Nick Cannon and wife Mariah Carey were spotted shopping in Aspen, CO recently.  The couple was seen all cute and loving as they left Gucci.  Honestly, what woman isn’t happy leaving Gucci?   However, in this case, it was Nick with the schwag.

Nick, aka Media Mogul in the making (just ask him…he’ll tell you), has been busy lately.  He just signed himself new morning radio gig at 92.3 NOW WXRK…Howard Stern’s old gig.  No joke.  Nick’s popularity with teens of all ages and cougars like Mariah will play right into the station’s core audience.

Look for Nicks new radio show to debut on January 19th.

Those mid week trips to LA are going to be brutal buddy because that will mean you are on the air at 3AM West Coast time.  Ouch.

Is anyone else getting sick of the celebrity death rumors?

The whole reason this is even an issue comes right down to celebrity gossip bloggers.  Why? Well, we’re a scrappy bunch.

With the death of Farrah Fawcett, Michael Jackson, and John Hughes (yesterday), we discovered that dead people generate a lot of web traffic.  And nothing drives web traffic better than a juicy rumor.  Combine the two and you’ve got gossip gold.

So all it takes is a few people to start the rumor up and people will start flooding to Google and searching for things like “Steven Tyler Dead.”

Instantly, that search term will skyrocket in search engine ranking.  Then the landrush of gossip bloggers begins.  Everyone will make a post about him being maybe-sort-of-not-really-but-kinda-alive-dead.

Boom, instant traffic bomb.

Now for the actual story.  Steven Tyler is not dead.  However, he did fall of the stage Wednesday night in South Dakota.

Dude is 61 years old and maybe shouldn’t be dancing so hard.  I’m just sayin.

He hurt is back, neck, and head.

Of course, that’s a little gossip nugget in itself that people will be searching for.  Therefore all the more reason to make him dead.

Did you catch the Sugarland concert on ABC tonight?  If so, lucky you.

I mean, yeah Jennifer Nettles is smokin hot, but then she opens her mouth to sing.  I just don’t understand why this group is so popular.  I can’t manage to sit though more than 30 seconds of her singing.

She sounds like an early contestant on American Idol.  She’s good, but not great. Then eventually you just find yourself desperately waiting for her to get voted off.