Katherine Heigl will not be an Emmy contender this year.

The “Grey’s Anatomy” star, who won Best Actress at the Emmys last year, has pulled her name from the list of contenders for the 2008 ceremony, blaming her withdrawal on the show’s scripts.

“I did not feel that I was given the material this season to warrant an Emmy nomination and in an effort to maintain the integrity of the academy organization, I withdrew my name from contention,” she told the Los Angeles Times’ Gold Derby.

During Heigl’s Emmy-wining Season 3 performance, “Grey’s Anatomy” was watched by 18.7 million for the season. Season 4 was seen by 14.4 million people on average.

Besides her veiled jab at the ABC show, Heigl suggested having her name on the ballot could potentially steal the Emmy spotlight from another performer.

“In addition, I did not want to potentially take away an opportunity from an actress who was given such materials,” she said.

ABC had no comment on Heigl’s Emmy decision.

Heigl isn’t the first “Grey’s” star to pull their name from Emmy consideration.

Last April, former castmate Isaiah Washington chose not to submit his name to the jury panel.

This also isn’t the first time Heigl slammed the material for a project she starred in.

Last summer, after the blockbuster success of “Knocked Up,” she told Vanity Fair she thought the film was “a little sexist.”

However, she backtracked from her comment as the article hit the newsstands.

“It’s important to me to take a minute and clarify the quote about ‘Knocked Up’ in Vanity Fair,” Heigl, said in a statement to the magazine.

Heigl said she was prompted into making a clarification statement about her comments so people understood where she was coming from.

“I was responding to previous reviews about the movie the interviewer brought to my attention,” Heigl said in the statement. “My motive was to encourage other women like myself to not take that element of the movie too seriously and to remember that it’s a broad comedy.

“Although I stand behind my opinion, I’m disheartened that it has become the focus of my experience with the movie. The truth is, it was the best filming experience of my career. Every person that was a part of making ‘Knocked Up’ helped to encourage, support and inspire me. I never intended for anyone to think otherwise.”

The hottest ginger to ever battle aliens and save the human race is knocked-up with child.  People Magazine announced 39-year-old X-Files star Gillian Anderson is expecting her third child.  This will be her second with boyfriend Mark Griffiths.

With the exception of Jessica Rabbit, gingers have never really gotten my panties moist.  And then there’s Gillian.  The X-Files will always remain one of my favorite shows, if only because I was always on the edge of my seat waiting, longing, for Agent Mulder and Scully to finally f^ck their effing brains out.

The movie sequel “The X-Files: I Want to Believe” hits theatres July 25.

This is sickening.  It was nearly five months ago that Brazilian supermodel Alessandra Ambrosio announced she was knocked-up with boyfriend Jamie Mazur’s sperm and now look at her.  Maternal glow aside, the woman shows no sign of being pregnant from the waist up!   She’s as skinny and gorgeous as she always is.  If only the rest of us ladies were so lucky!

Here is Alessandra with friends and family during her baby shower held at a private residence in L.A. Sunday.

Sharon Gless will be back on “Nip/Tuck” next season as the worst talent agent ever – the unlicensed, fraudulent, potentially homicidal and suicidal Colleen Rose.  It’ll just be a brief appearance, to wrap up her storyline as she who has been representing Dylan Walsh’s character, Dr. Sean McNamara, on the FX series.

She couldn’t be happier.  When series creator Ryan Murphy “told me the storyline he wanted to do, I knew it was a gift,” recalls Gless, who’s been getting Emmy buzz for bringing the bizarre character to life.  “I said, ‘Ryan Murphy, you are the sickest, most twisted guy I’ve ever met — which is what I like about you.’  He said, ‘You can’t tell anybody!’  He holds his storylines close to the chest.”

While Colleen has been good for Gless as an actress, playing her has been hell on her hair.  “I decided to go almost white and wear bright red lipstick to play her,” she recalls.  Then she went back to her look as a “one-dump platinum” Florida blond for the USA Network’s “Burn Notice,” in which she plays Jeffrey Donovan’s mother, Madeline.  Then “I had to strip back down to the white, then go back to platinum.”

They’re doing 16 episodes of “Burn Notice,” which returns to the USA lineup June 10 for its second season premiere.  “That’s a huge order for cable,” notes Gless, who’ll wind the series Oct. 16, see her niece get married the 18th, and fly to London to begin rehearsals the 20th for a play that’s yet to be announced.

“I’m so grateful my plate is full and I never take it granted,” says Sharon.  Despite critical kudos and industry honors through the years, including a Best Lead Actress in a Drama Emmy for “Cagney & Lacey,” she admits, “I don’t think there’s a day when I step on a soundstage when my heart isn’t pounding.  I still am capable of getting frightened.  I always think they’re going to find out I don’t know what I’m doing.”

DRAMA FROM REAL LIFE: John Stamos will do a changeup, out of his “ER” series medical world  and into true crime this hiatus, with a movie for television (remember those?) about the murders of wealthy brothers Robert and Andy Kissel – the former of whom was bludgeoned to death by his wife after being rendered passive via a drugged milkshake (hence, “The Milkshake Murder”) and the latter of whom was stabbed to death in a  professional, vendetta style in the basement of his home.

Casting is underway on “The Fallen,” the feature to be produced by Penny Marshall (haven’t heard from her in awhile) with Brian Goodman directing, from the real life story of a firefighter injured so badly on the job he finds himself severely drug addicted.

THE BIG SCREEN SCENE: “We’re the Bonnie and Clyde of marijuana,” quips Gary Cole, who partners with Rosie Perez in the upcoming “Pineapple Express,” the Aug. 8-debuting stoner comedy from the “Knocked Up” writing team of Judd Apatow, Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg, starring Rogen and James Franco

“I play Ted the dope dealer and Rosie is a corrupt police officer. We had a great time. She’s a riot,” reports Cole of the movie about a pothead who witnesses a cop commit murder and then goes on the run from the law with his dealer.  Cole says “Pineapple Express” due out in August, is “a fairly big movie. It kind of defies genre because it is a comedy, but it’s not all comic. And I wouldn’t call it a romantic comedy, even though it has romance in it. And it has some for keeps action in it as well.”

DRIVE TO SUCCEED: Ben Bailey, who’s been busy driving contestants around New York City while they answer questions on the show “Cash Cab,” tells us producers are taking much better care of him now that they have settled into the show.  ”It’s better than it used to be.  When we started out it was kind of crazy.  They were worried about having enough content so we’d do like 11 games in a day back then,” he recalls.  ”I was having dreams about it where I would repeat my lines in my sleep.  It was a really overwhelming period in my life.”  Luckily for Bailey, they cut the show to six games in a day, which has left him a lot more time to spend with his family.  Plus, thanks to the popularity of the show, the former limo driver is also getting to enjoy a few of the finer things in life.  ”I’ve got a pretty good deal, which I haggled for.  I feel like I’ve settled into this new life that I have, which is totally different from my old one.  If go back two-and-a-half years, I didn’t have a home, I didn’t have a TV show, and I didn’t have a baby.  I was a completely different guy.”

What does UN Goodwill Ambassador Angelina Jolie have in common with Jenna Jameson — aside from liking the taste of snatch? Nothing! But the former porn superstar seems to think so.

“I think I’m gonna stay unmarried, and just go for the babies!” Jameson, 34, told Usmagazine.com at Maxim’s Hot 100 bash in L.A. Wednesday. “I’m following in Angelina’s footsteps!

“We’re trying for a baby, so hopefully in the next couple of months!” she added.

Why is she so over saying “I Do?”

“Two failed marriages,” she said. “[Marriage] is really just a piece of paper.” (These couples also say they won’t wed.)

Being with a partner, she added, “is really about having fun and enjoying each other’s company.”

Celebs really need to stop using Angelina as a reference point of who they want to become, because most of the time they are way way off.

Below, my favorite platypus at Maxim’s 2008 Hot 100 Party in L.A. over the weekend.