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He’s still two years away from replacing Jay Leno on “The Tonight Show,” but already Conan O’Brien seems to be sizing things up.

“Have you planned any changes while … you were looking?” Leno asked O’Brien when the latter dropped by the late-night talk show on Friday.

O’Brien reassured Leno, the show’s host since 1992, that he won’t be moving onto its Burbank set any time soon.

“It’s years away,” O’Brien quipped, adding that rather than succeed Leno in 2009 as planned, he’s decided to take the job Rosie O’Donnell is leaving on daytime television’s “The View.”

“I got the call this morning from Barbara Walters,” he said, adding he planned to pick up where O’Donnell leaves off and begin picking on Donald Trump.

Leno joked that the redheaded O’Brien has “got the hair” for the part, although “it’s going the wrong way” to really match Trump’s elaborate comb-over.

“Exactly,” said O’Brien, who has hosted “Late Night” since 1993.

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Oscar Winner Helen Mirren Sells New Orleans Dream Home

Oscar winner Dame Helen Mirren has sold the New Orleans, Louisiana “Creole cottage” home she showed off in top design magazine Architectural Digest. But the actress and moviemaker husband Taylor Hackford still have property in New Orleans because the couple don’t want to lose their ties with the area. She says, “We will never abandon the most beautiful city in America…

New Orleans is a totally unique environment, and we encourage every American to make a long-term commitment to preserving this fabulous cultural asset. It’s one of the few places that’s not precious to the nth degree; it doesn’t look as though its history has been cleaned up by Disney.

It’s funky and untidy. And when I’m working in London, it’s New Orleans that I’m homesick for.” Mirren, who insists she’d like to die in New Orleans, also shares homes in Los Angeles, London and the South of France with Hackford.

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Marc Jacobs Checks Into Rehab

American designer Marc Jacobs has checked into rehab after a recent relapse.

The 38-year-old decided to enter a rehab centre in Arizona after showing his Louis Vuitton collection during Paris Fashion Week last week.

Jacobs has been sober for seven years, but decided to seek treatment after his relapse. He previously entered rehab in 1999. His business partner Robert Duffy tells Women’s Wear Daily, “Marc made the right decision. He’d been sober for seven years. When he relapsed, he wanted to deal with it right away.

 According to the experts, such a relapse isn’t uncommon. Thankfully, Marc recognized the problem himself and chose to deal with it. Obviously, our prayers are with him.”

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