LITTLE ROCK — A spokesman for Alec Baldwin said the actor has no plans to challenge Connecticut Sen. Joe Lieberman in the 2012 election. Matthew Hiltziksaid Monday that Baldwin does not plan to move to Connecticut or to run against the independent senator. He says Baldwin doesn't want to see Lieberman leave the Senate because there are so few moderate Republicans in the Senate. It's a reversal from Baldwin's comments published last week in Playboy magazine, in which the 30 Rock star mulled over a Senate campaign and said he had "no use" for Lieberman. Lieberman, who was asked about the issue Sunday on CNN's State of the Union, dared him to "make my day" with a Senate challenge. 30 Rock airs on NBC.
LaToya Jackson will be a guest cohost on The View on Sept. 16 and 18, the ABC network announced in New York. Having previously cohosted the daytime talk show in 2003, Jackson is the latest celebrity to be named as a substitute for Elisabeth Hasselbeck, who is on maternity leave until mid-October. ABC is also announcing that Victoria Beckham will make her first guest appearance on The View on Sept. 14. Besides Hasselbeck, regular co-hosts of The View include Barbara Walters, Whoopi Goldberg, Joy Behar and Sherri Shepherd.
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