Actress/Wilson Phillips member Carnie Wilson, seen here with Twisted Sister's Dee Snider, faces foreclosure and only has till July 21 to square up her mortgage. Hope you hold on to that house, lady! (Seriously, we do.) [Image via AP]

After admitting that she is the "queen of excuses" on Dr Oz today, Carnie Wilson managed to act like a nine year-old while going over a health plan that involved walking, cooking food, and occasionally speaking to her own doctor.

Uma Thurman is turning 39 today. Jerry Seinfeld is turning 55. Michelle Pfeiffer is 51. Daniel Day-Lewis is 52. Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer turns 49 today. Defense attorney Bruce Cutler turns 61. Fox5 anchor Rosanna Scotto is 51. Provocateur Lucianne Goldberg is turning 74. ABT artistic director Kevin McKenzie is 55. Conductor Zubin Mehta is 73. Carnie Wilson is turning 41. Mets sportscaster Gary Cohen is 51. NFL quarterback Jay Cutler turns 26. Tennis great Andre Agassi is 39. And the rapper Master P turns 42 today.

♦ Now that she doesn't have Guy Ritchie to boss around, Madonna is finding more time to control everyone else: She's supposedly been "begging" Gwyneth Paltrow to leave her London home so they can spend more time together in New York. She's also busy orchestrating a reunion between Justin Timberlake and Britney Spears: All three will be performing together at Madge's concert in LA tonight. [The Sun, E!]
♦ Padma Lakshmi is apparently on a "man-search" for a filthy rich boyfriend now that her flings with Ted Forstmann and Russell Simmons are over. [P6]
♦ Now that the election is over, Tina Fey says she will be officially retiring her Sarah Palin impression. [Extra]

· Playboy editor James Kaminsky bans Carnie Wilson from the magazine because she's too fat, and bans Hef's girlfriends because "he hates that bleach-blonde fake breasts look." [Page Six]
· The LA Times' chief movie critic, Manohla Dargis, attacks her rivals in New York. [Page Six]
· Freelance writer Debra Laine reports that when she called Alec Baldwin's reps to do a profile on him, "He blew his stack." She quotes him as bellowing: "I don't need you. I don't need your help! I don't need anyone!" He then added, oddly, "I make my own decisions." [Page Six]
· Elizabeth Jagger, on having her teeth whitened: "For a while I can only eat white foods. Worse, I can't smoke" [Cindy Adams]
· James Gandolfini thought the script to Surviving Christmas was so bad, he refused to leave his trailer until it was fixed; "Face the Nation" anchor Bob Schieffer and Tom Brokaw have been conducting a practical joke war for years; and the Cheeky Girls prove that irony isn't dead in the UK with their chart-topping hit, "The Cheeky Song (Touch My Bum)." [NY Daily News]