And they said Obama wasn't going to take victory for granted

Even although he's not president yet - not even president-elect yet - Barack Obama is dropping all his friends from before he was famous. MTV reports that Jay-Z, P Diddy, Ben Affleck, the AFLAC duck, Mary J Blige and - well, you can probably round this list out for yourself - have been asked to stay away from tonight's big Chicago victory bash*.

But then, if you were president, wouldn't your first move be to send an email to Puff Daddy telling him to keep at least a Federally-mandated five hundred feet away at all times?

* - not that it's a victory bash yet, as nobody is taking anything for granted, but they couldn't wait until the New York polls close before they start carving a sixty-foot ice sculpture depicting Obama riding Pegasus as the planets themselves bow down before him, could they? The ice sculptors do say they'll leave off doing the face until six-thirty Eastern time, though, so it could just be Joe The Plumber if the exit data looks gloomy. back

Affleck wishes he'd kept off the block

Ben Affleck, surprisingly, has regrets about the body of work he produced in his short period of stepping out with Jennifer Lopez.

And it's not Gigli.

No, no. He wishes he'd never appeared in the Jenny From The Block video:

"If I have a big regret, it was doing the music video. But that happened years ago. I've moved on."

We're not sure how far you've moved on from something if it's such a big regret. And, frankly, that video sucked so much, it'd be take the thrust of three air forces to move on from it.

J-Lo and Ben Affleck

Wise, holding off the announcement of their engagement until now. This way, the eight weeks we're giving them will see them into the new year.