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Kaley Cuoco of the Emmy-nominated uber-geek comedy “The Big Bang Theory” will host the 2012 People’s Choice Awards, the organization announced Thursday.

Which pretty much means Cuoco is landing more hosting gigs than her “Big Bang” alter-ego is landing hemorrhoid commercials.

“We are thrilled to welcome Kaley as the new host of the People’s Choice Awards,” executive producer Mark Burnett said in a statement. “She’s been making people laugh on top-rated comedy series for the last decade…. I’m looking forward to working with her on a fun-filled, comedy-packed show in January.”

Cuoco hosted the Teen Choice Awards last August, where she competed for the spotlight with teens more interested in flailing their arms in front of the cameras than answering her loaded questions about the debt ceiling. But how else is a girl to prove that teens are smarter than we think? She may be better suited for the slightly older crowd drawn in by the People’s Choice Awards.

She plays funny-girl-next-door Penny on the top-rated CBS comedy, which won the 2010 People’s Choice Award for comedy series. The 25-year-old actress also starred in the final season of syndicated supernatural drama “Charmed” and the now-defunct series “8 Simple Rules,” the favorite new TV comedy award winner in 2003.

She’ll next appear in the independent feature film “The Last Ride” with Jesse James and the Lifetime television movie “Untouchable: The Drew Peterson Story” with Rob Lowe.

The 2012 People’s Choice Awards, in which fans determine the nominees and winners in 41 music, movies and television categories, will air Jan. 11 on CBS.

The Big Bang Theory’s Kaley Cuoco is engaged! A rep for the actress confirmed the great news toPeople. Kaley is set to wed boyfriend and addiction specialist Josh ‘Lazie’ Resnik.

According to the rep, “The surprise proposal took place during a quiet date night at home. The couple are very excited to begin their wedding planning.”

The couple look like such a great pair and he even resembles Kaley’s past boyfriend and co-star Johnny Galecki. She admitted in 2010 that the two had been dating secretly for two years but the relationship eventually ran its course. At the time she stated, “We were so protective of ourselves and the show and didn’t want anything to ruin that. But that also made it sad, too. That’s not the kind of relationship I want–I don’t want to be hiding.”

Who knows if the two gave it a go again after announcing the split, but its clear Kaley moved on and is ready to settle down with Resnik.

Congrats to the happy couple!

Gallery Link:
- SEPTEMBER 18TH: EMMY AWARDS 

Gallery Links:
- July 22nd: San Diego Comic Con 2011

>> Chuck Lorre: “The show is about extraordinary people, not nerds”
>> Jim Parsons: “I just wanted the chance to play Sheldon in the pilot”
>> Moderator said “Penny digs nerds” & Kaley Cuoco responds: “Kaley digs nerds too! We’re just riding this wave as long as you let us.”
>> Kunal asked about bollywood: “It’s about really good looking people dancing around, dancing in the rain & making out.” (Crowd laughs)
>> Simon Helberg answers question if there is improv: “No we memorize lines and lean on the writers a whole lot!”
>> Melissa does an impression and says in the show mom voice: “What is this #comiccon you’re at? Is it some kind of sex convention?!”
>> Mayim Bialik: “I fell in love with biology when I was on blossom. I love neuroscience, I love academia.”
>> Mayim: “I had never watched the show but auditioned. They needed a female Jim Parsons & I was like who’s Jim Parsons?”
>> Bill Prady: “there will be a resolution & we think whichever way you came down on something that’s the way it works out.”
>> Cast fav moments — Kaley: “where a lovely man had to grab my ass when dancing. He was an older man and he was so nervous!”
>> Cast fav moments — Kunal: “when we had to learn the bollywood dance and learn the song. I got yelled at by the teacher.”
>> Fav moments — Simon: “I enjoyed wrestling w/ kunal on & off camera. I like putting the unitard on – very convenient piece of clothing”
>>  Bill Prady: “Sheldon seems singularly devoted to science. It’s biological if he’s actually vulcan”
>> Fan said he was in Iraq and TBBT got him through it. Sheldon: “Thank you for serving our country, Bazinga!”
>> Jim: “We are so lucky on this show. The shows stay interesting. The writers keep giving us things that are so organic and honest.”
>> Mayim: “there’s a little bit of suspended adolescence with my character and its fun to play. And yes, I’m a very sexual actress.”
>> On if the cast do nerdy pranks — Kaley: “we play a lot of ping pong.” Jim says: “that was lame Kaley.”
>> Johnny: “my first screen kiss was with Mayim”
>> Fan Q: Was it embarrassing singing Soft Kitty? Kaley: “it was fun!” Jim: “It was awkward for me, I had to bare flesh!”
>> Kunal was asked a question & said he didn’t understand, so Simon repeated the question w/ an indian accent. The fans cracked up!
>> Last fan question: What do u have in common w/ ur characters? Kaley: “I live next door to people.” Melissa: “we’re both really short”
>> What do u have in common w/ ur characters? Simon: “I would say there’s very little. I do have an affinity for clothes.”

From @TVGuide:

>> Mayim Bialik jokes that kissing Kaley Cuoco was her favorite scene, but it was really when Amy got drunk
>> Chuck Lorre: “Mayim is a very sexual actress. She’s a very dirty, dirty girl. Full-frontal nudity this year.” He’s kidding…
>> Bill Prady says Sheldon’s kiss with Wolowitz’s mom doesn’t count. Amy is his real first kiss.
>> “Cheers brought people to alcoholism. TBBT brought people to science,” says Chuck Lorre

From @Jimmy722:

>> Jim Parsons didn’t try to make Sheldon sympathetic, but he’s always felt human and empathetic to him as an actor “he’s a lovely fella”
>> Johnny was doing a play in new york when Chuck Lorre called him for the job, he knew they had magic at the first table read.
>> Applause for Jim and Johnny’s Emmy nominations. “The competition is fierce?” Johnny: “Always. Since Day one.”
>> Mayim’s favorite part of the season was having a drunk kiss with Sheldon.
>> Did we just get boo’d at Comic-Con?” – creators of TBBT after Kaley asks what T.I.M.E. stands for. Audiences was not happy.
>> Mayim (the neuroscientist) helps Jim understand some of what Sheldon says.
>> Jim says the most takes he’s ever had to do of anything ever was “rock paper scissors Spock”
>> No more Sara Gilbert on TBBT : Bill Prady says she’s unavailable to them because of her commitment to THE TALK.
>> Man comes dressed as Howard : “He’s dressed like me and he’s asking Amy questions!” Simon jokes.
>> Mayim is noting she is breaking all of her “What Not To Wear” tips she got from the episode with her character’s wardrobe.
>> “You’re the only person who can help with dialogue!” Jim says to Mayim, after she says he says she’s the nerdiest person on the cast.

In honor of Comic Con #SDCC]

The Big Bang Theory actress is on to something when she calls out the ubiquity of Slave Leia costumes at Star Wars conventions. Cosplayers and Comic-Con attendees, listen up: There are plenty more ladies with perfectly hewn braids to imitate.

If you pack an extra tanktop and pair of shorts, you can turn your Slave Leia getup into a Lara Croft costume — and you can keep the braid. Star Wars geeks are most persnickety about hairstyling, of course.

@missmayim @BillPrady @kaleycuoco @kunalnayyar @simonhelpberg

Links:
- Bill Prady (Executive Producer)
- Kunal Nayyar (Rajesh Koothrappali)
- Simon Helberg (Howard Wolowitz)
- Kaley Cuoco (Penny)
- Mayim Bialik (Amy Farrah Fowler)

During the interview (which you can see in full to the below), Conan opened up the conversation by doing his whole “awkward-flirting” bit (which was reciprocated by Cuoco), and then the two of them ended up talking about “Jackass moments” largely due to the fact that Johnny Knoxville from the MTV franchise was also present as a guest. We didn’t really end up learning much about “Big Bang” during the interview, but we did at least find out that Kaley was in a jetski incident at one point with her co-star (and then-boyfriend) Johnny Galecki, and that she has nearly had a car accident driving behind Conan at least three times (as they both work on the same studio lot every day).

Penny (Cuoco) dated the geeky scientist throughout the third season of the CBS sitcom, but the pair later broke up.

“It’s really back and forth,” she told E! Online. “I don’t think the writers know [what's going to happen]. It’s all a big question, like, should it be, shouldn’t be? [We are] pulled in every direction.”

Discussing Penny and Leonard’s break-up in September, Cuoco’s co-star Galecki suggested: “I’m hard-pressed to believe that’ll be the end of it.”

Gorgeous and stunning: Kaley Cuoco hit the red carpet of the 2011 People’s Choice Awards in Los Angeles two nights ago. Cuoco chose a floor length strapless goddess dress in snow white for the night and was stunning.

Links:
- January 5th 2011: 2011 People’s Choice Awards

The cast of ‘Friday Night Lights” (Kyle Chandler, Connie Britton, Aimee Teegarden, Scott Porter, Adrianne Palicki, Jesse Plemons and Louanne Stephens) presenting the Abe Burrows Entertainment Award to the show’s executive producer, Jason Katims. Actor J. K. Simmons leading cast members from CBS’s “Big Bang Theory” (Kaley Cuoco, Johnny Galecki, Simon Helberg, Jim Parsons, and Kunal Nayyar), in a rousing rendition of the show’s finale, “You’ve Gotta Have Heart.”

UPDATE: More photos of Kaley and Jim added. (Some Jim photos thanks to jimparsons.net)

On set this week, four of the five main cast members — each in their own separate interviews — named Kudrow as the perfect candidate to portray Penny’s mom.

“Every week we hear something whacked about Penny’s family,” Kaley Cuoco said of her character. “She has this weird family and I’ve been waiting for the episode [in which we meet them]. My ideal mother would be Lisa Kudrow. I just think she should play my mother. I have this idea that she had me when she was really young.”

There was also an interview with Kaley and Johnny Galecki about Penny and Leonard’s relationship but that was spoiler-ish so I didn’t even finish reading; you can read it here if you wish.

Gallery Link
- 52nd Annual GRAMMY Awards – Jan 31, 2010