Former The Bold and the Beautiful star Mario Lopez (pictured with his baby mama Courtney Mazza above) and current B&B star Heather Tom attended the launch party for Blackberry’s new mobile phone, the Torch, on August 11. See more photos from the event after the jump! READ MORE

VH1 has picked up a reality series starring Extra host and former Saved by the Bell star Mario Lopez, according to The Live Feed. The eight, half-hour episodes, focusing on Lopez and girlfriend Courtney Mazza's preparations to welcome the birth of their first child, will premiere this fall.

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Extra host and former The Bold and the Beautiful star Mario Lopez announced Wednesday he and girlfriend Courtney Mazza  are expecting their first child. Congrats to the happy couple!

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Check out Extra's look behind the love scenes at General Hospital! Brandon Barash (Johnny Z.), Tyler Christopher (Nikolas Cassadine) and Dominic Zamprogna (Dominic/Dante) even answer some fan questions in the clip. The boys are joined by co-star Lisa LoCicero (Olivia).

It looks as if Miss America needs herself a little Mario Lopez. The Saved by the Bell star and Extra host is returning to host the 2009 Miss America pageant.

Okay you knew it was coming. Now that the Idiots In Charge of The-Soap-Opera-Formerly-Known-as-Days-of-Our-Lives have let the phenomenal Blake Berris go, I decided to start out doing a Wishful Casting about where Berris should end up, but it turned into more of an analysis of which soaps are managing to set things up for their next generation the right way, and which ones are getting it wrong, dead wrong.

Much of the daytime industry is experiencing a serious drought in terms of talented, young stars who can actually, you know, act. Save for The Young and the Restless, One Life to Live and General Hospital, the under 30 set at most soaps is pretty much comprised of rejects from the Pamela Anderson School of Acting and Pantomime.  I'll start with the soaps in most need of help and work my way up. READ MORE

Mario Lopez and Mark-Paul Gosselaar are celebrating the 20th anniversary of Saved by the Bell on today's episode of Extra!

Between the two of them, since their days as Zack Morris and A.C. Slater on Saved by the Bell, Lopez and Gosselaar have starred on a variety of shows including Nip/Tuck, The Bold and the Beautiful, Dancing with the Stars, NYPD Blue, Raising the Bar, Pacific Blue, Commander in Chief, Hyperion Bay and John from Cincinnati.

Take a trip down memory lane with Zack and Slater after the jump. READ MORE

Oh yes, I'll definitely be watching Mario on Nip/Tuck.

Maybe, waiting for the promos to decide.

No, Nip/Tuck is to screwed up for me.

Mario Lopez is dreaming of Sarah Palin, dreaming of interviewing her that is. USATODAY is reporting that when asked about who he would like to interview in his new role as host of Extra, Lopez responded "I’m so fascinated with Sarah Palin..Obviously everyone wants to speak with her. I’d love to sit down with her."

Get out those dancing shoes soap fans! According to an alleged/leaked list posted by GossipSauce.com All My Children diva and soap icon, Susan Lucci will be on the upcoming season of Dancing With the Stars. 

The official announcement for the new cast of Dancing With the Stars isn't due until Monday, but if the GossipSauce turns out to be true, Lucci will join the ranks of Kelly Manaco, Mario Lopez and Cameron Mathison, all soap stars who have all appeared on the show.  The alleged cast list is as follows

Kim Kardashian
Lance Bass
Toni Braxton
Brooke Burke
Maurice Greene
Cody Linley
Susan Lucci
Warren Sapp
Misty May-Treanor
Ted McGinley
Mark McGrath
Cloris Leachman
Jeff Ross