Leona Lewis

Leona Lewis has not made Hugh Hefner happy.

The UK singer and X Factor winner says she "was flattered" by an offer to pose nude for Playboy, but she declined.

Better luck next time, Hef. We're sure she'll only get better in time.

Leona Lewis got punched in the head at a book signing in London yesterday. Wait? Leona Lewis wrote a book?

She was signing copies of her autobiography (?) and unprovoked a man came and punched her in the head.

She suffered bruising and was shaken by the incident, but the man was arrested.

Leona Lewis is set to release the first single off her new album, Echo.

The single is called Happy and will be released on September 15th on iTunes, and the album will hit stores on November 17th.

Hopefully Happy will be the opposite of her last single, Bleeding Love, which sounded pretty but made us want to literally bleed to death.

Leona Lewis has been named Person of the Year by PETA.

We love that!

The only thing bleeding near Leona is her love. She stopped eating meat when she was 12 and she’s an active anti-animal cruelty campaigner who refuses to wear fur, leather or any other animal parts.

We give that a big ol’ high five.

Since we know no one cares about who was nominated for Best Sound Mixing (except the people nominated in that category), here's a rundown of the most compelling categories.

Album of the Year
• Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends, Coldplay
• Tha Carter III, Lil Wayne
• Year of the Gentleman, Ne-Yo
• Raising Sand, Robert Plant & Alison Krauss
• In Rainbows, Radiohead

Before a single dancer hit the floor last night, the Queen of Soul, Aretha Franklin, sounding incredible, sang her classic “Chain of Fools.” If ABC is going to make us sit through an hour of filler before announcing which three couples have made it to the finals, THIS is the kind of entertainment we wish we had all the time.

Following Aretha was the emerging princess of pop, Leona Lewis. She is stunning in every imaginable way: her face, her voice, her body, her hair. We love Leona!

What are we thinking of JT’s beard?

It’s a little lumberjack with a splash of the Amish, no?

Of course, making baby daddy Justin Timberlake look bad is nearly impossible, but this mound of facial hair is a step in the ugly direction. If he trimmed that bad boy down about an inch and we’d love it but he looks like he’s on his way to something of Lincoln proportions and that is no bueno.

OMG! Could Leona Lewis be any more beautiful? Doubt it.

Leona, who won Simon Cowell’s British TV talent show X Factor, stepped out in New York City after ripping it on Good Morning America looking absolutely angelic with her flowing lioness mane backlit by the fall sun.

She’s so gloriously beautiful it almost makes us forget that today is back-to-work, back-to-school day after a wonderful long weekend.

Jesse McCartney appeared on the Today Show this morning to promote his new album “Departure”, a title which refers to departures in his personal and professional life but it really signals his departure from childhood.

Jesse’s 21 now and turning into a fine man. After he performed his new single “Leavin” on the plaza, he sat down with Kathie Lee Gifford and Hoda Kotb who asked him what he likes about women as he’s gotten older.

“They’re intoxicating,” Jesse said.

Following last year’s continued ratings slump, American Idol is experiencing more shake-ups than J-Lo’s booty in last week’s earthquake.

Apparently Simon Cowell is miserable working on the show, so he’s being paid a TON to stay. If it weren’t for the paycheck and Cowell had his druthers, he’d quit, take time off and bring his UK hit X-Factor (the show that discovered singing sensation Leona Lewis) to America.

While the show believes they can’t lose Cowell, they were willing to throw a few other Idol veterans overboard.