Rocker Bret Michaels has admitted he was worried when he heard George Clooney was a fan of his VH1 reality dating show, “Rock of Love.”

A few weeks ago, back when Sarah Larson and George Clooney were still dating, the lanky model revealed she and the “Michael Clayton” star enjoyed staying in and watching “Rock of Love” during their courtship.

In an interview earlier this week with “The Billy Bush Show,” Michaels said he heard the news and quaked in his boots.

“[When I heard about that] I was thinking I hope he doesn’t want to do ‘Rock of Love,’ because they will kick me to the curb so fast, there would be no season, anything for me,” Michaels said. “They will be like, ‘Bret who?’”

If you’re wondering if that means Bret’s romance with TV host Amber has fizzled, Billy made sure to ask the question: “When do you start filming season three?”

“Right now, we have nothing for season three,” Michaels said. “Amber and I still hang and we have a great time… and the only thing I could say [is] I don’t know if we will ever do an official show like what we had done before.”

But, there could be a different show on Michaels’ reality TV show horizon.

“I think that naturally it has to fall into something new,” he said.

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As I head off for the long weekend, having finished up my radio show for tonight’s broadcast, I can’t believe how far we’ve come. “The Billy Bush Show” is exactly what we promised to stations:  a news breaking, celeb packed, opinionated, informative show with excellent music all the way through.

As far as content, I’ve had over 60 guests in a month from Mariah to Madonna, Julia Roberts, Jack Nicholson, Trump, Eva, Sarah Jessica, on and on.

Here’s a recap of just last night (easiest to remember):

“Idol” winner David Cook in studio… spoke about the moment he won, his brother’s ordeal and the bracelets he wears for him, a little girl with leukemia and others, why he cried… really good.

Denise Richards… refuting Charlie Sheen’s attacks on her about an alleged email he says she sent him “asking him for his seed” (gross, but news handled gently).

Eva Longoria Parker calling in from Malibu where she and Tony are meeting with inspectors at the new house they just bought. She says Tony wants babies now and so she’s going with it (actively trying to get pregnant - big).

Jennie Garth is a guest. Speaks for the first time publicly about joining the new CW cast of ‘90210′… resurrecting her old character Kelly Taylor… preparing for a steamier show where she’ll have to get in shape for nude scenes (with a student? Probably… ).

Morgan Freeman called in on cell phone while walking to the stage in Times Square. Tourists spotted him and attacked him. He said, “Call you back!!” as he took off running. He called right back hiding in an alleyway. I’m opening a blues club with him in Memphis on Sunday.

We’re doing it every night… laughing, taking it all with a grain of salt, having fun and pushing forward.

I am blessed that so many at Access Hollywood have really helped so much. They know who they are. It’s a killer one-two punch.

The competition TV shows are trying to get their talent on radio shows of their own as a result. Funny… radio is not as easy as it seems.  Trust me, I started in radio, it’s harder cuz its mostly ad lib.

Anyway, have a great weekend.

To all those who have served, I pray for you on Sunday and thank you for the sacrifice.

“Access Hollywood’s” Billy Bush is launching his Westwood One “The Billy Bush Show” music and talk radio program this week – grateful his voice is back to 100 per cent after a staph infection in his larynx that caused him strained vocal cords last fall, and worsened to the point he was off the air in February.

“I was just busting to get through a day, eating cough drops constantly,” he recalls. “It’s a nightmare for someone who uses his voice as much as I do.” Bush tried acupuncture, a healing session at church, and of course doctors. “I finally met the right one. I heard about this doctor at the Harvard Medical Center who’d helped Dick Vitale, the basketball announcer,” Bush recounts. “I took the redeye to Boston see the guy, Dr. Dr. Steven Zeitels, and he made me do a test, and found out what it was.” With a course of a particular antibiotic, the problem started to clear up in a matter of days.

Now Bush is rarin’ to go as a radio host in addition to his TV job. He maintains, “It’s not going to be a combative show. It’s going to be a fun show. It will take what we do on TV further.” However, “If I have an issue with someone I will say so,” he adds. “Like the Mary Hart thing earlier this year, when I had an issue with how they (“Entertainment Tonight”) presented the Heath Ledger video with Heath in a room full of drugs. It was incredibly exploitive. If someone had handed me that tape I’d have said, ‘No way,’” he insists. “Mary, how could you?”

With his shoot-from-the-lip style, the cousin of George W. Bush is used to having people angry at him, obviously. “If I feel I’m right, I don’t have a problem with it,” Billy says. “If someone comes after me and I see that I’ve done something wrong, I’ll apologize.”

SLAVES TO SEX: “Army Wives” regular Sally Pressman says playing the lead in the Lifetime Original Movie, “Love Sick – Secrets of a Sex Addict” debuting Saturday (04/19) was “probably the most challenging thing I’ve ever done. It’s a heartbreaking story based on an autobiography and it’s also a lot darker than anything I’ve ever done.”

In “Love Sick” Pressman’s plays a woman who “was sexually abused by her father starting at age five and as a result of that developed a sexual disorder. The author came to the set a couple of days and I got to meet and talk to her, which was amazing. It’s very embarrassing for the person. They feel very alone, can’t tell anyone. What was fascinating for me as an actor was that this woman is having a lot of sex, but hates herself more every time she does it.”

Pressman says in reading the book on which the film is based and doing subsequent research she found sexual addiction to be a much misunderstood disorder. “Women who have this sexual disorder just basically get labeled as sluts and that’s not fair at all..It’s an actual chemical imbalance that alters your body so it’s something out of your control.” She adds, “What I loved about working on the piece was it brings consciousness to people that sexual addiction happens far too often in the world, that it’s not okay and you can stop it and help yourself.”

THE VIDEOLAND VIEW: Marlee Matlin, who stars with Jeff Daniels in CBS’s Hallmark Hall of Fame presentation of “Sweet Nothing in My Ear” Sunday (4/20), is diplomatic in talking about the different sides of the debate over cochlear implants. And the Oscar-winning deaf actress is pleased that playwright Stephen Sachs “didn’t take sides” on the matter either. “He looked at all sides of it. As for myself, I think that there are too many sides to the cochlear implant issue to take a stance either for or against them. In the end, it’s up to the individual or the family to decide what’s best for themselves or their child.”

SERENDIPITY: Movie maker C. Jay Cox wound up getting Tori Spelling to star in his “Kiss the Bride” film after, “I was flying back from Miami, and Tori and her husband Dean happened to be sitting behind me. I realized she’d be perfect for the character of Alex…Like her, she tends to start off being underestimated by people.” Cox contacted Spelling the next day – not in flight. “I’m a little too shy for that, I guess. She came in and I thought we were just going to do a general meeting, but she was all prepared and did a wonderful reading.”

Tori’s character is called upon to be something special, since she is the titular bride whose groom (James O’Shea) suddenly finds himself facing his high school love for the first time in years in the days preceding their planned wedding. The twist in Ty Lieberman’s drawn-from-real-life screenplay: that love is male (Philipp Karner).

“We shot it in 18 days for a half million dollars,” reports Cox, who had his distribution lined up early into the production. “Going in we were thinking, ‘Okay, we will make this movie for whatever we have to make it for. There’s a reason wedding movies are usually big studio movies. Weddings are expensive! We soon realized we weren’t just planning a movie shoot, we were planning a wedding. We ordered grip equipment, then picked out our color scheme and flowers.” “Kiss the Bride” opens in limited release Friday (4/18).