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The news is not good for 82-year-old talkshow host and game show producer Merv Griffin. It is being reported that the TV legend is in grave condition after a return of prostate cancer.

Griffin was admitted to Los Angeles' Cedars-Sinai Medical Center back in July for a recurrence of the cancer, which he first battled in 1996. Various media outlets, such as Entertainment Tonight and KNBC, are reporting that the prognosis is not good and that Griffin is currently in the hospital's Intensive Care Unit. Griffin's representatives have yet to reply to press inquiries.

And now we return to E! True Hollywood Story -- Optimus Prime.

The early 21st century wasn't kind to the Autobot leader. With revenues from his successful 80's cartoon drying up, the accumulated losses he took from his investments in WorldCom and Enron, and the disaster that was the short-lived game show Autobot or Decepticon, Optimus Prime could barley put a cube of Energon on the table. He tried to get back in television with small bit parts on According to Jim and Still Standing but no one was really watching.

Richard de Angelis died of congestive heart failure on December 28th at his home in Silver Spring, Maryland. He was also suffering from prostate cancer.

De Angelis played Baltimore police Col. Raymond Foerster on 13 episodes of HBO's The Wire. He also had roles in Homicide: The Movie, and the John Waters films A Dirty Shame, and Cecil B. Demented. Before he was an actor, he was a comedian who went by the name of Ricky Roach. Before that, he was an accountant who quit his job and went to acting school at the age of 38.

Back in May, Carmen Electra put herself up for sale in an eBay auction, in hopes to raise cash for The National Prostate Cancer Coalition. The auction had said the winer would get a date with the former Baywatch star, though, since I didn't see the auction myself, I'm assuming it didn't go into strict detail of what a "date" meant. Apparently, at one point, a bidder got a bit overzealous, bidding an untold amount that far exceeded what anyone had imagined. Had the bidder not been disqualified, Electra says: "It went up to some crazy number and I actually felt obligated to, like, sleep with the guy." Doh!