By Angela Kaye Mason
“The Ellen DeGeneres Show” Ellen started out by bringing out audience members and showing their embarrassing grade school photos. They were horribly funny, but these ladies grew up to be successful and gorgeous, which Ellen said gives hope to us all. Ellen gave them each a brand new PlayStation system. She then danced us into a commercial. When the show returned, Ellen said her back pain is much better.

She showed pictures of “Robert Patterson” and announced that he would be a guest on Friday’s show.”Dakota Fanning”, one of the starts from the movie, “New Moon” was Ellen’s first guest star. She was on the show when she was nine years old. I guess we have all watched her grow up, and she is truly an amazing actress. She is in the eleventh grade now, and is a cheerleader. She said she enjoys getting to go to school and be “normal”. When she is making a movie, she has a tutor. Dakota’s character in “New Moon” is very serious, where as she is used to more childish happier roles. Ellen then asked her if she was scared of vampires, as a man dressed in full vampire attire sneaks up behind Dakota. Of course, Dakota screamed, and then laughed.

Next, Ellen had two guest stars from “Dancing With The Stars” . They performed beautifully.

P Diddy Combs was the next guest, and Ellen basically invited herself to his birthday party. He replied that he had invited her to all of them , but she just didn’t show up. “Did you have it on the East Coast?” When he affirmed this she added, “Well that’s it then , you have to have it here.” P Diddy then told her that they would have it at her house, and everyone laughed. He has 6 kids. One set of two year old twin girls were on the show with him. He said that the girls are spoiled rotten, that he has not gotten around to telling them that they cannot have everything they want.

Ellen sent her associate, Jeanie, to the house of a lady, Tasha Robinson, from West Virginia, who has student loans she cannot pay back, her husband has lost his job and they are barely able to feed their kids. Ellen surprised her with twenty five thousand dollars!