ELLEN challenges MICHELLE OBAMA to push-up contest: VIDEO

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First Lady MICHELLE OBAMA beat ELLEN DEGENERES in a push-up contest Ellen egged her on to during a taping for her show that aired a couple of hours ago on CBS .

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Ellen challenged the First Lady, a well-known advocate for nutrition and healthy eating, and who launched the “Lets Move!” initiative to reverse the 21st century trend of childhood obesity, to a push-up contest right on the show. Suffice it to say, 48-year-old Michelle Obama bested the 54-year-old talk show host with the studio audience counting off the number of push-ups they performed…

LADY GAGA sent a shoutout to WOODY ALLEN telling him she wants to star in one of his films. After all, it’s always been her dream to do just that.

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So what’s next for the most powerful pop celebrity in the world after having practically conquered the music industry? Why, acting of course! Isn’t that the next step every performer takes? And Gaga tells star news she isn’t content to be in just any film… it has to be a Woody Allen film, no more, no less.

ELLEN DEGENERES outdid herself on her annual Halloween tradition by scaring the living hell out of pal BETHENNY FRANKEL on her show. Who’d have thought Bethenny could actually look like that? Her expression’s worthy of the creation of a whole new Halloween mask all by itself…

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Ellen‘s Halloween tradition of scaring guests on her show has become the stuff of legend, probably a close second to Heidi Klum‘s own tradition of annual Halloween parties. This year, Ellen chose to prank reality star Bethenny Frankel, and she staged it in a photo booth where Bethenny‘s scared (and scary) expression can be seen above.

Paramedics were called in an emergency situation that developed when talk show host ELLEN DEGENERES suffered chest pains during a production meeting. Ellen being Ellen, that didn’t keep her from taping the segment for her next show…

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The 16-time Daytime Emmy winner told star news she was having chest pains the night before, and for a 53-year-old, these symptoms could have signaled a more serious condition than Ellen would want anyone to believe.

DAVID BECKHAM added a new entry to his resume….Target employee. Too bad it’s all for show. Undercover show, that is. The hunky L.A. Galaxy midfielder was disguised as a bumbling perfume salesman for the Ellen de Generes show.

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This isn’t the first time Becks went undercover for his good buddy Ellen. Last year he was a hunky masseuse at a massage parlor who specialized in index finger physical therapy. This time around, he plays a personable, if rather clumsy salesman at a Target perfume counter where he tries to tempt customers to buy his own perfume…