ABC’s Dancing With The Stars ended exactly the way we all imagined it would, with Nicole and Derek kissing the mirror ball trophy. It was no surprise that Evan Lysaceck took the second spot and Erin Andrews fell short of the final two all together.

Pussycat Doll Nicole Scherzinger and her pro, Derek Hough, were extremely deserving of the honor though. All season, the pair have been the front-runners and the finale on Monday night sealed the deal. Nicole and Derek performed an awesome freestyle routine with a mixture of dance styles included. No one even remembers that there was a flop at the end…the lift didn’t quite take off.

Freestyle routines (the most anticipated portion of the finale for me) from the other contenders were not as exciting. Erin and Maks bounced around on a bed and called it contemporary dancing, while Evan made a mess of a classic tune, Footloose. Judge Bruno Tonioli described it as “screw loose.”

I must say, finale disasters aside…this season 10 of DWTS has been the best so far. Can’t wait to see what the fall season has in store.

Jessica Simpson and her little sis (in age and appearance) pose on the red carpet of a West Hollywood event last night.

Just weeks after a brain hemorrhage nearly put the Poison rocker on his death bed, Bret Michaels is scheduling gigs and returning to Celebrity Apprentice. He was released from the hospital two weeks ago, and it is nothing short of a miracle.

Doctors thought Michaels would never recover and here he is planning to return to live performances on May 28th. One of those performances is alongside Leonard Skynard in Florida on June 10th. When the hemorrhage occurred, Michaels was filming Celebrity Apprentice. He is expected to appear on the show’s finale May 23rd.

It is wonderful news that Bret Michaels has been given a second chance, a new breath of life. We can only hope that he will use that chance for something better than a bus filled with skanks, vying for his Rock of Love.

Hope you didn’t forget your mom yesterday. Mother’s Day is a tradition dating back to the early 1600’s. England called it Mothering Sunday back then, and Christians used it as as a day to celebrate Mary, mother of Jesus. Over the years, the tradition evolved and the scope expanded to include all mothers.

The holiday really ramped up during WWI. President Woodrow Wilson declared the second Sunday in May a national holiday, Mother’s Day. And so the commercial holiday was born, giving florists and jewelers a reason to celebrate!

We should celebrate our Moms everyday, not just the second Sunday in May.

ABC’s The View is supposed to be all about expressing opinions on hot topics, be it politics or pop culture. Opinions are like, well you know, everyone has one. Today The View’s Elizabeth Hasselbeck apologizes for hers.

Last year, ESPN reporter Erin Andrews was in the spotlight, but not for her dancing. A stalker filmed a naked Andrews through a hotel room peephole. Hasselbeck’s comments that sparked an uproar went something like this: the man, since convicted, would have seen “a little bit less — without the prison time” just by watching “Dancing With The Stars” this season. Most obviously referring to the skimpy costumes Andrews parades around the dance floor in each week.

She most definitely has a point…just maybe it is a point that should left unspoken.

On Wednesday’s episode, Hasselbeck said Fighting back tears, Hasselbeck explains that her 5-year-old suggested she call Erin and apologize for her remarks. She did and then publicly apologized on Wednesday’s show.

ABC finally put Kate Gosselin out of her misery. After four painful-to-watch dances, the reality mom will be hanging up her dancin’ shoes. She and partner Tony Dolovani became the third couple to leave the dance floor on the hit show Dancing With The Stars.

Kate let go a flood of emotion, along with a few shaky and rehearsed words, after she was given the boot.

“I am very honored to have been here … It was a good experience.” She added, “I cannot wait to watch the rest of these people perform Monday … I’ve really grown to love everyone.” She finally thanked her fans for voting for her despite low scores from the judges. Said Gosselin, “Thank you for believing in me probably more than I believed in myself.”

Maksim “Maks” Chmerkovskiy may be putting the moves on another dancer, well dancer in training, during season 10 of Dancing With The Stars. Maks, 30, says he and ESPN correspondent Andrews, 31, are “maybe” dating, according to Hollywoodlife.com.

“She’s very friendly, super nice, great personality,” he gushes to PEOPLE. “She does not hold back. She’s open, and what you see is what there is. Everybody who meets her falls in love with her.”

This relationship is “maybe” spawning on the heels of his break-up with fellow (and former) dancing pro, Karina Smirnoff. After their first routine with Erin was finished on Monday night, Maks had this to say:

“I’m so proud,” he told PEOPLE. “I made her do a cha cha that I would make a professional dancer do.”

Andrews seems equally enthralled with her mentor, “This one has been amazing,” she said. “When Kentucky was upset (referring to the NCAA basketball tourney), he texted me about it. He was like, ‘You’re the only person I know that cares about this.’ He’s been adorable.”

Adorable? Maksim Chmerkovskiy is down right smokin’! Good grab Erin, let’s see if you can hang on.

Just days after accepting the Oscar for her movie, The Blindside, Sandra Bullock was blindsided herself. Maybe biker Jesse James has inhaled too many exhaust fumes, or maybe he is just plain stupid. If married to Sandra Bullock, only an idiot would even look at another woman. Let alone a former Amish gal (that’s right…Amish) currently a mother of two and covered in tattoos.

Michelle McGee, a stripper in San Diego, says she carried on an 11-month affair with the Oscar winner’s hubby- and that he says his marriage was a sham and  “just for publicity.”

“I would never have hooked up with him if I thought he was a married man,” McGee told In Touch Weekly. “He gave me the impression they were separated.”

She said she met James at his motorcycle shop in Long Beach, while Sandra was filming The Blind Side.

“We ended up on the couch,” she said. “He wanted to watch movies, but I asked him, ‘What’s going on with you and Sandra?’”

“‘She doesn’t live here. She has a house in Austin. She is filming, and I can’t talk about it,’” James reportedly told her.

They had sex “two or three times” in his office that night, she said, and have been sleeping together for nearly a year.

It is probably my most favorite commercial on the tube these days…it’s an E-Trade advertisement featuring talking babies. It is one of a series of advertisements starring some oh-so-cute tots and it is now the center of a lawsuit, thanks to Queen Lindsay.

Lindsay Lohan is suing the financial corporation, insisting that one of the babies — who happens to be named Lindsay — was modeled after her. The baby is referred to as a milk-a-holic (hilarious). Wonder what would give her the idea that the baby was modeled after her? The ad shows a baby boy apologizing to his girlfriend via webcam for not calling the night before. The baby girl(friend) asks, “So that milk-a-holic Lindsay wasn’t over?”

She wants $100 million for her pain and suffering. Lohan’s lawyer, Stephanie Ovadia, said the actress has the same single-name recognition as Oprah or Madonna. What? Are you kidding Lindsay? First of all, there are millions of Lindsays in the world. How many Oprahs or Madonnas do you know? Secondly, don’t flatter yourself, your name shouldn’t even be in the same sentence with showbiz icons.

Grow up…you are such a baby.